skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By every account in the extradition hearing, Assange was obsessed with carefully screening the material and copiously considered the costs and moral imperatives in cases when an identifying piece of information had to be included.

The testimony of John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count (which deeply depended on Wikileaks materials to corroborate many illegal civilian deaths in the Iraq war) is particularly clear on this. He had direct knowledge of the processes Assange used, in conjunction with other major news agencies including the New York Times and The Guardian, to redact as much identifiable information as possible, and even revealed significant details about the software they built to do named entity removal and to extract entries from dictionaries and so forth, across tens of thousands of documents.

It is pure myth that Assange lacked careful, discerning effort to redact materials.

As for your response about the DNC emails I think you have it quite backwards. Assange did not destabilize any election or play any role in Trump being elected. The DNC did that by the behavior that the leaked emails revealed.

The DNC members destabilized the election and created uncertainty and outrage that Trump capitalized on. The DNC members and officials did that, not Assange.

Assange reported it.
The fact that you have to say “perhaps... perhaps... perhaps...” when you describe your authoritarian fantasy is all anyone needs to know. One does not need to similarly caveat North Korean or Chinese authoritarianism, you can see the gulags on Google maps.
Have there been human rights and privacy abuses by the US government? Yes. Is our government a bad parody of a dystopian sci-fi movie? Please, let’s keep ourselves grounded in facts.
So why are "mental models" the best way to make intelligent decisions? What other ways to make intelligent decisions exist? The blog post failed to explain that, it largely appears to be marketing material.
Yes, that is the conundrum of modern software engineering.

Companies would like to have people that are flexible and can jump on any language or technology while people have a natural need to sharpen their skills and build upon and enrich their existing knowledge.

Learning the Nth framework or language is neither of those. It's a grind, it's waste and it's always running only to stay in the same place. Programmers instinctually feel this, but the argument of flexibility is persuasive and market success does seem at least to correlate with breadth of skills.

To put it bluntly: many programmers don't give a crap about building successful products or producing value and instead want to become masters at what they do.
A Bluetooth Flaw Leaves Billions of Devices Vulnerable
> "At the beginning of the epidemic we only saw this in a few cases, but this is increasing because a lot more people have now had Covid," he said. "The true death rate is an important thing to know because it gives us an idea of impact. Clearly Covid was having a massive impact in March and April, but we need to know if the disease is now taking the same toll as before.

The logic behind lockdowns and lifestyle restrictions is that cases are rising and the more cases rise the more deaths will occur.

Now we are seeing two things:

The first is increased testing which will in turn lead to increased cases which will in turn justify the above.

The second is incorrect death numbers which also justify the above. I don't believe there is a sinister motive behind this but none the less it results in the continued justification of the restrictions of liberties.

These two put together create a self-perpetuating loop. They continue to re-enforce each other and allow governments, individuals, and groups to justify control in the name of the virus.
IORef is a pointer to value that can be changed. IORef holds pointer to a value (boxed value) because most Haskell values are lazy.

Please look at unboxed vectors for another example: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.12.1.2/docs/Dat...

You can create an unboxed mutable vector and read and update its elements. Vectors are stored as Structure Of Arrays (Vector (a,b) is transformed into (Vector a, Vector b)) and are very efficient in transformations.

Next to them you can find Storable vectors which allow you to store and update any values that have Storable class instance defined. They are for cases when you need Array Of Structures.

Continuing Vector example, ST monad allows you to create a computation that uses mutation internally and looks pure from outside - do new/read/write and then return freezed array. Apply ST monad runner and you get pure freezed array. IO monad allows you to pass that array between computations of different kind.
> Why the main media/government channels don’t talk about this more is baffling and potentially criminal. Maybe because there’s no money to be made from Vitamin D because there are no patents?

Or perhaps the supplies would run empty if this became big news (?)
I don't think a single build system is necessary or desirable. meson (as well as waf and scons) depends on python, which is not so nice for bootstrapping. Thus desktop applications and low level userspace plumbing could benefit from different build systems.

That said, I hope waf and scons die off soon (only a handful of packages even use them). CMake and Meson are much better choices.
"Violence is the foundation of law" is something I read in some philosophy of law books. I think it is in HLA Hart's or someones. While parroting the rule of law to the submissive, the rulers (or the beneficiaries of the current law regime) will hide the foundations of the existing law regime.
I you put it behind WireGuard, why use SSH? Why not simply use telnet instead? And use FTP for file transfers.
I’m going to sit in my little corner of the world and wish hg and qmake had won... while learning all of the other ways to generate Makefiles
Ask HN: Why Facebook requires login to view public pages?
I'm not a hardcore Facebook user. There are some pages I visit regularly without logging in just navigating there via browser and reading the posts.
Starting from today all pages require login, including many pages I tried from news sites to car manufacturers. Even facebook.com/facebook behaves this way.
Does anyone know the reason, and whether it is a permanent or temporary change? Is the any relation with the design upgrade?
I'm from Hungary.
Thank you.
I do think we should think about passing out personal CO2 alarms now and in the future. The problem would be calibration like you said and cost for a new unit.
Don't worry Twitter already suspended her account, all good. Just keep going and smile
Isn't an interesting aspect of VLIW CPUs, that they don't use branch prediction and hence are not susceptible to SPECTRE class of security vulnerabilities? I'm actually surprised that not more is made out of that. Afaics, only Secure64 is tooting that horn: https://secure64.com/2018/01/08/secure64-dns-family-not-subj...
I agree this would be cool, and the good news is that systems close to meeting your wishes already exist today.

However, Precursor is more about evidence-based hardware security, and less about features and usability. To better understand the principles behind Precursor's design, please have a look at https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates....

The TL;DR is that it's a development platform for applications that strongly require secure and/or trustable hardware.
I feel like if you close with "only 20% slower than make" you can't justify the title "is not slow."

20% is a pretty huge margin for large builds, which I wouldn't consider using make for in the first place. CMake + Ninja has shaved enormous amounts of time off my builds from make, so why should I use something that's even slower?
What about buying vitamin D3 and ending this stupid discussion?
You don’t seem to understand how dangerous concentrated authority can be
Because they own the network and they want to track you. Expect it to get progressively worse before Facebook finally implodes.
A properly designed ABI is capable of expansion. The design risk is not so much being backed into a corner, as just accumulating a great deal of obsolete cruft over the years/decades.

Win32 is a great example of this. It has been extensively overhauled, and best practice for writing a new application today is quite different from 25 years ago, but unmodified Windows 95 applications still usually run correctly.
As for a lot of studies, what sticks to me is they were all done on students.

In a sense, they take notes all day long so they are an interesting subject. On the other hand they are taking notes related to an external source, and not of stuff they are thinking by themselves or content anchored in a process other than passing a test.

I took notes by hand at school and take only digital notes now that I am working. While I respect the research done, I can’t help but feel that there’s something missing.

Intuitively, I can’t imagine that content that comes from my own brain that I am formatting into notes has a completely different retention rate depending on wether I type it or write it. Especially as I have no time pressure to think about what I’ll write.

Basically, would I remember this comment better if I wrote it on a post’it ? Id really like a study on this, and not students at school.
Physical involvement is probably diffusing stimuli in many many parts of our brains. Because anything kinetic was extremely important to our lives. Probably creates symbolic memories coupled with musculoskeletal ones.
> It is not just another tool , it is the tool that is closest to hardware evolution.

This is an open source library that meets the C++ standard, which is designed and contributed to by many companies, not just nvidia. Like AMD and Intel, Nvidia does release some proprietary things that your complaints might apply to, but this is not one of them.
The use is transitive, so “shined” is correct. “Shone” is the past tense of the intransitive form of “shine”. See, https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/U...
I have the first iteration of it and it is very very nice in terms of feel but I found it impacted screen quality more than I could tolerate. I believe this has improved in later versions and I’m somewhat tempted to try one of the current ones. I was really torn when I took it off, it does feel like paper and it even feels nicer with your hands not just the pencil, at the time it really damaged colour accuracy and also made the screen look like it was composed of rainbow crystals, it had a tiny prism effect on every element of the matte surface.
Yes I made a dumb. oops.
Ask HN: Would you work two full-time remote programming jobs?
I’m currently working one full-time remote programming job at a large company. I’ve been here a few years and while I have good relationships with my co-workers, I don’t with management. I feel they are ineffective, weak, and willing to throw you under the bus to save their own hides. The work is uninteresting and I am learning little.

I accepted an offer at a smaller company for 25% less money that I believe will have more enjoyable work and a better work environment.

Over beers, a couple friends said I should just stay at my current large company, do the bare minimum to get by (roughly 2 hours/day), and keep raking in that check as long as I can.

The upsides to doing this:

- I would be making very good money, similar to a senior engineer at FAANG. (I also live outside the Bay Area, so that money would go pretty far).

- The excitement of doing something mischievous, leading a double life, sticking it to the man etc.

The potential downsides:

- Getting burnt out when the large company does require more work, or just from the stress of managing two jobs.

- Getting “found out” and potentially fired from one or both jobs. (I don’t really care if I get fired from large co, but I do care about the new job.)

- The reputation fall-out and disappointment to people I care about (current co-workers, new co-workers).

- Lost opportunity cost to work on my own things or just relax and stay fresh.

Has anybody ever done something like this before or are currently doing this? How did it go/what would you have done differently?
I lived in Saudi for a time in the 90s too.

The censors with their felt tip pens clearly had a variety of artistic talent. I found myself choosing from various censorings of Nirvana's Nevermind which had the cover with the naked baby.

Some had a blocked out rectangle, some were scribbled on, some just blocked out the silhouette of the baby. I settled on one which had neatly drawn on a pair of swimming trunks!

Seems like another life now.
I’ve slowly come to realise those two goals to note taking (after wasting a lot of time trying to find the one true solution).

So I now use a notebook and flashcards for bits I want to remember and org mode for anything searchable.
Strange that the author does not mention Japan's greatest visual artist, who by his own (and others') reckoning only became truly great in his old age. Although there are many examples of great artists who do great, and novel, work late in life, I cannot think of another major artist who peaked that late.

From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before.

Unfortunately he only made it to 90.
Distributed Task Processing Using Celery
FOSS build systems are https://xkcd.com/927/ on repeat.
Unless you autoclave your house (and yourself before you enter it), your environment will not be anywhere near sterile.

This must be the third time these days when I see someone claim that cleanliness is harmful... where do you get this idea from?
Sounds interesting but sadly paywalled :(
This is all very sad, but it's not clear to me how it's supposed to relate to any religious denomination's actual sense of morality. It's true that Jesus himself has told us, "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law - a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’" However what he means to say here is that even good Christians will sometimes have to endure rejection, persecution and being disowned by their families. Christian morality however has always advocated for acceptance.
The headline is too linkbaity for my taste. The idea is simple: Apply a mixture of multiple affine transformations, e.g., weighted by Softmax attention, instead of just a single affine transformation, to renormalize the data. The use of attention likely increases running time both in training and testing. See also Datenstrom's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24528468
Ask HN: What are people using for remote screen control these days?
Looking for something simple, preferably without registration where I can control a family member's screen.

What are HNs using these days?
"The effects of high-dose cyanide on mortality in lab mice" will establish a very strong correlation, with an impressive effect size.

I suppose inferring causality still requires a leap of faith...
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=Why+Facebook+requires+login+to+view+pu...

See the second link shown above: https://www.facebook.com/help/537592652938493
the Leviathan Chronicles is extremly well made. after years of hiatus currently the third season is airing.
Is there any evidence that it's the vitamin D that gives these benefits and not other co-factors like for example healthy people are more likely to be outside and therefore have more vitamin D in their blood and so on? As far as I know (which admittedly is very little) the jury is still out on this.
On the foolishness of “natural language programming” (1979)
I've had a brief but successful experience with QAWolf (https://www.qawolf.com/), which is built on Playwright (last I checked)
I wonder what changes to effect size we might see between writing on paper and writing on a tablet.
For a non-mythical example, the 2nd-gen Buick LaCrosse was originally named Allure in the Canadian market. Se crosser is Quebec French slang for "to masturbate" and "la crosse" is also a slang term for a swindle or rip-off.
Conservatives’ Supreme Court Dreams Move Closer to Reality
An 8 in the Bay area, or a 9 in Seattle, what would that do?
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/09/18/falling-in-love-with-...
You forgot to mention the elephant murder [1]. At best, they're a company with extremely questionable ethics. It's entirely understandable that HN wouldn't question one more example of shady practices from godaddy.

https://science.time.com/2011/04/04/godaddy-ceo-on-shooting-...
Script to test vulnerable domain controllers here: https://github.com/SecuraBV/CVE-2020-1472
Any blogging services that feel like pre-monetization Medium?
Hi HN,

I am looking for a social blogging platform that works like Medium used to. I used to write articles for fun which would be algorithmically circulated and sometimes get over 100k reads. I don’t have a following but enjoy writing, and it was really cool to see my posts be enjoyed by other people. I also enjoyed reading a feed of articles from other people, it was like a more serious old Tumblr.

However, Medium is now about selling your work. This isn’t a problem, it’s just not for me. Is there any good social blogging platform in existence?
It demonstrates the logical fallacy - if it's an arbitrary classification, as you say, how can those blood test groupings be accurate? They can, at best, be arbitrary
I think this is a marketing problem, where selling the 3080 at $1200 would hurt future sales once supply meets demand, even if the price is lowered later. Maybe the optimizing solution would be something (awful) like a car dealership where the price is negotiable based on volatile local factors.

As a complete layperson when it comes to economics, I’m curious if someone has extensively analyzed ‘market value’ vs MSRP over the lifecycle of a product rollout and come up with a workable formula for calculating the optimal price.
The 'McConnell Rule' is law (2018)
With libcu++, Nvidia is not saying how or when software should be written. Because the library is meeting the C++ standard, it does exactly what you said you want, it allows any developer to write code for any GPU (or CPU!) The library is doing the thing you‘re asking for. AMD & Intel can support the same code with only namespace changes, using their own version, because it’s open and written to the open standard.
Tech Stack to Build Cloud-Native, Scalable Software Products
Leveraging the authority of LinkedIn influencers for B2B
We did the same but with CS 1.6 in incredibles 64 MB!
Seriously, the lack of awareness that pretty much every year is the best year in human history* is rather depressing. Pair that with the coming end of extreme poverty, extraterrestrial habitation, and a non-infinitesimal chance of experiencing radical life-extension (whether through neurotechnological methods such as WBE, or cell-targeting microbiology), it's clear that Gen A/B (is generation naming modular?) will be excellent generations to be born into.

* Except maybe this year, which is an anomaly.
Title says 'from Linux', but the README says 'Linux / *BSD / macOS' under 'Requirements'.

How would this work on macOS?
https://www.mayflowerpub.co.uk/

One of the best pubs in London if you are in the area. Never disappoints.
Well, I should have searched HN Algolia first I guess, because I found https://screen.so and that looks pretty sweet.. will give that a go..
How did you arrive at 25mcg (1000 IU)?
No harm, I'm just not that interested in that kind of stuff it seems.
Thank you for your valuable contribution.

Please read the question again.
It's not about my page, it's about all pages.
This is the way I think about Linkedin: It’s not really about networking. Most fruitful networking take place on other places. It’s mostly a way for recruiters to find people. The modern equivalent of a Rolodex. Which can be good for people who might want to get in touch with a recruiter that has something to offer them. (Some people don’t want do be contacted by recruiters and for those people Linkedin probably doesn’t have so much to offer.)
What a great story and an amazing person. It's always nice to read about someone who was genuinely a good person. I especially liked the quote: “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.”
"US government is the most noble customer in history"

Noble people don't kidnap and don't torture people[0]

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24522378
> Hardly been discredited.

In 2015, psychoanalyst Bradley Peterson, who is also a child psychiatrist and director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said: "I think most people would agree that psychoanalysis as a form of treatment is on its last legs."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/tell-it-about-yo...

Not really singing its praises.

> Nobel Laureat Eric Kandel wrote in the 90's

Sure and Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman said:

> If you look at all of the complicated ideas that they have developed in an infinitesimal amount of time, if you compare to any other of the sciences how long it takes to get one idea after the other, if you consider all the structures and inventions and complicated things, the ids and the egos, the tensions and the forces, and the pushes and the pulls, I tell you they can't all be there. It's too much for one brain or a few brains to have cooked up in such a short time.
Solved: No, GoDaddy did not steal your domain name
A few days ago someone posted a post where someone complaint about getting their domain name stolen by GoDaddy after they search for it on their site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506303

GoDaddy then posted a response to it.

https://www.godaddy.com/garage/godaddy-felons-io-unregistered-domain/

There they point out that they use past searches to give recommendations for other people that are searching for a domain.

Guess what, the recommendation engine is making it more likely that the domain name you searched for gets taken by someone else. It is not GoDaddy but ,inadvertently, it's the recommendation algorithm they use to help their customers. An unintended consequence. SOLVED!
I would like to point out the limitations of the linked paper (you can follow along in the discussion section of the paper). Hopefully this can generate enough discussion on how to better design studies like this in the future:

1. Statistically significant difference in patients with documented hypertension in the no-vitamin-d group (p value 0.002, 15 vs 11 patients)

2. 2:1 randomization, reducing statistical power. They do not document the sample size needed from a power analysis looking for power > 0.80. They basically assumed that twice as many people without vitamin D would end up in ICU, when in reality 13x as many people ended up ICU. In general, I wish we could have a larger sample size for studies like this, but I know it isn't practical.

3. Biggest for me is no baseline serum vitamin D level recorded, just an assumption that patients selected were overall vitamin D deficient based on population. Seems like a simple enough test that could have been run as a send out test (no need to have the level during hospitalization, just for data gathering purposes).

4. Not placebo controlled, would have helped as placebo effect is real. For all we know, giving the research medication could have meant that the patient received more care and supervision, potentially aiding in their hospital course.
Unifying around a single thing is not something FOSS likes to do.