skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when you target many epitopes, you are shooting at the 10 inch ring; target one epitope of critical function [put one in center of mass] you are shooting the 2 inch ring.

immune systems dont look at everything at once, they find something that sticks and and over trials sharpen the response until highest efficacy of antibody epitope combination is found.

the vaccine is like a laser guided munition, natural immunity is like carpet cluster bombing; both highly effective but in different modalities.
https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Wo...

> Linux-mobile equivalent

Librem 5 runs desktop GNU/Linux, so you don't need any equivalents really.
Best way to secure customer's data? Don't have it to begin with!

All that data is not needed when all you need to do is charge people $ and let their phone call another.
I don't know - I consider getting vaccinated to be a matter of common courtesy to those you're going to be interacting with now. I don't feel like thanking folks for only kicking - and not murdering - the adorable puppy at this point. Those who have been advised not to get vaccinated due to immune issues or other medical reasons I completely get - but everyone else is basically saying "I think preserving my pride by sticking to my misinformed opinion is more important than preventing harm to all of you." The vaccines work, get it.

My dad has survived three bouts with different forms of cancer - he's healthy and could be around for a long time. Please don't let your pride put his life in danger.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Survivorship_bias
There is always confusion when discussing deflation and inflation because there are multiple definitions. There is a inflation/deflation which refers to the size of supply and then price inflation which refers to the cost in some other fiat currency. The former is simple and clear, the latter depends on other variables.
I've read that, if one is going to use floats, then one should eschew 32-bit floats, and go with 64-bit floats. 80-bit floats seem only useful for very special applications.

I converted a satellite orbital prediction program that used doubles (64-bit floats) to use long doubles (80-bit floats) but only saw a difference in the 11th decimal place, with lots of sin/cos/atan/sqrt involved in the calculations. With 32-bit floats it was a joke: the accumulated error made the 'predictions' useless.

The basic problem with 32-bit is you have to be quite careful with your arithmetic so you don't lose significance. It's almost as bad as using Q-notation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)
Windows 3.11 required 14 MB HD space.

https://www.technologytips.com/windows-system-requirements/

At 64 MB, you wouldn't have a whole lot of space for data and applications / utilities, but you could certainly cram a couple of OSes on it.

The first "user-installable" linux was arguably SLS, which came on 24 1.5 MB floppies. I'm unsure what the installed size was, but likely in the 24 -- 48 MB range.

https://opensource.com/article/18/8/first-linux-install
I apologize if I do not use the Soviet Union as a template for my social justice policies.
Hmm, I block all ads at the network level so maybe I’m just out of the loop on this topic.
Abu Dhabi to Receive the Middle East’s First Quantum Computer
I agree, a lot has changed since then. The governments have gotten a lot more abusive and intrusive, for example.
If you go in with 10 before Sept 15th you can get it for $15/m
Isn't it sort of obvious that practically every product developed for profit is done for the benefit of the organization doing it?

"The needs of the user" is just one factor for satisfying the primary incentive, which is making money. The needs of the user needs to be met to the point that they are willing to pay money for it, anything more you're not maximizing your profit. I mean, why would you expect anything to be different.

I primarily blame the users. They're the ones who accept this shit and still give their money. If they don't want user-hostile software, they shouldn't use it. If people refused to pay for it, things would change. And yeah, that might come with some sacrifices.
> Or more philosophically speaking, whose fault is it that people living under democratic rules don't challenge the efficacy of their governments? Or, perhaps more importantly, why?

Because, in the US at least, average people have very little actual influence over government policy relative to the influence enjoyed by business interests and the capital class.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
You can easily smash a diamond with a hammer, even though the diamond is far harder than a hammer.

Aside from that, metals quite often gouge and chip one another, and 100+ year old swords are not automatically stronger or made of better materials than present day pot metal.

After a certain point, a sword is more valuable and useful as an art piece than as a weapon outside of emergencies.
So what should we call spaghetti with a marinara? Chinese noodles with crushed American nightshades?
Funilly enough I could have pulled this off, but didnt...

Although my fav Exchange story was at Lockheed:

We sent an email 'on behalf of' the Head of Council (the top corp Lawyer) for our division, to our entire group.

"Come by my office for Coffee and Doughnuts!"

Droves showed up to his office asking for coffee and doughnuts.

On April Fools Day.
Decades ago we were deeply concerned with syncronized simulations; the dominant replication method was lock-step input replication, or similar, and that made it very important that everyone's simulation was identical or bad things would happen.

Nowadays that's not an issue, as there's a slew of different ways of overcoming that and allowing clients to operate asynchronously; sometimes widely asynchronous.
I read every one of these articles, and some help a little, but most don't. I know it's me, not them.

In my case I have a "fear of getting started". Once started I can usually keep going, which I guess is opposite of many (although I do have my share of unfinished projects too), but my mind starts to reel at "all the shit I need to do" that getting started on any of them is really hard.

I've started trying to schedule really small things, almost meaningless things, so I get them done via the notification that I need to start on <X>. That's helped. I need to get better at doing the "one foot in front of the other" mentality, I guess.

Pointers, or anything that's helped any of you very welcome.

There used to be a time tracking app that I liked that I've never seen before nor since that helped me out. It worked like so:

- every 10 (configurable) minutes it popped up a dialog, "what did you do for the last 10 minutes?" with a list of common or recent tasks. You picked one or wrote a new one. At the end of $DAY it gave you your tallies.

The constant reminders gave me incentive to either keep doing what I was doing (if it was good), or stop fucking around and do something meaningful.

Sadly the dev bailed on it and wouldn't release the source. I may write my own, "one of these days", but I'm not sure how to get started... <sigh>
How are Purism and System76 related?
>Rent control never takes away any supply.

Why would I build a new apartment building if it was going to be rent-controlled? Why would I rent my units if they were going to be rent controlled? There's evidence that the availability of rentable spaces decreases in the presence of rent control. These policies have had an effect on supply.

If I can't afford a down payment, and I also can't get rent control (because of the length of the waitlist), it's much more difficult for me to find an apartment to rent even though the number of buildings is still the same.

>that same person would still need the same amount of housing (presumably even in the same unit).

Rent control can actually cause people to stay in a larger or smaller apartment than they actually need. If I have to give up rent control to move, why would I do that? I'm incentivized to stay in an apartment regardless of whether or not it's the right size. I could have needed that two bedroom flat when I was raising a family, but now that my family has left I don't need the space. However, rent control means that it's actually comparatively cheaper for me to stay in a large space.

>The problem is not rent control, the problem is a lack of enough rent control. If rent control was universal (applied to 100% of rental units) then most of the perceived problems with it would vanish overnight.

Price controls reduce the incentive to produce rentable units. It's the reason that price controls tend to result in shortages; why would I produce a price-controlled unit if I can't make a profit on it? Why would I continue renting a unit if there's a chance it gets rent controlled? Most studies I've seen have indicated that when rent control is implemented, the number of rentable units decreases.

I suppose the argument could be made that renting is itself a bad thing, and that converting all rentable apartments to units that can be purchased is a good thing. I could see that argument.

> Rent control does not give people the ability to reserve lots of housing units indefinitely, and rent control doesn't actually distribute or redistribute anything.

In practice, rent control functions much like my analogy. If I'm in a rent-controlled apartment, I'm unlikely to leave. Why would I, especially when my rent won't change significantly if I stay? I can't get a better deal elsewhere. It also means that the landlord is unlikely to want to rent that apartment again when I leave, because they're uninterested in getting rent-controlled.
1. Don't procrastinate by reading articles about how not to procrastinate.
There are hundreds if not thousands of these bots, some are already close to Groovy's size. My initial reaction is that...this won't have much of an effect?

I wonder if a "bot factory" would be more effective, so then you're in the same boat as torrent trackers (we just make the gun, we don't use it).
A significant confounding issue is a lot of people think they're "previously infected" but aren't, as the symptoms of COVID and the symptoms of flus and colds overlap, especially in milder cases. "I got it but didn't seek treatment" is impossible to verify, too.

My son had a nasty case of pneumonia early in 2020; we thought afterwards it might've been a COVID case. Later antibody testing demonstrated that it wasn't.

That's why advice is still "go get the vaccine".
I figure that my above comment is pithy more than it's snarky, especially considering that many repliers understood its intent accurately.

People disagree on where the blame lies regarding consumption vs production, and it's difficult to know what is posturing and what is not.
Well, the first thing that springs to mind is to make an example out of him to discourage others trying to pull similar stunts.

Second, if the dude manages to make any appreciable sum out of selling the data, the corrupt officials may come by with the proverbial $5 wrench and encourage him to share the spoils for continued protection and avoidance of wrench induced bruising.
Probably Win98, the "Internet integrated into Windows" version.

(DoJ had some thoughts on that.)
He also appears to have turkish citizenship, so that might help
It would be the last for T-Mobile because it would end T-Mobile. But it wouldn't be the last breach ever.

I could give $5 billion to my FAANG right now and I bet we'd still be breached (hell, I'm pretty sure we already have that budget in my FAANG's security department). The US DoD already has a cyber security budget of $10 billion, and they still get breached.

You underestimate the amount that these companies care about security. Just because they get fined "only" a couple hundred million dollars doesn't mean they aren't scared shitless by being breached. I've sat in boardrooms with CEOs telling us they were willing to pay whatever it takes to increase their security (and they put their money where their mouth is, too). They still get breached.

Budget isn't everything. Does it help? Sure. Like any other security professional, I can recount plenty of tales of teams deprioritizing security in favor of something else. Would they have done differently if they were incentivized better by bigger potential fines? Maybe. Would they have actually been able to implement ironclad security even if they did prioritize it? In the cases I've seen, it's doubtful.

edit: and consider this. If you truly do think that money is everything, you should realize that you will never be able to throw more money at your security than a nation state attacker like China will be able to throw at breaching your security. In the competition of who can spend the most money, you've already lost.
I’m glad Clean Code is still up there. Feels like it’s not considered cool to like it any more.
Not “just” but I suspect most people in the world are indifferent to a more technologically advanced civilization displacing a less technologically advanced one. It’s how most of the world got to be the way it is and most people don’t really think about it too much. In Bangladesh we have the hill people, which we have treated similarly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong_Hill_Tracts_conflic.... People are pretty blase about it when it comes up.
Oh, their presence there was definitely ill thought; so was destabilising it during cold war through the same means that bit them back. For this, tough action for them and their allies did make sense just like it does for CCP at this point.
Totally not a bubble
Neil Fiore's book "The Now Habit" had so many tips that helped me when I was procrastinating in school.

The "unschedule" in particular has so many genius pieces:

- Schedule your fun FIRST, so you know you'll survive your week.

- Set a schedule for your whole week so you know how much time you have, and you can set your expectations lower (thus lowering your guilt!)

- Eventually, you start to do this for the month, year etc. Totally changes your emotions about your time.
> Imagine being called a minority in a place you are the majority and have lived for centuries before occupation.

There's lots of criticism I'd have for Chinese policy, but this terminology isn't one of them. It's very common to use the term "minority" to refer to a group that is a minority at the national level, but could still be a majority in some local level.

This is true in the American context as well (Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Mexicans, etc.)
On the book it's much more than a honeypot, the regime depended on such extremists to exist, so it created them.

Of course, the regime on the 60's to 80's in Brazil didn't have that problem, because they had no shame from practicing the violence themselves and claiming it was from the other side when extremists failed to appear. It looks much more reliable to me.
Stocks are not Ponzi wtf? Even today you can get something like Apple making 3% per year while also having big chance of making more in the future. It has nothing to do with a Ponzi scheme at all while artificially propped up producing absolutely nothing crypto currencies have a lot of similarities.

The argument that scarcity is a fundamental value proposition for an asset is just nonsense. I can make my own crypto even more limited than BTC overnight and it will worth about 0. It's not scarcity that makes stuff valuable. In case of BTC 3 things make it valuable: adoption, ability to make transaction while skipping over regulations (which requires adoption) and artificial propping by scams like Tether.
You can't compare pears to apples. Tibet and Crimea annexations were quite different.

Crimea used to be part of Russian Empire and then part of the Russian SSR until it was gifted to Ucranian SSR as a region in 1954. A 65% of the residents are Russians, 16% Ucranians and 12% Crimean Tatars. And most of their population speaks Russian (85%). There were tensions between Russia, Ukraine and Crimea thanks to that transfer (and they haven't disappeared). The annexation was a bad thing economically wise but it was done quite fast and clean.

The Tibet was already under Chinese control since the Qing Dynasty (1720). At that time, Korea was also a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty. The Tibet independence (1911-1950) sadly didn't have any strength (obsolete military, bad and few foreign relations) and they were absorbed by the CCP military. Also, they speak different languages, have different cultures and the Han are still a small minority in the region.
> It only takes about 6-8 years to go from street riots to camps and gulags, and in Canada and Australia, we're about 60% of the way down that road.

Didn't the current premier's father (for Canada) do pretty much the same thing (suspend constitutional rights) in the 70's for... dubious reasons to say the least? He was also the man who paved the way to normalize relations with China and Cuba, two nations known for their respect of human rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

Hard to overstate this one. So more leaks is not, by itself, enough to make changes happen.
sarcasm? Nobody uses crypto for remittance payments to poorer countries. It is mostly used by rich folks in countries like China to get around exchange restrictions.
What estimate puts it at 1TW? I'm seeing an estimate of 148.77 TWh per year, which is about 17GW.
So this article concludes that starting with a certain project size, over-engineered code is easier to work with than under-engineered code, and scales well when the projects grows (even "linear with the size").

But what this article is actually about is about entanglement of individual parts. Under-engineered implies spaghetti code with lots of entanglement. Over-engineered code does have the minimum needed amount of entanglement.

Of course this is right on the topic of entanglement.

But this is not so much my understanding of the terms over-engineered vs under-engineered.

I understand over-engineered as having too much abstractions. And those can turn out to be the wrong abstractions when they are actually used, which then requires more work to refactor this.

I understand under-engineered as having too little abstractions, and having build in some assumptions which might hold for one use case but not anymore for others. This can also require some effort to fix this.

In practice, this is also a continuum, and you might even have both things mixed.

And when actually writing some new code, it is often hard to know the right amount of complexity.

This is why the overall quality greatly improves when you do a couple of iterations of rewrites from scratch. Because you keep improving on just the right needed abstractions.

Related:

http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
Put the pain on the decision maker.

If you need repro steps or the discussion, then each time they are missing from the spreadsheet, ask the PM to find them for you.

Either the PM changes to another system, or they figure out how to handle your needs in their current system.
A user-friendly version of entire VAERS database
Sequestering carbon while others are emitting it is not net carbon negative. It's just a highly elaborate and inefficient way of moving clean energy around. That's why it's in Iceland - wouldn't be much point in running the plant off fossil fuels would it?

If you have clean energy, using it directly to not burn fossil fuels is strictly more efficient than trying to undo the damage done by burning fossil fuels.
If you need crazy amounts of storage you are looking at enterprise SSDs which do not have this sort of problem, not consumer crap.
Of the two people I know who ordered one, 0 have been delivered.

I'm well into worried this is another eve laptop / failed to deliver a real product situation.

So even if they are not sold out,
Purism is not getting any money from me until I hear of delivered products to people I know.
It seems like the article is saying that vaccine immunity is actually more robust that natural immunity though.
The United States governement is not honoring its treaties with the native peoples to this day. This is not just an artifact of the past, but an ongoing injustice. https://www.history.com/news/native-american-broken-treaties
Worth noting that Google would probably do its very best to keep anything like this from coming to fruition with its tight grip on Chrome and web standards. And it’s not in the interest of individual companies to go through with this sense the odds that you just click “deny all cookies now and evermore” are pretty high.

Just a case of perverse incentives and conflicts of interest.
History of ZFS part 3 – Heading into the Future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)

> Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf argued in the chapter "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy" that the Germans needed Lebensraum in the East and described it as a "historic destiny" which would properly nurture the future generations of Germans

> [...] was to be carried out through a rapidly enforced process of Gleichschaltung (synchronization). The ultimate intent of this was to eradicate all traces of national rather than racial consciousness, although their native languages were to remain in existence

> [...] After Germany had acquired her Lebensraum, she now needed to populate these lands according to Nazi ideology and racial principles
Technically, it's not unlimited. More like 20-30GB at 5G speeds and everything after at unusable speeds.
Amen. And the worst part? Can't even fix it easily, because they all depend on each other. Someone is getting the data in json format and depends on the filename being exactly YYYYMMDD in a specific directory of a specific server. Some horrible open source framework can only handle data at 200 requests/sec (and of course every row is a request) and you have a distributed asynchronous queue plus rate-limiter to make it work. Yada yada.
Candela C-8 revealed as mass-produceable flying hydrofoil electric boat
Obviously that was my personal anecdotal experience. Apple doesn't publish this data.

It was probably worse than 30% for the 2016 MBP models considering the keyboard issues though.
The way I read it is that vaccine immunity is engineered towards COVID in general. It'll catch variants because they're still COVID.

Natural immunity knows only of COVID-19 Alpha. But it knows it well. All those nooks and crannies the other variants may not have, the natural antibodies can latch on to.
https://archive.is/LqhKM
They both provide a means of running a user-first and privacy-first operating system on a laptop without supporting surveillance capitalists.

You can’t really buy a Dell or a MacBook, install Debian or some other *nix OS and make the same claim.
You (Alice and Bob, where Alice is Tx/Bob is Rx) need to have agreed upon the basis in which you measure for each bit ahead of time. If you get MITM'd and they don't know the basis to measure in, then:

- They have a 50% chance of measuring in the correct basis and re-sending the proper qubit
- They have a 50% change of measuring in the incorrect basis, in which case their measurement means nothing and the qubit they send is in a superposition in the correct basis, leading to a chance Bob measures the wrong value

Over a very long string, it becomes exponentially unlikely that the MITM could guess the proper basis and then re-send the proper qubit to Bob. As that binary string grows in length, it's essentially impossible to MITM with any meaningful likelihood.
That's every uncharitable.

I'm not going to rewatch it, because, as you said, it's long, but what he's saying is that there's a difference between baiting and never delivering and bating and delivering.

Also, educating isn't just about putting forth the facts, but also persuasion and spreading. It does coincide with him making more money, but there's nothing bad about that.