skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simplest thing was to let someone work the land in exchange for a cut of the crops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer

Sharecropping has also been pointed out as the model for things happening on the web: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePl... (redux: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/14/ShareCrop... )
This kind of retribution mindset doesn't help. Will scientific progress increase when we get more lawyers involved? Is that what society needs? No.

Science should be a process where eventually truth wins out. For this to happen scientists need to be able to publish their findings without fear of retribution. They already risk losing funding, they already have poor job security, they already need to meet a quota for papers and citations. Adding more negative incentives on top of this won't do society any good.
Funny... the last few days i was thinking about refurbishing an old Toshiba T1200 i have lying around to use as my Laptop at work.

Why? Now... most of the stuff that is not direct technical stuff i do is text based (writing reports, creating spreadsheets with calculations for projects etc.), and even not a small part of the technical side of the job is done in hooking up to the serial port of a production line. The transactions with our vendors at work is mostly via fax (yeah, it still exists and is used in germany... ESPACIALLY with our vendors and partners)...

The funny thing is, i am really confident, that i COULD do 99% of my work via a machine of the 80s without losing much comfort.
It’s 100% correct c++.

Used as an example to demonstrate a self-described best of breed library, using all of the latest and greatest features of modern c++ (c++20 features even), and yet you still have to multiply the size of the container by the size of the data type inside the container in order to have correct behaviour.

It’s error prone, even for experienced and careful programmers, and despite all the advances of modern c++, this sort of thing permeates through almost every non-trivial c++ project.

I didn’t read the library’s documentation so maybe there’s an overloaded output operator that prevents people from needing to do this manually, but the fact that this is considered the normal correct way of doing things, is an indictment of c++ as a whole - and I say this as someone who uses c++ daily and who considers himself a safe and careful c++ programmer, who still occasionally makes mistakes due to things like this.
Even just to avoid the pain of acquiring the certificate on a yearly basis.

I've never had a smooth ride getting a Code Signing Cert, always some stupid bureaucratic rubbish to deal with, or the need to run some stupid obsolete browser in order to actually get the thing, and I know at least 2 others who also ran into the same crap.
> When you send your email via a small email server (a server that sends a low volume of email), you will have constant issues getting mail delivered.

That’s hyperbole. I‘ve been running my personal mail server on a VPS for the past 20 years and never had any delivery issues. It may depend on the hosting provider you use, and nowadays you probably need to have DKIM etc., but there are a lot of people running their own mail server without issues.
Kinda guessing, but I'd assume from temperature - i.e. chaotic (a.k.a. brownian) motions of the particles resulting in them randomly getting close enough to the enclosure's walls that the surface tension (which from what I see on Wikipedia seems to be basically electric attraction of particles) "glues" them to the wall, and/or to particles that got already "glued" to the wall just moments before. I would suppose "in real life" the resulting cooling is probably basically irrelevant and gets immediately "replenished" from the surroundings, and (again also from what Wikipedia seems to say) the equilibrium seems to be reached vs. gravity, presumably mostly of the "non-glued to walls" part of the water column. I.e. I guess when the freeriding bunch of suckers in the middle of the column pull you down more than the sweet, sexy wall pulls you up... errr, I mean, the sum of the gravity force acting on the water molecules in the middle of the water column equals the sum of the wall-sticking force of all the wall-sticking water molecules (distributed locally through the water-to-water-sticking force of the water molecules).
You're right, it is the same flawed assumption. Both approaches lead to problematic conclusions, both should face scrutiny.

Unfortunately, we mostly see one-sided criticism.

Edit: Thank you for downvoting without commenting!
20 outgoing emails per day at micro service for 19USD a year? I really hope that's very bad joke

Mini with 100 outgoing emails for only 90USD a year is comparably bad
This is what I thought when was evoked cannibalism: what if those were the traces of sapiens festing of neanderthalis (and not neanderthalis eating neanderthalis, as seems to be supposed in the text)?
I guess I have been lucky; I have 1000s of machines from 196x-200x (my 'newest' are Sun / SGI machines) and I have only had 2 capacitor leak cases, further everything that is not PC is working. I have a few PCs working, but compared to home computers of the 80s/90s or workstations of the same era, PCs seem to die much faster. The homecomputers from the 80s (ZX Spectrum, Commodore PET/16/Vic20/64/Amiga, MSX-1,2) all just switch on like I flew back in time. Sometimes the belt of the floppy drive breaks, but I have many of those.
Maybe tangential.

Now in the society we have 2 + 2 might not equal four, a man cannot be "assumed" "he", reverse discrimination, etc.

edit: I total understand why I'm getting down-voted. I think what I'm trying to say is, the US is designed to be free and inclusive. At least that's how I understand it. And there are always opposite voices. But, as I perceive it, the politically correct thing seems to be over-correcting the "wrong".
That's why you need a control. How many people in an unrelated similar sample also died during the period. Though I have no readily available evidence for this, I suspect that people vaccinated vs unvaccinated would be more similar than people diagnosed with COVID vs people undiagnosed.
This is a common statement and I don't think this is true.

Foremost: If someone had cancer, that does not mean he would have died immediately. Heck, he could have "survived" it, or at least lived for several more years.

Second: This does not explain the huge numbers of deaths. You can easily compare how many people died of/with lung cancer from 2019 to 2020 and then for 2020 to 2021 and clearly see that COVID made a difference here (called Übersterblichkeit in German, and visible in all COVID-affected countries).

And AFAIK most countries do actually not report a death with COVID, e.g. a car accident, as being caused by COVID.

In other words, this is a common myth from the skeptics department and only serves in undermining COVID-related efforts, even if well intended.
Is this a website or a collage?
Read: income for these ads are 0.001% (or even more likely these ads significantly drive down user retention) so it is safe to throw them away loudly for free advertisement in popular media.
'Correlation is not Causation' is one of the most basic modern scientific principles, yet is ignored here by the authors and the reviewers.

By the same reasoning, how many deaths and illnesses would we attribute to people getting photographed with a mobile device, or drinking refrigerated water - i.e., how many times each day is someone photographed, or drinks cold water, who also falls ill or dies within a week? We'd have to ban cameras and refrigerators...

This entire episode is mostly evidence supporting Einsteins statement that "Two things are infinite, as far as we know - the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
I am not that deep into it, but I think it is possible, but only via Active Directory application policies.
This article also assumes that they were the orcs not us.
Maybe I'm just old enough to have missed the influencer trend, so I don't appreciate it or "get it".

However, as I understand it, and also agree on, the label "influencer" as a classifier of occupation, is sort of meaningless. Although I don't appreciate it, and accept that this isn't for me, it's just a form of entertainment. The content created by influencers just tends to be more specific to the experiences of that person, rather than some insight or knowledge imparted by that person.

This whole dissertation of an article could be reduced to the following: "Influencer" is a subset of "content creator".

To which I would add that "influencer" is a nice subset, because it makes it very clear that I will find little of interest or value.
>Where would the invader come from?

Poland ! I was alluding to the fact that the Plague wasn't uniform and that if demographic depression were an incentive to invade by itself, places that were unaffected (like Poland) would have expanded.

Instead Poland repeated the exact same pattern that had been pioneered in Gaul, then picked up by the Germans : expend East, where the Plague didn't have much effect, into non-Christian land and implement literate administration, centralized religion and feudalism.

The fact is the Black Plague didn't pose an existential threat in Western Europe, and it seems even else in other urban regions. I remember a historian, perhaps Le Goff or Leroy-Ladurie, remarking that the most astonishing thing about the Plague is that it changed nothing. The archives looked the same before and after. Just business as usual. In that sense the Thirty Years War was far more destructive.

All that to say that disease, as large as it gets, in itself isn't enough to sink well established institutions. And it's not a good enough argument to strip the Spanish of any credit in the conquest of the Americas.
> If you put it that way, I read it as "in contrast with e.g. Germany or France". However those countries are also built on citizenship.

The distinction between these three has been discussed very deeply in political science (in Germany, I have no idea about the US discourse). Usually these three can be imagined as different points on a scale, with the US on the citizenship end, France in between and Germany at the ethnic end.

Of course the German state nowadays doesn't refer to race as the defining element anymore, but there is still a distinct difference in the minds of the average citizen.

I've heard a great anecdote about this in university: If an immigrant in the US raises the US flag on the 4th of July, this would be seen as quite normal behaviour. If an immigrant in Germany would raise the German flag on 3rd of October (the German equivalent to 7/4), that would usually result in raised eyebrows.

This does not imply that the Germans are racist here, just that the unconscious definition of what it means to be a part of a nation is still quite different from the US. It more heavily refers to common values and allegiance to the constitution in the US, and common ancestry in Germany.
> Yeah, no. The dynamics definitely changed, you're not just able to observe more. Think about this from a network-theoretical perspective: how is content- and sentiment-aggregation not only possible, but incentivized through the components which emerged from the economy of attention? How does this affect reflection? Which socio-psychological dynamics were enabled over the course of the last 20 years, and which systemic implications came with these dynamics?

The truth is that a majority of Americans don't pay attention to the news. Yes, there are divergences in the United States on some substantive factors (meaning things that are measured by actual statistical outcomes, and not Gallup Poll opinion surveys), such as life expectancy and general well-being. However:

1.) There is strong evidence that American culture (how people speak, what they wear, &c) is becoming more homogeneous. Look, for instance, at the continued decline in regional dialects, or the on going convergence of American music genres (e.g., the pop-ification of country music or hip-hop)

2.) The divergence in life expectancy and general well-being is largely due to urban <-> rural dynamics, and not regional or Facebook driven tribeification. America is becoming increasingly urbanized, and people in urban environments are more likely to walk more, have access to better food, and better employment opportunities. They are also more likely to come into contact with racial minorities and LGBTQ+ individuals, as well as alternative view points, which is why the American political divide is almost entirely driven by where people live, and why urban countries in otherwise deep-red states almost always vote Democrat

3.) The decline of America has been a constant theme in the American media for at least the last century and a half. It's picked up in the last twenty years, but this is mainly due to the proliferation of media sources combined with the decline of traditional media outlets. Negativity sells. However, this is very much a return to the historical norm and American society will eventually find a way to counter it, just like it did during the age of yellow journalism, or when local newspapers acted as political party outlets. There is also a lot of evidence that "perceived" divergences (the things that you see in Gallup surveys, for instance) are largely media driven. See https://www.moreincommon.com/, for instance
Also another happy Migadu user, on their micro plan. I mainly use it for small projects, it’s great because I pay a flat $19 fee for unlimited domains. I’m happy to upgrade once a project requires it.

For my personal domain email, I use Fastmail, but that comes in at $50 yearly. Not something I can justify when just playing around with an idea.
Docker bind to a project folder (common for development) allows the image to take over the shell. Taking over the shell allows taking over the package manager. That allows taking over the system.

I keep spreadsheets in project folders. Allowing full writes to a project folder allows taking over the shell. See above.

Folder-level permissions are not sufficient. Sorry, I shortened it too much, but basically - there's almost no practical difference between allowing writes to a dev project folder and allowing writes everywhere. (It would stop some really trivial attempts) Your actual system folders are safe of course... but who cares about those really?
>He considers information he might not agree with.

I've never watched his stuff, but this line alone sounds like a roaring approval to me.
I have first-hand experience that a) you need positive displacement pumps of a certain quality and power for RO and the cheap Ali ones self-destruct in minutes/hours b) you still need housing, plumbing, receptacles, etc c) fouling is a non-trivial issue.

Expect to pay around $300 minimum for a small RO solar plant, and a couple bucks a month for upkeep. And logistics. Granted that's USA prices (upstate NY, not SV) but that prices out a lot of developing regions.
Not really the same, you have to use their clients to access your email (and doesn't seem to have a bridge like Protonmail) so you are effectively locked in
> I'm a fan of the theory that bacteria/viruses are a cause and that the proteins we see are an overkill immune response to that

That would be ... bad ... given that we just had a lot of the world exposed to Covid, and then we just vaccinated everyone to ramp up the immune system.
This system does not at all rely on security by obscurity.

This system relies on safety be reliability / availability. All of the operating parameters are public, to prevent anyone from accidentally interfering with these systems. They are not designed against adversarial attacks, and really with radio systems. It is very hard to defend against jamming attacks. Doing so successfully makes the system a lot more complicated. More importantly, doing so successfully makes the system use much more bandwidth.

Bandwidth is actually really scarce. If you start doing defensive stuff, then more and more frequencies get used, and you end up with everyone screaming over each other just to be able to add all the required error correction. That is why we decided to coordinate on frequency allocation. It prevents a tragedy of the commons. As a side effect, it also means transmit power can be lower. This allows you to operate more systems in the same area without interfering.

Now, this does leave a somewhat fragile system. Because jamming (and other attacks) are not mitigated by the system. But this is an acceptable price to pay to actually allow people to use radio communication.

Besides, jamming attacks have an interesting downside. They are somewhat easy to track down. The higher level attacks can be defeated by cryptography. There is a mid-level of smart jamming, that attacks the low level protocols with more than just power. These require significant effort to develop though. And military hardware tends to have mitigations against this sort of thing. A sufficiently sophisticated attacker could disrupt civil systems, but to what gain?
Tutanota ain't very safe

https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/08/german-secure-email-provid...
Chinese dragons may be a better depiction of what could be the source of the myth. A Chinese dragon is like a flying snake, although I'm not sure they ascribe fire-breathing to it. But if you combine a flying snake and fire-breathing then there was an ancient device that looked very much like such a creature.

Some ancient armies used long cloth bags as flags or banners, to impress the enemies or maybe to signal the position of themselves for the allies to see. They filled the bags with hot air and the bags rose to the sky as contemporary balloons.

Imagine how it looked from the enemy side: an army is approaching and long snake-like things are flying about the mass of people. And you can glimpse some fire at the end that is close to the ground. Could it be a creature that breaths fire? And occasionally these things detached and flew up to the sky. Perfect dragons.
Why release the salt back into sea water? This is salt production alongside desalination.
I didn't even realize they had a separate store. I guess I have to look into uploading there too.

APKs aren't their issue here, right? It's the idea that Google wants your keys to list on the Play Store. In theory you could not list on the Play Store and just list on Amazon, avoiding the requirement to hand over the keys.
Is QA really a necessity on your engineering team?

Read about one engineer's experience working on a team WITHOUT QA.
I have a few friends who are looking for remote positions from Thailand & Bangalore. Are you open for that?
Or maybe we don't have to spread humans everywhere like a malignant cancer, leaving at least these Islands to nature.
Isn't the solution to this already there? Creative Commons ( https://creativecommons.org/ )

> One goal of Creative Commons is to increase the amount of openly licensed creativity in “the commons” — the body of work freely available for legal use, sharing, repurposing, and remixing. Through the use of CC licenses, millions of people around the world have made their photos, videos, writing, music, and other creative content available for any member of the public to use.

Choosing a license is easy https://creativecommons.org/choose/ or you can have a look at the entirety of existing 7 CC licenses ( https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/ )

It's possible to allow people to use things for free with attribution (CC-BY), shared under the same license / share alike (CC-BY-SA), no commercial uses (CC-BY-NC), no derivatives (CC-BY-ND), and public domain (CC0). There are a mix of those to make up the total 7.

IANAL so I'm not sure about commercial use.
The problem is that the leadership principles are sufficiently vague and contradictory, so like any good religious text, they can be used to justify anything by picking and choosing something that supports whatever it is you were going to do anyway.

Want to take action? "Bias for action". Want to sit on a decision? "Dive deep". Want to cut costs? "Frugality". Want to invest more? "Think big".

I agree, from my own time at Amazon, that leadership principles are baked into performance evaluations and promotion. The problem is that, rather than looking at the leadership principles to guide future actions, people take whatever it is they did over the past six months and stick leadership principle labels on those.
China urges its people to struggle. Some say no
RobinHood users should consider M1 Finance. It’s a better way to invest by allocating pies instead of making trades.

However there are no options and they don’t offer OTC or anything low liquidity.
The latter, which often makes for an interesting conversation at medical offices and shops when I jot down their-business-name@mydomain.com. The FastMail mobile client makes replying to those emails without “breaking character” easy.
There's also the "Yale lab develops revolutionary RNA vaccine for malaria" vaccine using "self-amplifying RNA, or saRNA" which looks interesting although it's in earlier stages testing wise. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/03/12/yale-lab-develops-...
You can get the latest release of IRIX online if you’re feeling up to the task and have a CD burner.

https://archive.org/details/IRIX6530
Aehm, can you explain what your critique is? How is the definition of a covid case flawed in your opinion?
Bad reviewers are extremely common. I wouldn't read too much into lazy people not double-checking the stats carefully.

The one highly-enthusiastic reviewer is a bit suspicious, but I'd more suspect it was a case of the author recommending a friend as a reviewer (a common practice). But it could also just be by luck they got a person who was negative towards covid vaccinations so wanted to be very supportive.
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Actually the changes on Windows 11 are quite deep, even if they appear mellow to those not following Windows dev scene.

Basically Windows 11 presents the opportunity to unify all the kernel and related OS infrastructure to pretend the road started with Windows 8 never happened.

The COM improvements done in WinRT, are ported into Win32 land, .NET Native goes away replaced by .NET 6 AOT, app sandoxing gets replaced by MSIX sandoxing, .....

Thus pretending that all those improvements happened as if Windows 11 suceeded Windows 7, and a couple of years from now, the UWP branch will be dropped from Windows SCM.
Neat... But it's really just the same as putting some tissue paper in water and watching the water absorb up the tissue...
Hm, Science describes it as a "reputable open-access journal" which based on your account I now must assume to be low key gloating.

Certainly this debacle should lower their rating to "low repute journal".
A small part of it can be avoided by combining this with a salt evaporation pond (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_evaporation_pond)

Problem will be that we’ll get way too much salt (a few grams of salt per liter of water), so it won’t help much.
Oh my god, some sense in the platform, most of the people just speak nonsense. How easy is to control people with the most stupid post by a reporter.
> until I got to the parts about interfering with assorted Air Traffic Control frequencies

I'm ok with this.