skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the US intelligence community to finally admit the existence of 46 US-funded biolabs in the Ukraine and specifically not deny they were bioweapons labs, is unfortunately as close to an admission as we are ever going to get.

This is drawing a conclusion with literally no evidence.

You are taking an absence of evidence and trying to draw conclusions from that.

> Please help me understand what are the legitimate non-military use-cases for funding gain-of-function research to up-level bat viruses so they will infect (and sometimes kill) humans?

Like the rest of gain of function research, which is designed to try and predict how viruses will evolve and help us create ways and vaccines that will combat those evolutions before they happen in the wild.

> And also, there is simply no way to know who brought cocaine into the Whitehouse a few weeks ago, but it super-duper for sure wasn't Hunter Biden - no way Hosé. We know that for sure. Trust us (wink)

Random conjecture completely irrelevant to the conversation but when you have no solid argument I guess the best you can do is through shit at the wall to see what sticks.

The way you write threads by not quoting the actual response is super annoying and seems to actually require more effort then not doing it.

So it'd be better for everyone if you could just comment normally instead of randomly messing up the comment tree for no reason.
InboxSDK – a library for building browser extensions for Gmail
> Wait, async is multithreaded by default in Rust? For me the whole point of using async in JavaScript or Python (originally with Twisted's @inlineCallbacks) was to get concurrency without threads.

Async in rust is nothing by default because it doesn't have a runtime. You need to use a runtime/executor for async to work, the most popular being Tokio, which can be configured to be single-threaded or multi-threaded.

EDIT: But in a way since Rust make 0 assumption about how async function are going to be executed, it does design around the fact that they might be multi-threaded.
> Microsoft isn't FAANG.

This is a horrible well actually. FANG (notice the missing A) was a term coined by Kramer and means absolutely nothing. Apple originally “wasn’t a FAANG” when the term was first coined and it already had a market cap higher than the other four companies.

As far as market cap and impact on the industry, Netflix is a nothingburger. Microsoft has been one of the top five most valuable companies since 2000.
Although there are secret patents: https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/the-thousands-of-secret...
The Parent of a Teen-Ager Is an Emotional-Garbage Collector
This is a ridiculous take. Imperfect is better than bad. Right now you have the Speaker of the House's husband buying $5million worth of Alphabet call options. That's not a good system.
> Wait, async is multithreaded by default in Rust?

No, whether or not async is multithreaded depends on whether or not your executor is multithreaded. Rust doesn't ship an executor by default, you need to bring your own. Tokio, the most popular general-purpose executor, is multithreaded by default, and can be configured to be single-threaded.
It depends how you define that magic & sense.

I definitely have to pick & choose which games I delve into more carefully. I basically only play 10/10 new games & classics now.

Also, if given a choice between a 5-7h game, and a 15-20h game I'll pick the shorter one.

Then I also set time aside in my weekly calendar to game. I try to have it be a mindful, rather than mindless activity.
Rumor has it that to ensure realism without CGI, Nolan enriched his own Uranium and used it to detonate an actual fission bomb. Just like Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landings by actually shooting it on the moon for authenticity. /S
Lol. How much do you wanna bet?
"outweighed" or "vastly outweighed" ?
I'd like to see some evidence that he was ultimately driven insane by trying to reconcile too many incompatible beliefs; I have never heard that before and am not convinced it's true. (He certainly seems to have been something of a religious fanatic in his later years, but that isn't the same thing.)
So you're saying it's insecure anyway. So why bother? Hmm.
Ah, yes, ahem, I definitely understood exactly what that patent is saying, but perhaps you could summarize it for all the other people who can’t parse a patent immediately?
It could be good if it was my choice. But I actually want to be able to access my bank from my computer running open source software where I can modify configuration and apply patches.

I don't want to have to agree to Microsoft or Apple's ToS so that I can access my bank.

I do not look forward to trying to find a bank that doesn't require this of me because all of the major banks have jumped on board.
Firefox zombie here, never noticed it dying. Firefoxs problems are generally things Mozilla does to itself.
Opportunity NUCs for Asus to continue Intel's mini PC line
Or you can just not live in a high cost of living area…
Does it matter what most people care about? I don't believe the goal is to get all the traffic from everyone wanting such a service. I think the people who do care about having a site that isn't driven by ads and corporate interest would not want a billion people using the service. So it is self selecting for like minded individuals which keeps it niche. This also keeps it less likely to be flooded by fake reviews because it isn't worth doing to a smaller audience.
This is an indie developer who's not even making RPGs, pointing out that most RPGs do not have 5+ years, 400+ developers, and ~$100 million behind them, while still being very excited and positive about the game itself. Spinning it as "competitors crying foul" is weird.
I stand corrected, strange I don't remember that. I don't think it hurt the storytelling at least.
Certainly not! The fundamental problem is that arguments written from a naive perspective of assuming/asserting we have these things, while we most definitely do not, end up advocating for horribly oppressive policies.

The current government policy is that most everyone should be continually working around 40 hours a week, enforced by a financial treadmill created by continual monetary stimulus. So this noble idea that people could have individually chosen to self isolate or freely associate is fallacious with our current setup. Without "lockdowns" (aka closing businesses), most people would have been forced to keep going into work for business as usual, just as they do for other communicable diseases until the symptoms cannot be ignored.

Centralized control begets more centralized control to address its own failings. Focusing on surface issues while ignoring their underlying causes just makes you end up being a tool for entrenched interests wanting authoritarian policies that benefit them.
Not working for others anymore (or subjecting others to that, without it being a comfortable worker coop situation). I make/sell apps which don't require investors or high maintenance
The first use case they mention is restricting ad fraud (and, presumably, ad blocking):

> Users like visiting websites that are expensive to create and maintain, but they often want or need to do it without paying directly. These websites fund themselves with ads, but the advertisers can only afford to pay for humans to see the ads, rather than robots. This creates a need for human users to prove to websites that they're human, sometimes through tasks like challenges or logins.

So if this goes forward, websites will be able to call the web environment integrity API to check you are a proper ad-watching human before serving content.
I have only played Forbidden West and it’s the most mediocre experience I had with a video game in the past decade. The gameplay felt clunky with weird spikes of difficulty in the middle of otherwise fairly boring segments. The main plot was utter trash and the other quests completely uninteresting. If that’s the standard of good AAA games, I never want to play another one.
In 30 years we are going to look back at all the "unequivocally good" electric family cars and wish we'd used the materials and energy on civilizational resilience, not to temporarily extend the unsustainable habits of the planet's richest minority

Electric vehicles can be a good thing if we also dramatically reduce our consumption of transportation and bring our political systems, lifestyles and economies in harmony with planetary boundaries. Without a corresponding sea change in expectations and way of life, they just dig us deeper into the energy trap.
Any idea if the new one removed all the dependency on systemd? I know it's the most common among distributions, but plenty of popular ones are using OpenRC, for example, and can't use their client at all because of it.
That, while well intentioned, is probably wishful thinking. Large frameworks do not exist to provide technology capabilities or features. They exist to supplement skill deficits in people, primarily around architecture and composition, and any such features are built upon the stylistic premise they provide.
> Your eye spends a non-zero amount of energy to scan, parse and join multiple characters into a single logical one

[citation needed]

The font looks good but I find it really hard to read C code with the ligated symbols.
Three Techniques for Inverting Control, in Python
Ideal for library users but not for library authors...
Jevons paradox doesn't make sense in the context of purely competitive products. If it were,
the effect would be expected to be the same for gas powered cars unless they were somehow prohibitively more expensive, which they are not.
Perl is the only way to go for serious CGI scripts. It’s so powerful, Python is limited and clunky by comparison. And a new language with syntactically important whitespace? Seriously? It will never displace Perl!
Like most (all?) governments the U.S. government has a strict set of rules that it must follow unless it decides it doesn't want to.
...or deadnamed a deleted reference.
Every IPv6 router for home or small business use is initially configured with a default-deny firewall. The same for every router supplied by an ISP.

This is so basic that any argument against it needs some strong evidence.

You can search "IPv6 pinhole" and find plenty of documentation from router manufacturers and ISPs on this.
FWIW, Dave The Diver has been published by Nexon which is AAA.
Because open-source projects survive on people having fun improving them.

There just isn't that many people working on the Rust language as a day job, and they all have their hands full. Some of them have been working on foundational stuff that is required to get async rust to work, but it's work taking place over years.

To give an example, the Inside Rust blog recently posted [1] an article about the Rust Trait System Refactor initiative, which is a refactor of one of most complex chunks of the rustc compiler, started earlier this year.

That refactor is required to unlock some advanced lifetime syntax. Advanced lifetime syntax is required for some specific GAT improvements. GAT improvements are required to unlock async traits.

It's not just "people are too lazy to write the documentation". A lot of thought went into this.

[1] https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/07/17/trait-syst...
Exactly. Personally I like to have it very obvious exactly what characters are in my file. But I also do agree that it looks very nice and can appreciate why people prefer it.
I have been fascinated and intrigued by the figure of Oppenheimer ever since I saw him in the TV series Manhattan. It's one of my all-time favourite series, even though it's not very well known.
My complaints are not even big ones.

It costs Microsoft ZERO dollars to remove the asinine keyboard shortcut control + shift + c to start a call.
Who does that?
Why is this right next to the ctrl + shift + v (for unformatted paste)
What is the point of collecting all this metrics (kusto, whatever) if you don't ACT on it?

My complaint against Azure DevOps:
Why is there no "date" field?
From what I've heard there are internal people at Microsoft who suffer because of this nonsense.
How hard is it to give a date only option?
And no, 00:00:00 is not the same as date only.
Depends on the technical expertise of the staff, I guess.

My alma mater (FAU Erlangen, https://fau.de ) did have some internal and external IPv6 already back when addresses were still 6bone 3ffe::, 20 years ago. Don't know since when the main website has been IPv6-reachable, but it has definitely been over 10 years.
That show was crescent fresh.
it does involve energy though, which was the original premis. Now whether total number of joules consumed over <> vs != vs ≠ is the real debate and gonna be hard to study I think...
Hesiod was actually a thing. I'm not aware of anyone who has run it in production in the last 20 years, perhaps you are? But, in any event, password technology was immature and insecure then (i.e. RMS got upset when passwords were introduced, or remember how easy it was to crack 3DES in /etc/passwd so /etc/shadow came to be).

It's even worse now, even on an air-gapped network, because the underlying insecurity is still within DNS. DNS would make a great highly-scalable authn DB for non-UNIX accounts (not in the Hesiod sense, but more in the modern web-app sense), except for all of the other high-scalable and secure authn DB's that aren't built on top of woefully insecure tech.

> It is expected that sharing properly secured secrets is reasonably safe

As you know, though, this is why Diffie and Hellman invented public key exchange -- because sharing secrets, even properly secured, is actually not reasonably safe at all in most circumstances. Even if you secure the secret, it's the communication of those secrets during the sharing where everything breaks down. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...)

This is of course because a secret is not a secret as soon as you share it with someone else. Instead, DH designed their key exchange to have a private key, that only you know, and a public key that you can share. Each party can derive a shared key using the other's public key, but only they each know their private key.

> Sometimes, you need to take the server out of its box, out of the bunker, and plug it to both the power distribution network, and of course... a LAN...

Even though perfect security is obviously impossible, it's still worth striving for. Relying on DNS for more than absolutely necessary is choosing to rely on technology that began without any thought to security and ended up with a history of massive, Internet-wide vulnerabilities. (See elsewhere in the thread for a great Wired article on Dan Kaminsky's successful attack on all of DNS.)
We bite them all the time these days

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180325
Do you work for apple?
Other than it using more CPU than it has any right to, Teams generally has worked well for me as well. The workplace has pretty fully embraced onedrive and SharePoint. Running on Windows.
Jquery worked for a world that was mostly html with some sticking a of JavaScript. In fact, it still does.

React is just a better approach to building all-encompassing SPAs.
The Rise and Fall of Transaero Airlines and the Reassertion of the Russian State
Didn’t you just argue my point? They were replaced by “adults” when the company became larger than they could manage.
My experience aligns with yours. Calls almost never drop, it's easy to do ad-hoc calls/meetings of arbitrary groups of people, it's easy to attach a teams call for an outlook event, having persistent chats associated with recurring meetings is great. I really just don't have any complaints whatsoever.
Some things are always more important than money, at all levels of wealth. That’s not the point though. While you will find exceptions, the majority of people will accept more money when offered it for the same or similar role. This is especially true when talking about folks at the level of “Tesla board members”. These kinds of folks don’t have to choose between money and power/fame/connections so much as balancing them.
In practice, the amount of power you can "rely" on a wind farm to produce is so small as to be almost useless from a grid planning POV. Yes, dispatchable generation can have unplanned outages too. But the differences in those probabilities and the amount of power you can plan on getting is so vastly different that they just aren't in the same class.
Well I expected you to deny it, but it's quite obvious, especially with how combative and upset you were in our previous exchange.

But trying to carry on vendettas in other threads isn't healthy or productive, so I suggest you don't seek out other comments of mine to pick fights ;)
Doesn't poetry have a solution for this?
It basically confirms the theory discussed in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785816

In layman's terms, they're using achilles or tail tendon from certain kangaroo species that have been carefully dissected to retain only non-immune-reactive tissue (or decellularized), and sticking it in people's knees and other ligament sites in the body because it's strong.
This is an interesting approach, but they’re awfully proud of themselves for charging 50% of what calendly charges.

The biggest cost of a SaaS like this is the cost of sales…so if they can convince enough people with this tactic, it’ll work. But RabdomBugCo is paying Calendly $20k/mo to have an expensive account rep team answer their questions and $1k/mo for the technology.
Ah yes, let me tell HR about this neat trick.
A roughly fist-sized lump of your brain seems to be responsible for all the vision processing. It is as power-hungry as its size suggests.

Ever wonder why you can't really seem to read properly when you're hungry and tired? That part of your brain is in power-saving mode.
<joke>I wonder, does this also make knees harder and faster?</joke>
Someone in here just mentioned this idea, and now I’m seeing this, crazy.
I'm guessing this was submitted after the "Ask HN" about leveling up to a production python programmer and i'm surprised no one mentioned these books:

1. Test-Driven Development with Python

2. Architecture Patterns with Python

The 2nd one is the closest you're gonna get to a production-grade tutorial book.

Related to this topic, these resources by @dbeazley:

Barely an Interface

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2021/barely-interfa...

Now You Have Three Problems

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2023/three-problems...

A Different Refactoring

https://github.com/dabeaz/blog/blob/main/2023/different-refa...

His youtube channel:

https://youtube.com/@dabeazllc
Why pretend that there needs to be an objective way of doing this? A company is fundamentally a private club and they keep who they want and fire who they don't. Arguing that they should see your objective worth is like arguing that you are objectively a good friend and therefore should be invited to more parties.

Yes, there are meant to be protections so you don't just fire all the minorities and women but "competent engineer" and "masterful bullshit artist" are not protected categories.

If we don't like this (I certainly don't), then we need to stop letting private companies control so much of our lives and the economy.
What’s fantastic is you can reference an unpacked variable immediately within the bitstring.

This is super handy if you have variable length sections with a header, such as a DNS packet, saving having to do it in two operations.
It looks like you've devised a way to mount your keyboard to the armrests of a Herman Miller Mirra chair: https://danwilkerson.com/static/92bcd474239a7f376b33d3be05d4...

Would you mind posting a couple more pictures of the mounts from different angles? I have the same chair and would really like to have it setup the same way!
Have you seen how much wealth a lot of congress have gained over their careers. There is no way someone can look at those numbers and come to the conclusion that they did become multi millionaires without inside information.

It should be banned out right or every position they take is public knowledge within 1 trading day or less.

"Representative Nancy Pelosi has made up to $12.5M off of Microsoft stock so far this year. This is almost 100 times her salary as a member of Congress. "

I love this graph

https://twitter.com/QuiverQuant/status/1680973761560846338
But Slack is owned by Salesforce, a US company
>Diablo IV senior designer Chris Balser also agreed with Nelson Jr., saying that it is important to remember that not all studios operate under the same conditions. He compared Baldur’s Gate 3 to Ultima VII, the favorite RPG of Larian founder Swen Vincke — “that’s a game that had 12 years of prior games feeding into it.”

So does Diablo IV. I understand this sentiment for smaller studios, but from Activision Blizzard? Blizzard DOES have the ability to put in the effort, so I am just going to ignore Chris Basler entirely here.
> Right now you have the Speaker of the House's husband buying $5million worth of Alphabet call options.

That’s patently false. Nancy Pelosi is no longer Speaker of the House.

The former Speaker of the House’s husband was the one doing all that.
> Over 90% of the electrons introduced into the system were deposited in the hydrogen without any secondary processes.

What is the efficiency of the energy conversion?
Expecting users to remember individualized passwords and maintain separate authentication factors for every service is placing a lot of trust in the user! I think this is a case where it's reasonable to think that automation might actually lower the overall risk.

Furthermore I don't think maintaining individual factors for every service would protect you very much against a browser compromise.
I use OpenLens and this is exactly my sentiment. For someone who isn't fluent with kubectl, these tools are a wonderful way to approach the matter, but if you have learnt kubectl first, which is my case, then this brings you to "unlearn" it
Legislators are already under the imperative to backstop public equity markets (and hence all the biggest companies) because the most active voters also have a significant amount of their wealth in the public equity markets.

And also all the state and local governments are heavily depending on equities to deliver major gains to fulfill their deferred compensation for government employees (otherwise they have to increase taxes to make up for lack of any performance), so the more state and local tax you pay or are able to pay, the more invested you are in backstopping the markets also.
One example I often see to support the value of technical writing is MATLAB.

Among software engineers (and maybe even Hacker News) there is sometimes a distaste for MATLAB. But it still remains a widely used language and it is very respected outside of software engineering in research and engineering. One of the main benefits I see about MATLAB is that the documentation and support are so strong and make it easy to get started, especially for people without programming backgrounds.

I think this Reddit thread is a good example: https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/comments/dxh520/why_is_matla.... Despite the title, almost every comment is praising the MATLAB docs.

For people who doubt the value of documentation, I think looking at MATLAB and Simulink (a billion dollar company) is a good example of the value of technical writing.
The file got moved and renamed since then, it's here now: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/blob/main/src/xspawn.h

I'll fix the link, thanks
It doesn't matter. IPv6 is happening, its way past the point of no return. Nobody is entertaining the idea of dropping ipv6 and doing something else. Any remaining problems that IPv6 has are more realistic to deal with within ipv6 than scrap the whole thing and start again from scratch.
That's on you.

I prefer spending some actual quality of time (having a walk, having a conversation) with my SO instead of staying idly next to my SO and half consider it couples time.
Many of the patterns Tailwind classes encourage are invalid per the CSS spec and can't be selected via javascript