skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counter point to his 'Repeatability' point: in Excel you can treat your workbook as a simple output for your data files. Let's say I have my data in a CSV file (like the example), I can just load the data from the CSV file and use Power Query to apply any transformations and calculations to this data. I could then simply swap out the CSV file for another CSV file, and all the transformations and calculations would be applied to it just the same.

This is also how it works in Power BI, but I guess it's a bit of a different way of working than how most people are used to work.
I'm off this week, I'll keep them in mind, thanks!
> and that occasionally surprises people

But what did they want?

They tell me they're not happy with 0% chance of some interleaving they need. Are they happy with 0.000000000001%? I'm not sure I understand the practical difference between that and 0%? Can I tell them it is possible, but rely on the death of the universe happening before they have a right to complain it didn't turn up yet? If they have some hard minimum they require, then what do they expect me to do? Completely abstract from the system scheduler to make it happen?

Doesn't seem a reasonable expectation from programmers on compiler writers, and likely wouldn't really be what they wanted even if I made it happen.
It seems like you got into computer security a fair bit ago, and have a lot of experience on the appsec side.

With that background paired with “certs are worth nothing” points out two blind spots to me:

- the value-add certs have exists in non-appsec areas, putting aside CISSP and promotion paths. CySA is going to help you be a better soc anaylst, but ya it’s not getting you into NCC Group anytime soon. A CS degree or knowledge in that direction matters a lot more/only. SWE<>Sec exists in a totally different part of the field, in a way.

- early days security folks have a very different view on how to get into the industry. Back then, it was pre-certs, and even really pre-compsec jobs. Things are a bit different now.

You may not realize that where you stand depends on where you sit, but you’re pretty far from new talent pipelines these days it sounds like.

If single sentence platitudes are how you want to engage, then I’m done as well.
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> It's probably more of a bandwidth issue than a memory issue.

Yeah, but you can use multiple banks and write in a round-robin fashion.

> Depending on the signal characteristics this can actually be worse.

Of course, that was only an example. You should probably do something like runlength encoding.

In any case, the USB protocol is much slower than modern hardware can handle, so certainly doable.
1. The only documented case of blankets being intentionally used to spread smallpox was recorded simply as "blankets"; there is no indication they were specifically quilts.

2. Quilting as a tradition in WASP culture is so long and dense that any association with smallpox is far from the first; quilts with squares commemorating deaths are very very common.
We're talking about peppering one's writing with brightly colored little pictures. If a dislike of that is anything, it's ageist: I don't want the way I write to give people the impression that I'm a ten year old.
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> An omnipotent god could make a universe perfect in every way... but the universe is not perfect in every way. Why not?

The obvious issue with a statement like that is that a god would have a very different perspective than yours, and it assumes that you could actually define perfect or know it when you see it.
Yes, it all has to be paid for some how. Proofreading, copyediting, typesetting, handling the logistics of physical printing and distribution, usually an honorarium for the journal editor, and probably other costs... It all takes resources that have to be paid for somehow.

Personally, I think part of the solution would be to have grants that are in some way publicly funded (taxes) to have a portion set aside to pay publishing costs, and require publishing in some way. This would both make open access with well-polished articles more accessible, it would also help solve the issue of negative results rarely being published.

Not perfect, not a.silver bullet, but at least an incremental improvement.
When do the planets in our solar system all line up?
Just like perl and grep, I stick to make because it's likely to be already available everywhere I need it. Such is the tyranny of the installed base. :/
I love that book, and find Feynman eloquent, likeable, and funny. He was also incredibly smart and highly accomplished.. in his own field.

But Feynman, like many other intelligent, famous people, had a bad habit of opining on and dismissing out of hand subjects he knew little about. He did this with philosophy and with psychedelics.

At least he tried LSD, but he was clearly not an authority on LSD, and his experience with it was minimal. Not to mention that back in the 60's little was known about how best to use it (there was some research in to this, but most people were not aware of the most effective methods.. and even now, while we know better we might not have the optimal method figured out).

While Feynman might not have solved his scientific problem on that particular session that doesn't mean that it's useless in helping problem solving. In fact, there has been research that indicated that it helped with both creativity and problem solving: [1][2] and there's still ongoing research in to this subject.[3][4]

As we all know today, the benefits of psychedelics can extend far beyond helping with creativity and problem solving, however.. they can help with various personal and mental issues, for example, increase empathy and openness, help with end-of-life anxiety, help with relationships, etc... apparently Feynman was either completely ignorant of this potential or chose to ignore it while focusing only on the narrow subject of scientific problem solving and his fear.. which is understandable, but not really a fair assessment of the potential of psychedelics.

Which isn't to say that Feynman should have taken more LSD (that's a personal choice for everyone, and I respect his decision).. but just because Feynman didn't doesn't mean no one should.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/LSD-Spirituality-Creative-Process-Gro...

[2] - https://maps.org/news/media/4814-jim-fadiman-on-psychedelics...

[3] - https://sciencetrends.com/does-microdosing-lsd-stimulate-cre...

[4] - https://maps.org/news/multimedia-library/3171-can-psychedeli...
I don't think you can find anything remotely comparable in US history that would give you the answer as to whether this mission was feasible or not, ahead of time.
I'd say that a tiny amount of CSS would make that basically perfect for the task, except that it's honestly already perfect for the task now. Though it looks like you replace semicolon a second time instead of colon in clean.
arXiv is not only for pre-printed. Whatever paper you legally put on your website can and should go there (or Zenodo, Figshare, OSF, etc).
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Icing, and cold therapy in general, has now been pretty well debunked. People like it because it feels good but if anything it probably inhibits healing for most musculoskeletal injuries. The book "Good to Go" by Christie Aschwanden contains an accessible summary of the current research.

https://www.goodtogobook.com/
What tantalizing to me is solar and wind are unique in that the marginal cost of production is near zero. Meaning very unlike coal and natural gas energy sources. That leads to a energy grid characterized by frequent over supply.

My thinking is electrowinning iron and mini-mills could easily absorb excess capacity. Aqueous electrolytic cells should be able to just sit idle for hours to days. And electric furnaces draw easily 10-100MW. That makes them a good match for a renewable grid.
> uBlock or AdGuard

Sure, adblock is nice, but its kind of irrelevant to the discussion. The fact that you block ads doesn't change the fact that most news is paid for by ads (that people who don't have adblock get). In fact, adblock probably reduces the quality of news even further, because the people who don't have adblock are probably less smart on average than the people who do use adblock - and thus the articles who cater to that group more earn more money.

> paying is not always the solution

You're creating a straw man here. Did I say that "paying is the solution"? No I didn't, I said ad-funded news has lead to the trashy news dystopia we live in today. The reason is not because of ads per se - its because these pages get paid on a per click basis. If you click, they get paid, even if the article ends up sucking. This incentivizes massive amounts of low quality click bait. If there were such a thing as an advertisement mechanism where low-quality content wouldn't get paid, that would solve the problem without paying.

> We must demand better journalism

Sorry, but you don't just get better things because you demand it. We live in a world where the only way to actually make your own tiny individual impact on journalism quality is to purchase subscriptions to quality news sources and to avoid clicking on anything online. Ever. If you're still going to click on things online, you're not demanding better journalism in a way that will make an impact. And how many people do you expect to do that? Very few. I doubt you'll do it yourself, even tho you care about getting better journalism.

What we need are better tools that allow people to only give money (ad revenue or otherwise) to publishers of quality journalism.
Isn't memset different in that it's an external function that compiler writers have chosen to intercept and perform themselves? Why is saying 'use memset_s' acceptable when they could have stopped treating memset as a special case?
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I can't take an article seriously when it's published under a pseudonym, by the website itself.

It could just be marketing for all I know. And it most likely is.
No. 25 years in here. You may think you're a dumbass even then. Other people may think you're a dumbass. You will still make stupid mistakes. You will probably make fewer than other people, and there will be many mistakes you don't make any longer, because you've already made them and have learned your lessons.

But the feeling of being a dumbass may never leave you entirely. You will need to learn to control that some, and not always let on to everyone around you how dumb you feel at all times. But... honestly, the folks I've worked with who never ever admit to feeling dumb or doing dumb things - they STILL make the same mistakes, often more, and seem to have no capacity for self-reflection or skills improvement. So... understand your "I'm a dumbass" feeling may just be part of you pointing out that you can get better, and help you find opportunities to improve.
Internet -> Joe Rogan -> Hacker News

what a time to be alive
Psychedelics have been quite beneficial for my social anxiety as well.

I once took mdma, went to a random toastmasters meetup solo, and gave two presentations. Twas effective in reframing my relationship to social anxiety to a non-trivial degree.
Why was it "supposed to be" battery-powered; just because the ad copy read "batteries not included"? :-)
People do study pyschadelics. A lot. Cool stuff about ketamine is coming out o HN, turns out the trick is not to take 5 grammes a day. ;)

I have been involved in publicly funded recreational drug research, it does happen. Trouble is drugs takers don't like the results, which unfortunately are not entirely positive. e.g. huge numbers of people in mental institutions in the
Uk had their episode triggered by recreational drugs, especially weed, which we all consider a soft drug.
Studies happen, the information is there but people don't like it because it does not help their arguments. Despite many studies it still comes down to the question of weather an individual has the right to fuck themselves up or not. There is still no study that shows smoking is good for you.

Yet.

Dont hold your breath.
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wow ok, so you expect me to have a computer (?!) with:

- a keyboard?
- access to a terminal??!?!?!
- ability to install qrencode???
- knowledge of copy and paste!?!?!
- some way to edit the command you posted to my specific username and password?!

franky this is ridiculous when i could just make a repo that uses make, docker, yarn, npx, nginx, react, and jest

/s
Interestingly, at least for a while (and maybe still in some papers) Gannet used to do the opposite -- they would tuck in a condensed version of "USA Today" into the local papers they owned.
I don't know how to tell you this any more clearly, but if "defunding the police is a step to abolishing the police" then "defunding the police" and "abolishing the police" must be distinct concepts. If they meant the same thing, you wouldn't need to do one first.
That's funny: in my family we have a similar tradition for Pâques : when I was young my mother would spend a lot of time cooking but now we usually order sushi: we enjoys more the family reunion without having to spend half a day (at least) cooking..
In academia people study stochastic versions of PDEs in order to try to answer regularity and existence questions. Think for example about the famous millennium problem of Navier-Stokes. Sometimes the stochastic viewpoint can even give more results about the non-stochastic setting.
Depending on how remote your farm is and how strong is the WiFi signal outside your premises (from a nearby public road, ..).

Average case you are in the middle of bumfuck nowhere with a huge private property surrounding your WiFi and nothing's gonna happen.

Worse case some script kiddie attacks your vulnerable router (if using default password) or a smart gadget (if you have some and it's a couple of years old) to join a botnet and get your IP address on a blacklist limiting your internet usability (blacklisted IPs may not be able to send e-mails, may get captchas on major websites like Google, ...)

Worst case someone driving around noticing you have an open WiFi may drop a battery/solar powered raspberry pi with a 4G modem nearby your WiFi and use your WiFi as an untraceable VPN/proxy to perform some illegal stuff (e.g. upload child pornography or perform some serious hacking) and getting you in trouble with the law.
We should let other countries bring their healthcare here for competition.

If people are traveling for medical tourism and it is profitable, it seems like we could incentivize other countries to set up shop here.
My bad sorry. It was tested on humans.
Something that I find extremely disturbing about this entire discussion is the implicit assumption that there is only one god. Some religions assume that there are many gods, e.g. Hinduism and most African religions. Other religions do not really assume the existence of gods, e.g. Buddhism or Taoism.
Of course all atheists believe that there are no gods at all.
You're not wrong that the price of ram isn't that much these days. However, this is not simply a case of adding more ram and be done with it. There is a significant amount of extra engineering to be done.

It would in the grand scheme of things be rather easy to "just add ram" but that's not how the product lines work for oscilloscopes. It's a bit like asking "Why does Intel price their high-end chips so high? It's not like the silicon is that much more expensive or yields that differ so much that they're 500% more expensive? And the consumer chips don't even support all the features that their Xeon's do!"

And you're right, it's a digital signal, and in the normal world you would just use a logical analyzer and do it like you said. But this is for educational purposes and seeing the same tool and the actual edges is a great and clear example. That's not to say that oscilloscopes aren't useful for debugging digital signals. After all, seeing the exact glitch might help in some cases.

So yeah, basically it's a combination of product differentiation and not the entirely right tool for the job.
Many doctors have given up on recommending lifestyle changes to patients because compliance is so poor. They see it as a waste of time and prefer to focus on interventions that seem more effective.

If you want to make lifestyle changes then it might be more useful to consult with a dietician, personal trainer, or therapist instead of a physician.
Hornsdale is testing a synthetic inertia mode that will supply half the inertia needed by SA.

https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/learn/
> Isn't memset different in that it's an external function that compiler writers have chosen to intercept and perform themselves?

The semantics of memset and memset_s are defined by a standard. They're not unknown functions that could do anything, and they're breaking a rule by treating them differently, like you're suggesting they are.
Foreign investors are the ideal. We get more housing, prices on other units are lower, without any extra traffic.
It’s also unclear whether the gifting of smallpox blankets had any practical effect. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt#Biological_...
It's mostly freely readable. It's closed to publishing (gotta pay CrossRef or other licensees) and otherwise a pain to interface with.
I've often heard that the best way to learn about customers is to put a product in front of them and see how they react. People have a hard time knowing what exactly they want in a vacuum, but once you give them something to play with, they're usually good at saying what's good and what's not.
> stories of people turning their entire lives and psychology around for the better after a single dose aren’t common

This story itself is not about someone turning his entire life around after a single session. As the author writes:

"Ironically, my first visit to the clinic didn't really address my social anxiety directly, as there was a lot more fundamental stuff that I had to work through. I've been
back twice now..."
Playing Minecraft as an adult was the first time I'd heard of lapis lazuli, which is a real thing used to make blue pigment.
Yeah, blue doesn’t seem to appear in the New Testament (Greek), but it’s in the Old (Hebrew) as “Tekhelet”[1] which can apply across different blue hues, from turquoise to violet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet
but there's also

>Get back to work, there’s so much more to optimize…

my point is that maybe code optimization research time could be spent better
I've heard children don't actually die from seeing a bit of boob, or even actual genitals.
I think this is a fair criticism. Delivered perhaps a bit acerbically.
No, it was supposed to be a rechargeable air pump but the one I received was a cheap hand pump easily purchased at any dollar store.
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So en EV without a battery? They didn’t make them weigh more just because they wanted to.
Reversal of the Chicago River
“Students can find most of what they need to learn on line. They do not need to pay a professor to lecture to them.”

Sure, as long as you don’t need anything out of the millions of books, journals, historical archives, etc, that have yet to be digitized. Or don’t need lab equipment for experimental work.

“When I was in college, going back to live with one’s parents after graduation was unthinkable. Today, it is commonplace.”

When this guy was in college it didn’t cost the equivalent of a home mortgage to go to school. State schools were still well subsidized and the tuition was cheap.
How long was the effect for?
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The average Joe has known for decades and the problem continues. Ergo, we can’t rely on individual action to solve it. We need society-scale solutions. Corporate action is the only tool civilization has for this.
This is for public encrypted guest WiFi networks, to make guests lives more comfortable... you can scan this with your phone to automatically connect without needing to type the password which can come handy if the password is at least somewhat secure.

Usually it's printed in the same places where you would actually print your plaintext Wi-Fi password, if you're already doing that, for example in restaurants (e.g. QR code inside a menu card that's only given to actual customers), offices (QR code inside meeting room for actual guests), airbnbs (QR code on a fridge inside your house), hotels (QR code inside the room with a router))
While I agree it’s a PITA, most SQL-interfaced RDBMS support views, which is a way to abstract the Platinum customer issue you pose into something composable, albeit in SQL terms, not in the dotted property chaining style you propose. In the past I’ve created view generators to automatically populate a sweet syntactic palette for application semantics. Modern query planners are hardly bothered by the implied excess of joins any more, and will often use the embedded literals to optimize the query plan before execution…

I’ve plucked that low hanging fruit before, and it can taste great even in SQL sauce.
- not doing this alone

- very carefully vetting the people you're entrusting your safety to

Agreed, strongly.

Set and setting are important for psychedelics. They should ideally be taken in a comfortable environment with people you trust…and hopefully they’re not tripping as well. Or at least, they have experience.

The first time I took LSD was by myself. That was…perhaps not the best idea. It turned out fine, but whoo, it was a lot.
Allow users to see that the writer of a comment they replied to upvoted their comment (if user foo writes a comment, user bar replies, and foo upvotes bars reply, bar (¿or all users?) should be able to see that.

That is a less noisy way to say ‘thanks’ that I think would get used more, and would inform users that they aren’t replying to a vacuum.
Seriously, I never understand the "environmental waste" argument as applied to AirPods.

The pair of buds weighs a third of a single disposable AA battery. There's less plastic than in an average Chinese takeout container.

If you want to complain that they're expensive to replace then go ahead. But as soon as anyone brings up the environment, give me a break. We're not talking about a 65" television that weight 55 pounds, c'mon. Each bud is four grams of mass.

If people threw out twenty pairs of AirPods a day, then sure let's worry about the environmental issue. But when they replace one pair every two to three years? I don't think so.
Thought Leader & Ron Ross.

Big Nope.

I think one of my actually business oriented colleagues put it best, "I've read through 20,000 pages of NIST security material, and there is no sense of business prioritization, or cogent strategy between all of it."

Truth be told, some of this came out much later. As in, 5 - 7 years later. In the interim a huge amount of abstract security controls that significantly lag actual defensive industry, and the paper A&A / NIST 800-37 process.

Read about two sections that I thought were relevant, the rest was fluff.

LI is not normally a place for security thought leadership.
One Database Transaction Too Many – Haki Benita
Karma is a similar service in Sweden.

https://karma.life
Sound editing vs. sound mixing: What’s the difference?