skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also happened in the aftermath of 9/11 and the anthrax mailings which was a big thing in the dc-region, and involved targeting a school which again ups fear factor. Local economies at large were unaffected, everything is/was fine, life went on. People freak out and act economically differently and _have always and will always_ during catastrophes, no one is going to change that.
The theory of quantum entanglement is sound though, and it took a while for a single sophon to arrive before the FTL communication. Layman here, but I thought it was relatively had science/speculative fiction.
As an non-American, Reddit is in general, awful.

It's all "Trump, Trump, Trump" and tolerates anti-white sentiment. Actual conversations are rare, it seems to mostly be impressionable young people trying to out-do each other in taking offence to things and being angry.

It seems you can't block subreddits like r/politics without making an account.

/r/cpp has some good stuff sometimes.

What would a reddit alternative bring? More of the same? No thanks.
Wow, you're right. It did improve quite a bit. Not in an "OMG I'm switching right now" kind of way, but definitely in a "maybe I'll play around with this and see if I can configure it to my liking."

Never would have happened if someone hadn't made a post like this, so thanks!

edit: Aaaand instant regret, wow. Are you guys seeing this "Top Broadcast Right Now" shit? The best part for me is not just the ~1000px high random garbage video that takes up my whole screen, but before the video itself loads I actually get a ~1000px "white noise" animation, except it isn't just white but brightly colored, too.

I had a brief urge to heat up my soldering iron and stick it in my eye.
Is GaTech OMSCS that selective?
For anyone having difficulty installing Soundflower, I used:

https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

It works exactly the same.
The Apple II's disk controller could easily write "flaky bits" in software. By telling the controller to write three or more consecutive zero bits, you'd produce a sector that read back unpredictably. So your copy protection scheme would be to turn off sector checksums and then read your test sector a few times in a row. If the sector came back identical each time, then you were likely a copy rather than an original.

After reverse-engineering the verification code in a few different games, I wondered how the publishers produced those weird sectors. I called them "weak bits," coincidentally, because my theory at the time was that they modded the disk head to write the bit weakly so that it couldn't distinguish a one from a zero during readback. A friend at school had a copy of Don Worth's Beneath Apple DOS, which absolutely blew my teenage mind. Until reading that book, I didn't think that any single human could understand and clearly explain a complex system so thoroughly.
You might not need to talk to that guy to know beating his wife was wrong. But talking to him may make you realize he’s in a lot of pain, and that he’s been hurt by a system larger than both of you. That doesn’t absolve him of guilt but I think pragmatically it gives us a better shot at preventing such things in the far future.

You don’t have to browse Nazi forums to know that gassing Jews is wrong. But you may start to discover the reasons why these (mostly) young men are so angry, which I posit allows one to do more to prevent the spread of such ideologies.
Fair enough. Isn’t that just a result of supply chains being hurt as a result of COVID? Those prices aren’t raising as a result of stimulus or wage growth, and should normalize as we return toward some sense of normalcy.
Not all homes are houses!

I've known few people in Toronto who live in single-room apartments with floor plans similar to this: https://thecrossways.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Floorpla...
If you want to allow unknown types to do your multiplying, you can write __mul like so:

[...]
elseif getmetatable(right).__mul and getmetatable(right) ~= complex then
return getmetatable(right).__mul(left, right)
[...]

Of course this requires a little forward thinking, but it doesn't require you to know what other metatables (classes) you'll be compatible with. It's not as clean as multiple dispatch, though.
I've included more and less cost options in the list to counter the very argument that you seem to be attempting to make.

How much productivity was lost from many dozens of people not being able to work because of lack of access, the IT resources that had to be extended to investigate the various options, and then the US$ 1M ransom eventually paid out.

For Want of a Nail:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Want_of_a_Nail
Doesn't the bullet cluster provide strong evidence for the existence of dark matter? Shouldn't all alternatives need to explain the phenomenon seen there?
> Will the next administration provide a V-shaped recovery in trust? Or is it just gone forever?

The big problem is that in order to fix trust, you will need to purge a lot of the senior bureaucrats who decided that keeping their job was more important than serving the public.

If you don't do this, then you have sent the signal that being a political operator is more important than doing your actual job.
I mean, over the last few decades, working on cars is harder. Maybe in part because the fastener sizes are tricky, but mostly because things are much more complex.

Anyway, the US already has the metric system for things that matter; science and most manufacturing. For things with wide reach, like distance signs, and speed limits, and quantities at the grocery store, those tend to be in customary units, because the switching cost is too high for the benefit.
You may very well be right, but I'd be curious if you have a source for that?
You Need A Budget
> An example where this matters

video games don't matter lol
> lost ability to rationally think about small additional chances of dying

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.

I suppose someone has to be the 1 in 500 at my age. That would suck but like most people, i just assume it wouldn’t be me.

I am however a bit concerned at the folks who take a long time to recover https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19positive/ they don’t get much focus in the stats but the idea of being absolutely spent for 3 months doesn’t appeal.

Another concern is the fact it seems impossible to avoid. The number of OCD types who almost take pleasure in turning their lives upside down to avoid the virus but then unexpectedly catch it is really disheartening.

I read one guys series of posts on reddit about all the precautions he was taking, only going shopping once a fortnight at a quiet time and enforcing a 30 min limit to get in and out. wearing not just a mask gloves but a face shield and in a few of his posts he detailed his routine for bringing his shopping into the house which involves stripping off all clothing straight into the washing machine while leaving the shopping outside for 1 day before cleaning it and putting it in cupboards. I felt for the guy when he posted his positive test confirmation.
Thanks for your answer. Sorry, I don’t why i did interpret “waiting times” as “expected waiting times” when it was right in the preceding paragraph how they were sampled.
Not surprising, TB is also a respiratory disease with a long dormancy period. While the details are slightly different (latent TB patients apparently aren’t infectious), one would expect a TB tracing program to be roughly correct for any other respiratory disease. I’m sure the SARS and bird flu outbreaks have given regional governments an opportunity to consider how to prepare as well.
I think the Europeans Medicine Agency is a model for making sensible tradeoffs here, at least compared to the FDA. I sort of with the US could just outsource drug approval to them.
> Given the wealth and power of the richest nations on earth today

With a limitless budget, you could send dozens of people to live on Mars.

But they would likely die from a thousand little cuts (rocket failures, vitamin deficiencies, air leaks, primitive medical help, it's endless) since you're basically duplicating an earth environment.

Or they could just sit around waiting for the next supply ship. We like to think that people are hardy pioneers, but most Americans stopped being tough farmers after WW2.

(The press interviews with the Mars volunteers showed they were maladjusted on earth, and probably mentally ill.)

I personally don't care if astronauts die on missions, because that's the risk they signed up for, but apparently other people do. And sending people on what is likely a one-way trip is something to be discussed beforehand.

As an example, Shuttle engineers estimated the loss likelihood at 1/100 per mission, but managers 1/10,000 and couldn't justify manned flights with the engineers' estimate. The actual number was 1.6/100.

The Biosphere project, the Space Shuttle, our lack of oceanic exploration all don't bode well for our readiness to colonize another planet.

Reading scifi about going to Mars isn't the same as reality.
It's one of the fundamental critiques Chomsky already brought up decades ago with the ascend of statistical methods in linguistics.

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.

ML is essentially behaviourism on steroids.
It seems like biases related to error rates in image classification systems would be one of the easier problems to address - you basically just need to load in more data until the minimum accuracy level for all peoples is good enough.

The harder biases to address are going to be ones where the AI reinforces current undesirable patterns. Eg statistically certain minority groups are more likely to commit petty crimes. If you replaced police with AI robots, these robots would then automatically label people from those minorities as more suspicious. That sucks, and likely has much more complex solutions.
The way it works in Aether is that we have a few rules on choosing what 'effective' mods you have on your view. From weakest (as in, most prone to be overridden) to strongest:

- Default mods, which are either the creator of the community or those that are assigned by that person

- Elected mods, mods which are chosen by the community. Election goes both ways, you can both be elected or impeached. For example, a default mod can be impeached by the election system, and that would render that mod a non-mod for you

- Mods you've personally chosen. Choosing someone to be a mod for you is your vote in the election.

So the system isn't 'enforcing' mods you haven't chosen onto you as a result of the elections. Elections only make the decision only if you haven't made a decision for that mod in either way — if you make a decision that is ironclad (for you, in your personal, local view), since nothing can override your personal vote for or against somebody. The more you vote in elections, the more you shape your own view of the universe.

The article is long, but what I can see there that is not implemented in Aether is the transitive property of trust, instead of having a vote which is binary, he seems to be advocating for a 0 to 100 trust, and the idea that trust of the people you trust means something to you. (Let me know if I got this wrong).

This is great in theory — and this was actually considered for implementation at one point. The issue isn't that it doesn't make sense but it is quite literally impossible to implement, since it makes it so that almost every trust decision made by someone on the network at some point in time affects almost all other entities, which leaves you with an almost entirely 'dirty' graph that you have to traverse in entirety and recompile.

This can be done on a centralised service since there is one graph to compile and everyone submits to it. However, in Aether, what we try to do is that we try to keep the graph compilation part on the user end, both because it's a P2P network, and also because custom graphs compiled on the client end is what allows the votes to be able to modify the graph structure itself. That sort of gradual outflow of trust across a social graph making decisions on what to show or not show for every single piece of content is an intense amount of computation to do for every new modification to the trust gradient.
FIFA 2014 World Cup live stream architecture (2015)
So you know who you're talking to?
i think first of all, solve problems for their own sake, enjoy the process, learn the solutions, that is the surest way to getting better at it (or really anything in life) and getting better as an engineer as well. If your goal is "i want to get good at these stupid puzzles so i can work at google and make alot of money", you will most likely fail. When i first started leet code, i had no competitive programming background, i didn't really even remember any of the algo & ds stuff i learned in college a long time ago, but i kept at it, i used to think about some medium problems for a couple days or more (I knew back then people who had a shot at google could solve medium problems in an efficient manner in like 10-15 mins) but that never discouraged me, even if i didn't get a shot at FAANG or whatever, i knew working hard and thinking about this stuff would make me a better engineer. After 7 months of work, i could solve a-lot of medium problems in around 10-15 mins in an efficient fashion and i actually look forward to solving LC problems whenever i get an opportunity. Other than leet code, i regularly study CLRS (i love this book). I guess my point is, either learn to love problem solving, or apply to places that don't value it because its hard to become good and compete at a high level if u don't intrinsically enjoy something. Don't tie your self worth to your IQ, don't get depressed because you can't do something, i'm sure u have a job, so just keep at it and try different approaches to learning this stuff.
Pull out all the stops: Textual analysis via punctuation sequences
Loss of smell apparently is correlate with more minor cases and better outcomes. I don’t believe we know why yet.
I am not sure what is there to wonder about. Change has always been possible. It's the elites in power who are conservative, claiming that there is no alternative, they want to (for the most part) keep their position.

It's funny to read that Hayek compared parts of the economy to organs. I often use analogy of money being blood in human body, to illustrate that from the perspective of each individual cell, blood is a resource, but from the perspective of the whole body, blood is just a transport medium of which it can create any amount required.

And accordingly, body can decide to vasoconstrict (shut down) certain organs in times of crisis. It is a collective decision, not a decision of an individual cell.

So of course, you can shut down parts of the economy. You can also put those people in parts that shut down on a kind of helicopter money support. All those things have always been possible, it's just people were conditioned to think they are not.
Social and cultural dynamics remain what they are regardless of whether you personally find them rational.
Yeah, exactly. I immediately knew when I saw "federated" in the title that my job was to drop this link in. This comment seems like the right spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

Lacking global moderation, eventually every one of those subreddits will end up in Lemmy. Also somethingawful/4chan/8chan style "asshole feedback loops".

Everyone at HN likes to claim they want free speech and hate moderation, but in fact moderation is the foundation of our discourse.
Still feels like that should not be the case. What changed so heavily in the last decade? 2d rendering used to be hella fast without the gpu. Right?
MOND was a healthy idea to pursue, not because it was the correct alternative (I really have my doubts that it was) but because it was AN alternative.

Maybe some postgrad might have had less of the mainstream science groupthink indoctrination because of it.

That being said, dark matter is a real phenomenon: it is a measurable quantity of how wrong we are. Dark matter isn't the problem, WIMP is.
I agree with you, it's weird that Swift JSON is so slow and binary isn't necessarily faster.

My exasperation is you were surprised by JSON becoming an issue, when this was the most controversial design decision about the project. To me, it's completely unsurprising.
It's not the administration. It's just the general ineptitude of many government processes. The current crisis has just laid inadequacies bare.
Wow, I've been using sqlite all this time without knowing how the internals of it actual work. Would love more insight on its memory usage and how it handles memory pressure, etc
That's why I use an N95 mask. I don't throw it away after, though. I sterilize and re-use it.
> Type B would rather let ten thousand people die in unmedicated screaming agony than have a drug show up in a news story saying it killed three of them, regardless of how many hundreds of lives it saved.

Who gets to set those numbers and by what process? And, probably more importantly, who gets the indemnification liability for the ones who die?

If you don't have good, solid answers for those questions, you don't get to bitch about the FDA.

This isn't theoretical. It's playing itself out in the Type-1 Diabetes arena right now. Nobody wants to be holding the liability bag, so progress is glacially slow.
EMA and FDA make different tradeoffs. They’re not necessarily easier. But I agree with you in part, I wish we had more harmonization or at least regulatory overlap — approved in EU you can sell in US, and vice versa, for instance.
You mean it's fine to let some groups get away with much more, out of guilt.
That is a bizarre measure for a text editor.
I've been reading this book "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" by James Nestor. He attributes this sort of thing to, effectively, "mouth breathing", and suggests it can be fixed by learning to breath correctly (through the nose).

I have no idea if it's bullshit or not, but it's compelling. Would love to hear from anyone that has insight into this.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. That's like saying farming should not be studied because slaves historically have been used in agriculture.
Sorry, but I couldn't find a page named `a` in section 7 of the manual ;) what does a(7) mean?
Do you have any leads on the kinds of hacks they do? And does emacs have to do the same hurdles? It looks fine by me. (Mayhap I'm looking at the wrong things?)
This is what draws my attention more:

> //FIXME: There's a threading issue in CryPhysics with ARM's weak memory ordering.

https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/blob/6c4f4df4a7a092300d6...

Translation: "We have race conditions in our C++, but x86 is lenient enough and current MSVC not aggressive enough to make it crash and burn constantly on our main platform."

Coincidentally, I finished Crysis 1 today. That involved the first four crashes I had with the game, three of which were in the final battle.
Almost 300 Windows 10 executables vulnerable to DLL hijacking
> why would you want to see offensive slurs by default?

If I don't want to see offensive slurs, I won't associate with people who use them. Let me decide what is a slur or not, and let me decide who to associate with.
The word 'bigoted' is getting thrown around all over the place in this post and most commenters, including this one, seem to have never actually looked it up in the dictionary.

Bigoted does not mean right-wing, objectionable, or things one disagrees with.

Bigoted means unwilling to change one's opinion. Which certainly applies to the hard left wing end of the spectrum just as much as it does to hard right.

Bigoted: obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, and intolerant towards other people's beliefs and practices.

If anything, so-called journalists using a platform to express 'concern' over things they disagree with is a better fit for the term. The job of a journalist is to report, not to preach their own brand of politics or dislikes or concerns.
What they are looking for is recursion. Of course I believe there are more efficient ways of doing Fibonacci in a normal loop.
Lem does https://github.com/cxxxr/lem
I'd like to see some way to play the games on mobile.
Iirc it provides evidence against most modified gravity theories, but other alternatives could theoretically still be viable.
Yeah it’s readily gotten bad. University of Washington/Seattle flu study actually had to start testing people for Covid first.
20 year old me would've rolled eyes so hard I'd be looking straight into my throat, but 40 year old me appreciates a deck like this because I've learned over time that vision like this does matter.

Interesting tidbit I found about Soft Bank. They pay their employees to have kids, upwards of $40k if you have your fifth.
> Statistical mechanical (Boltzmann) entropy

While Boltzmann entropy was first, and an important breakthrough, it has some limitations. Statistical mechanics is actually based on Gibbs/von Neumann entropy, which is equivalent to Shannon entropy. There are many subtleties indeed but I think the relationship between statistical mechanics and information theory may be closer than you think.
Does anyone’s jaw click? I can make the right side click at will. I think it’s off aligned. It’s not sore but I think it must be common enough that someone knows the cause?
People still use pagers...
Your implication seems to be that COVID-19 is a "very small unusual danger"; but, your 650k number is in line with the (upper end, reasonable) estimates for how many lives it might take in the USA, this year. And heart disease is certainly something all of us should and do worry about.

The point of the article is that the pandemic has opened the world of possibilities for these humdrum "oh it's just how the world is" social harms. Many things have been written off as impossible to fix, as it's too expensive for society to afford. But COVID-19 has shown that society can afford to dedicate huge amounts of social resources toward saving lives; particularly, we have the capacity to set a much higher value for USD/QALY that we're willing to save. E.g. eliminating HIV/AIDS mortality in the US and even the world becomes almost trivial with that amount of resources, using known technologies. Deaths from accidents? Stress from debt or unemployment? A bit trickier, but we can imagine putting a significant dent in them.
That's common sense. The only authoritarian state in the region refusing to share information for common security. In 2019 they already tried to hide radioactive leak on the nuclear test site [0]

After the accident, people with the radioactive syndrome were admitted to a general hospital, alongside with children and pregnant women. Doctors were threatened by FSB not to disclose information about accident. Chernobyl did not teach them anything.

[0] https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/12/security-brief-russia-w...
The poor IT guys there probably asked for a couple thousand for backups instead and were previously denied. Ransomeware first rose to prominence three years ago.

Yet seemingly little has been learned?
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