skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what point do they notice they are being captured? Depending on when this is set (relative to our own tech) and the relative speed at which their host star travels to the black hole, they could get little warning. The smaller the black hole (roughly planet size), I think the interesting it is, especially if it's on a collision course with earth.

I could imagine some engineer notices that some more distance probe from the star is suffering from clock skew, but nobody takes them seriously, putting it down to a fault in the circuitry: "It's old, the crystal timer is well out of spec". Then another distant probe also suffers a similar problem, and more people begin to take it seriously.

By the time they collect enough evidence that this is not by chance, other people have started to notice that stars have been vanishing behind a space in the sky. When asked why they didn't notice this sooner, there was no telescope pointed there for a while due to its position and budget cuts to the astronomy programme have limited search time.

Then the real drama begins, they know that amateurs will also notice soon enough, so they need to control the spread of information. They then need to somehow convince people who will most certainly die, along with everybody they know and love, and work towards the common goal of saving the human race.

Then some awesome science fiction around space travel that can escape black holes. Of course something will happen and the escape will be narrow, with them needing to sling-shot off the black hole or something.

I would call it something simple like "From Darkness" as not to spoil too much the story. For some reason Matthew McConaughey will be a space cowboy pilot, Amy Adams as space-travel Science officer, Matt Damon is chief potato grower and Denzel Washington has for some reason got to make a super hard decision to leave somebody behind. Samuel L Jackson will at some point get pissed off and force the launch. In a side story, Bruce Willis starts an expedition to go mine the black hole, and instantly gets noodled.
Twitter Feature Predictions for 2023
Have you thought about integrating with Matrix in any way? I.E. curl ntfy.sh/matrix and put the matrix room id in the post payload. The user would have to invite your ntfy.sh matrix user to the room, and it would not offer encryption, but it might add value for use cases where you want to send to a team or the user wants their notifications in the same place.
It's mean to call someone old. Now where are my glasses.
There are numerous topics on HN where the quality of conversation is poor, and remains poor. Cases in point: anything regarding diversity, women in tech, or the vintage HN boogeyman that is the H1B visa.

If I see those topics, I just don't click. The comments, at least the top-rated ones, are always the same.

BTW, I don't recall seeing anything about Twitter on the HN front page on Monday, at least during ET work hours.
Recycling plastic is practically impossible – and the problem is getting worse
Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste into Space?
I just got laid off from Stripe on Thursday. Our team was up to it's neck with work that needed to be done. Other teams as well we're in disparate need of more engineers. They didn't do layoffs because they had excess employees, it was because they wanted to reduce run rate in the face of uncertainty.
Stay mad imo. Bicyclists should be licensed and insured just like cars. They pose a danger to everyone around them just like cars, and should have to be able to make anyone they harm whole. Anti-car rhetoric is absolute top tier nonsense. It's harder to get access to a 2000 pound vehicle than it is to get access to a projectile on two wheels that can easily flatten someone.
I don't really get what you are talking about. Any sane custodial system has "hot" funds from where customers withdrawals are processed from. When the "hot wallet" drops too low, it is refilled from "cold storage" which is high security offline storage, and usually way slower to get funds out of because humans are involved in the process.

If business is going as usual, customers don't see anything, because hot wallet funds are kept at acceptable levels. Not too high, because you don't want to have too much funds online in a case a hack happens. Not too low, because you want customer withdrawals to function. However, if some kind of panic happens and people start withdrawing a lot at once, then you will always have delays, assuming that you have a sane system.
Browndo, the thirst mutilator...

Have a look at Idiocracy to have an idea of how wrong ads can be.
I was looking for such a tool (I use Markdown), but in the end I kept using Git. It turns out it’s also pretty good for non-code content :)
I did InfoSec after my post-exit sabbatical and I found it too lonely. I was good at it (hobbyist decompiler my whole life), but the loneliness was a killer and I'm looking for team dynamics as my #1 factor for the next thing I do.
Take a linear map from some space to itself, and ask:

What lines (through the origin) are mapped back to themselves? Those are the eigenvectors, and the amount by which they're elongated or shortened are the eigenvalues.

So, if we talk about 3d space, and we rotate things - the rotation axis is unchanged. That's an eigenvector (with eigenvalue 1).

If we mirror things - any vector in the mirror plane remains unchanged, that's an eigenvector (with eigenvalue 1), the vector perpendicular to the mirror is unchanged, but flipped, so that's an eigenvector (with eigenvalue -1).

If we dilate everything along the x axis by a factor of 2, say, then the x axis is an eigenvector (with eigenvalue 2), while the y and z axis and any vector in that plane is an eigenvector (with eigenvalue 1). Any other vector is "tilted", so not mapped to itself, so not an eigenvector.
I wasn't aware of that channel, thanks for posting. I also found his doodles distracting, although in a very positive way, they're beautiful. Took me a while to notice he's a leftie who can write and draw both ways. I'm a natural leftie writing left to right and for a while attempted to learn to handwrite as a right hand with mediocre results although my right hand is actually the one I use for precision work and can easily use it to write or do basic drawings on a whiteboard. As for drawing, I'm terrible no matter the hand I use.
The linked paper does not support your claim. The presence of those nucleocapsid proteins doesn't necessarily mean that there was live virus. They didn't attempt to culture it.

The only confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections in humans lasting beyond a few weeks have been in immunocompromised patients. Their immune systems were able to somewhat suppress the virus, but not clear the infection. (There is a hypothesis that such patients were the sources for some of the variants because the extended infections gave the virus more time to evolve but that can't be conclusively proven.)
QC?
1. is mostly for android, which is while easily larger than some whole other language niche, it is still just a smallish part of all the Java applications. Google itself likely has order of magnitude more Java server-side code than Kotlin’s presence in android.

2. I’m young, and I also think Java is a great blue-collar language for long running projects

6. Stackoverflow is biased, some languages have great presence there, others prefer different platforms. Also, many of the “low hanging fruit questions” for java has been answered and are replicated all over the internet, so there is not much need for beginners to post Java questions anymore.
Bass players have long said the same thing.

I am sure I have read some colorful quotes on the topic from Bootsy Collins.

Yeah baba!
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For Rust specifically, the compiler does force safe programs to have no data races. That's actually what the ownership system, Send and Sync are about. If you manage to corrupt memory or have undefined behavior in safe Rust, that should be a compiler or library bug.

See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/races.html
The initiative lies squarely on the interested country. No other entity can decide to start that process. Whether NATO members take the interested country in or not is another matter. And it still has nothing to do with Russia itself. Let alone that its border with NATO countries hadn't changed in nearly two decades.
Hot take: this is a good thing.

Maybe the world order switches to a digital currency sometime in the future with all the protections current currency offers, but nothing of the sort will ever be as private nor as insured as US currency while litigation lags. And even then, nothing will ever be as private as physical cash. I'm weary to end up like India's system whereby physical cash was replaced with digital.

Also, I don't understand why you'd want to live in a system, owned by any of the current top crypto contenders, the wealth imbalance is even worse than the US dollar.
That's what the streamers in the article I read said - they all pretty much started out to "force" themselves to be reasonably productive (and/or in a small group of friends with the same goal).

Don't underestimate the force of this, I reckon it's similar to precommitment (eg, announcing to all your friends that you're giving up smoking), for which there's evidence that it's an effective tool to drive behavioral change.
UK salaries are low. Even lots of lead/senior devs working in London are on less than £100k. That’s high for the UK but not much compared to what junior devs can get in the Bay Area.
From the repository that I found, it seems that you wrote the backend in Go. How did it hold up? Any lessons learned?
People are getting fired for saying things that COULD hurt somebody’s feelings, but no sane person’s feelings are actually being hurt.

Seems like a threat.
> It is harder to build something today than it used to be.

I've build things in the 80s -> no distribution (games)

I've build things in the 90s -> no SaaS invented/accepted (wiki startup)

Today is easier than ever to build, distribute and get customers.
The 2nd paragraph says that 88% of Fortune 500 companies in 1955 are now gone.

This isn't true. Follow the links. 88% of Fortune 500 companies in 1955 are not in the Fortune 500 today. That's very different.

Look at, say #497: Bullard Co, doing a "hefty" $50.2 million in annual revenue (~$510 million in 2022 dollars). It merged with White Consolidated Industries in 1968 with shareholders receiving stock in the deal. White Consolidated was purchased by Electrolux in 1986 with shareholders receiving a cash payment.

Electrolux is obviously still around, but is not listed on NASDAQ or NYSE. Is Bullard really "gone"?
Awesome! What are you making?
I’m not calling you a liar, but I am heavily skeptical. Where and when did this occur within the continental United States?
Ask HN: Are you talking to robots on Hacker News?
We are past the point that machine generated comments would survive and be engaged with by human users on Hacker News.

Have you suspected machine generated content in HN comment threads?

Would it pain you to discover you had responded to a machine?

Do you know anything about the prevalence of such content here or on other fora?

Do you disagree with my statement? Why?
One thing I read recently said one of the aims of the maginot line was to delay the Germans (it did -- they had to go through NL/BE), and another was to ensure they went through BE and thus brought the British in to the fight (due to a UK/BE defence guarantee). It did that too.
You're sort of changing the subject to an easier situation.

There is a big difference between a group gathering for therapy, and having someone engage you in 'conversation' where they're cornering you to complain about their ailment.
I had a coworker who, in planning poker, every time someone said "We just need to..." switch the number he originally picked for the next higher one. Very effective way to get people to actually think about what could go wrong. And no, the people who know 100% what the story was, hardly ever said "We just need to...", even before that.
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Here's a preview of how that would work: https://youtu.be/JEq10L7u3SM?t=122 (warning, loud)
>The second most important thing is that there should be a way to get round it - either a .clearHarder() method which throws away the table, or a .compact() method which downsizes it while retaining the content.

Wouldn't just creating a new map be a pretty good way of doing it? If the reduction in size is significant, then the cost of the new allocation will be small compared to the cost of all the allocations you've done to build the original map.
I don't think the analogy to manual transmission is correct - The way I have configured poudriere/pkg it's very rare I have to intervene, unlike with a manual transmission where the driver is directly involved in the control loop.

But since I am in charge of the control loop, I can change it any time I please.
Right now I am changing my poudriere configuration for the first time in years to build my packages using LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL. Sure, it requires some tinkering(not alot though) but that tinkering is completely optional on my part.
This is my first encounter, and I have to say I have a hard time getting through it. The drawings are distracting and not adding much and his speaking pattern is pretty grating. His vocal-fry/drawl is just too much for my ears, and sounds affected.

The content seems good but the rest of the presentation is just not worth getting through.
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There was a post in here warning about just that three or four days ago, there were still people accusing the writer behind the post in question of hunting for a new scoop and such. Looks like he was 100% correct in his assessment.
Doesn’t it display as 0 ETH if it’s an ERC20 transaction?
Tellingly, SBF's response to that was to assure us that FTX was doing fine.
>This is Hacker News, a discussion platform, and I am raising a question about software development in general.

No - no you aren't. You're complaining about a feature in a product you've admitted you won't use.

Which... is fine. At the end of the day - the feedback might be helpful or it might not, part of the journey of publishing software (or making anything, really) is figuring out what advice to listen to, and what to ignore.

But personally - I don't really find your point sensible. You have no use-case, you have no threat model, you have a very unclear understanding of what E2E encryption entails, in my opinion - since you point to apps whose entire marketing shtick is that they have E2E encryption and say "if they are doing it, it must be easy" - Ignoring that they are literally using the difficulty of doing it as the distinguishing factor for their product.

But hey - I worked for a security company that did E2E encryption for fortune 100 companies, mostly banks, for 5 years (and eventually went out of business... as an aside) so what do I know...
> Yet, no communication from FTX or SBF.

this is the biggest issue. if they are having any kind of technical issues they should be on top of it.

even if everything is fine by tomorrow and withdrawals are working again, this radio silence is unprofessional and at this point it feels like they are trying to avoid saying anything that will be held up in court against them.
apart from games going from 2k to 4k to 8k, there hasn't been any noticeable improvement in realism in the past 10 years. ray tracing if enabled looks nice but that's pretty much the height of it, characters look just as janky as they did 10 years ago.

I feel the primary reason are the consoles, game devs can't push the boundaries as most consoles are around 5-6 years behind gaming PCs.
I drive a lot more than I bike (leisurely, for exercise) and my personal hangup with the argument is that drivers are to treat cyclists as vehicles, but cyclists don't even want to act like vehicles. Stop signs are just that - road signs to signify traffic is to stop at the sign before proceeding. When I bike in my neighborhood, I come to a full stop in the cycle lane at every sign before proceeding.
Agreed. But I need non-coder noobs to also use it (i.e., an Editor, fellow writers without dev background).

I suppose I could write them something with big easy buttons that only performs the actions they need.
Tech can help companies fast-track their sustainability goals
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> The pillars of every pane of glass in a car create blind spots ... there's a reason changing lanes safely requires both a mirror check and a physical turn of the head

True, but not relevant in the context of stopping or or rolling through a stop sign.

I don't care about my B or C pillars when stopping, other than on the passenger side when making a right turn (check for cyclists, scooters).

The A pillar has the unique problem that two drivers approaching the same intersection at constant speed, from a mile away, such that they will meet there at the same time, may fail to see each other almost the the entire time until the last few moments, because each vehicle maintains the same angle relative to the path of travel of the other vehicle.
While that applies to World War II it seems like medieval castles or WWI trenches were pretty effective.
> My beef is that cyclists increase traffic congestion but don’t pay taxes to fund the infrastructure they’re using.

Not sure where you are, but where I am my property taxes go to road maintenance and gas taxes don't even come CLOSE to covering the cost of road/highway maintenance.

If anything, drivers are hugely subsidized by the state.
The School of Athens by Raphael
I'm hooked. You should write this up as a screenplay.
It doesn't completely stop it from being recycled, but it does increase the amount of work necessary for the consumer to recycle it probably by a factor of 10x (3 seconds to chuck it in the right bin vs 30 seconds to remove the plastic window) and greatly reduces the likelihood it will be recycled. Producers need to be held accountable for the impact of packaging decisions like this.
Yep.

People are trying to show how you might use it in practice, which is useful. But I think people should start with the above.

If you’ve ever used associated types, this is the sort of thing you would probably expect would be possible even if you never needed to do it. Now it’s possible.
IIRC that is basically what Ukraine did last election to avoid tampering by the Russians
Does the lazy attribute on img not address this exact issue with zero JS?
Dude, those are transfers for ERC-20 tokens...
Encrypting stuff in a way that can’t be trivially subverted by a malicious client app is actually pretty hard, so what have you actually gained if you’re going to trust the client app?
It would be good to consult actual metrics about the population size on each old OS version and on each old device. It might surprise you. I used to argue constantly with the "Apple Culture Guy" at an app company I worked for. They always wanted to target only the latest few OS versions, and chop off support for the old ones. Yes, most of our users were on the latest version. But there was a very long tail of users on the trail of older devices/OS's, adding up to more than 10%. Would a salesman answer his phone and tell 1 out of 10 of his leads to fuck off? No, so why would we do it to our existing customers?

Sure enough, every time we cut off an old device or OS, we'd get customers complaining and giving bad reviews. But then, Mr. Apple Culture guy would look at the dashboard and say "See? Nobody is using that version anymore!" No shit, it's because we cut it off and those users bailed on us, genius.

Backwards compatibility is one of the greatest services you can give to your customer. Cutting off support for old versions simply because you're too lazy to maintain that support is just telling those customers to fuck off and find a competitor. The code simplifications/savings that you get from dropping old versions are seldom worth that. They often amount to one or two more lines with an if() statement.
> But no one claims it's safer for motorcyclists to treat stop as yield compared to motorists.

OK, I will claim it now; there, someone does.

> Neither does a motorcyclist

Not true if the motorcyclist has a full helmet. Though it's true that it doesn't have pillars.
Also if you need bass on crappy speakers a poorly quantized sawtooth wave under 50 Hz can fill in the gap to an extent
For the case of helping someone with a technical problem, as author notes. words like 'simply', 'merely, 'just' are downplaying the person's efforts and inherently cause unnecessary strife, discouragement, resentment, etc. Sometimes, letting them work through it for a while longer on their own is the better course.

In the situation where help is clearly needed, 'let's consider possible solutions' is a better entry point, along with 'let's ensure we don't make it worse' - i.e. take a snapshot of the current situation, store the current working file, etc. Now you've gone into a collaborative situation, and if there's a solution the person will feel like they've been a part of it, not like they're an idiot who should have been able to figure it out on their own. Makes for a much better working environment, better morale, sense of being on the team, etc.

For the person on the other end, the person who needs help, this is where keeping a log of your activities (in the lab world, this means a detailed and updated lab notebook, maybe a logging app of some kind for programming), so if someone asks the (sometimes irritating) question of 'what have you tried already' you can just point them to it.

For the case of seriously depressed people who can't get out of bed, that's a bit tougher. Cup of psychedelic mushroom tea perhaps, plus someone to hold their hand for a few hours?
this is possible since global money factory (the thing you are paid with) is in the us (nyc in fact) and so you are closer to the spigot
Really couldn't tell you, I haven't been serious about crypto since 2014 :p

That being said, does FTX even allow custodial ERC20 transactions? I'd be surprised if they did.
Arguably, that's exactly what exFAT is (minus all the patent FUD, which by now also seems to be resolved).
Without philosophy, there is no Hegel, without Hegel there is no Marx, without Marx there is no Lenin, without Lenin, there is no Stalin, without Stalin there is no Cold War, without the Cold War there's probably not a war in Ukraine right now, and without a war in Ukraine I wouldn't be worried about my gas bill. I think that's pretty concrete.

(Just a single, rather obvious example. Easy enough to find others.)
I changed the orientation of the PDF as requested. This did not add any white space next to line items, since the line items table uses 98 % width either way, unlike when printing from Excel I guess.

This is what I tried and failed to get heard yesterday.

Also now in Landscape the cover page header takes up like 50% of the page. But hey “just make it landscape”.

What the client needs me to do, I suspect without being able to confirm because my questions are “wasting their time”, is give the warehouse a place to pencil stuff in next to line items.

So I prepped both versions, portrait and landscape with a SKU Notes column at the side, adjusting the table width and header height, etc and emailed those options over unprompted.

The portrait version shows double the line items per page and probably (?) solves the problem at hand… assuming I guessed right on limited information.

So far no reply to any of the 3 solutions.