skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a similar vein, almost every algorithm can be converted into a O(1) space version simply by converting it into the dumbest possible search algorithm over the solution space: just sample from the solution space randomly (with a seeded PRNG or something) until you get the right answer.

A well-known example of this is bogosort: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
Wow.. I don't even know where to start.. Thanks for the heads up that's cool beans!
https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-... there's study that says piracy actually boosts sales.
Github links to the EFF letter [0] in the DMCA repo.

This letter spells out in clear, convincing and explicit detail why the RIAA was wrong.

Profit-making Github and Microsoft could have performed this analysis and championed developers themselves, but it was the non-profit EFF that actually did the work.

EFF deserves more credit than just a link for fighting against this shit.

[0] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
People who know more about this than I do: how much do we think the lack of sunlight in the winter (among other factors) contributes to the severity spikes associated with the cold season?

I know the other factors: recirculated indoor air, humidity, etc.
I thought I made my point in a reasonably civilized manner. Even if it's wrong, I don't think your attitude is constructive to me getting a better understanding.

Maybe I'm muddling my semantics but right "wing" tells me that one's leaning to the right pretty far away from the center, so in my mind it does not comprise "half of the political spectrum".

US politics are not my politics and I apologize if I offended you and some of the other commenters that seem aggravated by my interpretation of the term.
The contractor has a problem similar to employee turnover. Contractors make sense when there is a throw-away project (won't need long-term maintenance) that doesn't embody any proprietary knowledge or skill. As soon as a project could expose a trade secret or require on-going support, the contractor becomes a big risk.
Yes, you are given the power to restrict a function's usage
Disagree. I'm a 1500 player and get 2100 on the tactics, which is obviously not representative and means something is up.
I have a Chinese background, and was in China in January 2020. I witnessed the reporting from both sides and saw things progress on the ground. I have quite a different view.

I don't believe the Australian call for an investigation was genuine/scientific/objective at all. The call was meant as a political attack. There is no way Australia or the US would accept any investigation result that doesn't put the full blame on China. It's a case of 'guilty until proven innocent, and we won't accept evidence of innocence'.

This is shown by the fact that Australia and the US are not interested in investigating whether other countries (including their own) could be related to the origin, nor whether the response outside China has been adequate. Come on, if you're already set on a result, then why begin the investigation in the first place? And why divert resources to such an investigation, when there are much more urgent issues, such as fighting the virus? Such an 'investigation' only serves to legitimize prejudice and political agendas.

It does not surprise me in the least that China sees through these disingenuous intentions.

Earlier this year, China already pledged in front of the UN that they will allow an truly independent, scientific investigation, after the pandemic was over.

Furthermore, China's response to Australia isn't just the result of Australia's call to investigate China. China has been taking punches from Australia for years. Australia went full in on Trump's rhetoric about China being a bully/threat, and has been blasting China in its media for years now. Things inside Australia have escalated so much, that anybody with a Chinese origin is viewed with suspicion for being a potential CCP agent, even if no evidence exists, and even if said person was Australia-born. The COVID-19 investigation call is just the last drop.

Is China sometimes overly sensitive? Yes. Is China always in the right? No. But when you keep insulting a big customer, is it any surprise they chose not to buy from you anymore? The media seems to want to exlusively portrait Australia as a wholly-innocent victim, meaning that that they think it's okay to keep attacking China while being entitled to benefiting from China. In my opinion, Australia needs a dose of self-reflection too, and admit that they too played a part in deteriorating relations.

I hope you guys can continue sort things out at the negotiation table, and mend this broken relationship, rather than continuing to deny own responsibility and to deny this reality where China no longer be walked all over.
Do you know of any?

I'm looking for model legislation. Basis for our own bill(s).

I've scheduled a meeting with two of my representatives. One especially expects you to know what you're asking for (like homework assignment).

I'll probably call my state's attorney general, fishing for ideas.
I suspect it has to do with the EFF being a more formidable legal opponent than Github on their own--also knowing that the EFF has their teeth in the issue, Github won't be dealing with it on their own if it goes to litigaiton.
You can say the exact same thing about all secure messaging, which, after all, has the essential function of keeping documents out of the hands of third parties, including activists and historians. If DKIM upsets you, how do you get your head around disappearing messages?
Juice is not apple, that is competely different argument. 20 apples is quite a lot and dude I picked is small - I intentionally made him smaller then average.

I am 100% confident that pearl clutching over need to replace fruit by vegetables else people will be obese is really not even close to why people get fat.
In fact, we couldn't switch to Scylla prior to 2019 because their support of incremental counters wasn't yet complete.
Writing about life isn't the same as living life. That's always been true. This particular writing was of a quality that I think few of us could match. That it was about something fairly "normal" doesn't change that.

I also wonder just what aspects of what she wrote about you consider "normal". Maine has a small population, there are very few fishermen working today. What are the elements here that are "just normal life for a lot(most?) people" ?
Weird headline to announce that there won't be support for Docker on M1 currently.
I’m sure the restaurant will be very happy to receive their $15 Yelp Ad credit 7 years down the road.
Just spitballing, but maybe Tortuous Interference. The Youtube-DL developers and users have an advantageous business relationship with GitHub/Microsoft, which was interrupted and permanently harmed by the frivolous claim. Github has done this to mitigate the harm, but people will continue to question whether Microsoft will reliably serve, etc.

YouTube-DL could potentially argue Slander of Title, which is well established in terms of claiming ownership of another person's copyright. Claiming someone else's intellectual property is inherently illegal seems pretty similar.

It would be hard for YouTube-DL to prove damages, but with a showing of intent there could be room for punitive damages based on what the RIAA thought they stood to gain.
> if you're finding them too easy then your puzzle rating should be rising to the point where it's offering you puzzles you'll find more challenging.

I'm at 2100 puzzle and they seem to sort of level off.
Apple apps bypassing NEFilterDataProvider on macOS is a bug.
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This fails the role-reversal test. If Donald Trump had his e-mails leaked in 2016, the blackmailer would likely have extorted a ransom payment from then-candidate Trump. He paid off Stormy Daniels, after all. Nobody would have gotten any juicy e-mail dumps, and some criminals would have had actual leverage over politicians. Just because Hillary Clinton was less shrewd than Donald Trump does not mean that blackmail material is good for us as citizens just because some politicians don't pay ransoms on principle.

If you want transparency from your politicians, then you should demand unconditional archival and publication of campaign e-mails. Build transparency into the system. Leakers are not archivists, nor are they journalists. They are leakers, with an entirely different set of motivations and incentives which only sometimes align with journalistic or archival motivations. You as a member of the public will not hear about leaks if the person in possession of those leaked files has successfully extorted or ransomed the politician they came from. In this particular threat model, DKIM does not provide a social benefit to you as a citizen, it provides a monetary benefit to the leaker.
Obese people can now elect a President. You can't ignore 42% of the populace. If you tell them what they don't want to hear, you don't get their vote. Socialized medicine, which is inevitable in the US, will be their final victory...healthy people will effectively be punished through taxation in order to subsidize the healthcare of the obese (for bonus points, the obese will more likely to be on disability or be unemployed).
This feels a bit tortured. COVID has, is, or is threatening to overload our healthcare system as evidenced by:

1) Severely reduced in-take of new patients of patients due to lack of beds available (and longer COVID recovery time)

2) Reduced ability to effectively care for other patients due to limited beds and transmissibility of the disease, and workforce reductions as healthcare workers get sick (this is not a hypothetical, this is happening in the hospital my wife and brother work at).

3) Forcing healthcare works to perform their jobs without subsequent PPE for their own protection, increasing their own health risks and creating serious issues for mental well-being when working in this environment day-in and day-out.

The healthcare system is designed to treat patients. Believing the system is not exceeding what it can handle because somehow "the system itself" is not damaged (which I'm not even sure what you mean by that) but dismissing patient care and outcomes is like evaluating a vehicle's crash rating, but not evaluating the damage to the vehicle occupants.
Im surprised at what lengths people go to sustain their attachment to their macs and apple. It used to be it just works, i don't have time to tinker. Now you have to get your hands dirty for no particular reason other than apple wants to revamp everything in order to secure a new milkcow for the next generation. Come back to linux!
That was also my experience until I mixed in THC and heroic amounts of mountain biking and racquetball.

For me, the conditioning had to be broken. I knew that other people enjoy working out. It didn’t make sense that I couldn’t. I came to feel that my body was lying to me, and it pissed me off.

Maybe it’s hard to boot up the endorphin process, or something. I don’t have a good explanation, but pure rage and good weed powered me through the barrier.
The economy is impacted by people not spending as they were pre covid due to the desire to both avoid contracting the virus in locations they would have previously frequented as well as people saving more in fear of a weakening economy.

My savings rate has increased significantly since Covid as I am barely eating out at all due to the risk of contracting Covid via restaurants as well as worrying that the economy could get much worse and wanting to be prepared. I am just an average person so I would assume that there are many hundreds of thousands of people doing the same as me, thus the economy contracts.

My state is essentially not shut down at all, so very little impact is due to government regulations and almost all of it is due to personal spending choices. The less restrictions in place, the more the virus spreads and the less money I spend.

The economy is highly dependent on people spending and many people dont want to spend right now.
Apparently you're fine and I'm just biased against the term, don't mind me. Sorry to have raised the issue. :)
You’re a real trooper to go through this.
Using straight edge and compass:

- draw a line
- pick two points on the line
- label them 1 and 10
- bisect the segment to get √10
- bisect the halves to get 10^¼ and 10^¾
- etc.

You can’t do much better, as the logarithms of rational numbers tend to be transcendental.
So, the current working theory about Africa is that they have really good contact-tracing systems (because they still have lots of infectious diseases) and people comply more with infection control measures (because they still have infectious diseases).

The trouble with the developed world is that public health has been so successful that people appear to have forgotten why we need it.
Yes, but we have a world wide sample to choose from, even countries where it is legal. Yet it has not been identified as a problem point. Not to mention that there is enough awareness of Covid that if there was an issue it would surely be shared informally amongst those workers. Yet, such warnings are absent.
Nobody is telling you to not be gay.
If you being gay is a secret, then don't send that secret over _plain fucking text email_.

Do you send your social security number to people in emails?

Email has never been privileged communication and the problem isn't one of validation but one of not understanding one's level of privacy and risk. It uses relays without end-to-end encryption and there's no guarantee that what you sent is not totally out in the open.
I'm aware, i was just suggesting that there is no highway with no speed limit in Italy
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Why do you use Yelp?

I've never needed it because every restaurant that I go to is on Google or maintains their own website. It's been known for years now that the reviews on Yelp are largely fake and they hide legit ones, so it's nearly useless for that as well. At least with Google Maps reviews, I can click on the reviewer and see the other places they've been.
Oddly, in my US elementary education we spent a lot of time in 4th and 5th grade learning about different kinds of maps and their trade offs. Perhaps my classes were anomalous?
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Wasn't gab kicked off from their domain registrar?

I don't know much about Parler, but going just by what people are saying, it seems just like twitter but for conservatives, so it's no good either. Not sure what gab is now up to, but from what I remember, it was just a free speech site. They had some rules like no doxing, but other than that they never banned anyone for anything. You could say anything you want no matter what your politics are, as long as you didn't violate the law. So the issue for me is not really "conservative clubs", but that you will get targeted by the companies up the food chain, just by allowing free speech to be exercised.
but only those who maintain code will be affected by takedown requests on their repos
Customers balk at fees in many cases. Free shipping doesn't really make sense as it is baked into the item price, but it gets a lot more people to buy.
They switched focus because mRNA therapies are quite toxic and mult-dose therapies aren't well tolerated. vs vaccines which only need to be administered once or twice.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/10/moderna-trouble-mrna/
It's obvious to you that corporations don't break laws because doing so is illegal? That's very naive.
Other browsers have the key, why would this one be different ?
> how do you get your head around disappearing messages?

I mean I try to publish most of my interesting email conversations on the web, because every time you have a good email conversation that isn't public it's like taking a $100 bill and lighting it on fire. So I wouldn't ever personally use disappearing messages.

Literally the first rule of email is that if you wouldn't want it on the front page of the NYT then you shouldn't send it. The first national scandal involving email was Iran Contra in 1986. People should know by now not to put anything into an email that they wouldn't be comfortable with the entire world knowing. And while privacy is hugely important to individuals and essential for a healthy society, to me rotating DKIM keys feels like it's incentivizing people to use email incorrectly.
I consider this inauthentic speech (impersonation, fraud).

I'm now looking for model legislation, ideas on how to fix this. As said upthread, I'm meeting with two of my reps.

Please share any ideas.
One benefit is simplifying the offline-first story. There is a lot of tooling around this and cloud graphql services like AWS AppSync include it out of the box.

It's perhaps less useful for web apps than mobile apps. Even there, retrieving only deltas of modified data can add efficiency over repeating REST calls. Which is possible with REST as well, but more complex.
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I want to highlight that in the comments so far, every-time someone mentions what it takes to avoid obesity or how they themselves are responsible for their own obesity a large group of people come out and explain how obesity is unavoidable and you don't have control over what you put in your mouth and swallow.

It takes zero effort to explain why you can't do something. There are no shortages of people telling us every day why everything sucks. It's the cheap answer.

If you are still reading, how about taking the tact that if you are going to tell someone why their idea doesn't work you are obligated to provide some solutions as well?
Yes, exactly.

I'm the father of an at risk child, there is absolutely no way we can totally isolate ourselves from society at large.

I could go into depth about our situation, but what I came here to say is: don't believe any hand waving politician who says we can set up some sort of parallel society, where all the venerable are sheltered, whilst the rest go about our lives. It's just the latest incarnation of survival of the fittest.

If New Zealand, with probably the world's best geographic / technological isolation, can't prevent infection, how can we expect that from a family of 4, an old man living alone, a recuperating heart patient?
There's now a bulwark between developers and bad actors attempting to use Github and the legal framework against them. It is very probably that outside actual, valid legal justification, what the RIAA tried will never be tried again, thanks to the presence of that fund.

Put a price on that.
Those other users probably don't get their content taken down as much.
This seems like a clear false / deceptive advertising issue, not protected as a Section 230 safe harbor act, that should easily be addressable by the FTC.
> Of course, informed people will know that anybody could have faked them, but I would guess normal people would be fooled. In addition, there is no way to say the emails are definitely fake. At least now, we can tell between actual leaked emails and fake emails.

No, you can't. Google used to use 512- and 1024-bit RSA keys for DKIM signatures, both of which are comfortably within the means of small-to-medium-sized nation states. They currently use 2048-bit keys, which will probably be crackable within the next decade.

DKIM is providing a false sense of non-repudiation here, one that it was never designed (much less correctly implemented) to provide.
This reminds me of the story Steve Yegge told about Emacs powering Amazon's customer service for years:

> Mailman was the Customer Service customer-email processing application for ... four, five years? A long time, anyway. It was written in Emacs. Everyone loved it.

> People still love it. To this very day, I still have to listen to long stories from our non-technical folks about how much they miss Mailman. I'm not shitting you. Last Christmas I was at an Amazon party, some party I have no idea how I got invited to, filled with business people, all of them much prettier and more charming than me and the folks I work with here in the Furnace, the Boiler Room of Amazon. Four young women found out I was in Customer Service, cornered me, and talked for fifteen minutes about how much they missed Mailman and Emacs, and how Arizona (the JSP replacement we'd spent years developing) still just wasn't doing it for them.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel#TOC-...
Since the comments here seem to have taken a turn of "How to fix obesity"; for anyone reading this article who wants to lose weight I would strongly recommend The Hacker's Diet. Especially if you're a developer or in IT the book may appeal to you as it's written by an IT person who approached weight loss as a technical problem. I lost 70lb in 2 years thanks to this book. The fulltext can be found here:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
Can't defeat a restaurant named 1-800-YELPSUX
"Downloading" doesn't mean "saving a copy" (unless you count "saving a temporary copy of its chunks in RAM"...). Most of my youtube-dl usage comes from its mpv integration, so the video is simply streamed directly for playback.
How New York’s missteps let Covid-19 overwhelm the US
‘A God’ is certainly fiction. But I wonder if there is a hidden God behind Faith? There are so many religions. With many philosophies and gods and rules and prayers. What unites them all is faith in something invisible and obviously omnipotent.

Perhaps faith in ‘something greater than ourselves’ = surrender of the ego self?

It could be that simple if it can come down to just that.
The show is actually based on a book by the same name published in 1983 [0], never read it myself. The chess moves in it are apparently taken from Fischer and others, but it doesn't credit Fischer in any other way.

Which is kind of weird considering the show did even the comparing the protagonist to Paul Morphy thing that also applied to Fischer.

The book also tackles themes like drug addiction and feminism, but I found the show's take on these mostly pointless and superficial. Her drug addiction is never depicted as a struggle, she performs well drugged as well as sober, more of a comedic air to it than serious affliction.

It's also slightly historically revisionist when claiming there were no female chess clubs in the US back then, when there actually were whole female national championships since the late 1930s. The show also claimed how in the USSR women would never play against men, completely ignoring the history of Nina Alexandrovna Bluket [1], who's life would probably have made for a way more interesting and authentic story than a gender-swapped Bobby Fischer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen%27s_Gambit_(novel)

[1] https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/pioneers-of-soviet-wo...