skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This got long and a little ranty sorry :/ TLDR: Take a proofs course and get perspective outside the problems you are struggling on and return with the ability to ask questions about what your actually doing and how to verify you did it right.

I am not blaming you here but this mentality "The next time around I recognize the problem and basically just solve it from memory." Raises alarm bells for me. To me this says you are not engaging critically with a problem and arguable your pervious sentence tells me why. You are going over and over a problem which is fundamentally the same which is a disengaging process of learning and reasoning.

My suggestion is to focus less on you got the problem wrong and rather diagnosis why you got it wrong. Which is a very difficult thing to do alone. If you share a problem and the mistake you got I could try and help you. In general thought for me there are 2 major types of errors I run into when doing math. Yours may vary, but mine are Arithmetic errors and not understanding the theories.

Arithmetic -- i.e i said something like 1+1=3 somewhere and everything is wrong now. This happens a surprisingly a lot but the usually go back and check all your calculations almost never finds this issue for me. (if possible) I do have a lot more success with plug your answer back into the question and calculating what your input should be. This leads to the second point

Understanding the theories (and question) - If you understand what your solution is saying you should be able to find a different question to ask about your answer to be sure its right. If you can't you don't understand what your doing well enough. I have been picking on factoring because its easy to have hard problems that can be solved in many many different ways. But if you factor something essentially you found a zero so you should be able to do 2 things. One is plug your answer in and have the whole expression equal zero after (zero is always easiest to find because math is easy when you can set things to zero.) The other though is divide the the expression by (x-a). This reduce out perfectly and was a major way I checked my errors when I took a cryptography and number theory course.

Understanding something deeply is hard because there is no easy testable why to say that you do get it. But if you can ask questions like how do I know this answer is right its a good sign you have a lot more to learn what your actually doing. My final recommendation if you are trying to learn algebra is take a break from that. Do a intro to proofs class or lesson plan if you've never done that before. Those type of courses are suppose to teach systematic approaches to math that scale beyond do you know a formula that works. They also give you more intuition into what your doing because they teach you to think about the results of what you are saying and give perspective that the "algebra 2" courses you take in high school don't bother to even think about because they are focused on doing problems for problems sake which most people have enough problems they don't need more to solve for fun they want tools to handle a more diverse set better.
Rhinovirus Reduces the Severity of Subsequent Respiratory Viral Infections
Peertube is tube site software that you can run yourself. It is a way to run your own stuff.

https://joinpeertube.org/
> Two servers communicating via TOR thru a 40G NIC using Homa don't even have an opportunity to pass the packets elsewhere in the hierarchy to be snooped by someone else, unless it's just streaming packets directly into the three-letter-agency van in the parking lot I guess.

Something like FASHIONCLEFT. Your smart managed switch's firmware squirrels away summaries (e.g. it sees 400GB of data about Project Smith and it notes [400GB, Project Smith]) and then later squirts such summaries over legitimate links to distant nodes, but passing through another device with compromised firmware, and the other compromised device removes the extra data and gives it to the NSA.

The NSA values this because plausible deniability is essential to their work, if you realise you were compromised you are likely to blame the destination not them.
Want to know your USB devices and what they are doing? Go to Chrome://device-log
Yeah :)

No idea what this page is for and why Chrome offers it.

But if you go to chrome://device-log it shows a lot of information about your USB devices. Names, vendors, GUIDs etc.

And a log of what they have been doing (since boot?).

Does anybody know why this is part of a browser?

Anyhow .. might be handy in some circumstances.
Do you mind giving an example? I'm having trouble following where CSS is limited for selection.
An 8-Bit TTL CPU with a Stack Pointer (By Warren Toomey)
There are zombies on the AWS_Service_Terms_2021 [42.10] [pdf]
Not so fast.

First review the blatant, widespread corruption in Chinese academia, before you consider fully accepting the value of education in China

"In 2015, for instance, Britain-based publisher BioMed Central retracted 43 articles, including 41 from China. Later in the same year, Germany’s Springer retracted 64 papers, nearly all from Chinese scholars, while the Dutch publishing company Elsevier retracted nine medical science articles written by Chinese researchers.

"In what is said to be the largest single-incident retraction of journal publications in history, Springer Nature in 2017 retracted 107 articles in Tumor Biology published between 2012 and 2016, all of them authored by Chinese scholars from universities in Shanghai."

https://wenr.wes.org/2018/04/the-economy-of-fraud-in-academi...
Pros and cons for El Salvador, the first Bitcoin nation
Using shims sounds like extra complexity, contributing to latency and bugs.
I mean, it's great that you personally believe something, but to make ethical medical decisions we need lots of clinical data. If your belief is well founded, which it damn well might be, the data should bear that out.
Lockheed's Super-Secret Skunk Works Factory
Tbh, it's also because it's much more a political compromise than it is a solution to a scientific problem. It's complex because of competing interests disguised ideologies (and occasional actual ideologies), not because the science is hard.
I believe the Somali shilling was the case I first heard of. There seems to have been a case in Iraq in the 90s as well with the "Swiss dinar".

> [...] a primary source of demand [...]

That indeed sounds much more plausible.
A couple of double frees and memory corruption fixes, oh well.
> USA broke their back. They opened their private banking.

This sounds like you think this was a bad thing. But a not insignificant amount of swiss bank holdings, and profit, stemmed directly from dormant accounts of holocaust victims, purposely withheld from their heirs under the guise of "privacy"; and from plunder deals with the Nazis.
I disagree. The 2nd sentence contains, "extract bits content." What is that?

If you're going to write a minimal introduction, at least make sure it's not confusing.

I get the feeling the author felt compelled to write an introduction and did so with as little effort as possible.
Find Bugs in Static Bug Finders
"... the advantages of static bug finders are overshadowed by such issues as uncovered obvious bugs, false positives, etc. To improve these tools, many techniques have been proposed to filter out false positives reported or design new static analysis rules. Nevertheless, the under-performance of bug finders can also be caused by the incorrectness of current rules contained in the static bug finders, which is not explored yet. In this work, we propose a differential testing approach to detect bugs in the rules of four widely-used static bug finders, i.e., SonarQube, PMD, SpotBugs, and ErrorProne, and conduct a qualitative study about the bugs found. To retrieve paired rules across static bug finders for differential testing, we design a heuristic-based rule mapping method which combines the similarity in rules description and the overlap in warning information reported by the tools. The experiment on 2,728 open source projects reveals 46 bugs in the static bug finders, among which 24 are fixed or confirmed and the left are awaiting confirmation..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.02245.pdf
In this case, looks like someone hacked authorization to the channel and deleted it. This is probably not "channel taken down for violating policy," but instead "channel deleted by 'owner.'"

The wording in the email from Google suggests they don't yet have enough info to trust the inquisiting email comes from the channel owner (source: my own experience proving email account A and email account B were the same person).
TBF - your federal income tax is subsidizing it. So, you are paying for it, just indirectly, and probably disproportionately (either over or under paying).
Any interest in engaging in the overall point?

Soil depletion via intensive agriculture is a pretty well established thing.
A recent study found that in large populations, cloth masks were useless and surgical masks were only marginally effective.

https://www.poverty-action.org/publication/impact-community-...

But even with masks, over a long period the risk that everyone will eventually be exposed is close to 100%. That's why instead of obsessing over masks we should focus on vaccinating as many vulnerable people as possible.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
Airborne has special meaning. Clearly covid spreads "through the air" that doesnt mean it is airborne.

One problem is there is no strict definition of airborne. There is no doubt that covid can spread via an airborne path, but it may not be the dominant path.

The original variant had about a .7% infection rate through casual contact. For people living in the same household it was something like 12%.

When people talk about airborne, one implication is that it floats in the air and is infectious for a long time. This generally means a much higher rate of transmission. One factor in this is the infectious dose. The lower the infectious dose, the more likely it is to be airborne. A TB infection can start from one bacterium. So even though they are huge, it is airborne.

Delta is 2X more infectious than the original, that means it likely needs a smaller infectious dose and is more likely to transmit via airborne particles.

Just because covid can transmit via an airborne path doesnt mean it is the main way it is transmitted. When we think of airborne we think of highly infectious viruses like the measles virus.

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Measles is so contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected.

Measles virus can live for up to two hours in an airspace after an infected person leaves an area.
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Everyone has limits. Maybe you've just learned yours. You can work at the limit and you'll probably slowly grow (unless you're already very experienced, then this doesn't apply), which will allow you to take on more due to increased experience. If you go beyond your current limit, you're likely to burn yourself again.
> either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other

No, there is a middle ground that Google, with its army of engineers, could implement in a weekend:

1. You stop trying to assume you know what advertisers want their ads to be displayed on.

2. You implement a basic, fixed (but can be expanded) ACL-type system based on categories such as "hacking content", "politically sketchy content", "sexual content", etc.

3. YOU LET THE GOD DAMN ADVERTISERS DECIDE FOR THEIR OWN GOD DAMNED SELVES WHAT KIND OF CONTENT THEY'RE OK WITH ADVERTISING ON.

4. You end up spending LESS on content moderator salaries, and end up with FEWER unhappy advertisers because THEY can align their principles with the content. Hak5/Sparkfun would be fine advertising on Linux Experiments. I'm sure MyPillow would be happy to advertise on a Q Conspiracy channel. The demand for this feature is unquestionably there.

5. You stop playing God and pretending that the concept of global "community standards" means anything at all in a world with 7 billion people and hundreds of thousands of disparate interests-based communities, each with their own disparate community standards.
I also own the original R2 board and the best doc I have found so far is actually not the official wiki, but the one created by Frank W: https://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:start

I was hoping that I can built my own router with it, but so far it is still a learning process. Although, it is still fun.
Probably because a bad harvest can have disastrous results that are felt across the economy? Shortages of foreign currency can usually mean shortages of goods inside a country, as governments either try to minimize forex outflows (and thus imports) or is just forced to after running out.

And honestly that's a very very weird argument. You are saying that a real life result has to be discounted because of a... Research paper? Especially one that obviously doesn't take into account the particularities of Sri Lanka? Actually scratch that, the study you linked doesn't say what you are saying at all. It's much more nuanced and frankly it makes the "it's big agro corrupt journalists" narrative even more ridiculous.

> These results should not be extrapolated, as unbiased evidence about organic yield effects under real-world conditions is limited (Kravchenko et al. 2017, Leifeld 2016). In any case, given the higher knowledge requirements for successful organic farming, it is likely that the average yield gaps would rise if an increasing number of farmers would adopt organic practices.

>However, where modern inputs are available and more commonly used, organic farmers typically have lower yields than conventional farmers. Yield gaps tend to increase during the process of economic development (Valkila 2009).The yield gaps imply that more land would be required to produce the same quantity of output with organic methods

>The conclusion that organic farming is not the global blueprint for sustainable agriculture does not mean that organic methods cannot be useful in specific situations. Under certain conditions, organic farming can be clearly positive for the environment, even when the effects are measured per unit of output.

So that's exactly what it is saying : organic farming can be good, probably can't replace conventional methods, and if you want the yields to even start comparing somewhat favorably with conventional agriculture you need to build a lot of institutional knowledge, provide resources to farmers and time. It's better than traditional, very small scale agriculture, but if the inputs for "chemical" farming are there you should probably use them. That's a lot of caveats and they mostly don't apply to this situation.
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/telosa-marc-lore-blake...
Don't forget the police playing copyrighted music while they abuse you to stop you from filming them. When the police are ahead of the tech, you know the People are f'd.
Retail workers individually have 0 sway in corporate anything. They're just a cog.

And if your (mental) health is in jeopardy at your job, quit. Literally. Clock out and walk out. You're not a slave, although with the screaming fits I've been subjected to and seen, they certainly think so.
Have you ever worked retail/restaurant trade?

It is thankless, poorly managed, tenuously stable, randomly scheduled work.

No one writes resignation or gives much advanced notice.

It's a good idea for parents to make sure their kid does this kind of work for a summer in their teens at least, gives a bit of perspective.
> Sure, sudden change is disruptive, but humans are adaptable

Yes, the population can adapt downwards as people starve or migrate somewhere else. After a decade or so, the people who are left will be in an excellent position to sell organic tea to middle-class Americans.

Similar arguments were made in defence of collectivization in the 1920s. The complacency is astounding.
>I think there is a market for datacenters in open seas.

This will never happen. There are too many clandestine ways for this to suddenly no longer be there in ways that would be totally deniable for anyone doing the deed. Whether it's just "cut a cable" supplying the data streams or physical destruction of the vessel housing the data center.
They could literally create a #DeleteAccount room on the Revolt "Server" or a specific user/bot that could handle deletion request instead of using emails. (Revolt is literally a communication platform!)

I created my account from an email address that could not send emails. (Unless I manually create an alias.)

They told me "Well, did you sign up just to delete your account afterward ?, You could look at the screenshot on the homepage."

I just wanted to test the platform, I don't need a specific reason to have my account deleted.

It reminds me of theses business where you can subscribe through internet but where you need to call them over the phone to cancel the subscription.

It was simpler to create a Curl loop to get my account deleted then sending an email.
Maybe the most surprising thing about this is how commonplace it is for multiple candidates to share the same name. From the article:

> “Double” candidates regularly pop up during Russia’s election cycles, which can be surprisingly cut-throat despite the expectation that the ruling United Russia party will maintain a majority in the Duma. The rising tide of opposition to United Russia and growing support for the Communist KPRF have apparently spooked the government and nominating doppelgängers can siphon off precious votes in close contests.
> How do you control for that as a teacher observing the kids?

The only solution I ever found was not having more than 3 students at a time, not an option for most teachers; I spent most of my career working with 1-3 students as a result. With that few students you can carefully observe the mistakes students are making and ask individual questions about their mental state. Experience will eventually tell you to differentiate students not putting in effort from students who are so lost that they're just flailing and hoping something sticks.

With more students, my experience was that both my attention became too split to give students the kind of careful diagnosis to control for effort.
This is pretty similar to Ross Perot splitting the republican vote in the U.S. '92 election except that Perot and Bush should have been political allies and instead split the vote in favor of Clinton. I can't think of an example of using this against an opponent as described in the article could certainly be used here (though I suspect using duplicate names) would be harder to hide).
Many times advertisers honestly just don’t know. You’re spending a lot of money across a lot of different channels, and then all of a sudden somebody says, “uh-oh, we’re getting dragged on Twitter for advertising on $bad_page.” You definitely don’t like child porn or covid disinformation or anything like that, and the tweets make you look like an idiot, so you email the owner of $bad_page (some sort of advertising network, or maybe a site like Reddit) and say “if my ads are ever on this page again, I will pull my budget from your entire network.”
Exactly. Universities have become a sink of misandrist neomarxist thought.

It has led to an atmosphere of intellectual immaturity and victim-mentality-agrandizement. Universities now feel more like a coddled highschool experience than adulthood.

Don't expect intelligent, strong-minded, strong-willed men to accept such silly, degenerate distractions from the supposed goal of these universities (to provide "education", skills, network, etc.).
Most dictatorships are paper thin. A few people with guns, tanks, and fighter jets can hold down millions of others without those. Those few people are easily defeated when facing a superior external force though, even if they have millions of supposed troops (these are willing to surrender immediately). Examples include Iraq, Afghanistan, etc in frontal battle with foreign troops.

Even if the fight IS hard and kills many people, it is worth it right? Or do you want your wife to disappear for four years and be kept in a black prison? Or do you want to watch millions of ethnic minorities being murdered in concentration camps?

It's better to fight, risk death, and be free than to cower in fear while your loved ones are tortured and murdered.
We use Kafka a lot within the company I work for. I think it's great.
The only thing I miss is fast lookups based on some key and/or the ability for subscribers to only receive messages for certain keys.
Funnily, I was walking along the American River yesterday morning, and there were some ducks quacking away in the river - but their quacks literally sounded like someone with a deep belly laugh

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

It was rather eerie. And there were two of them doing this back and forth, it sounded like the two were telling eachother really funny duck jokes...
It's not even companies. It's people! As they progress they become more risk averse and are terrified by the idea of losing their wealth.

That's why we have entire sectors of the economy focused on wealth preservation without volatility.

These people want a stable and steady climb upwards.

I think it's because there is an alarming lack of arrogance and self-confidence in the world. It's visible in every possible datapoint . People say those things are bad, but in reality they keep the system honest.

The best way to redistribute wealth is wealthy individuals overplaying their hand. It doesn't ever happen, there is something deeply wrong in Bill Gates being at the top of the Forbes rich list for 30 years.

His brain should have adapted to the new normal and compelled him to risk his whole fortune in the hope of making even more money, maybe becoming the first trillionarie. That's how wealth is redistributed; rich people becoming greedy and overplaying their hand.

It doesn't happen, rich people are happy being at the top and they are not ambitious enough to reach for the impossible milestones.

The only nut out there who does it is Musk but his wealth is not real yet, it's paper wealth.

We'll see how Bezos decides to go about it.
There's two parts. A lot of people made a lot more money (from stimulus), and a lot of people have cut their expenses dramatically (because of lockdowns).

When you spend less money, it's a lot easier to forgo making more money.

And as you mentioned, it's especially easy when you have more savings.
I think curation might be one of the drivers of the problems we have nowadays, I'd prefer a host that does no curation.

> If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption.

Yes you can, use an RSS reader and subscribe via RSS. This problem was solved before tube sites were even widespread, and then the UX for subscriptions devolved, primarily because these sites want to lock you in and make you feel how you do. But you can still curate your own feed and have all your video content in one feed, I do it, you just have to use RSS.
Workers in general have zero sway. Every company I have worked with has had high turnover. Every company has had management complain about it.

That generally is the end of the conversation, not by employee choice.
This doesn't seem to be as easily defined as you say. The new AWS group is more or less targeted at "avoid bad press" rather than "indefensible politics", whatever that is. Twitter mobs seem to be quite fickle to me and can just as easily eat their own as their usual fare. News outlets aren't a lot better, often following big enough gripe fests and piling on like the rest.

It's not just based on particular politics. It can be any behavioral screw-up done by you or any employee, at any point in your life, real or perceived, that crosses the current cultural expectations. The surface area of risk is ridiculously huge.
Except that if the car breaks down, people maybe die.
Hahah, I love how this is your second comment in 10 years on HN.