skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is trying to show the GNU project in a bad light.

The GNS which most of the article focuses on has nothing to do with the GNU project. Because pgp is from the 90's, gpg is an easy target mostly . The only other halfway good data point in the line they're trying to draw is gnutls, which is surely got its holes, but also wasn't afflicted with openssl's heartbleed
Imo, it is entirely fair to criticize CDC on its handling of this point. The asymptomatic transmission was possibility before March. It is not a shocking new possibility, it was possibility all along.

There were countries that mandated and propagated masks long long before CDC stopped claiming masks do nothing.
This seems pretty normal. I suspect this is similar to reasons why it's hard to read a really wide line of text, or that some people put a sheet of paper under their current line while reading. Something about how our minds can manage smaller groups more easily. Probably related to how telephone numbers split up and why we put commas or spaces in numbers like 1,000,000.
One of the first computer system I used frequently was Windows ME. This system used to crash (BSOD) extremely frequently (depending on what you were doing, it could be as frequently as every 20 minutes), and any unsaved work would be lost.

I have therefore developed a reflex where I hit Cmd-S every time I finish typing. I actually have to put conscious effort in to stop this when using software where saving is slow.
> you're bound to Xcode (and therefore macOS) for development

I would prefer languages that don't dictate what hardware/software to use for writing them.
Not at a community level. Only a droplet level. There's no measures on if stopping droplets compensates for the fact that people touch their face every 10 seconds due to wearing a mask. Numerous places with mask laws have skyrocketing case counts.
Yes indeed. Quite a few of Athena's early developers were from GS.

I've not heard the term "twiddle scopes" before; in Athena it is "tweaking".
Loads of IM / webconf applications, at the moment.
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Zoom, Slack and Teams all use WebRTC for running their respective clients in the browser.
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Do you mind me asking how ~$250 is enough to cover your expenses for 2 months? That amount is so low for anyone in the US that the anecdote reads more as proof that it’s not worth it to write a book for the income. :-)
it's not perfect, but better than everything else.

More detail here: https://redditblog.com/2009/10/15/reddits-new-comment-sortin...

I love how it's related to the likelihood that the sun will rise again tomorrow (now that we have observed the behavior a few times)
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Why? Isn't that how card skimming used to work? The skimmer pulls card data,while the mechanism designed to capture PIN( video or physical keylogger). Being able to get CC details is quite a different business compared to actually using them to get goods/services.
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If FreeBSD performed better out of the box without needing as much or no tuning at all, then it's the better tool for the job, specifically their job.
Reading all the comments I can't help appreciating two observations:

1. How vastly differently we experience the world
2. How little our experience resembles what there actually is outside.

That brain of ours seems to be a real little f*cker what comes to creating an illusion that we observe some kind of objective reality. I need to keep that in mind.
No but it's unacceptable.
The key word in Science is Observation. Making close observations and communicating the results. Use tools to help the observation and mathematics to hone and sharpen the description.

If you want to teach science, start by teaching careful observation. Otherwise, in my opinion, it's not science being taught but awareness of science. Knowing what came before, learning about the observations and science made to build up to what we have today, is important, but should not be mistaken as the central point of being a careful observer.
The difference is that choosing experts is itself amenable to scientific analysis.

If you assume people are acting with good intentions, this differentiates the case of experts with scientific knowledge vs experts without.

If you assume bad intentions, then all possible expert panels can’t be trusted anyway.

I think when people try to elevate non-scientific experts to the level of scientific experts on a scientific issue, really they are trying to make it tribal and specifically remove objectivity and evidence, when they perceive it as a threat to their tribal commitments and ways of life.

You can of course subvert scientific experts to do the same, but with science you have the option to let objectivity win. No other way of constructing expert panels has that option besides scientific inquiry.
The universe might have a fundamental clock that ticks very, very fast
Thanks, that makes more sense. They sound a bit crazy. I'd go with the Music\background noise approach and check with /r/legaladvice to see if they can recommend anything else...

It might be worth recording some of their commentary. If you can do that, you would (I think) have a good case for harassment or similar.
Hard agree.

You don't describe the business problem, but go into incredible detail about technical details that either nobody reading the email[1] cares about.

Even more than that - you're basically asking them to run random bash commands from the internet.

They shouldn't trust your advice, anything you say would have to be verified by their own team, so the level of technical info is useless to them. In fact, including all the technobabble mnakes it look even more like a scam.

Remember, not that long ago it was a common scam to ask employees to make changes to the phone system, which would give the scammer free international calls. Your email is idenitical[2] to one of those scams.

A better email would be (and this isn't perfect):

"Hello,
I am a recent customer of yours and noticed that all your confirmation emails aren't being sent properly and won't be delivered at all for most users.

I'm a sysadmin, so had a look at the the problem using public data, and it looks like your tech team overlooked a setting when they set up your email system. Its a easy mistake to make and would take them 5 minutes to fix.

The technical details are that there is an "SPF" record which says who is allowed to send emails as your company - this is correctly set up for your office emails through outlook, but not set up for the automated emails from shopify.

If you let your tech team know that shopify is missing from the SPF records, and they'll quickly see the issue and fix it within minutes.

If you would like more information about the issue, I'd be happy to advise further[3]"

[1] The people who do care won't see your email.
[2] To the untrained user.
[3] I mean, I wouldn't, but you seem like you would ;)
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If you don't need its memory management then why would you use a garbage collected language and lose the performance gain?
Wow! Amazing
Rust compilation times as they stand today are actually worse than C++. C++ also offers flexibility to an engineer to reduce compilation times significantly via use of techniques like shared headers, etc.
Sorry, I cannot exhaustively list all possible issues with the country's politicians everytime I have something to say about the current government that is supposed to be accountable to Indians (because they are in power, Sonia Gandhi is not!).

Again, I've seen this pattern: Question this government and immediately be branded as a Congress/AAP/$party sympathizer. At best people ask questions like yours, and at worst they come to an agreement that you should immediately leave India and go to Pakistan. This for questioning your government.
You Probably just heard something about kubernetes and never really used it. Pulsar has its own helm chart. Installation in this cause is as trivial as any other product. It might require 1-2 gb of memory more but is it really critical ?

Nats itself is never stable product , which is been completely rewritten several times. If you want same level or functionality is not on pair or you have to use another rewrite of it in deep alpha.
Just try to do a basis negative acknowledgment on NATS :) it’s not there

What I like about Nats it’s their dev focused approach. Clients are shining.

Pulsar instead doesn’t have a decent support of nodejs
Hey, when you say “already beyond what one would suppose possible.” Could you describe it. And to promise that this in good faith - a personal example of when you stood on the precipice and saw the scale of the yawning depths below.

I’ve found that clear vivid examples from people are crucial torch lights which can be shared around to give people a snap shot into what mods feel or witness. This then allows the conversation with non mods to progress faster, since this type of story telling is what people are best optimized to consume.
Seems like you implying slave is another N world, I think I get this aspect, but then what about colors of chess pieces ?
That's a fair critique, although I didn't mean to imply that any of these roles take 0 people skills - only that some involve more time creating things solo vs. interacting with a team.

I also think there's a lot of variation in these roles, so my experience with them is probably just limited.
> I think it's OK (and probably true) to say that you shouldn't use Rust for cases like this right now.

I think that's true, but only because of the slow compile times. Which is why they're so frustrating. Rust would otherwise be an excellent language for these use-cases.
One of the core facets of Rust is that you don't pay for what you don't use. If everything was async by default then code that wasn't async would pay the cost of it. Async isn't free.
All we need now is to add 83 genders to Linux and we're good to go.
Yeah, just what've been saying for some time now. As Google is struggling for growth, it'll squeeze ad revenue off the extant web, turning it into a piece of shit even more than it is already. The same thing happened with eg. free PHPbb forum providers in early 2000s which were plastered with banner ads more and more (many mobile sites are like this already). I don't see a way that Google can win this race to the bottom, and neither do I see any reason for content creators to even bother with Google Search and Google Analytics; they will just direct your visitor's precious profile data to your competitor spending more on AdWord bids than you.

FYI: see also [1] and [2] as additional upcoming measures by Google

[1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/03/announcing-mobile-...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCLxiN_dpjU
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See also: Argumentum ab Auctoritate

A very useful word to know as it can quickly shut down people using this very common fallacy
Professor solves 240 Computer Science exam problems in a row
Good lord, 6 years? I've had some managed switches with nearly 2 years uptime but 6 is just asinine. I assume it was on a UPS? If so, how did the battery healthy stay usable? Or was the electrical grid there just super dependable?
There are a lot of things publishers do behind the scenes that no one thinks about. Sure there are things like marketing and printing. There are a lot of other little things too. Content editing. Publishers often hire another person who is at least or more knowledgeable on the subject to review what the author says. They make sure that all the code works, does it make sense in certain contexts etc. When code doesn't work, its the reviewer's fault.

There are other things too like a content editor. Does the entire book flow together (2+ authors, that's a big deal). Is the language style the same? Are there spelling and punctuation errors? Is the formatting correct? Someone has to build the index at the back of the book. (Sometimes the author does this). Lots of things. Not to mention, the company puts their name behind the book. I buy a lot of books simply based on the publisher and pass on others. As an author, you're paying them to lend their reputation to your work.
This idea that only we as humans can think and feel in particular ways is slowly being eroded and I think that scares us both intellectually and morally.
If you don't trust them to not infect your system why do you trust their content?

You don't trust their content but you trust their content?

(And before people start pointing fingers at ad providers, reminder Google is one of the largest?)
> Too much magnesium from food

The conversation was about magnesium supplements, not food.

It’s well-known that overdose from magnesium supplements is possible. The condition is called “Hypermagnesemia” and one of the primary causes is magnesium supplements.

> You have not supported this with links to credible sources.

If you'd like to know more about the dynamics of magnesium, scientific articles are easy to find: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4455825/

As for supplement overdose: You should always assume that overdose is possible when taking concentrated supplements. Don't assume that you can apply the same logic to food (as in the link you provided) and isolated supplements consumed in bulk (as with the high magnesium doses discussed in this thread).
Fedora - it's modern but stable. I think they have very decent QA but also quite up-to-date kernels, which is important when running on newer hardware. I don't care much for the Gnome default desktop though - use sway and QT-based apps mostly.

I tried Arch and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and found that things broke quite frequently (~every week), which I couldn't justify for my work setup. Most of the time copr https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ has any out-of-tree builds I need. I was a Gentoo user for many years (2006~2012) but again the maintenance burden was quite high, and I could never quite eliminate GNUTLS from my system XD.

For server-side stuff, either I customize Alpine (containers, small devices) or roll with whatever is the default.
As a diagnosed dyslexic, this website feels nothing like what reading is like for me. It might be representative of some dyslexic experience, but certainly not mine.
I [Finally] created my website
While building this website, I struggled with making decisions about what tools to use. In this article, I share the tools I used and my rationale for using them. Hopefully, I am going to save someone the agony of making the same decision.
When you observe, you will discover (and not invent). It is interesting that corporations want to patent new discoveries (things which they didn't invent, but just observed)...
Worth noting here that WSL has some special cursed package installer problems that can often be worked around with nix-based installs.
It's an order of magnitude faster in terms of warm up times - Python Lambdas warm up in ~100 ms.
Are you kidding? Every teacher I know has had to radically reinvent their classrooms for fully remote learning on the fly with minimal support and are working around the clock to do so.
You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement which is unfortunately a big part of its usage right now, however if torrents become as seamless as HTTP (like not requiring a separate client) I can see them becoming widely used for totally legitimate purposes.

Torrents can be a great, standardized way of delivering updates for example, and network administrators can easily deploy a platform-agnostic way to deliver & cache updates on their network by just deploying a torrent client somewhere and their fleet would automatically discover them (using local peer discovery) instead of having to deploy multiple proprietary, platform-specific solutions.
I still write long letters. Only to one person though, mostly. She writes back too, and we are each other's best friend. She introduced me to letter writing 5 years ago.

I've also written really long letters to a writer who has written back. I admire his work a lot. (one letter was 18 pages long, another was 42)

Curiously, I have received long responses from a lot of people, but the chain fizzled out mostly. It's just the two of us who write back and forth. I love writing letters.
I believe that was software that did the emulation. I actually had a dual Merced system that I ran linux on for a while. It didn’t suck so much as it was “different.“

Intel should have known this, but you buy processors because they are faster or cheaper. These days the third rail is energy but it’s basically the same, if you pay more you want a lot more and “Different” costs. Itaniums where a whisker faster than their ia32 offerings at the time, they cost a lot more though, and they were different. Beyond that, it was like a geek designed the specs with out a market story, risc chips were coveted by x86 dorks because they had 32 registers to the x86’s 5 or 6, well ia64 had 128... If you’re just doing simple stack frame compiler work without full program optimization, how many functions need 32 registers? Let alone 128? everyone could see that you wanted to simplify things in order to put silicon where it mattered for longer term performance, mid to late 90s reordering conditionals for branch prediction was sort of hot in compiler dork and low level circles, well Merced fixed that by adding a lot of complex logic to take both branches and retire the wrong one. IBM, HP and Sun needed different reliability and serviceability features on their high end systems too, from the big enterprise metal perspective they were toy parts for PCs, but they cost more, didn’t run your existing software and weren’t 2x faster or anything like that. They didn’t take a holistic market view as they made it. Rather than work with ibm, sun and hp on those high end issues, they just went back to the lab and told them when the first parts would be out.

Not really sure what goes on inside intel, they have a lot of brilliant people. I suspect that they cannibalize themselves because nothing will ever be as successful as the x86 was when they owned every aspect of the part and package and things are decided to be a failure before they ship. With ia64 nobody asked why. Xeon phi, they gpu and machine learning stuff reflects that too.
The only argument that seems to be brought forward every time is "if a superintelligent being wants to do stuff, we can't do anything about it because the axiom is that superintelligence means omnipotence". This is not so different from any other religious argument since it's impossible to falsify and therefore meaningless in any scientific sense.
The compiler is slow at building code. It's much, much faster at checking it.
Undoubtedly, one of the largest problems since the dawn of humanity is the refusal to admit "I don't know". This is what is most frustrating to me regarding a variety of subjects including religion (and atheism for that matter), climate change, economics, and others. My formative experiences that communicated the scope of this problem were my time in high school and college when my fellow students seemed to be absolutely terrified to ask any questions. Even the smallest admission that "I'm sorry professor, I didn't understand that. Could you explain it again?" or something to that effect was not ever even considered for probably 80% of students. I believe this is intimately related to how commonly people hold very strong opinions, while either understanding absolutely nothing about the subject when there is plenty of information available (economics, climate change), or where there is no evidence to even address (religion, atheism). They seemingly adopt the popular view of their peers, and rarely consider questioning anything. I won't pretend I have some way to solve this problem, as it seems inherent to humanity, but I believe this is causing the effects that Feynman is lamenting in the article, and I'm also not at all convinced that this problem is peculiar to modern times.
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I'm not sure I understand why you think I can't name a group of critical dissenters that I think are right. For example I do believe that the "dissenters" who criticise string theory (google "not even wrong string theory" ) are at least correct in their "political" arguments that the focus on string theory funding might has painted us into a corner and held back scientific progress. Note I am not a particle physicist so don't know enough to judge any "unifying theory" as correct or incorrect. Similarly the people looking for a theory underneath quantum theory might be correct (I'm more sceptical about this, but again not enough of an expert to judge), and the Copenhagen interpretation is not everything.

So no science is not finished and yes our understanding of science still progresses. However, two things first it does not need "sceptical dissenters" to progress science. There are many areas in science where there are many "known unknowns" and where there isn't an established theory.

Moreover, even acknowledging that there are areas where "sceptical dissenters" might be right and change the established understanding, those will not come from a direction of questioning and ignoring the scientific method.

In other words someone ignores the scientific method he/she is not a legitimate dissenter.

But you need to be more specific ("butter bei die Fische" is the German expression), what are legitimate dissenters and how do you judge them as legitimate?
My point is that that’s not less serious than a library supporting the BitTorrent protocol.
I get that, but it still doesn't explain why the above poster used the MacOS market share as a detractor in this case. If you value languages that don't dictate hardware/software for you, then Apple was probably never a serious contender for you.
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I dont even know which dissenters are supposed to be wrong or right. Are you talking about climate change or vaccines or racism as something that has role in shaping society? Or something entirely different?

Are you talking about dissenters that argue by politics and own wishes? Or dissenters who have alternative explanation of history? I dont know.
I am not sure science is clear about "you can spread the disease even without having symptoms". I've seen a couple back and forth arguments but nothing conclusive.
Also, 15 days to get symptoms is an extreme outlier. Median is around 5 days.
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Russian government's successful attempt to blocking and denying Russian citizens access to better email security and privacy.
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If anyone would like to get involved with cave diving, it’s somewhat accessible. For about $5k in training, $5k in equipment, and perhaps four weeks of time you can gain the experience and certification necessary to dive caves.
Oh they don't. I am just doing it for my own benefit.
I used to work on some 3D printing related software, and so I had to type “Objet” a bunch and it was impossible to not type “object.”
> I believe an influence was actually an old system that used smalltalk in the 90ies at JPM.

Imagine the benefit to the business had they just stuck with Smalltalk the whole time! It is remarkable how many businesses could have been quietly making money for years using a high-quality dynamic language such as Smalltalk or Lisp rather than going through the whole C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/JavaScript/Go treadmill.

But I guess if they had done that then their programmers might not have gotten to type as many {}! Nor gotten to reinvent the wheel so often.