skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with these kinds of discussions is that many people are morally scandalized by answers like "the mall is very important to me" or "I'm aware of and accept the marginal risk". So there's a lot of social pressure to come up with reasons why whatever you'd like to do is "safe", and those reasons don't necessarily reflect the actual thought process. Most likely your friend would be going to the mall regardless of what safety measures were in place.

I'm imagining a friend challenging me on whether it's safe to go out to get boba. I might point out that they don't have you wait inside the shop or that I avoid going when there's a long line, but the honest answer is that I really want boba and don't typically think about the risk in this level of detail.
The US govt spends 7.3 trillion dollars per year. So that’s about 0.5% of spending. As a fraction of US GDP it’s about 0.17%.

It’s tiny. The claim I was arguing against was this:

> the armaments manufacturers who actually control our society

You can’t control society with 0.17% of US GDP!

Note also that most of that spending does not flow to arms contractors so the actual figure is less. The bulk is spend on the defense department and other government agencies.

Here’s the report your article cites. See page 9

https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ican/pages/1549/attach...
1. In the case of Christianity (those theistic beliefs which believe Jesus is God in the flesh), it makes a pretty bold claim (i.e. that a human physically came back from the dead) which, if true, is remarkable regardless of faith tradition. It is more difficult to verify the claim now, but eyewitness accounts still exist and can be cross-examined.

Interestingly, there are accounts of Jesus' miracles from non-believers as well, who generally believed they were Egyptian magic due to Jesus having spent his early years in Egypt, which has long had a reputation as a land of magic. But the point is, Christianity makes certain assertions about things that it claims historically happened which can be verified or falsified, which is pretty great as belief systems go.

I have no particular defense in hand for other theistic beliefs, though.

2. Yes, because "good" is subjective, and the context of our understanding is limited. Someone might believe it is generally good to be tolerant. Others might believe it is good to be intolerant of things which bring about long-term (usually spiritual) harm even if they seem immediately harmless. Supposing we grant that an omniscient benevolent creator god exists and that this god has told us how to live, it stands to reason that those instructions would be of more value than trying to figure things out for ourselves, because we're not omniscient.
After 7y of native mobile development I tried React Native and this what I think
I agree that a coup doesn't happen instantly - but this video has captured a unique moment of history if it's showing military forces bloodlessly capturing a government checkpoint. On the other hand, if it's merely showing military vehicles passing through a military checkpoint? There are probably hundreds of videos showing that.
I usually do short projects (usually 4 months or less) so that I plenty of time to explore the subject while still short enough to avoid procrastinating.

Once I complete a project, I usually open-source it and write a blog post so I can have something to show it to somebody like a prospective employer. The most recent project I completed is a ray tracer made completely from scratch ->

https://alessandrocuzzocrea.com/how-i-made-a-ray-tracer/

https://alessandrocuzzocrea.github.io/raytracer-ts/

https://github.com/alessandrocuzzocrea/raytracer-ts/
It is such a shame that nowadays even these high priced devices are contributing to the enormous e-waste we are all piling up.

It used to be like this: You spend A LOT of money for really nice headphones and use them (potentially) your lifetime. Or hand it down to your kids as your hearing gets worse. Sound doesn’t change much and the plug has been around for ages.

Nowadays it goes like this: You buy your expensive Apple headphones. And even though Apple is probably supporting these longer than your average earbuds, after a while the bluetooth version will be obsolete and eventually the battery will have reached its end or inflate and become a safety risk.

But because this was expensive and Apple supported it longer, it will have maybe lasted 10 years and one or two (pricey) battery replacements. This is still much worse than audiophile „analog“ headphones and I feel like this change is not adequately addressed.

I would really hope to see more approaches like Shure‘s „Aonic 215 True Wireless“ which is an arguably quite ugly attachment to the drivers that have been around for a long while and just adds the wireless capabilities and bluetooth. It can also be used for any other Shure driver afaik. This way you keep the good old sound producing piece while swapping out the stuff that will degrade over time.
Why do headphone reviews so rarely include a frequency response graph?

Heck - why is this information often so difficult to even get to start?

I often judge whether my headphones, or especially studio monitors, are worth buying or not partially by whether they print these on the box, or, usually, in the case of monitors, directly on the unit.

Claiming you are a doing an audiophile review and not touching on this topic whatsoever makes me wonder whether you are an audiophile or just prissy about your hardware.
Wasn't my take -- just found it odd how many people wrote back as if they'd been personally attacked by the parent comment.
Predation and Corpse-Eating in Armadillos
For me he'll always be Lt Briggs in "Magnum Force". "You're a good man, Briggs; a man's got to know his limitations!"
I have a couple friends who have been constantly agitating for deep-cleaning for the past decade.

They aren't going to let the chance to change norms around it just slip away
> Wait, so sniffing on screen resolution is the way web developers distinguish desktops from mobile? That's just crazy.

No, it's not how it's done. And there is generally no logic trying to see if it's a mobile or not. One just have various designs for various sizes. When he has a 700px wide display, what else can the website do than collapse the content when it's not enough space for it?
‘Gomorrah’ Is Back, as Bloody (and Gripping) as Ever
The existing nntp implementations are long enough in the tooth that someone could put some work into them and make them invented there. I recall the spool files were all individually managed so you used to get hot spots around popular groups and have a lot of copy operations to remove old posts. I think the indexing was all done with libdb/libgdbm per newsgroup. Lots of room for improvement there. I’m betting there is no transport security or its sslv3 if you dig into the code base. Lots of people used to lament the lack of user authentication and I think spam basically started on nntp with all the “green card” stuff but on the other hand the whole point of decentralized is you can say stuff other people disagree with and there is no central authority, right?

A personal annoyance of mine was all the people who archived everything and never deleted it - there is a phd thesis for someone, how to expire information from a decentralized system. I managed to get Google to remove most of my early Usenet musings (Google groups started off as an nntp archive and for a while they would delete stuff if you asked nicely) and the rest “aged out” as people lost interest in running archives, or their computers crashed, or they switched jobs and nobody else wanted to maintain them after they left. It took roughly three decades but I can’t find a single post of mine anymore.
As far as I know, this has been medical procedure for months now.
"If you are worried about the money, just buy a house"

Say this to a Chinese or European guy. You're very privileged lol
Ironically the "invest a decade of money" market is undertapped due to a myopic quarter on quarter focus of most businesses for ~50 years.

Elon Musk's businesses could all be described as decade long investments with massive success, there are a vast number of pseudo monopolies that haven't done much of anything in 3-5 decades.
A train driver is one of the hardest jobs to get into - you're personally responsible for a thousand people and it's very very boring. It requires a lot of discipline!
The author is actually complaining about narrow viewports and not about portrait orientations, without even realizing it.
Is starlink a direct competitor or is there a different product market fit for your satellites?
That was the messaging in the first couple of months, and why social distancing was thought to be sufficient: The droplets would fall to the ground before traveling very far.

Then several months later we started hearing about how the virus can hang in the air for hours in buildings with poor ventilation; that's aerosols, not droplets. At that point social distancing does almost nothing, and even masks are questionable since it can far far more easily go around the edges of any masks, and slip through cloth masks in ways droplets can't.
NileRed (a chemistry YouTuber) made a video on similar a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/x1H-323d838
Unless you plan to never run anything but Go on your system you're going to need a libc at one point or an other. If anything this decision reinforces the NIH hypothesis for me. Almost like a prideful "NO C ALLOWED" stance which is not really pragmatic IMO.

The only counterargument I can think off would be to remove the libc footprint for ultra-small, go-only distributions but I highly doubt that it's significant on any modern system (even an embedded one) and if you care so much about reducing the runtime footprint why would you go with a GC language in the first place?
The definition of agnostic seems closer to “not knowing and not pretending to know” to me than an atheist.

Although, I guess my personal definition has been that theist assumes a higher being exists, an atheist assumes no higher being exists, and agnostic assumes nothing.
Clerics are moving to YouTube in Turkey, and the government is watching
I'm the founder of Etebase, cool to see it mentioned it here!

If anyone has any questions, please let me know (email in profile). We will also be giving a talk about Etebase at FOSDEM this year if anyone is interested: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/etebase/
It's interesting that the author (And many Americans!) realize that the media is becoming more homogenized, and that that's a problem, but come to the wrong conclusion that it's getting more progressive, when these large media conglomerates are mostly very conservative.
Of course. And the confession "Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief" in Mark 9:24 was apparently good enough for Jesus.
I watch videos all the time under X without apparent issues. Maybe VLC works around it somehow?
FreeBSD does have a stable syscall ABI. But it's not _the_ stable ABI people should be using; the advertised stable ABI is the libc.
It works beautifully for it's indented audience.

I think many people, my parents included, would have trouble navigating HN on a phone. Especially upvote/downvote.
That third side already exists: The media is supposed to be independent.
Hmmm...

The paper "A Fast New DES Implementation in Software" calculated 64-parallel DES Round across a 64-bit register in 1,040 DEC Alpha instructions. There are 16 rounds per DES, and then another 2,500 clock ticks to convert the bitwise representation back into normal form.

The key to understanding things:

> The full circuit of DES contains about 16000 gates (including the key scheduling, which costs nothing), and thus we can compute DES 64 times in about
16000 instructions on 64-bit processors.

Each logic-gate can be seen as an AND/OR/XOR instruction on a 1-bit computer. Use 64-bit wide AND/OR/XOR to do 64x calculations in parallel. The modern equivalent would be 256x in parallel (AVX2 for Threadripper), AVX512 for Skylake-X, and 1024x in parallel for NVidia Ampere.

I dunno what kind of post-processing would need to be done, so I'll estimate an even 20,000 clock ticks per 64x DES result on the old DEC Alpha.

A modern GPU can probably execute 1024-bit per clock tick (AMD RDNA / NVidia Ampere 32-way x 32-bit), while a modern AVX512 CPU can execute 512-bit at a time. And AVX2 is 256-bit at a time (but probably faster: AVX2 / AVX512 execute XOR / ADDs at a rate of MORE than one clock tick per clock cycle).

The paper was very innovative: the SBox was a 100-instruction long sequence of AND / OR / XOR instructions. Avoiding the cache probably is a good thing, but I do wonder if there's a way to benefit from memory somehow.

* ~80 AVX2 clock ticks per result (20k clock ticks / 256-bits)

* ~40 AVX512 clock ticks per result (20k clocks / 512 bits)

* ~20 GPU clock ticks per result (20k clocks / 1024 bits)

So a 64-core AMD at 4GHz probably could do ~3.2-billion DES attempts per second.

A 216 SM NVidia A100 at 1.4 GHz probably can do ~15-billion DES attempts per second.

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Hmmmmmm.... the results this page claims is ~16-billion DES attempts per second. Which does seem to be approximately what I'd expect a concerted effort on an NVidia A100 would get. I'm doing very "napkin-level" math here with tons of assumptions.

The SBox-lookup (100-AND/OR/XOR gates) might be better run on AVX / AVX512 however, because AMD Threadripper can do 4x simple AND/OR/XOR instructions per clock tick, and IIRC Intel AVX512 can do 3x simple bitwise instructions per clock tick. With the proper "cut dependencies", an SBox probably can be really executed in under 40 clock ticks instead of 100. CPUs could very well cut out hundreds of cycles from the above estimate.

The S-Box is very curious for DES: it is a non-reversible 6-bit lookup with a 4-bit result.
The US seems to be nosediving at breakneck speed though, regardless of the change of president, due to the immense systemic issues it accumulated over the decades. Please try escaping out of your own liberal fantasy bubble and explore some other bubbles if you want to see how other people think about your country.
I generally agree. But thumbs up/down is difficult on mobile with my fat fingers, even worse since I've had nervr damage.
> I understand that but if they're going to go down that route for OpenBSD why not bring it to all platforms?

Because they really don’t want to, so they will avoid doing it until forced to, as previously happened with e.g. macOS.

> I must admit that I haven't taken the time to analyze in depth the pros and cons here, but Go's history of NIH coupled with the fact that basically every other mainstream language manages to work by binding the libc leaves me very perplex.

One of the issues Go has is it uses its own non-C stack. Libcs generally assume a C stack and don’t understand growable movable stacks so they can get very cross when called with an unexpectedly small stack (iirc Go defaults to 2k while the smallest C stack I know of is 64k on old OpenBSD, then macOS’s 512k for the non-main threads).
Exactly this :) I should have used a word that carried less weight than "narcissist". Parent comment seemed like an obvious joke but it sucked most of the oxygen out of the thread.
Searching for dark matter through the fifth dimension
Disney is developing a Wakanda TV series
> You're a tiny minority among the people who spend money on games.

Source?
> What a bad take. Hysterical and paranoid stormed the capitol. That wasn't "the media".

Trump may well not have had the credibility to do that had there not been hysterical and paranoid coverage of the Russia investigation (only like 10-15% of which actually panned out). Go review Rachel Maddow's episodes from then (transcripts are online: https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2017-01...) and tell me how accurate it was.
I have tried the renderer - it's buggy and doesn't support embedded subtitles which I almost always use.

Same thing with catt, which also suffers from having a poor UI.
Keep in mind 30-50% relative humidity is comfortable.

Right now in new york city it's 30°F,
87% relative humidity, and a barometric pressure of 29.45 in.

Using this calculator: https://www.rotronic.com/en-us/humidity_measurement-feuchtem...

We can calculate the specific humidity of NYC, that's around 21.42gr/lb right now. That's the mass of water vapour in the air.

However, most people don't keep their houses at 30°F! You heat up the air in your house to room temperature.

So if a New York City resident heat up air that has a specific humidity of 21.42gr/lb to 70°F, they end up with a relative humidity of 19.57% inside their house. This feels very dry! In fact, it's dryer than the Sahara Desert (approximately 25% relative humidity on average).
Not carbon dating per se, but hoaxers would have an understanding of old v. new materials. Materials then were also not cheap. It would not have been unusual for someone to use an old bit of found blank parchment. They certainly would not have thrown it away unused.
That's the latest WordPress 'twentytwenty' theme I think.
> Petrov explains emotionally to the guard that the Russian people wanted peace, and thought the USA wanted to attack them.

Good reason for us to personally think about (and investigate) whether our political/societal enemies really believe what we're told they believe about us. And I don't mean respond to a tweet, I mean have a real conversation.

Kinda feels like we're in an arms race where Facebook/Twitter are the arms dealers and have so much to gain from continued hostilities.
People using software that breaks with Wayland keep to their existing window system. News at X11.
@dudeinjapan, check out https://grafana.com/products/cloud/
The first line on the page says, "Your observability, managed as a service"

It might not fit your use case...but it might.
On iOS it just changes the UA. This means that regular CSS-only responsive sites don’t change at all, unlike what the other 2 comments are suggesting. Maybe on Android it’s different.
I mean OpenBSD is hardly the first let alone only system which mandates going through libc (or equivalent) to interact with the OS.
I don't think that's really true. I think it's more the case that the sort of languages that have the features large teams need have tended historically to be verbose, and some people conflated the two together. For instance lambdas made Java less verbose and there was no pushback from enterprises, which you'd have expected if they actually loved verbosity. Kotlin is also doing great in big companies and conciseness is one of its selling points.
Yup exactly, try it out!

You open, write a note and close it. All taken care of for you.
Just use the word "menu". The hamburger menu (and its cousin, the three vertical dots) have no analogy to the real world.

Sure, it has become more common, but for anyone not already familiar with it, it is utterly useless. You have to be willing to click random things to discover what it does.

From personal experience, I had to train both my wife and mother to look for them, neither of whom had the patience otherwise to figure out these cute designs. They may be common at the sites you look at, but that doesnt help people who have only used sites without them, or only used portions of sites accessible without clicking on them.

I consider that to be an utter failure.
You know you do it just to look L337...
> even if said data was public

Here’s a huge difference between the Swartz case and Parler, the data Swartz was scraping wasn’t public.
Social Media to a much higher degree, and that's Silicon Valley.
Apple's battery replacement fee for AirPods Max is $79. (available at https://support.apple.com/airpods/repair/service)
Yeah, I still very often get "here is the desktop design, here is the mobile design". Depending on who is developing the designs depends how that's going to translate.

I have all the time in the world for developers that reflow the page and remove/adjust elements at different breakpoints (based on the design) between 'desktop' and 'mobile' so the experience is good for everyone. Sadly, most people don't bother.
The concept of a singular “white” is an American invention which ignores the fact that intra-white oppression happens all over the world. In the UK Irish people were traditionally oppressed, now Eastern European immigrants are treated poorly. In Canada there’s an ongoing power struggle between white Anglo Canada (historically, now it’s multicultural) and white Québécois. Focusing on racism defined as anything that’s good for white people makes it sound like the real problem is inequality between races and not oppression and inequality by itself. It also completely disregards racism between groups of POC which is a much bigger global problem.
Should have clarified:

Apple Inc sells me on a closed up device, which is fine.

Some Apple loyalists explain to me that I don't know what I want and that Apple Inc's ideology is the one true way.

Personally I have both an iPhone and an Android. Locked-down personal device and a customizable dev phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think Trent Horn is not the target audience of the book “A Manual for Creating Atheists”. Trent Horn’s expertise and level of knowledge both religion and specifically the debate about the existence of a monotheistic deity are clearly very advanced. The purpose of the book he is reviewing is to introduce new atheists, and help others introduce new atheists, to a survey of ideas and positions that the average person has not been introduced to.

Very often this review attacks the author for not including an argument, or including an incomplete argument. That is an editorial decision based on the target audience. Even if Trent Horn was more well read and articulate then Peter Boghossian, that itself is no proof that Trent Horn’s view is correct. Smart people hold incorrect beliefs, opinions and conclusions often.
No, but double masking will help until the real solution is acknowledged and implemented.

Everyone should be wearing properly fit and sealed N95 masks from well known brands like 3M. Pieces of cloth that vaguely cover the mouth and nose but leave giant gaps do not protect the user very well. A proper 3M N95 that intentionally worn un-fit, with large gaps along the nose and sides becomes an ~N40.

Unfit masks of any type, and fit "KN95" masks that have such a high pressure drop all air goes around the edges (they suck in and out) barely protect the user of the mask at all. Yes, they're better than nothing. Much like wearing sandals in a blizzard is better than being barefoot. But it won't stop your toes from freezing off and unfit, unrated masks won't protect you from aerosol infection.

The solution of two masks hardly helps if there are still large open apertures along the sides. The only real solution (within the USA) is to use the defense production act to force 3M and Ameritech to fully hire-up and run their factories full time, as well as building new electrospun N95 mask factories. Every single person in the USA (and canada, and elsewhere) should have enough N95 masks to use a new one each day. That is the only solution to the mask problem. Double masking with bad masks is just more security theater.

It's been an entire year. The excuse the real masks are only for hospital personel is no longer valid. The people deserve, they need, real masks.
> that's a broad sweep. The demographic is changing and the various properties are changing to reflect that. Granted, there is some leeway in a media organisation pushing it's audience to one side of a debate or other. However it needs the audience to go with it. However there is no evidence provided that this is the case.

What "demographic?"
> You should consult your own attorney for your own situation.

I love these disclaimers which assume that the attorney I can procure with my own budgetary / social network constraints would *clearly* be better than what I am reading on a blog post. In short, YMMV.
Refreshing take. An actual analysis with threat modeling calling out all the fallacies of people that argue Whatsapp is better just because it uses E2EE by default.