skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> The oft-trotted-out trope of calcium in dairy is misleading (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium-and-milk...) and even relatively small amounts of meat and dairy increase the possibility of prostate cancer (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18398033)

From your link:

While calcium and dairy can lower the risk of osteoporosis and colon cancer, high intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer.

It increases the probability of developing some diseases and lowers that of developing others.
you are welcome to run an insecure OS on some chinese made device with no platform security. I won't lose any sleep over it
Wouldn’t sideways launch give an orbit that sometimes overlap with the original orbit or is there some maths that makes sure that never happens?
This could get really ugly.

(Not only per se, but, also, as it really shows how "centralized" these suposedly decentralized systems are ...

... and -this- could have consequences.)
What numerical aperture and image circle are we talking about? 0.15 NA leaves a lot on the table (at least 0.6 NA objectives can be had for still-decent prices).

But I'd probably look at a Zeiss Planar style design.

In general, a 3/5-element design (achromat/apochromat) should do the trick I think, provided you have access to arbitrary aspherics. And in case you can accept a shift in focal length with wavelength (like monochromatic photolithography would), a single symmetric element should be up to the task, unless I'm missing something.
Haskell's concurrency blows Go's out the water.
is this also an issue with Ethereum competitors like Cardano?
Fair point. A few companies firm up salary expectations right at the outset so come offer time there are no nasty surprises and the number is exactly as discussed i.e. first and final offer. But many others negotiate, thinking it is expected. Personally I think this damages trust. Just wondered what others thought?
In practice, I've found that most SQLite write operations take low-milliseconds to complete - so even under a very heavy write load (assuming WAL mode) you're unlikely to see any contention between writes.

For my own stuff I maintain an in-memory Python queue of write operations and apply them in order against a single write connection - while running numerous other read-only connections to serve SELECTs.
In Mexico and other countries in LATAM, there are huge department stores that have built their own banks to give their customers credit to purchase on the store. Combined, these stores have ~20 million customers and are some of the largest banks in Mexico.

Our solution it's focused on these customers, who already have some sort of credit but find paying their purchases on installments easier, more affordable and transparent than getting with a credit card.

We are enabling other merchant that aren't as big or don't having the ability to offer financing to offer this option to the customers.
Just going by the definitions Google provides first, socialism seems pretty similiar to Communism or at least a superset of it.

Communism is intended to produce "a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs."

Socialism is "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

Socialism means the public owning or regulating everything. Communism is definitely about the public owning everything. And socialism is not necessarily about allocating by need the way Communism is supposed to be.

Maybe that's the National Socialists in Germany called themselves that. The State didn't own everything but it did try to control everything. For the good of the people. Well, some of the people. The definition of Socialism doesn't address that detail.
AWS KMS with Laravel
Right, crowdsourced moderation works for badly done spam, poorly coded bots, etc. It does nothing for pseudo-science, "self-interested proselytizers" or PR teams. I think there's a mentality that if we just "crowdsource" something, somehow the work just goes away. It's a little like hand-waiving "the cloud" or "serverless" -- just because it's not your problem doesn't mean it disappears. It's still work that still needs to be done by somebody

On top of that, moderation of anything sufficiently popular isn't easy -- e.g., dealing with trolls or PR teams targeting a forum can get extremely complicated sussing out who is who and figuring out where to draw the line -- and like many things is inherently subjective, which means it's the last thing you'll want to hand-waive, but is instead integral to whatever is being built.
Giant ice cube hints at the existence of cosmic antineutrinos
It didn't though. By the time of Doom's release video games (console and PC) were a multi-billion dollar industry. Only a quarter of households had PCs and none had Internet access. Even by 2000 only half of all households had a computer and only about 40% had Internet access.

Doom was not some watershed moment in entertainment. It was a trend setter, or at least a meme, in the industry but it didn't somehow change the trajectory of the game industry.

The PlayStation was vastly more influential on the industry on the whole than Doom. It was less expensive than PCs yet had a good selection of the sort of "mature" titles (or even ports) typically found on the PC. The PlayStation was not a platform that moved money from the "MSM" since it Sony which was the very definition of mainstream.

Doom was cool but it didn't even come close to doing what you suggest. It didn't even have Internet multiplayer until Kali (originally iDOOM) came up with their IPX/SPX bridging years after its release.
> in order to have a smooth transition

I was with you until that bit. I like the idea of Wayland, but it simply wasn't a viable daily replacement for typical desktop activities without certain key supporting features. Unfortunately, Wayland was rather aggressively pushed as a suitable replacement long before these things had been ironed out. Predictably, breakage and community backlash resulted.

Typical "real life" usage absolutely requires standardized support for screenshots and screencasts. As far as I understand things, that requires Pipewire support at both the compositor and application levels. That's only just happening now.

For gaming and 3D work, did the major implementations ever standardize a protocol for a window to capture the pointer? (I assume this has been done by now.)

Did an approach for handling key remapping and macros ever get standardized across implementations? (I also assume this was finally taken care of.)
Example of c++ channel library that is easy to use? The only one I’ve seen was packaged with Google’s internal cpp fiber library that depended on custom linux kernel patches.
> Not saying n*gger in polite company isn't censorship, it's just good manners.

Is this not polite company? Do you think adding an asterisk makes a significant difference?

I'm black myself, do I get to say it? Could the question be more complicated than you're making it out to be?

edit: I mean - MCNeil at the NYT was quite literally doing what you just did: discussing whether certain language was acceptable or should be punished. Imagine being fired for this post two years from now. I don't care about McNeil in particular (the US is an "At-Will" country, workers have no real rights, he's a privileged guy), but the state of free expression right now is bizarre. The fact that it comes when old (and most of new media) media is more consolidated than it's ever been is not coincidental.
many (probably most) of the government services in CA require some information leakage to google, at the very least via captcha, but often via search integration, sometimes analytics, occasionally via google forms/sheets/firebase/cloud as the backend. it's infuriating. we should not be subject to google for any gov services, period.
I would put Sunday between Thursday & Friday, just way more annoying due to grid size
Developers can't do anything the users don't want. They can't make people adopt the new software. The miners are losing here because everybody else in the ecosystem wants proof-of-stake and 1559, including users, ETH holders, and app developers.
Chrome desktop does actually allow you to run with JS disabled and allow per site with only a few clicks.
Not trying to be snarky but Vitalik itself is ETH's 51% attack ...

What's the point of decentralized cryptocurrency when it falls down on the hands of one person.
Nonograms are np-complete, so this type of puzzles is also np-complete.
Yeah, that's my thought too. The fact that it is cheap makes me think they could have been more flexible, under the circumstances of someone who ran into some hardship.

But even if not, they could have simply said sorry, our policy is that we don't do this. aetherspawn said they were rude about it. There was no reason to be rude, they could have said no while still being empathic to the situation and being courteous. I don't know how rude they were or weren't, of course.
There is no standard spec so the same function name doing the same kind of thing will work in different ways or support different features.
Here's what I don't understand about this reasoning: many of the animals you're defending -- such as cows -- have been domesticated to the point of relying on humans for survival. For these, the choice is not "live in captivity, or live free", it's "live in captivity, or not at all".

My question is therefore: were you unaware of this, or do you prefer the disappearance of (e.g.) cows over their captivity?
Chrome's design ensures that Spectre can only access resources that end up in an attacker controlled process. And this [1] post on "Post-Spectre Web Development" goes into detail about how a given website can ensure that its resources don't end up in an attacker controlled process. There are also a number of default protections against this like SameSite cookies and CORB that protect some resources by default.

[1]: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-post-spectre-webdev/
1989 is calling with a blast from the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_Neutral_Distribut...

It didn't last.
> Michael Powell, a social worker who lives in rural Maine, says he’d rather drive a compact car, but he has PTSD from a former car crash: He drives a truck, he says, “because everyone else in my town does, and it’s the only way I can get around without feeling like I’m gonna die.”

I live in Maine and can sympathize. There are many, many trucks on the streets here, and our drivers are very, very bad. I walk more than 3 hours a day to get to school and back (I don't own a car, partially for ethical reasons and partially because I can't afford one) and I am aware that if one driver skips a red - especially a truck - I won't be making the same trip the next day. I could probably survive getting hit by a car at a low speed but if I get hit by a truck they'll find a molar of mine in Utah.
It's not the JIT that's the issue, but a deeper problem. It's untrusted instruction streams which.you can get from just untrusted data too.

Netspectre was able to dump kernel memory just from untrusted received network packets, no jit required.
Why would using threads imply using [thread-]blocking socket IO?

Most HLL runtimes (that you’d ever want to use for writing a server) have some async IO completion mechanism using scheduler-reserved “async IO waiter” threads, exactly akin to netpoll. (Or they plug into the OS in a less-portable way that avoids blocking IO syscalls to begin with, like Node’s libuv.)

Or, if the language’s runtime doesn’t do it for you, then the popular connection-pooling abstractions that the language’s server libraries are built on top of do it for you, by spawning their own AIO completion threads. Jetty’s worker pool in Java, Tokio in Rust, etc.

Honestly, who’s out there writing code in 2021 where there are worker POSIX threads, and those threads are (directly or indirectly) calling read(2)?
Why Is Matter Stable?
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It leads to flamewars, which are predictable, nasty, and dumb.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Considering the increasing sandboxing and protections I think we're getting closer to browsers in VMs already. Someday I can see a permission prompt to allow performance sensitive sites lower level access.
Decentralized 51% attack...

Not the first very profound eth conflict.
Please don't post flamewar comments to HN. It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don’t think every benchmark should be a benchmark of everything. Targeted micro benchmarks are valuable, if they are explicit about their applicability scope.

The post is very direct about looking only at the memory usage, and literally says that using the results to reason about overall performance would be wrong.

I see how the article could be read as “goroutines bad, threads good”, as it doesn’t go to extraordinary lengths to prevent that. But I prefer to cater to a careful reader, and not add loud disclaimers repeatedly.
Thanks for the insight. Personally I try to firm up a number at the outset that both parties are comfortable with. There should be no reason to deviate from this come offer time if everyone is playing with their cards facing up. Otherwise it makes me question how much a company wants the hire, and/or whether the candidate is joining for the right reasons.
I get the feeling we’ve been trained to expect less, with poor, incredibly slow legacy products. But really for many use cases all the opensource relational databases give instant results.
serious question: why not?

If you don't trust a password manager to hold a master password for another password manager, can you trust it to hold your other passwords / whatever else you store in your password manager?
The big caveat to this is that an attacker can generally get a browser to include a cross-site resource in their process. For example, `<img src="https://sensitive.com/myprofilepic.png">` will cause the image to be loaded in the attacker's process where they can then potentially steal it. The article "Post-Spectre Web Development" goes into details on how sites can defend against this (and other vectors).
STOPEIP1559: “Support hard-working Ethereum Miners.”
"Ethereum developers initially needed miners for their coin but once successful they’ve thrown them under the bus. They cared about miners when Ethereum lacked mining support, and once they received it, they started to mistreat them. Large pools support the Ethereum Developers because they have large stores of ETH, making them investors themselves. They do not value their miners because they plan to dump them when 2.0 comes. Miners are no longer vital to the Ethereum developers or big mining pools because they’ve made their money, and now miners are an embarrassment. The developers and big mining pools had forgotten where they came from and supported them when they started out. Remind them that your not a dog. Take your business elsewhere."
I think an independent implementation would help. Personally, I think SQLite is a unique project which is of such high quality that independence is unimportant, but others do not see it that way.
At this point Vitalik is one researcher among many. He's taken care to remove himself from the "benevolent dictator" role he had at first.

He is very productive though, and the other researchers and devs tend to find his ideas convincing.
> You can't censor it away completely

I don't understand why everyone is saying this. There is not extremist content in north korea.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-gree...

Blonde, sure, but IDK if I'd call her hair straw.
Very helpful, thanks for the links!
Anybody remember Eth Classic, etc.?
Looks like BitTorrent tried it, with Bleep [0], but it disappeared in 2015 leaving barely a trace. I agree with all your points though.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-bittorr...
Or perhaps expose as in emperor has no clothes!
The 51% attack here is only because PoW hasn't been completely eliminated yet... once ETH is on PoS, this attack won't be possible.
Unless they somehow figured out a flaw in thr crypto that allowed for spoofing countries in which case holy shit why are you using it to fake vaccine certificates?
Yeah I was being a bit dry there :-)
Gitea[0] is a pleasant, easy-to-set-up 'GitHub lite', if you are looking for something more turnkey and less custom:

- users/organizations
- issues
- PRs
- milestones
- releases
- wikis
- activity/contrib graphs

I have it running on a $5/mo Linode instance for some of my personal projects.

[0] https://gitea.io/
Yep, 1h5 hours for me!
That "little thing" when they rolled out contracts and pretty much showed how easy it was to manipulate the currency at their whim ...
We Longed for Parties
I'm not an expert, but if 51% of the existing hashpower doesn't want a change, it sounds less a 51% attack and more like miners voting against something that isn't in their interest. The whole point of blockchains is that the incentives are supposed to be aligned between miners and users. If that isn't the case here, it sounds like a problem.
Humans like eating meat because it is nutritious. It is not just a random preference and it is not something that anyone can just switch off, therefore it is not a matter of morality, as you are trying to portray it ("If you love meat and are willing to burn the planet down so you can keep eating it...").

It is possible our taste for (cooked) meat gave us an evolutionary advantage that made us who we are today:

However, accessing more calories was not the primary reason our ancestors decided to cook food. “Scientists often focus on what the eventual benefit is, rather than the immediate mechanism that allowed our ancestors to make the choice. We made the choice because of deliciousness. And then the eventual benefit was more calories and fewer pathogens.”

Human ancestors who preferred the taste of cooked meat over raw meat began to enjoy an evolutionary advantage over others. “In general, flavour rewards us for eating the things we’ve needed to eat in the past,” said Dunn.

In particular, people who evolved a preference for complex aromas are likely to have developed an evolutionary advantage, because the smell of cooked meat, for example, is much more complex than that of raw meat. “Meat goes from having tens of aromas to having hundreds of different aroma compounds,” said Dunn.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/07/how-early-hu...
> 2. Clues confuse GPT-3.

They should probably have been removed. This gives me the overall impression that the testers treat GPT-3 a bit too much as something like an artificial human, and not enough like an algorithm (which will work better with sanitized input). This is not a major criticism, the experiment is still interesting.

Could it be that the marketing from OpenAI it to blame? From the OpenAI front page:

> Discovering and enacting the path to safe artificial general intelligence.

> Our first-of-its-kind API can be applied to any language task, and currently serves millions of production requests each day.

Does that seem misleading?
From my point of view, burning of transaction fees seems like a good solution and idea. Miners are just being babies. There are risks in all businesses, and miners should be aware and account for such risks. When things don't work out your way, your solution should not be to take down the entire infrastructure that fed you.
> "Are you arguing that the expanding menace culture must be young because such cultures wouldn't last long because of conflict?"

It's young because it's expanding. To first order, divide the radius by the rate of expansion and you get when it started. The society that bides its time for millions of years and then turns menace does not pass the smell test. Every year they go without menacing, the less likely they ever will.

Anyway, whoever's (1) inside the perimeter, (2) is a bad trading partner, and (3) not burnt is a pretty good bet for who's responsible. If there are two plausible candidates, they are better both dealt with.

It's also true that they don't last long because of conflict, but that's secondary.

A sorcerer's apprentice scenario is conceivable only in the short term. To maintain expansion demands adaptation to an increasing variety of new challenges, whose variety and strength increase as the fourth power of expansion radius. (Three dimensions for space, one for age of opponent.)

One can invent myriad obscure scenarios, of decreasing likelihood. It's a big universe, rashes happen, but it's a big universe, so they mostly happen somewhere else.
The allied forces did not storm Omaha beach on D-Day to openly discuss Nazism, in case you weren't aware
There is, and it is amusing

“In retrospect it would have been better to go ahead and change the precedence of & to higher than ==, but it seemed safer just to split & and && without moving & past an existing operator. (After all, we had several hundred kilobytes of source code, and maybe 3 installations....)“

https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-or.html
It is still out there, you just have to work to attain it.

I'm happy to listen to the bemoaning, mainly because the newest and largest groups on the internet are the most problematic and most of them have no self-awareness to that end. Better that they hear the bemoaning and get a chance to change and choose not to.
nope, puzzle is fine.
Not your keys, not your bitcoin :P
Colors and Accessibility (2019)
"A group of researchers" still doesn't feel like decentralized to me.
See the above example from dmr himself
Same thing as with Huawei - when USA can't compete technologically, they start competing in... other ways.
You're being a massive contrarian right now - asking others for supporting evidence while providing none to support your own position.
Yes you can.

Personal access tokens.
Also echoing some comments here. Suse was and remains one of my favorite distros to this day and was instrumental in my learning nix. Spent alot of time building opensuse distros back in the day with their build service. Just a little disappointed the IPO will not be in US Markets otherwise I'd buy
You know. Just a pesky detail.
Props to Fire Dept. for having some decent response code enforcement - I mean you would never put off a molten metal; it would burn forever, and while you add water to it, it would only expand. AFAIK the only way to put it off is with sand.
New Genes for Eye Colour
No Wayland implementation works 100% on an Nvidia GPU yet, they are just in varying states broken. I mentioned Plasma because it is what I have the most familiarity with, but Mutter is only slightly better and Sway doesn't work at all yet.
I actually like all things crypto, but why does this tech have to suck so much
That's an interesting idea, I wonder if you would need a loop or a winding method to get enough counter-emf?
It's not my place to evaluate which method of calculating the exposure was correct. Just pointing out, that 1 mSv is a rather small amount of radiation. The smallest amount of radiation where one sees some indications of an increase in cancer risk is at 50-100 mSv [1].

I'm not arguing either way whether this should have an impact on any payments. Putting the threshold for compensation at 1 mSv is very conservative and will lead to the payment of compensation for many cancers that weren't caused by radiation. Which, again, is fine by me because I do believe that very little interest was paid to the protection of the neighboring populations.

[1] Pretty good summary: https://www.pnas.org/content/100/24/13761