skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My entire company and tg-part of a friend circle uses them when needed. E.g. to discuss issues that contain private/financial details or something personal that is undesirable to leak to "third parties who ruin parties". Otoh, I wouldn't mind if my mile-long chat with IT buddy went entirely public, because we mostly discuss Web-tech, BTC and other sick jokes there.

Personally I'd never bother to start a secret chat with a person that I don't trust enough anyway. Neither do I trust an e2e messenger that my country didn't even bother to "pucker" legally.

>users (wrongly) perceive it to be magically more secure

This is claimed often, but I'm yet to see these users. Do they really believe that, is it just tg opponent's agenda that became popular, or both?
Or just use a vpn that has servers in Iran? I think there are a few, hidemyass is one also I think, services designed to test access from different countries.
You've stoked my curiosity. Which sub-$200 144Hz monitors are your favorites?
Daszak and EcoHealth have been working with Shi Zhengli for over 15 years[0]. He is not a neutral observer on this particular issue. And this year he has made a number of statements (like the one you quote) which do nothing to refute the lab leak hypothesis, and which only serve to direct attention elsewhere.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4
Have you ever used an email validation service?
I recently come across an email validation service (https://debounce.io).
Have you ever used such services? Are they 100% accurate?
Also see the HN thread Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it [1].

Novelist Nicholson Barker has written a beautifully worded article but it lacks critical thinking.

Lab gain-of-function experiments begin with one or more known isolates that have been sequenced. One of these sequences will match large swathes of non-functional RNA in SARS-CoV-2 if the lab is the source. This is the evidence I personally need to consider the lab hypothesis plausible. Until then, the natural spillover hypothesis fits based on Occam’s razor.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585833
Hi Surma! fantastic article. You can save a lot of data switching to a lossless format as you said, and especially when using ordered dithering. Even if the color palette is quite large.

Error diffusion causes problems for certain color palettes, but usually results in a smaller image size.

I've made a tool for doing this: https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this, you can easily half the size of a jpeg by dithering it and exporting it as a png.
Oh i'm not saying it's the single best solution, I guess I got carried away in argument - It's simply a scenario where the concept shines, yet it's entirely artificial scenario and I agree ECC is the correct way.
This is a fun one, thanks for the illustration.

If you analyse 5000 board configurations you can deduce with a high certainty that there are 64 fields the pieces can be on.

The pressing question is then why can some pieces move only diagonally or only in one direction or any.

In the case of chess, going after the why question is pointless, but obviously that wouldn't satisfy any scientist: It works because someone decided that it should work like this.

Could it work with different rules? The alien scientist then probably opt for a positive answer calling for a multiverse of chess rules :)
The downside of the opposite approach is wanting to use some tiny service for a dozen people and finding out it requires spinning up a data center's worth of virtual machines.
This strikes me as an abuse of statistics. The author seriously lacks data (only 36 data points!) and seems perfectly content with sneaking in causal claims when the regressions plainly don't support them. Most of these correlations seem to be driven largely by 3 outliers-- Turkey and Mexico on the negative end, and Norway on the positive end. Just look at this graph, remove those two or 3 points, and imagine performing the regression again. Big difference. [0]

What baffles me is for the relationship between socialism and GDP/hour worked, the author plainly admits the r-squared is weak but passes it off as powerful evidence anyway: "While there is a lot of variance around the trendline (r^2=0.29), the trend goes in the opposite direction of what the skeptics would argue"

I think this is a valuable area of research to explore, but the author is peddling weak correlations to bolster a dubious causal claim.

[0]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/SUvlyxDYd4DzfC4auF6vhBFSXj...
Ah yes, socialism tends to correlate with wealth and democracy when we define wealthy democratic countries to be socialist. The positive countries are all European and Japan, while Turkey is almost two standard deviations negative despite having seriously stronger "socialist" institutions like worker protection, free healhcare and consumer rights.

My hunch is, the writer started with regressing solely on socialism and tacked on democracy (which is very heavily correlated with wealth in Europe) after not getting the results he wanted. The whole thing is just meaningless analyses done on an almost identity relation.
Please please PLEASE add at least one other provider to your remotes if you're going all in on cloud.

Consider also doing a regular local backup of all your repos. A quick Google search will yield you tools that will automate this entire process on platforms such as GitHub , BitBucket and GitLab. I personally delegated this to a Cron job. I check the backups manually once a month to check all is in order.
The Apache 2 license (for OpenSSL 3) has more restrictions than the original OpenSSL licenses (which are BSD-style).

Until now, OpenSSL, LibreSSL and BoringSSL were using non-viral licenses and thus used different licenses for different source code files.
(Eg Google would license their patches under ISC so it could be adopted by the LibreSSL team).

With OpenSSL becoming Apache 2 licensed, it is no longer "compatible" with the mindset of certain projects.
For example OpenBSD does not distribute Apache 2 code. I bet that Apple will also stay on LibreSSL for the same reason.
> if this virus popped up in let's say Spain rather than China

It may well have:

Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Sentinel surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater anticipates the occurrence of COVID-19 cases: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...

(SARS-CoV-2 was also detected in blood samples taken in Italy in September 2019: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03008916209747... )

> wouldn't we wonder how the fuck it got there, what's the vector?

Apparently we wouldn't.

There are two possibilities: either the virus really was circulating in Spain in March 2019, or the result is a false positive. I'm still waiting for either confirmation, or a retraction of the paper. Why the lack of curiosity?
TontineTrust (https://tontine.com) uses Haskell for a practical engineering solution which ensures the survival of retirees that live a long life.

Your parents (and the older version of you) that are facing the 33%+ probability of running out of money in old age will agree that solving such a problem is most definitely not a fool's errand.

Otherwise fully agree.
I’m not sure how this plays out, but I know of one company that has an HR policy, stating that résumés that come in with photos or images of the applicants are to be immediately rejected.

I was told it was because they want to avoid bias charges.
This article seems to have something against the stereotypical/classic nerd.
Sure, fashionable, diverse hipsters are the new ruling class, but what's wrong with liking to sit in a dark room and code all day at work, and then continue (but on other projects) after work if that's what one likes? Why must one be "normal"?

Why can't it be a virtue, not to care about fashion or clothing ?

Why should it be considered more virtuous to have "other hobbies" ? I'd argue the other way around that I'd prefer "the salary people" to find other jobs, if you don't love what you do, then you're doing the wrong thing.

One of the great things about this field, used to be that even if you don't have great social skills, you can still be useful to society, great idea to ruin that so that all the "normies" can feel more welcome.
There are countries in which being gay will still cause you serious trouble.
Or not agreeing with the political leadership.

We are quite privileged to just assume that following the law as written (AND interpreted by the judiciary) will mostly work out alright and doesn't cause us moral dilemma.
And companies consist of people, too. Is it then all of a sudden morally acceptable to build spying software so your country's leadership can prey on it's political enemies? Or assist in persecuting discriminated groups?

You don't have to cite long abolished laws or an industrialized killing machine for pointing that out ;-) though the post is really begging for it.
Never used Sublime or Notepad++ I see.
I guess the obvious answer to this is: congratulations! You must have a successful product, or you wouldn’t be seeing so many requests. Now that you have a successful product, you have the budget to generate a solution.

Personally, in this situation, I would find some multithreaded RPC proxy thingy where a single instance would sit between the worker processes and the rest of the services.
> You're making a claim

My claims are common sense and supported by the real life: regular people don't know what ECC is, and those who do find the problem's impact is too minor to get palpable benefits from fixing it. Why are you being pedantic if you aren't actually going to bring arguments at the same level you expect from me?

> If you actually do a fair test, and put them side by side while explaining that one protects them from memory errors and the other looks cooler, you can't assume they'll all pick the LED.

Isn't this exactly the kind of claim you yourself characterize one paragraph above as "useless" because "you have no related data, and logic could support multiple outcomes"? Sure, if people were more tech-educated then my assumption might be wrong. But people aren't more educated so...

The benefits of LEDs are hard to miss (light) all the time. The benefits of ECC are hard to observe even in that fraction of a percent of the time. Human cellular "bitflips" happen every hour but they don't visibly affect you so you also consider it's not an issue that demands more attention, like constant solar protection. People aren't keen on paying to solve problems they never suffered from, or even noticed, especially when you tell them they happen so often still with no obvious impact. Unless they have no choice, like OEMs selling ECC RAM only devices.

Sell me ECC memory when my (actual real life) 10 year old desktop or 5 year old phone never glitched. Sell me ECC RAM when my Matlab calculations come back different every time. See the difference?

> When people never even think of ECC, that is not evidence that they wouldn't care or know about it in a head-to-head competition.

Well then, I guess none of us has any evidence except today people buy LEDs not ECC RAM. Educate people or wait until manufacturing process and design are so susceptible to bitflips that people notice and it will be a different conversation.
That is different though. Steve Jobs never claimed credit himself. As a matter of fact his autograph are extremely rare;

"Steve politely declined several times, stating that everything at Apple was a group effort, so he didn’t like to sign and take credit for everything. " [1]

And with every Keynote Steve will thank all teams who has been working nights and days, often using the phase "separated from their families". And constant and consistently reminding everyone that "We, at Apple." Not "Me, Steve Jobs".

I remember some made the observation Elon Musk is more about selling himself than Tesla or SpaceX. Steve Jobs is more about selling Apple himself.

But at the same time let's admit it, Apple without Steve Jobs is just different. There is no one to keep the balance between everyone. Jony, Eddy, Tim, Phill, Scott Forstall and lots of others. Steve often likes to refer Apple as the Beatles, where the whole is greater than sum of its parts, and they kept everyone's flaws in check.

[1] https://live.autographmagazine.com/profiles/blogs/steve-jobs...
Understanding Connections and Pools
Maybe in the nice countries taxes are high because it's possible for them to be high, what with it being a nice country full of nice rich people that accept to be taxed.

Maybe in not-so-nice poor countries (which again means the people, we're not talking about the landscape here) the goverment would love nothing more than to raise taxes but it's impossible for them because the people just won't take it.

Oh, and if you're still thinking the other way around: No, starting with high taxes doesn't work to make your not-so-nice country into a nice one (Google "Communism")
IMHO that interpretation is implausible. "... [theory] doesn't replace, rather [[its creator] provided it for free]"? makes no sense.

It doesn't replace, rather complements it.

Occam's razor AND semantics.

Edit: maybe you were joking? in which case sorry (it missed the mark)
Compliance with the law is not binary. The US has a system of selective enforcement whereby they go after the most flagrant violators to make an example to everyone else. Blocking requests is compliance enough, practically speaking.
Thanks, agree! More import options are definitely on our radar.

Edit: the latest TeX User Group (TUG) had a good talk about this sort of workflow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9uZJFO54iM
They're social democracies, like many Western European countries (such as Germany, The Netherlands, France, ...). They're capitalist and socialist at the same time, with a nuanced pragmatism on what priority is applied where. Sometimes one prevails, sometimes the other. The Nordic/Scandinavian countries are, arguably, the most socialist of all social democracies. For example, they have the most advanced welfare system, and pay the most tax.
Because one of the key parts of UK law is the principle of parliamentary sovereignty - that parliament is the ultimate source of legal authority. The court cannot overrule parliament by definition, in the same way SCOTUS cannot overrule the Constitution.
You seem rather outraged by the sensible assumption that parents living in Iran are probably Iranian, and that a person with two Iranian parents is probably also Iranian.

In 2021, people are still directly related to their parents, and the majority of citizens in most countries is indeed the local population.

They may of course have obtained American citizenship now, but we're talking in the context of crazy US sanctions on Iran here, which I think work on connection to Iran.

I don't think there should be any consequence to being Iranian, but I don't have a say in American politics.
Dunno if anyone else has the same gut reaction, but Jepsen tests feel like table stakes at this point.
It's a long time that I've tried to do anything in Haskell, but I had to use extensions such as GADTs, type families, existential quantifications, kind signatures, multiparam type classes...

I can't name you any ones that are mutually incompatible because I simply don't remember what all of those were about anymore, but I remember there was something (I'll take back the "often"), and I'll bet that some of those that I named above are now deprecated or superseded by others.

> Can you name any extensions that are the result of "just" a PhD thesis (as opposed to a peer reviewed academic paper published at a top conference)?

Well, no, I can't, since I don't follow it anymore, and if I understand correctly you are making my point by stating that a PhD thesis is not the level where you already make language extensions. I know someone who's made significant contributions to GHC also as part of their PhD work, though.

My actual point was simply that the idea of modelling more than basic ideas (like physical layout of data) with static types is a bad idea. You quickly get sucked in to places where you need to be able to express even more complicated typing deductions, and you'll end up resorting to unergonomic stuff like templating, dynamic types and various RTTI approaches, and all kinds of language extensions that are really hard to grasp or that are still in the making. As a guy of modest intelligence, I feel like a dog chasing its tail (and I assume that this is how the super-smart guys out there feel like, too, a lot of the time).

> Can you name any examples where a card house tumbled and someone had to pick a different set of extensions?

Really anything where you're trying to represent a concept with compile time language primitives (which is what Haskell guys are about, a lot of the time - and take pride of). I'm convinced you know this situation yourself where you start of modelling something statically (in type language) and then you have this additional requirement coming in, and you don't know how to represent it with compile time language feature anymore, so you end up scratching everything and building it with a more modest mindset, most of the stuff available with run time values - maybe a few more run-time case switches or asserts that invalid situations can't happen, but overall simpler and easier to understand code.
Why is Amazon even using a third party payment gateway?
> Governments likely have access to back doors and 0days that can compromise anyone

* anyone running a certain configuration

Bugs don't exist in a vacuum. They exist in a specific piece of software, which usually supports a specific feature (e.g. Flash, Microsoft Word, or TCP/IP).

Curious in more informed opinions, but it seems unlikely there's a large universe of zero days applicable to every configuration out there.

Consequently, a huge part of security is (and has always been!) limiting unnecessary code. Specifically, code accepting input from network connections.

Parent's point about crypto algorithms is a form of this: one reason they're so secure, and proveably so, is because they have extremely limited attack surfaces. They take this input, they produce this output.
Gleason's theorem also makes a big assumption when you require that the measurement outcomes are associated with POVM elements (or projection operators if you don't like POVMs). I lumped that in with "assuming something equivalent to it" since Gleason's theorem (at least by my understanding) is exactly the statement that assuming non-contextuality+POVMs/POMs is equivalent to assuming Born's rule.

Although its really cool I don't think Gleason helps you tie any particular interpretation to the Born rule, since you still have to make a jump to tie your measurement outcome to a POM/POVM element.

As far as your last sentence goes, this is sort of what I was trying to argue in my comment above. The "part that is difficult" that you identify as being unresolved by MWI is also completely unresolved by pilot wave theory, or qbism or consistent histories or any other interpretation (as far as I am aware).
You always have do these transactioms in coffee shops, and smaller money.

I know a trader who does big transactions, but they never do it in one go.
Meeting European VC Champions: Cross-Border Life Sciences Investing
> You might as well insist America was Socialist during the New Deal.

People did. And the new deal is exactly what democratic socialists in the us are trying to evoke. E.g. “the green new deal”.

I don’t think we have to deal in absolutes. You can be partially socialist, with some private corporations and some state owned. It’s not black and white, it doesn’t have to be.
Author here, self-posted. Can AMA.
I jumped on Sublime Merge so fast. No regrets, it's such a fantastic and speedy Git client.

If they did email, I'm 100% buying it the day of its release. Even before, if possible.
> Surely they can't just change the license without rewriting everything from scratch.

They can. You can get a permission from all (or most) contributors and rewrite/remove all others . You can relicense to a compatible license (gpl2 -> GPL 3) You could license all new contributions under the new license and retain all old code under the previous license (for example moving from MIT to APL). There’s probably other options, it relicensing is not impossible, though sometimes painful.
Theft doesn’t scale that very well. You try laundering $10 million by selling stolen goods at the pub. It’ll take you a while, and I can guarantee that the police are gonna notice.

Even then you’re just turning your goods into cash. Which is still difficult to spend when buying high value assets like property. At some point if you’re a criminal that wants to spend their cash, and live in a developed country you need to turn your crypto into clean fiat in a bank account, or prove the crypto didn’t come from illicit sources.
An Open-Source FPGA-Optimized Out-of-Order RISC-V Soft Processor (2019) [pdf]
Both this video (https://sandwich.co/work/descript-video/), and their original promotional video (https://sandwich.co/work/its-how-you-make-a-podcast/), were done by Sandwich.
A company I used to work for got acquired by a US-owned organisation.

We were required to block traffic from sanctioned countries, and were allowed to use a Geolocation IP Database to do so. Lots of lawyers reviewed it, as well as external consultants.
And if the consequences is that the police comes at their doors and ordering them to comply, then what exactly has Github achieved? It's easy to be a keyboard warrior and taking an idealistic stance.
I haven't received any information about the security breach from any of juspay's customers (swiggy, amazon?). Shouldn't I expect that?
As an Microsoft Teams Ex-Dev, I can vouch that message retrieval after vacation puts a lot of stress on storage systems before it stabilizes :)
There's definitely a large set of sites that should not have a viable choice, not from Google and not from anyone else, as we-the-users want our distribution channels to filter out various groups of SEO spam.

The only question is whether this site is one of these or not - and even if it's not, a certain number of 'false positives' is acceptable and less strict filters definitely are not. If you're running a site that's skirting the line between spam and not-spam, then either you take on the risk that you might be dropped by google and others, or (perhaps preferably) stop doing that thing and do something substantially different.
> Ironically, Git is a decentralized version control system.

And Git is open source.

Github is a US-registered company under MS. The US has a history of weaponizing its economic power.

Stallman (RMS) was right once again.