skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If security is guaranteed by nukes, why does the US threaten the Salomon Island? Placing missile defense systems close to the launch sites gives you the possibility to intercept them early in the boost phase when they are still slow. Having assets close to enemy borders in general gives you shorter reaction times. This is about tipping the scale somewhat in your favor, not ensuring your victory.

I am not qualified to judge the situation with Finnland, but not all neighbors are necessarily equal. Things like geography, for example, might play a role and Finnland in, Ukraine out might be more desirable than Ukraine in, Finnland out.
If that was the case Europe would have led the world in entrepreneurship, not the US.
Sometimes it feels like the people who own these buildings would rather let them rot, than make less than premium top-dollar market value.
That sounds like a really cool solution! People come up with all kinds of clever workarounds for this problem but then get stuck maintaining and scaling them. This is one of the things that inspired me to join FlyCode solving this once and for all instead of ad-hoc.
The officials are just a reflection of the populace: most of whom would rather than SF were a sleepy neighbourhood rather than the city that it is. This is exacerbated by the fact that the majority of the local populace sort of missed the bus on the boom that happened and consequently dislike that it happened at all. So they're using the tool they have: politics.

FWIW, I know a lot of locals who graduated into tech or who were adjacent (EAs, front-office, etc.) and their lives are better for it, but there are lots who weren't appropriately positioned and missed the boat on the whole thing.
Microporous water with high gas solubilities
Personally, most of the times I visit gnu.org I'm browsing the Emacs manuals and I do have to say I appreciate the simple HTML rendering. It makes them easy to read and navigate.
Agreed. The worst culprit of this was the DaddyOFive YouTube Channel. Their “pranks” on their children got progressively more and more abusive. God knows what long term damage they did to their children.

Here’s a good overview:
https://youtu.be/eBuT98suaoc
Money goes to where it's treated best and people vote with their feet.

I know people thumb their nose on the state, but Florida is open for business.

But the real secret is Puerto Rico and their incredible tax incentives for software companies.
I agree. A successful natural-gas ban would require impeccable execution (with huge public investment). I wouldn't trust federal gov't or state gov'ts to pull that off.
Frankly that's just broken logic. You could easily say:

> The solution to "Python needs a way to increment variables" is usually to so `a = a + 1`.

> To make this proposal convincing, we need a realistic example of an algorithm that uses it, and that example needs to be significantly more readable and maintainable than `a = a + 1`.

Why does `+=` get into the language but labelled breaks (a reasonably standard feature) don't. This isn't hypothetical - not all languages have +=. Matlab for example requires you to do `a = a + 1`.
As a current 1Password (10+ years in Lastpass, 3 years in Bitwarden) user in the Apple Ecosystem, here the value adds for me:

- Ecosystem agnostic, from before I was all in on Apple

- Ties into other services I use seamlessly

* Fastmail masked emails for signups

* Privacy.com one time use cards/vendor locked cards for signups

Other add on I'm more dubious about:

- 1Password supposedly alters password suggestions based on the domain, adjusting password length requirements, special symbols, etc
Trump SPAC Doesn’t Have the Votes
Then he started another game company which became Slack!
The ideal gas law tells you what happens when you do work on a system of gas molecules (in this case against the force of gravity).
I'm glad there are multiple different power-tool manufacturers, and I'm not entirely sure there'd be as much competition if they were all forced to use one battery connector.

(You can buy adapters if you want, but it's generally not worth it).
USB/Bluetooth is underrated because it means you can ship hardware products that can have their firmware updated or connect and sync with a web service without having to build/ship/maintain a whole app for it that will eventually stop working after an OS update.
(conch 1 2) -> (1 . 2)

(char (conch 1 2)) -> 1

(chdr (conch 1 2)) -> 2 ;; "chowder"
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Effective altruism’s most controversial idea
Ask HN: Sales hiring tips and battle stories?
Dear HN,

I have a clear idea of the kind of customer that I would like to work with for developing my next AI product. I even found one good candidate in my own network, but he's locked in a long-term contract with a competitor. So I guess now's the time for me to hire a proper sales person so that they can find potential customers and introduce me.

I'm hoping that some of you with successful startups would be willing to share some tips and/or funny battle stories about how you hired your first non-co-founder salesperson.

So far I watched this excellent talk: https://businessofsoftware.org/2010/10/paul-kenny-at-business-of-software-2010-selling-sales-to-techies/

Any other talks you can recommend?
There are many other properties that WebAssembly gives us that would be hard (impossible?) to achieve with native Rust. Erlang-like fault tolerance based on a concurrency model where each unit gets their own heap. Fine-grained per request sandboxing. Green thread based async model. Hot reloading, ...
How many giraffes is that?
This is good to see. I haven't had a chance to play around with cdk8s, but I've used the AWS CDK and Helm pretty extensively. Helm was a good tool for its time, but the limitations of template-based reuse are pretty clear, at least to me.

Helm suffers from the common problem that occurs when you try to build reusability out of a template-based system. Eventually you end up surfacing so many configuration parameters to meet different use-cases and needs, that complexity starts becoming unmanageable.

CDK's approach tends to lead to smaller and more understandable IaC, because it targets re-use at the component level and not the application level. I haven't come across a template-based system that does that effectively; usually there's a macro-type system at most.
Everyone’s Mad at Cloudflare; Is There Room for Principled Takes on Moderation?
You're late by at least two years, Boise is the new Austin, sorry but that's how it goes. At least the real estate market seems to have corrected recently there?

The Fallout series is literally (mostly) set in California.
> The reason being that, over a 5+ year investment horizon, a total US market portfolio will average about 6% after inflation.

Leaving aside the issue that past performance does not guarantee future performance:

If you're talking about "averages" based on historical data, then the average annual return over a 5-year period is -- by definition -- the same as the average return per year. The investment horizon doesn't affect the average expected return, but it does affect the dispersion of outcomes around that average.

I think it's a bit irresponsible to say that a 5-year investment "will average" 6%, when the standard deviation of that number is something like 8-10%. Seeing negative real returns over 5 year periods isn't just a theoretical possibility; it's historically fairly common.
> Presumably an office space would still cost more than a homeless person could afford, so it's not economical to convert an office to ultra-cheap housing

It may be something a marginally housed person could afford, though. Maybe that makes room in their budget for healthier food, addiction counseling or after-school tutoring. Or maybe they're already strained and would otherwise be on the street.
Building a web browser that is feature-complete, bug-compatible with Chromium, and relatively secure is about as complicated as building a whole operating system from scratch.

Plus, as Mozilla has learned, nobody ever made money from selling web browsers. Costs a fortune to develop, makes almost nothing in return except for influence or protecting other businesses. Plus, why the heck would you do that if Chromium is open-source? It's completely pointless.
Machine learning has pretty much solved this. They detect almost all outright fraud immediately.
> What is also nice about this story, is that it gives an official pronunciation for ‘char’.

One thing I was surprised to learn is that people working with dead languages rely on puns and rhymes in order to figure out how to speak a language. And then it's like solving some rows in a crossword- the more you can figure out, the more it lets you figure out others.
Crime is down - but so is population.

Is the decrease statistically significant after adjusting for population loss?
O Block
> Then, Docker and containers (ship the whole OS with the application)

𝚃̶𝚘̶ ̶𝚋̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚏̶𝚊̶𝚒̶𝚛̶,̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚊̶𝚝̶'̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚜̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚙̶𝚙̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶̶𝚔̶𝚎̶𝚛̶𝚗̶𝚎̶𝚕̶̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚗̶𝚎̶𝚎̶𝚍̶𝚎̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚊̶𝚌̶𝚔̶𝚊̶𝚐̶𝚎̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚒̶𝚝̶𝚑̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚙̶𝚙̶𝚕̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚘̶𝚗̶.̶ ̶ ̶𝚃̶𝚑̶𝚊̶𝚝̶'̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚙̶𝚎̶𝚍̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚌̶,̶ ̶𝙸̶ ̶𝚔̶𝚗̶𝚘̶𝚠̶,̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚕̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚠̶𝚑̶𝚊̶𝚝̶ ̶𝚢̶𝚘̶𝚞̶ ̶𝚜̶𝚊̶𝚒̶𝚍̶ ̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚌̶𝚑̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚕̶𝚕̶𝚢̶̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚞̶𝚎̶,̶ ̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚖̶𝚘̶𝚟̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚗̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚕̶𝚎̶𝚟̶𝚎̶𝚕̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚏̶ ̶𝚊̶𝚋̶𝚜̶𝚝̶𝚛̶𝚊̶𝚌̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚘̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚏̶𝚛̶𝚘̶𝚖̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚍̶𝚎̶𝚜̶𝚌̶𝚛̶𝚒̶𝚙̶𝚝̶𝚒̶𝚘̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚕̶𝚕̶𝚢̶ ̶𝚌̶𝚑̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚐̶𝚎̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚖̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ ̶𝚜̶𝚒̶𝚐̶𝚗̶𝚒̶𝚏̶𝚒̶𝚌̶𝚊̶𝚗̶𝚝̶𝚕̶𝚢̶.̶ ̶ ̶𝚃̶𝚑̶𝚎̶ ̶𝙻̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚞̶𝚡̶ ̶𝚔̶𝚎̶𝚛̶𝚗̶𝚎̶𝚕̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚒̶𝚝̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚘̶𝚠̶𝚗̶ ̶𝚒̶𝚜̶ ̶𝚜̶𝚘̶𝚖̶𝚎̶𝚝̶𝚑̶𝚒̶𝚗̶𝚐̶ ̶𝚕̶𝚒̶𝚔̶𝚎̶ ̶𝟷̶𝟶̶ ̶𝚖̶𝚎̶𝚐̶𝚊̶𝚋̶𝚢̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚜̶.̶

EDIT: What I've said is not exactly correct. If you're not running Docker on a Linux host, then you'll have a Linux kernel running in emulation but it's not shipping with containers. Not sure what I was thinking. I believe this is closer to the truth.
This is the “disturbingly long list” of plugins that the commenter is likely referring to: https://keepass.info/plugins.html

Some plugins on the list require other plugins to also be installed.
Drug prohibition clearly leads to crime. Drug users would rather use drugs than commit crimes, but paying for a drug habit when drugs are expensive and you have a hard time holding down a 9-5 job (usually due to mental illness) forces people to do things they don't want to do.

Ending prohibition and diverting some resources from police to mental health and preventative services is just a sensible thing to do.
I have never met a homeless person that wanted to get work, have a steady income and pay for housing that didn't eventually make it. (I lived on the streets)

Those that were overcome by drugs and mental issues would either destroy the housing or simply leave it or never take free housing.

(yes, there are many homeless that actually do _not_ want an apartment/house to take care of)
What if, as a compromise, the first step is we get rid of open offices. That would go a long way towards getting rid of a near-universal complaint (at least on HN) about the pre-disease status quo, which WFH has freed tech workers from for a while.

> It's kinda funny to me how so many arguments for WFH are centered around the individuals themselves.

Many of those individuals may have families who they want to be around more, or help with, during the day.

And less work commuting is inherently better for the environment.

> None of them are really arguing that WFH is actually the best for a business.

So far, we need to see more signal that businesses, namely the tech companies located in say SF, are being adversely impacted.
Remote work has made cities largely obsolete anyway for pretty much any desk job. Good time to have a long bet against CRE.
Oh dear God, here we go...
Research in Academia... in Europe. I was paid ~30k.
Unless it is impacting your work, I'd just ignore it. If it is causing an impact, mention it to your manager.
>> ... by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin.

Ok, the goblin bit is cute though.
I sometimes have meeting scheduled with breaks short enough that it's hard to do any meaningful coding, so HN fills the time gaps easily. And I enjoy commenting on topics where I feel I can contribute positively, so I comment often, on the computer :)
talk about an eyesore
I agree that nimbyism is harmful, however I also think that the organizations owning large portfolios of properties can generally find a way to maintain scarcity levels in the presence of additional construction.
It's interesting that humanities training (at least history, political science, languages) seems to be important in the military, at least for leadership and some specialist roles
Speculators?
Reminds me a bit of Jacque Fresco's work, of The Venus Project. Nice!
Interesting point and seems pretty logical. There are a lot of warehouse/commercial spaces used for housing in places like Oakland and am sure people would want to live there (mentioned commercial spaces) if they could. Hopefully it’s safe for living, though, the Ghostship fire comes to mind specifically
Most of downtown is a dozen+ feet above sea level, new waterfront construction (the new ferry docks in particular) are all built to the new standard, by ~2077 or whatever the waterfront will be ready for new sea level standards. There's a plan in place to put a tidal lock in front of mission bay canal. Downtown is on a fill, but you're talking less than six inches next to the transamerica building, and less than two meters heading east toward the ferry building. The big fill area is south of Oracle Park which is sitting on 8-12 feet of poor-grade fill like trash and random construction debris, although most (all?) of those buildings are sitting on stilts going down to bedrock, in particular those in the 3 blocks closest to the water.
To what benefit though? Surely they're not better off by having to pay power/water costs in the office when people come back, right?
Maybe Thomas Edison was wrong. He was a tech and business guy, not an educator. He wasn't exactly a "people person".
> wonder how much of this is renters who feel they are just one IPO or acquisition away from being owners

I don't think they're the ones protesting. One, it's irrational: if a windfall is around the corner, you want prices temporarily depressed. Two, political nihilism and detachment have been fashionable among San Francisco's political middle class for a few decades now. They are more likely to be proudly refusing to vote than attending town halls, speaking to their electeds or participating in protests. (I say this with sardonic affection for dear friends.)

The second point is starting to change. But culture has inertia. It will take time.
Chromium isn’t written by just 1 entity, Microsoft intel samsung have all made major contributions - and anyone can hard fork it if they want to. I know most others here disagree but we do need standardization in this modern web world and chromium is just that.

Even if we don’t like it, the reality is what it is. Firefox is dead (about the same market share as ‘samsung internet’ these days). It would be best if we worked to make these web standards (chromium) bend to our collective will (like brave or Microsoft) rather than chasing pipe dreams of a Firefox return.
Where did I say you can't ask questions? I said asking questions is a bad rhetorical device to use on this topic. OP isn't an inquisitive mind looking for answers to those questions. They are trying to convince us of a particular viewpoint due to the implied answers to those questions.
Regarding crime, that data only goes to 2019. I'd be shocked if things are not much worse now.
If we were were to identify what GCC needs most, do you necessarily want RMS on that task?

There are enough people that someone else can work on what GCC needs most, while RMS hacks on a manual.

GCC is a bloated mess with 50+ megabyte back-end executables; in my opinion, what it needs most is to go on some kind of diet.
Anecdotally a lot of friends in SF don’t bother reporting crimes because they know the police won’t do anything and it’ll be just a waste of their time reporting it.
Why are you glad that there are multiple battery connectors? Makes no sense to me. It’s like disagreeing with AA batteries.

It’s like electric cars having different chargers and no standard.
There are two: Strongbox[1] and KeePassium[2].

[1]: https://strongboxsafe.com/

[2]: https://keepassium.com/
Blender Vulkan – Status Report
You're not going to repaint carpet.
I wouldn't be so sure about the official stats. We've had a similar phenomenon in Vancouver, where perceived crime has been going up in downtown core, especially during the lockdowns. However, people have given up on calling the police for property crimes and random attacks on residents. This has led to lower crime stats.
The Monthly Supply of New Houses in the United States is considered by some to be a more reliable leading indicator of the housing market and it is at historical highs: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSACSR

Days on market is going up dramatically in July where normally it should be going down. The inventory of listed homes is going up as well- overall in all those graphs there is a clear trend in the housing market towards a reversal- saying things are still historically low ignores the trend and ignoring other leading indicator data that is at historical highs.
Gitlab adding 5GiB storage limit for free users
> 30 years late to the party.

Why 30 years late? Their earlier manual[1] already covers the C language as standardized 20 years ago with C99. This new one makes mention of at least C11. If it doesn't include features of a later standard, it's at most like 10 years late if you can expect anyone to write a publication like this in a single year.

> in a format that is inaccessible to anyone just casually browsing the web but needs to be built using 40+ year old build systems

Nothing wrong with software being old. It's stable and reliable. Also, I'm not sure the format has any competition, taking into account feature parity.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/gnu-c-manual.html
The article (nor the product page for the X280) doesn't say whether these chips are radiation hardened, or whether NASA is now more comfortable with software solutions to the difficulties of reliable computation in space.

If the latter, that seems (to a layperson) quite exciting, since more local processing capabilities will hopefully lead to more efficient use of the very limited radio bandwidth these missions have available at such vast distances.
I dont see how a "religion" has to have an outdated website, out of touch marketing and projects.
Analyzing the potential of AlphaFold in drug discovery
Paperclips.
> According to the data, crime in SF is lower that it was a few years ago: https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-San-Francisco-Californ...

Every time I see something like this I will point out that during the anti-police movement that happened a while back, many police started reducing their activity either because they were told to, because prosecutes would refuse to prosecute, or because they didn't want to be the next person on the news. Many people in the LE community that I knew reduced the proactive policing, because of the hostile nature of it.

Every single one of them predicted that crimes would stop being reported and recorded, and that a year from now everyone was going to point to the fact crime has gone down as proof that things are getting better, when the reality was that people were going to stop using or relying on the police for help because they police wouldn't do anything because they had been instructed not to.

Crime isn't any lower, reported crime is.
Still waiting for Vancouver real estate to follow suit but feels weird that in Vancouver its' socially acceptable for people without homes single out a certain ethnic group every cycle. Used to Japanese in the 1980s, Hong Kongers in 90s, Taiwanese in 00s and Chinese in 10s. This type of scapegoating doesn't seem prevalent in other real estate markets like California, their money is correct on high wage disparity between tech workers and those with stagnating wages. In both markets there is surprising silence on REITs and corporations buying up residential living spaces and flipping it. Wouldn't be surprised if those special interest groups also own/influence local media as well.
They're given the choice, which is overwhelmingly taken by 99.9% of the people in the world, of not living in SF.
I'm ready to throw our old, expensive, and fairly slow flight computers with no drivers and terrible lead time to the curb and get on board with something new. Especially if an open ISA means that our systems will be more portable and faster to develop.
What's the safest way to transfer money relatively anonymously nowadays?

by relatively I mean that I don't care if gov/police knows, but the person who sends/receives money doesn't know me, I just don't want people from games to know me

I've used paypal account with random name like Snarky Snark

and managed to transfer like 300usd, but I'm worried that the next time they may block me somehow
2 of my first 3 repositories are:

- A clone of the official GitLab repo using 1GiB.

- A personal repo using -36.06 MiB

- A repo with 43.8 GiB of container registry that doesn't appear to be counted in the overview for that repo.

This doesn't seem quite baked yet.
The suggestion here is very clearly that the study can answer the question of the relative safety of the vaccines vs. the virus. Which it cannot. Which you absolutely do need a time machine to answer correctly. Which was exactly my point.

Insinuating that this study answers that question is just pure bullshit.
The Mars ambition, when it works, has a future. It is possible with long time spans to make Mars a livable planet with a sizable civilization.

The Moon isn't quite so favorable for this, the end result wouldn't be as nice and would be more because it would be useful than desirable.
Dang it, right, yes. Thank you for the correction.
The only way a new browser engine will be written in this day and age is if a massive company throws absolutely billions at it (Microsoft and Apple have both given up on this) or a competing browser on the Chromium engine gets popular enough that they become the main fork and begin to diverge.

I don't really see any other way until HTML and the web is replaced by something else entirely.
Say someone ingests this data and clean it up make it usable, who's the customer for that service? What would they want to know from it?
Why should anyone care about the rich owners of the office buildings having to write off their losses and instead make it easier to accommodate people like cattle. The only way they are going to recoup some of their costs is by charging significantly for the right to live in a windowless box.

So it seems this scheme is much less about helping some poor homeless person and much more about some rich investor keeping some money.
Kudos to the many low hanging fruits out there.

There are so many small and medium sized businesses to whom the internet age has caused just more bureaucracy and admin. It may sound counterintuitive to someone from a high tech first world city, but in the developing world there are many businesses that are caught between old ways of doing things, lack of a tech-skilled workforce and modern expectations of what businesses should function like.

This often results in a huge overhead of business processes caught up in a hellhole of excel files, Asana cards, file servers, accounting software with paradigms out of the nineties and revenue services with expectations from the data age but still being run with a mentality from before the nineties.

All that while you guys (FAANG and the lot) talk about VR and self driving cars.

This is where tech could make a real tangible difference in productivity gains for millions, if not billions. But who is actually interested in that if you can build a rocket that lands by itself… (not meant cynically - just saying)
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