skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, yes, for continued fractions / convergent series, floats are almost certainly going to be a complete disaster whereas if only integer division is involved, as is the case with this series, then arbitrary precision rationals are going to be exact, and often sufficiently performant for most such series for results up to about 15 decimal digits or so.

Damian demonstrates this difference between using floats and arbitrary precision rationals when he shows code for computing Bernoulli numbers in his "On The Shoulders Of Giants" presentation.[0]

(Btw, if you care about programming and appreciate a combination of total technical and geek mastery with standup comic delivery, the whole thing is like watching a great movie, whether you watch it from the "start" at the 5 minute mark, or skip forward to the 45 minute mark for the 15 minute Quantum Computing For Beginners section.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2HkAYbG5o#t=11m09s
How much do these market share numbers change when filtering for desktop users? My assumptions: 1) most users are on their phones, and 2) most phone users just use the default browser (safari and chrome). Whilst desktop users are more likely to install a browser of choice.
I have Firefox, ghostery, adblock, and no 3rd party cookies and I get a completely blank page.
From Adobe analytics and sometimes Google analytics.

You're right that ad blockers are on the rise, but that's also true for Chrome.

Note that the points I made regarding market share seem to be consistent across the board. Whether you check Statcounter, an alternative to that, or the analytics of large websites. The story is the same: Firefox is tiny, lost in a see of dozens of equally tiny browsers.
Was capex preferred due to preferential tax treatment?
Again, I have no idea why you keep replying to me with these same words. Is this a bot I'm speaking to?

I mean where is my comment mentioning you? I'm literally talking about a comment you didn't make... right?

If anything your strange obsession with repeatedly replying to my comments that have literally nothing to do with you with the same exact text over and over is starting to add another layer to the strangeness here.
You're not going to get it out of a generation of people raised by tablets, needs to come from somewhere.
There are "Whiteness Studies" that exist to disparage white people because colonialism. Actual positive in-depth looks at European culture, yeah, no, nobody's loony enough to do that in the current shitfest of an environment.
> Yeah, you do.

Every time you access a file share, you request explicit authorisation to copy any of the files in that share? I think you'd have trouble finding any court who accepted that this was the intended outcome.

> Then take the bet. I'm not even asking you to give me $1000 if you lose.

I'd gladly take that bet in a world where software wasn't subject to copyright. Since this isn't that world, Microsoft's in a position to compel me to agree to the EULA if I want to get at the binaries.

> Microsoft and GitHub are claiming that training a machine learning model is under fair use, which is an exemption to copyright.

A EULA can require you to give up rights that you would otherwise have - in many cases it's legal to engage in reverse engineering, but in order to gain the right to use the software you may have agreed not to do that. So even if it would be fair use to analyse the binaries, if I can't obtain those binaries without either violating copyright law or agreeing to a EULA, I'm not in a position to do so without putting myself at risk. If copyright law didn't apply to the binaries in the first place then I wouldn't need to agree to the EULA in order to obtain them, and there'd be no problem.
Examples, starting with a new connection to a server I haven't accessed recently:

ᐅ time ssh myserver exit

Executed in 1.66 secs

Now visiting it again uses the existing connection:

ᐅ time ssh mastodon exit

Executed in 55.89 millis
The slice is simply unsynchronized, so a user of the slice may pull out one array but a length that was for a different array.

https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...
> like fixing whatever makes k8s import + override v0.0.0

What needs fixing is the kubernetes.git release process.

kubernetes.git/go.mod "overrides" v0.0.0 not with another version (as you do), but with a local directory, because the sources-of-truth for each of those are the kubernetes.git/staging/XXX/ directories. Because of this, if you're working in kubernetes.git the version number never actually matters, so they just leave it with a dummy v0.0.0. But it does matter if you want to import kubernetes.git!

If you have nested Go modules in one repo like that, the thing to do to keep your importers happy is that whenever you do a release, you `go mod edit -require=NESTED_MODULE@VERSION` to bump the version number to the one you're about to release. This is what we do in Telepresence[1], if only we could get the Kubernetes folks to do it too...

[1]: https://github.com/telepresenceio/telepresence/blob/v2.3.4/b...
Hardware vs software is a big one. You have to hit a certain scale ("web scale") before improving software is cheaper than buying more hardware. Sometimes there are low-hanging fruits but I don't think "building a new distributed consensus system" is usually one of them

It seems these things usually get implemented when Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook (big web company x) hit the problem and they each develop their own optimized solution before slowly open sourcing and products converge and mature to the point it's practical for other companies to adopt (I think container orchestration is a good example where Google, Facebook, Apple(?) each had container solutions long before K8s started exploding)
I was thinking of Prototaxites which was maybe 470m years old (possibly) and humongous. Sounds like sponges are it (oldest) then. Until we learn otherwise.
I had the same idea, that re-using a lot of the non-sort parts of the TimSort code in this merge, the result would be just "Tim".
US Marines Test Lethal Mini ‘Grenade’ Drones That Can Attack in Swarms
Their endowment is was $39 billion (yes, b, not m) back in 2018 according to WSJ.
We were naive if we ever thought the end result would be otherwise.
They went from this to Wolfenstein 3d in just two years. Amazing. It was the golden age of game development and playing.
If you are using Teams and use Azure AD then something like Azure AD Application Proxy might be a good option https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-...
I must admit I do kind of agree with you about Zuck. He has SO much money that he has absolutely no personal worries about his ability to live a comfortable life. I believe that he should really, really dedicate his work now toward enabling facebook to be a help to democracies rather than a threat. It is NOT an easy task. It is FAR harder than creating FB in the first place. But he could try. He certainly has the resources.

Thanks for the suggestions about how to relaunch the story. I may try one of your suggestions or come up with another idea along the same lines.
First, my political views are right-wing.

Second, while Zero Hedge does report on interesting/lesser known stories, they take very strong opinions on the story.

For example, "Trying to 'fact check' people’s personal conversations is utterly demented." While I wholeheartedly agree with that sentence, it is nonetheless an opinion, not a fact.

Where possible, I prefer articles that state facts and leave the opinion-making to the reader.
Another personal anecdote - if I do deadlifts on any given day, I need an hour extra sleep that night (or more accurately, I suffer in the morning from not having had it). Maybe that need fades with experience but its a major reason deadlifts don't feature prominently in my routine
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

uBO works best on Firefox. There is no CNAME uncloaking on chromium browsers, except for Brave which does this as part of their shields.

https://brave.com/privacy-updates-6/

Vivaldi also have a built ad / tracker blocker where lists can be chosen.
I trust 4chan over "journalists" any day.
In comparison, Mozilla is just a 1,087 pound Gorilla.
> Fine, convince me.

Why do you need a control group? We know that typical people don't just randomly get coughs on a daily basis.

Anyway: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

A pretty small study (250-ish people) but plenty of evidence for long-haul COVID19, since ~20+% of them got long-haul COVID19.

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Random, normally functioning adults don't have breathing issues under normal circumstances. There's just no need for a control group in that kind of study. The only question is how long do symptoms last for COVID19 patients.

There's a bit of self-selection since these individuals decided to get a COVID19 test to begin with. But otherwise, the % of long-haul COVID19 is high enough that we know its a real thing.

For you to be suggesting that long-haul COVID19 is entirely made up is just... ignoring the evidence we have available. You're making perfect the enemy of good: studies don't need to be "perfect" in every way to provide evidence.

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Besides, you're playing "judo" with the argument. If you want to convince ME that long-haul COVID19 is fake news, YOU are the one who has to pull up the study indicating evidence in your favor.

I'm perfectly fine leaving this argument where it is and walking away. I don't _need_ to convince you of anything to be satisfied.
Honest trailer: “Dropbox HR team created an Engineering Career Framework, while they barely done any engineering work themselves”
All the things you mentioned are very healthy to take. You're not wrong in suggesting they're worth a try if all else fails. Don't know if they can cure anyone but what the hell do you have to lose at this point if you're feeling like shit from the Corona.
I do not use "HTTP alone", I use DNS, more specifically IP address. I generate lists. The lists are largely based on the hosting provider and created automatically, but I also edit them manually when necessary, which is the exception not the rule. Most sites requiring SNI that are submitted to HN all use the same CDNs: AWS and Cloudflare. The SNI list is dominated by sites hosted on AWS. The ESNI list is all sites hosted on Cloudlfare.

When I first started developing this workaround I thought I would be manually editing the SNI list constantly for "all those random sites that use SNI". This has not been the case. For the sites submitted to HN, use of SNI is mostly a CDN phenomena.

The important point here is that I do not send SNI by default. The default is privacy-by-design: no SNI. If I encounter a site that fails because it needs SNI, I add it to the list. The failure is caught by the proxy (the proxy verifies certificates, I do not rely on the browser), the SSL error is visible in the logs, and the error page the browser receives is a custom one I created myself that tells me where in the configuration the failure occured. I can test whether a site requires SNI very quickly.

Popular browsers cannot do this, we know that. If they could, I would not be coming up with workarounds. They routinely send more data than is needed, including SNI. That is the point of the original comment.
> How secure is he in Beruit? If Japan really wanted him badly, I would guess he would be pretty easy for Israeli Mossad to pick up.

The Mossad only does what's in the national interest of Israel, they are not bounty hunters for hire.

If Japan really wants Ghosn they will either have to send their own team with all the headaches that entails and/or they will need to negotiate with the various groups currently in control of Lebanon... and given they're falling apart, failing to secure food, medicine and fuel for electricity generation, a rich multi-millionaire with a private security force isn't exactly at the top of their priority list.
Yeah, and I should have kept all my bitcoins instead of selling them at $650 each, but here we are.
App Tracking Transparency causing 15% to 20% revenue drop for advertisers
Skateboarding in areas not designed for it is anti-social because other people can't use (or even just safely walk through) the space for risk of having someone crash into them. Even though I believe skaters are not being deliberately obstructive of other users, and most likely will happily wait for people to go past and for the space to be clear before attempting whatever trick they're trying, the fact is that a lot of people find it off-putting.

This should not be surprising and is not an unreasonable reaction. Consider that skating (often) involves moving fast through the space, in ways that are not easily predicted by someone who isn't themselves a skater. Practicing tricks necessarily involves making a lot of mistakes so people and boards can go flying in unexpected directions. Skating is often done by groups so there can be several people doing unpredictable things at once. And people (both skaters and others just trying to walk through the area) often have poor situational awareness. The whole thing is a recipe for accidents. And that's totally fine if it's happening in a skate park, but it's anti-social when it's happening in a normal public area that needs to support foot traffic.

None of that is related to commerce or specific to the professional class.
In my eyes the whole philosophy is wrong. They (we?) try to add abstractions and systems on top that catches code that abuses flaws in systems and software.

How about using the same energy to create systems and software that are more rugged, reliable and won't fall apart when a three year old mashes the buttons long enough?

Or have we already given up?
Thats sound advice not sure why you get downvoted, a niche vpn would probably also work, or you can can torrent it
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I love that you never quite managed to disagree with the comment you responded to...

Given that we're using the internet, not ARPANET, email kinda sucks, right? (I've sent 5 and received ~20 today)
Traditional vaccines != Genetic vector vaccines

Traditional vaccines: Expose the immune system to an inactivated pathogen. The immune system stochastically learns to target a number of proteins specific to the pathogen.

Genetic vector vaccines: Expose a small number of cells to genetic material that instructs them to create a specific protein chosen by the vaccine developer. The immune system then learns to target this specific protein. The pathogen is under no obligation to continues to produce this specific protein, especially in face of the selection pressure produced by the genetic vector vaccines themselves. We are already talking of booster shots to tackle mutations, 6 month since we started large scale deployment. It's only going to get worse.

Open questions:

* Which protein(s) to chose.

* Why a single protein, rather than a mosaic.

* Is the protein(s) choice generic, or should it be personalized to a specific individual protein spectrum.

* What is the long term prognosis for world scale populations.

Cold fact: We have <1 years of world scale experience with genetic vector vaccines.
What can regular people even do about this? It's a disgusting overreach if it ends up happening. And if it's all being performed by private companies, in industries where there is very little choice of competitors, there's no violation of rights and no way for us to avoid having our private messages be scrutinized by some authority.
Maybe you ought to take it easy and walk instead of running. Is it possible you might be damaging your lungs and not letting them heal?
The issue here is that those bugs should never have made it to 'prod'. For absolute die hard fans who say "Gnome or bust", you encounter a bug, you report it, track it, get it fixed, and things are better, until next time the same high level symptom - UI slowness - is introduced, through a different mechanism making it a "different" bug.

Thing is, not everyone is a die hard fan. Developers on Gnome, by definition, are, but outside of that, customers are going to go with what works. And that's not Gnome. Customer's don't care that the UI slowness in version 1 was caused by X, and UI slowness in version 2 was caused by Y. There was UI slowness, which made it unusable, and, well, now they're using XFCE or OS X or Windows. It doesn't matter that there was a bug and it was fixed a year ago. The problem is that there was a bug a year ago, and that particular customer is gone and can't be recaptured - they've got a solution that works and they're not looking to switch to a different one. Especially one that has a history of problems.
>> The OP's link is 'right biased' your link is 'left biased'.

The politico link referenced was linked as the source of information in the zerohedge article OP submitted.
They won't stop with fact checking stuff about vaccines. If you think that it will stop there and are all for it prepare to live in fear for the rest of your life. Downvote me all you want. I am only saying what many more are afraid to.
That ideal is far from happening.

Household waste either goes to commercial composting plants (where the methane produced most likely escapes) or to sanitary landfills, where the reduced biological activity means that the scraps degrade at a much slower rate, but do eventually reduce to methane and other lipids, though possibly at the scale of millennia or longer.
Eh, my only experience with Vantage so far has been their apparent purchase and breaking of the ec2instances website.
A quick google search suggests there are about 500 trillion pounds of oil left and about 1000 trillion pounds of living biomass. Assuming 5:1 mass:carbon ratio, it shouldn’t more than ~quadruple the total biomass. We could definitely fit that by turning the Sahara into a rainforest or something.
Yeah the muscle and bone development you get from lifting that heavy really help out in your old age. It's kind of like a reservoir of ability.
This is not a Finance function issue. Finance has absolutely no preference between opex and capex. There are accounting rules that determine the appropriate classification and any reasonable CFO simply wants it done correctly.

The opex / capex argument is about compensation. Opex reduces income immediately while capex gets spread out over the projected life of the asset (software, power plant, computer, etc). By shifting items from opex to capex, a company temporarily increases its net income. Increasing net income often leads to higher bonuses.

This is what drives the silly behavior. To make matters worse, once a company goes down this path, it cannot get off as it is usually evaluated on a year-over-year basis.

As for accountability, CFOs of public companies can be found criminally guilty (i.e. go to jail) if they not only commit accounting fraud, but simply do not establish a robust enough control framework to ensure the financial statements are correct.

CFOs are always accountable ultimately to the CEO and sometimes to the Board of Directors. If you think the CEO was unaware the company was spending "two or three dollars in capex every year than a dollar of opex," your either mistaken or you had a clueless CEO.
The main reason I switched from brew to nixpkgs is the homebrew developers' approach to users who object to the spyware they embedded in homebrew.
Plenty of people (like my folks) still think that covid has a 4% “kill rate”.

“Well that is what the experts say” is what their source is.

It’s disgusting how this whole thing is nothing but raw appeals to authority the entire way down. Thinking for yourself, expressing doubt or skepticism or having hope and optimism gets met with scorn, shame and ridicule.
I did a lot of grinding out heavy reps when I was younger and less experienced(mid-30s now) but now I am suspicious of that whole idea. If I stick to two reps before failure - i.e. when I start really slowing down the movement - my recovery time post-workout becomes much better and I don't experience as much collapse-into-bed tiredness, but I'm still seeing progression. There's an old broscience debate about whether muscle damage is critical but my own observation is that if it is, you don't need a lot of it, and doing so would favor PED users with tons of recovery capacity.

I also shifted my focus away from the largest muscle groups towards hip/core/shoulders, under a similar reasoning that if what I'm up against is mostly recovery capacity, the small muscles can be trained safely at higher frequency and will have the most impact on injury prevention and avoiding the stoop, rounded shoulders, etc. that afflicts the old.
I get that. I just don't see why an environment where half the people are vaccinated would lead to worse outcomes, even if mutations take place that can bypass the vaccine's protections.
Another way to slash cost is to use https://cloudoptimizer.io to locate cheapest cloud resources (disclaimer: my project)
You might be right about natural immunity as an alternative. I think implicitly the idea is there's something incomplete about the vaccine antigen (however it gets presented) that might create a bigger "possibility surface" for mutations to develop that would retain the core functions of the virus but allow the virus to escape detection. As opposed to naturally acquired immunity, where your body has been exposed to the entire thing (but then has been exposed to the functional virus).

Let's say I tell you to look for a suspect. You say "ok, what do they look like?" In one case, I show you a picture of their face. In another case, I introduce you to them and let you inspect them completely and take whatever photos or do whatever 3d scanning you want. It's probably easier for the suspect to develop a disguise in the former case than the latter? Maybe not, but I think that's the general idea.

It is interesting to think about resistance evolution in the context of the specific vaccines that are available vs natural immunity. I seem to recall reading that the choice of viral components to target in the vaccines was done in part so as to leave little wiggle room for mutations, so you might be right about evolution of resistance relative to natural exposure. But theory and reality are always different.

FWIW, I'm not trying to imply people shouldn't get vaccinated, or that vaccines are somehow causing problems. There's just reasons to think that if vaccination rates aren't high enough, it's easier for the vaccines to become ineffective over time than if almost everyone were vaccinated.
Ha, I sold 2 for ~200 usd. Coulda shoulda woulda
> I wonder, what do you use generics for?

Check if an element is contained in a slice is the textbook example.
You will never find this, because it can not exist.

There are so many variables. Not just word choice, but which facts do you report? If something is highly important, but you only have about 60% certainty, how do you share that?

Your only option is to triangulate.
I think Godot is a good choice for something like this. HTML5 exports are easy to do.
> I disagree, if you're able to understand and do a projection, forecast, risk analysis, sunk cost analysis you can easily get finance on your side.

That doesn't help against clueless execs who live 20 years or more in the past. Japan's cybersecurity minister literally admitted to never ever having used a computer in his life (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/japan-cyber-se...).

Even if you show them that your IT modernization has the potential to save the company millions of dollars a year, they will decline your proposal because "the current system works/no need to upgrade and risk issues".

The literal only way to get banking C-level execs to modernize their 70s era mainframe stacks is regulatory action. Only with the threat of massive government-levied fines or closure of business, they will go ahead with change.
Surely the stakeholders that are paid this dividend remain overwhelmingly Saudi (government) interests. So they made up this dividend to loot the place. I'm sure they had other ways of looting prior. What's the big difference?