skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not nonsense. Hacker News is hardly a platform for science, facts or personal experience that might tarnish the image of the C19 vaccines in any way, so this will certainly not be platformed. I will be lucky if it is not flagged and censored. Why did I post this? So that those that have discernment and critical thinking skills might get something out of it.

Lives saved? The evidence I've given you tells another story, but I see that you are not ready or willing to have that discussion, or review the material.
It's quite bad actually. Was issued a very basic work laptop (not really a primary PC). 8GBs probably seemed just fine.

Unfortunately running a browser, outlook, and teams was enough to cause really annoying hickups. I didn't even realize it was my laptop, because I was remoted in somewhere.

I'm more than a little salty that an 8GB PC can no longer run a pretty basic suite of work apps, simultaneously. I guess all three of them have assumed that they will have gobs of memory to themselves.
And HN played an important role.

10-12 years ago, when Chrome appeared, HN was full of posts like "I switched my parents computer to Chrome", "I convinced my company to switch to Chrome", ...
Have you ever been to one of those websites that had so many ads you couldn’t see the content (when it loaded 30 seconds later)? Banners and pop up’s and auto playing video all stacked on top of each other…

Google and Facebook don’t look like that. Those sort of sites will never become a lasting concern like google or Facebook because users hate it. Google could make more money if 50% of search results were ads but then people would stop using search and they’d lose all their business. Instead they put less ads and hope you use maps, which also has a few ads, then YouTube which has a few ads then… then… then… It’s a lot more sustainable to “increase inventory” by increasing surface area for customers than using a bigger % of existing area. Same reason cable gets more channels instead of bigger % of existing airtime going to ads. Just like television- you can have a good show, even though ads are in between. that doesn’t make the writing any worse, the writers will still do their best. If you have a good experience with search, you’ll use it for years, and you may use other products since you had a good experience.
Probably not but, would love to be proven wrong. To get this stuff to work you have to add a ton of garbage data to the end of the file from what I understand which you can't really do with a string.
Is the plan for this to be only an editor for podcasts or is there a plan to also serve the podcast through this platform? (i for example almost never listen to podcasts but would sometimes just enjoy reading transcripts...)
It's essentially a little bit similar to a mortar shell launch I suppose, at that distance? Reminds me of the fun I had trying to do ultra long distance shots playing Gunbound (South Korean MMMORPG that was similar to Worms) online. Very impressive.
CIA launches a podcast, hoping to 'demystify' the agency and boost recruitment
Has Jeremy Paxman since then reflected on this discussion publicly?
> automatically generates a compiler front-end

For a very narrow definition of compiler frontend. The missing piece to make this super awesome would be generating LLVM IR, which is where the semantics of the language would need to be understood (vs just the grammar).
The problem with variable-sized pointers is that...

1. Any abstraction you could make will have worse performance than a fixed-size machine pointer

2. In order to support any kind of variably-sized type you need machine pointers to begin with, and those will always be fixed-size because variable size is even harder to support in hardware than native code

And furthermore going straight to 256 has its own problems. Each time you double the pointer size you also significantly increase the size of structures with a lot of pointers. V8 notably uses "pointer compression" - i.e. using 32-bit offsets instead of 64-bit pointers, because it never needs >4GB of JavaScript objects at once and JS objects are very pointer-ridden.

There's two forces at play here: pointers need to be small enough to embed in any data structure and large enough to address the entire working set of the program. Larger pointers are not inherently better[0], and neither are smaller pointers. It's a balancing act.

[0] ASLR, PAC, and CHERI are exceptions, as mentioned in the original article.
Dune, Bladerunner, but also The Mandalorian, for a Star Wars example. When Star Trek was rebooted as The Next Generation, and followed up with DS9 and Voyager; those shows were all great. Mad Max Fury Road got rave reviews.

It is absolutely possible to do justice to existing properties, and to write new great stories in them. But existing successful properties also seem to attract writers who are just looking to milk the franchise's reputation for a quick buck.

The story you're telling should be able to stand on its own without the big name attached. If it can't do that, it doesn't deserve the big name.
From the article linked you can see that the number of millionares audited has been steadily going down in recent years. The article explains it as:

> A critical limitation in the IRS’s ability to audit millionaires is the availability of IRS revenue agents. Only this class of auditors, given sufficient training and experience, are qualified to examine complex tax returns – the types of returns typically filed by high-income individuals and large-scale businesses.

> With severe budget constraints, IRS has tended to trade off the replacement of revenue agents with hiring more tax examiners. These certainly are paid less, but they are also less knowledgeable. While revenue agents used to outnumber tax examiners, this has slowly shifted over time.

> Since the end of FY 2010, the number of IRS revenue agents has dropped by 41 percent. Initially, the number of tax examiners also fell although not at the same rate. By FY 2016, tax examiners began to outnumber revenue agents for the first time. During FY 2020 and FY 2021, major increases took place in the hiring of tax examiners. Thus, the number of tax examiners has regained all of their lost ground and were actually 1 percent higher than in 2010. See Figure 4 and Table 3.
“Arabic classifiers are likely less accurate for Palestinian Arabic than other dialects, both because the dialect is less common, and because the training data — which is based on the assessments of human reviewers — likely reproduces the errors of human reviewers due to lack of linguistic and cultural competence.”

looks like AI was designed by Israelis and human reviewers were also Israelis
The point is that off-peak isn't necessarily the best option anymore.

In areas that are going all-in on solar, there is power during the day, but at night it would have to be generated or come from storage batteries.

Off-peak traditionally means when demand is low. Now you have to change your thinking to be when supply is high.
Why? Because WSL = running Linux on top for Windows, so expect a performance hit?

Many many years ago during undergraduate days, I used Cygwin (before being introduced to VirtualBox) to provide a UNIX-y coding environment on my Windows PC.

And on these days I prefer docker :D
This looks impressive.

Is an MD5 hash still "safe" if you use a salt? Can an attacker generate a collision having the MD5 hash without knowing the salt?
> Why is it that there is no standard applied to those who publish code for distribution purposes?

What does "publish code for distribution purposes" mean? That sounds like all published code.

Does that mean that I can't put my own hobby code up in public? That's a sure-fire way to kill the community dead.

> You chose to do that, you chose to distribute it, you didn't have to do that.

I think the burden is more properly on the people who choose to download and use it, knowing what it is.
Yes, for whatever reason that stuff has been ditched. I will admit that most of it seemed kinda like gimmicky junk. I can't say I personally miss it.

I'd usually use it for a while and get bored. I remember you could do some pretty extensive mods, but it would definitely risk breaking things, or getting a virus.

It all seemed really promising, but kind of petered out.
They did. It was called Firefox OS. They killed it in 2015/16. See:

https://killedbymozilla.com/
> Being a good Christian shall not exclude rationality

I, for one, would question this.

Indeed I'd even say being a good human being is not always compatible with rationality.
google famously used this clause and that was near twenty years ago.. things have evolved in GPL land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License
In my experience, the hesitancy to contribute/ pay open source projects comes more from the contractors versus the government.
get funded
> It is absurd that anyone can anonymously provide open source code, with no assurances whatsoever, and that can end up in critical software.

While you're welcome your position and your ideas on how to solve these problems, I believe that the logic you're applying punishes the provider and not the consumer. Nobody is forcing anyone to use OSS without auditing every damn line, if that's their requirement.

Telling people that share their hard work with strangers for free that they have an ethical responsibility to accept vague "obligations" - as defined by lobbyists and politicians - is not an idea with wings.
Just think about that 3% of the population starting 1/5th of all US billion dollar+ companies
Wallpaper and Monocle are good illustrations of the thoughtful design and editorial that go into creating the luxury experiences Tim highlights. Design and editorial are not proprietary to medium or technology. While time for thoughtfulness is more endemic to the print production process, at least 9 of 18 points made in the piece are possible in digital and print.

Clean typography and wonderful images on uncluttered pages is possible online. "Sweaty desperation" and intrusive tracking and come-ons are decisions people made or decided to ignore. Thoughtful UX consideration of the whole package in addition to the component pieces / articles also works for products online and IRL.
A content free article worthy of an evidence free insinuation.

The epitome of fake news.
> 1. We are correct, and manage to build the right thing. We'll get to work on this forever.

Maybe I'm too pessimistic, I apologize if that's the case. But I fail to see how the company could ever work on "the right thing" "forever" since there is outside investment in the company. Do these investor not want a return on their investment at one point? If it's in 1 year or 10, eventually they are gonna want you to either go public, or get bought by another company, both of which makes the mission goal change from "the right thing" to "the profitable thing" at that moment.

But again, maybe I'm just overly pessimistic based on bad experiences with VC funded companies.
And due to a myriad "temporary technical reasons" most users in Europe were never shown that screen at all.
HTML/CSS/JS are the most superior UI engine that exists right now, especially when used through something like React/Vue/Svelte. So creating an even better one is quite a tall order.
I'm not nagged about my browser choice on Linux. Other browsers are found easily on the package manager.
> Another issue with electricity pricing design is charging commercial and industrial customers big fees based on their peak electricity use. This can disincentivize employers from installing chargers, especially once half or more of their employees have EVs. [...]

Well, I don't know what to say aside from we would need a lot of work to have it 'both ways'.

By that I mean, if we expect everyone to charge their cars during the day, especially 'peak hours' in a given industrial area, there's a chance that the line and/or station capacity would have to be increased. A large part of the allure of 'night charging' is that it avoids requiring major grid upgrades, and also possibly opens up better uses around certain energy sources quirks. Nuclear, water power, geothermal, all three to some extent have 'consistent load' properties where either it takes time to adjust power output, or power output can be consistent both day and night with minimal incremental cost, vs the need to install additional capacity for extra day load.
The data, to me, is mostly reality. I rephrased it so that it reflects peoples perceptions on reality. I did that specifically because there's debate on how much crime there actually is.

I do agree that data is fallable and manipulatable, but I do still think the data is good enough for a baseline.
No, there's no good answer to this. Don't ever use the Root account itself. Use a corporate Yubikey, kept in a safe or better yet - Corporate Safety Deposit Box - that only the highest-level technical leads (3-5) have access to and keys to.

You should be using IAM user accounts for everything else. Unprivileged base users with access to two different roles. One for general use, one that has administrator access. Build a lambda that sends a daily e-mail summarizing logins to the second and actions those logins took to your security team. You only need to be quite this complex as your corporation grows, and you probably should only ever have a (under twenty) list of people with access to that second role.

The other key to this puzzle is separate AWS Root Accounts for different use cases; Run your Dev in one and give out the administrative role willy-nilly, "Prod" in another that's tightly locked down. AWS SSO is one good solution to managing all these accounts (there are others). Run your "Prod Data but not visible to customers" in another if you must have it (I suggest investing in automation instead - Set up a service team to handle understanding requests for "Prod" data, that will run queries in prod after vetting them and anonymizing, but don't ever load that data into staging; Have them also help engineers sufficiently fake that data).
Impressive, indeed [1], but its the easiest of the corrections they had to do. Its a standard classical physics question and has been included in artillery calculations since at least the late 19th century.

[1] Id imagine that a bullet, being so light compared to a shell, is more affected by fluid flow than the coreolis force. That the correction was needed means they nailed the far more difficult fluid problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXVcXmyKpeI

> At this distance you'll also have to take the Coriolis effect into account.

COD did it first
I've seen good arguments why the Meteor Man might be Sauron. It doesn't fit a lot of things from the Tolkien lore, but it does fit some hints from the show.
> I keep trying to quit vim

It's esc + :q
Do you have plans for Rust (and specifically web frameworks like actix-web)? I see Rust on your main site under "Use the Tech You Love" but there's no dedicated docs.
Grain in photography can evoke feelings of roughness and emotion. It's especially effective in portrait photography. If there are subtle gradients, grain also hides those and prevents the obvious look of posterization.
It's still alive, just barely!

CPU[*****************************************************************************100.0%] Tasks: 49, 30 thr; 1 running
Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||****641M/768M] Load average: 2.51 2.12 2.01
Swp[|||||||||||||||||||||||| 215M/768M] Uptime: 166 days(!), 19:40:07
Typically, they just print more to compensate. In this case, the UK explicitly stated this was a debt funded tax cut, so spending remained constant while revenue declined.
Meanwhile east europe is getting 8gb/s residential broadband.
> Never changing the defaults is like living in a motel your whole life.

Maintaining an ideal set of defaults is like trying to arrange your favorite lamp and flower vases in every hotel room where your job requires you to spend the night.
I'm not sure how you'd effectively enforce that. Charging happens at standard power levels.
Is a level 2 charger not slow enough? Running that for 2-4 hours should be enough for normal commutes I imagine.
The spy shit is hard to back up, due to the inherently secretive nature of spy shit. However I can back up the lobbying aspect of my claims above:

Fortune magazine article about it from 2002 (hosted by CNN):

> For a couple of embarrassing years in the mid-'90s, Microsoft's primary lobbying presence in D.C. was "Jack and his Jeep." As the software giant's sole in-house lobbyist, Jack Krumholtz, then 33, had to battle endless traffic jams to get from Microsoft's suburban sales office to Capitol Hill. "Early on I spent most of the day in my Jeep Grand Cherokee on my cellphone," Krumholtz says. "I hit an all-time low on the day I was parked on a Capitol Hill side street reading through my mail with the laptop on the steering wheel."

> No longer. After the Justice Department filed its antitrust suit in 1998, Microsoft--a company famous for its disdain of government--undertook the largest government affairs makeover in corporate history. The company now boasts one of the most dominating, multifaceted, and sophisticated influence machines around, one that spends tens of millions a year. It's no great surprise that one of the country's wealthiest companies can bankroll a beefed-up lobbying operation when it faces a crisis. But what few people realize is that Microsoft has reached the very highest ranks of lobbying so quickly. Says David Hart, a lobbying expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: "Microsoft has joined the top tier"--with such longtime heavyweights as Philip Morris, Lockheed Martin, and AT&T.

https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002...

Bill Gates quote from 2020:

> "I was naive at Microsoft and didn't realize that our success would lead to government attention," Gates said, referring to Microsoft's antitrust challenges from more than 20 years ago. "And so I made some mistakes — you know, just saying, 'Hey, I never go to Washington, D.C.' And now I don't think, you know, that naivete is there."

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/bill-gates-i-was-naive-at-mi...
My concern isn't either, although both are interesting discussions - 1 in particular is relevant but understandable, as this prevents you from pairing tokens so you can maintain an off-site backup you don't have to retrieve every time you make a new account.

The specific challenge here is around software webauthn for passwordless access (think using Safari to create an account on a site). In this scenario, the average user has no portable authenticator. They cannot move to a new browser - you install Chrome, but can't log in from Chrome, as only safari can do a passkey login.

Even if chrome supports an equivalent setup (their version of passkey over Google sync, for example), you can't enroll it - to enroll, you need to sign in using Safari. To enroll your new device (chrome), you need to use it. You can't get logged in on chrome to do this. The average user has no option. A tech savvy user could manually copy session cookies to steal their own session, perhaps, or use a hardware key as a "bridge".

In essence, if you sign up for something using a passkey, you won't be able to easily leave that ecosystem at all, without pretty advanced tech knowledge (using a dedicated hardware webauthn key, or stealing and porting session cookies).

My separate observation about a lack of support for hardware keys to be "paired" to support an off-site backup use-case is unrelated, but perhaps relevant for tech savvy users who want to better "own" their own identity, and link their webauthn keys together for backup use-cases. Otherwise you have to maintain a list or spreadsheet of every site you use - I have one, so I can ensure I enroll each token I have with each service!
You can use the TOTP 6 digit code method, but instead of just scanning the QR code with your phone, you save the “serial” in your password manager and then all your employees can add that serial to the app on their device. Did that make sense? That’s what I do.
This is far beyond Hindley-Milner (as are Ocaml and Haskell), which is pretty primitive in-and-of-itself.
The average American pays their taxes, because the average American's taxes are collected and paid for them by their employer.

The groups that underreport the most are contractors, followed by small business owners, though this usually comes in the form of over-claiming expenses rather than understating revenue.

Wealthy taxpayers pay accountants and lawyers to do tax planning on them. While some of them do cheat on their taxes, most of them simply find ways to owe less...though as someone who used to provide these services, between about $500k in annual income and around $10 million, there's a donut hole where the fees paid to tax advisors and the expenses incurred to reduce taxes (i.e., charitable donations, etc.) usually exceed the savings from reduced taxes unless the client is willing to maintain the planning structure for 5-7 years.
Just chiming in to appreciate CS5.

PS CS5 is one of the best pieces of software ever released.

It is honestly miles better than any modern PS clone. It's kinda sad how no open source alternative has even come close.

Every other alternative is a compromise in some way or another.
Building and maintaining a full browser isn't cheap, if it were there'd be more browser engines.
That's one of those things that works great if you use a huge amount of power.

The fixed rate cost of charging for my commute would probably be less than the connection fee for the 2nd meter. In that scenario it wouldn't pay off it all (and of course you wouldn't bother doing it).
Oh my mistake
You should note that this thread is 4 years old. But it still seems to be a problem and people still comment on it. In 4 years they didn't implement this "basic" Syntax..?
Might depend on whether copyright applies to the agencies, since the GPL depends on copyright itself.
Assuming the bullet is traveling on a purely ballistic trajectory, no weird aerodynamics, calculator is saying it will have a vertical delta V of -235 m/s at 24 seconds. So more like -700 ft/s. But friction is real so I don’t know the real number.

I’m quite surprised they didn’t have the barrel pointed higher. Was the shooter on a plateau?
Neat question. The best answer seems to be an HN thread from 13 years ago (!) which posits that the chance of one existing is ~63%:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614079

However, it appears no one has actually discovered it yet, if it exists.

A more tractable question might be to find a cycle in the MD5 hash space, like a->b->c->d->a. So one might ask, what is the shortest MD5 cycle found so far?
It is interesting that the OP used “hash string” instead of MD5 value. I’d wager that if you dove into string encodings that you would find some.
After four miles, it's a little shocking to me.

And I'm into shooting sports.
Sorry for the confusion! Applying for access is still required to access Shasta, our recording + editing app. We’ve been slowly ramping up in getting people access to it… working hard on making sure it’s a super smooth experience.

Buuuut in the meantime, we launched two of our AI features as standalone mini apps that anyone can use for free, and those are called Mic Check and Enhance Speech. They’re fun, try them out and let me know what you think.
Haven't seen Rings of Power yet, but I'm probably going to be fine with it - Tolkien fan-fiction still scratches the itch. I found what they did to the Hobbit far more upsetting, and had a friend who absolutely hated the original movie trilogy back in the day: In contrast to Rings of Power, where the writers just make shit up, there was detailed source material available, making any deviation far more jarring.

Sauron the flaming eyeball? Denethor smacking his lips and dribbling food down his chin so that even the last person in the audience understands that he's a "bad guy". Faramir getting tempted by the ring? It's quite interesting how some people treat it as some sort of gold standard of faithful adaption...