skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are situations where JavaScript is being replaced with WebAssembly. There are absolutely no situations where serialised HTML is being replaced with WebAssembly.
It's a cool idea but I haven't explored this in detail so I don't have a good answer. I haven't touched PHP in 2 years but they have a new feature which might achieve some of those design goals you mentioned:

https://www.php.net/manual/en/opcache.preloading.php

> preload.php is an arbitrary file that will run once at server startup (PHP-FPM, mod_php, etc.) and load code into persistent memory.

It's interesting to me, because in a big ecomm framework we were getting 80ms PHP page loads, with something like preload it could probably be moved down to 25 or 30ms.
Lethal injection is not a medical procedure. If it was a medical procedure it wouldn’t make the recipient’s condition deliberately worse than it was before the procedure. Just because a procedure involves injecting chemicals in someone’s body doesn’t mean it’s medical.

And abortion is not a complex issue. The only arguments against it are religious and there are religions which require it, so in a purportedly secular country the answer is very simple.
Tell HN: GitHub – “This comment has been minimized. Sign in to view”
While browsing this GH issue[1] on my phone I noticed that some comments are collapsed. Apparently GitHub now requires users to be signed in to view them. That's yet another dark pattern employed by yet another webpage. A few days ago I wrote about Reddit[2]. It's really disturbing that the service which is absolutely foundational to the modern open source movement is becoming more and more hostile towards its users.

PS
I know there are alternatives like SourceHut, but unfortunately GitHub and GitLab are the mainstream and probably will continue to be the biggest OSS hosting providers.

1 - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/20041
2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33202034
First off, I’m very sorry about the suffering your mother (and you, I’m sure) had to endure because of this.

The idea isn’t ”if we legalize opiates and opioids, no one will ever get hurt from them again”. It’s ”when they are illegal, even more people get hurt”. Just like how alcohol is a substance that causes a very large amount of direct and indirect damage to its users and those around them, yet its prohibition in the US increased the net suffering substantially.

As long as there are opiates/opioids around, they will be abused in a self-destructive way by some (and they are cheap and easy to make, so they will be around as long as there’s demand). We’re currently trying to limit this through enforcing prohibition, which is not particularly effective and has well-known drawbacks. We could instead try to do the same with increased spending on education and treatment. Through that, we could make people less likely to want to use them, we could make people use them as safely as possible when they do, and we could make it so that less of the people who use them start to abuse them in ways that affect their lives negatively. Perhaps this would have better effect than criminalization, while increasing safety and decreasing associated violence.

Of course, this is all very complicated and messy, and every possible policy has negative effects and causes collateral damage. I’m open to arguments saying that this is not how it would play out. But I think the chances are better than with the current approach.
Imagination Age
Why 80% and why since 2009?
I'm the most popular husband in my house!

Also the least popular.
I disagree, they're clearly cranks. It's ad hominem all the way, they're authoritarian sandwich board wearers.

But really, so what? We can't agree on that because it's so subjective, and who cares what some rando Wikipedia editors think? They've got no credibility. That's why you have to drill down to the data, the science, in order to resolve disputes. Spencer provides extensive sources, like the raw data I cited already, he has a long career in publishing scientific papers on climatology. If you think the data I cited is wrong, step up and argue that.

Just face it, you're totally beaten here. Faced with data and evidence compiled by an actual expert, you retreat to "I found some website that tells me to ignore him" because you can't handle the complexity and worldview challenge that comes with the truth: climatology is as far from settled as can be, its central theories are contradicted by actual data (which is why they have to constantly rewrite the history of global temperatures), and the people telling you otherwise are lying to you. It sucks, I know. It sucked for me too when I found this out. But it's true, and sticking your fingers in your ears yelling "wiki says no" won't make it go away. Those are the tactics of children.
America First Secretary of State Coalition boosts election deniers
>> What happened to their usual comms?

Blown up by missile strikes would be my guess.
This isn't for those companies.
This is the site in question: https://missingdice.com/dice-roller/. It’s a nice site, I like it.

But if I made that site with JS, and some user wrote in telling me they disabled JS and it didn’t work, I’m much more likely to tell them to either enable JS or pound sand than I am to reimplement the logic on a platform where any requests beyond 125k/mo or 100hrs compute start billing me.
I gave it a go when I was receiving spam from vodafone.pt.

I forwarded the message with a brief explanation to their abuse address.

The server responded saying "this server does not accept forwarded mail".

I told them about it on Twitter instead.

"Please DM us a screenshot."

A screenshot? That won't do much good. I included the headers too showing the provenance.

"Please forward it to our abuse address".

At this point I just laughed and stopped.
Well I'm not going to pretend all of Microsoft's efforts have gone into being progressively more sleazy, just most of them. 2009 is the year Windows 7 released.
Nice article. The expansion of Euclidean geometry into hyperbolic and elliptical space did change all this fundamentally, most popularly seen in MC Escher's work. Here for example is a hyperbolic dodecahedron (in which each pentagon has five right angles).

http://www.bulatov.org/math/1101/webtalk.html#(38)

That site also has a lot of other nice examples and analysis of MC Escher drawings.
Only people who died lost time, so it’s 380k people losing 5.5 million years. If you want the time for the total population you need to consider some people survived also have reduced life expectancy due to complications, but that’s harder to calculate.

As to the calculation we want pre pandemic numbers average life expectancy for both genders: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr70/nvsr70-19.pdf

85 is 6.7 years
80 is 9.3 years
75 is 12.4 years
70 is 15.9 years
65 is 19.6 years
60 is 23.5 years
55 is 27.5 years
50 is 31.8 years
45 is 36.3 years

As to your mistake yes mostly old people die but it’s easy to underestimate how long 75 to 80 year olds live who and how quickly to population dies off. Almost the same number of people died between 75 and 80 who collectively had a 10+ year life expectancy vs 80+ because the population over 80 is so much smaller. Similarly the 80 to 85 year deaths make up a large fraction of the 80+ year old deaths and they had a ~7-8 year life expectancy etc. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

Actual numbers may have been somewhat lower than 16 years on average as people who died tended to have other risk factors beyond age, but by no means was everyone on deaths door.
Abuse emails might occasionally work, but that hardly answers the question.

Abuse emails can be useful to the recipient.

Abuse emails do not benefit the sender in any way, there is no return on investment. It's just particularly unimpactful charity work.
Microsoft's AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test
State Department Urges Silicon Valley to Aid National Security Effort
Pretty sure you're just more used to/think in imperial beacause that's what you've used all your life. I can estimate metric perfectly fine.
What’s the mechanism here? Doesn’t the thick skin on the bottoms of your feet prevent and microorganisms from entering your body? That’s what it’s for after all.
I think that it’s less about the pain because yeah you could probably use some sort of a local anesthetic for the scalp tissue, but I can’t imagine what all the vibrations and sounds passing through skull feels like, especially when power tools are used to drill into the skull or cut out a small section.
You are assuming and generalizing, two things that do not go well with good faith discussion. Part of the legal system being broken includes a prison system that is awful, and unbalanced penalties to the poor. So what I am proposing, "fix the legal system", would address these as well.
Just ignore them.

Log analyser tools will exclude them from reports.

It's only worth reporting abuse if there's something the ISP might do about it. Report a hacked server hosting malware etc. Don't bother for this.
GP’s comment is also odd because the article notes they took your approach. They documented the problem when they first noticed it happening infrequently and moved on to higher priorities. When it started happening every single day it became mission critical to investigate.
My guess is that when such high profile cancellations happen, it's more of a matter of perceived zugzwang.

Some platform does a high profile ban, and then the PR inboxes of the other platforms are set ablaze with journalists asking for comment on how your particular platform wants to handle that person - high profile bans make nice clickbait articles after all - and the twitters and reddits and youtubers and so on of this world talk about what those other platforms are doing/are not doing/should be doing. At this point the other platforms have to do something, either issue a ban as well, or issue some kind of statement why at this time they won't be issuing a ban. Usually the option to just issue a ban as well is a lot easier and PR-wise "safe" than trying to come up with a "defensive" statement of why such a ban is not (yet) appropriate.
...except! If the server is processor-sharing/timeslicing. The results derived for timeslicing servers are surprisingly general in service distribution, and can be stated in product form like the networks of simple M/M/c servers you know.

(Arrivals still need to be Poisson, but that's a fairly nice requirement in that many real-life arrivals actually look Poisson.)
What I'm curious about is whether people raised with the metric system and nothing else are more accurate in estimating e.g. lengths than people raised primarily with Imperial / U.S. customary.

So we do an experiment where we have people look at, and maybe handle, random objects and then ask them to estimate the length. Does imperial / metric make a difference? My guess is no, but I have significant probability weight on yes...maybe 20%. And wouldn't that be cool!
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very slow, nozzles get plugged now and then too
Malestrom is the second book in the trilogy (or quadrology - the 4th book was split in two in some printings).

I didn't have a copy of Starfish handy, and I wasn't sure if gels had been mentioned there or not.
Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager (2017)
Ardour 7.0
Yeah the real problem with Modula 2 on the Atari (and I imagine this held for the Amiga as well) was that the OS syscalls were really built for C. And all the documentation was for C.

On the Atari, in GEM, there's just a boatload of C unions used for UI elements. And void pointers galore. So not friendly to Wirth style languages which have very strict static typing rules.

That and getting documentation in those days was also a nightmare. Everything was in books/manuals, and it's not like you could just get them from Amazon or even a local bookshop. And books were expensive. And it's not like my Modula 2 compiler manual had good documentation on the OS syscalls, etc. It didn't even include a real full set of bindings.

Somewhere out there there's an ST Format issue with a printed letter from my 14-year old Canadian rural-living self begging for help finding documentation on the Line A graphics calls for the ST.

Coupled with compiling with a floppy based system because hard drives were unaffordable. Challenges.

By the time I got my hands on a C compiler and decent documentation I had moved onto Linux on my 486. The 90s were very much a different era from the 80s!
Could someone provide link(s) on how regular snapshots of databases can be taken like this? (Googling didn't help much, maybe I'm googling for the wrong keywords.) For me, backing up the database is a few-hour-long process. Restoring it for a developer again is a few hours process. I read about snapshots before but haven't realized they could be this effective.
Yes, McCarthyism and the censorship you highlight above were a poison of the right; modern cancel-culture is a poison of the left.

It is depressing how blind the left (my side!) are to it, you still see them denying it or - now that the mainstream has become aware of it and they are on the defensive - excusing it with nonsense about "accountability/call-out/consequence culture".

Shameful.
But dont these apps require network access to function?
Some features are more naturally intuitive than others. Consider an 'if' statement and a monad. How much talent is available that's capable of understanding and using the latter effectively? How much time would be needed by a new hire to come up to speed? If you need intermittent help from contractors then will they be able to hit the ground running?

Over time the bar does rise, and I hope that trend continues. Yet it's undeniable that there are limits like human lifespan, and how much people and companies are willing to invest in education and training before doing the actual work for which they're compensated.
Not the game then
> knew California energy company caused the fire

ok - but please be aware that determination of cause and origin of a major fire is similar to aircraft safety, rail safety or other .. actual liability is not obvious, and not a legal fact until it is written.

second, there have been instances of corruption. The liabilities are very large. Bloomberg data might repeat market rumors?
A single item list is still a list.
We already have therapist alternatives in the form of parasocial relationships and pseudo-personalized entertainment. There's even one prominent livestreamer who acts as a collective psychiatrist and does public sessions with other streamers, which is the most 2022 thing I've heard of in the last few weeks.

AI chatbots are just the natural conclusion.
This has a lot of very complex mathematics involving stochastic processes and probabilities but results in a bunch of rather simple equations that can help you solve problems like:

"How many operators I need to have at the same time when my telephone center receives 10 calls per minute with an average duration of 30 seconds so that the wait time won't be over 5 minutes."

The fact that such problems can be solved but I still need to wait 2 hours on the phone angers me very much.
> even though chances are 90% of those people probably never were customers in the first place. It doesn't have to be a real threat for it to be perceived as a real threat.

Shouldn't we blame the people in power for having incompetently bad misperceptions about their own organizations?
I grew up on a pretty old, small farm that mostly had some animals and garden plots. I have asthma and severe allergies. I’m especially allergic to horses and dogs, which we had in abundance.

I also spent about 20 weekends a year camping from about age 10 to 18. I can’t say it did anything for my immune system.
debt and mergers are coming soon! thankyou for the kind words man, you're awesome
and to be honest this won't match the functionality bloomberg has, as I designed it towards more of a non institutional crowd so the focus would be more on just equities and indexes mainly, i simplified as much as possible with this one
It is a little more problematic than that:

The Gematik GmbH is in part managed (owned?) by the German ministry of health [0] and some health organizations like the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Agencies.

That says something about the 'risks' the Gematik takes (Hint: none).

Similar story: Earlier this year some health card readers, certified by the Gematik had a bug. They wouldn't read certain cards that supposedly were electrostatically charged. The solution was a grounding device connected to the USB port of the card reader. [1] This thingy cost the doctor's practices another 100 bucks even though this clearly is a design flaw by the manufacturer.

They can do pretty much what they want at this point and the physicians and hospitals just have to cough up the dough.

[0] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematik

[1] https://www.borncity.com/blog/2022/01/16/problem-mit-statisc...
I think this was well prioritized; they struggled with the issue at times, found a temporary workaround, but when that workaround stöd being efficient and the bug hit them everyday, they decided to track down the source. Then they reported upstream, it was reproduced, and someone patched it, and rolled out new, fixed kernels.

That is a perfect example of how things works and should work. They contributed to the community. I think it was a great prioritization.

I'm certain there were lots of other people hitting this bug and killing processes or rebooting to get around it. The troubleshooting and reporting done here, silently saved a lot of of other people a lot of efforts - now and in the future. I don't think they were after it to be heroes; they just shared their story, which I'm sure will encourage others to maybe do the same one day.
Is dumpster diving for computers still viable? All the computers, monitors, etc I had when I was a teen were free, scavenged from dumpsters in commercial parks. Maybe this supply has dried up now that the pace of hardware obsolescence has slowed.
They still get scalped but you have to do it through their approved scalper app
The mob may start on Twitter, but it goes offline. They can call your work, boss, friends, and other to harass them. No one “powerful” can stand up to a mob for long.

When faced with an unstoppable force, no one will be your immovable object. Everyone you think cares about you will eventually cave in and throw you under the bus.
Consume sugar, processed grains, and alcohol in moderation (especially bottled beer and wines high in sulfites.)

If you're having trouble being productive because of physical discomfort, turmeric or curcumin extracts and black pepper are great for inflammation. (Inflammation seems to be the root of the symptoms noted above.) NB: powdered turmeric/black pepper tastes great in coffee.

Powdered lion's mane, powdered fruit/vegetables (high in vitamin C, folates, etc.)... any/all of these things help with brain fog.

To answer your original question: I've found fish oil (and vitamin D) helps with depression/anxiety.

P.s. there's no magic pill and trying to force it will break you the moment you can't keep up the pace... Step back and relax that mind-muscle or, sharpen the saw on something you enjoy to put you in a flow state.
I like using zeal-at-point in emacs, it is quite useful.
https://github.com/jinzhu/zeal-at-point
Trust The Register to latch on to the least meaningful, most provocative quote for their headline.
AT&T ‘committed to ensuring’ it never bribes lawmakers again after $23M fine
And people's heights in feet and inches. Many times I had to convert because my British friends couldn't picture a height in metres and centimetres.
This is true in the US. In Brazil, my experience is that people expect a doctor to give medicine no matter what, even if it’s not warranted.

Major cultural difference to the point where Brazilians feel like American doctors aren’t even treating them.
They're just experiencing very high call volumes, you see.

Not understaffing, no no.

Exceptionally high call volumes all the time.
I enjoy browsing with curl and discarding the bodies of http requests. The headers give me all I need.
Refereeing and abuse: 'Why I love being a referee and won't quit'
These apps generate a new code based on the time, etc. Its basically a TOTP password for an event.
Sadly, yes.

There are managers who refuse to listen to their own people. This is where MBB consultants come in: talk to everyone, listen, and deliver fancy brochure-level template presentations with data and input from their own employees. It's the same or variations of recommendations that are listened-to because they cost more.

Also, an ignorant of the politics and business generalist business expert can more easily notice if there is anything amiss by entering as a novice with fewer vested interests.
Sounds pretty cool. It's interesting to see how the landscape for this has changed over the last 15 years, since I worked at Splunk.

I just started working at FeatureBase a few weeks ago, here in Austin. It's Open Source and we have a 5 minute guide to get it running here: https://docs.featurebase.com/. We also have a cloud/serverless option.

FeatureBase is a B-tree database which uses Roaring Bitmaps. This makes it suitable for doing analytical queries on massive data sets immediately after ingestion. You do have to model the data properly, however.
Well, putting it on the endpoint will actually make scalability much less of an issue and allow them to get away with much more sloppiness. So I'm not optimistic.
Read that as a command or request, not a prediction.
The SPOF fallacy is always managements favorite way to waste money.
My current shop we had a system maintained by 1 guy, as like 10-20% of his job/time. I can guarantee you he is not paid even $500K.

This of course was deemed bad & risky, so we must engage a set of vendors to deliver a replacement. 2 years, a dozen subcontractors, and 7-figure annual bill later.. and they still haven't replaced 10-20% of this SPOF. Literally spent $5M so far against max $100k of this guys salary. There are still no signs that SPOF can give up the responsibility even next year.

No one has been fired over this. In fact the decider has been promoted.
It’s being rolled out as a capability in MDE:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-fo...
A wealthy, small, semi-homogeneous population with strong social safety nets.
Asthma is a bit more complicated than that, and the urban/rural breakdown seems highly site-specific.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23625129/

> "Although evidence shows that differences in the prevalence of asthma do exist between urban and rural dwellers in many parts of the world, including in developed countries, data are inadequate to evaluate the extent to which different pollutant exposures contribute to asthma morbidity and severity of asthma between urban and rural areas."
Both of these issues are often solved by incorporation.

A one-vendor deliverable can cost whatever, and corporations can certainly agree to keep supporting something for a certain time.

Doesn't actually matter if the corporation has one member, and no coherent plan for what happens to the contracts if that person steps in front of the wrong bus. It makes the relationship legible in the way that the contracting party is comfortable with.