skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if we would get better outcomes if the jury were randomly selected. Otherwise based on this link we don’t seem to be getting a jury of our peers, but a jury of selected peers with specific biases not present in the same proportion as the general population.
A good sign that the friendly competition by Guix has a positive influence :)

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Bootstrapping.html

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-boots...
Incorrigible literally means they cannot be helped, and the fact is there are kids for whom that is accurate. Giving them one on one instruction doesn't help, because they genuinely do not care. It does take up the time of teachers and burn them out, though, so they're less able to help the kids who are struggling but actually want help.

It's important to distinguish kids who just do not care at all from kids who are struggling, but it's also important to recognize that the former really do exist.
Cool thanks for that, indeed it seems like it would work.
I agree. Such a project exists [0] but will need more work, and workforce is quite limited.

[0]: http://www.haxeui.org/
If the risk of (serious) DVT is lower with the vaccine, why did Norway come to the opposite conclusion and ban AZ?
Former union member and steward software developer here.

The most common reason why developers were against the union is because they couldn't negotiate their own salaries.

They could see the market getting crazy and were tied to the collective agreement.

We paid well and had a solid pension but at the end of the day we couldn't compete with FAANG and that's what a lot of developers wanted.
Wow! I need to try this out.
What is going on at Yale Law School?
They said they’re waiting to get vaccinated. That’s what I was referring to. Then they linked a 3 hour long video without bother to write a short summary of why it might be worth our time. It diverts attention away from an argument within thread and appeals to an indigestible authority which can’t be argued against without spending three hours.

And right away there are signs of bad faith. The comment below you bills Robert Malone as “the inventor of mRNA tech”. I’m sure he had some role but there’s no wikipedia on him, and the title of inventor of mrna usually goes to Katalin Kariko.

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

So either everything is a lie, or Malone’s claims are exaggerated. It seems easier to believe the latter. I searched and I cannot find a single piece evaluating Dr. Malone’s claims. Just conspiracy comments that accept him as inventor with no analysis.

I’ll admit the situation is odd. Malone is clearly real and has many old highly cited papers. What the heck happened between now and the early 2000s, and why is the press devoid of mentions?

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=Jf1bApYAAAAJ&hl=en&...
"With the local Wikipedia cache of course I have no privacy concerns."

This is one reason why bulk data downloads are (IMO) extraordinarily useful. Speed and reliability are some others.

There is no reason to limit this approach to Wikipedia. It can be applied to any data that we consume regularly. I use this approach for DNS data and some websites (= frontends to databases) I use frequently, though none of those sources facilitate bulk dowloads the way Wikimedia does.
> "Yeah," he said. "The Amazon employees are often crying."

Ex-AWS. Can confirm. More often, those were tears of joy from rising stock prices. /s
They are interested in truth that's why they are defending our history and speaking up against leftist propaganda. Who they can fool and influence with so called misinformation?
Foreigners don't read Croatian Wikipedia and majority of children and young people don't scroll Wikipedia articles they scroll through Instagram and YouTube or any other internet social network.

After all our history books and our Constitution should be the source of reliable information not crowd-sourced Wiki website.
It helps that Pluto is no longer a planet but not much.

Uranus is 4.5 billion km from Sun and if, for the sake of simplicity, the model is 4.5m wide, that would mean that Earth with its diameter of ~13000km would be a speck just 0.013mm wide. That should be 1/10th of a single dot at a resolution of 200dpi if you are planning to print a map (one dot at 2000dpi but good luck printing that;). You might want to consider adding an arrow and a label.
It is most certainly not infuriating to the dealerships that get to charge you the 1200$ in labor.
I've always figured there's no point in worrying about giant planet destroying meteors, if one comes and we can't stop it, well we're all fucked. What can ya do at that point? If it can't be stopped and it can't be changed...well I guess we had a decent ride...at least it'll probably look cool before we're all vaporized.
Sorry but Lemonade’s ‘fixed margin’ is BS. I’m not aware of any other insurance company that benefits from a fixed margin or spins what is otherwise OIE as profit. Most other carriers in the US pay for distribution, e.g. agents selling their policies or Google and other targeted ad platforms. Most carriers pay out a distributor margin and then are on the hook for the full risk.

Lemonade isn’t fixing anything for consumers except maybe UX.

If there is one thing I’ve learned over decades of startup and corporate experience, people that sell on ‘transparency’ are generally full of shit.
Goldman Expands in Crypto Trading with Plans for Ether Options
While I don't really like upside down 2 and 3 meaning 10 and 11 (they cause some gymnastic mental transpositions, but not as severe as they do for the upper half of the fret board, where 15th fret is now the 13th fret, etc) it is still a really cool concept. It makes the octaves on each string visually more clear, but everything else more complex.

I get the issue there though - if you treated it like math, using A and B would be way more confusing in this context. There are only so many single-byte characters available.
They are indeed the standard symbols for those planets, and they do also coincide with the gender symbols, presumably because of the way the associations played out in classical mythology.

Fun extra fact: in Western alchemy, the symbols for major solar system objects ("planets", even though not all of them are planets by the modern astronomical definition) were also used to represent metals. Except HN seems to delete the symbols when I try to post them, so you'll have to look them up yourself, I guess!
Unless you are going to be the equivalent of a full time maintainer doing code review for every piece of software you use you need to trust other software maintainers reproducible builds or not. Considering this is Linux and not even Linus can deeply review every change in just the kernel anymore that philosophy can't apply to meaningfully large software like Nixos.
Also missing: potato

Contains solanine, especially concentrated in sprouts and green sections, which is toxic.

Also produces a gas which can be lethal. See this [1] article about a girl who was left orphaned after her parents, brother, and grandmother were killed by a sac of potatoes left too long in the cellar.

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2409920/Russian-gir...
The headline is extremely misleading, which is a shame, since the product seems very useful. I had expected to see a remote Internet router of some kind, yet this is literally NOT the Internet.
Make it all a custom single piece, so even the battery is no good for anything except for this model of robot.
Whose-gene-is-it-anyway
Interesting, and fun to read and think about! And, as a professional programmer for 17 years now, not once have I done anything where this would have been important for me to know (even if I had been running my code on a system with SSD's). So, I'm not convinced the title is at all accurate.

But, fun to read and think about.
This is great! The one fly in the ointment, pardon, is that Nix is a bit lax about trusting proprietary and binary-only stuff. It would be great if there were a FLOSS-only core system for NixOS which would be fully transparent.
Indeed, Electron is very useful for any compile-to-js language, and benefit from js popularity, toolkits and frameworks for rich UI.

Writing in Haxe brings nice syntax, and some flexibility regarding target language/platform, and possible UI frameworks.

- ArmoryPaint[1] and most Haxe games don't rely on Electron for UI.

- HaxeUI[2] provide a nice list of components, rendered as composite or native on various backends[3] (html5, wxWidgets, experimental pdcurse..^^)

- MVCoconut[4] also allow to bind to various front-ends : Dom, React, React-native

There is always a degree of lock-in depending on the path you choose, but having a cross platform base for logic and glue is a nice feature.

[1] https://armorpaint.org/

[2] http://www.haxeui.org/

[3] https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-core#backends

[4] https://github.com/MVCoconut/
Haxe is a great piece of technology on its own, and I am often working in it as a default, but I always caution potential users that it is more like a building block than a comprehensive package: if you want to do complex cross-platform things using Haxe, you will still want an full-time engineering team working with you to build out the full solution, since you will probably need to leverage the strengths and tooling of the target environments too. Haxe tries hard to get out of the way and give you the access you need, but builds and debugging always introduce challenges that depend on platform-specific behaviors. The quality of the results is more suggestive of the quality of the average Haxe user than the language itself doing anything magic(though it is a very sensible design).

That said, you can make some great things just sticking within the available frameworks. OpenFL is good, as is Kha. HaxeUI is definitely worth checking out(it can use multiple backends). For editing tools there's still going to be a bias towards working with Electron because of the combined set of I/O features.
No.

Saturn's perihelion (closest distance to the Sun) is 1.35B km (9.0 AU), its aphelion (furthest distance) is 1.51B km (10.1 AU), and its mean distance is 1.43B km (9.6 AU).

Thus, at closest approach Saturn is 8 AU from Earth (since Earth orbits at an almost-constant 1 AU from the Sun).
It's the money, not the 'shortage'. In most countries, SE earn more just after a year or two than 10-15 years of experience it takes for most people.
Nixpkgs contains the build / patch instructions for any packages in NixOS.

If you want to compile any piece of software available in Nixpkgs, you can override it's attributes (inputs used to build it).

One can trivially have an almost identical operation system to your colleagues install, but override just one package to enable optimisations for a certain cpu. This would however imply that you'd lose the transparent binary cache that you could otherwise use.

Exactly this method is used to configure the entire operating install! Your OS install is just another package that has some custom inputs set.
I think HSMs are selling security (rather than security being an additional feature) and therefore you may be surprised at the amount of testing and scrutiny being done.

As I mentioned, I saw a pentest happening, that included physical, network, software, pretty much anything that could be done over months.

Issues like the Debian OpenSSL issues show that something being open source does not mean it's getting the scrutiny it needs, and while open source software is easier to apply that scrutiny to, I think the relationship is far more complicated than that.

If a defence contractor like Thales was asked to put a backdoor in, do you think that wouldn't be found if their device was tested for months on end by external testers paid to, and motivated by, finding vulnerabilities.

I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I do think they deserve a little more credit than you may be giving them.
So does this tool connect IP address with account name?
Like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS?wprov=sfla1
What do you mean by "aren't allowed"? I'm not disputing that they are allowed to: otherwise I would bring a lawsuit, rather than arguing against it on the internet (as I am, and I believe I am allowed to). Perhaps, though, they should not be allowed to, being the de facto monopolist on user-uploaded video in the anglophone world they are.
That's too black-and-white. Being able to reproduce stuff makes some kind of attacks entirely uninteresting because malicious changes can be traced back. Which is what many types of attackers do not want. Debian, or the Linux kernel, for example, are not fool-proof, but both are in practice quite safe to work with.
I ask about it repeatedly to all interviewers to the point that some companies disqualify me. Call it a survivorship bias in reverse. It doesn't always work, amazingly, but it always sends a strong signal.
What visa are you on? It can’t be the H-1B because that needs prevailing wage. Unless they’re fucking you on that by performing immigration fraud. In which case, holy shit what a clusterfuck you’re in. I’m sorry, man. I feel for you. Hope things get better.

If it’s F-1 OPT or J-1 I get it.

Even a TN would put you in the same place as the H-1B.
Just let people vaccinate their kids if they want. This isn’t hard.
"and no nanny-state A pillars mean you arent doing 80 in a 65 quite as often."

Hmmm.. that certainly doesn't apply to me, and I drive a '96.
Why would you want to bypass the filesystem by talking to the block device directly? Doesn't O_DIRECT on a preallocated regular file accomplish the same thing with less management complexity and special OS permissions? Granted, the file extents might be fragmented a bit, but that can be fixed.
Who are you going to trace it back to if not the maintainer anyways? If the delivery method then why is the delivery of the source from the maintainer inherently any safer?
This smaller bootstrap seed thing is a different problem from reproducible builds. nixpkgs does still have a pretty big initial TCB (aka. stage0) compared to Guix. But as far as I can tell NixOS has the upper hand in terms of how much can be built reproducibly (aka. the output hash matches across separate builds).
Nix/Nixpkgs blocks unfree packages by default, so I presume it would be relatively easy to disable packages with the `unFree` attribute.
It's not an idea, it's reality. Schools are state run childcare and child rearing facilities in the United States. Academics are one of their activities.
Rand is different from Ron on this issue but it's a realistic compromise. You won't be freely trading with neighbors if the Chinese navy is overseeing global shipping.
Just because nobody has said it yet and it's often assumed knowledge, one AU is supposed to be roughly the distance from Earth to the sun.
Bootstrapping from a very small binary core (I think 512 bytes) with an initial C compiler written in Scheme also has the advantage that the system can easily be ported to different hardware. Which is one major strength of the GNU projects and tools.
Advertising your provincial ignorance isn't the best look.
"640 k ought to be enough for anybody"
Huh? It is literally system call chaining. You can make many system calls via io_ioring.
We shall call it...Rama.
Don't modern OSes transparently TRIM periodically anyway?
That’s not what I’m saying. It seems to be a misrepresentation but I assume an honestly mistaken one.

A closer analogy would be something like.. these companies are employed to unload cargo on ships from the dock. Some engineers can unload ships very quickly, and some propose using shipping containers and cranes. These are much more efficient. But the unloader companies don’t care, because they know they have the contracts locked up anyway. They are not especially intelligent or ambitious other than in the sense that they have some cleverness in the sneaky sense. The company continues to make money, the managers get their bonuses, and there’s still billions in economic waste happening but nobody with the ability to change it cares.
Can you share the tool and its database as well as hosting it? Is it small enough to do so?

I’d love to see / use your work but it feels weird to participate in allowing a third party to build up an (hn-username, ip-address) database.
I live by the motto "I work for money and appreciation, in that order. If you want loyalty, buy a dog!" It has served me well and removed a LOT of stress. I walked out of one crap-hole with a yelling management style on on week's notice. They told me it was unprofessional, and I laughed in the VP's face and told him he was lucky he got a week.
Malone seems a curious case. He clearly has many highly cited papers. But I couldn’t find a single mention of him outside anti-vaccine conspiracy sites.

Do you have any link to any coverage or him and his career? Not from himself or such sources.
We have one scattered in our city:

https://theadventourist.com/solar-system-zagreb-croatia
What if it can be stopped in theory, but only if humanity pulls together and gets something right for once?
Please define 'many boomerangs' in the context of 1 million employees (FC workers shouldn't count).
I see nobody answered, so I'll take a brief shot at giving my understanding.

It seems like natural immunity is good enough, if you indeed have built successful defenses. But eventually this hope was probably going to be tested (particularly in the absence of vaccines, or if you like to travel). Therefore, you are risking side-effects with or without vaccination, simply by being alive, as this is just the baseline of risk profile. But getting the vaccination gives your body a test for preparedness that has a very very low risk of side effects (demonstrated), instead of waiting until the next time you are in the same room as someone infectious and your immune system gets tested with the virus itself, which has a fairly low risk of side effects (demonstrated), but is much riskier.

This is a tricky argument, as both the benefits and risks are small, so it can be especially hard to accurately weigh them. One could perhaps as transfer this understanding to to the flu shot: it is inconvenient to remember, it might have mild side effects, and it might not help. Or it could save your life. Thus it seems overall positive for most people (tiny risk, moderate benefit) and just easier to say everyone should get the shots, unless their doctor advises they have a rare underlying condition that makes it unadvisable.
Here's my 3D render of a solar system grand tour that uses time to show the enormity of distances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0JMaM_tdQ
There is no gap between "the science is settled" and "further research is necessary". Either it is settled, or research is necessary.

I am not arguing that vaccines could cause autism. What I am arguing is that we don't know what causes autism and that we don't know if vaccines are an aggravating factor. That seems like an important question to me.

By the way, there can be a "large statistically sound corpus of evidence" for "no link" and still be wrong. Most importantly, all of that evidence could have missed important factors.

But beyond that point, as the medical field has lied to us more and more this past year, I no longer take what they say at face value. I dig in myself. And while they have convinced me that there is no direct link, they haven't convinced me that vaccines are definitely not an aggravating factor.
His argument bases on the presumption that the counterfeit and the real thing are very close in quality as to be indistinguishable. You can sell the real item and keep wearing the counterfeit and nobody is any wiser, or vice versa. Whether you keep the "real" item to wear or wear a counterfeit is inconsequential. The real value of the item passes along with the NFT to the new owner. The remaining item whether is real or not has vastly less value.

The economic incentive of counterfeiting is ruining in that the counterfeiter cannot sell 1000 counterfeits with the full price as the real item.
If lambdas are clever then so is most Node.js code. Guido may have stepped down but he was responsible for this "Pythonic" attitude to lambdas. It's like the Python community is parodying Matz with "Guido hates FP therefore we hate FP".
No, it is not always the maintainer. Imagine you download a binary software package via HTTPS. In theory, the integrity of the download is protected by the server certificate. However, it is possible that certificates get hacked, get stolen, or that nation states force CAs to give out back doors. In that case, your download could have been changed on the fly with arbitrary alterations. Reproducible builds make it possible to detect such changes.
I would group Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid with social welfare programs, which are 60% of federal government expenses.

https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-federal-budget-breakdown-3305...

The calculations also get tricky because there are lots of state and city level spending that would have to be accounted for, such as things like funding public schools.
I totally believe it is possible, it is perhaps more of a cultural thing.
As far as space weather goes, I remember the forecast being severe all through September while I was doing magnetic surveying in northern Sask.

Sever might not be so dangerous
If you understand your workload and the hardware well enough to understand how doing direct I/O on a file will help - then you’re going to generally do better against a direct block device because there are fewer intermediate layers doing the wrong optimizations or otherwise messing you up. From a pure performance perspective anyway. Extents are one part of the issue, flushes to disk (and how/when they happen), caching, etc.

Doesn’t mean it isn’t easier to deal with as a file from an administration perspective (and you can do snapshots, or whatever!), but Lvm can do that too for a block device, and many other things.
Who are you that you can't operate social media yourself?
Wow that’s a huge wtf. You don’t have enough manpower, and then you take somebody who’s contributing and fire them? Seems totally insane.
Not likely. They are asking for counties to keep reserves, and a budget balance that no country outside of Ghana, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast are prepared to do. Additionally, dismantling the CFA won’t be hard with France in the way. In the end they’ll kick this idea down the line again like they always do.
>This is still akin to saying the ALU in the computer CPUs is the key to solving all our cybersecurity issues

Except for Rowhammer. :)
you're much likely behind a CGNAT on a ipv4 connection. I had such a situation once (using mobile) and it was horrible, popular websites won't let me register and all.
Ok, good point. Thanks.
Or chasing a toddler around the park?
Hopefully this will one day also work with NVidia's software packages.