skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The smaller one turned out to be hardly useful, the larger one isn’t available. Warmates seem to be more effective in Ukraine, and Ukraine bought/received more of those.
I doubt it’s privacy laws and more likely the terms of service from their data broker. The data broker probably doesn’t allow it and if they reveal the source, they will be cut off.

Their source must be cheap enough to do stuff like this so it probably rules out DataAxle, Elsevier and Oracle.
I have the same experience with Windows. I launch Windows to play the same two games since 5 years, at it regularly fails at that simple task.
Some surprises when you find people in odd places or don't find them where you expect due to them being born somewhere obscure far from where they gained their fame. For example the "Greatest Canadian" (voted as such in some CBC special) Tommy Douglas does not appear in Saskachewan (most famous person here... Wrestler Roddy Piper actually) but rather a suburb of Edinburgh. Hey I'm learning something!

Would be tricker to compose a map that factors in where they lived independent from where they were born .
Germany has more than twice the population density compared to France - and much less variance of it
Yes. SQLGlot is very customizable and you can pretty much override everything. It kind of needs to be flexible because even common sql dialects vary greatly.

Here's an example of how we use SQLGlot to output raw Python code directly from SQL.

https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/main/sqlglot/executo...
> I seldom reboot since linux hibernate got good

Hmm, I have not owned a computer that can hibernate in Linux since about the early 2000's. Every 3-4 years, I try to activate hibernate on one of my computers using the latest Ubuntu distribution, and have failed every time.
If your PRNG state is is x bits, if you initialize it with less than x bits of entropy you are starved.

Since you cannot know how many bits of entropy getrandom() would give you and when it itself is reseeded with fresh entropy, you usually have your userspace PRNG sample getrandom() for some amount of time, after which it is considered initialized.
Ask HN: What are some good non-trivial back end projects to put on a resume?
Terraform Isn’t Real: Cloud Provider APIs, Ownership, and Lifecycle Blocks
Oh, I totally agree that the end-to-end part is speculation and tea-leaves reading. If it happened it'd take this approach from completely neutral to a net positive. (Again, in my eyes.)
As a back-end engineer focusing on distributed database, I nearly have no knowledge of web development. I rarely write JS, can't tune CSS, etc.

But when I met Next.js and Vercel, I found that they are very friendly to beginners. I can build the demos on the web, more beautiful and intuitive (Previously, I had only to build demo on the console).
You can calculate probability of success as a broadway star.
we regularly confuse the ability to enumerate the downsides of something as some sort of notable epiphany.
I wouldn't classify it as "evil", but it's clearly a different situation from a geopolitical perspective than facebook or youtube due to its ties to the CCP.
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Business address being "post office box in a storefront" doesn't make this trustworthy, either.

Not sure if I'd be compelled to send my information to any service that is literally called "Doxx Me" either.... :)
Very much a matter of luck and details. What part of the brain is injured, how bad the bleed is, how quickly it can be treated, how good the treatment is.

Anything from dead within a few minutes to no effects at all, with great variation in lost or reduced function in between.
Write better docs with a product thinking mindset
IBM Aspera Mobile Released
Capacitor 4.0
Company doing the SMS/phone verification can lookup to see if the number was recently ported is the only protection that I know. You used to be able go ping E911 location but they cracked down on selling that data.
For similar tales in other "discipline" try Meru documentary as well.
That's what I'm describing as a reaction at the time even if it didn't turn out to be a big deal.

I'm a long time Linux guy and when I heard about systemd, the first thing it made me think of offhand was the Windows Registry. Now I'm not super-deep on that level of Linux but I could understand the knee-jerk reaction at the time. But you're correct technically, and I think time has proven that there's not much of an issue.
Their goal was to take 100% in a few days though. So 20% doesn't sound like winning to me.

They've already failed strategically, so they're desperately trying to gain territory in areas where they have a localised tactical advantage (places near the border).
hilariously dystopian
Where do the nucleotides come from?
They say you can't win if you don't play (pay). But that's not true! There is an epsilon chance that someone dropped their lottery ticket and the wind blew it away and they gave up in getting it back and while taking your groceries to your vehicle in a parking lot it blows by you and you pick it up. And there's an epsilon prime chance that it will be the winning ticket. So there is an epsilon times epsilon prime chance that you win the lottery without actually playing (paying inti) it. ;)
This change makes me sad, not because it isn't brilliant work - it is - but because this kind of brilliant work is unlikely to move the needle in the real-world. I can't use this RNG because it isn't FIPS validated. I can't sponsor getting it FIPS validated because the cryptography it uses isn't even FIPS compatible. It wouldn't make it past the cursory skim of a reviewer. That says more about FIPS than it does this work, but it still means that it's a non-starter for many libraries and applications that end up having US Federal Government users ... which is to say that basically everything important gets pushed away from benefiting from work like this.

Seperately, I'm also a little sad that there are no distinct RNGs for secret and non-secret output. It is an indispensable layer of defense to have separately seeded RNGs for these use-cases. That way if there is an implementation flaw or bug in the RNG that leads to re-use or predictability, it is vastly harder for that flaw to be abused. s2n, BouncyCastle, OpenSSL, and more user-space libraries use separately seeded RNGs for this reason and I don't think I could justify removing that protection.
Hah. "The business" vs. the programmers. I hate that concept but it's something we must live with.
Himars mobile rocket launcher “virtual” teardown
Reading this makes me feel quite insecure in my own comprehension of these books. I've read Pale King, Infinite Jest, Consider the Lobster, and Broom of the System. I liked them all. But I read this article and I don't really understand the majority of it, which makes me think that I also missed a lot of what I was supposed to take from the books. Genuine question, does this make sense to most readers? Do you need to be a literature major to understand this article?
So what’s your privacy policy?I imagine collecting a list of HN phone numbers, especially ones you can link to names and addresses, is pretty valuable.

Are you going to use these data or sell these data?
If gas prices were simply a matter of the costs going up, the oil companies would not have record profits. if the actual costs are added up, it transparently does not equal the end price by definition due to the record profits.

Your comments is resorting to quibbling over whether it should be called profiteering or price gouging, the classic insincere debate tactic of derailing things into arguments over semantics rather than substance.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/29/oil-gas-com...

Justifying the record profits by idle speculation of future input is nice. But it’s utter conjecture.
> Use something like Microtik LHG 4G

... that is not approved for use in India (in residential settings)? I have checked Microtik if it is approved by Indian authorities but it seems that it isn't, probably because TFA points out that high-gain active boosters are banned.
i dont use tiktok, but i see often videos on twitter and youtube with the tiktok logo. Why does youtube want to copy tiktok when it clearly has already lost before it begun. makes them seem such losers
Thanks for this overview, it's nice to catch up with the way the winds are blowing in longevity research. I'm looking forward to hearing how Dr. Longo's Italy study turns out.

I like the reminder to try out plant-based again as well. Last time I tried it I got really good results with some plants, nearly to the point where I could imagine myself living that way...

Still, I wonder about artificiality as a continuum (incl. plant-based artificiality, so to speak) and whether it's that bad on a subjective level, or if it's more pro-plant than anti-nuance. Studies often have blind spots in various dimensions that seem more logically OK or relevant on their face given localized circumstances; that's just the nature of test design.

(btw--damn, there is a _lot_ of typographying in that CSS! My favorite specimen is definitely "--font-heading-scale: 1.1904761904761905;"...I couldn't help but imagine my graphic print designer colleague holding a transparency of the website printout against Adobe inDesign on her display and shouting, "MAKE IT 1905 AT THE END INSTEAD OF 2!" I lasted almost a minute admiring all that effort before I could manage to bring things back down to web 1.0 ;-))
Ask HN: Why everyone tolerates the 9pt font size, despite YC using 1rem (16px)?
...and also claiming they are comfortable with persisted zooming or style modification.
Oh, that brings me back! I remember seeing those cow-themed boxes everywhere back in the day.

I was so disappointed to see the cow theming disappear when the company folded. (Or, you might say... when the company moo-ved on.)

OT: Anecdotally, it seems like there was just a bit more whimsy and playfulness around the design back in those days. The iPods that came out a few years later -- with all their delightful neon and pastel shades -- were another lovely echo of that same theme. Nowadays, it seems like technology is all polished metal and rounded corners -- Airspace [1] and Alegria [2] everywhere you look. I'd love to see a return to some of the more playful designs of yesteryear.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-...

[2]: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-armed-...
What's most bizarre is that Meta has two popular and quite distinct social media apps and it now seems to be changing both to mimic TikTok. I'm sure that some smart people have analyses showing that that's what maximises engagement for each product, but from a strategy perspective they really seem to be throwing a potential huge advantage out of the window. Why not just change one app and keep the other one distinct?

Especially the old Facebook-style 'keep up with friends and family' app would seem to have potential for sustained long-term use from a different user base than a TikTok clone.
Deepmind predicts nearly all proteins
I don't get it either. Every single non-Ikea flat-pack thing I've assembled has had much worse instructions than Ikea. Plus usually been more expensive and lower quality than the Ikea equivalent.
I understand it is a popular theory, but I just have a hard time believing that humans would be able to hunt horses to extinction in the Americas, without even a small reserve of them remaining and then repopulating. The current estimate is less than 1M people spread out across the Americas around 10k BC...I just don't see how it could happen. It seems like larger climate change may have been the reason humans start going to America, and also leading to the horses demise.
Linux scroll speed is too low (Chromium Issue 521211)
> hyperspeed card shuffling

i think that's mostly scientific computing where you want the ability to control the RNG and even intentionally use deterministic seeds for reproducibility.

i think if the kernel is going to provide secure random numbers (which seems like a good idea), it should be through a (new) specific system call that fails unless a hardware entropy facility is available. performance seems like a secondary goal, where the primary is ensuring that people are using the right thing to generate keys and such.
Isn't that what /opt/{provider or package}/ is for?

* https://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLIC...

* https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#op...
I've mused about a similar idea for California's high speed rail, which, should it ever be built, would be rendered impractically slow by frequent stops.

The idea is to drop cars without slowing down. These cars would have brakes, that's it. Before the station, drop the car, it slows enough to give safe time for switching, and cruises to a halt at the local station.

That's drop off, pickup is the slow train, which runs twice a day in each direction and assembles the carriage on the way.

Impractical for various reasons, sure. But what if.
You mean https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/projfs/projec...?
I've been loving Prana for a while as well, for all the reasons mentioned. I haven't needed anything new recently, but have heard that the newer generation 'eco friendly' materials are noticeably worse in ways, and fit/sizing has changed. Have you had any experience with the new stuff?
>Opening a single picture is a sequential operation

Exactly what i was thinking!
Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/mms.12343
Man, I don't know. I only use Windows for gaming, and I'm as much annoyed by it as the next guy, but I'm always impressed with how fast it boots compared to Linux (Arch with i3). Granted, apart from Steam, nothing's installed. But on Linux, not much is started in the background before I log in, either.

This on a 2013 Xeon 2667v2 (ivy bridge) with a PCIe 3 NVMe.
Japan to foster startups by sending 1k people to Silicon Valley
Just an FYI, your styling doesn't seem to be responsive on an iPhone X
Wow. I had no idea that was something that could happen. I would have expected you to wake up before damaging yourself like that - sort of like falling asleep in the bath tub.
> unless someone figures out how to do it with e-mail, which is basically the only other thing that everyone also has

Which they've also hijacked... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433
Back up from that... how are the nucleotides formed? And don't they need energetic polyphosphate groups on them to drive the polymerization? And how does this work in an impure solution with all sorts of variant nucleotides and other cruft?
Ask HN: Any way around not using current CTO as a job reference?
My last gig was a startup. CTO recruited and hired me promising ownership of product and minimal micromanaging.

Everything went well for a couple of months, but it went crazy in 2022.

Basically, the CTO gets distracted with anything new and flashy. He sees some new language or framework, we wants us to build a prototype with it. If a competitor has a certain feature, he wants us to add it. He is willing to change priorities to make those kinds of things happen, but they are almost always unproductive and a waste of engineering time. My team and and I aren't being set up for success.

Eventually, I was let go and was replaced by an employee who used to work for me and who is perfectly willing to do whatever the CTO demands.

Now, I'm starting to look for my next gig. I imagine prospective employers will want to talk to my previous CTO as a job reference. That will not go well.

Is there something I can offer in place of a CTO reference check?
re: bios settings, any keywords I should look for?

I've had MSI and Gigabyte motherboards, but the best I've been able to do has been to reduce from ~15 seconds to ~13 or so because the wait duration is just for the splash screen and chopping it to 0 just doesn't do all that much, the BIOS still dominates the startup time.
Don't use it myself but friends do. Didn't know about the changes.
This is not a new API AFAIK. The Payment API[0] has been around for a while. MDN's got the full skinny [1].

[0]: https://webkit.org/blog/8182/introducing-the-payment-request...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Payment_Req...
The Discovery Institute's only purpose[1] is to push creationism into public education under the guise of 'Intelligent Design'. Of course they never specify 'what' or 'who' the 'designer' is, but we all know what they are pushing.

Their only way of providing 'evidence' for an Intelligent Designer is fallacious at best [2]. Like all creationists, they can only provide bad faith arguments of ignorance and the god of the gaps. They can't even differentiate between what is 'designed' and what is 'natural', what's worse, they think everything is designed in the first place.

Let's say the modern synthesis of the theory of evolution is wrong, and the evidence put forth is wrong (160+ years of evidence.) If this were the case, neither creationism nor intelligent design is suddenly the alternative.

Intelligent design does not have any scientific merit. It does not explain anything about the abundance of evidence we actually have. It cannot make predictions, nor can it be falsified. It's a worthless unscientific mess that should have been put to rest many times over by now.

If there was ever evidence of 'design', that's evidence of 'design', not evidence of a designer. Before anything, you would first have to meet the burden of proof on the designer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_strategy

[2] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-flaws-in-intell...
Sort of ironic to see this blog post via a forum link but obviously get and agree with the point.
To me content creation is a spectrum (trying to become an influencer is different than having a syndicated column or similar) that only really applies to the online space but don’t hate the player hate the game I guess.
The US’s federal courts were reportedly hit by another data breach
Who's tolerating it?

https://pastebin.com/6nV8FUF4
The problem is it's doable but if you do it, you might as well have a slow, regional railroad that goes between the stops of the fast international railroad. So a local/express situation, which is much simpler technology-wise.
It won't change search. It will make it much harder for Google to offer gaming-related services and be perceived as credible.
About a decade ago Megabucks in Wisconsin (a Wisconsin State pick six game) had a positive EV after taxes were even taken out. I think it was maybe a penny at best. However, buying more than one ticket is still foolish in my book. 1 in 14 million vs 1 in 1.4 million vs ... They're all ridiculously long odds. You more likely to die driving to get your ticket.
> I don't see how introducing flashy short videos that produce a dopamine hit in the easily amused is going to grow Facebook

I can easily see this pivot lead to a short term growth, but I don't get why this metric is so blindly trusted, when it's clearly more complex. (If there is one thing I really appreciate about engineers, is that most of us understand trade-offs, and our null-hypothesis is that almost everything is a tradeoff. Growth is NO exception)

Concretely, Facebook sits on arguably the most valuable asset in ad-tech today: the most complete real life social graph that has ever existed. Secondary, they have been very successful with mindless doom-scrolling that drove up the value of their business like crazy.

Now, Tiktok has come along and likely by chance found an even more powerful doom-scroller, the dopamine 9000, and they've been spreading like crazy. Of course that takes away ad-views from FB. FB is in panic mode and going on a meth-like crunch to copy-paste-rebrand tiktoks engagement machine. This may seem sound, doom-scrolling makes a lot of money after all.

But here's the problem: there will be more tiktoks in the future, and the barrier of entry isn't insane anymore. Building a social graph, however, one that includes uncles and grandmas for the entire world? That's a LOT harder. If I were Facebook (and a cynical douche) I would weather out the storm, carefully learning from tiktok and others, slowly evolving the product while "respecting" (low bar) the current user base.

Now I have no doubt that FB and IG can pivot to become a worse tiktok and yet still call it a success, making engagement shoot up short term. But by doing so, they dilute their product even more. Lots of people, like me, have primarily left because of this ongoing pivot - others are less sensitive and stay, for now. But pivoting so aggressively is a very risky move. If 20% of the local pottery/yoga/parent group refuses to use fb, the next casual group will go somewhere else instead. At the end of the day, FB is making itself more and more replaceable.
What do you think about something like Nix/NixOS?
Maybe that's the fault of those "who know" but don't write and contribute online ?
Yes I was. They set the arbitration provider and those were the costs. Lest not forget that district and superior court cases are usually around $100, and small claims in the range of $30 to $60.
I wonder which proteins alphafold is having trouble with
Related

“Never tell a child you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. As we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of the soul, our views of death and the unbefittingness of customary mourning will approximate to those of Friends of earlier generations.”
George Macdonald 1892 ("Friends" here is a reference to Quakers)

via https://books.google.com/books?id=vDMrAAAAYAAJ&dq=george+mac...

h/t https://mereorthodoxy.com/you-dont-have-a-soul-cs-lewis-neve...
The registry is not a DB or filesystem it is the registry. My main gripe with the post is it keeps comparing it to Unix things.

It is a place to "register" state and configuration to allow other programs and the admin to manipulate that value or make decisions based on it. Not everything hierarchial is a filesystem and while you can argue it is a db, if it is then it is a very specific purpose built key/value storage db.

I won't dissect the post and respond but the registry structure is not a mess, it is well known and different places have different permissions and purpose.