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The age of the cyber romantics is coming to an end
"Is this heightened suspicion of experts an inevitable effect of digital communications technologies? I suspect that the problem may lie not with the technologies themselves but with the disruption to practices and standards for communication that have followed their chaotic introduction. These technologies enable voluminous, remote and anonymous dissemination of content whose trustworthiness — or lack of trustworthiness — is hard to judge. While the ethics of communication is about the standards that speech acts should meet, new technologies make it hard to identify which acts are being undertaken, let alone to judge whether they are trustworthy."
It's honestly a fairly logical step. Turning off an ICD for a very short time and getting the data then would be a very quick process
"This is not the first time that new technologies have disrupted established communicative practices and standards. Plato tells us that Socrates was so worried by the written word’s disruption of communication that he relied entirely on the spoken word. Luckily Plato did write, or we would know nothing about Socrates’ misgivings. Socrates worried his words would go fatherless into the world, reaching sundry readers with nobody present to explain what was meant or to clear up misunderstandings."
A good point.

Also:

https://www.covercropstrategies.com/articles/1368-adding-hay...

There's also strong logic in having hay as part of crop rotation, which as we know, is vital to reduce the need for fertilizer.

On top of this, there's loads of land useless for anything other than grazing. Too dry, with no irrigation (only usable for grazing in the spring). Too rocky, too much of a slope, soil quality not right (too much clay, etc, etc), yet still able to support grasses.

There's a lot of grazing done, in and outside of the US.

Lastly, and this was mentioned GP, it's vital to produce more than we eat each year. Extremely vital. Part of all the subsidies we have, is to ensure farmers DO grow more than required.

To ensure that the free market, doesn't bottom out pricing too much, because we have farmers over producing. If you want to start removing subsidies, then you should first ensure people have a year's worth of canned emergency food on hand.

If people get hungry, that's where the knives come out. If your kid is hungry, you're going to feed it.
Because of how much of it is added into every alternative meat replacement product, and it's a shockingly high amount if you read the labels on some "organic" and "plant-based" products.
The command line argument that means 'run natively' is the "-accel hvf" one, which makes QEMU use the Hypervisor.framework macOS APIs. (This is why you have to use an out-of-tree patchset at the moment -- mainline QEMU only supports hvf on x86 CPUs right now.) The hvf support patches don't make any attempt to make the guest CPU report different ID values or features, so regardless of what actual cpu type you ask for with -cpu the guest sees whatever the host CPU is.
That’s for letting HN know! Really fascinating stuff.
We also had ineffective ones (GSK, Sanofi, Merck—-twice!).

Some of that time was needed to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Proof-of-stake is not an iteration on proof-of-work, it is a lateral idea. There is no reason why the first popular crypto-coin wouldn't have been proof-of-stake, except that it didn't occur to Satoshi (or it did and they didn't like it for other reasons).
That is an important distinction. An ICD should rarely trigger. And when it does, oh boy you know it
Whenever I encounter arbitrary precision libraries I want to try them out on extended Dudeney's digital century puzzle.

This is from TAOCP 4A part 1:

> Dudeney's Digital Century puzzle.) There are many curious ways to obtain
the number 100 by inserting arithmetical operators and possibly also parentheses into
the sequence 123456789. For example,
100 = 1 + 2 x 3 + 4 x 5 - 6 + 7 + 8 x 9 = (1 + 2 - 3 - 4 ) x (5-6-7-8-9) = ((1/((2 + 3)/4 - 5 + 6)) x 7 + 8) x 9.

Of course, instead of 100 we can put something else, add exponentiation, decimal point and an operator that reinterprets the number as if written in base X (12345_6789 = 2124962081444303 in base 10).

I also like how Knuth adds the number of possible trees in a grammar that generates these expressions without redundant parentheses :D
This is corporate blogspam.
To be honest, it didn't matter. There was a worldwide state organized buyback at the time.
"Even the original beta blocker (propranolol) wasn't allowed to be used for angina or hypertension until 1978, 13 years after it had been approved in Europe. That delay likely killed more than 100,000 people."

I was unaware that propranolol was approved as late as that in the US. This seems very strange as Sir James Black's work on propranolol was widely known and he was widely respected before he was knighted and awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with both propranolol and cimetidine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Black

Why on earth did the FDA take so long to approve it given that there was no other beta blocker available at the time? (Thus, the hypertension issue could easily have been perceived as a crisis even allowing propranolol to be, say, approved on a temporary basis much earlier on.)

Looking at the FDA's record of approvals, it's hard to see any consistent granularity in its approach. I'm curious as to why this may be the case.
Because we’ve tried import tariffs before and they don’t work well?
Hm, currently, this sets of marketing alert bells. It looks pretty, it has good points. I'd like to have some structured approaches to some internal concerns we have.

However, there seem to be zero links to tools and approaches to actually do something? Most links are to articles explaining why the manifesto exists... by companies offering consulting in this area.
Techniques like this are used to track chaotic dynamics. Iterations of

k * x * (1-x)

can have arbitarily long periodic orbits but not if you use conventional computer math. (e.g. you could at most have a period of 4 billion with 32 bit numbers)

It is possible to do grid scans of parameters and control the interval such thst you know you used enough digits that you can trust the result.
This is discussed in the linked article
Maybe the author should explain more what he perceives as the current situation. I mean AI is almost in any science fiction movie (2001, Terminator, Star Trek, Blade runner)
I think the lack of books is mostly just that a society where machines is the main source of cultural output isn't very interesting. At that point humans are more or less useless as workers so either would get culled or would live in utopia similar to our current pets, only question is if we would go the way of the cat or the way of the horse.
I'd love if someone fact checked whether the salt mine of Wieliczka was really the inspiration for Moria (the guides do imply so, based AFAIK on a visit by Tolkien there). It does seem to fall under the "likely inspiration" case (if you ever visit Wieliczka, you'll get it :D)
Importing of water from other states? Most of that is just diversion of naturally occurring water streams to where it’s needed.

“Importing” is an odd way to put it.
ML content generators remind me of the kaleidoscopes from 1984 which which are used to generate low-quality entertainment for the masses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolefeed
They're required to let you choose whether to opt in to ACR in Europe because of the GDPR. While the prompt is terribly vague and designed to encourage "just hit yes" behaviour, I have a q60r and the setup wizard at least presented a prompt I could opt out of.

Also while HN likes to raise the spectre of TVs connecting to open wifi/shipping with 5G radios, at the moment there is no evidence for either so users could always use a trusted device to play back Netflix rather than the TV app and leave the TV without internet
By that title it sounds like a very objective and unbiased source!
How to spot a $5M/year scam on the App Store, in 5 minutes flat
Up to now, I've been in the "Apple wants to do the right thing" camp. But my viewpoint is starting to change.

Here's how I spotted this $5M/year scam in 5 minutes flat.

First, the ratings of this app: 4.6 stars, with over 83,146 ratings, and a glowing 5-star "featured" review.

Let's dig in with AppFigures and look at the star breakdown of just the reviews - there's 835 of them:

5-stars: 109

4-stars: 6

3-stars: 9

2-stars: 31

1-stars: 680

Their average stars?

1.6

ONE. POINT. SIX.

In these reviews, people are desperately trying to warn others not to make the same mistake they did:

"DO NOT PURCHASE"

"PREDATORY COMPANY"

"Thieves Stay Away"

"Hard to believe these reviews are genuine"

"BAIT AND SWITCH"

Let's look at their ratings over time: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EthbbYYVIAEWK9I?format=jpg&name=large

Blue line is new positive ratings per day. This is a completely unnatural pattern here, when overlaid with their download numbers, inferred by the app rankings: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ethbx8jUYAEtDGB?format=jpg&name=large

The featured 5-star review is there because the scammers made sure to also long press on it and mark it as "Helpful", alongside submitting all their fake, bought ratings.

This scam has been operating from Indonesia for years, although "operating" is giving it too much credit. The app was last updated in 2019, so they are literally sitting and collecting the stolen money.

When you download and open the app, you HAVE to start a $10/week subscription to proceed. UNREAL.

Apple is doing nothing. In fact, they're even sending the scammers a cool $400k per month.

The scam: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/star-gazer/id1474038335

Their "website": http://textystories.com

Another image from their support website reads: "Life is wonderful, let our games be part of it!"

This is some utter BS. Honest developers are getting fooled by all sides. I am furious.
Review: The Black Swan
Copperhead has repeatedly threatened open source developers
How to Destroy Bitcoin: Game Theory and Attacks
"Blockchain Fundamentals Lecture 6: Nadir Akhtar and Aparna Krishnan"
cookie is used in french as well to describe american cookies... like, the big one with chocolate and nuts inside. Of course French for cookies is biscuit that is typically hard, flat and unleavened. So, cookie can be said to be a french word as well :)
I can make a complete surf-n-turf meal for a shorter amount of time than that, on top of the fact many people hate things like lentils and cottage cheese. When discussing meat replacements, you have to not just look at cost, but what people are actually willing to eat and take time making when given any choice whatsoever (and most people will choose things that take less time and do not taste like lentils and cottage cheese).
I think you are completely wrong, let me make the argument. As a whole, H2 cars are also quite heavy. You literally require everything that is in an EV plus multiple extra subsystems that are incredibly complex and not light by any means. The manufacturing and materials are very both complex and expensive.

You need the fuel cell itself, and that is not just some thin layer, but a whole complex subsystem that requires all kind of system around it. Then you need a very heavy high pressure tank and a high pressure fuel system. Looking at H2 cars and the amount of parts these system adds is illuminating.

Next up, you can make a battery completely structural, meaning the battery actually serves the function that the steel frame used to serve in a car. Integrated like that, the battery weight is almost negative.

Battery technology is improving fast, with both cost going down and energy and power density going up year over year. H2 cars can not compete in the current environment and there are no projection that they ever can.

Pretty much everybody has now given up on H2 cars ever being remotely viable. Some people are still holding on to the hope for H2 in trucking, but some large truck companies have already dropped it, and with Tesla Semi going into mass production, people will realize that H2 trucking has no future as they have realized it with cars.

You also seem to ignore all the negatives of H2. Fuel station that are about 100-1000x more expensive per station, and you need more of them. You can't charge over night at home with energy that is largely already available. Even if EU government funded H2 is successful, that would still not be enough for all of transportation, not even close.

The majority of hydrogen for the foreseeable future will by methane based and when the grid will already be almost totally carbon free, much of hydrogen on the planet will still not be carbon free.

And if you are talking 'in 10 years' you need to also look forward to what batteries will be like in 10 years. In 10 years its possible that we could have lithium sulphur batteries. Such batteries would be incredibly cheap and have crazy high energy density. Battery that cost a few 100$ and fits in a glove box could give multiple 100 miles to a small car. That is just one possible battery tech that might be viable in 10 years.

Last, let me address your point about mining. While of course the extra subsystems for H2 also need materials, a much bigger issue you have ignored. A FCEV is inherently significantly less efficient, this means that even if you are producing all the H2 with solar and win, the total amount of solar and wind required would mean you would need a significant amount more solar and wind. Guess what that requires, significantly more mining, more solar panels covering more nature, more wind turbines everywhere (that people already hate).

I really don't understand people love for these hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
> Bitcoin mining is a rat race to develop efficiency in technology and energy deliverance.

The cloud computing companies and EV companies and every other company that spends large amounts of its budget on buying electricity is doing the same thing. The difference is that (at least some of) cloud computing or driving is doing useful work with the energy being consumed, whereas 100% of energy going into bitcoin mining is simply getting converted to bitcoin, a speculative asset, and heat.

And the greenhouse gases are the largest problem the civilized world has ever faced, they are not some small aside. We need to figure out ways to produce less energy while still powering the important parts of our economy (transport, production of goods, research etc). Bitcoin is doing the opposite - it is creating a need for more energy production to create and exchange money, when we already have much more efficient ways of creating and exchanging money (the whole banking infrastructure of the world consumes less electrical energy than bitcoin, while doing orders of magnitude more transactions per second than bitcoin can hande in a year).
Sure, but if you are going to automate the whole thing, 100 accounts might be just as good as 1 verified. Interesting that they bother to get the verified accounts.

Could be they're just going after just a large volume of accounts that they find themselves with some verified and some non-verified. I suspect new account generation is locked down tighter than the method they're using to take over these accounts.

Note the generated replies. Some of them are completely off-topic.
I’ve been using ssh for 25+ years, I wrote a (in hindsight, pretty awful) article about it for Linux Journal, and I never knew this.
Agree with this - my step-son is 18 and wouldn't even consider going to a nightclub regardless of Covid. For his generation it seems to be standard to find a house where the parents are away for the weekend and invite everybody + their dog down.

Nightclubs aren't even on their radar, which is very different to when I was 18.
The thing with covid is the younger/healthier you are, the less likely you are to die from it, but you are also less likely to die from anything. So the relative risk does not change much.

In Africa, the population is much younger than in the US and life expectancy is lower. People die from other causes like malaria, malnutrition, violence, etc... much more often than in the US, so mechanically, the relative risk of dying from covid is lower.

In rich Asian countries like Japan, I haven't heard of a significant difference in infection fatality rate compared to western countries. They have less deaths overall because they have less cases, certainly because they manage the pandemic better. In poor Asian countries, it is essentially like Africa.

As for obesity, it is actually worse in northern Africa than in Europe, and closer to the US. And southeast Asia is getting close to Europe as these countries develop.
I love readwise, but the lack of math formatting support really hurts.
last time I tried ssh does not delete the socket file when the connection closes and complains the file already exists on a new connection.
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I did this and all is well.

In terms of maintenance it can save you tons of time. For having to reset database server or doing migrations.

In terms of SEO you need to be very careful. WP does a lot of things right like canonical links, sitemaps and what not.

You can have comments on a static blog. I use static comments, I hacked together this solution: https://bsdnerds.org/comments-static-site/
But dynamic are possible with isso, disquz, and others for a few bucks.

Search is possible with some JS fiddling. I have no idea about RSS.

The magic keyword is “Jamstack”. You can do all dynamic parts with JavaScript and APIs

Just pick the generator wisely. I had quite a few annoyances with Hexo but I’m to lazy to convert to something else. Pelican seems quite good and Jekyll and Hugo have everything, but my Ruby and Go skills are rusty.

Overall it can save you many hours of time compared to wordpress. Plus you can use vim (or your favorite editor), plus less attack surface, plus can be decentralized so a lot faster. Google doesnt seem to care to much about speed, but the other benefits are worth it for me
I'm not even sure I'd call it a "danger." The Sahara creeping south is a danger. If we could make a dent in the amount of sand, it'd be a pretty amazing thing.
Currently AI can Learn, can Create, but can not Think (if I am not wrong). Let us think what They might Think when they can.
Perhaps call it an engineered wood product? I think that's what they call MDF.
It depends what kinds of results you expect.

The table-makers dilemma only applies if you want a specific number of decimal places, correctly rounded. The midpoint-radius representation gives you a value and an upper bound for the distance to the true value.

You may find that the radius is too big to get the number of correctly rounded decimal places you want, but that doesn't make the result incorrect, just vague.
cats were never really domesticated. they sort of just came by, and never left.

So it seems the horse way is much more likely. Unfortunately.
As a nice winter Sunday activity, I installed the beta to my X230. Now everything seems to work quite nicely, I have: encrypted ZFS, Wayland, Sway and all my development tools installed and working. It took about two hours, a bit less to get here. My first time running FreeBSD on a laptop, mostly just going with OpenBSD or Arch.

The installation was much easier compared to Arch, almost all packages that I wanted I just got with `pkg`. With using sway and wayland, the experience is really really fast and snappy even with this old laptop. At least compared to OpenBSD and xorg, the desktop experience here just flies.

It has been a good Sunday so far...
Now, I am really curious why would it be of any value (putting aside the HN policy discouraging it) to anyone. I understand that GH repo stars help project visibility and may be good on CV but gists?
There are such stories. Roald dahl has a very nice short story about it https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/short-stories/the-g....
God Frequency Review, Legit or a Scam?
> I don't get why everything always needs to be so polarized.

It is polarized since people are looking at how it may affect themselves rather than society as a whole. If there a 10% job loss is projected over their working life, they are concerned that they will be in the 10%. Even if their job is secure, they may be concerned that the threat of automation or displaced workers from other fields will force their wages to stagnate or decline. It is difficult to argue these worries away since they affect individuals and no one knows how automation will affect any given person in the long term.

Granted, some of the concerns are about the nature of the job rather than the material loss. Consider something like teaching, where there will be no real substitute for people in the foreseeable future. That being said, what teachers do will change. There will be more emphasis on technical skills and technologically mediated communications. In a profession which attracts people who want to help others, the increasing role of automation will likely be seen as a drawback rather than a benefit.
Before you become radicalized ask yourself this question: If the culture does not moderate societal behavior, then who will? There is no other tool in a social group, but to cancel those who are extremely out of line. I am sorry to break it to you. If we do not do so, we reinforce toxic and corrupt behavior which is harmful to the group as a whole. I am not sure why we now pretend this is new human behavior.
Ratings over time link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EthbbYYVIAEWK9I?format=jpg&name=...

App rankings link: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ethbx8jUYAEtDGB?format=jpg&name=...

The app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/star-gazer/id1474038335

Their "website": http://textystories.com
Ignoring the scope creep from your comment, what is your definition of hate?
I suspect many of the people who buy Tesla's are the sort of people who trade in their cars for a new one every 3-5 years. So really it's the second hand buyers who get shafted with no warranty protection at all.
People make the argument that this is not a bad thing because these loans are backed.

In my opinion this is crazy. With EV at an inflection point, the value of used ICE cars will totally collapse and newly produced ICE cars will lose massive amounts of value as well.

The whole structure of how GM does business will make no sense in the future.

Why anybody would invest in a GM when there are amazing plays in the battery industry that is growing 50-100% every year is beyond me.
What every move? Wifi APs can only see the domain names/IP, everything else is under HTTPS.
Or, much more likely, they will stagnate on those technologies and instead will drive the price of electricity up, hurting mankind greatly. Transistor density and energy efficiency are not niche problems that no one cared enough about to throw money on before bitcoin came along, they are some of the hottest areas of research from some of the largest companies in the world, from Apple itself to Amazon, Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Huawei and many others.
It's crucial to understand what these percentages mean.

"between the ages 13 and 18, parents of first-born girls divorce more than parents of first-born boys. The odds of divorce within this period are 10.7% for parents of boys, and 11.3% for parents of girls." https://theconversation.com/parents-of-teenage-daughters-mor...

There are 2 ways of spinning this. 10.7% to 11.3% is only a 0.6% increase in "absolute" terms. In "relative" terms it's a 5.6% increase, but that sounds worse than it really is. If you start with a very small number, then almost any increase no matter how small represents a significant increase in relative percentage.

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.