skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like upvotes but I strongly dislike downvotes. Having karma is even worse because it forces people into creating throwaways or accepting the anonymous wrath of the hive mind.

Who up or downvoted you, and why, you will never know. What I find most suspicious is that moderation often travels in packs. Most interesting. As if people have multiple accounts. Crazy, I know

Just take a look at Slashdot. It's been the same 100 guys simultaneously writing and moderating using multiple accounts for literally decades. It's almost dead now for some reason. Maybe people with good karma should start at 5 while the dirty 0 peasants have their posting privileged revoked. That'll fix everything.

Silencing everyone we disagree with is the answer!
Simpler explanation on the Israel data:

> You’ve probably seen reports from Israel on low vaccine effectiveness in this wave. Is it because of Delta? Waning immunity? We think the reason is mostly that we got the denominator wrong.

https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1420059124700700677

> This is what we got wrong. This “wave” started from cities with high vaccination rate and couldn’t “find” unvaccined adults at risk. The denominator we need to use until mid-July is >95% vaccination rate and not the country’s average.

https://twitter.com/dvir_a/status/1420059139435343876
I agree. I use 380°F as my soft limit for a TNIO550B and take more aggressive action at 395°F.

Nevertheless, it’s a certification requirement that the engine have appropriate detonation margin at the manufacturer’s declared CHT redline and TCM/CMI has chosen to put their redline around 75°F higher than I’m comfortable in normal operations.
Oh boy, I see the potential for very weird bug reports that will be fun to debug when you forget that that thing is active (or another user is using the computer).
I agree with you. From an ISP's perspective I don't see why IPv6 would be cheaper. Any change at all, even a positive change, is expensive at the scale ISPs operate at. And NAT is cheap.

One small thing, though:

> My NAT only happens on my personal router, not at the ISP level. It's not something that concerns the ISP at all.

"Carrier-grade" (what a laughable term) NAT exists. You are fortunate that your ISP does not implement it. Do you happen to have a business plan, or a gigabit plan?

There is also ds-lite which I've read comcast uses extensively. Here customers get ipv6 addresses only, and share a pool of v4 addresses when they exit the ISP's network.
> Unless you're implying some other cause for the increase?

I am not particularly interested in the cause ... but, the Bayesian in me combines the fact that CDC stopped reporting number of breakthrough infections combined with the facts that chances of dying from Covid19 are low to being with and supposedly lowered by the vaccine gives me the gut feeling that breakthrough infection rates are now probably around 2-3% which means there are a whole lot of typhoid Marys walking around with high viral loads.
Yes :) updated
Actually, I did know all the layers back then

I've written compilers, and editors
I know several assemblers
I've designed and repaired TTL/CMOS based circuits
I've done NAND to Tetris
I know digital and analog electronics
I know how tubes and transistors work
I've fixed atomic clocks

There wasn't a layer I couldn't troubleshoot or understand. Things were much simpler back then.
Having children is then worst you can do for the environment.

Side note: being able to control basic, primitive instincts like reproduction is what distinguishes us from animals. Career and goal oriented individuals who opted out from having children are the ones driving progress, are the ones who you need to thank for your pleasures and leisures in modernity.

Investing decades of your live into driving society upwards (as opposite to catering to your offspring, which, statistically speaking, has a very high chance of becoming a consuming one, one that habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return) is not for everyone, of course, but those who decided to reproduce should have an awareness of what they are doing a who for.
Not sure this is really appropriate here? It's not really new or interesting, unless I'm missing something.

As much as we all like to download Linux ISOs...
Agreed, we typically put about 1/2" of water in them, bring it to a vigorous boil, pour it off and then wipe down the pan with a few drops of olive oil.
And you didn't even touch on the nastiest of the bunch: the "GDPR" dialogs which give you a button "I allow and accept every single piece of tracking" and 600+ individual switches which have a timer of 1 sec on each switch so it would take you hours to opt out of tracking.

Usually you get those over those NYT & Co. articles blasting Googles, Facebooks and others for privacy and tracking.
Applied Text Analysis with Python: Chapter 1 – Language and Computation
If said street guy without the laptop kept paper records in a locked safe then those records would be subject to a search warrant and admissible as evidence.

Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily disagree with you and I'm not sure I like the fact that the safe's contents are fair game.

But my understanding is that is how it currently works. So I have a hard time seeing a difference between records kept in a safe and records kept on a laptop.
This is why i like cast irons. Nonstick pans wear out. But I have 2 cast irons, one new one super old, and they look and function the exact same.
A router that accepts inbound packets with 1918 dsts on the wan port is a broken router.
Aluminum actually has about twice the heat capacity (separate from conductivity) as cast iron.
This was originally in reply to a now deleted reply, but it is worth calling out an alternative interpretation, we could move away from meat and make more effective usage of land. I think this is true, but still won't get us all the way.

I think even imagining people were willing to give up meat humans still use way too many raw calories for anything like sustainable organic agriculture to be workable. Maybe it would be interesting to know what percentage of the land dedicated to raising meat is for feed vs grazing. Grazing land is usually more marginal than farmland so while overall good to let it go back to nature it won't replace the sort of biodiversity that turning Kansas back to grasslands would

Also I don't trust it as much, but if it's true that humans right now make up more biomass than all land animals before we exploded it seems difficult to imagine us keeping up without continuing to have huge impacts on the planet, better to keep those impacts dense and controlled than everywhere
https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stat...
"New home sales" will fall to a low if supply is constrained by lumber shortages ... which would cause a spike in prices of new and existing houses.

They're not directly comparable.
what industry/country are you in?
What a fascinating story.

However, the two sons only decided to talk after the police made each one believe that the other was ratting him out. Classic interrogation technique that I've seen in countless procedural tv shows and movies.
There was no scientific consensus of global cooling. [1]

Cherry picked bad evidence from 4 decades ago is not a rational basis to ignore the scientific consensus that the entire Earth faces enormous challenges.

That video validates climate anxiety because it shows how scientifically-unsupported ideas can propagate and lead the public to false conclusions with potentially dire consequences.

[1] https://skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm
Perhaps the mouse jiggler IS the answer. Not to solve your own plight as a result of the policy by using one, but to illustrate what lengths people are going to in order to mitigate the undesirable effects of the policy.
It's hard to measure what someone means, which is why I like the idea of removing it!

As for the more philosophical stuff, I think I'm talking about (retributive) justice, and even more specifically, about how public attitudes about justice have a self-fulfilling effect on justice. My hypothesis is that cynical views on justice tend to be self-reinforcing, and idealistic views of justice are also self-reinforcing.

The primary utility of the cynical view seems to be personal/emotional, but comes at the expense of taking pressure off of the world to be better. I suppose my goal here is to encourage disappointed idealists to take up the idealistic mantel, and learn to get disappointed in people again. It's painful to care, but the pain is worth it to produce a better world.
I don't know what it means. I can tell you that as I've become more conservative, I've been less able to express myself freely. I started off life as a liberal and spent most of my adult life not affiliated with a political party. Until recently, I felt like I could pretty much share my thoughts more or less freely.

Socially speaking, I would say that conservatives were generally fair game to make fun of or put down in some way most of the time. Sometimes it would be making fun of rednecks or hillbillies or maybe the Amish. Luddites were fair game to be made fun of. Oftentimes it was less about humor and put downs, but more about moral superiority. This was just my experience, and I'm sure other liberal/progressive/whatever people are struggling to feel accepted in their conservative social circle.

Now that I'm conservative, I talk a lot less about what I think in mixed company. It's simply too risky.
Switzerland results of the Covid-19 certificate security tests
I use shared hosting and my trick is to only send emails that are more important to the recipient than to myself. In this way, if they don't receive it, they complain and then I resend it from gmail instead.
Finding a kernel regression in half an hour with git bisect run (2018)
yes. you can use /64 subnets to define your broader level firewall rules.
Gas in the US (aviation or automotive) is always sold in gallons, but quantity of chemicals (outside of cooking) usually done in grams/kilograms. Thus, grams per gallon is fairly intuitive in context.
No, because they don’t mean “retain heat” in the same way you do. The goal is so that when you put something cold on a hot pan, it doesn’t immediately cool down, but rather that the surface stays hot and keeps searing your food. Thus, if the pan is not very conductive, the surface will cool down, and the heat “retained” in the interior of the pan will not be useful. In other words, the goal is to retain the hot surface, not the heat in general.
Roman empire, for example, used to have a distinct identity that wasn't ethnicity-based and would be open to newcomers, provided that they did not seek to overthrow the current order.

Romans would tolerate a lot of cultural difference if it was of the non-threatening, non-destabilizing kind.
Still waiting in NYC.

Any day now...
In Italy a 1Gbps/200Mbps FTTH connection is around €25-30/mo, without any upfront setup cost. Some ISPs even gives out Fritzboxes as their free router, and even include a landline number with unlimited phone calls.
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don't volunteer for the one-off quickies, either.

they'll keep coming to you.
Yeah.

"Upvote only communities" are more prone to brigading by hyper-motivated cliques or sub-groups.

"Upvote+downvote communities" are more resistant to the above, but also more prone to hivemind.

It's not clear to me that one is better than the other. It is clear to me that both have significant flaws.

Ideally what you really want to promote would be well-reasoned/well-sourced posts from a variety of viewpoints. In practice I simply don't think this can be achieved solely by community voting. It is simply too easy to click an upvote or downvote button for random community members that don't have the incentive to take a more thoughtful approach.

Every successful community I've seen has had some level of strong moderator involvement, including HN.

(The HN mods kill a lot of low-value posts. Because they do their job well, and they do it with a low profile, many folks are unaware of how much moderation they do...)
There's so much you can use instead of GenServer.

Elixir gives you Task for one-offs, which is a superior abstraction over proc_lib, and has seamless integration with OTP things like supervision trees, which you will have to roll by hand and probably mess up if you use proc_lib.

For just stateful data, ets is much better performance-wise than a GenServer (with the tradeoff being complexity in understanding matchspecs and the like), and Agent is much simpler for dumb state and leads to better code (though I basically never use Agent).

Honestly, I think the GenServer behaviour is awful (not GenServers, themselves, they are great), because it does not engender writing well-organized code. Dave Thomas' empex talk about it is really eye-opening and you will understand the internalized pain. (I don't like his specific recommendations, and I think the ship has sailed on Elixir reimagining how GenServers are organized).

So yeah. My philosophy is don't write GenServers, unless you are really sure you need them (like maybe collaborative state for games; to wrap a stateful communication protocol, like http tcp, or an application layer over udp; or to to model something IRL or remote, e.g. browser state as in liveview, or as I have in a previous gig, qemu VM state). And even for some of these you're probably better of with a gen_statem or the like.

> supervision trees, process linking vs monitoring

you still need to understand these to use Task correctly, or gen_statem, but those are really advanced topics. It's crazy, but you can get really really far without those (even if it's not, strictly speaking best practice), and it's not like once you learn about them it's hard to change your code to start using those correctly.
Again, Einstein's full equation is E² = (p c)² + (mc²)². You left out the momentum term, which means your equation assumes v=0, in which case K.E. = 0 is trivially valid.

The momentum term is also important as massless photons still have kinetic energy, which cannot be derived from classical Newtonian mechanics.
Neat! I'd like to see something similar for a harmonica. Has it been done?
I haven’t seen an aluminum pan that was even half as heavy as a typical cast iron skillet is, though.
You are going to need an actual argument if you want to invalidate all of that research.
Olive oils? Aren't they not recommended for this because they have a low smoke point?
I think that is not true. People consume "complex" media, series with deep characters and huge arcs, personal and even with whole societys/communities. Journalism is just not willing to go the extra game-of-thrones mile.
simple heuristic: to put a negative spin, use sales

positive spin: use prices

Sales tend to be much more volatile and cyclical than prices, so it's easy to find a negative data point
There is plausible deniability. Just say my touchpad is malfuncioning and sometimes moves the cursor.
I personally don't miss statically typed languages having worked professionally with Java, C++, and Typescript in the past. But if static typing is your cup of tea and you want to run on the BEAM, be sure to check out the Gleam programming language https://gleam.run/
>I mentally lump it all together because it all appears together. That's admittedly unfair.

and another example of how such algorithms can influence collective thought.

I'm sure there are people who do the same with other equality measures as more divisive content of the same vein like "you're a fucking white male" is gonna be more likely to show up until the viewer links it with social justice entirely.
This doesn't make any sense. Here you have a disk. It's compressed or not, doesn't matter, the size stays the same. Then you use BitLocker on it. Again, compressed or not, after BitLocker encrypts it, the size is still the same. Your point?
I only watched 1, but I saw them immediately and it was confirmed when the lifeguard blew the whistle and made their way to them.

I think I have an advantage, though. I remember almost drowning as a kid. I wasn't at the top of the water like this person, though. I was at the bottom of the pool, desperately putting my hand up and hoping someone would see me. Interestingly, that's apparently really hard to do by what the text below the video says.

I thought my hand was still under the water, and I was laboriously making my way to where I thought the side of the pool was. Eventually, someone (at the time I thought it was my dad, but it wasn't!) grabbed my arm and pulled me out.

I didn't swallow any water and I wasn't harmed, but it really scared me.

I begged my parents for swimming lessons, but we lived in a small town, the lessons were too far away, and we couldn't afford them.

I ended up teaching myself to swim so that it would never happen to me again. I can save myself now, but my wife freaks out when I swim because I'm still really, really bad at it.

I still don't go in the ocean, and very rarely go in a pool, and never near anyone who I think might be an asshole and try to dunk me, even jokingly.
I'm not sure how old you are but if you're planning on working for another 5-10 years, you may as well try to make it enjoyable for yourself. Perhaps you can find a way to line things up so that your manager looks their best by giving you credit. If you can frame them in a positive light, they'll want you at the presentations making it hard for others to steal credit and giving you more exposure within the org. If you feel so negatively about your manager that you can't speak highly, maybe you're at the wrong job or on the wrong team? It's a sellers market for software engineers right now so I'd encourage you to see what the market wants to offer you. Just some thoughts - I'm sure I'm missing most of the nuance of your situation.
more like Passwords.doc, synced to at least two cloud back-up services.
>The main benefit was that cast-iron could be made before steel was invented, it does not retain heat better than aluminum alloys

Actually, both "steels" and "cast iron" are iron-carbon alloys, and we have evidence of quench hardened carbon-alloy "steels" thousands of years before the first cast iron pieces.

While we tend to think of bronze age as not featuring iron, the truth is that steel production dates back almost 4,000 years.

While cast iron cookware predates other steel cookwares, it's likely because it was far cheaper and easier to cast cast-iron into pot or pan shapes than it was to work mega-hot steels, which was reserved for much more expensive and important uses.
It should be noted that if you were able to compromise the OS login credentials you also have access to most browser password managers, and as a feature many 3rd party managers also let you unlock with the user password… so in this case those are compromised too.
There will always be a way in a network. The question is can we eliminate the network?

Now that computers in a LAN/WAN barely 'talk' to each other, and the apps are rarely on the same network as the users' computers, is there enough value in networking the computers relative to the risk of creating a valuable target for attackers?

Consider for example what the business case for attackers would look like if their target was an island of one.

Of course networks have benefits such as simpler ways for IT or MSPs to manage devices and updates, shared auth structures, directories and policies, etc. If we look at all those benefits, and consider the alternatives, are they worth the risk of a network in today's topologies with today's threat vectors?
Ah yes, the venerable journalists at “biznews” hard at work.

Honestly, why do you think anyone here would take the advice of some random Wordpress site?

Also, natural immunity is variable whereas a vaccine gives standard coverage without having to measure everyone to see if they meet some sort of baseline natural immunity level. Additionally, vaccines don’t run the risk of killing you compared to an active Covid infection which very much can! The proposition of natural immunity over fast, effective, safe vaccines is preposterous on its face.
Hagakure: In the Shade of the Leaves [1716] [pdf]
I disagree that you can pretty much do whatever you want with them.

Modern conveniences such as a dishwasher coupled with a focus on healthy eating (less fat) result in poorly taken care of cast iron pans.

Dishwashing soap these days are also a lot more efficient than they use to be. More and better surfactants eat away at any pantina that develops.

Yes you can drop a cast iron and nothing will happen to it. But to get eggs not to stick to it takes a bit of upkeep.
In a book on eating disorders I recall an anecdote relating back to World War 2 and interviews with people that survived various camps while extremely malnourished. Several people we're completely out of touch with how skinny they were. The book had a very women-centric perspective so the only stories pertained to women perceiving themselves as curvaceous (in the positive sense) despite being very skinny. Their body image was distorted from being so underfed but unlike a person presenting with something like anorexia the way they viewed their body was not as "hateful".
To approximate a companies value, divide its profit by interest rates. This tells you how much you could borrow to buy it, then use the profits to pay off the loans interest.

As real interest rates tend to zero, all companies with non zero (future) profit become infinitly valuable.

Until interest rates rise.
>which can drive in any place even if it has never seen it before

Isn't that impossible considering these networks need training and therefore have seen everything before?
Buffalo is famous for flying old DC-3s and some other small "bush" planes that are piston-engined.
"We do these things not because they were easy, but because we thought they would be easy."
Disappearance of phenomena isn't instantaneous and global. Whenever something starts to disappear, it disappears from certain regions or societal groups first.

Heavily Islamic suburbs in Europe have a rather different set of cultural elements and while still geographically located in Europe, their cultural affinity is not that of the host country anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QlHgA27qfw
I think you misunderstand the criticism of GMO. They are usually designed to be more resistant to some pretty hardcore pesticides, like RoundUp from Monsanto. That becomes agricultural run-off, and pollutes the nearby ecosystem.
Biometrics make good identifiers. They make horrible authenticators.
Heh, I think this applies to pretty much everything and everyone. For most people, anything you haven't done yourself or know in great detail, you will not be able to gauge how hard it is. And sometimes what people are calling hard is actually very easy for a certain set of people. So its all relative anyway.
I can't say that my critiques are based off of personal experience. But mostly about microbenchmarks I've read that other people have talked about. I am probably a bit out of date, since its been a while since I last played with OpenMP.

I'm looking at the benchmarks I used to look at, and they're all from 2014 or earlier. So maybe I really should double-check modern implementations. We all know GCC 4.x and LLVM 3.x are an eternity ago, so I probably should revisit their performance.

For example: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=llvm_cla...

And back then, it was pretty well known that OpenMP implementations were slower than commercial (such as Intel ICC or IBM's OpenMP implementation).