skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access to the Owner privilege is very different to having access to repositories.

Many small organisations may only have one person with an Owner account for the very reason that they don’t _need_ to have multiple people with access to that account as you share out access to repositories to team members that have less privileged accounts.

It is much “goofier” to assume that every organisation using Github has two people that have been granted an “Owner” level account.
MP3 are just data too
This is exactly the description of the issue I was looking for - thank you!
Well, POWER9 and later CPUs have builtin hardware compression using the 8-4-2 algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/842_(compression_algorithm)

https://github.com/plauth/lib842
Astrophysicists tell us that star formation will continue for 100 trillion years.

We are indeed among the first simply because of the sheer amount of time left ahead of us vs. behind us. It's basic math. We are at 0.014% of the expected duration of this universe.
Copyright protection goes way beyond "verbatim copy". For example, fictional characters enjoy copyright protection:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_protection_for_ficti...
The point isn't that fusion isn't worth doing but that NIF isn't actually about power generation and it's disappointing that it always gets into the news as if it was.
Sure. But the NIF approach IS doomed. Even if they succeed by reducing fuel costs by 5 orders of magnitude AND manage to capture 100% of the energy AND manage to increase firing rate 6 orders of magnitude it's STILL not even close to competitive with solar power.

That's pretty bad. Fusion might be feasible, but this approach isn't. (And I would say the same about ITER, even though that's WAY more feasible.)

We shouldn't pay too much attention to approaches that, when 100% successful, are still failures.
Making everything an object is a cute idea but the fact of the matter is, most of the time data is just data, there's no associated behavior.

Lets say you have a Player object who has an Inventory (can also be an object) and an inventory contains items like Swords and Bows etc. When a player wielding a sword takes a swing at an enemy, a particular animation has to play, and sword swing and sword hit sound effect has to play.

Which object contains the code that performs the rendering of the animation? Is there an "Animation" object that contains it? Does it call some setPosition/setRotation object in the sword and the player? Does the Animation object know how to call the appropriate Metal/Direct3D/Vulkan APIs or is that another object?

Or is the right solution to have an animation subsystem that doesn't care at all about "players" or "swords" and is only concerned with mesh data and how to transform it? Answer: the latter, which is what every game engine that wants to be even remotely efficient does.

That's not to say the Smalltalk idea of building larger systems out of smaller systems communicating via message passing is bad or anything, the problem is the OO idea of tying data to behavior. There isn't a single OO codebase out there without POD objects.
"Personally, I don't want my data sold at all. It's not Starbucks specifically who I want to prevent from selling my data. If it's totallynotshadyvpn.com who does it, it's just as bad."

That ship has sailed
Depends what you mean by interfered. The government subsidized loans as far back as the 1960s, and this I remember clearly.

Not having to pay interest while in school was very helpful to someone like me.

Somewhere around the 1990s to the early 2000s is where things went awry, but it’s also around the time colleges became more (too) accessible.

While colleges set entrance minimum standards, who determined loan eligibility and size in the 1980s and earlier?

Was it the lending institutions?
You need to give some serious references for that.
Any form of lossy compression is an irreversible transformation. We do it all the time for video, audio and images (you can't recover the original data) and they are still copyrighted
Does espresso actually taste better than what you get out of Aeropress or pourover?
Article says the center of the impact crater is (was?) around 30km deep. Curious how big they think the asteroid that caused this was. The article doesn't mention anything, and a lazy search online came up with nothing.

Wondering just how big of an asteriod this was, and how capable we are of seeing candidate asteroids of this size.
I've been categorized as such for having the audacity of writing a tree traversal function.
If you ask me a question that boils down to “write a card shuffling algorithm”, I’m going to do less well because I’m being taxed by the thought of “Why is this person asking me to shuffle a deck of virtual cards?” During the interview, I’d probably just google “best algorithm for shuffling deck of cards in <language>”, and I’d tell you I was looking it up. If you tasked me with shuffling cards on the job, that’s what I’d do.
I think due to the 1/4 falloff don't put it to your ear, don't put it in your bra ladies!
My gripe with this article is that it only talks about the NIF - and the NIF is not called the National Ignition Facility for nothing! Its purpose is studying fusion (mostly for weapons research), not producing a viable commercial fusion power plant. The technology it uses to generate fusion is not scalable, and that's obvious to everyone who cares to look into it a bit deeper. Now, there are some other fusion startups with interesting claims about their technology (not to mention ITER) - I'm not enough of an expert to judge these, but I'm pretty sure any of these approaches is much more likely to eventually lead to a viable fusion power plant than what the NIF is doing.
>media not so much in my eyes.

The media is often wrong about many things. Sometimes due to ignorance. Others negligence. And occasionally its malicious. If anyone figures out how to fix that without destroying freedom of the press they should get a nobel.
A nearly book-length paper: Hints and Principles for Computer System Design by
Butler Lampson (May 14, 2021 version) [1]. I'd skimmed it and listened to his talk before, but I recently completed a close and careful reading. It's got a lot of really good stuff in it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.02455.pdf
I did try going through Ethica [1] some time ago, but to be honest the axiom, theorem, proof format did not resonate with me. Maybe I should give it another go or read a digested account of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_(Spinoza_book)
I am always incredibly surprised when people are surprised when I miss deadlines.

I said I was going to do it for the following (rather good!) reasons.

It is around that time when I am usually informed that I have zero autonomy over such decisions.

Now I know.

If I am not allowed any autonomy then could you please be explicit and upfront with all the trade-offs I am allowed to make, all the risks I am allowed to accept and the technical debts I am allowed to accrue?

Oh, don't be a perfectionist!
I am not - I have no autonomy on such decisions. Here's a list of known defects - tell me which ones I am allowed to ignore.

Аpparently I am a difficult enginer. Meanwhile the leadership is outstanding.
> The proposal would allow people over 18 to grow up to three cannabis plants for personal consumption and to possess up to 25 grams

If I got 25g off 3 plants I’d be quite upset, so this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Am I missing something?
That was (1) new physics. Because otherwise, entropy is a bitch.
Thanks for the suggestion, but this needs to be public, otherwise it wouldn't needed a bruteforce protection.
I love the title to that article "Engineer accidentally deletes cloud".

It's like a single individual managed to delete the monolithic cloud where everyone's files are stored.
EUPL, a weak copyleft license that closes the SaaS loophole, OSI+FSF approved
> Can we as users have just at least one sanctuary place for our own docs that will not be messed with by stupid programs?

What about $HOME/Documents? But yeah, I hear you, I gave up on $HOME as my personal space, I put my stuff in /data (I use my computer alone) and let any software pollute my $HOME.
Woe is me, I’m a cog in the machine but I want to be the machine itself. I think the technology industry is detached from the rest of the world.

Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figured it out. On this quest for hyper-optimization, hyper-correctness, and so on, EVERYONE has become ridiculous.
Wait there is an actual Professor Moriarty?
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs
+100.
I read it 3 or 4 times. For the most part it reads like a great detective story and/or colorful history book.

Meanwhile you will understand in depth how all the basic shit in cryptography works, how did they crack it and its history: ROT13,ENIGMA,OTP,PGP,DES,AES, what are public and private keys and digital signatures, what the hell is quantum cryptography... everything gets told in a perfect ELI5 manner without any knowledge prerequisite and its so damn interesting its hard to put down.

All in historical order, with names, stories, previous building blocks, interesting trivias... perfect book, 10/10.
Because it’s unpleasant to be around? Many places are banning cigarette smoking in parks because it sucks to be around and contributes litter.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... (I thought I'd keep the t word out of it to make the search URL sound different)

As if HN is some sort of intellectual silver snowflake and apparently better than Reddit. It's actually not. But I guess it's not worse either. Isn't that nice?
>there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted

How would you otherwise recognize a vampire incident it one were to happen?
> there have been ZERO vampire incidents in Poland since this practice was adopted.

Have you considered a career with Homeland Security?
No, XDG limits it to __2 known names__ in $HOME, versus __infinite unknown names__ in $HOME for non-XDG.

If you want to shit around in $HOME, you can make symlinks from $HOME or set your XDG-vars to $HOME.

In the non-XDG world we don´t have that control. Such software shits into $HOME, and it sticks there because it refuses to listen for user preferences (XDG-vars).
As a user that deals with non-xdg software I don´t have control on the one directory that was meant for ME.

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The only improvement I can think of is that XDG would provide functions that software could call into instead of vars to get dir paths. That way, the user could have very fine control (even per application) when they write their own bash override.
Methane storage is cheaper than batteries, but hydrogen molecules are so small that the cost of storing it is actually pretty high.
The axioms in Ethics took me an hour and I still wasn't happy.
Happy Birthday Debian!

I played around with Potato, started to felt in love with Woody, and since Sarge Debian has been my one and only distro.
Because trillions is bigger than billions.
IANAL is just "wacky" and "sexual" reddit tier humour, nothing more. It's boring any annoying.
This, 100%.

To use a malapropism: impressions are 9/10ths of the law. If you give your manager an impression that you are one of these stereotypes, you’ll never shake it. You’ll always be seen that way.

And because people rarely change, or at least it takes a while, the only real way to escape such an impression is to find a different manager.
Jordan Peterson: Critics complain over 'misleading' book cover quotes
Everything in that blog post looks reasonable, unlike what France is looking to do
Can you think of any other crimes with a near 50% approval rating?
your server was used as a "pubstro"

https://ripped.guide/Scene/Scene-Glossary/
Your biggest disappoint is that she followed the democratic process?
IAHD DEI Web Accessibility Hackathon
Sure, but the issue with that logic is that you'll 100% at some point be used as a useful idiot if you always assume good intentions since bad faith actors prey on it.

A much better argument would be to say: We should strive to be fair, balanced and be aware of the potential possibility of bad faith instead of casting judgement in our interpretation of what people mean.
NIF is pretty universally panned as an approach to commercial fusion. It's more about doing basic science on plasmas and fusion and of course researching thermonuclear weapons without actually doing real (dirty) nuclear tests.

That being said, sometimes technology can do surprising things. If some other line of research somewhere yields, say, lasers that are multiple orders of magnitude more efficient then suddenly things might change and ICF would become a viable path. The massive inefficiency of lasers is the largest single problem.

The main reason magnetic containment is so much better than ICF is that huge electromagnets are more efficient than lasers plus inertia at confining the plasma.
Aluminium and copper in cables are crystals. The crystal bit is not the problem.
We may not have the capability to build a Dyson cloud around our own star (yet), but we do already have the technology. You could do so with 21st century tech, and the ROI would be positive.
I love these. Thanks.
+1 for 50 Years. Did not expect to be pulled into the writing so much, it was like reading a novel. Had been waiting for the print version for nearly a year when the PDF version came, blazed my way through half the PDF before the book came and then just kept going. Reed did an amazing job and I have a lot of follow-up reading to do (there are extensive links / bibliography after each chapter).
Startups Think They Can Beat Wildfires, Insurance Companies Aren’t Buying It Yet
Price will have to come down so the risk isn't so bad
In the context of Germany, I don't think they decriminalize anything but buds and smoking /vaporization.

edible,concentrates, extract vapes, drinks .... All likely gonna stay in a very weird spot legal wise
It's a much richer coffee; feels more substantial in your mouth.
From the things people liked post-communism countries you forgot the most important ones like older people liking having been young and also all material things being universally shit rather then some people having better things afterwards.
I agree, there is lots of wishful thinking involved with Fusion and I was always a sceptic, but lately there were news about the Wendelstein 7-X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37092212

And someone linked a podcast of a interview with the director (in german, http://alternativlos.org/36). And after listening, I do became convinced that with the Stellerator design, a working Fusion plant is possible.

Maybe still not in 20 years, because it is hellish complicated, but some day.

(till then I would bet on harvesting more our existing very big fusionreactor called the sun)

In either case, controlling fusion is awesome technology and research, with lots of potential applications and deserves further funding. But yeah, please more of civil projects like Wendelstein and less disguised weapon research.
I don't know why but discussions on WASM seem to be triggers for Java developer echo chambers.
They would still consume their local stars to extract and store the energy so their matrix can survive for trillions of years, rather than a few million or billion.
My worst bug was changing how a zip code zone was fetched from the cache in a large ecommerce site with tens of thousands users using it all day long. Worked great in DEV :D but when the thundering herd hit it, the entire site came down.
The BOGUS Linux FTP server seems to be down, is the distro available anywhere else?
If you haven't already, listen to Chris de Burgh's sublime Don't Pay the Ferryman: 3 minutes and 44 seconds of sublime high-octane pop-rock music which conjures up images
of this very nugget of folklore.
I think so. My daily driver for coffee is a Chemex since I can make enough for two in about 5 mins. I use reasonably fresh roasted beans I grind right before making the coffee. But whenever I get a good espresso based drink I recognize the step up in quality.
The Phoenix Project was in fact inspired by The Goal:

>
“The Phoenix Project”, a popular business fable about DevOps, is an adaptation of “The Goal” by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt. They are virtually the same book. The twist it takes on “The Goal” is that instead of focusing on manufacturing, the “The Phoenix Project” focuses on IT.

https://sobination.com/2017/08/08/the-goal-and-the-phoenix-p...
Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools
Hi, I am looking for the backend role. I come from a background of working with a fintech startup, where I played a pivotal role in its growth from a very small team of a dynamic group where I build the software on Django, DRF and Python.

I cannot see the open role for Django developer.
I don't think that there is any correlation between time spent "thinking about the system" and likelihood that it needs "unfucking".

If there is any at all, it's probably the inverse. When I think back on all the projects that needed fixing, they were usually systems that were over-engineered the hell out of and that someone spent a lot of time "thinking about", where a much simpler solution would have sufficed.

I think part of the problem here is that (some) engineers (sometimes) spend the time "thinking about" the problem, and then think that their solution has to match time spent thinking in terms of complexity. And that time is often spent aimlessly "thinking about" the problem rather than understanding and breaking down the problem and doing structured engineering.
i don't really want to see csam or gore when authenticating with uber eats
As long as the journey contains ethics (no Spinoza pun intended) from DRM to discarded children.
If you provide me with your username and the id of a secret gist for configuration, I'll add your username to the list of users to precompile pages and use the full features.
That is completely up to your personal taste.
I personally like both. Sometimes it's nice having an espresso in the sun.
Other times I prefer taking fifteen minutes for a nice hot pourover
On the home screen, clicking the Youtube logo refreshes the suggestions. Or did I misunderstand and you want it in a different view?
To extract a thousand tons, estimates are around 6,700 kWh [0]. That’s a bit less than what one of the larger windmills can produce in an hour (7.5 MW). The largest mine I know produces 25.6 million tonnes of ore per year, so (/365/24) three times that. I’m sure we can find room for three windmills over the 16.53 km^2 of that mine.

[0] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Well, I do plug it back in before leaving :-)

With you for the phone charger, usually another small light is reachable from the bed anyway.
This is great, thank you! Mozilla should really link to it in the petition page
There're a bunch of corrupted inviduals with no counter power to keep them in check. No decisions are made for the benefit of the French people since a long time, every law passed is either to augment their power, rise taxes (already world top 1 or 2 depending on the year) or to the benefit their friends owning private companies. Of course technology freedom will suffer from this as well.
India is a bit beyond ridiculous and just shows when Asshole with properly big A (Nixon) is given enough power, he can fuck up most of mankind for few generations easily. Just to have more oppressive tools available against people not aligned with state (hippies, Mexicans). Also shows that people will generally show a big fat middle finger to government and keep doing what they want to do, but its a very useful tool for oppression and creates a lot of corruption surface.

As to why its such a ridiculous situation in India - as per my limited backpacker's experience marihuana is a sacred plant, used for thousands of years to celebrate god Shiva, one of main deities in Hindu pantheon. Seeing a sadhu (holy man) to smoke chillum is as regular sight as birds flying in the sky, I was once even given such a chillum within bigger group of sadhus on Ganges bank (I think in Haridwar).

Its like India becoming world dominating power and starts forcing every single christian country on the world to ban alcohol or using wine in religious ceremonies. And they actually implemented it for solid 6 decades so far, via United nations being a slave to US (and when its not, US presidents are quoted about kicking them out or simply ignoring its existence).
NIH has a longitudinal long COVID study going.[1] 300 people who had COVID-19 and recovered get a medical exam every 6 months. Early results through 2022: [2] Nothing really exciting.
Measurement of fatigue with a 6-minute treadmill test does have a low P-value. So does a measure of mental processing speed.

The plan is to keep this study going through 2027, recruiting new patients and studying them for 3 years each.

There are solid objective results showing organ damage now. This study, in the UK, did
MRI scans of multiple organs of several hundred post-COVID patients, plus a no-COVID control group.[3] It's a longitudinal study; the same people are re-scanned at intervals. This is a serious clinical study, where everybody involved went through extensive, repeated MRI scans and blood tests for this specific study. There have been other studies that re-used scans taken for other purposes, notably from the US Veterans Administration, and those have been criticized on the ground that the people scanned already had some problem that required an expensive MRI scan. Not here. These scans were done just for this study, using the same 3 MRI scanners, with cross-checks for consistency.

From that study: "First, we confirm multi-organ impairment at 6 and 12 months in 29% of individuals with long COVID, with persistent symptoms and reduced function. Second, despite some associations between organ impairment and symptoms, there is currently insufficient evidence for distinct long COVID subtypes. Blood biomarkers, the current standard of care, showed no relation to clinical presentation. Third, symptoms, blood investigations and quantitative, multi-organ MRI did not predict trajectory or recovery. Fourth, we demonstrate feasibility of scalable, multi-organ assessment in non-acute settings in the pandemic context. Several studies confirm persistence of symptoms in individuals with long COVID up to 1 year. We now add that three in five people with long COVID have impairment in at least one organ, and one in four have impairment in two or more organs."

What's striking is that more patients show evidence of organ impairment than have self-reported complaints. Frustratingly, none of this information seems to have predictive power. They can see damage, but it doesn't help treatment. (Which means insurance probably won't cover this sort of scanning.)

So long-term organ damage from COVID is all too real.

[1] https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04411147

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9128805/

[3] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01410768231154703
They're not comparable tools. I wouldn't use Wireshark to debug HTTP. And Fiddler simply can't intercept other protocols.