skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The anti-Electron crusaders seem to be some of the loudest folks out there, too. 1Pass is great in my opinion, it's a shame it's being so negatively portrayed through-out this thread.
"Satoshi Kanazawa suggested that evolution favors higher IQ in areas that are farther from the evolutionary origin of humans: sub-Saharan Africa." This sentence from Scientific American (which itself got it from a peer-reviewed paper) 'seems' racist. The publisher could reject it by saying this study can be used against sub-Saharan African. I don't know that relationship is valid or not but even if it's valid, scientist could not publish it.
They claimed it will work on most existing phones, but they did caveat with "aspirationally" all over the place.
AST seems to be heading into a cost of capital war with Elon Musk - not a great position to be in. They have been telling investors for years that direct to cell was some secret sauce of theirs and that appears to be BS.
The Ziggurat of Ur – Iraqs rivals to the pyramids
Good question. I've had a bear of a time sourcing good info on this and would welcome a solid analysis.
The programming languages that I use most often can all represent empty arrays just fine. Of course, indexing into them is an error. But defining them is commonplace, and not being able to define them would make a lot of my code a lot more complicated.
It's not too expensive, you can buy a 50cm x 50 cm sheet of silica aerogel from AliExpress for about $20... But it's hard to say what this device uses, it might be something more exotic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220825155850/https://www.indep...
One of my first gigs was replacing a VAX/terminal based software package with a Windows NT/PC thick client one.

17 year old me scoffed at the dumb terminals. When we converted users and they hated it, I learned SO MUCH. They could fly through the TUI. They’d have a form filled out before the screen could paint.

The thick client didn’t even have keyboard shortcuts for most things. But the company had bought a ton of PCs and was moving everyone to the first iteration of Exchange. So I got the VAX up on the LAN and set them up with telnet.

The users liked that. White text on a blue background became the most popular color combo. The internet was becoming a more popular thing, so they could begin the proud tradition of screwing off at work staring at a browser.

Eventually the original package was retired and keyboard navigation was added to the thick client. But you couldn’t go “ahead” of it. And flipping between the keyboard and mouse is just slow for “real” work. They adjusted but I learned a lot about how a computer can best augment someone’s abilities. It’s not always the cool or most intuitive way.

That exercise forced me to learn VMS, then I touched Solaris and fell in love. I couldn’t afford a pizza box as a college kid, so installed RedHat 4.1 from a CD in a book.

Now I get mad when I have to edit text without vi.

Same as it ever was.
Because religion is the opiate of the masses.

It's too powerful of a manipulation and control tool for the elites to just give up on. If we can just replace "god says" with "science says" and have the same result of getting the sheep in line, then of course it will happen.
How does one "financialize" a nursing home? When people talk about the financialization of corporate America, they're usually talking about how GE and Caterpillar went from being manufacturing companies to being lending companies that also manufacture stuff. Or how airlines turned from transportation companies into banks that fly for a side-gig.

I will note that private equity was involved in none of these situations.
Oh. Ok. Thanks
The galling thing about this was that he was fire by a white-controlled organization for saying “people think rioting is bad.”

Rioting continued and democrats didn’t stand up and say “rioting is bad,” and as a result of that rioting the criminal justice movement was set back a decade.

In Minneapolis now Ilhan Omar barely won her primary because she wants to defund the police and even Black people want more cops: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/minneapolis-polic...
Absolutely particularly as AT&Ts strategy here is spend billions of federal dollars building out firstnet!
Thank you for the kind words! Both Joe and I are around if you any feedback. In terms of type-safety, we're thinking of it as an added layer. I'm optimistic, that since InstaQL provides objects as the interface, we could have more idiomatic types down the road.
Email is inherently insecure, I don't see how this is worse.
GAE was also an very early PaaS and scalable but underrated.
> And I think it's fair to conclude from their vocation that they care more about the research and less about the politics than all the non-scientists who've chimed in to express disagreement with the politics of their decision...

No, it's not fair to conclude.

A lot of us as practitioners in the field (engineers, data scientists, etc) must daily confront the conflict between social expectation (from managers, customers, etc.) and reality. On the other hand, an academic occupying a largely bureaucratic role within institutions that suffer from severe political monoculture might very well care more about their social standing than truth.

Anyone who has been paying attention will know the subtext of these guides. It is not an unreasonable assumption to see this as targeting legitimate scientific research that undermines the present political zeitgeist.
They said that the new satellites will included a roughly 25 square meter antenna dedicated for cell phones.
Rest in Peace My Beautiful Wife
"This isn't just Theranos, this is Walgreens as well."
Russia burning huge amounts of gas, puzzling experts
I appreciate the wit, though I can't relate, having only been to the US a few times and not drinking alcohol.

The closest I come to wine is Dijon mustard.
I think that in the case of the video codec it applies due to the algorithm transforming a signal that represents a physical quantity. So perhaps the requirement is that the software to patent must have a physical effect?
My favorite are the gratuitous animations that the program is too bloated to render smoothly.
Depends on your definition of "best browser" I guess...

My best browser is Firefox, precisely because it is not based on Chromium.
Thanks for taking a look at the essay. As you mentioned, indeed it's possible if you store all commands, and sync with IndexedDB. The edge cases get quite complicated though. We're optimistic that a local layer that handles transactions and sync could makes things a lot easier.
Do you work from a sailboat?
I know! But then VMS is maybe closer than it seems? Have a look at IBM i.
It facilitates bulk data collection at a single point.
Ok 2 now
I thank heroku for all the innovation that changed the way we develop and expect developer experience to work and of course for the free tier stuff that I've used a lot. It is fair for them to remove it, specially under the current economic conditions and it would be unfair to complain. Thanks a lot heroku !
I was raised to believe the same propaganda.

It's not true.
SharesPost might be able to offer a similar loan [1]. Also have a look at Equidate and EquityZen.

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180117005389/en/Sha...
Really? Dijon has a much stronger taste than other mustards I've tried, which I can only describe as bleach. It has sort of the same flavor as wasabi, which can certainly be used to open the nostrils.
How does it solve the problem when bank1 requires [a-zA-Z0-9] characters (no special) and bank2 requires [a-zA-Z0-9!@#$%^&*()] characters (special required)?
Meh, who cares? They still don’t have a GPU that would let me upgrade my 1660 without also upgrading my power supply, AND offering meaningful performance improvements beyond raytracing.

I don’t know - maybe I’m the only person on Earth that cares about power consumption.
Microsoft recently released a similarly named product called Dev Box:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/dev-box/overview-what...

I am not sure if they would send a cease-and-desist, but you might want to consider a new name for this tool.
Where can I check what regions are available?
The BBC is a British website - most of its readers will be used to traditional British mustards, which are a lot hotter - typical serving implement is a cocaine spoon (not joking.)

Wasabi tastes like horseradish (both are roots), not mustard (a seed.)
Oh no :(

That is horribly sad.
I guess we can just shut off unimportant things like refrigeration and life support at night.
> It wouldn't target a particular religion

This makes it sound like it is indeed targeting a particular religion:

> An anti-LDS government official in control of education in some state (say, California) could take those findings and use them to justify a new policy that all LDS children are required to attend sex-ed classes in school

If what you meant was "all children, including LDS children" I think it could've been phrased a bit more clearly, because it sounds very targeted. That's the part I objected to.

But yeah if you mean, "secretly/implicitly targeting" like the hijab ban in France that's nominally a religious symbol ban, I could see that happening.
I know what my use cases are. Why do you keep trying to tell me what I want or need?
I love lisp and I currently use SBCL now that CCL is fading away, but I'm a bit skeptical of your claim. Can you provide sources to back that up?

(This is aside from the assertion that "faster than language x" is not the same as "adheres to hard realtime constraints" which is what the overall topic is about.)
Adaptable.io is definitely trying to make a better developer experience for startups and other devs. I think it's easier than Heroku.
It's still very different from a developer/"system user" perspective (I don't say enduser because then you are kept away from most anyway). A lot of concepts one takes for granted are different.
(Disclaimer: I was at Heroku from Jan 2019 - July 2022, supporting Heroku Data products for most of that time. I have no special insight into this latest news beyond what's being reported publicly.)

> We host a lot of individual apps, many that only need free tier DBs and Redis.

I saw a lot of this, and while it's certainly not abuse it was - to my mind - a failure to turn Heroku's multi-tenant DB services into a real product.

Obviously it's not free to provide free services, but because they are "free" they don't get the same treatment and respect. Over time, these free or "hobby" services end up underpinning real production workloads such as SaaS providers using them for low-usage tenants of their own services, or for critical infrastructure stuff like review apps.

Tons of work goes into making those hobby redis and postgres plans work smoothly, abstracting away the complexity involved. If only someone were to put a customer-facing UI and API in front of that, and charge for it - so that you could pay one fixed price for a service that let you host as many DB tenants as you can fit on it, isolated from any other customers? It wouldn't be free, but it would be a killer feature.

It's a pity I don't see anything like that on the roadmap! Oh well, maybe someone else will do it first.
When Did We Become So Obsessed with Being ‘Symmetrical’?
What worries me about Kagi is this bit in their FAQ:

"... it costs us about $1 to process 80 searches. ... An average Kagi beta user is actually searching about 30 times a day. At USD $10/month, the price does not even cover our cost for average use, and we are basically betting that average use will go down a bit with time because during beta people may be searching more than normal due to testing etc. Our goal is to find the minimum price at which we can sustain the business. If it turns out that we have more room we will decrease it. But it can also be that we may need to increase it."

I went and looked up my Google search history for yesterday - it's 40 searches. I'd expect it to be above average, but still... if it's $10 per 80 queries, it feels like $10 is likely to be too low to be sustainable. And while I personally don't mind paying more, I wonder how many people will - and what it'll mean for the service long term, if they just can't attract enough people to make it worthwhile.
> even a full breach of their servers would fail to leak passwords

This is a dangerous fallacy. Nothing fundamentally would prevent someone who attacked their infrastructure from pushing a malicious app update or a malicious extension update which exfiltrated the decrypted library from the client side.
Yes, you can even put `color: currentColor` in your SVG file and then color it exactly the same way as your fonts (it'll use the current text color).

Why not? I don't know, you're asking the wrong person, I use a CSS font too. My reasons are (a) last time I looked into putting SVGs into a sprite-map to avoid 1000 HTTP requests it was a shitshow (not well supported), and (b) Chrome and other browsers would sometimes align the SVG on a half-pixel causes the edges to be a little blurry, whereas fonts get special treatment to ensure they are crisp. That was years ago tho.
https://archive.ph/TVXgN
It's straight up, line of sight. The biggest issue will be water in the atmosphere. Compared to your average urban canyon it probably isn't all that bad.

Consider that HAMs routinely work insane distances with extremely little power LOS is relatively easy, especially if one side is a satellite with a beefy antenna for both transmission and reception. I'm more interested in the power budget than whether or not they can close the distance and what the effect is on the cell phone's battery life.

GPS receivers in a cell phone work at or under the noise floor, which to me is advanced magic. This will be way above that.
"Robota" simply means work in Ukrainian. I think it's the same in Russian. It's not a straw man if it's literally true.
This discussion has already happened hundreds of times.
I'll say that Mao and Stalin are leftists that killed way more than Hitler.
And you'll say they aren't really leftists.

The problem with these radical solutions is that they are ultimately unscientific. There's nothing you can say to a feminist that will convince them that wars aren't caused by toxic masculinity. Nothing you can say to a leftist that will convince them that horrors of capitalism don't outweigh the benefits.

At the end it comes to this: you can practice socialism in a capitalistic society. But you can't practice capitalism in a socialistic one.
Making scientific publications open access (at least for those chasing 'respected' publications) is usually achieved by paying a large amount of money up-front to publishers. Is the implementation of this policy just to make researchers/institutions pay this extra money when they publish?
yyyyMMdd is international? Or do you mean MMddYYYY?
Looking at exponential world population growth makes me fear that: We will only become MORE risk averse, more afraid of contagious illness, and more reliant on Digital work/ entertainment.
Do your part to stop the Spread, by staying home and keeping eyes glued to your Screens...
Converting water to steam is an extremely inefficient way to separate water from salt.
In the abstract that’s true. In reality, these are people who have families to feed and if the choices are to lie on paperwork or to lose your job and likely have your workplace report you for negligence to cover themselves, most people choose to do the essential work and lie about the rest. Retaliation is a huge issue in medicine and attempting to push back against the systems and people in power is often futile.
I've been using relay.firefox.com for masking my email. I even pay the $1 per month because it's so convenient.
Dear SpaceX,

How about you just give me service in middle USA. I pre-ordered in 2021, you’re currently saying I have to wait until 2023. What gives? You’re launching over oceans, Europe, South America, why not Missouri or Indiana or Kentucky?
Overlay copy-on-write filesystems are slow. I think most container runtimes use them.
Krazam: Microservices [video]
China's Quantum-Encrypting Satellites Shrink, Networking Abilities Grow
https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images... asserts that you'd need a remote builder or cross-compiling. So it seems possible (unless maybe there are still enough cross-compile issues?)
One missing piece for new Mac Pro is RAM. Current Mac Pro can be equipped with 1.5 TB. Mac Studio limit is 128 GB.
"I would expect our pricing for this service to be the un-carrier's favorite price: we expect, on our most popular plans, for this service to be included for free"

https://youtu.be/Qzli-Ww26Qs?t=851
4G/LTE was commonly quoted as 3km range for rural installations (using the 2GHz bands). 5G added 700MHz and 800MHz bands that are quoted as 10-20km achievable range. For typical cell tower heights 20km is about the range where they would sink behind the horizon, so that might be the practical limit here.

Starlink satellites are about 330km up, so one order of magnitude further. But they also have basically unobstructed line of sight (if you are under blue sky). Compared to the normal conditions a cell phone has to deal with that might get you a substantial improvement. I think it's plausible that at least some existing phones can do it, with the tiny bandwidth you would expect from a poor signal.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.

If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.”

-- Carl Sagan

First thing that comes to mind. The Demon Haunted World changed my life but it seems like the one thing that got wrong isn't that external forces are a threat to "making progress via the scientific method to determine what is true" but science has instead been weaponized from within to push an agenda. This is much more terrifying to me.
I agree. The current system incentivizes lying. If a healthcare worker tells the truth about not being able to complete something, they often open themselves up to civil and criminal liability for negligence and failing to meet standard of care. Meanwhile, lying in paperwork is only an issue if something ever progresses to a lawsuit. It’s pretty much don’t ask, don’t tell.

Systematic, unbiased auditing and extreme penalties not just for the individual but for the business employing the person are sorely needed.
The Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story and was temporarily deplatformed for it. The DC left called it a fabrication, as did "mainstream" media. Eventually, even the NY Times admitted it was real. Who is the reliable and respected newspaper here?
Having been one of those people who wanted to help out another project (https://goa.design) where the vision did not align, I left to build something on my own (https://hofstadter.io) and am having way more fun doing it and there were no hard feelings. It's best to not try to force things when the vision is different, as OP describes it
I assume it was meant as a bit of a joke with a point, because of the nature of the breach. Here, the concern is that the development environment was breached, and source code and confidential technical details were accessed. Bitwarden is fully open source, both for the client and server, and they also offer docker images to self-host the server. Unlike Lastpass, an attacker gains nothing by stealing the code that the general public doesn't already have. Bitwarden developers argue that this 'source code transparency' is important for such a security system.

However, it is at the same time fair to say that there are possible breaches for Bitwarden as well that would involve stealing information, despite being open source. Their website, the securing of the process by which their downloads and updates are produced and distributed, the way the hosting for their web vault is secured...
fortunately there are many other crypto user experiences that don't require cultish fealty to a project or token

ready contract data from the nearest node is a pretty benign and common aspect of what web3 inclusion in a site does. just accessing variables and constants in a cloud data store that can be read for free.
Some relevant parts:

“The launch is significant,” says physicist Paul Kwiat of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, because it means the [Chinese] are starting to build, and not just plan, a quantum network.

In the absence of fixes, the NSA does not anticipate approving QKD for national security communications.

The US CHIPS Act of 2022, signed on 9 August, allocated more than $153,000 ,000 a year for quantum computing and networks.
I have kids and I live very peacefully in Silicon Valley. If you are a decent tech worker and have a job at a decent employer, you will get health insurance with a reasonable out-of-pocket maximum (mine is 6000USD for my entire family). That, combined with insurance premiums (around ~4800 for the whole year) is still only 11000USD per year, which is far more than the salary differential between Europe and the US.

In short, you don't have to worry about healthcare expenses as long as you are employed by a decent tech company.
>> A better way is likely to quietly talk to the authorities first

Which ones?

The church? Trump?

People have different authorities.
Your response is a response to a strawman of what I said.
> and there's no real downside to doing so.

There's no legitimate downside to doing so. There is a very real illegitimate downside for copyright racketeers such as Elsevier, in that they would be much less able to engage in said racketeering.
>most of the highest-paid tech jobs are in pointless work done solely for rich people

Sorry what companies/jobs are you talking about specifically?
Ahh, then you gracefully avoided the folly of trying our carbonated wood-alcohols ubiquitously mislabeled as beer.
Probably because the base station in that area is maxed out. Not a limitation of the part in space.
Are you sure it wasn't from Canada? I love Maille and every jar I've purchased in the US was from Canada.

I've never had the French stuff to compare its quality, however.
JetBrains manages academic email domains list: https://github.com/JetBrains/swot
Ask HN: How would the character design brief of mario from Super Mario 64 look?
While I see the great potential in this technology, the collateral damage is the loss of places where one can truly disconnect.

I just got back from 4 days camping at a remote mountain lake with zero phone coverage, and it’s one of the most incredible ways to fully recharge and step away from the day to day treadmill of the modern world. When we loose the possibility to completely disconnect, I at least, will feel a loss of the true wilderness.

I’m not debating the usefulness of this or saying it shouldn’t happen. Having cell service everywhere will undoubtedly save lives, but it’s not without a price in loosing true wildernesses
If you want to see how destination driven code generation (DDCG) works concretely, check out this old presentation by a V8 developer.

It shows concretely how DDCG compares to common optimizations like peephole and top-of-stack caching.

And shows concrete examples of compiling various forms (expressions, assignment, control flow, etc) with DDCG.

The only reason it's on my personal Github is because the original is so hard to find.

https://github.com/eatonphil/one-pass-code-generation-in-v8
Stacks enables DeFi, NFTs, apps, and smart contracts for Bitcoin.
You can stack its native token (STX) to earn native Bitcoin :D
It's central to the story!