skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as opposed to the comment I was replying to, which is straight up misinformation to prove the opposite of what is actually happening. so someone who works at fox news.
Can anyone Please point to the model used for the "expected" galactic rotation curve? This whole dark matter thing started with observation not matching prediction. I'd like to scrutinize the prediction.
Back when the US was still interested in nuclear non-proliferation, they sponsored (together with the EU) the installation of radiation detection equipment at borders and other chokepoints, mostly in poorer countries.

These are fixed installations, monitoring mostly truck traffic 24/7, so their effectiveness doesn't depend on available manpower or current interest. Eastern Europe from Poland to the -stans has a lot of them, because former soviet republics had a lot of radioactive material lying around that was suddenly less important and even less guarded after the Cold War.

(Scientists were also suddenly out of work, and feared to be receptive to corruption. Fun fact: George Soros spent dozens of millions of his own money to empty a bunch of nuclear physicists in the 90s).

The point being: if it were a widespread problem, it would definitely be noticed.
HTML++: Write HTML documents using C++ templates
The search for Aliens within Aliens just insane.
That's my feeling as well. I bought a large monitor with nice resolution and I want to run my applications at full size. Window tiling is nice but its also a distraction for me and I always seem to forget which app has focus.
What are you implying, that it has no value because it advocates violence?

EDIT: To be precise why I'd disagree with that, promoting self defense advocates violence, but still has value to pretty much everyone. This is controversial because of the current climate, but saying it has no value is false.
You Must Not Trust Experiments That Claim the Existence of Parallel Universes
The search for aliens within aliens just insane. They've communicated with us for years. The idea itself a communication. It's matter of time until we get more civilized.
If I was forced to use new reddit rather than old reddit I would probably never visit the site again. I can't stand the new version.
How about kidnapping insurance? Should that be illegal?
Any progress on an open source implementation?
How has life expectancy gone since the height of the early industrial revolution? How has life expectancy gone in the developing world of our day?

I believe Yuval Noah writes mostly about pre-agricultural life, not pre-industrial life.
Load, Stress and Performance Testing: All You Need to Know
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts
> A permanent link is a complete mystery of a concept to them as well. Every time sun shines on an article in public media for them the glory is sure to be short lived, because google's link will be broken in 6 months tops.

I am baffled that universities (and so many others) don't just use WordPress for publishing their media.
America Doesn’t Need a New Revolution
That is not a reasonable comparison.
What if they threaten to release the data? Is it really preferable to let personal info flood the net rather than pay?
They seem to be specifically calling out the far right, not just conservatives. Far right is synonymous with for example, calls for an ethnostate that would exclude certain people.
https://mobile.twitter.com/richdavisphd/status/1276629360212...
Erm, we used to have types of games where you didn't just shoot everything in sight.

The games with "blow everything away" outsold them by orders of magnitude.

You can blame the games, but the money paying audience has spoken about what they want.
Ward – a minimalistic server monitoring tool
Steven Pinker writes for a conservative propaganda publication that tries to legitimize phrenology to promote racism as a science.
I see brown. My wife and 13-yr-old son both see green, blue, and pink. Same iPhone, same time.
> During the last decades most people living in the "first world" (however you define it today) lost ability to rationally think about small additional chances of dying.

I disagree. What do we have the technology for, if not to prevent dying? Why are we destroying the planet (I hope we can agree that having technological comfort requires quite a bit of material processing), if not for that?

To me, to use the technology (which has downsides) to just have more "easy" or extra enjoyable life seems more childish than to use the technology to prevent dying (or in general, improving the living conditions).

We can think of the tradeoff in terms of carbon emissions. Consider a coal miner. What would be better for him, to give him couple extra exotic vacations with airplane, or to close the mine and let him do something healthier, like installing solar panels?

I argue that the latter is a better life.

It's also interesting to note that many cities over the world experienced much cleaner air during the shutdown. I am not exactly sure what they have given up, but sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
>What does that tell us? A few things, first the authors are completely ignoring the danger of multiple hypothesis testing and generally piss on any statistical foundations of their "research"

This is a really poor take, considering I make the same gut feel choices professionally and they generally work in production.

This is still a brand new field and we fundamentally don't have answ re as to why many of these tweaks work better than others. That shouldn't stop someone from publishing a novel architecture or improvement.
Pg_hexedit: Open PostgreSQL relation files in a hex editor with annotations
Scalability isn't the issue. It's just not profitable. Microlending is a money loser overall. Dirt farming just isn't very profitable on the scale of a wealthy investor in a developed country. It only works because the lenders think of it as gifts that are partially refunded, not investments.
If you were managing the conversion of an entire elementary and junior high school to remote learning on the fly in the midst of a pandemic while you and your spouse had said pandemic while overseeing the mental health of your children while also dealing with parents who had Covid at the same time you might have seen your stress level tick up but I’m glad you live such a chill and unencumbered lifestyle.
I caught it early because I notice my jaw was tired of in the morning. And it slowly stopped but it came and went, but eventually it did stop. Just try to be very conscious about even the slightest clenches and fight it. Took a couple weeks or months.
>They may be useful in the sense of generating commercial value, just like ML is useful to random-walking you to some solution that you couldn't have come up with, but it is not science.

There is little insight to be gained from this, it is more guesswork and art than anything else, and likely at some points the practical results will diminish as soon as one stumbles about more fundamental problems and has no model or structure to reason with

This is just normal for the scientific process, and I'd argue that ML currently is more rigorous than any of the soft sciences. The truth is that we likely need a new field of math to properly model neural networks...until then we are gleaning vast amounts of empirical but still scientific data as to the behavior of this new tech.

The proof is that these nets work and are already doing amazing things.
Of course not.

But if it was illegal to pay a ransom, the frequency of the crime would go down.
> I’m not thinking I’ll die if i catch it but if i do catch it, how many people will i pass it on to, and how many will they infect. How many deaths would be attributable to me catching it? It’s pretty heavy when you think about it.

That is fair point, but its consideration should not be limited to COVID. I definitely not claim you do this, but in the USA I see people sending sick (with colds and flu) kids to school all the time. I see people coming to work sick (even when there is really, really, no penalty for staying home) and spreading the good stuff on everyone in the office including this lady in her 70s and that guy who just had chemo which hosed his immunity.

We seem to ignore this "because that is what everyone does", but I personally know people who died from flu complications and there are real risks for others from this. We cannot ignore this, but give hell to folks who are not convinced that they must stay home to avoid infecting others with coronavirus; especially when they have no symptoms.
I'm imagining a scenario where a UCSF insider could coordinate this with someone by deliberately getting their system infected and then splitting the money with whoever is behind that NetWalker instance. Do you guys think that would work?
I come from a farming area. When I read the drivel on HN about urban farming, my response is, "Talk is cheap" and "What are the details?"

- 1/4 acre in SV starts at $1 million

- farming is a job. My family's small garden (30'x30') was like a part-time job in itself.

- when there's an immigrant farm labor shortage and unemployed locals are recruited for farm work, they don't make it to lunch on the first day - it's back-breaking and often dangerous work

Thanks to the ag insider who did the 2-part post on ag economics earlier this week.
There is already Cyberinsurance for this kind of scenario... so unless poster would like to make that illegal too...
I think I'd agree, but my argument is that going from a medium problem solved "pretty easily in a bad way" to a "fully optimized and efficient way" is easier than most people think. There's only a dozen or so patterns needed.

As an example, if you know the two pointer technique (https://algodaily.com/lessons/using-the-two-pointer-techniqu...), you're well on your way to solving at least 1/3 to half of array problems in a performant manner.
Microlending isn't a complex ARM loan. It's $X out, $Y due back later. NPV doesn't matter to someone who wants $100 to fix their roof or buy a sheep.
They had better had well though out plans to make a new life in France...
I've also been referred to this which definitely belongs here. It's a write up of fairly advanced weak bits usage on the 1984 Apple II educational title "Kingdom of Facts".

https://ia800600.us.archive.org/2/items/TheKingdomOfFacts4am...
The Mac won’t auto reboot your system to install that update. It just nags you now and then like it should.
>George Soros spent dozens of millions of his own money to empty a bunch of nuclear physicists

Is there anything this monster won't do?
It's insurance that negotiates and pays ransom. How is that not comparable?
I don't think "conflated" is the right word. Romer doesn't imply that these problems have the same cause, or are even correlated (although I suspect they are).

He just lays them out as stark examples of FDA getting in the way of the public interest in this pandemic.
Yeah, but wouldn't the higher resolution mean a worse battery life at the same time? For such a dimension I wouldn't trade battery for resolution.
DNS is such an integral part of the Internet, when it stops working just about everything breaks down
> If I say that there are only two sexes and you cannot change your sex [...] It's a scientific and political position.

A position that's ignorant of actual medical science is a "scientific" position?
Reddit trying to start an IPO right now in the midst of multiple large advertisers boycotting social media advertising. Lol I don't even know who would want advertising on that toxic website.
> There is a big difference between "possible for a few months" and "possible indefinitely". A lot of what we did during the lockdowns was never going to be sustainable.

I would be interested to see an argument for this point, because I don't think it stands on its own.
Because it deserts the other half of the public, because it doesn't make for a large enough addressable market, both, or other?
Only one I found was the owner's website which has some examples... https://24a2.routley.io/
That sounds like GiveDirectly.org with extra steps for the donors ego.

The US just gave $1200 to each of millions of Americans, all of whom have already income plus other govt benefits totalling high above median income in Nigeria. If you have money burning a hole in your pocket, why not give $1200 to a random Nigerian, average income $2500/yr?
Or even $200?
It's funny because many of these are the exact possible errors you expect when someone is swimming in a large code block doing lots of copy and paste. Large blocks of code are very hard to test thoroughly, so I imagine the testing was mostly looking to see if things look right followed by play-testing.
>But so far, as I have said, we have not seen any such evidence.

So, if there is evidence that the fuzzball theory is not accurate, then why did you say it's not testable?

Please be clear - I don't know if it's testable, nor if it's been (explicitly or implicitly) tested.

My point is that I think the correct application of Occam's razor in the absence of evidence would be to prefer theories that don't involve unlimited collapse providing they are consistent with known physics outside the extreme conditions in a black hole.

I have no expertise in physics, but this is a philosophical issue/opinion.

Even without any theory that prevents total collapse, due to relativistic time dilation, we can't see that total collapse in any amount of time, so it's always going to be premature to declare the matter settled.
Thus... dark matter?
Who will be the Amazon or Shopify of food delivery?
Interesting - would you mind sharing a link?
Well cyberinsurance can be spent on things besides paying a ransom, such as hiring a security firm to investigate and a data recovery firm to try to recover data from backups. It can also cover revenue losses due to outages, and payout damages to your users if your users' data was stolen.

I guess theoretically kidnapping insurance might be spent on things besides a ransom as well, such as hiring mercenaries to recover the kidnapped person. But I doubt that's very likely.
Maybe dark matter is just a symptom of the universe’s connection to the multiverse. Externalities in action.
> In fact, supply chains adapted and readjusted at extraordinary speed.

Tell that to the shitshow named Canada Post.

But seriously, while it is good to discuss what is possible and what might have changed to the better, it will be important for us to understand hidden long term consequences: medical complications of virus, sudden trauma of loss, depression as a result of lack of social interaction, fear of uncertainty, financial or medical, ballooned debt on all levels, while industries wiped out.
I do not maximize some of my applications because i want to have several of them visible at any time when i'm working on more than one. I do maximize some other applications, depending on what i'm doing. I do not maximize the browser because i want to have the content i'm working with/looking at/reading in front of me (especially on the reading aspect since reading long lines is tiresome) and maximizing on a 16:9 monitor means that a lot of content will be at the sides.

Now combine the above with the fact that i'm using a ~23" 1366x768 monitor, the tendency of pretty much every site out there to use the window width as a means to differentiate between mobile and desktop sites and the stupid trend to use ginormous font sizes everywhere and you get an idea of how much i like browsing many sites out there (at least HN and old Reddit is perfectly fine). Well, i'm thankful that browsers have a zoom option at least, many of the sites out there are only usable at a 70-80% zoom for me.

But yeah, last time i had my browser maximized all the time was when i had a 4:3 monitor.
One has to do with a human life.

The other has to do with ones and zeroes on a hard drive.
The number of info that listed are fairly esay to collect via the STANDARD APIs and without extra approve to access bascially.
I think the best colloquial definition at this point is "a higher-level language that delegates to lower-level code for core logic". Usually that higher-level language is interpreted and dynamic, but it doesn't have to be. I read a post once that suggested using Haskell as a "scripting language" for Rust.

This definition is most precisely used in games, where the dichotomy is particularly common due to their high requirements for both performance and creative expressivity. But it also nicely encompasses bash scripts delegating to C utilities, JavaScript delegating to the web browser, and Python delegating to NumPy. It's also generally the goal with embedded languages like the one in the OP.
Physics for Future Presidents but Richard A. Muller
Why should we trust you with our internet traffic logs?

In my opinion, the answer is much more important than any one feature.
This is not about race condition. Rather it is something more like why you need volatile keyword.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72275/when-should-the-vo...
Actually, for IT guys, there's a lot of subsitution self-hosted products and docker images, ready to be deployed on independant VPS. But it's obviously not mainstream or end-user friendly...
This data seems to stop in 2003, before Great Recession and the massive increase in housing costs in urban centers. Also doesn’t seem to take into account the dramatic increases in healthcare costs in the intervening years. I’m not sure how useful it is as a measure?
On a relative scale on the context of local economy, microfinance is more like a mortgage or SBA loan.
The demand shock prompted by the pandemic is hardly a suspension of capitalism. The lockdowns followed the combined decisions of individuals, per a Hayekian model. Government's mainly commanded what people were already doing themselves.
No, because the payday loans are still available to people who already used payday loans.
In no rational universe should we have to mail data in 2020

I remember a study where the lab reports were printed on there own printer. The FedEx employee showed up with a labeled box, put the huge stack in it, and left. I think that daily stack of labs cost somewhere in the five figure range each day.
This should be a lesson for fast-tracking corona vaccines, but we will probably learn the hard way and turn the US into a nation of anti-vaxxers in the process.
Gullibility by a vulnerable subset of the population shouldn't affect our decision-making for the general population. People should be responsible of their own actions and view, this is what democracy is about. Paternalistic policies numb people's wits and are a net detriment to society imo.

Ofc they can add an option for that subset. But why should it be a default? But imo if they have the right to vote and affect society they should be wise enough to not believe everythingat face value. Trying to regulate what they see does not solve the fact that their opinion is easily swayed and is poor for a democracy.
newton's theory of gravitation was the model used for predicting expected galactic rotation curves
I just find this odd... we've seen Dark Matter fill in the gaps of standard astronomy (general rel) models of galactic evolution, but it's been predicted and seen in multiple places over the last 50 years and the measurements keep getting stronger (cosmic background spatial distribution, galactic rotation, bullet cluster). Each measurement rules out some model explanation, and we search for different particles (WIMPs, MACHOs, neutrinos) that fit the models that work.

We still have interesting testable explanations... but let's give up now, it's boring? MOND again?

Sorry, axions are interesting and may explain other things (antimatter ratio etc) and if that fails I think others will pop up, that don't require reexplaining astronomy.

https://phys.org/news/2020-06-case-axion-dark-gains-traction...
hello equifax...
You don't usually have to report money you spend, at least if you're an individual. You only have to report money you make. If you're a victim you don't make any money. I doubt the attacker is reporting the income for tax purposes, so the attacker is breaking tax law most likely.
Having personally dealt with UCSF IT, I'd say that they don't deserve sympathy.
I thought fast-math meant (among other things) that the compiler could algebraically simplify things using some rules for real numbers that don't apply to 32-/64-bit floating point numbers. I'd expect that reducing the number of operations would more often than not reduce the error due to rounding, which is what most people would want when they talk about "correctness".

Which step in this (very naive) argument is wrong?
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller (major scientific ideas, not just physics...)
Agreed - paying ransom is funding and facilitating a criminal operation.
Piketty has a book called Capital in the 21st Century, which makes similar statements and has pointers to his reference material here: http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en/capital21c2

Also, it's a good book.
Saying that paying ransoms should be a criminal offense should be a criminal offense
> Huh, I hadn't used new reddit in a long time, I actually took a look now and it seems like it has improved significantly.

The UI itself isn't horrible, it's the UX. It's incredibly bulky and slow, and some user links have been hidden while others completely removed.
This was my favorite Q & A:

> Tim Berners-Lee [inventor of the World Wide Web] and many others have called the design of the URL clumsy because we have host.domain— welcometothejungle.com—where it’s hierarchically going from lower to higher. And then we have the path component—/en/collections/behindthecode—which goes from higher to lower. We also use a mix of periods and slashes. So Berners-Lee proposed that domain/host/path—that is, com/welcometothejungle/en/collections/behindthecode—would be a better design. What are your feelings about that?

> I designed it this way for autocomplete. My vision at the time was that people would want to do autocomplete or they might want to just type part of the domain name and have it completed in a search list of the local environment. So it would not make sense to have the country code first. It had to be the least-significant part if you’re going to have any kind of reasonable search list or autocomplete. Imagine if we were to type “com.” and then wait for autocomplete. Out of 160 million choices, there would be a pretty long pull-down menu. So in the absence of any agreement or, in my view, cogent arguments about why the other way around made more sense, I did it that way.

This guy is my hero.
The code lacking -ffast-math doing math incorrectly, and -ffast-math ending up doing it correctly by accident.
More likely the _reporting_ of the crime would go down. This hurts everyone
But it would still happen. With this policy idea you are doubling the amount of criminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Circus_of_Physics

-- 700 unusual science phenomena; each case is presented as a puzzle with an explanation in the back of the book. Physics, chemistry, biology, engineering
That's not surprising considering the link I posted. My question is whether the mask protects the wearer, and if not, why would the filtration only work in one direction?
> which makes them less secure than the passwords for websites managed by the exact same keychain

That's NOT true. While giving out less information to untrusted parties is obviously better than more, the private key itself is not transmitted directly to the server. This means that connecting to an attacker's SSH server doesn't give them a copy of your private key, so they can't then connect to your SSH servers.
Not necessarily. One goat gifts go to people who already want goats, while cash has a risk of being wasted on short term benefit.
The role of mods is to establish and maintain the community they wish to have in the space. That takes a lot more than deleting off-topic submissions and removing illegal content.
Six Months That Shook the World