skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The tank, 50 feet high and 90 feet in diameter, contained 2.3 million gallons of molasses originally destined for use in a munitions plant."

Why would a munitions plant need an enormous quantity of molasses? Was it used in the production of munitions?
More to do with anti-unnecessary-medical-procedures-with-no-benefit-yet-lifelong-consequences-performed-on-infants-without-consent.

It’s a question of body autonomy rather than circumcision as a practice unto itself; obviously, it’s medically necessary for many people later in life.

My understanding is circumcision is just seen as the ‘done thing’ in the US whereas it’s not as common elsewhere. Certainly not as common in New Zealand.
Sending multiple queries from your web server will likely put more load on the database server than using a stored procedure.

With either technique you are still pulling all the data you need from the DB but with multiple queries instead of a stored procedure you are usually pulling more data than you need with each query and then dropping any rows or fields you’re not interested in. Together with multiple calls over the network to the DB server and (often) multiple SQL connection setups this is much worse for performance on both the web and database servers
That's interesting, I have the exact opposite experience, I used to have a MBP dual booted with ArchLinux, and resizing windows was incredibly much smoother on Linux with either Dolphin, Nautilus or Thunar, than with Finder on the Mac which looked like it only drawed 1/5th of the frames compared to linux.
windows education edition doesn't have ads, or candy crush.
Sugar or not, doesn't change the fact that it won't compile modern Objective-C code.
Is there a good screencast series about people doing stuff in Emacs? Not like a tutorial like "press C-x" etc. I just want to know what is possible, or what people mean by "I did _everything_ in emacs".
Yeah, I'm sure plenty of things would break, though I don't really think the IEEE was thinking of bit-twiddling trickery when they were writing the spec.
"In addition, the COVID-19 group did not include those with severe breathing problems during the acute phase of the infection."

This seems to contradict the sampling statement the announcement makes, as it indicates a source of bias. I would add preliminary in the article title if I was the writer, but I guess that is not something that sells.

What I got from the article is that it seems so far to have the same impact as other acute respiratory infections, but we had to exclude some people with serious issues during sampling -- which makes sense -- and we have still work to do and gather more samples that are non local etc.

Titles are traps.
Back then, they loved to give their souls to a new machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
The task force set up because of the Lindt Cafe siege.
That’s a bad take.

The problem for Coinbase is the SEC understands it all too well. This is an investment, very much like a certificate of deposit, which happens to be regulated so that investors don’t get screwed.
Are schools that use Windows tablets doing important work?
I found this on vuejs docs[0] where it was mentioned in special Sponsor as IDE for Vue

The original title of page is: "HbuilderX For Geek For you" which conveys nothing of value, so i changes title to "HbuilderX – IDE for Markdown, HTML and Vue" which are the primary focus of this tool

[0] https://vuejs.org/
Daily Notes / #11
> What about taking a nap, taking a bath, cooking, etc.?

If you fail to check in, they try again a bit later on, if you fail again it falls back to the non app-enabled method of a police check at your home.

The app is voluntary and allows you to be at home rather than in a facility, and to not have random police checks. It's a convenience, not an imposition.

> Many other countries trust their citizens enough that such draconian measures weren't required even at the height of the pandemic.

In some like the UK, that trust was misplaced, and compliance with isolation rules was under 50%.

> I'd be curious how violations to check-in are handled in practice.

By a second request and then a police visit, the same police visit you'd get if you opted not to use the app at all.
Brightflag Hopes Its NLP Tech Patent Will Help
Interesting how the folks so passionate about open-source are the most hostile to open finance
I edited that out because it's distracting. Realistically, Trump was clearly a practical revolutionary, standing in stark contrast to a vested establishment that ceaselessly sought to upend him and his supporters.
So from your definition and example, it means that Coke want to democratize soda, Apple want to democratize iPhone and Tesla want to democratize EV. I don't think those sentence would have your expected meaning when someone else read them.
Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but it does
No way, OP is essentially serving a static webpage from a database. That's nothing to brag about if comparing with mangadex.
How To Do Nothing [0]. The article, though the book is on my list.

This is not a straightforward article, so I can see how people could struggle with it, but I love every bit of it.

The author taught me to slow down, work less, and pay more attention to the other things.

[0] https://medium.com/@the_jennitaur/how-to-do-nothing-57e100f5...

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The Life-Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F*ck, or at least the first chapter or two. This book should have been a blog article, so you don't need to read the whole thing.

Long story short, it's minimalism for obligations. If it doesn't bring joy or serve a purpose, chuck it.

It's not a clever book, but I suppose it hit at the right time. It made me realise how most work obligations are negotiable. It emboldened me to cancel meetings, cut their headcount, and send people back to their desks once they played their part in them.

When I went freelance, I applied the same energy to maintenance tasks like accounting, comment moderation and the dreaded introductory phone calls.
In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
I think casting a NaN to an int will always just return gibberish, signed or not. In fact, this is explicitly undefined behavior in C.
Why did things improve so dramatically in China?

I would argue because they gave up on trying to centrally plan everything.
They are trying. Bit by bit. We can pre-poll in Australia from almost a month back, this is getting reduced to just 12 days.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/24/labor...
I can tell you have staking with Coinbase, first they can change the terms at anytime so you can't trust that you'll get what they say... Second, you'll be lucky to get anything at all. After staking with them for 6 months turns out I didn't get anything because their system was broken and guess what happened when I filed a support request? No response after multiple attempts and 3 months.
The running-sum-difference approach suggested above is a box filter, which has the best possible noise suppression for a given step-function delay, although in the frequency domain it looks appalling. It uses more RAM, but not that much. The single-pole RC filter you're suggesting is much nicer in the frequency domain, but in the time domain it's far worse.
> It's a shame because Perth and even Melbourne used to have a relatively low cost-of-living and high quality-of-life. I honestly don't know how anyone does it now.

The experience of living in Melbourne in 2000 as someone not on the property ladder is very different to now.

In 2000 it was possible to be on the poverty line and still live within an easy bike ride of the CBD. Now everyone I know lives increasingly on the fringes of the city.

This change is not unique to Melbourne but I can't help feel something is lost when you go to a house party and the only people you meet are ones who can afford property.

I'm increasingly assuming anyone who buys in Melbourne is doing so with the assistance of multi-generation wealth.
> the "start" of the logical volume is at the outer edge of the platters,

Is this a something like natural theory, or de facto standard? Maybe the start can be most inner edge on HDD in another planet?
> Serious cannot leave your house outside and go outside for a jog … because there are 50 positive cases in a nation of millions ?

There were around 1.5k new cases in NSW today. NSW is in lockdown. Victoria has new cases too, but is opening up its regional areas where they are covid free. WA has no cases and no lockdown.

It's not like the whole country is locked down over 50 cases - there are many times that many, and the whole country is not locked down.
cock.li seems to be just your average e-mail provider with no security features, as they existed since the dawn of internet. They have access to e-mail metadata and contents, and so does law enforcement or anyone hacking their servers.

How can they not be transparent? They don't have any technical reason to make any security claims.
Let alone the wildlife/flora too that is summed up as “nothing”
Yes, but it's hardly surprising that criminal investigations tend to evaporate some privacy standards very quickly. ProtonMail doesn't want to get hit by the stick too.

And before anyone suggests that PM should have been more "open/honest" about this, I disagree, the fact that a criminal investigation will do this is well known and mentioning it would be akin to asking your bank to plaster "if the world economy implodes, we might not be able to pay out your account" all over their frontpages.
Weird, so you can't talk about Main Coons on Lemmy? Or even say that your train was delayed in French.

That list seems very Americanocentric.
If the computer has to do anything at all it ads to complexity and it isn't doing other things. One could do something a bit like blue screening and add the mouse pointer to the video signal in the monitor. For basic functionality the computer only needs to know the x and y of clicks. (it could for laughs also report the colors in the area) Hover and other effects could be activated when [really] needed. As a bonus one could replace the hideous monitor configuration menus with a point and click interface.
Hey, this is an awesome resource. Thank you for making this!
That’s how you know you are in the Matrix. Recursive looping sometimes happens besides our best effort to prevent it.
Yeah! He should just make his own economy. It's a privately controlled global economic system after all.
Incidentally, Ericsson's 2019 paper cites a Hacker News comment. We've come full circle.

'10,000 h' succeeds as a meme because it tells people what they want to believe, that with enough practice, anyone can covet the skills of genius. It’s not so much that people want to become world-class musicians or top physicists, but rather that they have the potential to become those things if they want to, by practicing enough

Hacker news, (2017). Hacker News Post by "Paulpauper". Available at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13855422 (accesseed March 4, 2019).
I guess I don't really follow the reasoning with the examples.

Syria has always been a somewhat dangerous place. Ukraine got invaded by Russia. Hong Kong was taken from China by the British, became it's own nation and is currently being ... taken back against its own will in a sense.

Not that it couldn't happen. But Australia is not really a place I would imagine a violent uprising happening compared to most other places. I think we have too much social cohesion, even between those who are politically opposed.
I looked into it a bit further, and apparently it was eventually going to be piped to the Purity Ethanol Plant where it would be fermented to make ethanol. The ethanol would then be used in the production of high explosives for the war effort.
> I don't get the instant -2 downvotes for just providing context.

Well I don't remember the exact phrasing but I think your original comment did have a part asking people not to discuss this further. I can see how this would not be well received.
All the while being bombarded with ads from real estate companies trying to FOMO you into buying a very average house for a price you really can't afford.
If you want good lists, should look at shortlists for book prizes. Some are really good e.g. The Man Booker Prize.
Bonds are also registered investments which strict regulations about marketing (IPO), trading, and settlement. In some markets, "private placement" bonds are possible, but there are still many rules to follow created by financial regulators.

A cursory search of "loan vs bond" yields many interesting results. I am sure the variance matters from market to market.
The target will move once it hits 80%. This is so obvious I feel sorry for all of you/them
ROTFL Wikipedia 2010 handle 7mln request per seconds suqids in USA Europe in Japan. Some random dud who do benchmark with 0.00001 seconds TCP on localhost "HEllo World" only ycombinator lamerers can believe this without asking questions.
Swale council seeks to quash planning decisions issued in error
A bit hypocritical?
Fascinating. So anonymity brings limitations for you over what you would "normally say". Why post here then under a pseudonym?
Here is our evidence your honor that we don't respond to support requests when customers have legitimate issues and we ignore them. Can you let us know if that is okay when dealing with people's finances, just to ignore them and keep their staking rewards.
> They have only told us that they are assessing our Lend product through the prism of decades-old Supreme Court cases called Howey and Reves. [...] These two cases are from 1946 and 1990

Nobody seriously makes the argument that Howey is outdated, so why is the year being called out here? It's written to get people up in arms, and as such I wouldn't count on anything written there to represent how Grewal actually feels.

This is pure PR.
We are actually in a present where dissidents in democratic countries are marked as outlaws in democratic countries. Sorry to tell you this, but the freedoms you thought you had were vacuumed away over the last two decades while you were not looking.
> I do not mean ideologically. Just in conversation. More of us learning to talk with one another better is a really good thing.

The vast majority of people do not want to have that conversation (hence the flagged post of the grandparent).
Might is probably an understatement.
Leave it to a bunch of programmers to believe they have hit takes on SEC litigation.

In related news, my dentist told me I should use kotlin for my next project.
Yes! These are called ABS: Asset-backed Securities. One of the most famous was David Bowie's bonds to securitise the future cashflow of his record sales.

Ref: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
Makes sense. Thank you for pointing it out!
Nope.

https://crimethinc.com/2020/08/19/on-facebook-banning-pages-...

And now we've moved on to "misinformation" which has no real definition other than being mitigated by so-called fact checkers who mostly work for American for-profit newspapers.
Cultural Revolution :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Humanitari...
You can respect the ingenunity if not the morality of it.

His solution was a clever hack because he worked around the law without apparently breaking it directly - clever.

That said gambling systems are specifically one class of software I refuse to work on.
I would define myself as pretty progressive, but Reddit's been absolutely dog** due to all the anti-capitalist, populist rhetoric. Every post seems to be filled with comments these days of "eat the rich". Like, you'll have a gif of a dude petting a dog, and then in the comments, they'll be like, "Bro, you're financially oppressing this dog and that's why it's forced to be pet by you" (Hyperbole, but I've seen some crazy stuff).

I just wish, we could have a platform that was; not necessarily politically neutral, but where it didn't consume so much of the site.

Unfortunately when I visit Lemmy, I'm fronted with a lemmygrad.ml, and a "leftist" privacy focused one, which seem to be the only populated instances at the moment. So it doesn't inspire much hope.
There's still a fetishization of the hustle culture, but it seems a lot less popular than it used to be. Perhaps it's just because I'm getting older, and my friends are in more mature careers now.
I don't think I'm suffering from sleep deprivation. Certainly it is true that if you take enough stimulants your performance will worsen! In fact, if you take enough stimulants you'll die and your performance will be zilch!
Securities lending, the repo market, is a large well understood and regulated existing market.
Matrix, Mastodon and PeerTube.
>> True. But I fear China more.

> Extraordinary rendition, CIA, regime change, foreign invasions. Compare US to China, please

The PRC is explicitly opposed to a lot of basic values nearly all Westerners care a great deal about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/20/world/asia/chinas-new-lea...

For the most part, US foreign policy broadly attempts to promote and spread those values, though there are some notable areas where it disregarded them or failed (though to properly see those, you sometimes have to look at the big picture).
Larry Sanger has made something of a career out of being "the cofounder of Wikipedia who thinks it's getting it all wrong". There's a point at which the latest iteration of his criticism ceases to be a stop-the-presses newsworthy event.

Sanger wrote a great set of essays, largely based on the lecture notes of courses he taught as an academic, that seeded Wikipedia with a load of freely licensed content that kickstarted the whole enterprise. It's quite possible that without this initial burst of momentum, Wikipedia would have failed. For that he has earned and will never lose recognition. But the negative part of his critique of Wikipedia is not more searching than that Wikipedia editors perform on themselves without his help, and his series of suggestions for positive alternatives have lost credibility because his ideas never work.

I still pay attention to what Sanger says, but not with a high expectation that what he says will be exceptionally insightful.
Infotainment systems in cars are becoming flashy, feature-packed distractions
See most other Chinese dissidents given sanctuary in the US so they may be wielded as propaganda mouth pieces / geopolitical tools. Ultimately these people are more interested in undermining the land they left then the wellbeing of their host countries, i.e. survey of 300K Hong Kong Canadians living in HK indicated their primary concern during last federal election was wellbeing of HK not Canada. Countries reliant on immigration ultimately imports drama from their most vocal diasporas, but very few managed to gain clout like the anti PRC crowd who has heavy support from the US political establishment. Though hilariously, at this point, FLG / Epochtimes has caused more harm to US society than it ever did to China. I mean it's their right since they are mostly naturalized Americans afterall, but in my experience diasphora democracy activists tend not to care about democracy of their new "home" because their identity and paycheck doesn't depend on it.
I was happy when political figures who for years spouted things on plattforms that would have gotten me banned in a single day, finally got judged under the same guidelines as me. Because why have guidelines if you don't enforce them evenly?

Is it really politcal if you ban a politician from your establishment for shitting into the pool if both common sense, manners and decency demand people not shitting into pools. After all normal people also get banned for shitting into pools.

Unless we make twitter a true public plattform which is paid by taxes and where rules are enforced by the police I don't really see why they shouldn't enforce their (not unreasonable) rules.

I don't particularily care whether the person seriously inciting violence is from the left or on the right, it is reasonable to go after both on your own plattform.
“I wish HN would chill out with the auto-editorializing”

Feel free to send an e-mail to 'dang and bring it up. (The e-mail address is linked at the bottom of this page.) He’s very nice and approachable.
I'm not interested in pursuing this debate, but I will point out that our highly urbanised population means that it's not as cut and dry as you're making it out to be.
I think you'll be surprised to learn that most applied expertise research in the years since DP was first discovered has focused on training methods that do not depend on mature pedagogical development, which DP does. This is the primary point that I make, and realising this was what led me down the alternative path in the year since I wrote this post.

In sum: DP simply has too high a bar to clear. Want to do DP? Well, has there been a few decades of pedagogical development in your field so that you can be coached like with chess or math or tennis? NO? Ok, you're tough out of luck. No DP for you!

So the real question is: if you are working in marketing or management or leadership or computer programming, all of which are domains that matter to our careers, these domains do not have good pedagogical development — so how do you get good?

The answer to this, at least from one branch of expertise research, is to extract mental models of expertise from the heads of domain experts, and then turn those into training programs. This is a far more tractable training approach. See: https://commoncog.com/blog/accelerated-expertise/ for a summary (note: Paul Feltovich is one of the founders of the field of expertise research, and a contemporary of Ericsson; he's one of the authors of the book).

For a full survey of the approach, see the Oxford Handbook of Expertise https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/978019... (as opposed to the Cambridge Handbook, which is the Ericsson school.)
Uh, excuse me, but this whole story demonstrates that I went to extreme lengths to never break any laws, no matter how large or small the jurisdiction. Had I been willing to bend laws, I'd surely be a lot richer today.
In what country…?
I really wanted to go to bed, but couldn’t stop reading.
Made me pine for the ole D&D days
Welcome to Administrative Law. Take a number and go sit next to the 2nd Amendment people.

Next.
Memory Barriers: A Hardware View for Software Hackers [pdf]
I'm intrigued by this. However -- and this is probably a cultural thing with me being an old-timey unix guy who likes to build things from scratch -- I have a point of confusion.

If you choose Run A Server, it suggests two main options: Ansible or Docker. It specifically warns against "from scratch".

When I'm developing software, I want people to be building it from scratch. If someone likes something I made enough that they want to take it and build a docker or ansible thing out of it ... okay, that's flattering, albeit a little confusing, and it's not my default.

And I probably wouldn't agree to support those third-party ansible/docker things which someone else felt the need to create.

What happened to rolling a versioned tarball that you can chuck in opt or wherever and point nginx at it? Eg, if I knew I could pull in versions of lemmy server through my package manager, I'd be totally trying it out as my side-project this weekend.
Moving the U.S. Government Towards Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles
I am aware of this, what are you trying to achieve with this statement?
We need more comics like these. That was hilarious.
At the time after reloaded came out, this was my favourite theory - that it's just another simulation - but they didn't take it into account which was a bummer.
Just adding to your list, no worries.
When your product revolves around that you are an ex-Googler...