skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, Factorio has so many parallels to software engineering. My buddies have joked that you can tell how someone writes code from how they play.
Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet–and It Works
Funny you say that. I find that far left agitators are stupid, infact so stupid that they are often referred to as "The useful idiots of the US capitalists".
1. That case isn't finished with appeals and there are already multiple laws in the pipeline to override it.

2. Facebook didn't require publishers to be liable. The court did.
It reminds me of https://suckless.org/

Also the set of projects is somewhat similar:

window manager (dwm) -> game engine library (raylib)

terminal emulator (st) -> IDE template (4coder)

web browser (surf) -> video browser (motionbox)

+ tools and libs...
Groundbreaking new material ‘could allow AI to merge with the brain’
I would argue the exact opposite that we live in a society where nothing bad can ever happen because that would mean the emprah would have no clothes.
How to Deploy Your Dart App on Heroku
If I came from maybe Flagstaff Arizona I'd think SF has "museums, bars, restaurants, proximity to nature" but having lived in plenty of other places with more museums, bars, restaurants and proximity to nature SF was a let down.
The only unconditional offers I've ever heard of have been for less prestigious courses.
What's the current status of YC's UBI experiment?
This is an important topic of development for Open Steno. Machine shorthand has existed in many languages and is used in many countries.

However, not all of them are "computer" or "realtime" compatible, which roughly means that you wouldn't be able to distinguish in your writing between homophones like "their" and "there" and "they're."

Here's a list of some of the languages that have been developed or ported to Plover: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Chorded-Syst...

There is a Plover plugin to switch on-the-fly between different steno systems.

There is also a plugin to switch between enabled dictionaries on-the-fly.

Finally, there is the idea of bilingual dictionaries, but I haven't seen it implemented well yet.

There's also the problem of some languages having drastically different layouts.

So far, the most multilingual and successful stenographer I've seen is Stanley Sakai. Here's him writing in a Spanish theory that he developed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGZ43TID9jU&t=90s

I also know that there are bilingual stenographers in Canada who write both English and French, but I haven't seen it in action yet.

In summary, I think that multilingual stenography is critical for the adoption of steno, but it's currently not easily accessible or widely used.
It's not a bug in the JRE, but the bug is a problem because Windows itself doesn't see the file as dangerous, while the JRE invoked on it treats it as code to execute. Windows, on its own, is not aware that the file represents executable code outside of the validated sections of the MSI.
Finally someone who has a brain on this topic. I think Sweden did some mistakes, but Mr. Giesbrecht can see the main point here and is focused on what is important for broad compliance.

Of course there is no receipe that applies to every country. The crackdown in NZ for example is understandable because there is a real chance to kill the virus before an outbreak.

I am interested about how the vaccination process will work out if we have a working one. If you just let people decide themselves, you wouldn't even have a problem... But it seems that some people cannot live with making rules for everybody else.
Physical switches typically are a lot harder to circumvent and a lot easier to verify than software ones.

> Here, we would need to expect an electronics engineer to understand (from looking at a disassembled device) that the switch actually does what it says it does, right?

Sure. This is a lot better than just trusting a manufacturer's word, since they have an incentive to hide vulnerabilities and independent researchers have an incentive to publish them.

Having designs available makes their work a whole lot easier and potentially lowers the barrier of entry so much someone with some interest and time could do the checks themselves. The more eyes, the better.
Similar to "strawman" in online forums, right
To save you a click, those look like KKK uniforms
Do you really think anybody would read that publication and then proceed to take medication to ride a scooter?! The people sharing made-up cures on Facebook won't be decimated by this.
How can we instruct robots in natural language?
I don't think you can easily separate a great project like OpenBSD from the culture that produced it. OpenBSD is what it is precisely because Theo and co. are ruthlessly uncompromising with their vision and their principles, and don't suffer fools. That may for some unpleasant email exchanges and hurt feelings, but OpenBSD is a great and unique OS and has been around for decades.
You are correct. And there we talks to build a new nuclear plan for all three Baltic states but they don't seem to have any progress. Moreover, Belarus has built a new nuclear plant 30 miles away from the Lithuanian border (the first reactor is being loaded as we speak) and Lithuania has actually banned any purchases from that plant, while Latvia and Estonia have not. So, there's a lot of politics around nuclear power there as well.
> CNN also promotes conspiracy theories and outright nonsense

Yeah, I do. These outlets are all as bad as each other. The only difference is a right-leaning individual is biased in favor of Breitbart propaganda and a left-leaning individual is biased in favor of CNN.
The problem with “the market will sort itself” takes like this is that the market is not as efficient and elastic as we ideally hope. It, first of all, assumes that everyone has the ability and knowledge to pick the operating system that is best for them. Things like marketing, personally critical (but platform dependent) software (as the other child comment says), market share, and previously formed platform comfort all influence the decisions that users and developers make regarding OS. Not to mention that possibility that someone needs to use two different operating systems for two different tasks.

If everyone at once decided that they were no longer using windows, it’s not controversial that there would at least still be a massive amount of work and time to shift every legacy on windows to another platform. Even in this most extreme example of the market shifting, windows still has the security issues for the transition timeframe that the market alone can’t solve.
Is this still the case for windows 10?
I don't know that it's easier to game so much as people don't tend to spew toxic garbage when they suspect someone is gaming them. There's decorum.
Contact form linked somewhere from the ad buyer page I think.

In case anyone wonders:

No I never got any feedback, except ads are now borderline relevant and doesn't contain many dating site ads.

FTR: I block a good chunk of the ads and I'm also somewhat ad-blind. The above is my subjective feeling about the relevance of the ads.
Talking About Teal in 2020
I may very well be wrong, but that’s how I read the beginning of this blog post: https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/glueball-the-story-of-cve-20...:

“ Digitally signed files are more trusted by the Operating System. This higher trust allows such files to execute in sensitive contexts or excluded from Antivirus scans.”

It seems that msi installer packages with a trusted code signature (1) are excluded from scans by various antivirus protections. Which kind of makes sense: driver packages may contain code that would trigger heuristics a lot.

> Presumably paired with the OP "bug" means MS could, with an NSA letter say, drop malware on devices if those devices were using Windows Defender for AV.

Microsoft can already do that. To be quite honest - pretty much every institution with the right signing powers can on practically all OS. Have you verified the latest chrome installer package?

This bug seems to allow something more insidious: you could download the latest google chrome msi and append your payload jar to that msi and redistribute it. The signature remains valid. This allows bypassing the code signing checks even if you have no code signing powers.

(1) not from Microsoft, Microsoft only hands out the certificates, the signing is done by the developer
Aviation is responsible for 2.4% of CO2 emissions. A tiny fraction of overall transportation, electricity, and other sources.

This is just a bitter journalist training the Guardian-reading climate change freakout crowd to hate the rich.
Yeah, you and billions of other cash holders.

Physical dollars are an important medium of global liquidity. Taking them out of circulation is not in anyone's interest. In fact, taking them out of circulation would be extremely bad. Hard to communicate how bad this would be. Pretty much a crossing the streams/total protonic reversal outcome.

Could bad outcomes be prevented? Stunts like what was done with Indian currency, or a move to all-digital currency? I don't see it.

Since hoarding of the polymer bills seems like a likely outcome of negative rates hitting consumers, and this would be bad, and in the absence of other preventative measures, I highly doubt we'll see negative rates at the consumer level.
Yup. There are three different easy-access accounts offered by NS&I:

1. Income Bonds
2. Direct Saver
3. Investment Account
They should farm the prey too then? I still wonder where those mice that pet snakes eat come from. Never had a pet snake so I don't know much about them.
I was surprised to learn the opposite:

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130118/alcohol-...
I’m not a clinical psychologist, and every time I try to read beyond the first screen of this article on my phone I get some weird ad about Google giving away phones...

My own experience with meditation, guided and encouraged by my therapist when I did seek professional help, does match what the title of the article says at a minimum. But here’s the rub: I went to him to try to figure out and resolve the mental state I’d gotten into!

Very deliberate mindful meditation helped me observe the thoughts-below-the-thoughts from a somewhat neutral perspective (sometimes called “observing the river”). What I saw was profoundly uncomfortable! Some of the thoughts underlying my behaviour were just my current headspace (other companies had commercialized work similar to my grad school research while I was still researching it), and some of it was negative thought patterns I’d adopted in my early teens in response to some stressors.

I worked through those and came to peace with them. It wasn’t a pretty couple of months, but I’m a dramatically different and better person because of it.

There should probably be a giant disclaimer and some intake interviews for these 10-day retreats. If you’re going and expecting that it’s just going to be a nice opportunity to chill... you’re probably not going to be ready to actually inspect the shit that comes out of your brain when you give it a chance. And... the people who snap at these retreats likely would have benefitted from professional help anyway; spending time alone with their thoughts in that setting just brought that fact to the surface.
Where in the world are the most powerful computers? (1993)
What we see here is a final rebellion of the big media companies worldwide. In Germany we have seen something similar. In the end, it's highway robbery: Google is made to pay to the mediacorp, but it is not allowed to de-index them either.

Perfect scenario – you've succesfully made a cashcow! Google is by far not the good guy here, but rest assured, I hope all those big media outlets burn.
Flake8 and Pyproject.toml with FlakeHell
For a single developer I think it works OK to review pbxproj changes like other source.

You really should understand and recognize what each change is.

It’s when you have the additional dimension of multiple developers changing the project that it really becomes unwieldy and you are pushed into treating it as binary.
> Google also reported three videos by a third user

Google handles mind-boggling amounts of traffic. Without statistics for how often these things happen, these specific cases mean very little to me.

Regarding the article as a whole, what is Google supposed to do?

Tech giants are pressured to increase regulation (e.g. Facebook and the 2016 US election stuff). They're also pressured to be places for free speech.
> Which means their technique works really well on gullible people.

Don;t tell that to your wife :D

And yes, they use it because it works.

But on me it has the opposite effect. The moment the salesman tries to help/advice me differently I get this creepy crawly feeling.

And I am a big boy now, so they cut it off or i am walking.

As introvert pleasing people so you can blend-in was my common go-to method. Any skillful salesman will walk all over you if you let them.

I soon learnt salesmen are not your friends, so I don't treat them like you owe them something.

I might have walk away from some good deals, but in my mind supporting an asshole by doing business with them only propagates that culture and behaviour. And I rather walk away then be part of it.
I'll dive into K8s this week, after a few years of serverless. I'm intrigued to see what it has to offer, that serverless lacks.
I'm not sure about POWER, but in AMD EPYC it is implemented at the hypervisor level. So each VM can have encrypted memory with a unique key, but within a VM the processes see unencrypted memory.

It's typically implemented as an extension of the virtual memory page table, and conceptually it wouldn't be too difficult to have finer-grained keys, such as one for the kernel and one for user mode processes, or even one per process.
I worry that once that time arrives the government will force us to consume it by severely taxing actual meat.
Meditation is a process to calm the mind. Make it more lucid and reduce thoughts.

It's a tool to discover the inner self, one of the first steps in self realization, as per Hindu scriptures.

It has been studied for millennia and it's methods fine tuned.

The reason for meditating is not to improve productivity, solve depression / anxiety issues, and all the issues related to modern living.

It is a first step towards God Realization.

But why is it used so widely for the above mentioned reasons?

- The initial stages of meditation bring about a calm and peace. Many people find health benefits to such a process. It might as well be true.

Meditation is supposed to be done and progressed under a realized guru. It's not a vocational course that someone takes and becomes an expert in it.It is not a tool to solve anxiety and depression. It is not a tool to improve the life we experience with this body. It is a tool to discover our true nature.

Of course you are going to get results that fall into a wide spectrum if you do it wrongly, under no proper guidance and with no clarity as to it's true purpose.

You cannot expect a person with depression and anxiety to sit alone in a room and meditate and not expect an aggravation in such thoughts.

To live a happy and healthy life, Hinduism promotes a way of life for the householder (one who is married and has a family)

- Get up early.
- Exercise (This includes preliminary forms of Hatha Yoga)
- Eat healthy food
- Spend time with family
- Teach your kids
- Avoid vices
- Have a healthy sex life
- Spend some time contemplating the true nature of the world. Just thinking, no meditation, no process, no nothing.
- Sleep well
- Have a good circle of friends and keep good relations with extended family, to share your joys and sorrows.

In India, for every one of the above activity, there are a myriad of books, anecdotes, stories, proverbs, etc. A householder is never told to do meditation or try to be in peace by such methods. To glue the society together, there are festivals, rituals, cultural activities that are to be followed both by the individual and the society. Some by men, some by women, some by rulers, some by priests, etc.

Meditation and other related yogic methods are only taught to a person who has developed a certain aversion to the ways of this world and wants to advance spiritually. That too, a qualified guru will test him in all aspects and only then start training in meditation and yoga. Until then, no such methods are taught.

Western nations have misused and misconstrued everything about Yoga and Meditation, and then put out such articles.

Unfortunate.
The problem stems from the fact that the initial translations of the Pali Canon to western languages comes from German monks who understood Pali well but could not find appropriate words in western languages to capture the semantics. Mindfulness technique was used for at least 2000-3000 years before Buddha. So words used in the Pali canon have an etymology associated with them that cannot be easily captured in western languages.

"Mindfulness" is a best-effort translation of the word "Sati". What the word "Sati" really captures is "REMEMBERING to pay attention to what is happening in the mind at all times". A trained mind develops this automatic memory to constantly check and introspect the current state of the mind. Based on whether the current state is wholesome (leading to happiness) the "Sati" helps refocus the mind on wholesome thoughts (this is right effort of noble 8 fold path). Over time two things happen: you get intimately familiar with the workings of the mind and you know how to "manage" your thoughts without using "will" or "force" to repress the thoughts into the subconscious. This is an exercise in finesse rather than force. The gist of it is that "ignorance of reality" (that there is an "I") is the root cause of suffering in living beings. But to grasp that at the "intuitive" level (and not just intellectual) requires years of training and you start to see the fruits along the way.
Neither can (1) enforceable maritime laws and (2) a united and effective approach to dealing with the flagrant abuse of intellectual/legal/environmental policy from/by the country.
History of the coronavirus family–including one pandemic we might have missed
I also need closer to around 9 hours of sleep. I am also a relatively light sleeper for a part of the evening, so I need things like ear plugs, total darkness etc. and I guess part of why I need more sleep is because for part of the night I probably get poor quality sleep. If I do get too little sleep I really struggle very badly compared to other people equally sleep deprived. I have ADHD and when sleep deprived it gets significantly worse and I get very anxious not being able to manage priorities and responsibilities. That said, even though I don't think I'm cut out for leadership positions I certainly have enough coping strategies to take advantage of the times I am functioning well enough not to feel like I've been left behind. Also, not everyone has to become a CEO.
From the letter:

> We’ve always treated all website owners fairly when it comes to information we share about ranking.

Really? https://twitter.com/methode/status/1166643751659429888

> The law would force us to give an unfair advantage to one group of businesses - news media businesses - over everyone else who has a website, YouTube channel or small business

Google is concerned it can no longer pick winners and losers. I don't prefer News Corp, obviously, but it's just lies lies lies on both sides trying to control money funnels.

I assume google has other knobs like just making advertising in .au super expensive (they have a monopoly on that side too) but the battle will end up being bloody.
Are we willing to allow, even to facilitate that as a society?

See heavy drugs, prostitution and violence market as some examples where two consenting adults is not enough to form a legitimate business.
It's unlikely-bordering-impossible that one's writing bottleneck is actually getting the words into a computer, except on very small timescales (maybe tens of minutes?)
Hah, when I was writing my sibling comment, I too had thought about psychedelics and the parallels there. I haven’t experienced those at all yet, mostly because the opportunities I’ve had to try haven’t felt like the right “set and setting”. Or maybe I’m just scared of what I’ll see :D
I don't think Google News displays ads on result pages, just the title + thumbnail. Why should they pay for displaying these links when they don't earn anything on them, it doesn't make business sense.

As for news discovered by regular search, I think that is different because the user has to input specific search keywords and restrict to recent results. The difference is about intention and recurring visits.

The situation seems similar to the Google Books fiasco, where we didn't end up with a searchable online library of out of print books. Lots of arguments were raised back then as now, but the bottom line was that everyone tried to do good for himself and we all got less - the prisoner's dilemma in action.
Yale takes money from Fa Loon Gong this article is biased.
I'm more suspicious of the fact that the tech community shat all over the EU Copyright Directive, calling the EUCD's news aggregation rights a "link tax", when the ACCC's proposed code goes further and stricter than EUCD Article 15.

Either techies suddenly think that the EU was right, their opinion of Google massively cratered in a year and a half's time, or they have an unreasonable love affair with Australian news companies.
“The transition is the third time Apple has migrated Macintosh to a new instruction set architecture (ISA). The first was the switch from the Mac's original Motorola 68000 series architecture to the new PowerPC platform”

There also, very early on (In 1980, so prerelease, possibly before the name was picked and much software was written) was a switch from the 6809E to the 68000 (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...)
I'm curious, where else have you lived with such a great balance of everything?
Fuck all the people responding to with shameful posts about breast feeding being better. I did a fair amount of research into why, and the only conclusive thing a found was that breast feeding increased IQ by like 2 points. That is massively insignificant. IF breastfeeding adds antibodies (which is debated), then that is more than offset by just being careful to not let your child be exposed to the flu. The happiness of your child long term is by far the most important thing, and if being able to sleep better allows you to be more attentive to your child's emotional needs, then that will drastically out way 2 points of IQ. Most people telling you breast milk is better probably have no idea what it is like to feed a baby 8+ times a night and the emotional and physical toll associated with that. That type of situation can make you resent your baby. These people probably read about breast is best on some inlfuencer's blog or are parroting back some advice that their doctor gave them based on their particular situation. A mother who can't breastfeed for physical (or even emotional) reasons doesn't need an arsenal of people explaining to her why she's damaging her baby everywhere she looks to add on to the shame and inadequacy that she already feels. /rant
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It is the DeMillo-Lipton-Schwartz–Zippel lemma

If two polynomials evaluate to equal numbers with random variables values, the polynomials are almost certainly equal themselves

Ofc, x = 0 and x = 1 are hardly random
This is the equivalent of saying exercise is bad because "People who engage in physical activities sometimes experience unwanted muscle soreness and joint pain". Dredging up old repressed emotions is one of the first things I learned about meditation, and you're supposed to learn to deal with them instead of keeping them buried in your head forever.
I think memory foam gets warm and deforms. Latex should be firmer and keep cool. I haven't really tried different materials so this is just from researching online.