skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the modern world, there's just one source of many products. All the jeans in the world, from Korea. All the memory chips from a few factories.

All the anecdotes about going down the street for homely puddings, have little to do with the larger markets in the modern world.
The curse of MBAs strikes back!
Yeah, we use ed25519 almost everywhere, except we have some networking gear that doesn't support it.
The classic paper "More is Different"[1] is another good essay that touches on this subject, and opens with some really interesting examples showing why it can be hard to apply low-level laws to anticipate the behaviour of complex systems, even when you can prove that the complex systems must obey those laws.

1 - http://robotics.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs689/papers/anderson72mo...
I’m an 80 cols person, and I admit to be low-key enraged by wide lines. I really like having lots of side-by-side editors and a terminal, and long lines bust that, and I resent what feels like a lack of sensitivity for others’ workflows in many modern tools that generate wide lines.

That said, I try and practice what I preach and let my coworkers who are into wide lines (120, woof) have ‘em. I just run a formatter after I check code out, ez. Everyone should do this, online diffs should default auto format to 80 cols (but configurable), and we should put this debate to rest.
That's a classic approach. Better that only price controls, probably.

But I believe the free market will handle it best.
160++ character long lines are almost unreadable in my opinion. Any readable material should stick to 60-80 characters per line.
This reminds me of "zeroless number systems" or "bijective number systems" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijective_numeration#The_bijec...) - in the language of the article, the allowed digits in base 10 are 123456789A. Note that 0 is not an allowed digit.

For instance here are the first few natural numbers in this system: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,11,12...

I first read about them in Chris Okasaki's purely functional data structures book, they have some applications in terms of designing data structures (e.g. combining perfect-powers-of-two sized heaps to build heaps of arbitrary size).

They're conceptually interesting too, being a positional number system with no redundancy (exactly one way to represent each number) and without 0. Since the concept of a 0 digit is not required, one could argue that it's conceptually easier for e.g. a classical Roman mathematician to learn this than the positional system we do use today.

Also, excel's system for numbering columns uses this - A, B, C, ... X, Y, Z, AA, AB ...
You're right. But if the excess mirrors the diagnosed rate (rise and fall) one might reasonably infer that it is driven by covid. Compared to deaths resulting from/driven by people staying away from hospitals which would depend on when lockdowns were announced, when behaviors changed, etc.

Although both mechanisms would bear some relation, it looked to me more like it was driven by spread of the infection rather than changes to behavior.

The point that you can't really separate them completely is well-taken though.

EDIT: I'm clearly all over the place with terminology. Something along the lines of looking at the (all_cause_mortality - covid_deaths - historic_avg) residual and seeing how closely it mirrors say alpha*covid_deaths where alpha is some constant. If it mirrored it well (or for example preceded it and the lock downs in the manner that would be expected of infection) one might infer that those deaths were probably covid. If on the other hand they were strictly related to the time the news broke and lock downs and changes to hospital admittance rates, then it might be better explained as resulting from lockdown issues.
Nowadays, the ANTIFA thugs have valid reason to wear a mask.
English understatement! Its a turn of phrase that is actually rather stronger than it might first appear.

Indeed, the subsequent 'I can't pretend that...' is a form of words much stronger and more direct than the 'I can't say that...'
I was expecting this to be higher up. They're the only reason I still have an RSA key.
If You Think Jordan Is the Goat Think Again
Except this risk is real. The more we learn of it, the more significant it becomes.

Fortunately with study we will beat it. But to laugh at the risk of Covid is foolhardy.
You cherry-picked the end of the statement, but you left off the beginning. It says a lot:

> Although AIDS was first identified in 1981, Reagan did not mention it publicly for several more years, notably during a press conference in 1985 and several speeches in 1987. During the press conference in 1985, Reagan expressed skepticism in allowing children with AIDS to continue in school

Reagan waited years, and a generation of gay men died. Better late than never, I suppose, but he didn’t do nearly enough and his response to the crisis is not worthy of honor or respect.
Why should online diffs auto format to 80 cols? Shouldn't that be up to the user?
Typical globalist thinking.

Who cares who has influence in some organization I don't care about! And more importantly, I also don't have pay for it. I couldn't care less!
Except FB has a policy of sensoring based on simple fact checking (see an article also on the HN front page right now). Not sure how that article and this position line up.
Well, it contains 265 git repositories of packages I'm using.
>The second option was to reduce the occurrence of those behaviors, namely intravenous recreational drug use

The Reagan administration banned needle exchanges:

https://www.csis.org/blogs/smart-global-health/history-ban-f...

>, and unprotected sex with large numbers of sexual partners, which is particularly widespread among homosexual males.

The continuing pathologization of homosexuals reduced their access to medical services, which prevented them from being educated about responsible sexual behavior. See e.g.:

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.82.9....

Overall the Reagan administration's response cannot be called prophylactic.
Look up The Ashes Action organized by ActUP
It's pretty hypocritical to see this right after Zuckerberg said Twitter was in the wrong for doing the exact same thing.

https://www.newsweek.com/zuckerberg-says-twitter-wrong-fact-...
In this case could it be matching against a cached, earlier publication where the name was (accidentally) published before being edited out in the version you are seeing now?
Can you not use iTunes?

Become an artist, sell albums, people buy and gift your albums using iTunes gift cards?
Yup. but the timing was just too good. It was like the methane wanted to have a say in the conversation: "Acccctuaally,....BOOM"
Four months ago there was a post of another article from theregister.co.uk about another bug. The cockpit/flight deck displays went blank if a Boeing 737 landed at any runway that was oriented at 270 degrees true.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21991087
> smart kids aren’t challenged enough

Public schools are factories and private schools in the sticks are little better. We get what we pay for, and the well-off can pay a lot more.

Gaming the system now will just require less mental effort for the well-off student while mom and dad figure out the obstacle course.
>1984, when more than 4,200 had died

Wow, from the way liberals talk about it now I always assumed it was way bigger than that. By 1984 the US government had spent over a hundred million dollars on research, or about $25,000 per person who died. That's comparable with what has been spent on SARS-CoV-2, a $2 trillion bailout and 100,000 deaths. The difference being that the maximum conceivable death toll is much higher for SARS than HIV.
Shame there's not a disease that only wipes out conservatives. They deserve it.
Dorsey has explicitly stated that because user-defined filters will lead people to remain blissfully unaware of ideas that challenge their own, he does not want Twitter to follow that path.

It's a tough call. In some sense, for any global website that doesn't want to impose its own moral code upon the world, it makes the most sense to be hands-off and let users judge for themselves what to see and what not to. On the other hand, doing so would amplify the echochamber effect that's already strongly present on Twitter.
`go run` is quite comparable to `deno run` and in fact inspired a great many of its details. Deno's standard library is literally built as a copy of Go's standard library. They work the same way in many respects, and with Go's type inference and (effectively) duck typed interfaces... If you are familiar with Go it is probably a more suitable scripting environment than most other languages for... scripting tasks.
Understood. But Covid is of course a different disease, and different in many ways. No consent is required to obtain it from another person. No time spent in private naked. Just be near someone in line at the bus stop and a sneeze. So there's that.
The CBP is also flying a federal Predator surveillance drone in Minneapolis:

https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/126639991697850777...

You can be reasonably sure it is collecting facial biometrics and perhaps IMEIs.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dzbe3/customs-and-border...
tldr: critical mass with the right crowd, real word of mouth, luck, timing. Spread from elite/popular to mainstream.

"After I sent out that first email, I went rollerblading around a big office park where Tellme was based. I went up to a random guy and said, “Hey man, have you checked out hotornot.com yet?” He said, “No, what’s that?” I said, “Dude, just go check it out!” Then I went home and watched our logs for Tellme and saw a hit come in 10 minutes later, and then more hits kept coming from different people within Tellme.”

-James Hong, cofounder, HOTorNOT

From "Founders at Work"

> “We sent her all over the country,” Munoz told me this week. “Her pitch was pretty genius. She would go to chapters of her sorority, do her presentation, and have all the girls at the meetings install the app. Then she’d go to the corresponding brother fraternity—they’d open the app and see all these cute girls they knew.” Tinder had fewer than 5,000 users before Wolfe made her trip, Munoz says; when she returned, there were some 15,000. “At that point, I thought the avalanche had started,” Munoz says.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-02/tinders-forg... (Paywall)

> Undeterred, Mr. Spiegel and Mr. Murphy shared an updated version for the iPhone with about 20 friends in September 2011. A few weeks in, they started seeing an influx of new users, paired with unusual spikes in activity, peaking between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m.

> It turned out the activity was centered around a high school in Orange County. Mr. Spiegel’s mother had told his cousin, who was a student at the school, about the app, which then spread throughout the school.

> Other high school students in Southern California picked it up, with the number of daily active users climbing from 3,000 to 30,000 in a month in early 2012.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/technology/snapchat-a-gro...
It's popular everywhere. The Go ecosystem, or Rust ecosystem, as an example is just as bad about this as the JS ecosystem. There is a difference, but it's a constant factor. Asymptotically, everyone is just pasting code they found on the internet into their app. Crazy, but true.

That's why a per-library sandbox model seems so beneficial.
I really appreciate the intuitive explanation that in Emergentism the whole can have the same ontological importance as the parts. Could it also be more important?
And also people over 40 that wear hoodies.
Or an entire MacOS like experience in 128k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)
Sorry I ninja edited you. Diffs with wide lines don’t always fit on screens; but if you have a wide monitor, set it to 400 for all I care.
Total system efficiency (heat + electricity) is close to 100% – no energy is lost.

I saw this the other day. I stopped reading here. A wood stove may be nearly 100% efficient at converting wood to heat, but half the heat goes right up the chimney. I was surprised to see lowtechmagazine skip over that.
Same twitter used to proudly keep up ISIS murder videos and used to defend it.
To be a bit less wordy: try it. You stand to earn lots of money.

Narrator: it didn't work

(Going into the reasons it doesn't actually work in practice is... lengthy. It's human dynamics. Would you buy a product from a sales guy that can't remember your name? That's sales 101. And loading up the context window only gets you so far. That "working memory" is tiny, tinytinytiny. Even at 1024 tokens, it means you have to boil down the entire history of an interaction to a few pages at most. Which is a lot, sure, but it's this balancing act where you'll need to retrain the model to support your custom context format for your specific "slots" – a "slot" being a piece of knowledge, like the client's name. Or you can try encoding all of that in natural language, AI dungeon style. But I recently played AI dungeon and pretended to be buying a router from the store. The cashier stripped down and started jacking off onto his desk. I don't have high hopes for our ability to control these models in a business context.)
To be clear, you need the infrastructure the first time you run it. If you run it _more_ than once, it will both start and execute faster than python.
reminds me of this honestly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...
Which they are legally allowed to do
Entering the Nickel Age of Superconductivity
I use feeds.pub as an RSS reader and to share the feeds I follow

https://feeds.pub/timqian
This is not about the artificial animal you might expect to see on HN, nevertheless it is a patent for "Toy figures with self-moving parts, with or without movement of the toy as a whole imitating natural actions, e.g. catching a mouse by a cat, the kicking of an animal".

I found the aspect of putting insects inside of the figure to create movement of the limbs very interesting.

The patent is actually expired if anyone wishes to work on it.
I didnt say it wasn't enough. I said you should upgrade to elliptic curve crypto, or if you have to stay on RSA, re-generate with 4096 because it's better. A 2048 bit RSA key only provides 112 bits of security - claimed to be suitable until the year 2030. RSA-2048 is still techncially ALLOWED by NIST, but that is the literal cutoff mark, below which is disallowed. The spec dates back to 2012 with "NIST Special Publication 800-57 Part1". This specification is up to Revision 5 now, the most recent of which is named "NIST Special Publication 800-57 Part 1 rev 5" published May 2020. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S... . There is no new news regarding the 2048 length since 2012. This estimate also does not factor in CLASSIFIED quantum cryptography thats hidden from the public. I personally don't trust them after the Snowden documents either. Plenty of sites are still using 2048 for compatibility and speed, but if you are re-generating your key now, its advised to upgrade to elliptic curve, or if you must stick on RSA, 3072 or 4096, because 2048 is the literal cutoff point. This document also describes the migration process. NIST SP 800-131A Rev. 2 - Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-131a/rev-2/...
Considered safe here in India and being taken by millions of people. High dosages should be avoided by people with heart trouble/high blood pressure.
I’m still not sure why I should use Ed25519? Is it just cryptographically “tougher”?
> You abide by their TOS or don’t use it

This is not the case for many people on Twitter. If you're powerful or protected by the powerful, you don't have to follow the TOS.
Implementations of RSA have suffered from all sorts of problems that have led to real world attacks irrespective of the hardness of factoring prime numbers. The intuition behind RSA being hard is alluring in its simplicity, but it's deceptive. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/
I wish I had the option to downvote, because thinly veiled homophobia is really a disgusting thing to see on a supposedly enlightened site.

As if straight people don’t sleep around and have drug-fueled sex parties. And my god, swingers were and are a thing - as if gay men have a monopoly on getting laid.

The behavior is not rampant in the gay community; “they” do not have drug-fueled sex parties and fuck for days; they do not promote hyper sexuality at the expense of their health and “they” most certainly did not “just get their freedom”. If you think LGBT rights are all fought and won in the US, then you haven’t looked much into anti-discrimination laws.

You are not tolerant; and I take issue with you claiming to be tolerant. This is thinly veiled, disgusting homophobia, straight out of the moral majority’s playbook (seriously, it’s straight outta the 70s).

There is no rational conversation to be had here because what you said is wrong and disgusting and I hate seeing it on this site.
Anally-Inflicted Death Sentence!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvVsf789y8
To me entertainment feels like a basic human need (though a lot further down the hierarchy), but that doesn't mean we have the right to an individual form or brand of entertainment. There are a lot of alternatives so I don't think there's a real issue here.
My understanding is that excess deaths statistic would also COVID deaths. You'd need to subtract COVID deaths from excess deaths. (and be certain that all COVID deaths are reported as such...)
Transmission rates vary widely by sex act. 2/3 of transmissions in the US are between homosexual men. It's not homophobia to observe that some populations are at more risk from HIV.
Different methodologies of surveillance have different costs, capabilities, and potential risks. In theory anyone stepping outside of their door could be observed at any time but in practice personal observation is very expensive and potentially obvious. Non network cameras controlled by a plethora of individual business owners might paint on net a very detailed picture of a persons comings and goings but acquiring and correlating that data likely limits it to discovering comings and goings in a limited geographical and temporal area of interest because of a major crime.

Pervasive cheap surveillance which needn't be attached to a very expensive mobile weapons platform or be limited to just cameras could be a birds eye view of everyone's lives. Good justifiable benefits are obvious. With enough surveillance crime becomes really hard to perpetrate. We can pick out all the drug dealers and make tons of arrests before people adapt. Petty stupid crime like breaking into a car means the eye of Sauron sees you and follows you back to your house. Acts of violence that don't take place inside buildings could prompt an immediate response at least as fast as the cops are capable of dispatching a unit. Acts of violence within a unit could be detected by mikes outside on street corners if we were even more surveillance minded. Perhaps we can train it to detect the sound of a person being beat. I don't like people getting hurt do you? Acts of terrorism or mass violence are even more important to prevent. With enough smarts maybe we can flag people likely to go postal or at least notice what is happening 30 seconds before the shooting starts. 30 seconds before instead of 2 minutes after might make a HUGE difference in body count.

As great as that sounds I'm sure you can think of 100 more dystopian use cases. It doesn't do us much good to treat cars as faster horses and not bothering to consider the implications.
Is it that much different than how everyone jokes about HSV1 today? It is still a (ridiculous and stupid) running punchline on SNL. Obviously it is a far less dire virus (as far as we know, today) but, we as a species (generally) compared to our individual potential, are absolute idiots and almost always take the easy intellectual route (humor and bullshit) when faced with uncommon information.

The video really seems like par for the course and not surprising in the slightest...
Yes, this was overly brief and a tilde is not enough to qualify this statement, and I should have said noon equatorial sun.

My point here was meant to be about how this is essentially the daily maximum dose from UV radiation due to the isomerization of previtamin D into inactive isomers, and to give context to a dose of 10,000 IU D3 seeming large when it is half the amount a person might receive from sun exposure.
Yes. I included the MAX because otherwise the software-related fatalities over the last 10 years is 0. If you do just the MAX, the low end in terms of flights is ~200,000 with an average of 3 hours per flight. Using the same time basis above, that is 1 in 6,000,000 or 99.99998% uptime which is 600x better than AWS by my previously used metric. The software of an unconscionable deathtrap is 600x better than extremely high quality server software.

My primary point is that many people look at these failures and incorrectly conclude that the processes in place are objectively terrible and below average. This leads to them discounting the processes in these systems in favor of policies from vastly less reliable systems that they think are quality-focused or "best practices" because they, fairly, think "bad" in a safety-critical context means the same as regular "bad", so regular "amazing" is clearly better. In truth, "unconscionable deathtrap" and "gross criminal negligence" in the airplane world is more of a synonym for "amazing beyond belief" in the rest of the software industry. The correct takeaway is understanding that regular "amazing" is actually orders of magnitude worse than "unconscionable deathtrap" and is thus completely inadequate for the job. As a corollary, if you do not think you are doing "way better than amazing" you are probably not doing an adequate job in these contexts.

To reiterate, the solutions are really really good, unfortunately the problems are really really really really hard.
Taking Deno for a Spin
A small number of people can spread a disease far and wide, thereby greatly affecting people who themselves do not take so many unnecessary risks. Choosing to reduce your number of sexual partners is a form of social distancing, and like the lockdown protestors today, the AIDS protestors of the 1980's were upset by the need to social distance, although the gay jokes probably contributed.
I've heard octopi are pretty smart so they must also be pretty deep.
Users vote, and HN is the result

I think you're cycling through a sort of greatest hits of various common misconceptions about the way HN works and you're better off just reading dang's moderator comments for a little bit - this stuff comes up all the time and he addresses it with better detail, accuracy and nuance than I can. You'll be in a better position to then make your critique rather than debating it with less familiarity and with some internet rando who's lecturing you about how you have it all wrong.
"I have been trying to point out that quite prominent figures in science and medicine do not agree with the policy of several major governments—that stifling personal liberty and crashing their economies will protect us from the Covid-19 virus. And almost nobody has seriously disagreed with me."

Ok, who are these people? And if their point of view is so strong why aren't they front-page news?

One of the cornerstones of freedom is that individual freedom stops once it impedes on someone else's. We live in a shared society that has limits on everyone's freedom and keeps us from doing anything we want. We have the responsibility for not doing things that will hurt others. In a pandemic, it just so happens that what we do impacts other members of society.

It's true, freedom is important but freedom comes with responsibilities to others too.

And yes, the freedoms are still there, we just have to understand that freedom does not mean doing anything we want all the time.