skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huawei survived Trump, China is building a lot of international bridges e.g. with the Belt and Road initiative, the EU and US are defacto dependent on China because that's where they outsourced a lot of their product and supply chains. China never gave a fuck about what the populations in the West thought about them, because they know that even outraged Westerners will not stop buying products made in China. China had one "PR disaster" after another for years and years now, e.g. recent things like imprisoned Chinese dissidents getting the Nobel Peace price in absentia, anything happening in Hong Kong, and in the Chinese sea, and the "reeducation" camps for Uyghurs. They didn't budge after tiananmen square, they didn't budge after the Dalai Lama got popular, they didn't budge after any of the recent stuff. What makes you think they will budge in the future?

They don't really need the West, but the West needs them (for the forseeable future). Their markets may take a hit if push comes to shove with the West, but that's fine with them. And they have a home market with 1.7 billion customers, and many other foreign markets in Asia, Africa or South America that will still deal with them.
> which make the volatile qualifier redundant

That's not entirely true e.g. `read;read` can be very relevant in an MMIO context (a read can have side-effect), but atomic reads can technically be optimised out (though it might not currently be done by most compilers).
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I hear this "let's change math education" often. But how do you propose to do it?
PSRs identify the transponder when the drone flies close enough to them.

DJI should implement a black list of transponder IDs so that owners of stolen drones could easily identify the latest flying location. But DJI doesn't, because it doesn't care.
I'm not qualified to criticise the design-specific points but one of themes in yesterday's post was that you have a lot of text and inappropriate tone. It's the same here - you have irrelevant text, out-of-place joke, other red flags and lots of defensive points. It comes off like you know that your company sucks and you're trying to defend it in front of someone who is probably just learning about it now.
That's not low for the effect size they're observing. Note that this is a phase 2/3 trial. The safety trials have already occurred.
Scary. I remember an old cPanel bug where a php error log ended up publicly accessible, you can guess the rest...
Yes, 'flat' and 'large' are to some degree mutually exclusive, though I have seen one instance where it worked remarkably well.
For a more beginner-friendly approach to Arch, try Manjaro. The user experience is much better: you can choose one out of several desktop environments and get sane defaults, has its own system that can easily swap between different drivers and kernels, and generally very robust overall. Also the forums are more friendly towards beginners, so I view it as Arch without the elitism. The package updates are usually several weeks behind from Arch (since it uses a curated snapshot of Arch), but I view this as a plus (in reality you don’t need that much bleeding-edge updates).
This argument is so weird to me I don't even know where to start. Are you saying that because a murderous mob would just kill someone the laws in large organized states should also be based on mob justice?
Brexit was one of the defensive responses I was referring to.

I'm not arguing it causes no harm; I'm asking whether anybody has established any damage in the data. This is an opportunity to do a natural experiment; different places had different policies for integrating a large number of migrants, ranging from "don't let any in" to "find ways to integrate them viably into our society". Now that it's been ~5 years, what data do we have for which of those policies was beneficial for whom?

I'd add that I'm neither an economist nor a sociologist, nor do I speak any of the languages of Central Europe, so I'm not in a very good position to be able to surface good data.

>Most of these countries have excellent social safety nets and public services which are now available to any migrants who achieve legal status. While contributing little in taxes back. If they don't get status they also don't pay any taxes.

If they have can establish legal status to draw on the social safety net, they pay taxes, and presumably have the opportunity to stabilize their lives and contribute more taxes. Has that happened in the places where they were given legal status?
Yep. The stolen iPad (and iWatch) ended up in Tunisia (the theft happened in Italy). Not worth the effort.
> some data leaked back to places where they weren't meant to arrive. Including back to the attacker.

I'm curious how that can happen. They say no file was altered, so it's not a case of the logging system overwriting a file. How could information leak back out of the logging system, and back through the application through the logging functions into user-facing responses? Was the application extracting logs to present to the user for some reason?
Bots are one of those things that are easy to build and hard to get right, and there's really no way of preparing for the chaotic reality of real web pages other than fixing the problems as they show up. Weird and unexpected interactions are going to happen. Crawling the real web involves navigating a fractal of unexpected, undocumented and non-standard corner cases. Nobody gets that right on the first try. Because of that I do think we need to be a bit patient with bots.

At the same time, even as someone who runs a web crawler, I have zero qualms about blocking misbehaving bots.
>Russia and China are the only two great powers seeking to conquer and annex territory in the world today.

Well, I would respectfully disagree with the "conquer" part. Since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, that sounds really hollow.
Ignorance was/is bliss for the pleasure. I don't smoke (never did, really), gamble (parents were rabid horse bettors), or drink anymore, so let's say it is one of a few vices I am keeping for the pure pleasure of it. At least I am not huffing gas, and I always liked when my Dad pulled in and filled the car up.

I did paintings conservation for over 3 years, and I developed sensitivities to the benzene family like toluene and xylene; a whiff would give me an instant migraine, and I usually didn't get headaches much at all. All new construction, even the so-called 'green' techniques, has a lot more VOCs or other compounds that gas out, deteriorate, and otherwise create a by-product, which is why I liked my old drafty house. I lost some energy efficiency, but always had significant air exchange and all the glues had gassed off decades ago. New construction lead to Radon becoming more of an issue as a result of airtight basements and living spaces for the sake of energy efficiency. My old house was on top of glacial moraine, so Radon is something to be concerned about, but if it doesn't accumulate in concentration it is not as much an issue. That and simply caulking cracks and holes in your basement to keep it from entering in quantity is the other thing you can do. Also the drafty house ensured it never accumulated upstairs. The fix for newer homes was to put a vent to the outside the basement after caulking, sort of mini-chimney of stainless steel tube. And the fact is that it is the decay of uranium to radium to radon that releases alpha and beta particles, and gamma rays. Radon has a half-life of 3.8 days compared with uranium-238 of 4.5 billion years!

All of this reminds me of why I loved Wood Allen's movie Sleeper when I saw it with my Dad in 1973 (yeah, I know a 9-year-old shouldn't have seen such a movie, it was PG, and ratings had been less than a decade old). In short, a man is woken up 200 years later in 2173 in a dystopian future with a police state. In short, the scientists are perplexed by his request for wheat germ, tiger's milk, and something else. When they tell him all his friends are dead, he says, "But they ate organic rice!". We learn that steak, cream pies, and deep fat are good for you. Cigarettes have also been found to be very healthy! Hilarious movie! Now I have to see if I can find it!

EDIT: Found this link all about book smells. There's even a perfume for it! https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/

PS: Don't tell California; they'll ban printed books or put labels all over the cover ;)
So, is this expensive and patented and does it have limited availability?
Why is this drug less experimental than the vaccines?
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This is in fact what Zig does. Everything is statically linked into one binary that is used for compiling, linking, building, testing etc.
You can filter names by first letter, sex, and decade of popularity, as well as limit to the most popular N names in that list.

No, only like / dislike. This was intentional for me, another app we tried had a "maybe" list that just filled up with names that I would never realistically go for.

No easy way to show variants of spelling. Not something I needed, but I could definitely see that being helpful for others, and would be a good feature to add.
"Linux runs on it"
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In the last two years I’ve been on the arch-announce mailing list I think I have only needed to respond to breaking updates twice.

I choose arch for three reasons. 1. The official repos and the AUR have nearly every package I have ever needed. And usually packages are updated soon after a release. 2. Being rolling release, I never need to reinstall arch, just run updates periodically. 3. I love learning, and I have learned more about Linux and system maintenance from arch than anything else. While there might be a slightly larger cost of time spent setting up (and maintaining when I break something) arch, I have decided that the tradeoffs are worth it to me.
Engineers produce fuel from sunlight and air
When I had a MacBook it also wouldn't reliably wake up from sleep every time either.
The world was aligned against Germany in the late 1930s. Alignment alone was not sufficient to deter a blitzkrieg.
"Bach, Bombs & Books" is an amazing title. I think it should have been included in the HN title submission.
There was a great w5 episode that tested the two and others. If you don't move look straight ahead they are about the same if you bend your head down or move forward the air gets in. There is a reason why they are plentiful and much cheaper.
Complex Chips Make Security More Difficult
In principle, the Python scientific ecosystem allows you to do everything, but the notation is atrocious and not in line at all with how Mathematics is written on paper. So, people familiar with mathematics can bear the pain, but it's terrible for actually teaching mathematics.

For instance in SageMath, to get the eigenvalues of a matrix M, you have to do A.eigenvalues(). What is that supposed to mean? To a programmer, that means A is an object (in the sense of OOP), and you are calling an internal method on it.

But that's not how you think about mathematics. Mathematics is functional. A mathematician knows that eigenvalues(A) means, to choose an appropriate eigenvalue-finding algorithm and apply it to the matrix A.

The mathematics program should conform to how one should think about mathematics, rather than forcing mathematics students to think like programmers. Mathematica does that.
Yeah, when I said "homogenous" I was solely referring to the ISA. Trying to enable TSO on a Tempest core will fail with an undefined instruction exception, but I think A12Z is ISA homogenous in userspace.
Back in the early days there were so few web sites that you didn't even need a search engine; any old Yahoo could tell you what all of them were.
The latest Ryzen CPU is the 5950X, costing near 1k, and it’s behind M1 in that same site’s leaderboard: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

All the recent M1 benchmarks from respectable news sites confirm the same for the majority of multi core real workloads.

tl;dr you absolutely will not beat M1 Pro with a $1500 PC for work.
I made a similar jump over the past few years out of frustration with stagnating apple hardware (pre-m1). I spent a year with a hackintosh, which worked pretty well, but became disenchanted by the continued locking-down of the OS.

For the most part, daily driving Linux as my desktop has been great - no small thanks to Electron. Slack, Spotify, VSCode, etc. all just mostly work.

Going the arch-route took extra upfront work since you're effectively building a desktop environment from scratch, but the benefit is knowing exactly how -everything- works. If I press my "volume up" shortcut and the overlay volume bar isn't displayed, I know exactly which sway config and executable to look at. It's refreshingly simple.

The downsides are that upgrading is a bit anxiety producing (will I break anything?). HiDPI on Linux is still (in my experience) a bit of a mess. If you run wayland, you need to patch xwayland/sway/wlroots if you don't want blurry x11 apps. And there are some quirks- like, I can't drag files into Slack. Maybe it's fixable, but at some point you become satisfied with "good enough".
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Well, countries are already using Interpol as a weapon to make dissidents' lives miserable across the world. The next logical step is to start demanding extraditions.
Mermaid is great. I remember sending a diagram made with MermaidJs to the security officer of a big retailer and the guy said that that was the tool (and the information) he wished he had the day he joined the company.

I am using PlantUML instead and C4 some time ago. Works very well inside VSCode, but Mermaid was quick.
> That would really suck if a loved one was in the program and died because they happened to get the placebo.

Trials like this are performed in desperate situations, and you only ever hear about the success stories. Most such trials probably result in no measurable benefit, and run the risk of an even worse outcome than the placebo.
Technical interviews are only good at indicating whether or not someone is good at Technical interviews.

The best way to figure out if someone is a culture fit? Ship code with them.

If you can start off on a contract, do that. It is the best way to even out the power dynamic of the interview process.

If you are not in a place where you can do that, check out what we are building at www.commit.dev to Re-build career transitions around the engineer.
I wondered why you had medical care and healthcare, they seemed redundant, but good on BLS for separating hospital costs and medical costs. That truly is granular.
Apple has been on a weird spree of ”hey what if we listened to our customers”. Maybe they’ll add in the ”normal” desktop computer. The iMac comes with a screen I don’t want (+weird laptop-like compromises for thinness), the mac mini is too small for actual HP, and the mac pro cost a ton
> Can an Arch person explain to me why their approach is worth it over something with a more comprehensive package manager like apt or dnf? I don’t mind compiling programs myself when needed, but for most things I’m happy to not have to hand-hold my OS when it comes to updates.

It sounds like you may be confusing Arch with some other distro. You rarely if ever need to compile anything yourself. Pacman works just like apt or dnf, i.e. resolves dependencies, downloads and installs packages for you, unless you have something specific in mind.
The alternative is what we have right now, ‘scientists’ blathering about their assumptions with the constant disclaimer that nobody really knows for real.

Real science does have a price.
And indeed - we are about to finalise the pricing page ! Thanks for the recommendation!
Yes, but good luck getting kernel.org to distribute that. They're not perfect (nothing is, and kernel.org has been compromised in the past, though quite long ago, and even then it did not lead to compromise of the Linux kernel sources), but to put the Linux kernel maintainers on the same level as the people maintaining the NPM distributions is a bit much.
Checkout maxima, sympy, and sagemath. I have used maxima and sympy and both are decent. sagrmath is a collection of open source math tools glued by python: it uses both maxima and sympy as backend.
> having stuff obscure your vision

With the Augmented Reality headset I have, darker shades (obscuring the environment) improve the visibility of the "augmentational" displayed elements, but it is not necessary, and very probably unrequired when the information is concise (e.g heart rate value, as opposed to an essay).

> why you need to see your heart rate and speed constantly [...] record ... and ... look later

You do not get "feedback" if you check later. Real time feedback is different from "next-day analysis".
> Pfizer’s phase 2/3 trial randomized non-hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients who were at high risk of progressing to severe illness to receive placebo or Paxlovid, a combination of the protease inhibitors

Oh, a protease inhibitor you say? I was told those were horse dewormers by the media.

This whole thing is bullshit. With this much money at stake we were never going to learn the truth.
So you're claiming that the UK has lower social mobility than Sri Lanka?
Twitter say any move by Australia, ban anonymous account would not reduce abuse
"Long covid" is an urban legend.
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The plus plan has been very successful from my point of view, we’ve been able to bootstrap the business and make our first hire.

The key realization is that while the unauthenticated open source model works really well for individuals, it’s hard for companies to adopt.

They want authentication, security policies, private spaces to collaborate, access control, search… all of this requires having a company behind it in practice and the open source model doesn’t work as well.

The two versions so far work really well alongside each other right now.
great answer! I had to check your profile to be sure that you weren't my dad (that's the kind of answer he would give me) :)
Wireless sensing system tracks 3D human poses during free-form motion
I thought the latest research was that the vaccinated can still spread COVID?
I also found the article a little hard to parse, but after a close read it seems that the 85% is the whole trial, and 89% is for people who got the drug within three days.
I don't look forward to private health insurance getting their hands on that data. Regulators certainly won't allow it anyway - European regulators at least.
I have registered, keen to see what you are providing?
The effect size was very large. The calculated p-value was <0.0001.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
This eloquently describes the root cause of the problem.
Some might, but not all, which is still a reduction
US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers
Way back when I taught math, I remember having a student in one of my junior high mathematics for college students classes who pulled out her calculator to do 8+9 (that's the exact calculation, I remember it remarkably clearly). And yet, she was able to manage the symbolic manipulation around the rest of the algebra problem she was solving. The thing I took away from that is that while we tend to think of arithmetic as a prerequisite for algebra, the skill sets are largely orthogonal.

I kind of wonder if this was part of how the child of two math professors¹ was taking upper-division college level math classes at Harvey Mudd as a high school student. It's not so much that he learned K5 mathematics quickly and was on to pre-algebra and algebra as that he was likely introduced to algebraic concepts much sooner than his peers.

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1. I never met him, his time was a little before mine, but I recall someone who had met him saying that his parents taught him a lot of mathematics but not so much by way of social skills.
Didn’t we establish last week the vaccine is not effective at stopping the spread of the virus?
> ...that literally every construction professional in the UK (as well as all the critical experts in California) must know less than him about the habitability and safety of buildings...

Not every one. But it does seem likely that Munger has access to people with more experience building windowless bedrooms than anyone in the UK. I've heard from a source on the internet that it would be illegal to have such experience in the UK, so I doubt anyone does.

It is a trivially obvious one. You won't have people with experience in a technique available if it has been banned. It is a safe guess that the US architects will be better at this than UK ones.
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> Real science does have a price.

I'm not following. Are you under the impression that the COVID-19 vaccine trials weren't similarly double blinded?
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And it's here in _two_ years
The Tale Of A Single Register Value
Did anyone hear NPR's reporting on this? They said the early study was originally halted BECAUSE of it's positive effects at preventing hospitalization and death... very weird, I hope it is a typo or I'm understanding it wrong...
>Our language is but a scaffold for our minds: indispensable during construction

I'm not convinced it's indispensable. Kids have minds before they get talking and some famous thinkers like Einstein "didn't speak full sentences until he was 5 years old". He was famous for his visual imagination and I think that's more indispensable. Language is a nice add on.
You still have value semantics to lean on. They integrate really well with Swift’s actor implementation.
Thank you! I just emailed you