skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This notion seems to incorrectly represent what climate science models are and how they are developed. If there were some way to "validate" them that everyone could generally agree upon, it would be possible to move this work to the domain of engineering. But each climate model varies quite a lot in its structure, dynamical equations, what simplifications it makes for numerical tractability, use of datasets and how to map them to model parameters. The role of climate scientists is to hash out which models are more sensible than others and to push the boundaries of accuracy and certainty with new methodologies.

This is why the best we can do from a policy perspective at the moment is model aggregation: that is taking tens of models computed by various research teams and combining them into policy recommendations along with uncertainty brackets. Distilling the state of current research into a policy digest is the role of the International Panel on Climate Change, which is currently in their sixth iteration of this process. You can keep up to date and read previous reports here. https://www.ipcc.ch/
I once had a work/politics conflict.

I did not like the idea of the ACA (Obamacare). I've seen government run healthcare and did not think it was good. But the will of the people was implemented, and ACA was put in place.

The launch was awful. The website crashed multiple times daily, and people lost their input data all the time. It was generating very big headlines. Then my company was asked to help make things better (along with Google, Oracle and a few others.) I was one of a relatively small number of people asked to help fix it.

I did the best job I could. I didn't like the idea personally, but I considered it professionalism to make my best effort.

My contributions were small, but I did what I could. Other members of the so-called 'Tiger Team' found bigger chunks that could be straightened out, and before too long the site was up and running.

Today, this is one of my proudest work moments.
I've never tried filling a MiFID II form in person at a bank counter, but I definitely felt slapped by some of the online quizzes.
I don't think any police force needs an armored APC except for the most extreme cases and even then call in the national guard in those situations.
> at that point IPFS is just an overweight tooling...

Only if you assume that your only use case is to have private communications.

There are a lot of use cases and jurisdictions where sharing files do not have to be private and would benefit a lot from having redundant nodes doing the distribution. The tooling is already there, why not benefit from it?
They seem to be currently having a few problems with log-in: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/q3cfsrp1qb6l
The constitution is completely silent on voting methodology. States are free to choose whatever they wish so long as it is representative, with the exception of federal Senators (and maybe representatives), I believe.
As I've said, the 13" 2018 I use from time to time can easily manage a 32 buffer, even on Catalina, so your device should be just as good..
My suggestion is to try with a different adapter and maybe with a different DAW such as Reaper, just to double-check (although I don't really think the DAW is the issue here).
It may also be related to the plugins you're using, maybe they're just heavier than mine..
The concept of rolling papyrus is perhaps not so far off then.
The article mentions in-browser search, which as mentioned is often sufficient for small sites. For reference, my site [0], generated on hexo using the icarus theme [1] uses what appears to be the `inferno` package's insight search class [2] to accomplish this without needing to make any requests back to Netlify. I was pretty impressed by the responsiveness and ease-of-setup.

[0] https://matansilver.com

[1] https://github.com/ppoffice/hexo-theme-icarus

[2] https://blog.zhangruipeng.me/hexo-component-inferno/module-v...
Wait, "hating on Topre" since when?? https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/grapwq... I thought everyone loved Topre.
They can and do, but they and the other cell sites can't up and move around. All cell sites have multiple transceivers that are directional. Each site has a unique cell ID and each transceiver has a unique ID. Your phone has GPS. If you drive around, you can find out who doesn't belong. Be careful about publicly disclosing this information.
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If a single or even small group of employees could leak private chats without getting immediately caught then Facebook's security is completely screwed
the classic instance of "men know better what women could possibly want"

so let us men remove the image of a woman without even consulting her of whether she minds being on this picture

> "At the conference, she was busy signing autographs, posing for pictures, and giving a presentation about herself. Lenna commented to the Wired reporter: "They must be so tired of me ... looking at the same picture for all these years!"
You can find the style using the inspector and then just change. Much faster that way, though not as cool as writing some JS, I admit.
Yeah, this definitely doesn't look like lidar data... unless its really low quality. The buildings show spatial depth, but the cars and pedestrians are pretty much all in a circle (they have no depth).
I disagree.

The structure of financial malfeasance in the presence of the limited liability corporation is as follows:

1) become a corporation.
2) borrow a lot of money.
3) bet it on red.
4) If lose, have the limited liability shell declare bankruptcy, no personal loss. If win, pay back the loans and dissolve the company.

There are many laws trying to prevent this exact scenario, but there is no way to characterize the pattern well enough to catch all of the instances of it. Furthermore, the incentive to find such a pattern always exists, so long as the liability limiting financial instrument (LLC) does.

The pattern is, in a modern context, streamlined through insurers. Insurers, as a rule, are businesses which lie about the applicability of the central limit theorem to investments. Insurers are only interested in increasing the number of policies that they cover. In the lie of the central limit theorem, more policies is less risk. But since a lot of risk is actually correlated, more policies is more correlated risk. Correctly identifying correlated risk is hard, in general, and furthermore, identifying correlated risk is explicitly against the insurance companies interest, as selling policies that they know they can't cover is fraud, but otherwise profitable.
OTOH, I remember that the first thing I did when, as a 10-year-old boy, I got a VIC-20 (my very first computer) was to type

10 + 10

and "20" appeared after I pressed the Enter key. Today this would not work with Bash, yet at the time the computer's answer seemed pretty logical to me.
In the United States, no. Police, emergency, first responder radio transmissions are generally in the clear. I don't know the precise history of it, but I have always assumed it is a combination of legacy (emergency radio in the United States is very old, and predates cheap and convenient electronic encryption standards), compatibility (first responder funding and maintenance in the United States is generally a local and state issue, so practices vary widely; for anybody to successfully come up with an encryption standard would require an unusual top-down standardization that has only been seen in extraordinary circumstances, such as after September 11th), and utility (in a disaster scenario where disparate groups coming from disparate points of the country might need to quickly ad hoc communications with each other, the absolute last thing you want is lives on the line while people are configuring their encryption protocols for their radios... Nor do you want to deny local volunteers the ability to understand where first responders are and how to get to them by having that information communicated in scramble).
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I posted elsewhere about https://github.com/IronCoreLabs/ironhide a tool purpose built for sharing developer/CI secrets.
I'm curious, please elaborate.
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You’re not being as witty as you think you are. My point wasn’t “it doesn’t happen”, my point was “it’s a war crime”. The fact that what is a war crime is policy for domestic policing is what I’m angry about.
> You decided you were better off without me, fine, save your own store.

For what it's worth, this is why people hate cops! No one said anything about all cops being worthless, and you're saying that victims of crimes deserve it for not praising police brutality.
If they are anywhere nearly as sensitive to 'bayesian priors', aka parameters made up of full cloth, as the covid19 models, then I take a hard pass.

Edit: Perhaps that was a bit too much of an 'in jest' reply. I'm frustrated at the whole mathematical rituals schtick, when in reality the whole thing is at best an unfalsifiable qualitative guess. The parameter space is immense, and we only have 1 measurable trajectory through it for validation.
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The medical school at the university nearest me offers a range of such tests on a walk-in basis for prices ranging from around $15-40 USD each. Obviously, YMMV, but inquire with any medical schools near you that have research hospitals or training clinics.
I don't think nursing homes are as terrible as they're made out to be, at least not as a general concept. The issue, in my view, is much like the issue with private prisons - you have a highly vulnerable population with little recourse against the people in charge, because those people have so much control over residents' lives.

There should be much greater regulation along with frequent inspections and a mandate that residents have information in their rooms about how to report issues directly to the government.

Those things obviously wouldn't help with the coronavirus issues at present, but having that type of government infrastructure involved with nursing homes would have put a lot of pieces in place to allow for a more consistent and coherent response when we started seeing Covid cases.

Of course we also needed PPE and testing en masse at nursing homes early on, so maybe it wouldn't have mattered anyway.
Thanks for sharing this. I am working on matrix hosting and a multi-homed media service will be very useful.
> Why should the default position be to subsidize this as opposed to alternative means?

I don't think the government should be subsidizing any energy sources or playing favorites with certain sources over others. That applies just as much to playing favorites in favor of "alternative" energy sources as to playing favorites in favor of oil, coal, and natural gas. (Actually the government subsidizes all of these.)

However, that has nothing to do with any beliefs about the relative risks of different energy sources. It has to do with a belief that government subsidizing anything or playing favorites in general is likely to do more harm than good. In other words, the government does not have reliable enough knowledge to justify favoring any energy source over any other, so it shouldn't.

> It's clearly unsustainable, but let's set that aside.

No, let's not. Let's ask, instead, why you apparently believe that the only way to fix anything that is "unsustainable" is government policy. Why not just let the market work? If governments would stop subsiziding fossil fuels, their prices would be higher, and there would be more market pressure to find alternatives. Just as we found alternatives to horses that saved us from the "unsustainable" practice in the late 19th century of using horses for transportation, which, if that had gone on the same way, would have us all by now, as the saying goes, knee deep in horsesxxt. (And people were predicting exactly that at the time.)

> It's not an argument to say "this is how we done things for a long time so this way doesn't need to be supported by science." That's illogical.

No, it's not, it's a fact of life. Most of the things we currently do are not "supported by science". We do not have well-supported scientific rationales for most of our current activities. That's because we don't have a good scientific understanding of the relevant domains for most of our current activities. But just stopping all of our current activities that aren't "supported by science" is not a viable alternative, never has been, and never will be. So it's you that is being illogical, not me.
OP here. Stretch is an interesting machine that can claim many firsts. The 8-bit byte, CPU look ahead, an interrupt system, and error checking amongst other modern features.

It had 3/4 of a megabyte of random access memory. A colossal amount at the time.

I want to make sure I don't overplay Harvest's keyword search ability. The NSA would physically walk down the street and grab reels of magnetic tape every day from ITT, RCA, and Western Union. So they're working with relatively structured data from international telegram cables.

Still impressive, but much more limited.

Your analogy seems appropriate and the activity is fundamentally very similar. The repeated violations of the constitution demonstrates the natural inertia of such an entity.
Because Floyd was killed by a knee.
I think they mean cars immobilized due to accidents.
I remember ghosting being a practical problem in the 1980s when people used the keyboard as a game controller.

The other keyboard problem was debouncing. (Glad to see the spellchecker knows that word.) The proper way to debounce would be to have a key switch with three terminals. Cheap home computers didn't do that, obviously. Do modern keyboards do that?

I should have taken one apart last time I had one to throw away. Next time!
>Modern high-velocity FMJ cartridges, such as the ubiquitous 5.56mm NATO, can undergo explosive fragmentation

that is how modern military workarounds the ban on such cruel things like HP. The small caliber very fast round (i.e. it is usually should be less than 200-300 yards for M16, AK74) would yaw/tumble upon entering the body, and either fragments as a result or just do a lot of damage by tumbling.

Historically, US introduced that trick into mass warfare in Vietnam war with 5.56 M-16 where it was noticed by USSR which in turn produced 5.45 AK-74 which was actively used in Afghanistan. The AK-74 round was called "poison" bullet by the Afghanistan mujahideen because of those horrible quickly gangrening wounds as if the bullet was really poisoned while it was a result from that yawing/tumbling behavior of those small and fast rounds. (Such behavior was somewhat amplified by that first generation bullet design, and since then that bullet seems to have been replaced in service - though not on humanitarian grounds, it just that it did have issues in some situations due to that overly tumbling behavior, and it was fixed in the next gen, and additionally the next gen bullet has much higher, 2X+, armor penetrating capability)

The way the world stands right now, i don't see any chances for Hague convention to be updated to include modern unnecessary cruel military innovations.
> risk model is

Mostly curiosity: what is the highest degree I can obscure my web use and meta data with off-the-shelf technologies?
This is mitigating garbage trying to avoid blame, and more both-sides junk that will excuse anything so long as quiet (not "peace", that would be something else) is restored. This is an unusual protest of the usual systemic violence and prejudice of police and government.

There are people to blame and it is not everyone's responsibility to make it easy and comfortable for the channel surfers at home.
Interesting posting. Would you accept Canadian applicant?
Thank you for your input, that's exactly what I meant.
Accidental release of the virus from the lab is not unlikely (it happened at least twice with sars and chinese labs) nor a conspiracy theory (nobody conspired to anything, mistakes happen).
This is not really an option in California in my experience. There is no automatic month-to-month conversion, and it's pretty rare as far as I can tell.
This is starting to change, but it does take time since it usually requires replacing hundreds of radios at one time and a bunch of additional training on how to use the new radios properly.
I think kickstarter has something to do with this phenomenon. Something with lots of bits and pieces (especially molded miniatures) has more obvious “value” and wow factor in a kickstarter pitch than something simple but elegant.
We commit encryption keys, themselves encrypted, to git alongside the code and everything else. They’re fully versioned and therefore protected against data loss, and we don’t treat dev keys as any different from production keys (just stored in a separate file).

I first wrote about it back in 2017 (1) and we released an open framework for multiple languages/frameworks (2).

1: https://neosmart.net/blog/2017/securestore-a-net-secrets-man...

2: https://neosmart.net/blog/2020/securestore-open-secrets-form...
> Everyone is already under the imposition of public policy, right now.

To the extent that this is true, it is, IMO, mostly a bug, not a feature.

> the public policy imposed on us today is based on what we thought we knew back when it was put in place.

If you seriously believe the public policies we have today were all based on the best current knowledge at the time they were put in place, all I can say is that you have a most charming naivete.
Yes. I didn't mean to imply that POSIX utilities should be reimplemented. It's just that a new user space isn't very substantial if users can't even explore the file system. The new software could even be graphical in nature. Right now a Python REPL is the only real way to interact with the operating system.
> plain bullshit excluded

These ones that you listed were plain bullshit though.
Wow, this is horrible advice. I'm a Debian Developer and an Ubuntu Core Developer. What this will do is create a package that doesn't properly handle dependencies and be incredibly fragile.

Debian and Ubuntu automatically resolve shared library dependencies are build time through dpkg-shlibs and friends. Debian's maintainer manual is likely the most detailed guide: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/start.en.html

However, it's a bit hard to grok, so I'm going to point people at the guide that got linked in the comments before I got here: https://saveriomiroddi.github.io/Learn-to-prepare-PPA-packag...
I still roll an old Macbook Air for my primary computer. It really sucks under Catalina. I used to run two browsers, one for work and one for personal. Now I just run the work one. I often find myself evicting things from RAM so I can get my job done. Nerfing the ram slots was the first unforgivable sin. Don't get me started on usb-c and the thrice damned touchbar. At least they gave us the escape key back.

I'm tempted to upgrade, but this article is not helping. Maybe I'll get an Air with 16gb and call it good.
My favorite recent machine purchase was a Chromebook Pixel i7 with 16GB of ram. The only problems are the locked rom and the nerfed storage. Both of which I've worked around. It's my primary pen-test machine and the most capable machine in my fleet. If only the Linux trackpad drivers were better. (fingers crossed https://bill.harding.blog/2020/04/26/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...)

If I could buy a machine like the Chromebook (that I was allowed to install linux on) I'd drop Apple in a heartbeat.
Tor Browser tries to make your browser fingerprint look the same as all other Tor Browser users, while Brave does have some patches to try to handle that it's still very far from what Tor Browser offers.
The one I bought and kept is "Witch Trail".
It's a pity that some on the left in the past have been so ready with the word 'fascism'. It's a serious word describing a serious problem, and it should not be used casually for "people on the right I disagree with". I believe that the word is appropriate to describe this administration.
Well, as a long time web dev who's been backend only for a few years now, so my frontend skills are rusty, you taught me something new. I didn't know about `attributeStyleMap`. Way to go first time!
If things are as good as they've ever been then how come on one side of the political spectrum there's a broad movement to "make America great again" and on the other there's a mass movement taking to the streets? Does anyone think things are as good as they have ever been besides the bankers?
On the topic of police refusing to do their job in order to punish backlash.

https://twitter.com/MplsWard3/status/1267891878801915904

> Politicians who cross the MPD find slowdowns in their wards. After the first time I cut money from the proposed police budget, I had an uptick in calls taking forever to get a response, and MPD officers telling business owners to call their councilman about why it took so long.
This is the point. There are many people at these protests. This is a heated, complex situation and at any large protest the people there are not homogeneous. The majority wants to peacefully protest, some loot, some want violence, the police is aggressive. Given that it is understood that every protest is a complicated social phenomenon, the narrative pushed by major news outlets in the US, and echoed in parts here, that somehow this is led and organised by Antifa, or the far right, is delusional. There are protests all over the US. In suburbs. How do you imagine this is working? The Antifa/Right has some chapters in every suburb of the US, just waiting to be unleashed upon the masses and this is the reason why protests turn violent? It's a gross oversimplification of the actual dynamics, it's a child's story that is easy to tell and easy to digest.
The contact social graph in signal is stored inside of SGX using a service called contact discovery.

Signal is attempting to design the system such that Signal can never know whose contacts are in your phone as a service provider. They deal with side-channel leakage of lookups from the contact DB into the enclave using a technique called linear scan which is a constant-time bitwise XOR operation on every contact. This is the most brute force version of a class of techniques known as oblivious RAM (ORAM) which are increasingly being used to manage data loads into secure enclaves.

Obvious caveat: if SGX gets broken then these contact lookups are vulnerable to side-channel analysis until the enclave is patched. I think this is a strictly better security property than not having the enclave, but it's far from perfect (no security model is perfect FWIW).

In short, Signal is doing everything they can to avoid having access to your social graph. If you still don't think what Signal is doing is enough, you can run your own signal (or matrix) server, but then you are running a very, very valuable server from a graph analysis perspective. At present, I believe the only way to make the metadata in these services less interesting is to put it inside of an enclave in the hopes that will reduce the value of attempting to attack the servers which manage the graphs for these comms networks.

Source: I work on MobileCoin which uses similar techniques for managing a side-channel resistant ledger.
> implausible

Explain the previous sars releases then.
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