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go back to your safe space.
A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that when you look at any product that shows off their client list, Cisco is on it most of the time?
> That one factoid

Not one. Russiagate in its many variations was and still is happily peddled by NYT. Coverage of Syria is also straight from warmonger 101 textbook. There is likely more, but I stopped reading them regularly after 2003.

> nobody ever faults the Republican Party, which actually made the decision to invade Iraq

Both parties happily voted to invade. Both bear the blame.
Climate change is not an existential threat.
I love jumping spiders. There's just something about them that's fun, cute, etc. Maybe it's the little short furry legs and such but I'm always happy to coax one up onto my hand to look at it or let it sun on my leg when sitting outside.
This is the kind of stuff that’s got me hooked on CS: small problems that no one thinks about much but have dramatic impact on developers’ lives and the things they build. There’s a lot of societal problems that we’ve inadvertently created, (see Technopoly by Postman or The Social Dilemma on Netflix) but it’s nice to be reminded about what makes this field fun and worthwhile.
Fair. Maybe that's what kept me from shedding a tear of my recent top-o'-the-line Air purchase. That, or the knowledge that, after 9 years with the old one, It Was Time, one way or the other.
If you want/need to publish anonymously, you use an obvious pseudonym (for a famous example, see The Federalist Papers). If you use a fake identity that's not obviously a pseudonym, people can reasonably suspect fraud.
Fasting is not easy. If you didn't restrict calories before and now want to lose weight quickly, you have to make some sacrifices.

If your social and/or work life heavily depends on eating together it might be part of the "problem" of why you need to lose weight in the first place.
Signed up for one of the “extras” on Prime because they had a show I really wanted to watch. Was like an extra $15/mo.

Commercials every 5 minutes. And they clearly didn’t have much ad inventory because it was the same damn commercial every time.

Canceled the subscription before it went to paid... about an hour after I signed up. Torrented the show instead. Fuck all of that.
The Onion for Crypto
And I have the problem with both. Wish the jobs you described were highly illegal, because they're highly immoral.
This crap has been investigated and debunked over and over again. Go somewhere else with your dishonest nonsense.

Edit, relevant: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/how-fake-persona-laid-...
The abstract is correct. A positive integer N is log(N) bits long. If X = log(N), than a algorithm that runs in N^(1/5) will run in 2^(X/5) time.
The market (job vacancies) seem to imply otherwise, I rarely see it mentioned in comparison to Python, Go, PHP.
I sort of think of it like "maintenance downtime." It was my son that first suggested to me it helps by freeing up immune cells and letting them concentrate on other things for a bit and I think that makes a lot of sense.

I also suspect that dropping your blood sugar levels low enough, long enough helps starve some invaders. We are bigger than the bacteria in our system. We can survive for a bit without those resources. Maybe some of them can't.
That's an excellent summary.

I think just about every field in Computer Science has these kinds of problems though, where people learn just enough to be dangerous.

E.g.: the default sRGB colour space used by typical computers is non-linear, so you can't interpolate using naive algebra. You should convert to linear light, interpolate, then convert back to sRGB with the original gamma curve.

Practically nobody does this.

Even Adobe PhotoShop has this feature off by default which is just insane.

Just as with geospatial mappings, there are further nuances to imaging colour spaces. E.g.: Most colour spaces are designed to match some phosphor or LED colour, and do not match the human eye's response curves. So almost any "maths" you perform on almost any colour space, even in linear light will introduce colour shifts or other artefacts. E.g.: changing intensity, upscaling, downscaling, blending, etc...

A much better colour space would be to use something like ICtCp, which is designed to match the response of the human eye, so that the "coordinate system" would map better to the actual responses of the rods and cones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICtCp

Note how the map of the colours is smooth, because it allocates "coordinate vector bits" to perceptual colours evenly.

This is one of the key features of Dolby Vision: https://professional.dolby.com/siteassets/pdfs/ictcp_dolbywh...

(Dolby is just about the only organisation that gets this stuff even vaguely right.)

All of the above issues can turn up in simple Long/Lat coordinates. There's always some idiot that ignores the fact that the coordinate density changes with location, or that the cells aren't even rectangles near the poles, or that interpolation is not trivial, etc...
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DKIM Validation of the “Smoking Gun” Email to Hunter Biden
Surely smoking wasn’t a thing back then, looks up Wikipedia

> The Spanish introduced tobacco to Europeans in about 1528

Perhaps there is an inference of prohibition
Really? People never comment on, say, a popup on a NYT article that gets posted? This is probably a third of the article... but I'm beginning to think you have anthropomorphic dog in this fight, so to speak.
Interesting. I'm curious what machine spec you're on. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an dell laptop (XPS 7590 with an i9 processor, 32gb ram, discrete Nvidia graphics card).

I see my processor spin up to 90% utilization whenever I do a zoom call.
The Challenge of Simplicity – Anabaptist Perspectives Ep. 004
Show HN: I made a database of TL;DR business strategies/case studies
It creates a teaching moment for people who believe it could actually happen.
Periodically I find myself needing to play with some data in a lot of different ways and potentially share that data in a professional context where appearance matters. It is during those periods I start looking up all of the excel functions and features.

However, if I am only occasionally looking at data and/or repeating the same operations than code + csv (or database) makes a lot more sense and gives me flexibility to deal with edge cases. I still end up opening it in excel but mostly because I already have it installed.

To be honest, I would sort of like a more primitive fast csv data viewer for times when I am feeling rusty on excel and bullish on small scripts. When you are doing the data manipulation elsewhere excel is overkill.

But every now and then it is a lifesaver
The General Number Field Sieve[1], referenced in the paper, is believed to have a better asymptotic runtime performance (and has a number of efficient implementations), but it's runtime is not proven. ECM [2](also referenced in the paper) has better proven, but probabilistic, performance.

So most likely, no. This is primarily of theoretical importance (it is now the fastest, deterministic algorithm with a proven bound), but is not immediately a performance gain on existing algorithms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_number_field_sieve

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra_elliptic-curve_factori...
This is the awesome news! Waiting for release and start to preparing for migration from single-node setup to distributed one. If someone just want to try distributed release candidate with simple setup (1 access node + 2 data nodes) I have the demo on my github: https://github.com/binakot/Multi-Node-TimescaleDB. You are welcome :)
Binance's Anti- US Regulatory Scheme
It's called a public library. They carry DVDs of movies and TV shows.
Its a shame what happened to PF Changs. They had perfected American Chinese food, which really seems to be under appreciated as its own type of food. The typical place might have good Mongolian beef but then just buy the cheapest worst chicken so General Tso's is garbage. Another place might actually care about properly frying their chicken and have incredible Orange chicken but just not care at all about their lo mein. PF Changs used to have one of the best versions of everything you could find at a typical American Chinese restaurant.

But at some point they were bought out by a company that was intent on squeezing every penny out of the place and didn't care about quality. The sauces changed for the lettuce wraps to obviously cheaper ingredients, then the waiters stopped even making the sauces. Prices of the all the dishes went up as the serving sizes shrunk. Then the quality just went to shit.

When I lived in Asia, I could obviously get amazing authentic Chinese food. But, whenever I visited home I would always get a turkey sub first (turkey is harder to find than a good sub sandwich in general) and then American Chinese food. PF Changs used to easily fill that niche and was ruined by a bunch of terrible people who I'm sure got promotions and now are ruining some other restaurant while increasing profits for the owners.
Well, unless rat87 clarifies their argument about why it is they think the colleagues are more likely to be correct this is the best we can do.

There's no inherent reason the colleagues are more likely to be correct.
Hmmm, I wonder if a dual extruder printer using conductive filament in one nozzle could print flexible fabric circuit boards? Embed cabling for leds/elwire directly into the fabric?
Exactly. There has to be a way to put trust back into the system. Trust only works if each participant is accountable to the others. Asset tracking is supposed to be a solved problem but obviously it is a bad idea to hand your operations over to a third party whose agenda is likely different than your own.
Los Angelas has a tremendous concentration of the film industry, so its not just one city.
Isn’t CBD pretty much a placebo for the dose they sell?
America will be saved by K-pop fans. Amazing. 2020 is insane.
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, but what business models could exist sustainably without the creators of the content having copyright?
10days ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24831809

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wi...

[off topic] If R wins this time, it is a huge failure on the so many protests & rallies: to not have converted those into votes against R .
I would not call fasting a “health fad”. It has been practiced for centuries by various cultures and religions.
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How Lockdowns Influenced Excess Mortality
> The US is a federation of states, and generally internal matters (like stopping the spread of a virus in your state) are not the purview of the executive branch.

These states aren't islands though - they mostly share land borders, freeways connect them, and people freely travel between them every day. The virus doesn't know state borders. If the federal government can insert itself into random state affairs by citing the interstate commerce clause, I don't see how it can wash its hands of responsibility for this debacle.
I can definitely taste the difference brewing the same coffee via a french press versus my old fashioned percolator on the stove, and not on account of loose coffee grounds. This may be an extreme comparison as a percolator is possibly the worst way to brew coffee. Convenient, though. It makes little difference to me, I usually drink it black over ice.
Per New York Post reporters, the "Hunter Biden" story is total garbage:

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-post-skepticism-in-...

I find it strange that people expect "mainstream" press outlets to run with the story. This is not a story of media with an agenda. They did some basic fact checking and found it to be false. Pretty simple.
Vi Hart's EleVR research group had a similar concept in 2016 (implemented in VR of course), though they ran out of funding. https://web.archive.org/web/20190320232253/http://elevr.com/...
Timely. In Canada today, the leader of the federal opposition party talked about the possibility of ending for-profit care homes nationally[1][2] and some provincial parties are very bullish on the idea.[3]

[1] https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2020/10/29/ndp-calls-for-f...

[2] https://ipolitics.ca/2020/10/29/singh-joins-ontario-counterp...

[3] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ndp-plan-chan...
Conntrack is Linux specific. Are you aware of any macOS analogs?
Oh! That’s impressive I think last time I used it mutations couldn’t be triggered offline.
I think Python was the first to bring this into my consciousness. See this enhancement request, which changed the float-to-string conversion from seventeen significant figures to shortest:

https://bugs.python.org/issue1580

After they did that, I learned that Scheme specifies similar behavior. In fact, I think it was added to R4RS after the Steele and White paper. As the article says, this behavior spread across languages, so that it's weird to see something different now.

If you want to nerd out on this, here are a few other posts that explore the topic:

https://www.exploringbinary.com/the-shortest-decimal-string-...

https://www.exploringbinary.com/the-shortest-decimal-string-...

https://www.exploringbinary.com/java-doesnt-print-the-shorte...
Hackernews down rate articles with lots of comments until overrided by mods
It just depends entirely on your mentality. Some folks are much better at moderating than abstaining, others are the opposite. If you tell me to drink 10% less, I virtually cannot do it. If you tell me to never touch a drop of alcohol again in my life, I just say "bummer!" and get on with it.
Relevant link showing IF with a control not being very effective. Not related to cancer study, more IF for weight loss.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ethanjweiss/status/13105954634526...
AppleTV+ seems to be the new HBO. The 4 or 5 shows/movies on there I saw were all decent if not great.
I had the exact same thought and then checked where the authors was from.
> Yes, civil suits are brought be individuals, so are less about societal pressure and more about recompense, while criminal cases are brought by the state.

This is somewhat inaccurate; while it is true that criminal cases can only be brought by the State, civil cases can be brought by the State or private parties.
1. Cores already exist or are coming that satisfy the existing platform. They would be obsoleted by a change in the requirements.

2. RV64GC is already quite big. Piling more requirements onto it will make it harder to introduce small cores.

3. V is pretty complex and I don't agree with your assertion. In contrast I'm aware of cores with vector where the vector part takes up 50% of the die and does exactly nothing for the scalar apps that don't use it. I'd much rather spend that silicon on more IPC or a 2nd core.
"The Switch", by James Clement, is a great roundup of fasting and other longevity-related behaviors. It's a synthesis of hundreds of research papers, with an emphasis of the 2016 discovery of the mTor switch that triggers autophagy in cells. The findings in the NIH paper seem pretty consistent with the overview of the research. More specifically, mortality from obesity and cancer drastically fall when: a) insulin and iGF-1 are suppressed, and b) mTor pathway (and autophagy) is triggered somewhat regularly.

The Fasting Mimicking Diet is a well studied diet that mimics the effects of fasting while eating 800-1200 calories per day and abstaining from protein (<15g/day). Check out this spreadsheet for a DIY guide to measure how fasting impacts your own biomarkers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_f-UhsloOxvLbNLgyAou...

Dave Feldman's (engineer turned citizen scientist) independent research into the impact of low-carb, high-fat diets is also inspirational to learn first-hand how a diet can effect your body. He's replicated experiments of how several dietary approaches, including fasting, affect the lab measurement of cholesterol levels. He's been able to reproduce findings on his own body, with small sample sizes of other dieters. He's even proposed a Lipid Energy Model to describe how fats distribute energy to cells in a way that matches the data he's collected. https://cholesterolcode.com/model/

Reading enough of this research, I start to think about context-dependent metabolic pathways that can be triggered with inputs as simple as varied macronutrients. It feels like a very meaningful frame to interpret research about diet and longevity.
What does the author mean with "TCP packages"? How is it different from the IP packet?
Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy
I'm a PhD student who studies stuff similar to this (I work in complexity theory), and one of my favorite "conversation starters" when I meet other researchers is whether they think integer factorization is actually a computationally difficult task.

Perhaps surprisingly, most people don't have strong feelings either way, and a good number of researchers suspect the task is actually efficiently computable (i.e., in polynomial-time). At least from the standpoint of complexity theory there are not really any compelling reasons to think factoring is hard, beyond the fact that we haven't discovered an algorithm for it yet.
I would love the global warming denialists to be held to the same standard as climate scientists. Missed one prediction, and their entire platform can be dismissed out of hand.
yes metabolisms can be very different
I would make a stronger claim (and no, I haven't done the research to back it up, just a hunch):

> Nobody has a realistic plan for addressing climate change.
I built a clothing label for my favorite landing page builder
you make good points!
Fwiw, the reason why wikipedis doesn't do this when rescaling images (or at least didn't years ago when i was working on image resizing code for wikipedia) is that to do that (with off the shelf software) required keeping the entire image in memory, which was a big no no. I mean, i guess it would be fine for small images, but then you're using two different algorithms depending on image size, which seems bad.
'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains
They wear a powerful noise cancellation headset to cancel noise.
The writing has been on the wall for some time:

1. Grading system changed from 1-5 to 1-2 (thumbs up/down). They thought that the users where full of crap when rating. I do believe some bosses just looked "bad" when buying in the next Adam Sandler movie. This started a cozy culture where no one in Netflix was wrong. Recommendation engine becomes comically bad, even with the best and the brightest.

2. They started to buy everything under the sun. South park made an episode about it even. All the comedians got their own stand up specials. It was now way easier to get a top score (thumbs up). Bosses where happy.

3. As they no longer focuses on quality which they no longer can measure (measuring time watched and churn is not that useful!), they start to strive for quantity. Which is expensive, very expensive.

I guess that in the next decade Netflix will become the next Comcast and cost 35 USD per month, and it all started in an innocent change to the grading system.
This is why muslims have been fasting for an entire month (Ramadan [1]) for over 1400 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan
This has really struck home.I'm missing another one.

Your dataset is tilted 90° and in some other part of the globe: you probably swapped latitude and longitude.

Tip: latitude sounds like "altitude" so it has to be the y coordinate
I find that figure a lot easier to visualize than whatever quadrillion, and for that purpose using face value is exactly what I would expect (attempting to correct for market realities would only confuse me).
wouldn't that lead to a lot of job losses in the nursing homes / facilities sectors?
Depends on the documentation. Here's 20-ish examples for one function: https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/docs/setting-constra...

If you have people and time for docs, you'll have good docs.
What an unbelievably low quality comment. I can only make two possible replies:

1.) You managed to miss the point completely.

2.) Go and fuck yourself. Be sure to stop by ‘emotional intelligence’ on the way, but mostly just go and fuck yourself. It takes a degree of work to write something this low quality and frankly, the world would be better served if you put that labour into a Dunkin’ Donuts franchise.
Don't underestimate yourself. We're all skilled at some things and not at others. Apply to jobs that look interesting to you and try to get them!

Hiring managers are often faced with the same dilemma: "my job requires a little of this and a dash of that and a bunch of this other stuff. And I don't want a bunch of bums to apply, but I don't need rocket surgeons either." and we take a random stab at a job description and desired qualifications and post it.

Find a job that looks interesting, tailor your resume a bit to fit, and see what happens. If you get a call, strike up a conversation about your experience solving disparate problems and your interest. Hiring managers (usually) care more about that stuff than any specific skill set, even if the job description might imply otherwise.
Should you keep it on then if you’re using SSL?
Oh, good to know, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks! :)
> on an online service (dynamic resizer service) it would impact latency.

If its even possible at all. Sometimes users upload things like https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:“Declaration_of_vict...
When I click on “Release log” near the bottom of the page (which isn’t a link, BTW), it loads https://tara.ai/undefined which loads the front page again and then changes its URL back to https://tara.ai/.
Who is Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)? Know in 5 minutes. [HINDI]
American media's uniformity and compilance to carefully constructed narratives was scary enough as it was. Now the small principled minority who looked beyond that and went for truth are getting ostracized and punished for their principled stands.
Ah, thanks for the clarification! My bad.
The open source stuff is mostly really fidgety and works correctly with a rather narrow set of inputs. To make most libraries be actually easily usable for a wide range of inputs is a tremendous amount of work.

The core of them mostly do the thing they claim to do, but if you feed them data that's just slightly off, then it'll break in interesting ways.

Speaking based on a lot of experience[1]. Nothing in the geospatial or environmental data world is easy and there will always be an unexpected problem lurking right behind the corner, regardless of how many of them you've already fixed or worked around.

Still, the complexity of the problem space also makes it fascinating. As an example, the definition and measurement of something that's seemingly very simple: mean seal level is actually tremendously complicated if you think about it. The Wikipedia article talks about averaging over decades of measurements to get it right for example.

[1] I'm a part of the team behind https://data.planetos.com/datasets
I agree. I think the original assumption about "leftover volume/stock" only really applies to the RPi 1. However, if you talk more in terms of ARM ISA, then it certainly applies to every generation of the RPi in that the chosen ISAs are "leftover/last gen licenses" and are presumably less expensive to procure and produce chips from on older design processes. The ARM11/ARMv6 was new in 2001 while the ARMv6Z core in the RPi 1 was new in 2003 with the RPi 1 coming out in 2013. The ARMv8 ISA came out in 2011, with A72 coming out in 2015, while the RPi 4 came out in 2019. [0][1][2][3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Specifications

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11#Overview

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM11

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ARMv8-A_cores
Actually you can refer to the name inside the anonymous function for self-recursion I believe.