skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well no one -likes- getting covid but there's a far cry from dying from it as the groups who are more apt to want to get it first. If you want to use a more statistics based approach like "well we're going to vaccinate those who are most likely to spread it" (say 20 somethings or republicans who won't wear masks) the general public is not going to go along with that and start making calls to congress critters really quickly since they are afraid memaw is gonna die because she can't get a vaccine while all the college kids throwing ragers on the street are now effectively just a bit safer than before (they were already highly unlikely to die from the disease). Americans by and large do not understand statistics (or even the scientific approach in general) to minimize spreading but "getting shots in arms of those most likely to die" has an undeniable "folksy" logic. The most important thing (the 90% problem) is to get vaccines cranking out as fast as possible and into people, everything else is background noise. I would have been fine with a randomized system based on a voluntary signup list.
> forcing them to be used all the time

You know this doesn't do anything unless explicitly configured in the system and/or unit configuration?
You don't own the artwork, though.

You own the equivalent of a museum's accession number.
It's not strictly true in the sense that if the price were to fall over long enough periods of time, you would expect the hash rate to eventually fall, too.

But that's not plausible in the scenario where the world's financial system eventually runs on a proof of work cryptocurrency.

Since all miners compete over the same finite profits, each miner individually has an incentive to increase their hash power and therefore power consumption.

Even if the price was on average constant, the game theory would predict a competition over finding the cheapest way to burn the maximum amount of power.

Empirically, there were some transient drops in hash rate for both bitcoin and ethereum, on top of a constant massive run up.
C# has multidimensional arrays. It's not Pandas or numpy, but it's something.
> If the algorithm simply prioritizes say the most upvoted comment, is that the same? Or how about prioritizes the most watched/liked video?

This used to be handled by the user clicking a button that said "sort by most votes" or the top of a column called "votes." Now it's a mystery how to handle that no one could possibly know how to do.
He still maintains the famous electorial college site, though as Hillary fanboy his activity dropped during the Trump years. But still much more than on minix, which is now run by Intel internally.
Universally. The kernel's page cache is the very last thing that a database operator wants.
It sounds like you are suggesting it is not E2EE because keys are backed up to Google/Apple. That’s not true, it still is E2EE. It just by default has a backup of the key.

Sure, if your threat model means you are worried about the key backups and particularly your friends key backups, you shouldn’t use WhatsApp.

I’m not sure how you end up at Telegram with that threat model.. but whatever floats your boat.

I’d wager most people care more about FB not being able to read their messages. And they can’t. Maybe one day that changes but they will be required to communicate those changes.
I looked into this as well. The most amusing aspect in NYS is that to get a banking license at least one of your board members has to be a good ol’ boy.
Understanding that caching is a universal sequence prediction problem explains a lot, where efficiency maps to the abstract "compressibility" of the access sequence from the cache's perspective. Optimal sequence prediction is intractable, so any practical cache optimizes for good performance predicting some sequences to the exclusion of others.

An understudied approach to cache efficiency is to dynamically shape the sequence of accesses the cache sees to better match the set of sequences it is designed to predict. This means putting some code/logic in front of the cache to make the sequences more cache friendly, either by filtering out "noise" accesses that are likely to pollute the sequence prediction model or re-ordering accesses, when permissible, to look like a sequence the cache is better at predicting.

The objective is that the added overhead of cache admission is offset by improved efficiency of cache eviction by making the sequences more predictable.

Both types of cache admission policies -- noise filtering and sequence reshaping -- are commonly used in database engines in extremely limited ways. An example of the former are so-called "cold scan" optimizations. An example of the latter are so-called "synchronized scan" optimizations, which have minimal benefit in many architectures.

Cache admission is an open-ended algorithm problem with complex tradeoffs. Sequence reshaping is particularly interesting, and almost completely unstudied, because in theory it allows you to exceed the efficiency of Bélády's optimal algorithm since one of the limiting assumptions of that theorem are not always true in real systems. It is not trivial to design systems that can employ these kinds of optimizations broadly in a way that provides a net benefit.

Of course, in real systems, cache efficiency is about more than cache hit rate. Both cache admission and cache eviction also need to be CPU efficient, and most academic algorithms are not. Even though cache access/management is in the hot path, you want it to be invisible in the profiler.
I'm not saying applications should continue to use or go back to xrdb. I'm pointing out the fact that having unified configuration system is very useful and I'm disappointed Wayland didn't pick up this idea.
> the issue is that the browser simply never suspends tabs I haven't used in days or weeks. Modern browsers are not good "desktop citizens", if you will. They hog memory to the point where opening anything new will create a pressure stall.

The "Auto Tab Discard" extension[1] for Firefox unloads tab contents, keeping only the title and favicon. Tabs can be put in an allowlist to prevent discarding. I don't know if Chrome or Safari have something similar.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
Exactly, science is vigorous debate.

When ever you see someone trying to quell debate, you should immediately recognize it as counter to the scientific method.
The ascent and demise of the listed company
Here we go again. Vim vs. Emacs. A decades-old argument that actually doesn't have any merits.

Because Vim and Emacs are two distinct categories. The only thing that makes them similar is that they are both based on something. That something is an idea. And not just an ordinary, everyday concept, but an influential, holy grail type of thing.

Vi and the concept of the modality is an incredible, powerful, fantastic model.
People who never hardheartedly tried to learn Vi-model just don't get to say anything about it. Can you respect an opinion about CRISPR coming from someone who has no clue about polynucleotide chains and DNA?

Yes, Vim is not overly intuitive for a complete beginner. Like many, perhaps most awesome tools, it too has a certain level of sophistication. You cannot enter the Suez or Panama Canal gates' control room and suggest removing all those knobs, switches, buttons, etc., and instead, install one colossal touch screen because that would be "a much more intuitive interface".

Vim is hard to learn, but you see, there's usually a strong correlation between something that's not so easy to acquire and simplicity gained later. Conversely, things that are easy to pick up, very often later become cumbersome and annoyingly counter-productive. Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" rhetoric very nicely manifests that.

So yes, Vi-model is an incredible idea. Vim, Neovim, Evil, etc., are just implementations of that idea.

Now, Emacs is based on another mind-blowing idea. The idea of practical notation for lambda calculus, what is known as Lisp. Lisp, probably can be crowned as the most important idea in computer science. It's just hard to think of something more influential than Lisp.
Emacs is just a practical implementation (and frankly, not the best one) of that idea.

Arguing what's better - Emacs or Vim is like debating what was more important in the history of health care - the invention of anesthesia or discovery of penicillin.

Both Vim and Emacs are awesome, and one is not better than another. If you can't see that - then probably there's a big hole in your understanding of at least one of the ideas they are based on.
Marsh v Alabama is a pretty narrow ruling, and hasn't been interpreted to apply to much more than company towns, which are now illegal.

Cyber Promotions v AOL is a subsequent case which is much closer to today's question: Cyber Promotions wanted to spam AOL, and AOL wanted to filter out spam because it threatened to ruin the internet. Thankfully, AOL won that case, and spam filtering is constitutional.
Even as a tech person critical of Google, this seems a bit of an overshoot - you can't stop a website from seeing a request from such and such IP, and it's pretty clear (to me anyway) that Incognito just resets your cookies / local storage / etc. beforehand and doesn't save history.

If in fact Incognito is sending our non-incognito google identity cookies that's a different story, but don't think that's the case here.
I understand it's not possible to copyright a schematic in terms of connections between components, so this is a fair game to copy, but the PCB layout is protected as an artwork. I don't know how this one is similar to original, but I could imagine you would like to move things around. Or is it too old to be bothered by that?
The problem with that logic is that it doesn’t address how this situation came to be. Apple has been consistent about their product vision since basically day one, and on day one they were the underdog... a drop in the pond. The thing is that over YEARS the market (people) consistently voted with their wallets to validate this vision. That’s why they are what they are now.
This has two implications: 1) The reason it’s happening is due to long term choice in the market, i.e. this ecosystem is filling a need that whiners are ignoring, and 2) It ignores the fact that if your stated hopes actually came to pass, someone else would just execute on good hardware with a walled garden (with the resulting more consistent and reliable experience) and become popular AGAIN... after all, that’s what just happened this time.

People will answer this post saying “that’s not true, you can totally have the iOS experience with side-loading/whatever”. Those people also likely believe that the “right communism” just hasn’t been tried yet. If one could actually do this then likely someone would have tried it and succeeded already. Another way to realize that is to understand you are just describing Android, and a perfectly valid existing choice (actually, several choices in a family). Additionally, those people are ignoring the fact that the security/convenience/consistency trade-offs made in any ecosystem do have consequences (positive and negative from varying perspectives).

Which leads us back to the parent: If one wants a different trade-off (which is totally valid and I have happily owned and developed for both systems in the past) then pick a different ecosystem and buy into it. MY personal pie in the sky wish is that people would quit pissing on other people who don’t want to be forced to make THEIR choice. Please take your choices and stop advocating to take MINE away.
What should aspiring devs learn?
Best rainbows on Earth are in Hawaii, scientist says
> Salaries are always adjusted to meet the inflation

This does not agree with the policy reason for inflation, which is explicitly to give labor class a silent pay cut:

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/the-case-for-hi...
isn't this what whois is for?

barring that, (not much space for public keys and preference flags i guess), how about DNS TXT records.

just some file on the root of the webserver seems a security issue itself. typically less people have keys to DNS. also, rare today, but not all domains have webservers.
(One of the authors here)

Make sure you read through the actual latest draft (especially section 6):
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-foudil-securitytxt-11

Also, we are in the end stages of the IETF approval process so this should be official later this year (if all goes well):
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-foudil-securitytxt/
But what about the actual software question? What makes this different than redis hyper log log? Or statsite
I've never had an issue with the shell scripts that run my systems, and I consider it a strength that they can be easily modified. Why do people always seem to make 'no more fragile scripts' their first point in favor of systemd?
Java has faster multi dimensional array than numpy, e.g nd4j can trivially leverage Intel MKL or even offload to CUDA.
Interestingly, this one is one of those cases where it is totally up to the judge or juries thoughts on reasonability. They have always disclaimed that incognito only removes traces of your traffic on the local computer. They also explicitly stated that third-parties would not be hindered by or actively prevented from tracking you. Though the point of confusion or getting in trouble here is that they (Google) are both simultaneously, the browser writer of the functionality guaranteeing discretion, but also reaping value from tracking the traffic. This would fall under my personal metric of sketchy, contraindicative/regulatorally problematic behavior.

If the layman, despite that disclaimer is nevertheless found reasonable to expect functionality to be one thing, but what is delivered is something else than that stated, it could fall under deceptive practices under the FTC Act. If I understand the gist of this lawsuit correctly. Not a lawyer, but read a legal research book once.
"The law" doesn't sue anyone so the company is the one that "doesn't care". The law (if in a functional system) doesn't follow the letter of the law but the spirit of the law. Otherwise we wouldn't need a court but just a clerk or a low-level AI.

There're only three categories IMO (besides black hat):

1) The researcher disclose a vulnerability the proper way and all's good

2) The "researcher" did something that could cause harm and were punished

3) The system is utterly broken

I have seen all happen and the ones people are up in arms about have always been in category 2 or 3. Your last sentence about blackmail is in category 2 as demanding money for a proper disclosure from someone without a bug bounty program is the definition of blackmail.
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Are you sure people are "lying" about section 230? Or maybe they have different understanding / misunderstanding? Is "lying" becoming another word lost its meaning?
criticism that disproved his math

has weinstein made any testable predictions with his theory/math?
Site seems to be down. Seems an interesting idea though so will try later. 800XL was my first computer.
Operating the marketplace is the point.
It isn't immediately clear what the method of tracking in question is. Device fingerprinting could be another concern.
It’s a bit later in development than cause and effect, all of our fellow apes have that. You are correct that it’s the misapplication of cause and effect, but it was only possible after the introduction of abstract thought.
I don’t think corruption has anything to do with it (unless you can give any concrete example).

Israel didn’t have new banks because the regulator preferred to protect the stability of the existing players, which are heavily regulated themselves. Israel had its share of troubles caused by banks in the 1980s and 1990s, and today banks are kept away from many asset classes and operations to ensure their stability and limit their clout.

You could say that the banking regulators gave a limited amount of players a license to print money but they had to play by very particular rules on who owns them, what they do and how their balance sheet looks.
Both the New Deal and the Chinese system accelerated electrification and running water in rural areas by decades.

There's a lot of "quality of life" there that gets missed when people zoom all the way out and talk about state involvement, GDP and freedom.
been with bank hapoalim, which is one of the larger banks. maybe this article relates to one of the worst banks.

- i have a designated representative for 20 years or so (usually it happens when you have income above average I guess)

- most of functions I could do via web site for many-many years. probably also via mobile app.

- been emailing documents to my bank for 5 years at least

- can make either local same day transfers or international transfers online, forever.

with regards to "trip to branch where employees added send-money function to app", you need to sign agreement for performing operations online and stuff (probably part of regulations). till you do it, web banking is a bit limited. those days you can agree to it online i think
If only this applied to Apple hardware and Apple OSes too.
Have you found out which cat was it in the end?
Aside: I'm admittedly grumpy about the commit history, which is filled with entries such as "Add files via upload" and "Update README.md".

That, together with the lack of documentation, makes it much more difficult to figure out what's special about this implementation.
This has not been my experience. It's quite easy to send money to any bank account even in another Bank. The online portal at my bank is pretty easy to use
That's a great point. I was curious about his as well so I did some simple calculations and wrote about it. Your intuition is correct, and if you look at median mortgage payment relative to median income, owning is about as affordable as its been since we started collecting data. There's a huge difference in mortgage payment based on interest rate:

> To put that into perspective, a $100k 30 year fixed rate mortgage would cost you $1,543/mo at 18.45% and only $442/mo at 3.38%.

Points up front is also lower now than it has been historically. I think low rates definitely fueled home prices and of course there are neighborhoods that are exceptions

https://mleverything.substack.com/p/buying-a-home-in-the-us-...
Lenovo is weird. On the one hand, it announces that it will pre-install Linux on ThinkPads. On the other hand, these configurations seem to be available only in selected countries. Also, this.

P.S.: there's an entertaining segment by ThePrimeagen in which he talks about his frustrating experience of ordering an X1 Carbon Extreme from Lenovo: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/909927791?t=00h32m16s
Mirror here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210314163530/https://ezcontent...
If the strongest possible interpretation is that gold and gold-backed currencies were universal throughout human history until 1971, that is also wrong.
I haven't seen it in action, but it possibly works on the client-side like link previews, by constructing a Google search URL with the decrypted contents of the highly forwarded message after the message is received on your phone, and leave it up to you to click it.
System Preferences -> Security and Privacy.

You’ll find an override toggle there. You can also use Right Click -> Open when launching the app. And no, you don’t need to disable SIP to disable Gatekeeper which can be done through sudo spctl —-master-disable.
From the original sale almost all of it goes to the person who minted it, minus a small fee (around 5%) for the platform. That should be the artist, but of course there are people minting art that isn't theirs. There's efforts to catch and remove that, but a lot slips through.

From secondary market sales, the artist can get a royalty if they choose and the secondary transaction is on the same platform. Typically around 10%. The same platform requirement is an issue and hopefully a future NFT standard smart contract will build in a royalty option/.
> Actively processing voice on someone else's tempo over a crappy mic often leads to mistakes

On the flipside, text-only conversation often simply doesn't include that nuance at all. I can't count the number of times I've completely misunderstood someone's tone over text when it would have been blindingly obvious over voice. Key and Peele even did a skit about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo

Voice and text have different strengths and weaknesses as communications media. Both are appropriate in different situations. I will admit, however, to being somewhat "allergic" (as another commenter put it) to voice, probably to an unreasonable extent, because I selfishly value my ability to focus on what I'm doing right now instead of giving it to someone else for a couple of minutes.

But at the same time, I've often found that someone older who didn't grow up with easy text-based communication will use a phone call when a text would have been more than sufficient, and this can be quite irritating at times. I suspect it's in reaction to this that younger people tend to avoid voice communication even when it would probably be a better choice.
I have a rice cooker and a bread maker too. There is a pressure cooker for the microwave, but I don’t feel I need one. Time savings—-the ability to make a Thanksgiving meal for 4 and eat it and put it away and clean up in 35 minutes—-is the main benefit. You would never know the food was cooked in a microwave. It is indistinguishable. Bad associations created through de Beers style society level advertising campaigns that seem more like traditions than advertisement are the reason.

The only reason I can buck these trends is that I have made my living in advertising and public opinion influencing.
A complete guide to optical character recognition pipeline using Deep Learning
You can say that, but the Switch is really just a Linux box with some extra stuff tacked on. If you load custom firmware, you can actually run Python and even GCC on the native OS. Same goes for every Playstation after the PS2, which all run skinned version of BSD. The only reason Linux "isn't a gaming platform" is because people don't prioritize game development for it. The whole point of this article is that people are taking that task into their own hands, and it's working.
In my experience WHOIS is basically useless now. All of my domains are registered through a privacy service and every time I've gone to check some sketchy domain's WHOIS out in recent memory I've found the same thing.
One interesting wrinkle is that traditionally (dating back to FORTRAN IV at least), Fortran compilers store matrices in RAM address space using column-major order, where consecutive elements are in the same column, not the same row. [1]

Most languages that prioritize Fortran code interop also adopt column-major order, but most other languages that support multidimensional arrays do row-major order. I'm not sure why Fortran went column-major but because it did, a lot of libraries designed for Fortran callers (such as LAPACK and all BLAS implementations) need to be told that input arrays have been transposed when they come from languages like C++.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-_and_column-major_order
I ported the article to ARM64. https://wolchok.org/posts/how-to-read-arm64-assembly-languag...
Speaking of which, Firefox behaviour has improved on OpenBSD significantly recently. It used to either crash or act weird when it hit the memory limit in login.conf (which it would eventually do). Now it just works. No idea what changed.
I should have read your comment first. It was much more succinct than mine :)