skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Courts are slow. The court date kept getting pushed back (now scheduled in October) and so Sci-hub paused new papers for several months. But apparently Elbakyan’s lawyers have determined that the temporary restriction on uploading new materials has expired.
This is getting better by the year.

'Don't use a browser'. 'Don't carry a cellphone'. 'Wear a mask'.

Next: 'Don't go outside'. 'Don't speak'. 'Don't think'.
In https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1414342378765307907 she jokingly asks where her Nobel Peace Prize is.

Given how often that prize is given out as a bully pulpit to advance a cause, and given the global debt that science owes to her, I think she really does deserve one.
Or got laid off, took the stimi, got more education to switch careers. I know 2 and I don't have a bunch of friends.
More interestingly, if instead of bombing Afghans you built them a nice high speed rail network along a nice freight network, economically integrating the traditionally independent regions, they may be grateful enough to make the Taliban lose political power.
> geofencing warrant grab all’s

You are going to have to go pull the SIM and service, and keep your phone in a faraday bag as well. All the network providers do these, along with real time location tracking.
There is no absolute guarantee that SciHub or any other site will always manage to survive the impressive array of forces against it.

As far as I can see, the most robust fallback has to be some kind of distributed data store that can mirror humanity's vital information on the widest possible array of computer/storage systems, and which would literally take an apocalypse to wipe out. Depending on one brave person to fight what should be our common battles (and we do that everywhere, the heroes are always lonely at the top while their actions benefit all of us) is disappointing.

Data has to be duplicated massively or it is always extremely vulnerable. DNA figured this out billions of years ago.
This seems like a good time to ask if there's any point at all to mainframes besides legacy applications.

If an org has never used a mainframe before, what would be a good reason for them to start?
I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet.

Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start. Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.
It's not really up to the kernel. The kernel and initial ramdisk are loaded into memory by the bootloader. Once you are in the ramdisk you can do pretty much whatever you want to mount the root partition; including using a user space file system. If you wanted to, you could skip switching to the "real" root filesystem, and run your system entirely out of the ramdisk.

With EFI, you can even skip having a seperate boot-loader entirely, and combine the kernel, ramdisk, and an EFI shim into a single EFI executable.
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Any relationship between this and integer factoring?
And that’s precisely why public transport is an inferior good in NYC.
I'm surprised you mentioned iPhones, because that's exactly Apple's strategy. They tend to keep three generations around, and each time they introduce a new iPhone, they knock down the price of the previous generations. Here's [0] an article on them reducing the price of the iPhone 8 by $150 (from $559, so a significant cut of 25%) when they introduced the iPhone 11.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/10/apple-cuts-iphone-8-and-i...
It's also on the list of drugs that could trigger a false positive in an urine test:

https://www.uspharmacist.com/article/urine-drug-screening-mi...

”Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have also been shown to interact with UDS immunoassays. Both ibuprofen and naproxen have been documented to cause false-positive barbiturate4 and cannabinoid1-4 levels. In addition, ibuprofen can cause a false-positive PCP level.1-2,4”
Consumer network devices do routing in software (with a few exceptions), so the OEM's intentions for whether a device should be a router, access point, or range extender are meaningless when the software has been replaced with OpenWRT. At worst, you end up with a router that has an inconvenient number of interfaces.

A range extender may not have an Ethernet port labeled "WAN", but that doesn't prevent you from using one of its "LAN" ports for that purpose. Likewise, if you want to take a device sold as a router and use it only as an extra access point within your network, you can repurpose its WAN port as an extra LAN port, or go for more complex network configurations where you use the router's built-in switch as a VLAN-capable managed switch.
Sewers and paved roads are what really boggles my mind, most in the last half-century. Or that China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th century.

We're living in an era where things like the Great Wall of China or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are created on a regular basis.

I just hope this progress isn't sigmoid shaped, or that we've more than passed the half-way mark.
This is ~what the article suggests near the end.

Are there other examples in math or physics where work on some advanced concept (like quantum) results in useful advancements in contemporary / classical systems?

If the original authors had set out to prove no faster recommendation system existed, would they have found the same solution? Would this alone have been an interesting enough problem to work on?

I suppose I am wondering if the cachet of quantum (or some other field’s killer next thing) alone is useful if it results in driving forward understanding of technology we have at hand.
Start nominating...
An interview with her husband, Peter Dobson who was a "computer analyst" at the time in Joburg: https://disa.ukzn.ac.za/sites/default/files/pdf_files/sedec8... (pg. 21)

(this is an ANC publication from 1989)

It deals with American and Japanese tacit support of the regime (despite US sanctions on "computer technology" being sold to the ZA government) and the types of (IBM) systems running at the time.
My knowledge is a little old (I was the CTO of a major porn site in the mid-2000s) but I would be willing to bet that most of Pornhub's income comes from affiliate fees, advertising, and other B2B transactions. These are not card transactions and do not go through payment processors.
I really wish people would stop reducing OOP to classes…
One consequence of previous software failures with tragic outcomes was the development of technical standards that are now referred to and required in government procurement procedures, in laws and certifications, in education etc.

For example, the horrific Therac-25 incidents led to IEC 62304, a standard which specifies life cycle requirements for the development of medical software and software within medical devices:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_62304

I hope analogous standards will be formulated for privacy on devices etc.
Einstein's major breakthrough in special relativity wasn't a mathematical discovery, but his intuitive mental model of the impossibility of racing against a light beam. The mathematical transformation that follows from that had already been put to paper by Lorentz. But anyone would still call Einstein a theoretical physicist.

Faraday had his own theory of physics, essentially the underpinning of field theory, which was held entirely in his head. He tried to describe it to his peers in letters, and they mosy just couldn't grasp what he was talking about because of the distance between his ideas and theirs. So instead he just demonstrated in one revolutionary experiment after another that his ideas made sense, and everyone else had to race to keep up.

But unlike Oersted, Faraday didn't stumble into his discoveries. He designed his apparatus to prove the behaviour he already had imagined must be there.

(Sometimes he'd stumble by trial and error into the materials he needed, but materials science is hard and he was pretty good at that too).
This didn't happen. NHS Sequoyah has issued a statement and it turns out Dr. McElyea was lying. It's sad that Rolling Stone has such low journalistic standards and doesn't do fact checking.
IIRC It requires allowing apps to mimic other app's signatures and pretend to be them, "signature spoofing". MicroG mimics the Google play services signature.

But that is really crippling, because apps can now spoof other apps signatures, essentially apps can pretend to be other apps. That opens a lot of opportunities for an attacker.
Toyota is underwater like everyone else. When you have signal, it is already too late
> And starship captians will undoubtedly invite the wives of dignitaries to onboard Mozart recitations en route to the boring interstellar negotiations of their husbands.

I hope gender roles will have progressed more by then, though technological progress is often more rapid than social change.
> "Well, Terrorists are brainwashed and therefore aren't culpable

That's really not what i said. There are terrorists who were just brainwashed, but there are those who personally suffered and want to avenge that. Both scenarios are much more understandable reasons to make people die people than greed, at least for me.

And i think the reason for that is empathy, not envy. I can emphasise with the person who lost their land(whose ancestors lost their lands) and is living in an apartheid state; the person who had friends and family killed by an invading power for profit; the person who is treated as a second class thing, with his fellow second class things murdered at will, in his own land by an occupying power; and the poor confused youngsters that was brainwashing to believe in magical people, righteous justice, how great things used to be, etc. They are wrong to kill civilians, but there are underlying issues that need to be fixed.

I can't emphathise with somebody like the fuckwits at Boeing sacrificing human lives with incompetence and negligence to abide by an arbitrary deadline for money, or a fossil fuel executive lobbying against climate change and for his people-killing planet-destroying oil or coal. I can't put myself in their shoes and I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if i were at there place.
I agree with everything you’ve said, but most users will never want to host their own instance. It might even be an anti feature, since it sounds like a bunch of work! This is not a benefit that most people are going to care about - at least in the way you have explained it.
Hmm, let me guess, it begins with a D?
Remember that if Sci-Hub helps you and you can afford it, a donation to them would go a long way to helping keep them afloat.
A million active users is at least two orders of magnitude away from "mainstream".
The hospital itself exposed this as a false story.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/05/hospital-blows-holes-roll...
Follow boring advice
Is there a description of his life you are able to share?
As your link says Toyota has not been materially impacted until now, whereas all the other manufacturers had to scale back their production way earlier (I'm seeing articles from January and March). 8 months longer runway than everyone else is a pretty good deal.
https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/pricing/

100TB SSD, $40k.
He doesn't even currently work there and apparently made up the story.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/05/hospital-blows-holes-roll...
I never really looked at this page before. Wow, I still kind of think of YC as a small company but the reality is that they have more employees than I thought.
I heard it could be treated with marijuana. Is this true ?
We are talking about people who refuse nuance generally and act in quite insulting ways toward those they disagree with. This whole question is moot.
Are GoodReads/Amazon and others cool about this use of their exported data? Can BookWyrm expect lawsuits? Genuinely curious, not trolling.
It's pretty much just me, you, and about 73,244 bots. And I have my doubts about you, now that I think about it.
all Sci-hub articles are duplicated via torrents, you can help by seeding the torrents
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...

there is also some ongoing work moving to IPFS that could use help, see https://freeread.org/ipfs/ and https://github.com/sci-hub-p2p/sci-hub-p2p/ , it seems to have IPFS support https://sci-hub-p2p.readthedocs.io/_en/ipfs.html
As someone who "manages" there accounts in spreadsheets what would be the advantages? I'm already downloading CSVs from my accounts which I clean and import into a spreadsheet.

Also can someone link to what the actual text file looks like? The format. I can't find a decent example, I just want to see this human readable format, thanks.
The process of evaporation of water takes a massive amount of energy, which is exactly what's needed if you're trying to get rid of heat from a data center or industrial processes.

To do the same with a heat exchanger would need a much much bigger heat exchanger, and some of these evaporation systems are already pretty big.
On the page, one option advertised is for €23.53/month with an Intel Core i7-4770, 2 TB HDD, and 32 GB RAM. What’s the catch? How is it possible to rent such hardware for so cheap?
I went from my last job where every method and variable declaration had to be commented to my current job where there isn't a specific rule against comments in code but if you put in a PR with comments in it, you're going to get rejected after being laughed at.

I thought I would miss it, but I don't miss the documentation. Code doesn't lie.
Nursing homes warn vaccine mandate could lead to staff shortages
Most of this is due to progress, but part is due to the way Western European nations dominated the globe and destroyed some pretty advanced civilisations. Some pretty impressive progress was essentially wiped out by colonialism.
There have been 24 years between Therac-25 and IEC 62304, with a clear smoking gun that everybody agreed it was a horrific smoking gun. With privacy, we're still in 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' stage, and we may be stuck here perpetually.

How do we move the needle of public opinion?
Appwrite 0.10 and a new Realtime API
If you use the whole node-based toolchain. This looks fantastic, because I don't need any of that.
A lot of consumer routers these days store the OS on NAND flash instead of NOR flash, and 1Gbit to 4Gbit capacities are common. One of Google Fiber's Network Box models has 2GByte (16Gbit) of NAND.
Given how Samsung compromise every other nook and cranny of Galaxy phones, I wouldn't have any expectations of this being actually secure or private.

This is my own conclusion after owning several Galaxy devices and eventually giving up trying to get them secure. At this point, they can't be trusted more than Xiaomi or Huawei.
Walter Scott's Ivanhoe is mostly great, and has Rebecca as a normal fully realized character who is Jewish .. and her father Isaac as the most ludicrously horrible collection of moneylender stereotypes. Very odd and easily ruins reading it.

In the 20s it was indeed becoming fashionable, along with eugenics and English fascism of the Unity Mitford kind. Just another outgrowth of believing that superiority is hereditary.
> Syscall interfaces aren't easy

The Linux system call binary interface is pretty easy though. Put a bunch of values in registers, system call instruction, get result back in register. I'm surprised the Go compiler can't emit code that follows this calling convention. I've seen projects here that do just that and it's really nice.

I agree that the vDSO is more complex. It's a shared object that exports symbols with the C binary interface. Much harder to interface with.

> These days, that means C libraries very often, especially when performance is concerned (this isn't a "C is fast" thing, it's a "people have already spent decades optimizing C libraries, often with architecture-specific SIMD and assembly" thing).

I can respect that.

Go always had a focus on eliminating dependencies though. Using system calls directly allows Go executables to be freestanding, they don't even require system libc. I think this is an interesting proposition for systems programming. Great for executables that must work even when the rest of the system is screwed up.

> Not only that, but this is required on Windows for syscalls.

> Go started off with this idea of prioritizing reinventing the world over a good FFI

I completely agree with your criticism of Go here. They shouldn't have attempted this on other systems. I read your description of how some macOS update broke Go software because the kernel ABI changed. That's insane and should never have happened.

Linux is the only kernel with a stable system call binary interface, the only system where reinventing the world is possible.

> In the end, I just don't agree with treating FFI as a second class citizen.

Absolutely agree with you. Rust does this much better, it has proper support for foreign calling conventions. Don't think the vDSO problem would have happened in Rust. It also supports freestanding code!

Thanks for replying. I agree with you. I think this is a good idea on Linux specifically but as you noted it's problematic if applied to other platforms.
So the summary is that some evaporation systems waste water by letting condensed water droplets escape rather than water vapor. Those water droplets aren't carrying away much heat like the vapor is, so are effectively just wasted water. This system recaptures those water droplets.
Tesla Uses Godot Engine for Animations
It's kind of whimsical to read the praise of sci-hub and fear about its future here. Tech people have access to pools of billions and billions of dollars that are casually being thrown on mindless minor addictions that offer nothing to humanity. Can't someone make an initiative or startup that disintermediates those very old publishers who are trolling science?
Here you will find an example and more format details https://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref/#h.8v2r9qqwt9f8
That is simply a lie. Due to EMTALA, hospitals with ERs are legally required to treat unstable patients regardless of vaccination status. (I do recommend that everyone get vaccinated if they can.)
But code doesn't always explain why it is the way it is.
I just noticed something funny: The library of Alexandria was accidentally burned in 48 BC by Julius Ceasar. Here we are in 2021, we now have Alexandra's library, which rivals the first in size and scope, and there are at least as many forces trying to burn it. But fortunately this one is digital and you too can have a copy in your hallway closet for the price of some harddrives and bandwidth.

Go make a backup, if you can afford it, and let's make sure that this one sticks around.
Hahaha. Yup.

The “doctor” doesn’t even work at the hospital.

https://nhssequoyah.com/

Like I said in later replies, the media feeds off this kind of clickbait outrage. If you come across something really outrageous it’s mostly like untrue or at least exaggerated.

The sad part is how widely shit like this is reported. Nobody bothered to even vaguely attempt to valid the story? Even check if the “doctor” works there? Even check if the county the hospital in has a lot of shootings. I mean, even just call the hospital to get a comment.

Most news is total garbage.
Rectangle has raised $500K and is hiring
rectangle has raised $500K and is looking for top notch software engineering talent that includes CTO, CEO
and other engineering roles.
goals is to _Write the first version of the API
some-info: rectangle is based around payments, but the company is flexible enough to pivot
to apply just introduce yourself in the #general channel of software daily slack http://softwaredaily.herokuapp.com/
the first line of your message should contain "I'm here to work on rectangle"
XTLang / Extempore?
I think most phone purchases might not be people purchasing a phone because they need one, but people purchasing a newer phone because it's cool. And while people certainly pour crazy amount of money in those gadgets, I'm sure there is a price limit when they are not buying a new one.
Brave gets a 100% there. Interesting, I thought it was not as good.
pay up! but since you didn't stake anything it means a humiliation of the winner's choosing is in order.

I hope he chooses something to do with eating premium horse feed, it's very tasty, like muesli.
Yes, the geometry of the engine dictates large areas to seal and that problem was never properly solved.
Indeed, it sadly looks like it comes with some custom non-commercial license though [1], rather than something more standard like the SIL Open Font License [2]. Feels like an odd choice for a non-profit entity, but non-commercial clauses tend to creep in with good, idealistic intentions as it can be difficult for those new to open/free culture to realise how hairy and counterproductive they can be in the end.

[1]: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_Open_Font_License
Just read a textbook. It's not easy, but it's what you want:

- rigorous treatment of the material

- no bullshit fluff

- exercises that you can do to think about the material and test your comprehension (often 50-100% of the answers are available online)

- systematic treatment used to train real physicists

In my experience, it's all about the homework. The rest just supports that.
It does a hell of a lot better job than comments.

I can't believe you've got me justifying this policy. But it does seem to work. shrugs
Neither has been cyanide. And since i've always wanted to be a cult leader, I say that it's possible that cyanide cures wuhan virus disease if you ingest minute quantities of it. Don't forget to smash that like button, hit subscribe, and click on the bell icon.
Ask HN: In Java JSF, why can't we edit HTML and CSS post deployment?
It is painful to go through a cycle of compilation + redeployment just because of a slight change in the html of the page.
Is there a way we can have the non-jsf part of jsf pages as static, editable files after an app is deployed?
or, alternatively, they have comorbid mental illness, which is extremely common
I'm still trying to understand how this works at a functional level.

I see you can find reviews via ActivePub services, like Mastodon, but you can only post from BookWyrm instances? i.e., you can't have one federated social identity that can post reviews and post other fediverse content?