skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this nonsense does a disservice to those children of bad parents who happen to make more money.
Wait, isn't font rendering client-side? Why would the server have to know how fonts are rendered on my end?
^ "but only for X11"
Something article points out, which always blows my mind when I think about it, is that B cells (along with T cells and a recently-discovered neurological cell) are one of only three types of cells which can edit their own DNA. Which is a weird privilege - they are allowed to be different to the rest of us.

Another weird thing about the immune system is that although it is most well-known for it's role in protecting us against pathogens, it actively protects us from cancer on a regular basis. The cancers that do appear in humans are possibly only a tiny percentage of the number that have existed.

The article focusses mainly on B cells. But T cells are a really key anti-viral cell. CD4 T cells coordinate the immune response (B cells included, as well as CD8 T cells, NK cells, innate cells etc etc ). There are a similar number of immune cells in our body as their are neurons, and they theoretically can interact with any other immune cell, communicating in several ways. We are nowhere near understanding how it all works together yet!
> I miss productivity!

I don't understand the productivity unless you just have bad employees playing games or browsing reddit.

My productivity has never been higher. I get more done and have more free time to work on unplanned projects/spikes exploring new tech or rethinking old problems that could be solved better.

> I miss having my employer pay for electricity and heat and fast symmetric multi-gigabit Internet access instead of shifting those costs to me.

If your employer doesn't pay for these things (I'm assuming no one has gotten elec/heat, but I do get my internet bill paid for) you can deduct these on your taxes as a portion of your home if you have a side business like a saas or app or some consulting and reduce your taxible profits. Take a the wasted commute time and put it towards a LLC for yourself :)

> Hell, I miss BART in all its loud and smelly glory.

Who misses the single most time sink in our lives?? If yuo need "alone time" why not go for a walk, jog, or bike ride? Mental and physical health all in one go vs a sedentary ride to a sedentary job

The rest of the stuff is either personal preference or where you chose to live
because some people earning very high incomes do so by indulging poor decision making.
Yes they were and our bodies developed immune responses over time to combat this.
Indeed, bringing your own keyboard and mouse if necessary should be a nobrainer. Though having the employer pay for those things would be even better, but it’s not always the case.
GitLab CI exposes the pipeline ID and it would work for that.
Because breaking out your calculator when you want to figure out whether you can divide 22 students evenly into groups of three is going to get you laughed at.

Divisibility by 13 is of course not as useful/applicable as divisibility by three, but the question is then more nuanced: "Why should I memorize this particular divisibility trick?"
Ionic – Cross-Platform Mobile App Development
This kind of work just makes me angry.

Background: I find it highly plausible that low parental income causes increased risk of mental disorders. I also think it is extremely important to know whether low parental income causes mental disorders, and to have a good estimate of the effect size.

So I read through this and of course down at the end we get:

"It is important to note that rather than investigating the causal effect of parental income per se, we conceptualised parental income as an indicator for an array of measured and unmeasured monetary and non-monetary indices of family’s social environments that are typically interrelated. As our results indicate, controlling for a range of covariates attenuates the relative risk estimates observed, but such estimates would still only constitute partial adjustments as it would never be possible to control for all relevant correlates, and therefore completely disentangle these non-monetary influences from the direct monetary impact."

The first sentence is true. Dropping the pompous gobbledegook, it says "we don't know if this is a correlation or a causal link". Yeah, that's what I expected.

The second sentence is just bullshit. "it would never be possible to control for all relevant correlates..." - sure, if you do crappy 1980s-style observational research that is all you'll ever get. Meanwhile, for the past, oh, twenty years or more, there have been people doing actual experiments to find out the causal effect of poor people getting more money. I mean, say what you like about Jefffrey Sachs but at least he knew to run an experiment.

How does the medical profession continually get away with this garbage social science? Are they stupid? Do they not understand that this work adds zero value? Or are they just pretending not to know about the alternatives - i.e. they're liars? Which is it? Stupid? Or liars?

Another piece of flagrant dishonesty is their recommendation: "Interventions to mitigate the disadvantages linked with low income, and better opportunities for upward socioeconomic mobility, are needed to reduce social inequality in mental health". OK, so you just admitted that you don't know whether low income causes mental health problems. But now apparently we need to fix low income so as to stop causing mental health problems. Which is it?

If you're a left wing person, God bless you. Now, how about producing some decent social science instead of this worthless garbage?

Edit: here's a review of the causal literature on cash transfers from 2016. It includes an entire chapter on health. Relevant quote:

"All studies included under question one – examining the effects of cash transfers on the selected outcomes – had to use either an experimental design (i.e. randomised control trial (RCT) or cluster-RCT)57 or a quasi-experimental design that relies on a credible control group." (They did allow for diff-in-diff, which isn't perfect, but at least they are talking about causality.)

https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-document...
Its not about the choises - its about the available options to choose from.
exactly.
we should cut obscene, insane and downright inhuman incomes down to 'high'.
Training an RNN to Count to Three
We also found TOR effective, especially on the Safest setting (~10 bits).

Firefox comes close with uBlock, NoScript, privacy.resistFingerprinting, and strict privacy settings
Last time I checked, a NUC was considerably more expensive..
An older man once told me that, "sometimes things own you". I didn't understand at the time (I was younger), but now I know exactly what he meant.
so what are you going to do? Stay there and shame? Or are you gonna get busy helping?
If it's a very rare event you might not care. Look at how google applies security rules. They don't mind closing a few accounts unfairly if it means they can automate the whole process. I can't imagine they would care about flipping a few pixels in a handful of the hundred of millions of photos they host.
Great! I'll check it out!
> I didn't read long enough to understand if this is a satire or not.

I'm afraid it might not be satire at all judging from the author's other writings:

https://gitlab.com/drummyfish/my_writings/-/blob/master/capi...
May have confused the interesting translation with Punto Abreojos / open eyes / “eye opener” a bit further south in Baja.
Problem is, taxing electricity appropriately shuts down your whole economy. Prices would need to be sky-high before SV would feel the squeeze, till then mom and pop wont be able to run their electric hob and your neighbourhood steel smelter will move to china even faster. Taxes may seem like an easy solution, but if you look closely it is far more complex.
So the os is providing an abstraction so you don't need to know the underlying hardware, filesystems etc. Sqlite is all like, "yeah but we need to know what you're abstracting or everything is terrible."

This seems like a common problem in general.

Abstraction to a common interface is fine so if you don't care what the abstracted thing is you don't need to. Great. Read a basic file off spinning disk, ssd, cdrom, nfs - all the same, all good.

But if you do care you can't know what it really is because they've abstracted the underlying away with whatever layer(s) sit on top.

Should it be a question we need to consider when writing libraries, or any other abstraction, how does one penetrate your abstraction if they need to? Are you really, completely 100% sure they don't and shouldn't?

There's a kind of arrogance that we fall into making decisions for others when we design APIs, library interfaces, etc where we know what we're exposing and users don't know what's good for them. Maybe that's right sometimes, i don't know?

This sqlite paper casts some pretty strong doubt on that as an approach, imho.

What do you think? Have we all been missing something like this in api design?
But those commits are FAST - tens of thousands of writes a second, easily. So if you want to handle multiple writing users at once, put the writes in an in-memory queue and send them to SQLite as fast as it will accept them.
A vaccine will hopefully bring some much needed sanity back into the world.

In my country Corona related deaths are about 1% of all deaths, but it’s treated as if it is extremely deadly.
The size of the cake is not fixed. Excessive redistribution somehow leads to less cake production.
The plug-in redirects to old Reddit automatically when following links, so if it worked for you that would not be an issue.
Indeed, for me the best UNIX experiences that have been created so far have been NeWS and NEXTSTEP (macOS), and I wouldn't mind if Linux would just standardize on one stack as well.
I am trying to help, having the right mindset is critical.
Because that ignores the complexities of the labor market, the economy and life
And that exactly happend with globalization for US cititin.
It’s surprising to me that sites which depend on users seeing their content to make money, would add something that blocks the user from seeing the site.

It makes no sense. If there isn’t a legal requirement, why would they risk impacting their ability to make money?
In my field, what's interesting is how ECC memory corrections are going from being considered abnormal - an indicator you have faulty hardware and should replace it - to totally normal and an absolute must-have part of your implementation.
That is the beauty (sometimes cruel beauty) of capitalism. It's not up to you to imagine a way for this to happen. Anyone can imagine a way to increase their own wealth by creating value for other people.

Increasing income does not have to be increasing the number of dollars you make either. What if you made the same money, but it went a longer way? Like you could get cheaper healthcare, but good food for less, or have any other show up at your doorstep in two business days?

I'm not saying our system is perfect, and I actually agree that this is probably a good time to look at redistribution of wealth. But I think limiting others' creativity because of our own lack of imagination is a terrible idea that makes us all worse off.
I don't think it is satire, but if the author reads this, one first reading it really seems like they want to get people to hate them, but I don't think they do.

ALso, they really shouldn't claim "Doom clone" when their game is, technically, much worse than doom in many ways, when one of their major arguments is other games are "made wrong".
(IANAL) This reads like an argument about agency. Is the tool (browser, python script, etc) used by the user separate from the user themselves?

There seems to be some similarity to Connecticut v Amero case[1], though in reverse - where the actions performed by a tool (browser), which was corrupted (DNS highjack) were used to show intent on the part of the user.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Amero
Defaults in a VM. No plugins
Microsoft Todo Clone for web, now designed like macOS Big Sur
Yes, In the US in 1976.

https://www.history.com/news/swine-flu-rush-vaccine-election...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
What is the purpose of having an empty pair base class? (C++)
If Deen - or any other concept - posits one or more dieties as creators of the universe, then atheism is explicitly not the same; on the other hand, if it does not, then it is irrelevant to the claim that atheism is a religion.
Basics of Convolution
CVE-2020-28936 – Risks from symmetric encryption in UniFi’s inform protocol
In the proud tradition of people lacking a formal education in philosophy, I think I got it slightly wrong - the continuum fallacy is the better fit.
Shouldn't the bitcoin price be higher on USDT shops like Bitfinex and Binance then, vs other exchanges? I'd expect USDT buying pressure to drive up the price, while elsewhere there would be selling pressure to get real USD out. Yet this doesn't seem to be the case.
I moved during the pandemic and went from an awful to pretty great home office setup.

It's much better, don't get me wrong, but I'm surprised at how much I still miss the office. It's all about the people for me. I had no idea how much energy I got from the team and being together in the same space, even as a fairly introverted technologist. Remote communication technology is nowhere close to being able to replicate that. It's one of those things you don't realize is missing until it's gone.

I'm hoping to be able to continue with some hybrid of WFH and in-office post pandemic. However, if I had to pick one, I'd choose in-office no doubt -- even with my fancy home office.
Working title: Bricks into bits, or Bits of bricks.
I built a proper home office with a built in desk and electric chroma key roller shade.

My drive for socialization has been pushed to friends and family. No more work talk off the clock.

To say my qualify of life has increased by a order of magnitude is an understatement

Full disclosure: I have
misophonia and also detest office smells.
So on his front page he is using IDs instead of classes. So no chance of reuse.

I agree that we should be as semantic, as reasonably possible. But I'd rather have reusable CSS.
I have changed “local area” much more often than workplace in my career so far. I feel like in an average inner city office where many people are likely to have moved around for work, especially amongst younger people, it's probably not the case that they have a healthy group of lifelong friends already in their local area.
> Yes, the Intel policy to intentionally cripple their cheaper SKUs, hoping to extort money from customers by pushing them to buy more expensive SKUs, is extremely annoying.

I agree that this practice sucks, but to play devils advocate - is it possible that this is due to binning / yield maximization?
Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans for Centuries (2016)
Now that is a good question!

There are solutions, but they are not overly compelling from a cost perspective (yet)

For a g4dn.8xlarge (32 cpus, 128 gigs of ram) plus one GPU its $1000 a month (or $355 if you're only doing 12 hours a day 5 days a week, no over night renders source: https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator)

Thats still $4k a year.

seeing as you need a remove viewing solution too, so you need a machine to host the Keyboard Video and Mouse, its still not great.

Compared to a hp z640 with 48 threads(E5-2673 V3), 128 gigs of ram plus nvidia 3070 is about $2200 - $2900 (https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/hp-z840-tower-a-configure-...)

Where the cloud is useful is if you are hiring someone for a 3 month contract, or you need to render something fast, as 100 hours on one machine costs the same as 1 hour on a 100 machines.
Huge if true.
Previously, I don't want to use Vimari because I think it only emulate C-n C-p as their j k bindings respectively. The effect of this is, it won't work great on sites that already have their own key handler, such as GitHub.

Today, I tried reinstall Vimari. It is a lot better now! Thank you for indirectly making me reinstall Vimari!
Let's define mental illness better. We don't lump all bumps, bruises, and broken bones into physical illness.

Yea, it's out of touch to tell someone with broken legs to walk it off. But, if someone got the wind knock out of them. That's perfectly fine advice.

In fact, I hope and believe the majority of mental illness cases are not serious. Like, most physical cases. It's just harder to see, so people have a harder time properly categorizing it. Which is damaging to a person psyche. If someone has a sprain ankle, but thinks they have cancer. Imagine the unnecessary trauma and hopelessness the person is experiencing.
You're attacking the idea that 'permanently broken' is meaningful.

avmich already did this, and it doesn't hold water. Please see my response to avmich's comment.
I tried out Brave a few years ago and soon noticed it did not completely clear history on close when configured to do so. While the history was not shown in the UI, you could see it was retained because URLs visited in previous sessions were shown in :visited style (links were purple instead of blue with default CSS. Note that this can also be queried via JS and thus allows sites to extract your browsing history).

I reported the issue at the time but they said the won't fix it since they were moving away from brave-laptop. They still had issues[1] clearing forms of local storage year later. They are not taking privacy seriously.

They also took crypto from users under the false pretense of taking payment on behalf of content creators[2].

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9929

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...
Did someone new take over the RIAA in the last 18 months? I felt like this absurd litigation and nonsense was a thing of the past. I haven’t heard much on this topic in years but then all of the sudden the stupidity was cranked to 11.

No one steals music any more. What are these studios thinking??
The existence of tricky edge-cases does not show that the categories are meaningless. Please see my response to avmich's comment.
I think NikolaNovak is making the point that advocates of the "atheism is a religion" view equivocate over what it is that atheism is supposedly a case of.
I use a similar distro, Puppy, because it has the ability to copy its squashed file system (SFS) files to RAM and then continue running with the persistent storage medium detached.

It has certain peculiarities like defaulting to logging in and running everything other than web browsers as root, so I’d like to switch to Tinycore if it’s different in that respect. My main concern is package availability — Puppy is compatible with the repos of major distros like Ubuntu.
Who are the coaches? What are their backgrounds/experience? Do we get to choose our own coach?
There's also the causality direction in question. Are they parents richer in part because they are less likely to have psychological disorders? Hence the offspring is also more likely to have fewer psychological disorders?

In that scenario money is a correlated variable, and the root cause is somewhere else.
I do. I think something like this could become a competitive differentiator (smoother collaboration when you need it) and recruiting tool.
I guess it boils down to what you need. Sometimes performance per $ matters most and and sometimes you need to hit a minimal performance target for a system to even be worth considering.
I am absolutely shocked that the initial encryption key is literally the md5sum of "ubnt".

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=MD5()&input=dWJudA

I wonder what the folks at HostiFi (cloud hosted UniFi controller software) might be thinking right now...

edit: Looks like they've seen it. Their response is here:
https://twitter.com/_rchase_/status/1329949952408244231
> See the discussion about speed gains Apple got from accelerating common calls in their OS. You will never convince a bin part/least common denominator manufacturer like Intel or AMD to do that.

Of course you will because that happens all the time. How do you think we ended up with VT-x and friends? Intel took a use case that reached enough usage and added specialized instructions for it. This has happened a ton over the years on x86. See also AES-NI for a more application-specific addition. In addition to obviously the huge amount of SIMD experimentation.

This is not fruit Apple discovered. AMD & Intel haven't been leaving this performance on the table the last 20+ years. Hell the constant addition of instructions for certain workloads is a major reason x86 is as huge & complex as it is.
Video games provide this lesson relatively cheaply. The next level is tantalizing but the high of winning lasts...5 minutes? 1 day? The intensity of what you describe is not felt in this example, but going through that cycle 20 times is instructive.

Another way to look at it: In life/happiness, optimize for the area under the curve, not for a single high point.
That page looks like it hasn’t been updated since 2008 and the wiki is down. :/
I use the Beaglebone Green and Beaglebone Green Wireless due lots of projects at work. They're nice boards.

My main frustration with them is that there's a ton of outdated documentation around how some of the software stack works. It's changed quite a bit over the last 5 years and you can easily go down pointless rabbit holes.
Anecdotally, I see many people with poor decision-making skills prosper because they were born into wealth, and conversely many who make the best decisions available to them yet fail to thrive because of situational challenges (or, for example, the decision to become a schoolteacher in the US).

Bad decisions may (may) lead you to financial ruin, but financial ruin is not an indicator of bad decisions.
If that's what it takes to meet the needs of every individual, then yes.
Having experienced both I confirm that there are a whole lot of similarities between the two
Not to mention that the meaning of "violence" has been shifting steadily as well.

Like this game and the art project, but the ideas like "no violence on living beings" (see the FAQ for more nonsense) seems pretty misguided.
> When I'm guessing how long something will last, I guess it's about halfway through its life

That is called Lindy effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Having software that helps mitigate timing attacks and pre-fetches uninteresting content is a start. Disabling JS will be painful but helpful tool. Although disabling JS makes you a uniquely identifiable user. Not sure, but I think this should spark disfission.
I used this distro to boot up an old 486 machine that I had lying around. It worked. Just did it to try it out.
...or that there is a relationship between income and parenting abilities.

The study does not attempt to answer the why. Speculation is kind of fruitless.
RepoBrowser too. Edit: but the forum has recent posts (some from today): http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/
It's just a Linux computer, so you can use whatever you like : Qt, GTK, web, Flutter, LVGL, ImGui, custom OpenGL UI (like Blender & Godot), etc.

But you might prefer a library that has mobile-ready widgets. For that GTK is actually not bad, especially with LibHandy, but QT/Flutter is also be great choice. It's up to you
>In fact, I hope and believe the majority of mental illness cases are not serious.

Who are you to decide the seriousness of a mental illness?
Like I said, I don’t actually want docker or docker compose, but they are directionally correct. Notably YAML over INI is a nice improvement. Also, that the docker daemon has a real API and not just dbus.
> Income inequality has and continues to cause detriment for societies.

No casual link has been established. Try it the other way 'round, it makes more sense.