skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still surprised the power mods who got together and decided to make their subreddits private in protest haven't been removed. They have way too much power and it is a terrible precedent to establish. Reddit Admins say they banned NoNewNormal because of brigading, but I don't believe that for one second.

Brigading happens all the time on reddit but it is only selectively enforced. Even so, why should an entire community of 100,000+ subscribers get banned because a few dozen people decided to brigade? Just ban the brigading individuals. But I think most people realize it's a sham justification.
>roughly 11 out of every 100 people in Sweden have been diagnosed with COVID-19, compared with 9.4 out of every 100 in the UK and 7.4 per 100 in Italy

If the goal is to shoot for herd immunity, then you would need 40-60% of population to have antibodies. No way to get from A -> B without people 'catching it'

At some point it needs to be accepted that Covid is now endemic and is 'never going away'. Trying to stave it off with leaky vaccines is like trying safeguard your 0-day with a leaky firewall.

Logical and medically minded people should focus on developing and testing therapeutics to reduce the need for hospitalizations. Sadly that will require loss of profits to very large companies.
I think the comment is clearer than the linked content as a basic explanation. The linked content covers "the difference" with two bullet points, and uses the term "origin server" which isn't super-intuitive.
Speaking of free markets. This will certainly improve the looks of the privateer estuary. Invest now.
> Sometimes 'funding the change you want to see' is merely to appease your own conscience; some real problems are systemic or caused by other actors.

Sure. But politics of change happens only when an idea spreads. This happens only by changing your own attitudes first, and then trying to advocate it to others in your social circle. The more you believe in an idea, and personify it by adopting it, the easier it is for others to believe you and consider it.

This is what Gandhi once said:

> “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”

(This is what is drummed down to the quote - "Be the change you want to see in this world".)

Gandhi was a brilliant politician and this advise is psychologically quite profound - a lot of pessimism, frustration and anxiety that we experience is because we often focus on things that are beyond our sphere of control.

(Gandhi was not the only politician to have this idea. Muhammad, whom the muslims consider their Prophet, also advocated similar ideas in Islam and this is apparent on Islam's dictates on charity. Muslims in my social circle are literally taught that "charity begins at home". Apart from the poor and the needy, they are told to keep a major portion aside and first enquire within the family if anyone is in need of financial help, and then expand their search to include friends and acquaintances. That's socialism and distribution of wealth within a family / social circle, and the effects of that can be much more profound.)
If they tie a hash of the software to the report, then you can verify the software is the same.

Not sure how to handle updates later though. What level of udpates would require an entirely new audit?
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Yikes! I'd decided to take a pass on anything he's written unless it received unanimous critical acclaim after slogging through Seveneves and not even finishing Reamde, so it's kind of sad to hear that things aren't getting better.
I'm so excited for this. It's the end of my physical wallet.

Is there something concrete you're worried about or is it you just don't like giving big brother too much of your info?
Yep. Even with the Great Resignation in full swing, companies don't seem to care about the losses other than whining about it.

As far as they are concerned, we are replaceable commodity cogs. So we should act like commodity sellers.
I think people are not that smart but also not that stupid. People are used to small amount of inflation (in Western countries) and thus already planned ahead for it. It works differently in countries with high-inflation, people take notice when prices are increasing fast.

My guess is that people expected bank accounts to work as something they have, that is secure and untouchable. It's not that it can't happen (a bank can go bankrupt and the CB refuses to cover the customers) but people who haven't gone through it, believe it can never happen. Their balance being reduced tipped them off that something is not quite alright.

What I'm trying to say is that people are more concerned about the bank dipping into their accounts (regardless of the amount) rather than them losing some Purchasing Power.
I'm sure that sentence made sense inside your head
I didn't learn for quite a while that you can escape the * on HN with a backslash. So \* renders as *.
Somehow "detailing restrooms" has me picturing someone claybar-ing and waxing toilet seats.
PloS One is not really open access... The vast majority of journals function under a Subscription/Paid open-access model, PloS One just mandates the second option.

I've forked out >$4k for a high-quality journal to make my research open-access. Or I could have paid $0 and it would be behind a paywall.

Some like Nature, publish largely open-access but it can cost >$8k to be published there.
I knew a dozen kids in middle school who would do that. I got to the point I can do it sometimes.
> Is it that a "true" OS would directly execute the duties of these hidden processors?

I think a “true” OS would run its code on all these processors, implementing both sides of the communication protocols connecting these pieces of hardware into a computer.

For one, such hypothetical OS may upgrade or replace these communication protocols with OS updates, or because user changed some system preferences.

This also allows to re-configure these things based on runtime information. For instance, when AC power is disconnected from a battery-powered device, it makes sense to do stuff slightly differently, like stop all processes on all CPUs who are polling to get events faster, and switch to slower but energy efficient interrupts.
Unless you explicitly allow them (via a flag) in your kube-state-metrics deployment, Kubernetes labels and annotations are not translated into Prometheus labels.
I wouldn't use it on a pod directly, but I recommend that annotations on deployments include the oncall rotation that is responsible for them - And there's no real reason not to cascade that down onto pods as well.
Bank notes are a liability of the central bank. When you withdraw your money the central bank can just buy the bonds off that bank. Of course a bank without bonds is basically dead but from the perspective of the person holding onto the bank note nothing changed assuming the zero lower bound is strictly followed by the central bank.
I would like to meet one of those journals. Every journal I've published with has been a 'pay first, then we publish' model.
You also spend those days feeling utterly unlike yourself, in a new environment that is perhaps subtly, perhaps radically different than home. You feel distinctly unmoored and if there could be a collective unconscious psychically linking us to those around, then surely it must take a little while to get plugged into such a thing.
'spectacular deflation, I'm talking 500% year over year ...'

If currency loses 100% of value, it will be worth zero. A complete, 100%, total loss.

A 500% loss would be spectacular! And not possible using commonly accepted laws of the universe such as math.
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Sorry. Ek = mv² is the correct formula, not the simplest. And it does not express rest energy but kinetic energy. This is obvious, no?
I run a recent X1 Extreme (Gen 2) with Fedora as OS and aside from the the weird naming have zero complaints about it.
Really? I don't see minimum wage laws going up, even though social media has been demanding it. The only thing I see is politicians sucking up to anti-vaxxers.

Twitter etc is great, but they don't really have much power. The BLM movement was a massive uprising, but didn't really achieve anything afaik.

The real power is still with the elected officials
It's completely reasonable to think that no one can fly. But then we nibble at that, cuz we want to fly; and we add caveats to the rule. it becomes "People can't fly:"

- without mechanical assistance,

- without at least a wingsuit and a tall place to jump from,

- in standard gravity,

etc. So pretty much a re-affirmation of your first point.
"A cover letter is a written document commonly submitted with a job application outlining the applicant's credentials and interest in the open position"

Sound suspiciously like a "paragraph about why we should hire you"
Why not. Here's the thing: tired of it? Just stop and do something else. Can't do that at work.

It's just mental exercise.
Actually paying income taxes where you live kinda makes sense, since those taxes are used mostly for local services and such. Alternative is to merge provinces and just have one national level system.
Oh i know, i just don't think it helps in this situation, as waiting on the tcp connection is not the hold up in this situation.
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The Assault on Empiricism
If you define kinetic energy as mv^2 it basically means that you redefine the word "energy" to mean double energy (as we currently definine it). It could work just as well, but we would have to have the factor 2 in all of the other equations that define any kind of energy or work so the "double energy" is conserved. The author alread gives such doubled equation for potential energy Epd=2mgh. You'd need to do the same for every other equation that involves any kind of energy in physics.

I wonder how author feels about 1/2 factor in equation that gives distance traveled by moving with constant acceleration. Should it be just at^2 ? This would redefine distance to be double distance and we would have to consider what it means for acceleration and velocity.

All these 1/2 come straight from integration of linear functions. To get rid of them we'd have to patch math results and since math holds this would mean factors of 2 pop up around everywhere else.
Is there a photo of what he's talking about anywhere?
They seem to be fairly confident about it in their material: https://frame.work/blog/the-upgradeable-mainboard

Yes an AMD APU with RDNA graphics in this laptop is what I really want.
The built in USB-C ports are actually fully compatible with Thunderbolt they're just waiting for certification before they can say that. https://community.frame.work/t/thunderbolt-yes-or-no-or-not-...
I think this is a slightly-too-bleak-for-the-evidence take, because it's not clear how long immune defense persists. COVID antibodies tend to go away kind of quickly, but there are (so I hear) other mechanisms of defense which may persist longer.

Things could of course be much worse - it's possible that the COVID molecule is somehow unusually well situated for immune escape and length of immunity won't matter that much; those of us in countries that can afford it will get our semi-annual microchip infusion with the latest flavors.
VPN browser extensions are merely proxies and most likely will leak you IP/privacy. I've written a blog post on this topic: https://blog.innerht.ml/vpn-extensions-are-not-for-privacy/
What a shitty wannabe marketing-stunt.

Just put in the rocky-Linux sources.

Ahhh it's ZDNet..everything clear
Will It Scale Down?
> But last I heard the vaccine is not that effective to Delta variant.

It is not as effective as it was against earlier variants when it comes to preventing you from getting infected with COVID, but it is still very effective at preventing you from getting seriously ill or dying from COVID.

COVID is likely heading to endemic status where it is something we all get now and then, but we all have immunity from previous infections or vaccinations that largely protects us from serious illness when we do get it. In that world it is only your first infection that is dangerous for most people.

Vaccination essentially makes your first infection count as a second infection.
There's no way to know for sure, but he was a really principled man. I will say that Reddit isn't just a social media service anymore. It's actually far more powerful than that. I think that powerful individuals and institutions have realized that controlling the presentation of information is Reddit's true value proposition. Just look at r/all or r/popular and you can see that the kind of content that gets featured there is heavily manipulated.
The discussion isn't about if it's good policy (although low case numbers and low death rate are fairly compelling arguments). What's being called into question is the exaggerated nature of your claims.

We can leave for business, compassionate grounds, medical reasons etc etc. The line that we cannot "for any reason" is being pushed by people with an agenda and a particular interest in politicising a public health crisis just like all the other exaggerations you have parroted here.

I'm sorry you refuse to see that and in fact choose to participate. I'm not saying this is you, but the hilarious thing about the "free thinkers" on the pandemic is that they refuse to even entertain the possibility that they might be being used as pawns to peddle misinformation while accusing the rest of the world of being just that.
I think you might be kind of missing the point here—if you run your own recursive resolver, e.g. unbound, you’re not relying on any public DNS server.
None of those are superscripted at all, except for the doubled daggers, and few people will recognize any of them as signifying footnotes. You're not wrong that they're what typesetters would use, but for a post on HN, I'd personally just use ^^^^ instead of ¶. I'm really sad Unicode chose not to allow superscript ZWJ.

^ one

^^ two

^^^ three

^^^^ four
> Thankfully alternatives exist. Linux and the BSDs keep evolving, Haiku and ReactOS continue to develop and may one day reach daily-driver status, there's still a thriving market for building your own x86-64 PCs (I'll be building a Ryzen 9 machine this weekend), and products like the Framework laptop, the PineBook, and the Librem laptop have me excited. Hopefully these alternatives will continue to evolve and take root so that way there's a formidable challenger to Big Tech.

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Thank you my wife asked if I had a problem :D

Ok … 2 days, 23 hours and 57 min of training yet.
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It sounds similar to how I learned to move my toes independently. It's harder than you'd think and takes a lot of focus. I don't think it's indirect control.
For techie home use of OpenWrt, I'm currently using Netgear R7800.

The R7800 is well supported by OpenWrt, has the hardware features I need, some room to gro, and it's affordable used. I paid about $90 for my first one, and about $70 for my backup unit.

For OpenWrt for smaller purposes, for which an R7800 is both overkill and physically bulky, I understand there are a bunch of near options now. I just keep some old WNDR3700 and WNDR3800 units on hand, which used to be my main routers, and actually still could be. (Sometimes they might be a simple WiFi bridge or print server. Other times, they might be an experimental LAN that needs different properties than I have set up for my main router, and with which I don't want to complicate my main router setup.)
I would argue that the difference between the news article with and without the scripts is in fact pretty big.
The estimated cost structure is 1% webserver operation, 1% indian editing team worsening submitted papers, 1% printing stuff that still is delivered on paper, 2% office staff, 25% advertising, 30% legal cost to harass and prosecute students, researchers and universities, 20% executive compensation, 20% dividends.
Meanwhile, I'm on my Chuwi Hipad plus (a very capable iPad Pro ripoff) that runs stock Android with no issues.

The vendor is too small-time to bother setting up post-sale monetization deals like this.
> Have you ever smelled a compost toilet? (It stinks up an entire area)

That's false. Composting toilets can easily be odor free.

Also, to round out your treatise on freedoms you really need to mention that serious problems can be posed by poorly maintained or designed septic systems, holding tanks, and municipal sewage treatment facilities (beyond offensive odors). To boot, our habit of using clean drinking water to transport urine and feces is simply ... wasteful.
Yes, I know that. It's unclear what aspects of those duplications are "functional but not coding for genes, enhancers, promotors, or other well-known and understood coding and regulator elements", and which are "functional because if you remove it the organism dies but we can't explain what the cause is".

Everything in my terminology is entirely correct within the current mainstream understanding and it encapsulates much of the ongoing confusion about what "role" non-coding functional elements play, and how they play it.

See http://cryptogenomicon.org/encode-says-what.html and https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(13)... for the strongest arguments against ENCODE's more wide definition of functional elements, as well as https://www.pnas.org/content/110/14/5294 and https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/MGA2_02-10.html

I am of the opinion that nearly everybody in this field is overly dogmatic in their views of how genomes work at the macro scale, and that these squabbles demonstrate that clearly.

For more context, please understand that as a researcher in this field, much of what I say may not make sense to casual readers. I decided it's better to think about minimal organisms, than ones that have 500 copies of the ribosome (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=...)
Your position appears to be conflating requiring coordination with impossibility. Apple has it easier in some ways but it’s not like AMD/Intel, Microsoft, Dell, et al. don’t work together, too. Similarly, while you’re not entirely wrong that the ISVs customize firmware and settings, the defaults and range of options are constrained by the CPU design.

Finally, again, 15W TDP is not the same as 15W under normal usage. That misunderstanding appears to be driving most of your disagreements in this thread.
Hey, I wrote this! I guess now's as good a time as any to make an account. I wasn't very happy with this one when I uploaded it, but I didn't want another file in the blog graveyard.
I think they do care, otherwise Apple wouldn't make privacy such a big selling point.
And people continue with what succeeds. If it worked once, and it worked the next hundred times, why would you change? That it's not efficient or effective in the long-term is irrelevant unless they step back and consider their objectives. Which most people don't seem to do on a regular basis.
This also applies to their Kindle devices, I believe removing the ads cost $20.
It bypasses all proxies and interception, and hides all of the traffic contained in the tunnel. This means no traffic logging of the tunneled traffic, no IPS/IDS in front of the SSH service, and no visibility into the SSH traffic itself. If the box with the SSH service isn’t in a DMZ it also compromises network segmentation.

The problem isn’t SSH over TOR being insecure. It is sidestepping all of the security controls in place at your org and not talking to the netsec folks first.

Honestly I would be amazed if any competent netsec folks would even allow TOR outbound by default. I certainly wouldn’t allow it by default in an enterprise environment.
I'm currently reviewing for JOSS, and have done so before. In many ways they're a very strange journal: the paper is nearly an afterthought, and the review is focused on the code. But I like them. As you say, the editors take their role seriously. And it seems to have two valuable contributions.

Firstly, encouraging and structuring code review in academia. My own code is almost entirely solo (and messy), so a venue for structured review and an incentive to robustify public code is good. Secondly, the culture in some disciplines is that code is not citable, only papers - and JOSS is an end-run around this. I hope this second situation is changing, but we're not there yet so JOSS has a valuable role for the moment in simply being a 'journal' assigning DOIs basically for code packages.
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Amazon asked FCC to reject Starlink plan because it can’t compete, SpaceX says
Civil forfeiture has got to go.