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Usually, the formulas I derive on paper end up quite complicated and can not be simplified away. When I am numerically implementing the formula, I want that it matches closely what I wrote in the paper, and long variable names would make my code less clear mathematically.

Why would I use the variable name "probability_distribution_on_m" instead of "rho_m", when I know all along what rho_m means in the contexte of my code (the symbol use throughout the paper). Usually, I comment at the beginning and specify what the variables mean and to what they correspond in the paper. And if somebody needs to read my code, that person will need to understand the paper first. More descriptive variable names won't make the person understand the paper better.

Of course, when I am writing some non-scientific software, I will use descriptive variable names, because there is no complicated formula, no paper that sets the context of the code, and it makes sense in general to have descriptive variables for logic elements for a clear code.
Suppose this, if there are advanced civilisations doing interstellar travel and there really is a 200km object that could hit Earth (I understand this is too far out), what would be the way to ask them for help?
Indeed. Given the fast startup time of Python, I've always just restarted the session (which is most of the time faster than typing "import importlib; importlib.reload()" haha)
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I'm confused. Why do you consider it an euphemism? Isn't that just what people on onlyfans are?
I think (I don't know you) that I wouldn't want you to do that, but to each their own.

You sound like you're having a bad day outside of HN, as this has been just a regular and might I say, civil, chat, otherwise.

A temporary break from HN (or social media in general), might not be a bad idea :-)
"get three quotes and take the middle" is a common heuristic in my locale - for any work you're going to be living in, under or on, at any rate.
I could be more specific, but I would risk getting sued by Craig Wright and his friends

I want to leave you with this quote though

> “First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”

> ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
It is important to note that this announcement means that employers can opt to work for 4 days a week, with the corresponding reduction in salary. It is not reducing work week to 32h with the same salary! A similar scheme exists in the Netherlands, you are allowed to work 4 days a week AND you get paid for 4 days of work, so 80% salary.
A direct hit with the sun? Maybe slightly higher temperatures if the "impact site" was facing us, but not for long because the sun is highly convective and each "longitudinal ring" on the sun rotates differentially, thus dissipating the effects of that impact very very quickly. A good chunk of it would also probably burn up before even reaching the Sun, but how much of it is hard to say.

But keep in mind, it says "within 11 AU of the Sun", which is still beyond Saturn; Saturn's 9.5 AU away from the Sun, and Uranus is about 19 AU away from the Sun. So it's still pretty far away.
You just described a "negative income tax", which isn't the same thing as UBI.
Made by an observer, or the victim(s).
Why geolocation based settings are bad
As an expat I find it extremely annoying that many websites automatically determine someone's language based on their current geolocation. This is even more annoying for tourists who are very quickly overwhelmed when looking for quick answers in stressful situations and even the search provider (e.g. Google) starts in the geolocation based language.

Just imagine travelling to Japan, having to look up some details about your trip, Google shows up in Japanese language. If you're lucky your phone has a translation service that can automatically translate websites. Or the website allows you to switch the language somewhere and you're able to identify the switch. Most websites have this switch at the bottom of the website. But some websites automatically load more content when reaching the end of the list which makes the language dropdown disappear while you're trying to switch the language.

Looking at most (99%) multi-language implementations, I am getting the impression that language detection and selection is implemented by developers who have never traveled to a foreign country. Therefore I'd like to appeal to everybody doing i18n to respect web-standards and use primarily the Accept-Language headers. Or at least make switching the preferred language easier.

P.S.: Sorry for typos (Android keyboard) and grammatical errors. Native German speaker here.
It would be helpful to us non-US persons if you'd explain what signal you're proxying with "Montgomery, Alabama". As it is this means nothing to a large number of people reading your comment.
Thank you, note taken, that is very valuable information! OpenSSD is at least a good starting point to research and prototype, even if manufacturer help is needed later.
You're right, they should have written a short summary of the content and not make us research it ourselves.

I wouldn't use "there's no Wikipedia on him" as an argument. Karikó's entry is only 1 year old [1].

Additionally, it seems that Karikó's work acknowledges contributions from Malone [2].

Whether he's the original inventor or not, whether his claims are true or false, should be up for debate. But isn't that enough to at least tolerate his opinion on YouTube?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Katalin_Karikó&of...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000527369...
> how many pixels wide would be a 200km diameter object at 11 AU?

Depends on zoom and resolution of the camera.
Urea based fertilizers could be harmful to insect life (e.g. it's the active ingredient in "SB Plant Invigorator"). It's also worth noting that the fertilization for mono-crops is detrimental to diverse plant ecologies - native orchid species in the UK have been decimated due to fertilizer run off from agriculture - lots of other species native to low nutrient chalk downland are also effected. The knock on is dramatic decreases in insect populations and diversity, butterflies have been hit especially hard.
That was completely bungled.

If they had simply made it free to download for 24 hours, or pay-what-you-want donated to charity, few would have complained, and it would probably have generated a lot of positive rather than negative publicity.
In my opinion, the best advertising tool is a landing page
No, they're just services - a service per team.

Microservices usually overdoing it, when you have multiple microservices per team, and sometimes even per developer.

Also, microservices sometimes implemented incorrectly, where they're still communicate via shared databases, instead of encapsulating them and exposing them via service APIs only.

This Memo was born because of the real business need, while many modern microservices deployments are the result of cargo-culting GAFAMs/FANGs.
In my experience, rustc builds are reproducible if you build on the same path. They come out byte for byte identical.
The thing with EV cars, at least here in Europe, is that their batteries are incredibly expensive - and any damage to the battery, or anything related to the battery, will cost so much that the vehicle is often just condemned.

We actually have junkyards full of EV cars that are under 5 years old, because the battery or chassis got some damage, and it would cost $10k-$30k to replace.
I think most ppl here have something like a Synology which isn’t too bad with updates…

Of course, my Buffalo NAS can’t compete with that and got fewer updates than my old phone…
If this is coming within range of the Oort cloud, ought we to be worried about being showered with perturbed meteors?
The more posts I read that are about people hating Tim, the more I like the guy. He found a way to market himself so efficiently, he can live off posts like these for many years to come - which I find fair because haters are often toxic and make claims that are hard to prove.

The author wanted to use Tim to hang out with cool people at the conference - it backfired and she was hurt, implying that Tim tricked her. Did he? We'll never know. When I read that first one, I saw where this was going...

Also, the way the post ends - that's a really nasty comment about a person. The author outright says that Tim is not a kind person and not a good person.

It seems to me that the author is not either of those things if judging purely on this one blog post. Why so much hate? This seems like a personal attack wrapped in some kind of a productivity blog post.
Actually I would apply that adjective to Android Java, Google's own flavour of J++, and the NDK as whole.

It is incredible how NDK manages to make me miss Symbian C++, so I get your point anyway.
I think build reproducibility is a cargo cult.

Most people here are debating you on the security angle, but in the case of Nix (and Guix) there is another important angle - reproducible builds make a content-addressed store possible.

In Nix, the store is traditionally addressed by the hash of the derivation (the recipe that builds the package). For example, lr96h... in the path

/nix/store/lr96h3dlny8aiba9p3rmxcxfda0ijj08-coreutils-8.32

is the hash of the (normalized) derivation that was used to build coreutils. Since the derivation includes build inputs, either changing the derivation for coreutils itself or one of its inputs (dependencies) results in a different hash and a rebuild of coreutils.

This also means that if somebody changes the derivation of coreutils every package that depends on coreutils will be rebuilt, even if this change does not result in a different output path (compiled package).

This is being addressed by the new work on the content-addressed Nix store (although content-addressing aws already discussed in Eelco Dolstra's PhD thesis about Nix). In the content-addressed store, the hash in the path, such as the on above is a hash of the output path (the built package), rather than a hash of the normalized derivation. This means that if the derivation of coreutils is changed in such a way that it does not change the output path, none of the packages that depend on coreutils are rebuilt.

However, this only works reliably with reproducible builds, because if there is non-determinism in the build, how do you know whether a change in the output path is changed as a result of changing a derivation or as a result of uninteresting non-determinisms (the output hash would change in both cases).
I've been entertaining myself basically learning some embedded programming on the watchy.

I've got mine only waking up once a minute using the external RTC as a trigger. In between I put it in hibernation (~2.5uA to the processor). So every minute it's waking up for about a second to do some updates, redraw the screen, and shut itself back down. (It takes quite a while to refresh the screen.)

I haven't had it unplugged more than 24 hours at a time (keep plugging it back in to do some more programming and debugging), but so far the biggest drop I've seen was the battery voltage (rounded to the nearest tenth of a volt) going 4.2 -> 4.1. Even assuming worst case rounding here, that's something like 100% -> 95% battery capacity, so I'm looking at more like 20 days just doing basic time keeping so far.
I always wonder what kind of data modeling is used in such websites.
For those still confused: GP stands for General Practicioner. A medical doctor that isn't specialized.
Uruguay they tried that: people ended up working two jobs and feeling/looking tired on both! People will find a way, always. Just keep 40h - at least they won't try to find a 2nd job elsewhere...
I mean, did you even look at it? It's an eink screen. I don't think you'll find better contrast in sunlight.
This is just a subset of people who do it, but I've seen some people in fairly spiritual/esotericist circles get into genealogy. It seemed like some of them were hoping to find answers to some issues they were struggling with in their family history.

Apparently in some schools of thought from that area there is a lot of focus on family relationships and the fate of one's ancestors and how those may affect people across generations. I feel like newer generations tend to take more of an individualistic/"blank slate" view of their heritage, whereas I've encountered a lot of older people who gave much more thought/weight to where their ancestry came from and things that happened generations ago.
It would be interesting to see a little indicator of how fast your scrolling speed is in terms of speed of light.
It's not free but it's only a buck: open source sticker pack from StickerMule

https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers

And note these are pretty high quality stickers too.
In the Julia REPL and most Julia editor extensions you can just use \mu <tab> and call it a day. This is a non-issue for Julia users.
Things can go viral long after they are invented. And they can go viral more than once. Just like a real virus!
I spent a couple of years living next to a main road. Not a highway, but one of the main routes into London from the south east.

The noise was terrible. It wasn't even that the road was particularly constantly busy, but because it was the "main" road there was always vehicles. And motorbikes. Motorbikes were the worst, by far. Being woken suddenly every hour by someone on a motorbike revving their engine wears down on you night by night.
Unfortunately, no. A single XREF:INDI: can only belong to one family unit at one time, that is, a single "generation".
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Despite being a pragmatist, it’s fun to imagine what’s possible as a thought experiment:

You’re a western signals intelligence agency with virtually unlimited budget and access to some of the brightest mathematical minds on the planet. Your goal is to evaluate the viability in systemic compromise of virtually all compiler infrastructure used in modern computing to the point where verifiability becomes all but impossible, as theorized in the article.

How would you even go about that? What would the modifications look like? How much foresight would you need? Is it even a worthwhile goal, let alone a feasible one?

In practice, you’re probably just going to compromise the proprietary platform security modules instead. There, you can use undercover or otherwise sanctioned employees at semiconductor companies backed up by offensive cyber on a continuous basis. From that offensive vantage point, you’re able to compromise most compilers in use today.

If those miraculous Mes binaries devoid of any available source were in fact compromised, I suspect at best they’d be relics of a chess game that started long ago and is still being played today, with the binaries themselves no longer relevant.

Rather than some deliciously diabolical compromise at the lowest levels of the software stack from which all further compromise flows (a single turtle), a more pragmatic view might hold that systemic compromise may be more akin to architecting turtle contagions and ensuring their continuous delivery. Compilers are just one vector in achieving that end.

An even more pragmatic view might hold systemic compiler compromise (i.e. compilers indiscriminately compromising other compilers) is not undertaken for all manner of reasons.
It is a non-issue when you can use just use autocompletion for mathematical symbols on almost all Julia-supported editors
While scientifically-minded folks are excited for a new object of study, or simply something awesome in the night sky - I can't wait until I see the first doomsday predictions by people with a different mindset... In a way it is also an object of study for those world views ;)
It also only works if your phone is on an old enough Android version where they haven't put OTG behind a manual toggle yet.
They only have the right of way in a crosswalk WHEN they have the walk symbol. If a pedestrian enters a cross walk under a don't walk symbol they do not have the right of way.
At that point why not just ship the whole company off overseas?
Magnesium insufficiency is massively under diagnosed and under treated.
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Do you have a (Docker) container that can be used for trying it out?
So rent control / social housing (like council houses in the UK) combined with ubi?
Have you had to use Symbolize to make compound symbols?
The same reason things describe themselves as One Weird Trick, or N Unbelievably Adjective Things, claim that The Internet Cannot Handle them, etc. very quickly ad nauseam.

I can't stand it, won't click them, but clearly I'm abnormal and it works, most people love it (or have a 'FOMO' on it) and click them.
Something as simple as “for each $1.00 you earn above the eligibility threshold, this benefit will decrease by $0.50.” would do the trick.

For those close to the line, there would always be a benefit to accepting that slightly better job.
This blog is crazy. There’s even a vendetta section. Love it!

https://penelopetrunk.com/katie-anderson-cassie-boorn/
Link to the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/landesdatenschutzbeauftragter-hr-dr...
This happened to the borgward car owners in the UK. One guy ponied up to warehouse all the parts and then gatekeeper mode went to stun: you had to be worthy to get a prop shaft, he set the prices.
Chrome forked WebKit years ago (the fork is called Blink), and the two codebases have diverged substantially since then.
And yet most kids here (Japan) go to school nearly every day -- some classes on alternating Saturdays and have mandatory "club activities" nearly EVERY day including Saturdays and Sundays. Seems a bit of a mixed message going on...
It is a great opportunity for a interstellar slingshot though..
The vast majority of the country (basically everything outside Pyongyang) is just that.

Oh absolutely, which I guess is why so many people find it so surprising that they at the same time have pretty decent cyber offensive capabilities.
> You just described a “negative income tax”, which isn’t the same thing as UBI.

A negative income tax is exactly the same thing as a UBI in a system that also has progressive income taxes.
Yeah I remember there was some drama regarding build machine path leaking into the release binaries
Discussed this with my non-programmer, slightly claustrophobic wife. Thinking about the vastness of space terrifies her, and she feels the same about the vastness of the internet and software. I'd never thought of a codebase as occupying that same kind of physical vastness before.
Spend $3000 a year keeping some clunker working and hoping a big bill doesn’t come along, or spend $2400 a year for a new car.
Every lazy slacker tells this same old story. I believe that most IT professionals don't even know what it means to work really hard. Oh, I worked producing lines of code 4 hours today, of which 25 minutes were spent compiling. I am sooo tired, my job is so difficult, it is the hardest job in the world, I need a rest and a 2 days work week!.
even if it is true, somehow many parts of your history don't make it through..

Based on my own experience: My mom died in January. Lot of our own family stories, just died with her. Her brothers died before her, so as she died, a whole part of our family history died. Stuff that we remembered while in the Christmas table, like when she was kid with her brothers, and the big city was like a village, and they could climb all the trees where today are just skyscrapers. or the little things that me and my sister used to do while children.. Sure I can pass it partially forward, but it's not the same.

Maybe the question that I still don't have answer for, and it is totally related with that is: How can I keep a website running (almost) forever?
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So? We are trying to protect against a malicious interloper damaging the machine of a trusted and trustworthy partner.

You are bringing up red herrings about trusted partners being malicious and untrustworthy.

Do you genuinely believe we should only solve a problem if it leads to a perfect outcome?
Amusingly, one of the image captions in this article describes Kreuzberg as a "suburb". Kreuzberg is many things, but it's most definitely not a suburb.

Depending on who you ask, it's either one of the most "dangerous" "immigrant" neighbourhoods in the country, or one of the creative centers of the Berlin art scene, or startup/hipster central. But suburb.... no.
There is actually a fair bit of research going on into using machine learning and image recognition to try detect bodies under tree canopies using thermal imaging
This is a familiar story. Reducing on call load is actually generating a lot of value by freeing up developers and keeping them stress free. This fact is almost never recognized by product driven managements. Incredibly fucking annoying, considering that fixing such a system is not a trivial task.

I was disappointed to hear that it ultimately didn’t work out. A quiet oncall rotation requires good processes and a somewhat competent dev team.
This is what we have now, is it not? The ultra-rich aren't numerous and many of them hide well, but this is what they're doing and the amount of wealth they seem to hoard (and be continually acquiring) is a lot more than the wealth needed to provide for the bottom. The less rich (but still very rich) who do still choose to work are similarly siphoning off large amounts from the backs of others. They are very skilled at getting the majority of the population to look the other way and blame poor people (and the other usual suspects), but as you suggest, they can't hide forever.

If that won't end well, I genuinely look forwards to seeing how we deal with them.
My point was that this project isn't even targetting my gardener or his neighbors. They all have smart phones with Internet access. One more physical asset is a liability to them. Something else that can be stolen.
It looks like Disqus' free plan is ads supported now. I think this should be called out, since other free services has the free quota/limit listed.
It is an argument for economic reforms. Whether that means UBI or something else is another matter. There is a good thread here about UBI and it’s pros and cons so I will mention another possible avenue: improve worker ownership in the means of production. My favorite incarnation of this is that proposed by Richard Wolff: make the necessary changes so that a sizable fraction of the firms in the economy are cooperatives. Specifically cooperatives where the workers in the firm are also in control of the firm and it’s direction.

With control of the firm, they can vote for certain benefits at no direct cost, and thus don’t need as much cash.

Now UBI and worker ownership of the means of production can be combined, but I thought I’d mention the latter as a possible alternative solution to be considered when talking about solving structural economic problems.
Stimulus payments (particularly, the enhanced jobless benefits) are not like UBI, they are essentially means-tested welfare. Like means-tested welfare, you lose them rapidly by gaining outside income, eliminating (or reducing) the benefit of the first big chunk of outside income you gain if you are currently receiving them. That’s exactly the perverse incentive in means-tested welfare that UBI removes, you “lose” benefits only at the rate of marginal taxation, which (especially at the low end) is much slower than the rate at which means-tested welfare programs reduce benefits with additional income, making additional income opportunities more attractive to pursue for UBI recipients than means-tested welfare recipients.
So you are actually saying that the reason that Taleb has "destroyed his credibility" is that he shared a stage with Craig Wright, it has nothing to do with anything he has said?