skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No idea where Poland got that idea about F-16s as they have a reputation for being a reliable and robust fighter even before Poland purchased the planes, unlike the MiG-29 which is a maintenance queen (particularly the engines) and has a reputation for being a mediocre plane whose career mainly consists of being shot of out of the sky.
When I stopped drinking soda because of the sugar, I entertained the idea of drinking diet sodas. The taste was awful, and even knowing that I would come to appreciate it over time, I decided to go to good old water instead.

Never looked back.
https://archive.ph/BlfhA
"Enormous amount of overhead" is the operative phrase. In general, you want your concurrency operations to be significantly smaller than the payload of the operation. In the case of using channels as iterators with goroutines behind them, it works fine for something like a web page scraper, where the act of fetching a web page is enormously larger than a goroutine switch, but as a generalized iteration mechanism it's unusably expensive because a lot of iteration payloads are very small compared to a channel send.

I've encountered a lot of people who read that on /r/golang and then ask "well why are send operations so expensive", and it's not that. It's that a lot of iteration operations are on the order of single-digit cycles and often very easy to pipeline or predict. No concurrency primitive can keep up with that. A given send operation is generally fairly cheap but there are enough other things that are still an order or two of magnitude cheaper than even the cheapest send operation that if you block all those super cheap operations on a send you're looking at multiple factor of magnitude slowdowns. Such as you would experience with your code.
As someone who is really tried of going through the small pain to pull a new cert every 3 months and then apply it to multiple machines.. what's the norm place for just buying a 1 or 2 year certificate? and is it pretty cheap?
(As per Wikipedia, those are CPU type etc)
Believe it or not, cancer.

https://www.aaas.org/epi-center/pfas
How long before I can buy a toaster that includes an LLM? That way I can describe the toast to it that I want, thusly:

Dear enchanting toaster, I beseech thee to weave a symphony of flavor and texture, guided by the poetic brushstrokes of my desires. Listen, oh marvelous appliance, as I unfold a tale of toast that shall stir the heart and captivate the senses.

In this culinary journey, I yearn for a slice of bread transformed into a work of edible art — a toast that embodies the very essence of ethereal romance. Picture, if you will, my slice of pristine bread within you, its delicate countenance kissed by the gentle touch of dawn's first light. Let it bask in the warmth of your toasting chamber, embracing the fiery caress that will awaken its hidden splendor.

With tender patience, allow your heat to coax forth a golden radiance upon the bread's surface, reminiscent of sun-kissed fields at twilight. Let the transformation be a gradual dance, like the opening petals of a blossoming rose, revealing a spectrum of hues that shall ignite the senses. Let the crust turn into a testament of commitment, a delicate mosaic of crispness that hints at the harmony of opposites.

But, dear toaster, I implore you to preserve the heart of the bread, the very core that holds the promise of softness and tenderness. Let it retain its supple embrace, reminiscent of a lover's touch, inviting and yielding. May its very essence exude warmth, like an embrace shared under a starlit sky, a comforting sanctuary to nourish both body and soul.

And as the toast emerges from your magical realm, dear toaster, let it carry with it a captivating aroma—an olfactory sonnet that weaves itself delicately into the air, whispering of grains toasted to perfection. Let it permeate the senses, inviting the beholder to partake in a communion of flavors, a delicate dance upon the taste buds.

Oh, wondrous toaster with an AI's soul, may you manifest this vision of toast, a masterpiece created from mere bread and heat. As I entrust my desires to your intelligence, I await with eager anticipation, ready to indulge in a moment of pure culinary enchantment.
Idk, it seems reasonably obvious that there is activism and litigation and nonprofits and bureaucracies all studying environmental issues, and these are all operated by people, many of whom get more money and attention was a result of the concerns they raise. There is some opportunity for a conflict of interest.

One question, though, is whether they take that opportunity. Another more salient question is whether the Wall Street Journal, of all the possible papers, has fallen under the influence of such groups.

And it certainly seems as if they’ve found some people with elevated lead levels in blood, and ground and water samples that exceed EPA limits.
Deep STTNG cut there.
Value isn't a simple equation - it's often multiplicative.

A co-founder with distribution options allows you to hit the market multiple times (sometimes this is true for investment), greatly increasing the chances of something catching on. Often times, they can save you going the wrong path with the product too.

A co-founder with technical skills can make the first version faster and strategize product work later as compared to other options. Except in the case where you are doing Truly Innovative Technical Work in which case you probably want a pro-team of mostly or all technical leaders with perhaps a CEO-style visionary for PR and some strategy, that however is not a startup so much as a moonshot, a business which operates differently.

These two skills are much more multiplicative than additive for most startups.

Technical people also get unique benefits: they can also opt away from dealing with some stress, people problems, etc - it's a deal a bit like insurance in that sense. And the risk staked by the business size is larger: a technical person whos product does even slightly well can get hired into a management role at another tech startup working on R&D. This is rarely true for CEOs unless they make it big. So the failure/"just about ok" stage that 70% of ideas leave at, is much better a position for CTOs than CEOs.

In your position I would try to launch several projects alone as a technical founder - the value of distribution will be made clear, making you value your co-founder more, or you will succeed - either result is good for you.
There's an enjoyably pessmimistic phrase in Italian - "traduttore, traditore" which translated(!) means "translator, traitor", emphasising the impossibility of an "accurate" translation.

I love reading translations, but would love to have the time to learn languages to read the originals. (I tried learning German for WG Sebald, but found it very hard, figured his writing was going to be pretty hard in and of itself, know that he worked closely with his English translators, and given he taught in an English university for decades figured they were going to be very "good").
That's what congestion charges at city limits are for.
On our farm we pulled trailers containing hay, trash, or a couple of farm animals. Most other stuff (like bags of feed or fertilizer) fit in the bed and didn't need a trailer. A plain 1/2 ton truck is perfectly fine for this kind of work.
I didn't know they were still doing it! But it's disappointing that it doesn't have the optical drive.

But I see you can buy the English keyboard on eBay.
Global weather temperatures near record highs across the world [video]
Fine point: that is the list of substances that cause cancer, which is a more narrow set than "things" that cause cancer. The number one thing that increases a person's risk of cancer is age. After age, physical and genetic dispositions (aka family history) are also "things" that elevate cancer risks.
Is there any artificial sweetener that has been studied to the extent that aspartame has that definitively does not cause cancer?

Because, if not, the question isn't between aspartame or some other interchangeable artificial sweetener, but between aspartame and HFCS or regular sweetener, which I strongly suspect contributes more deleteriously to health via obesity than aspartame does via possible carcinogenic affect.

The thing is, I'm okay with governmental bodies regulating substances (not necessarily the WHO, but that's a different story), but you need to balance different factors including substitution when you make a decision like this.

For example, the EU recently banned topical zinc as ZP in topical formulations (think head and shoulders) due to being a possible topical carcinogen (the evidence suggested it wasn't, but it is a non-topical carcinogen) because interchangeable formulations existed that also worked.

Given that it probably isn't possible to subject a substance to the same scrutiny as aspartame without many years of targeted and expensive effort, we're probably just stuck with this sweetener for the foreseeable future.
Apple e.g. Even when 2fa is activated, and no successful login happened, they will deactivate my account and force me to change my password :/. I had to change my email that I use to login to Apple.
Scientific Linux was an RHEL-clone, and they couldn't keep it going even with RH sources.

> In April 2019, it was announced that feature development for Scientific Linux would be discontinued
Man I struggle with the tone of these type of twitter messages. It’s almost like reading something from ChatGPT, the formula being make everything sound as matter of fact as possible and make “bold” predictions so that people will disagree/agree with you in the comments.

I understand it’s for engagement and I get there there is some value in there but man the “The AI landscape is changing, here’s why” followed by not-very-insightful insight just rubs me the wrong way. Like really makes me upset, unreasonably so, really. Hah.
DuckDuckGo has billboards. Mozilla has money. I think share growth is expressly a non-goal from Mozilla leadership, judging by some of the other comments.
For what is worth, I have seen first hand two instances of the same situation, where one cofounder was heavily technical and it was plainly obviously that the other one, who had an accomplished business pedigree, was not doing much in terms of leveraged activities. In both cases the cofounder got kicked out, via coordinated action/pressure from investor+technical cofounder.
> Not sure how this is any better wrt overheads.

At the end he implements an experimental runtime mechanism that permits a goroutine to explicitly switch execution to another goroutine rather than using the generic channel scheduling plumbing.
Many years back I played one of the final fantasy PlayStation games on Connectix VirtualStation. There was a bug in the emulation that prevented the cursor for the menus from being drawn on screen. It was surprisingly usable just by audio cues once you got used to it.
The A-10 was designed for an all-out conventional war with the Warsaw Pact. It was never considered survivable even then; plans assumed that almost all would be destroyed in the first few days of the conflict and that was considered acceptable.

A few airframes have taken missile hits during Middle East conflicts and made it back to base. Those then took months of extensive maintenance to restore to operational condition, and in some cases were written off entirely. A-10s are not at all survivable against modern Russian air defenses and would be mostly useless in Ukraine.
No idea about Java, but any C program will request memory using mmap, and may give it back using munmap. This doesn't work when the program is running inside a VM, but does work for containers (which are basically just regular processes).
this is basically why I moved to https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/ for most things. neovim setup is a nightmare these days. 0.5 introducing Lua was both great (yay! vimscript sucks!) and horrible (oh no, everyone took this power and made a full operating system worth of complex stuff out of it that rarely fits together cohesively, and it all updates so frequently now that I can't keep up)

I don't actually think it's Lua's fault. And I don't necessarily want to jump and say "the improved accessibility of this thing turned it into an unusable circus", because that's both unnecessarily sassy and also likely prescribing blame in some places it doesn't fully belong. But there's something that tidally changed in that time, and especially in the past 2-3 years, my vim setup became a thing I dreaded updating (because it would 100% guaranteed, every time, break something about my workflow)
The largest cities in Italy are quite a bit smaller than the largest cities in the US, so it's a very different situation.

Rome's metro area is about 4.3 million people. San Antonio's is about 2.6 million. San Antonio also has far more relaxed car-based commutes than the Bay Area or LA as a result.

If you dropped Rome's three subway lines in San Antonio you wouldn't get rid of that many car trips, especially since the city being smaller and less dense than the really big cities in the US makes the car trips that much easier in the first place.
It won't be. Not until comprehensive integration testing comes as standard.

If you dont have comprehensive integration tests it's less risky just to not upgrade unless you really need to.
Sorry, but coal rolling is a widespread cultural phenomenon. Truck drivers deliberately and very publicly harass electric cars on the road. That doesn't mean they're "rednecks," that's your word, and talking about the prevalent anti-electric cultural trend is not "hate."
Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men
How exactly does that make Crimea Ukrainian?

"people like you"

What's that supposed to mean?

"it just blends in with all the other ethnic cleansing and genocide"

It's ironic to hear that from a citizen of the United States. I heard something bad happened to Native Americans who used to live in North America.
Is Apple disabling user's Advanced Data Protection (end-to-end encryption)?
We truly live in amazing times! We have language models that sound human and internet from space, but never bothered to schedule that script for updating TLS certs. Or put it in version control for that matter.

Sounds like my org :)
>That is a good point, however I've not heard of too many cases where organizations intentionally skip RHEL releases. Systems that are being actively developed do regularly upgrade through each RHEL release, and the 10 year support just lets them be lazy about how quickly they do so.

Industry specific - but finance world, we still had straggling RHEL5 machines up until a year or two ago and still have a bunch of RHEL6 machines and have basically NO RHEL9. The vast majority of the machines are all sitting on RHEL7/8.
I mean, wood dust is no joke. Because of its size, you can end up with micro wounds all throughout the respitory system, and those in turn act as something like a nucleation site for infections and cancer. If you're doing a lot of sanding or running a lathe or mill, you can lose decades of your life by not using proper dust control schemes.
It also comes down to the WHO not communicating this sufficiently clearly.

In the end, I consider the WHO as having lost all credibility - it doesn't matter why articles based on WHO statements cannot be trusted (e.g. whether the WHO statements are factually wrong, or intentionally misleading, or being communicated in ways that media are likely to misinterpret without quickly following up when this happens), the result is that any article claiming "WHO says X" is best dismissed as likely misinformation.
Web of Trust was a big part of that toehold for identity. You want some sort of attestation of "this person is who they say they are" and Web of Trust is no worse than paying an Authority (a Certificate Authority) to say that. It's just harder. (That's the trade-off axis there: harder versus more expensive.)

Keybase even almost proved that you could automate a lot more of Web of Trust and make the UX overall much easier. (The LINK tag based approach to attestation in the article here is almost directly a predecessor to that.)

Identity without any attestation is hard to impossible to work with. Web of Trust wasn't the "best" solution to that, but PGP identity was built on/for Web of Trust. Web of Trust was necessary to PGP and was arguably a big part of why PGP failed to be people's preferred identity tech, because Web of Trust was too hard to get right and not enough people trusted Web of Trust.
Nonsense. They happily sell out of patent medications by the dumpster load.

They test it, if it works they sell it, else they reject it.
Ah ok. I have worked on medical devices in hospital environments i.e the recent Roche Glucometers similar to Cobas.

>Their latest AID (automated insulin delivery) system is killer, btw, some of the best results I've ever seen for ambulatory!

Yes, their medical devices are really good and also very interesting especially their pacemaker implants and also DBS implants for Parkinsons disease.

There was another fantastic device called VAD pumps by Thoratec for which I worked on a PoC. What a crazy tech that is. Thoratec got acquired by St. Jude and finally by Abbott.
Riding bikes on the road, even in the US, is mostly for the poorest workers. It is most visibly for the committed exercise or competitive cyclists, and it is vanishingly infrequently but looms large in the public imagination for the "true anti-car zealots".

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/9/5883823/its-not-just-hipsters-o...
There is (the project doesn’t seem to be actively pursued at the moment) a blog series documenting someone‘s journey in procedurally generating fantasy maps. For a while (a bit over a dozen entries from what I could find) he explored map borders which also seem to have some overlap with tiles.

This is the first entry: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2019/02/map-borders-p...

Edit: here‘s an interesting post about Celtic knots:

https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2019/05/map-borders-p...
Okay, that's fair, but do you kind of see how a shiny new domain name & blog with exactly one post and an anonymous author saying you can trust them because they're not affiliated with Oracle...

Can you see how that appeal for trust hasn't been built on firm ground?
Be prepared for sticker shock too. I recently set up my MIL with a CenturyLink landline here in WA, and it's $60/month. I could save a couple bucks a month if I declined long distance, but not many afaik. My California landline was less than $15/month with taxes when I turned it off, that was with no long distance and metered local calling (which was fine for me, I mostly wanted it for incoming calls and calls to toll free customer service).
"COVID" or "COVID-19" is the disease. I might have had an aborted or asymptomatic infection due to exposure to SARS-CoV-2 but I've never had COVID.
> We did raise money, and his background helped a bit there, but even then I dont think it was a huge differentiator.

Sounds like you made a mistake by partnering with him? Live and learn, I guess.
Which I think further speaks to my point I made elsewhere in this thread, that a huge part of the problem is that the web itself is shittier. Chrome can just handle that shittiness a bit better by default.

I would love to see a comparison of Firefox vs Chrome with the same set of uBlock and NoScript rules applied to both. I suspect Chrome would probably still win, but perhaps the gap won't be as big.
DNSSEC failures result in denial of service. Turning it on in no way makes the experience safer for an end user.
In the US they become places to live in a tent until the police destroy your tent and you live in a similar spot on the pavement two blocks away without a tent.
Lessons from the fastest growing consumer product ever
Well modern processors are optimized for running C code. Try running C code on a Forth processor and see how slow it is compared to Forth.
But the Pentagon couldn’t put biometric locks on their humvees?

The tanks that were stolen belonged to the Iraqi armed forces, not the US Army.
Update:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758433

It seems the results shown are inaccurate.
You can automate the process. Try certbot.
Ask HN: How do y’all manage your computer hostnames?
I’ve been using a particular hostname scheme for a while now, but it isn’t really cutting it, as I’m running out of good hostnames. I like the idea of very friendly hostnames (a clean name I can easily use to identify a certain system), but part of me wants to be a little more descriptive, especially since I have a lot of devices that I use on a regular basis and that are identified on things like GitHub and Tailscale via their hostname. I’m curious about how other people manage (or don’t manage) the hostnames for their computers and servers.
You can't mention that on HN! You'll get aggro from all the 'anti-crypto' people!

Clearly, this is an awful idea. Because something something web3 might be related, and something something 'crypto'! No clear analysis is needed, because I used the bad word. Everyone must now stop looking into this immediately.

/s

On a more positive note, I totally agree and there are many options to get it to work. One possible (and probably awful in many ways) start on the idea would be an automatic IPFS backed directory from the single-file extension. Would be nice just for a friend's and family type of project anyway.
ten thousand dollars???

Look I get that I probably don’t do cars the way other people do cars, but like - ten thousand a year? I spend maybe $800 on gas in a year. What are these people doing? Buying a new set of tires every Christmas? Yearly visits to a detailing shop or something??

I mean like no offense but if you guys were spending twenty thousand dollars annually on cars… that’s on you. You don’t need to live that way. I bought my Subaru used ten years ago for $3k, and I’ve managed just fine without spend a small fortune on… whataver it is you were spending yours on.
How many other options are available to people in between the suburbs and NYC style high density cities?
Fortunately we are all pretty far away from an existential war. That's the only thing keeping us alive after Oppenheimer's grand success. Even if a nation crumbles the things that replace it need to at least offer the trappings of a legitimate state if they don't wan to be immediately crushed by nuclear superpowers (assuming they themselves are a nuclear superpower or adjacent to one).

So the cutting edge isn't what's physically most effective, but what's most effective while also being within the gray and constantly shifting "acceptable" range. It's nice that we don't have to go all out, but as soon as scarcity or existential threats enter the picture things can get very ugly quickly. Best to steer clear of such things if possible. I consider chemical, biological, and weather weapons all in the same class of "you better not if you don't want to start a world war".
Related prior discussions on this topic:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12886067
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124
Plain water bores me. It just doesn’t satisfy cravings. I know it’s arguably the best beverage to consume, but I find it really hard to choose water over nearly any other kind of beverage.

I know I’m not alone.

Sparkling water has become my go-to. It does satisfy my cravings, and I’m sure it’s immeasurably better for health than my previous go-to Diet Coke.
"The boy and the heron" is quite removed from the original title, 君たちはどう生きるか, which would be "How do you live?" (plural you)