skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite many well-intentioned attempts, it feels like the whole process of software development, from people management to software architecture, has barely improved in the past 20 years or so.

It sounds like this guy should probably have a pure management role, where they're reviewing code but not expected to write very much themselves. Having a role with both responsibilities seems bound to lead to frustration.
Can the title be revised to something like "Harvard Professor on Quest for Possible Alien Tech that Crashed in the Pacific Ocean"? Current phrasing makes it seem like the professor crashed into the ocean.
LPP Fusion is run by Eric Lerner, who (based on his Wikipedia article[1]) seems to be a long-time crank who's been pushing plasma cosmology since 1991. He's using his nuclear fusion development company as a megaphone for this. (I'll let someone else try to figure out if the fusion company is legit.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lerner
> The Jews were not cowards and your characterization as people who won't "mount resistance" is woefully wrong.

Careful. I pasted a quote. Those are not my words. I didn't accuse anyone of being cowardly.
It's been a while since I bought powder, in the UK it's been quite a long time (pre-covid?) since I saw Boots (a pharmacy chain) stock their own brand of scented talcum powder. I wonder has it been withdrawn from the market altogether here? I know for certain the baby powder I've been using since is cornstarch.
https://libgen.is or my public library
Autogen/autotools mess however... not so pleasant when it breaks.

Curious for those who published source with autotools,etc... do you really sit down and figure that out. It's just a mystery that works or doesn't to me. I never have or would go beyond a simple make file. It really seems tedious on top of the actual code you write. A bit impressive tbh.
I believe it does! It was remote during covid, and I sorta dropped off, but I bet it's back in person! It's got really strong leaders and community around it.

[...]

I just used The Internet to answer this question - they're active, in person: https://www.meetup.com/boulder_ruby_group/?_cookie-check=0N7...

If you're still in town, check it out! I'm not in Denver at the moment, but hope to go again someday!
In other words, you can build a Korean 'Google' today by scraping Google.
...are they ready?
Indeed. Any kind of burning or charring of food is causing really complex chemistry, and with organic molecules will likely produce aromatics, etc. (benzene is the prototypical aromatic and is present in cooking oil fumes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4029104/ ). I think about this a lot when we’re cautioned about the presence of extremely minuscule amounts of industrial chemicals, some of the same that are present in charred food.
To me the fact that you have a whole it outsourcing industry to do "basic Windows troubleshooting" is a giant Red herring that those systems are a pain to maintain.

Not that Linux isn't also a pain to maintain when things go wrong, but at least on Linux, when something breaks it's because I broke it.
Thanks!

Checking the article, I see I indeed read over "Corrosion at a clutch of reactors". That sentence didn't really parse in my head until reading it for the third time: clutch is a quantity, didn't see that use before. Guess I was captivated by the unrelated graphic above and then glanced over this part without noticing that I had missed precisely the information for which I opened the article!
As informative as this is, what is with the tendency to use Twitter where a blog posting would be more appropriate? Reading this with the character limit break cadence and understanding.
> The Calvine UFO photograph is in my opinion the best image of an unidentified flying object ever taken.

And yet the no evidence for this is presented in the entire article. Government cover-up/friction is not evidence of authenticity.

The person making the extraordinary claim is obligated to bring the extraordinary evidence. There is none, so the author is resorting to spinning conspiracy theories. Unfortunately, quite typical of UFO "research."
Even the first part is not confirmed.
This is...a refreshing take. Good shout.
"You should have written 'lede' instead of 'lead'.", not "'Lede', not 'lead'.".
If an ios device is in low power mode it won't autoplay a muted video but it will display a gif.
> Launder your money here

This is like framing Signal as a "insert terrorist plan here" app. The tool can be used for that purpose, but it was never designed or marketed for it.
(I am a lawyer) courts routinely consider foreign judgments especially in the case of the highest court where they are at the bleeding edge of the law. They are not binding of course.
Will LAMBDA be available for the standalone Office 2021 though? Or is it only going to be there for the subscrption based Office 365?
There are often cases where some small thing needs to be dealt with in one map, like flip one switch, and it's hugely disruptive to have to drag everyone to get it done.

I also disagree that it can't be fun to work together separately. One person working on getting thorium working while another works on plastanium and then they ship to each other sounds appealing to me.
> Making money laundering harder is a good thing, no matter how many people here will try to convince you it isn't.

What a useless, puerile argument
> Using data from government censors

Should be "sensors" (used correctly a few sentences later). Is this a text-to-speech thing, or written by a non-native speaker, or just appalling editing?

> Once I realized that we found an object from a technological origin that was produced elsewhere.

Difficulty to having parse.
... remote jobs ...
it should be mandatory for law makers. If other countries spend millions figuring stuf out you should at least have to explain what is wrong about it
If aliens are advanced enough to come all the way here and hide pretty well, how are they not advanced enough to not crash all the time?
Canonical releases Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1
The NSA warrantless wiretapping was reported in the regular news years before Snowden.
Semantic Scholar is calling out when it thinks the researchers were using drugs.
Nothing about this problem seems unique to C++ or even made more difficult by C++. In most languages it's a challenge to ensure objects stay in a valid state if an exception is thrown in the middle of a series of mutations. But that's also the type of problem that you very rarely need to tackle. It's not like you're making a transactional system with rollbacks every time you want to go poke a few swing gui elements, after all.
But that doesn't just happen on its own just because an exception is thrown.

Either you don't handle it and it kills the process, or you handle it at the top level of a web server or similar, and it just kills that request (and that doesn't affect other requests), or you've written explicit error handling logic in which case you've hopefully thought about how to handle the error so as not to carry garbage, inconsistent state around, and hopefully also written some tests for it. This gets even easier if you mostly use immutable data, or at least limit shared state between components.

GGP's original point was that "the only safe thing to do [when encountering an exception] is crash" and for managed-memory-languages that is simply not true.
> Maintaining code is, in the US, likely a 1st Amendment-protected activity.

How did the 1A defense work out for sharing "Ghost gun" CAD files?
I wonder when the first hacker will hack a satelite, fire it's retro-rockets to make it crash and cause the Kessler Syndrome, intentionally or not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

Of course that could also happen with random bugs and no hacking I guess?
There won't be any planet to live on if people followed this moronic advice
I am not coming from that angle. I just find the branding to be poorly executed and would be concerned about TLD blocking.
“Unavailable” has been sufficient for me.
I dont live in the US, yet I have bank accounts, credit cards, services and utilities paid (Google fi, etc) with US address, can I access?
What you said makes a lot of sense. Also quite a few times I come to the conclusion that there's no satisfying answer to a topic, and that's fine.

Just this time around I had a weird gut feeling. So I created this post to get a bit of meta-level feedback.
Well all complex systems start from simple systems. A complex system based on another complex system becomes chaotic, quickly. Consider this when building anything computer-related. Start with first principles and remember the K.I.S.S principle. Seems you're hungup on your environment. I like to have a base Debian install and only add things when needed, instead of architecting 'teh one true environment for every use-case'.
It is cute to see non-indians trying to guess the reason. We were like you once.

It is an exercise in futility. Our government is run by monkeys. They are stubbornly uneducated about science and technology, at the same time pretending to know everything about it. How does our government take decisions? My best guess is they consult a successful team of astrologers.
Gotcha. Any possibility for sync capability across systems? Similar to the encrypted hidden file solution below, this has risks for hardware/OS failure & online backup cracking. Offline backup solutions are good, but represent some risk as well. (Not that cloud services are risk free either)
HN gives me reddit-from-5-years-ago vibes. Reddit today is unreadable for me.
A sober guide to UAP evidence
The internal instruction format is commonly called micro-ops / uops. But easy to confuse those terms.
What part of the FTB emptying my bank account without even telling me or asking permission was imaginary?
This is the way representative democracies work, including the US. Some places have tools such as recall elections that people can use in extreme cases, but usually, it is a matter of voting for someone else next time.
I donated to Dorian's BTC address back in 2014 when he was falsely accused.

https://blockchain.info/address/1Dorian4RoXcnBv9hnQ4Y2C1an6N...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ztjmg/andreas_im_...
Chemistry:"That FOOF Article"::Aviation:"That SR-71 Speed Check Story"

I've also read it a few times now (as well as that SR-71 story). Some real staying power!
Does make still basically fail to handle filenames with spaces in them?

That was the deal-breaker for me last I checked.
There's no significant advantage of Thorium from a fuel standpoint. Breeder reactors also essentially give you the possibility of producing nuclear weapons so quite the political and ethical threshold to pass before they would exist in every neighborhood.
I wanted to go back to Linux desktop at home earlier this year. I installed a mainstream distro with default options. The first time screensaver activated I was unable to unlock without jumping to a vt and doing stuff on the command line. I don't have time for that so gave up.

I've previously been a regular user and gave up because of poor multi monitor support. Seems things actually went backward while I was away.
Hey Dang, I've always had showdead on.. but no-dr-onboard is correct in that some comments have vanished way beyond the delete time limit.
He’s conflating it with LET and LAMBDA, which are new.

I worked for a firm that did extremely expensive training course for Corporate Finance back in the 90s. We taught people how to use named ranges. There’s probably still good money in that business.
Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?
I was thinking that the terminal emulator of my Debian installation is one of the most unknown yet widely used tools of my setup. I know my editor, window manager and shell better than my terminal emulator.

Currently I use urxvt on Debian. But I'm not sure why - it wasn't a conscious choice. I think it comes by default with i3 or something.

Anyway, Linux users, which terminal emulator would you suggest and why? (I'm on Debian in case that makes a difference.)
Search light hitting a cloud?
The world says "leading news story" and therefore "burying the lead".

Lede is an american thing. Parent could have been a british or canadian neighbour with their british colourful spelling.
I am not offended, I just find it in bad taste, along with the poorly-executed interface styles.

It's just my opinion anyway.
So (and I welcome correction here) the logic is: An asteroid travelling at great speed would surely burn up in the atmosphere (ice ect.), therefore this asteroid must be made of iron or stronger (a manufactured alloy). And thus Loebs conclusion that since a manufactured alloy must have been made by someone somewhere, it's worth a look?
I replaced ENR by renewable.

> because they're not choosing it

That report does not take a stance. It is listing different possible scenarios to reach carbon neutrality by 2050.

The document I linked is a summary, but it is better explained in the full report.
The TL;DR is that 100% nuclear is nowhere to be achievable in a reasonable timescale despite France being one of the most knowledgable country on nuclear energy. Cost and time are the main problems. The bottom of page 27 shows how even the most aggressive scenario fall short. I remember the CEO of Orano himself saying that they wouldn't be able to make it.

Don't get me wrong though. I think it would be stupid for France to give up on its nuclear park. The pro-nuclear scenarios looks way simpler to achieve than the full renewable ones. But if we look at the big picture, renewables are not optional, nuclear however might be. So maybe let's spend a little bit more time talking about how France is not doing nearly enough on the renewable side, whatever your opinion is on nuclear.
I keep saying I'm going to switch to a feature phone and a tablet, and finding excuses not to.

I miss my old Nokia.
Derelict spacecraft?

I don't believe it, the odds against it are astronomical, but derelict spacecraft are a popular sci-fi trope.
No, Cantonese is a prime example of "mh" being only a prefix, not a word by itself. It doesn't even have a vowel. There is no way that you answer a question with just "mh". In Mandarin Chinese the corresponding prefix is "bu", so you can sometimes hear broken Chinese from English speakers answering a question with just "bu".
The main reason I know of is that a nonstick coated pan will not survive long with the bulk way they wash their dishes. You'd also have to keep a separate set of non-metal spatulas and such.
Do not misquote. The direct quote is right there.

"There are many journals which would be interested in publishing a well-argued synthesis of existing evidence against the standard hot big bang interpretation. But MNRAS, with its focus on publication of significant new astronomical results, is not one of them."

This isn't rejection of a PR based on merit, it's selectively refusing to review a PR.
The title had me remembering the line from Michael Creighton's "Sphere" where one of the people asks why we always imagine alien spacecraft crashing on land when 70% of the world is covered in ocean.
Just make up the volatility of wind with gas, we have this friendly neighbour with plenty to share and it is so cheap.
This was the nicest thing about blaze at google. I'm a big believer that having a single standard tool for things is a huge value add, regardless of what the tool is. I didn't really like blaze particularly, and I don't really like make particularly, but it's amazing to just have a single standard that everybody uses, no matter what it is.
You're unironically correct. I suspect you were aiming for sarcasm, but gun manufacturers being sued is an actual thing now.
This was a huge inconvenience to me. I was stranded an hour from home at 10pm, with no way to get home. What an absolute mess.
> The spelling lede (/ˈliːd/, from Early Modern English) is also used in American English, originally to avoid confusion with the printing press type formerly made from the metal lead or the related typographical term "leading".

Huh.
Yes, BART sucks, yada yada yada. In hindsight, not commuting by BART anymore was probably the best fucking decision I'd done for my mental health in my life. That said, charging for ingress / egress from the same station's hardly unique to BART. IIRC, this is true for mass rail transits in Taiwan and Japan as well. I presume it's to discourage non-riders from entering the station and displacing other riders: for real busy stations during rush hour it may be a real concern. That's not the case for BART, though it's got a different kind of "non-riders" to contend with...
> a lambda is an "anonymous function," or one that doesn't have a name.

I'd frame this slightly differently. The process of defining a function involves:

1. Creating a function object.

2. (Optional) Assigning a name to it.

Lambda is Step 1, and it happens even in programming languages that don't have a so-called "lambda" feature. Such languages always automatically do both steps. Those that do have "lambda" simply make it available to the programmer explicitly, and programmers who use it usually omit Step 2.

In Scheme and occasionally in Common Lisp it's not unusual to perform both steps explicitly and use lambda to create named functions. It's fairly common in modern Javascript too.

The thing that's new in Excel (since 2020) is the ability to create new functions at all and it's reasonable to just call that "lambda."
There are already people who talk with satellites, recover them or make older ones work again. It’s one google search away.
Remember, you will own nothing and be happy.
Well at least we have secret courts to protect us. Making false statements to those secret courts is punishable by community service and probation.
The F-35 ended up being a pretty impressive jet after all, but let's go with the old story that it way under-performed for the cost -- a possible explanation would be that most of that trillion+ budget actually went to secret projects like the hypersonic UFO stuff. (I don't actually believe this, but it is at least a self-consistent explanation under the assumption that the government is hyper-competent and has this sci-fi UFO technology).
How is Position 2 extreme? It's just a fact that the vast majority of sites don't need highly available, massively distributed and scalable systems. The small amount of organizations that actually need something like that are the rare exceptions.
Funny and painfully ubiquitous. Probably really well-paid monkey astrologers too.
An interesting problem for sure, but perhaps a result of self-selection bias?

You and your other US peers represent the very tip of academic achievement in the country and perhaps are either the result of great teachers and/or programs that fostered that independent thinking, or were naturally inclined to do so anyways and your academic predispositions led you to where you are today.

But let’s face it. The average American school never gets that far. And public schools in the US (based on the miles of anecdata published on the internet) seem to enforce rote memorization anyways. Standardized testing, teaching to the test, “my way or highway” teachers. So not only are we doing the same as our peer nations, but doing it worse. And any attempt to do critical thinking type teaching (a la Finland) gets lost in a sea of terrible schools, incompetent teachers, mediocre curriculums, and an education system that fatalistically lowers rigor and standards in favor of not challenging students to do better.

No this is not a funding problem. Schools in the US have some of the highest per-student funding in the world. And those are also paradoxically the worst performing ones.
I'm mostly staying out of this, but I can't resist this one:

Please don't ever use a Rotten Tomatoes score as "proving" anything.

People are entitled to their opinions, and Rotten Tomatoes is just an average of a bunch of nobodies who happened to get a "critic" gig at some media outlet. OP didn't like the movie, while I did (and you did).

The substantive arguments about western audiences and Danny Boyle are fine, too. Bring 'em on. But don't use external awards as "proof" of anything.
> if the Snowden leaks couldn't get the ball moving to rein them in, what can?

Likely nothing.

We'll all likely be ruled by Rehoboam soon, if not already. Surveillance and manipulation of the masses has always been a presence in civilization. It's most effective when the masses don't know or care that it's happening.

So long as the watchers can keep the bread and circuses flowing, nothing will change.
And the borrow checker
This guy's name has come up before in HN. His stuff seemed well-written but the conclusions he came to were a little outlandish. What is the likelihood that this guy just wants to study a cool asteroids and is using aliens as an excuse?

EDIT: I know this is not HN kosher and I don't normally do this, but why am I being down voted? This is one of the most inoffensive comments I've ever posted. Not angry, just completely baffled
I wrote it that way only to mirror the other corrective comment that was posted before mine.
> Teflon is the most biologically sinister chemical.

Teflon is pretty much the most non-toxic chemical you can find. There is no PFAS in the final product.

Yes, we should regulate manufacturing to make sure there is no PFAS released when making Teflon, but there is zero issue with using it.
Perhaps a "no meetings before lunch" policy would help many types of teams. Is this doable at your team?
Ah, I didn't know it was the same guy. It's not clear, at least to me, how extreme his original claims even were, considering how fast things get distorted with sensationalist media these days. He does seem to be a quite serious scientist and not a crank.
Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age
That’s more or less how Lotus-123 did that kind of thing.

As others said, you can use lambda, but the ‘old modern way’ to do that is to write a function in VBA and call that (https://stackoverflow.com/a/16296990)
Those scrapers are made of plastic. I wonder if that has some forever chemicals. lol
Blocking exit gates are a safety issue even under what would otherwise be normal operating conditions (e.g., no declared threat).

Absent some sort of ranged tag detection (e.g., NFC or RFID), exit determination is exceedingly difficult. I'd argue that NFC/RFID operating beyond a few cm range are themselves a major infosec threat and privacy invasion.
Does the probability of a megaflood increase each year it's overdue or is that a fallacy?
That’s fine when you’ve already locked the price into something else that’s not-btc.

While you could sign a message with your key, you would still need something that accepts the proof but isn’t public, which might be possible with a properly structured/constructed smart contract, maybe?
That’s totally an aircraft banked towards the camera. Turn the image 90deg and it looks like a testbed a/c that Boeing had that looked like something out of Batman. Brown from above makes sense as it would help to hide it from foreign satellites.
The closer analogy would be arresting the gunmakers because people used their product to commit crimes.
Eh low threat hack. Requires physical access to dish and installs piece of easily identifiable hardware. Tbh give unfettered access to most hardware and you can hack it.
> That surprised me because I thought VideoLAN was and is French.

It is a French non-profit whose address is my parents place :)
Vanilla xterm.

It uses a lot less resources than any other emulator. Thomas Dickey keeps it updated. It has an unusual, but usable scroll bar. You can configure cut-n-paste to help you with command line work. You can change what a "word" is for cutting/copying to include /, ., *, so working with Unix file names is easier.
Solar panels requires a dependency on China which doesn't seem too smart.
I think we're safe. Any blockchain that attempts this will be dead on arrival
> It is developed by VideoLAN, a Paris-based firm.

Non-profit, not firm.