skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then, it's clear that Google aspires to be more like Apple with every iteration of their software. And the number of people opting for Linux at this point are insignificant.
This isn't upvoted enough. I use that trick verbatim to just wrap a container's execution environment around my $PWD. It's useful way beyond just isolating a program.
To answer your last, people working on something out of passion and/or belief in its future carries zero correlation about how exciting (or good) the thing is.

I've known my fair share of programmers that make me look like a blabbering cretin. I still don't think what they worked on was something special though.

So this line of argumentation IMO leads to nowhere [productive]. Sure there are extremely smart people working on BTC. But the same could be said in literally any area, right?
What we desperately need now is a map of people who clicked on the link.
I don't understand the relevance of #1, as we have no time machine.

Regarding #2, I think no one seriously thinks the vaccine could fail to prevent spread (it surely is not 100% sterilizing, but everyone acts under the assumption it will vastly reduce spread). "There is no evidence for X" can be said for the vast majority of values of X, since most X are impossible and/or too time consuming to study. This includes, for example, X = "the best way to use the vaccine is to give a first round of second doses before a second round of first doses". But we often have to make decisions in the face of imperfect data.

#3 is ridiculous because the logic appears to be, "the best rollout plan is the one that's easiest to enforce". By this logic, we should line up by height, like we did in elementary school when heading to the toilet.
Bitcoin – The Philosophers' Money
Fascinating, thanks! So Apple computers used to have synthesizer/sound chips, and still might if it wasn't for the Beatles!

This is about the Ensoniq synth chip, with 32 oscillators, that was in the Apple IIGS: http://www.buchty.net/ensoniq/5503.html
IMO this totally solves the wrong problem. It's not really so much about "who do I contact if I find a security problem on a website", it's more about the problem on the other side "How do I separate the spam and low quality bug reports from actual defects, especially if I have a bug bounty program that attracts low quality bug reports."

I think what is needed more is a community-managed "reputation score" for security researchers that could be used to indicate who has submitted high quality defects in the past. I shit on pie-in-the-sky blockchain schemes all the time, but this actually seems like one where I could imagine it being useful, i.e like this:

1. A site owner publishes their security team's public key in a well known location, similar to what is described in the security.txt proposal

2. When a user submits a bug report to some site that the owner seems is a bug, the user can sign something on the blockchain that states "User X found a [high,medium,low] defect" on our site.

3. Then, when a user wants to submit a defect to another site, they could show their past history of high quality bug submissions to past sites, and those submissions could even be scored based on some value of the site owner (e.g. finding a high impact defect on Apple would result in a high "reputation score.")
Hah, the working class will get utterly crushed and they will applaud from the windows lol.
Hard to remember. <b> and <i> are easier to remember than 1 and 2 (or is it 2 and 1) and now I have to figure out how to escape a damn asterisk, and how to do bold italic. Too much stuff to figure out. HTML is easier.
It's been thaty way for years so not very encouraging. With develop I can't just click Update Packages. Any advantages these days of staying with Spacemacs over Doom?
> I'm sorry, but I refuse to feel guilty

Then you're not sorry.

> When I go to the store and buy some tuna I expect that it was responsibly fished. If it wasn't then it's the fault of our government and regulation, regular customer shouldn't be worried about that.

How do you think regulations come to be?

If a consumer wants a product, a company finds a way to provide it. The company will poison the land, sea and sky in order to provide it to you, they don't give a shit. The government allows it until the people demand regulations to stop it. But you are the people - if you don't want it stopped, it won't be. And so there are no regulations made.

There is no parental overlord making sure that what you purchase is sustainable or cruelty-free. Sitting around saying "somebody should stop me from ruining the earth" doesn't actually make it happen. I know you don't want to have any personal responsibility or culpability for the shitty way the world works, but you do.

Ultimately, you, and everyone like you, are the reason we can't have nice things.
This sent me down a HUGE rabbit hole, and I wound up here: https://uncpressblog.com/2020/02/17/author-interview-jill-d-... , having somehow downloaded this entire book as pdf into my tablet.
I think the latter - they are saying the idea for the name was from prior conventions. Section 4 spells it out explicitly:

> For web-based services, organizations MUST place the security.txt file under the "/.well-known/" path;
No one is forced to give up their goods and services for any specific money.

Money is “backed” by the trust that someone else will be willing to accept it at a later date for goods and services.
>Gold has intrinsic value for practically all of human existence.

The intrinsic value argument hardly makes any sense because it's almost always lower than the actual value. Someone interested in intrinsic value would be buying copper, not gold.
Is Philosophy an Art?
> Yep, that's how censorship works.

China doesn't have the power to censor Western expats on Twitter, or the millions of live conversations going on at any given moment between people inside China and people outside. This view of China, that it's a black box that information can't escape out of, is simply not reality.
I can't say I've even heard of a court order for Twitter to remove a tweet before.

Is that really practical, though? To spend thousands of dollars on legal fees to take down a single tweet from an anonymous account that will just repost it again and again? Meanwhile every time Twitter is completely immune to any consequences for hosting and distributing said content?

It's a sucky situation. A service like Twitter can't really function if they're responsible for the content on the site, but all our existing laws are effectively unenforceable on the web otherwise.

I think the hope people have for the removal of section 230 shielding is that Twitter and other content hosting providers will take existing laws more seriously. For instance, Cloudflare today says "there should be laws to handle this stuff, we don't want to enforce anything", and to date the CEO has only ever made two exceptions to that.

The contrarian side to that is going too far and Twitter et al becoming too censorious and taking down legitimate free speech content. None of these service providers can afford to have a legal team on standby to determine what constitutes fair use and free speech or not.

I don't have an answer, I'm just saying this isn't a one-sided issue. Right now the internet has a real problem with libel and cyberstalking. It's one of those things that one tends to not realize or think/care about until it happens to them.
But surely you'd still need to build something to work with the NFT marketplace(s)? At which point, why not just own the whole thing?
So the population of a whole city is normalized on lock down as if they were inmates of some large prison camp, while the government uses all sorts of surveillance mechanisms to track whoever they please freely for some very marginal public health benefit, and this whole situation is considered "great". What kinds of things have been normalized in the supposedly free countries by this pandemic.
I agree, it definitely seems that the phrasing there needs work. Overall I would say most RFCs are well substandard especially when compared to ISO standards which tend to be extremely precise. That being said, interoperability within tech is amazing so perhaps there is something to be said about the idea of loose standards and working code after all.
Hypothetically, what would occur if the federal reserve simply sent money to every bank account rather than trying to steer market interest rates? If it's an equivalent action then why do we only perform the action that is more prone to regulatory capture?
MS has also PowerApps and Power BI. I have never touched them, and I hope I never need to. But they seem to play remotely in the same area.
It is indeed Minix-vmd. The current toolchain is way too old. Most of the software I want to run is written in C, often C89, or C99. So it doesn't cause a lot of issues at the the moment.

I think adding minimal ELF support would not be a lot of work.
https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/file/3345/download?token=rRqLL...
That’s not proof at all. There is nothing that says the printing of money in 2008 had to lead to immediate inflation and in fact we’ve seen the prices of some things (real estate?) go up astronomically the past 13 years.

In economics you’re right until suddenly you’re not. Same thing with people like Peter Schaffer who was constantly wrong until he wasn’t.

But all of this doesn’t make economics a science with undeniable rules as to how the system works.
Mac OS X handles this by rendering everything at some insane resolution and the scaling just before displaying
C++ is widely used for High Energy Physics. The ROOT framework [0], developed at CERN, is mostly C++.

I'd be tempted to say that Rust could be used as well, but the equivalent of MPI and OpenMP for Rust is still not as fast as in C++/C/Fortran.[2] That's easy to understand: there are decades of investment in MPI/OpenMP for C/C++/Fortran, and Rust is not there yet.

Also, in some cases where high throughput is needed, languages with garbage collector are not suited. In this scenario, deterministic execution time and deterministic latency are very important. Not directly related to HPC, but Discord migrated from Go to Rust for this reason[2].

[0] https://root.cern/

[1] https://github.com/trsupradeep/15618-project

[2] https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
Interesting that you talk about sphagetti and a honda civic. Now do the same calculation for rent, mortgage or health insurance
Why not just put this info into whois?

Also, how do I know whether to believe the link to the encryption key? That stuff should be in the HTTPS certificate, not a text file. Just use the server's public key to encrypt communications to the website owners.
I was down voted for this, and I think fairly.

I said Elon was "just a mean, vindictive person", but I think that's far broader than I should have said. I think that sentence would more fairly read "capable of being a mean, vindictive person".
That the marriage distribution by age and the height distribution of women might have different decay rates is very unsurprising. That does not demonstrate that using a normal distribution to model either one is inadequate.

In order to actually demonstrate that a Gaussian curve is not a good fit for the distribution of marriage lengths, you’d need to show that the falloff on both sides of the “mean” is asymmetric, or that there are multiple peaks, or that the falloff does not trend exponentially, etc. Even a truncated normal distribution might fit the distribution of marriage lengths adequately.

Figure 5 in the more recent data shows the CDF of the distribution of marriage lengths: https://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p70-125.pdf

You can compare that CDF to plots of the CDF of a normal distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...

If you can translate & scale any lines from either graph to roughly match, then you can use a normal distribution to roughly model marriage lengths.

BTW, we are both being pedantic. The grandparent didn’t claim it was a bell curve, they asked what the standard deviation would be assuming it was normally distributed. That’s something we can calculate, regardless of how normally distributed the data actually is. It’s a strawman to say the answer won’t be exact because the question assumed it won’t be exact.

Also, I do not think marriages are exactly normally distributed. We could calculate some stats about how close they are or how far away they are. There is a single lump shape to the distribution, but there’s also some asymmetry, and the distribution is truncated on the left. My point is just that the two reasons you’ve brought so far aren’t showing that marriage rates are not a bell curve, you need better reasons that are more specific to the shape of the data in order to make that conclusion.
Thank you all. To synthesize:
- learn what I want to learn, probably by speaking with team to prioritize
- leverage team + online to structure learning, starting high-level, 'courageous play'
- periodically look for current weaknesses, or future strengths, from [lack of] operational integration within company (likely a benefit of technical learnings)
Wait until you see the Linux kernel changelogs...
The rate is limited, though.
What do you think of Capital and Ideology? Piketty posits some theories/hypothesis with caveats throughout and has a lot of data for certain countries and time periods, 75% of the book is history through the lens he is examining.
Or display the heightmap as a 3D surface?
Difficult to run true HPC software like this as a 'grid'. High speed, low latency communication (with MPI) is required.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. How does “lending and saving” change the fact that money can’t be created out of thin air?
I remember a W1GHZ project from the 00s or maybe even the 90s where he eventually got hairpin filters for low microwave frequencies to work using cheap PCBs.

Generic fiberglass is NOT consistent across multiple mfgrs enough that you can spec it for mass production from any mfgr in any country at any time, you need the very low variation specified "RF PCB material" to mass produce precision untuned hairpin microwave filters.

HOWEVER, the cool part of the project was generic fiberglass is consistent enough across one mfgr over a short period of time, that you can characterize product X shipped from PCB house Y and then you can very consistently get boards at the proper resonant frequencies.

The meme was not overly successful in the amateur radio microwave community, sadly, but the project did work perfectly well at the time.
The poor can only take high premium inflation adjusted loans. Inflation doesn't reduce the burden. The poor would generally make minimum wage ($7.25 in the US for about 15-20 years now). Same people who say there is no inflation call this "a starvation wage" never making the link between printing money and the wages pushing poor people into starvation. The poor spend most of their money on housing, food, medical and energy. All of which are massively up (6% up YoY average last week). Food and energy of course are ignored in headline inflation as a rule.
This is not thought experiment, it is straw man.

Here's my thought experiment, they told you studies shows that vaccination is safe, you point out there happened to be a case after injecting a person died. In some places people categorize it as FUD.

Just to be clear I don't have a side in this race, I haven't priated anything for a long time, don't find the need.
It's absolutely insane that four hundred years later people are still repeating anti-Catholic propaganda from an ancient war.
Anyone doing gen-art in Fortran?
They are not the stock photo models from the original “Distracted Boyfriend”
Convert open-source projects into profitable business
How will systemd-oomd communicate to the user?
I was using https://github.com/hakavlad/nohang
And it sent notification signaling to save your work before the application X will be killed. (I always wanted a way to click somewhere on the notification to prevent nohand from killing it when unwanted)
Also nohang use PSI data does oomd does it too?

Finally the author of nohang is working on arguably superior solutions:
https://github.com/hakavlad/prelockd
https://github.com/hakavlad/memavaild
https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch
It's unfortunate that systemd has chosen to integrate an inferior solution
He could have pointed out the impact hypothetically without creating a call out side to target artists and pinpoint their exact numbers. Also some are disputing if the figures on the site are even accurate.

He knew what he was doing and he knew how Twitter would react and people would be harassed for it.
Lets call a spade a spade.

There are evolutionary adaptations to the local environment of Northern Europe that Africans lack: light skin, light hair, light eyes.

There are cultural aspects such as the wearing of veils for women.

This has a significant impact on Vitamin D generation from the available sunlight.

https://sunburnmap.com/ - March 2021, a central European city will give saturation-level Vitamin D generation (before redness appears from preliminary sunburn) to a person with light features in 22 minutes, or someone with the darkest features in 1h40 minutes.

Just as Northern Europeans are evolutionarily and culturally poorly adapted to central Africa, so are Africans to Northern Europe.
> formites and surface contamination of any kind don't seem to be a major source of transmission

When there are millions of infected people walking around breathing and coughing, then fomite transmission is not a major source of transmission. But it is a source of transmission, and it could become the dominant source of new introductions of the virus into the country if quarantine of travelers is good enough (to go to China, you generally have to get a negative PCR test before your flight, then quarantine for two weeks in a special hotel on arrival, and finally get another negative PCR test). That's not to say that cold chain was actually the source of the Beijing or the Qingdao outbreaks, but there's evidence that points in that direction. In other words, this isn't simply propaganda.

But the larger issue that we were originally discussing is the overall situation in China. There clearly has not been significant community transmission over the past year, showing that the strategy (sharp lockdowns followed by strict border quarantines and mass testing during localized outbreaks) has been effective.
Just hearing Salesforce should make you run as fast as you can , if you value your sanity as a developer.

Salesforce is unbeatable in marketing and sales strategy, but the products are horrible.
Is that not just the other side of the same coin ? Short of centralized banking printing money there is no competition for wealthy just hording and letting time pass and demand grow. Kind of like bitcoin ;)
IIRC, there is a slight performance penalty with Alpine, compared with glibc - are there any other reasons to be resistant to Alpine?
Ask HN: Is there an efficient algorithm for simplifying LaTeX / HTML source?
For example, this might be done by minimizing the number of \begin{...} commands, etc. Of course, the output would need to look identical.

The simplification need not be optimal. It should just cover a lot of common cases. For example, suppose you have a list and each item has boldface tags around it. It would be better to boldface the entire list instead.

I think this is a problem that needs solving for WYSIWYG word processors such as TeXmacs. It would be nice if TeXmacs can constantly simplify the document tree while you edit in WYSIWYG.
It looks like one is the evolution of the other: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56332115/3266847
Hey, I got the scan codes, they're 7B and 79, check here https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-8.html

(1) Where did you get the (internal) JP keyboard for your Thinkpad, Ebay or Lenovo parts sales?

(2) Imagine those 5 keys on your JP keyboard...

_ _ _____ _ _
|1||2||Space||4||5|

...how convenient is it for your left thumb to hit 1 and 2 and for your right thumb to hit 3 (Space), 4 and 5, each on a scale from 0 to 10? Bonus question: do you have small, medium or big hands?

And how did you get the idea to use a JP keyboard?

ps I use AHK, have to check out Sharpkeys!
A crucial point of the article is that it's about the technology, not the particular implementation. So in your example, it would be EVs that need to go extinct, not Tesla.
I feel like I'm saying "the emperor has no clothes", but doesn't anyone else think this NFT art thing is bullshit? Everything about it screams "scam": they're asking you to spend your real, hard-earned money on some digital "asset", pumped by celebrity influencers and hype entrepreneurs. Everyone is drawn to the big multi-million dollar figures of these high profile artists, figures that you will never see for your "assets", and do nothing but serve as a siren's call to everyone around. These high profile sales are marketing, nothing more. They are serving their purpose to kick start the mainstream adoption of this scam, because everyone thinks they can make a quick buck buying some digital signature.

What's more is the pseudo-intellectual justifications for it all. As soon as you bring up value, proponents put on their philosophy hat and ponder "what is value? money is just paper, maaaaan, we just believe it has value." Or we hear that owning a digital "asset" is actually the same thing as a physical "asset" because they're both unique things that can't be copied. It's all smoke and mirrors, and you know that when you have to hide behind vague philosophical assertions about "well nothing really has any value", then you have no actual argument supporting the value of the thing you're defending. It's a new illusion, pumped by hype, and they're trying to justify its existence by pointing to other illusions.

Thanks but count me out.
The finiteness of gold doesn’t imply any particular monetary value for it. The pre-1971 gold standard was maintained not by concrete standards of value but by global scale market manipulation; as we can see in market data since then, the actual market clearing price of gold is much more dynamic than the fixed peg imposed by gold standard laws.
> Larry “women cant do math” Summers.

This is such a gross misrepresentation of his statement that it makes me doubt every other point you’re trying to make.
Bitcoin is like gold. Tether is like USD. You don't trade the gold, you trade the dollars. They never printed more gold, they printed more dollars.

Tether has printed $2B in the past week. Loans will be freely available.
They're both pretty bad for something so simple. Tons of dependencies, complexity that shouldn't be there and perplexing code.

evilsocket/opensnitch is worse but EBPFSnitch could also be a lot better.
> I shit on pie-in-the-sky blockchain schemes all the time

And you're right to, because they're mostly nonsense.

One of the issues with your proposal is that if I'm a security researcher, I now have to pay to maintain my reputation using cryptocurrency.
Webster 1983 definition of inflation:

“An increase in the amount of currency in circulation, resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and rise in prices: it may be caused by an increase in the volume of paper money issued or of gold mined, or a relative increase in expenditures as when the supply of goods fails to meet the demand.”

Hence the use of “traditional definition” wording. Which matters for example in classic readings of economics books. One can argue that the switch in definitions is more a political view to excuse printing money and not backed by any economics reasonings.

Ref: https://inflationdata.com/articles/2010/07/21/real-definitio...
A federal judge saying that a tech titan must be held accountable for what they claim to do and dont do. Will this particular suit alone change much? Doubt it. Will this suit lay the foundation of precedence to properly wrangle in and hog tie big tech in the near future? Yup. It's a vital decision that shouldn't be over looked.