skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's too many assumptions. The number of personal Windows users with Java itself installed (rather than programs with their own bundled JRE) is probably very low at this point, so it means targets for this are either "download eXtra_special_cod3cs_for_pr0n.exe" users, or institutions that match this specific profile.

I would actually expect a number of interesting institutions to match that profile - places likely to keep systems updated (or at least updated AV), so not guaranteed to be vulnerable to last month's patched bugs, who have some level of system lockdown and scanning such that hiding in plain sight behind file signature verification is necessary, who have some type of IDS/IPS such that the separate trigger needs to be kept to a minimum, and who rely on a set rather poorly packaged Java software. I'm sure the list of targets matching those criteria includes a number of financial institutions and infrastructure operators - targets that need to pay more that trivial lip-service to security, but where security is a "we've checked all the boxes so we're good" mindset.
What I meant was not that a democratic government has to be the free press, but that I has to keep laws, checks, balances and regulation to ensure that free press is possible.

And that a government is a better candidate to enable and ensure free press than a private entity: we can see this in action in e.g. China where either Google keeps away from, or companies self-censor to grab some Chinese cash.

Sorry for the confusion.
So, I like the accessibility of physical switches but how are they more trusting than software ones? Or light indicators such as Apple's green Dot?

Already trusting Open Source requires non technical people to trust others who can read the code to vouch for it. 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?
Since covid-19 mostly transmits trough droplets (> 5 um) that are heavier than aerosols, reducing droplet speed and the dose people are exposed to could make all the difference.

I wonder visor opening downwards would provide better protection for most cases and make it more comfortable to wear. That kind of prolonged nose could be designed to slow down the speed of droplets that end and exit. If they were made from hard material they would be easier to clean. (optionally you could add filter with larger volume to make it even more effective)

Surgical- and cloth mask provide low protection to the wearer but give significant protection to others. But people don't wear them properly. You should trim your beard to get good protection, for example.
Interestingly museums are selling of property as they are going broke
This has been broken since v1.4 at least. You might want to peep CxxWrap
Well in our case (Fortune 500) we have iSeries and pSeries systems built on different generations of Power. They just aren't consumer grade machines out there, or better put commodity priced machines.

When your are already invested it is far safer to stay with what works for you. My downtime is measured in hours per year and all of it has been scheduled across the last seven years; that was the last time we had an unscheduled outage. You can achieve this will all types of hardware; well maybe not all types; but it is easier with some than compared to others and expectations are certainly much higher.

We joke at work that we get forgotten all the time because our daily ready for business meetings; all groups reporting in; never see us mentioned except to state plans for upcoming quarterly maintenance. A pleasant state to be in
How? They'll be crushed like bugs by the first lawsuit that comes along.

The only way they'd survive is by producing fawning, uncritical reports, like almost every interview done with movie stars.
Many things break your fast, including some supplements. For better absortion, eat at night.
> The objections appear obvious, with the dropping of teacher predictions implicitly being...

Twice in the opening text it talks about teacher predictions being dropped, but they aren't, the teachers ranked the students and this is used as part of the input data. Just not the entire input data.

If it was the entire input data then we know that, miraculously, this would have been the smartest set of kids to ever come through the system. So clearly just going by teacher predictions is also wrong.

I'm sure there are other valid objections to what has happened, but this isn't really one.
This is exactly what AMP does: limits JS to 150KB in total and runs it in Web Workers.
That's really amazing.

Rather more than 20 years ago, a DEC/COMPAQ salesperson cold-called me to see if the ISP I was working at would like to switch to Alpha servers. After about 20 minutes, he offered a six-month free loan of a mid-range server -- probably $10-15K, I don't recall. It arrived a week later. We determined the hardware was pretty nice but the operating system was a major PITA -- this was when you expected to compile a large fraction of your software -- so it mostly sat on someone's desk for the last four months of the loan before the salesperson came to claim it.
s/derived/deviated/
Just curious, but if you enjoy a Nokia N900, would you not consider the Cosmo Communicator or the Fxtec a good follow-up? It has modern hardware, still a good hardware keyboard. Together with the more updated Sailfish OS you get something much newer and faster.

I can imagine criticism about Jolla not having everything open sourced, but what I remember it was the same situation with Nokia for the N900 and N9. Also, in some respects the UI of Sailfish is somewhat different from Maemo/Meego, not everybody will like that.
No. For any meditation object one can have pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
A couple years ago, I worked at a company who's ERP system ran on an IBM System i (formerly known as AS/400). At a user conference, IBM had a table setup with a couple sales guys and a pair of servers on the table.

The first one was the latest server that could run Series i. No big deal, we were coming to the end of our maintenance contract and would probably be buying a new machine in the next year or so.

The second one was a 2U, 48-socket POWER server. They bragged about it running thousands of Linux VM's at a time. I found it a bit odd because nobody who would be running this particular ERP software would be running thousands of Linux VM's.
This is interesting, how does it work with different languages, Every dictionary for every language?? If it's different languages, how is it switching when using different languages.
All I get from the article is that they gave some people psilocybin (20mg/kg) and then did some fMRIs. Lovely but I don't see any evidence for reversing mental age here.
Another question: why do they “engrave” the squares that are going to be discarded anyway?
That seems to be the probable outcome. thanks for the input! any thoughts on stanford online Graduate certificate?
Audience is pasting from Stackoverflow?
I only know Celsius, but it's pretty clear here from context that it's Fahrenheit. It's annoying, because I still don't know what the measured temperature actually was, but I feel pretty safe assuming that the air temperature was not above the boiling point of water where I guess there would be spontaneous combustion
Things can be very serious and funny at the same time.

Come now, one of the authors is the President’s dog, and most of the other authors have names that are plays on words. And the entire article satirizes Didier Raoult’s ridiculous prediction.

This “stunt” speaks to a very serious problem, but it does so in a very funny way. That isn’t new, either. Comics often use humour to address deeply serious problems. Eddie Murphy made a legendary Saturday Night Live skit called, “White Like Me” that spoke to white privilege by positing a secret, hidden agreement amongst white Americans where everything is free for whites, it’s only non-whites who have to pay for goods or qualify for bank loans.

Serious? Very, just ask the people protesting racial injustice in America. Funny stuff? Also very.
Check out these projects: https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml, https://github.com/yue/yue, https://github.com/cztomsik/graffiti
The system I'm suggesting which admittedly wasn't fleshed out in a single paragraph is really a complete overhaul of assessments to fit remote teaching. You'd have to actually craft real-time continuous assessments for each subject that fit each subject, just like you have to do for exams anyway, but the benefit is you do it in mass amounts making it easier to get a mean performance compared to just 1 or 2 exams. How it currently works is that these types of assessments are treated as second class citizens which i guess was really my frustration.

Also these days I'd heavily debate your premise- i think exams are more of a test of memory and being able to game the system especially in the UK where you are given a test bank of past papers which are almost identical to exam papers. I was a terrible student until 2 weeks prior to the final exam where I grinded maybe 6 or 7 past papers and at least 3 out of 10 questions were carbon copied from previous papers. I would not be able to approach a problem that fit outside of the structure of the problems in the exam papers in the real world.
It's not "belief", it's financial reality.
Nobody is going to boast about not doing that, so let me just speak for a large but not very vocal part of the general population when I say:

I ain't gonna do that.
> they might just have to pay for it. "If we had to pay more for news content, we would probably just cut it out because we don't want to pay - thus leading to worse results" doesn't quite have the same ring, does it :-)

The amount they'd have to pay for it seems to be dramatically more than what they make for it, so "if this law passes, we will stop serving these results" seems to be a reasonable reaction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24184786
> Why didn't Ofqual find some people who understood how stats work, and and ask them for advice?

They wouldn't sign a five-year NDA:

https://news.sky.com/story/a-levels-exam-regulator-ignored-e...
Looking at it that way, every language is just a wrapper around assembler.
Sorry to be a bit pedantic, but circadian rhythm is "a natural, internal process that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and repeats roughly every 24 hours." I believe you meant REM cycles, in your first sentence (which matches up to your next sentence).
Some activities are destructive.

One has a responsibility to complain about those.
> Sadly, the thug also knows this. But what the thug (=ruling party) does know is whether an entire voting district votes for the opposition.

It's not so much about the ruling party - if they want to steal the vote, they can just just send an officer into the booth with you that makes sure you're not cheating.

It's more about those that don't have that ability, e.g. religious groups, families, social circles. That's why ballot selfies are sometimes outlawed and generally strongly discouraged: if it's illegal and punishable to prove to third parties how you voted, you have plausible deniability for why you can't produce proof.
I see. If you visit a sketchy website then it is entirely possible that you won't notice anything. If a random unsigned installer nag pops up after you clicked on an ad there is a decent chance that the user closes the dialogue and "walks" away unscathed.
I had really high hopes for cpu with native float128 support (quad precision) with POWER9 but after tests it turned out is only native in addition and multiplication ops. We’ll see what new generation brings to the table.
Retroarch: Hacker vandalised our buildbot and GitHub organization
Of course I'm not. My entire point is that filtering out average Janes like me is antithetical to the long-term interests of POWER, and extremely weird for a cloud platform that allows you to spin up an amd64 VM in a few seconds for a few cents. You're left with an audience that has to use POWER (either because legacy or their purchasing colleagues thought it somehow was a good idea), not an audience that actually wants to.
Why were there so many heat records in the 30s and 40s?

First time they'd been measured? Solar activity?
130°F <=> ~54°C
Top UP? ¿?

Why making it so difficult to navigate? Just give resources an price.

I have to invest so much effort into an infrastructure I don't even know If I'd like to have.
There also used to be a meetup in Seattle https://www.handmade-seattle.com/ (which has since moved online due to the pandemic situation) but in the past they had some pretty good presentations and interesting speakers. You can find some videos of them online (Youtube: "HandmadeCon" and "Handmade Seattle") although regrettably there are no recordings of last year's meetup.
I love taking the train but it’s so expensive. I’ve booked on the day flights to Edinburgh from London cheaper than an on the day train. Flying is usually cheaper than taking a full car full of people through the Channel tunnel. Last time I flew to Vancouver I returned to London from New York and flew from there rather than flying direct because it was cheaper.

That’s what needs to be fixed. Cheaper trains and more direct flights that are cheaper than flying indirect.

To allow airlines to fly less people and remain solvent, ticket prices need to rise. This solution doesn’t address that at all. A minimum cost per mile could work, but needs global implementation.
A nice way to declare command line options and arguments. I expected already templates, but some of the generated code looks strange:

static VISIT_STRUCT_CONSTEXPR const int max_visitable_members = 69;
https://github.com/p-ranav/structopt/blob/master/single_incl...
> You'd have to actually craft real-time continuous assessments for each subject that fit each subject

Which sounds like continuous, standardised, externally applied examination. Leaves rather little room for individuality in teaching techniques or pace...

> How it currently works is that these types of assessments are treated as second class citizens which i guess was really my frustration.

In as much as these things exist at all, they are part of the teaching method and aren't in any way standardised.

I'm not saying your proposal is wrong, but it would lead to a much more rigid system.
URU Card – Arduino FIDO2 authenticator has reached important milestone
And based on Click for maximum interoperability with existing modules!
You could do that if you wanted to use git submodules as a sort of poor man's package manager.

But given that it's a header-only library, you can also just download the files, put them in your repo somewhere, and #include them.
I have a more crackpot theory. Maybe intelligence is one reason (some revenue there?) but business is a second reason.

For years, they depended on a variety of pressures to get people to upgrade to new OS's. First there's the whole office/client/server version dependency graph including CALs and DCs to force businesses to upgrade whole swaths. And of course bug fixes: why fix in a current version when they can tell you it's fixed in future, go buy that? Psychology.

Then there's malware. Why would they sit by for around years (McAffe came out in 98!) watching the market get super-saturated with sketchy malware products and ignore security so badly? I think it's the same as above: upgrade now hoping it got fixed in the next new shiny. It's a human flaw.

This makes me want to scream to closed source lovers. Why do you put yourself in this position? Open source users can audit and fix it themselves, pay someone to do it, chose another fork, or even discuss flaws openly without getting sued (cough oracle cough). Closed source users have no insight, no transparency, and no recourse but to suffer their abuser.
But then how do you know how much of a role Flux is contributing (if at all) to the effectiveness of that routine?
Guessing one of two outcomes correctly 50% of the time is pretty poor.

Guessing one of five outcomes correctly 50% of the time is pretty good.
Indeed she did make a difference in 1975 when her representative fired no other than the Prime Minister.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution...
Drunk people tend to get sick, fight and break things which has a huge public cost.
> I've been hearing loads of reports of kids getting marks way off what was predicted

Why do we need the second set of testing at all if the predictions exist and if the marking is going to be judged against them to the extent we are trusting the prediction over the marking.
> Why didn't Ofqual find some people who understood how stats work, and and ask them for advice?

Because, fundamentally, the current UK government is not interested in scientific evidence or taking advice from experts in an area (c.f. Michael Gove's famous line "people of this country have had enough of experts")
Benford's law doesn't apply to word occurrences. Analyzing word frequencies (1-grams) genereally don't work because it overlooks the order of words. Shuffling the words of this comment doesn't affect 1-gram frequencies yet turns it into gibberish.
"the people" don't kid yourself for a second that cryptocurrencies aren't the purest form of plutarchy. Who owns all the mining power?
There is a Rust RFC for extending Rust's const generics to dependent types.

Part 0 (the minimal const generics) might be stabilized in the near future. Parts 1-3 would hopefully be explored next. Fully dependent types are introduced in part 3: https://github.com/ticki/rfcs/blob/pi-types-ext-2/text/0000-...
I assume not. I am pretty confidnet the whole purpose is for the cells to never grow.

It works by editing cell information. If you let original cells divide there will be more unedited cells. So the eariler in the development you apply modification the more prononuced the effect. I think I read somewhere that they could alter amount of pigmentation by timing application of treatment. So that would fit.

It doesnt work by killing existing cells. Maybe it could work if old cells died and new ones would be edited, so they could gradually replace original ones but I guess its pretty hard to deliver gene editor to so many cells.
They cost more than the rewards.
Are you really dumber or just slower ?

I'm not 20yo quick but with all my newfound limits I don't feel dumber.. actually somehow more efficient (forced economies)
Car thermometers (at least in modern cars) are outside, not inside the car
American high school language programs are really bad. The teachers speak English mostly and there's no real incentive or reason to learn in or out of class because there's nobody you need to communicate with.
I would be interested in finding out who funded the study and wouldn't be surprised with big-pharma behind it. I have been meditating for 7 years now. I would still consider myself an intermediate level meditator. It has literally re-programmed my mind. Having said that, I read the Pali Canon and follow instructions from Buddhist teachers all over the world.
“Letters to a New Developer”, the Book
Computing belongs within the social sciences
Microplastic particles found in human organs by US scientists
I Quit My Job. Here’s How I Planned the Start as an Entrepreneur
Hi! Are you planning on providing an API for it? And when is your expected release?
> Once you use it, you can't go back.

I did and I went back.

It does very little you use night mode everywhere.

It might help with white backgrounds but I remove or avoid those even during daylight.
I do use the 'Eye saver' mode on my smartphone, but only to visually let me know that it's after midnight.
Ever read Zen In The Art of Archery[1]? In it, the author talks about how, when learning a brand new physical practice like archery, at first you just dive in and start doing it without knowing the fundamentals and, truly, how difficult it is. So you're kind of blessed by naivete. But as soon as you choose to learn it the right way, you're immediately sent back to basics and are faced with the fact that you know nothing and are likely the worst you'll ever be at this. But that's a necessary part of the journey.

This happened to me in golf. I was naturally decent at it without ever taking a lesson or watching a video about how to swing. That only got me so far. Now I'm taking lessons and relearning everything. I feel worse at the sport today than I was two years ago. But if I acknowledge the truth in that and push forward, I'll ultimately be much better than I could have been.

Same process with meditation. I've been practicing for 11+ years and right now my practice is pretty challenging. But that comes with the process.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Archery-Eugen-Herrigel/dp/037...
so we had higher temperatures pre 1931?
> The N900 keeps its appeal today because it's fully programmable.

While some of the userspace software has still been developed in the years since Nokia’s abandonment of the phone, the N900's kernel is stuck at an ancient version riddled with security issues, and also the SSL/TLS libraries are outdated. For some years I still used my N900 in airplane mode to listen to music because it had decent sound output on its headphone jack and ran MPD, but I would not recommend connecting an N900 to the internet in this day and age.
It calls ToLower(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Locale name is iv-IV.
I've grown to love OpenBSD recently (and BSDs in general). I started life using Windows all the time, switched to Linux when I went to university, had a fling with Macs for a few years, then almost exclusive with Linux again for years. In the last several years I discovered the BSDSs, and OpenBSD is now my daily driver. It is so beautifully simple. Configuring a secure server is easy. The config files are consistent. It just works.

I highly recommend installing and playing around with it. Like Lisp, even if you don't go permanent with it, the encounter will change how you think and what you expect in terms of elegance from every other system you use.
Are you Australian? Because I'd be a little surprised if you'd be saying that if you had a lot of exposure to our media.. Especially given the quality (or lack thereof) of our mainstream "news" sources, and the fact that this specifically cuts out ABC, SBS or most independent sources...

70% of the commercial media here is controlled by one American company, and perhaps not coincidentally they have a very close relationship with the Government. The Government has literally just given their cable network $40 million dollars over the last few budgets, completely un-tendered and without any reporting requirements or anything, to "help advance women's sport" - even though 75% of Australians aren't subscribers and SBS would be a better venue for such content...
That's exactly how I meant it, FWIW.
Python had a number of similar competitors a few years back, the main one being Perl. Python is better than Perl for certain tasks, the syntax encourages writing more readable code. Personally I like Perl, but if I am doing anything non trivial, Python will give me more maintainable code. Perl has a more expressive syntax, which is both a blessing and a curse.

Then you have PHP, which is (or at least was) an inferior langauge to Python when python started getting popular. Python does more that just web dev. Likewise with Ruby.

Python could easily be described as "better" depending on the task.
I don't think Merkel put political opponents behind bars like Belarusian president (de-facto allowed to be lifetime in the office), or assassinate, like his Russian colleague (lifetime in the office as welll).
OpenBSD does not do KASLR as far as I'm aware.
This article is about temperatures in August.
To allow airlines to fly less people and remain solvent, ticket prices need to rise.

We can't really solve climate change without some industries shrinking massively or even disappearing. I don't know whether airlines are in that category but expecting to fix it without some pretty big changes isn't realistic.
So sticking a thermometer on an umbrella would do the trick?