skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shorter wire format - but that's such a weird thing to optimize for.

As odd as it sounds, this one I can actually understand. I'm pretty sure the designers come loaded with painful experience on request header bloat. They may want v3 to support completely stateless requests, and would rather not transmit large public keys or possibly even client certificate chains on routine requests.

For those cases I can see the benefit of being able to say "look up my details from this $ObjectID". When everything related to session authorisation is behind a single lookup key, the data likely becomes more easily cacheable.

It's a perfectly valid tradeoff for environments where compute and bandwidth cost way more than engineering time. For the rest of us...
> Everyone is living better than their parents did is just not true.

in addition to these more extreme examples you listed, your statement even holds water for places in the West (e.g. US).
> during anesthesia, you will be completely unconscious, and inhibiting memory formation is a side-effect of that. Sedation is when you are still (more or less) conscious, but relaxed.

The concept of anesthesia is that you don't feel pain, not that you're unconscious. If you're unconscious, it's "general anesthesia"; if you're not, it's "local anesthesia".
I actually went through something like this back in 1996. A few local companies (AFLAC, TSYS and Blue Cross/Blue Shield) sponsored a program that taught Assembler, COBOL, IMS, DB2, JCL, Rexx, etc. Those who made it through all the testing, interviews, background checks, etc. were paid to go to school 8 hours a day for 3 months. When you were done you were guaranteed a job at one of those companies, and you agreed to work there a minimum of 4 years to work off the money that was paid to you while you went through training. If you left the company before the time was up you had to pay back the remaining balance. This put all of us into working on mainframes during Y2K. Once Y2K was done I moved on to Java, then .NET, and now work in Machine Learning, 24 years later. It was a great way to get my foot in the door.
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> Having to implement a ton of "log in with"s sucks, as does implementing email based login.

This is kind of auth0's--but also most security token service things--raison d'etre: your app trusts just one authority and supports just one protocol, shunting any unauthenticated users to it, letting it handle the transaction with trusted identity providers.
Although I haven't had the 'pleasure' of dealing with any of this in a good while, my experiences mirror your last paragraph.

It seems like a lot of the problems in the UK are down to the state of the POTS copper - if you're in an area that got NYNEX'd back in the day then cable is the way to go
I really dislike Talebs style. His books and articles pretend to be about facts, but all I see are loaded opinion pieces. Opinion pieces with casual insults to anyone not agreeing with his perspective.

Example from this article:
"Nor does comparing theologies make sense, unless of course one has been brainwashed by sociology texts and becomes unable to think with minimal clarity".

Why is anyone reading anything from this man? Am I missing something?
IIRC in the series they turn off everything to stop emitting anything that can be detected - mostly IR radiation, I would guess.

The rest of stealth in space is relying on the vastness of it. A spaceship a few kilometers away is already hard to see.
That's the most insanely absurd view of OSS I've ever seen.
Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 3.0.7
I will probably take some heat for this response but as a Canadian here is how I see this happening. My computer gets hacked. I am a low level target so the Ransomware asks me for something trivial like $1000. Now I have a couple choices. Not pay and not break the law or pay and break the law but get back all my baby pictures. I am going to pay and take the consequences. In Canada we had a guy literally decapitate another man and then cannibalizes the body. He did 7 years. We don’t jail people for things like paying ransom and if we did we slap people on the wrist. This law will have no teeth for some because we watch the revolving door court system where all criminal are given a slap on the wrist. It is only repeat offenders getting anything other then probation. So at worst I would risk a fine or probation. I live in Canada though so we don’t bend over backwards to screw people so my fine would be insignificant compared to the loss of all my baby pictures. Even if the punishment was 5000$ I would still be leaning towards paying to get those baby pictures I haven’t backed up. If the punishment was a week in jail again I am still going to pay we have really nice jails with all sorts of rights when you get there. I guess my point is we need a better way then telling victims they can’t pay. Thankfully I have backed up my pictures and don’t worry about this scenario currently.
Just out of interest, what makes you think that nationalising OpenReach would make them deliver a better "customer" experience?

In my personal experience dealing with e.g. HMRC, local councils etc does not offer me much confidence on that front.

The only benefit I can see personally is that there might be less room for error if there's less need for changes as people move in and out of properties.
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Emacs Survey
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Turn your Macbook up to 11! I've been working on this for about 8 months now, trying to dial in the right form factor, signal quality and price. Just put in the first production order and launched the Kickstarter this morning.

It's really fun to play with, I kinda feel like maybe I just made a toy for myself, haha. Hope it's a good time for others.
intelligent people like things targeted for idiots, because they don’t like using their brain unnecessarily either.
Early Christianity was pretty plainly against sex as such, straight or gay, but I don’t think Christianity per se is more anti-gay than any other religion. Gay marriage in the modern sense just didn’t exist anywhere, afaict, and Christianity was against sodomy but not fanatically so until the early modern era. The real anti-gay paranoia seems to me to be more of a product of early modernity than a specifically Christian thing.
COBOL is sort of a DSL for business logic. Java and C# are not.
My personal theory is it's some mix of imposter syndrome and fear of missing out. If you don't keep up with the latest tech then sooner or later you'll be found out and ejected from the pack, never to draw another sv paycheck again.
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All of Pevear and Volokhonsky's translations are stilted in a modernist kind of way. They read like experimental prose. I like experimental prose and I find P&V readable but I have a very hard time believing that Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov all wrote in the same stilted, modernist style.

As I said, the reputation that Russian literature has in the English speaking world is mostly due to Garnett's translations. If nothing else, her translations are beautiful.

From the linked article:

> What differentiates ­Chekhov from other story writers is his fineness of perception, his ability to discern the subtlest emotional shades, and his appreciation of “the elusive beauty” of human experience. In the story “Strong ­Impressions,” the hero learns “that the same word has thousands of shades of meaning according to the tone in which it is pronounced, and the form which is given to the sentence.” And that is why one should never read any translation by ­Richard Pevear and ­Larissa ­Volokhonsky. They translate literary masterpieces word by word, with no appreciation of what the author is trying to accomplish or what makes a great work extraordinary. If ­Pevear and ­Volokhonsky had done the King James Bible, Cain would have asked whether he was his fraternal sibling’s custodian. With Chekhov, their ­approach is especially unfortunate. He is all nuance, and they are all ­bluntness.

> Some fifty years ago, Ann ­Dunnigan did the best versions of Chekhov’s plays and of some of his stories. For the rest, the versions of Constance Garnett, all thirteen volumes of which were reprinted in 1986, remain, despite some lapses, impressive in their sensitivity to tone. I have cited their translations in this essay. Just as there is no point in reading a translation of a comic novel that loses the humor, so ­Chekhov can be appreciated in English only when a translator can catch the fine shades of his stories’ elusive beauty.
MS doesn't care about Stallmans GNU goals. What they do care about are developers not being annoyed with working on a Windows machine (or nowadays using their Azure clouds).

Speaking for myself, I'm coming from the gamedev world (lately webdev) and as such was mostly tied to windows due to various tools(Photoshop,Modo,3dsmax in the past,etc) but that didn't mean that I was going to suffer by using IIS or spend a fortune on Windows server licences or higher hardware reqs for appplication servers for no good reason.

So yes, MS will ignore OSS for their core Windows stuff, HOWEVER they will probably also play nice in the wider OSS (If not FOSS) community since they probably see Azure as the third leg of the future (apart from Windows and Office) and as such will ensure that everyone who uses it (be it for Windows or Linux deployments) are happy with it (And trashing things in the OSS community will thus be counterproductive).
I think part of the reason is that when you choose to get a degree, you don't know any better, and it probably seems as good a way to get into the field as any (in lots of other fields, it's the only way in - e.g. bio-tech, so it's an easy assumption to make). By the time you get far enough in your career to get a certification, you're also far enough along to know that it's worthless, so it's more of a red flag to others if you choose to do so anyway.
This looks really nice and the online demo is quite slick also on Firefox.

I saw that there is either a Qt or GL backend, which made me wonder how this is used then in the online demo or is the browser backend a third, undocumented one?

Also how is input (pointer, key) supported across the already apparently supported platforms?
Wrong. They made $874 million in profits out of which $543 went into stock based compensation, a non-cash expense. This happened because Musk became eligible for two tranches of compensation based on market cap + profitability.

> meaning their core business still loses money

Wrong. Even a cursory look at their earnings report would have told you so. They made 23% gross margin on automotive revenue excluding credits. How is making 23% gross margin "losing money"? The typical automaker makes single digit gross margins on their products.

And they did all this while building out factories on three continents.
Becoming? If anything it was much worse in the 90s and 00s. People don't take certifications nearly as seriously now.
Heaven forbid!
I clarified my question. Not looking to replace COBOL, but tooling that helps you write it but in a higher-level language. The other reply from skylanh answered my question.
It is possible for hackers to inject keylogger, with a single CSS import
I heard about this security risk a while back from some tweets and was suprised that it is even possible.

So basically in this scenario the infiltrator doesn't even need javascript, if they can inject CSS to your website (either through a third party package, or XSS), they can add a keylogger to your website and steal your client information.

I implemented a simple project based on this, and I'm very curious to hear your opinions, and suggestions against it:)
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Jesus spoke about eunuchs, who in modern terms would be “trans”.
Here in the US I pay more for gig fiber but service and reliability has been great. I'm not sure which one I'd rather have.
There’s a few strategies you can employ. One is to roll each AZ one at a time, and take each out of service first.

Another strategy is to have redundancy in each AZ such that your rolling strategy never takes the AZ itself offline.

Just depends on how much infra you want to manage to be honest. Taking an AZ offline can be as easy as having an ingress hop that signals back to the LBs that it is now failing health checks and should be temporarily removed from service.
One thing I do like in ECS is that you can specify an environment variable to be fetched from parameter store or KMS, without seeing it. A convenient balance.
Thanks for the shoutout! www.finmark.com (YC S20)
I don't think too much of their certificate, because it looks like typical marketing bullshit from a huge corporation. But I think you can use pointless stuff like this to your advantage: to demonstrate that you can be up the job, that you can handle situations like this professionally.
This story was surprisingly compelling. The writing style really brought me in and I am very glad that the cancer was treated successfully!
Banning ransom payments outright would eliminate the possibility of investigating by blockchain analysis.

Implementing a maximum legal payment amount and mandating that all ransomware payments’ TXIDs be reported to law enforcement would be a reasonable compromise in my opinion.
I wonder how close this is to the breathing in the app on the Apple Watch.
Thanks for making a very "scientific" comment. Every scientist will be proud to read this. #sarcasm
As a life long asthmatic who had a serious stutter as a child I've been practicing controlled breathing for as long as I can remember.

Recently I've taken an interest in fitness (again) and, via a garmin watch, I've learnt my resting heart-rate is ~42 most nights, some nights dipping to 39. I'm by no means exceptionally fit, but have to think the slow breathing techniques are the cause.
> communication (and complaints) via telephone

If I do this I normally use a digital voice recorder but tell the drone at the other end that "I'm recording the conversation for training and quality purposes": that normally focusses their attention.
And people wonder why social mobility is so low in the US...

Your comment is emblematic how how inefficient our oligarchical system is. It's like saying someone would be a good general because his father is an important feudal lord. That's the way it was throughout the vast majority of history, but we pretend it is different now.
I agree that we need to discuss how inalienable is the right to privacy, especially digital privacy.

But note that you can not sell your organs, because that will (and does on the black market) quickly create highly coercive contracts between individuals, or worse organ robbery. You can, however, donate your organs.

I would see a similar scheme for your digital data. That, most of it cannot be sold [1]. It can be donated by your positive assent, but the receiver (businesses and such) are highly regulated to ensure they don't exploit you or society using that data.

[1] I concede that there might be certain types of data that could be sold, though I cannot think of an example.
Let's say I'm the king of Sweden, and I take back the power from that annoying parliament. I want to appease my people and show that I will rule in favor of the average Joe and against the big evil corporation. So I cut the personal income tax rate by 10%, and I raise the arbetsgivaravgift rate by 10%.

Unless I also forbid renegotiating salaries, don't you think that after a short amount of time "gross" salaries (effectively salaries net of arbetsgivaravgift) will have adjusted and everything will be the same?
These are false/misleading statements, not questions:

> I remember something that previous versions were for webapps only.

> I remember that OAuth forced the user to include client secret in app's binary.

This is not actually a problem with RFC 7636.
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It's even older in other parts of the world, of course.
It isn’t unique, but fairly rare (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage)

I guess that’s because “similar parts of the world” are fairly rare. Requirements are that the shortcut is faster, safer, or cheaper (that Wikipedia page mentions an example where it was done to avoid taxes) than the detour over water, the land journey too steep (you’ll need beaches either side), and there’s a good reason to be at either side of the journey. I think that means you need population centers at either side.
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> to make their stock appealing even without them.

As an investor they are plenty appealing to me. They made 23% gross margin on their cars excluding credits, and operating margins have also increased every quarter, now at 9.2%. These kinds of numbers are unheard of for an automaker. And they achieved these numbers while building out three factories.
Does anyone know which CI tools they wanted to use, that doesn't support FreeBSD? I mean there are many that doesn't, at least is so good that DARPA wanted to fund the project.
> This is fairly off topic, but I noticed that the paper thanks Dynata.

I'm not sure about your anecdote, nor do I know who Dynata is, but you give the impression that this paper is only thanking one org. The entire section thanks a much broader base than you seem to portray:

> We thank Dynata for assistance with data collection and incorporating civil liberties concerns into their surveys. We thank participants at Harvard Public Seminar, Harvard COVID Seminar, the Healthand Pandemics Seminar, London School of Economics, Princeton and NBER SI Development. Funding provided by Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Economics Department. The authors have no conflicts to disclose. The study is approved by IRB at Harvard University (IRB-20-0495 and IRB20-0467),and registered at AEA-RCT registry (AEARCTR-0005609). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

NOTE: Formatting issues from the PDF copy
I didn't read the book, but the Joe Rogan interview with the author was a favorite episode. She was the right mix of smart, enthusiastic, craz.... eccentric.

EDIT: Joe Rogan #1272 - Lindsey Fitzharris
I mean might hope the requirement to provide said meta-analysis would fall on the person making the claim that the criticism is sexist, not on the person saying it might not be?
No, parent commenter is correct: OpenIDConnect is an extension protocol that adds a user-authentication (user metadata) layer on top of OAuth 2, which is a bare authorization protocol (access tokens are opaque and don't say anything about the user).

Besides the similar names, OpenIDConnect has virtually nothing to do with the older OpenID protocols. Old-style OpenID has been deprecated and removed by almost all web properties today (e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307647/support-for-...)
Next time you want to make a financial model, instead of spending weeks making it try out Finmark (YC S20). We want to make creating a model turbotax easy without forcing people to use a template. Instead, our modular approach allows every company to create their own unique model in under an hour.
With some comments by Bozhidar Batsov (https://github.com/bbatsov) here: https://emacsredux.com/blog/2020/10/22/state-of-emacs-survey...
Lol. I guess everything has to be viewed through the lens of a western journal paper to be "scientic" #sarcasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don–Volga_portage:

“Don–Volga Portage (Russian: Волгодонская переволока, Volgodonskaya Perevoloka) refers to the ancient trade and military route located on the shortest distance (ca. 70 kilometers) between the major rivers Volga and Don, in today's Volgograd Oblast. The portage, where cargo and ships would be drawn over land either manually or by horse-drawn vehicles, was in use from the 1st millennium BCE to 1952 CE, when the Volga-Don Canal was opened.”
One thing this essay misses is that in your typical religious group, you're going to have:

* A good-sized portion who are "in name only" adherents

* A large group who are "in good standing" but not necessarily strong adherents

* A minority, and likely a small minority, who are "sweat the details" adherents.

For instance, among Americans who identify as Catholics, only 40% attend Mass weekly. But only about 22% of Catholics say they ever go to confession, and only 2% go regularly.

So although a person might identify as Catholic, the importance of their faith and their adherence to its doctrine is going to vary from person to person, and my guess is that for the majority of U.S. Catholics, their religion does not hold as much sway on their behavior as other factors -- including their political affiliation.

Granted, there are some cases where the distribution is different. If your religion is especially insular or vulnerable, or if it is controlled by people with great political power, there are probably fewer casual adherents.

Nevertheless, I don't think it's especially helpful to talk about Catholics or Jews or Muslims or what have you without making the distinction between these different levels of adherence.

But I do think the author makes a good point that many of the activities, attitudes (and atrocities) we attribute to religious groups are really the result of other cultural factors that use religion as a mantle. Look at the Catholic-Protestant conflicts in Northern Ireland; these were undeniably political groups that used the Catholic and Protestant labels to identify themselves, even though they weren't fighting over doctrine -- they were fighting over power.
So cockroaches have most probably not a big neural network, but they are able to do lots of stuff, including reproduction.

I think this kind of machine intelligence is already at reach of currents models, or we are close to be able to make an "e-cockroach".

I think we'll learn lots of stuff just seconds after having put in the world that kind of limited artificial intelligence.

And then the models, through sensors, will have the entire world at reach to begin auto-improvement tasks.

And this would solve the issue "we're just training the models with very limited data, how could they evolve faster than millions of years?"

I think the FAANG, the big players, realized this limitation a LOT time ago (10 years maybe).

And they are already trying some things to solve the limited data issue, giving their models all the information they can extract from cellphones, the current iteration of "massive network of sensors to train BIG - multiple, almost hidden from the public - models.

If I have to bet, I'd bet the whole information is being stored to be "replayed" when whole new more advanced models emerge eventually.
Agreed about Zen, we experience random dropouts at night sometimes for hours, I don't know if they are doing unannounced infrastructure changes or what it is.