skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Send a mirror ahead, bounce the beam back toward the ship to push it backwards. Loses a lot of efficiency, though. Laser propulsion, a lot of the thrust is coming from ablation of the surface.
No one will disagree.
Agreed. Many more people will die of heart disease And cancer than from global warming. Too many chemicals in our environment and food chain.
Random day is a bit overkill in my opinion, in the sense that there are too many days to explore, I would be more interested in random week, as in the most upvoted that week, as url that could be something like /front?week=34&year=2024
Given that AI is able to hallucinate, how can we be convinced the results are accurate? Did they create a new scroll, burn it, and compare the results to what was actually written?
UUIDv1 is the only one that specifies a MAC address to be included in the UUID. All others specify timestamp data, pseudo random values, or MD5/SHA1 string hashes.

I cannot rightly apprehend the scenario you are describing. A medical provider might generate a UUIDv1 and add it to a record of mine, and this will somehow destroy my ability to have an alibi in court with respect to corporate espionage?

I'm not in a bond movie, I just need to keep track of events and have them sort in chronological order
If the message that "Climate change is happening, it will cause starvation, large scale displacement, and regional conflicts, and significant economic disruption" isn't enough to make people take notice, why would "Here is a list of creatures you have never seen in real life and might live on a different continent from you" would have any impact?
"Bad" and "un-performant" are relative terms and as your company gets bigger, you're increasingly more and more likely to have colleagues who write even worse queries than an ORM would.

For example I've encountered queries that are not only slow, but they generate several hundred megabytes of output all of which is sent to the user's web browser where JavaScript selects the relevant two kilobytes of data to show the user.

The worst I've ever seen was a system where every single write to the database would be sent to every single web browser viewing certain webpages. 99.999999% of the writes were completely irrelevant and javascript in the browser would simply disregard them. The server load was immense... and eventually our Sysadmin brought it to someone's attention. Where we found out it was leaking sensitive data.
Kinda similar to DEF CON badges. Very cool!!
Hmm I don't know if the ordinance is the main factor that leads to the decline in demand or just everything is getting too expensive nowadays. In my own experience living in the area, we've stopped ordering food since a few years ago. We also stopped going to restaurants because everything has become so expensive for us. We cook meals at home and our kids bring lunch from home.
maybe you are a dick, but you don't realize it
(2022)

The first time I saw a PCB business card, I thought it was pretty cool. Then I saw a PCBA business card (with components!) and was amazed. But now I just see them as unnecessary e-waste for vanity. Business cards get read, scanned, and tossed. At least the impact of a piece of paper and ink is small compared to fiberglass resin, copper foil, ENIG, and solder mask. This example isn't even that great as a business card: the typography and contrast make the contact information poorly legible compared to the component silkscreen. Amazing PCB art (https://grandideastudio.com/portfolio/projects/the-worlds-th... is the best I've seen) makes creative use of the different contrast, translucency, and textures between exposed and masked copper, masked and unmasked bare FR4, and silkscreen layers. It's a very constrained graphic design problem that takes a good eye.
The class-war narrative is all this has ever been. Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, among others are all falling apart because of this incredibly stupid narrative. I'm not sure how it could get more obvious.
I was surprised by their choice of current-limiting resistors for the LEDs (instead of constant current driver) but I guess their goal was to keep the hardware As Simple As Possible
The HN algorithm for comments is not prepared for the 90% problem. One poor quality comment receives the majority of the replies, putting the poor quality first in the list.
Is this a US thing because there has been so much debate on race, equity and etc? I thought this was obvious. Academic excellence arguably requires the least resources, which means the difference in social-economic status matters the least. All one needs is access to excellent books and internet resources, a competent teacher, and optionally a supporting community. And one driven kid can get all of them from libraries and the internet nowadays.

Besides, SAT and ACT are really simple tests. If one gets 1600 for SAT, it does not mean this person will excel in academics, but if one gets 800 for SAT, well, this person statistically is not smart enough to achieve academic excellence. Of course, this person can be smart in many other ways.
If you'd prefer some additional constraint, consider that today is a random day and you can simply go to the front page :) this reduces the number of days to explore to just one.
What fractional / moonlighting sites are you referring to?
> There are no “bad” jobs

What about fentanyl dealer? Hitman? Psychologist for a social media or tobacco company? Telemarketer?
I'm working on my own projects. Right now, most of my effort goes to AI Construx (https://aiconstrux.com), build things with AI.
The Forever War novels have this as a key plot point, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
It's obvious you're not just seeking feature parity...you're being a contrarian for its own sake.

Keyword bookmarks have been a thing in Firefox since 1.0.x days and well before Chrome was officially released. It's an opinionated implementation that lives today as ~2 decades of deeply engrained tech debt. How do you even come off expecting Mozilla to operate at the same level as Google and its $1.7+ trillion market cap?? The level of entitlement in your remarks is simply beyond absurd.
I'm building AI Construx (https://aiconstrux.com): build things with AI. I'm planning to launch the private beta by end of Feb.
I think parent's point is these people probably still kept a laptop on the side, even if that's not their primary device.

And it's totally fine, but we could be at a point where there was absolutely no need to keep a laptop "just in case" or for the rare occasions it's needed.

I like the Connected podcast's take on it, where at some point two of the three hosts where primarily on iPad, but keeping their recording setup on the mac and a few other task where they needed another computer as a bridge for random reasons.
4.1.1 The variant field determines the layout of the UUID. That is, the interpretation of all other bits in the UUID depends on the setting of the bits in the variant field. As such, it could more accurately be called a type field; we retain the original term for compatibility.

4.1.3 The version number is in the most significant 4 bits of the time stamp (bits 4 through 7 of the time_hi_and_version field). The following table lists the currently-defined versions for this UUID variant. The version is more accurately a sub-type; again, we retain the term for compatibility.

It's recognized in the RFC and all you've done is broke compatibility for fashion.
an interesting comparison is 2^256 ~= 1e77 ~= 0.001 x the number of atoms in the universe. So in 256 bits we almost have enough combinations to assign every particle _there is_. Considering we've made considerably fewer works than there are particles, you could probably actually get pretty far along collision resistance by just assigning fingerprints randomly. Another way to look at that is UUIDs are only 128 bits (sqrt as many combinations, 1e38) and they're pretty resistant. Another amazement is that we can have a deterministic hashing function to select a fingerprint _based on the content_ in a way that preserves collision resistance.

For a similar thought experiment, consider the space of all 1920x1080 RGB images , which necessarily contains all films ever made or ever _could_ be made, screenshots of future stock prices (including all the wrong ones), and pictures of your great great great grandchildren (or not). Then figure that randomly sampling that space just gives white noise – suggesting our 'content' probably isn't a large fraction of the total space. :)

https://robson.plus/white-noise-image-generator/
Third sentence from the source you listed:

Earth is currently in the ice age called Quaternary glaciation.

It’s remarkable how reliably little there is to learn in climate threads here[2], so let me do my small part to present some basic scientific information that might be interesting to the curious.

Ice ages occur when the various Milankovitch cycles[1] and the locations of the Earth’s various tectonic plates line up just so. There needs to be a large polar continent on which large ice sheets can form to create a positive feedback loop where the ice increases the Earth’s albedo resulting in further cooling, and even more ice, &c. There also need to be at least two oceans to slow heat transfer. So even with a polar supercontinent there’s no ice age.

As you can see, currently all the conditions necessary for an ice age obtain, which is why geologists say we’re in one. Currently a glaciation is theoretically possible, but we don’t really know what gets that particular snowball rolling.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

[2] Note the complete lack of Shannon entropy in the first child. Followed by dismissing scientific knowledge about the Earth’s climate as “moot” no less!
As I said, the rate of growth is decreasing, but sales are still growing. That article is kinda misleadingly couched, tho (I mean, Murdoch media, what can you expect?), and I can see how people could misread it as saying that sales were actually decreasing.
The (current) compatibility is closer to drop-in than not. Most of these packages have maintainers and an upstream. It is just a matter of getting it done.

There exist distros using libressl and musl, proving feasibility.
They need to have actual teeth, as well. Otherwise, you get things like Facebook just shrugging off a $5 billion fine and then going on to do more of the exact same things that lead to the fine.

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/ftc-facebook-broke-terms-5b-...
VC's have sky high hopes of AI.

Why? Because they have absolutely lost it in the Crypto / Web3 / NFT / Micro mobility / Office as a Service sectors.

If they want their 100x growth, they are pretty much all in on AI, because they are down 50%+ on everything else.
"initiated" is a stretch... If your neighbor is coming to kill you and you shoot first you are - again - defending yourself... thats one of the dumbest arguments i've ever heard!
Speaking of "reading like sci-fi", what's that book where they scan an entire library of books, descructively, by feeding them into a "book chipper" like device that chops the books up into little pieces, vacuums those pieces up and scans the pieces as they flow through, reconstructing the original text by putting the scanned results together like so many jigsaw puzzles? It was a subplot of the book, but I can't for the life of me remember what book it was.
Since the end of the free money era, a lot of people are rightly questioning the microservice/k8s/cloud-native model that requires you to run an operation team of 20 people and has a baseline cost of 200k$/year for a cluster that doesn't do anything yet.
Category 1 - 74-95 mph

Category 2 - 96-110 mph

Category 3 - 111-129 mph

Category 4 - 130-156 mph

Category 5 - 157 mph or higher

I’m not sure why these divisions were made. The jumps between are seemingly arbitrary, from 27 mph to 15 mph and no pattern I can discern. What makes the next jump to 192 which is the largest jump yet?
Such a SUV has barely more room than a 308, though, which is lighter, smaller, and more efficient. I agree that there are not that many good family cars and even more reasonably-sized cars are somehow getting too large on the outside and too cramped on the inside at the same time. It makes them very impractical in a lot of situations.
It does not take much more years to the edge of the visible universe.
How else do you propose doing it?
The expert ego can block learning
Why It's So Risky Doing Business in China
Extant cl compilers are quite primitive. Well known and uncomplicated analyses exist that can cope with this; e.g. in llvm https://godbolt.org/z/nadbG5zGs
It's nothing new to talk about, but rating a hurricane's destructive force on windspeed alone is sub-optimal.

On the other side, one-dimensional labels for a storm help convey the severity of it quickly and unambiguously.

Hurricanes have three components IIRC (as someone who lived on the coast a long time): Storm surge flooding, rain flooding, and wind.

Hurricane Ike was a cat2 in 2008, which did significant damage to the Houston coast because of its large storm surge.

Harvey in 2017 was damaging due to its consistent rain over the area as it stalled. Tropical storm Allison in 2001 was similar.

One may argue that wind causes the most acute damage as well as the fastest "change in status" of the three: High winds can topple a tree to block a road instantly, or rip the roof from a house in a flash, or knock down powerlines taking out a neighborhood.

While I'm not against a cat 6 or higher rating existing, for the sake of human communication "cat 5" means "get the hell out of there" already.
> I searched around for a cool system and settled on DECstation2100 (or its big brother - DECstation3100).

The DECstation 3100 was nice. It was very fast at the time it came out, and had the huge CRT with the GUI desktop, mouse, etc., a few years after the Mac. It also my first time seeing a Unix workstation, which was fantastic at the time, since I'd only ever touched Unix on BBSes and on random old underpowered timesharing boxes with old dumb terminals. (It was an internship, I was in charge of the porting lab for some very expensive software, and our first DECstation 3100, hostname `screamer`, was probably our fastest at that moment, so it doubled as my first workstation.)

Ultrix was a decent Unix, and DECwindows was nicer than the stock X11 found on many other Unix workstations. Not as consumer-products polished and friendly as the Mac, but obviously a more powerful OS, and more flexible distributed window system.

Another nice thing about Ultrix was that it could talk both TCP/IP and DECnet. I used this to rig up transparent access to our VAXstation 3100 VAX/VMS units remotely from people's Sun workstations in their cubes. (And without trying to get purchase authorization for something like Multinet for the VAXstations.)

(This gateway later evolved into a small part of the Common User Environment (CUE) that I developed as an over-enthusiastic intern's evenings&weekends project, which gave familiar and powerful UI, features, and accesses, no matter which workstation or porting system you were in front of. Which was before the Unix workstation vendors got together to make CDE, but got their lunch eaten by Windows NT on the engineering desktop, and eventually by Linux on the dotcom servers. And you tied an onion on your belt, which was the fashion of the day.)

This article of course demonstrates much more intimate familiarity with the DECstation 3100 than I ever needed to have, and is very impressive.
It won't, because many of today's children are already growing up used to the lack of biodiversity . If you're living in a large city, wildlife and insects are things you see on Netflix and in video games and sort of abstractly know are somewhere out there. Maybe.
What is this Reddit comment you linked to? It seems to contain a list of links to Reddit comments on posts of vaguely similar topics, each of which itself follows the same format. It's a seemingly bottomless pit of "sources" for something, vaguely conspiratorial but not stating what the main theme is supposed to be.
> AI-protein design

Any recommendations on learning how to do this? As well as the limitations to your approach? I've been interested in engineering site-specific DNA binding proteins for over a decade now, but the tools I've looked at are specific for protein to small-molecule or protein to protein interfaces.
> I can't bring myself to care about 86 instead of 83 degrees F in the summer and 23 instead of 20 in the winter.

Respectfully, you've not understood the measure and the meaning of global average.

For most of the past 200K years, most of human 'advanced' existance there's been little change in the global mean and all the seasons have changed as per written history and your recollection.

Lifting the global mean introduces more energy to the climate cells about the globe, driving more extreme changes, intoducing greater storms, setting us up for even more change as water vapor and methane levels rise which themselves are greater insulators that trap more heat than CO2.
>I stopped using DoorDash once I saw the big 'every delivery costs an extra $5 now thanks to Seattle' modal on their front page because it's so dishonest.

How is that dishonest? DoorDash's costs have risen because of the new law. The first three seconds of the news this discussion is about explicitly mentions the "$5 fee".

>I don't mind fees going up some, and in contrast GrubHub isn't playing games - the fees are just higher now

You no doubt supported the law, just like all other good bien-pensants. You just don't like seeing the consequences clearly spelled out.
I’m not suggesting we don’t outlaw illegal activities. I’m saying for legal enterprises, stuff needs to get done. Bad jobs are in the eye of the beholder. A lot of people love delivering for door dash vs. working retail.
100 atoms per cubic meter is on the lower end of typical densities in the interstellar medium. It can get many orders of magnitude denser than that.

Outside galaxies you have better chances of surviving high speeds. The intergalactic medium is only 1-10 particles per cubic meter in the web of gas we call the warm–hot intergalactic medium, and possibly less outside of that.
>That sounds like a really good change! Tipping is such an archaic mess.

The elephant in the room is that the reason we still have tipping for servers in restaurants and bar staff is that it's actually overwhelmingly their preference. There's a lot of complaining about bad pay and the tipped-wage discount on the minimum wage etc. but not actually a lot of support for doing away with tipping.

Part of that is the opportunities that tips give for tax evasion. The IRS reckons that something like 10% of all individual income tax underreporting is due to incorrect reporting of tips: employees are supposed to tell their employers how much they got tipped, and there's really no effective enforcement.
To the dealership’s credit, McDonald’s is probably not selling you a McDLT on credit and they probably don’t have to file a UCC-1.
I think your disclaimer is fine, I just wondered where Malcolmlisk wanted to go with his comment.
eksctl should be fine.

It is the official recommend tool by AWS and eksctl examples are everywhere in the AWS documentation.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-sta...
I was meaning to ask, was the group of German hackers you encountered affiliated with the CCC/Chaos Computer Club at all? It's been a while since I read the book and NOVA didn't go into any detail there.

I know some of the CCC folks went on to start the SSDev lockpicking club. The first time I attended the TOOOL lock picking conference in Sneak NL I met some of the SSDev guys and their then-president mentioned that they "learned lessons" from the early days of the CCC and applied those when they started SSDev. Lessons such as having members/friends "disappeared" by the Stasi/etc. and trying to play nicer with the authorities this time. It had never occurred to me until recently that the guy who met an unfortunate end in the woods in The Cuckoo's Egg could be related to these other stories I had heard years later.
The ML models were trained without knowledge of the scrolls' language. The models extracted images, and human experts were able to read the images as text. There was no text corpus fed in that could be leaked into the output.
A great deal is hard to pass on. As @muzani pointed out, most financiers, like VCs and PE investors, look for hard evidence that point to a future payout. Your challenge then becomes how to build/present that evidence.

Can you share a little about your personal projects that have potential?

I think in terms of you looking for a good deal, that might be too early, instead look for a network you can plug in to that can supply you not only with money but can perhaps recognize your talents (from a showcase of your personal projects) and connect you where your talents can be utilized maximally.

Search for VCs, Investors, Accelerators, or Incubators that specialize in the Video Game industry and build friendships first.

If you document your personal projects consistently at a regular pace, your friendships will evolve into professional opportunities.
But note that the actual data presented shows an increase in sales.
The actual problem is fairly simple: Over the past three years McDonald's pricing has become delusional, especially considering the quality of the food. They were able to coast on consumer habit for a while, but their salad days are over (literally and figuratively).

https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/1/9/24027094/fast-food-pri...

To keep it a bit tech-related, their mobile app is terrible, even by fast-food app standards. It's not native, it's janky and slow, it tends to crash if (to provide a real example) you don't give it two seconds to increment a quantity, and the UX design is embarrassing. They also removed customers' ability to edit or cancel orders, even though no food prep is started until you arrive and users must verbally communicate the alpha-numeric mobile order code (even though the app knows that you're there).

A real screenshot of the McDonald's app on my phone: https://imgur.com/a/IAh4Ybl
How the Economy Mistreats Stem Workers
> Unfortunately, "impact" is almost always measured by what features you shipped rather than considering the impact your code had on the long-term maintainability of the codebase.

I've been trying to communicate this with absolutely no luck at all. Just coding is not considered "impact", meanwhile there are a ton of bugs and features take ridiculously long to complete. I believe this is major misunderstanding or lack of knowledge as to how software should work, thinking it's analogous to building hardware where you need more and more people to scale productivity.
As much as I'd like to endorse study of the classics, I'm almost certain that AI will be better at interpreting the texts than humans very soon.
And yet people were using them more until the city decided to add the extra fee. Just because a cost is added by the government doesn't make it immune to the demand-supply curve.
Cool - nice idea. Can I make a feature request? Automatically offer an alternate fetch of a post’s target URL from the Internet archive.

The first post I found (from 2012) was supposed to be the letter that Apple published on its website apologising for how terrible the new Apple maps app was after its divorce from Google. But Apple has removed that from their website now, so it was just a 404 - an auto fetch from the Internet archive would have been very handy.
There are certainly valid syntatical criticisms you can have of SQL[1] but on the whole SQL is expressive and rather concise while being solid enough to remain the default expression language of choice for fifty years.

1. The order of the phrases, the lack of trailing commas, the fact that an awful organization controls the standards and gatekeeps them to a bizarre extent.