skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There could be various forms of discrimination by the government or private entities based on genetic characteristics. For instance, you could be denied health insurance or required to undergo a therapy or treatment based on genetic traits. If a government was to become more abusive, they could practice some form of eugenics such as forced sterilization.
I dont understand this comment, sorry.
Thankfully minivans and station wagons do not suffer the same enormous blind spot problem the modern American truck is presently facing. That, and the standard five-seat arrangement can accommodate both parents and three kids, which is already a rare degree of occupancy.

If you’re committed to 7+ seater vehicles after birthing a platoon I think the financial penalties of that decision were already understood at child number 4.
Discussed at the time:

Google Maps Hacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821 - Feb 2020 (382 comments)
Fully agreed. Just because 1 security measure doesn't prevent all malicious attacks, doesn't mean that it "does not help security". It's just fundamentally false because some malicious attacks rely on long expirations, therefore for those attacks, this method does help security. Not all malicious attempts are refined or perfectly executed and sometimes a user can simply rely on a token that lasts too long.

It's a clickbait title and it worked. A title like this would be much more accurate: "Short session expirations provide less security than you might think"
Here in tech bro world we have so many innovations for you! Why not try our:

- Imaginary scam money (in 17,382 flavors, including eyeballs)!

- Expensive unregulated taxi!

- Expensive unregulated hotel!

- Picture of monkey (formerly valuable)!

- Imaginary restaurant that serves bad food!

- Expensive unregulated television!

- Another picture of monkey (never valuable)!

- Twitter but it sucks now!

- The news but it also sucks and steals your personal information!

Plus, try our greatest achievement yet:

- Expensive unregulated scam concert tickets!

EDIT: the real trend with Silly-Con Valley is that every major venture is an adventure in removing regulations that We (collectively) bought with 10's of thousands of lives. And these VCs come through, and seek to destroy regulation for a pound of profit, and some scraps to others.

These services always start cheap since they are subsidized by VCs to buy growth and scale. It soon will change, and get worse and cost more, if not outright re-regulated out of existence.... For the same reasons why the regulation was there in the first place.

There's a few companies working on true innovations. But most SV is just remixes on "deregulation and illegality as a service"
Minivans aren't a problem. Part of the "mini" of the van comes from the manufacture. A van is built off a "truck platform", a minivan is built off a "car platform".
native-mode joe is closer to zde/vde than wordstar, although jstar obviously slides that closer to wordstar.
That last comment was unnecessary and does not progress the conversation at all. You should delete it.
The first map is quite remarkable: even in this record-setting year, there is still a big swath of the US that is cooler than the historical average, or only very slightly warmer. This has been a pattern for a while.

It almost feels like a conspiracy: the part of the world that is ideologically predisposed to disbelieve in climate change is also the one that is (partly) avoiding it. And that part is the linchpin: other places are disinclined to do the hard work of fixing the climate while the US prominently denies that the problem even exists.

It's as if the earth wanted to keep warming.

Obviously not, of course, and I don't really know if it really figures into it one way or the other. But it still strikes me as weird. How different would the situation be if the US midwest and south were on the hotter side of the scale, rather than the cooler one?
They could also slow down fundraising.
I don’t have much experience with frontend frameworks / libraries, but I really dislike the way this article presents React as the silver bullet.

Maybe it is factually accurate that Angular was the wrong choice for e-commerce (at the time?). I don’t know. Without SSR, was there really nothing feasible they could do to reduce the page load time? Did Angular make tradeoffs that are better for a large, interactive web application; and you want a different set of tradeoffs for ecomm use cases? Or were they just stuck with the wrong tech at the wrong time: complicated enough that it’s too slow in Angular, and the project hadn’t caught up to them yet?

That JS bundle was doing _something_ (probably lots of somethings). How many features did the React rewrite drop? Could you have removed those features from the old codebase, or would that have been politically infeasible at the company? (“no, don’t delete that” vs “yeah, we can live without that, you don’t need to implement it” -> author gets to add a Loss Aversion sidebar). Are there still items in the backlog to re-implement missing features (that the team intends to complete)?

Development effort compared between stop-the-world rewrites (in order to hit their 7 week “really big shopping event”) vs rewrite following ongoing feature development and the painful merges mentioned in the article. Obviously business appetite changed for a stop-the-world rewrite, but could that have been identified earlier?

Changing requirements: did the Angular upgrade start with “we need SSR” as a top requirement? It seems more likely that there were a bunch of benefits / requirements for a technology upgrade, and over the previous 10 months they’d discovered SSR as a blocker. Erasing the other improvements makes the 10 months vs 7 weeks sound very impressive, but seems disingenuous.

Maybe my expectations are off for a blog post format.
Look up the rates of heart damage.
A Swiss study saw upwards of 1 in 35 showing heart damage.
As an ABAP developer, I thought "that doesn't sound too bad".

I definitely need to get out of there before my brain rots further.

And for anyone curious: https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_751_index_htm/7.51/en-us/a...
Those are the keywords, about a third of that list is obsolete and you usually need multiple of them to make a valid statement. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
For static analysis I use CodeChecker, it's a wrapper on top of the Clang static analyzer and Clang tidy (linter). Now also supports cppcheck, but I disabled it (too many false alarms). It's free and open source, and I find it useful. Make sure you use it with a version of LLVM/Clang with support of Microsoft z3 enabled (it's the case in Debian stable, so should be OK in most distros).

For the flags I would start with "-Wall -Werror", then maybe disable some warnings based on the code base / use.

All this assuming a GCC/Clang friendly code base.
We have the worst of both worlds now, socialized risk with privatized profit.
with (at least) $1.4b in taxpayer funding

https://assets.modernatx.com/m/12c20bf7f34a6490/original/Mod...
See the reference above.
This applies to the real world as well.
I've had a couple of times when I've been closely involved in an event that was covered in the national newspapers. Both times the stories were presented with major factual inaccuracies and with clear bias.

I've brought this up in conversation a few times over the years and quite often a similar experience was reported by others. Yet everyone still seemed happy to trust the accuracy of the other articles being reported.
I fail to see to the point of your post in context of this thread.

What, in the parent post, do you consider a myth?
FWIW, I'm American but well-traveled/encultured, and I work a lot with people in other parts of the world. I ask this question, and I use it as an opportunity for the other person to set the tone of the conversation. I actually find it pretty refreshing when I get a blunt and meaningful answer in response, it's one reason I love working with Dutch and German engineers, because they will give a real answer and not be so concerned as to how it may be perceived.

I think it's exactly a bit like a modem preamble, but it's an opportunity to create a conversation and give both people in the conversation a chance to set the tone. It can really be used to genuinely find out the answer to the question, but a lot of people don't want to share their personal challenges with strangers, coworkers, or even acquaintances. You may not enough know exactly what level of intimacy is included in your relationship with another person or whether you are at the point to move to that next level, this simple question gives them the opportunity to either dive into something that's very personal or to keep it light-hearted and move along.

It's not a throwaway, it's a respectful way to start a conversation that gives the other person agency in setting the tone.
Well, they will also need 8" to 5.25".
Correction: If your display of the videos from your history is off. I am sure they are still logging them.
> Does the RAV4 count as a "small car"?

The 1990s RAV4 was small. The current one is almost 18 inches longer and 6.5 inches wider.
This is an amazing framework. I'm definetly sending this to my interns.
I'll use a debugger sometimes when the error is getting thrown in code I don't control but can view the source of - it can help figure out context and what the external code is doing. Otherwise I normally just put print statements for things I'm unsure of and remove them before committing.
Indeed. Moderna was real science, real innovation, and mostly huge globs of real private capital at risk. And though I'm skeptical on almost anything "Covid", most people think he saved the world with this vaccine technology which has big potential in future. This is capitalism 101, and the spoils need to go to the victor for it to work.

Any government funding does muddy the waters slightly, but anything they did contribute I assume was for the public good.
Did it save the world?
I shamefully nominate my site; https://thetechee.com/.

Some people tell me it looks good though..
Just make sure you have sufficient traffic to warrant a dedicated IP. An unknown IP suddenly sending a burst of emails is going to get soft-blocked very quickly. You need to build up your reputation, and you need to slowly increase how much you send.

The managed IP is an option, although I’ve never used it.

When I was the VPoE at Dixa, we switched over to SES, and we had 3 dedicated IPs, and for our volume back then (a few thousand emails a day), this worked very well. I don’t know if they ever hit scaling issues after I left.
It sounds great in principle. What will happen is that there will be schools that only fairly well off people can go afford. The poor will be stuck with schools that cost exactly what the voucher is worth and will be bare bones. The public schools will be left with those who, for a variety of reasons, can’t get to a voucher school and those who are too unruly or otherwise “defective”. This will have bad long term consequences.
It's the wealth gap, stagnate wages, housing shortage, collapse of family unit building. Why bother dealing with the stress of work when it doesn't pay enough to live? Burned out on consumerism, no family to support and provide for...or even if you do achieve that, it takes two full careers to pay for it. It's really just a collapse in incentives. People have to work to survive, and they survive to work. At some point, it's not worth it anymore.
Look up the rates of heart damage from actually getting Covid without being vaccinated?
Selling shares to raise money to donate to charity feels highly likely to net negative social good regardless of how the funds are spent.

You could simply retain ownership of an important biomedical company or you could share it with employees.

Selling shares for money that you then give away is dumb.
There is some way to massively collect DNA samples from the environment.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2375624-air-pollution-m...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230606-how-air-pollutio...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098222...

these can be deployed at great density in an array providing granularity made to order.
Public nudity is very much taboo in the US, and illegal in many places. So unfortunately they kinda are here.
I’m curious to hear why it matters how much anyone makes. If the concern is that they’ll buy too much critical stuff, why not just limit that? If the concern is outsized political influence, why not stop that? Etc.

I will say it’s strange the government doesn’t have substantial stake in this company given the subsidies. Same with Tesla and many others too.
or just, "The Expert Problem"
This is about ionising radiation though.
Close enough:

"Uber reported a net income of $394 million in the second quarter. That number includes a $386 million unrealized gain from equity investments, so it's not quite as good as it looks. "

https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/08/02/uber-is-profitable...

It will be interesting to see if they manage to close at least one bookyear in the black. If with a windfall like that they can't manage then they likely never will.
https://www.boringreport.org/app
This is something I don't understand about sunburn - If I'm exposed to 15 minutes straight of sunlight, I will burn, but in 2-5 minute chunks spread out over several hours, I can tolerate much more.

Is there an equation for this? Like a small coefficient with a high power? 0.1*Te^4 ?

Or am I wrong about how sunburn works?

This one just shows time as a straight factor, no exponent:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6345802/#:~:tex....
Just run a web terminal like ttyd: https://tsl0922.github.io/ttyd
Just imagine if all $14000000000 of that went to the CEO & boards pockets and not just 29% of it. I'd expect less of these "well they saved lives" compliments for grift
Father of eight kids here. I wouldn't really speak of SUVs and minivans in the same breath. SUVs really aren't very suitable for transporting a bunch of kids. They generally don't have extra side doors so kids will have to climb over seats. And despite being so huge, they often hold a shockingly small amount of cargo, unless you add a cumbersome cargo container to the roof rack. We had a Tahoe with a painfully small third row seat and could not even bring a whole load of groceries home in the space remaining in back. It was not possible to use it for camping unless we brought a second car (a Honda Element) to actually hold the stuff. Older minivans like the (now radically redesigned) Dodge Grand Caravan were far better and had far better visibility. I have really not kept up with current minivans - a lot of the models which would hold more passengers have disappeared - but I do think they are designed with better safety features, not to mention better mileage. It's easy to say "just get a Sprinter," but they are shockingly expensive even on the used market.
Why is this news?

Oh right, because everyone predicting this would happen in 2020 and 2021 was hastily banned from social media and given the greenlight by legacy media to be ostracized and marginalized by the body politic using the most utterly vacuous rhetoric imaginable.

All the tobacco executives now working in the pharma industry must feel accomplished.
Codependency is when one person gets value for solving other people's problems for them ("saving" them), and the other person gets value out of having their problems being solved by other people (having a "savior").

Guess Culture is more of a strong value on considering the needs of others. It could be unhealthy: considering the needs of others and neglecting your own, but it could also be courteous consideration ("they just got over being sick, I won't ask them to help me move").

I suppose Guess Culture unhealthiness tends to be more neglecting your own needs and desires (and the your resulting hurt and anger that the other person needs to deal with), while Ask Culture unhealthiness tends more towards lack of consideration (ridiculous asks) or demanding (asks that have a question mark but are not really questions).
OP is from 2004
Cuz the majority want to emulate the same behavior. Dont underestimate how mentally bankrupt everyone is.
Given that the relied on $1.7B of grant money, this would seem to be a heavily socialized effort but with privatized profits, no?
Could you? What enforces only a single thread having access to a given reference? What about global variables?
This is already the case, with the elites living in six different mansions "from the fruits of their labor", which was conveniently funded by tax dollars, tax dollars that large companies largely don't contribute to because of extremely favorable tax treatment for the capital class, while tens of thousands live and die on the street.
You do. Take the EraseAll example

Ideally it's a compile time error. Less ideally it jumps to a NULL pointer and immediately crashes.

Either means the programmer must fix the code, which also stops being a problem on other compilers.
New radar research overcomes tradeoff between wavelength and distance resolution
I see you haven't encountered authoritarian regimes very much.
This reminds me of John Mulaney’s bit about Jewish versus Catholic culture. He loved that he didn’t have to guess what his girlfriend was thinking, she would just tell him. No filter.

For some people that can be rude or shocking. For others the opposite can be exhausting. The middle ground of mind games is the fucking worst. “Go do that thing I don’t like. It’s fine.” “Why did he go? He knew I was upset!” He answered your passive aggressive bullshit with his own passive aggressive bullshit. That’s why. Good luck in couples therapy.
I'm amazed people find pleasant apartments to live in. I think I hate every one of my neighbors. From their annoying behaviors. I have one that just let's their kids run around, blasting music at the moment and kept parking in my assigned spot.
Nature Biotech comparing Moderna to Theranos in 2016:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3488
Link to paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13...
If we continue to let the ownership class exempt their changes-in-net-worth from what we call "income," it won't matter.

Tax assets.
It wasn't a stable of interviewers that the school had (though later we partnered with Triplebyte for a bit, IIRC)--it was just the real life interviewers we match-made with for our students looking for work. Trial by fire.

The students were motivated to learn the material in part because they weren't competing against the school (e.g. for higher grades). They knew we were just a tool to help them learn good skills as rapidly as possible so they could get paid in a job as rapidly as possible. There was no concept of "I have to get good grades and that will translate to a good job". There were no grades. They had their eye on the interview and the skills, period.
To be clear, since some people don't know: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1997/fs163-97/FS-163-97.html
"a (hypothetical) C-like language that doesn't allow the compiler to do these sorts of things."

It's not very hypothetical in 2023. There are plenty of languages whose compilers don't do this sort of thing and attain C-like performance. There isn't necessarily a single language that exactly and precisely replaces C right now, but for any given task where you would reach for C or C++ there's a viable choice, and one likely to be better in significant ways.

I also feel like this is missed by some people who defend this or that particularly treatment of a particular undefined behavior. Yeah, sure, I concede that given the history of where C is and how it got there and in your particular case it may make sense. But the thing is, my entire point is we shouldn't be here in the first place. I don't care about why your way of tapping a cactus for water is justifiable after all if you consider the full desert context you're living in, I moved out of the desert a long time ago. Stop using C. To a perhaps lesser but still real extent, stop using C++. Whenever you can. They're not the best option for very many tasks anymore, and if we discount "well my codebase is already in that language and in the real world I need to take switching costs into account" they may already not be the best option for anything anymore.
Oooooh I thought you were implying "the guy" was naive. Thanks for clearing that up.
From an ecologist’s perspective, degrowth is inevitable
Original title: "Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable".

I've substituted an alternate that's within HN length limits based on a line from the article: "From an ecologist’s perspective, degrowth is inevitable on our current trajectory".
You would not be able to change your password without suid.

I guess there are ways that sudo/doas could be adapted to implement passwd, chfn, chsh and friends, but the approach appears to have been chosen in the '70, and codified by POSIX.

How do you think these should be implemented?
Selling shares for money to donate to charity is actually a tax mistake. I've done it and regret it. Just donate the shares to the charity and let them cash it out.

Surely the CEO has a tax advisor to advise... so this leads me to believe that very little of it will "go to the charities"
How much revenue do you expect from such a tax bracket? You should do some napkin math to see if it’ll actually make a difference.

I suspect very few people report income in excess of $100M and an 80% bracket would do very little for society other than a vindictive gesture to placate the masses.

Not saying we should or shouldn’t…but it’s not gonna fix all our problems like people think.
"Clinical development" != "development". Given their existing platform, developing the vaccine itself took weeks and a fraction of that cost. Clinical development means solving manufacturing and distribution issues, running trials, ... once you have a promising candidate vaccine in hand.

It was extremely fortunate, as it turns out, that somebody had previously invested the megadollars to build that platform in hopes that it would turn out to be useful. It was a modestly risky bet, lots of biotech VC cash ends up being set on fire.

Nobody will invest in the next Moderna if they believe the Feds will effectively nationalize their investment if it turns out to be valuable/"essential" enough.
They didn't activate the warning sirens because those are for tsunamis, they tell people to move inland, which would have been the wrong advice in a fire.
Apologies for butting in, but I don't think you are arguing in good faith here.

How about we change the angle a bit: why do you think this happened in Kenya and not in Germany?
While emerging techniques like fingerprinting and mass surveillance threaten privacy, novel technologies like zero-knowledge proofs offer hope. With ongoing innovation, regulation, and collective action, we can steer the future towards empowerment over exploitation.
[HR 3557] “Eliminates cable franchise renewals and eliminates the ability of local governments to require rules such as an ISP having to serve the whole community, the local government requiring PEG channels, or the local government requiring customer service standards.”

This is a federal bill, but aren't federal powers limited to regulating inter-state commerce? Yet the powers it strips from state legislatures are clearly aimed at intra-state commerce.
Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37177439
>mostly real private capital at risk

It absolutely was not! It was billions of public funding for a public health emergency.