skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a spectrum of evidence from weakest ("I can imagine something happening") to strongest ("I have a formally verified mathematical proof that I understand and that leading mathematicians agree with"). On that scale, someone confident, respectable and reasonable saying something earnestly is pretty good evidence. Especially good evidence considering the ease and difficulty of collecting and verifying more serious forms evidence.

But this is also why it is so important to have an almost cruel level of cynicism towards politics. The politician figured this out long ago, and will always make sure to look confident, respectable and reasonable when making stuff up and lying. But most people are not cynics and the ugly soup of politics continues to simmer.
Those who can't humor, virtue signal.
I understand. So many years ago I built a fast CP/M emulator using a novel scheme. How did it go now, I remember; lodsb mov ah,al jmp ax. So just three instructions none of which affected the flags. So no need for lahf/sahf. The downside was that I needed 64K to sparsely store my opcode emulations. Opcode 0x00 at 0x0000. 0x01 at 0x0101. 0x02 at 0x0202 etc. In each case the code would just be the direct emulation of the 8080 opcode followed by lodsb mov ah,al jmp ax. Opcode 0xff was a manageable problem. But yes, I just did the 8080 instructions, and I remember now that most CP/M software was fine with that, the Turbo Pascal software was an exception.
Linking the Twitter thread for background, since it matters to mention:
1) this is after libgcrypt 1.9.0's "textbook" heap overflow
2) libgcrypt 1.9.1, a security update, breaks --disable-asm builds on x86-64 because they also tried to do feature.

Bug in question is https://dev.gnupg.org/T5279. Won't do any good to post anything there though.
You may not be familiar with the layer 2 innovations in crypto enabled by zero knowledge proofs, but blockchains such as Ethereum are about to get several orders of magnitude more efficient. It will absolutely be able to accommodate these transactions in the not too distant future. I get the tech needs to mature and get to a battle tested point first, but blockchain based stock trading is inevitable.
I mean, at a conceptual level, knowing history is important in the "ignorance of history will lead to repeated history" line of thinking - and I don't disagree. ... and knowing why decisions were made can help determine which tools to use (IE: Why use static typing or duck typing and when to use the other... or when to use procedural programming, async, functional, etc...)

Maybe it's a combination of you "projecting" and me not being clear. And trying to discuss what could be deep conversations in a little more than a twitter tag of 140 chars.

I'm personally a .Net Developer and while I do stick with the latest versions (IE: .Net Core), I also have enough experience to know the past (IE: ADO vs Entity Frameworks). I was trained in school on a mainframe (IBM DB2 with RPG and SQL). I'm not trying to stick with the latest "hotness" as most of MY work is actually done via Windows Services, API interactions and moving files around - definitely not the latest fad. With that said, I am working on using good tools to get my job done faster/better - IE: CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, deployment, etc. Tools that didn't exist 5 years ago could be the latest fad but I don't think that's what you are suggesting.

I'm more worried about learning different things (IE: Functional, procedural, async, parallel, etc) than I am worried about "history" of those. When I pick up a programming book, I'm less worried about the "Microsoft created version 1 in 2000 and version 2 in 2005 and..." and more concerned about do's, do not's, best practices, etc.

Maybe it's my personality and the way I "deemphasize" history... it's not that I think it's unimportant... I just think that it's more important to focus on other things. Learning some history along the way is good and fun but it's never been my focus and I've never used what I consider "history" in an interview or a job on a day to day. Maybe that's rubbing people the wrong way lol
This is awesome.

A lot of the comments here suggest that some of the functionality can be replaced by extensions like vimium-ff [1]. If you only compare the list of features then maybe. If you try using the extensions, you immediately notice that the keybindings don't work outside of fully loaded page, have horrible lags and delays and misses a keyboard event from time to time.

For the curious folk, the GitHub page [2] seems to do a better job at telling the how of things.

My question is why Lisp for scripting? What's the technical reason behind choosing it? Or is it just personal preference? I use emacs myself and my only complaint is elisp. In this time and age it looks very alien-ish to most people and judging by my colleagues, It can be a major deterrent from using emacs.

[1]: https://github.com/philc/vimium

[2]: https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt
It is interesting to compare to the Porsche-Volkswagon squeeze of 2008.

In that one Porsche reaped the rewards of creating the squeeze
If you're willing to write it yourself, `awesome` (the window manager) might be what you're looking for.

It's surprisingly powerful. As an example, I once had a cobbled together WM version of emacs' `ace-window` way of jumping between windows going. It wasn't even that much code…

There also supposedly is a Wayland based "successor" for it called `way-cooler`. I've never used that one, though.

Edit: OTOH, I've come to find the `i3` model of just allocating 10 virtual work spaces to work better for me, since that works way better with just a keyboard than tabs. But I guess this is a matter of personal preference.

Edit2: It looks like `way-cooler` was discontinued last year:
http://way-cooler.org/blog/2020/01/09/way-cooler-post-mortem...
Maybe someone can let Google know that Element is not a publisher.
In web terms:
- Element is like a browser
- matrix.org is like a bulletin board

In e-mail terms:
- Element is like a mail client
- matrix.org is like a given community of mailing lists

In IRC terms:
- Element is like an IRC client
- matrix.org is like an IRC server/network e.g. Freenode.
To be honest, I don't know a thing about this topic. I just found it odd that you seemed to be acknowledging that what you called a lie could actually have been the truth. You still seem to be acknowledge that the EU is facing setbacks.

Why negotiate? Because it's a scarce resource and has to be allocated somehow.
VGA could not do truecolor; the original VGA at this resolution 640x480 could do 16 colors, i.e. 4 bits per pixel and that means 150 kB framebuffer. It could do 256 colors with lower resolution (oficially 320x200, or "mode-x" 320x240).

VGA came with 256 kB RAM onboard. Then, in the early 90's, SVGA came with 512 kB and 1 MB onboard, and it could do 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024. The main RAM would be around 4 MB for the midrange computer. It took until mid-90, that you could get 4 or 8 MB SVGA, that could also do hicolor and truecolor.
Parent is concerned what will happen in the world where we actually exist.
And, at least in my country, that's not the fault of the virus, but politicians who didn't invest in healthcare not even remotely enough. Here we were hit hard by virus, however we never had more than 10k people hospitalized. If we, as a country of 7 million have a problem with this weak virus, what would happen if it were couple times stronger.

People should be outraged with how healthcare failed, but media and politics are reporting about the virus like it's a plague, just so they can cover their asses.
Show HN: I've wrote an extension so you can Google less
If I get to work with matrix and element io plasma mobile I'm ordering a device next day.
Has it been confirmed that u/burrym is indeed Michael Burry of Scion Asset Management?
Signal can at least in principle censor user content, because they control both server and clients. (And they do, for example you can "delete" your messages that are stored on other clients.)

With Matrix you have the choice to use whatever server or client you like, which makes it difficult to censor.
Most toothpaste is found in tubes though?
Well, nothing keeps you from still starting with ###, so you have two spare levels to go down to if needed (## and #).

Alternatively, that’s where the “negative” levels would come in (i.e. the .# levels above).
The parent comment is just saying that a poorly-run vaccination programme results in more deaths than a successful one, everything else being equal. Hope that helps.
I haven't found it in previous discussions, could anyone explain to me why is this significant? I have clue about painting artistically but when you want to get a wall paint, or some plastic, you can basically get any color you want. So why is this important?

I'm guessing that maybe most colors I see are a mixture of CMYK or something alike, but if my eye can't tell the difference, does making something only reflect a single frequency instead, matter for somebody looking at an object?
In Windows Terminal you can just hold CTRL and scroll, or the default key bindings are CTRL+= and CTRL+-.
It's a well known bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
Nice! I decided to go back to the old Web days and write something which really does work in ANY browser.

So far, I've reached back to Netscape 2.x and Mosaic :)
This is insane. This jeopardizes every email, xmpp, matrix, etc; basically any 3rd party application.
Process Philosophy
On iOS that's pretty much all been removed. The access gateway has to send an APNS notifications when there is an inbound call.
It puts too much pressure on Helpdesk to provide the support needed when you don't have a common path.
Earth Species Project – Decoding Animal Communication
Unfortunately, it contains a kernel of truth. I personally met staffers at my alma mater that worked there after failing to advance in their academic career but being too well connected to not have a safety net.
You state that "a drop in overall intake as more students realise it likely isn't worth the money". This is completely unfounded and not supported by statistics at all [1]. University intake in the UK across all ethnicities has been on a steady increase.

Also, I'm not sure it's true to say UK degrees don't care about the beauty of number's. Again, the statistics show that the number of mathematics students have been according to the overall trend [2]. And anecdotally, comparing with friends from other countries the UK actually seems to have a university system unusually geared to purely academic degrees.

It's my personal belief that while of course university is about getting a job, it's also about learning about adulthood for many people. People use it to delay the start of their working life and enjoy a few years of adult freedom, as well as to get a degree. Anecdotally, I know a lot of my friends went to uni almost entirely for this reason and had no idea in their head about what they'd do after yet. But I don't think there's anything wrong with that. In fact with increasing lifetimes I think it only makes sense we continue to delay the age at which we enter the workforce.

[1] https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education...

[2] https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/16-01-2020/sb255-higher-educatio...
Alphabet is not a university.
This means exiling people more or less corresponds to screwing over the hapless, trusting society they get exiled to

There are no hapless, trusting societies any longer. The way the criminal justice system works, if we exile these guys running the vaccine scam, the nations we exile them to will immediately deport them back to the US. No one wants the criminals from other nations. So unless your crime is not terribly serious, exile won't work.

It certainly won't work in this instance. This is not some trifling misdemeanor.
When I was a teenager my sisters went to typing classes on a weekend, and my parents insisted I go with them. I suspect I was mostly encouraged to make sure my parents had some free time alone, without the children, but it was definitely useful!

These days I can type 55-75 words per minute, and have no difficulty typing "blind".

Edit: Did a trivial online typing test, at typingtest.com, for a few minutes "Typing Speed 98 WPM, Accuracy 99 % Adjusted Speed 97 WPM" So better than I estimated!
> will close the circle

Precisely. Even if they are acting in good faith, their current set of rules would make them ban internet if it was to be created now.
Plenty of them don't do research anymore either, depending on the school
These are really nice libraries, but they indicate there is a problem with input data having "gigabytes of ASCII floats",
where you store floats as strings instead of binary formats(which doesn't require parsing anything). for scripts and user-input, i'd rather use the standard stuff that has been tried and tested(strtod/strtold).
> The speed at which someone can process search results and stackoverflow responses to filter out crap and find the solution is the best proxy I've found for developer productivity.

That's interesting. What is your experience with harder problems - ones that can't be just googled? Do you find that those same "googlers" still outperform the more "independent" developers?
> We've had contact from Google confirming that the suspension is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix

If this takedown stands, this effectively means that all distributed message systems are banned from the Play store.
cm2187: I wonder if you realize that a significant factor in the US scientific prowess is a certain event in the XX century history of Europe which forced a huge number of scientists to move to the US because they weren't 'Aryan enough'. After said XX century event another wave of scientists arrived (or were brought) to the US, only these were 'quite Aryan' but facing career oblivion in Europe due to their past political associations. One way or another, a critical mass of excellent researchers ended up in the US and became a technological asset that no other country could frankly match or even get close, solidifying its technological preeminence for the rest of the century. Obviously, this wouldn't have been possible without generous US funding for science as well (the economy being another area where the US has dominated the XX century).

Also, '90%' sounds suspiciously like a number you produced from deep within your colon.
Start with setting some standards about how people/teams/managers communicate and how decisions are made and stick to those standards.
It's a play on "those who can, teach" which was a marketing campaign in the UK, which somewhat backfired within the UK and became the saying "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach".

Clearly there are lots of people who genuinely choose to enter teaching, but in certain subjects, for some people, it is the de-facto profession if you cannot use your degree to do something else. See Avenue Q's "What can you do, with a BA in English?".

This is more about high school than university-level though.

[Note - I was mistaken - please see the clarification in post below!]
> Easy line rate if you crank the MTU all the way to 9000 :D

In my experience jumbo frames provide at best an improvement of about 20% in rare cases, such as ping-pong UDP protocols such as TFTP or Citrix PVS streaming.
I always considered that part of a much needed safety net for a professional where stagnation in the hierarchy is no option, but there are less positions at the top than at the bottom. So yes, a kernel of truth, but not necessarily a bad thing.
> What happens next is entirely out of human hands, unless we can realize that event.

We would not have been able to detect this object two decades ago. So the "event" is that our observation capabilities have grown past some threshold, not that anything has changed in our solar system. Whether rocks or alien probes, these types of objects must always have been passing through our solar system with some regularity. We'll get a a chance to study others soon enough.

Edit: this video by Scott Manley helps to get a sense of how our ability to detect asteroids has grown over time: https://youtu.be/BKKg4lZ_o-Y
Israel has a population of 9 million, if you only have 2 million vaccinated and people stop acting like it's a risk then of course the cases are going to go through the roof.

If you have 6 million vaccinated, across the whole population not just old people, then you will see a decrease as the chances are that the people you meet will not be a vector.

Until then, act like you are infected.
I didn't want to bring satisfactory up myself but I completely agree with everything you've said. You're right that factorio leans into the spreadsheet-esque aspect of the game, and it uses that to it's advantage both from a gameplay and a technical perspective. Making satisfactory a 2d game wouldn't give you the same experience as factorio!
If they are letting you trade with instant credit, then under the hood there ARE margin loans going on. To be compliant with SEC regulations the broker must be pulling on short term margin loans from a bank to cover the securities being bought without hard cash in hand.
The main hurdle is that (without rooting) there doesn't seem to be a way for alternative app stores to silently update software.

That's bearable though unpleasant when you have one or two pieces of software that rarely get updated, that's absolutely impossible when you have 10+ pieces of software - you'll sit there for 5 minutes just approving install prompts every week, which isn't something a normal human is going to do.

It doesn't help that FDroid is pretty broken, and constantly pops up notifications about updates that don't work/aren't actionable (i.e. tapping the notification doesn't result in an install prompt followed by a successful installation, instead I get various errors etc.). Also, apparently the FDroid review process is even slower than the Play store review process.
Somewhat offtopic I guess, but a huge part of this seems to be two-day settlement.

Why on earth does the US still have two day settlement?

Surely we're at a point where we ought to be able to send money nearly instantly for ~free. In the UK we have the faster payments network, but hell crypto whatever take your pick. Surely 2 days is not the right amount of time?
Yes. Here in the Midwest it's perfectly within reach of even a modest tech salary to own a home in a nice suburb. The coasts are just so detached from reality
Even if the term has always been vague, you should still make some conscious decisions. You will have some culture anyway; you can either set it deliberately and encourage certain behaviours or you can slip into some unknown default state of work/communication/decision making.
So taxonicity is dimensional, not categorical? :)
Ive worked on AAA games for the last 8 years, and I made my own 2d games for 5 years before it. My current project has something in the region of 60-70 gameplay programmers, and has been this scale for the last 3 years. Writing gameplay code and engine code are two very different experiences with different constraints. There is plenty of technical work in writing good gameplay code.
EFT's with IBAN are instantaneous too, at least in Turkey
What nerd with intellect would work as a professor if they could earn the significantly more money working for a hedge fund, FAANG, etc? Genuine question. The current academic hopeful spends their 20s in near-poverty level stipends and are more likely than not to never get a professorship as it is. If they did all that for 60k/yr why would they even bother?

(Additionally I don’t know if it applies here, but often that money to build buildings is with conditions- ie.”you have to use this money to build a building a name it after me”.)
All web browsers that are not Chrome, beware. You're next.
It's a second comment in this thread like this. I'm not a native speaker and it's hard to tell whether CCP is supposed to be:

- CCCP a cyrillic of SSSR?

- CCP, Chinese Communist Party?

- CCP, the cyclic something peptide, which is a top websearch hit for me?
I agree, unfortunately MDN has it's own type definition format "Web IDL". This means community must write the type definitions twice, once for specification in Web IDL and second time in TypeScript to get proper IDE support. (There is a converter, not sure how well it works)

Naturally the Web IDL is not as nearly as sophisticated as TypeScript so it would be nice if they could improve the TS to work as a replacement for Web IDL.
If you need to prepare for Black Swan events, doesn't it make sense to have your own channel to distribute APKs to all devices? Why would you rely on the Play Store at all?
Nicely put. Some professors want monastery-level accountability with industry-level salary. Have the cake and eat it.
This is not correct. Travel restrictions, not only at borders between EU countries but even within countries have been common ever since the first lockdown in Italy (I remind you that the European chapter of the crisis started with a couple of counties in northern Italy getting cordoned off, before the whole country eventually locked down). See

https://www.dw.com/en/european-travel-restrictions-non-essen...

for the current status.
Wired: Apple is trying to kill the monster it helped create
Yes! But shouldn’t it be central? There are hundreds of thousands of clinical pharmacists answering similar questions every day. To your point- everyone asks unique questions so still get unique answers that they can then combine with patient- specific preferences to make personal decisions.

Am I answering what you asked ? Sorry if not!
The 95% everyone quotes is for mild disease.

For severe disease, Pfizer had 4 in the control group, and 1 in the vaccine group. That’s 75% RRR, with a confidence interval that spans 0-100%.

Look at the graphs here and in Pfizer’s. Immunity seems to taper at 12-18 days and stay there. The 2nd vaccine does not seem to confer more immunity - just expected to last longer time. This article looks at more severe disease than Pfizer’s 95% endloint (though possibly not severe as their “severe disease” endpoint - I don’t remember what definition each uses, but just in Israel the “severe” definition has changed several times)
Essentially, while you might be able to get any colour you want, others (mainly artists, it seems) have not been able to get any colour they want. This one has better properties than previously available pigments. Read the article.