skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
British actor Julian Sands identified as hiker missing in California
I was on a quest to find the Super Foonly for several years in the early 2000s. I never got close to finding it, but did uncover several treasure troves of documents from the early days of computer graphics companies Omnibus, Digital Productions and Robert Abel and Associates.

I think it was Larry Yaeger [1] who suggested that the collapse of Omnibus meant that a lot of the equipment in the DP machine room was sold or scrapped.

Maybe someone here has more info!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Yaeger
People are still very much interested in how the big bang happened by the way.
https://archive.ph/gvWcY
You can do approximately that with GitHub Copilot already: Write a comment and have Copilot write the function or what have you to match.
> I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index

Actually, the secret sauce to both WizTree's and Everything's speed is the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) [1].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maste...
Don't know about google but my method to limit it is quite simple: use an ad blocker.
The RPi is derided for it's ability to keep up with even soft real time tasks because of the matching "huge"ness of the software stack people commonly associate with it (full Linux). I welcome alternate stabs at software stacks that aim for a KISS attitude to let it compete with an Arduino when it comes to signal twiddling, etc.
Wow, that is a LOT of dedicated scrum masters. It strikes me as kind of a useless position... I've had to deal with these people before, and it doesn't strike me that there's much value add. Scrum in general seems like kind of a waste of time... just adds a bunch of extra overhead and takes time away from people building software.
I don't understand your reasoning. To me, you seem to be saying that since the state violated everyone's privacy, the general public now has the right to violate these individuals' privacy even further to get back at the state.

Publishing the list as-is would also imply that you believe the state is infallible and can't err when putting people on this list. There are thousands of people out there who have redress numbers because they have the same name as someone on the list. Can you imagine if getting a redress number is necessary for employment? Leaking the list would ironically increase the state's control.

(edit: Again, I'm not disagreeing with letting individuals find out if they themselves are on the list, just disagreeing with the method)
Yeah didn’t realize that GitHub labeled it it’s own language either! Neat.
app apes, not code monkeys
It's also commonly faced by Chinese immigrants to the U.S.

I believe (I could be wrong) certain organizations in China basically only hire members of the communist party, so some people became a member of CCP due to their employment.
According to its Wikipedia page [1], Switzerland doesn't extradite their nationals (including maia) without consent. maia might be trapped in Switzerland, but as long as it stays there the US can't get to it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew
> which runs on a completely dead CPU architecture that Linux doesn't even support anymore

The 68k is hardly dead; Linux support isn't a viability indicator of an architecture. It was dropped from Linux because there are no 68k systems powerful enough to run it and it's modern userspace, so it was a waste of development and debugging time. But the architecture is thriving in embedded and custom device spaces and fully supported by GCC and LLVM.
It'll be OK. I'll be hiding under my desk.
> Remember when social media was fun, introduced you to big ideas and cool people, and actually made you smarter? Remember when it didn't waste your time and make you angry or sad? When you could disagree with someone without being threatened or insulted? We want to bring that back with Post.

> We believe that all humans are created equal, endowed with unalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, regardless of their gender identity, religion, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, or beliefs.

> If you do not agree with this principle, Post is not for you. We believe in freedom of speech and will oppose any government's attempt to censor speech on our platform. However, we have rules, which we plan to rigorously enforce via content moderation, with the help of our community.

These all seem like lofty goals, as they themselves characterize it, but how exactly is any of this going to be accomplished? This is just a list of want-to-haves. Having these goals doesn't make you unique. What tech, tools, and processes you have to make them a reality is what makes you unique. What exactly are those here?
> This would spare us exposure to subsequent famine and the loss of things like acetaminophen and central heating, not to mention civil society

Obviously MAD has changed things, but Hiroshima was back to normal in about 2 years. Power was restored in just a few days for example.

https://davidson.weizmann.ac.il/en/online/askexpert/recovery...

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/apr/18/story-of-citi...
I understand, i’m saying I don’t think it’s reasonable to make that jump.

The process has design features to specifically allow it to function even when run by corrupt people. That was the entire point, since the beginning.
The greatest secret of government work is the hours. With the federal holidays, work celebrations at restaurants or bars, long lunches, you already work 30 hours a week.
Narcissism – Living Without Feelings
There's an argument to be made here for refurbing the best of the container ship engines after the ship hulls reach end of life.

The higher end engines are three storey high multistaged diesel engines with filters, scrubbers and some of the highest bunker oil -> power efficiencies on the planet.

They're ideal for generating baseload power and worth the rejuvenation effort.
I think posting an "Unlisted" toot was one of them, though I could be wrong. I don't have the official app nor Ivory to check this.
We use CodeSandbox for interviews (we have a base project that we fork for each interview). It's pretty good for watching someone code on a Zoom call (the actual pair-programming features like multiple cursors are a little buggy, but we don't need those).

I've also seen some open source projects that use CodeSandbox for their example projects. It's a nice experience for examples that require a server and client (that can't simply use storybook). I can understand the value in that, especially if you can automate it and link it to a Git repo with an examples/ folder.
Oh sure, you can do good things with small amounts, I meant it more like: if you're a small charity where every penny counts, you probably didn't get thousands of dollars from Amazon because you didn't have the reach (and arguably, the time dealing with amazon may have been spent better doing something else). And if you're a big name, you're not relying on a few tens of thousands from Amazon because you're taking in millions in donations and grants each year.

I assume it can be hard to transition between charity and for-profit work. Are charities following with the hiring-freeze? Wouldn't freelancers be more welcome in these times, given that they're easy to let go? Good luck in any case.
I don’t know, I’d want to look at my manager and say ‘you arrogant ass! you’ve killed us’
When did that change? Why do they still have the 10 principles up if they dont' believe in it anymore?
Layoff information on Washington State employers
It has numbers on the recent layoffs by Microsoft and Amazon. Information in the database is displayed by the date Employment Security receives the WARN notice.
> suffering

> cynical user of a tool of coercive soft-power

> weapon masquerading as a new morality

Take with a grain of salt, but I feel like you have stronger emotions on this issue than the trans and non-binary people I know.
Microsoft still offers MSN premium dial-up
We don't know, neither Twitter nor Musk have said a word about it (that I've noticed, anyway).
You're correct. In fact, there doesn't need to be a joint at all - you become a prohibited person by virtue of being "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance". Note that, since this is a federal law, it doesn't matter if it's legal on state level.

There's already precedent that having a state medical marijuana card already makes one ineligible, and using as an ID when trying to purchase a firearm is grounds for automatic denial by the seller. Hawaii, which requires all firearms to be registered, went even further, proactively cross-referencing their gun registry with the medical marijuana one (https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/surrender-your-guns-pol...).

It's not really surprising that the law is so broad, given that it was written in 1968 when anti-drug craze was still ramping up. The reason why it doesn't get amended is, I think, because it manages to touch two third rails at once: Republicans don't want to be perceived as "soft on drugs" by their base, while Democrats are afraid of being seeing as not sufficiently aggressive wrt "gun violence". And so, here we are.
I've been around long enough to know git is so much better than what came before, and I appreciate it. But even so, git yak shaving still consumes more developer time than it should.
T-Mobile Data Breach
Cars in some way signify individual freedom, autonomy. You choose the destination.
Looks like a malicious actor is messing around with it...

Hello I am testing my pentesting skills, please make a comment on your most recent reddit post and I will stop :) blah blah apple banana orange cucumber happy sad good bad filler words stars moon sun
That too.

I've never seen a 1:100 code to commit message lines ratio so far, but I've seen a few 2-3 line changes with a paragraph or two long explanations. I cherish those. Same if the explanation is in a comment. In fact, if I spot something like this, I tend to praise it publicly on the team chat.

I had one case where a single weird line added much earlier messed up a seemingly unrelated piece of code I've been developing. It took me a while to figure out that something is emitting compiler flags that, with surgical precision, prevent the very thing I was attempting - and then find it nested deep in the build configuration. At that point I wanted to strangle the person who put it there - but a paragraph of commentary attached to that line, plus some extra context in the commit message, made me change my reaction to "oh. OH. I see the point now.", and I ended up commending the author instead.
> Without fossil fuel subsidies for agriculture mass starvation is certain.

Without fossile fuels for agriculture, starvation is certain. Without fossile fuel subsidies, we'd just pay a bit more for food and slightly less for other things.
You're exactly right! Under the hood, DoomCheck actually uses a log-logistic distribution -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-logistic_distribution -- which it fits using the range endpoints as 10% and 75% respectively. Then it does a Markov simulation to combine them across the whole project.
I keep reading your responses on this topic and nodding my head more and more vigorously. I really do feel for the devs, but also seems like they had a good run - really, about as long of a run as anyone can expect reasonably have in this space. Better than most, certainly.
You can browse the archives through the Google Groups web interface without subscribing.
If Orwell correctly predicted that communists would want to eradicate the personal freedom that comes from car ownership, you think he wouldn’t have beat us over the head with it?
I don't know if high school kids need macbook airs, but I also don't see how that answers the question of where "grade school" was in the original comment
I mean she pretty much explains the whole process of getting it. If you're willing to get prosecuted just go get it yourself.
Interestingly, the following year Qantas was founded (16 November 1920). I seem to recall one other German operator that started just before Qantas as well.
> Its just not the kind of processor I think of that needs to be run "bare-metal", or even "something more efficient than Linux needs to be installed on here".

People do run RTOS'es on these size of processors, mainly for latency control but you still want beefier processors / RAM. An RPi4 (normally) is cheaper than some Arduino / MCU kits.

Also, RTOS'es can be easier to build and keep stable for years which helps with embedded projects where you don't want to update your linux kernel and drivers every 6 months.

Baremetal makes less sense though. Well other than for hobbyist reasons IMHO since you tend to need lots of drivers to make them functional which isn't true for many MCUs. I'd guess this is a hobby project for the fun/joy/masochism of running baremetal.
We had 1-2 macs in a couple classroosm in my elementary school but this was early-mid 90s.
it might be and you just don't know yet. these things take time.
When you started this comment by saying "Yeah I created a division between those two options but that's not a dichotomy!" I questioned if I should bother reading

By the time I got to the invention of "angrily flung insults", and projection about bad days I had my answer...
My mom called me "it" for the first two weeks after I was born. She wasn't sure on a name.

Exception not the rule, but made me giggle reading your comment.
BlogNLP is a free AI-based blog writing tool that can help you craft captivating content quickly and easily, eliminating writer's block and saving you time. BlogNLP offers a wide range of features such as text summarization, keyword extraction, and sentiment analysis, making it a versatile tool for various writing tasks. It also has an easy to use interface which makes it easy for anyone to use. Overall, BlogNLP is a top choice for an AI writing assistant due to its advanced capabilities, versatility, and user-friendliness.
Is shred bad for erasing SSDs? (2020)
> What would be the visual representation of a 'directory'?

A list of names of things, with associated information, either text or pictorial.

Which is exactly what both GUIs and CLIs tend to give you for “folders”.
It seems like duck and cover is still good advice. Possibly lying down is better.
No, it's fine as is. I think you have は and が backwards but neither of them imply ドイツ語 is "doing something" even though it's the subject of the sentence. It's a pro-drop language so meanings that don't make sense are just excluded.
1.5 million rows you say? Better hope nobody opens it in Excel and overwrites it…
Legion Programming System
that's my webring :3
One of the charts you don't see is the performance of the stock market from say 1900-1950 for countries like Russia, Japan, France or Germany. We have this point of view that the US is a good place to invest, but to an investor in 1900 that might not have been such an obvious choice. Looking back 50 years from now it may seem like it was obvious the US was going to collapse from some political issue and clear that you belong in the stock market of Brazil, Indonesia, or I don't know what.
Yes exactly: James for everyone.

Some people may prefer a different name but I think they’ll understand once we explain the cognitive load.
You can break a car into small pieces, but you won’t learn anything from a test drive if it doesn’t run.
It's... Not even comparable. That bomb is a quaint toy compared to modern nuclear arsenal, and of course nobody would be launching one or two nukes today because it isn't 1945. Mass starvation, disease, loss of key infrastructure and any sort of industrial capacity would await those "lucky" to survive initial blasts.

I'm not as convinced nuclear winter is a scare theory either, I think it's hard to say, but it frankly doesn't even have to factor in the slightest.
https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaap.2020.10480...

I found this link while searching the DOI of the third article. Sci-Hub seems to be a site that lets you access all sorts of scientific papers, because they believe everyone rich or poor should have free access to science. It was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, a modern day Robin Hood.

Or so they say, I'd never endorse you reading the paper without giving more money to the multi-billion dollar private publisher Elsevier.
I don't think the kind of diff you'd want to use GPT-3 to summarize would also be small enough to not leak company IP.
Much of your protection from UV radiation comes from the outer layers of dead skin cells. These people put living cells in a Petri dish under a much larger than usual dosage of these lights, serious damage should have been expected, that’s what UV does.

The question is, in vivo, do actual fingers in actual real world usage experience outsized DNA damage compared to moderate sun exposure.

You’re not going to get that answer from cultured cells like that.

If you wanted to do a study explicitly to create sensational headlines, this is how you’d do it. Take a similar situation but modify it so a bad outcome is certain then suggest the much different real world case is similar.

Given case reports of strange cancer in fingers further study is interesting, but I wouldn’t go around trying to make fans of fancy nails panic quite yet. (Who knows, some of the solvents and miscellaneous substances may be the culprit more than UV)
There's a difference between destroying one city with a relatively small bomb and destroying most cities and industrial infrastructure with relatively big bombs - including multiple hits on the biggest targets.
Ask HN: Do we exist, other than in a metaphorical sense, to ourselves?
Or maybe they're just a lot better at reporting minor injuries. In the same vein, countries with stronger women's rights have higher rates of rape and sexual harassment.
I don’t anticipate calamity, nor do I prepare for one. But I’ve explored it as an experiment.

My original plan was to see what happens and make a go of it, but to be prepared to take the quick way out if it becomes too horrifying.

But now I have kids and I’m out of ideas. Maybe something about fleeing to my cottage where there’s fewer people and more nature.
> that gives some sliders to users to vote on the allocation?

A lot of charities tend to side with one political affiliation or the other. When people see %not their political affiliations% charity, they take it personally, and try to boycott the service. So this might do more harm than good.
I watched the demo video - there seem to be some UI jitters with the list view when you click 'update' - you can see it at 4:25-4:26.

Is that the list going blank for a fraction of a second? If so, that is jarring - is this a limitation of React Native or what's going on there?
I agree with the ideas in this post but I am skeptical about their implementation.

Users are shown a headline, an associated picture, and first 2-4 sentences of an article. Then they can buy the rest for ¢1-5. It feels like something that could be very easily exploited by clickbait. Although it currently does not seem to be.

I do like the current assortment of news. It's not like other social media sites where news content is personalized to the user's likes and dislikes, or biases. Unfortunately, it looks like Post. are looking into news personalization. I just really miss the time when facts like what's relevant in the world were not "personalized".
> They can do rapid updates to the iOS and Android apps

Can they? Do they not go through the usual review process?
From Taiwan Gold Card to Taiwanese Citizenship
I'm not a laser expert, but they seem reasonably similar and dissimilar on the surface. Lasers were first theorized in 1917, which is 43 years between theory and first demonstration. Quantum computing theory seems to date to 1980, also exactly 43 years ago from today (a neat coincidence!). In the meanwhile, plenty of applications of quantum computing have been proposed.

The main difference seems to be the gap between a demonstration prototype and a useful prototype, where a useful laser followed soon after a first demonstration, whereas a useful quantum computer requires many more qubits than a simple demonstration device.

I think there is also a bit of an unfair uphill battle that quantum computers have. They have to outcompete existing computers, which is a technology that perhaps has had more investment and refinement than any other human technology, so the bar to clear is high and may take longer. Or, maybe quantum computers will never reach that bar!
The bad taste this left in my mouth was the glee with which it was conducted.

Delisting a CA is a thing you can do. It is a serious thing you can do.

But the internet drama surrounding this, and some posts on the mailing list itself, were overly emotional.

"Ha! We caught you! You damned executive, you!" is not exactly the tone with which I'd want to conduct weighty matters.

It was like looking back into the early-90s, when pitchforks-and-torches-because-we-technically-can were the norm. I don't miss those days, and I'd thought the internet had grown up more.

Apologies in advance for being the no-fun police, but we're talking about destroying a business. Even if it's a shitty business, run by shitty people, trying to do shitty things... just don't fucking dance. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5aVLi_yhM
Stores of food, water, fuel, and the means to defend oneself can also increase odds and duration of survival.

Food scarcity will place survivors into an unpleasant dog eat dog world. Zombie and disaster films are probably not far off in their portrayals of these apocalyptic survival scenarios.

All of the niceties of modern civilization - friendly and neighborly coexistence - will likely be replaced with the desperate animal need to eat and survive. And without a central governing authority, or aid or help of any kind, the new social order will be brutal and unforgiving.

I hope this never comes to pass.
Yeah, its Ukraine invaded Ukraine, captured Crimea and killed over 10 thousand Ukrainians. Who else it can be?
My confidence is more in my ability to deliver the product, from all aspects, sales/product/tech. I think my cofounder wouldn't contest that this is somewhat true. I'm more so asking about the end outcome, how it will feel if the startup succeeds and he is in the drivers seat, and the raw execution need is no longer there.
Anecdote.

Every time linux desktop comes up, there are tons of people having issues. Meanwhile, I can point to material improvements Microsoft has made to the windows core that mitigate many of these complaints - improvements that landed in both 10 and 11, and that simply don't exist on the Linux desktop.

Simply put, the Linux desktop is hardly anywhere close to prime time. Efforts from Valve and Canonical have gone a long way in the last few years to catch up, but it's hardly a "done deal".
As an Australian, we seemed to develop a culture of calling everyone 'mate' regardless of gender etc. Helps since I can't ever remember a persons name, even after they've said it directly to my face.

I've got no issue with people wanting to use different pronouns, though usually I try to keep it neutral in conversation anyway. "They/their" is extremely easy to use without much thought.
I was split between で or は, forgot all about が. Funnily enough I think omitting the particle altogether would have made more sense.

Edit: After further reading は seems to work fine. In this case I think both work but が places greater emphasis on the german language being the thing not understood. で however was totally incorrect :P. But due to the tacit nature of informal Japanese I think the context already informed the reader who doesn't understand what.
> Twitterific should be pro-actively refunding customers for the unused portion of their subscriptions...

It's my understanding that Apple doesn't offer this feature.