skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a counter-anecdote. There's depression and anxiety in my family tree, and it has caught up to me too in the last year. Among other remedies, I've experimented with small doses of edibles (they are legal where I live). I don't particularly enjoy the high, but for me it does take the edge off the worst times, without side effects. It lets me at least relax/sleep. (It kind of takes the edge off everything, which is why I don't like it and don't do it recreationally.)

I think this is very much a YMMV situation. I certainly don't recommend it as the only solution. It has been useful to me as a medicine, though, in the same way I might take a cough suppressant during a serious cold.
This article reminds me of people that say the eagles could have dropped the ring into Mordor.

The corporate world has spent the better part of a century convincing the populace that when one doesn't work in cubes, "people" like artists, then they aren't really doing their share.

And now, suddenly, the corporate state wants those people to prioritize their value as resources to the corporatocracy.

Much like the eagles from LOTR, some people don't have any interest of your company, or IPO, or your disruption no matter how "valuable" they could be to some corporate bottom line.
See this comments branch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27921095.
He will be considered a threat to society, and kept locked up for another 5 years.. rinse and repeat
If you are an isolated island then at least you have a chance to do something like what Australia is trying
. You don’t have hundreds of thousands of border crossing work commuters and truck drivers who would drive through any “closed” border like e.g in the EU or between US states.

And given the less-than-spectacular vaccine rollout, you can probably justify lockdowns that just delay the pandemic by a month or so, since a month is a huge number of vaccinated people. Also since Australia didn’t get a round of natural infection from the previous virus variants, they are looking at the full R of the delta variant without the reduction multiplier of e.g 0.7 that a country with 30% antibodies would have a (assuming no reinfections and neutralizing immunity which is optimistic). Delta could easily overwhelm healthcare without lockdowns there.

That said, I’d expect there to be a pretty vivid debate about what the cost (in lives, and money which is also eventually lives if it’s public money) is of the lockdowns.

Because other than the delay argument - which is valid - locking down to prevent a few thousand dead isn’t sensible or logical unless the same should happen for a bad flu season.
> How is a large percentage of people getting the beta an indication that we're past beta testing?

Because testing is giving it to people and seeing what happens. The more people you give it to, the more rare and unusual reactions you can find. IIRC, drug testing involves giving the drug to progressively larger groups of people, to mitigate the damage if there are serious adverse side effects.

> None of the vaccines have FDA approval.

While technically they don't have "full approval," they do have "emergency use approval." At this point, full approval is just a bureaucratic exercise, because the widespread emergency use rollout has tested these vaccines far, far better than any typical pharmaceutical testing program.

Per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research#Ph...), a Phase III trial involves 300–3,000 test patients. About 50% of the US population has been vaccinated, so you can think of that as a test on 150 million people. That's 50,000 times more than in your typical drug trial.

At this point, refusing the vaccine because it hasn't been tested enough is like refusing a common drug like ibuprofen for the same reason.
Sorry, I was unclear. Too much context in my head from the times I've jousted with this and I forgot to contextualize properly. (Which is ironic since part of my complaint is precisely that too few people know this stuff.) That family of functions allows you to open things based on handles more easily. So you can open a directory, and while holding on to the handle for that directory, know that you are still in that directory, even potentially open files in that directory and then, once you do that, know that you have a file in that directory (or, atomically, don't).

It's the difference between

dirHandle = open("some path");
fileInDir = openat(dirHandle, "some file");

versus

dir = open("some path")
// examine the directory, then
fileInDir = open("some path/some file");

In the second case, between those two lines, you can have something else jump in and modify or remove or repermission or whatever the "some file". It has never been the largest security issue, but it's been a running undercurrent of securit issues for decades.

In the first case, you have atomically-safe operations; you either get the directory or don't, then either get the file handle or don't, etc, and once you have the handle nobody else can take it from you, even if they rename the file under you, etc. It means that if you are writing logic like "if the file is setuid, do this", there's no way for an external process to wedge in between the two things.

In other words, you ought to be able to not just read from a file handle, but also open relative to the handle directly, and do all those other things. Any API that operates in terms of paths is pretty much intrinsically open to TOCTOU, because any time you "check" a path vs. "use" the path, which is fairly common, you have a window of opportunity for lossage. I'm not sure I've yet seen a non-C way of doing this built into a standard library.

Also... before you jump in with some "what ifs", no, these functions don't magically make your code more secure. You still have to use them correctly and it's still pretty easy to mistakenly let path-based logic slip in accidentally even so. It doesn't make insecure code secure; it makes guaranteed insecure (in security-sensitive contexts, obviously a lot of time this isn't a security issue) code possible to write securely.
> There's nothing stopping them from improving their own services.

Except the laws of physics I guess. Geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 km out so best case scenario if you were going straight up to a satellite in such an orbit and back down even at the speed of light in a vacuum that’s a lower bound of a quarter of a second of latency. So unless these legacy satellite internet companies launch LEO constellations of their own, which there’s no indication they’re capable of doing, it seems pretty hopeless for them.
That just sounds like a lack of confidence. If you aren't an imposter, why would you call it imposter syndrome?
I hear this argument pretty frequently, but it comes off as more of an excuse.

Most people aren't thumping the dictionary like a fundamentalist might a Bible, they're just pointing out that they have a different understanding of the word than another person does. Language is useful when everyone's on the same page.

And especially regarding words drifting toward hyperbole, exaggeration, and sometimes simple misuse, sometimes it makes sense to resist the change. Compare this to cultural drift as a whole - sometimes, it drifts away for the worse and people calling it out as such aren't necessarily being obtuse just for the fun of it.

Sincerely, a person that refuses to let to of the whole "literally" thing. I'm great at parties.
To me it's about as strong as the correlation between schizophrenia and _any_ use of psychedelics. THC's effects have more in common with a psychedelic than they do an analgesic or stimulant. It's not a body drug, even if it sometimes makes you feel that way. If we legalized psilocybin nationwide, I would bet money that these kinds of studies would show "correlations" in schizophrenia use among those who have taken mushrooms as well. And they would probably be the similar, if not follow the same exact curve, as what we see for MJ.
While I do have some sympathy for the argument that Google has too much power in the court of public opinion, Oracle was clearly on the wrong side of history here. The damage to the industry from allowing APIs to be copyrighted would have been immense.
Hacker News is the new /r/politics. Change my mind.
This comment being down-voted, along with the top most up-voted child being a quip about being rewarded for being down-voted, is art.

It's very clear that absolute vote count is a meaningless number. The vote count depends on which side of the argument that the reader belongs to. The simpler side of the argument will therefore attract more upvotes.

What the writer of the comment ultimately cares about is how many people were against the writer's comment that is now for it. Or at the very least, a piece of the argument has pushed the Overton window for that individual so that if they continue reading that writer's post and those whom allegiance with them, they will flip. That must be a vanishingly small number of the votes. Votes don't give you that.

It's very clear from my perspective that randomdata's post was made in good faith. randomdata's argument is one of clarity from understanding this nuance. He doesn't go into this depth, but it's there. The only way that you make the argument that randomdata is making is after having comes to terms with the mechanics. As he has skipped showing this depth his comment is unable to bring those of which understand the simpler argument but don't understand his argument, and he is therefore down-voted for it.

The fact that it has taken me five paragraphs to explain this nuance and not even go into it myself is why Twitter can be such a nasty place, as you don't have five paragraphs.

I'm now making this post 12 hours later, right when the post is at the bottom of the frontpage is therefore about to fall off a cliff of readability. As I care about getting my message across, I'm in complete agreeance with randomdata's argument. (+200 / -200) is much more important to me than ( +3 / -4). It's very likely the only person who might read this at this point is randomdata, of which I am speaking to the choir and achieving no change of view.
Making Sure People Count with Big Data and Machine Learning
(Cloud) Confluence is rather slow, and does not support markdown or any kind of text editing. Only their awful, awful WYSIWYG editor which of course is different from all other Atlassian products.
Inuits and Bedouins are at or near (or some meaningful fraction of) carrying capacity for their environment.

Reducing (formerly) temperate-area population density to Inuit levels would be catastrophic.

Yes, humans as a species would survive. But that's about all you can say.
Another example of this is the investment app Robinhood. They make it so easy for beginners to start investing because they have removed all the cutter from their UI and UX - granted some would argue that it's too simple for the user's own good.
I don't see how wildcard DNS is related to this? Nor how it's bad?
Whatever concept you can think of, it is likely that there is already a German word for it ;)
I was unclear. See my other cousin reply; you can't use it yourself to have a directory handle and securely open files in that directory. You can only open things by path.
Tuition is $9k per semester full time [1]. You're looking at costs that include housing, which someone needs regardless of their status as a student.

[1] https://financialaid.utah.edu/tuition-and-fees/cost-of-atten...
I had my Twitter locked for a rude post that I made at someone I blocked.

I do not understand why I should give anywhere near a polite response to someone who manages to slip past a very clearly articulated access control preference.

It is reasonable to expect if someone tells the Twitter servers someone is unwanted that future surfacing of their posts may trigger an intense reply.
SuperTokens (YC S20) is hiring full-stack and front-end engineers (remote)
A step closer to compact X-ray lasers
Real Hacker: Let's talk about software!

Poser: Nah, let's push the Biden/CCP agenda instead!
The human's rights were still violated even if it was a machine that did it.
> Cannabis is more and more cut with synthetic cannabinoids which are notoriously bad for the brain and mind.

Do you have a link to support that?
I mean, Starlink is available as a closed beta commercial product. There's nothing wrong with comparing it in its current form to cable service in its current form, especially if you're going to pay $$$ for it.

The point is for the reader to figure out if they should try Starlink right now (if eligible) or if they should wait for some of these issues to be resolved.

To put it another way: would you complain that reviewers were judging Google Glass unfairly, because Google had grandiose plans for it in the future (that ultimately never happened)? Or would you recognize that Google made the decision to sell Google Glass in its current form, and thus accepted that it would be judged against its competitors?
I think this is a really interesting question as I loved Slashdot's moderation, but I wonder if it results in less engaging (ie less toxic) behavior. Good question ... fartcannon!
It's like saying China should have dropped freedom bombs on US during trump leadership so Americans can be saved.
> But I don't understand why they say "having few moving parts at its core."

The "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect":

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Rolling papers might be a better medium.
It's starting to become heavily political, I agree.

Seeing debates about Trump/Pelosi on here is very saddening. Anecdotally it seems that discourse on politics here has become much less of seeking understanding and much more snarky comments and evangelizing beliefs.
I'm speaking as a medical student. And I can't speak for what it's like in the US - only Sweden. Here it's not uncommon for schizofrenic patients to self medicate with marijuana. I guess it increases their quality of life until they have just a little too much and end up having a psychosis. That said, at least among Swedish psychiatrists, it's well know that marijuana can trigger schizophrenia in people that are ~16 years old.
You could argue Akamai is the blandest of the CDN bunch; their UIs are atrocious.
> It’s pretty rare for a service like bitbucket to have a catastrophic failure like this without it being a downstream problem.

It's bitbucket. It is actually extremely common.
The DesQtop
> Arguably complexity analysis is such a poor fit programmers should never actually use it

I've never once felt that way in my career. I've often found that the insight I get from an algorithm's complexity is not a complete picture of its worthiness for a particular problem, but it is almost always a necessary piece of the puzzle.

I would never feel confident using an algorithm that I'd only empirically measured on some number of hand-chosen datasets because then who knows how it will behave when a user throws something unexpected at it.
> Though the APIs probably originate from China

What does API stand for in this context?
Why does this need to have the whole NFT / crypto / auction angle?

https://learn.namebase.io/starting-from-zero/how-to-get-a-na...

This is so convoluted it actually makes the whole thing a non-starter
> The quality of your defence depends entirely on how much you have to spend.

I’m not disagreeing but he’s quite affluent so no worries “mate”.
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS PR
The cables can be thick jacketed with a dialectrict and heavily shielded with copper tape or braid or similar material and the jacket and shielding limits the leakage but makes the cable much more expensive to manufacture and install.
The hype around QC is going to be essential in getting more people interested. If we can encourage people to learn the concepts of entropy, state and other fundamentals while their minds are still plastic, I say go for it!

This article has a very elitist tone, which I can mostly forgive because of the subject matter. Hell, I even understand where they're coming from with regards to how poorly AI was marketed/integrated into our modern workflows. However, I think the conjecture that you're reaching is that 'transparency matters', which is true (albeit not particularly profound). The best solution that I can imagine is ensuring that the next generation of programmers has access to quantum runtimes.
I have added your response to my collection of wisdom; particularly for the statement "I am a different person in each place."
>I don't really think TPM can offer me reasonable security

>So sorry, the "security advantage" isn't worth it as I could achieve the same with other methods. And I need to expect severe disadvantages.

The main security benefits to me are for full-disk encryption:

1. it ensures the bootloader isn't compromised so I know I'm not giving my FDE encryption keys to a bootkit

2. I can use a simpler/more memorable password because entry attempts have to go through the TPM, rather than being able to be bruteforced with a GPU cluster.

I'm not sure how what the "other methods" for accomplishing these are.

>The result is clear already, some apps refuse to run if you don't have TPM because they need to make sure you cannot freely modify your own devices. We see the same strategy on mobile phones.

>This WILL be used as a DRM component.

Resisting TPM isn't really going to change much. All the major CPUs produced today (intel, amd, most ARM vendors) all have trusted execution environments, which does everything a TPM can do and more. They're also already required for many DRM schemes (eg. intel SGX for watching netflix 4k, arm trustzone for widevine L1).
My UK bank (HBOS) seemed to have 'online banking unavailable' though their site was up. No doubt related.
Goes-17 Suffers Anomaly
Yes. Reading loud enough so that you hear it.
I have five different Wi-Fi APs on my property. The handoff between them results in roughly 40-60ms dropout. That still interrupts audio calls. 1-2 seconds is huge.
I personally don't hate 20 Mb service and I don't think it is the problem except for streaming video.

The problem is the metastasis of ridiculous dynamic content that is driving up bandwidth requirements and latency and delivering a reduced quality Internet experience in return, not because dynamic content is intrinsically bad, but because of how it's being utilized.

But in both situations I've lived through recently, the fiber has been just out of reach along main roads for some time now. And I know a bunch of people in similar situations on side streets where AT&T and XFinity declined to extend service after building the infrastructure along main roads to do exactly that.

Anecdote: during 2019's power shut offs because of high winds, my house lost power for 3 days, but my neighbor 25' from me did not lose power. Seems like a similar situation in some ways. Both of our houses were on hills served by separate power lines less than a quarter mile from a main road. The only qualitative difference I can think of is that the last 200 ft to my house is below ground.
Thanks for reading!

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
Daily toker and edible eater; I’m high now. Hit the bong and a cartridge multiple times.

I’ve also successfully upgraded large chunks of my employers infra code; tests green, deploys green.

It’s no different than coffee to me at this point; I figured out working with those jitters and anxiety. I even saw shimmering with caffeine I’ve never seen on THC.

I’m pretty sure a whole lot of the behavior is just subculture stereotypes that become something like a truism; correct at any speed of light; which become hard to shake for most people (even smart ones).

Personal experience is the science of human existence. The anxiety of non-smokers isn’t an anxiety I have to take on myself.
It's impossible to solve the ransomware problem
Yeah, that is true. Maybe he'll get off despite being guilty? :)
The word is “False Positive”
Nice to have is a luxury - it doesn't solve any actual problem people have, it just make life a little bit nicer. Need is an actual value proposition - people are already spending time or money to do a thing that you can do better.

I think you're using the rigid definition of "need" like the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy, but in the business world "need" is more value driven, or in the B2C side closer to the top of the hierarchy.
not surprised this isn't getting that much traction here
And it all depends on how you define "bug."

Misallocating memory? Use after free? Off-by-one? Probably cheap to fix even in production.

A misunderstood or missed requirement? Sure, that could be very expensive if it affects a data structure or some other interface with other systems that then also have to change. But that goes beyond what I normally think of as a "bug".
If you have a certain printer to use, you can tweak the Metafont mode for the fonts and create your preferred look. The definitions for various printers are in the file modes.mf

For example:

% From {\tt stsmith@ll.mit.edu}, 10 May 93.

% With |fillin=0|, the diagonal of {\tt cmtt10}'s `z' is too thin.

% |blacker=.8| too thin, 2 too thick.

mode_def docutech = %\[ Xerox 8790 or 4045 (600dpi)

mode_param (pixels_per_inch, 600);

mode_param (blacker, 1);

mode_param (fillin, .1);

mode_param (o_correction, 0.9);

mode_common_setup_;

enddef;
Reason, perhaps. Reason via internal monologue... that's the part related to this theory.
The economic value of targeting aging
That statement needs tuning then. It's doubtful you have a 529 for your neighbor's college fund or you are bankrupting yourself to pay someone else's medical bills. Did you buy a $2 coffee today ? $2 is what the average Venezuelan earns in a month.

That quote is often associated with Bill Gates in the context of running a charity. In that case it has merit. But on a personal level it makes no sense, at least literally.
For a modern PLATO experience, try:

https://irata.online/
The problem isn't DNS though, is it? The problem is that people don't necessarily use the redundancies on DNS?

The whole reason it takes a domain 24h to fully work with DNS is because it propagates the information other DNS servers, thus making not be a centralized service.
Learning to Model What Matters // Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Well, this seems an entirely fair point. Starting a civil war is not the same as toppling a government.

From my perspective, the difference is irrelevant. The broader plan seems to have been to throw the Middle East into chaos by upending every government of consequence in the region -- except Israel.

Did the US government succeed in the broader plan? Perhaps mostly? As a US citizen, it sure doesn't feel like a win, or even remotely the correct course of action.
> there’s something else going on

Seems likely.

And here we have articles talking about real researchers doing real research, as scientifically as they can, to try and pin down what those other factors might be. And you are rejecting it, not based on its own merits as research, but based on a mix of sweeping statements and political assertions. Here I just pointed out that your most recent argument doesn't follow because it's a blatant strawman, and your response is to suggest that me pointing out that the universal and existential quantifiers are actually two very different logical constructs is somehow an encrypted 4D chess statement about voter laws?

Allow me to suggest that life has a distressing tendency to be neither that simple nor that complicated.
Diversity matters/delivers/wins revisited in S&P 500 firms
I wonder if it's better for its intended medium (being printed rather than displayed on a screen)
How the Novus Ordo Mass Was Made