skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You made me think about this we want system that assigns a judge, but can't be manipulated. I actually think it's possible with our current cryptographic tool box. This just a quick thought off the top of my head, I might have missed a case or a weakness.

Cases normally are assigned a case number anyways already. So lets start from case number 0.

First lets choose a nothing up my sleeve number. Let say like the fractional part of the PI with the bit length of some secure hash function. We can treat this case -1 or the initial state.

The plaintiff and defendant each generate a private and public key pair. They then give each other their public keys. The plaintiff and defendant each sign the what will become the previous state with their private key. XOR the the two signatures together and then hash the XOR-ed signatures. This gives the new state. We then take this new state and take it to the modulus for the number judges. Just repeat this for each case new case.

Neither the plaintiff nor the defendant should be able to directly influence who their judge is in this system. Also both can verify that other party performed a proper signature. Although there could be gotchas depending on the underline primitives from hash function to signing algorithm.
You need to back that number up with real facts, as this article is regarding the PHE handling of reporting.
Controversial in United States because americans don't like to read the writing on the wall
>There is a multiple cursors plugin for vim that I use; it's a bit clunky at times, but it does the job. How is kakoune's multiple cursors support better than that? How cool is it, so to speak?

I haven't used the vim plugin but if vim commands work on each selection that probably gets you half way. Kakoune additionally provides 's' and 'S' commands to sub select down from your selection iteratively. you might select all words, then select the _ in each word, delete the character and hit ~ to capitalize the next character to convert a selection of words in snake_case to camelCase. I think it's cool.

>Btw the reason I haven't tried kakoune yet is that the command is `kak`, which means 'shit' in my native language, Dutch.

I've actually heard this either on a forum, mailing list or a github issue at least once, lol. It's unfortunate.
Sqlite is a bit of a special case, in my eyes. It's so ubiquitous that it's probably already installed somewhere on the average machine, just not as a top-level application.

Of course, there's a bit of a gap between "it's there on the machine" and "we can rely on it for useful work", but baby steps...
The world is welcome to compete with American tech, and has been trying very hard at it for quite a long time.
yeah that was the point - less guarantees that something works forever means less maintenance. in the current world the balance is with leaner stdlibs because discovery and acquisition of external libraries is so simple.
I would say no, accurate science does not lead to a good story. But I would also say a lot of people who are into writers like Greg Egan really are not there for the story. I just want to see some excellent and plausible speculative science.
This 1000%. I'm both an ex-ruby dev, and a current C# / F# guy. Ruby is great for throwing things together and installing a load of functionality through Gems. It's 3 years later when your trying to maintain and refactor that it all comes back to bite. RubyMine does help so you can at least do rename refactorings most of the time.
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In the above post, there are a few things I should have mentioned but didn't as they should be understood without saying them. Nevertheless, hindsight suggests that I need to state the obvious.

The school lab experiment I've described above was both dangerous and unofficial in that it was not sanctioned or supervised by a qualified teacher and I would strongly suggest no one attempts it (or anything similar). Moreover, these days, in many jurisdictions it will likely be unlawful†. My message is do not try it both for your own safety and that in this hypersensitive, overly-political world you will draw the ire of others!

† Back then—decades ago in much simpler times—this would not have been the case for small lab quantities although it likely would have drawn the ire of the chemistry teacher—not so much because of the material's intrinsic dangers—as then, there were many dangerous chemicals that were both commonly available and easily obtainable without authority (and that are now no longer available)—but rather because he'd have deemed we'd not have had sufficient experience to do it safely.
Not even Excel uses that syntax when exporting to CSV (at least by default).
I think this depends on if you are talking about figuring out what contract a company had some time ago (say 18 months), or if you talk about the current default value. The last one should be very easy to find in the code and if you are migrating to a new system the information should be transferred in some way.
For historical things you obviously has to store the data somewhere and then just figure out a nice way to do that. In this case it could just be a table of default contracts with some fields and a startdate. Then you can query for any point in the past and get the default contract that was active at that point.
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While that could be true, it wouldn't point to the root cause. There exists a limit to how fast an area can physically develop by modern construction speeds and government permitting procedures, orthogonal to the area's willingness to develop. It's possible that 600k population Boise area is unable to build as fast as California's 700k yearly exodus would like to be accommodated.
I work in an office that relies way too much on Excel.

To consider your solution, first showstopper, it needs a server. We don't have a server, nor anyone who knows how to manage one. We'd need to ask IT, that will take months and they'll require a budget transfer, so we'd need to request it to management (which will need a business case to convince) and involve the finance guys. We can't just plug a RaspberryPi into the wall, not only that would get me fired, but also it wouldn't be able to connect to anything without the company's certificates for the proxy or whatever.

Second, we need people who can code in PHP (and their backups when they leave). Probably in practice we'd need IT to do that, so that's more months and budget required.

Obviously anything stored in the cloud is out of the question, just the authorizations and contracts to do that would take a year.

So in the end it ends up as a shared spreadsheet.
Idk, it’s a $300 high end speaker and they could have made it more useful with one simple universal jack. Someone is going to spend all that money and then need a second speaker because of the missing jack. The smart features should add to the device without taking away IMO. I mean it’s just crazy to me. She had $600 worth of speakers with great sound and we could not hook up our own source. It meant that they couldn’t actually be the only speakers she had and significantly reduced their overall value to us. Apple loves to do that I know, but it is a very opinionated design choice and it’s not for me.
I fail to see anything in your reply that disputes anything OP said
I can only speak for myself, but the meetings that previously seemed mysterious when I was an IC, are those around organisational objectives, resourcing, budgets, supplier management, alignment with other departments (Product, DCO, Infosec, Legal), catchups with my direct reports, technology department objectives etc.
So easy to pass judgement on critical software decisions from the outside, with absolutely no knowledge of how they work or their training, the pressure from Government, the previous conditions that they found themselves in when a pandemic hit.

Who are "they"? The Government? GDS? PHE? NHS England? NHS Digital? NHSx?
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> they know that without legal provisions technology can make it impossible to access communication during legitimate police investigations

> How do we solve this problem?

It's called a search warrant.
> What? I can’t see it being a good invention driver for anything other than the category of “tools for lazy people”. How was the invention of the OLED driven by laziness? How about the high bypass turbofan?

It's proven that "doing nothing" helps with creative thinking. The inventions you are talking about are a product of both hard work and laziness.

You can't solve a problem by staring at your screen and thinking really, really hard for 10 hours. The solution will come to you a few hours later during a shower or a walk.

> "tools for lazy people"

1) From the biological standpoint all tools are for lazy people. Lazy animals spend less resources, which in turn could be used for creating more lazy animals.

2) Our brain is wired to be lazy. This impacts both how we approach problems (form stronger neural pathways or move between system I and system II to use D. Kahneman's example) and how we avoid them (e.g. cognitive biases)

3) The distinguishing feature of humans as animals is that we create tools and become dependent on them.

On a less serious note, I'd say that 90% of my programming work is driven by laziness.

For instance, I test things in advance or design them in a certain way so I don't need to worry about them in the future.

This allows me for focus on more challenging problems. These at some point become boring chores. So "I test things in advance or design them in a certain way so I don't need to worry about them in the future." Rinse and repeat.
I hope you don't watch telly in your apartment; you should take that to a public park.
> Nespresso didn't really invent the concept of coffee (or tea) rituals though

Obviously not, but they did successfully weaponize the essence of those rituals as marketing artillery. There's probably not much overlap between "people who buy Nespresso machines" and "people who really care about great coffee," but they're able to make the first group feel like they're in that club.
Not cheap nor easy

They are incredibly annoying

But are funny

That's why people keep them

(I got two)

Edit: if they can roam freely they are also a threat to many other life forms and bio diversity
Are we doing it correctly with diversity? what is about?
They claim "pay a low price for an ad-free experience", but what is the price?
I agree with most of what you outlined there.

The only thing I wanted to highlight was the antitrust arguments against tech and the culture war arguments are most certainly different things even though many of the partisans like to talk about each as though it was a single coherent argument.

When I think about all of the people who stand to benefit by making these issues one and the same I am not exactly left with a group of people I would want to find myself defending.
the power on self test includes a check to determine if he’s a copy. failing that check is so traumatic the only coping mechanism is to create a new identity. each new identity extends some prototype that was known to bob prime. it’s like how smashing the same cup again and again would break in similar but different ways.
And how about this one: an Excel error was the cause for much unnecessary austerity after the 2008 financial crisis, costing potentially tens (hundreds?) of billions in lost output.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel...
To be clear, the river can divide, too. That's speciation, where populations no longer interbreed because their offspring are either unviable or themselves cannot produce offspring.
I am not a fan of earpod form factor at all but Jabra's wireless earphones are rated better by many sites like Wirecutter and at least I find the sound quality of Jabra much better.
First time I saw it was in Smalltalk-80 collections, .NET was yet to be invented:

(#(1 2 3 4 5 6) select:[:e | x isPrime]) collect: [:e | 2 * e]
Thank you for mentioning that alternative, that looks very interesting indeed. May I ask how you sent money to bitwarden? By subscribing?

Your comment on OTP makes a lot of sense. I personally use Aegis from F-droid from OTP (moved from AndOTP), which I quite like.
So now who will be the next U.S. president?
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It doesn't even necessarily have to "work" (as in, work well) it just has to feel like it's the path least resistance.

You can work in a department using Excel for this type of data collection and reporting, and you can continuously suggest to your superior that something more mature could be used. They would probably agree. As would the entire team!

But if the team of analysts are only properly trained in this system and it's all they know coupled with a huge backlog of cases and time pressures, then they're going to keep using the thing that causes least headaches in the short term. And that might be objectively worse to everyone involved but they just keep ploughing through.

Toxic culture, bad management, poor working practises and external pressures can force even the most sane of people to choose the worst technology on the basis that they perceive it as "saving time" in the short term, even when they know full well they're borrowing Peter to pay Paul, they still do it.
Noise during the day isn't unreasonable
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Worrying about and preparing for ever more elusive contingencies can be poison in itself. Kafka's short story "The bunker" pictures this state of mind very well.
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I've also noticed this. It seema to be especially common amongst proponents of capitalism:

>> 21st century capitalism a wealth concentration problem

> No you're wrong because communism is terrible.
Now we need something like Left for Dead for npm packages :) /s
This is tight! Picture-in-Picture meet with docs sounds incredible for all those times when you have to work on a doc together with a teammate. The integration with chat looks okay but I doubt it's enough to displace Slack from our workspace. For all of Google's faults, Docs is still the best way to collaborate on documents, and I'm glad they're pushing this further.
Thanks for pointing this out, as well as a few other sibling posters. That makes sense, though I hope that, as Rust doesn't seem too afraid of deprecating features, it will keep the language a bit leaner in the long run, when it will have stabilized even more. Of course, that comes at a cost, if the language isn't 100% forward-compatible.
> intellectual enough to possibly participate in the international debate mentioned above

Non-intellectual people can and do question white privilege stuff in the United States, saying that you have to be "intellectual enough" to have that type of conversation sounds very classist to me (am not native English speaker, maybe that's a better word for it).

That Lebanese population will most probably not be labeled as "white" in most of the Anglo world, first of all in the United States, while South Africa is only one country among many dozens of African countries (I choose to ignore white presence in Zimbabwe because Mugabe). There is indeed a sizeable French expat community in many African countries but they are afraid of physically getting out of their bubbles, usually located in a posh district in the respective country's capital city. My friend (also French) was not afraid of getting out of that bubble hence his direct interactions with people who had almost never interacted directly with a white person before.
I found these kind of observations interesting.
Just a note, maybe it would have help you to avoid the downvotes if you had quotations on "Adam" and "Eve"
It's all about speed and efficiency.

A 3D environment might be the most intuitive one in the long run but it will never be faster because you either are moving through 3D space just to manipulate a virtual object, or you're waving your hands around in AR/VR space to manipulate virtual objects.

While on the other side I'm simply moving my fingers and hands swiftly across a small surface to perform the same action.
Let's not forget it has no bluetooth which means no android and no windows. Pathetic.
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Most countries capable of doing that already have similar or even stricter laws. In a few decades there will be no country in the world that doesn't do something like this. It's over, the privacy war is already lost
Was it really a manual process? I read it as some system importing info automatically.

And if it was manual I am surprised that Excel did not complain about adding more than 65000 rows (or saving more than 65000 rows as XLS). If a user gets a warning about possible data loss they should investigate more.
yes it is appropriate because it's a failure.
That is an interesting point. In Hinduism there's some mythology around astronomical cycles that have similar spans to those mentioned in Bible. I've a far-out theory that Bible is actually referring to the same cycles.

Side track: there's a serious argument that parts of Bible are translated pretty badly (which puts into perspective people quoting it verbatum). I've been told of a specific example where (excuse the paraphrasing) Eve is said to emerge from the side of Adam, as in from the interior of his torso, and it's popularly taken to be a metaphor. Some interpret it to mean that a woman is somehow a byproduct of man, and thus lesser. Anyway, someone actually took up checking the translation and concluded that it's not that Eve emerged from Adam's side, but that she emerged at his side, as in stood by him. Going by what's written in a super old book that's been translated and altered many many times is, well, adventurous.
Not necessarily affecting software developed outside the US, but most likely if your non-US company has communications in your app and US customers, you'll be screwed. For consumers, vice versa with using apps from FAANG since your communications will now be affected by nonsense US laws. This is of course unless the big companies want to split their apps into US & Worldwide versions, which is probably not happening and would cause other forms of feature drift if they did so.
The effect only occurs if the elements are small enough, so in fullscreen they are probably too large. You can step away from your screen a bit and you'll see the effect as well in fullscreen.

As far as I understand, the effect is caused by the fact that the fovea has a much higher resolution (of bright light) due to its higher density of cones. At a certain size, the fovea is still able to make out details of the elements, but the rest of the retina can not. Thus they are detected as rotating in the fovea area, but not outside (since it's basically just a colored lump there. We still perceive the outside ones as stars (and not just color lumps) because the brain interpolates them that way due to previously perceived information.

Under low light conditions, i.e. when rods would be the main means of vision, an opposite effect can be observed: We are mostly blind in the fovea area due to the lack of rods there. This manifests as objects showing more detail at night when looking slightly past them.
Persistent data structures already solved this issue.
It's tech media shorthand for "we just noticed this, but we're not sure when it actually happened"
Apple has already stated (with regards to China) that they will respect the laws of the nation they are offering service in. So while they put up a constant assault against privacy invading moves in the US, they handed chicom the keys to iCloud with zero pushback.

If this passes you can be sure anything digital is no longer safe from alphabet agencies. Sadly the younger generation has no concern for privacy and the older generation likely has no clue their data is being siphoned. Advocates are too much of a minority to make a difference.
Australia unfortunately has a lot of catching up to do infrastructure wise. Every project becomes politicised, initially under funded, ends up going over cost, key roles get outsourced. We missed the infrastructure boom that other countries had post WW2 so now we look like we're falling behind. Motorways that the US had in the 70s are only just being constructed in some of our major cities.
It is possible to change the DNA of a cell to make changes in protein expression. There are several methods, some low cost like using a virus vector [0], some much more complex and costly. See for example the Astrazeneca candidate vaccine [1] which creates spike-specific antibodies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectors_in_gene_therapy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Vaccine_candi...
I am getting "smart" technology fatigue. I want old fashion technology, mechanical, analog. Whiteboard, Pen and Pencil, Dump TV.
Those bent wrists are *screaming" carpel tunnel.
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When I tried `set inccommand=split` in neovim it would sometimes freeze the editor, even when substituting regular-sized files (several Kb), so I had to deactivate it. Granted that this was some time ago, so it might have been improved with recent versions.

To me however multiple selections are not Kakoune's strongest point. It's the fact that in Kakoune you "first select, then modify", while in vim you go "action first, then subject".

Putting the subject first allows for a more visual experience in general - in Kakoune you can always "see what's going to happen" before it happens, because the object is always highlighted. The multiple cursors thing is just a manifestation of this approach. In Vim the experience is more "opaque" - you type some commands in normal mode and suddenly the text changes. As a result Kak is less prone to "accidental edits" like I get in Vim from time to time.

I've heard that some people "abuse" on Vim's Visual mode to get over this limitation. But that feels like a kludge to me. And it doesn't solve the accidental edits.
There might have been multiple separated inbreeding groups. Yes these groups are related among themselves but not inter-group.
Calling it an art does not make it less cruel. That something is lucrative does not mean it's nice (ask slavery victims). Please consider not buying animal products, you can easily do without it. Thank you.
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I don't get it. The @Configuration and @Bean annotations are at least 100 times more readable and powerful than whatever garbage people used to write into their xml files to define beans. 20 lines of xml are often equivalent to like 8 lines of Java and each of those Java lines is shorter than the xml equivalent. Repeating closing tags is not very interesting.
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