skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it on mailing list yearrss ago, and repeated on my blogs and sites over the years, I'm obvious not helping if it is just an urban-myth, hence the "story-air-quotes". I still get a kick out of just the idea though :)

If one googles "theo de raadt and keyboard remap" there a numerous reports - but I agree it's not credible enough. Lol if one google "LochNess Monster" you also get lots of hits and sites reporting it to be so.

Just a "maybe-urban-myth" to lighten the Monday-Bluezz :)

[0] https://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-left-openbsd.html
So how come all the spotlights are on RISC-V? Another case of "worse is better"?
if anyone is interested, Michael from f.lux provided some great info in relation to the study the Time article is referencing when it was originally posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916679
As it happens, China has extensive fish farming. It is huge and China may be the country where it is the most developed.

It may also be helped by the fact that Chinese eat quite a lot of fresh water fish compared to what we eat in Western countries.

Of course an issue is that it creates further pressure on agriculture/traditional fishing to produce fish feed...
It shows the strength of the their best argument.
Another meta-study on other studies, which probably have many flaws (like almost all psychological studies.)

This is what passes for science these days. You can't draw any realistic conclusion from this, one way or another.
So you are suggesting we need to do a double blind test, by means of throwing a molotov cocktail at a few people gatherings?
I would argue they are doing what I wish any normal OEM would do: upstream their patches to make it much easier to maintain. "normal OEM Support" for phones means you are stuck on whatever LTS kernel the OEM used, then good luck trying to upgrade past that.

For reference, I am typing this on a laptop from 2008. I am not worried about OEM support because all of the hardware support was upstreamed long ago.
I'm the author of Art of Chording—I program full-time with steno in JavaScript (working mainly with React.)

I'd love ideas on how to demonstrate coding in steno. I struggle with it sometimes because the slowest part about coding is not the input rate… it's the brain. I guess if people are looking to code "quicker"… it's not the rate of input that one would want to explore. I will say that writing comments became a lot easier when the words started to just flow onto the screen.

Here are my existing videos:

Unscripted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=711T2simRyI

Scripted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBBiri3CD6w

Looking forward to any suggestions on how to improve or even just the big open questions you'd want answered on this subject.
People go out to have sex. Either you haven't noticed somehow (maybe you aren't old enough?) or you're deluding yourself that it's about something else. We're a sexual species. You exist because your parents met and had sex. It's just the way it is.
How would you define criminal liability to achieve this?

Easy. If a producer of software is made aware of a defect in their software that may lead to a breach of security, they are required to either fix it in x amount of days, or publicly disclose the full details of the vulnerability so that users of the software may make an informed decison on how to proceed.

You could even say that if they disclose that there is a vulnerability along with a temporary workaround, they get an extension of time to fix it or release the details.

Edit: after reading what I wrote I think it actually should apply to all bugs, not just security related ones. Either fix it, or let everyone know about it.
> For those working with Celsius

So literally everywhere except:

United States, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Liberia, Palau, The Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands.
Why wouldn't they? They're not irrational.

I understand their desire to keep their newly achieved standards of living and I imagine they don't want to be dependent on foreign seas, especially as these situations can cause conflicts. They also have a pretty big EEZ, about 1 million sqkm. Seems more than enough to have some huge fish farms.
It’s more for when you already trust Steve, but you don’t trust your national currency, the credit card companies, and other available “escrows”. Why force use of an escrow when you trust your counterparty ?
Sure. Let them die - that ship has sailed. News Ltd and Nine have destroyed most of the quality journalism on their platforms already, and I honestly don't think anything this bill proposes will make it better.

I don't have all the answers, but the best way I think I can support quality journalism is to subscribe to some independent news sites now (Michael West, MacroBusiness, Anthony Klan's new site The Klaxon. Might think about Crikey too because it seems pretty good).
Mozilla and Google renew Firefox search agreement
> is ActiveRecord much maligned?

Well, take the numerous articles extolling the virtues of Sequel, or DataMapper, or, related to the current discussion, Ecto itself. Like how expressive this stuff is. And how ActiveRecord creates a too huge API surface on models, and that that leads to bad design, etcetera. Now to mention the callbacks, which are admittedly problematic.

But then I try those aforementioned libs and see sharp corners like terrible argument validations (in case of Sequel) which lead to silently failing code, or actual hard limitations on what I can ask Ecto to do without resorting to meta-programming.

> I also haven't ever found a good replacement for AR migrations

IME, both Sequel and Ecto migrations are fairly serviceable. But neither provides the schema dumping feature that AR has. Which is pretty handy.
Have they been absorbed, as in reacted to create novel compounds? If the plastic does not react with the organic molecules in our body, isn't this a little like worrying WiFi will cause cancer (non-ionizing EM)?
Hitler wasn't elected, in fact the Weimar Republic was mostly incapable of forming a working government during the time it existed. Like many before him Hitler was assigned his position in the hope that his failure to uphold his promises would also cripple his support in the population. His biggest grab for power was underlined by armed SA troops in the Reichstag, a lot of imprisoned or outright missing politicians and Göring fudging the attendance count to meet the minimum requirements for a legitimate vote.
A man who wants to “democratize” AI
The most hilarious bit is that it genuinely does appear to have gone through some sort of peer review involving academically qualified people actually reading the paper and giving feedback on how to improve it.
There are modes, like caps lock, but for snake case, camel case, and other things.

You can also do a stroke-by-stroke basis. For example, I have strokes for prefix "is" and "on" followed by a capital. So

"A*UN SMIT"

would be "onSubmit". You could also fall back to forcing an attached, uppercase word. So:

"ON KPA* SMIT"
Since when was NYC covered in snow and ice, 20°F weather EIGHT MONTHS OF THE YEAR
Wow, I didn't know that. Crazy...
Love it. Can you please make it so the missed safe space is highlighted after the loss?
Yeah I can imagine that does make things weird! So there's nothing happens in the final year that can affect the outcome much?

I effectively got an unconditional offer in England way back when, was predicted something like 3 As and a B, and was given an offer to my preferred place at two Cs. Still brought in two As and two Bs though.
I was naturalized about a decade ago and nothing of the sort happened for me either, or for the other two people I know who were naturalized around that time.

The reason is that you are only required to renounce "allegiance" to other countries during the naturalization ceremony. This has nothing to do with citizenship.
538 are claiming that their model has a lower percentage for Biden than others (random example - Economist has Biden at 87% currently) because they're considering more than just the polls. The implication seems to be that their prediction is actually lower than their analysis of the polls would indicate.
It's deceptive. They aren't saying they would hand over any data.
When you consider the wider legal context, this also makes sense* .

This is because Facebook requires page owners to assume all liability for comments.

This has resulted in publishers losing defamation cases based on third-party comments made on their posts [1].

* (regardless of whether you feel, as I do, that the proposed legislation is a politically-motivated protection racket for a favoured media mogul)

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jun/01/australian-med...
Just include externalities in the oil taxes. It doesn't matter if it's 10 plane trips a year or driving 100 miles to work each day - both are bad and both should be taxed into unaffordability.
That too, but I was referring to the Novichok poisonings in 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...
Sorry, i bookmarked the link for later. I think you are right then.
The Rise and Fall of Applebee's
How do you think will it get out of your liver again? Strong transpiration?
To re-implement the University application process would indeed be a huge amount of work.

However, the governing principal of Cambridge University, for example, is that all operations are done at a human scale, and I think when you factor in the large numbers of staff whose labour the Universities have access to, it becomes possible.

For a group of applicants for Computer Science at a Cambridge college, for example, you would have a Director of Studies and one or two other staff ranking around 20 applicants for half as many places. (The ratio of applicants to places is much higher prior to interview.) It is a tractable problem to solve, even if for other institutions the process is scaled by 2x/3x (4:1 / 6:1, up to Nottingham’s reputed 13:1) or maybe even more.

An idea we mooted over dinner last night was for these applicant rankings to be fed to UCAS — the University and Colleges Admissions Service — and for UCAS to combine these rankings with the applicant preferences to fill up each course from the top down. No need for grades, just use the desirability metric provided by the institutions.

Grades themselves are a strange beast. By their nature they are different to raw marks. A grade speaks to your ability as part of the entire cohort of examined pupils in that subject. Without the exam, taken nationally under examination conditions, it just doesn’t seem to make sense to refer to grades.

If we called them “exam grades” perhaps the folly of trying to assign them to pupils, who have not actually taken an exam, would be clearer.

(I speak with no real authority, but I am a high school teacher in England.)
What about "130F / 54.4C"?
International standards can also be zero days. For example, the international standard for called ID, uses a dial up modem protocol which means the hardware has to have capabilities to read this data which means the hardware has dialup modem capabilities. So if you can compromise the firmware of the modem, a backdoor into a device is via the very telephone network you later rely on to communicate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID#Operation

Chips fall into 3 categories, fused by manufacturer, fused by branding company, or not fused allowing future updates, like bios chips.
Even if the chip is fused, a backdoor may still exist, in some cases standard behaviour can be the backdoor.

With zero days appearing in hardware, software and standards, its very easy if you have the knowledge to get a persistent backdoor into a device beit a PinePhone, Librem 5 or Necunos to name just a couple.
https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-p...
https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-lin...
Its probably why people like Cobham, Thales and other openly public military manufacturers make their own kits for militaries around the world.
https://www.cobham.com/
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en

I even think its possible to hack the communication systems of the new Lockheed Martin F35, because the manufacturers are walking a logical development path (their mistake), but I've yet to have a go at it, so cant say for sure yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C25CwNlVjA
That passes the buck on to the university addmissions teams. Then it's the same story with Oxbridge as the antagonists.

Fundamentally it's a hard problem: the admissions require more information than is available. But...

> All this fiasco does is demonstrate how unnecessarily reductive the whole concept is.

...there never really was enough information. This is an important factor IMO. The system has always been unfair, now it's less fair and in a colder, more obvious , more systematic way that resonates with the current political climate around technology. Politically it's hard for this government to get away with standing by a policy that adversely affects poor students in the same way it would have been hard for a left-wing government to institute the current fiscal policy.

>kids

Nit: almost all of them are now legally adults. At university they can look forward to this twilight age where they are treated as an adult when it's about financial obligations and treated as a child when it's their institutions forcing policy upon them.
Interesting. They were pretty rare back then.
It is perfectly possible to create a website without direct deep links. Every other SPA does exactly that.
If any management/exec thought of this filter, they are idiots. I'd imagine if they made these as accessible as x86 servers to me - a humble sysadmin, and I could prove by data that our legacy Fortran scientific application can run faster on it than the newest Intel servers (it most likely would, given SMT differences, higher memory bandwidth, wider cache lines, more efficient 7 nm process, higher clocks etc) I'd recommend to my boss to spend our annual compute budget on these boxes instead of the Intel servers because that one legacy application consumes a lot of our HPC compute capacity. My boss and I would happily pay IBM to give this critical application a boost. Too bad, IBM filtered me away.
First Murdoch stopped most of Australia from receiving the fast fibre to the home that had just begun rollout.

Instead we got lumped with using his rotting Foxtel coax cables for slow expensive unreliable broadband. Plus we spent $10 Billion extra for the current copper mashup, compared with the original fibre to the home rollout he blocked using Abbott the onion muncher.

Now he pushes his parliamentary puppets to grant another tranche of protectionist profits for his media empire.

Australia ranks third in the world for corruption... when measuring percentage of billionaires who made their fortune through political favours and giveaways.

Check out the bar graph in this article:

https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/game-of-mates-how-billiona...
They also have NVLink which means 9x more bandwidth to NVIDIA GPUs compared to PCIe 3.0x16
I don't think it's fair to characterize this as a JRE bug. The only programs that had the opportunity to recognize that the MSI file was signed too early did not account for it. The JRE can't be expected to know that Edge and whatever thought the valid JAR it's reading was considered a MSI by the piece of software that processed it, despite being dispatched to the JRE from the explorer.
thanks, this is nice but building it seems complex. FFI seems more suitable.

EDIT: actually neither FFI or this wrapper you linked are what I need. I need to execute micropython from C++, not the other way around.
It’s extremely easy to find. The problem is the org chart itself. The entire way they run this stuff is not setup to handle the kinds of things we expect (and get) from every other hardware vendor or cloud provider that could reasonably be considered a competitor to them in either category.
I dont know but I'd like to. How does that work?
Yes, they’re usually right behind the front bumper cover, which is better than many locations, but is still susceptible to radiant heat from the vehicle and/or the road surface.
Sorta kinda. You can completely opt-out of Google Search entirely but there's no way to opt-out of having your content excepted while also appearing in organic search results.

I mean I would be pissed if I was a major news org that saw traffic drop off because Google is copy-pasting content from my site in their omnibox. This stuff is extremely good for the user and I rely on it a lot but they should have to license the content they republish.
You're right, slower is the right word. I'm very accurate and precise but feel like I am embarrassingly slow. Recollection in particular feels slower, and I don't know if that is because I have much more knowledge to draw upon or because of aging.

What is more definite is that the 'aha-moments' are much less rewarding and because of that I am less attentive in my intellectual pursuits. I have more effective learning strategies but less interest in applying them.
Farmed fish are fed wild-caught fish generally, so their environmental impact is comparable. There is an ongoing effort to remove that from the chain, but it remains an unsolved problem.
Can’t uninstall Safari on iOS either.
“Megatons to megawatts“ was a good slogan though. Agreed it’s not the best approach.
It’s subjective of course. I find Orange County far too hot for my own tastes.

What is not subjective is from summer to winter, SF has the least variance in average temperature due to its unique geography.
if anyone is interested, Michael from f.lux provided some great info in relation to the study the above links are referencing when it was originally posted on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916679
Agreed that composition time is largely made up of thinking, however once you've decided what you want to write, you still need to write it.

The other thing that I sometimes end up doing with stenography is just a stream-of-consciousness-style writing where I then have to edit it down.
> "mostly transmits through droplets"

I think it is too early to make such a claim. If no protection is applied (visor/mask) and no physical distancing is performed, I assume the claim might hold up.

The SARS-CoV-2 aerosol route is still relevant, however. The masks are able to block this a bit while the visors are barely helpful. Hence I wouldn't say that the visors are a solution.
That's the point of meditation.

Depression makes you think clear.

Anxiety pushes you to snap out of mediocrity and spark creativity.
I had decent experience with an IBM reseller, back in 2005 or so. I forget the exact term. VAR? Solutions provider? Anyway, we were able to get the latest POWER system (POWER 6, I think) and evaluate our AIX-based app on it for about 2 weeks. They even set us up with a small SAN! Unfortunately, the reseller was not terribly skilled technically, so they were unable to configure the SAN. I had to figure that out myself.
It's really cool they're making this, I should give this a try. This does look like it's the most accessible way of getting a POWER-based shell. This service's interface does not start out with making a great first impression though unfortunately, but if it's the only realistic option then so be it.
I read recently that the pandemic has pretty much ended the escape room business.
You're right. If a more efficient but unordered dict were to come out, it would have to be in an import and have less comfortable syntax, since the base dict has a requirement for preserving insert order. But python is not C, and speed is not the most important consideration. Python often goes for "efficient enough, and very comfortable to use", for example by using lists as its ordered flat container instead of arrays. I think that making dicts ordered is another step in the right direction for Python.
Couldn't agree more. Both are trying to appeal for pity to the very people they're taking advantage of and it pretty much sums up everything wrong with companies having this much power. We're living in the cyberpunk future of megacorps manipulating governments for profit at the expense of everyone else and there's nothing we can do about it.
It's important to bear in mind that meditation is a religious practice specifically aimed at causing ego-death. Yogis writing about the practice (before it became big business) freely admit all sorts of horrible-sounding mental side effects, but couch them in religious terms (and encourage the acolyte to push through until they achieve "enlightenment", which they describe as a profoundly nihilist state of being). This whole idea of it being a casual activity that's good for the soul, or that it can make you a more effective person (on this plane of existence) is 1) new and 2) only modestly supported by the science.

It may hold some value, but it strikes me that there is more pro-meditation dogma than anti-. Scientists will hold an open mind, but "gurus" who charge money for fancy retreats will insist in its value without evidence. As a general rule, there are no panaceas - major changes in cognition can go either way. Be careful!
Well, I have a feeling that the resolution of this problem will accelerate in the following decades. With China and other developing countries rising, we're going to need to feed 2-3 billion people more at developed country standards.

We'll literally suck all the fish out of the ocean at the rate we're going, with our current processes.
It's not a Catalina thing. How long have you done music on Mac? Went through this with Snow leopard. Then with Mountain Lion. I can't install Rapture, Dimension Pro or Z3ta from Cakewalk after Mountain lion. Again Windows 10 just fine. Mac is a horrible platform for music and if I didn't do mobile development I would drop it in 5 seconds. Mac has literally become a joke in the computer music community.
It's not just the amount of sleep that affects us.

For me, the biggest improvement I had thanks to the 'rona lockdowns was I finally can follow a decent sleep schedule - wake me up at 8 or earlier and I'm essentially an unusable wreck for the first 4 or so hours, so when I was able to sleep until 9 because I had no need to rush for eating, showering and to travel the ~45min to work I actually am way more productive.

Now, if politicians could get their butts to introducing 32 or shorter hour work weeks (=4 day work week)... that would be yet another boost, for physical and mental health as well as for unemployment numbers.
Giesbrecht: Sweden did it right, we did it wrong – Winnipeg Sun
What language should you grind leetcode in for FAANG? Or does it honestly not matter. Like C# or Javascript, for example?
There are lots of ways to do "Mindfulness and meditation" so I'm not surprised.

I've always found group meditations to be the most beneficial for me while solo meditations are harder and less likely for me to feel better afterwards (although I've had some really good ones)
The big thing that stands out is that there have been some glaring problems like native speakers getting C's in their language at (say) German or French A-level i.e. so they slacked in the mock tests.

It suggests that their dataset was either way to narrow or their regressions far too simple
(Salt water) fish farming is still hunting on an industrial scale because the farmed fish are mostly carnivorous and are fed with feed derived to a large part from hunted fish. It's mostly a tool to strip the oceans even harder (with fish farms converting undesirable catch into species people like to eat, everything becomes a target)
You’ve got it backwards. It’s the suburbs that are expensive.

Think about it: one mile of sewer, one mile of street, supports X people in a suburb, or 50X people in a dense city.

Even if the wear costs in the city are double or even four times that, the city comes out way ahead.

https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2016/11/10/meanwhile-u-s-sub...
Ira Flatow interviews two of the scientists on a Science Friday podcast:

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/squid-gene-editing/
Good Sleep, Good Learning, Good Life (2018)