skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A)Funded by opposition and foreign players. Always a presence whenever civil unrest is involved.
B)India has a love-hate relationship with communism. We are a poor country because of it, but poverty pushes more people to communism.
C)Whenever you see an article about India, don't put it in white or black. With a country of about 1.5 billion, nothing is black or white, ever.
Even for R(5,5), we're probably better off with the preemptive attack, according to a researcher in the area: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/210653/algorithms-for-cal....
I know it's not sufficiently secure. For me, it's about educating other Signal users about the significance of the message that pops up. Almost all of the people on my Signal contact list use Signal because I asked them to do so.
I think we're maxed out on this thread for who to enfranchise, which is good!

I believe one of the big downsides for citizens of Puerto Rico that has caused issues with the push for statehood is that they don't currently pay federal income tax. So it isn't exactly a taxation-without-representation situation, but they are obviously at the mercy of the US in many ways and don't have access to all of the levers of power that are available to others.

Witness the suffering at our delay in suspending the Jones Act (requiring two days of debate) during the Hurricane Maria relief campaign.

I doubt that Puerto Rico's lot would fundamentally change if they were a separate country though, they would still be largely at the mercy of their main trading partner and dominant regional power (the US).

I was also thinking of felons in my earlier comment, but it didn't quite fit my narrative. I don't find the rationale that they would just vote for there to be no laws particularly compelling.
School sets you up for this mindset. I don't think many people realize that there is more to a life than achieving or being productive. It's all good if that's what you actually enjoy, but if it's making you miserable you are indeed wasting your life. Knowing this should shake you awake, knowing you are miserable because of what you are currently doing should provoke a change, not seek some way to work with your misery.
Randall Munroe is learning new things from Google
How to serialize calls to an async function
This is a great article. I'm an engineer and not in sales. I know from experience that areas other than my own have developed frameworks and ways of thinking about things to solve their particular problem. In a pretty short and information dense article I feel like I at least have an inkling of the _language_ used in (SaaS) sales.
People with better over-all health coming into Covid, survive Coved infections better than people with poorer over-all health.

Students with higher GPAs do better in a given class than students with lower GPAs.

People with more friends are more likely to get married than people with few friends.

I think there's a pattern here...
Pinebook Pro user here, trackpad is indeed terrible, I thought the keyboard was great though.
100%. When trying to explain OpinionX in the earlier days (before our first MVP), people often found that comparing it to Reddit helped them understand what we were building. It was probably the most common comparison we got.
One thing I might suggest is to simply write for yourself and not worry about engagement. I don't have any trackers on my blog because I really don't care if anyone will reads my work since I'm writing for an audience of one. Obviously, many of those posts aren't meaty enough to hire an editor for, but I've found that simply writing creates knock-on effects I wouldn't have expected.
China's Chang'e 5 probe lands on the moon
better than modern web browsers for sure. qemu guest escapes are mostly in rarely-used peripheral devices, most recently the floppy driver. for less-trusted guests you can simply disable such devices though.

if you say "but what about the defaults", look at the number of new web interfaces though: web audio, webgpu, webusb, webgl, html5 audio/video, several media decoding interfaces... all of them with new and exciting vulnerabilities, most can be disabled but enabled by default.
As proof of your point, Arecibo was originally built as a military project with general scientific value as a bonus.
I've wondered about the exact time of the collapse.

Apparently there is a seismic observatory only tens of meters away from the telescope dish. The station code is AOPR [0].

After retrieving the mseed data from the web API using curl, and installing obspy from pip, I could plot the events. This is the result: [1]. You can see two "events". One at Nov 30, 23:12 UTC, and a second, larger one at Dec 1st, 11:52 UTC. Upon closer inspection, the first event is actually multiple smaller ones, not sure if they are related to the collapse at all. The second event is clearly one discrete thing though. The image was uploaded to twitter at 11:56 UTC, so minutes within the collapse being recorded on the seismograph. You can still see the dust in the air.

Pretty cool that all this data is out there, in the open, just a curl request away.

[0]: https://www.fdsn.org/networks/detail/PR/

[1]: Note on some of the screenshots I've preprocessed the data with a lowpass filter st.filter("lowpass", freq=0.1, corners=2) to make it look nicer, while in others I haven't. I'm just an interested person, not doing this on a scientific level. https://imgur.com/a/FjrbWWa
Prevent Connection Leaks in Production via Proxies
I second this book.

I also think being sleep deprived destroys your willpower. So getting enough sleep for a few nights, perhaps on the weekend, and then trying to keep a streak going.

Additionally I’ve had a lot of success using a habit tracking app (I love way of life but habitica is also great and free).

I would also set an alarm every night.
I'll never use this but it's cool that it exists.
I got COVID, and I attribute the fact that I happened to get a fairly mild case of it to the fact I've been taking 10k IU of vitamin D3 since January.
Everything I know about cryptocurrencies makes me think you and parent are completely right, and PoW cannot work without inflation (or even with very low inflation, that does not justify the cost of running hardware in the absence of transactions). Just relying on transaction fees should lead to downward spiral of use, where fees are way too high to maintain use, or network security is too low to protect value.

I'd like to hear from Bitcoin proponents where we are wrong in our thinking. What assumptions are incorrect? Is there a flaw in economic reasoning? If not, what is being done with Bitcoin to address this existential risk for Bitcoin?
Latest Istio Release Removes Single Points of Failure, Installation Friction
Pretty sure parent is referring to asteroid & space debris trajectory tracking, which Arecibo was used for.
Ah,I saw a picture of Pornhub and it was uploaded to the spreadsheet!
Cal Newport recently talked about this feeling on his blog [0]. These 'ambient' experiences have the power to be very deep with VR/AR.

[0] https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2020/11/23/on-technology-and...
Is it still too early to estimate new application costs and performance improvements? Has anyone seen any statistics or comparisons yet? it will be interesting to see how this affects the efficiency of the platform and what this means for the adoption of other platforms.
I'm not arguing this isn't legal. I'm arguing against the previous commenter's assertion that this is justifiable.
I was asked to do a bit of robotics consulting for Solyndra. I figured that it wasn't going to work out when the guy we talked to took us to a conference room that looked too nice, and admitted that he hadn't been on the production floor in the next building before me and my buddy asked to go check that out.

We took the job anyway because it looked interesting, started doing the preliminaries, and when we went to get the test panels a couple weeks later, a FBI lady shooed us away from the parking lot as they were taping the building up.

Very weird.
I remember this. Because the images get more frightening as you zoom in, I thought it was going to be a shock site.
QAnon is a fascist movement and has spread like wildfire through websites like Facebook. I know people in other countries who believe it.
Generally it's about eliminating counterparty risk. Compare Coinbase (centralized) with Uniswap (decentralized).

Coinbase users put their trust in a custodian. That custodian has the ability to steal from them or be stolen from. That's how MtGox went down in flames.

Uniswap users don't have to custody their funds with anyone to trade. They can use whichever they want.

Coinbase's platform can change on the whims of the company. Users have to accept this if they want to continue using the platform.

Uniswap is nothing more than a handful of small contracts which are unalterable and public. If you don't like, fork it. Don't like the official frontend? You can fork that too. Some wallets just build uniswap directly into the app. And since you don't have to sign up to use uniswap, the experience is completely seamless.

Now there's a lot more you can do with decentralized applications, but this should help get the point across.
We did get a strong online payment system because of it. It is bearing fruits, just not as well as we'd hoped. And yes, I'm aware of the problems it caused too.

Look, I'm a strong liberal but it's hard not to dislike the Muslims if you were born before 2000 (which most of the BJP brass is). Muslims just don't assimilate well. And not their fault to a large degree, but actively protesting against raising the marriage age, triple talaq and faulting the French government in the latest bombing. They have lots of countries to do this, I don't want India becoming any more polarized or extremist. Every side is playing this politics, BJP is just doing it successfully.
I agree with you on "detection tests" (not sure what a Dr would call them) - but checking for vitamin deficiencies would be more of a preventative type test, and everyone should have those probably once a year or every X years, but that would lower insurance profits, so they don't happen in the US anyway.
Fastmail Outage
On the Design of Text Editors
You don’t have to think anything, there are millions of boricuas across the US who will happily fill you in on how divisive statehood is and how little mainland politics factor into it.
Bad example. It's not to be confused with the 34th rule of acquisition (war is good for business).
More days or less customers is also ok.
Advent of Code Templates from Repl.it
It seems to be a CPU flag. This is managed by the kernel so that it is on for Rosetta 2 processes and off for everything else. See https://github.com/saagarjha/TSOEnabler
Because they want to get rich quick
Yes, blame everything on the "West", the missionaries, liberals and the "opposition". If India was on it's "own" it would have been richer than USA, more progressive than EU and pigs would be flying by now.
Migrating from PoW took about 2-3 years for Ethereum, required massive changes to economic model, and developing all new clients. Ethereum leadership is still somewhat centralized, so this did not lead to multiple competing forks.

Doing the same for Bitcoin would be very hard, and if it simply follows Ethereum's footsteps, then it is unclear why even use Bitcoin.

But -- I hope we see this fork sooner rather than later. Bitcoin miners will have no economic incentive to capture back the CO2 produced.
Sources I’ve seen say Tether has been completely un-audited for years and only a fool will think they’ll keep collateral dollars for their Ponzi scheme.
I mean, this sounds nice and all, but it is CLEARLY false

James Webb Space Telescope:
Proposed Budget: $500 mil
Current Budget: $10 Billion

Space Launch System
Current Budget: $20 billion

ITER:
Proposed Budget : 22 Billion Euro
Current Proposed Budget: 64 Billion Euro

There are lots of science projects that are funded. Some of them just get more attention than others
"It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It's a sobering thought, for example, that, when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -- Tom Lehrer
> there doesn't seem to be any sort of XNU hacking community

Probably because (from what I've heard), even using xnu is extremely painful, let alone hacking on it.

And it's not like you can re-compile your changes to xnu back into a working MacOS machine
Props to fastmail for updating the status page & confirming the outage within ~5-10 minutes.
In the US, 40,000 deaths per year for typical flu. Currently, we have 275,0000 deaths from covid over 9 months even with social interventions. And, that’s not considering the under-reporting of deaths. And, before March 2021, we’ll see another 200k deaths.

Where do we draw the line? As with most complex things, it requires a careful balance of trade-offs. And, when there’s a lot of uncertainty and risk, it’s good to be cautious at first.
Does anyone here have experience with actually using the pinephone as a daily driver?

I know plenty of people that ordered one, but they are all laying on a drawer somewhere with the intention to play with it a bit. Basically how most RPi's end up.

Just curious if this phone is actually competitive with android devices in the same price class.
Arecibo Fully Collapsed Now
Interesting, I've now gone down the rabbit hole of regional keyboard layouts, I now realise how wrong my assumption of everyone having WASD was.
Next time I'm working on it I'll add the ability to re-map keys
I'm a night owl (sleep 12-8am) who occasionally experiences season-long hard constraints that force me into early bird schedules (sleep 8-4am). Whenever the temperatures get high and I don't have access to an air-conditioned gym, I have to get up for the daily temperature minimum, whatever it takes. Since this happens for an entire summer, it gives me the chance to adapt to the schedule and optimize around it.

The early bird schedule didn't reveal an untapped reserve of morning energy. It didn't shift my late night energy burst into the morning. In fact, it didn't shift the productivity burst at all -- it eliminated it. This wasn't for lack of sunlight and exercise; getting up early to run outside was the entire point. It wasn't for lack of cold showers, which were remarkably pleasant after suffering in the heat. It wasn't due to a poor diet, or meal scheduling, which I experimented with.

To hear the early birds talk about it, these exercises should have transformed me into a superior moral being of hyper-optimized productivity, overflowing with perfection in every aspect of spirituality and performance. That isn't what happened. Not in part, not in whole. The net effect was small and negative. I traded high-energy night hours for low-energy morning hours. It was worth it to access the daily temperature minimum, but I wasn't able to make the morning schedule work for me, despite having every intent and incentive to do so. When the constraint lifted, I moved back to my regular schedule and recaptured its benefits.

Night owls: try the early bird schedule, there are enough people who report benefits from switching that you owe it a solid try.

Early birds: tips and anecdotes are fine, but frame them in terms of what works for you. Cut the sanctimonious bullshit. It isn't helpful, it isn't appreciated, and it isn't appropriate.
I had a similar success with taking magnesium to control restless leg syndrome. As some people no doubt remember there are a few speciality drugs ( which you see TV commercials about) that are designed to treat RLS, but I have found that regular magnesium supplementation works very well. I have even done a few inadvertent 'tests' by forgetting to take it with me when I travel that has reinforced the role it has in helping my RLS.
Do sales ever get incentivized with equity? Couldn't that be a good long-term arrangement? Incentivize the original sale and over time as the client remains on platform unlock stock - make sure there is continuity with client. I recognize that is a different model and the inbound sales team hands off the client internally.
College Students Are Pissed They Wasted Money on a Covid Semester from Hell
I’ve been using Mobian on the UBport edition for the last month. Sluggish doesn’t even describe the usability.

I bought a few data only sims in hopes of leaving the house for short errands with different devices. There is no way I could leave the house with the pinephone. It isn’t usable yet. Could an extra gig of RAM solve this? It seems like it needs years of work.
Watch the sun set!

I recently took a trip to the beach and spent a half hour or so outside in the transition between full light and darkness. It was surprising how tired I was feeling as early as it was. Let yourself experience the transition to night and then limit your light exposure.
Make a vocal, active, involved, interest group?

Hacker News, /. for Science?

Look - not everything is solved by collective action, nor everything solved by individual action.

Your strategy is determined by your terrain. The terrain here is a competitive field for human attention. Arecibo has nothing against dying puppies.

The beauty of the stars, the ambition of man? That has some scope.

But its still easier to find a few people who will regularly email and talk to your elected representatives, create networks that will work this out.

There MUST be some other people who want to contribute to this, and they may have resources other than cash to pool.
I was sort of expecting the art to be in a cave - but out in the open as it is, I expect that local folks had known about it for a long long time and it just hadn't been properly documented / published.

I wonder how many more there are like that. Maybe getting remote communities more connected to the internet would help them publicize some of their local artifacts and sites.
I'm totally not convinced that surfing the internet or watching videos, however aimlessly, is somehow of lesser quality when it comes to relaxing. Especially given that, as you said, many people simply don't appear to have any mental energy left to do anything more "productive" after a workday, never mind a workday AND childcare. Of course, that's again a problem caused by work, not procrastination, but I very much challenge the notion that it's good for you to worry about whether your leisure time is of high enough quality!

Now, I do agree that social media and other things in the digital world can be actually addictive and psychologically harmful, but given the aforementioned state of mental exhaustion I'm totally not surprised that people should get hooked on things that are designed to continuously give your brain small rewards with minimum effort spent on your part.
Having energy does not demonstrate danger to life and limb. 2 tons of fat have more energy than 2 tons of TnT. Obviously it does not release energy in the same way.

That plasma is at less than atmospheric pressure, and is contained in a massive steel vessel. Even if it expands and melts through the vessel, the atmospheric pressure will collapse it. I do not see a plausible scenario where anyone is in jured.
Off by a factor of 25.000?
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Just made myself a website and added my reading list. Would love some recommendations.
Also think they meant "you wouldn't think it would be a hot take, but..."
> Brian's claims that they were simply offering their services in a way that "felt right with what Apple would have wanted" is marketing drivel.

It's not only marketing drivel, it's a downright strange statement. I mean with which other product would you consider the wishes of the anthropomorphized business which created the product in terms of how you use it? Normally the product is meant to serve the consumer, not the other way around.
I'm not sure I completely agree with this logic because you are saying "if I neglect <X> in personal time, then it is in my and my employer's best interests for me to address <X> during work time (because otherwise I will be less productive)"

However, X could be a wide range of things. To use an extreme example, I could neglect fixing my furnace during personal time, and thus I can do it on my employer's dime so that I don't die of carbon monoxide poisoning while WFH (I would be unproductive if I am dead)...
> And it's not like you can re-compile your changes to xnu back into a working MacOS machine

Wow, that's just awful, but it would it explain it. Thanks!
Quibi officially fades to black
Also, a port to Risc64 using it is on its way: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tbe8c3c69c87794db-M2...

Topicbox is having issues for me, so I'm duplicating the contents below:

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Dear 9fans,

I'm forwarding an update from Richard and Geoff about their work porting
Plan 9 to RISC-V. I sent a synopsis on twitter; it is included here with
more detail:

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Synopsis:

• 32 and 64 bit kernels (and commands) are working under tinyemu

• 64 bit kernel is booting on hardware, still being debugged

• 32 bit kernel is untested on hardware because we don't have access to an RV32 core with MMU

• riscv compiler is available on 9p.io/sources/contrib/miller, and has been
added to the inferno distribution on bitbucket.

• tinyemu port will go onto 9p.io/sources/contrib/miller this weekend

• source is still in the experimental development stage. it will be
released when ready.

Richard recently gave a talk about his experience porting the Plan 9 C
compiler to RISC-V:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHJqdXGb0uc

Description:

TinyEMU has been ported to Plan 9, providing a choice of RV32GC or
RV64GC in machine mode, and better diagnostics than hardware provides.

We have 9k kernels running in both modes under tinyemu, but so far
using only one CPU. They share quite a bit of non-port source. The
RV32 kernel uses Sv32 paging. The RV64 kernel so far uses Sv39
paging, but we expect it to work with Sv48 paging (and beyond) with
trivial changes. So far the RV64 kernel resides at physical and
virtual 0x80000000, which limits user process size, but we believe it
will be straightforward to switch to virtual 0xffffffc080000000.

As described below, the RV32 kernel is not usable on the Polarfire
Icicle using the stock firmware and bootloaders. The RV64 kernel is
close to working on the Icicle, and on the four main cores, we
believe. There have been some surprises with the Icicle: as
delivered, it starts OpenSBI as RV64 on all harts (CPUs) and hart 0
(the smaller E51 core) controls the others. OpenSBI on hart 1 starts
U-boot, from which we PXE boot the RV64 kernel, which runs in
supervisor mode. There is no way back to machine mode, thus no way
back to RV32, and there seems to be no way to determine which mode the
CPU is in.

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Thanks,
-Skip