skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah disagree - as a high-skill consultant coming in as a problem solver, I mostly got dirty jobs that no one wanted to touch. "Pay someone to do it!" you can hear the cries. The interesting and low-touch projects got grabbed quickly by insiders. Super-problem-solver was not a good strategy in practice. This profession has a long way to go in some respects.
Twitter Vulnerability Exposes Data from 5.4M Accounts
Pro rugby players and pro soccer players usually look like they're barely from the same species - I'd be amazed if anyone has the opportunity of choosing a first class career in both sports
No, I mean something simpler. The subset of R that can be identified is countable, because language is countable. No matter what system you devise for describing numbers, it will be countable. And that means that it cannot describe approximately 100% of the numbers in R. They can't be uniquely described; they can't be used in computations. They're phantoms, at best. You know they're out there, but they will never be usable the way numbers you can actually describe are.

The only thing they give you is the ability to declare R to be Cauchy complete in some proofs. They're a polite fiction.
Does that mean this is legal to buy in the us, considering the sanctions against russia for the ukraine war? I want to buy one, but the legal status seems unclear to me.
Ok, well since I got downvoted I may as well offer this: If you're looking for something to add to your reading list I strongly recommend Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. The thing that makes that book brilliant is how effectively it captures the futility of any attempt to understand non-human sentience.

The two movies don't do justice to that theme, or at best they do it only in the most glancing of ways before rushing back to a standard deus-ex-machina in the end. In each case, the film makers seem to have lost their nerve, as if the idea of presenting that enigma to the audience in a more direct and accessible way is just too hard of a problem.

But for me personally, it's on the short list of science fiction works that still stick with me in a personal way, and that I like to return to every few years. And, yes, it is an arrogant viewpoint to say that all we ever do as humans is look for mirrors of ourselves. But I think Lem got at a pretty deep truth about the human condition when he did that.
No one said anything about the article’s author. The parent commenter was remarking on the age of the article itself, which was published in 2004 and therefore turns 18 this year.
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Something I wondered about fusion is, where does all that 'excess energy' go?

I mean don't understand me wrong, it is obvious that is a much better form of energy release than all the other forms of energy production we have; but let us consider we manage to gain energy from fusion, the electricity released still releases heat, so how does it dissipate, if we have near-infitite energy, and anyone can spend as much as they want?
I don't see any preview when I click the bat signal. Instead, page turns a reverse shade scheme, then a silhouette of The Batman ropes and swings across the page over the content. That's pretty much an Easter Egg.
> Clearly at least one person in this thread did not know it, so there's no harm in telling people about it.

Heh, no. I am the person who started this thread, and the only other person in this thread other than those defending unsolicited advice.

I'm well aware of the possibility of separating personal and work accounts, as is almost every intelligent person. Whether they actually choose to do so or not depends on a lot of factors that are specific to their situation. "Good advice" in the abstract is not the same as the best choice for an individual at the time.

It's hard to say whether I was even involved in the Twitter data breach, because 5 million is only a small subset of Twitter users, and apparently they're refusing to notify the victims. Not sure how Twitter gets away with non-disclosure.
They keep challenging the high-tech edge because they bypass billions of dollars of research development.

If a newcomer is able to bypass those costs it will kneecap the cycle of innovation which requires certain profit margin‘s to afford armies of PhD‘s. Otherwise game theory says the system goes ‘poof’.
Musk doesn't attract talent - the wealth does that, Elon himself is a negative.
An endless Las Vegas.
Also, night trains.

Who cares if it takes 8 to 12 hours if you board the train, have dinner there, sleep a good night and have breakfast before arriving.
This preprint published 2 days ago details detection of monkeypox virus in air and surface sampling of NHS hospitals treating cases: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.22277864v...
>you are keeping the energy organized by beaming it in any direction

I am afraid it is you who misunderstand thermodynamics, my friend. :-) Entropy is a matter of degree, and as long as the beam leaving the Earth is less ordered than the beam coming down, it can work. For example, imagine a hot nail on the moon suspended a few inches above a mirror. The heat will radiate into space and the moon won't get hotter.
> A) The OP did not mention this.

The OP said "If Jeff Bezos dumped his entire holding [...]". I find it very hard to equate "dump" with "still over the course of a decade".

> B) even if he did it would be kind of like saying that your 500k house isnt really worth 500k because if you walked out on to the street and and asked passers by for offers for a maximum of one hour you would almost certainly not get 500k.

Now you're exaggerating in the other direction. The point is that if these people whose fortune is entirely stock of a massive company wanted to sell all of that stock for cold hard cash on the stock exchange in the same way you or I might sell our stock for a big purchase, they would actually only get a fraction of the nominal value ascribed to them.

Sure, if they do it slowly over the course of a decade, and if the business avruay survives that long at its current valuation (which Amazon might, but Tesla won't), then they can eventually actually get the fortunes they theoretically own.
> No he didn't. He interpreted it that way.

You should contact the author about this egregious fact error.
Boy WHO cried wolf, and saves the country.

Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) – 2022-Outbreak – (Spread of Disease as of 22 July, 2022) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak
Yes, you can not just inject a http header when using SSL without breaking it.
I think you just found someone's bad code, because first of all, an efficient CSV parser would not use `split` with `if` because then the program will have to split the whole string and store all split'd string in a sequence temporarily, but second of all, Nim has method call syntax (so-called UFCS in some other languages) - https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#procedures-method-call..., so the code you wrote can just be

if my_string.split(@[','])

or even (because we only split by 1 char, we don't need a sequence):

if my_string.split(',')

That said, you didn't paste the whole string of code as this expression is non-sensical - Nim doesn't have the same "truthiness" as Python, so if you wanted to check if there's at least two strings as a result of a split, you'd write it as

if my_string.split(',').len > 1:
# do stuff
Would it be useless for trying to run an x86 os, with binaries? I really do need to occasionally run something on x86 based linux but I could probably avoid it most of the time.
How did you get halfway there If you were walking in the wrong direction?
The big moneymaker in Xbox has always been content, not the boxes. At first, those were even sold at a loss. In this scenario, Xbox just gives MS another box on which to stream whatever content they offer -- and one that is not controlled by Roku or Samsung.

It could be argued that "because it makes money" is the only valid reason to go into a business. Certainly Microsoft can afford to buy any content at all that comes to market, just like Amazon and Netflix do. There's no special recipe here and in the age of cord cutting, consumers are extremely fickle about where they stream.

MS also has the unique experience of vast profits from Xbox Game Pass, another decision which has costs them millions in content acquisition (by buying studios) yet returned many more millions as profits from recurring monthly subscriptions. Sound familiar? This is Netflix's model, too, MS has shown they can already play that game profitably.
> According to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany’s center for disease control, the new, highly contagious virus variants mean that herd immunity can only be reached if 80 percent of the population is vaccinated.

The Race for Herd Immunity [0]

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/germany-s-vacci...
I grew up in Berlin as well and never minded the heat, because it was usually dry. But in the last decade or so we seem to have more of these hot and humid days, which makes me wonder…

why doesn’t this startup target consumer dehumidifiers first, it would seem like an easier market when u have some newfangled technology with magical properties. Unless it’s really expensive.
Because I didn't want someone to lose their livelihood for the crime of being introverted.

Further I would not rate anyone being an insufferable ass as "fine performing".
False. At this point environmental impact trumps everything else in my mind.
I wonder why one's history with a company stopped being a huge factor? Aren't credit scores still heavily based on a history of on-time payments of your bills? The OP says he had never filed a dispute before in his long history as a PayPal customer whereas the scummy company has probably received many claims against them. That should be one of the easiest metrics for PayPal to use to judge the validity of a claim. It's so odd that it's not an important factor.
You are correct that at JET there is no tech installed to absorb the neutrons, nor will there ever be in JET, since (as pointed out above) it is a _research_ device.

Current fusion devices are not nor were they ever designed to generate electricity for a grid.

This is why we build ITER, and DEMO thereafter. Generating 'usable fusion power' is limited to building reactor scale experiments, which to date, has not been done (ITER will be the first).
Whatcha mean useless?
There's some serious SEM money behind that from AT&T/Warner/whatever. I am sure Google is enjoying the sales revenue.
My own engine used to be a single-game stack. Now there are more than 40 games written with it out there (and only one of them with its code written by someone else than me). It's not an IDE at all, just a bunch of (often intentionally leaky) abstractions on top of existing libraries. It comes with a tiny external editor written in PyQt that produces animations that can be consumed by the engine (which is optional, as they can be created by hand too), plus a bunch of scripts that use Docker containers to effortlessly cross-build it to several platforms.

I really don't care about other people using this engine. It's not for them, even though it's public and FLOSS. It's a tool for me (and people I work with) to make it easier for me to write my games the way I want to write them.

I wonder what the article's author would call it ;]
I'm not alleging a conspiracy, only that this behaviour of claiming the vaccines were never meant to reduce infection is now occurring frequently, even though surely every one remembers that this isn't how it was presented at the time, at all.
I'm really not a fan of Round-Up Ready GMOs, but breeding plants already alters their genes and gene expression. Horticulture has radically altered every food we eat. The natural world already can't sustain 7 billion people, there simply isn't enough nitrogen in the soil. Fertilizer is the reason you and I are alive right now, and its a huge source of greenhouse gasses, so yes, we do need to take such risks.

A better coding analogy would be genetic algorithms versus intelligent fuzzing and manually patching.
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Well it could work for kitchenware if you're living on boiled distilled water...
Having a shell corporation isn't inherently illegal, but having one in a different country is pretty damn sketchy. If you're a film crew you could register a new local company to get the same anonymity.
Okay, thanks for explaining. I get the idea, but I'm skeptical of the practical use of fission, because we haven't shown that in the last 40 or so years we can create reasonable new power fission generation systems. They always seem fragile, need huge unexpected maintenance and cost way more than projected. Of course they work, it's not like the uranium fission process doesn't work as expected. So there's this practical problem we have not solved yet. Of course vastly more clear than fusion's enormous potential.

What about all the new renewable things that are working and coming online more every day?
Compared to COVID, monkeypox is much harder to spread (as you can see in the statistics - it's mainly in one very specific group, gay men in specific cities within specific subcommunities where members have a lot of sexual partners), and in some sense, more eyebrow raising results. It's likely that Monkeypox is actually less deadly than COVID, but the possibility of lesions growing on your genitals, anus, mouth that with a quite high possibility leads to permanent tissue scaring is quite frightening.

The fact that it's mainly in populations of gay men in San Francisco and New York also help - I would wager that cross section of the population is heavily left leaning, and heavily vaccine supportive.

The monkeypox vaccine is just the smallpox vaccine. The US has a stockpile of it and it is still given to military members.
I'm not a tourist but a digital nomad who works remotely and spends most of the week inside, so a typical hotel room, unlike an Airbnb, is too small to be comfortable.
Checkout Nim! It does much of what you describe and its great. The core language is fairly small (not quite lua simple but probably ML comparable). It compiles fast enough that a Nim repl like `inim` is useable to check features and for basic maths, though it requires a C compiler, but TCC [4] works perfectly. Essentially Nim + tcc is pretty close to your description, IMHO. Though I'm not sure TCC supports non-x86 targets.

I've never used it but Nim does support some hot reloading as well [3]. It also has a real VM if you want to run user scripts and has a nice library for it [1]. Its not quite Lua flexible but for a generally compiled language its impressive.

Recently I made a wrapper to embed access to the Nim compilers macros at runtime [2]. It took 3-4 hours probably and still compiles in 10s of seconds despite building in a fair bit of the compiler! It was useful for making a code generator for a serializer format. Though I'm not sure its small enough to live on even beefy m4/m7 microcontrollers. Though I'm tempted to try.

1: https://github.com/beef331/nimscripter
2: https://github.com/elcritch/cdecl/blob/main/src/cdecl/compil...
3: https://nim-lang.org/docs/hcr.html
4: https://bellard.org/tcc/
Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) – 2022-Outbreak – (Spread of Disease as of 22 July, 2022)
Obviously conspiracy is a crime so depending on what they know and when, it changes the entire dynamic.
Came here to write this comment.

To truly get every joke you need a very in-depth knowledge of ancient, medieval, and modern history and literature. Even his basic puns often as not pull from famous European poetry or art.

The obvious send-ups are east to identify but reading through APF gives you the full depth, and it’s pretty incredible.
From the continent that brought you the last one million privacy cookie popups: ISP-level tracking
Alternatively, we need people--nay... heroes--such as this, or bullies like Twitter get to run roughshod over everyone.
>(IE what volume of air you get out of 80% humidity intake air vs 30% humidity intake air)

A quick Google gives me that both are in the order of ~10 g/kg (or g/m3 at standard pressure), so I'd say both will be about the same? What am I missing?
Doesn't this apply just as much to self-taught devs?
Not really. Based on the picture on the site[1], I can think of multiple ways of how that would work:

1. The site that wants visitor information makes a CORS/third party request to https://vodafone.example/api/GetSubscriberInfo, which then fetches the associated account information and returns it to the site

2. The site notes the IP + port + timestamp that was used for the HTTP connection, and then asks vodafone for the information.

[1] https://assets.simpleanalytics.com/blog/2022-Trustpid/vodafo...
Large parts of the Earth's surface are going to be generally uncomfortable within 10 years, never mind 200.
Show HN: A (Naive) Secure Captive Portal. Thoughts?
I cobbled this together as part of a wlan project a few years ago. I am not an Ubuntu / networking stack native and there was a decent amount of research involved to solve across platforms, browsers, etc. Following a HN discussion[1] last week I thought it might be worth extracting the relevant juicy bits into a gist.

Separate to this was an OS-specific landing page flow that explained how to "accept" the captive portal (with overlays / pointers in the correct part of the screen). I haven't included this but might add some screenshots per device when I get a chance.

Thoughts / criticisms / improvements most appreciated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32092104
Any more modern alternatives than sshfs that people should be looking into using?
This could absolutely be due to novelty.
When Tim Ferriss interviewed Stewart Brand on this [1], it sounded like the intention was to introduce them to the far north which is both closer to their natural habitat, and far away from people. Sounds in-line with the article here.

Relevant snippet from Brand:

> Eventually, the rest of that story is that woolly mammoths could be part of the revival of what used to be called the Mammoth Steppe, which is the grasslands of the far north, which was once the largest biome on Earth … what [Mammoths] are good at is knocking down trees. Knocking down trees is good because it turns a closed-canopy forest into mosaic, and a mosaic is a much richer ecological environment for all kinds of species.

1. https://tim.blog/2018/02/03/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
Does someone in another country made a song about the bad public transport?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXjhszy2f9w
> When does the state of “self-taught” developer end?

Maybe after a certain age?
This makes me miss the 00s, where these easter eggs and Google doodles still felt as something authentic and representing the true Google spirit.

Now I just see it as something that has been vetted in three different meetings by a dozen product owners who are only concerned by climbing a corporate ladder.
"You cheap, underpaid labor is my wealth. Thanks for the trip to space, nerds." - Jeff Bezos
We have enjoyed riding metros in Mexico City and Guadalajara, and everywhere more prosperous where we have been, and were eager to try out the LA metro last February. NEVER AGAIN!

The smell alone is sufficient, but the headways, good lord. Spotted several sets of foreign tourists just as astoundingly bewildered as we were.

So we rode buses. Good god. Never again. Sorry LA. You suck. No, I don't enjoy driving in LA gridlock (done it many times). What an apex cultural disaster.

I have to admit the transit was really cheap. I'd pay double for Paris's transit in a heartbeat.
I think you might be tooting your own horn a bit too hard with saying self-studiers are a special group. Pretty much everyone studies things by themselves and out of their own curiosity. I would say it's the most mundane group of all, as it encompasses more or less everyone.
> the consistent position would be to advocate for doing away with the state's monopoly on dictating the terms of marriage (and, consequently, divorce) in the first place.

Maybe, but that's not the pragmatic position. In foreseeable future, it's unlikely that you can decouple marriage from the state's legal understanding of it.
Firefox refused the proposal as well. ESM requires javascript though. :/
>Literally nobody on Hacker News needs this advice, and in general, unsolicited advice, especially from strangers, is unwelcome.

>There's a level of conceit in thinking that other intelligent adults need advice like this.

The only conceit being displayed here is from the person who thinks they can speak for other people on what they do or don't need to know about separating accounts, especially after they themselves suffered from not separating them.
It can also be harmful and unless you admit that you aren’t being honest based on history.
Build their own tracks where? Through and adjacent to both natural environments and people's homes. The America where you could do that kind of thing is long gone.
I agree.

The hefty price tag seems smaller when considering the development and design of ITER began during the cold war.

The literal size is definitely big even without context, which is why it has the nickname: gigantomak :D.
Africa seems even next level in terms of price.

I think lack of competition is a big problem. There aren't a ton of major airlines here. The population is also pretty spread out compared to Asia/Europe.

Domestic is usually okay. I just recently flew to the edge of Peru to visit Bolivia by land because it saved enough money to justify the extra time.
I'm not making a statement about the real world other than "it's impossible to communicate infinite information." I suppose that's a bit of a leap of faith, but I'm comfortable with it. Everything else I mean comes from math, with no connection to the real world.
Gas taxes and tolls are in place to fund roads. (Though in many states it just ends up in the general fund).
Did you try asking on the forums?

https://hexdocs.pm/net_address/IP.Subnet.html
The shedding hair?
That's only about how Verizon did it back in the day. They don't explain how Vodafone and DT are planning to technically achieve it, but it could simply be related to IP or similar lower level protocol addresses from 4/5G. As network operators, they have access to the Account:IP mapping, they don't necessarily need to inject anything special in the packets.
I see that you're continuing to flog the wrong plant by the wrong people for the wrong process, after that was pointed out to you.

I can link to it, but I gave you more than enough information to Google it.
This is an oddly anti-scientific view. We can test and evaluate the safety of the resulting GMO product.

Some of the most important and useful pharmaceuticals are GMO products, produced by genetically modified cells in bioreactors. Do you have an issue with those?

There is also the fact that we allow rampant and unregulated frankenfood production which is obviously harmful and purely profit driven (ie modern processed food production). But when it comes to GMO crops, which would improve the nutrition of the hungriest populations, suddenly it is too dangerous and must be banned. A privileged double-standard if there ever was one.
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Would anything convince you otherwise?

Like Google n-gram showing that "climate denial" is used at about 60% of the rate of "climate change denial"?

Nearly 5,000 Google Scholar papers using "climate denial" vs 9,700 for "climate change denial"?

Including a 2007 piece at https://policycommons.net/artifacts/1325774/ad-hominem-absur... complaining about "Greenpeace's constant use of the phrase “climate denial” and its related cousins"?