skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. Okay, that sounds reasonable! I've come across the "Activation Required" screen before, both with people asking similar questions specifically about old cellular iPads, and it specifically says "Activation Required" while it's waiting to talk to an activation server, and that server really does cellular configuration. (I have personal experience with this step being screwed up on a new iPhone once. It was not a super fun time.)

A bit of Googling shows the "Activation Lock" screen as a screen that says, well, "Activation Lock"; I think it's really a separate thing. If that's what happened to the OP, then it can be unlocked from the web:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441
Sounds reasonable. But even as landfill I bet it gets reused as cover.
An ascending auction is strategically equivalent to a 'Vickery' 2nd price auction and logistically simpler, since it only requires one round of bidding.

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

This ignores phycological factors, and some minor quirks relating to minimum bid increases.
Countdown to Quantum Decryption
The question I have is after risking his life, did Tesla properly compensate him financial?
There’s an SLA involved in this service. Business people like SLAs. :)
What I like about docker is that everything comes from one Dockerfile
>>The story also asks what happens to the lipid nanoparticles<<

these lipid particles are incorporated into the cell membrane during vesicular fusion. Expression of the mRNA results in S protien being expressed on the surface of this cell, Antibodies of complementary clonal type bind to this spike in numerous locations the now adulterated cell is labelled as antigenic thus is destroyed by macrophages, the pieces of this cell are then compared to the self/nonself portfolio of patterns and further antibodies are produced.

all the while this cell is in distress due to the presence of foriegn nucleotides and this incurrs an interferon mediated response that spreads among cells and likewise induces interferon response
The flail I can understand, due to the disproportionate risk of hitting yourself in the face with it.

However, having grown up in an environment where carrying weapons is generally banned, it seems equally silly to me that people with short fuses might have them at hand.

It's one of those things I chalk up to personal values. I can understand the opposite rationale, but prefer the Canadian way.
I do not agree that we are building a social credit system. There are some similarities to what is happening in China, but SELLFF is fundamentally different in almost every way.

To anyone who is interested in comparing the differences, you can find 100's of links from your favorite search engine.

If we step back a moment and look at this objectively, we are only focused on matching buyers and sellers. It's a marketplace for people who sell/offer services and people who buy/need services. For a marketplace to function, there needs to be access to information so that both parties [buyers and sellers] are on an equal footing. Else, one party would have an advantage over the other.

Everything we are doing is focused on making the buyer/seller interaction easier and more efficient. It seems the TRU Score is a concern evident in many of the comments. Yet, how is this different [or worse] than star ratings on Yelp, Amazon or any other rating service. Other than the initial calculations that comprise the score, all changes in the scores are based on the community of members.

I believe many members of SELLFF can obtain significant value if all they do is post "services offered" and "services needed." The application will "match" the parties so they can interact and decide if working together makes sense.

Is SELLFF different? Yes, in some ways [Ex. trading shares of people]. But isn't that part of the opportunity when creating something new? Why do the same thing as everyone else is doing? Do you really feel fulfilled when you follow or like someone? Does the opportunity to "invest" in someone appeal to you? Do you see any advantage?

Is SELLFF better than existing solutions? Maybe? Can SELLFF to iterate to meet the needs of buyers and sellers. For sure! Is SELLFF a social credit system. No, not even close.
Had to read the article after your comment. Hughes:

--- Indeed, what makes Kendi’s personal story so compelling is precisely the fact that he’s constantly changing. That said, when reflecting on his college days, Kendi describes his former self as “a believer more than a thinker,” so perhaps not everything about him has changed. ---
I think these days most companies just don't care. The quality of writing (news/blogs/articles/etc) has gone down since digital media has been the go to way making information available. Honestly, it costs almost nothing to re-edit a piece on a site like this where as printing a million copies to hand out at a trade show and the like has some cost to it.
My Blue Snowball cackles at your Model M in the "it was free" dialect of Internet put-downs ;)
I've been tinkering with decentralized communication protocols lately and made me think about the XMPP ecosystem (also about ActivityPub integrations with it), so I've started these two projects:

- XMPP server in Golang (very early stage)

- Mastodon port to Golang (also early stage)

(edit: formatting)
The Texas Legislature is in session right now, and a major topic of discussion is about who is going to end up with the short end of the high utility bill stick. While the media has played up bills of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, that really only affected Griddy customers. Most consumers in Texas buy power at a fixed negotiated rate, and this rate functions somewhat like insurance. You pay a little bit more than market all of the time so you pay much, much less than market during these kinds of rare events.

Knowing that, it is easy to say that the power providers who signed these deals eat the costs, just like insurance companies. Again, the reality is more complicated. A large number of power /generators/ had to pay very high rates to buy power on the open market when their generation capability went offline and they had contracts to provide power to the downstream providers. That is what happened to the Brazos cooperative. Should they be screwed?

What I do not hear anyone talking about is that the biggest reason for the spike in power was ERCOT adding cost to the market prices in order to entice generators to get more power on the grid quickly. ERCOT has the authority to supplement energy prices with "adders" up to the max allowed cost of $9000/MWh. ERCOT did this for almost the entire duration, even when the market price for power was only at the astronomically high level of $250/MWh. No one is really discussing whether ERCOT should retroactively unapply these adders as a means of clearing things up. Given that $9000/MWh was not enticing /anyone/ back on the grid (burning that money to unfreeze pipes and valves would have gotten capacity back online faster), ERCOT could easily justify pulling those back. Generators who were online would still make plenty of profit, and the rest of the power ecosystem in Texas would not struggle with a bankruptcy event.

What is likely to happen is that consumers will end up holding the bag. Griddy customers already feel this, but everyone else will see this in the form of higher negotiated rates over the next decade. This article shines a light on the true nature of the beast, though. Neither the PUC nor anyone else roaming the halls of the Texas legislature are going to support the consumer. The consumer is simply not represented by the lobbyists in downtown Austin.
Well done, tollbooth worker!
So basically they took out the most interesting parts and left the rest. So this is just spin from EMA.

"manipulated data" sounds like Orwellian double speak from the company.

I remember the planned parenthood video, where they where haggling over prices for parts. Planned parenthood claimed it was a manipulated video too. Because it was an excerpt. They even locked up somebody for making the video.
Never mind that the full unedited video was also released on the internet.

And a few years earlier I watched a documentary on CBC about a black market in body parts. Little bits and pieces used during surgery. Which this totally corroborated.
The differences you're listing off are all matters of how the same underlying silicon is configured during the final stages of manufacturing. The workstation cards that support ECC RAM are using the same RAM chips as the consumer cards, and the memory controller is just configured to use a portion of the memory for ECC instead of as additional capacity. Having one, two or four DRAM dies per memory channel doesn't have any direct connection to whether it's a workstation/server GPU or a consumer GPU, and the consumer GPUs could just as easily be equipped with the same 48GB instead of 12GB or 24GB, if there were sufficient demand.

When you look at the workstation cards that aren't top of the line, it's clear that they are nearly identical hardware to more mainstream consumer gaming GPUs, and the most significant hardware differences are usually smaller coolers on the workstation cards leading to lower clock speeds.
Function memoization in 107 lines (TypeScript)
Miners undervolt their cards so as to run cooler and under a lower load.
I'm working on designing and implementing a new programming language right now. Most of my work is for the web platform (be it frontend or backend) so this is a nice break. One of the more "back to CS fundamentals" projects I've done in a while.
Mathematica

Even just using it to simplify equations was worth the asking price.
tl;dr: "The developer of the project whose protocol I'm reimplementing and whose trademark I'm using to sell things is an attacker with ulterior motives. Anyway, everyone should be respectful and leave their egos at their door. Everyone else, that is.'
You can actually download the whole wikipedia if you like.
Groups are unequal for all kinds of reasons. It's the norm. Some are "meritocratic" reasons, some are cultural, some historical, some due to prejudice and a lot (most?) are just happenstance. And these reasons also take part in positive and negative feedback loops.

The idea that any difference is due to an "ism" is ridiculous.

That being said, we should respect and help whatever individuals need it.
The platform statement mentions mothers and parents, but not fathers. I don't think it's tea-leaf reading to figure out what it's talking about.

> There's apparently this whole sort of internal cultural debate about Black advancement --- I'm a white dude and talking out of my ass here, but, like, I read some stuff --- between what you might call the Booker T. Washington school, which says Black advancement has to come from Black people improving their own circumstances and correcting the problems that are holding them back, and the W.E.B. DuBois school, which says that the first order of business is to secure formal, recognized equality with white people. It strikes me that you can read Sowell vs. BLM in that light.

My point is the internal debate is filtered through a media and academic framework controlled by white social progressives that elevate one view and suppress the other based on their ideology. Don Lemon faced intense criticism when airing the Booker T. Washington view, because Bill O'Reilly said the same thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2013/07/29/don.... It's pretty hard to get tenure at an American university doing work based on the Booker T. Washington view. But the W.E.B. DuBois view gets amplified through those same outlets. That's not because the Booker T. Washington view isn't extremely common. It's because the alliance between Black people and white social liberals suppresses the strong social conservatism in the Black community, as a matter of political necessity.

Now, I understand why the alliance exists. But as applied to Asians, I think the Booker T. Washington view is obviously correct and the W.E.B. DuBois view would be disastrous. I worry that the increasing affiliation of Asians with the left will suppress the very necessary and important social conservatism that exists in the Asian community.
Truth does not work that way. If you have to prioritize masks for something, regulate that market down - by simply making it a crime to deal with them without offering them to the government first.
Yeah, but you could also build a windmill.
It is indeed part of the Linux kernel. This discussion is about FreeBSD, though.
Mars might be hiding most of its old water underground, scientists say
They do, don't you remember those FBI notices in the movies?
https://mashable.com/2012/05/10/fbi-copyright-warnings/

And when you sign up for netflix or cable tv, there is an agreement you accept that you are not going to pirate.

Remember, the nosnippet does not have to be on every page -- you can put into robots.txt or HTTP header, so it is literally 1 line of configuration for most web servers.

Movie producers can only dream of stopping piracy that easily.
https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/uc-publisher-relation...

"All Cell Press and Lancet journals are part of the UC agreement. For these top journals, UC’s shared funding model — where the libraries share the cost of open access publishing with authors — will be phased in, with all Cell Press and Lancet journals integrated no later than 2023, midway through the four-year agreement."

"a limited number of societies that partner with Elsevier for their publishing have chosen to exclude their journals from transformative agreements, so their journals are not eligible for either reading, publishing, or both under the agreement. A list of these exclusions will be available soon and linked from this page."
They already had GCD and Operation provided by the platform, which worked perfectly with Swift, and dealt with concurrency very nicely.

They weren’t under any pressure at all to have any other ‘async’ story early on and so intentionally chose to focus on other fundamentals and take their time to build something that would be well designed and additive.
https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
has an index implementation and is backed up by object storage.
>That's numberwang

Lol. BRB, going to go watch Youtube.
We have been using liquibase[1] in a variety of java & non-java projects and it has proven to be a really flexible & powerful open source solution.

It shines really well when you need to manage not just tables and views, but also stored procedures, custom types, triggers etc.

[1] https://www.liquibase.org/
Matt Taibbi: The Sovietization of the American Press
That's a generous spin. It wasn't about "oh, don't worry about the energy market", it was:

> During that call, which was closed to the public and news media, D’Andrea took pains to ease investors’ concerns that electricity trades, transacted at the highest prices the market allows, might be reversed

> At one point, during a discussion about whether natural gas, which also saw huge price spikes during the crisis, would be “repriced,” D’Andrea said no, adding that most legislators understand that gas is priced by global markets and is out of their purview. “But I’ll let you know if I hear anything crazy on it,” D’Andrea said.

And this was after this:

> The PUC mandated that the $9,000 prices stay in effect for 32 hours after the market had returned to normal, a move that has angered many municipal utilities and retail electricity providers.

No, it absolutely was about "You'll be getting your money, at the expense of consumers".

> Tim Morstad, associate state director for AARP Texas, said instead of offering assurances to investors, D’Andrea should be offering them to consumers.

Even Texas Republicans argued over repricing.

But never fear, D'Andrea was there to make sure:

> “It’s a contentious political issue. The best I can do is put the weight of the commission in favor of not repricing.”

And that BOA analysts just needed to hang tight:

> D’Andrea noted that ERCOT requires that all trades be finalized in thirty days, which means the last of the maximum-priced contracts will be settled this week. After that, he said, any repricing discussion is moot. D’Andrea said he doubted lawmakers could get a bill passed in time to force repricing

This sounds like someone who is absolutely committed to making sure the banks make money off the market, and does a very good job of making sure that is or appears to be his sole priority.
After many similar experiences with doctors, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that about 80% are only interested in time preservation and ego preservation.

If they don't know the answer in 5 minutes, then obviously you must be crazy. 2 minutes, if you're a woman.

They are allergic to 3 little words: "I don't know."
No, because that was a fork, and this is mainline development.
IMO Nvidia must sell their video cards for who want to buy gaming device in this timing: new gaming consoles released and in shortage. PC vs console.
I believe that one way to deal with communal ownership is to ensure that transgression against the communal contract are captured and addressed, just as should be in social commune. Of course the challenge is to ensure that is done in a positive and constructive manner.
Staking income is much lower than mining. Eth 2.0 is targetting a 7% annual return, outside of any currency inflation. So there will be stakers, but it won't be the gold-rush of mining.
Build more 2 million dollar flats. How high can we build these days? 2 million dollar flats are nice flats. Have robots and AI build as many nice flats as people want.
You’ve got a factor of three sneaking into your 4^4.

In general (ab) mod n == (a mod n)(b mod n) mod n

In the case of (3*c)^4, 3^4 mod 15 -> 108 mod 15 -> 3.
That's why Windows Phone didn't go far, right? Developers were spending so much time on iOS and Android that few companies were willing to spend time on another platform.
I am aware that some countries reproduce above replacement rate and some below, and that this rate is normally tied with country economic prosperity.

My point was an evolutionary one: wouldn't those couples who choose to reproduce more (assuming you can afford to raise your kids) be selected for, evolutionarily, vs couples who chose to remain childfree?

Thus, even in a few generations, I would assume a moderate cultural shift towards having kids, since now only those who want kids, have them.

The first hormonal birth control method (The Pill) was invented in 1960; we're 60 years beyond that (~3 generations). Maybe my theory isn't panning out as fast as I assumed.
They said it was opt-in and would just be a faster alternative to the public api
The ACLU learned a thing or two from Charlottesville, even if you didn't. I doubt they'd make the mistake of putting "principles" before human lives today.

But thank you for being so eager to say that you "don't care who" when "who" are literal Nazis. That is very interesting.
When I installed my first Linux (Red Hat 9) I was trying to install Gaim on it. I was trying different methods and I managed to install it by source compilation but not through rpm.
I guess it depends on your definition of "mass deaths"

The US has 500k deaths so far, I consider that pretty massive.

Lockdown _did_ eliminate covid in New Zealand, so there are examples both ways.

It's pretty clear that there's a spectrum of lockdowns and their effectiveness. Personally I would rather you all stayed home for 2 weeks rather than sacrifice my grandparents for the economy.

The lockdowns in much of the western world were pretty weak overall. So many caveats and exceptions. It was "lockdown except for that which is _too_ inconvenient for my voting base"
Perhaps if the blog was more straight to the point and with less adjectives, it would attract more attention.

The TL"TL;DR";DR is: "Thousands of developers are giving 3rd parties write access to their github repos (...) The tokens given to 3rd parties are just like passwords"
I have CFS too, although from a different trigger. FWIW, I found the doctors at the Center for Complex Diseases to be amazing. They're 10x doctors, true scholars of the human body. They specialize in CFS.
The GNU C/C++ compiler. Working on a game console with a proprietary compiler that let you pick: a) 16 floating point registers and 32 bit pointers or b) 32 floating point registers and 64 bit pointers. And also a shitty solution for a cpu bug. Or, GNU compiler! I'll have all my floating point registers, but 32 bit pointers, oh, and can we handle the bug without just adding a nop every bloody time it might happen? Thanks! It had been around a long time by that point, but it made a 10x difference on our project.
I went from the Atari 400 to the Atari 130XE. I was a bit miffed about losing two joystick ports (MULE is everything). The keyboard was so much better. I had the Indus Disk Drive[1] and I swear I opened that cover way too often because of how smooth it rose.

I still think MULE is the perfect game. Seven Cities of Gold can never be done again, but it did provide some serious amusement ("See, I can trade only, hey back off, why is that drum playing, I'm one of you, oh crud, well its on now.")

1) https://archive.org/details/run-magazine-20/page/n25/mode/2u...
> Those people are in that position inspite of the fact that we could, with the wealth we have, feed, house and provide health care and education for each and every one of them.

I don’t think this is really true, part of the problem is that the wealth that you think could be allocated to this problem was only generated by incentivizing people to build it with compensation, if you turned around and took it away from the people who built it and gave it to people who did not build it, you would disincentivize creation of more wealth, and the wealth you reappropriated would deteriorate, because you neglected to create an incentive and maintenance infrastructure to keep it working. This is exactly what happened when we tried this, starting with poor people in our own communities.

Public housing projects and welfare programs are money sinks that are notoriously counterproductive at meeting their stated needs; and we can’t get people to consider the structural imbalances that result because the need for these programs is an article of faith and among the believers the only acceptable reasons for their failure are “people who don’t agree with the program” and “lack of funding.”
Unfortunately I don't see price of healthcare coming down, just more doctors out of work. AI in healthcare will be highly regulated, probably monopolized, and tons of artificial barriers to entry created by corporate lobbyists. The AI quality won't make much of a difference: the winners will be the stodgy bureaucratic companies with political influence and just enough "AI" to be useful. WebMD will probably go offline and things like it will become illegal, "for the public good." Medicine isn't expensive because doctors have gotten more expensive; it's expensive because the industry as a whole needs to maximize its revenue, and AI changes nothing in that respect.

Entertainment will keep getting cheaper and cheaper, but for services people actually need: education, healthcare, and soon food, it's going to continue to be "how much can you afford to pay?" Or worse, "how much can the government afford to pay on your behalf after we've milked you for everything."

(I hope I'm wrong.)
I use the typedef version to head off problems. Anyhow, how about this:

C++:

template<class T> T func(T t) { ... }

D:

T func(T)(T t) { ... }

or

C++:

void f(long);

void test() {
f(1); // calls f(long)
}

void f(int);

D:

void f(long);

void test() {
f(1); // calls f(int)
}

void f(int);

or

C++:

int f(int a[3]) { return a[4]; } // undefined behavior

D:

int f(int[3] a) { return a[4]; } // index out of bounds error

Of course, you can use `array<int>` in C++, and all the above can be worked around, but it just is more work and doesn't look as good.