skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a pub setting, you might want to signal the topic doesn't interest you, so that your friends hopefully change to a topic more interesting.

On an online forum, there is absolutely no limit to parallel conversations. Letting others know a topic is uninteresting is wholly unnecessary.
What '1984' Tells Us About Eating Under a Totalitarian Regime (2018)
Where’s the dualism? It sounds like just a peculiar definition of learning.
Not OP, but from what I understand Aquinas seems to have had a fixed lens he allowed himself to view the world through and seemingly based the fundamentals of his philosophy on. Not even Aristotle could be properly studied without a Christian lens.

He's generally viewed as a net positive since Christiandom ruled the western world and Aquinas reconciled some Aristotelian and Neoplatonic views with the Catholic Church ("Nothing comes from nothing", "cause and effect", etc) But to Aquinas, those Neoplatonists from whom he derived his cosmology and philosophy were nothing better than pagans lining up to be burned in the good lord's holy fires—even though they figured the same thing about the way things appear to work.
> > Wraith of Khan

> [...] but this does sound like an plot for either The Lower Decks or Rick & Morty.

Rick and Morty prefers starting with an existing title and then cramming one (or more) of the character's names in, whether it makes sense or not, and sometimes avoiding a more reasonable mutation for one that's nonsense. In this case, if they really wanted to use this title, I'd expect them to end up with something like "The Rick of Khan" purely so they could match the R sound on "wrath" and the dual consonants at the end of the word.

Extreme, real example of this pattern from the current season: "Mort Dinner Rick Andre". They've turned it into grammatical nonsense so they can make some very tenuous word-sound connections (especially on "with" -> "rick"—it's there, but wow, that's a stretch)
Better rankings in Google's organic search.
This sounds like a huge breakthrough. Not only are they getting rid of incredibly heavy and cumbersome shielding, but they're removing corrosive neutrons and heat. They're also converting energy directly to electricity. All this makes it far smaller than any other fusion device. Incredible!
> Networking has legacy reasons from the bad old days when byte order wars were still a thing, but those days are gone.

Yeah, this isn't true. Low level hardware receiving data still likes to use shift registers:

* Zero shift reg
* clock in one byte, shift into shift register
* Clock in next byte, shift into shift register shifting the previous byte left one
* Repeat for as many bytes as you have

If you want this to work for a variable number of bytes, then you need most significant byte first, so that everything more significant is pre-zeroed. This is not theoretical - we did this for an FPGA network offload thing last year.

Processors can't agree on endinaness, but network protocols have. "Network byte order" is a standard thing that is almost completely universal across communication protocols.
>but you’ll still turn out fine.

Unless you get long covid.
Erm, Oracle is literally selling repackaged RHEL; they don't need to contribute anything back to Red Hat. They would if they wanted to replace stuff with their own closed-source forks, but that would be completely unpractical for reasons not related to licensing (see how Oracle's closed source ZFS become irrelevant compared to the Open Source ZFS).

As for Audacity: its owners couldn't do that without closing their fork, which would mean splitting off with the developer community and becoming irrelevant.
Automated BLE Testing
You have to know who is to blame in order to know how it escaped. If we don't know how this leak happened we can't fix it.
If all uses of a fossil fuel produces the exact same carbon output, but my understanding is that this is almost never the case.
Yes - I recently got a XSX and fast-switching is (sorry for the pun) game-changing. It's extremely similar to the DS-close-lid suspend experience, but you can also juggle multiple games at once.

I no longer need to think about save points.
I mean if modern encryption proves broken, the world has quite a bit larger problems than open access to the videos you took of that 2017 summer holiday to Tahiti or the password vault containing your keys to log into HN and your Target account.

Like, suddenly everything becomes plaintext.
ADAS sensors create a cleaning nightmare
Don't worry folks, uncle @jack says bitcoin is good for the environment so nothing to see here
> If DO_NOT_TRACK suppresses the honest software

Ahh, my big issue is that I don’t mind tracking in genuinely honest software. Want to know how many people are still running your app on 32-bit machines and that’s it? Be my guest!

It does seem like DO_NOT_TRACK isn’t supporting honest software, though. I can’t enable it for Audacity and disable it for Homebrew, for example.
A lot of the time it's nothing more complex than owning one Windows box, and then moving around the network using regular SMB and metsploit tactics.
> Sadly that one won't ever happen, the copyright mafia will do everything they can to prevent that.

We really need to abolish copyright as well. It's the 21st century, copying is trivial.

> Just look at how Netflix is locking down people on rooted devices.

I had no idea. Please elaborate.
I believe in cryptocurrency/blockchain, but your examples illuminate why speculation is far ahead of application. Why would an Uber driver want to auction their time on a blockchain? How would making Airbnb houses NFTs have any advantage to a consumer versus a centralized approach? Needlessly complicated, less quality control, less safety. Centralized is truly better for these in every way.

The fact is that 99% of the perceived uses are simply riding the hype train for investment. The 1% is really changing things, despite all the haters, but it’s typically finance, currency, settlement, etc.
My first thought, upon hearing that Windows 11 was coming, was that they were finally doing something to take ARM-compatibility seriously, so they could compete with Apple's M1. I still haven't heard anything that indicates this will be the case though.
Far more aware than any blockchain advocate, apparently. even the "What is blockchain" incantation, would appear to halt most of these advocates in their tracks.
my comment is based on observation that, periodically articles criticizing indian govt is posted to a tech feed that too at a regular frequency as if its planned to push such articles to front page.

Even if i take the tech part of the above article into consideration, the title hints its the govt planted it, which is again not proved yet.

Hence my comment.
Here's a concrete example. The first matrix in the post is f = [[1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1]].

In linear algebra, we would interpret this as a linear map. A true equation would be f([1, 2, 3]^T) = [6, 6, 6]^T (where I'm using ^T to mean "transpose to a column vector").

But here, the author means f(1, 2) = 1, i.e. the (1,2) coordinate of the matrix is 1.
India has always been quite far from a perfect democracy. Do we even have proof that this targeting of dissenters and opposition activists only started with BJP/Modi?
It reads like corporate speak. But I now see that these were quotes so I guess that makes sense
I do think many people who write on this topic have a conscious or unconscious bias in favor of the natural origin hypotehsis. You provided one example of such bias. Here's a couple more:

- Chinese nationalists (although they rarely author publications outside of China)
- people who expressed strong opinion on this matter a year ago (based on the information they had then), and now don't like to admit they were wrong even in the face of new evidence.
- people who think the lab origin hypothesis is an example of anti-Chinese racism, and therefore take the opposite the side to fight racism.

On the other hand, I would argue that even more people who write on this topic outside of China are biased in favor of the lab origin hypothesis. This is because many groups of people would (consciously or subconsciously) like to use this opportunity to blame the Beijing government for this huge disaster. Examples:

- those who dislike the communist ideology (e.g., those whose loved ones died to wars with the communists, or those who just dislike authoritarianism on general principles)
- those of China's neighbors who dislike the Beijing government's aggressive policy towards them (India, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam)
- those who dislike the Chinese in general, for racist reasons
- Americans who don't want to see China surpass the US in global power

These biases are present even among journalists and scientists, since many of them cannot (or don't even bother trying to) separate their feelings as regular people from their role as unbiased reporters or researchers.

Overall, this means it's very hard to take seriously anything written on this topic. Perhaps I would tend to trust:

- An expert who has been consistently friendly to Bejing but argues in favor of the lab origin hypothesis; or
- An expert who has been consistently unfriendly to Beijing but argues in favor the natural origin hypothesis.

One of the rare examples of such people is Jeffrey Sachs, who chairs the Lancet Covid-19 origins commission. He has been at least somewhat friendly to Beijing (well as friendly as you can be in the West without committing a professional suicide). And yet, he says that there's at least enough evidence that both hypotheses are worth pursuing (that is, that it's not 100% obvious that it was a natural origin). Unfortunately, he's not an expert on this topic (he's an economist). Still, I would follow his comments with interest. https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/finding-the-origin...
I took a break when I achieved my FIRE goals. I did all the usual stuff -- worked on personal projects, cleaned up the house, and played an insane amount of tennis and video games. After 6 months, I was so bored out of my mind that I started interviewing again. I discovered that I didn't hate the work, just idiot colleagues. Working as a software engineer in the Silicon Valley is a very cushy lifestyle, and I'm blessed to be able to do this type of work.
> Going from a cowpoke to a bushido setting?

That's not the biggest change:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Samurai
Ask HN: What's the most beautiful code you've read?
Hi everyone! For a long time with friends I've discussed the idea of reading code like literature. It's interesting to me that there doesn't seem to be much culture around this practice even though actually working as a software developer often involves more reading than writing.

I just started working at an organization which helps high schoolers run coding clubs around the world and was thinking of ways to help people appreciate the aesthetics of code. I'm thinking of trying to organize some "code reviews" that work almost like book clubs and am trying to find good material, so I thought I'd ask you!

What's the most beautiful code you've read and why? It can be a snippet or a whole repo. I'd love a little explanation as to what you like about it, or how it changed the way you think. Thanks!
I didn't go to college, have no "Education" section on my resume. Senior-level SDE, 8 years of experience.

I've been asked about my education in initial recruiter screens maybe 10% of the time, and its come up later down the line in interviews maybe 20% of the time. I've never had it clearly and obviously preclude me from moving forward (as in obviously dropped from consideration after that conversation).

I've found most people who ask to be curious, but keen to move on and talk about my experience. It might be different at the entry level.
Kaseya seems to have prioritized support convience over safety. I.e. have a backdoor for all their customers. Who could have figured this could happen?
“ As an aside, isn't it a strange quirk in our capitalist society that we perceive workers that were vital for early success but then stopped contributing much as "leeches" but early investors who do the same are totally OK and rightfully own their share of the later pie?”

The distinction here is equity vs payroll. Early investors are paid handsomely in equity. Early employees, typically, are as well, having accumulated stock for a decade plus. However, having early contributors hugely over-impact your payroll isn’t really fair.
> Either way it's clear China reacted as-if this was the end of days.

There's a case to be made that "China acted as-if this was the end of days," and western media went along with the narrative. For example, people were not falling dead in the streets from cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan China. Those were staged.

Example of the Propaganda in the UK: "CORONAVIRUS IS CAUSING PEOPLE TO DROP TO THE FLOOR IN THE STREET" (subtitle on video, article published January 24 2020), https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/infected-people-see...

I think it likely that SARS-CoV-2 was spreading much earlier than the official narrative allows. Competitors in the Wuhan Military Olympics seem to have caught #EarlyCovid (COVID-19 before it had a name):

"Congress is investigating whether the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan was a covid-19 superspreader event" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/23/congress-...

"During the two-week event, however, many of the international athletes noticed that something was amiss in the city of Wuhan. Some later described it as a “ghost town.” As the covid-19 pandemic took hold worldwide in early 2020, athletes from several countries — including France, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg — claimed publicly they had contracted what they believed to be covid-19 at the games in Wuhan, based on their symptoms and how their illnesses spread to their loved ones." (emphasis added)

Australia probably had #EarlyCovid: https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1407130748373504002

cui bono - "who stands, or stood, to gain (from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it)?"

While China is certainly a beneficiary of their theatrics, why do the power structures in the rest of the world go along with the con job?

I got the blood test for SARS-CoV-2 immunity last week. If it's positive I would take this as confirming that I did actually have #EarlyCovid (COVID-19 before the lab test was available). I remember an odd headache in the December 2019/January 2020 period. This won't prove I had #EarlyCovid, but it's DATA AND SCIENCE to back up my inconsequential mussing about the Long Con [0] of our era.

@MichaelPSenger stands on his little twitter platform trying to point out the Long Covid Con. For example: https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/134832483816790835...

There's a lot of servings of crow [1] to go around, but no one in power will call out those most deserving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick

[1] https://grammarist.com/idiom/eat-crow/
Except that Scala does not bring much above what modern Java with modern IDE can (writing complex programs in Java and in Scala is equally fast), while Rust brings a lot compared to C or C++.
These are probably different people praising and complaining. It could be that some people use Windows because of it's track record of backwards compatibility and this is an unwelcome change. It is not necessarily brand loyalty, it could simply be brand expectations.
What alternative approaches did you try?

Would loading a placeholder image for the map and transitioning it in when ready help?
You have a test showing that after sending X bytes, Y additional bytes take 0 time to arrive?
thanks for making this!
Removing centralized IT management comes with other issues, especially rampant email viruses in the org due to poor compliance with update and security policies.
I haven't heard of a single case of long covid after being fully vaccinated, have you?
I agree with the premise here, but we literally added ~100px to the width of our really small thumbnail images that were hard to see with most modern screen resolutions. People come to the website to view property photos. They were literally smaller than a 256x256 map tile. The size of them should have been increased long ago.
There are a few that have adopted typing practice with code (https://www.speedtyper.dev/ is another one). I think they focus a little too much on training your typing speed rather than helping expose new concepts/examples without making them coding problems.

Either way, yes, practicing code writing without solving coding problems does help learn CS concepts. I conceptualize it as some of the issues with CS/coding comes from "analysis paralysis" where you don't know what to do and even though you were told "use a loop", you don't really know what that means or are still struggling to know how to implement a loop. Drilling these lower level practices helps reduce that by saying "let's not worry about problem solving for a second, let's just focus on you getting comfortable with implementation". Then, there is less hesitation because the student knows "use a loop" means write out the syntax for the loop, THEN figure out what you want to loop.
I wonder how long these vulnerabilities have been exploited, with the attackers waiting for specific—possibly political—timing to actually execute the attack and demand ransom. there could be plenty more exploited systems out there, just waiting for the ransom attack to execute when the attacker sees fit.
I made a highly extensible markup language (inline macros, plugins, etc.) a while ago called Quaint[1] that I've been meaning to dive back into at some point. Out of curiosity, do you reckon it'd fit your use cases?

[1] https://breuleux.github.io/quaint/index.html
How is criminal harassment protected speech? Oh wait, it’s not and this is a garbage argument.
GitHub Copilot emits token/secrets when autocompleting APIs
> but it is the longest running show, period.

I guess soap operas don't count?
NZ's strategy (and all lockdown strategies) never made any sense and it was obvious from the get-go.

Very early into the pandemic, we learned three crucial facts:

1) Covid is non-transmissible outside.
2) Vitamin D is a potent inhibitor of respiratory illness in general and covid in particular.
3) Obesity is the greatest risk-factor associated with covid.

With these taken into account (and all are very well-supported by many of those peer-reviewed studies everyone seems to need in order to take any action), the best course of action is to encourage everyone to go outside, hang out with friends, don't wear masks outside (because this discourages going outside), exercise, and soak up lots of sun.

The next "big wave" of covid in the northern hemisphere is going to come in the winter, just as all "seasonal illnesses" do. In fact, there's at least one study out lately that indicate that there's nothing seasonal about illnesses, but that vitamin D deficiency, brought on by staying inside during the cold months lowers group immunity and causes increased illness.
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Time will tell, but it's honestly pretty weird that every other major fusion project has used deuterium tritium reactions when aneutronic reactions have been possible all along. Building bigger and bigger hundred billion dollar reactors all for the same reaction proven to be a pain in the ass seems like the definition of insanity. Why haven't we been experimenting with other reactions like this 40 years ago?
> And while we're at it, standardizing on a browser-provided consent UI, instead of each site providing its own, with its own dark patterns. It's the same idea.

We've already been there and it was basically shelved because users were indifferent and companies wanted the data regardless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
Sci-Hub is a library, a repository, not a publisher. The original article publisher has editorial responsibility for article selection, not Sci-Hub, just as with any repository.

The accuracy of articles themselves and the integrity of them is trivial to establish as SciHub, LibGen, and ZLibrary all index principally on checksums of files. If there's a modification, the checksums will reveal which items are affected.

Note the MD5 hash provided for Stephen Breyer's seminal article "The Uneasy Case for Copyright" (1970): 8F8B57972236B04621795C49A15E8C2E

http://libgen.rs/scimag/10.2307%2F1339714
bitwarden_rs has been renamed to vaultwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
The article and the phenomena it describes makes me think of the ending of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World [1]. (I strongly recommend the book if you have not read it.) A line that really stands out:

"Drawn by the fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
Wow, that video is exactly how they shouldn't have responded. They assert their procedures worked as intended (they didn't), that only one part of their app was compromised thanks to their "oh-so-great" architecture (didn't matter), and that they were as fast as possible in their response (debatable). They don't do anything to reassure their customers, and they don't take any part of the blame.
As I was typing, I was thinking the same thing, it would be easier to just show you my process. So I would love to! x05x39@gmail.com
It's much easier to state that HW is "Windows 11 ready" vs saying something like HW is "Windows 10 build 2110 ready"
> What I do think is manifestly different now is that we don’t have nearly as accessible good film criticism.

But we do have instantaneous access to good films from everywhere in the world, and good tools to discover them.
That could be the case. I ran in to this trying to rescale PNGs in pure JS and hit CPU time limits immediately with lots of wall-clock time to spare. In practice it doesn't matter too much if the CPU limit kills the task or not, we're talking 50ms at most.
Having seen amazing movies on Prime, when I struggle to find anything decent to watch, I blame it on the fact that Prime is only listing a small fraction of movies that exist, not that movies are dead.
I'm not a Musk apologist, but it's not like the guy hasn't delivered things. Tesla is a success. Space X is probably a bigger success. Even if he stopped after Paypal, the guy has accomplished things.

People forget how many deadlines Apple missed under Steve Jobs. But he still delivered a lot of great shit.

These gotcha articles paint Elon as a Charles Ponzi type charlatan, while at the same time, his rockets successfully fulfill all of NASA's contract work.
Well, I don't consider an OS or a browser to be the implementation of an algorithm. It has to be possible to understand an algorithm, re-implement it, and so on. I'd say you have to be able to hold it in your head - like Eratosthenes' Sieve.

I don't see anything in the WP article about proofs of correctness. "Finite sequence" surely just means that the number of instructions isn't infinite? Come to think of it, that wording seems rather hand-wavey; I wonder if I can find citations to help me improve it.