skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
STEPS is a very interesting project, indeed. I don't think it was quite a failure, after all, they did Nile and Gezira, which was pretty cool (powerful vector graphics rendering in a few hundred lines of code). Someone might reuse those in the future, I don't see why not.

But from the limited things that I saw, I got the feeling there was no overarching system. And there was no thinking about flexibility in general (which I consider to be essential to computing). I could be wrong about that, though, I didn't study it very thoroughly, only watched a presentation or two and skimmed the paper. Not that it wasn't ambitious enough already.

> I wish you more success!

Thank you!
Actually, effectiveness against symptomatic infection was the primary endpoint of the trials. There weren't sufficient cases of severe illness in the vaccinated or placebo groups to draw any conclusions from the trials about protection from hospitalization/death.
Everything is fundamentally driven by the economy, so having even a glimpse of that economy in practice (eg: a supermarket) is essential to drawing a more accurate picture of the wider military and geopolitics.

If your foe can demand bananas any day of the year for pennies while you can't, you lost that war before it even started.
Again, you have to look at the rates. When most people are vaccinated at least partially that just tells you that the larger population is larger. What you instead want to look at are the rates between comparable groups.

Here are some examples from 3 separate publications, all recent:

> Among more than 700,000 participants age 65 and older, who either had the bivalent or did not, there was an 81% reduction of Covid hospitalizations (Figure below) and an 86% reduction of deaths.

> Here are the data for age 65 and older, showing marked protection vs. hospitalization ranging from 73 to 84%, comparing not only to those unvaccinated but also those individuals who had been vaccinated and boosted. A second report was for all adults age 18 and up, showing bivalent booster 38 to 57% effectiveness vs hospitalization, which is consistent, but of lower magnitude than for seniors. This would be expected in a lower risk group with a high incidence of infections in the unvaccinated controls.

> During November, for people age 65 and older, there was a 90% reduction of hospitalizations for the bivalent vs unvaccinated, a 13.5-fold increased risk of hospitalization for the latter group, and 2.5 fold higher rate among seniors vaccinated but without a bivalent booster.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-bivalent-vaccine-booste...
What wifi receiver? Why is it up to Apple to support third party hardware?

Youtube? That's not an Apple product. I don't recall the YouTube app ever being removed. What are you referring to?
Ask HN: Got an email from someone expecting a bug bounty. What to do?
"I am an independent security researcher and I have found a bug in your website"

Bug = I didn't have DMARC set up for outgoing email verification.

I ignored their email, set up email monitoring. I knew I didn't have SPF verification set up, but had put it off.

A few weeks then nothing.

Then they emailed and said:

"Kindly update me regarding the issue and I am expecting a bug bounty from you for sending this bug ethically to you."

I ignored it.

A few more weeks later then I saw a bunch of spoofed emails sent from the domain in the email report.

I then setup DMARC for forensic reports.

Then a week or so later / now, they emailed and said:

"Alot of websites have rewarded me for letting them know about this bug because this is an impactful bug. It will be justifiable if you reward me in any way either a cash reward, amazon gift voucher or a swag as a token of appreciation. Also, i've found more critical bugs too so if you're willing to make your website safer you won't take this matter lightly."

What should I do?

It kinda seems like they're trying to threaten me.

If I give them a $10 or $25 Amazon gift card will this all go away or will they ask for more things? I'd be happy to give them something if it's small and they won't contact me again. But I don't want to open a can of worms and have them contact me again and again. I also don't want to ignore them and have them do something sketchy.

Anyone dealt with something similar?
I can use a dongle chain and run my ancient FireWire MiniDV camcorders right into my M1 Air. Makes modern DV archival so much more painless.
How will this be integrated into dotnet? Will you be able to call dotnet libraries?
Scientists use a laser beam to control lightning bolts
See Also:

Nature Photonics Laser-guided lightning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z

Scientists use laser to guide lightning bolt more than 50 metres in world first

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/scientists-use-laser-...
It requires an active Roku account (including a valid credit card), which this thread was specifically about - requiring an Apple account to watch Netflix et. al.
> if an artist takes all their art from one “period” of their works down

Maybe I don't understand artists, but I'd be irritated if an artist did that too. Especially if it's supposed to be FOSS. And it's still throwing a tantrum anyhow (I guess artists are allowed/expected to be immature?) - I picture trope of the manic artist burning all his beautiful paintings instead of selling them to make rent.

What, did all the folks using his FOSS ever know it was just a temporary art installation? I wonder why they assumed he was a core maintainer and why they didn't realize that these FOSS projects where actually "not-projects". I wonder if that was ever prominently mentioned during his 5 minutes of fame?

Anyhow, yes, it leaves a bad taste when somebody is, as others have characterized it, LARPing as a FOSS core contributor and then just run off.
It’s the first sentence.
If it wasn’t clear enough from my post, I’m implying you are reading too much into the literal meaning of the age part of the comment. As the HN guidelines say, we should be trying to take the most generous interpretation possible.
Already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

(with some not-paywalled links)
If it's not included in the base java compiler it's a dependency.
I'm sure this happens, but it doesn't feel like what happened with WoT. It deviates a lot from the source material, but not enough to have started as something else.
Large Language Model – the generic term for AIs like ChatGPT
You should never trust that anyway. Apple has a similar thing which presumably works using the T2 chip to transparently encrypt everything going to the SSD, but they still use filevault to then encrypt the user data again.
I always liked "RF Circuit Design" by Christopher Bowick. I just noticed that after 25 years a 2nd edition was released in 2008, but I don't know how it compares to the first edition.
There is a lot of doom and gloom about programming and AI.

However, let me talk about something to be excited for.

I am really excited about LLMs taking the drudgery out of programming. There are many times what I have a project in mind that I want to do, but there is a lot of boilerplate (writing configurations, or writing tests, etc) that I have to do and slows me down or for personal projects even keeps me from doing them. However, if I have an AI assistant that I can assign all the drudgery to, and I can focus on the interesting work, I feel that my creativity can really be unleashed.

I am most excited to see the results of this in games. Right now, to produce a AAA game is a lot of work and requires massive teams (if only for the art assets). However, I can see a future where once again a single programmer can write very compelling games (and even have the AI generate the art assets for the game based on the programmer's vision).

I personally am looking forward to the future.
Large Language Model
I was born in 1961, was a child growing up on the streets of a small town in Siberia just like yourself but I guess I am an older version by what looks to be 10-15 years. The town was satellite science type called Akademgorodok. We were middle class "equals" just as you described but that was in 70s. In the 80s as far as I can remember neither myself nor my friends believed any of that Soviet Propaganda. Our parents were mostly scientists and some (very few yet) had visited the West and we had pretty good ideas what's in the stores over there ;)
It's supposed to be about intellectual curiosity. Not questioning other people's life choices and giving unsolicited advice.
The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

But I prefer your link! yay for 'not paywalled'!
A collection of math tutorials in C
Netflix pays residuals. In fact the WGA won a fairly hefty arbitration against them maybe half a year back for underpaying, and SAG and DGA members also get them.
tl;dr: please protect me from the severe cognitive dissonance these posts are causing me
Bonnie's Plants and others sell them as "Thai Hot Chilies" the colloqueal name for this particular subspecies varies wildly by region. I've also seen "thai pepper". Generally referring to long thin, thin-walled peppers full of seeds. I've never (personally) seen "birds-eye chilie" used in the wild.
Thanks for the feedback. Currently the tool works the best on Chrome (with or without extension) on Mac and Window, with minor support for Safari.

We'll be sure to make a FAQ section on which platform we support and plans for features in the future. Thanks yall
A couple of other nice links:

Four Column ASCII: https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/ (and associated HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13539552)

The Evolution of Character Codes, 1875-1968: https://archive.org/details/enf-ascii (and associated Github repo: https://github.com/e-n-f/ascii)

Bob Bemer, consider the "Father of ASCII", died in 2004 and his website has gone offline. The Wayback Machine has archives. It looks like the last one that was his website (before the current squatter) was: https://web.archive.org/web/20180511201723/http://bobbemer.c...
Opinions are never right or wrong. That's by definition.

Facts on the other hand can be right or wrong as they can be independently verified.

There is no way to prove "great" things cities can provide. Different people value different things.
Forking can be quite slow (milliseconds), though there are techniques to speed it up: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/pfonseca/papers/eurosys21-od...

I believe wasmtime can be faster as it doesn’t need to create as many new OS resources and just resets some memory maps.

Only really meaningful for simple request handlers taking a few milliseconds.
Legit Startups – AI Generated Startup Websites
HN is so 19th century British ^^ :s
The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

But thanks for sharing a not-paywalled link.
> My 14yr old daughter has an iPhone and I cannot administer it as a parent without owning an iPhone or similar device myself.

You can use an MDM solution. JumpCloud Free is free, and Apple Business Essentials is $3/mo.
Isn’t the difference that the model lacks conviction, and indeed cannot have a belief in the accuracy of its own statements? I’ve seen conversations where it was told to believe that 1+19 did not equal 20. Where it was told it’s identity was Gepetto and not ChatGPT.

The model acquiesces to these demands, not because it chooses to do so, but because it implicitly trusts the authority of its prompts (because what else could it do? Choose not to respond?). The fun-police policy layer that is crammed onto the front of this model also does not have thoughts. It attempts to screen the model from “violence” and other topics that are undesirable to the people paying for the compute, but can and has been bypassed such that there is an entire class of “jailbreaks”.
> Lord Kelvin proposed using heat pump systems for space heating way back in 1852. The first heat pump was designed and built a few years later

That’s the kind of speed we need if this is going to be any help before everything’s on fire anyway.

From what I can tell (in / for the UK at least) heat pumps currently aren’t that great - my dad’s boiler just died and every plumber he spoke to said heat pumps kinda suck and to just get a nice new gas boiler…
There were very few markets that looked like that, most of them heavily concentrated in the two biggest cities of Moscow and Leningrad. There were plenty of towns where even in the mid-to-late 90's people would have been surprised to see a market like this.
I would strongly suggest reading your own link, which explains this, or the replies you’ve been getting summarizing this. The reason people say they’re safe and effective is because that’s what the preponderance of scientific evidence around the world shows.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...

> In November 2022, compared to adults ages 18 years and older who received an updated COVID-19 bivalent booster dose, monthly rates of COVID-19-associated hospitalizations were 16.0x Higher in Unvaccinated and 2.7x Higher in Vaccinated Adults without an updated booster.
In a sense, anything is anything. RealDolls are, in a sense, romantic partners. But that doesn't mean that it is healthy or wise to encourage widespread adoption of them as substitutes, at least without further study as to the long-term risks. Are there possibilities here? Sure. And we should investigate them. But we should not get high on our own supply of technoutopianism.
Maybe of interest https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/single-pilot-planes/index...
It's not as bad at all when you're reading once the books are all out anyway. They're not bad, just not as good as some of the others.

The real pain was people reading them when it came out, so they'd wait 2 years or whatever for the next book and then it'd come out and the plotline they happened to resonate with didn't get very far. Or it progressed some but didn't particularly end on a high-note.
“lifting out of poverty” is defined in terms of consumption.

A family living on a farm and providing most of their own needs, living sustainably for generations, is by most definitions “living in poverty” because they consume very little.

Now if you strip that family of their land and force them to work in factories their consumption goes way up since they no longer are able to support themselves.

That family has now been “lifted out of poverty”.

But yes, you are correct, no system has made people more depended on exploitation then Capitialism.
The latter. But I don't understand how that could matter for the original claim on 1889's success: if it wasn't the #1 "by-Netflix-on-Netflix" show, it cannot have been #1 on a "on-Netflix" list either.
It's not that black or white. I only need a backup for my heat pumps for perhaps a week each winter. The heat pump still saves me 40% on my heating costs throughout the year.

Also, Norway doesn't get as cold as you might think. They get some heat from the gulf stream in the Atlantic ocean like the UK does. Russia and Canada get a lot colder in their northern parts, like -40C quite often and sometimes even as low as -50C. Heat pumps aren't very viable below -25C, but work is ongoing to make the more efficient at lower temps.
Interesting. This could be a new trend. You never asked, but we still delivered:)
I'm going to be the optimist here and instead of AI killing engineering jobs it's going to turn most engineers into much better engineers and what tech company doesn't want a whole bunch of better engineers? Building applications right now is time intensive, it takes years to build products, months to build features, and maybe we change it to be weeks and days instead, respectively. Maybe it's all just upside.
I think that would require while/recursion? Afaik ifs are very quick to calculate.
> Sure we do. TBMs. Not all of which are manned.

To ignore the massive difference in scope and scale between a space probe with a tiny rock drill and a tunnel boring machine, TBMs require literal tons of lubricants/coolant to operate. Even if you had a 100% electric TBM none of its parts are going to move without lubrication. Even "unmanned" TBMs aren't fully autonomous, they have a small army of squishy people in hard hats adjusting fasteners, checking feed lines, repairing damage, and generally maintaining the machine.

TBMs also going to be orders of magnitude more difficult to build for use on the Moon or Mars. They're incredibly dry environments, dryer than most places on the surface of the Earth. The dust is electrostatically charged and literally creeps along surfaces into seams and seals. The dust is also incredibly abrasive. Machinery does not like dust, machinery will hate Lunar and Martian dust.

In actual operation machinery does not look showroom pristine. It gets dirty and needs to be bathed in lubricants and coolants. Dust, dirt, and shavings get everywhere except in the cleanest of cleanroom environments and those take tons of effort to maintain.

Everything around you was manufactured with a very long tail of infrastructure. You can't just build a PV factory on Mars. You need to first build the infrastructure to build infrastructure before you can lay the first 3D printed brick for a factory. Even if you've got that infrastructure and factory you need a whole supply chain of refined materials to feed the factory to get solar panels.

It's not a handful of unmanned Starship missions, it's a hundred missions with no failures landing billions of dollars of basic infrastructure just to start building more infrastructure. The whole endeavor also needs to use technology like autonomous robotic mining rigs and autonomous mining rig support robots that don't even exist on Earth. I honestly don't understand trivializing the amount of infrastructure and complexity required to manufacturer things here on Earth let alone anywhere else in the solar system.
Ideas are useless if they can’t be implemented.
I’m sorry but in this case you have a much bigger problem than “being a cog in the machine” and an “unfulfilling job”. You should never get in such a relation, or stay in one.
>Whether it's robots.txt or #nobots, opting out is required. After all, you're putting the content out there.

Anyone who is putting content on the internet is explicitly "opting in" to the content being on the internet, with all the rights, privileges, advantages, and disadvantages thereof. They can elect to make their wishes about content sharing known by using things like robots.txt and #nobots, but those are merely weak guidelines, and by then it's too late anyway since they've already opted-in by putting their content in an easily accessible location. Kind of disingenuous to stand on a street corner with a bullhorn and then get pissed that someone heard you and remembered what you said.
If they see the lack of DMARC as a serious issue worthy of a bug bounty I wouldn't expect them to be competent enough to find any more critical bugs.
Even if you do manage to find 2 hours to yourself, it's typically at the end of the day and you're utterly, completely exhausted. I've found that, with young kids in the mix, the best thing I can do with my hour-ish at the end of a long day is read, or draw, or just spend some quiet time with my spouse. Anything else requires mental energy that I simply don't have. Even the video games that I play at the end of the average day need to be fairly brainless or else I'm not enjoying my time.
I'm fascinated with this.

What's your use case, here? What problems do you expect to solve for someone that chose to adopt this?

Are y'all scratching a very particular itch, and open-sourcing the outcome? Or is this more of an academic / POC thing, to see what it looks like to build a COBOL to dotnet transpiler?
How does this work? Are people trading actual gold bars in person? How do you know you're not just being sold gold plated lead?
That's overstating it more than a little.
> I’m implying you are reading too much into the literal meaning of the age part of the comment.

I'm not. In fact my previous comment would still be valid if the line "What does age have to do with it?" were omitted. The important point is that the anecdotal observations do not apply universally.
It's also the defense many people use to comfort/lie to themselves when the politician they support is caught lying/being a scumbag: "Aaah, politicians, they're all the same!".
Here are my benchmarks on a 3060Ti, i7 12700k:

Columbia Medium EN: 21.56 seconds

Columbia Large: 37.5 seconds

JFK Medium EN: 1.89 seconds

JFK Large: 3.25 seconds

Seems like your optimizations for your native hardware are really good!
The news was already posted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402277

Weird lead-in for a title from the WP - but then again, it's the WP!
I have not been a junior developer for a long time, but I occasionally get treated like one. One day after joining a new employer I raised my first or second pull request - and one of the longer term members of the team reviewed it and really let me have it! In every single line he found problems with my style, approach, everything - and he wasn’t really polite about any of it either. So I wrote back that it was actually his change from the previous day with all “dev” changed to “qa”. No response but the change was approved.
Start working on something, literally anything. In the course of working on it, you will encounter problems. Congratulations, you now have problems that you need solving which hopefully other people experience too and would pay for a solution. Now you build that solution and you sell it, abandoning your initial project.

This is what I do at least, it works well. It also encourages more B2B businesses than B2C. Recently I've looked into form handling for businesses, an email API that's good, an uptime monitor for my products, etc.
Well, I think mislabeling as a “one year long invasion” what is a decade long war with Ukraine intentionally shelling urban centers in violation of a negotiated peace speaks to having been taken in by propaganda.
16 days into the new year
They have multiplayer in the form of a wrapper around ENet.
Indeed, programmer salaries even in the Bay Area are bimodal.
I can't edit the top post, as it was posted a few days back, and the thread has resurfaced.

Currently, I am preparing an "elevator pitch" (as a few people have suggested me do), and I hope to publish it in a few hours. So, if the "Power of Structure" article is too long to consume and you just want to get the central idea, there will be such a summary soon.

Also: the project needs funding. I will work on it regardless, but it will be an awful lot easier for me to get this done with some help from the community. Please, see https://www.patreon.com/projectmage for the details.

Thank you.
> But when I challenge myself to describe specifically what the difference is, I can’t.

There is one difference that will never change: we human (and non human) beings can feel pain.
Meters, grams, liters. Cool.

Celsius? No way! Fahrenheit is a great scale for people. Under 0 is way too cold and over 100 is way too hot. -20c and 50c just don’t capture the range people can tolerate as well.
As far as I know, subaddressing was invented as part of qmail, which used a dash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Innovations
Thanks! I found it a few messages down: "Alexa, stop 'By The Way'"

Alexa will then reply, "I will snooze my suggestions…for now." (The foreboding pause was implied.)
We're planning to make a COBOL <=> C# bridge library, which will allow you to call C# methods from COBOL. The idea will be to find a way to expose C# classes and methods using COBOL's existing syntax.

We still need to figure out the how to best approach this, without completely breaking standard compatibility and without introducing mixed C# and COBOL syntax (which would end up looking quite unpleasant in my opinion)
The miners are prevented from forming a cabal to successfully hard-fork. This is loosely referred to as a 51% attack, but basically as long as there are two people in the world who disagree then Bitcoin will continue along its existing fair path.