skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are talking about fixes being studied for problems borne out of subjectivity, you admit that objectivity is at odds with the individual.

I really don't even know what we're talking about any more. What are "problems borne out of subjectivity"?
Not that I like GNOME, but that has to be the first time I've seen someone advocate macOS on the basis of customization. Could you say where you found macOS to let you tweak something that GNOME didn't? Is this including extra tools (GNOME Tweak Tool), or pure stock?
Have you thought about implementing a decentralized, user centric moderation system instead of electing mods? Like this:
https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderati...

Would this work with Aether?
Thanks for sharing, I'm working on a new convo site called sqwok.im and I've debated whether to ask for email. I ended up with it being an optional field at sign up that's only used to help with account recovery/notifications. Having the ability to generate an account recovery token sounds like a cool idea! You can still chat on the site with only a username/password.
My general understanding is that -A is generally discouraged in the first place: especially when connecting to an untrusted server. But, it just seems to me to be a bad idea to ever let a private key leave your computer. Instead, you should generate a key on the new box and authorize that one somehow (the lowest friction way would be to use an ssh ca to sign the key and then have the servers you want to log into trust only public keys that have been signed by the CA’s key.
Okay. That's what I meant, too. He fooled the SEC for over 16 years.
Deep Learning – The “Why” Question (2018)
The point is that if it happens sometimes, there’s no constitutional prohibition against it happening.
By that definition, loss of smell is not a signal symptom for COVID.
You can buy a USD$12 computer that does VT100 using FabGL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5c27-y5tm4&t=154s

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33014937190.html

https://github.com/fdivitto/FabGL

Which has been further refined into VT132:

https://thehighnibble.com/vt132/
For anyone reading this. Sorry for no references, but it should be known (contrary the attention given by Hollywood etc) that SSR, if I'm not mistaken, did weaken Hitler before D day significantly, and were the ones turning the tide for the Russians. They also lost and killed a LOT more than the allied troops. Partly because they were more reckless with men (considered less worth compared to the allied mindset), but also because they fought more. Then, could they have won alone? No idea. Nobody knows of course.

Don't buy the Hollywood perspective on WW2 without first considering that it's far from the full picture. For example, China/Japan details are not as well known in western world, but a significant situation and part of the conflict with lots of people killed, which also happened before 1939 partly.

As always, it's more complicated...
There are problems of fractional arithmetic in any base including binary. binary fractions are not base10 fractions and fraught with rounding errors, one more reason to not to use fractional arithmetic .

The U.S. foot mentioned in the article is defined as 1200/3937 of a meter which is 0.304800609601... depending on the precision you want the number will keep changing.

In Imperial you will find a lot of unit conversions like this which will need fractional arithmetic in base 10 like a foot is 1/3 yard etc. You will not find that in SI units as the base(10) and unit conversions (10) are the same making the definitions precise and avoid fractions between unit conversions
We already have the second wave in the US being worse than the first wave. You can pause an economy for 6 weeks, you can't pause it for the 18 months to 5 years it would take to create a vaccine for the virus.

At the end of the day this is a very benign plague that kills people who already have health conditions (and a few unfortunates). If anything the two to five million projected to die will make society better off since they were by and large resource sinks.

But we will not know which was the right way to go about this for at least another 5 years.
Obfuscation? I've seen this in other sites (discord comes to mind). Maybe there's a hypothetical efficiency from reusing the websocket connection for all requests? for the site sqowk.im Im working on I use http for content requests and websocket for realtime stuff
They tried that in Charlottesville. Murdered an SJW and everything.
Describing journalists concerned about bigoted communities present on your platform as "a mob" is certainly a hot take.
No, making it a default makes sense. Users will not get mad if they get a warning telling them email support will no longer be possible. Alternatively you can opt with giving them a recovery code by which they can contact support or with which email will be enabled for an account when the user forgets their password. The only time you can't turn on email on your account is if you lose the password. Email is not secure, a user that has their login compromised is very likely to also have their email compromised. Moreover, if their email is compromised this completely silly dependence on email will get their account on your site compromised as well so you should be using a non-email means of authenticating users for support or account recovery!!

Email must die. No buts or ifs. It must die. You are a poor or ignorant engineer and architect if you build new things that depend on email in 2020.

If you give the most mediocre hacker 100 emails of users of your service that depends on email for account security, I am confident he/she will compromise at least a 3rd of accounts.
check out the site in my profile, brand new and under active development, but it's a responsive web app with goal of simplicity/low-friction
I would love to know as well, a poll would be great.

I posed a poll, let's see if we can get an hn specific answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665907
The mods only have themselves to blame. They create insanely broad rules allowing them to ban anything and then limit mod positions to concentrate their power.

The role of mods is to delete off topic submissions and remove illegal content. Nothing more.
And

* magic numbers

m_iSimClass = 3;
return 1E10;
m_timeSmooth*(1/0.3f)
sqr(0.0001f)
m_pos.len2()>1E18
helper.pos.len2()<50.0f
sqr(m_size.x)*g_PI*0.25f && maxdim<m_size.z*1.4f)
*1.05f
*0.4f
*0.2f
<0.087f

* Very few comments explaining what's going on

When I was getting my CS degree, my professors required, at the very least, to describe what each method does, what each argument is, and a possible range of values of each, and the same for the return value.

I hate this "self-documenting" nonsense, which obviously doesn't work. This piece of code is a good example of that.
Your premise is flawed. Yellow shirts don't kill people. Not wearing a mask does not kill people. Letting a TSA officer fondle your groin doesn't save people's lives. It's all security theater.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Everything you wrote is wrong and you've clearly been trying to support that pre-existing conclusion for years.

It has an error. Report the bug. Hope it gets fixed. The end.
Evidence of astrocytic and neuronal injury commonly found in Covid-19
Oh god don't read that...

The transition rates for each individual state transition are drawn from an exponential distribution with a rate dependent on the energy difference between the states.

So, no, C will be visited with some probability.

There are many problems with that paper, but validity of the sampling algorithm is not one of them. It is an unbiased sampler and will eventually converge to the sampled distribution (as proved in the paper). How long that convergence will take is another store. It remains unclear whether this approach converges faster than your garden-variety Markov chain and if so when and why.
Coronavirus uses same strategy as HIV against immune response says Chinese study
There are many many people who keep a single window maximized at all times and alt-tab between windows.

It's the most basic form of window management, and it works pretty well.

It's especially helpful if you want to be able to focus on one thing at a time only, and not have multiple different windows with disparate screen noise visible at once.

I often operate in that mode, using a tiling window manager to have a single maximized window on my primary monitor, and optionally a tile of auxiliary windows on my secondary monitor.
https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/telephonic-testimony-when-...

Too many little rules and exemptions to cite any one case. Look to the rules in each jurisdiction.

>> The Tennessee Supreme Court has addressed the reasons why live, in-person testimony is more desirable than remote testimony. Kelly v. Kelly, 445 SW3d 685 (2014) explains this preference: “(1) It assists the trier of fact in evaluating the witness’ credibility by allowing his or her demeanor to be observed firsthand; (2) It helps establish the identity of the witness; (3) It impresses upon the witness the seriousness of the occasion; (4) It assures that the witness is not being coerced during testimony; (5) It assures that the witness is not referring to documents improperly; and (6) In cases where required, it provides for the right of confrontation of witnesses.

Note: in SOME cases in-person testimony is REQUIRED. That means in those cases remote testimony is disallowed.
So you're saying when the Manhattan Project scientists thought the atomic bomb might set the whole atmosphere on fire, they were mistaken.
Interesting that you say this. I am thinking of running a python course online, and have programmed a 200-line battleship game with TkInter, since I think it is game that is engaging even when you play against a fairly straightforward computer adversary. I had a lot of fun playing my own game, even when programming it was so simple.
I'd really like to see VT525 MAME emulation. (I thought about buying a real VT525 once, almost did it, but then decided there were better things to spend my money on.)

> Unfortunately, the emulated VT102 is not connected through a real serial port, it’s connected through a PTY which (at least compared to what the VT102 expects) is basically infinitely fast.

A quick and hacky solution might be two USB to RS-232 converters and a loopback cable.

I'd previously wished for a virtual serial driver which slowed stuff down based on baud rate, implemented all the RTS/CTS/DCD/RI etc signals, etc. Someone with sufficient time, inclination and kernel development skills could build one. Given it is such an esoteric wish, probably not going to happen.
I don't know Ruby very well, and I'm curious how this would work with my example above. It seems like Ruby's builtin number types, upon not knowing what to do, calls coerce on the right-side object. That right-side object returns a pair of new objects, and then the binary operation is called as a method on the left one of those?

If I've got that right, it sounds functionally similar to the Python way. It's a little awkward if you want different types depending on the operation. For instance, maybe A-B returns a different type than A/B. In both subtraction and division, it looks like Ruby would call coerce(), and coerce doesn't know the operator. Still that could build some smart placeholder type that then knows how to treat the operations differently...

For my example with Complex and Matrix types, it seems like the Complex type would need to implement the coerce protocol on its own. Maybe I've got that wrong, but does the coerce thing automatically happen for any type, or is that special behavior implemented by Ruby's Number types?
It’s not fair to judge all police officers based on the few bad apples
> Are conservatives regarded as indistinguishable from Trump fans these days?

Yes
Absolutely not. Fair and safe labour practices were possible from the get-go, and were simply ignored for profit. Just like a lot of things today.

What pushed this social progress was collective labour action in the form of unions and socialist parties engaging in direct action.
People customizing the UE4 engine professionally or on large projects put a lot of work into the areas they are interested to the point where it's not really UE4 anymore in that area. Gears of War is a good example where areas of the rendering system would be almost unrecognizable as they have put in countless man years of work diverging from the base engine.
I believe thinking FF vs. Chrome like IE vs. other browsers is a bit unfair here. IE was a dinosaur, a complete fiasco as almost unmantained software.

Now we have this software, open-source Chromium actively mantained, supported by several big entities (think Chrome, Brave, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and maybe thousands of smaller entities, think mobile browsers), it works ashtoningly well, it keeps beind developed at fast pace, continously improving, and then we have Firefox, its open sourced-code almost non-in-current use by third parties at all and supported by a relatively small company. I think Chromium isn't going to be like IE anytime soon.

Moreover, we have the speed of browsing, rendering in Chromium vs. Firefox

I just recently jumped the shark and started to used Chromium as my main browser, previouly Firefox had the lead.

Speed is the reason. Chromium in default setup and with tons of extensions enabled is a lot faster than Firefox.

I didn't do it lightly, I still like a lot the Firefox GUI (and the extensions are far more usable, think Powertabs), but I've been reading the Phoronix benchmarks between FF and Chrome for a year now, and decided to give Chromium a chance.

It went really well, I didn't wanted to go that much well! I wanted to use FF, but after trying Chromium for a couple of weeks I can tell, its speed is fairly user-noticable, it's amazing how much faster than Firefox it is.

I didn't wanted to believe it, but the Phoronix benchmarks were cristal clear at predicting that: Chromium in a bad day is at least 40-50% faster than Firefox in almost any measurable feature.

Yep, Firefox Webrender, hardware-accelaration enabled, even over Intel drivers (in Linux), with no issues at all, feels a LOT slower than Chromium.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=chrome83...
Almost certainly not. A nuclear detonation would also produce noticeable seismic effects as well as release iodine-131, which was not detected.
For many outside of it, even from 'cousin colonies' (I'm in Australia) there is much about the USA that is simply bewildering.

I can recommend Kurt Andersen's book 'Fantasyland', published around the time of Trump's ascension, to help you make some small sense of it all.

He writes persuasively, and describes a history full of (perceived) persecution and exceptionalism-inspiring events that, almost ineluctably, led them here.

"America was the dreamworld creation of fantasists, some religious and some out to get rich quick, all with a freakish appetite for the amazing. Beyond our passionate beliefs in various kinds of magic and destiny, our particular religious DNA, supercharged, was the source of other defining American habits of mind as well, such as the craving for the mysterious to be literal, and the hair-trigger sensitivity to persecution by elites. In addition to being the first designed-built Protestant nation, America was also the first designed-built Enlightenment nation. The two fed each other—and sometimes became toxic in combination."

[0] https://www.kurtandersen.com/fantasyland
Amazon looking to fund green technologies through its Climate Pledge Fund
Should probably add a disclaimer for people who expect a dry engineering history podcast! wtypp is truly excellent, but go in expecting irreverence
I don't like the analogy or the oversimplification of 5% @ 30 days, but I absolutely agree with the general notion. A person could be forgiven for not wearing a mask under innocent circumstances, but if somebody is willfully not wearing a mask due to identity politics, then not only are they are willfully endangering people, they're also doing it for incredibly petty, hateful reasons. There's not much worse behavior than that in civilization.
I just got my first guard from Clearclub and it fits great. Less than 1/10 the price (I think $90 for a year, get a new one every six months) and the same polymer tray molds that the dentist uses. Might be worth a shot.

I’ve had several night guards from dentists but chewed through them pretty quickly and it gets expensive.
Opinion: Working from Home feels like blurred lines between Work and Home
The solution is protocols.

How do you feel about illegal content hosted via BitTorrent? Will bittorrent stand for “giving a platform” to illegal content? For the technically inclined: exactly.
No. The right exists in narrow circumstances and, if asserted by the accused, will be respected. Just because someone has a right to something doesn't meant it must always happen. Rights can be asserted or not. Waived or not.
Maybe this speaks to a need to tie taxes to income AND revenue. Not that I think the tax code should get any more complicated (quite the opposite), but if Amazon is selling at a loss to decrease the amount of tax they pay, while they starve out other companies in the market, there should be at least some benefit to society.
Haven't we established that ~1/3 of covid cases are asymptomatic and that overall mortality rate is likely <1%? If so, why are we continuing the mask charade?
I know more than one mech e who got into the program and couldn’t handle it. It’s just straight up pain and suffering and the actual education is sub par. If you read through omscentral a lot of the reviews there are actually spot on.
Common sense is truly a luxury.
Two reasons: captures, and it needs to know which of the regexes matched. I meant to but forgot to mention in my original comment that the reason Sublime's built-in highlighter is the fastest is they wrote a custom regex engine which basically does the equivalent of or-ing them together but unlike all other regex engines handles captures and information about which one matched properly while doing so. The custom engine doesn't do backtracking and it falls back to Oniguruma for regexes that use fancy features. So yah it's in theory possible you just need to write a custom regex engine to do it.
WHat do you think about Contant the movie in relations to your job?
Astronaut Launched by SpaceX Goes Out for a Spacewalk
Planes are a risk even if you are not inside one. If they have an accident they can crash in your home. Cars actually can crash in your home or run over you while you are in the sidewalk.

A dam can break and flood a whole city. A coal electric plant produce soot and other forms of contamination. (Even radioactive contamination https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... )
There should be some sort of UNESCO World Heritage Open Source Software selection, and SQLite should definitely be in it.
Oh dear, you are making the argument that if it is very bad to be wrong in one irrational way, that makes it just fine to be wrong in another irrational way. Wouldn't it be better to be just, you know, right?
My 3, 3a, 5, and 5MX all still work (as do my Atari Portfolios and HP LX series palmtops, save one 200LX with physically damaged screen. I too keep wanting to see something like the 5Mx, or the PS-1000, or something similar with modern specs. I don't need the screen to be fast, just useful and low power. The 16-color E-Ink screens I keep reading about in Chinese tablets should work. Big battery for the form factor wouldn't hurt, but we used to use AAs. A dual-core or quad-core A53 with all solid-state storage, a nice legible low-power screen, and a great little keyboard would be quite a find.
>> Not wearing a mask does not kill people.

This is demonstrably false, as we now know for a fact that wearing a mask does reduce the risk of both catching the virus yourself and transmitting it to other people. Even if you don't care about your own well-being, common courtesy dictates you should care about the well-being of others. Failing to do so may indeed get them killed.
It's a mask! Not handcuffs!

Cut the clichés.
It's more like 0.5% if everyone gets infected and a large chunk of them will die anyway. Might as well arrest everyone who drives a car. The virus really isn't that deadly.
The trade-off is that when you run your own instance you have to then attract users to it for it to be useful, which burdens others.

In a fully decentralized network you can meet new people and moderate your own view of the world without putting any burden on others to adapt to what you want. Moderation can be done with a system like this: https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderati...
Searching for "Microsoft Action Pack" took me to this page:

https://partner.microsoft.com/en-GB/membership/action-pack

That is immediately full of buzzword bull about partners and subscriptions, which is exactly the sort of enterprise junk I was referring to before. Notably missing however is any straightforward way to buy a legitimate copy of Windows 10 Enterprise, or anything resembling instructions for doing so or pricing information.

If you have indeed found a legitimate way to just buy a plain copy of Windows 10 Enterprise for use on a business PC without further strings attached, unfortunately I wasn't able to find it from the information in your previous comment.
>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Whether or not you think masks help, this is wildly over-dramatic thing to say about an order to wear a mask in public temporarily. I'd even say it disrespects the quote.
This is also where the term 'civil engineer' comes from [1]. It was civilian-focused "engineering" of fortifications like bridges or roads. I've wondered for a while if there was any controversy around the first use of the term "electrical engineer" or "chemical engineer" like how there was with software engineering not being considered "real engineering" around 10 years ago, but I can't really find any information on that.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/civil-engineering
Before you upgrade to Mint 20 ----

If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.

That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.
This is an excellent read.

I was always wondering if CRDT would really achieve encapsulation, but this kind of things are very hard to know without trying. Thank you for you works!
Because people are irrational panicky animals.
Because when the cost is essentially zero it's okay to be a little overzealous with our prevention efforts.

And your numbers are still very much up for debate. Some localities are already above 1% without having infected the entire population.
On the github page https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor:

JSON. The protocol for front-end / back-end communication, as well as between the back-end
and plug-ins, is based on simple JSON messages. I considered binary formats, but the actual
improvement in performance would be completely in the noise. Using JSON considerably lowers
friction for developing plug-ins, as it’s available out of the box for most modern languages,
and there are plenty of the libraries available for the other ones.

4 years later:

The choice of JSON was controversial from the start. It did end up being a source of friction, but for surprising reasons.

For one, JSON in Swift is shockingly slow.

Surprising reasons?!
It has to do with the hospitals filling up with Covid patients, as they are in Texas, Arizona, and Florida now (easily findable headlines, I won’t bother citing). If hospitals fill up and people can’t be treated (for Covid or other ailments) more people die.

The other part is masks reduce transmission of Covid by “up to 85%” according to the WHO. So you put those two together and it’s a good public health policy.