skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgive the cynical response, but: more civilians have been killed for far less.

Surgical precision drone strikes at weddings for example, where it turns out nobody there was a terrorist.
also Wikipedia says that this is an open problem. However, with the "citation needed" warning...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system#Open_problems:~:text=....
I think spot instances on amazon at least don't do partial hours, do they? So, you'll also have some wasted cycles there. Probably enough to compensate for your on-prem downtime.
It’s wild that we don’t have proper code blocks already. But that’s going through QA right now and should be out shortly.
Do you mind elaborating? I think OPs article was pretty clear

> By default, Registration Lock is disabled, as was the case for at least one of the hacked accounts. As such, the cybercriminals managed to pull off the attack by impersonating the victim of the attack for roughly 13 hours
It happened in the early morning after Putin's birthday. It was clearly a birthday present.
Why would this pierce the veil? That’s a pretty high bar, and I don’t remember learning that employment actions are much more likely to satisfy the requirements.
Having worked with devicetrees and hated it, I don't like this idea. I don't like the modern world of ARM and embedded where you have hardcoded firmware images for every single device. I like the x86 model, where you have a one size fits all boot disk which just loads different drivers. You don't port your OS to a new computer, you just write drivers for the new hardware parts. And your hardware describes itself to the OS.

Granted, UEFI is grotesquely complicated. Probably you could replace most of it with a EEPROM that has a mapping of device ID to memory address, and some instructions how to speak to the embedded controller (basically, ACPI).

Unfortunately, UEFI/ACPI or simliar seems to be going nowhere in the ARM world, so it doesn't seem installing Windows/Linux is going to be as easy on ARM as on x86 anytime soon.
That's not how choice of law works. If you are operating a business in jurisdiction A and open a branch in jurisdiction B, you have a nexus to jurisdiction B and can't say your branch exists under the legal umbrella of jurisdiction A. Of course, you can assert that your customer and employment contracts are under the law of jurisdiction A, but such assertions don't magically trump statutory law. Contractual provisions can often be dismissed as unenforceable.
You can also stick a propeller on a turbojet to increase efficiency without the need for extra ducting though at a cost of cabin noise. That saves weight, but copying this design is a net gain at high speeds.

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

It includes an interesting chart where Turbofan is only better above about a Mach 0.75.
Italy was already significantly behind Germany and far from the technological frontier in the 1980s, it wasn’t the euro that slowed its growth.

Then it took 40 years of obscene governments to bring it where it is now.
They didn’t.

These journalists, on the other hand, have parroted the lawsuit’s PR campaign for clicks, and in doing so, have actively, purposefully, and knowingly spread this social contagion farther than Amazon ever could through their inadvertent recommendations.
The revolving door problem is another unique form of corruption that military contracting has to deal with.

Somewhat related, to get my current job I had to sign a bunch of conflict of interest forms because I jumped ships from one side to the other. So some controls exist for the behaviour you brought up!

I'm not saying this stuff never happens, either, I'm just remarking that the professional standards and expectations are very different in military contracting versus software.
I'd love language level constraints for comptime types. This + structs and modules being the exact same thing would be an incredibly powerful combo.
How do you treat the clippings to keep them from propagating?

Do you cover the trimmed areas to keep them from refreshing the rhizomes with sunlight?
Here was the BIOS, when comes such another?
I find this obsession with Germans selling cars to the Italians partly amusing and partly patronising.

Of course the Italians can’t take their responsibilities because of… pizza? Super Mario? The godfather?
My approach was to get a TV-sized monitor (not sure what is the diagonal), and hooked it up to a Google Chromecast, as well as an old Mac Mini with a Plex server.
You're still conflating morality with legality. Piracy being illegal has no basis on whether it's moral.

> Imagine if everyone acted this way?

This is basically deontology by Immanuel Kant. Not everyone is a Kantian though, so this is why you see a clash of your personal ethics with those of non-Kantians. I don't think you're going to convince anyone through messages on HN (similarly those who are non-Kantians will not convince you, as you are seeing in your replies), just as I would not be able to convince an anti-abortionist about the opposite views.

These ethical frameworks are so basal to our belief structures that if one disagree with someone else on these grounds, it is basically irreconcilable.
You're completely out of touch if you think commercial real estate is extremely cheap.
Hungary is doing so well it's about to progress into the middle ages.
Not just economically, as it's closing many pools, restaurants and hotels from Nov 1st, but a few months ago actually brought back a feudal title to address high-ranking government officials.
I think people don't realize how much of the economy relies on agreements to not be a piece of shit.

Sort of like the highway system relies on an agreement not to play bumper-cars. There's nothing actually stopping anyone.
Right, but without generics
This is great. I rarely have to fill out PDFs but when I do it is always a pain.
I had a PDF sent to me the other day that was password protected, even though it was just a form with no private information. I was supposed to fill it in, re-save, and then send it back, all password protected.

The hoops I needed to jump through to get this done were ridiculous, and the idea that I would have an acrobat account to do this maybe once or twice a year is crazy.

Thank you!
Is Linux actually dependent on the firmware's PCIe probe? You can have the kernel do probe and enumeration if you want.

(Outside of the process of getting into the kernel. Most x86 users are going to be booting off of storage that's behind PCIe somehow.)

Edit - for clarity, I mean calling back into firmware after boot for PCIe functionality.
There are several tools to create VMs from the CLI or scripts like QEMU, docker machine, and podman machine.
Indeed it is nonsense, web scraping (DMCA archive exemption) and DVR's (time shifting) are both well established as legal practices. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/business/media/court-upho... -- So RIAA can STFU and get back to trying to figure out how to better exploit the trash-tier "artists" they've been trying to force everyone to listen to through shady deals and control of media channels/spectra that they only control through artificial scarcity provided by the FCC.
This sounds like something Quentin Tarantino would invent for his next film.
Apparently the DRAM training is apparently one piece of AMD firmware I believe they re-used. Though I had trouble following that part. I think they said that, but they only didn't do it because they didn't need to because they had to pick and choose battles.

Edit: Yes, I believe he says they used the AMD firmware for the PSP (Platform Security Processor).

Edit2: This post may actually be incorrect. Please go watch the talk. I'm not sure anymore.
Cops were actually catching and fining people a ton for this between about 2-4 months ago. First time I'd ever seen them proactively enforce it.

Haven't seen it in a few weeks though. It's expensive to be posting two cops near every turnstile entrance.
What kinds of metaprogramming cannot be expressed via dependent types? AIUI, dependent types potentially dispense completely with the phase separation found in languages like C, so anything can be "evaluated at compile time" simply by writing ordinary programs that make sense within the language itself. Of course sometimes it is desirable to reintroduce a separate "run time" phase, but this can be done via program extraction.
I don’t live in Germany and, of course, Italy and Spain are poor compared to Sweden or Germany, not in general.
The core of zig is really solid and where systems programing should go. Unfortunately it's a very bike-shedding language that loves to tell you "You're doing it wrong" at really pedantic & annoying levels.

- no multiline comments

- no tabs in source code

- no compiler warnings

- unused variables are a compiler error

It's unlikely to ever change. The Zig community is smart, but it's an echo chamber that only retains the programmers who think all of the above is absolutely fine, and are annoyed at the idea of giving people who program differently to them a choice.
I knew someone on psych meds through her teens and twenties. She started hallucinating, and I told her it was probably the shitload of drugs her shrinks were giving her. She had so many pills to take, it was like she might run out of room for food. Her school nickname was Pillbottle.

She started using THC (hadn't used it even recreationally before then), and weaned off using her meds. Not only the hallucinations stopped... so did a LOT of her other symptoms. She became way more normal than I ever knew her as being, and got in a few years of full time employment doing public speaking to some surprisingly high level audiences.

The more meds she was taking, the worse her mental health got. One pill made her keep sticking her tongue out. Another pill countered that reaction. And so on. So, eleven different meds is entirely possibly what the person in the article meant.

Not surprisingly, cutting off the handfuls of pills brought my friend back to Earth, and now she's using more human (non-chemical) therapy-related efforts to help her mental health.

She would have eventually killed herself if the drugs didn't eventually poison her first. Now she's pretty much down to suffering age-related aches and pains instead, doing native Powwows, and fending for her demanding and shockingly obese orange cat. She still has the borderline personality, but living a much better life.

In her words "less crazee!" without all the pills.
We're actually working to provide this functionality as a service but it's currently stealth so I can't get into much more detail.
My guess is that its one of those kind where most of your coffee is stored in the hopper, and they are only making singleton cups (pour over or cappuccino).
A UV Lamp That’s Bad for Covid but Not for You
Actually I’d be very surprised if houses in Spain where worse than houses in Britain, whose lack of housing quality rivals with some central African countries.
> that is a broken and dangerous system regardless of how other countries fare at that metric.

No. It's on topic because the parent singled out the US, and I'm curious if other countries are taking procedures that could be adopted in the US to reduce false positives and ALSO false negatives.
More people working at startups and/or VC-connected, which are probably a big part of Stripe's business.
As it happens with us, whales can die by several different reasons.
The TEA5767 is a full FM broadcast receiver on a chip. So yeah, it’s really just how to wire up that chip, connect it to an audio amplifier (LM4811), etc. If you want to learn how radios work, I’d recommend many of the learning materials out there for amateur radio.
I've lit a pool of gasoline with a match before. Screwing around in junior high melting our plastic toys in the driveway - not something we should have been doing.
Or when we decided to live more than 100m away from the power plant? DC doesn’t travel well.
They're doing the same pivot that Microsoft did with HoloLens. It's too expensive to do at a price point the consumer market will bear but businesses have an entirely different use case where cost is defrayed by the utility and/or productivity gains.
It's about both the volume and the type of reading. See the 2nd page of this paper, under "What is extensive reading?": https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334535447_Extensive...
Just a couple of paragraphs and then a dialog asking me to create a Twitter account.
More like 2-10%. And that's only for the incarcerated. There are many more that take deals to avoid prison time and rotting in jail for 2 years just to get a trial, etc.

https://thehighcourt.co/wrongful-convictions-statistics/

Edit: can't find the actual article. Child commenter goes into great detail about this being a rather solid range though.
I asked myself the same question, but one theory I sort of found imaginable was that this was about internal political stability and signposting.

To get the part of Russias elite on board who just wanted to go back to selling gas/oil to Europe a sacrifice had to be made.

I mean not that I find that very likely, but it is an explaination
Can't get much better for cross device than html. Pdfs are useless on most devices, especially kindles and phones, since text doesn't reflow when you zoom.

As to anti-piracy, I don't know what to tell you. The hardest format to pirate would be a physical book. Ebooks, pdfs and videos are all easy enough to redistribute without really good drm.
After 20 years, everybody should really stop believing the conspiracy theory of the Germans that invent the Euro to rule them all, à la Sauron.
Well put- this resonates with my way of thinking too.

I do think there’s some work you need to put in first to be able to easily pick up a new language.

If you’ve learned a few, you can focus on what’s different about it- but there are some concepts in many languages that take some getting used to.

If you’ve never done purely functional programming before, if everything is immutable in a language you’re using, that’ll add some friction to productivity.

If you’ve only ever used GC languages, manually managing memory will add some friction to productivity.

Etc.
The actual source mentions the 1% being 'conservative'. Considering the Duluth model rules in many DV cases and there is an obvious bias towards not admitting false positives, I'd be surprised if that conservative measure was a maximum.
Gaza is a concentration camp, there are no legitimate military targets there.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/20/norman-finkelstein-gaza-...
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your binaries?
So...

...you were unable to decipher this Hacker News comment thread...

...unable find some C code and build it with GCC and make an executable for yourself...

...but you think you can reverse engineer the executable?
Fair enough! I also usually prefer to use web apps so that there’s no need for an extra instance of Chromium that needs to spin up. And following links is also more straightforward if you just open e.g. a specific Notion page or block in a new browser tab.
It is not always bad to become the 'resident expert' on some technology that was not part of your original job description. Sometimes it can help you expand your horizons in something that is really interesting to you. Sometimes it can be great for job security when you are the only one who truly understands some critical piece of the infrastructure. But for every one of those tasks, there are probably two where you can get roped into maintaining some legacy system that is nothing but pain.
What a weird false dichotomy; API vs Open Source. Why not “Whales vs Ice Cream Cones”? Makes as much sense. This isn’t a necessary “conflict”, they can coexist and serve very different needs.
If you work at a large company and live in a large city then there are probably some in the room with you. Just spend a little time on twitter, people are proud to self identify as such.
> Boeing Phalcon 707

I'm not sure what's worse, the nosecone or the name.
In the context of software development, sound understanding as you'd expect from a uni arguably includes CS concepts like algorithms and data structures. I find that there is a bit of a memorization aspect to simply knowing a lot of those and their properties, advantages,
... It seems like a pretty good application area for SRS to me, really wishing I'd heard about it sooner.
I've had to delete big chunks of code I wrote. Not because of burnout or exhaustion, but of sickness.

When I had a cold, but was good enough to sit up and type, I assumed I was good enough to work.

Nope. I've learned to monitor my health and energy levels better, and I stop when I know my productivity will be low (or negative)
Echo this, works really well. Saves many many thousands a month sending Stripe -> Wise US "virtual" account -> UK bank account vs Stripe -> UK bank account.

Stripe's forex fees are horrendous. Wise charges <0.5%, Stripe >3%. The spread here is similar to the credit card charge in the first place!
For as bad as education is (talking mostly about the US), cybersecurity education is so much worse.

Also, since our lawmakers are so far behind the curve on technology which impacts daily life (also talking mostly about the US), if you are not proactively learning about and defending yourself against cyber threats, absolutely nobody else is going to do that for you.

Cybersecurity experts have failed to educate at least three solid generations of human life on earth. We can bitch and moan about this post all day long, but the root problem is the societal education problem.
I don't know if Musk is dumb, but he certainly says a lot of very dumb things, and places himself in many situation that I would attribute to something akin to that. News about Musk these days is "well, what new dumb thing did he tweet this time? Or rather, I'll just pass".
Title is misleading. This isn't learning exponentially. Anybody who has used a spaced repetition app (like Anki) knows that you generally learn around the same number of words every day. You're not going to be learning 10 words in a day and then one week later, learn 1000 words in a day.

This article talks about how the reps needed to learn one piece of information, reduces exponentially over time. You might need 1 rep per day at the beginning, but only 1 rep per 100 days after a month. This basically means that if you have a lifespan of 100 years, spaced repetition means you only need around 10-20 reps to remember each piece of knowledge for the rest of your life.

But learning N items will still take 10*N reps. It scales linearly. A far cry from exponential
Especially if it is self hosted.

The other thing that seems to commonly happen is the customize-ability of these systems leads to major per-transaction overhead/bloat as custom business logic on its 400th revision is executing with ever more db-impacting logic.
The major issue is increased open skies agreements and better twin engine planes totally obviating a lot of hub-to-hub travel.

The only real hubs with enough traffic to support a double deck plane are the massive Middle Eastern ones.

Also, unlike the 747, the A380 is too heavy to be a freighter.
That was so until the US establishment came up with the idea of breaking up Saudi Arabia recently.
Bonuses (and the like) seem very different than piece work, which the author conflates. I worked for a few years doing piecework and the direct correlation between my productivity and my income was perfect as far as I’m concerned. I became better in every way - faster, better quality, more sensitive to the owner outcomes (profit).

In my subsequent 25+ years working in software (QA, Developer, Architect, Executive) the closest thing I’ve found is ownership participation (Options, ESSOP, etc.) which is too often a bad deal for employees because of various investor hijinks but generally helpful in creating alignment in both growth and efficiency. I’d prefer a bonus calculated based on the sum of growth and margin since it likewise creates alignment on the things that matter (in capitalism) but it’s very rare to find others that agree and support such a program at the investor/owner level.
Need help, investors lied to me
Hi,

I spoke with over two dozen investors, and most of them more or less overstated their promise to invest in my seed round if I could execute an MVP. A select few offered to invest between 3-4 million for a seed round if I could prove we can build an "airbnb killer."

The MVP is here: https://nomad-pass.herokuapp.com

Before this I just had a seed deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10OS9xmQws4wienCWpGdnf8bU1l74zFa5

It is discouraging since we managed to get the MVP online in less than a week.

Most of them complimented the speed, efficiency, the beautiful seed deck presentation, and loved the concept and differentiator.

But most of them wanted to offer me less, coming down to 2-2.5m for the seed round versus what we had previously established as a base at 3-4 million.

UPDATE: Unfortunately these were verbal offers as some described.

I am asking for help from any founders here who could help put me in touch with the right investors, trustworthy, kind and caring, who can help me continue to build Nomad.

The concept behind Nomad is for guests and hosts to pay zero in fees, no cleaning fee, no surprise checkout fees, and all listings require self check in, along with a points rating system of 4.5-5.0 for hosts like Uber.

I think many of us are tired of Airbnb's exorbitant fees among other complaints.

The biggest difference is that Nomad can allow landlords and tenants to pay/receive rent through the app, without credit checks, income requirements or lease agreements, so long as both agree.

Am asking for any help from any founders or investors who want to help as well.

The MVP allows users to register, view, book, and search for listings by location.

It uses Ruby on Rails with a PostgreSQL database on the back-end, and React.js and Redux on the front-end.

Thank you from my heart to all who can help, it has been a difficult time having built an MVP through alot of sheer hard work only to learn a hard lesson to not trust what investors say :(
That's a good insight on bundling and not one I had considered. I guess bundling for dynamic network delivery is so different in my mind to bundling for portability (& possibly one-time network delivery).

But while they're certainly different I'm sure there are many similar concerns. Just reinforces my instinct then I guess, that JS bundlers are ripe for improvement.

On your remarks around the Java package management ecosystem, I was aware of a fair amount what you point out, & the rest is helpfully elucidating, but it didn't seem to contradict my point that it's pretty messy?
Another myth busted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...
You realize that you're just moving the ball around on who provides what, right? Someone has to write that software that "describes itself to the OS" and rather than having the hardware describe itself to the OS, why can't the OS itself determine what hardware it has?

That "describes itself to the OS" part is actually often being done by a complete OS as well.

> Unfortunately, UEFI/ACPI or simliar seems to be going nowhere in the ARM world, so it doesn't seem installing Windows/Linux is going to be as easy on ARM as on x86 anytime soon.

That's a really good thing. Bryan rants about ARM trying to go that way and thinks it's a terrible idea. I'm glad it's failing, assuming that's actually the case.
Oak Ridge's Frontier HPC breaks daily
What a worth of space piece. It basically just boils down to the author being annoyed that other people visit popular sites too.

If you don't like other tourists, don't travel to tourist destinations. It's that simple. You don't travel to France and get annoyed that there are french people, well guess what, tourist destinations have tourists, that's a given, and it's a given everywhere, and it has nothing to do with instagram, Facebook or "this generation" it's just basic dumb fact.