skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conciseness isn't necessarily a technological limitation. During the Victorian Era "triple-decker novels" were the in-thing.

Then there's the old aphorism: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

We want to claim that style obfuscates content. However, simplicity can also be a style that obfuscates content by its nature, just as much as any other, maybe sometimes more than any other.

Maybe the problem is we want to implicitly assume that communication styles are simply accretions around the true message which exists in non-physical being, and if we could just 'read minds', everything would be perfect, and as with Gnosticism, the 'Truth' gets weighed down with the sin of physicality (wrapped up in words in this case). So we try to be verbal ascetics, throwing our sentences, rather than our bodies, in the ovens to strip flesh. When in reality the words do not convey like boxcars carrying grain, but are the thing in themselves and solely such. So maybe this ends up back at a kind of radical materialism, a world were nothing is backed by the pure truth of God (or, in this case, 'pure information').
I think I did something similar using "static" 20 years ago.
Canal Du Midi
I also spoke to the onion farmer, Shay. He will only has part of his labour force coming from Mexico this season. He has a mere 4000 acres. That’s considered a small farm. He is going to need automation.

Another small acreage farmer in California has put out an appeal for funds to fight the legal battle for his worker who tried to cross the border twice and couldn’t..and got caught the third time. I have so many other stories of small and big farmers growing food having to deal with labour.

They are partly to blame for not demanding automation. But the biggest blame rests with those supplying consumers and getting them used to low prices for food.

Entire Ag rests on exploitation of low wage earning labour. Almost all of it is immigrant/migrant labour..only those who are desparate for those jobs.

Automation of small and local food farms is a matter of national security and food security. Not being able to farm close to population hubs is also largely due to high density cities. Half land area must be set aside for farm and open spaces. It’s ok to be high density but only if there is sufficient infrastructure, connectivity and sustainability..and after covid, food security.

A variety of farms including urban, rooftop, indoor, hydroponic, orchards and fields should be able to cover 40-50% of food crops. Right now all that is being imported or are part of a cold chain. Or involves trucking or shipping from South America.Grains, oil, fiber, meat, dairy, spices etc are a whole different kind of farming.

It’s time to automate small acreage farms. I have been trying to make it happen for 5+ years. I have heard every excuse why it isn’t necessary. Every one of them is now moot.
BepiColombo Mercury mission bids farewell to Earth
I pay $150/yr for three people. Give me $250 for 10 people. The extra seven people won't be using as many compute/storage resources guaranteed.
Also: shared folders in IMAP.
Is there a good site or journal that specializes in these things, other than occasionally getting aggregated to HN or Reddit. I'm always intrigued by processor level exploits, especially more obscure ones like this.
Digital to paper backup:

http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/
He explains she was "a famous Olympic gymnast," and that's all that's relevant to the story. He was perfectly clear. It was a good analogy.
How would one merge updates from all those offline clients?
Initially, the name made me think you do some kind of cross platform/instance syncing
> For the record, comparing the values for 1963-01-01 and 2018-01-01 gives an increase of 2.8x in median income and 4.2x in median house price sales. You're right that other things like amenities and house sizes might factor into this in some way, but I doubt that explains everything.

It actually does, the link I provided shows the average square footage went up 50% from 1600 sqft to 2400. This accounts perfectly for the difference you cited (4.2x is 50% larger than 2.8x).

> It's especially interesting to note that median incomes from 2007 to 2008 did not decrease, and only decreased about 2% from 2007 to a local minimum in 2010. Yet house prices decreased by 19% from a local maximum in Q1 2007 to Q1 2009.

Not sure if you heard there was a mortgage crisis with tons of defaults ravaging neighborhoods. Macroeconomic conditions were responsible there. The entire market for lending and consequently for housing broke down.
You can disable this somewhere, it scraps your emails (also spam) and adds up any ical events to your calendar which generates the event notifications...

Can be fullly disabled somehow in gmail settings.
I’ll take a look, thanks!
Certainly not for python, which, for one thing, allows the nesting of 'if' with optional 'else'.
On the other hand it's a repeating problem. We've being doing processor verification for a long time.

Why can't we reuse that knowledge, that code ?
Gigantic dinosaur footprints are found on the roof of a cave
Outstanding article suggests that we can quickly:

1) Find a non-pathogenic viral strain out in the wild,

2) make a vaccine from it and

3) give it to everyone.

But please read in full for the details: the author is a PhD in molecular microbiology, used to be a tenured academic (professor) and now works in the biotech sector. He has done a service to us all by posting this article and trying to get this idea out there.

Anyone doing this?
Which of those things do you think are both feasible and able to turn around the virus in the required timeframe?

Improving medicine: decades?

Improving vaccines: 12 ~ 18mo

Improving detection: ???

Isolation of elderly: presumably already in place (are you suggesting something more?)

Improving healthcare: ??? (anything specific?)

I don't think any of these are going to make much of a difference to this pandemic. The vaccines eventually, perhaps. The things that have been shown to work well are NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions) such as: contact tracing, testing, mask usage, social distancing. The system that Apple/Google will put in place is essentially automated contact tracing. It will be much faster and have more data than manual contact tracing.
Are we watching the same video? I have zero sympathy for the jogger. The police isn't doing anything wrong, she's clearly resisting so they have no choice but to use strength to put her in the car. I don't see any mistreatment from the police.

And where's the supposed "abuse" from the onlookers? All I saw was the person filming telling her to shut up and stop resisting the police. All very reasonable things to say, regardless of whether the law is wrong or not.

Speaking about the law, "zero tolerance laws" have a very negative meaning because of the stupid laws they have in the USA. If there's a moment where you should apply a zero tolerance law, it's when there's a freaking pandemic and people disobey the rules.

One jogger isn't bad, how about 10 or 100?
Any immutable database? Datomic is one example.

On a related note: the idea of a database that loses data is perplexing, why would anyone want that? Why isn’t data retention a default and limiting that retention an opt-in choice? When was the last time you rewrote your git repo to delete some old commits that you no longer need?
Collection of Public APIs
Restating rate as relative to motion doesn't eliminate time, it just redefines it. If you have change, you have time.

Sounds like you want to say that time is an emergent property of matter.
I made it slightly further, to the beginning of the second sentence:

> Matthew Tye, who creates YouTube videos,
It looks to me that having a standalone chip is not great in general due to hardware attacks: you can easily MITM the system bus for example. Whereas a number of attacks become much harder once you use an integrated secure element.

The form factor of the iPhone of course almost makes the T2 secure enclave an integrated secure module. I also don’t think hardware attacks are really considered anyway (and as we see most researchers focus on software attacks)
My “Personal Spam Filter” is trained and spam has not been an issue for me.
Yes. There are two indicators for parsing Python blocks: indent and dedent. They're the same as { and }, and easily parsed by a machine.

Just not by a regex, which so many formatting tools rely upon.
I really like TOML. It's very similar to old-school INI files except it has a standard and parsers in quite a few languages. It does has its own downsides (while the concept of tables is quite useful, it can be a bit tricky to understand when you first see it). But it's one of the least-bad "modern" configuration formats I've seen.
https://jmap.io/spec.html perhaps?
Cope.
My only gripe with TOML is that numbers can be variable names. I get what they're trying to do (be consistent) but it just looks wrong to have 3.14159 = "pi" to be:

{"3":{"14159":"pi"}}

Otherwise I think TOML is great.
>Now, by downloading and decrypting it on another device, you are adding a THIRD end where is is accessible

You're not thinking straight. End-to-end encryption does not refer to two devices, it refers to two parties. If you have two devices that can receive the message, that's still only accessible to you.

>one is to pass over decryption keys to a new device (potentially breaking E2EE security model

That's just stupid, you can scan e.g. public key of the other device and then have your device send packets to that

>and another approach is to do an own encrypted archive to store data and sync between your devices.

Which is perfectly valid provided the user has to create sufficiently secure password.

> It's not E2EE at all

The reasoning how you came to claim this is beyond moronic.

>actually, cause you'll be breaking the security model for some convenience

You aren't breaking anything. Claiming things without reason is moronic.

>because the idea of e2ee is to communicate only with devices

No the idea is only you and your peer have access to the data. You can't be serious.

>each and every one of which were authorized by you

Yeah that is kind of what happens with proper E2EE, only you have access to your data on devices you've authorized by e.g. scanning the QR code of the trusted instance.

> basically stating that all you really need is a nice and cozy feeling of being secure, not true security.

Geez, maybe start by learning how cryptographic protocols work before making such claims.

>You have to face it: true E2EE is not achievable without significant sacrifices of user experience.

Majority of them are with smart cryptographic design. The claims you made were more hand waving than I've ever seen before. Incredible.
Can you copy the description from that old thread into your post, so that people don't need to click through for the full context? I think it'll still be editable at this point
Node-libcurl – libcurl bindings for Node.js
It would be nice if PowerShell had object serialization and deserialization functions built into the language or standard library, similar to the Common Lisp read and print functions.

This would make it possible for PowerShell to interoperate with other command line facilities.
I classed bricked as something that need hardware intervention to make work again. Bit like having a bad bios flash and the only way to fix is to make a custom JTAG cable and serial transfer...effort. With that mostly bricked is a broken boot bios in many instances, maybe some other definitions, but most blur between bricked and broken and with that I'd class it broken over bricked if it needs hardware replaced.
Which phone uses enclave on top of untrusted OS, as opposed to running the enclave on the side of untrusted OS?
Not a bad idea, and implementation is solid mvp.

Some thoughts:

1) Given that you have clear categories available, it might be worth it to show the name of the category on the reel as well. Sometimes headlines are very broad, and they might not clearly imply the category. I tried a few categories, and in the end forgot which one I was currently watching. -> By showing category indicator you would give additional context for the watcher, on why a specific story is important. I get there's background color doing more or less the same thing, but only if a picture is missing. Color is great for seasoned users (additional pattern would be great for color blind people), new users would probably need clearer information.

2) after the reel ends, you might want to show a final screen, before jumping to the home screen. This way, people could still tap the prev button, if they wanted to recheck some headlines that they missed.
Truly terrible time with everyone working from home without tech support.
.net core uses json for config files
And also called... dynamic programming in some communities. On of the most classical algo, just before the more interesting class of problems where the map size is too big to do it
You might be remembering this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160720
IMAP keywords are in the standard.
For the second point, take a look at these studies:

Ferretti et al. (2020). Quantifying dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests that epidemic control and avoidance is feasible through instantaneous digital contact tracing. Science.
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/09/scie...

Ganyani, Tapiwa, et al. "Estimating the generation interval for COVID-19 based on symptom onset data." medRxiv (2020).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.20031815v...

The first study also touches on the point of transmission through surfaces which they argue should be at the very most 10% of all cases but probably less and a German virologist who's one of the leading experts in coronaviruses, Prof. Dr. Drosten, said that he and many others believe that surface transmission is almost negligible: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/coronaskript162.pdf (in German).
This is basically what early Gentoo releases were like... A hilariously minimal tool chain and a txt guide to compiling and configuring every piece between basically nothing and a functioning web browser. A typical speed run took a day because compilation times were long. And if you realized late that you'd made a fatal mistake, starting over took a loooong time.

#pepperidgefarmremembers
2018 MBP, Using it on battery, saw I was at 20% plugged it in, noticed it was running like crap so I started closing applications, restarted it.
Still running like crap after reboot, also noticed fans were not spinning figured maybe an SMC reset is in order when
I realized it was at 2% battery, had not been charging, status said it was plugged in but not charging.
Powered it off to do the SMC reset and I can get nothing from it now, not a thing, no sounds, no signs of life, no fans, no apple logo, no clicks from the trackpad.
I think this qualifies as a brick.
Climate change is not new, just three hundreds years ago there was little ice age.

Global travel is new.

As for source of the virus:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
Pay remote workers more than their counterparts
Thanks for the feedback. I adjusted the auto-timing to be longer. I realized that if someone is a 'speed reader' they will be the user that uses the 'next' button. For the rest, it should give them a little more time.
It’s a conspiracy theory if there isn’t any good evidence. The fact that labs have accidentally leaked pathogens before is not evidence that all future new pathogens are leaked from labs.
Check out my improvement upon yaml spec: https://github.com/keymone/aml-spec/commit/9c1fa50c28525a7b3...
It’s not about firmware recovery: it’s about tampering it in a non-intrusive way OR extracting keys from its secured non volatile memory.
SARS had escaped no less than 4 times from Chinese labs[1]. It’s not implausible at all that coronaviruses have a history of escaping Chinese labs.

Meanwhile, this[2] is a terrible source but some of the info can easily be verified. We know that China was researching exactly this type of virus and gain of function in Wuhan after the U.S. stopped due to “biosafety and biosecurity risks” exceeding benefits. [3]. The US explicitly ended that line of research due to the risks; China continued it.

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2014/04/how-dangerous-viruses-c...

[2] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/exclusive-dr-shi-zh...

[3] https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/documents/gain-of-function.pd...
The messy secret reality behind OpenAI
True Confidence
Solving an age-old problem using Bayesian Average
The main threat of a single thread in Node.js
yes, as @selestify also noted, that seems contradictory on the surface but actually isn't. the virus itself is a reduction of entropy while it's net existential entropy contribution is positive.

where you draw the system boundary matters for defining entropy changes, but long-term we're all bound to increase entropy, otherwise life (and our semi-living cousins) would be violating the laws of thermodynamics writ large.
What happened to those quotes in the title?

Anyway, reminder, while you're visiting ACM, that the entire Digital Library, including books, is free to download until June 30, 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22794984 .
I think I'd phrase this a little differently. It's out that they don't care, it's that they practically deify software.

Their hyper-obsession of algorithmic trivia in hiring, I think, leads to a natural conclusion that there's an algorithm for every problem. And, indeed, every product they launch is extremely heavy on technical complexity with little reliance or consideration for customer value.

This is purely opinion with no real data, but it's what I've observed for about a decade now.
I stand corrected it seems. Apparently it only came up around in 1996, long after the versions I remembered.

Thanks for the correction.
Hi everyone, I just released the latest version of the node-libcurl Node.js addon, which is the only up-to-date libcurl binding for Node.js.

The prebuilt binaries are now using libcurl 7.69.1. Let me know if you have any questions about the module or usage.

It's probably the fastest URL transfer library for Node.js, per some benchmarks I did, but benchmarks generally test scenarios that are far from real-world usage, so there is that.
I think there are also several issues that are causing the reported CFR to be understated, that counteract to some degree the “denominator problem” from undiagnosed mild cases. The one that I think is the most important is the simple understanding of cohort analysis which I just don’t ever see explained or included any calculations. The number of cases is rising exponentially, and there’s a six week course roughly to the disease, so the number of deaths at any point in time is six weeks behind the number of diagnosed cases at any point in time and the number of cases is increasing exponentially, so this seems like a big error. I have to say I’m truly surprised by how we are this far into this thing and it doesn’t seem like anybody has even done some of the basic mathematical maneuvering you would need to do to understand this or at least they haven’t done that and explained it very publicly.
In fairness, when I ported the Bash version to PowerShell and then Python, the Bash version was much shorter. rasengan later added a lot of functionality to the Bash version.

And the point was to demonstrate some of the functionality in a short example, not to be a line-by-line port. I find it's easier to learn a new language by looking at a short example. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
All information is not created equal. Classified briefings on a virus that may shutdown entire sectors of the economy isn’t the same as unemployment numbers. Everyone knew a ton of people were going to be laid off.

From your blog: “Here’s a trade from David Perdue, the great Senator of Georgia. He actually made nearly half the trades of our dataset, and it makes sense since he’s worth $15.8 million”

Why would it makes sense for him to make half the trades because he is worth $15.8 million? Plenty of Senators are worth more than that.
No, it is because that part of yaml spec is plain dumb.
What about other companies besides ARM, licensing cores. Are their costs exaggerated ? Are they affordable for processor customization ?
Nice, now go to this link and configure github to server your project as an HTML website.

https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
Entropy and Life
What's in my garden? Lockdown list from Chegutu, Zimbabwe
I remember years ago getting mysql, php, nginx, dovecot, postfix and horde to work together to get ActiveSync to my android. Took a long time and lots of reading but in the end it felt great. Then a week later a horde update broke it.

In hindsight it's probably better to spend the money on a hosted solution.
For having spent the last month reading about it:

1. google keywords like smart card, tpm, hsm, secure element, tee, sgx, secure enclave, trustzone, etc.

2. then add the keywords attack, threat model, etc.

3. Read all the papers
Bricked specifically means it’s unrepairable (ie: it’s now a paperweight, a brick).

It’s fair to say “bricked” is a sub-category of “broke” but if something is software repairable then it isn’t bricked.

Also aspirin and ibuprofen are very different chemicals. I wouldn’t advise conflating the two. The resulting effect could be worse than the brick/broke problem we are discussing ;)
great tip, thank you - just set this up, hauling down backups of email from over 1.5x decades from 9x email accounts into mbox !! woot ;-)
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> none of this is new either, except for the climate change part

Are you saying climate changes haven’t led to changes in the past? That’s ridiculous. The fossil record is full of changes due to the climate changing.

Humans didn’t invent climate change. This arrogance that climate change hasn’t always happened is just nonsense. It’s like suggesting plate tectonics didn’t start until humans came around. Trying to make some implicit connection between bat Coronaviruses and too much CO2 is getting into religious territory.

There are some religious people that blame the Coronavirus pandemic on “God’s will” and now we are hearing climate change alarmists using similar language to explain literally everything bad that happens.
I’m stuck in that old culture. I want to get out. Any advice? Books? Articles? Blogs?
It's quite disappointing how skewed our perspective on software pricing is. I grew up in an era when compilers cost $1000; now people complain about $3 for an iPhone game.

Given that a burger cost $5, I'm more than fine with sacrificing a burger each month for private email.
YAMLLint is nice for this use case.

https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint

It can be configured to require strict string quoting.

https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rules.html#module-...

And to explicitly restrict bools to only `true` and `false`.

https://yamllint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rules.html#module-...
I wonder if the search for an alternative to the “hallway track” could actually be fruitful.

Speaking for myself I never benefited much from the hallway track, because it relies on the type of in-person socializing skills that I’ve always struggled with. Conferences feel like a grown-up intellectual version of a junior high dance to me! A virtual forum could be a boon to people with good technical ideas but high introversion.

Of course, maybe one’s passion for research is supposed to override one’s shyness. I’m unsure which bar I personally failed to clear :-)
The vast majority of STEM PhDs are not staying in academia. The handful of recent grads I know who did stay in academia are, as I would put it, in academia-lite. They're in industry and privately sponsored positions or institutes, that pay quite well. Take a look at, say, the Broad Institute at MIT or the Allen Institutes in Seattle. Both are large, academic institutions that pay industry competitive wages.