skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not dismissing your points - I accept there's a lot of ambiguity.

Given the level of fragmentation you want to get into by highlighting tiny, short-lived political entities that had small populations and exited only for a blip in history ... well, you'll find many of them.

But you're missing the forest through the trees: the borders are unambiguously ethnic, to the point where it's not really even an argument.

'So What about Basque Country'?

Yes - thanks proving my point!

The 'Basque' fit so poorly within the constraints of Spanish borders that there is literally 'terrorism' and a systematic malaise: separatists groups and violence!

It might very well bode better if there was a separate nation state, or some degree of sovereignty there. I don't know, that's besides the point.

And what about Occitane, Catalonia, Alscace? They are, for the most part, ethnic subdivisions that fit more or less within the bigger systems they are in. Some better than others, but almost all of them to some reasonable degree.

But you're arguing against reality to insist that the line between Poland and Germany isn't relatively clear at some point, even if it's not perfect. It fuzzes over a few leagues, but by the time you hit Warsaw or Berlin it's clearly 'a different culture'. Again that there are strong subdivisions in Germany doesn't change the fact because the subdivisions are 'mostly' Germanic.

The Swedes and Finns have very distinct ethnostates, even if they have pockets of Swedes (historically, not just expats) in Finland, and even with distinct 'aboriginal' groups within both.

Again, in the big picture - hard ethnic delineation.

The map of the Roman Empire you provided only reinfornces my case: many of regions form the basis for many nation states today.

The more developed the system, the more likely it would be to have continued existence.

The demarcation point between the old Roman Empire and the Germanic states today is stark - written in politics, language, culture.

Europe didn't end up with a bunch of Switzerland - it ended up mostly with a bunch of Germanys, i.e. the sub-fragmentation is mostly related in some way and the external boundaries forming a kind of ethnic delineation.
Learned of this one [0] the other day, in the remarks of System.Net.IPAddress.TryParse:

"Fixing this bug would break existing apps, so the current behavior will not be changed"

In other words, the obvious method to use to validate whether or not a string contains a valid IP address can't be used because existing applications expect the broken behavior, and thus it will not be fixed. Correct parsing of an IP address is an exercise now left to the user (to get wrong).

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.ipadd...
Yep, but imagine who you're up against:

People who were given "You're #1" ribbons and awards for participating regardless of their performance.
AFAIK, Wikipedia's info on the Latin Modern regressions from Blue Sky is accurate. Neither version is the original CM font or has had as much fine-tuning put into it, but (EDIT) the Blue Sky version was at least worked on by paid professionals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern#Latin_Modern
“Donglegate” is classic overreaction–and everyone pays (2013)
One practical thing is to ensure your upstream isn't heavily congested. Many Internet connections are asymmetrical with much more downstream bandwidth than upstream. And many, if not most streaming protocols, are inherently bidirectional and are sending a constant stream of "Okay, got that!" acknowledgements both ways, which if congested, will tend to mess up video on both ends.

Otherwise, as another user mentioned, ultimately, there's no way around the "some of the packets disappeared in transit" problem. It's like white noise on an analogue radio channel. Some of the bits just get lost in transit. At that point, you can either request a resend (with unavoidable delay/skipping/glitching) or you can just drop the packets and re-sync when the stream starts making sense again (again with some degree of unavoidable blackout and glitching).

With that said, video could be more reliable. There are quality of service options. Streaming protocols could use forward error correction (though that has latency issues) and they could use UDP or checksumless UDP instead of TCP, which are less reliable but also generally less latency-variable. In combination with something like UDP streaming, they could use a compression algorithm that is robust to bit-flips and single packet loss (say, just dropping some spatial or colour resolution for a few frames instead of a quarter-second glitch). The hosts could talk to each other directly rather than through a relay server.

All of these techniques are used, somewhere. The biggest problem is that they're not widely compatible with what's already out there. ISPs tend to ignore QoS requests. Your smartphone does not have a hardware encoder for video except for MPEG-4, probably. It's quite possible your router will silently drop malformed UDP packets. Everyone is still behind NAT. And so on. And when you fall back to a common baseline codec and protocol, using TCP via a relay server, it's just kind of miserable when a packet disappears.
Strange thing about the duration of this outage... From logs I have, it seems to have lasted exactly one hour, from 15:38 to 16:38. Their Twitter account also said "disruption lasted up to an hour", though they incorrectly said it started at 15:46 (did it take 8 minutes for their monitoring to notice?).

That makes me think that whatever the fix was, it had to wait for some one-hour cache to expire before it took effect. I'm very interested to find out what the cache issue was, more so than what the original bug was.
There's this study published in Diabetes Care[1], "Efficacy and Safety of Cannabidiol and Tetrahydrocannabivarin on Glycemic and Lipid Parameters in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel Group Pilot Study".

> RESULTS Compared with placebo, THCV significantly decreased fasting plasma glucose (estimated treatment difference [ETD] = −1.2 mmol/L; P < 0.05) and improved pancreatic β-cell function (HOMA2 β-cell function [ETD = −44.51 points; P < 0.01]), adiponectin (ETD = −5.9 × 106 pg/mL; P < 0.01), and apolipoprotein A (ETD = −6.02 μmol/L; P < 0.05), although plasma HDL was unaffected. Compared with baseline (but not placebo), CBD decreased resistin (−898 pg/ml; P < 0.05) and increased glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (21.9 pg/ml; P < 0.05). None of the combination treatments had a significant impact on end points. CBD and THCV were well tolerated.

[1] https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/39/10/1777.long
No, they are not bricked. The term has become ridiculously diluted in practice to mean "hard, breaking bug".
It depends on the size and diversity of the company. If your company size is small and they list 10 tech leads and only one has 20 years experience, or a masters, or is female, then it's pretty easy to work that back to them. They've shown similar things for anonymous medical records not being so anonymous.

So larger populations and smaller number of attributes would probably make it better, but not foolproof.
Does this mean the market works by manipulating consumers?
Past related threads. Others?

Bicameralism (Psychology) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20366921 - July 2019 (29 comments)

Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122626 - Feb 2019 (9 comments)

The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes’ hypothesis (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18521482 - Nov 2018 (92 comments)

How Julian Jaynes’ consciousness theory is faring in the neuroscience age (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15677871 - Nov 2017 (90 comments)

How Bicameralism Helps Explain Westworld - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13141112 - Dec 2016 (2 comments)

“There Is Only Awe” – on Julian Jaynes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321158 - April 2015 (14 comments)

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7799698 - May 2014 (60 comments)

Origin of Consciousness (bicameral mind) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1510815 - July 2010 (7 comments)
Are you going to apply to YC?
That could be a part of it, but there is a documented effect of marijuana "triggering" mental illness in those who are susceptible to mental illness. For a certain portion of the population marijuana use will directly lead to the onset of mental illness
Specified what? Pay transparency has never meant personally identifiable salaries.
So far the empirical evidence is pretty unanimous: None of the methods scale.
My first computer is an IBM PC that the university lent to my father. I don't know which one it is but it has two floppy drivers and no hard disk, which is typical for the machines of 80s back in China. It is also an authentic IBM machine (not the ones licensed to and built by Great Wall Tech) that costs the university a fortune.

I just got a gift card from my company so decided to order a C64 mini. Partly because I heard it's a fascinating machine, and partly I figured it's a good option to introduce a retro machine to my son when he grows up a bit. Although it is in fact an emulator but I think it's the best option unless I can afford a few hundred bucks and know how to fix the authentic C64.
What Is Log Aggregation?
Opstrace explains log aggregation and how its open source approach is different.
Looks pretty good. The icon for the Essays category on the alias page for Paul Graham looks like the Medium logo to me, even though he is publishing his posts on his own site not hosted on Medium.
Thats a great thought and those are great suggestions. Thank you! :)
It’s not about equal pay, it’s about not paying differently simply due to gender. You can do so for other reasons even ones correlated with gender. It’s very hard afaik to prove such a case so a company needs to be really blatant about it.
I really like this website design especially on mobile - how did you make it?
That doesn't even slightly follow. For any given discipline we require frameworks for understanding and specific understandings. Not having obtained a specific understanding doesn't indicate it doesn't fit in within the same framework else one would be forced to conclude that because we didn't understand how to treat certain conditions (that we know can) they are somehow outside of medicine!
My experience is similar. I know a few who eventually have made the jump, especially once they saw someone close to them do it, but for the most part they've largely been unwilling to do anything that seems permanent/career-ish that isn't what they dreamed of. I get it and sympathize, to a point, but....
This is fascinating. So how would someone who had such a "bicameral mind" experience everyday phenomena? Like hunger, or fear? They would have a voice, not attributed to them, telling them to eat or flee?
You can say that on the phone in California, since it requires "two-party consent" for recording phone calls.
Were the trolls also Russians?
Bitwise & versus logical && is a classic, right up there with an assignment in a comparison (when an equality check is intended), = for ==.

That this was missed is pretty surprising, given that it's Google
and the stakes involved in the encryption/key management code in a secure platform device.

I wonder if we'll even get a postmortem, as this simply cannot happen unless several someones all
Seriously Fucked Up simultaneously.

- code error (expected, humans are fallible)

- review error (less expected, this is the kind of thing code review exists for)

- static analysis / linting check failure

- integration test failure (interactive login no longer works on this build)

This is a massive, overlapping fuckup. Heads should probably roll here, especially given that when you opt in to ChromeOS as a user, Google now has "one job" (DFIU).
I don't worry about the increased concentration of cannabinoids, but I do worry about the trend towards extremely high THC content while other cannabinoids like CBD are barely present.
> I don't think you'll ever convince someone who doesn't believe in privacy of the value in privacy until they're hurt.

If the person understands why the freedom of speech is important, you can explain that privacy is needed to protect whistleblowers, journalists and activists. Only when everyone has pivacy, it becomes hard for the government to target them.
To be fair, if someone gets to the point that they’re dabbing concentrates, the minimum dose is pretty damn high, and it’s easy to overdo it. If a casual smoker made the mistake of smoking a dab, they might be in for a surprise.

Many of the vape pens are also extremely potent, and it’s even easier to overuse those.

I’m not saying the old propaganda has any value, but I do think it’s a lot easier than many think to level up to “heavy use” very quickly with modern offerings.

But even at insanely high concentrations, you’re still most likely to just have a bad time, not get seriously injured.

This should be addressed by education though, not regulation/propaganda.
Computation is fully explicable as an abstraction over moving electricity around and producing heat. Without a specific theory of computation understanding the CPU isn't impossible but it may prove intractable in the same fashion as its very difficult but not impossible to understand chemistry solely in terms of physics.

What is missing would not be a magical compute field but the necessary abstractions.
That is blatant age discrimination and should have been reported to the proper authorities.
cap_enter can be invoked after library initialization. Libraries can open the files and directories they need during initialization.

A single jailed root is where you end up when you take the route of putting software into sandboxes for which they weren't designed, because now you need to emulate a traditional environment.

pledge and unveil are a middle ground, albeit closer to Capsicum, in that they're much more accommodating of existing software patterns. But they do still require application refactoring. OpenBSD has refactored their entire userland codebase this way. That typically involves identifying the necessary resources a program needs and either shifting their acquisition to before privilege dropping (i.e. early in main), or arranging so that they're subsequently accessible (e.g. using unveil).

It's a shame Linux never merged the Capsicum patches. While pledge and unveil are more convenient from a developer perspective, they can't easily be adopted in a standardized way by other operating systems, like Linux. Capsicum was the closest thing we could have gotten to a standardized sandboxing model in the POSIX universe. If it became widely available (cough Linux), I believe a large chunk of software, especially critical network-facing software, would slowly migrate; and an ecosystem of idioms, patterns, and libraries would evolve to increasingly smooth the transition.

What's doubly shameful is that Capsicum is architecturally extremely simple. In principle it would be easy for any POSIX system to adopt. The APIs are trivial, and Linux is already nearly there now that it has process descriptors and an openat that can prevent parent directory traversal. Most of the leg work is in blocking access, after cap_enter has been invoked, to non-standard interfaces and syscalls that expose resources.
I guess I assumed reverse engineering was understood to mean explaining how a phenomenon actually occurred. They've recreated a similar outcome, but haven't given any evidence that it's related to what happened in Cuba.

If I look at a hole in the wall and recreate it by pounding my fist through the wall to create another hole, did I reverse engineer the first hole? Or did I just reproduce the effect?
No matter what the company will know everyone's salaries. The question is mainly whether you want to be ignorant, or not. Usually these things (at least with the government) don't list experience, or educational attainment.
Works fine for me in Chrome 91.0.4472.164 on a Mac.
I ran DNS servers, among other things, in the late 90s with better uptime than these "multi-DC/AZ/geo redundant" services everyone uses these days.
Ah, paranoia is a good motivator to learn more. You might want to see this[1], for example. I think his solution is likely to be a trap, ie. not actually safe, but the presentation is at least a good example of how complicated it is to get security right.

[1] Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware [video] https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10690-open_source_is_insufficien...
Trade Unions have access to companies microdata now. If there such pay gap, there's no excuse now.

I don't really want to get into a large discussion, but I know the data sources of these studies as I used them pretty often, and you'll have to be pretty creative, either with data or with definitions.

This issue for me is very linked with my distrust of academia, is not just this issue.

I went to uni (sociology) in my mid 20s and I wasn't impressed with the ethical standards of the field, let's say that.
Yep. We've been meaning to change that for a while, thanks for reminding us.
Maybe growing older and wiser played a part? I've seen some of my friends transform attitudes like that significantly as the years go by, weed never being involved.
The ancient romans were already lamenting "kids these days will be our downfall" and look how the roman empire stands today... oh, wait.

More seriously, I agree, the premise is a tired trope, but I still think you need better counter-arguments to disprove it. Saying "this argument is cliche, therefore I can assume it is wrong" is not really sound reasoning.
The employee would benefit from more transparency, but that doesn't mean it is exploitation.

Not
Inequality is a strong psychological issue. No amount of correct math and logic can offset that. We're wired to despise those who have more than others, especially when others are struggling and especially when those who have show off.

You can point out objective things like that contemporary billionaires are nothing like super-rich monarchy or noblemen in the past, who literally didn't have to work one day of their lives and could dispose of people around them as they pleased, quite literally. There was no me too, no rape allegations, they just did whatever they pleased with minimal consequences.

You can point out all that, but it's irrelevant. Many humans just don't tolerate "rich entitled jerks who show off". Other humans don't tolerate other kind behaviours; humanity is clearly not a uniform bunch.
Welcome to the club.

Though those little rectangle GIFs were mint back in the day
It's my understanding that the Starlink signal is almost straight up, so if that is true, the trees would have to be rather close to the house.

Does anyone know if this is true?
Looking Wayback: Internet Archive 25th Anniversary
Oh the other hand, consigning yourself to death via assassinating a hated despot seems better, morally, than consigning everybody to death to make them die of old age.
Once I read an LWN article about KVM [1] and it introduced a tool called kvmtool [2] and a tiny test program illustrating how to use the KVM API. However the sample program was too simple and the latest kvmtool seemed too complex for my taste.

Wiser seems simple enough (5 small enough .c files). If it is capable to boot Linux, it can be a great learning material. Great job!

- [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/658511/

- [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/will/kvmtool...
I should also note that mental healthcare, in the past, was something insurance companies would fight their policyholders over, and many policies didn't cover it at all. The ACA and earlier legislation are responsible for increasing access to mental healthcare[1] for Americans, as they forced insurers to cover it.

So in the past, if you couldn't see a doctor, you couldn't get a schizophrenia diagnosis even if you had it.

[1] https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2020/aca-10-how-has-it...
"We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw

i guess 81% is the end :P
You must be referring to the censorship of Miranda's butt in the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition remaster.

The mod was to remove that censorship.

But it is interesting what your initial assumptions about it were.
It's an interesting point. On the other hand, many of these state prosecutors are very afraid of losing: many of them have gone the "golden career route" of name-brand schools and law firms, and shy away from any possible failure.

That's mostly bad, because they won't bring cases that are worthy but risky to their career.

When they do ultimately bring a case, though, it means it's strong.
I remember Activision generally being a publisher of terrible licensed games in the 90s, so I wasn't too surprised by that.
I have mixed feelings about this as someone that creates a bunch of content across different platforms. I intentionally spread it out across platforms as different platforms have different groups of people that follow me and engage with things differently. This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking. It would be nice if there was an explicit opt-in for creators having their feeds associated here instead of them being aggregated somehow and put there through some heuristic.
Yes, I picked a strong word to poke fun at them :)

That being said I've mostly seen the word used in the context of bad firmware updates or ROM flashes. However that's nothing booting into recovery or a JTAG won't fix.
Similar story. I was a heavy smoker for ~10 years and was all for it, but I've since quit and realized how destructive it can be at high doses for long periods of time.

The discourse around how destructive it is encourages this thinking, similarly to how Americans struggle with alcoholism while Italians do not, despite the latter's culture of continuous exposure at young ages.
Most of this sounds horrifying, and if its true I hope they throw the book at them.

However this one line seems like it would be hard to prove:

They(women) were also assigned to lower-level positions and passed over for promotions, despite doing more work than their male peers in some cases

I know many people who are really good at filling out their TPS reports, and never break the rules. They don't ever get promoted, because they do so much in their current role, and since they never break the rules, they never get to be highlighted for "showing initiative." Though if the rest of it proves to be true, it would not look good.
Who doesn't know someone who went crazy from drinking? It's normalized, especially in the military it seems. A major difference between the long term negative effects of the two drugs is that alcoholics seem to mostly recover after some years of sobriety, but former cannabis users can receive incurable disorders like schizophrenia. More simply, the mental disorders of alcohol abuse resist being pathologized, we assign them sociocultural explanations like "he's going through a rough time." Meanwhile, he's clinically depressed, anxious, has mood swings, all direct results of long term alcohol consumption.
It’s already mandated if you’re a government employee, which millions of people are.
I think it's great that the Wuhan institute published all their gain of function research. They even said who paid for it. It's a clear trail back to them, but apparently taking any action to acknowledge that this is a bad thing and something fishy might be going on is a completely politicized issue now that apparently gets as many downvotes as arguing about hot button political topics now.

What I'm saying is there should at least be an open and frank discussion of what the whole world is getting itself into right now with all this.
This is a strange take - why wouldn't you want to be paid the same as equally qualified members with the same title on the same team?