skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For every Einstein, there are hundreds or thousands of physicists who are actively exploring the big theories, and actually using them. How many physicists are working in and around CERN? A small fraction will earn any public recognition, yet all of them are furthering physics. That's just the physicists, never mind the engineers, material scientists, construction workers, managers, payroll accountants, etc, who are needed to run the place. Are they as "smart" as Einstein? Maybe. Some might be smarter. There are only so many big ideas to discover. Every other genius has to contend with exploring those ideas.
Firefox didn't add Webp support for a long time, because it wasn't a massive, massive improvement over the existing image formats.

https://research.mozilla.org/2013/10/17/studying-lossy-image...

More recent coverage: https://siipo.la/blog/is-webp-really-better-than-jpeg
Who was lead engineer on Falcon 1?
Maybe the distrinction comes from the West where food charities help out with food for hunger, but they aren't in danger of starving to death like many 3rd world countries.
FuzzCon Europe: Automotive Edition (2022)
I would gladly work at a company that used Nim as its primary language.
> only ask for permissions once you actually need them

Hard on Android, where "did my wifi go away" means asking "can I have access to your phone's internal state including call logs and if you're in a call right now?"

> replace interactive embeds with a dumb replacement

Sucks when you depend on that content or the content has to be interactive under the TOS of the service you're using.

> [CDNs have] stopped being useful

Not at all. In many a corporate network as well as situations where you're paying for transit (e.g. AWS) they still make sense.

> build websites like we used to in the early 2000s

Ah yes with Flash for our interactivity, __Just throw an executable format that has a hard to render, proprietary ISA running unsupervised__, that worked for us then it should work fine today?

I'd say "Let's build more websites like we did in 2010". That's right around when Javascript peaked.

> Minio

due to their licensing change, a lot of legal departments have banned minio.
I want to agree with you, but some rich people will try (or promote) any fad. I'm thinking of Gwyneth Paltrow.
I have been stuck on 9 hours for a while now
Even more apt is that , at least in the west, the world is run by people who make a good impression on cam
Yep it's great for tarpitting if you are not behind an LB.

The other problem, if you are behind an LB, is that the client (DoS attacker) will get a 503 from the LB after timeout. So, no gain even if your timeouts are reasonable.

It'd be great if you could return a custom response from nginx that would tell the LB to drop the request -- or you could move the exploit-detection logic to the LB instead of nginx, and the LB could do its own 444 equivalent.
I've eaten 4.6g of spirulina in the last 24 hours in the form of the Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness smoothie. No taste issues to speak of. I for one welcome our new algae overlords.
Ultimately you need to block off time for you to take care of yourself. If you are a high achiever at work, there will always be some nagging issues that you feel like you have to deal with. That will NEVER go away no matter how accomplished you are. Block off your calendar for an hour each day to do some form of exercise.
we sec audits Starknet smart contracts.

Starknet is an up-and-coming blockchain (for those of you familiar with blockchain terms - it's the leading ZK L2).

there's a vulnerability that I believe can be found in 90% of contracts deployed on Starknet in the wild.

a little tricky to exploit but not at all impossible.

lucky for Starknet there is almost no TVL on there
Or maybe both of those things are shitty and it isn’t mutually exclusive. Sometimes the binary thinking here is really special.
> He should have just stuck to running an exchange

I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to crypto, can you please help me undersatnd what did SBF actually do that has caused all this trouble?

Aside from running an exchange I mean.

I'm just trying to understand the context of all these headlines.
Zbigniew Herbert wrote an excellent poem commemorating Laika and her grim treatment: https://www.best-poems.net/poem/first-the-dog-by-zbigniew-he...
The recycling processes and costs are astronomical and environmentally damaging.
https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/are-lithium-ion-batteries-...

As lithium batteries degrade they become more unstable and fire prone. I'm sure you're familiar with what happens to your laptop battery as it ages - shorter and shorter life, swelling etc.
Because it doesn’t become “spent”, you can just recycle it back into new batteries at nearly 100% recovery.
Refreshers aren’t going to be high enough (I don’t know about exec compensation though) to avoid the cliff. Promotions are the only way.
Yeeah https://youtube.com/shorts/FCD_Xq4ebyw?feature=share
> We don’t need to eat crickets, we don’t need to eat algae, we don’t need bioreactors for growing meat.

While this is true, algae has been a common, almost staple food for thousands of years in Asia.

TFA, "start eating algae" only betrays its narrow perspective.
Yeah, I suspect part of it is keeping an emergency option if Google were to not only stop paying them but actively blocking them (it's unlikely to happen, but if you have infinite money you're going to be paying to reduce unlikely risks).

Apple will start using their own search tools in smaller places that they can monetize better, I suspect, things like "Siri find a good restaurant".
I was hoping someone would mention. Here is another link: https://www.nickabadzis.com/laika-graphic-novel
Retool is the closest thing I've seen to capturing the magic of early Visual Basic.
Congrats on finishing that monster migration!

> In order to control how queries are executed, we have built a plugin which exposes a set of custom query types. We use these query types to provide functionality and performance optimisations not available in stock Elasticsearch. For example, we have implemented wildcards within phrases, with support for executing within SpanNear queries. We optimise “*” to a match-all-query. And a whole lot of other things.

Did you port your the in-house plugins? Seems like a big blocker.
> > it's Bell Labs heritage

> I have never met a person (in person, offline) who has cared about this at all.

People care about it because the language has the Bell Labs "feel". They don't care about it the way a dog breeder would care about a dog's ancestry.

(And of those who care about the "feel", some view it as a positive, others as a negative...)
They are definitely smarter in the ability of gaining power over other people.
Streamlit – A faster way to build and share data apps
Only relatively low footprint. You're underestimating the fossil fuel consumption needed in the form of ammonia (for fertilizer), farming equipment (smelting for steel, also requires coke from coal), transport, manufacturing, plastics (greenhouses, packaging), etc. This is all essential to feed the world, and there's nothing low footprint about it. Btw, compare the consumption needed for a tomato/100g vs chicken, and you'll be surprised.

All of this is a moot point if demand were to stop growing, and that will only happen when population does. Another accelerant is that as more of the world is lifted out of poverty, demand increases. All of the increases in efficiency and swaps for green energy are outpaced by demand, and will continue to be.

Btw, immigrants are not moving to the 1st world so they could consume less. They're going to eat meat, buy gadgets and single family homes. In fact govt policy is counting on it (that's what a GDP increase means, more consumption). Reduction in overall meat consumption helps, but you shouldn't bet on it to end, nor is it the most exacerbating source of emissions (plus, I hope, seaweed infused feed could trivialize methane emissions as it rolls out).

The alternative to lower demand is a staggering transition away from fossil fuels (only like 15% of fossil fuel consumption is for electricity), but that will probably take awhile. Lowering immigration rates would marginally help (probably not as much as people think) but that would be unpopular anyway. It's simultaneously "just" to pad the numbers of those consuming like Westerners (literally what "a better life" describes), and a moral imperative for the same concerned class to pressure Westerners to avoid consuming arbitrary things, or in general. Regardless, increase in consumption will arrive in the rest of the world.

I think expanding access to contraceptives worldwide is probably the greenest possible thing that can be done right now. That's not coming from a perspective of anti-natalism either. EDIT: use your words if you disagree, like adults. If you can't even elucidate how, you should question your premise.
What was it about the 20th century that produced such heartless people? Lead exposure? I understand that the 20th century is far from an aberration in terms of human cruelty, but there is an element of sadism that feels different than other centuries.

For instance, read the first sentence from Harlow's Wikipedia page:

> Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development.

Did we really need to torture these creatures for decades to understand the importance of care giving? The experiments seem like a flimsy pretext for torture.
I will concede that Amazon immediately initiated the refund process without hassle. And yes there is a statistical question, which is why I'm asking other users what their experience is like with other retailers.
And a lot of people have the opposite experiences. Power puts a halo around people sometimes
This is a great point. And additionally, when the storage and compute are cloud-based, and they get charged on a per-compute basis, you can start to see why every platform's search has gotten worse: they're incentivized to restrict the amount of searching that happens, because each search requires more compute, and probably compute of things that aren't cached already?

So you limit the amount of search and recommend the cache-able content, and cha-ching.

This is why searching for transactions in Stripe is a disaster, or finding email history in SendGrid is a pain, or any other search function on a sufficiently large data set.

Remember the compute costs: that's why it's purposefully built to be hard to find what you're looking for.
Yeah, I mean migrating the software of a single-user instance, not migrating between instances, sorry if that was unclear.

So I currently run a single-user instance of Mastodon. Wondering if it's possible to start running a single-user instance of Pleroma instead, without having to change the username+domain?
> If pg was olap there wouldn’t exist any competition out there.

What does this actually mean? If PG were an OLAP database it probably wouldn't have full ACID support, because pure OLAP workloads typically don't do a lot of updates. And it would have a lot of hooks around storage like compression codecs that don't give a lot of value in an OLTP database. Finally it would probably be eventually consistent because it's expensive to ensure data consistency across a large, distributed dataset.

So it wouldn't really be PG at that point.
Anyone made an inverse Vision Fund yet? Could be quite profitable.
When I load a website I have no idea what third-party assets are being loaded in or from where, and have no meaningful information ahead of time to know what I'm actually consenting to by typing "example.com" into the URL bar. Obviously, my IP will be sent to example.com, and I've arguably consented to that, but not to all the other third-party stuff that example.com might have loaded the page up with.

(this is also the argument around cookie consent: yes, the browser chooses to accept the cookie. users don't really get an opportunity to refuse them, though. So "the browser accepted the cookies" is not sufficient consent, as far as the EU is concerned)
It's time get people used to the idea of eating algae. Then they won't question the Soylent Green.
The US has been slowly extending its extraterritorial prerogatives for decades now. It’s unsurprising they would end up getting some push back at some point.
(the plot shows extreme overfitting with a 10 parameter model, and interpolation with a 10,000 parameter model)
Cars used to be made of steel and were very recyclable. More recently they are
mostly made of plastics and alloys that are not easily recyclable.

Lithium is extremely hard to recycle.
Atmel yes, idk about Arduino.
This whole anecdotal diatribe sounds bigoted and manufactured and presents as an underhanded slant against people from the “South”.
Apologies, you're abolutely right
>I don't understand this, you're saying that you made one comment and it was deprioritized so you think that one comment being deprioritized is evidence of you being shadow banned for following conservatives? Maybe the algorithm prioritizes based on how often you comment and how often your posts are liked, which seems like a pretty sensible way to do it.

There was a website which could check if you were shadow banned. https://shadowban.yuzurisa.com/

>Hm.. Yoel hasn't even publicly announced he's leaving, as far as I know he's still at Twitter, so when you say "Firing the political activists was a shocking change in comments for those I follow". Which political activists and when? When was this 'shocking change' since Yoel as recently as yesterday said he was still doing his job?

OP was my confirmation Yoel was leaving.

In terms of firing political actvists... go check the names of the teams which got fired by Elon.

>Also, how do you know this isn't just confirmation bias / people testing twitter with more? I mean uses of slur's on Twitter went way up, but that was while the content moderation team was still in place.

Like if we are debating the point sure you can argue confirmation bias or selection bias. But I'm not debating anything, there's no need to argue over my opinion.
> Clearly not true in physics and engineering. How many people can honestly they're as smart as Maxwell, Einstein, Von Neumann, or even "minor" players like John Bardeen and Bill Shockley?

Clearly? Physics is littered with people playing the publish or die game.

How many interesting (and feasible, non-crackpot) ideas are being drowned out because it’s not the mainstream?

Sabine Hossenfelder weighed in this problem recently.
A Digital Clock in Conway's Game of Life (2017)
The reason it doesn't work is because of how semicolons work: like in C every statement needs to end in a semicolon, but the compiler will automatically insert them if the last word in a line is a keyword (continue etc.), an identifier, literal value (int, string, etc.), or ++, --, ), ], }. [1]

So your example gets transformed to:

if (cond) { return x };
else { return y };

So it is mentioned in the language specification, just as a non-obvious consequence of this.

It's not my most favourite part of the language either, but at least the compiler message on it is better now (it used to complain about semicolons, which was confusing because they're not there in your source code; now it just says "unexpected else, expecting }", which is still a bit confusing but better).

I'm fairly sure The Go Programming Language book mentions this somewhere near the beginning, but some of the online tutorial/tour perhaps could be improved. There's always a bit of a balance in how much to mention.

[1]: https://go.dev/ref/spec#Semicolons
Lando does look good, but what I really want is a similar tool which isn't using Docker. I use macOS, and Docker on macOS is just a poor experience. And most tools now have good cross-platform support, so just installing the native tools portably ought to work quite well.
On the path to bankruptcy the boring way, not being able to turn a profit
It has nothing to do with leadership, just incentives. If you're a world class hacker, your most prominent options are:

1) do black hat shit and risk prison time for gains that are hard to realize

2) work in white hat security and get paid a ton of money

3) work for the government and make very little money, but get to do black hat shit with impunity

It's pretty easy to imagine that the people submitting applications to work for the NSA have no interest in protecting the US from big bad overseas hackers.
C# cannot have a memory leak?

We're using very different definitions of those words, I guess.

https://slashdot.org/story/07/11/17/0552247/c-memory-leak-to...
Maj Toure: Why Black Guns–and Libertarianism–Matter
Hash the IP so you can tie sessions, and do frequency analysis for abuse, without having the raw IP that can be geo-decoded?
I definitely see your point, but hate self-censorship for "perceived reception".
SpaceX shakes up Starbase leadership in Starship push
It's said that the father of LISP, John McCarthy, lamented the W3C's choice of SGML as the basis for HTML : « An environment where the markup, styling and scripting is all s-expression based would be nice. » The {lambda way} project could be an answer, small and simple: http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/

In lambdatalk such a HTML code

<h1>Page Title</h1>

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
Ut ac lorem ut massa euismod vestibulum.

<p>Nullam rutrum blandit eleifend. Aenean a varius diam.
Morbi sodales velit nunc, vel vestibulum lorem tempus sodales.

is written like this

_h1 Page Title

_p Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut ac lorem ut massa euismod vestibulum.

_p Nullam rutrum blandit eleifend. Aenean a varius diam. Morbi sodales velit nunc, vel vestibulum lorem tempus sodales.

And you can also compute 3x4 writing {x 3 4} or compute the factorial of 100, compute a Fast Fourier Transform, draw complex graphics, ... it's a true programming language with a coherent syntax, unlike Markdown.
To balance this: I work for a US-based, US-only top N financial institution that's all of <10 corporate entities.
That's probably a bad example because she did succeed in replicating the part of Steve Jobs that really came from him, which was the ability to enthrall people with whatever was said, like some kind of guru.
NPE itself isn’t likely to be exploitable, no, but what I had in mind was more along the lines of code with logic errors handling rare cases where something is null. There’s a lot of tooling designed to catch things like that but the worst code bases tend not to use them because they’d need a lot of cleanup.
For someone that only dabbles in crypto - what are the reasons people choose to use high-risk exchanges like FTX, and buy even higher risk "sh*t coins" on them? Especially the exchange-created-and-owned coins - of which I have yet to see one actually do what it promised.

Is Coinbase just not cool anymore, or is there some advantage to using exchanges like FTX until they go belly-up?
It's both faster and cheaper. ClickHouse gets a lot of migrations off SQL Server. Not every dataset works, of course. As noted elsewhere ClickHouse does not handle complex joins well.
Very interesting read, especially the ELI5 part before the DeFi story.

Are the 3 ways explained to cover a margin call how it works in practice? can one choose either of these 3 options?

> Fourth grade math. If you have $110 million in assets and $100 million in liabilities you are said to be levered 10:1.

Actually got some trouble on the 4th grade math ... morning coffee not working properly?

$110m assets - $100m liabilities = $10m of "surplus".

liabilities:surplus ratio is 100:10 --> 10:1.

> You’ve got $1,600 in assets against $1,000 in debt, so $600 in equity, so ~1.67:1 levered.

here liability = 1000, a better name for the surplus is "equity" at 600,

1000:600 ratio --> ~1.67:1

4th grade math checks out :)
The kind of work where IP, material & confidentiality matters usually happens in R&D labs.

Pretty much everybody who looks for co-working places are working in non R&D type stuff.

People from other companies "comingling" is usually a REALLY good thing for the companies. Usually the best stuff comes out of this (Steve Jobs & Xerox's PARC)
The sensitivities of the modern world require careful phrasing. My guess would be that "diversity & inclusion" means things like it's too elitist, hard to grok to people in new global markets, and the "digital transformation" bit means that it's too hard to resize and too hard to reuse in different context (e.g. the new logo could zoom in on screen and act as a portal into a virtual experience, the old logo is very cumbersome).
I have not personally used Spack, but a similar product in HPC, and I have often wondered why something analogous did not take off for desktop computing. We are finally seeing the rise of Nix, but the experience is currently so bad, I will give it a decade before it starts gaining serious traction. Sooner only if some big platform latches onto it.
I feel like that's missing the point of reading books (and honestly seems like a very non-founder mentality). Reading books should be primarily for personal benefit, understanding more of the world, having a stronger grasp on how to communicate your ideas, showing more empathy for others. These really aren't directly marketable towards compensation (at least, not in the same way as a textbook), it's about being a better person.

Honestly if everyone had more of these traits, there'd probably be a lot more small businesses and fewer dejected corporate employees who feel there's no hope for the future but to grind up the ladder.
Pure GitOps Is a Beautiful, Impossible Dream
They are not the same thing. Food insecurity is broader than just hunger.

https://foodforward.org/food-security/what-is-food-insecurit...

No need for silly conspiracy theories.
I recently read Our Man about Richard Holbrooke, and man, this notion really came across loud and clear.

(Also, it was a good read!)

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/215731/our-man-by-g...
Neither of your links support your claim that Firefox avoided adding Webp support because it wasn't technically superiour.

Instead, what happened was that WebP started to be used on the web and this broke websites for Firefox users.

Since Firefox is by no means dominant on the web, we had to follow suit or lose more users.
It's not like they're giving the lithium away for free?
It's hard to be anything but skeptical about the intent behind this decision, considering that the competing emerging standard (WebP) is one that Google controls.

This is one reason why I am thankful that Apple still only allows webkit on iOS even if philosophically I believe people should be able to run the software they want on their phone — it's basically the only check against pure Google hegemony over the web.

> can we optimize existing formats to meet any new use-cases, rather than adding support for an additional format; do other browsers and OSes support it?

They did not show this restraint at all when it came to implementing and pushing their own formats.
Repeat Covid is riskier than first infection, study finds
I had the same impression from the article, and I'm glad you brought up the value of pursuing personal curiosity.

This brings up a central question about the value of collective vs individual knowledge. If you donated your body, would you rather help a lot of people a little or a few people a lot?

If I knew that my body had the power to bring about a truly humbling, enriching, and perspective changing experience to a few individuals, I would be happy with that. In an indirect way, it might be so inspiring for those individuals as to result in a net gain of collective knowledge in the future.