skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In practice though other things come up and the admin doesn't get round to increasing the TTL back to sanity later because nothing is broken if they don't.
> and all factors must be considered before resorting to a "might makes right" action (which is what a strike is,

It's interesting that you characterized putting down your tools and stopping work as "might makes right" but not using the military for the purposes of strikebreaking.
As I understand him, there exists some reddit/twitter/mailinglist/other channel where people post messages like this:

I am [Identity] and I claim hash [hex digits]
[9 months pass]
My claimed hash corresponds to [link], which proves I could have hacked [target] 9 months ago.

Can someone give a link to a real public communication channel like this? Or are these invite only?
I would advise you to head down to your local university and take a religious studies course covering a bit of the Bible. It's usually split into OT/NT.

What you will find there is that we know that the Bible is an amalgam of a script that was pieced together by many, many human authors. It is trivial today to tell because we can cross-reference Koine Greek versus translations and authors chose different words consistently for the same concepts.

So, no. Not really beyond the natural/physical world at all. Just one lie of many competing lies.
Can you explain more? I thought employers always had the right to terminate employees, union or not.
Why would a government be involved in any of those things?

That sounds like a Soviet-style dystopia.
If this kind of decompositional pollution is a significant concern, why aren’t we worried about the millions of miles of PVC pipe we lay in the ground? Wouldn’t that be the same mechanism?
I think the concern of the parent is "but why would the government exchange it, since they're making it illegal, and at what price -- since the act of making it illegal will get it into free-fall anyway".

And it might not -- if that was the case, the owner would have to try to sell it to wherever they can within the time span.

Which would also mean a flooded market and falling prices, but why would the government care about that? In the end, they get a tax share of the smaller, dollar converted, amount.

As for the bitcoin owners losing money because of this, well, that money were in the form of a monetary asset that was not guaranteed by the government, in the first place. It's not like they lost private property, more like they made a bad (non-)investment...
But it wasn’t industrial. The work was cognitive not physical. It also wasn’t exactly for wages in the classic sense given that the federal government had holidays, vacation, and so on.
Maybe if you had included that in the terms of the bet.
I don't see a spec (and the code is not obvious at first glance), but isn't this susceptible to a replay attack for 60s if the initial UDP packet is sniffed?

From what I can tell, the packet is {32 bytes of MAC}:{timestamp}, and MAC = HMACSHA256(timestamp + secret_key), and the 'used' timestamp-nonces are not stored anywhere. This means that this packet is reusable by any host, even one knocking from another IP (eg. an attacker on your LAN or on the public Internet).

EDIT: Ah, no, the response is encrypted with a symmetric cipher (MOSH_MALLET_CCRYPT_KEY). So that particular attack won't work. Leaving this post in case someone also makes a similar assumption to this when reading the code.
I just re-read that old thread and to be honest, on the whole the advice there is sound. I saw comments discounting the fanciful speculation outnumbering the speculation by at least a multiple of two.

There are silly ideas in every forum. I've been on plenty groups comprised entirely of tech experts and I can confidently say that foolish ideas will be proposed even in the most elite of circles, even in their areas of specialty. It happens, and as long as there are other reasonable voices it's fine.
> Should we refrain from giving feedback before we have fully articulated the principles by which we would like our code to be written? What about the abundance of tacit knowledge that we can only hope others to learn by osmosis?

I think these are fair questions. Reflecting back on a younger and more arrogant self, I can see that I was quite more pushy with my opinions. And they were that, opinions. Having them challenged when I was no longer the best coder in the room was how I grew, but that required speaking in clear language, and having clear arguments. I think the sooner you learn to do this, the better, and it might challenge some bad ideas that you've held dear.
I love it, but I use Typescript, which has a few niceties (e.g., stronger typing) beyond modern JS.
I get your point, but isn't this the "no true Scotsman" fallacy? I know Christians like you exist and I like that most media portrays "good" Christians to look basically like the prototype you described. However, I have personally met only one Christian of this type and all my other interactions have been with the fundamenlist caricatures described elsewhere here. (Who is vocal about their Christianity might be skewing my observations, but this is a problem in its own: why are only the fundamentalists vocal around me)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/mf705...

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/meopv9/s...
If nothing else, I assume it's called setting an example given a significant majority of people haven't gotten even a first shot yet.
Congrats on the launch! Saw your demo day pitch and super impressed
cliff notes: battery as a structural component of car, bike, aircraft instead of a separate component, like a car frame.

saves weight. not as energy dense as lithium ion, but they're working on it.

"The scientists say the next step is to improve the performance even more, replacing aluminum foil in the electrode with carbon fiber material and thinning out the separator. This could result in a battery that produces 75 Wh/kg of energy and 75 GPa of stiffness, setting more records for massless batteries and also greatly reducing their weight. "
Is the 404 the strong resume? For me it seems as though HR operates off of checklists and if you meet enough of the checklist and can back it up further along the process, then there’s a 1/3 chance depending on how many people make that stage.
If you're worrying about the "natural" curl of the fence, you're not putting tension on it when you put it up; and the fence will not function well.

"I'm always walking around picking tools up from the last place I left them"... Totally unsurprising. The old guys yell at people for that for a reason too, it wastes time, it wastes tools, and it advertises that attitude on behalf of a whole crew.

Finally, the tent stake needing packaging is one of the sillier things I've ever encountered.
Email me (jgc) any issues.
> Bob is just a guy, he's not a prophet or a god, he doesn't know everything about everything

He doesn't, but he pretends to. That's why some people don't like him.
This stuff is fun. In the TXR Lisp compiler was running into pattern matching code refusing to optimize nicely. My test case was this Ackermann:

(defun ack (:match)
((0 @n) (+ n 1))
((@m 0) (ack (- m 1) 1))
((@m @n) (ack (- m 1) (ack m (- n 1)))))

I then added an "early peephole" pass which works on the input code before it has been divided into basic blocks:

http://www.kylheku.com/cgit/txr/tree/share/txr/stdlib/optimi... (function at line 588)

There, I added recognition for a certain four-instruction kernel occurring out of pattern matching code, and rewrote it to three instructions.

Poof; I was left rubbing my eyes as out popped an instruction sequence identical to the one for this non-pattern-matching Ackermann, modulo some register names:

(defun ack (m n)
(cond
((eq m 0) (+ n 1))
((eq n 0) (ack (- m 1) 1))
(t (ack (- m 1) (ack m (- n 1))))))

That early reduction kind of removed a logjam, allowing other optimizations to proceed.

The pattern matching code generates a flag which is set true upon matching, so that subsequent cases are skipped. This flag completely disappears.

The recognized instruction pattern spans (what would be) two basic blocks because it includes a jmp instruction. The rewritten instruction sequence eliminates one conditional branch, which gets rid of a basic block division, which is part of why it works.

Anyway, a big picture lesson here is that a big reason for the existence of pattern matching is so that so you have a tool that can be applied to optimize pattern matching.
The fact that there are no advanced AI chat-bots because they might (I mean they will lol) say something offensive is absurd. we are such babies.

General AI is already here.
It should be implemented on twitter or wherever and used to teach us about ourselves.
driven by engagement, untethered by morals.
A dispassionate glimpse into what sells.
An AI that exploits our engagement, for good or evil.

The bot would become infamous and in due course banned.
Teaching us even more.

But we are so fragile.
as someone whos worked alongside caged articulated robots, i can think of nothing more terrifying than a multi-axis, unrestricted pick and place on wheels. when a robot crashes, it generally does so with an astounding amount of uncontrolled speed and power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FwdMjYUyKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpg_3syMT_U

stretch seems like the fastest way to the goriest obituary. its also noteworthy to state most robotic lines can be powered off in an emergency at several points. Try convincing a fire team to enter your factory to extinguish a blaze with a dozen flaming Boston Dynamics robots wandering the floor in various states of operation.
Trying to signup for Deno Deploy, it asks for the 'Act on your behalf' github permission to make an account.

Clicking on 'Learn more about Deno Deploy' leads to https://github.com/apps/deno-deploy , which does not tell me more.

What does 'act on your behalf' mean for Deno Deploy?
yikes , i can imagine it would be hard working in that 'sub' level in the building with only those florescent lights, having robots 'dump' their packages down a shoot onto you. maybe workers only stay there for 6-18 months before moving on to other areas of building (or new job)

Stay strong factory workers!
Apple TV+ Debuts “The Year Earth Changed” to Herald Earth Day 2021
I'm not convinced that authorities were lying about masks. The actual situation was kind of complex back then, and certainly prone to oversimplification, but that is still very different from actual deception.

It was simply unclear whether cloth masks or the simple medical masks would help significantly if the population would wear them. The data about SARS-CoV2 specifically was sparse, and there also wasn't as much about mask effectiveness studied as one might have expected.

And at the same time there was a concern about shortages of PPE like N95/FFP2/KN95 masks. But those were used in a professional setting, with people that are taught how to use them, in direct contact with potentially infectious people and with other measures in place. That is a very different scenario than just giving everyone masks.

Both can be true, that we have good evidence that N95 masks work for professionals in direct contact with patients and in combination with other safety procedures and that we didn't have good evidence that masks (whether N95 or other) would help for regular people.

I think you could have made the justified assumption that masks would very likely help enough to be worth it back then, and some people certainly did that. But the degree to which it would help wasn't certain, and I think the concerns about shifting the supply to places where it was less useful was very real.

The communication about this was messed up in several places, but I think in part because it's two separate issues that seem a bit contradictory at first glance. It's quite hard to communicate that well.
It's the classic "expertise is universal" fallacy. When we see someone who is an expert in their field, we assume that expertise carries over to totally unrelated fields, when this is emphatically not the case. Being a genius does not prevent someone from being ignorant; the finite nature of time means every genius is almost completely uninformed on almost every topic, and without information what you get is GIGO.
Wow, this is great. Thanks for the link. I hope to take Selfstudyclassics a little farther than this one goes over time, but this would be a great place for anyone to start.
Not surprised. It's directly available, and there's a lot of experience. And the consequences and costs are known. But probably other companies were already working on alternatives. I wouldn't be surprised if Elon would send a small, custom built sub next week.
Your proposal is for Congress to essentially blackmail server owners, note: not just corporations, but server owners with anything that can be called an “interactive computer service” such as a comments section, with an extant statutory liability shield, because the news media, note: not social media, not search engines, we were actually discussing the news media, are not viewpoint neutral. There is no such thing as viewpoint neutrality by the way so enjoy your selective enforcement.

Your proposal as to how it could work amounts to while the First Amendment does say “Congress shall make no law etc.”, it doesn’t say anything at all about Congress not weasel around it, engage in political blackmail, and make bad law anyway”, just so you can get away with calling it “not technically compelled speech”.

Your motivation appears to be to increase the number of forums in the broadest sense of the term in which people can talk freely as like if they were on government property instead of private property, at the expense of private property rights, that other thing that is integral to a free society and liberty. The mechanism by which you propose to do so would however provide a strong incentive for existing server owners to get out of the forum business thus actually reducing the total number of servers and services connected to the internet on which you can post.

There isn’t anything I can say to your position that you haven’t said yourself if this is seriously your position. I mean it’s immoral, antithetical to both free speech as a cultural phenomenon as well as our laws, antithetical to private property rights, and probably also unconstitutional, and at the very least a massive abuse of legislative authority. I guess if you can convince Congress to pass your proposal, the New York Times and Fox News should also be quaking in their boots at the prospect of turning off their comments sections (do they even still have comments sections?).

My recommendation instead is to make peace with the idea that there’s a website, podcast, subreddit, Facebook group, IRC, Slack and/or Discord channel for every opinion, every gradation of an opinion, and every type of audience. The web is a big place. Not quite as big as the Universe but from our puny positions with our lack of perspective it might as well be as big.
I think there's a major issue with unions - if I'm paying tax dollars to fund said union, then they're part of the "general good".

I don't think public unions are acceptable because it's essentially the government (union employees) to extort money from the citizens. In many places, we call that corruption.

Private unions I think are alright, I'm not opposed to (as an employer) having to negotiate with my employees. However, protections should be limited, because my shareholders are also entitled to their opinions as owners.
I think you might have be mixed up for a poster further up stream and I am getting both response?
Long-Missing Midsize Black Hole Flashes into View
There's a whole industry around ship recovery and they know how to do things like patch things back together with some light underwater welding and then pump the water back out the hole in the bottom with compressed air. Lots of times, this is done while the ship is busy worrying itself to death on a reef.

Ship salvage is a combination of batshit crazy and real-time engineering marvel with a healthy dose of understanding tides waves and currents. There's also a strange maritime law business going on where the captain and or insurance company have to sign a contract. IF the ship is a 'wreck' the salvage company gets what ever they can save or whatever it's agreed on in the contract. If it just needs some help, the contract will be lighter. But many ships have sunk completely while the insurance company and salvage company have argued over whether it was a total loss or just suck in a low tide.

I always find the salvage stories to be super interesting. Seeing people do hard ball business while the ship is breaking up under them is really something else.
> "the experts" didn't understand what they were doing. So I had to lead them to come round to a perspective so they could think it was their own idea and hence be comfortable adopting it.

This also applies to industry. This is basically managing up 101 for engineers. If the boss thinks it's their idea, it'll get approved and supported. If they think it's someone else's idea, depending on environment, it'll get blocked or sabotaged.
> Nor was this lie the impulsive decision of a few rogue experts.

My non-native English might betray me, and I didn't follow Fauci's statements from the beginning, but based on the quoted article, where is the lie?

"they weren’t recommended" doesn't mean that he said masks, made of cloth or otherwise, don't work.
The Inklings were overall extremely well-read and literate. Literally professors on mythology, linguistics/etc. Not necessarily fair to compare the general population to them. ;)
Bus Drivers Bring Adaptation of Alien to London’s West End in Alien on Stage
For those that are confused as to what a 'Jefferson Bible' is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible

"The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, is one of two religious works constructed by Thomas Jefferson. The first, The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1804, but no copies exist today. The second, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, was completed in 1820 by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus. Jefferson's condensed composition excludes all miracles by Jesus and most mentions of the supernatural, including sections of the four gospels that contain the Resurrection and most other miracles, and passages that portray Jesus as divine."

https://uuhouston.org/files/The_Jefferson_Bible.pdf Free here
We call this a lack of leadership, which, let's face it, becomes very, very obvious the more you paid attention to how the US handled Covid throughout 2020
Ah, sorry, it was fixed in https://github.com/rs/node-netmask/commit/3f19a056c4eb808ea4.... And good catch, of course :)
Read a paper: Purely functional red-black trees
I would put a reasonable floor on short TTLs (5 minutes?), but yes, it's nice in an emergency to be able to send everyone someplace new. Sucks if you're down, hacked, etc, and can't do anything about an existing long TTL other than wait it out.

Edit: Worth noting there's lots of software that seems to only resolve hostnames at first connection, then hangs onto it forever. Lots of java internals for example, unless you poke in specific configuration.
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Has anyone found good interactive resources for learning (Attic or Koine) Greek? I started self-studying (with Jones’ book and Great Courses online) and found that I liked the focus on real classical texts (as opposed to Ecce Romani) style. But ultimately it wanted to move too fast to grammatical completeness (banging out one conjugation after another). I felt I didn’t get enough practice or vocab, and interactive lessons would’ve really helped.
I'm shocked I haven't seen any journalists questioning Fauci on why he chose to lie. Was that a decision made under pressure from some political entity in the government? Does he believe part of his job is to determine what the public can be trusted to know?

Given how much credibility and trust matter to managing a public health crisis it feels weird for the press to be so uninterested. Maybe they worry covering that would come across as questioning "science" at a dangerous time?
I think "better tools" would be a good way to go. In general I think we need to make these things that we care about (performance, binary size, compilation time, etc) more visible and quantifiable and to allow us to easily root cause them. I think we need to make profiling these things dead simple and fast--with respect to performance, the time to get a flamegraph should be nearly zero, and the flamegraph's UI should be optimized (e.g., the ability to "peek" at a function's definition directly from the flamegraph). We need similarly easy ways to trace compilation time and code bloat to their causes in the code, perhaps even with automated suggestions for improvements.
India Explores Blockchain-Based E-Voting by 2024 General Elections
This was written a year and a half ago, but I think holds up pretty well. Some thoughts.

First, one lesson is that the exact wording in headlines matters. Many people interpreted the essay to say "Rust has a bloat problem," which is not what I was trying to say. Bloat is unfortunately a super common problem in the modern world, and Rust is not immune. But Rust also gives the end developer a lot of control, and is capable of producing wicked-lean programs (at some cost) if that's the goal. The point of the essay was to give practical advice on how to reduce compile times and executable size. From that perspective, publishing the essay was a pretty big success, as it immediately provoked improvements in the gfx-hal project.

Serialization continues to be a problem. Now, something like half the compile time and executable size for Runebender is serialization for the XML-based UFO file format for representing fonts. I think a better solution to serialization might make a good project for a smart, motivated person, but it's pretty far away from current academic fads, and there's also this thing that a lot of people have tried and we're still not in a great place. What about serialization makes it so intractable? Could some kind of language support make it better?

Also, from followups in UI threads, the expectation for what constitutes "bloat" is very different for different people. The calculator example in Druid is now about 1.5M (release build, Windows), which I think is acceptable for most people, but I'm also aware that a simple calculator like that could be built in a couple hundred k or so without too much problem, and I'm sure much less if you start using demoscene style techniques. But I also don't want to focus on that too much - I don't want tiny calculator demos, I want rich applications that work in all languages (including input methods) and also play nicely with accessibility tools such as screen readers. That can't be, and shouldn't be, a tiny little executable.
Sounds like the perfect candidate for a GitHub issue! :)
A high tide and some tug boats becomes 'high-end engineering' if it works
I was "in touch" with religion for 12 years (my parents sent me to a very catholic school even though both are atheists)

My experience was seeing huge amounts of falsehood and hypocrisy as religious people followed and repeated all the rituals of the mass but in the day to day life they just did not care about others and pretty much ignored what their religion taught them.

Thank God after those 12 years I saw everything I needed from religion to get as far away from it as I can.
They also believe that state sanctioned executions are murder, yet somehow the vast majority of Catholic adherents tend to be less willing to make political or advocacy decisions based on that.
We don’t know what your wife said. This is such a useless story. My wife says something on a forum and was attacked. Ok??