skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mosquitoes aren't affected by dengue. It's a human disease.

Even if they were affected by it, they don't feel pain or have emotions, so they'd "choose" to live longer.
That's a very idealistic black-and-white view of the world.

A huge number of roles casually use the "engineer" moniker and a lot of people who actually have engineering degrees of some sort, even advanced degrees from top schools, are not licensed and don't necessarily follow rigid processes (e.g. structural analyses) on a day to day basis.

As someone who does have engineering degrees outside of software, I have zero problem with the software engineer term--at least for anyone who does have some education in basic principles and practices.
There's a difference between the dev team being blamed versus an individual developer.
yes, you got it right its due to that odd message web browsers show for non-https websites. This HTTPS/TLS has been added using nginx on different server, also to support some load. The website is still under lot of traffic, however nginx is doing good on its part.
Ah so let's let Russia do its thing? Worst take I have seen, literally ever.

Letting our allies to starve is a sure way to get invaded at some point
It’s not lauded. Suppliers hate the power the big supermarkets have over them. But stores’ data is probably down the list after the payment terms they dictate, not being paid, and payment for in-store product placement etc
The youngest player goes first in Candyland and has an edge on average. I assume this is by design.

For the spinner version of the game, the computer could use a physical or statistical spinner model to gain an edge.
Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to?

Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
Nokia SR Linux: Open and extensible network OS based on standard Linux kernel
It's of no use when defined by the same person. It's of immense use when the user gets to decide which resources are to be used, and the operating system enforces their will.

Wallets/purses/etc. work because their user can see their cash, and quickly decide which economic capability tokens ($5 bills) they can dedicate to a financial transaction. (I.E. buying a loaf of bread) There's no chance that giving someone said token will compromise your email, dump all your passwords to utopia, promise your first born son, etc.

It would be nice if our operating systems provided this bare minimum level of security functionality, instead of forcing you to give all of your resources to a program you want to run, each and every time, forever.
How many random but great varieties have been lost? The McIntosh:

> While clearing his property, McIntosh discovered a number of seedling apple trees growing wild. He transplanted them to his garden, and by the following year only one had survived. Several years later, the tree was producing the crisp, delicious fruit that is now well known. The discoverer eventually dubbed it the 'McIntosh Red', which is still the apple's official name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McIntosh_(farmer)
Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x
You can't evaluate the impact of the bug if you haven't found it.

Without testing, you're letting all sorts of bugs into production - both low impact and catastrophic data destruction bugs.
In the beginning, SBF probably believed in EA. It helped him recruit the executives of AR and FTX.

As FTX experienced the unprecedented growth to fantastical scale, SBF was at the center of it. I strongly suspect he felt deified by it, felt that the market was giving him unqualified approval for his every thought and method.

Somewhere in his ascendancy, I suspect that EA became merely a vocabulary of stock responses that he used to explain his decisions and to frame his public image.

The immorality began when he chose to ignore his fiduciary duty to his depositors, and instead used their funds as if they were VC money available to fund his ideas. The immorality continued when he gave false financial statements to the AR lenders. It culminated when he tweeted "everything is fine" when the withdrawal rush began.

Was he using EA theory to justify these unethical choices? Caroline Ellison thought he was but that was because she was in thrall to his personality.

I would be immensely surprised if EA goals ever crossed his mind when he made these decisions. I suspect he was in empire building mode aiming to enter the pantheon of SV tech titans.

The WSJ had a chart of "where did the money go" showing that only a miniscule slice of the $16B was donated to philanthropic organizations. It was less than $100M.

You are correct that EA has been unmasked as a philosophy unburdened by ethics. However, my view is that SBF only used EA as a convenient label for his motives, when his goals were consolidating his power.
No ASIC is ever going to satisfy your desire to audit. Even if they publish the RTL, you can't verify that this is what they synthesized, that this is what the fab actually produced, etc. You have to trust hardware because it's your everything. Even with relatively obvious attacks like backdooring the bootrom (which can be done by modifying just the metal layers!), practically speaking no one is going to ever catch it because modern processes are simply too fine for all but the fabs themselves to physically inspect. This isn't even to mention more clever attacks which attack the doping of the silicon [1] for individual transistors (which cannot be generically detected post fabrication by any publicly known technique).

Embrace the suck :) Sure, you can't truly trust hardware, but there's nothing to be done about it anyhow and so you may as well reap the benefits of trusting it.

[1] http://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf
Some things cannot be tested. I work in distributed systems a lot and you can unit/integration test simple functionality, but there is nothing which can test how your system will behave in prod outside of just trying it out.

I find having really good metrics and a tight development cycle allows for quickly iterating on distributed systems problems. Obviously the best situation is to have all of the above: unit tests, integration tests, and a tight development cycle in prod.

If I had to pick one because I am time constrained, I would choose testing in prod with good metrics which is maybe what the article is getting at.
Nickel cadmium AA batteries (what was available in the 90s) were not great. They self-drained to flat after a month, and had "charge cycle memory," so if you discharged them a couple times to, say, 60%, that became the cell capacity. Even fully charged, they only put out 1.2v.

Nickel metal hydride, and specifically Eneloops, were a game changer, as their self-discharge was only 10%/month, and had virtually no charge cycle memory.
If one could do you think that would be a problem?
I'm asserting that multinational corporations typically aim for the lowest common denominator. For boobs, that's to avoid showing them.
Yeah really hard to measure, but the thought of little bits of plastic melting back into the pan makes it worth the 5$ to "splurge" on a nicer scrubber that causes less anxiety haha.
The current state of the code isn’t obfuscated in any way that I can see. You can easily pop through the JS and see exactly what it’s doing. The extension itself is pretty simple to follow.
Developers generally don't have the power to make that decision.
Cool, thanks for the suggestions!

The Xiaomi one looks beautiful and simple. I'll have to look for one next time I'm overseas.

The Cuckoo ones still look really complex, though. Was there a particular model with simpler UI?
Sorry to say, but I don't understand why you don't understand something so simple (probably I am rude).

In the last three years there have been many strains of Covid. Of each one we didn't know if it would be more contageous and if it would make more people sick ( and dead). It turned out most strains of Covid did turn out to become more contageous, and thus the then dominant strain. They also, mostly or even all, made people less severe sick and caused less deaths.

If you get Covid today, it is not like getting Covid in June 2020. Strains are heading towards the other coronaviruses, you mostly get the common cold. That common cold can still be ugly, but not many people will have to go to the hospital for it or die from it.
The "MIT Lisp Machine" were developed as prototypes at the MIT AI Lab, with DARPA money (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research funding part of the US military). The machines were mostly hand-made and did cost a little under $100000 to make. Only very few (200 ?) were ever made for use at MIT.

The military wanted (!) to have better/cheaper generations of these computers for Research&Development and for deployment of applications. So it was decided to set up commercial companies: LMI and Symbolics were founded. LMI later sold a license to TI.
The market for these machines was high-end: installations could cost anything from $50000 to $200000. In the first years these machines mostly went into military and government projects: military was sponsoring the deployment and first improvements (like the development of Lisp-specific CPUs).

Basically that's not unusual from many other government sponsored research, which later got marketed by a startup.

The Lisp they were using was standardized starting 81/82 (also with the help of Symbolics). This standard then was ported to PCs, Macs, Workstations and Mainframes. The Lisps were available free or commercial (a few hundred dollar to several thousand, depending on the vendor).

The Lisp machines itself remained tied to special hardware and mostly died in the late 80s and early 90s.

Various other free and commercial offerings of Lisp for PCs/Macs/UNIX systems died or survived...

The whole thing was initially financed by a large customer: the government (-> DARPA). This customer demanded commercial versions to be able to use them beyond the few prototypes. Roughly 10k machines (my estimate) were built and sold. At the same time cheaper Lisp systems were developed by universities and commercial competitors. Free / Open Source versions of Common Lisp (the Lisp dialect then also on the Lisp Machines) were developed by CMU (CMUCL), in Germany (CLISP, CLICC), in Japan (KCL), ...
Why is it a dead end? YouTube is known for being overzealous in their compliance with the DMCA.
America is at no risk of being invaded. However, should it let its allies go unaided, it will loose its footholds in Europe and Asia from which it projects its power (militarily, culturally, economically, etc). Geopolitics is not so simple as to be zero sum, but when it comes to Russian and US interests, it may as well be.
there are, I am, and it's not (sorry). some languages have the ability to comment regexes, and that would be very useful here.
My old Athlon could write books about failed compilations and 13 year old me fudging up every config file.
See: UK Jurisdiction Taskforce and the Smarter Contracts project.
If only there were some sort of technological method for disintermediating banks without sacrificing their advantages.

Ah well, nevertheless.
The great thing about technology is that it's possible to have new things or ways of life that are strictly better than the ones they replace! We can move beyond the efficient frontier; progress is non-zero-sum.

* Golden Rice
* Unleaded gas
* HCFCs (over CFCs)
* etc
Everything should be served securely these days. Prior to HTTPS being absolutely king, ISPs here used to inject EXEs with malware and do all sorts of nasty stuff. With HTTPS dominating they don't do that sort of thing anymore as the share of HTTP traffic is so low making ROI very low.

Anyway I'll give you one reason based on the above on why you should serve your content over HTTPS, it shields you from potentially having your visitors be victims of something like this and in all likelihood they will blame you for whatever malware their ISP sent their way... they did get infected from your website, after all.
On this case of the Aedes Aegypti in the Americas, should not even be a big consideration whether to exterminate or not, since it's an invasive species from Asia.
Because this website is full of bitter losers who will downvote if someone is calling out their lies. Doubly so if it's related to Tesla.
I don't even use Gentoo, but I still extensively use its wiki. The Gentoo Handbook is the best documentation I have ever encountered.
I don't think OP is talking about the bacteria-inoculated mosquitoes, they're taking about eradicating the species completely with something like a CRISPR gene drive.

I am passionately in favor of this.
>It eventually chased me away from philosophy, specifically analytic philosophy of the Anglo-American variety

Lucky for all of us, there is a lot more philosophy than this lying around. That said, I can imagine how frustrating it could be training under a utilitarian. There are lots of strawman arguments against utilitarianism but my impression of them is that they are better at trying to get you to think about something or argue with them that they aren't technically wrong but are wrong in some other way than they are at designing systems that work when applied at civilization scales.
we didn't stop hosting websites on hardware like this because it's impossible. we stopped because spammers made it impractical.
"The math" only matters for random collisions, which are effectively impossible (less likely than the CPU malfunctioning). However that tells you nothing about maliciously constructed files. Even if a hash function has no known collisions today, doesn't mean that they won't be found someday.

But as I tried to describe (probably in way too much detail) the real problem with "hash everything, compare hashes afterwards" is that it implies that you'll be doing I/O to read all of the file's contents even when it isn't needed to prove uniqueness. For a lot of common use cases (big files, few dupes) this can mean doing 1000x more I/O than you need.

Once you design the solution around avoiding unneeded I/O, you find that hashing also stops being useful.
Americans who want to support Ukrainians in the war should fund it out their pockets than for the government to do it.
Super interesting.

Let’s hope that Musk fixes it.
Afaik, there's no means to pass in imported functions right now.

Rust has a very extensive bindgen to make it kind of look like you can, but it's really a huge payload of js running on the page's main-thread that's converting back and forth. At significant cost.

We just shipped garbage collection, which is one precondition to actually being able to pass things around (so things passed in can participate properly in gc). Next is component-model, which allows for passing non-trivial objects around; currently it's just primitives like numbers that can be passed. After that goes in, hopefully it won't be long before we have host-object bridging, where platform objects can be sent across. https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
Is that if you try to run the command, or install the package?
>It definitely is true, in our RHEL subscriptions we get patches that do not exist in CentOS.

Citation needed. Source: I work at Red Hat and made the policy that stuff needs to go to CentOS Stream first. The only exceptions should be embargoed or critical/important CVEs, those go to customers before CentOS Stream.

If you find any code, features, or bug sizes in RHEL that aren't in stream, it's a bug, let us know and we will fix it.
Yes, a tpm2 enrollment takes up one slot, the recovery key another, a fido2 yet another, a pkcs11 key yet another and a password yet another in any combination/subset you like.
One conclusion is that Unity's technology stack is more like a Tower of Jenga with pieces in random state of readiness and compatibility. More and more Unity comes out looking like a mismanaged mess that lost its way from the goal of "democratizing game development".

I'm guessing the studio was pressured to release on a hard deadline to make the publisher their promised profits. This game would have been a guaranteed first day purchase for me, but the bad press coverage now made me move on to other games in the limited time I have. So I may check back to see if the updates fixed the pefromance in 6mo or never. What I'm saying is that the person who decided on this release date likely made a long term strategic mistake for short term profit, or was forced to do so by another idiot up the chain.
It's a combination of team not given enough time amd headcount to maintain and develop a product and another team's manager wants to grab a fief.

So old products are thrown away while new products with similar functionalities are being created.

Both teams are happy. The users suffer.
I'd rather not. That stuff isn't my cup of tea. Why don't you just google it.
This is pretty much a universal thing--whether it's software development or home maintenance. It's really tempting to kick the can down the road to the point where 1.) You HAVE to do something; 2.) It's not your problem any longer; or 3.) Something happens that the can doesn't matter any more.

I won't say procrastination is a virtue. But sometimes the deferred task really does cease to matter.
I changed my DNS and it seems to work now.

I will try again from another system to see if it still works.

Thanks.
We live in crazy times. I think people should wear body cams, record 24/7, and store video for several years, just to prevent any misunderstandings.

Imagine you are married for 20 years, and your wife remembers that 15 years ago, she was too tired to consent and you coerced her into sex. It would be great to have archival footage, that shows, she was the one who initiated on that day!

Or imagine you are a male teacher at school, and you do not record everything! Your life could be ruined so easily!
What? LED bulbs suck. They are more expensive, produce poorer quality light, they often flicker, and they often take like 8 seconds to light up.

Any consumer would choose flourescent given the chouxe in a vacuum
Nothing changed. You are just a victim of FUD on the Internet, my friend. That's all.
You reduce demand by letting people live and work where rent is affordable.
The law just needs to be: You can be the platform or you can be on the platform, but not both.
Thank you and you're welcome, too!
With 1 in 300 affected that's still a lot of people who can use cast iron
Because you work at or for some bureaucratic MegaCorp, that does weird things with no real logic behind it other than clueless Dilbert managers making decisions based on LinkedIn blogs. Alternatively desperate IT consultants trying to get something to work with too low of a budget and/or no access to do things the right way.

Be glad you have JSON to parse, and not EDI, some custom deliminated data format (with no or old documentation) - or shudders you work in the airline industry with SABRE.
Edit: I read H1-B as a generalization for “skilled immigration” - I now see that people have issues with the H1-B program, specifically.

The H1-B thing is kind of a non-sequitur. I think anyone involved in tech (software, hardware, anything) should be wildly in favor of massive H1-B increases, AI-related or not.

The U.S. has the opportunity to cement itself as the center of the world as far as technological progress from now into eternity. Why wouldn’t we take every brilliant immigrant we can get?

If you’re a software developer and you are afraid for your job/wages, I get that intuitively; but how many times do we have to learn the lesson that “more people making software leads to more software jobs”
For those downvoting, this won't help anyone the same problem to discover a potential solution.

So do vote it up.
I had no idea about this. This is amazing
The original birders gave photography a run for its money
Actually I missed one crucial detail. Not just the electrons of the atoms are repelling each other, the positively charged protons of the atoms are repelling each atom as well, even more so. As the protons are tightly packed in the nucleus, it's even more difficult to force the nucleus of two atoms together.
The roads/transportation networks are better (baked into the engine more deeply now, such for roundabouts and multi-modal transportation) and the map is much bigger. But honestly CS:1 mods did a "good enough" job at addressing those shortcomings anyway, and CS:2 is missing a lot of the DLC stuff that the first one added. It's got a pretty minimal selection of buildings at this point.

I'd wait a few months/years if I were you. Personally I feel like CS:2 was more of an architectural rewrite (as in the simulation engine) was awesome future potential, but gameplay-wise, modded and DLCed CS:1 just has a lot more actual content.

I still enjoyed CS:2 a lot though, if only because it's been a hot minute since the first game, and I forgot how much I loved this genre.
There was no real goal beyond the experience of building the thing and making it work. I use them to monitor stuff like fridge/freezer and HVAC intake/output, and as leak detectors in my crawlspace.

As you'd probably guess, the fixed cost of the manufacturing was extremely high. Unfortunately I didn't write the numbers down... but going from memory, ordering 5 instead of 30 would have only reduced the total cost by ~20%. I remember a weird valley in cost-per-unit at a quantity of 30: my understanding is that JLC combines small orders, so my guess is that 30 of that board was the largest order they were willing to squeeze onto the same panel as another one.
Key paragraph:

> Why? Unlike a paid subscription, which brings in a fixed amount of revenue each month, there is no ceiling to advertising revenue. The number of ads displayed and the rates a streaming platform can charge marketers for the ads are constantly fluctuating, offering unlimited revenue upside.

This makes a lot of sense, considering that all companies want is sustained, increasing YoY growth. What this means I suppose is that the streaming service have managed to recreate the cable era, but in some aspects also made things worse than before.

But as the story always goes in such cases,

> Consumers have grumbled, but have so far been willing to keep paying up

the story will continue. As a population we value our passive sensory overload too much.
Yeah, I should be clear, I don't mean to be particularly hard on OLPC. They tried to do a cool-sounding thing, it didn't happen to work out despite real efforts towards it, and as far as tech demos go the crank laptop wasn't egregious. But Susan G Komen isn't really being dishonest either - those numbers are from a nicely designed pie chart in their 2020 annual report! They're just responding to the donor demand for cool events and soaring rhetoric that makes them feel like part of a movement. People who are interested in effectiveness instead donate to organizations like the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which puts over 70% of donor money into research grants.
well said and i agree. i believe we are talking about different layers. your point - essentially assume your network is always breached - absolutely.

and don't you make that 'battle hardening' simpler and more effective by reducing the attack surface? e.g. by taking your servers off the internet (meaning your inbound firewall rules become deny all inbound (even 443)). so enforce (strong) auth outside your dmz, before allowing sessions on your network (or overlay network), even for APIs, B2B etc (otherwise your fw has exceptions).

and, yes, when that gets compromised, the attacker now needs to deal with the next set of 'battle hardened' layers.

meaning, shouldn't reducing attack surface and battle hardened services be an 'and', not an 'or'?
If the species is also alive, that means individuals are alive.