skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, even if we are talking about a significant part of lifetime to date, it is still a pretty well-spoilt view from any historical perspective.

And even new variants and vaccine delays cause us to get to years of lockdown that actually constitutes significant portions of full childhoods, are you arguing that childhoods full of funerals and an adulthood full of diminished mental capacity [1] and COVID sequalae are better?

The 'modern' world is not a stable reality, it is a priveliged bubble. In general, and throughout most of history, it is a harsh place with most things trying to kill us. Having to simply take protective measures is as old as humanity, from standing guard through the night watching for other apex predators, to avoiding invaders and plagues, it is a part of what it is to be human (and not even to mention how much easier it is then for other creatures). To view any alteration to our modern routines due to actual biological reality as some injustice is provileged and myopic. Better to turn it into a teaching moment and illustrate how it is a part of history, and in this case, a very mild version of what was previously endured.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5...
Don't try to use the wings for identification beyond color and opacity; the way they're typically depicted in illustration and mounted specimens is a way in which the living animal only holds them while flying, when you can't see them clearly anyway. They're mounted that way because the venation can be diagnostic, but you won't be close enough for long enough, and a live wasp won't hold still enough - even I never get anything useful there, and I shoot wild wasps in 1:1 macro every chance I get. The only even marginally plausible bare-eye feature of the wing, beyond aforementioned color and infuscation, is the presence or absence of pterostigmata, and that alone isn't terribly useful.

In general, for bare-eye identification you want to look at size, general conformation (eg Vespinae have a generally more robust build and a markedly blunt postpropodeal gaster vs Polistinae and solitaries, while sawflies don't have a "wasp waist" abdominal petiole at all), body and leg markings, and in some cases proportions of facial features, although that's often more useful in identifying a family or a genus than a species. With a living, active animal, many features can be hard to spot, so knowledge of locally common species is also useful in guiding identification, as is behavior - the four-toothed mason wasps that build nest cells in my porch stair rails look at a glance a lot like bald-faced yellowjackets, but behave totally differently, which can be enough to distinguish even without a chance at a close look.

If you have photos or even just an accurate description and still want a specific (from photos) or at least familial ID, I might be able to give you one from them; I'm only an interested amateur and not as familiar with true hornets since there are few to be found in the Nearctic, but I've been an interested amateur for long enough to be both well supplied with references and reasonably practiced at identification. Feel free to email me at any of the addresses in my profile, or just reply here, and I'll be happy to take a look.

Failing that, if you do have photos, BugGuide and iNaturalist are good options for identification, although my experience with the latter suggests difficult IDs aren't likely to find much traction there - that might, as some have argued, be an effect of the platform's gamification, but I think it may be more just that hymenopterologists are likely no more common there than elsewhere.
If you want to know how it works, check out code of this project: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/realless
The comparison of AWS WAF to Sophos could not be more misleading. It’s an engine for building a limited set of HTTP exploit detections, and has nothing to do with endpoint protection whatsoever.
So that's why RootkitRevealer does not work with newer versions of Windows.
Right b3morales - they can and should be proportionate to both size of company, revenue and the type of regulatory infraction - all of these must be evaluated but it doesn't mean we shouldn't enforce.

To take the restaurant example, a mom/pops restaurant may have less resource to bear for cleanliness and safety but if it consistently, knowingly persists in doing something that makes it's patrons ill - it is any less at fault than a chain of restaurants that does the same?
The fine may be proportional to that organization - that's the goal with the GDPR's revenue % based fine format but it could/should go further for large companies that consistently fail.
My impression is that crypto people, being mildly allergic to asn.1, decided not to use it to specify standard serialization formats in our new world of EC crypto. So here we are without asn.1 and without a replacement. I generally think if you’re going to remove something because you think it sucks it’s on you to replace it with an equivalent or clearly justify why it was vestigial if you don't have one.

In this case you really don't need a DER calibre encoding either, you just need a standard in the first place. It’s just that the standard would historically likely use asn.1. But that doesn't have to be the case. Maybe the closest thing is the ECDSA point form specified in https://www.secg.org/sec1-v2.pdf#page16. The the curve domain parameters in sec2 are, you guessed it, specified in asn.1.
I agree with you. there is nothing to be proud of in his case except that his life doesn't seem to be affected directly by inflation so long as the rest of society keeps its status quo.

I like you recognize that capitalism and money are not the same as productivity and value add....he doesn't seem to do the latter but he benefits still from the former because as you said he is a mooch.
Sub 1% is a figure I don't see anywhere here https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries/member-c...

Edit: ah yes, less than 1% is what Chzechia contributes TO the EU.

```

Intra-EU trade accounts for 84% of the Czech Republic’s exports (Germany 32%, Slovakia 8% and Poland 6%), while outside the EU 2% goes to both the United States and Russia.

In terms of imports, 76% come from EU Member States (Germany 29%, Poland 9% and Slovakia 6%), while outside the EU 8% come from China and 2% from the United States.

```

```

Total EU spend in Czechia – € 4.123 billion
(equivalent to 2.10 % of the Czech economy)
Total contribution to EU budget – € 1.720 billion
(equivalent to 0.88 % of the Czech economy)

```
> When did medical science become a plebian democracy?

Medical science is still a science. The science says there are treatments, prevention, and

> I don't expect to be consulted about the material they make the seat-belt in my car out of. It's politicised because calling it anti-science would bruise some egos. This is not a political disagreement, this is an arbitrary anti-science conspiracy put forward by anti-vaxxers.

Discounting treatments out of hand, or worse, partisanship, is just as bad as anti-vaxx

> The only reason it's "political" is because all the people who are questioning science just happened to vote for the same president.

The scientific method is all about questions. Science is a process, not an ideological orthodoxy.

I support both distancing, vaccinations and treatment protocols that include antivirals such as HCQ, Ivermectin, and Remdesivir. Why? Because the latest science on clinical outcomes from drug cocktails show better outcomes through use of antivirals, immunomodulators, anticoagulants, vitamins, and many other drugs. It is an evolving field.
To add to that it isn't even legal to be self sufficient. I know how to make several prescription drugs but the moment I provide them to anyone else or anyone finds out I make them I will be put in a cage.
>all fiction is essentially a lie

That's why it's fiction.
A yen is nearly the same as a penny. Does BTC trade in small fractions of yen?
How do you feel about Hungarian notation?
I've been thinking about this a lot over the past couple of years. I even took a sabbatical from my job to build a prototype.

IMO the big thing that most alternatives are missing is end-to-end encryption, like Signal. Otherwise there's no guarantee that you gain anything by moving to a new platform, as long as they can still track/profile you and sell your data, and as long as they can inject whatever garbage they want into your feed. I think this explains a lot of the reluctance to try anything new. Might as well stick with the Zucc you know than risk it with a new one.
A similar thing with India too. For example, a lot of people know field hockey as our national sport, but in reality, India has no national sport.

Additionally, India has no 'founder'.
Martin's Sunday Corner, an ephemeral microblog
I don't see anyone as a "necessary evil." If they are necessary, then they are not evil.
>Unfortunately, listening has much higher friction than reading.

Sure, for a minority of consumers like yourself.

However, for most people that make up the mass audience... they do not like to read long-form text whether it is articles in Vanity Fair, The Atlantic or books.

Yes, people would rather read the text of a temperature and weather forecast on their smartphone -- instead of listen to a long-winded presentation by a tv news meteorologist. But when we compare apples-to-apples of long-form high word count type of content, an audio medium for listening is preferred by mass consumers.

Most would prefer hearing Joe Rogan and his guest speak rather than reading 50000+ word transcripts of a 3 hour conversation. Likewise, talk radio is very popular and has higher audience counts than the circulation numbers of long-form magazines:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-listened-to_radio...

Also, reading has its own "frictions" because text is missing tonal inflection, length of pauses, deadpan vs incredulous delivery, etc.
I'd like someone to do one of these for Policies. Every time I need to tweak an IAM or an S3 or a permission, I have to write a policy. I never quite know what I'm doing, but I get it to work. I'd really like a hand-held walkthrough of why policies are written that way, and how to write one without accidentally footbulleting myself.
Nice to make an illiterate sounding typo in the first sentence. Of course I meant “who was schizophrenic.”
VCs have been doling out cash by the kilo since 2020. Why haven’t they been able to secure funding, even for the modest goal of making a FPGA proof of concept?
That's an interesting one - I'm not sure I follow TeeMassive, do you mean to say that privacy is unimportant culturally?

If that's the case, we probably differ on POV a little so I'd love to know more about why you think this?

In my experience average people who don't work in tech (non devs) do not understand privacy or data use in a system - so it's hard for them to comprehend the potential impact. They're trusting people that work in tech (devs and others) to do the right thing and this is where the problem might be; we're being trusted to ensure we don't abuse or accidentally misuse a position of tremendous knowledge and power.

My parents certainly understand where/how their data is stored or used when they use their phone - aren't we then responsible for keeping those people who don't know safe?
Hugged to death.

I look forward to reading it, once it comes up for air.
How to Have Tough Conversations About Returning to the Office
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Ramraj- you are racist. I am sure Komodo health would love to see your postings about your complete distaste for white people. If you are so bothered by white people, move back to Chennai.
> Scrum (the catholic church to agile's christian sect)

At least the Church only had confession once a week in private.
Probably the latter: Taste bad, and possibly become more poisonous for catepilars. It is quite possible to use that electric signal to trigger some chemical reaction that would accomplish this.
At which point, why would I want "fake" money that I could only spend in one place rather than real dollars? (That said, this does happen at a small scale with things like peer reward points and so forth but that's a fairly straightforward point->dollar exchange through things like gift cards.)
> Why aren't they providing this alternative?

Because Bezos/Amazon spent years building barriers to entry?

Because people's preference for shopping at Amazon, like their preference for shopping at malls 30-40 years earlier, began the disintegration of other forms of retail work?

Because "fulfillment" centers (are you fulfilled yet?) benefit from being in locations that are not typically the ones where people are choosing to live. They need only space and transportation (typically highway) access, and there's no need for there to be other excellent reasons for vibrant human communities to be in the vicinity.

Because employee-owned business (a Jacobin and personal favorite) face numerous obstacles in the US due to legal, political and cultural factors.

Because it's the entire economy, not just Amazon, that is collapsing into "low wage jobs that we don't have robots for yet" and "high wage jobs that can be done from anywhere" (plus, well paid skilled manual labor). When the alternative to one low wage job that will eventually be automated is another low wage job that will eventually be automated, there's not a lot of motivation to create that alternative.
SmartTube seems to be only for Android.

I wish there were something unofficial for Roku, too. (None of the lists of private channels show anything promising.)
time is better spent telling of things that actually happened

How do you know what actually happened outside of your direct experience? Anything that occurred outside the direct experience of a still-living human is known only through the stories people at the time told each other about it: incomplete, imperfectly remembered, biased towards the accounts of survivors who lived to tell their stories or those powerful enough to have their voices heard, even when all involved have the best of intentions of an accurate retelling. Unless the event made a sufficient impact on the physical world (which is itself going to be a very incomplete picture of events) then events older than ~80 years are accessible to us only through such stories.

If you think deliberate fiction is damaging because the human mind doesn't fully distinguish it from truth, even when it knows it to be fiction, then you must hate accounts of "what actually happened" even more: They are often incorrect and yet label themselves as truth, so the human mind is even more likely to take as "truth" something that is incorrect. If the human mind does not always distinguish fiction clearly, then it is even less capable of discerning incorrect accounts of what actually happened from those that are more accurate.

Let's take Inglorious Bastards as an example: What is more damaging, a dark comedy that presents itself as a fiction loosely inspired by actual events? Or a selective sampling of events that presents itself as the truth in denying events like the Holocaust-- something made ever more possible as time passes and those with direct experience die off?

Butterflies in this case are an excellent example of the problems of non fiction as well: The dead butterflies accurately depict what a butterfly looks like by using a pose that shows its full detail a bit better. But in providing that detail it loses the nuance of how a butterfly would look in the wild. And yet a pose from the the wild would give less information about its full visual detail, and no single pose from the wild could fully encapsulate its natural state. This is for one small living thing that we can observe now, today. How much more incomplete of a picture must we have of older events?

If you are disregarding fiction for the reasons you gave, you must also disregard nearly all aspects of prior accounts of human events as being similarly flawed and even more pernicious for their claims of being the truth.
So once again patents have locked up something useful.
Benfords law is a perfect example of something that is cool and compelling and then gets applied inappropriately all over the place by people who don’t know better. Voting, for example.
The Vancouver archipelago. Lots of land high enough to adapt to climate change, rich fisheries, access to fresh water, diverse community with less racism than most places.
Their ideas will become more widespread but it may be done by a different team at this point.
What are we supposed to eat?
@adrianN cheap, efficient vehicles with far less electronics, think VW Beetle, very basic, frugal and easy to maintain. ICE engines have never been more efficient, while EVs are at a very early stage of mass viability. I also feel connected cars should be optional, we are staring into a near future where all travel will be pre permission based and controlled via this apparatus which also tracks your every move regardless of power plant.

The most urgent elements of EVs that need to be looked into are fire risk and control of wrecked vehicles, toxic battery element mining, processing and disposal and cost as previously mentioned. The sheer weight of EVs make tire pollution (a massive problem in urban areas from all vehicles) a big concern.

All cars should revert back to a far more recyclable manufacturing state: the alloys and plastics modern vehicles are made from are not
Perhaps it’s just a side effect of some other system in the plant, like an electrical pulse to communicate “the way this branch is growing has little/much sunlight”.
> how else can one get a deeper insight into how things work

Learn from other people's mistakes. You cannot possibly afford to make all those mistakes yourself.
Who is the "everybody" that is talking about clubhouse? I haven't heard any mention of this since it was introduced. It's totally dead in the water.
The generalization we're looking for here is Sturgeon's Law.
So what exactly brings this turn about? Is it the notion of content becoming an advertisement?
Found the Amazon exec.
I wouldn't call it unnatural; a landing butterfly may well flap for extra lift, the same way a bird does, in order to make a precise and controlled landing. (Hence incidentally the name "flaps" for the trailing-edge extra lift devices that serve the same purpose, in the same regimes of flight, for a rigid-winged aircraft.)

The larger point still stands that butterflies don't hold their wings this way at rest, and it's true of hymenopterans as well; you often see specimen wasps mounted with all four wings fully spread, where the living animal at rest invariably holds the rear wings against the front such that only the latter are really visible. The only time this isn't the case is in flight or when the wings are otherwise in use (eg nest fanning on a hot day), but you need a very fast shutter to freeze that motion, and all you'll see with your bare eye is a blur.
Really good point fitblipper - I see this all the time.

Organizations have poor/no data retention policies so they accumulate information they no longer need for many years and on the other side they continue to build new data processing capabilities that might leverage that old data which lacks any context as to what it was gathered for or how it can (or cannot) be used.

On the point of what degree of identification can be learned (i.e. how personal is the information), I'm constantly reminding by folks in the ML field that you can discern a huge amount about an individual quite precisely from what might initially look like anonymized data - that's one of the exploits that most concern privacy specialists when they talk about differential privacy and pseudonymization - arguably we're not where we need to be yet but thankfully there are a number of teams working on solutions to this.

By this I mean the data analysis part; the retention and policy issue, that's still one most companies need to do better on.
Worse is better is definitely better. I have no doubts about it.

Natural organisms seem to follow that pattern - Pauling showed the cells produce sub-optimum concentrations of substances by genetic machinery probably because keeping it at optimum takes up more resources to maintain cellular machinery. Sounds totally like worse is better to me. Life is full of examples .
Mate, you are taking this too personal. your account here won't survive long like that. The "smearing foss" comment wasn't targeting you.

You are just wrong about the usability and compatibility. Especially compatibility is the strong suit of FOSS software in general and Linux specifically. There is broader hardware and software support. It's a fact, get over it. Usability always depends on the context and task, your general statement is bs - and it clashes with the comments you got of novice users working very well with Linux. Usability is defined in a DIN ISO norm, have a look at that before using it for arguments.

Your comment is too long to go into the details, but I'll response in short to the main points:

1. No, Bash is not the most common interface, though I like it. It has to be used for the rare edge case, everything else can be done with GUIs. If your impression is otherwise you are not using mainstream distros nor are you doing regular tasks. Use Gnome or KDE on Ubuntu and stop distro hopping.

2. I'm playing exclusively on Linux since Proton got introduced, though I even used Linux for games before that. I'm okay with the occasional game not working, as Windows was vastly more cumbersome to keep in a working state, plus the many games that did not work there will also not be forgotten by me.

3. Void Linux is my current choice. I was a supporter in a Ubuntu forum and used that for many years, and still for the dayjob. I did use Funtoo for a while in between.
And I’m telling you, at the actual school board meetings it is entirely the same set of people.

The people you are complaining about don’t show up on either side.
Or maybe it's because the education system you were provided with has significant incentives to avoid getting you too familiar with these words and concepts?

"Old timey" in this context might translate into "written by someone who is aware of a century or three's thinking and writing about the relationships between labor and capital and how they impact social and economic structure".
Plants have all sorts of defense mechanisms, toxins etc, that they've evolved (since they're sitting ducks). Its a reasonable hypothesis that some energetically intensive to produce toxin could have its production induced, for example (the plant wouldn't want to waste energy on producing the toxins when not needed). I believe there are also plants that have been shown to release compounds that attract parasitic wasps to kill the pest. That could also be triggered here, another reasonable hypothesis.
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The time series spanning 3 orders of magnitude over a course if years is not sufficient condition for Benford's law to apply. As a trivial example, a stock whose price started at $1 and increased by $1 every day for 30 years would span 4 orders of magnitude over that time period, but would not follow Benford's law.

A formal justification for applying Benford's law to a time series like that would depend on some kind of ergodicity argument which has not been made either by Gelman or the original author of the post he's talking about. I'm rather skeptical.

As a first step into deciding whether it's reasonable I would do something like the plot for Berkshire Hathaway for each of a large collection of companies, and collect some measure of disagreement between the model (Benford's law) and the observed distribution for each stock. I'm guessing many of these stocks would follow Benford's law no better than Bitcoin.
Agreed @swiley. I'm usually heartened when I remember that security wasn't dissimilar a few years ago and while it arguably still has a lot of challenges, security is part of a healthy dev mindset today.
We've a way to go for privacy but I believe by building the right tools to make it easier for devs, this will happen.