skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, it looks like what he's proposing is fundamentally different from inertial confinement fusion. Inertial confinement with lasers is so hard because it's so tricky to apply perfectly even, symmetric force on every side of the hohlraum. What's being proposed here seems to be more on the line of <attosecond laser pulses directly exciting the nucleus, so wouldn't be useful for fusion but would have very different yields and wouldn't have the same trouble with maintaining confinement.
Federal deficit increases 26% to $984B for fiscal 2019, highest in 7 yrs
A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with an ‘e’,
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.

In the USA and Ireland,
it’s spelt with an ‘e’
but in Scotland
it’s real ‘Whisky’.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an ‘e’,
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of ‘Scotch Whisky’.
~ Stanley Bruce.

[1] http://thearrogantmale.blogspot.com/2011/04/helpful-poem-to-...
Use a broker. They do lots of these deals. Will be worth it.

See the link to patio11's essay for more.
The very first sentence:

> New York’s insurance regulator said it is launching an investigation into a UnitedHealth Group Inc. algorithm that a study found prioritized care for healthier white patients over sicker black patients.

prioritized care for healthier white patients
I imagine the NSA routinely keeps vulnerabilities to themselves, for their own use.
It is? They utterly dominate in the US. Indian Americans have far and away the highest median household income of any ethnic group in the US (and it’s close to 2x that of white Americans). My understanding is that almost all Indian immigration to the US is from the upper castes.
We live in a society.
You want finance software not accounting. Even then, I don't know how software is going to budget for you without you entering in all the estimates expenses and coordinating GLs.
I don't get it either. back in the 4:3 days, I liked narrow fonts just so I could more easily view side-by-side code (e.g. vimdiff). These days, with giant monitors that are never more narrow than 8:5, I can have 4 files wide and be fine with a more traditional width font.
The N one.

I remember it syntactically much less noisy than Nix's, though. Ergonomics is hard.
And Google Groups, which had a truly wonderful searchable Usenet archive (inherited from DejaNews), but several redesigns later is nearly useless.

Though given how many people have old Usenet postings they'd like to forget, maybe it's not that bad.
It feels like unsecured elasticsearch clusters are becoming the new s3/mongodb.

I’ve been noticing increased scans for their default ports on servers I maintain.

It’s not very surprising given how insecure the defaults are for the typical ELK stack, and how tedious it is to actually setup sane authz.
Agreed. The builders actually made the market bigger,and at some point some of these folks who use builders run into the limits. Next stop, webdev shop.
Had a lot of experience with McKinsey doing projects at my company at different levels I’ve been in throughout it the years. When it’s highly technical things like implementing a new technology or creat8!( a new manufacturing footprint, they do really good work. Anything “Strategic” or fluffy like this I find a waste of time. They are excellent salespeople and do a lot to calm the C-suite but I rarely see these fluffy items like this article driving employee happiness or the bottom line after spending millions.
Not to be flippant, but if you choose to use Facebook you are already throwing your privacy to the wind, and you are probably getting what you deserve.
I go back and forth with my old boss all of the time on this:

> The big question is why we would want that?

from https://dev.to/azure/docker---from-the-beginning-part-i-28c6

Those are great reasons on why you would want to run Docker for local development, but why would you want to run Docker in production? My old boss takes the side of "I do not want to run Docker in production" and argues it is too much code/too much headache to be responsible for.
The original announcement email does a much better job of explaining the actual vulnerability, and the configuration under which its an issue (using ALL and !root in the runas part of the sudoers entry)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/14/1

This writeup does little to explain the issue beyond showing a config line that is vulnerable (but doesn't really explain which part makes it vulnerable). It also incorrectly states the issue is sudo failing to parse the value correctly.

> the function fails to parse all values correctly and when giving the parameter user id “-1” or its unsigned number “4294967295”, the command will run as root, bypassing the security policy entry we set in the example above.

Which is incorrect, sudo parses the value just fine, the issue comes from the `setresuid` and `setreuid` calls. Both treat -1 as a special case that means the corresponding value should not be modified.[0][1]

I mean, sure this article gets the key point that -u#-1 gets you root, but if you're explaining a vulnerability I'd expect the technical details to be correct.

[0] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setresuid.2.html

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/setreuid.2.html
Another way of looking at things is that the advantage of social coordination that comes from a huge monoculture is strong enough to vastly outperform the fractured diversity of India despite the incredible unforced errors you mentioned.
Also from FAQ :

> A programming font with cursive italics and ligatures is the worst idea in the world. This is absolutely horrible. BTW, I am really angry.

> [Answer:] Not really a question, but anyway: People actually like different things. And it's OK. It's OK if someone else prefers a different font for code than you do. We don't have to use the same one. ️

(though obv. parent post is not hostile like this Q)
+1 for nnn!
I suspect it's intended to speak to self-centeredness.
That's certainly the goal.

The implementation of the goal is a hot mess. Because punitive damage is a thing, anytime working for some other form is generally discouraged from even reading them, lest the owner can prove willful infringement.
> The intensity of the panic rose and fell more than once over these 200 years [..] It’s unclear how many were executed. The interactive map includes data on the deaths of 123 people. Other sources estimate 300 to 2,000.

So an upper estimate of 10 deaths per year - hardly an "extensive craze".
Shouldn't it be called "A sophisticated programming font" then? :D
Devoting more than a couple of minutes to choosing an IDE font seems like the height of bikeshedding to me. Using cursive in your IDE just seems completely beyond reason...

I have no idea at all why this is becoming so trendy. Do people have so few problems to work on that this has become a reasonable use of their time?
The source they're referencing was talking about asking companies to prioritize roles by value creation. Ten percent ended up being roles that didn't exist in the organization, but should. Also, the source said 20% were three levels below the CEO (as opposed to the quote above, which says 10% "sit farther down").

I agree this is pretty sloppy writing.
"Average" is the starting point. After learning data structures algorithms and how to communicate, they are no longer an average candidate (by FAANG standards)
Some people fool themselves into thinking that they can save space by using a very condensed font. That’s not true. The squashed shapes makes the letters more similar, which makes the text less legible, which means you need to compensate by pushing up the overall size. You can only save space by optimizing for the most legible typeface, allowing you to reduce the size.

The Victor Mono site is a perfect example: the body text is set quite large, with very generous leading, and still it is very hard to read, partly because of the stretched letter shapes.
> I mean, this would have been a nice intro several years ago...But now, i assumed this is somewhat common knowledge

It's the WSJ, they're not writing for a technical or particularly tech-savvy audience
“narcissistpotus“
The $125 million metric conversion mistake with the Mars lander comes to mind:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288...
A conscice, self contained, unassuming little function that represents some out of the box thinking to vastly simplify a previously hard problem. Those 25 lines are backed by several months and 10+ pages of analysis establishing that their simple approach is at least as good as the obvious approach, which would have meant integrating several very complex dependencies. Never been prouder of a diff so small.

Close second, a system I designed and built 2.5 years ago, which faded into the background and plugged along. Business interest has renewed, and everything they’re now asking for fits neatly into the architecture. Really satisfying to see something hold up.
Absolutely no use that I've found so far
rubbish. completely different culture and language? I lived in Barcelona and you could do everything in Spanish.
The same can be said about various regions in Italy. Have you been to Sicily? Very different language, culture, food etc.

And by the polls ~50% of Catalonians don't want independence.
I think GP is asking for a letterbox that is larger than the desired window size, followed by a downscaling to the desired window size.
The code I am most proud of is the code I did not need.
I just wanted to say that I saw when you posted tumblelog a few weeks back, and your posts on plurrrr and it inspired me to try writing a static site generator and start writing blog posts again. It's a very cool project.
Oh so now we are playing the insinuation game? Classy
The content is being repeatedly duplicated in random hacked websites. I presume that if the websites the person knew about were removed, others would pop-up.

Edit: I don't see this approach having a ghost of a chance to work and it seems ignorant of the situation described in the OP.
DRM software?
I spent some months occasionally doing these take down requests to the sites themselves via contact forms and admins listed in whois. Then waited, and then sent the requests to the listed hosts, then waited, then did things like the google de-listing..

A similar process was laid out on the recommendations for doing a 'disavow' thing with google webmaster tools - the amount of time all this takes is not trivial.

Then, it happened again two months later, with a whole 'nother set of bad links from crappy sites.

Since then, it pretty much happens about every month. a hundred or so new sites with crappy, likely expired or expiring domain names, where many appear to have names that would of once been used in the past for link ring seo - and likely were found to stop helping their clients sites and instead starting hurting - so now links are put towards ours.

So it's about a 50 - 100 new ones every month. I've submitted so many take down requests and disavow lists - and the dumb specific utf formatting that they require - ugh. It's a mjow time suck - and with no way to tell what is helping or hurting.

I suppose if your site was attacked once and left alone it would be worth the effort, but if someone is serious about taking you down, the effort is better spent not trying to please google and instead focusing on better places to get found like snap, insta, fbook ads, etc.

admit - my experience small data point, ymmv for sure.
I understand your concern, the answer is that the TOR browser can be used just like your normal browser.

I use it to browse reddit or make posts like these. I like my privacy and like that by using Tor for normal browsing, it makes it just a little bit less suspicious when others who need the privacy for wistleblowing, human rights, etc. purposes are using Tor.

The Tor browser will not show you anything that you do not seek out. If you just browse to the sites that you normally use, and those sites don't have any illegal content, then you're fine.

I will note however that in some countries Tor itself IS illegal, but that would be up to your local laws.
Why would they and why would you want them to? Wouldn't anyone related to the people Columbus was accused of genociding in the Caribbean want the historical record of who he was preserved?
Saying that tiny puzzles are the best you can do is a very large leap from saying that you can't predict an employee's performance.

Someone's job performance over time depends on lots of different factors, many out of the control of the company. Understanding someone's potential and risk can be the result of conversations about what they have already done and possibly looking at what they've done. No irrelevant puzzles needed.
Jobs would have fired everyone on the thread.
> a lot of people are simply not interested and cognitively capable enough to get it right, sadly.

This is how executives discredit engineers. Someone who believes themself to be intellectually superior to others and is socially inept enough to say so is an easy target to discredit. This is how you become a code monkey.
Fashion is not supposed to make sense. That's why it's called fashion.

The only thing that matters is that it's different and criticized by "the others" that you think you are superior to (old programmers who use boring fonts)
Thanks for a great contribution.
I really like the font - except for the italics.
For comments I could may be learn to live with, but for the code syntax itself - no
Yes, scotch is aged much longer than bourbon. A 12-year scotch is a supermarket product, and liquor stores are full of 21+ year olds; bourbons average closer to 7-9, but can get bottled much younger, and supposedly don't benefit from super-long aging periods the way scotch (supposedly) does.
How does an insurer prioritize care for members relative to each other?
> The software used to predict patients’ need for more intensive medical support was an outgrowth of the Affordable Care Act, which created financial incentives for health systems to keep people well instead of waiting to treat them when they got sick. The idea was that it would be possible to simultaneously contain costs and keep people healthier by identifying those patients at greatest risk for becoming very sick and providing more resources to them. But because wealthy, white people tend to utilize more health care, such tools could also lead health systems to focus on them, missing an opportunity to help some of the sickest people.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/24/racial-bias...
No one who is a SEO pro interacts on there.

I have seen unintended negative SEO a site got hacked and thousands of pages of spamy porn links added.

I suspect its harder these days but Google isn't perfect - they are only human and they make mistakes just as well all do sometimes.
You’re not following. It’s not that they change the total between screens, it’s that they advertise the nightly rate.

This is not illegal since this is how it works in Europe as well.
No date at all in the article. It helps to have that for context.
Yes, but a publication or public disclosure that happened before has precedence over a filing.
> The typeface is clean, crisp and narrow

But italic is not clean at all, especially for non-native English readers.
It's an effort barrier. Similar to the logic behind 'if your checkout process is x% faster you'll convert y% more customers'.

I didn't think about it at the time, but post analysing: I was mildly interested. Was going to try a game, but registration is a (small) faff so wasn't worth the effort.
This is explained in paragraph two of the post. No, that is not part of the problem.
I found a bug in the font rendering! Maybe just a bug in the way the website is rendering it on the try it page?

=> becomes a ⇒ (U+21d2)

but

<= becomes ≤ (U+2264)

AFAICT there's no way to make a left arrow with double lines be only 2 chars wide, i.e. how do i make a ⇐ (U+21d0). A 3 char wide left arrow works though, e.g. :

<== becomes ⟸ (U+27f8)

Like the font otherwise, there are some other interesting unicode conversions, e.g. :

=== becomes ≡ (U+2261)
Or you can just ignore all this silliness and spell it in whatever way looks most natural to you.
> Now, strict liability says, "Mens rea does not matter here, it is not a part of the definition of this crime." What you thought or intended is simply not a part of what the court is there to consider. The court is only there to consider is the action was done by you, and if so, you are guilty.

I don't think this is an entirely accurate characterization. Strict liability is more of an assertion that improper intent is a foregone conclusion, i.e. improper intent is a necessary condition for the statute violation to occur in the first place, because people are responsible for taking precaution not to violate the statute.

> Edit: The handicap and small child, as far as I understand are not protected from being prosecuted in a strict liability charge in a court, but are simply less likely to make their way to a court.

The distinction is actually relevant to this scenario. Young children and people with significant mental disability are incapable of committing crimes (even statutory crimes) by the principle of criminal responsibility. It is not the case that statute law applies as you have described, because were it so it would also apply in scenarios where the perpetrator has immunity on account of inability to have criminal responsibility.
Major $85M Project Announced to Scale Up Agroforestry
And search engines do check for this they don't only crawl as Googlebot.
15% of income post tax is incredibly steep. Why wouldn’t someone just pay $8k upfront? If you plan to actually use the service and get placed with a half decent salary, any of the other options are a complete rip-off.
As I understand it: if you buy a barrel, you're going to get 180-200 bottles. But remember also that whiskey is almost always diluted when it's bottled; the cask strength will be 50-60, and the bottle will be 40-50.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted when this is the top news of the day
In banana republics, the citizens have no mobility compared to US citizens so the dynamic is completely different.

The fact that people in these towns can continue to live in them and easily telecommute like any other US citizen or even physically commute to the nearest major US city means that the citizens are not dependent on a single industry.
Maybe. It is hard to find any scientifically accurate information on his proposal. But if you say he wants laser intensities that are directly sufficient to get 1 MeV (typical nuclear energies) across the 10fm of a nucleus he would need intensities that are about a factor 100 above the Schwinger limit [1] where the laser simply produces electrons and positrons out of the vacuum. Cool if you want to study the plasma environments of pulsars, but probably a HUGE loss mechanism in getting energy into the nucleus.

In the end it all boils down to the fact that visible light an laser operate on the energy scale of electronic transitions whereas nuclear transmutations occur at the vastly different energy scale of the strong force. This huge separation between electromagnetic interactions and strong nuclear interactions is btw also the reason why radioactive material is not typically green glowing goo.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_limit
I mean, I get captcha's all the time while working from Google's network. You're exhausting from a shared quota. That's life on the modern internet.

Bitch about Google all you want, it's not like they decided this is how the internet should work. Prior to Google, my company integrated with reCaptcha because no other choice existed to reduce automated abuse.
I guess it's just one more visual marker, perpendicular to e.g. colors so you get twice the possibilities.

Whether italic or bold or colors or anything, I find that too much visual marking is bloat, unecessary cognitive load which overemphasize syntax, detrimentally to flow — it's harder to gain more perspective when you're kept so 'in it'. Good typographic rules very much apply to code as well.

I personally think ~3 to 7 marking variations are usually enough to convey a general paradigm.
Remember when the SDI ("Strategic Defense Initiative"), "Star Wars", Reagan's fraudulent ballistic-missile defense project, was considered impossible to implement because (as reported by David Parnas) it would take a million lines of code to implement, and (more importantly) would have to work right, on the first try?

The program was believed-in by the Soviet military, which spent so much on countermeasures it crashed the Soviet economy, bringing down Gorbachev and, ultimately, the USSR itself. Which seemed OK at the time (people talked about a "peace dividend" -- joke was on us!), but now we have Putin. And Trump.

But I got a free trip to Hungary, in 1987, to report on research in point semiconductor defects, paid for by a grant from the US Air Force out of their Star Wars budget.
The “backup to paper” option is intriguing and I thought at first this would be as a series of QR codes instead of plain text. Will definitely be looking into the CLI options as well.
Seriously, if a young lady one third your age, who you have never met before, in the retinue of a ostentatiously wealthy guy, would present herself to you for sex, and you don’t question the circumstances you are willfully ignoring a situation that’s likely illegal. Stallman was defending the indefensible here.
"HTML5" + things like css grid and flexbox that you need to build UI in a sensible manner are pretty new inventions. XUL predates them dramatically, building UI in HTML at the time would have been an absolute nightmare. I know because I had to ship it in multiple applications
This is not a bug; this is how other ligature fonts, notably Fira Code, work.

≤ is used way more often than ⇐.
When I read that KSP didn't use "real" N-body physics, I lost interest in trying it. Maybe it doesn't make a big difference, but I don't understand how it would save any noticeable amount of cpu cycles. I mean, there aren't that many objects in the game, are there? It's not like it involves galaxies or star clusters.
The "board game interview" is a spectacularly clueless display of net-negative cultural and gender bias. Not to mention just juvenile and unprofessional (my bias, sure).

> A relatively recent demographic survey that elicited 3,427 responses among a publisher’s subscribers that found 91.7 percent of respondents were male and 8.1 percent were female.18 Another 2016 table-top gamer demographic survey of 2,397 respondents that found 24 percent of board gamers were women, 1.1 percent non binary and 0.6 percent were trans, while the remainder—74.3 percent—identify as male.19 The overwhelming majority of survey respondents were also white, with survey reporting that 2.1 percent were Chinese, 2.7 percent were Latin American, 0.6 percent were Aboriginal and 0.7 percent were Filipino.

http://analoggamestudies.org/2018/12/assessing-gender-and-ra...
Disable JavaScript and you can read any article on nytimes.com
userChrome.css still works, and if you already had one they automatically flip the pref on for you.

It's default-off because it increases startup time.
Because OP talked about Google not allowing small players to send e-mail here's my server's deliverability results to Google: https://i.imgur.com/sceZogI.png

If you're wondering about the blacklist number, that's an error - the source site claims it knows nothing.
The difference in spelling is due to the fact the word for Uisce Beatha was brought into the English language twice. Once from Irish Gaelic before the Great Vowel shift in English and a second time from Scots Gaelic after the shift.
In a crosswalk, pedestrians have the right of way. So if a driver hits someone in crosswalk while making a turn, the driver is legally at fault. (But that doesn't mean that it's a good idea for people to walk across a street without paying attention.)