skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what scales string theories would expect? As in — is this getting uncomfortably close for string theory to manage or still orders of a magnitude away?
Not useful for you. And that is your right, duty and responsibility as a user, and owner of the hardware.

But there are tens of thousands of human beings within a few km's/clicks of you, I am willing to bet, who will find a use for that computer.

A lot of valuable things can be done with 100w, should a user choose to apply it.
I’ve also: Added more logging code for future cases, and or try to reason about how it could have occurred. Try to make it impossible if you can, but sometimes that requires too big of a rearchitecture to be worth it.
Related (no affiliation), but if you're interested in free audiobooks there's also LibriVox: https://librivox.org/
I checked out your first link (on an iPhone) and all I saw was a mailing list signup form taking up the whole screen.

I always wanted to ask people who do things like this on their websites:

Why?

Why if I’ve never even seen your site, do you think that the first thing I want to do is divulge my email address to you and receive spam?

I don’t know even one thing about your site yet. Haven’t read word #1 from headline #1 of article #1 yet, but you seem to think my real goal is to get email from you.

I mean, do you get actual people who do that? Not bots that submit random emails to random fields, but real people who sign up for mailing lists without having read a single article?

At least it’s not a dialog that renders on a delay after I’ve been reading something for 5 seconds, I guess. You’re honest enough to show me the signup link right off the bat so I know to close the tab, so thanks for that.

(Sorry if I seem overly angry about this... I actually kinda am, because I remember a time when this wasn’t nearly ubiquitous on every damned weblog. My policy is to always close the tab when I get an email signup form, and so far I’m sticking to that.)
The conference schedule is available here: https://www.remotecon.org/schedule.html
Message-ID, In-Reply-To and References headers provides this.

Hashing a post is a hard problem, because an MTA can change the encoding of the message in all kinds of ways, so you'd first need to specify a canonical form for the message. But it's also unnecessary if you can trust the sending mail server to add a Message-ID field that is unique (which it can do however it wants to, and then ensure global uniqueness by appending its hostname; note that a client needs to take a bit of care because of course a broken server may not enforce uniqueness).

A harder to solve problem is that it takes very few broken mail clients participating in a thread before it causes a mess.
I think most advertisers aren't even aware, the ad platforms are so full of dark patterns it's hard to avoid this stuff.
Gmail is bad in lots of ways but it is free. It's a case of "What do you want for nothing?".

Outlook OTOH is something that a business usually pays for. Someone should be able to walk into that business and do a presentation for something that just blows Outlook away. But that never happens, even these days when Microsoft is not the monopoly it used to be.
Here's an article from the same site from last month showing additional progress that's been made on this tool, now called Wanderbar: https://legendsoflocalization.com/wanderbar/
Theres always a relevent xkcd comic :)

https://xkcd.com/810/

Good post! I enjoy the idea of whitelisting for positive consensus rather then trying to black list bad actors
I'm not sure if that's really true. Club Mate and Fritz Cola are common in Germany, but not so much elsewhere.
> Is it possible to have a programming language where the compiler does the formal verification?

It is possible, but using separate languages (as seL4 does) has certain benefits. For example:

- Kernel developers tend to have C experience. If the OS is writen in C, they have a much larger pool to hire from.

- Any such language would have to be acceptable both for the people who develop the OS and for the people who do the verification: I suspect it's not easy to find something that pleases both crowds.

- C compilers get better all the time. Every time someone improves the gcc code generator, seL4 automatically gets a bit faster. Less mainstream programming languages get better only if you maintain an expensive in-house team working on the compiler.
So, I think what you're missing here is that the 'verification' is a formal specification about the behavior of the kernel, along with a set of proofs about that specification. This is vastly simplified (there are multiple levels of specification, last I checked), but that's the general idea. It's possible to have your compiler automatically derive the specification from your code (and, indeed, the seL4 people have written a Rust-like language called Cogent that does this), but formal verification inherently involves an understanding of what your code is /intended/ to do, and proving that it /does/. The compiler only has information about what it /does/, so it can only generate a specification that describes this. Information about your high-level intentions for the code has to be concretized somewhere, while ensuring that the spec conforms to it-- that's the job of the proof engineers.
Thanks for the correction. For some reason I thought that the patents on mp3 compression were issued in the 80's, but there's nothing in the Wikipedia article which specifically says that.

The point stands though, that Docker didn't invent containers by a long shot; but they did make them massively more useful.
My bad!!
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Poseur to Composer: https://poseurtocomposer.postach.io/

I learn how to play piano and music theory from scratch. Before I played bass guitar in a nu metal band but didn't know how to read music. I essentially "faked it".

There's also musings on what musicianship, music and art is. Oh, and I'm creating a brand new music genre: hymns + djent metal = Dhymn.
The Virus Has Changed the Way We Internet
That's hopeful, at least. I'd not read anywhere about the initiative by the New York Blood Center, either. Here's their press release from April 3:

https://www.nybloodcenter.org/news/articles/new-york-blood-c...

There is a link to a form for prospective donors.
http://devatrest.blogspot.com/ OnCall, HighScale, Algorithms, Tips, Coding Interview, DataBases
> Do you not stop to get gas? What if you yourself are asymptomatic and spreading it every time you stop.

You wear a mask and disposable gloves which you replace after pumping gas, exchanging cash etc - just like you're supposed to be doing in the city or a suburb.

> except people need to go to grocery stores still, the amount of food going into local stores is meant to sustain the current population

Mask, gloves, 2m+ distance, again just like in the city.
The amount of food going into local stores adjusts itself with demand, this is a crisis but still not ww2.
How realistic is Contagion? The movie doesn't skimp on science
> To put forth a more substantive argument, everybody has a layer of abstraction they do not peek under.

I hope you meant have not peeked under, so far. Any obscure problem will you down the rabbit hole. If you just stop looking then how can you solve problems?
If a match isn’t found with your verbatim query, then it falls back to something similar. At least that’s my experience.

Random string of text still matches exact in quotes: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9CI%20really%20don%27...
Education is now online and they cannot access any university resources. Why should they pay the same price for a quarter of the value?
Sorry about that! It did rather morph from our nice simple initial design into a monster once it met the real world.
Preface: generational reasoning is always stupid. The differences in group are greater than the differences out.

That said a) as a gen xer we used to hear all the same things about gen x as we do now about millennials. Its largely time gated. b) gen x is a much more transitional generation, there weren’t as many defining moments and c) its a smaller cohort. Millennials were the largest birth cohort since the baby boom.
> What I wonder is how this formal verification works

Curiously it involves Haskell for its specification. [0]

They've also done some very impressive work verifying that the ARM machine code corresponds to the verified C code. They did this not by using a formally verified compiler, but by using GCC and then verifying the correspondence afterwards.

> Is it possible to have a programming language where the compiler does the formal verification?

Yes, but these languages are not all that approachable.

There's SPARK, which is Ada-based and has seen real-world use in various life-or-death applications like military aviation.

There's also ZZ, which is in early days, and which aims to be closer to C. [2] [3]

There's also Perfect Developer, a proprietary payware product, which does impressive things adding formal verification machinery to C and C++. [4]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)

[2] https://github.com/aep/zz

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22245409

[4] https://www.eschertech.com/articles/index.php
Migrating Duolingo’s Android app to 100% Kotlin
https://jmmv.dev/

This is my personal blog with a bit over 15 years of history by now :-)

I blog about technical stuff primarily, including my open source work in projects like NetBSD, interesting/weird things about programming languages and Unix systems, opinions on coding, and lately even things I have done at work in the Bazel space.

Thanks for reading!
As long as everybody who has even a question about the topic is publicly yelled at and insulted, there will be many people who will simply ignore the topic.

The main reason global warming isn't taken more seriously is because of the way it is discussed.
> so hard to find a good mechanical keyboard that is not meant for gamers with those RGB lights

Try looking for a motherboard these days! It's all so ridiculous.
No problem. I think this is a useful discussion.

As I see it, it's not so much that a given instance of home ownership benefits society as a whole so much as it is that I see enabling its members to own a home is a core purpose of society. So I guess I could say it as: it benefits society as a whole because if it doesn't exist then, in my opinion, the society is by definition dysfunctional.[1]

When I say that enabling its members to own a home is a core purpose of society, I don't so much mean this from a white picket fence "American dream" perspective or from a home as investment perspective; although I think both of those perspectives have merit.

Rather, I think it's important that an individual has somewhere that they have autonomy, that they can modify as they see fit, that they cannot be arbitrarily evicted from, where they are their own boss, etc.

Without that:

- I think that it would be difficult for an individual to have enough autonomy to really be a full member of society.

- I think it would be difficult to say that an individual really has any stake in a capitalist society if they do not own any capital.[2]

[1] A more obvious example of similar reasoning might be food. The fact that a given person is able to eat isn't necessarily particularly beneficial to society as a whole. However, I think that most people would say that unless the vast majority of people are able to eat, then a society is dysfunctional.

Clearly in this instance there is some benefit to society as a whole from an individual being able to eat; since that allows them to work more efficiently. However, I think you could also say that home ownership provides psychological and practical benefits that allow individuals to work more efficiently.

[2] I realize that strictly speaking a home isn't capital (unless the owner runs a business out of it); however, I still feel that it can provide a "stake in the system" in the way that other property like clothing or even a car do not.
I dont disagree with many of your points, but are you advocating "logging into a production system and editing the config file in nano"? Can't tell if you are...
https://sander.saares.eu/ on media streaming and DRM.

DRM is often seen as some sort of dark art. A lot of this comes from the proprietary nature of it, with NDAs on every corner and technology licensing processes that require months of effort to get access to even the basic documentation.

Over the past decade, ever-increasing standardization in the media industry has opened up DRM to a great degree, though much remains in the proprietary domain for legacy reasons. Even though standardization has helped a great deal, it is hard to find human-readable information about DRM. ISO/IEC 23001-7:2016 does not make for easy bedtime reading!

I have worked in the field for 12 years and was recently motivated to share my knowledge and remove some of the unwarranted mystery from the field. I am currently writing up a new series of articles, to be published starting May, opening up the topic of DRM for a wider audience. You will find them at my website, though right now there are only a few old articles from ancient history there.

If you make solutions that aim to provide Hollywood grade content or just think this topic sounds interesting, this upcoming series might be a good introduction to the necessary content security universe for you. I might also post other digital media topics there from time to time.
Many gravity experiments can be done at home

For example, drop an apple on their head
It doesn't require any more time, it's happening already. UK universities charge non-Europeans more than double the tuition they charge Europeans. The foreign nationals are subsidizing the education of Brits, not the other way around.
Parent my have a StackOverFlow CV.. :)
A pandemic is virtually guaranteed to happen every so often.

And if a nuclear war broke out, that'd hardly be unexpected or random.

"Black Swan" does not mearly mean "unique and significant". The unpredictability of a black swan event is the main cause of concern, as it doesn't allow for much preparation.
Huh, I don’t think Doom 2016 has those. Or at least I didn’t get them when I played it through just recently.
https://blog.adrianistan.eu

It's my Spanish blog about Prolog, Rust and Python mainly. I thought about opening a new one in English, to reach a more broad audience, but I will not write in two blogs at the same time and the Spanish blog maybe has more relevance due to the lack of blogs like mine in Spanish.
Not only that, but it means the apple can't be destroyed. Zero sum excludes both win-win & lose-lose. There's no concept of waste
https://wwww.comeet.me/blog

Our blog is mainly about productivity and effectiveness around meetings. We all meet a lot (maybe too much), so we post about best practices, meeting types (silent, walking, customers, team), about it's impact, when tey are needed, etc.
> Is it possible to have a programming language where the compiler does the formal verification?

Such compiler would require solving halting problem. Most problems related to search of formal proofs are undecidable.
Dr Ioannidis, for one example, thinks that Iceland's numbers are actually representative in contrast to US, Spain, Italy, etc. He's an expert, what reasons do you have to not at least consider his opinion (and many others') as viable?

And it's not my fault that you're so touchy to be insulted by opinions that challenge the ones you hold. There's hardly any valour in throwing downvotes left and right on every post by the person you disagree with either.
> Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) turned these structures into sounds by giving each amino acid a unique note in a musical scale.

Is there more info and how they use the AI? If there is a 1-to-1 translation from the amino acid sequence to the note sequence, this project is meaningless. The difficult part is not the sequence of amino acids, but how they fold into a 3D structure in the protein, and extracting the 3D info from the linear sequence is very difficult (you need a lot of computer time for simulations). Also, the amino acids can be polar or non-polar, acid basic or neutral, and the are a few weird ones. This information can't be encoded in the notes.

There is a high probability that this is just a buzzwords soup.
Formal methods aren't just an academic curiosity, they have been used for real-world OS work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAM_project

> Less mainstream programming languages get better only if you have an expensive in-house team working on the compiler.

Not if you defer optimisation to an external (and actively maintained) backend like LLVM. Rust and Zig do this.
I've had bugs when doing webdev stuff in docker that didn't crop up under one kernel that cropped up when using another. It's rare but it happens.
Mine is https://themihirchronicles.com/ and purposed to take notes that I can share with others.

* On Product Management: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-product-management

* On Asking Questions: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-asking-questions

* On Deliberate Practice: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-deliberate-practice

* On Writing Well: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-writing-well

* On Rhetorical Devices: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-rhetorical-devices

* On Becoming A Craftsman: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-becoming-craftsman

* On Tribes & Ideologies https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-tribes-ideologies:

* On Independent Thinking: https://themihirchronicles.com/blog/on-independent-thinking

I also share my book summaries here https://themihirchronicles.com/bookshelf.
GCC Easter Egg Game: C++ Undefined Defined Behavior
Out of curiosity, what was stopping you before? Remote is quite prevalent for years now, especially in IT.
https://www.stavros.io, I make silly stuff with technology. Read if you like 3D-printed googly cat eyes, I guess.
I first encountered this back on the original GameBoy as Boxxle [0,1]. I recall finding it just as much of a challenge to create levels which worked! The music is just as good as I remember [2].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxxle

[1]: https://www.gameboyworks.com/1989/09/01/boxxle/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKkQxZKTLWQ
I guess it depends on what you're writing about: tech might benefit more from a date than philosophy. I'm sure he's written multiple times about this, but patio11 has a thread you might be referring to here https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1234141833661440001 .
What makes Saturn's atmosphere so hot
The article says things got worse not because cromwell was worse than Charles 1, but rather he inherited the mess caused by charles' policies and a country broken by civil war. Naturally it was worse for many people (specially Irish). But I wonder what would happen if characters like Cromwell weren't there at that time, Charles was allowed to continue bypassing parliament and ruling like a tyrant, and Britain turned into an absolute monarchy like France and Prussia. I'm not defending Cromwell. But I think if he was an evil, perhaps it was a necessary evil.

About Iran, while it's absolutely not a perfect country, I can not agree that things got worse for average Iranian after revolution. Iranians dead from starvation was a common scenery in Tehran's street during shah. Things did get worse for a tiny ruling-westernised-urban elite, who were forced to go into exile and now vocal in western countries against the regime, but for an average Iranian I do believe things got better.

Btw, I'm from Bangladesh, meaning I'm neither British nor Iranian.
Docker would probably diverge less from LXC, because it was first built on LXC and only later got its own low level implementation using namespaces and the other low-level things. Hard to say if the alternative world would have been better or worse, a lot of LXC/LXD implementation details seem more technically competent than Docker.
International regulations have paused a jet-stream shift in Southern Hemisphere
All the detail you could possible want:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U
U.S. Is Almost Compliant with FATF Recommendations on Crypto
The original quote doesn't offer any arguments to support its claim. It's just a statement of opinion as fact.
The slowdown started prior to covid-19, however it will be interesting to see how the overlay of the bursting of the huge post-2008 asset bubble personified by wework and a natural disaster which simply stops the global economy cold for a few months works out. One may obscure the other.

We may find markets and economies bounce back relatively quickly (within a year) because the perception of danger has passed.

All the normal rules of monetary and fiscal policy have been thrown out, and assets may well be inflated again in short order by the truly astounding levels of money pouring into the system across the globe. The US government is actually employing the helicopter money concept people used to joke about. We live in interesting times.
Every single other known Coronavirus builds immunity.

Hundreds of thousands of patients and no reports of repeat healthy patients.

Preliminary studies with macaque monkeys show that an immunity is built.

There's plenty of data to show that an infection is built.
Note that it's you who is grossly exaggerating. Got anything meaningful to say regarding confirmed difference between flu and covid?
Median and Mad Revisited with an Online Estimator
I just skimmed the table of contents and then read two sections. This looks like a great resource for systems programming. In modern times, anyone with a Linux laptop can get their feet wet. When I was young, I had to leave a job I liked (I eventually went back) to get a job doing real time systems programming on a multics-based system (Prime). That period of time forever changed my mental model for computing systems.

UIUC is a great school. My last job before retiring was managing a deep learning team in the UIUC research park. The university had a great technical buzz, and the undergraduate CS interns we hired were talented and hard working.
https://arcane.blog/

I'm really just getting started, but I read widely and have a lot of random interests. Most of my stuff touches on tech but focuses on thoughts about mathematics, life, literature, philosophy, and ethics.

I'm starting a company, and the blog for that is https://blog.yakware.com/ ; it is less human being-esque, but I want it to focus more on the tech and entrepreneur space, without being robotic marketing material...:

Planning on making both of those more regular in the near future, and both have RSS feeds.
The basic reason this is incredibly tempting to do is that it works. Not just a little, but it works radically better than the alternative or politely or subtly asking or providing the option tastefully at the bottom of the article or whatever.

I don' really have a good model of why, but empirically it does. And it's not what you'd think either: it's just be spam or bot or something. It's real people who actually do it, and do it a huge percentage of the time, and who collectively make a categorical difference to your viewership.

It's weird, honestly. I wish I understood better why it was such a strong effect.
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"container" can mean other things in other contexts though, e.g. I'm running a configuration of Docker on my machine right now such that the CLI talks about "containers" but it is actually running VirtualBox in the background
Lighter Is a Microphone [video]