skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The majority of the accounts following him have 0 posts, very low amount of followers and follow thousands of other people.

There's also the issue of "follower farmers". Basically, some spam accounts start following tens of thousands of people hoping at least some will check their profiles, maybe follow them back or click on their spam.

I noticed this mostly on Twitter, and after some digging, it turns out to be a common tactic used by spammer bots (or umm, "marketting teams"). I don't know how common that issue is on Instagram though but it could be same.
I thought one of the main advantages of “running your own (Kubernetes cluster|database instance|pubsub system)” was for exactly that reason - so that “you can replicate across cloud providers or in your own datacenter or on your own server in the closet”.
It's so neat to see semgrep branching out to support more languages including IaaS. At [muse](https://github.com/marketplace/muse-dev) we went a different path of making a platform to run multiple tools. By default the tools include semgrep and, regarding the IaaS space, checkov.
I've discovered that an area is most easily filled when the shapes of the individual components used to fill the area are similar.
So, rectangles with rectangles and ellipses with ellipses.
That's how I increase packing density but I can't prove it works.
Monetizing the Final Frontier
Half of people have a below average IQ. More like 65% of older adults are both below average thinkers and above average voters.

Why would you think skepticism would be a suitable response to misinformation? The only mathematically viable way to combat such misinformation is to disenfranchise people too stupid to be in charge of anything that effects other people's lives.
Not a strange claim. Having to exit the conference to give the Zoom app permission to share the screen is painful, and if the Zoom app updates, you have to do it again. That means you have to leave the conference to permission the app, and if you are the host, hand off control to a participant so the conference is not ended early.
In the meantime, you can watch this video by Michael Dearing on pricing https://www.heavybit.com/library/video/harrison-metals-micha...
It's not supposed to.

If that's happening, it's likely due to incompetent people in power as officers, judges, and prosecutors (my experiences). And it will continue to happen.
It was always thus. In fact, until the ‘60s, a girl had to rely on her beauty and personality to eat and survive, i.e. by marrying.

I have a daughter and, while obviously I’d prefer she didn’t end up on onlyfans, I really don’t want to limit what she should do or what talent she should leverage to reach happiness and/or prosperity.
A similar problem is when the other language has a sound that is very similar, but not exactly the same as in your language. For example, if the other language has the same set of wovels, except some of them sound slightly different. As a foreign learner, you are likely to pronounce (and probably also hear) it as exactly the same as in your native language.

That is, just like it is difficult to distinguish between "their X" and "their Y", it is also difficult to distinguish between "your X" and "their X". Maybe even more difficult, because no one tells you that the difference exists.

> For example, Japanese learners of English tend to perceive English /l/ and /r/ as the same sound and cannot discriminate them reliably in perception experiments.

I wonder what would happen if you took a group of Japanese people, taught them how to make the /l/ and /r/ sounds, by telling them how to place the toungue etc., and them told one of them to choose and make one of these sounds, and the other one to guess which one it was.

I mean, just like it is easier for one non-native English speaker to understand another non-native English speaker, because they speak more slowly and carefully, maybe it would be easier for one Japanese person to understand another Japanese person's pronounciation of /l/ and /r/, because it would be more exaggerated.
Basically everyone trusts the scientific method.

However, there are a lot of people who don't trust certain types of 'scientists' because they've observed that those people don't seem to use the scientific method, even though they claim they do. That's a very reasonable and correct form of skepticism.

The lazy assumption that anyone who claims to be scientific actually is has been exploited by demagogues throughout history. Karl Marx was famously keen on presenting his own views as 'scientific' although there is of course nothing scientific about Marxism. Lysenko justified his beliefs on the grounds that they were scientific, and all sceptics of this claim were suppressed (i.e. jailed).

The way to tackle scepticism about the scientific method is to recognise that it's not scepticism of a methodology but an academic sub-culture.
Well, that's exactly what the courts on the Federal level are there to do, constitutionally, rule on what the law is, not decide what the law should be. If they do that, they just become a de facto legislature that's not elected.

The actual legislature, as you note, is where these fixes need to occur. Using the courts for it is a civics hack, and one that will bite us in the ass.
Microsoft kind of started with

>“When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software,” recalls Gates. “We had dreams about the impact it could have. We talked about a computer on every desk and in every home. It’s been amazing to see so much of that dream become a reality and touch so many lives. I never imagined what an incredible and important company would spring from those original ideas.”

Which is kind of world better if you like computers. Of course companies change as they grow.
That does sound annoying. Though to be fair, Apple has plenty of reason to distrust Zoom updates. I'm a bit surprised there's no way for Zoom to re-try screen recording without re-launching the app. Is that a fundamental limitation of Apple's security model, or a failure of Zoom?
There's a whole body of law that's grown up around compulsory licensing for standard-essential patents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminat...

The issue here is that Nokia allegedly has patents that are infringed by the standard, and didn't disclose them to the standards body.
I mean shouldn't you feel bad if you're trying to discourage active engagement in a topic if one doesn't do it in a specific "correct" way?

Personally I've found a diverse set of viewpoints to be incredibly valuable on the teams I've been a part of. I have my own biases on testing, stability, performance and seeing how others approach it has broadened my understanding of how to build software.

To put it another way, the parent could have said "IDEs are awesome and I've found when you combine that with an understanding of the CLI you have an awesome set of tools at your disposal that are greater than the sum of their parts" instead of making it an exclusive trade off or implying that IDEs are limiting.
Enable HTTPS in Localhost with OpenSSL for a Node.js App(With Video)
How strong is US constitution in front of US courts? Not that much.

US courts don't follow US constitution literally, and take freedom doing a lot of "interpretation."

My law professor in Canada, who once was a US citizen, and a practicing lawyer in US said:

— US constitution is fairly good at protecting what's written in it, for it being near nothing.

His favourite poke at the US legal system was an example how either Texan, or Kentuckian court managed to establish how "A woman is not legally a person" in a way that did not directly contradict any US law, precedent, or article of constitution. And that happened as recently as sixties, if not seventies.
Thank you! Much appreciated.

> I've also found that quantitative or hard-science thinkers are often very good at dealing with uncertainty. One reason being that they have the strongest sense of what true certainty is, and the ability to measure uncertainty relative to that.

That's an excellent point and I agree with you. My statement about tech folks and certainty was a bit too broad, tbh, and maybe expresses some personal frustration as much as anything.

At the end of the day we're all human and vulnerable to the same tricks of psychology and human foibles.

[EDIT: I want to share in a quote another poster shared that's relevant to our discussion: 'Math is hard because it is easy. The humanities are easy because they are hard.'

It's not just about math being quantifiable, but that there's a much lower barrier of entry to discuss "the humanities" - justice, ethics, the meaning of life, etc. Maybe a good analogy would be we can all discuss the weather, but that means sometimes we think meteorologists are just quacks? : )].

[EDIT EDIT: If interested in learning more about the humanities I highly recommend the Socratic dialogues as starting point. They're still the foundation of all Western Philosophy, including the postmodern stuff people love to hate on. They're pretty approachable and interesting and readable and short and don't have any jargon, really. A course of some kind is ideal but you could read them on your own.]
I picked up Hamming’s book: “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Learning to Learn”, I already love the messages he’s conveying.

Is this the lecture you speak of?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
This is exactly the issue. It's especially problematic when you are hosting a private meeting. When you exit, it will hang up on everyone, unless you hand control of the conference to a participant.
What are your thoughts on the overlap between these tools? I have a CI SaaS with checkov by default. It performs really well and requires no configuration, which was exciting. Tfsec would be easy to add but I'm not sure how duplicative it is of checkov. Anyone here have opinions?
Oh yeah, this sounds familiar. Was it also on the DDR subreddits a while ago?

I meant to ask the first time I saw it -- if I'm understanding this correctly, the entire frame consists of parts that can be either printed or just sourced off-the-shelf? I've personally had "pad build" on my backlog, and have been playing around with modifications of the Cobalt Flux design on paper ever since a failed attempt to put one on risers (apartment noise issues...), but wood- and/or metalworking have generally been barriers to actual implementation.

Maintaining it up until that point is actually also how I DIY'd my first controller (to replace a broken USB adapter), and finally learned to solder.

(It also just became less of an issue between living in a region with a few different cabinets I could drive to and the L-Tek pad releasing around a year or so later.)
Agents of the government are generally indemnified against liability for acts in good faith. Accountability comes from work rules.

It’s unwise to open that door to personal liability, as there are many liability risks that even a low level official faces, even when their conduct is correct. Frankly, you’d need to be an idiot to have anything to do with HR or procurement working in any government subdivision with personal liabilty.
Discussed yesterday on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381889
> Earnest is my favourite word for describing that beautiful part during a child's development where they haven't yet had a negative experience from expressing themselves earnestly. ... but adult politics is sadly complex sometimes.

And we’re narrowing that window by exposing children to social politics earlier on through likes and upvotes and whatnot.
CFS.
What they are describing is literally a vanilla Monte Carlo simulation! It's the bread and butter of applied mathematicians in thousands of fields.

It reminds me of a patent for fire. Yes, fire. It was worded carefully to hide this, and it was approved. Something like: "A method by which a self-sustaining avalanche of thermal chemical reactions is initiated by an externally applied heat source."

In other words: We lit it on fire with a match.
They are very expensive.
Depends on who’s doing the judgement and toward what end goal. For EVs, SSBs seem pretty optimal. But you can ding them for using lithium (though it’s not as rare as detractors would suggest). If you’re trying to store power generated off peak until peak demand hours flow batteries using different technologies entirely probably make more sense. There are likely to be situations where even artificially generated chemical fuels make more sense than batteries. Then there’s the hydrogen option. Also no ones proven able to massively produce SSBs yet. Etc
RocksDB has two big limitations that preclude its use for many types of high-performance data infrastructure (which it sounds like the OP's use case was). First, its throughput performance is much worse (integer factor) than what can be achieved with a different design for some applications. Second, it isn't designed to work well for very large storage volumes. Again, easy to remedy if you design your own storage engine or use an alternative one. There are storage engines that will happily drive a petabyte of storage across a large array of NVMe devices at the theoretical limits of the hardware, though not so much in open source.

Another thing to consider is that you lose significant performance in a few different dimensions if your storage I/O scheduler design is not tightly coupled to your execution scheduler design. While it requires writing more code it also eliminates a bunch of rough edges. This alone is the reason many database-y applications write their own storage engines. For people that do it for a living, writing an excellent custom storage engine isn't that onerous.

RocksDB is a fine choice for applications where performance and scale are not paramount or your hardware is limited. On large servers with hefty workloads, you'll probably want to use something else.
For her part, maybe you're right. But we're told that he immediately went to the door that she indicated.
No. On the other hand, why is it that some people seem to have become overly sensitive? I wish most people were as direct about their thoughts as they used to be.

Yes, GH is free, but being free does not mean they are above criticism.
When government agents who abuse people's rights would be personally punished (fat chance) we might suddenly find a lot less laws and rules violated.
>standards should not require patented technology at all to implement

Do we really want every standard to rely only on ideas that are so old that the patents have all expired? FRAND licensing seems like a far better solution.
Everyone ought to be allowed to speak but networks ought to shut down organized campaigns to spread disinformation and networks that exist purely to spread hate and misinformation ought to be challenged by the people lied about on such platforms. Its not an ideal solution but none is probably possible to implement or live through.
Unless Massachusetts somehow manages to capture 100% of infections, that's the case fatality rate, which is worthless except as raw data to estimate the infection fatality rate. The 3.4% "estimate" also referred to the IFR as far as I know and if it didn't, it would also be worthless now anyway as it has been superseded.
The fbi does it s lot these days and gets away with it. Actually the latest FISA renewal gives FBI and 16 other gov agencies access to full raw internet data and they can search it all they want...but they need a warrant to bring it to court. However, by now they've become experts at parallel construction and they usually outsmart judges and even defence attorneys on technical issues.
Right. Sabine Hossenfelder about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYM6HMLgIKA&t=395s
Prepare for incoming election fraud lawsuits... local officials not following the laws etc
“Other” ;)
mbasic has been unmaintained for a while, in my experience.

It is just barely usable, but also has many missing pages.

Lately, many links (e.g. group posts) point to m.facebook, which means that I just get redirected to the home page.

You may need to access the page by clicking a link from another mbasic page in order to have some kind of checksum in the URL.
This is a good question, and I'm well aware of the broad scope of my projects, especially spanning low to high level.

A few things might help put this in context. First, Druid well predated Runebender, though Runebender is now the "hero app" (before, it was xi-editor, now on the back burner).

Second, I have a lot of experience doing high performance 2D and font rendering, from libart to working on the PDF 1.4 blend modes in Ghostscript to font-rs. I've also been curious about GPU for a while, not least because that was what was actually painting the text on Android, and I worked on the Android UI team for almost 5 years. So now that GPU compute is becoming mainstream, I see an almost unique opportunity to apply my skills there.

Third, I'm not doing all this by myself. I'm deliberately trying to cultivate open source community involvement and, really, building a team, though it has diffuse borders. Now is also a good time to acknowledge my long-time collaboration with Colin Rofls, who does a huge amount of the day to day work on both Runebender and Druid.

Lastly, I published this in advance of a career move, which is becoming a research software engineer on the Google Fonts team. I believe this is a perfect position for me to continue pushing this research agenda forward, and I'm hoping will bring more resources and focus.

There is no chance of me getting bored doing this. Burnout is something I'm watching carefully, as I have experienced it (it was the end of my time on Android), but one thing I discovered in my 2.5 years away from being a full-timer at Google is that graphics research is what I love the most, and would probably be doing even if it wasn't also a good career move.
It is all Apple. When you change a permission, MacOS forces you to quit and re-launch the app.
How does the universe expand? What is it expanding into? And why isn't that thing considered the universe?
Sharing and Owning Standards
The manufacturer's site lists the max load as 150% full scale, so there is a little room there. (And exceeding it probably just makes the cell go out of calibration, which might not be a big deal for a dance pad?)
Please do! I like Mac, but I yearn a quality of 1st and 3rd party Windows tools. Task manager is nicely readable and lightweight, and process explorer is a godsend.

Meanwhile Activity Monitor updates once per 30 seconds when the system is under load.
A founding principle of this country is that you cannot have a right removed without due process. No fly lists, red flag laws, etc violate this.
Yeah I really wonder if this is coming. It's wishful thinking on my end so maybe isn't reasonable, but man it'd be neat. I get annoyed when people point out "you can already get a dev license for free." Sure, but there are hoops to jump through and you can't run it "in production" (which I think is mostly a meaningless claim, but still not something I like).

Nevertheless I'm optimistic and hope they announce it sooner rather than later. Hopefully the current blowback will move things along ;-)
Without separation of powers, even the best constitution is worthless.
I know in many markets (China notably) exact drop rates must be published. But some publishers pull out rather than reveal them to the western markets too.

As for an analysis I remember reading this for Genshin Impact which implied the rates are averaged and don't add up to what the publisher says. Anecdotally players say they often hit their mark at around 70 rolls so it's suspected the rates increase over time (and maybe not linearly). The 90th roll is guaranteed and taken into account for the published rates 1.6% rate to get a 5-star reward on a given roll. If all this is true then together this would mean early rolls in a set of 90 are largely dead and you're paying to reach the higher chances.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/ja7c0b/gach...

Note: this is fairly old, I stopped playing so it could be outdated. I also didn't check the conclusions.
It depends on the way you look at things:

Noether's second theorem works fine in General Relativity (in fact, this was the historic context of her paper). So for any given time-like vector field, you'll get an energy conservation law. In case of Friedmann cosmology and chosing cosmological time as said vector field, you'll get a term proportional to H² which picks up the change in energy.

However, you won't be able to make this into a covariant expression: Gravitational energy-momentum can be expressed in terms of pseudo-tensors at best...
I don't know of any legal way to guarantee that a company won't be acquired, and start exploiting it's user base, but I think there are some signs you can look for to see if it's the kind of company that you want to patronize. In the case of Moves, it wasn't open source and didn't offer end-to-end encryption. Privacy and consideration for its users was never in its DNA.

If Zood offers Moves-like location history in the future, it will also provide a method for exporting the location data to CSV or similar (data portability).
Facebook faces most serious breakup threat yet from lawsuits
As well as ctags, one can also use the GNU "idutils" suite of programs.
What does it solve?
Minor distros fit specific use-cases better but are more likely to disappear, major distros are here to stay. That's the tradeoff.

But in the the Microsoft world, you at some point had Windows Mobile and Windows phone, and developing apps for those is the true meaning of being alone.
If they both have similar market share, then that variable has been isolated and the conclusion that the cheaper exploit is the less secure is sound. When that variable has not been isolated, it's not possible to conclude that the difference in price is due to security and not due to the exploit affecting more people.

"The amounts paid by ZERODIUM to researchers to acquire their original zero-day exploits depend on the popularity and security level of the affected software/system, as well as the quality of the submitted exploit (full or partial chain, supported versions/systems/architectures, reliability, bypassed exploit mitigations, default vs. non-default components, process continuation, etc)."

So, if chrome, with ~65% of the market share had the same payout as firefox at ~4% of the market share, it would be fair to conclude it's less secure. However, we see 5x the payout and 16x the market share. Doesn't seem conclusive.
Rather than "stable long term release," I would phrase it as a "dot release frozen in time as much as possible modulo serious bugs and security fixes." Which is not the general direction that software is headed in. Changes going into CentOS Stream will have gone through QE tests. So, yes, it is different but, increasingly, most of the software you use will be using this type of model. Certainly SaaSs don't let you choose a dot release for the most part.
> Starting a successful startup makes you rich and famous. So a lot of the people trying to start them are doing it for those reasons. Instead of what? Instead of interest in the problem for its own sake. That is the root of earnestness. [2]

I think he got the definition of "earnest" wrong. It is not about genuine interest. "Earnest" simply means something like "honestly revealing your motivations", no? What if you earnestly want to become rich and famous? What's wrong with that?
I recently tried deno. Can we all switch yet? Please no more webpack, babel, etc etc.
I need to be careful of what I say so I'm going to be annoyingly cryptic, but others have had this thought and are looking into it. Stay tuned :-)
Not a native speaker, but "a little lovely" kinda sounds like an opposite to "much lovely".

That is, my parsing of "a little lovely park" is ambiguous between "a little (lovely park)" and "a (little lovely) park". With "a lovely little park" there is no ambiguity.