skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need for that. The golden c64 generation will start with early retirements in a few years. Younger generations have less interest in IT (on average) and will yield fewer and fewer tech workers.
That makes it sound like a empty gesture, and therefore more of a political stunt.
The US did quite a bit of experimentation in dispersal of biological weapons.

The US Navy dispersed a microbe off the coast of SF to test natural wind dispersal of biological warfare agents. The microbe was harmless to healthy people, but hospitals contain unhealthy people-- some of whom the navy managed to kill.

In the midst of an international mosquito eradication effort that (temporarily) rid much of the Americas from disease carrying mosquitoes, the US Army was breeding and releasing mosquitoes within the US. The Army was testing mosquitoes as a vector for spreading weaponized biological pathogens. I'm not sure if this was a "success" i.e., proved it would have killed a lot of people or not.

When I was in university, there was a physics professor at UC Berkely who was trying to call attention to the UC system getting 1/3 of their funding from the military. Some of that funding was probably accounted for by the University of California being the entity that manged the national labs developing nuclear weapons. But, some of that funding was going into research into creating new strains of pathogens e.g., gain of function research which seems pretty much exactly the kind of research you would do when developing a biological warfare agent.

I guess <adjusts tin foil hat>, I'm not 100% convinced the US abandoned biological weapons. While I'm not convinced that they didn't abandon them either the US has invested a lot into them, and that gain of function research funded by the military was not that long ago.

And, non-nuclear states can more easily get the precursors for chemical and biological weapons than nukes. E.g., Iraq's chemical weapons program (mainly used against Iran) used some production equipment sourced from the US, and precursor chemicals sourced from Germany and the UK. And, the, apparently believable, cover story was that they were manufacturing pesticides. I'd be surprised if a lot of militaristic smaller countries didn't have this sort of weapons program.
Well what do I know about chess? my lichess rapid rating is slightly below 2600, so chances are your expertise in chess cheating far exceeds mine.

Please, tell us how exactly did Niemann cheat in that OTB game with Carlsen, and circumvented the measures taken by the tournament organizers?
If mRNA vaccines are so extremely well understood, why was so much misinformation spread by public health officials about them?

We were told:

- The mRNA and spike protein break down within a few days. Now studies are finding them still in the body months later and the CDC silently memory-holed the statement on their site about them being short-lived.

- The mRNA and spike protein remain localized to the injection site. Now studies are finding them all over the body.

- The spike protein is harmless. Now studies are finding it's toxic.
Nobel Prize 2022: Medicine
Which way? That's how every country on earth operates. You are not a citizen of a country just because your parents dragged you there when you were young. In fact, the US is almost the only place on earth that grants birth-right citizenship (maybe Canada and Australia do as well?). All other countries think this is absurd.
https://archive.ph/eIPB8
> I have a feeling the average voter doesn’t actually have a preference for more than one candidate

Many voters don't have a preference for the people they vote for now. Many really do tend to fall back on voting for a party, and that option doesn't go away with RCV.
I do suspect it'd be better (and easier) for each party to put forward only one candidate in each election, but as long as the list is narrowed down well enough by voting day it's not really a problem. In the Alaska election voters only had to rank three candidates which is perfectly reasonable.

> RCV ballots state that you can choose to vote for only one candidate.

And we should retain the option. Choosing one and refusing to rank the others is pretty much the same as voting against everyone else, or in the case where your one chosen candidate is removed, more like not voting at all. I don't have a problem with letting people make that choice although I have heard it argued that voting should be compulsory. I'm not sure if that'd require a rank for everyone under RCV or not.

> People are used to casting ballots for their main choice, and if pressed I doubt most of the electorate would be able to describe the instant runoff process RCV enabled and you would be hard pressed to find a layman able to flesh out all the different scenarios of how their ballot would be counted in any particular close race.

This is perhaps the biggest problem and it applies to literally any change we make to our voting system. We need to educate the public on how the new system works, or at the very least provide information so that the public is able to inform themselves. I can't speak to how well Alaska made an effort to inform their population about the new voting system, but I will say that there are some very good youtube videos that explain the idea behind RCV pretty well.

Following any change there is bound to be a little confusion, but with time and little effort on the part of the people I'm convinced we'll be just as comfortable with an improved voting system (RCV or not) as we are with the one we're stuck with presently.
Nobel Prize 2022: Physics
What kind of storage media is the most durable in a powered of state?
Is there even body armour that can stop .308? The energy involved makes me think that broken ribs would be the least worst outcome of your "armour" being hit, internal bleeding feels like a likely outcome.
Nobel Prize 2022: Chemistry
>When the full car auto-pilot is getting released you said?

The cold-fusion-powered, fully-automated car.
iMessage when I have to use my MacBook because my phone is charging is amazingly awful, completely inflexible.

Have you not used another messaging app?
2002 web page, quoting his 1996 book:

https://web.archive.org/web/20021231112332/http://www.stevem...
Your point about how tax rates are set compared to interest rates is true, but could be changed.

I don't follow the second part though: pretty much everybody pays a significant amount of taxes, if only the likes of sales tax. Far fewer (though of course still many) players have substantial interest income or expenses.
> Blockchain is interesting but it’s been around for decades (it’s older than Bitcoin)

It's dismissive comments like this that do a lot of the degrading of the quality of any cryptocurrency conversation here.

There wasn't anything like Bitcoin before Bitcoin. Love it, hate it, or indifferent to it, the consensus introduced by Satoshi was completely novel and has enabled a system behavior that was not possible before.

I think what is ultimately behind the poor quality of discussion here is that too many participants are passionate about the social implications one way or the other, and so we always get a big flame war over those aspects where nothing new is said.
I wonder if asking European GDPR bodies to penalize US court for forcing someone to publish private data of EU citizens would generate a response.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
My solar radio-sync watch is still going strong. Been wearing it for almost 20 years now.
This is a compeltely different topic now.

You're talking about people who were dragged into the US when they were children by their parents.

We were just talking about whether the US is particularly stringent when it comes to border inspections.

> Or be deported out by ICE right after serving lengthy sentence despite living in the country your whole life

Most countries would consider foreign citizens who serve lengthy prison sentences as unwanted visitors and would like very much to get rid of them as soon as possible.

I don't know of a country that welcomes such a thing. Do you know of one?
They do.

Eg https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent...

Obviously not usually considered cause, but rather effect.
Dangers of pthalates notwithstanding, you do actually want an airtight home. Ventilation should be controlled and filtered with the HVAC system.
Isn't there some heuristic that uses advanced multiplication algorithms if the matrix is big enough? Perhaps also checking for sparseness if that matters.
I would add to this; that a certain amount of bad abstractions are preferable to underdoing it. The learning from failure (when there's sufficient investment in the outcome) is far more valuable than avoiding inefficiency.

Learning better ways is a process - so long as you remain robust in the face of failure and grow from it.
The rising cost of software in the design process is startling. I wonder what opportunity there is for new entrants to reduce that cost.
I used to take omega-3 fish oil for about a month. My cholesterol levels went through the roof, even though I was taking only a spoon a day as recommended. For anyone who tries it, I strongly recommend to stop a blood exams before and a month or two afterwards.
Cool story - thanks for sharing.

I've got a spare laptop and started a TOR relay (no exit) recently - I'll be on the look out for these kind of errors
Houses built in the past 100 years generally don't.

There is a subset of the Victorian terrace townhouses in some of the major cities that do, but the vast majority of houses do not.

The water table is one reason, but radon mitigation is certainly a constraint.
Is the 18506 pages long lambda term the normal form? I wonder how much that can be minimized by not beta reducing everything.
FreeRTOS and Zephyr are good enough. The less, the better. Maybe do without threads, which is even better.
Cloud storage is the opposite of distributed.

With cloud storage, you must have one single fixed central location (often a third party) that contains the real data, many satellite locations with a partial replica of the data, and hit-or-miss mechanisms to notice changes in replicas and propagate them to the central location. If the central location is down there is no more synchronization. If the central location is not yours, they can shut you down anytime.

A distributed filesystem does away with the need for a fixed central storage by storing data across all locations with a configurable level of replication. A strong, consistent cascading of changes (eg a crdt semantic) brings all replicas in sync whenever connectivity allows. No third parties need to be involved, no single device is a point of failure.
There is no anonymity aspect, except (maybe?) with some coins.
No doubt it took long to sweep those mines in Iraq, but apparently it didn't stop the US Navy from participating in both Iraq Wars?
Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)
If you have a passive imaging system, the visual spectrum is pretty good for survival. If you have the budget to emit your own radiation as well, you would obviously use something else to get additional information about your environment.
It seems like a ton of these prefab projects show up on HN, but does anyone know of any that produce houses/structures that actually… look nice? It seems like everything I’ve seen on here have all the aesthetics of a shipping container. (Or, to be more on the nose, a concrete box).
I wish there were some sort of monitoring tool for the docker container, so you know if you're actually doing any good (it's working), like the browser extension.

Something like nyx (for tor) but for snowflake.
And the CO2 emissions leading to rising sea levels? The mining? Transportation? And where do you plan to put the concentrated uranium, thorium, mercury, etc from the smoke stacks? These are all large sources of deaths.

If you spend $200B on one plant, the economics of that are nuts, right, which is why we don't. You'd have to spend $200B on each plant, where nuclear you'd have spent $200B twice in the last 60 years. These are of course just ballpark numbers.
Do you imply that the change was fully transparent to you, except for a config change?
"Crypto" is named for the use of public/private keys for receiving/sending, and maybe also for the hashing algorithms in Proof of Work.

For most cryptocurrencies
(including Bitcoin and Ethereum) it is trivial to calculate someone's balance if you know their public key (aka wallet address). Someone can maintain multiple wallets for privacy, but transactions between them (directly or indirectly) can be used to correlate and find the source of funds. This is why bitcoin mixers[1] exist.

There's a whole bunch of so-called "privacy coins" that attempt to address these issues and others (e.g. by making it harder to tell which IPs transactions are broadcast from).

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/12/suspected-tornado-cash-dev...
Depending of what is the content probably you only needed 1 spoon every month. The level of spoon of fish oil can be up in the 10.000s.
I'm finding it can increase LDL in some cases apparently. I have been taking it daily for past year and my HDL and LDL levels improved though. Although, my diet and exercise regimine improved drastically.
Remarkably, it shows a cable owned/installed by Zayo that goes right through the edge of my tiny village in rural New Mexico. The company, AFAICT, is not consumer-facing - too bad, because if it was, it would be a local gamechanger.
Which cholesterol went through the roof? Because there's a lot of misinformation and myths, for example "all cholesterol is bad for you" [1] among others.

https://www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/myths_facts.htm
That's a valid point that my personal circumstances are unusual, but after my latest entry I started digging into the court records and saw far more "normal" citizens also experienced similar circumstances to this particular occasion I mentioned at Nogales port of entry (like Ms Cervantes noted above and below, who appears to have been a normal ~18 year old girl). My black/gray listing put me on the express lane into seeing the dark side of border patrol -- but the sad fact is some "unlucky" normal citizens appear to getting this treatment, and once it happens your eyes are revealed to even the normal people this is happening to (and in fact, while I was there CBP officers bragged about putting other innocents through the same thing, including one for having a trans-sexual appendage)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...

I recommend in particular noted pgs 7-9 under the heading "Ashley’s [redacted] Were Probed without a Warrant, Consent or Any Suspicion of Internal Drug Smuggling"
I remember those watches when I was a kid in 90s.
Eoghan McCabe Is Back as CEO at Business Messaging Startup Intercom
Location: New Zealand

Remote: Yes (preferred)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Currently working with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Python, Bash, Emacs Lisp. Previously worked with GCP (GKE), Django.

Resume: https://john2x.com/resume.pdf

Email: john2x@gmail.com

Currently an SRE with previous backend dev experience, but curious to learn/work with a functional programming language project. I play with Clojure a bit if that helps, but am by no means productive with it.
Or, as I said, you could use it to do actual useful compute that people pay you for.
I think we're very much in line. I made a wall of text done time ago to gather my thoughts:

https://personalfilesystem.org/
"its a recession, not a daylight savings time adjustment"
Aside from criminal behavior there isn’t a valid practical need for cryptocurrencies. As a result discussions around this subject tend to be incredibly boring and instead tend to focus on aspirations of nontechnical greed. Such low quality subjects tend to attract depraved comments, otherwise there would be nothing left to talk about.

Worse, people who should know better project all kinds of illusory aspirations upon cryptocurrency that either defy definition or amount to poorly formed illogical qualifiers. What quality of commentary should one expect from such quality subjects?
It's moving so fast even doctors(sans oncologists, perhaps?) can't keep up.

Brother's been a doctor about 15 years. Huge extended family is aging, and of course cancer creeps in. Of course family members call to get his opinion, and he's been wrong every single time(thankfully). Usually saying something like 'oh, she'll be dead within 2 years' and them living 6, or 8. And in one case calling something a death sentence that was actually, seemingly at least, cured.

It's entirely possible he's just a shit doctor, but I like to think it's that progress has moved a ton since he's studied up on it last.
I never said a meeting. That says a lot about you :p
In physics the word particle can have many different meanings depending on the context. Particle does not necessarily mean a spherical object with a finite radius. I wonder how they define a particle in this context, for example in this nice diagram from the press release: https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2022/10/fig3_fy_en_22_ent...
It can be. Concrete isn't a great insulator, but it can moderate temperature changes, so if you have big swings between the day and night, it will keep things cooler in the day and warmer at night, which can be helpful. But if you get a heat wave where it stays hot at night, you're going to be real warm inside the next day too.

This article mentions 100 and 200 square feet buildings, so I don't think there's gonna be much in the way of internal structure. I could see an inflatable structure with 'tubes' at certain places for wiring and plumbing to pass through, which would save cutting holes later.

But like everyone else says, there's easier ways to get the frame up faster. What makes construction slow is coordination between the many different trades that need to work in the same area. With many parts in sequence, and each trade having high utilization, scheduling is difficult --- either you plan with large gaps between trades, or you blow up everyone's schedule when one trade falls behind for whatever reason.
Analog vs digital computing can do the same thing (in the functionalist sense) even though they are not implemented in the same media nor representation. They exist at two different levels of abstraction, but still represent the same process. Under the tenets of functionalism and related philosophies, this statement is the same as saying that the two computations are the same fundamentally.

Conceivably, I could build a slalom course for balls to roll down hills such that it "computes" a function by giving the answer as the number of balls in a particular bin at the bottom of the hill, given some input configuration of balls at the top of the hill. You could conceivably do this with any well-behaved function over the integers, given the appropriate slalom course. How is setting the slalom course different from writing a computer program?

I am claiming the difference is only in representation and physical implementation (balls in an analog slalom course vs binary numerical program in an electromechanical digital computer).

Physical processes are used to compute things all the time. Have you ever studied an internal combustion engine? Sensors and circuits are physical components that are used to implement feedback loops that determine ("compute") a set point or steady-state phenomenon within the engine. The function of the engine is to run, and it does so with analog computations, free of digital interface.

Do you then say that the engine has not actually computed an appropriate setting given its (physical, analog) programming? If not, then what has it done? One may answer that it has simply fulfilled its physical inevitability via deterministic processes -- but this explanation applies equally to the digital computer as it is still a physical machine performing physical processes to reach an end state.

I've gone through this enough times with myself that I can't see it another way, but if you have an alternative view feel free to share.
> The funny thing is that Germany and the USA have about the same smoking rate (https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/smoking-r...) but in the USA, it is culturally prohibited in almost every single state or city to smoke around children, in restaurants, in hotels, near primary entrances, or on sidewalks because people feel ashamed for doing it (and in many cases are punished criminally for smoking in those places). So yeah, the attitude is very, very different. Over here, smokers know it is bad for them and do it anyways. In Germany and Austria, many people consider it their way of life and that it isn't actually bad for them.

That's very interesting. I'd love to see the comparison between the stats on smoking related diseases in those places that prohibit public smoking and those that do not, given that both places have a similar number of smokers.
Lots of good answers here. If certs are still the issue then a little unorthodox method is to create a wireguard tunnels between your internal hosts. They are trivial to setup. Less maintenance than renewable wildcard certs. Similar level of security as https.

You can even put the wireguard private IP addresses on your DNS servers. As mentioned elsewhere DNS records are not publicly enumerable like letsencrypt certs.

A side benefit is you can now access your internal network from your laptop or phone.
mine says 277MB
Game and VR development generally need powerful desktops both for programmers and content creators. Our entire team of (fully remote) VR developers have high end gaming desktops. If cloud workstations worked well they'd be interesting for us but none of them really support VR development at the moment.
This is quite impressive. I've never heard of WebVM/CheerpX before. I wonder how it compares to v86[0].

[0]: https://github.com/copy/v86
I doubt the veracity of your claims because according to multiple sources [1][2] the only nuclear reactor in the state of Utah is located on the bottom floor of the Merrill Engineering Building on the University of Utah campus.

If a reactor were located on the BYU campus, I would expect it to be public knowledge and tracked by the IAEA.

I used to work on the top floor of MEB for many years and had the opportunity to see the glow of the core in the pool of water on multiple occasions.

Tangentially, the UofU reactor made national headlines last week when a student made a threat to blow it up if the football team lost [3].

1. https://www.deseret.com/2011/3/16/20370414/university-of-uta...

2. https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2016/11/04/sole-nuclear-react...

3. https://www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/college-football/2022/...
It's of course true that eating apex predators like tuna is worse than eating sardines, but by fishing sardines you're greatly reducing the available food for species that eat sardines. The fundamental problem that we take out too much fish remains. That's also why krill oil is only a little better than fish oil: krill is an important part of the food chain and we're fishing too much of it.
Very interesting, these are typical problems to solve in real time and safety systems, good to see some thoughts how one can go into that direction in a systematic way.
The more ergonomic APIs with similar capabilities are Metal and it’s near-clone WebGPU.
I recently stopped wearing my Apple Watch and started wearing my G-Shock. I’ve noticed I live more in the present without constant notifications. I stopped trying to fill rings and started listening to my body. The Apple Watch is cool, but IMO it’s a bit of a novelty.
Canada was chastised by the UN for not having a reporting mechanism in place to make drug reports to the UN.

Apparently they are just flagrantly failing to comply with general portions of the Convention.
Isn't it serverless when it's local-only? Or, in an extreme case, peer-to-peer?