skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That this is a post on LinkedIn shouldn’t take away from the important points it is making :-)

As a physicist who knows a little bit about quantum computing, my understanding is that we’re far far away from building usable quantum computers (it’s still at an applied research stage, and nowhere close to “just an engineering/design problem”) — all hype be damned.
The reason I switched from LuaTeX, which I agree is otherwise superior (and...the Lua thing!), is that it has some horrible and well-known bug in its font loading mechanism, where if you load a large number of fonts, it sucks up enormous memory and CPU resources. I have documents that simply grind to a halt if I try to process them with LuaTeX, but compile in seconds using XeLaTeX. I hope that’s fixed now, because I would rather use LuaTeX.
> dissuade people from leaking stuff that is confidential

So it just dissuades people from exposing the govt wrongdoing the govt is trying to cover up.

If we’re only allowed to know about the wrongdoing the government does publicly we wouldn’t need investigative journalism.
It’s not necessarily a Magnuson-Moss violation (though it could be, if repair service and parts aren’t provided for free) but because the “warranty void if removed” is always untrue it’s an “unfair or deceptive business practice” prohibited by Section 5 of the FTC Act.
I think this is a factually true statement if your business uses any computers. ;)
> I suffer from chronic anxiety and the tales of weed just relaxing you sounded like a magic pill. It was one of the most intense anxiety inducing experiences I’ve ever had. Very unfortunate, but some people seem to manage it well.

Low doses (5mg of edible or under, for me) have been amazing for my sleep and (very relatedly) anxiety.

The effect of 10mg of same (yes, I know, that's lightweight amounts still) on an empty stomach were... very different. I can definitely see how that would induce anxiety. The disconnectedness and extreme short-term-memory forgetfulness was certainly alarming. I felt about as impaired as when I've been pretty damn drunk, but with a much stronger memory-related effect.

Luckily, just going to sleep much earlier than I'd intended solved the problem. Unlike with alcohol, I woke up the next day feeling great, and had, surprisingly, excellent recall of the sequence of events the night before, despite in-the-moment having great difficulty remembering why I was where I was, even.

YMMV, obviously, but now I know to treat an evening with higher doses (should I try that again) as rather less medicinal than a low-dose evening.
So here's a weird question: Supposing companies multi-home for DNS, or whatever other essential service, via multiple service providers.

Whatever multi-home means, why can't there just be one service provider that does that? And are we sure that these service providers aren't already doing that as best we might hope for? (For instance, Amazon already has multiple zones, etc.)

I suppose the one thing this can't protect against is some sort of political (broadly defined) threat related to the company itself.
I'm sure that's part of it. I had to explain to four people that you can't fit a microchip in an mRNA particle or variations if the sort. I'm far from convinced that's the majority.
It's disgusting! And it's not just the fucking boats, but planes overhead, constantly! (I've lived in M my whole life)
It is still trying to square AGI into human setting. I think Transcendence is the only serious movie I've seen, that actually tries to go beyond that.
Absolutely agree with this. I love that most mainstream monitoring tools today aren’t just “graphs” but they keep in mind contrasting/complementing color codes to make it easy to read and spot changes that may be concerning.

If I’m an engineer operating services I probably have to stare at dashboards and graphs a lot; making them pretty/easy to read makes my life just a little bit easier and I’m grateful for that.
For mobile apps, if you're a single developer, I think going with a single platform is fine. You can only do so much, and if you're familiar with the platform, you can move much more quickly than having to support two. That's the strategy I've chosen and it's helped a lot because I was already an expert in iOS and a lot of the work is just "figuring out what users want" and it's easier to change your code on a single platform that you know really well.
Multi-day… snail mail probably has higher bandwidth, depending on the distance. I usually use https instead of ssh for bigger clones as it tends to be more resilient in the face of tcp shenanigans.
> but seem to have determined one aspect is crucial, regardless of the possible importance of this other aspect.

No. I haven't determined one aspect crucial. It's kinda "bathrooms at a restaurant" thing: if the bathrooms at an otherwise spotless restaurant are dirty, are we to assume that it's just "not all aspects of cleanliness have to be solved"?
Possibly, but not if they are also eating those items selectively, like organic etc. Some of the vegetarians I know are pretty selective about the treatment of the animals that those items come from. I believe they said organic standards require eggs to be produced by chickens that have some outdoor exposure instead of sitting in cages their whole lives.
Correct, they shouldn't be protected because that is espionage. The "journalist" works for Russia, they are a foreign agent, they are just calling themselves something else.

Also, your comment is exactly why people are confused. People read stuff like that on Twitter and think...oh, now MI5 is going to come round to my house, and torture me...why won't the journalists protect us? There are already legal protections against the actions of security services because the UK has a functioning legal system. That is the main protection in our society. Journalists, most of whom spend all day on Twitter sharing salacious bullshit with other journalists, are not the protection (that was my point, in your narrative journalists are the protection but, ironically, they are the main source of misinformation about this bill because their interests are threatened).
Chance of death is recovered people / dead people. Outcomes, not cases in flight.

About 1 percent now. Was as high as 10 before our medicine improved.

Many are dividing dead people by infected people. This understates the risk due to infections in progress are not yet outcomes, which biases the risk assessment to the very best, idealized case. The assumption is nobody else infected will die, which is a false assumption.

With a vaccine on board, chance of death is a mere, small fraction of 1 percent.

For perspective, ask poker players how sure of a thing 1 in 100 is. That hits way more often than people think!
I didn't know that, thank you! This will be a big relief.
jokey title that waste time of those worried about tjat specific bug and also hide the workaround on those interested in it . Smart content but not the title .
People are so scared these days. It is just few (2) shots. Do not take yourself so seriously.
If someone doesn't think of themself as a "real artist" even though they really do make real art, they might not seek a paid job that uses their art skills, as a UI designer or otherwise. I think that could reasonably be described as "imposter syndrome" by a layperson, but I'm not going to haggle over whether or not it meets a formal definition.
The German Producer Making Music with Salvaged Nuclear Lab Equipment
> After decades of pushing drugs on us

E.g. the US government had a role in the opioid crisis.
Why So Quantum?
Art school grad here - Though I'm not a professional software developer myself, I have a couple artist/SWE friends who are involved in the Algorave community along with a lot of other creative coders. While not a strictly visual medium it could be a nice jumping off point to look into!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorave
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I think part of that isn't the symptoms of the drug but the culture surrounding it. In most places its illegal or at the very least frowned upon, so being one who does this regularly makes you perceived by some parts of society as some sort of black sheep. People wear the black sheep badge proudly and can be arrogant and in your face about it. Just look at how techies act online. Smoking pot, like knowing stuff about technology, makes you 'in the know' relative to the rest of society, and can make you feel superior that you are taking part in something that most people will never or might outright refuse to experience.

Even in parts of the US where its been legal to smoke pot for some time like California, the social stigma of meeting up for drinks at a bar regularly and meeting up to smoke pot regularly are not equivalent. Your employer might even drug test you still.
Unfortunately it is not your imagination, their reporting is becoming mere blogspam.

The main UK channels here seems to be somewhat decent but should be taken with a pinch of typical BBC bias, perhaps the news website is where they let their work-experience folk loose.
If you want to build a competitor to Starlink that does the same thing and is ideal for terrible internet areas, you need to put up satellites, and SpaceX is the only company that you can pay to do so economically.
According to studies, cannabis potency has indeed increasedi n Europe in the last few decades. See An overview of cannabis potency in Europe (https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/insights/cannabis-...) and Increasing potency and price of cannabis in Europe, 2006–16 (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.14525). From the abstract of the latter study:

"Resin potency increased from a mean [95% confidence interval (CI)] of 8.14% THC (6.89, 9.49) in 2006 to 17.22 (15.23, 19.25) in 2016. Resin price increased from 8.21 euros/g (7.54, 8.97) to 12.27 (10.62, 14.16). Resin increased in value, from 11.00 mg THC per euro (8.60, 13.62) to 16.39 (13.68, 19.05). Quadratic time trends for resin potency and value indicated minimal change from 2006 to 2011, followed by marked increases from 2011 to 2016. Herbal cannabis potency increased from 5.00% THC (3.91, 6.23) to 10.22 (9.01, 11.47). Herbal price increased from 7.36 euros/g (6.22, 8.53) to 12.22 (10.59, 14.03). The value of herbal cannabis did not change from 12.65 mg of THC per euro (10.18, 15.34) to 12.72 (10.73, 14.73). All price trends persisted after adjusting for inflation.

Conclusions
European cannabis resin and herbal cannabis increased in potency and price from 2006 to 2016. Cannabis resin (but not herbal cannabis) increased in the quantity of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol per euro spent. Marked increases in resin potency and value from 2011 to 2016 are consistent with the emergence of new resin production techniques in European and neighbouring drug markets."

Certainly, the potency is much higher than it was in the 1960's and 1970's.
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Yup, that's definitely a great target for a product like ours. Like you said, especially for a start-up in a market of more well established products, it's hard to juggle product growth with scaling up integrations (and all the work that goes into it: from security to API changes).
Again, dismissing my points. What about Britanny (breton and Gallo, see my previous post)? What about the Basque country? What about Alsace? What about Savoy then, if it was "mostly a political organization" (that created modern Italy by the way)? What about Occitanie? and Catalonia (Roussillon mostly)? Aquitaine? Do we talk about northern France then, since we saw pretty much All the south is NOT French? Is Normandy French? Culturally? When the original normand had so many word from the danes, and even the name tell us where they come from (NOR-mand)? Picardia (from Baie de Somme to liege basically), do you consider it French? Because i'm pretty sure, it use to be way closer to the lowlands than France, culturally (when the Duchy of Artois existed, at least).

I only know one contry well, mine, and a bit of northern Italy (i'm a 1750-1911 history nerd).

So now i'm gonna dissect northern Italy: you can count Liguria (closer to Occitan than Rome), as well as Piedmont ethnicity (but since the Duchy of Savoy is mostly political, i guess it doesn't exist... Ho, wait, did this duchy not inherit Sardinia from the pope and the Hasburg and form the kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont? I guess it was based on ethnicity then.) Do you think Venitians where closer to Roman (or i guess Piedmont) than they were to Dalmatians before the 18th century? I am sure it wasn't the case.

You map of Rome is funny. Here is what i found [0]. This is obviously not following ethnic divisions. Unless the basques moved during the time period, but i'm certain they did not.

[0]https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/266.png?v=162592...
Yes totally, but FS is a Kernel abstraction, it deals with questions like:
How to keep a directory?
How to keep a file?
How to keep synlinks.
Etc,

These can be implemented in any higher level language or within C without using fixed width numerals if correct abstractions were available. Only device control parts should use fixed with numerals in my opinion.
Yes. That first paper is Boehm, Barry W., "Software Engineering", IEEE Transactions on Computers, December 1976, pp. 1226-1241, vol. 25
DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/TC.1976.1674590, https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/tc/1976/12/01674590/13... At the time Barry W. Boehm was at the TRW Systems and Energy Group.

The Boehm paper says "Fig. 3 shows a summary of current experience at IBM[4], GTE[5], and TRW on the relative cost of correcting software errors as a function of the phase in which they are corrected." and indeed figure 3 (page 1228) shows exponential growth. It only shows averages or ranges for each data source, and that's a legitimate critique. That said, it does show them for multiple companies, and then presents a trend line that plausibly follows from the data provided. Boehm has a good reputation, I expect that this really was a reasonable observation from real data.

It's legitimate to question whether or not that is still true. Computer "science" is notorious for having almost no science - experiments are almost non-existent. I would love to see this & many other experiments conducted to see what's true today.
Ah, that is a novel and surprising take. Thanks!

Essentially exploits are sold massively under their "true value" and NSO doesn't get to capture this value because there are so many others giving them away for free.

It seems to me that a lot of exploits / PoCs are developed by security researchers doing it for the sport and making a name for themselves. This is probably part of the reason why exploits are so cheap.
So then the question is, how much less productive will these researchers be if building exploits gets harder.

My feeling is that they will put in roughly the same amount of time. And hence their exploit production will probably drop proportionally to how much harder exploits are to find.
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> "One of her doctors insisted the cause was marijuana..."

Anecdotally, this seems to be a common viewpoint among doctors. As soon as you admit to using marijuana, in any amount, then suddenly any health issues are caused by marijuana. Asthma? Caused by weed. Trouble focusing? Caused by weed. You vomited? Must be cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
It can take a long time to get enough of the game together to test fun vs not fun. Racing games for example can be play tested before the art is finished, but they are heavily dependent on subtle interactions between the tracks, cars, physics engine, and controls.
I also have no real knowledge about the situation, but it's also plausible for the two to be related: that is, you were easy to defraud because of your incompetence. Which of course doesn't make the perpetrator any less culpable.
By what pathway is the schizophrenia triggered?

And is the trigger causal or catalytic?
> Unfortunately not one of them is Twitter

Please keep comments like this off HN
Many places are tiered, so if you go above a certain kW/h the rate doubles or triples. Cali and parts of NY state are like that (never lived anywhere else tho).
The decour in the TVA in Loki reminds me of 1950s visions of the future.
Ask HN: How to 'just code' and learn a language 'robustly'?
'Learn to Code' videos often mention that the only way to learn coding is by actually coding.
How can I balance this approach and still gain a strong conceptual knowledge of a language? Any tips?
A little known trivia: Apache Hadoop (and the multi-billion dollar open source big-data ecosystem it spawned) was worked upon at first at Internet Archive [0].

Speaking of billions: According to Kahle, Alexa Internet's compute infrastructure informed Amazon's take on IaaS (AWS) [1].

Another perhaps lost nugget is Amazon once funded (either in part or in full) the development of the Wayback Machine, Internet Archive's most impactful product. In addition, till date (if I'm not mistaken) Amazon continues to donate data it fetches from Alexa Toolbar installations to the Wayback Machine.

[0] https://archive.is/Le3id

[1] https://archive.is/EnzHq
Can you explain what family organizer-based recovery means? It sounds like dad or mom could recover a kids password?
Unless there is a mediator

H/t Judea Pearl
I was a one-book-at-a-time person for the longest time, and in the last two years relaxed what I realized was an arbitrary rule and allowed myself to read any of a number of books (because I buy them faster than I can read them anyways) depending on my mood. I currently have at least one going in each of these areas:

- technical

- design

- autobiography

- classic fiction

- short nonfiction anthology

- history

Progress is a lot slower per book, but it’s not a race. I much prefer being able to pick up whatever I’m interested in at the time than having to wait, feeling like I have to slog through the end of the current book.
People harp on China or North Korea being police states but the United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation by a significant margin. The US justice system is rife with discrimination and the prison conditions are dire (as you point out). People should absolutely not be extradited to the USA until this changes.
If a country does not obey human rights charters I don't think we'll send you to one of our good prisons really works, because that a prison is good is just a happenstance and there is no legal reason why it should continue to be good.
Easiest way to lose touch with the general populace! :-)

In an ideal world, we should be learning from more authoritative sources, so we can keep a finger on the pulse and filter out BS when needed. Participating with fellow people to drive consensus is as important as growing ones own knowledge/understanding.
> Instead of jumping to straight UBI we need to build an abundance of housing that is of good quality, affordable to build, is operated by the state

since you're willing to take incremental steps, perhaps we could have the state stop preventing cheap housing from existing, first.

it's not even legal to rent out decent, clean, individual rooms in many places.
It depends how you interpret these things. On a technical level, TS is not sound (you can have runtime type errors in programs that have "correct" types according to TS). For type system aficionados that may not even count as a proper type system.
Definitely, 1/100 is an insane risk. No one on their right mind would take it.

Also, there is much more than 1% chance of very serious life long complications.
> extradition agreement with the US seems filled with its own issues (extradition requires no evidence and doesn't seem to allow the usual defences)

Is that bad or unusual? It's no different than being required to appear in court in your own country 'without evidence' really is it?

IANAL but AIUI extradition just means one country will uphold the other's standard of compelling you to appear in its court.

(resp. also serving sentence if tried in absentia.)
Only for integers -- you can't subtract strings, but <=> compares them just fine.
What would the implications be for our understanding of consciousness in other species of this hypothesis was true?
What are the dense lines of satellites?
Starlink will most definitely add caps, IMHO. If you have tens of millions of subscribers trying to download terabytes of video per month... yeah, that's gonna be a problem.
regardless of whether it's technically correct(or who even gets to decide that) - the point of using language is to communicate, if you are communicating what you want then you're accomplishing your goal.

Sometimes you might want to speak more formally or 'proper' - but that's just another example of communicating effectively, by using word choice to convey the right level of formality. Or to be perceived a certain way.

Of course it's fine people are pointing out that they use the word a different way. Just saying I think the author used a clear word choice to effectively communicate what he meant to the largest number of people - even the people who are pointing out that he used the word wrong know what he was trying to communicate(otherwise they wouldn't realize he was using it 'incorrectly').
> The increased food competition may also be caused by the more recent phenomenon of climate change and a collapse in fruit availability as observed in other tropical forests in Gabon.

It seems like an educated guess.
Rugged Individualism in action. That idea saw broad promotion and acceptance.

The impact is a solid percentage of us basically unable to think in basic group, or class terms.
“Bad things happened to us, therefore we’re justified” is a core argument for a lot of nationalist movements.
I Tried to Make Claims About Election Fraud Trump Fans Wouldn’t Believe
I submitted this because it offers a glimpse, and possibly insight, into what (I think) is a pretty strange and dangerous societal phenomenon.
Why is it more transparent to let a lot of unelected people who represent nobody ask questions? We already have elected people paid to do this job - HM’s opposition.
It's pretty easy to set things up to overcome this hurdle: say either the institute handles your enquiry in a scientifically honourable manner or you will contact one of the high profile muckrakers.

The most entertainingly written such blog to my taste is Leonid Schneider's:

https://forbetterscience.com/author/leonidschneider/

Most university administrators can see avoiding coverage like this is a good thing:

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/06/04/michael-hottiger-of-...
> but I'm not going to haggle over whether or not it meets a formal definition

I'm not trying to haggle, but we can't have a meaningful conversation about a term if you aren't going to define it.

Agree to disagree, I guess.
Yeah, and I hope it works out. But -- last I checked -- I can't use pay pal to add BAT, and I don't think it's a stable coin...
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