skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true. You will be punished by your organization. And by other too: they wouldn't hire you if you are known whistleblower.
> [...] an order to disable https://annas-archive.org through a DNS block [...] Visitors to the site are now greeted by the blocking page below in Italian.

To me, this is the most worrying part: how did they get a valid certificate for that "Anna's Archive" domain name, so that their blocking page is shown instead of a certificate mismatch error?
I find the article meandering, but still learned about a few interesting things like what “repetitively arrayed vaccines” are:

> The basic idea is that rigidly repetitive molecular structures — such as the repetitive surfaces of some types of virus particles — can reliably provide an exceptionally strong trigger for antibody-producing B cells. The exceptional performance of the HPV vaccine, which is composed of empty virus-like particles self-assembled from 360 copies of the HPV coat protein, is a spectacular fulfillment of Bachmann’s prophecy.

> [...]

> The Walter Reed vaccine arrays SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins on a repetitive platform called ferritin. I was ejected from the trial when FDA officials dictated that people who had received the newly released Moderna or Pfizer vaccines couldn’t be allowed to volunteer. I found the regulatory edict incomprehensible. The key question a Phase I trial of a second-generation Covid vaccine needs to answer is whether the vaccine is safe to use as a booster dose.

> [...]

> This past January, I again attempted to vote with my arm by asking to be enrolled in a Phase III trial of ABNCov-2, which uses a repetitive SpyCatcher platform Bachmann helped develop. Two weeks prior to my attempt to enroll in the trial, regulators inexplicably dictated that only people over age 65 could be eligible.

> Another repetitively arrayed vaccine, SKYCovione, was designed by Neil King and David Baker at University of Washington. SKYCovione was authorized for use in South Korea in June 2022, but Korean regulators devastatingly hobbled it by only allowing it to be used as a first dose. There’s basically nobody left in that category in Korea, so only a few thousand people received the improved vaccine.

> [...]

> Update: In April 2023, a trial of a vaccine where the “stalk” domain of influenza HA is repetitively arrayed on ferritin provided yet another convincing confirmation of the breadth and durability of antibody responses to Bachmann immunogens (Widge et al).
Yes, this is an extremely trivial problem. Anybody who knows how to program in more than one language is going to find this silly. awk or perl would finish it before jit compilation gets started.
Also: https://github.com/copy/v86 - more productized browser x86 runtime, used by eg https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm
Except MD5 is slower than SHA2 on modern PCs / servers.
> Did you know Lewinsky testified Bill thought his Oval Office phone was tapped by a foreign government?

That's not exactly surprising or news. I would wager most intelligence organizations would kill to get that level of access to the US president, and I expect that level of caution from all heads of state.

What exactly do you think is newsworthy in this finding?
"Fossils of ..." in case you were as scared as me
I find "Work" to be a bit of an odd inclusion here. Presumably most people have a job and necessarily complete many work tasks each day?
> Good software doesn’t need constant updates or maintenance

It does though. Unless your software just play a perfect 440hz A. Even a simple homemade tuner (my first and only android app) can't run on new phones without having to be updated (sadly. I use an ad-riddled one now :/)
And a large magnet.
Even if it is pre-polluted, you can outsource the pollution to remote areas where the factories and electricity plants are instead of fuming around dense cities where the population lives.
It’s interesting that this fruit is coming up again - I feel like it had a moment already back around 2016. Maybe that was just a bubble I was in though.

Definitely recommend trying one if you get the chance.
This is also the message of this old blog post from Dilbert.

1: https://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/car...
You hire people to implement a product based on this?
I drive my parents’ Model S and Model Y whenever I visit them. I’m very familiar with the cars. I love everything about the drive, can’t stand the UX.

> I love not plugging in my phone every time (no maps on Bluetooth with CarPlay)

So far, I test drove an Toyota RAV4 Prime 2023, a Audi Q3 2020, and a Mercedes GLC 300 2024, all have wireless CarPlay that starts with 1 tap after I sit down in the car. The Toyota and Mercedes have an inductive charging spot for the phone.
Room-Temperature Superconductor Replicated
Hello, I would like to get in contact with you (todd8) regarding TI and their old software development services. You wrote in another post that you were involved modernizing their stack back then. I'm a hobby computer games researcher and looking for info regarding TI's old programming services of the 70s. I have added an icloud email address to my profile. Could you please reach out? Thanks so much! P.S.: This is not a scam and I'm not some weird prince from your spam emails...
Microsoft wants to add a Copilot key to your PC keyboard
It's broken for hashing too.

The point is that MD5 is no good if there's any way an adversary might want to subvert it. It's fine if you just want to use it for hashing your own documents, but as soon as there's an incentive for someone to substitute one document for another, MD5 is problematic.

That's certainly the case for encryption, but it's also the case for these legal document records.
I was just looking at the headline and "That is a good beginning of a horror movie"
> Keep in mind she answers to Musk

She also answers to the laws of the society she lives in, which supersede and contractual obligations (or, rather, nullify them).

I've read a book or two that interview/discuss-what the elderly and what regrets they've had about their life: one of the common ones is that they didn't live their life with as much as integrity as they'd like to.
It’s whatever computers can’t do, dummy! :P
There are enough people growing pawpaws now that they will increasingly start showing up in farmer's markets over the next five years or so. The fourth generation of pawpaws (i.e. four generations improved from the prize-winning 1916 Ketter tree, which was selected from the wild) didn't start getting released until the mid 90s, and the fifth generation didn't start getting released until the mid 2010s. And it's at least decade between when a new cultivar gets release and when it's widely available to purchase, and then it takes another 5 - 7 years to grow to maturity after that. So it's really only within the last five years or so that it's even been possible to start growing commercial-quality fruit.

I started growing them in 2018, and even though that's not that long ago, the best cultivars you could get back then were complete garbage compared with what you can get today.
Assuming this calculation is correct, from my experience you can cut plastic and wood: https://chaos.social/@jaseg/111697386931635059

But it won't even mark steel unless you pre-prepare the steel with absorbent inks, and definitely won't cut it.
> The simplest explanation is that his idea of speech that should be free is: "stuff I agree with" and anything that falls outside of that box can be freely censored or actioned against. Is there an alternative explanation I'm not seeing?

No; that's about the size of it. This is a surprisingly common stance for people who go on about "free speech" a lot; they often don't mean free speech at all. Freedom from personal criticism would be closer to the mark.
Something like what? An eye?
As someone that uses ChatGPT every day, I feel confident saying that it is nowhere near capable enough for this use case without a lot of additional "structure" to support the prompting.
I like Apple Books for epub (syncs across devices) but I don't like the random offloading of books from the device to iCloud. I read the most when I'm offline (at the beach or camping in the mountains) and I'll get there only to discover half of my books have been offloaded from my phone. There's no setting to prevent this.
I had a bit of a bet as to whether the first comment would be about nuclear. I won. :)
> any reasonably performant implementation would be faster not only than NVMe

Saturating NVMe bandwidth is wicked hard if you don't know what you're doing. Most people think they're I/O bound because profiling hinted at some read() function somewhere, when in fact they're CPU bound in a runtime layer they don't understand.
It's a strange mix of simultaneous under- and overvaluation. Single applications are undervalued, but the entire industry is overvalued. Our innovative user exploitation tactics have enabled the profitable creation of tons of software with no underlying value.

The software us undervalued compared to what it costs to produce, but overvalued in terms of what it's worth to users.
> That post is unfortunately now members only

I found an old snapshot at https://archive.is/Y8pX4
This is not how it worked at all. There were not competing systems, there were not proposals, there were only practices, and there was certainly not critical evaluation of what worked best. There was a ton of path dependence.

We use notation for the same reason they use Chinese characters in China: partly for cultural prestige reasons, but primarily because it would be such a hassle to switch, with a billion people having invested so much in learning it and so much being written in it.

(It's interesting that China should go the exact opposite way of cumbersome inherited complexity in their own music notation system, which as I've noted elsewhere is an undeniable pedagogic success but struggles to get accepted as more than a stepping stone to "real" notation)
Salt: An Introduction
> I thought the whole concepts of modes was stupid.

> people want to play the game of “who can spin the most plates in their head”. It is a stupid game to play, and only stupid people like playing it.

Modes are exactly the first part of the solution - you remember 1-key prefix for a bunch of other 1-key prefixes

> If you are learning Emacs, there is nothing wrong with writing down commands, either on paper, or even in another editor, or using an online cheat sheet.

There is, it's a much bigger effort vs. the editor conveniently(!) showing you that cheat sheet (that's the second part of the solution). Not sure about emacs, but e.g., Helix does this almost correctly - when you press the first 1-key prefix it would show a panel that lists all the other keys/commands within that mode so you don't need to remember all 50 commands in your "goto" mode

You don't need any papers/online cheatsheets (context switches/wasting time searching, which is especially awful with physical paper), instead you get help right when you need it right where you need it!
https://archive.ph/IqiHc
I think you're interpreting it wrong. Edge-cases matter a lot for quality of life, as some other comments illustrated well.

The solutions to these edge-cases don't need to be solved by the same thing that solves your average case though. Give me a fleet of large cars that I can rent whenever I have a long-distance drive, and maybe I'll consider not even owning a car.
The only place I found them was in Pawpaw, WV, USA, where I was hiking the Pawpaw tunnel trail, many years ago.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/herve-falciani...

> The French police arrested Falciani and seized his MacBook Pro and his iPhone. But when he was out of earshot of the Swiss prosecutor, on the way to the police station in nearby Menton, he told the gendarmes that his computer contained information of possible interest to the French state ... The Swiss prosecutor demanded that Montgolfier turn over Falciani’s laptop, but he demurred. “We’ll look at the computer,” he said. “Then we’ll decide if we return it.” ... While French authorities deliberated how to proceed, Falciani spent the night in a holding cell in Menton. But the next morning, in a gesture that indicated a shift in Falciani’s status, his guards surprised him with coffee and croissants.
It's also becoming normal that these subscription services make you jump hoops to terminate the contract (tried to close your vpn subscription recently?). A few years ago I could just let my paypal run dry and that would stop the payment and end the contract. Nowadays I can no longer make paypal payments without linking my bank account, which means you have to jump the hoops to end the payments.
Maintenance of your software. Can you sell bug fixing of your software? You can sell new features. Of course you will add a line to the contract about bug fixing, and put few poor souls occasionally to fix issues reported by vip customers, but it is not a selling point.
You know, in some places there are warning signs that read: Do not look into laser with remaining eye (https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1482f39eeb7fe2a2abc36...).

Anyway, common sense says you don't look with your unprotected eye through a fiber endpoint.
Something that responds to a protocol handshake?
I am a whistleblower in the UK. The issue is large enough it could get into the papers or the dismantling of an organisation. It is not a comfortable position to be in and I'm fully cognizant of the risks to my future employability. Nonetheless it has to be done. I would urge people to speak up even over little things.

Bad things happen when good men do nothing, is succinct and appropriate.
Another way to say "this is a strawman argument on range concerns" is to say "some people use their car as a primary mode of transportation, and struggle with normal issues with combustion engine car reliability... they aren't going to overpay for a less functional product, which may have other unknown concequences".

The majority of people don't know or care how their car works, they are busy with life.

Being dismissive of real and tangible concerns is a luxury of excess. Electric cars are fine in CA context, but there are plenty of learning curves with these cars. I've tried to rent an electric for rental car use when taking road trips to see how bad it is... Hertz has almost given up on Teslas and Lucid has started giving several to Enterprise and others to rent them out.

If you cant plug it in everywhere you park, for example in Colorado, there are some huge inefficiencies like battery heating/cooling losses which impact range up to 2x.
Even in C, incompatible object accesses are undefined, not unspecified. (`char` is a major exception.) Using `union` is explicitly allowed by ISO C for this use case; you need to use `memcpy` or `std::bit_cast` in C++ instead though.
I'm having trouble with this framing. The buckets only make sense metaphorically, but is written literally. The "laws" only make sense literally, too.

For maintenance, if "you'll see this role smeared into product development" and "We give you a generous 2 days every sprint to take care of shit that's annoying," the budget here is R&D, not "Maintenance."

Similarly, Growth and Developer Relation engineers are often (usually?) in the Product org.

If these roles are actually in the R&D/Product Development budget, the "laws" about budget management don't apply cleanly enough that they can be a "law."
The other 70% can be used to heat your office through the fiber?
> It's literally free after building the infrastructure.

That's a gross oversimplification of the problem at hand. The entire supply chain from mining to manufacturing to shipping relies on fossil fuel... The investments to renew all that will have to come from somewhere.

It is not "literally" free, it is free only if you ignore the global industrial complex required to build and service them.
Can someone advise me when you have a family of 4 kids? Thinking of buying a Ford Explorer. About 30k for a 3 years old one. I believe there are no equivalent EVs. An old model X is just not practical.
It's better to remap those MacOS defaults rather than suffer with the wrong basics everywhere
You seem to like moving the goal posts.

No one claimed that the average suburban "Main St" is going to compare to high-density urban planning, but that suburban shopping options generally offer choices for most daily shopping needs within a reasonable (1-8km) distance independent from the city hub they're next to.
It's an old bit of wisdom that's hard to stamp out. That's partly because anything that you don't understand below you in the runtime stack looks like "I/O" during profiling, so the misunderstanding perpetuates even among people who attempt to take a closer look, but don't know enough.
PDF being Turing complete doesn't mean that the program embedded within can access the bytes of the document.
Bing, Yandex support?
Seems like https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/browser/ is the place to go.

Looks like you need to register for a (free) account, though.
After Poland joined the EU, Poles acquired the right to work in some EU countries, while most of the members implemented transition periods. The UK, Ireland, Sweden and Malta allowed Poles to work freely without any limitations from the start.

So, solely a UK decision again.
Your argument is the same as saying most people that live in cities don't actually need a car at all - just use public transport and perhaps hire a car for those odd occasions where you really need one.

I lived in a city for a decade without a car - and did exactly that - but when I had children - I found I needed both more certainty and more flexibility for my travel - so I got a car.

Don't underestimate those aspects - range impacts that flexibility ( not just range on a single journey, but cumulative range over a number of journeys without charging ).

Availability of charging points impacts both flexibility & certainty.

These are real concerns.

Range and charging are of course linked - if charging was easily available and very quick then range on one charge ceases to be much of an issue. If the range from a single charge is massive, then frequency of charge points is less of an issue.

So the good news is any improvement on either has a synergistic effect.
Always amazed how many of these "hackers" are so incredibly deferential to some rich guy.
> Toxic how?

Literally. Pollution.

> Capitalism pushes me to live comfortable life?

Capitalism pushes you to buy things that won't actually make you more comfortable. Or that are very ineffective.

> “You will own nothing and be happy”?

Yes, definitely. Suggesting you rent for rare occasions is the same as owning nothing.
Is there ever a reason to use an INT these days? If you do have a lot of rows, you need BIGINT anyway. If you don't have a lot of rows, the few extra megabytes of disk usage from INT vs BIGINT are unlikely to cause any problems and are probably not even worth thinking about.
Thanks! It was quite a fun problem to dive into... the company hired animal behaviorists and put a lot of thought into the "soft" issues that it wanted the software to be able to solve, while allowing for flexible decisions from managers and employees, so it was challenging as understanding the domain... and yes I would say animal management is quite a tricky logistical problem that most people never even consider.

In a larger way, though, 90% of this kind of work is pencil and paper, drawing out all possibilities you can think of, and then asking questions like "what if X and Y are friends staying together, and Y and Z and Q are friends, but X and Z are enemies, and Z+Q is showing up on night 4 of X+Y stay, should Y move in with Z if there are 2 nights left? 3? A majority? Ever?" I would get into long, long conference calls where I would ask them all these scenarios and graph them out before I started writing the code. So the code just expresses what they would hopefully wish to do based on their domain knowledge and best practices. And that is the real trick of optimization... making the clients happy ;)
And if infrared, you won't even see it, and even reflections can be damaging to the eyes in theory.
It's a trivial problem to implement, but not trivial to implement faster than others. Awk won't beat solutions that are clever about multiple read queues and parallel processing.
You can use it for a low voltage relay switch for example. Recently got a device that has a small LCD, buttons, a small OS and which consumes ~ 20mA at 4V.

Nowadays you can do a lot of things with 3V and 100mA.
If nothing else, 10 years forces the renewal cert to use a newer, likely less vulnerable encryption algorithm. Imagine your organization was dependent on a CA root using a mid-90's algorithm and still had another 70 years to expiration.
Planetary Nomenclature [pdf]
Exactly this. More often than not with proprietary software, I'd rather spend £20 once and expect stability than pay £1.99/month and find that things are constantly changed/broken/"improved"/worsened for no reason.

I actually don't dislike the model that TablePlus etc use also, where my purchase grants me updates for a year. If I want more updates after that, I pay again. If not, I sit still on the version that I'm on forever more.
I used Emacs as a simple editor knowing only these basic commands for years, but I always felt it was hard to remember more advanced commands. Once I tried vscode, it was so simple to configure that I did not think I would ever use Emacs again.

Strangely enough I decided to learn vim keybindings once I heard that it can be learned as a language.
After a while I learned about LSP and got curious if I could adjust my setup to run remotely over ssh. I ended up trying Lunarvim and then Doom.

I finally feel like I can use all the power of Emacs as an editor with the vim keybindings, and Doom LSP support is amazing. So yeah, learning vim is what got me back into Emacs.
I checked (extensively) the background of “The Ferret” and indeed it is as close as you will ever get to independently funded investigative journalism citing first party statistics.

So, you could not possibly be more wrong when disregarding it.

Stop the gaslighting.
Do some varieties have less nerve toxicity? Sloan recommends avoiding “chronic” use — unclear if that means weekly or what?

https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs....
Somethink I never think about:
"It wasn’t always that easy to develop a program and run it on the same machine"

Really? Of course I'm not talking about embedded system. But PC in the 70s/80s, like Apple II, ZX-80, TRS-80 etc etc.

I guess we, 90s kids, are too spoiled :)
Search for cuckoo hashing. It's a whole thing for data structures.
when people buy a car, they usually want an all-purpose car, to be able to do long trips as well. Usually, there is no room in a city for two cars, and there is no possibility of relying on rental cars during vacation/mid-term breaks, as everybody wants to borrow a car at that time.

Hence, having a long-range car makes sense for them and me, especially because my city wants to expel gas cars anyway.
Just modified the original post to add the file_fdw. Again, none of the instances (PG or ClickHouse) were optimised for the workload https://ftisiot.net/posts/1brows/
I do not remember anyone on the Mac's using Turbo Pascal, as there was a far superior offering named Lightspeed Pascal by Think Technologies. As I remember it, it would take Borland the better part of a decade to catch up to the level of Pascal IDE quality Think offered in 1986.