skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking about pure messaging here and not sending a jpg or other attachment, why not create an app that simply uses plaintext, like a terminal. Generate some 4096 bit keys and make it decentralised. Public keys could be shared among people willing to communicate. Anytime you have a central location where data is parsed, the time stamps and other metadata can be gleaned. The app could even fudge time stamps. I think the future of this is decentralised communications. At the centre of this entire issue is the notion that someone else think they have the right to intercept your communications. I believe a properly-implemted SSH plain text app using big keys would solve this to a point. The app could store all data in a self-encrypted file and self destruct if tampered with. Security is a process, not a product, as Bruce Schneier is famous for saying, so methinks that the process is as important as the product. SSH using massive keys is a proven thing and cracking 4096 bits of AES will not happen in the short or mid term. In fact, most serious cryptographers say the continents will shift before they can break it. Just a thought. I'm not a programmer outside of Bash/sed/awk and other *nix tools, so this isn't something I could develop, but as a decentralised tool, I think it could work if you were willing to use plain text only. The app could have random numbers as a beacon that can be changed at will and only those with that random number can communicate with you and you them. A la Google Authenticator or something similar.
N.Y. State Is Selling a $111M Unilever Stake on Ben and Jerry’s Israel Stance
It's a shame. I've done pretty well selling my art as NFTs. Many collectors are genuine patrons. When I talk to other artist friends, some are open-minded and I've been able to onboard them to give it a shot for their own art. No one has had a negative experience giving it a shot. However, there are two types of artists I know that won't even consider it. First are the folks who have already made it in the traditional art world and are afraid that doing NFT related work will tarnish their reputation somehow, even though most of them could probably be millionaires over night. Second, are the folks who are indie artists that have had their work stolen and sold as NFTs, so they have a very negative read on the whole space. That upsets me the most, because I'm certain if they just gave it a chance, they would find success. And whatever negative opinions HN loves to pile on with regards to crypto & NFTs, I will say this. For many artists it has been life changing. People are getting paid for their creative output for the first time in their lives, and contrary to popular belief, there are plenty of collectors that are true patrons. At least that has been my experience.
The article links to this bug report containing a patch of the ongoing work in the WebKit engine

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90738
Metaverse overload
https://www.mentoring-club.com

and

https://thecenter.nasdaq.org/mentor-makers

and

https://www.score.org/find-mentor

All are free.
SAT problems are multiple choice, with 5 options. So 50% is barely twice random guessing (1/5).

See how far randomly guessing an integer 1-1000 gets you with OP's word problems with freeform responses.
But it negates the GP who says the police can just pull it from the phone.
Please teach them how to make durable records!
This is quite the whitewashing of something that was super contentious.

IEEE 754 is okay as a technical standard. I've seen more denormals as a place to stash data than I ever have as a computational result, but, meh.

However, the political reason wasn't that everybody were being magically altruistic. IBM and DEC, especially, were killing it and were in no way going to allow the other to set the standard. And everybody else was keen to stop IBM or DEC from having the de facto standard which would cement their dominance further.

For example, if I remember correctly, Cray arithmetic was notorious for never actually being anything compliant (something about their multipliers).
Wow, that is a beautiful animation at the end there.
I suspect the real value proposition from that MIT fusion spinoff is not fusion reactors, but high Tc superconducting magnets for non-fusion applications like MRI (or, perhaps, hybrid electric aircraft). These could be cooled with neon instead of helium, and neon is available forever as a byproduct of air separation plants.
i've seen way les than 10% overhead on modern hardware with sr-iov compat devices. it really depends on your network card/raid controller. some servers (and some cpus) are just not optimal for running virtualized stuff.
"college hives" more likely
Swedish nationwide study: vaccine effectiveness lower and waned faster in men
Don't Mode Me In.
I don't think it is true that bombs damage an area. For example, when I worked on ADF nukes we were interested in the volumes necessary to destroy targets located in 3D airspace.

Similarly underwater explosions caused spherical and columnar affects depending on yield and depth.
It's very common. One example among many: https://www.propublica.org/article/prosecutors-dropping-chil...

Prosecutors are very aware of when they're on the grey side of the law, and when it's clear they're up against a defense that has a chance of clear precedent against them, prosecutors start acting much more conservatively.
The super expensive make sense if you are a "print" designer, if you do web you should test your stuff on regular devices.
> Only a few months later, in July 1954, Teller made it clear he thought 15 megatons was child’s play. At a secret meeting of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, Teller broached, as he put it, “the possibility of much bigger bangs.

At this point where anything bigger creates a threat that goes beyond nations, what kind of person even proposes this. "This is child's play, there's much more effective ways to destroy the planet"
Running DC typically requires much higher gauge wire. To keep under a 10% voltage drop (which is a _lot_), our current 15A branch circuits on 14g wire would be limited to about 10ft away from the transformer.

You could make it to ~30ft on existing wiring as long as you kept draw under 5A. That’s ~60W and enough to power all of 5 pretty anemic 12V bulbs.

If you actually need something like a 60ft run from your transformer and 15A to play with, you’re going to be looking more towards something like 6AWG. If you want to keep under 3% voltage drop you’d be looking towards 2AWG.

14AWG 2-wire is something like $0.35/ft. 6AWG 2-wire is like $0.75/ft. 2AWG 2-wire is coming up on $3/ft.

There’s a reason we use AC for power distribution rather than DC.
The term "social distancing" was not a thing until the CoVid-19 pandemic, in my experience. It could be a sign of the times so the term is used because it is now popularly understood.

The Intro notes that "This hypothesis has been recently confirmed in the ant Lasius niger infected with the fungal pathogen Metarhizium brunneum, which induced behavioral changes ..." So it looks like this behaviour might be selected for.

Varroa is really nasty. Sometimes the mite causes colony collapse via death by a thousand cuts, sometimes it's like a nuclear bomb went off and sometimes the bees don't even notice (rare).

I've skimmed the paper but it looks good so far. University of Sassari off of Sardinia produces some very pretty and well researched stuff it seems.
> he is considering a policy known as “sole purpose”, which would make clear the US would use nuclear weapons only in a narrowly-prescribed set of circumstances — such as to deter a direct attack on the US, or to retaliate after a strike.

Couldn't the "set of circumstances" include retaliating after an attack on an ally by a nuclear-armed nation (or alliance)?

Naively we might want a global "no escalation" treaty/convention/commitment, which would compel countries to not use nuclear weapons to respond to conventional attacks, but that would make it very hard for the US to protect Taiwan against invasion by China, or SK from invasion by NK, or Estonia from Russia, or Israel from Iran.

There are perhaps other strategic goals of the US nuclear umbrella, but a commitment to only using nukes against nuclear-armed adversaries would at least give countries some incentive to remain non-nuclear.
This is why there should not be a single entity that runs the network.

Make it fully decentralized with economic incentives for node operators.

some projects trying to do this now are Status, Session, Sylo
> modern political meaning

Going straight from linguistics to politics… that’s a little framing, isn’t it? The establishment of an extension of meaning for ‘gender’ is not a feminist power move, but recognized as useful distinction all over the place.

> “Sexologist John Money is often regarded as the first to introduce a distinction between biological sex and gender identity/role in 1955, although Madison Bentley had already defined gender as the "socialized obverse of sex" a decade earlier. As originally conceived by Money, gender and sex are analysed together as a single category including both biological and social elements, but later work by Robert Stoller separated the two, designating sex and gender as biological and cultural categories, respectively. Before the work of Bentley, Money and Stoller, the word gender was only regularly used to refer to grammatical categories.”

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_gender_distinction
Men’s shoe care: basic rules and the best tools
> Imagine if someone (or company) starts a comparable open-source translation extension layer targeting Postgres as the backend

That's what Babelfish is.
Convince me otherwise: Using a 3rd party password manager is safest
Internal risk (&/or cost of a better engine) vs externality of lead slowly poisoning the population.
Even outside of that I don't see how people like foam and super soft mattresses. I find them extremely uncomfortable. Even just rolling over takes a significant amount of effort and they always give me horrible back pain which is something I otherwise never have.
Show HN: Comment Entire Code Files in Seconds with AI
Yes, let's limit creativity because some asshats have made looking at a list of fonts a negative. Let's just limit fonts altogether and only use emojis or braille like dot patterns.
It's an important distinction. A lot of people would like to think electrons orbit the nucleus like planets orbit a star.
Stop spraying them with skunks and use a hose instead.
Man has good points about bathrooms.
You said that as joke, but really I want to understand how this could even occur. I am in Japan and such behaviour is inconceivable. Even as an extreme outlier.

What has to happen / not happen in someone's life, where that kind of calculus becomes possible?

My naive guess is that this is a problem of socialisation, which allows - even encourages - ass-holery of many kinds. Wherever "Fuck you, buddy" is thought of as a smart way to get ahead, public toilets will not remain clean.
I honestly think there should be civil consequences for the FAA slow-rolling the sunsetting of leaded avgas. Red tape is causing very real harm to vast numbers of people.
the article specifically calls out asking questions like this, they're impossible to answer correctly
...Huh. On an EXTREMELY tangential note, I wish I'd known about this when I was drawing a political cartoon comparing California to a burning building which [redacted] was turning a "Green New Deal" ("Green Dream or whatever") fire engine away from. Tracing and recoloring a random US fire truck didn't quite have the same kick this would have.
If you’re interested in learning about other metaphysical possibilities, George Berkeley’s works could be worth a read. One of his big statements is that “to be is to be perceived” — that is, anything that cannot be perceived doesn’t actually exist. Berkeley makes a pretty decent argument for this and his work is fairly influential in the realm of metaphysics (UC Berkeley is named after him).

I interpreted the original comment to mean that the mind is necessary for reality (i.e. there is no meaningful reality outside the mind), which is very close to what Berkeley is gesturing at.

Either way, the questions you’re asking (which all themselves presuppose a certain metaphysical interpretation of the world) have interesting implications (it seems like what you’re driving at is similar to the mind-body problem).

Hope you found this interesting!
>"With the primary as the only source of fissile material in the “inherently clean” Ripple design, the device would be around 99.9 percent clean; for all practical purposes, a pure fusion device."
Katerra wanted to transform construction. It burnt $2B and shut down
Any addict will rate cocaine above 8/10.

Ratings mean notjing in real life, sanitary conditions or health. Maybe the others are just crap over crap.
“Don’t just do something; stand there!”
Some things are simply not worth skimping on.

A good quality mattress, where you spend 5-8 hours every day - is one of the areas where skimping is not worth while in my opinion. Same with computer chairs, or any other thing that impacts back and joint health over prolonged periods.
He’s too early on this. Whatever expansive ideas he and his people are imagining won’t come true soon, but maybe it pays to say “new me!” when everyone is hating on you.
Life had just begun.
encrypt at rest
I've read the part about roots several times and don't understand it. Is there some intermediate level of actionable advice between "water once a week" and this? If anyone can explain it to me in a way that makes sense to a programmer it would be much appreciated. I do have multi-year surviving house plants but worry about their roots.

> This comes about by having the roots well distributed in free-draining soil so that water and oxygen can feed the plant. From this you can infer there might be a problem If water runs right through the pot, and/or you squeeze the pot at its base and it’s rock solid. If so, take the pot off and have a look. From this you can also infer that, repotting into a much larger pot will just leave the roots buried in a mound of cold, wet soil, far from any roots. You might also see that a root-bound plant might not even need to be repotted, or can be repotted back into the same pot.
Have you read the Dialectical Biologist by Levins and Lewontin? I’ve been thinking of picking it up (no real biology knowledge personally).
Might as well say that cars, computers, television, and clothes are "screwing the consumer over" if your definition is they are part of life and "normal" society can't function without them.
>What exactly is the claimed health benefit?!

Easing parental anxiety.
What I can't get from this article is price. When I was student, reason why students shared those rooms with bunk beds was mainly because that was the thing they(or rather their parents) could afford and renting proper flat was out of their capabilities.
Nowadays, in the city I live in 20min distance from university my rent for flat might be cheaper than what students are paying for their dorm room(with windows).

Somehow I have a feeling, that prices for these dorms are adjusted to property rental prices(and income from renting square meter here is larger, than what you might get from flat) and those who have friends might share some place and rent together to have place with more breathing room...

PS If there are no windows - why it had to be built as tall building and not some underground hole, from where those students - lesser humans can crawl out for the time to study...
The post really covering the important topics as per usual
Recording of the zoom presentation by the school anouncing the project. Public comment period begins at around 20 mins. It's very entertaining.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U-GdZn7AVtnDj8C6JDw7vCiYTOk...

Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IgEAYCEphg6x6WDQ8NQGuILqN31...
The Pilot Operating Handbook (POH) contains numerous tables that pilots use to calculate what will be safe operating conditions for an aircraft. These include how much runway will be required at specific temperatures/elevations to clear obstacles. Those numbers were based on a 100 octane fuel so if the fuel is changed, those values must be determined once again and I believe that is largely done with flight testing. To do that on the entire fleet would be prohibitive.
Without these small planes the misery you experience flying commercial would increased greatly due to the lack of pilots. It's pretty bad as it is.
You should honestly ask yourself why this is not a popular comment.

If you start by assuming everyone else is arguing in bad faith ("people who just wanna be seen looking like they care"), then it's easy to dismiss any criticism, and it'll be hard for you to prove yourself wrong.

If you never try to know when you're wrong, you could end up stuck with wrong beliefs for the rest of your life.

I have no stake in your life, but I'd recommend against that.
roblox powers much of the internet? I find that unlikely. If you don't have kids, this is probably the first you heard of it. I guess there's the "my kid is complaining to me that it's down and now I know about it" angle, but it's hard to draw any conclusions from your kid's purchasing habits alone.
> Some complaints should be tempered, some others should be flattened into a bare acknowledgement that floating point is simply the wrong tool for the job, e.g. currency.

IBM implemented IEEE 854 Radix-10 floating point (which later got subsumed back into IEEE 754) back in the System z9 days.

In fact, testing currency handling is the only thing that Bitcoin is actually useful for, LOL. If you take Bitcoin, you get smacked with a lot of fractional digits that break your currency system right away if you didn't do it right.
> I personally don't having sex on a foam mattress

I'm sorry but you personally don't what on a foam mattress? You left out like the most important word of all of your comment. Don't mind, don't like, don't love, don't prefer?

It can be guessed from the context but still.
No, what JMAP is doing and what I described are two totally different things. My proposal centers on URIs and Fielding-style REST that requires no special knowledge of the server implementation or even media type. JMAP is straight up FIOH-style[1] "REST", requiring out-of-band information on both.

1. See <https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html>; also discussed in the comments at <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29009729>
This title is not close to the paper title and is not close to a fair representation of what this study reports.
Look at your cdc link and it proves my point. I never said obesity wasn’t a risk factor, just that covid is plenty dangerous to the non obese as well.

“ More than 900,000 adult COVID-19 hospitalizations occurred in the United States between the beginning of the pandemic and November 18, 2020. Models estimate that 271,800 (30.2%) of these hospitalizations were attributed to obesity.6”

This is from your link - even if the government put everyone in concentration camps and forced them to lose weight, it would do nothing for the other 70%

Meanwhile vaccines are about 80-90% effective against hospitalization and death.
> another caregiver

Another caregiver is a viable option, but then again the pandemic hit and in some countries, for a while, it was forbidden to have strangers at home and daycare was closed.

Many people simply assume the woman must be the caregiver. This assumption by default will affect you even in workplaces which pay lip service to equality. Source: me.
Wouldn't the Canadian equivalent be Canadian Civil Liberties Association, not British Columbia Civil Liberties Association?
Just spent 3 nights sleeping on one in a hotel and it confirmed my tester impressions when mattress shopping that it would lead to a bad nights sleep. I'm sure there are maybe some wonderful to sleep on foam mattresses but they all seem spongy and hot to me and those are the last things I want in a mattress.
Thanks. You are right. I misremembered the name.

Shame on me since I actually once met an old woman in Papua New Guinea who had participated in funerary cannibalism as a young girl. She had had no ill-effects though.
> this subpoena requested a wide variety of information we don’t have, including the target’s name, address, correspondence, contacts, groups, calls.

Couldn't they easily use the phone number associated with the Signal account to find the target's name? Even if the account uses a pre-paid SIM without a credit card attached, the telco could still reveal the location of the device and probably its IMEI, which could be used to find other SIMs associated with it.

I think Signal should stop pretending they're an anonymous service when their identity is based on phone numbers.
As with many problems with hard-to-see externalities, I think the FAA can't win here. If a plane falls out of the sky because of a fast-tracked approval, or people go out of business because of a fast-tracked ban, then the FAA is the bad guy. The number of people with the ability to assess the impact of atmospheric lead is much smaller.
FWIW I have found latex beds to be the absolute sweet spot between foam and spring. You don’t sink into latex as deeply as foam, it’s much less pronounced (and much more comfortable, in my experience).

The bounce is also not QUITE spring levels but I’d say 85% which I find to be a reasonable compromise.
They suggested people considered the bottom camera a nuisance.
"We conducted a covid clinical trial for kids ages 5-11. Nobody got seriously ill. Send Johny out to play with his friends."

Who am I kidding.
What is wrong with the EFF?
Does someone have a good advice on getting a mattress in US bypassing the whole mattress-sale industry that sells a piece of memory foam wrapped in their advertising budget and “long sales cycle”?

Ordering a slab of foam from a foam factory, etc?
No. It's just super hard to subpoena someone who doesn't exist.
I had such a big problem using tap water on peppers and marijuana. Turned out it was to basic and the water was causing them to slowly die. I had to treat my water to fix the pH every time I watered. Such a hassle.
Which actual rights is ACLU supposedly failing to support?
I want that! If we ever get our shit together, let’s use that for a common language. For us, for our home - earth.

Edit: Oh, I translated this as alive/not alive. Guess, this was originally down to soul. Not advocating to go down that path again…
Even cross apply and info schema views, too bad, I used them a lot when I worked with sql server.
> we do not expect to support all functionalities right away. Instead, we focused on the most common T-SQL commands and returning the correct response or an error message

Well that sounds like it will be fun to wake up to. Do i have to worry about every windowing function to behave the same way or will there be "approximations".
The WSJ also covered this in 2012:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-HEB-49292
> I think it is nice to have at least one example -- IEEE 754 is one -- where sleaze did not triumph.

A != A if A is a NaN: that's pretty sleazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_identity
Yes I did thank you! I guess my own English isn't so great as a native speaker!
I think the standard name is "Besell Functions" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessel_function
You don't know the average business owner.
In other words, you're transphobic and you think everyone else should go along with you. To put it rather mildly, that's not what ACLU is about and that's not even what they should be about.

You don't get to decide what is "really" about freedom. You shouldn't try. Leave that to the people whose rights are being threatened in the specific case in question.