skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Debunking things before investigating them is not good journalism.

The NYP doesn't appear to have investigated them though. And they don't seem keen on providing access for other people to investigate the authenticity - as people have pointed out, it would be trivial to prove the email authenticity given the DKIM headers. Yet they remain stubbornly absent from the story, no?

> The evidence for the story, at this point, seems at least plausible

It doesn't even pass a simple smell test - who drives cross-country to drop off their laptop at a cheap repair shop and then doesn't pick it up? Another smell test - you have a bunch of emails that you could trivially prove are authentic but for some reason you're avoiding doing that.
Been living with a rare neuromuscular disease since birth. Might kill me early, might not.

I've learned to cope with it in hundreds of ways, just like people cope with their career in hundreds of ways, or their kids, or their marriage. It's a central faucet of my life. It's destructive as hell to shove it aside and try to "forget about" all the small, daily issues.

So I've learned to co-exist with it by doing the following:

--Like another poster mentioned, pay attention to the little things. Sleep, exercise, diet, stress levels. Treat your body like a spoiled little princess, and it'll be less likely to throw a fit.

--Stay away from online "support groups" for chronic illness. 99% of them are toxic as hell, especially the "spoonie" community. Instead, seek out people who have chronic illness and are living the sort of life you want. Develop individual friendships with them, and learn from them.

--Educate the people around you. The stigma of chronic illness is generally less than the stigma of "that person who you can sometimes depend on, but then randomly blows deadlines, and appears to be hungover all the time."

If you're in a safe environment, talk to your boss. Talk to your coworkers. Tell them what's up, don't leave them guessing, because they're not going to guess something you like.

If you're not in a safe environment, GTFO as soon as possible, salary be damned.

--Educate yourself as well. Not knowing is the most stressful thing, and you can mitigate a lot of that stress by developing more knowledge of your disease. Try to avoid anecdotal evidence (random forum posts, ect), and stick to respected journals and textbooks.

--Advocate for yourself. I was misdiagnosed six times before they finally figured out my issue. If I hadn't demanded further testing, I would most likely be dead at the moment. (This is another area where educating yourself really pays off.)

--Choose a supportive partner. If they treat you like a hypochondriac, or aren't sympathetic to your issues, then get out.

(On a similar note, don't believe anyone who says chronic illness kills any hope of relationships. I have a fantastic partner, and have many chronically ill friends who do as well.)

--Keep a detailed diary of your symptoms and your daily activities, even when you're feeling good. This will help you figure out what helps, what doesn't, and what your tolerance levels are for activities, exercise, medications, ect.

--Stay on top of medical developments related to your disease, and reach out to any trials that may benefit you.

I could add a hundred other things to this list, but I think those are the important ones.

So yeah. Keep fighting the good fight. Again, and again, and again, and again.

(Edit: Took out some identifying info.)
100% agree about ending periods. I always read those messages as being irritated or overly firm. Potentially worse, though, are people who have a habit of abusing ellipses (...) in weird places. My boss does this in virtually every sentence, sometimes multiple times, and it always comes off like he can't believe you'd say something so stupid
Have you considered the possibility that it's because Apple (like Huawei and Qualcomm) have a profit motive to make you to buy a new phone on regular basis even if you're satisfied with your existing one, and Google doesn't?
> I bought a work desk that would scratch from moving a monitor on it and has wear marks from resting my hands.

And I'm working on a desk that I picked up 15 years ago and it's still in great condition even after daily use.

With IKEA you get what you pay for. If you want quality IKEA furniture, you can get it. But it won't be that cheap.
Every time I see an article with a heading like this I just rename the headline to something like this (especially since the last few paragraphs of the article contradict the headline):

"Why clickbait journalism might be obsolete by 2030".

There, now I'm happier.
That's what I thought the title meant (electron density).
It made more sense when I followed some other links in this discussion. Read this:

Hey.

Or this exchange:

Statement: We got the tickets for tonight!
Response: Yay.

It comes off as very flat or dry. Unenthused. A plain "Yay" with no punctuation would be better here. I wonder if this is the context that we're missing and others aren't providing, because I almost always use punctuation, including periods, in my messages. No one has ever complained. But with short messages, like these, I would never use a period. For full sentences, however, I can't think of any occasion outside being rushed where I wouldn't end it with a period.
> There might be better ways to introduce pi other than the ration of the circumference of a circle to it's radius.

Sure, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter ;-)
Lots of historians consider programmable looms to be the first computers, even though they're not Turing-complete.

Cellular automation is Turing-complete, but is not a program.

Turing-complete is a fun thing to talk about in college theory classes, but has limited practical use outside of academia.
I can tell you from experience I don’t have joints in certain parts of my body. You have no choice but to tough it out given no choice.
It means that the plasma itself is traveling faster than sound waves would in that plasma. That it is not very dense doesn't change much here.
Scientific programmer on the subject of Internet architecture renovation
That's a nonsense statement. There is no technical achievement, it's no breakthrough in any relevant technical sense. Sorry to get technical, but you called it.

I'm not dismissing the demo, mind. It's a great feat of engineering and its main achievement, that is creative, surely thrives from a technical esthetic.

Using system libraries has to be put into perspective, for sure. The common wisdom (in sizecoding at least) is that creativity thrives from constraints. Necessarily then, one has to be aware of the constraints.

One might say having to write in .js is extreme masochism, so the criticizm about .dlls is just one side of the equation. Browser bugs and all that. no, thanks.
I'd love to hear an actual study on this kind of phenomenon. For some reason he really triggers people on two primary fronts, his 'monotone' manner of speaking, and the simplistic and philosophical questions he adds to every conversation. There's a third but relatively small cohort that seem to be experiencing some kind of transitive distrust from his previous encounters with Joe Rogan and/or Elon Musk.

I get not liking his or any other podcast. I don't get the need to belittle the dude or enter into some weird conspirational thinking about his motivations.
A "(2002)" should be added to this.
There are special chess engines that don't play the optimal move but instead try to imitate a play style or some other constraint.
Garbage collection should make apps written in Go less memory-leaking and less buggy than those written in C, no?
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?” - George Orwell, 1984
More like evolved, the Pubnix/SDF guys took it and it created something similar but privacy being mandatory with SSL.

On BBS', ssh/telnet synchro.net or gopher cvs.synchro.net.

People is alive and posting well. Ditto with usenet.
Tangentially related to your point - math is an extremely dense subject.

Small little statements with just a few symbols can be LOADED with information - things like complex, meaty definitions for even the most benign terms (e.g., a function), and stuff that can be deduced from it from a million different theorems.

This is part of the reason why it's so easy to fall behind in math. Once you are missing a vital part of information, it can be hard to identify where that gap is and the train just keeps moving and moving.

This was my experience with math, and something that I noticed when I tutored people in some low level math as well.
you can license BSD-licensed files and changes to them as GPL, as BSD is compatible with the GPL as it contains no clause against adding additional restrictions. However, that doesn't magically remove the original license, so you can of course grab the original file and use it under the BSD license.
Instead, we’re feigning shock that the party that wants to drown our government in a bathtub can’t govern effectively.
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Be careful with your last paragraph. It builds upon results about the relationship between trigonometric functions (usually defined in terms of power series) and the unit circle's geometry, as well as intuition from 2D geometry in general. These things can actually be quite hard to prove. (Prime example in a slightly different context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_curve_theorem ) For instance,

> A similar triangle inscribed at this vertex has a short side which is necessarily less than the arc length.

already uses the fact that straight lines are the shortest lines in the class of C¹-differentiable curves due to the Euler-Langrange equations. (Good luck with proving this statement in the class of C⁰ curves.) Then, to use this fact, you need to prove differentiability of a curve parametrizing the unit circle, i.e. differentiability of the trigonometric functions. Now, at this point you might as well use the standard definition of e^x in terms of a power series because it simplifies the differentiability proof tremendously.
Not sure why on earth you think something would be non-buggy or non-leaky just because its written in C. I avoid C for almost any user mode work save a few things.
This is configurable for both, I believe. It's common for enterprises to switch Firefox to use the OS store to support internal certificates.
Totally agree, you do not have to let people know. I have an employee that told me about their condition and made requests to me that I was happy to oblige but I still told him to go to HR and make a reasonable accommodation request. Doesn’t matter if I’m going to be decent about this, you want it in writing and mandated.
Ha! I thought I corrected it before anyone saw :)
I've had a chronic headaches for over 20 years. Actually just one big long two-decade headache, it's never gone away and nothing, including painkillers, really helps.

Three things that I do to deal with this:

- ignore: most of the time it's not top of mind; I can feel it always but don't think about it always.

- keep up some hope: every few years, I go through the usual rounds with my GP and other specialists to see if there's anything new that can be tried to mitigate it. This is something of a double-edged sword though, as it is eventually paired with another crushing disappointment.

- remember there is a natural end to this: one day I'll be dead and it won't matter any more, it's temporary in the same way that everything is temporary. And if I get fed up with it all and want to leave early, it's doable as a last resort. A literal last resort, really.

I've also developed chronic lower back pain and tinnitus in the past 5 years and deal with those in the same way.
Not really. There are chess engines that are indistinguishable and made to imitate the play style of a top tier human player.
I'm not sure if this was an attempt at a gotcha question, but yes. The Steele dossier was very similar in that numerous news agencies refused to publish it due to their journalistic standards. Many aspects of the Steele dossier where eventually confirmed by further reporting or federal investigations. It is too early to say that is the case for these documents from Hunter Biden.
I know about the Raspberry 4:

http://move.rupy.se/file/monstersink.jpg

http://move.rupy.se/file/pi_4.jpg

But this thing has less surface!

I don't understand how it can be legal for the foundation to sell this without a heatsink!
Given that the fearmongering strategy has worked so well, why would folks abandon it now? It's grown legs of its own with QAnon, etc.; politicians aren't even controlling the message, but riding its popularity to success.
They can license the changes that they've made to that file since importing as GPL though. The linux copy still includes that header, despite also clearly having GPL code in it as well.

Nintendo might have a "I didn't know any better because the header was unclear" argument that might limit their practical damages, but if we can only find this file with associated changes in a GPLed project it certainly looks like GPL infringement.
I think there are lots of studies on intermittent fasting/single meal per day eating schedules (though I haven't looked much at them). From what I can tell, caloric periodic restriction tends to be a net good. I've personally been doing it for ~1 year and it's definitely more convenient since I just eat twice a day but I think I may also have not been eating enough (alongside doing a fair bit of exercising).
true, but more subtle cheating is more unlikely to impact the results of a big competition.
Documentaries virtually always get made fun of. It's filmmakers trying to make sense of empirical data and history, and they always say some stupid stuff.
Handling a single entity (eg, a city) that occupies multiple tiles is a classic problem in grid-based games which blows up a lot of naive approaches, it's cool to see people writing about very specific issues like this.
Well, Mr. Creosote is annoying
Kinda sad that the state of discourse these days is to induce pitchforks first, and it falls on readers on a news aggregator site to dig up the sources for themselves.
Yeah, the feedback here makes me realize we need to make it much more apparent on timezones. Thank you!
As someone who's actually had to use the CryptoApi, I think it's unpleasant to use, and often the documentation isn't good enough. There is also usually at least 4 different ways of getting to the same result, which makes things very confusing. And some features are only supported from Windows 7/10.

"Beautifully engineered" is not the phrase that comes to mind.
Coding with my kid: Using Wolfram to find the spookiest day of the century
I would argue that "how dare you talk about the 5% given there's a 95% about, what do you mean equal enforcement of uniform rules, anyone who is concerned about anything but the 95% is a moral monster" is also part of how the 95% got so bad.

People have built-in game theory enough to be highly sensitive to others trying to set up unequal enforcement.
This sounds great, my friends and I used to have a regular game night but busy schedules and a few people moving means now it's something we just kind of talk about doing on Roll20 or something. I already posted to our group to see if I can get them in a session!
Be sure to view this through the lens of 2002, where Python is still a niche language and Perl is only used by certain UNIX crazies, at least in the eyes of most of the business competition of the time. Most statically-typed languages are fairly awful at this point and you could get big wins by switching to something else. A language I consider fatally flawed in 2020 could be a huge differential advantage in 2002, because the competition is that much worse.

In 2020, I think we have many more viable languages that have squeezed out the sort of general crappiness we had in 2002 in programming languages, and the ability of a startup to choose $LANGUAGE and attain a systematic multiplicative advantage over incumbents is small. You have a modest opportunity to win over incumbents by choosing better operational mechanisms (I call it "marginal" because the incumbents are switching to k8s or whatever at a decent speed too), but mostly your big technical advantage is the ability to greenfield something, even as it is also a nearly-crippling disadvantage in some ways too.
Zachary's Karate Club [1] was one of the early social networking approaches for identifying an eventual split in organization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%27s_karate_club
You mean three: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

> The GitHub project suggests Fuchsia can run on many platforms, from embedded systems to smartphones, tablets, and personal computers.

> [..]

> A special version of Android Runtime for Fuchsia is planned to run from a FAR file, the equivalent of the Android APK.

This appears to be the Android/ChromeOS killer GP was alluding to.
You said: "so many, if not most, forms of one to many real time communication would have to be discontinued"

I take your statement: "would have to be discontinued" as equivalent to impossible. If you'd like to walk back that statement we can continue to discuss.

I have given examples of: Small teams of individuals (e.g. one Twitch streamer + a mod team) broadcasting to tens of thousands of people in real-time including call-in type segments. This happens today and I considered how this would continue if we repeal section 230 (including comparisons to existing public real-time radio call-in segments). I have given examples of medium sized teams presenting classes of 150+ individuals, each of whom can "raise their hand" and be selected by a moderator to take control of the stream to provide their own insights to the group in real time. I considered how this would be possible without Section 230. If neither of those forms of "one to many real time communications" fit your imagination then please be more specific and we can continue.

However, in all of this I still have not heard to my own satisfaction a description of a realistic loss we would have if Section 230 were to be revoked.
> Also, neither Joe or Hunter Biden have denied any of it so far, AFAIK.

If they comment - even to blanket deny - it gives the story weight which is exactly what the people who planted it want because then they can spin it out for a few more days/weeks.

Better to keep quiet - like with the court packing question - and let other people kick this ridiculous farce into touch.
Great points. Any major change in 'concrete' is likely to yield a few surprises when folks try to drop it in as a replacement for the standard.
Yes, but it depends on your area of expertise.

The film industry employs lots of people in infrastructure roles. Building services for task and asset Management. Websites. Data flow.

There's a lot of the bread and butter programming jobs as well
>Speaking of BBSes, there was a networking protocol back then known as FidoNet which allowed BBSes to communicate and share information.

Telnet or SSH synchro.net, still alive.

On MUDs, the Cybersphere MOO is nice, but as a non-native English speaker, emoting is hard.

I'd like it more if emoting/posing was not enforced.
Why are VCs launching SPACs? Amish Jani of FirstMark shares his firm’s rationale
To use the actual text, it indemnifies them from lawsuits arising from:

> any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected;

So long as their actions are in good faith, and the content can be lumped into "otherwise objectionable" (as I'm sure most anything could), they are well within Section 230 protection. Even if they have an implicit bias in their moderation. Even if they have an explicit bias in their moderation that they put in their ToS. It specifically says "that the provider or user considers obscene...", which explicitly states the bias of the provider is considered.

The only way Twitters moderation could remove their Section 230 protections is if they did it in bad faith. If they were doing it specifically to try to lose Trump the election, that might count as bad faith because it has nothing to do with limiting access. They are, however, free to remove everything he posts because they find him to be objectionable. Or to remove things they think they are objectionable. Or to only remove violations of their ToS when Trump does it, because they find him or his past patterns objectionable. Or because they find it more likely to lead to flamewars, etc on the site when he does it. Etc, etc, it's mostly a hypothetical because you have to prove bad faith, which is hard unless someone is dumb enough to write it in an email.
I did this exact same thing for math competitions. You often need some stupid exact formula that you are supposed to have memorized, but I never did.
De Moivre also yields the same results for this, and it's somewhat easier/faster to use.
We built and released an open source crossword board game app (1) (think Scrabble/Words With Friends) inspired heavily by Lichess. We are currently exploring options for cheat detection, as cheating is also endemic in our sport, sadly.

[1] https://github.com/domino14/liwords
This is a very stupid example I will give is completely benign but may motivate someone, with a punch line.

I had terrible issues with acne on my back and shoulders. They were terrible, painful, constantly being inflamed, bleeding all around. I couldn't imagine wearing a white shirt, going to the beach, pool, scars showing with short slieved shirts. People actually asked me what's wrong with me, some thinking I was self injuring myself with cigarettea. Doctors described it as one of the worst cases they seen, recommended all sorts of medicine (some doing more damage than good). Spent a fortune treating them and years.

At one point I embraced them. It's me, I stopped being caring. And they went... Psychotherapy probably helped, although I went because of completely different reasons.

I wouldn't write this, but replace acne with ulcerative coalitis, and you have my good friend's story...
I had a real estate agent tell us "that house is uninsurable due to the roof." It was a wooden roof in a high fire zone. A good agent can be useful.

The state of California can't force insurance companies to write new policies or to not cancel existing policies. To make matters worse, insurance companies can't generally raise rates on existing policies so their only recourse is cancellation.

If all else fails there is a high risk FAIR plan as insurer of last resort, but it is much more expensive and covers nothing but fire.
I am not sure why would you think that... If a period is to make a statement firmer, ellipsis does it triple...

Like that, right? ;)
Pretty terrifying.

Recent news was China building a 48x drone suicide swarm launcher[1], yikes. Meanwhile robotic wingmen seem to be increasingly talked up everywhere, everyone wants em.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/10/14/china-...
> why shouldn't the price of loans (interest rates) be subject to the laws of supply and demand just like everything else?

They should be. It doesn't work though when the Fed comes along and buys the lion's share of loans.