skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your attitude toward the topic is fairly typical, and pretty harmful. "Diets fail because people fail" is true, of course - my point is that people "failing" is not always (or even usually) a result of intrinsic weakness of willpower, but a result of substantial variation in the real world experience of maintaining a calorie-restricted diet.

As a thought experiment, imagine if, for every 100 calories of deficit in their daily consumption, a random tenth of the population felt substantial and increasing physical pain. Would you describe their inability to consistently lose weight as a 'failure' on their part? As essentially due to a lack of sufficient discipline? What if it were nausea? Exhaustion?

Now picture a world in which that is the actual norm, and those people are subjected to frequent ridicule for their lack of willpower and bombarded with the message that they are inferior because of it. If they'd just man up and stomach the pain for the rest of their lives, they'd have no trouble losing weight, it's simple physics.

This isn't an accurate representation of reality of course. I don't feel physical pain when I run a hundred calorie deficit, I just feel tired most of the time, and I lose the energy to enjoy physical pursuits. I'm confident that if I applied enough effort (again), I'd lose some weight (again), and keep it off for as long as I continued spending that effort. Again.

> Asserting that .. tracking your caloric intake and energy expenditure versus the number on the scale is inherently flawed is dangerous, misleading, and probably false.

That's not what I'm asserting. And I think that's been pretty clear, really! There are millions of fat people who are actively trying to be thinner in various ways and repeatedly "failing". Do you really think that telling all of those people to "just try harder" is a useful thing to do?

I don't personally expect drugs to be the answer to the problem, and I don't have any opinion on the "Fella" business model or likely effectiveness. My position this whole time has just been that fat people are mostly not fat because they don't understand that restricting calories will make them thinner. Understanding the actual reasons is important, and it's far more difficult to do when any real conversation on the topic is inundated with comments to the effect of "have you tried not eating as much? It's really easy, just eat less."
Certainly! Lots of compiler churn means lots of downstream churn. However, for what it’s worth: I’m currently maintaining around 50k lines of Rust (both public and private code), and my experience with compiler changes has been remarkably painless: I get a couple of new warnings (usually from clippy) in the CI every few months, fix them, and move on with my life. Nothing ever fundamentally breaks: I could ignore the warnings and roll them all up into a single change every 6 months if I chose to.
> if not your risk of hospitalization or death [from covid19] is miniscule.

On an individual level, maybe sure, but on a population level, enough people are getting sick to cause medical systems to collapse. I live in a G7 country where people are dying at home since they can't get a hospital bed.
It doesn't matter if masks were hard to source at the beginning, every single country found itself in the same situation. Korea is one of the biggest producers of what you call FFP2 masks in the world yet we had a severe domestic shortage here too (the reason for the shortage, after a government investigation, was that suppliers exported most of their production because China was ready to pay x10times the regular price; old dear capitalism at work), forcing the government to nationalize the supply (basically buy all the production) and take over distribution under a strict rationing scheme, until supply stabilized. Nowadays a KF95 (FFP2 equivalent) mask costs less than KRW 500 and supply is plentiful. In early March last year, I had to line up once a week for the chance to buy a maximum of three masks for KRW 2500 each. Sure, the government should have anticipated all of this and establish an export ban early, after all "gouverner c'est prevoir". But what's more important is to be honest with the people who elected you and fix things as soon as possible.

None of what you mention can excuse or justify the blatant lies of the French government. A democratically elected government should not lie to its population, under no circumstances. You don't send a spokesperson on national TV to tell the population that masks are useless, and that the general population wouldn't even know how to use one(!!!).

I suspect the French population will be far more forgiving of a government fuckup followed by an apology and visible and effective efforts to fix the situation, than an outright lie that was only necessary in the first place because of arrogance, complacency and incompetence.
Maybe it would be good to follow up the vaccine with a dose of COVID-19 a few weeks later. I’d say then there’s very little need for boosters and you’ll get a much more full spectrum immune response…
How, exactly, is this defeatist? It's defining the size of the problem. If we don't know what's actually needed to solve the problem, how are we supposed to ever solve it?

I'm also rather unsure what innovation you're imagining here. It's literally a model of ocean acidity based on some tons/year of carbon sequestration. Innovation can make this cheaper, but the model isn't about cost.
A lot of interesting details (and photos) about the onboard TV-photo system of the Lunokhod-1 could be found on [1].

Btw, it looks like the tapes indeed may contain the photos - the session dates seem to coincide with taking of panoramic shots, according to the official news coverage of the mission (mentioned earlier). Moreover, the red "Ст." marks on the tape cover might just point to the "Stereoscopic" shots, which are produced by the cameras 2 and 4 (left-right pan). This also explains the "even" remark on the tape cover.

Also, the narrator mentions that the recording was done directly from FT console (Photo-Television), likely post-factum (??for lab analysis/enhancement).

Wikipedia has a nice photo of the Control indication panel [2], the "ФТ" panel lights are on the right edge. There you could also spot SKU lights ("СИСТЕМА КУРСОУКАЗАНИЯ", Course Guidance System) on the left bottom. Lights for RIFMA were likely on the bottom edge in Scientific Instruments group (covered in the photo by a description plaque).

Fun to learn about this. Thank you for the "journey"! It was truly a great achievement not just for people of USSR, but for the whole humankind. Hopefully, given the recent declassifying of some of the Soviet space-programs, it might be possible that there could be already available the images of the very panoramas possibly contained on the tapes (matching by the session dates).

Anybody knows of any online archives of images taken by Lunokhod-1? ...Well, answering it by myself: [3] is an excellent selection of historic shots of Moon from Soviet exploration efforts, lots of technical info about cameras and signals.

[1]:https://www.kik-sssr.ru/Lunohod-1.htm (in Russian)

[2]:https://ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%...

[3]:http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogMoon.htm
This isn't any different from any current or historic Unix. The system interface has been a C library going back to early Unix.

The library and kernel interface are more separated in Linux systems than in prior Unixes, with user space C libs being totally separate projects.

Over a Linux kernel you can find glibc, ucLibc, musl, Android
s Bionic (newlib derivative from BSD), ...
Hey, surprised to find myself here and appreciate all the discussion. I'm the author of the above project and wanted to shed some light on the inspiration for the project.

It started as a simple weekend project based on an off-hand comment someone made in a security professional chat I'm in. I had used duress words in military and translating the concept to a PAM seemed like a fun exercise. Also supports my current shift towards swapping careers from pure software engineering to cyber-research or cybersecurity generally. So in the end, it was a weekend project that served a dual purpose as a resume stamp.

The design use case I had in mind was more benign; such as corporate espionage or journalists getting their devices confiscated (maybe keep a sticky note on the laptop that has a duress password on it as a red-herring). Comments to the effect that law enforcement would image a device are very relevant as any competent law enforcement agency should have their staff trained to get the device fully powered off and hand it to someone that can maintain a chain of custody and get a golden image for use in potential criminal charges.

One thought I had was to apply this to SSH auth for honeypots and if a rockyou.txt password is attempted it runs some routines that aid in crafting the honeypot before the intruder drops to a shell prompt. Another even more light-hearted implementation could be you have password X is the one you login to normally and your "duress" password Y just clears your browser history and is the one you give your spouse for when they log into your computer :). I'm sure there's use cases in the full spectrum and with it being a relatively simple implementation with user generated scripts, it'd be easy to extend to any potential use case.

In any case I'm glad it prompted such a good discussion. Feel free to submit issues if there are particular feature requests or bugs that one might run across. Additionally if there's a PR up, I'm currently the only dedicated dev on the project and welcome anyone that wants to review my PRs; always prefer a 3rd person review even on my own projects. I created a demo video using Pushover and in the process of doing the demo uncovered some bugs that I patched as well as some fixes to the documentation. Again, glad you all found this interesting and humbled it fostered such a good discussion.
Nitpick: Bolos weren't unmanned until the Mark XXII.
...And this is why I'm single.
> They need to be the one talked to yesterday and agreed to talk again today. At x location at Y time.

For this you need identity. So at the bare minimum, nickserv should be baked in the protocol.
The passage is about people who do things in the name of "God", without actually doing what is good. Arguably, that is what's going on when Gab's founders say they are "Christian".

Obviously, this is a moral/political judgment that you might disagree with.

Regardless, I think the post is interesting, because it's using a Bible quote, correctly, in a way that criticizes part of "the Right". That undermines lazy anti-Christian prejudice from the Left, and, at the same time, gives a useful perspective to Christians who might be lured Right by someone who claims to be "one of them".

The overall effect, I think, is depolarizing and humane.
TLDR: "I injected arbitrary code mangling secure transaction webpage and now I have to fix it?"
It's not a literal description of what happened.

Read the article you linked to, not just the headline. It explains the additional factors that informed the decision.

The "1 positive case" narrative is nonsense.
Because access.
If it was ethical to require them to opt-out of medical treatment if they got sick, then maybe sure.
If there's a method for selecting the right one for the situation, it's all one self-consistent theory
> you're probably thinking, wow, you and your daughter had COVID-19 in January of 2020. And you'd most likely be wrong.

I agree with your general point regarding the statistical improbability.

However it's important to be aware that multiple recent studies have documented serological evidence suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating in the United States earlier than previously recognized - as early as 13–16 December 2019 [1][2]. For reference that is over a month before the first officially confirmed case in Washington state (15-19 January 2020) [3]. Furthermore, reports have identified a hospitalized patient with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in Wuhan with symptom onset as early as 1 December 2019 [1].

So when people say they had COVID in early 2020, consider that it may not be as unlikely as we originally thought. Hindsight and future research may reveal a need to further adjust the timeline.

> These findings indicate that SARS-CoV-2–reactive antibodies were detected in 106 specimens, a small percentage of blood donations from California, Oregon, and Washington, as early as 13–16 December 2019. The presence of these serum antibodies indicate that isolated SARS-CoV-2 infections may have occurred in the western portion of the United States earlier than previously recognized [1]

[1] Serologic Testing of US Blood Donations to Identify Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)–Reactive Antibodies: December 2019–January 2020
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/72/12/e1004/6012472

[2] Identification of the first COVID-19 infections in the US using a retrospective analysis
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-707353/v1/baa84b8...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p0121-novel-coronavi...
https://go.ludotune.com/FbFy

Kinda reminds me of fugue machine https://alexandernaut.com/fuguemachine/
Yup, there's a flag `-backend memory` that generates ephemeral keys in memory.
VidEarth – Radio Garden for immersing yourself and virtually exploring cities
At startups recruitment beyond getting a body in the door/Zoom is largely an afterthought.

I remember interviewing a staff researcher candidate when I was 22 at a startup (<50 employees). I was pulled away from my work the day of and thrown in a room with someone with 15 years more experience than me. I actually asked him questions that were not lawful, but I didn't know this because no one bothered giving me guidelines.

I recently interviewed for a hands-on manager position at a startup, and it went south. The recruiter set up the appointment with the VP of eng and told me what the technical topic would be. Two days before the interview the interviewer was changed to a staff engineer. I emailed the recruiter to confirm that the topic would still be the same. She said it would be. Come interview time the interviewer throws a different topic at me, for which I didn't study. I ended up with the correct answer, but it took me the full time to get there. They weren't impressed, but neither was I.

As a hiring manager I take all the these experiences and ensure that I never put a candidate in such a shitty situation.
> Another interesting gail.com factoid: my amazing e-mail provider, ProtonMail, rejects about 1.2 million mis-addressed e-mails per week to the gail.com domain.

Would be interesting to set up mail servers on "mistyped" domain names. I wouldn't be surprised if you could get sensitive information that would be useful for spear phishing.
An Overview of Heidegger: “The Question Concerning Technology”
PDF: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282535729_Long-term...

EDIT: Perhaps should add (2015) to the title, although this result may still be current.
Recall ballots found in vehicle of passed out felon in Torrance, CA
I guess when you have an election month vs an election day this is bound to happen.
Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking
Physics teaches people how to work with emergent properties of simple systems, something with applications in software wherever the typical industry case analysis + ontology* paradigm is not the right way to work.

(*This used to be case analysis + object oriented ontology, but now there are other language features to map ontologies on to.)
That's really awesome. Well done sir.
Thank you very much for sharing this. Even though I asked for FAMANG, I meant any great code repo worth analyzing.

Links:

https://github.com/visgl

https://github.com/visgl/vis.gl
> Take the opposite case. Nobody vaccinates, we stop caring. What is the outcome?

We’ll never know. We have no proper controls. Just because B comes after A does not mean A implies B.

I’m exaggerating (some of our measures seem performative, but it looks like vaccines do a good job preventing severe illness), but places like Sweden would be decent to look at. They’ve had much better outcomes with nowhere near the restrictions.
I did exactly that (wife’s family lives in Beijing).

Various parts of Beijing and Nanjing have been under relative “lockdown” at various points in time in the last year. I’m pretty sure this has been reported in Western media too (and I’m sure that other parts of the country have too). I have no idea where this idea that “China has zero COVID lockdowns” came from. I suppose it may depend on your definition of lockdown.
300 hundred - the number was removed from the title
> A url.

Which url? How do I find this URL? What happens when that package specified dependencies?

> You can always explicitly vendor dependencies

How? Manually? By scraping urls?
> The government is ( theoretically ) an expression of the will of the people, if the will of the people is to exploit others for their own benefit, the government will reflect that

There is a fundamental difference between stopping an abusive business practice with a vote verse with your wallet. With a vote, your choice is to allow the bad business practice and get the benefit of shopping there, or don't allow the business practice and don't get benefit of shopping there. The choice goes together with the consequences, good or bad.

On the other hand, choosing with your wallet doesn't couple the choice with the consequence. Even if I don't shop there, it is very likely the business will continue. Me losing the benefit of shopping there doesn't cause the business practice to stop necessarily.

Lots of people would be willing to give up shopping there if it meant the business stopped, but not if it doesn't.
That's not weird at all...
Maybe the article should have been written as "using technologies we have today scaled to the max, it'll take more than 700 years to get carbon under control" ? I mean, that's how I read it, but not everyone does.

On the flip side, this just goes to show you how much of a scam forest planting based carbon credits are. I've said it before, industrial scale carbon emission takes industrial scale solutions. (planting forests is generally good, but I don't think it balances out a coal plant or any other industry buying credits).
You mention a lot of points about Indian history. Most are right. One big factor in these things was the Caste system. With regards to the Mughals or other Central Asian cultures that ruled India. Most people in Geographical India just didn't feel the need to fight. Plus Mughals really intermarried and mixed with the local populace.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee(Former Prime Minister of India) said at one point in several key wars, there were more people sitting on the hills watching battles than actually participate in them. Most of it has to do with the Caste system barring participation, but the general point stands. A large section of people don't mind any political master ruling them as long as they are allowed to live in peace. This is why a general amnesty and treating local populations with respect, and just letting them be goes a long way in establishing your legitimacy over them.

In many cases when the political systems bought by an invading political force is better than existing political entity ruling them. Taxes are lower and they bring better ideas. In the case of India's independence. Watching movies and reading popular stories feels like the Independence movement was in peak intensity everywhere. In reality only major urban centers, and a few states saw these peak movements. Everywhere else it was business as usual. In states like Karnataka post the original wars between the Mysore Kingdoms and British, you barely hear any other stories. Even in the those wars, post defeat, the administration of Mysore Kingdoms moved in their entirety to British administrated political systems. The local public didn't really mind anything at all.

>>Aside from all this, contrary to some sort of received chivalric ideal of loyalty and fighting-unto-death, a great number of military engagements in every part of the world were decided by bribery and deception. People don't want to risk their lives and are often tempted by monetary gain. Countless forts have fallen to people opening the doors from within. There's instances of Sufi leaders being admitted into forts only to open the gates. Hyderabad was conquered by Aurangazeb in great part due to bribery, too.

Yup this is what happened in Mysore Kingdom. It is easy to label this treason or whatever. But people like Purnaiah and Mir Sadiq quite literally took money and made the British victory happen. Same thing happened in Bengal with Mir Jafar.
aws.io is what you should’ve bought instead ;)
If it were something I was likely to be using a bunch, then I probably would.

Saying that it's a "dumb complaint" to point out that large parts of the world can't access the content is kind of taking the piss though. :(
According to a Red Cross study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33252659/), Covid-19 may have been in the US before the first official cases, and if so, it's entirely plausible it was community transmission and not foreign travel.

I wonder why this study has not been repeated for blood samples collected before December 2019?
There's a similar attack involving registering domains that are a bit flip off from a well-known domain.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/windows-com-bitsquat...
> From anywhere on the internet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28284930

> By decentralizing the package hosting.

These are empty words that literally mean nothing. The rest is at the link so as not to have the same conversation in several places.
It was an older project — from what I've heard, better VS project structuring has only been possible in newer VS editions.
Yeah that sounded way off base to me. Regardless of relative merits, how many rust developers are there that don't know C? Probably not a huge number. How many C developers have never seen a line of rust? Probably an order of magnitude more than there are rust developers.
https://archive.is/eZYo3
> Goldman Sachs is easier to get into as a software engineer than any FAANG

That wasn't the case 15 years ago, as the post you're responding to stated.

The world has changed.
Cool, that's really good news. :)
[Opinions my own] I've worked at two FAANGs, but never switched teams within them so take this with a grain of salt in terms of breadth of experience:

While specific official and unofficial business practices vary per org or even per team, I feel that overall company culture is actually very strong. At FB, I found that there was a universal culture of (ruthlessly) optimizing for "impact." Obviously what impact was varied with your job and your role but I felt like a key unspoken job responsibility was to help come to a shared understanding of what impact was for your role. Another notable cultural trait was a strong preference for empirical data and a commitment to actually rationalizing conclusions drawn on it. Overall, the culture is what I'd call extremely pragmatic.

Google is very different. It's a much more academic-feeling atmosphere. Everyone understands that the company pays us to do a specific job, but there's a very strong tendency to do "Cool Stuff™" and figure out what the business value is later. Consequently you get a focus on very high quality technical excellent, meticulous and high quality docs and internal systems that are very powerful but perhaps a touch more complex than they need to be ;).

I will say that perhaps some of this is exists only in my head as a result of connecting data points that are actually unrelated. But hey - that's pretty much what culture is anyway so I feel okay sharing my take.
Wow, very concise and impressive, nice work!
Embedding Data in Hyperbolic Space