skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm aware its possible but it's way easier on Windows. Download and run. With the likes of the portableapps platform and similar you're always up-to-date as well, something you wouldn't get with static compilation without a lot of hassle.
This 100% aligns with my own experience and reasons for switching teams in the past.
While the Therac 25 incident is pretty famous, this is the first time I remember hearing of this one. It's different though, in that the software itself was not at fault, but rather ignorance in using (and checking) it, and an unbelievable hubris and disregard for conditions, environment, knowledge, experience, and training. Like most disasters, it required many things to go wrong, all adding up to tragedy...
Bridgetown 1.1 “Belmont” Has Landed
"woke", at its base, just means recognition of the struggles of minorities, both racial minorities and gender/sexual minorities (LGBT+).

However, there's a VERY LOUD yet VERY SMALL minority of people that try to "out-woke" everyone else. On reddit, I recently had someone tell me not to use the acronym "POC" and to spell out "People of Color" because POC can also mean Piece of Crap. I whole-heartedly rejected their comment and told them it was a deliberate bad faith interpretation in an attempt to "out-woke" me and it just made them insufferable. I asked if they scolded electronics engineers for referring to a "surface-mount device" as an "SMD" because "SMD" can also mean "suck my dick", or if they even go a step further and say they shouldn't use the word "mount" because that can be a sexual term which might offend sexual assault victims.

They deleted their comment.

Back on topic, "woke" has also been hijacked by right-wing media to also refer to "Cancel Culture". CC is also another problematic term, because to some, CC just means "responsibility for your shitty opinions", while to others, it means "simple disagreement". The problem of course is what makes an opinion "shitty" is incredibly subjective. Certainly, someone who is very vocal about how they consider any non-white race to be inferior is shitty, and I think deserves to get "cancelled". But some people have genuinely learned and improved themselves, and yet people still try to cancel them.
alarmism - China has been cut off from chips made in Taiwan and has avoided recession. Why cannot the US do the same? Raimondo is correct in saying that not making your own chips is a national security issue though
Proposal for New Internet Foundations
OP is referring to a place like Chicago that has some of the strictest gun bans, is lambasted by conservative media, "look, gun bans but still high shootings," but generally fail to realize that Chicago is surrounded by areas with the loosest gun restrictions like next door Indiana. The guns just come right across state borders 5 miles away.
I’d have to look to be sure, but I’ve likely got over 100 nights in over 50 AirBnBs. Most were as-expected or better. One was definitely dirtier than I’d have taken the family but I was crashing there during a trip in support of one of my hobbies and spending only sleeping time in the place.

The one “screw job” I got was in Vegas staying in a sub-$40 place for one night waiting for my family to join me. Place had no running water. AirBnB support asked me if that was a problem. “Yeah, it’s 100°F outside and I’m going to need to shower and probably going to use the toilet at some point.” Got asked to wait about 15 minutes while they tried to reach the host and then got a refund with no fuss. Was no problem to find a crappy casino hotel room in Vegas in July.

But plenty of the AirBnBs are places that I couldn’t find an equivalent. Two nights in a tree house in Costa Rica. Two massive houses on Martha’s Vineyard. A cabin backing up to a nature preserve in Belize.
Tell us more, you seem to be well prepared for the most important things!
The standard undisruption pattern:

1. Startup undercuts incumbents with cheap new approach.

2. Turns out the new approach was cheap because it saved money by pushing risk onto the customer or 3rd parties.

3. Turns out the extra cost of the incumbents wasn’t all profiteering.

4. Regulations and/or bad press step in, and make the startup put in some extra controls/protections/standards.

5. Startup not looking so cheap any more.

6. Startup graduates to being just another incumbent.
Haha, yeah this is missing a taps head meme. But we don't even need multiple time dimensions for free will to exist! I've heard more than one physicist argue that quantum uncertainty alone is enough to get us free will.
I think I'd take that bet. China is on the verge of a big economic struggle with its real estate pyramid scheme games. All of europe is going to struggle with the energy crisis caused by russia. The US is pretty well situated for no particular reason other than other countries are doing poorly.
The Facebook app is a worse app than it was before it introduced "Stories" which is a terribly irritating feature.

Also, auto play of video and sometimes audio also makes it a horrible experience.

There is so much about Facebook that keeps pushing me away.
I absolutely agree, and DigitalOcean does it brilliantly.

I ran into a similar situation the other day trying to put together some apt packages in a way that was clearly off the beaten path. Found a company blog post that walked through pretty much exactly what I was trying to do.

The marketing portion of it? At the very very end of the article was "And here's the single command you'd need to run to do this with our tool." I didn't end up buying the tool because it didn't quite fit some other requirements I had, but it did very effectively get me looking at their product and evaluating whether or not it'd be good for me.
If there's anything in the literature describing the increase in "common sense" among Homo sapiens due to evolutionary pressures, I'd love to read it.
One slight adjustment to your thinking, tech titans create massive value: "In 2021, the Big Five tech giants—Apple, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Meta, and Microsoft—generated a combined $1.4 trillion in revenue."

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-big-tech-makes-their-bi...
The point is that that hypothetical world becoming reality is plausible.
lol the linux kernel also uses mailing lists
The Air Force maintains many recreational centers. I have a buddy that ran these for the Navy. Lots of game consoles, etc. I'm sure they could have explained the purchase that way.
Ask HN: What luke a dashboard for life look like?
Bear with me ...

I am, let's say, not fully in control of all aspects of my life. But most important things either are online (bank accounts and transactions, insurance documents), are on the way there (heart rate monitors) or can be pulled together.

Let's say I want to build a dashboard for life - programmatic API access only, with some ability to "nudge" - "you have not been for a run this week", or "why not email that guy you last whatsapp's a year back saying let's have a coffee"

What things should be in there? What should go beyond monitoring and into nudge-ing?
Fed printed crazy amount of dollars. I am not confused at all why we have inflation. I am confused why Fed is not rising interest rates which should never go below 2%.
They also wrote an equivalent book on tryptamines. Same name and url except p -> t.

Another note: IIRC, I believe it wasn't just Shulgin and his wife who tested the drugs, but also a small group of friends that he'd give samples.

Cheers.
I'm interested in cases like Rari where there was a decentralized governance mechanism but it was dominated by a "core team", that feels like it encompasses a larger slice of the space than I would have expected. Many of the others are deeply unsurprising though, they are US corporations, took VC investments, have active managerial teams which are all employees of that corp, and advertise themselves as working to increase token value.
I find pretty funny how I use "pendrive" or simply "pen" (without translating it) in my mother tongue, like the rest of the people of the part of Spain where I live, and how I use "USB stick" in English due to how many times I read it like that in the Internet.
Service has value - I love someone else doing my laundry. It also allows me more time to create value by writing code.

I actually think services create more value than my code, so I’m unclear why I get paid so much.
We were pretty ignorant when we started our Monarch garden. It was 20 years ago, and there was less readily-available information.
but the $100 wasn't the motel's to spend yet; it was a conditional deposit and reclaimed quickly. had it gone elsewhere in the chain the actual owner of that money would have a case for theft.
Somewhat related is invisible mending of clothes. There is a longer video on NHK, or a shorter one here:

https://youtu.be/zHbnCrIvw1o
Definitely, but the golden-visa-inflated-price is different from a working person that buys a reasonably priced house, no ?

I mean, regular people are also gonna pay taxes since they actually plan to live, instead of just buying an overpriced place for the visa...
I suspect there are some that instead think in much more utilitarian terms: yes, of course bad guys will continue to use other services that don't accept a backdoor. But those will be easier to target for covert action instead. Getting criminals off the mainstream platforms saves money and effort! Yes, everyone else has their privacy thrown away for no direct good reason, but that's an acceptable cost of keeping them safe.
More like simple greed. They were over leveraged, because they wanted more money. I doubt they were ignorant of the possibility of a 33%+ drawdown. They just couldn’t resist the money.
Issue Trees: The Definitive Guide
-- been doing developer marketing for 20 years - it's very simple - developers are like cats - just make sure they know you're there - treat them well - & eventually they'll come sit with you - last thing you wanna do is be mauling them --
Funnily enough, if you actually just send the order back, with signature required by recipient, then file a claim saying it wasn't as described, they will automatically side with you regardless of what the merchant says.
steel beams don't melt jet fuel
A few companies ago, our IT dept's nannyware had a bug on OSX that was causing it to peg a CPU core at random. So, in engineering, we obviously just found a way to disable it. The IT guys were not amused. "It is against IT policy to disable this software" - yeah, well, it's against my policy to let your stuff burn my legs; get the bug fixed and I'll turn it back on.
If you angle the 3D lattice at an irrational angle relative to the 2D plane the points will not be perfectly periodic in the plane.
If it's so easy to understand why does nearly everyone seem to not understand it? Maybe the obvious answer you found has flaws?
For this, I often configure repos to only accept "fast-forward merges", as to keep a linear history. The added benefit is increased by good splitting of commits as conflicts will be resolved commit by commit rather than the whole PR with a possibly huge conflict to solve.
Just finished "The Doors of Eden" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, of "Children of Time" fame.

Good read, similar themes but presented under an entirely different scenario.
I used it to find and track islands of connected polygons in 3D meshes.
Ok maybe not several TB, but 1TB seems legit
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1701503-REG/lexar_ljd...
Last I saw we spend 3.7% of our gdp on defense, and most of our allies are spending like half that much. Must be nice to spend on your populace while you rely on uncle sam to have your back.

I do not believe we should be going deeper into debt for other nation's national security.
Paracetamol is also a leader in deadly prescription drug overdoses.
Good, but using Intel/AMD/Qualcomm/Apple to run open-source code still exposes people to hardware backdoors and silicon trojans that negate any security and privacy.

You don't need to take my testimony that all US designed CPUs are backdoored with BadBIOS at face value, be skeptical, but not from one side only - be skeptical of the billionaire side also.
Is Snapchat mainly used for nudes and such? Genuine question since I’ve never really used it except to message my pot dealer years ago to coordinate pickups.
Slightly better knife crime breakdown for London:

Year beginning April 2020 to March 2021:

– Fatal Injury – 223

– Injury with intent to cause serious harm – 21,421

– Threat to kill – 4,984

– Attempted murder – 465

Yes stop and search affects knife crimes, but there is still a lot of violence, and overall rates of violent knife crime have risen notably faster than the population has grown in London over past 10 years.
Supply and demand. There are more people who can do laundry than can write code. It may not always be that way, but it is that way now.
Given the mention of the Crown Prosecution Service and the context of the article, I'm going to assume England (could possibly also be Wales).
I think you managed too lose me about 3 times in there.. what point are you trying to make, and what do you think Linus should do?
I travel for work 6 months or so out of the year and your experiences are definitely not representative of mine.

"between resort fees, $30/day slow wifi, rooms that look nothing like the pics" This is 100% because you are staying in "luxury" hotels. Less expensive hotels don't have any of these.

https://www.marketplace.org/2014/01/27/why-do-luxury-hotels-...
This is far less neutral of a statistical inquiry than you might believe. What about natives who married foreigners? What about immigrants who are ethnically alike natives? What about second generation immigrants? One reality with data science is that it obscures a highly subjective viewpoint much of the time, leaving a seemingly clear narrative to be interpreted as ‘fact’
Nitrous oxide was a recreational drug for 40 years before someone had the bright idea to use it during surgery.
That's also not true. What was shown is that BTC is not secure if you don't follow the correct transaction protocol. That's obvious. So is it also obvious that mathematical security and physical security are different. Here, the attack also involves not following the correct protocol.

Why do you think that was even worth posting? It's not a profound concept to say "if you don't follow the secure transaction protocol, your transaction will not be secure."
The anti-vaccine movement is a problem but they're not really the big problem this time. Basically, the global effort to eradicate polio failed catastropically due to a major flaw in the strategy devised by the WHO and all the other groups involved in it, this directly caused a wave of new polio cases that is now starting to reach the western world, and no-one has figured out a way to fix it: https://www.science.org/content/article/polio-eradication-pr... (Notice also the date on that article: two and a half years ago. It took a while for this to spread out of Africa and I certainly didn't anticipate at the time how likely this was.)
The flu is a couple dozen different strains of influenza. The yearly shot is only for around 2-4 of those viruses that are expected to be most prevalent. "Bad flu years" are when they got it wrong.
It also conducts heat to the batteries through the aluminum backside, which could shorten their lifespan or even cause them some damage.
Your software seems similar to iterated function systems (IFS, e.g. Apophysis) in principle, but it's deterministic.

On the philosopical side, these shapes are particular kind of thought-forms, something that mind naturally creates when it's not distracted by sensory input. The forms hardly have any profound meaning - they are just art created by bored mind - but sometimes they represent sonething profound.
World’s fairs acted as showcases for American cocktail ingenuity
Of course, I've had pretty bad [1] hotel rooms booking directly with major chains as well.

[1] Bad as in little or no natural lighting, unusually small, etc. Some of the time a tall big city hotel abuts other buildings and has a lightwell and, especially on the lower floors, things can be pretty dark.
The main competitor for these trash cans is the BigBelly, which cost $3,000 a year to lease. They've already been deployed in some parts of SF and surrounding cities.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Ci...
Dude, that is just how illnesses work. Almost all of them. You make it sounds like a "gotcha", but obviously older people, unhealthy people and immune compromised people are always the ones to die most frequently from illnesses. Duh.
If it doesn't come last, you don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news
Sure, I went on to address why that is. US labor is expensive, because our currency has been continually hollowed out by the deliberate government policy that prices must always go up, despite continual technological and economic progress trying to make things less expensive. The real cost of producing consumer goods has dropped through the floor, yet nominal prices are a bit higher than they were. Meanwhile domestic labor, and everything depending on domestic labor, has shot through the roof due to this policy. And as labor gets more expensive, even more manufacturing leaves.

Employing individuals is cost prohibitive for other individuals (eg calling a plumber costs too damn much), which causes further centralization of the economy where only big business is able to stomach the cost of doing business (they're also well connected to the supply of newly printed money).

Also I would be surprised if relatively small runs of long lasting municipal fixtures could be "stamped out from sheet metal". This seems to be a bias towards disposable consumer crap talking.
Yes, that's probably right. But they are slowly (or not so slowly) destroying their brand for short-term gains. It doesn't sound clever, or sustainable.
Well there is the solution: work with file descriptors and not with paths. POSIX should be extended to make sure all functions that take a path has also the version that takes the file descriptor (to avoid the /proc/self/fd/%d hack, that is not portable to non-Linux OS that don't have /proc, and on Linux requires /proc to be mounted that is not always the case for example in sandboxes and chroots).

You don't also only have problem with symlinks if you work with paths, but with any kind of paths. For example is wrong to check with the path if a file exists and then do something with it, because it can as well be deleted, modified, etc. You have to work with file descriptors, and use only one function (open) to resolve the path into a descriptor one time (that is also more efficient, since resolving a path is computationally expensive, especially on modern filesystems).
Will be open-sourcing this soon! Let me know if you're interested (lee at vercel.com).
> Bridges and buildings from the 1970s (and much older) are still working fine today.

I am not sure about that, floods here go past the 200 years average line at the time that many bridges or buildings was designed. And actually breaks a lot of buildings.

Climate change these days is just as unexpected as hackers these days to who we were.
I think it's more important to ask: how much have you _learned_ from reading technical books?

There's also different reasons for reading technical books: getting answers to current problems (though most people would just search the web); going deeper on a specific topic that you're already familiar with; tackling a new area; etc.

While I read a lot of pieces of books, I find reading in a group (book club[0]) to be the best way to really understand what's read (as well as providing a bit of discipline and structure to make sure I really read it and don't just skim/skip).

[0] This is why I run a weekly book club as part of my Discord community (https://ted.dev/discord), so I know I'll deeply read at least a few books every year.
Eh. As an Airbnb host, honestly I've never been given any slack by Airbnb. Maybe they've made some recent changes, but in my experience they pretty much always side with the guest even over minor things and I'm the one that has to fight tooth and nail for fair treatment when a guest abuses my house or breaks the rules.

Hotels are definitely nice if you like the pampering they provide (e.g. clean your room everyday), but the value of Airbnb is getting amenities and space of a house for an affordable rate. Good luck booking a hotel suite (w/ kitchen, common room, etc) without paying insane rates north of 1k a night. That's where Airbnb shines.

Can't speak to your experience, but there are heavy, heavy penalties for the behavior you're describing - you can't just do that carefree as a host. I would probably lose my business if I let that kind of stuff happen even just once or twice.

That being said, shitty hosts are out there. If they have extensive review history and positive remarks (over ~4.7/5.0 rating) it should be fine. I've honestly never had a bad experience as a guest over 5+ years of staying at Airbnbs with that criteria.
Putting aside the morality of this for a moment, any article about this topic that doesn't mention the importance of Larry Fink's hard-on for a company's ESG score and the role that BlackRock and other investment firms have in deciding winners and losers based on that is an incomplete treatment of this subject.
Of course if it goes really bad(fatal or stroke or something), you just lost years of expensive science education just to test a drug that's not gonna work. Sure it's faster if you get it right, but the if you do the math on doing this as the standard method it would quickly be fae too costly to society.

At least that's my take on why this is perhaps not the most ideal methodology in terms of opportunity cost.
Properly fitted N95s help a lot. Procedure masks, which are the type normally worn against COVID, do very little, especially since they are usually worn incorrectly. Other cloth masks do less than nothing, because they provide a false sense of security.

As you know, virus particles are too small to be stopped by the openings in the mask (which allow you to breathe). They are airborne, like smoke.

N95 masks have an electret layer which is made by blow molding fiber against a charged target. The result is charge embedded in the fibers. The charged fibers attract and hold the virus particles.

It would be possible to add an electret layer to a surgical mask, but it seems that this isn’t generally done, probably because they fit so poorly. Maybe someone here could speak to that.

Look at N95 on Wikipedia. The EU has required N95 on transportation for some time.

The Bangladeshi study mentioned in this thread might have used something like that (it isn’t clear from the paper and the promised paper on what kind of surgical mask they used hasn’t appeared yet).

Bottom line: the masks commonly used in the US over the past two years do virtually nothing, unless someone is coughing. How many coughing people have you seen in panic lately?
The careless usage of shallow copies of objects (with JS spreading) presents the same issue. Properly scoping assigned constants and variables is still important.

Persistent collections are available today via immutable.js, so it can be done. The catch is that you have to use a library for it, and transform them back into plain JS when something expects an object or an array. The language itself could make this transparent and lower-cost by implementing it at the engine level.

Persistent collections are primarily useful in functional programming paradigms. JS is a multi-paradigmatic language, so it doesn’t make sense to use them as the default. It would sure be nice to be able to opt into using them in FP-aligned frameworks like the current React ecosystem though.
How many cargo planes with Uranium do you have to fly to satisfy the entire requirement of France for a year?

Compared to the same for LNG?
Lifetime software deals are excellent for new entrepreneurs, especially those who cannot afford to pay subscription fees on multiple platforms every month. That adds up quickly!