skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elixir’s ability’s to be used as a scripting language due to compile time has been one of its few weakness IMO against other languages such as Python and Go. Will be interesting to see if this changes the game.
Nitpick on definition of "real" and "objective" follows. Proceed at your own risk :-)

Would you agree that given exact info of conditions one can objectively assign concrete probability? That would give objectivity to it.

Definition of "real" for daily life is hard (impossible?). I would say "probabilities" are as real as other useful constructs that impact our lifes. Examples would be "countries" and "laws".

Is country X real? (what if it is recognised only by 1 UN nation?) Is law real? Is law real in <insert-country-in-turmoil-with-very-very-selective-enforcement>.
You don’t need to reparation, just configure it to use a swap file. If you set swappiness to zero it will only use it when out of ram.
Ugh, sorry, I misread that. The workaround I would recommend on iOS is just turn javascript off in Safari and install another (Safari-skin) browser like Chrome for the times when you need javascript -- or vice versa, depending on what your default preference is.
> Windows, MacOS, and iOS/Android would all be stinking piles of hot garbage if it weren't for open source, but then again Linux or the *BSD operating systems wouldn't be where they are today without contributions from companies acting to make a profit.

The open source part doesn't change anything. Windows has so many hooks that 1984 (the book, not the year) is now a reality in 2020 with DLP software watching employees. Apple's walled garden is not there to encourage growth inside the walls but to extract profit from those that flourish inside of it. And linux is so fragmented because everyone has a great new idea which requires a new X where X is a UI, library, window manager, etc.

Interesting that back in 1980's the Apple II line was frankly pretty darn well open. Sure Apple had copyrights on the assembly, but if you looked at the magazines at the time there were lots of articles giving annotated disassembly of Apple's object code. And yet, Apple sold a bunch of computers anyway. Wow. Fucking genius.

Sure Apple is fighting the Good Fight with privacy (and I've yet to see that it's anything different than pure marketing). But I ask why should Apple need to market "privacy first" when they can just open up their software and show us directly? Let's start by open sourcing any telemetry they send back to the mothership. Is that reasonable perhaps?
As naive as this may sound, but is there an internationally recognised ethics framework for signal intelligence?

Something similar to the Geneva Convention perhaps?
I didn't meant the "US armed forces" part, but the "them being that petty" one. Messing with a lunar mission would be risking an open conflict. I'm hoping they know better than to try that.
Fips builds C/C++ to Win/OS X/Linux/iOS/emscripten/Android, fetches deps+SDKs
It's all over the map. 88 orders this year so far for one person. Some trivial things I'd probably have searched in the grocery store for normally, e.g. toothpicks. Though now I'm sort of "Why would I bother searching?" But also office gear. Stuff I'd have picked up at the pharmacy. Pandemic entertainment options. Etc.
Switch to Torx only and they'll have my business instead of Amazon.
They don't want to take the leap of faith? Too bad, I'm buying from Amazon or McMaster then because Philips is just shit and shouldn't exist anymore.

I'm not here to defend anyone, I'm just saying very matter-of-factly why I often don't use retail stores anymore, and what they can do to make me want to use them.
Damn this hit me hard, why do I blog so much about migrating old PHP websites to static site generators.
Whoa! Blew through my marketing gibberish budget less than one paragraph in.
I do my shopping when I'm near the shops anyway. It's creating negligible extra emissions.
Just as a general reminder to anyone reading this: forum comments are incredibly biased and hardly ever represent reality accurately.
I think this is related to the bayesian/frequentist approach to statistics. Bayesian statistics revolves around incorporating knowledge to update beliefs and probabilities express degrees of belief. IE, bayesian probability is the logic of uncertainty and how we should reason with imperfect information.

The most famous example of this is the "draw a ball from an urn" example, and how we frequently day we "shake" the urn after we add the balls to "randomize" it. There is a lot of wordplay going on in stats to effectively forget certain information so that the problem I'd workable
There is an easy and straightforward way to make this chain successful. Put in on a team bike that wins. 2% is quite a bit in a peloton. 2% of 2% is Biopace.
except ValueError:
print('Incorrect key or file corrupted.')

So if there is a tag problem, this is clearly logged, and you know something is wrong. The good thing is that you can easily edit it and have instead (pass the filename fn to the function, to be able to log):

print('Incorrect key or file corrupted, will be deleted:', fn)
os.remove(fn)
exit(...)

Real question: is it possible to `.verify(tag)` before having decrypt(...) the whole file? I doubt it is possible. So an option could be to write the file in a temporary place, and then, only when tag is verified, move it to the right place. Delete it if it is not verified. Another option would be to do a first pass of decrypt(), without writing anything to disk, then get the tag, verify it, and then if ok, redo the whole decryption with writing on disk this time. The latter might be a bit too extreme and halfs the performance.
By the way, you're off by a decade on when NRL did the onion routing research -- it was in the 90s rather than the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing#Development_and_...
This is good to hear. I presume that this practice will soon be banned because America is a democracy.
For my more popular plan I charge the agency $2,800/year and they markup to $3,500. I offer another plan that includes only WP updates (no enhancement requests) for $1,000/year.
I just read the article; the parts about Jews are particularly interesting. It looks like in the current climate a critical look at activities of some countries or peoples became a taboo. I understand the motivation behind that, but by stifling any reasonable discussion we might get an opposite result.
As far as the name goes, how about adding an extra ‘e’ to have it spelled Teex? Indpired by .eex file extension.
Objectively bad in that we have, what 1 million cases, and over 19,000 deaths? Absolutely!

Compared to the rest of the US, where CA is 42nd in cases per 1M population with about 30,000, and 38th in death rate with 484 deaths/1M population, we don't look so bad.

On the global stage, if CA was a country, in deaths we'd be 32nd (where Luxembourg is); better than Sweden, France, UK, Italy, and Spain, but worse than Portugal, Ireland, Canada...

In cases (probably harder to figure due to testing rates), we'd also be in the low 30s in terms of places, but we'd be worse than some of those countries above; in particular, Sweden and Italy.

I don't see how this fits your description of a state that is doing awful on the global stage.

(worldometer)
True. But I like to reinforce my trust with open and verifiable information.

Meaning, I would prefer the can of baked beans from a company that is open about where their beans come from and in what conditions. That would be possible today, and is already done to some extend but in early stages.

But getting your food from the local farmer, where you can actually visit the farm, it is much more easy to trust that it is good.

And regarding software, well - open source, preferably with a open community (or company) around it, where you can at least look through the actual dev logs and git submits to see if they sound solid and if you have the time and skills, jump into it to verify that they do as promised.

Then I can have trust. Otherwise the trust would have to be blind. And society has spoiled that for me, for various reasons.
This is really interesting, like a computer algebra system[1] but for geometry. Seems like it could be extended to cover the non-shape based documentation (material properties, design loads, etc) as well.

One thing I've never seen is optimization techniques paired up with any sort of in-depth cost data. It's usually based on naïve extrapolations based on total material weight or volume, and doesn't take into account things like crane costs (a function of max component weight and building extents) local material availability, component fixed costs, number of connections, logistics costs, etc. There's a ton of low-hanging fruit in design optimization that you could pick before you even had to reach for AI-based methods, though the AI methods are obviously the long term future of the space.

[1] - http://www.math.wpi.edu/IQP/BVCalcHist/calc5.html#:~:text=A%....
Certain things are illegal to do even to the actual soldiers of a country you're at war with. I'd be interested to learn if these rules have been updated since the Internet (or ARPANET for that matter) created a whole new realm of possibilities and connections, but I assume not. I think you're right in saying that conventions for this sort of thing are a good idea.

The rules will have to be very permissive for aggressors or even friendly nations to actually follow them to some degree, but it could still cover things that directly cost civilian lives like hacking a hospital in a way that risks lives. (Recently someone in Germany died because of malware in a hospital, though the public prosecutor concluded--as expected--there was too little causal evidence to press charges, even if they could find the perpetrator in the first place.)
> Having positive feelings towards one's country is a pretty normal, pretty emotionally healthy thing. Their absence indicates some internal or external conflict or trauma.

That is pub psychology at its most patronising, its most flawed, and its most self-serving.

For those of us not so indoctrinated, expressing feelings for any inanimate or noncorporeal object sounds pathological and fetishistic. Indoctrinating children into the same through repetition of a daily mantra is indistinguishable from religion. If nations were an object capable of returning your affection, the routine exploitation, injustice, violence, mismanagement and desecration of trust would make it a situation to be urgently extracted from.

Those who haven't experienced any of those things first-hand, including from the systems and institutions of nations that make the cosmically ironic claim to be the "good guys", are astonishingly, overwhelmingly, revoltingly privileged - and only a small fraction of humanity.

To sum up: patriotism is an abusive relationship with a memetic virus.

Only a monster would promulgate it.
It's funny because my Persian friends describe that their relatives expect taarof to be a thing elsewhere.

Here's an example: my friend was not in the mood for breakfast. The host took it as a sign that he was taarofing. He insisted that he wasn't. His persistence was seen as a sign that he really wants breakfast. The only way to make it stop while being polite was to take a bite. He was furious!
Thanks for the story. I got to hear a lot about Tony through a colleague of his from the LinkExchange days and was able to meet him briefly once.

Sounded like and seemed to be a very singular human being. Makes me think about how much he shaped the landscape of the internet and the world.
You've squeezed a bit into the premise of that question. If, why and how persistently someone was ignored are very relevant questions that we have no facts on. And what the subject of the meeting was.

We know that Alysa Butler felt unappreciated. I'm hesitant to believe the NYT is even representing her opinions fairly. If you read what they've written about carefully, the article doesn't have her accusing Coinbase of any sort of racism, the NYT is just weaving her experience into a story that they construct elsewhere (normal practice in newspapers). A 'diversity problem' is different from racism. 25 year olds being ignored in meetings is not a new phenomenon either in my experience.
Seems like the corporate playbook to me.
As far as I’m concerned, until electric cars are as convenient to charge as gas is to fill up with, it’s a no-go for me. There simply isn’t the infrastructure where I live and frequently travel in the Eastern US to meet my driving needs. This story seems extremely plausible to me.
Law is absolutely not something I would like to be programmatic. The nice thing about having a human being presiding over human affairs is that they can prevent you from using exploits in the letter of the law in the spirit of the law.
What specifically seems so odd about it?

If we know its trajectory with decent precision when it left, and we know the position and gravitational strength of the earth, moon and sun, and you just plug in the numbers and simulate and it should be quite straightforward.

I suppose you're referring to "chaotic" meaning that tiny variations or mismeasurements in its later trajectory would be vastly amplified as its orbits were traced. But my understanding is that such chaotic/unpredictable orbital effects generally show up on the scale of many many thousands of orbits if not much more, not 2 years?
Could still be useful in poor countries where the pandemic is a greater risk.
I agree; I also think saying, "I'm special (read: unique), and everyone else is too," isn't necessarily contradictory or incorrect. It doesn't make you better or more special (or unique) than other people, but it helps you realize that what works for others may not always work for you, and vice versa, and that's okay. It's important when dealing with others and oneself to remember that everyone's different, and different isn't bad.
I am clocking in at 2.13GB on my 16-inch MacBook Pro.
That's not how any insurance I am aware of works. Leaving your door unlocked does not void your homeowners insurance.
Huh a similar behavior exists in India where it is polite to say no the first time. However, it is definitely not part of every single social interaction. I have experienced this a lot when being offered food as a guest - my first few refusals are just ignored, as expected.
It looks like they were unlucky in the number of chargers stops they went to that were either not working or were already occupied.

It does say that they didn’t want to use a 7kw charger because of the time it would have taken to charge it; perhaps it would have helped them if they had.

Most of the stories I have heard of people with electric cars are good, but most charge and drive from home. The motorway network has lots of fast chargers but they are not reliable in terms of whether they are working.

Given the uk wants to end the sale of fossil fuel vehicles in the next 10 years there will have to be a lot more investment in motorway charging spots if they are going to succeed.
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The trick is to avoid trusting parties that have incentives to abuse that trust and means to do so. Free market working the way it does, sooner or later one of such entities will abuse that trust.

So, baked beans are probably OK in terms of SIGINT. Depending on how well food regulations are enforced in your area, I might or might not worry about the edibility of them, though. But on-line services are definitely suspect with respect to data handling. Doubly so, if they pop up where they shouldn't be in the first place - like e.g. IoT - as that's already evidence of a business model built on abusive relationship.
OpenFlops: Open Hardware Floppy Disk Drive Emulator/Simulator
"This site is designed for IE6."

And it's mostly a big ActiveX control.
noscript is sadly, not perfect, but works if you stay 1st party.

A great way to make your browsing better is to disable 3rd party scripts by default and whitelist when needed, but <noscript> fails to work in those conditions.
Could it be that the extreme forms of taarof you’re seeing happens in some sort of social bubble? I grew up in Iran, I’ve seen and lived with taarof, and I’ve never experienced kind of insincerity you’re describing. Taarof has always been a short back and forth to be gotten over with. The invitations and other acts of generosity on the other hand, have always been sincere.
Better languages sure but more difficult ones. I don't do Python very often but there is a still a lot to unpack there. JavaScript is in some ways easier but some ways harder.

QBASIC is on a whole different level.

When my daughter was little, I taught her how to program using Visual Basic longer after it was obsolete. But getting a window on screen and interacting with it is 100x easier there than with Python.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used it but breaking my TeX is a non-starter for me
> We can also punish someone for discrimination simply for exhibiting a pattern of discrimination regardless of intent to discriminate.

It is scary, right? "We can also punish" hides behind the "we", unclear if they mean "We, the people, the court system" or "We, the racial justice movement, public opinion". Then what is this "punishment"? A bad article in the NYT? Calling up your network and suppliers with a 100 people (with too much time and too much anger) to cancel you for being racist? Jail time or a fine for illegal activity?

They are power hungry, totalitarian, and evil. Other comments talk of "subconscious racism" or "white privilege". This comment demands responsibility for outcomes they perceive as unjust, where it is very unjust to demand demographic parity, when it is not possible to attain that, without severely dropping in quality (there are not enough Black people in tech to fill those positions with talent). So they demand you pay/invest to increase Black people in tech. But if too vocal or direct about it, they accuse you of "stating in general that Black people are less capable" as if reasoning from racist motives. So don't look to closely at the reason for not being able to hire as much Black people as society, activist, or the board wants you to.

This activism is a very strong and dangerous and toxic meme. It leads to Qanon levels of delusion, accusing criticism of racism, so it can't be attacked. Where Qanons see the deepstate and pedophiles when looking at government or big business, these activists see a racist society and neo-Nazi's when looking at government or big business. You can't change their minds. They've been in Whatsapp groups for years, pointing out targets for collective actions, and finding counters to often used criticism. It's why no activist would use the word "Identity Politics" even though that's the animal's name (evil Neo-Nazis use that term to attack our efforts!).

So that's why you hear: reverse racism is impossible! Racism has to do with power, and whites have all the power! When nearly every white person can recount cases of being discriminated against, and how terrible it made them feel. Accused of cultural appropriation for liking rap music. Challenged by Black men for having a Black girlfriend. Chosen as victim of robbery, because perceived weak and rich. Accused of getting your promotion, not due to hard work, but because your white old boys network favored your dumb white ass over a Black deserving queen.

If this NYT article was about over-representation of not white Libertarian crypto bros, but of over-representation of Jewish people in positions of power, you'd hear a different tune. Even suggesting that clear fact labels you as anti-Semitic. Apparently white people don't have enough shared culture, shared activism, to make racist anti-male anti-white anti-autist hit pieces like this controversial, even though we supposedly run the world, actively suppress entire races and genders, and create non-inclusive companies out of principle.
Netflix is mostly RACK.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/f607bd6573312609114f...
So you can't spend a one time cost on the scale of downloading Vim 10 times?
> Doubly so, if they pop up where they shouldn't be in the first place - like e.g. IoT

Hanlon's razor, "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", does seem to apply to that particular one, though. But I'm no war historian or politician or something; while the security of these devices is stupidity to the point of criminal negligence, I find it hard to say for sure whether some of this might be on purpose.
Eli also conflicts with this compiler construction toolkit: http://eli-project.sourceforge.net/
I’ve been saying for a while that a serious class action lawsuit, government intervention, or both, is needed in order to curtail these practices.

Amazon, Google and Facebook have laid a path of destruction far and wide through this practice of lifetime bans.

Today these bans mean being excluded from the online business world (achieving scale is almost impossible without them).
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I buy a number of personal products somewhat regularly. Things like deodorant, beard oil, toothbrush heads, etc. There are also things like pet treats and with one click it's pretty easy for people to purchase four or five things as they go through their day.
I just pretty much assume US spy agencies can track everything from all the logs they can gather and have access too.
Want to keep a secret keep it in your head. Those so called neutral parties like Switzerland are just US proxies with a good imago that only recently got tarnished.
This was an extremely good explanation for a non-trivial subject. Props for written communication ability.
Lol, no. I read it that way too.
Huh? That's why we have regulations. Every country has one, in the US it is the FDA.

Please don't try to shoehorn open source principles everywhere in life. It becomes a chore and a burden for a common citizen to verify the hazards of Baked Beans. Citizens offload this to a regulatory agency. You don't have the time to verify a fucking can of baked beans like a million other things in life.

If you buy a measuring tape, do you ask for a NIST certificate? Where does the chain of trust end? Somewhere at the measurement standards in the pyramid of trust. Your personal role in this chain ends at the brand name "STANLEY", because you trust them to make a measuring tape that measures within specified tolerance.

The whole movement around "I don't trust unless the information is freely available" is a pipe dream. It grinds the society to a halt.

I urge you to look around 99% things in life that you just blindly trust. We need better mechanisms for building trust than "Don't trust unless verified". It is applicable in high risk situations, but the society pays a huge price for such an inefficient way to live.
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You can, but the fact that other large companies (like MonoPrice, and even newegg) sell alot of things on Amazon as well shows just much market Amazon controls.

One should likely have both, their own store, and an amazon store