skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The consensus before the pandemic was that the spread prevention was so low that it could not justifiably be recommended for the purpose of preventing spread of virus.

Heh. This was the CYA they put out. Maybe it pays to publish only in the authoritative media channels if that's only what a large percentage of people read.

This was the public health consensus they themselves agreed on. Anyone who was in that room justifying not having people wear masks, has not rode in public transit in the last 20 years. Wear a mask and try spitting on the floor or picking your nose.

Scientific consensus was that masks clearly work to combat pathogen spread, and that's why they are in use in hospitals for at least 100 years. There even was scientific research on SARS-COV-1, comparing how many nurses got sick under different PPE policies, and how mask usage affected their recovery / long-SARS decline.

For a while, it was possible to define the (government) status of a person by the level of their PPE recommended to them. I think they ran their global pandemic surveillance systems searching for their own names and "N95 mask" and did not like the communities they were being discussed at. But not 100% certain of course.

I bet you won't find more than a few, if any, public health officials left willing to draw attention to their failures, or have been fired/retired in 2020 after spending their lives in pandemic control. Though it must hurt to leave with such a legacy, I can live with that. If you still need them to decide whether your kid should wear a mask at school or not, I sincerely feel for you. Information gathering and judging what is true absolutely sucked the past years, and it would have been nice if at least authority could have been trusted, more than, say, 4chan.
They will just return the eth. People who deposited will need to pay gas fees to claim it back though. And yes the saga definitely isn’t over - there will be many more collective fundraising DAOs going forward!
Why is it that the Debian repos are so well-maintained and the Play Store is full of so much trash? I have never had a worse experience than on these "curated" services.
The link I referenced stated that care was taken to ensure the tolerances required were achievable by 19th century technology. The biggest difficulty was in refining the designs into actionable manufacturing plans. Of course they used CNC; why mess up at the last step.

For both moon landing and quantum computing the challenges were recognized to be enormous, but achievable by unthrottling the money faucet. Cold fusion is different because there is not even a theoretical venue ahead. It would be a true search in the dark at this point.

Yes, I recognize that these astronomical projects were seldom launched with purely scientific goals in mind, and I wish humanity would do it for the science in the future.
> This is false. The ad keyword blocklist in the original report had tons of unassuming keywords.

There is no statistical good/bad measurement if you, as a company, decide to block terminology of political nature.

They blocked pro-Taiwan ads just as they blocked outdated Xiaomi ads. But this doesn't even out the odds anyhow. As long as pro Taiwan ads are blocked, it's effectively being used as a censorship mechanism, and it's nothing else.

Doesn't matter if you sell it as an adblocker. Doesn't matter if you sell it as a filtering system for "security" reasons.

Either block all ads and do the right thing, or block no ads at all. But not this.

The point is that they realized that advertisements are used to organize democratic or revolutionary movements and they blocked it. And that is the censorship others are complaining about.
Ups, of course it's Thomas Metzinger.

Sorry, a momentary lapse of reason.

Ego-Game
For that, there's

object.method(:name).source
object.method(:name).source_location

but frankly this is still thinking in a rigid mindset that suits other languages better. Ruby isn't just "dynamic dispatch"; a typical metaprogramming technique handles all incoming calls without named methods, or by dynamically writing the code.

To put it bluntly, assuming there's a method on the other side of your message, is practically the antithesis of Ruby.

It's similar to the category error that leads folks to conflating type with class, and writing type checkers that look for class signatures.
Awesome project, although I personally can’t identify with putting such effort into reinventing the past instead of making something new.

I suspect different people live in different periods. I’ve known people who always dwell on the past, those who are preoccupied with the future and those who are in the present and not overthink too much in either direction.
I agree. If updating were so easy, we could all just switch to IPv6 tomorrow and be done with all of this.

This whole IPv4 address mining thing is only relevant because updating is hard.
Thanks for sharing. I used to enjoy writing but could never find the motivation to put pen to paper and instead read other's stories. I look forward to reading some of your work
TTS: Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome
Consumer's can't agree on wearing masks or if earth is flat. I don't see any measurable impact by consumers in reasonably near future.
> Does WASM have built-in security policies and sandboxing?

Yes, WebAssembly is sandboxed. https://webassembly.org/docs/security/
The irony of the situation is that it _is_ a mild-to-moderate prophylactic for severe Covid. In countries where parasites are endemic it's a significant difference to enter covid with parasites, or having gotten rid of them previously with a course of Ivermectin.

Comment section is pretty Western-centric in behaving as if the article proves Ivermectin doesn't work. The fact that we know (or are pretty sure we know) what the mechanism of action is doesn't make it "not work", it just makes it another tool in the box.
Recent microcontrollers have CPU plus other logic, RAM and interfaces integrated into one die. This is more reliable overall, consumes less power, and is much cheaper to build systems around. It's a one-chip solution instead of several chips, which is where the "95% less unique chips" comes from.

Western companies got fat and lazy, so kept using off-the-shelf chipsets and more discrete logic, usually from overseas.

As an American, I'm ashamed of this, and you should be too. At the moment, the US probably couldn't build their own tanks or fighter jets.
I think a lot of that has to do with the ability or experience to actually observe when something presents itself.

Not sure where this comes from, but I realized at some point that not everybody makes use of this ability.
it's dismaying to see a reasoned (if countervailing) position being so reflexively suppressed, and maddening to witness the mass hysteria still buttressing ineffective mandated interventions like public masking.

the only places outside of healthcare settings where masking plausibly makes any difference for ordinary folks is at home (amongst friends/family) and in crowded indoor social gatherings (club, house party, etc.). a modicum of physical distancing is all that's need in most public places to minimize tranmission risk about as much as is possible. combine that with masking public-facing workers (like cashiers), and we've maxed out the potential of masking as an intervention. everything else is theater.
How to Use Observables with Vanilla JavaScript
Multilingual SDK to add multiple languages to a live stream
There is no mention on those pages on whether Renesas uses those tools.
Ah yeah thanks for the correction, I am not sure why my memory faild me there.
String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers
You do not seem to be attempting to engage in productive discussion but rather seem like you are trying to start a fight.
> driverless robotaxis that will generate income for their owners while they sleep.

Do they really? The first image that sentence conjures is stepping into my shiny Tesla for my morning commute, only to be greeted by a noxious blast from the puddle of some 3am customer's vomit that's been fermenting since last night. As I reel back, coughing, the car's infotainment system starts playing a voice message, helpfully informing me that this vehicle has been banned from the robotaxi network due to multiple reports of unsanitary conditions.
i don’t understand people who will loudly proclaim “x is true” without themselves having any reason to believe x is actually true. but that seemed to be the case just about everywhere. even coindesk — an entity that i’ve considered decently reliable in this space — published their “ConstitutionDAO wins” article before reliable confirmation (since redacted).

i get the pressure for a news outlet to call the shot early, but for everyday twitter/discord users? why propagate beliefs that you yourself haven’t heard from a reliable source? don’t people care that the things they say are actually true?
Jets have actually declined significantly in loudness over the past decades.
Hey guys, quick update: HUGE update is releasing next week.

It will include a blogging platform (with a notion-like editor), where you can design your own theme + more!

Twitter for updates:

https://twitter.com/okozzie_
How world record freediver Alenka Artnik became one of the worlds elite athletes
Do you know if the Pixel 6 series supports ToF?
Multicast DNS, e.g. Bonjour.
Correction: I have seen it attempted.
I don't understand why two EFF-adjacent personalities have an interest in making more v4 addresses available which will ultimately end up in the hands of giant ISPs and corporations.
OpenSSL still has a long way to go to earn my trust.

OpenBSD (which maintain LibreSSL) have had my trust for a long time already.

As almost everybody else, I do rely on a lot of projects they maintain, and they have yet to disappoint me.
IIRC traditional Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of liquid hydrocarbons from coal or biomass is about 30-40% efficient. Partly because the C:H ratio of the source material is not the same as the end product (the excess goes up the smokestack), but also because part of the energy embodied in the source is needed to run the reaction itself.

Adding hydrogen can fix both of these problems, enabling efficiency up to 150% (compared to the energy in the source material, not including the hydrogen). This is kind of a big deal, since for large-scale carbon-neutral production of synthetic hydrocarbons the bottleneck is the source of carbon. Hydrogen can be produced (nearly) carbon-free in unlimited quantities, but barring a breakthrough in DAC technology where is your sustainable source of carbon? And no, we don't want to replace pristine rain forests with biomass plantations.
> The most important problem with IPv4 is that it mandates 1:N NAT configurations that break direct connectivity between devices on the Internet.

Honestly, I don't think direct peer-to-peer connectivity will come back even after everything swutched to IPv6.

There is enough dangerous stuff out there that will actively try to exploit any device that is reachable on the internet that you usually don't want to have your devices reachable if you could avoid it in any way.

NATs have become de-facto firewalls, but in that property, they're quite important.
Yep, cool site - it's a shame they've stopped updating it though haha
I'm sorry I'm not going to read your essay. I'll respond to your first point about "pandemic triggered fuckery" by pointing out that the things I mentioned have been occuring for decades.

I understand you're proud of Oregon but voting by mail will never be more secure than voting in person. There is no way to verify the identity of who actually mailed the ballot. In person someones identity and eligibility can be verified.
Even now I doubt many home users have a local dns server for reaching their printer by name. I think Windows uses NetBIOS for this purpose, which should work fine over IPv6 too.
even if they hadn’t waived the fee as sibling comment points out, check your math: 3% on 50-ish million isn’t $5M.
What evidence is there that more lives would be saved by diverting FDA employees from other tasks (like evaluating the safety of drugs, vaccines, medical devices, food, etc) to redacting trade secrets from documents that on the order of 10^0 people will read? How does DDOSing the FOIA unit of the FDA undermine the wholely separate review process that conclusively found both mRNA vaccines to be completely safe and extremely effective at preventing serious harm? How could that be more persuasive than the fact that (per the NYTimes COVID tracker) unvaccinated people make up 6/7ths of new daily cases and 12/13ths of new daily deaths?
Really?

I for one am not looking forward to all the frankenbugs when new stuff on those IPs talk to old stuff (middle and endboxes)...

The great part about IPv6 in that regard is that you are either capable or not, not mostly compatible as an older client would be with this "ipv4+" thingy..
But very very expensive to contribute to.
I haven't tried Nexenta in a long long time, but it seems like it was part of their allocation classes code [1]. The comment at the top of the file says the implementation there doesn't support WBC, but [2] seems to suggest otherwise...

So if you really wanted to, you could try looting code from there, though I believe Nexenta's implementation of that was either orthogonal or significantly different from the one that landed in OpenZFS...

[1] - https://github.com/Nexenta/illumos-nexenta/blob/release-5.3/...

[2] - https://github.com/Nexenta/illumos-nexenta/blob/release-5.3/...
> Why does the mental illness part of this matter at all?

Because as it turns out mental illness is part of a protected class, and that's a big deal in employment law.

The solution here isn't limiting his freedom of speech, it's accommodating with a fact checker of some sort.
Not only that, I believe they had to exchange the ETH for USD before the auction to prove their holding. They now need to turn the USD back to ETH. ETH crashed by about 10% yesterday afternoon (which could be due to them liquidating that much ETH, that would be a big story itself) and so they will have lost a fair bit there!
part of the problem is that in med-speak things are often classified as "does good" "does nothing" "does bad" and by default new or untested things are never in "does good"

I mean,
until a few years ago there was no scientific evidence that parachutes helped with surviving jumping off a plane
printer.local
yea i had the same thought as well. Wondering how that'll pane out since the refunded amount wouldn't be the same as the initial amount they paid due to gas fees.
"These results reflect the fact that dictionary checks appear to contribute heavily to reducing usability by making password creation difficult. To some extent, this may be a result of our harsh check that uses a cracking dictionary and matches words of any length, rather than ignoring words of less than three or four letters, as may be more typical. We believe, however, that what makes any dictionary check valuable - preventing the use of common or predictable letter strings in passwords—also makes it inherently more difficult for users to think of a valid password. An interface that more clearly explains to users why their passwords are being rejected and provides suggestions for avoiding future rejections might help to reduce frustration"

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~lbauer/papers/2011/chi2011-passwo...
No you’re a slave.
I've surmised for a while that it's simply impossible, sans magic, for Tesla to have supposedly surpassed other car manufacturers when those other car manufacturers have decades of experience honing their designs for reliability and quality.

I've said many times that my Kia has better quality feel than any Tesla I've been in.
:) I love typed languages and my current favorite is Rust. I got my most recent position because when asked what I if I preferred procedural style programming or OOP. I told them I tend to lean heavy on simple single inheritance schemes rather than complicated hard to trace architectures and over-engineered design patterns, the occasional interface class for OOP that makes sense, and mostly procedural concentrating on bending to the data rather than bending the data to your needs. It was the only thing that separated me from the other c++ candidates as we all had similar levels of experience and coding skill.
you are supposed to look at them before the emergency to know where you should go in case you need it
A lot can be learned for the present from such projects. Older stuff is usually less integrated, more tolerant to manufacturing by hand (for many reasons, including relatively easy to deal with frequencies, board layout, and required layers), and you have plenty of "reference" implementation and documentation to delve into. It is a very valuable hands-on experience that certainly gives an edge over people who only know how computers are put together theoretically.
I recall the times when this was being discussed and from an European perspective it seemed curious that the US tech crowd was so eager to ban Huawei products — especially after there being multiple cases of back-/bugdoors in the gear of american vendors, while at that point there was none with Huawei gear that we knew of.

I don't trust chinese gear. But I also don't trust the gear built in a nation where the patriot act is active.

The answer is to use a propper vendor mix and to think carefully what is used where.
I don’t have an electric car but my parents have an electric non-Tesla one, and say that firstly you have to sign up to accounts with loads of different companies just to use them, and then secondly it’s really common to arrive at one and it just doesn’t work or there is only a few and charge points which are full.

Teslas currently have the advantage of the extra supercharge network, although in the Uk that is being opened to other electric cars which will level the playing field.
what is even more creepy is that you record all your phone calls. i dont know where you are, but here in Germany this is very severe breaking of the law that is punishable according to the StGB.
NFTs can represent metaphysical assets
The USA? Who cares? I'm just speaking out about a civil liberty and you assume that I represent the whole government that uses that liberty as an excuse to play politics. Unlike the CCP members (or their wannabes) I don't base my identity and beliefs around my government and what it does.
‘Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin’ Review: Clash of the Titans
I think it pretty cool how AlphaZero does not converge to a single best opening move and its variation of opening moves is higher than humans.

Seeing people analyze AlphaZero games on YouTube, it plays a more open and aggressive game of chess and goes for the win instead of the very defensive play of most of the top players today. Some people hope that if people study how AlphaZero plays chess (the best chess player in the world) to improve their game it might make chess more interesting as most games at the high level now end in draws.
No, I have never worked at a bank. But I once had half a million dollars go missing because of a transcription error on a wire transfer. It took two weeks to locate the money and get it back to me. And that with without a malicious actor involved, just a stupid clerical error. So I'm pretty confident that if I had a bank's root key I could wreak havoc. That havoc may not take the form of draining everyone's account, but it would be havoc nonetheless.
> This whole blog post is a petulant child stamping his feet and crying out that it’s unfair that he’s not as well liked as he feels entitled to be.

Did we read the same post? I see someone acknowledging that there are real and valid reasons to dislike him. The main thrust is a request for accuracy when spreading information about those reasons.
expense reports going directly to the corporate card are signed-off. Finance see a "software charge" and assume that someone is actually using it. No red flags.
I think you misunderstood. Bernie made an agreement with the DNC to not run as an independent candidate. The reason being that he would have spoiled the election.
I wonder, apart from having fun and scratching some nostalgia itches, what are the outcomes of this? Do any of the things learned by doing this project help in working with present day hardware?
Full disclosure: I don't know who this guy is and hadn't heard of him before today.

> Get a job, like most of the rest of us, and stop being a public figure. That's what I'd like

This seems a bit harsh. Are you saying that anyone who has done something wrong should be permanently shunned and no longer deserves a voice in society? Should he also fully isolate himself and stop having friends and just not say anything ever again?
That's a strawman considering the overwhelming majority of people taking vaccine aren't doing it for scientific reasons either. They're taking it because of social pressure, virtue signal, fear, etc. but certainly not knowledge about science since less than 1% of the population is PhD educated and know anything about how science is done in the first place.
> the technology demonstrably doesn’t scale

Yes it does, look at rollups.
Don’t take the ”highest GDP” statement at face value. It’s not only a lie (the US still has the highest GDP), GDP also doesn’t account for economic imbalances. Much of the Chinese population are living in poverty.

Chinese shills will claim that poverty has been eliminated, but that’s only true if you lower the poverty line. You could set the poverty line to 10 USD/year if you wanted to and by doing so “solve poverty”.

There is much room for misinformation and lies when it comes to these issues. One has to stay vigilant.
"Interesting History" is just before your own time (of sentience). I would consider rebuilding 1972 computer a worthy task. But not some 1990 beige box from China.
yup. we need an operating system and hardware that sandboxes all code and state that runs on it by source, yet still has fast interfaces between units and avoids overt complexity by bolting facilities for this on top.
They can do whatever they want because...?
the reverence you show for law, & disdain for those struggling, does not align with where i am on the D&D alignment chart.

imo law is usually immoral when it is blind to the mandate of the people. i'm not into the kind of republican-ism that says, these are the leaders, what they say goes. to discard these people, to discredit them, to rule them out entirely, as you have, is a strong no go. the situation is more nuanced than that to me.
Ha! I'm in the middle of reading it. was might be more suitable seeing as I haven't touched it in about two months now but that's how I like doing it (3-4 in parallel). Just went back to check, and found out I left it at Part 4, with his involvement in the military having recently started. Don't recall anything particularly improper as regards the allegations(facts?, I'm not sure) but it's probably coming up.

Thanks for letting me know!
I only put in ~$20 worth of ETH to participate in the community excitement, the gas fees were 2.5x that so it won’t be worth it for me to reclaim it. I’m sure there are others in a similar boat who won’t be getting a refund. I hope they’ll donate whatever is leftover.
I think that where you live you will become accustomed to when the date changes. You'll know around what time of day it happens and you'll be fine.

It still seems less complex than tracking dates across time zones.
> What types of assets can non-fungible tokens be used for?

> Non-fungible tokens can be created to represent virtually any asset, whether physical, digital or metaphysical.
Exactly this. This idealistic discussion is leading nowhere, still, my 2 cents. I experienced this opinion when speaking to people who never lived there or even spoke with people from there.

In fact people there are fully aware of the censorship and either ignore it, find easy ways around it or even mock it and make fun of it: from creating the globally famous "Winnie the Pooh" synonym to memes that are shared.