skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like lockdowns are coming back. The great reset continues, but, like the virus itself, caused by incompetence and not some master plan.

Long term consequences of Covid continue to gain mindshare, damage already done with a "new normal" for far to many, like myself.
“It turns out both nginx and Apache have the ability to proxy traffic to a Unix domain socket rather than to an HTTP port, which makes this a useful mechanism for running backend servers without attaching them to TCP ports.”

That’s one useful nugget of information! I had no idea.
Rome can be considered an early attempt at a "globalized" society - while not strictly global it did bring many different regions and cultures over a very wide area under one administrative umbrella, and opened the doors of trade. Among other things, that lets you do things like regularly consume dishes that use geographically distant ingredients. You could probably go down to the store and buy all kinds of spices pretty much anywhere in the Roman Empire.
Neofetch: Command-line system information tool written in bash
Eminent domain followed by an automatic lease for the value of the rights over whatever period these things are valued at? Would that work?

Farmers could quit farming and sell their rights by the year.
> The FUD around Rusting the kernel reminds me of similar sentiments surrounding autonomous vehicles

That, but in the opposite direction.

Decades of promises of self-driving cars. And still nothing able to drive without a driver.

There have been small improvements...cars that have autonomous abilities in some cases.

But overhauling the entire driving fleet of the world to use 5-year-old technology....it's not a realistic expectation.

There are smaller, more practical expectations.
Wow, that was a great read and I’m grateful for the English version on the second page.
I'll take the 1IQ loss if it means society can stop this health theater farce. I've probably lost more than that already from the lockdowns.
Seeing as this needs the original chips taken from an Amiga 2000, I doubt it'll lower much in the way of costs.
In the past I worked at a company in the top 20 bandwidth consumer in the world.

95th billing is the way to go. Due to the nature of the company's content (adult) nobody wanted to do peering agreements due to the public outcry if anyone found out but if that had been possible I figure the plan would have been to follow Netflix's open connect journey.

How to run a top 20th largest bandwidth consumer in the world for < $1M/month.
https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

Disclaimer: These are only my own personal opinions
But typing in the key at boot / mount time is the only setup when disk encryption makes any sense at all.
Why would legalizing marijuana increase cigarette sales?
For me it's fun being able to play around/make hardware for a system that is still simple enough for one to understand broadly how the whole thing works.

The schematics are available for them & they're documented really well

People still make software & games for it for presumably the same reason, then there's people who are into it for the nostalgia and the games.
> I take it you haven't seen what the likes of Mao, Stalin, Lenin, and Hitler did.

Hitler leveraged religion as a tool rather than getting rid of it, and did pretty much the same kind of things as the others (which is individually worse is debatable, though Hitler generally “wins” that competition), so he kind of pretty clearly demonstratee that “getting rid of religion” isn't the source of the problem.
> what are your options?

We're a year and a half into it. We have the data. Aside from vaccination and some degree of proper ventilation, you need to:

1. Not be old.
2. Not be fat.

We talk a lot about #1, but #2 is taboo. We, as a society, prefers that you die unnecessarily young from COVID than feel a little bit of shame. Not to mention #2 was already murdering nearly half a million Americans annually on its own prior to COVID.

This needs to be fixed. Sugar/corn industry lobbyists and fast food advertisers should have been publicly hanged decades ago. Now we have even more incentive to address the issue, but I suppose slowly dying at the age of 37, gasping for breath, is a small price to pay to avoid feeling slightly negative about being 300lbs or impact the dividends of the Coca Cola Corporation.
> The idea that you can't make garrum at home in the traditional way (salt, fish, time) is false.

When I researched this question maybe 8 years ago, the technique was well understood. The outstanding question was which fish was used for this historically, and back then there were a few contenders. Has this since been settled or did you just pick one?
There are so many logical flaws (and bad English) here that it’s hard to know where to begin. The analogy with opium is perhaps the only sensible one. Norway, however, is the world’s cleanest and most ethical producer of opium (oil). Given relatively fixed demand, who do you want as a producer?
We recently used them at work to easily implement role based access control to an internal REST service since unix sockets have the useful ability of being able to tell which user is reading/writing to them. So you don't need to provide passwords or certificates because if the user is logged in on the system, they are already authorized.
SciHub relies on credentials donated (or sold) by people with access to journals to obtain the papers. (If you are in a university, your university likely provides access to many journals and pays for it on your behalf). So yeah, even if they did open source the code, you'll still need to obtain the credentials somehow. Which isn't very pratical.
I don’t follow the automatic lease part of your proposal, sorry.
Does it align with around the time people started cutting the cords (Cable TV) en masse?
Given that we are speaking about a global scale event both "outside the Middle East" and especially "per capita" doesn't matter.

Sure it's the 13th biggest oil producer, sure its wealth comes from Oil and Gas but it does try to reduce the impact by trying to reduce the long term global Oil consumption. Do they maybe sometimes also follow other interest, maybe? But does it nullify the point that it tries to long term reduce global Oil consumption? Not really.

Furthermore and most important Norway stopping Oil and Gas production would not help. You need to reduce the demand first, or else, with rising prices Oil production in likely more problematic countries with likely more environmental damage would largely increase. Leading to a situation where maybe we short term have slightly less Oil usage due to higher prices, but in total a higher climate and environmental damage in the long term.

It also would make Western countries more dependent on non Western countries, which is not a climate aspect but still not grate.
AFAIK China is the world's largest producer of Ammonia (32%. on checking wikipedia).

"Most of the ammonia is still coal-fed. China currently accounts for 95% of global ammonia capacity based
on coal feedstock. In view of China’s ample coal reserves, coal gasification technologies have been further developed and are now used extensively. Coal-based ammonia capacity represents 86% of total Chinese ammonia capacity"

https://www.fertilizer.org/member/Download.aspx?PUBKEY=51f32...

Sure things are changing recently. A few coal-fed ammonia plants have been shutdown. But change is going to take time.

PS: Natural gas still is a heavy CO2 emitter - it doesn't make things all that better.

https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-a...
That's ridiculously bad. In effect their logic is:

"We controlled for various things in the original regression, but hey, there still could be unmeasured confounders that make people who got COVID score less on IQ tests, even before they got COVID! (Like coming from a poorer background, other health vulnerabilities etc. etc. etc.) Unfortunately, we don't have a measure of IQ from before they got COVID. So, we estimated one using a set of variables that we do have measures for!"

Erm... if those extra variables predict IQ, then why not just add them as controls? And of course, if you do so, then you'll still hit the problem that there are plenty of potential unmeasured confounders out there. This is just a silly way to pretend you've controlled for something, when in fact you can't.

The quality of statistics in medicine is so bad. Disgracefully bad. In particular, the Lancet seems to be a serial offender.
That's not how real science works. The burden is on the paper authors to prove they have adequately controlled. From what I can see they haven't done so.

Overall the majority of COVID-19 clinical research has been rushed and very low quality.
I think of Agatha Christie’s remark that she never imagined she would be so rich as to own a motor car, nor so poor as not to have any servants.

I never imagined how much I would be earning in relation to consumer products and travel, nor how little in relation to housing.
This study is honestly quite hopeful. For the last year we've been bombarded with propaganda that long covid is going to cause brain damage and turn you into a fogged up idiot. This study which is not even controlled or pre-post tested at all, and which is primed to show worse effects than the truth due to placebo effects, shows less than 1 IQ point loss for people who don't need hospitalization. Compared to what doomers want us to believe, this is great news.
I always thought that garum is the same as fish sauces in South Eastern Asia.

Differences must be same as differences between Thai/Vietnamese/Japanese sorts.

You just leave salted fish to ferment under sun and then collect liquid. Add other ingredients you like but they are not essential.
As a croat, I don't think this works. It didn't even cross my mind that it would be miracles, a) because it's plural, b) it's combined with the english word "text", c) would be more correct to spell it with 'ch' and not just drop the diacritic d) it's a noun and not an adjective which would be more suitable.
> Why would "per capita" production have any relevance at all?

It's incredibly relevant.

First, without it you have no good measuring stick. It just all depends on the unit (state, member state, country, nation, union, OPEC) you choose for measurement.

Second, and more significantly, changes are more feasible with smaller populations. It's easier for Dublin to make a change than Ireland, and easier for Ireland, than the EU, and easier for the EU than the world.

To answer your earlier point, Norway is ~2.5% of global production. Texas is ~2%.
Given that most people were locked inside for a year, and those who didn't get COVID are even more likely to have followed lockdown rules, any control group measured right now would be reflecting the "locked inside" condition.
> Delta, so far, seems to infect whole households with ease in a way that we didn't see.

According to the latest data out of the UK, Delta is approximately as contagious as Alpha:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

There is simply no basis for these claims of dramatically increased contagion. It’s a meme that was based on early speculation, and repeated mindlessly by the press.
I don't think even my great grandchildren would see the end of oil if we were to allow consumption to continue as it is today. There is an immense amount of reserves in the world.

That being said, there is the option 4 which the EU and US are talking about right now: economic punishment. Adding a "you don't have a carbon tax" levy on imports is a good way to motivate other countries to adopt technologies and ways of thinking that the rich countries of the world are pioneering for high quality but low carbon lifestyles.
Relearning My Love for Math
Dunning-Kruger.

Consciousness has, as yet, no empirical explanation. Only a variety of theories that, so far, have failed to make any headway in providing an explanation. That's why it's called the "hard problem of consciousness."

If you think there is an easy answer, then you do not yet understand the question.
Ahh, this makes sense for why we wouldn't want to drill in the arctic, and I hadn't seen these arguments before, so thank you.

The article was very unclear about this - it implied fossil fuel exploration in the arctic is bad because the arctic is "most sensitive to climate change", but what it really should have said is "least able to deal with the environmental damage that inevitably accompanies drilling".

Am I still correct that as far as climate change affecting the arctic, burning one barrel of oil extracted from the arctic is the same as burning one barrel of oil extracted from (e.g.) the middle east?
That's technically Argo Tunnel tbf - their naming is worse than Google's, CF pushes pure Argo as better path from CF ingestion point to origin server because it now goes CF ingestion -> CF network -> Nearest CF network pop to origin -> origin, they claim non Argo is usually CF ingestion -> transit all the way -> origin which is probably more expensive for them too.
In my opinion, you should learn Rust even if it doesn't get adopted everywhere. My experience is that learning the coding style enforced by the borrow checker (having to think about whether a piece of data is "owned" or "borrowed", whether it's an exclusive or shared borrow, whether it's safe to send or access it from another thread) makes you a better programmer in other languages.
That’s the basic idea but you also need to include the net costs of working (clothes, commute, lunch, etc.)

It’s more likely to work out that way with disparate earners and in high tax states.
Thanks, that makes more sense. :)
> three modules cannot depend on each other in a circular way

What would the purpose of circular modules like this be? You may as well collapse into a single module and the situation would not be any different would it?
I self host my personal mail server with stock debian / exim / spamasssasin without any tweaking on a tiny A20 Olimex Server. Spam filtering works better than that of the professional posteo.de service which I also use for a club.
It's funny how even with such a harmless comment people feel the need to get in a pointless dig against poor white uneducated Americans (the superpower, not the continent), as if you really had to explain you are talking about the continents and not the ignorant rabble you're so superior to.
Honestly, I haven't even gotten into the cross-browser testing parts of this endeavour yet and what you write about frightens me hehe. But, since the project I am working on that has this is entirely open source, I figure if someone really wants rigid support for X browser, perhaps they can contribute. I usually build my OSS projects for myself, and share it only because why-not and perhaps someone can learn something from my projects.

As for ClojureScript, well, I just find it a lot more concise and easier to read than a non-lisp. I realise this is not the case for someone who has never seen Lisp before, but from my experience, people who do learn how to read a Lisp tend to also see that point of view of it being highly effective at conveying meaning. I just feel like there's less cognitive overload with it.

I still make money writing plain old JavaScript, Java, PHP and other C-derivatives, but for personal use Clojure is my go-to.
One of the biggest myths about EVs is busted in new study
Probably because Twitter is an arm of the state and weaponized against threats to their desired monopoly on information
Looking at the project, They don't really connect to SciHub at all, SciHub on downloading a paper (using the credentials) saves it on libgen so it could be accessed later by others quickly. These just look like attempts to p2ping easy access to libgen (Which has a huge database (public), and would be sad to lose)
If you're looking for a self hosted "household management" solution, checkout Domestica--https://about.domestica.app. Calendars, budgets, recipes, tasks and more, all integrated and hosted on your stuff.
I’ve only been writing Python for about a year, but I’ve found it much harder to grasp how dependency resolution and imports work than other languages I’ve picked up (JVM, Node, Go, C).
Yeah! For one thing, tylr makes it possible to make sub- and cross-structural selections, which isn't possible in other structure editors. Try typing `2 + 3 * 4` in MPS and selecting `* 4` or even `2 + 3`—you can't because they don't correspond to abstract syntactic terms. tylr understands these sorts of arbitrary range selections and makes sure you manipulate them in reasonable ways (eg see https://twitter.com/dm_0ney/status/1414742962442014720?s=20).
There is good science to not consume marijuana in early years when the brain is not fully developed, but if you are older than your mid-20s what’s your concern about risk?
According to the CDC, the US has had an (estimated) 100M+ infections as of mid-April[0] and Europe had 50M+ as of last week.[1]

I don't know the appropriate way to extrapolate out but we're well past 200M globally.

0: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

1: https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
I believe that there may be quantum mechanisms providing the efficient computation substrate that is our brain. They may also lie at the center of how our long term memories are stored.

However, I believe that consciousness itself is an emergent phenomenon. I believe you could set up a huge neural net (as much as all computation hardware extant in 2021), give it sensors and servos much like the human body, and AGI would be the result after decades of learning.

First it would have to figure out how to hold up it's head, and work with those low resolution cameras that flitter about under servo control. And do all the other things babies do.
Wow. This seems very cool. I wonder if there's a possiblity to add Stackoverflow as a search engine directly to searx.
Yes, I'm sure they're extremely smart, but equally, they are deeply expert in C, and it is not that easy to become deeply expert in Rust (or any other language). Even smart people can't just pick up new tools in a day.
> Your C program is free to define x as an array with four elements and then access x[6] anyway - but Rust deliberately cannot do that. Not in Safe Rust, but also not in Unsafe Rust either.

Woot?

fn main() {
let a = [0, 1, 2];
let _b = [42, 42, 42];
println!("{}", unsafe{a.get_unchecked(6)});
}

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
What relevance does this have to the article? You could argue this research has military application, but it's pretty far removed from Skynet.

It's certainly not the next big research question.
We should’ve listened to Wendell Berry. https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/the-unsettling-...
COVID might be the worst infectious disease in recent memory, but it is far from the worst disease in history.
Nice.

Would we not learn a lot more by landing on these moons?
Cherry-picking wearable consumer electronics as a class that intrinsically suffers from diminishing returns with respect to repairability doesn't negate the fact that there's a crapton of other classes in a common household whose design space isn't fundamentally constrained in the same ways but nevertheless artificially suffer from unsustainable lifecycle trade-offs that could have easily been designed around or avoided altogether if objectively targeted from the onset.
That would be unexpected. Not impossible, but improbable. Think about it this way: do you know of any other vaccines with 4-week intervals? If all other vaccines use longer intervals, what are the chances that this particular vaccines needs a shorter interval?

The decisions made in UK and Canada to delay the second dose were not a random choice. They were expected to work based on the body of knowledge we have from other vaccines and what we know about the immune system. It was by no means a certainty, but a strong probability. And it paid off.
The Hittites were gone, but languages related to Hittite were still spoken throughout Asia Minor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian_languages
Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with what you mean by "network sockets be accessed as files." Do you mean unix domain sockets? These are in fact commonly used and they're certainly no less efficient (more efficient in many ways, in fact).

UDS are interfaced with via the same berkeley sockets api, not via the filesystem api. Have you ever written applications that use them?
> Deeply subjective. Rust has been the most loved language on Stack Overflow for 5 years in a row now.

How many of those votes were cast by programmers who have actually used the language?
Cooperative business models were built exactly for this sort of thing. Farmers have been doing this since the dawn of time.
> Because ipv6 rollout is hard, and even if you do have ipv6 rolled out in your network, you'll still need ivp4 for vast portions of the internet

The experience of the ISP Free in France:

After having had a succinct presentation of the 6rd idea, a major
French Internet service provider (ISP), Free of the Iliad group
(hereafter Free), did all of the following in an impressively short
delay of only five weeks (November 7th to December 11th 2007):

1. obtained from its regional Internet Registry (RIR) an IPv6
prefix, the length of which was that allocated without a
justification and a delay to examine it, namely /32;

2. added 6rd support to the software of its Freebox home-gateway
(upgrading for this an available 6to4 code);

3. provisioned PC-compatible platform with a 6to4 gateway software;

4. modified it to support 6rd;

5. tested IPv6 operation with several operating systems and
applications;

6. finished operational deployment, by means of new version of the
downloadable software of their Freeboxes;

7. announced IPv6 Internet connectivity, at no extra charge, for all
its customers wishing to activate it.

More than 1,500,000 residential customers thus became able to use
IPv6 if they wished, with all the look and feel of native IPv6
addresses routed in IPv6. The only condition was an activation of
IPv6 in their Freeboxes, and of course in their IPv6-capable hosts.

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5569

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_rapid_deployment

This was ten years ago, so the Internet was less integral to people's lives (relatively speaking). Some more testing may be needed nowadays for IP end-nodes, but I'm not sure if things in the network infrastructure would be any more challenging.
I thought not knowing that made me a noob.
Works here. Also, i'm glad it's selfhosted and not some CloudFlare anti-privacy junk.

In case it's down again, feel free to use the Internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20210724134023/https://doc.huc.f...
I think you are ignoring some realities if you expect change from the Middle East.

The same with expecting the low-per capita producers to change first.
This sounds like an awesome idea, and for many communities it might be, but having to trust someone you know personally for things like these can also be a source of drama when your relationship becomes bad for unrelated reasons
The Windows registry is not a "simple key/value store" by a long shot. It is hierarchical, there are many different types of value, and there's a complex system of security attributes. These are simple facts.

You're right that a file per value would take a whole block on disk given the way some filesystems are currently implemented, but that's not an immutable feature of all filesystems - some Unix filesystems store small files in the inode. A real database is possible, but also the registry must be available very early in Windows boot (actually it's used by the bootloader, but also by the critical device database) so you'd want something that's at least easy to read with a smallish amount of code.