skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to say though, if we were actually making them pay hard for that, I'd be ok with it ethically. You want to skip the line? Sure, that's 2 million+! Then give the money to the one that has to wait instead, but make sure not to allow a free market here to drive that price down. Just thinking.. there surely is an issue somewhere..
This is not a 1 in a million event. There are studies like my comment above that back this statement whole heartedly. This is a virus with proven neuroinvasive potential that affects large swaths of otherwise incredibly healthy people.

You can't compare these supposed 1 in a million events to something like doing perf testing on a 64 node raspberry pi kubernetes cluster.
At 0 cases you can fully return back to "normal" life. If you have a small amount of cases, this will always grow exponentially without countermeasures.
How is that relevant to the parent's point? Non-determinism has no relation to a system with infinite states, and the NFSM -> FSM construction algorithm provides no help in that case.
You're being downvoted, presumably because of the parallel discussion about the FBI. But I think this is most likely a combination of both:

1) The vast majority of Apple's users care more about getting their data back than they do E2E encryption. Encrypting backups does introduce failure modes that put more burden on the user (to have an emergency key, etc). Apple also cares deeply about things "just working", and so this is a space that was always going to be incredibly difficult to balance.

2) The FBI thing is also true. Given Apple's former plans for true E2E encryption somewhat gave way to what they have now, with little explanation, it's hard not to speculate that they backed away from the original initiative after some...involvement...from the feds.
It's worth mentioning that those 10s of billions have never been touched.

This is a very strong case for Len to be Satoshi.
I think your link has been truncated.
Can we please get a mammoth already?
Oh yes, this is very silly, as opposed to bringing up the number of birds killed by housecats. Housecats kill so many more birds than automobile strikes too, after all. I'm sure we can't worry about those deaths until we euthanise all cats, this isn't fanciful at all.

This is my first and only HN account, but I thank you for the warm welcome.
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Initial gearbox design life is ~40k hours. Bearing life is expected to be upwards of 10k hours. Additionally bearings are designed to be easily replaced. Oil change interval is to be determined during endurance testing.
Aluminum has the best conductivity/mass out of all of the common conductors. Motors are actually more volume constrained than mass constrained for the windings, which is why copper is typically used there instead.
Hi bud! Can't wait to see you in person after everything returns to normal.

If I can help with your brother, let me know.
GP point maintains

I wasn't refuting the GP. I was adding more information.
How's that? I think you'd need it to sell for at least 2 mil to come out neutral. We're ignoring the reality of your shares getting diluted in future rounds.
A lot of the sub-threads seem to have decided to talk about using PBKDF2-SHA256 as a password hash like crypt(), which actually isn't what the linked report is about. PBKDF2, as its name suggests, is a key derivation function. We can use these as password hashes, and people do, but we can also use them to turn any human memorable password (like "stonks", "S&SMBMBbc&wem" or "fzg76@PRU385!") into a nice 128-bit or 256-bit symmetric encryption key and that's what they're doing in tools like Bitwarden or 1Password.

In this role, you very much have a practical option to just pick a decent password. "stonks" is not a good password, the second one is a Rhianna lyric ("... but chains and whips excite me") but the third one is a pretty obscure reference and it's neither likely that your adversary would "guess" it nor that the sort of brute force attacks envisioned would hit this random looking 13 character password.

Anyway, even as a password hash I've made the argument previously that stronger hashes only marginally improve things, far too many of your users will pick "stonks" or if you insist on eight characters maybe "stonks!!" and even if you have Argon2 tuned way up the attacker can reverse that because it's too obvious. If your users picked unique random passwords (as they might with tools like Bitwarden or 1Password, even though I personally use zx2c4's pass) then it doesn't matter if you use a terrible hash like some turn of the century PHP forum using MD5, because that's still safe with such passwords.
They allowed 737 MAX 8, so maybe, who knows?
This is just pure fud. Is lancet on this hybrid warfare, too?

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)31866-3/full...
Good question, thx. It is the balance that I'm focusing on.

Completely agree that over-regulation, e.g., soviet-style, is a recipe for many of the WORST environmental disasters.

Corporate regulatory capture or elimination of regulation is just crashing the scale in the other direction.

Since the current problem in most of the world is lack of constraints on production of, for example, things that serve some purpose but also break the food web, that's my focus.

Basically, it seems that, whenever people get enough good information, and have good democratic (small-d) control of the system, they find a balance to encourage and regulate development. No one wants to live in a wasteland.

But if too few control things, such as an authoritarian state, or corporatists doing regulatory capture, they have the illusion that they can destroy all they want, externalize the damage, and enjoy life in their palaces. For centurys, it was true. Now, we seem to be approaching the point where the whole food web may break.
That's only true for uncompressed audio.
Hi! Wyndly only treats environmental allergies like pollen, pet dander, and dust. We do not treat food allergies or sensitivities.

There are a number of promising therapies currently undergoing clinical trials for food allergy oral immunotherapy, and we are optimistically awaiting the results. Here's some trials from the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy & Asthma Research at Stanford University: https://med.stanford.edu/allergyandasthma/clinical-trials.ht...
It's not surprising that when a disease almost kills you, it (or the medical interventions that saved you) might leave your body in bad shape.

But this is being spun to imply that it's a serious threat to people who are otherwise in extremely low risk categories for severe covid. There's no solid evidence for that.
> I think a bit of that is you don't expect to see someone famous just walking down the street

I remember seeing the French ex-president in a retirement home (he was visiting his father) and I was thinking 'nah, can't be him, what would he do here' until I got confirmation from the people I was with that it was in fact him.
So, it’s not only in Soviet Russia where birds watch you?
As a kid I had a 6.5 inch reflector I got cheap 2nd hand, which was awesome. Looking at Saturn and its rings just sitting there in the sky was something I'll never forget.
In the US, agreed. In Eastern Europe and India, it’s very much possible. In Western Europe, you can get close.
Interesting, I'll have to investigate the paper in more detail. I enjoyed the podcast where the authors discussed their paper and dashboards in general: https://datastori.es/135-the-dashboard-conspiracy-with-lyn-b...
The thing I find interesting in all this is that Congress cannot pass retroactively criminalizing legislation, but somehow, tge Executive through Administrative lawmaking can...

Is there a lawyer type around that would mind pontificating on that? Or at least relevant statutes?

I'm fairly sure the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits ex-post-facto lawmaking

Article 1, section 9, clause 3:
>No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Calder v. Bull redefined the restriction to only apply to criminal or penal law, and yet, when looking at how most of the NFA is enforced (as a tax, but with a felonious outcome for non-compliance), I don't understand how Calder v. Bull doesn't restrain the ATF from being able to reverse a judgement on the type of a firearm, when that carries with it the implicit threat of prosecution for an act previously considered legal. Then again, I'm guessing they squirm out of that by stating the regulation is fine being ex-post-facto, because it only modifies how the item is taxed, and completely ignore the fact the tax status directly enables a criminal charge that would be a-ok because the criminal statute you'd now be chargeable under was not ex-post-facto either.

Throw in the sketchiness around their serving him with that notice of rule change and unwillingness to present the report or an in writing decision, and the flimsiness of the alleged justification that someone managed to hammer in a part and get it to fire multiple shots with a single trigger pull, I can fully believe something like this would be tried, but can't bloody for the life of me take any civic edifice seriously that wields that level of myopia on a regular basis.

It's just bloody weird. Nothing seems to make sense about how Administrative law works in the U.S...

Guess I have Yet Another Research Topic to dig into...

Not a lawyer, read some books once, thoroughly regret it.
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I got a kick out of a quote Sassaman had in his Orkut profile, circa 2005:

"Some day, I will invent a machine that turns all marxists into ants. Then, we will all be happy."
Are there any benchmarck available versus TextMate regexes?
Yeah, I'd assume this would be resolved real quick if the state (or the contractor responsible for the software) had to pay out, say, $100 per inmate per day that they improperly spent in jail past the end of their sentence.

That this problem is allowed to persist seems like an indication that the people in charge believe that prisoners have a low probability of successfully suing the state for damages.
Much appreciated! I'll talk to my mom about it and see if she'd be down to try it for him. He's been exceptionally reactive to vaccines and allergens so there may be some hesitation. If you have any info about this therapy being used by people with autism, mental disabilities, etc. hook me up.
Your Airpods are recompressing everything to 256kbps AAC to transmit over bluetooth. So once again, psychoacoustic bias.
I actually met Len in 2010/2011 when he was visiting the Dartmouth cs dept! We talked about noodlers being an excellent fountain pen ink and some stuff around functional programming that overlap with the language base security ideas Sergey Bratus and Meredith Patterson went on to popularize.

I also have a distinct memory that he had a very well decorated walking cane.

Edit: I do think that this post, while having valid circumstantial evidence, is at best circumstantial. And it’s more valuable to celebrate those who have passed by way of recognizing the achievements we can genuinely attribute to them

Edit edit: http://langsec.org/
> at which point the authority in question would recognize that this constitutes an exception to said revocation.

I think you misunderstand the nature of authority by thinking that they would recognize this as an exception.

> You know ... the obvious way.

Whats obvious here is that an incarcerated person only has the options that the carceral state permits to them.
Godspeed! I tried deploying gitlab on my k8s cluster at home and ran screaming after an hour or so haha
Yea, it could be #2. You could think of a person sitting in front of a computer who needs to refer to physical data from printed binders or paper files stored on shelves near the computer. The user would have to swivel their chair to get books/papers to refer to getting input data. It could also involve more than one computer or screen.
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Also, is it a one-size-fits solution for dog allergens or does it vary by breed?
That's from the book "Dying of Money"
1 in 10 patients die within months of leaving hospital. https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1362863221305192450?...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-hospit...

> More than one in 10 Covid patients died within five months of being discharged from hospital, while almost a third of those who survived the virus had to be readmitted, new research has warned.

> Papers released by the governments Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) also revealed half of patients in hospital with the virus suffered complications, with one in four struggling when they got back home.

> Younger patients under the age of 50 were more likely to suffer complications.

ICNARC gives us some age data: https://www.icnarc.org/Reporting
http://archive.is/i9Wij
The setTimeout(..., 0) is important to be able to force things to be at the end of the queue after the current task completes. So if you are going to batch requests, your current task can create a bunch that all queue somewhere, and then setTimeout(..., 0) can be used to dispatch them all at once.
I felt a tinge of sadness reading this. Len may or may not be Satoshi, and the article makes a strong case that he may be, after all. But it's really sad to lose such extraordinary people to mental health related issues, especially when we can do much better, with little effort.
This all just sounds like "blah blah incentives blah blah capitalism..." to me. Here's an example of an American company gaming the system: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15370925/feds-watching-fo...

TL;DR: Ford was importing cargo vans with extra seats so they qualify for a 2.5% import duty as passenger vans rather than a 25% import duty. It would take them 11 minutes to remove the extra seats so they could be sold as cargo vans.
> A locking mechanism on pocket knives holds the knife open. "Not as secure as it can be" implies that the knife closes in on itself (possibly snagging your fingers) under heavy use.

> But... the next sentence says "hard to disengage during heavy use", which is the exact opposite (the knife will stay open after heavy use, and its difficult to close).

I own Opinels, and these points are actually not mutually exclusive. The Opinel locking mechanism serves to keep the blade closed as well as keeping it open, and it is sometimes not as secure as it could be, causing the knife to open when you don't want it to (e.g. in your pocket), but it can also be difficult to disengage when the knife is open (still love them though!).

> These two seem to contradict each other, but that's my knowledge of knife-steels talking. Softer steels are less prone to rusting but dull more quickly.

I don't think this is necessarily GPTs fault—it seems to be a pretty divisive issue. If you Google now "stainless steel vs high carbon knifes", in the top few results you'll find articles claiming that stainless holds an edge longer and others claiming that high carbon holds an edge longer. I always thought that stainless held an edge longer while high carbon is easier to sharpen (and rusts easier, of course), but maybe I've been wrong on that.
In future, please don't put prose in code blocks, particularly links. You have a lot of good info here, but it's hard to read and non-trivial to follow the links on mobile. Thanks.
Northwestern being sued over storing biometric data
I've carried an iPhone and an Android (some variety of Pixel) for the past several years. I use them both heavily for work and I feel like the main difference between the two is that the Android phone fails in more obvious ways, such as the occasional momentary freeze or an app crash dialog appearing. Stuff on the iPhone seems to fail more subtly, such as data not loading properly or an app silently crashing and restarting in a way that doesn't seem like a crash, just the loss of state in whatever app I was in.
Anecdotally, it seemed to cause a lot of cynicism when BLM protests, where everyone was packed in pretty good, were barely mentioned in mass media as a potential source of virus transmission.

And yes, I get that it's considered more morally justified by many than watching football in a stadium or playing hockey. But at some point, the virus transmission in a given scenario needs to be dispassionately assessed whether you're robbing a bank or feeding orphans in Uganda.
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/77140
Bad example, booleans in python are integer subclasses since forever... 2 + True = 3.
Also,
False in [1, 2, 0] evaluated to True.
But you're still right saying python is strongly typed.
rent seeking
All I care about is an option for lossless. If by "HiFi" they mean 96K/24-bit (or more), then that's just snake oil. Don't even get me started on Tidal's MQA nonsense.

For most material I cannot tell the difference between lossless and AAC/Vorbis. But I can tell the difference on some metal tracks. Not all. Just some.
https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/
And Song 2 broke only because of the infamous FIFA game, I guess... although they actually recorded that album in the US.

In Europe (UK but also elsewhere) Blur made it big with "Girls & Boys" (#1 in UK, massive hit). The chorus was an absolute meme where I lived.
I have been trying to understand this too. Best I can figure, it's basically a short sell on USD.

The key element is that the loan is not denominated in BTC, but a stablecoin pegged to fiat. DAI is one of these pegged 1:1 to USD.

Say you are holding Bitcoin and think it's going to the moon. You tie up your Bitcoin as collateral and take out a loan of roughly 75% of its value, in DAI. Then you spend that DAI to buy more Bitcoins. Now you are exposed to Bitcoin's price movements on two ends: the BTC you bought with your loan, and the BTC you put up as collateral. If Bitcoin's DAI price goes up by more than the interest rate on the loan, you can sell and have more than enough to repay the loan. The extra is pure profit and plus your collateral grew in value in the meantime too, so you're a winner on both fronts.

On the other hand, if Bitcoin's price goes down by too much and you can't repay the loan, your collateral could be liquidated and become property of the lender. You lose everything.

Color me surprised that the amazing decentralized finance, the future of banking, etc. is... yet another way to speculate on "number go up".
Here is the "tracking issue" for JetBrains IDEs
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-45087
Upvote the issue if you wanna bump the priority
So far it's the amazing tool and we are happy to use it in our projects. The only two complaints I have is the dependency on JavaScript[1] and missing Rust runtime option[2].

[1] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/465

[2] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter/issues/465
Is this an issue with GPT-3 itself or with how it's aggregating multiple (potentially contradictory) reviews?
Per the article, the ATF is deeming a non-machine gun a machinegun if you want it or not.
Language based security. 2011-2021
Len is a good candidate, but here's one problem: Satoshi spoke up in 2014 on a long-dormant account[1] to say "I am not Dorian Nakamoto." This was a response to a Newsweek article that claimed to have found his identity.

So maybe someone hacked that account-- but then, why didn't we get any more Satoshi activity? Or maybe Len (who took his own life in 2011) isn't Satoshi after all!

[1] http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor...
http://archive.is/aCTNk
A gnome, her assistant, and the Nanomancer's apprentice
Hi, I work for Saudi Aramco and we'd like to invest $200 million dollars in your bridge startup, preferably for full control.
You maybe still want it to run fast with unoptimizable debug builds to help with development (less register usage if both accesses are offset from same baseline address). It's common for interactive applications to still do some manual optimization that could otherwise be done by an optimized build for that reason.
You're missing some key points, and your comment is not a rebuttal it's just a 'refusal'.

Apple, were it not a 'kind of monopoly' would have considerably different pricing structure. The difference between that 'free market price' and 'Apple's current price' - is the the part that has similar effects to a 'Tax'.

Apple's fee is like a tax for exactly the reasons I highlighted - it creates 'dead-weight' in the market.

This is bad for everyone, even Apple in the long run - just as carriers like AT&T and Verizon wanted to charge 10 cents per 'WAP' page back in 2002, which a price they can dictate because they had the power to, but was obviously completely stupid because it would have restricted the market.

...

'Epic' is not a 'middleman'.

'Epic' is a vendor, they are on the other side of the value chain. They are effectively having to pay a 30% tax on their business and it has nothing to do with 'middlemen'.

It's unlikely Facebook wants to be a 'middleman' because they could already be doing that for Google Play - and they are not.

Once we see true, independent app stores and software that supports smaller vendors - which will happen when other app stores can be on equal footing - we'll see what the 'true' free market competitive pricing for those services will be.

My guess is that it's well under 10%, probably in the range of 4-8% depending on services provided. 3.5% of that will be processing fees to VISA and the networks etc..
Isn't this just another way of saying that some people think money is worth more / or less than it is currently valued?

Like - if you think there's too much capital compared to X - couldn't capital just be worth less or X be worth more?
I think there's one other aspect though which is similar to insurance - you can't time the "bad times" and they can come at the most inconvenient times, including when you do not have the wherewithal to trigger your various backup plans.

Generators automatically notice when the regular power goes off, but I don't know if they can automatically notice when prices rise above a certain threshold.
I worked with him at PGP in 2000.
> As someone who has been on both the research and industry software end, there’s really not that much difference. Requirements change, you build that into your plans. Frankly, a lot of best practice software development that gets totally ignored by academia (e.g. OOP) can handle this exact case, and makes things way more flexible.

I've done both, and OOP can also make things worse. Now instead of just doing the calculations in a straightforward procedural fashion anyone who knows the research can understand, you've added a layer of structure to obfuscate it, and that structure may be harder to change if you guessed wrongly about what will be consistent and what won't. Research by its nature needs to be more flexible and will be more unpredictable than industry development. It is far more common to have to go back and reexamine even your most basic assumptions.

Of course a lot of researchers are doing the same things as industry (what should be described as development and not be getting research funding), and are certainly doing a much more amateur job of it.

Grant fraud is penalized severely in the US by the way. You can even get a bounty for reporting someone.
I never disagreed with the idea that humans should be involved. I was concerned about the use of "responsible".

Let's be specific who you're comparing a judge to though. A guard, social worker, or bureaucrat with the guard being most likely. A guard probably has a lot of things to do on any given day, administrative exercises would only be part of them. The same could be said of a social worker. This is why I cautioned against making someone who is likely underpaid and doesn't have much time capital "responsible" for something as important as how long someone stays in the system.