skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a mutual information problem. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_information)

The price leverage of the doctor is proportional to how much information the doctor has about how much money you have. If you can't keep it secret, you can add noise proportional to how much information the doctor likely has to cancel it out. The resulting "fair" price will be a function of the net shared information each side if the noise were removed.

Negotiations theory was a pet interest of mine, and I came to believe that in zero sum adversarial bargaining situations like that, the domainant position was the side with the most information, so the best strategy was to use noise to diminish their information, and then use whatever information you retained as arbitrage. If you think of noise in terms of signal entropy, and low entropy as signal, you can figure out whether their gambit is signal or noise by repsonding with noise and gauging the entropy of their response. This is crazy armchair stuff that nobody articultes, but variations of it gets used in bureaucracy and politics all the time, it's basically the game theory of gaslighting.
I personally never see the gaming use cases for this going mainstream. The bigger players in this right now (ex: Axie) are super exploitative l, especially of poorer individuals and its business model reeks of a pyramid scheme.

As for the broader ideas, I don't think the incentives line up. What incentive does a video game developer, especially a large one, have to support any of this? And how would it actually work beyond gimmicky pyramid scheme games like Axie?
Earlier in the week we had discussions on how various social networks were just replacements for finger, so maybe he's on to something.
Ah, yes, Docker uses the shell depending on what form of CMD you use. I do find that to be poor design. I would much prefer that they have separate instructions for those, perhaps something like SHELLCMD vs RAWCMD. Then it's immediately clear which is which.
> The fact that firing it generates high peak power is no more relevant for practicality than the fact that firing a handgun generates high peak power. It's just combustion.

This is not a trivial engineering problem. And in the case of a light gas gun, not only do you need to dump all this energy into a driver to compress the light gas extremely quickly, you also then must bring that driver to a halt extremely quickly without destroying everything.
It's a novel idea, and you're correct to keep it out of integration.

Assume, for a moment, that your idea takes off and becomes the next WhatsApp. People, you know, will find ways to return to their normal selves. They'll cram a ton of links and messages into their allotted time slots.

What you're attempting to address is a fundamental flaw in human nature. Many people are aware of the issue and are taking precautions in their daily communication. Many, however, do not.
Everyone keeps posting this, but there's no update on that video.
Well not being a restricted drug is a practical difference. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against microdosing or anything. I'm just skeptical. I've listened to one too many acid-head's long winded speeches about enlightenment to take what people are self reporting about it seriously.
> I have had a blog more or less non-stop since 2001, and never once was "building an audience" a goal. My blog is written for my own self, as a place that records discoveries, knowledge, and thoughts so I can read them again later, shared so that they might be useful to others and as a way to connect with friends and family who already know about my blog directly.

I’ve been doing it since the last century. In fact, my personal site[0] is stale as hell, and still has the original table-based layout that was considered “cutting edge,” back then.

I’ve never really given a damn whether or not anyone reads my stuff.

This is where I tend to dump my thoughts, these days[1].

[0] https://cmarshall.com

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany
"The patriarchy" has no problem giving men low paying jobs. How many restaurant dishwashers are women? Furthermore the data found no bias against women in male-dominated professions. Instead, the data here suggest that prejudice is not gender-specific but universal, and gender disparities naturally lead to people pigeonholing you and those professions (gender stereotyping).
> You never hear about developments of the RNG on other OSes.

Probably because you don't listen?

> It gives me more confidence that the Linux RNG is constantly being reviewed.

It took decades for the linux devs to abandon their idiotic concept of running out of entropy and making /dev/random stop blocking (that happened last year in the 5.6 kernel).

Hell, after getentropy was introduced by openbsd, not only did linux decide to invent their own variant they just had to replicate /dev/random's running-out-of-entropy behaviour.
This address shuffling is not a security patch, so would have near zero priority.
Since the article doesn’t have this, The names of the packages are:

importantpackage / important-package

pptest

ipboards

owlmoon

DiscordSafety

trrfab

10Cent10 / 10Cent11

yandex-yt

yiffparty
I'm willing to chalk it up to having vastly stronger immune systems because of the average living conditions on the continent. I know game-meat is popular and given that coronavirus came from bats, it's likely there are a bunch of other zoonotic diseases present that we just haven't profiled. The vast majority of people who get sick with a flu-like illness don't have samples taken to a lab in order to determine if it was caused by a novel virus - especially in Africa.

It stands to reason that having antibodies against different kinds of coronaviruses, almost all probably undocumented, would confer protection against COVID-19.
It's even more hilarious - half of the funders (below median donation of 200$) will get absolutely nothing back, because their tokens will be eaten by transaction costs :)
How emblematic of our times.
I'd be careful though. Psychedelic are a powerful eye opener that can and do help with depression, but taking them regularly, even just a microdose can be a very reckless thing. They have the potential to completely drive you insane if you over do it and are best enjoyed with long intervals in between.
> Actually I don't think anybody's debating that

In LGBTQ+ circles, everyone is debating everything all the time, and that's one of the problems when trying to assess their positions.
Stephan Müller has proposed his "LRNG" rewrite 5 years ago, and it was not well received by the linux random subsystem maintainer Ted Ts'o:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/21/839

but there has been a notable development in the subsystem this year, finally `/dev/random` blocks only before initialization, and never after!

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200131204924.GA455123@mit.edu...
It was my recollection, and I confirmed it, that they've almost always had a "the first hit is free" model for small teams, and they also explicitly call out indie game studios as getting free stuff too: https://www.perforce.com/how-buy
Wasn't the same done with Mario 64? Nintendo is the most litigious game company and they couldn't/haven't done anything about it.
But then again I believe someone on here said they was a difference between how the two are done.
> You cannot easily switch a router from using one WAN to another.

You cannot easily do that with NAT either.

Every single one of your TCP sessions will die, and likely every session going over UDP as well. Unless you're talking some special protocol specifically designed to handle clients changing IPs.

Your machine may not notice, but the machines responding to your packets sure will.
I'm not saying that a space gun is simple. But I'm not convinced that it's that much more complicated than a hypersonic centrifuge that provides smaller benefits to begin with.

BTW did Quicklaunch even have a driver/piston? I'm not quite sure that it had.
> Aren't everybody else's doorbell camera's the privacy issue? The ones the staunch individualist has no control over?

Maybe. There's nothing that prevents other people from having a doorbell camera that doesn't violate privacy, except for the greed of large companies. Certainly most people do not install a doorbell camera with the intent to violate privacy, so it doesn't logically follow for me that doorbell cameras necessarily cause a privacy issue, not the least of which because I was able to set one up that does not cause a privacy issue.

The privacy issue here isn't caused by your neighbors possibly having a recording of what you do on the public street, it's caused by a random person and a law enforcement agency and a data broker company in different parts of the world and with no relationship to you having a recording of what you did on the public street. The doorbell camera alone is fundamentally no different from your neighbor peering out the window or checking their peephole in the front door. The difference comes from the companies building systems /explicitly/ on the basis of capturing and trading/selling that data and embedding this in the products they offer to consumers. It does not have to be this way, and indeed there are product offerings that don't upload live streams of the all their video to the cloud to be snarfed up my data brokers, voyeurs, and police agencies.

Remember, these are cameras pointed at a public street, so while there is a reasonable expectation that you have privacy from non-involved/non-present parties to your actions there, there is no such expectation of privacy from those who could reasonable observe you. Individuals who wish to keep their actions secret don't do them on the public street in broad daylight, and that has been true for millennia.
Didn't they want to end it already a few month ago?
I don't understand. Gofundme, kickstarter. This has been happening. And lots of those end up being scams. This is crowdfunding, why do we need a new term? DAO adds some new dimensionality to it, but not significant that I can tell. Kyle was able to raise millions for his defence fund very quickly.
No, but I'd think to do the ls and the strace as the author did. Then I'd check the manpage instead of stackoverflow. Obviously her way worked, too, but I prefer manpages. /shruggie

(Well, I just knew the answer in this case because I've hit this particular error a bunch of times, but that's not really the point.)

I actually agree with jmgao's point that this inscrutability is the downside of syscalls' limited error return; just pointing out the good as well as the bad.
word of mouth is a huge deal, I think

if people are not compelled enough by your content to want to share it, your blogging 'career' is DOA
Plenty of companies could survive without China. They just don't want to part with China's money/market/cheap labor.
It's an interesting book, and a fun read. It's not hard sf, but he has done a good job of imagining plausible consequences for his one "what if". It's simultaneously a good read for the physical consequences (hot zone, water levels, food supply) but also political (fragility of democracy) and personal (navigating mysteries, distrust, zero-sum situations). He's a competent writer and this was a well-executed novel. (Surprisingly so given it was his first)
This is much harder to do when Rhino Horn is included in every product you need to live. It is simply not feasible to expect individuals to research the supply chains and environmental impact of every product we buy. Not to mention that with most products being made buy a few large companies for many classes of item there just aren't reasonable green alternatives.
Higher consumption of eggs is associated with lower risk of coronary disease
The data for respirators was always better than the data for "masks" (and much better than the non-existent data for "face coverings", whatever those are), but...all of the existing studies of respirators took place in hospitals.

People keep dismissing this, but respirators in hospitals are very different than respirators in the hands of the general public. Fit matters more than anything else, and hospitals have staff and procedures to ensure that PPE is used correctly.

This isn't a small or theoretical concern. Even a tiny gap negates the effect of the respirator, and people don't fit their respirators properly -- in large part because properly worn respirators are annoying and hard to tolerate for long periods of time. I regularly see people walking around with KN95 masks on their faces, with massive gaps around the nose and chin. These masks are pure viral theater.

(Also, not for nothing: two of the twitter links you cite are about respirators in hospitals. the other two are mechanistic studies, which are basically useless. Every failed intervention or drug in the history of medicine has a mountain of plausible mechanistic studies supporting it. Most things don't work, but everything we try has someone claiming that it's a sure-fire solution, based on a lab study.)
Building a Construction Startup in Idaho
Sorry I know I am late getting back to you, but good luck. Would love to get connected with you on LinkedIn or something. Feel free to reach out to me anytime.
At least they acknowledge the problem and are trying to solve it.

EDIT: Holy smokes, it is absolutely exhausting to say anything even neutral about a cryptocurrency on Hacker News. I'm gonna take a break. I wanna get back to talking about all the other interesting things out there.
You could buy the book for $10 less from Amazon, and it arrives in 2 days. Then make a $5 contribution to your local bookstore. Everybody wins.
Has it be definitively proven that the sole purpose of AMP was to lock in advertising revenue?

The DOJ filing accused Google of this; that's not the same as it being true / there being damning evidence.
Ah, I hadn't read up on Quicklaunch and assumed it was a railgun. Light gas does seem better in that respect.
Their section on development tasks mentions fleshing out std and improving array/mutable reference programming, so I think it just hasn't been redone yet. It seems like they spent a lot of development time recently (with great success) working on foundational stuff like perceus/fbip and doing a major version bump, so std is pretty bare.
If using CloudFormation:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kddejong...
Pretty subjective, but I'm a fan of code-folding, so I rely heavily on the Auto Fold extension.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bobmagic...
How to create ecommerce store with PHP and MySQL
I think this article is best summed up with: "Author exhausts arms hand waving."
More gas fee -> more profit for miners -> more miners -> higher difficulty -> more energy used
If that is the case then why is the fee taken as a percentage of payments made within the app as opposed to number of downloads, or just a straight up monthly or annual fee?
Not quite. The idea is that climate change poses an existential threat to human civilization as we know it. As bad as China's human rights abuses are, they pale in comparison to its climate abuses. If you have ideas for compelling China to reduce its emissions to meet targets while also holding them accountable for their various other violations, I'm all ears.
They go through a review, every time the main version changes. Takes a couple of days.

That said, I don’t think they do a “legal” review, but they do seem to look for things like private API use, general stability, and other things like that. In one instance, they ran into an obscure crash, that I missed, in my testing.

If it’s just the build, it’s almost instantly approved.

During this project, I have made hundreds of TestFlight releases.

Also, they are constantly logging in (my app has user accounts). That is probably bot-driven. The profile photos are weird. There doesn't seem to be a real pattern to that. I do think that some of these logins were by humans, though. This was because of the type of information that was changed.
DHCPv6 isn't mandatory to use IPv6, and SLAAC works fine in those cases (and neither are mandatory actually, can't be). This isn't related to IPv6 overall.
Someone hacked my Instagram and Instagram is restricting my ability to unfollow
Sincere thanks for the reply! I will learn from it.
Ah yeak ok. I agree the formatting is a bit unusual. I guess the confusion is Chris did mention Axie but it was in the previous post which is paywalled.
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What to do if you're a bottleneck?
I’ve heard good things about Packet.com. They were acquired and is now part of Equinix Metal. Might be worth having a look at: https://metal.equinix.com/
>> They may even be used at FAANGs

Why would this matter?
What modern cars don’t have half-shafts? You get wheels hanging in the air and no traction with full-shafts.
Yeah, but you shouldn't need git grep to find out what something is.

I understand using to find out why it's there, but not what it is.
I think it's also an original printing as opposed to an original hand written copy.
Well, I shouldn't have brought up the title thing, because of course everyone jumped on housing titles (which I didn't explicitly mention) because it's the easiest argument to rip to shreds. And of course I ran down the hole defending it, because I'm really bad at arguing on the internet and just like playing devil's advocate.

I still genuinely think lower value things like concert tickets are better in a shared database rather than a private one, especially since I trust the owner of the private database (Ticketmaster) exactly as far as I can throw them.
Agree..a lot of blogging has moved to Medium and Substack
Hey there - sorry for the delay in getting back to you. To answer your questions as directly as possible...

1 - yes.
2 - yes, as much as possible.
3 - 3 months minimum. anything after that is great but not necessary IMO.
Used books are great, try thriftbooks or ebay.
That's a charming idea. I could see how email bridging might be a way to achieve network effect, but then email bridging might just turn it into another email client.

I'm surprised you took the approach that pickup = delivery. I would assume you'd have a lag between them, with only cancellation allowed in that gap. Basically "you have N minutes to reconsider this thing you wrote, if you've changed your mind and want to edit it you have to defer to next pickup".

I would think a "mindful correspondence" system would have an enforced gap between composition and delivery to avoid "oops I clicked send at 6:29 PM but it's wrong and I need to change it".

I mean, this is based on my experience in email and twitter, which you've rightly identified as the opposite of "mindful" correspondence (where "submit" and "deliver" are the same action), and personal experience with business apps that make heavy use of fixed daily jobs (where "submit" and "deliver" are the same action at one very specific deadline that everybody is rushing to hit).
It's not easy, and it's probably impossible to do perfectly, but right now we have too many people shrugging "darn corporations, amirite?" and then doing nothing.

Everyone can make some positive change. It doesn't have to be perfect. It just needs to move the needle, and in doing so we can unlock the next layer of feasible actions.
"If 70% of surviving staircases are clockwise and they were built in similar numbers then there is clearly an advantage to the clockwise orientation."

Archeology of 21st century man definitely states that 70% of adults used to eat burgers, then there is clearly an advantage to putting a piece of meat between two slices of bread. The bread must br protecting meat from rain and wildlife. People who put meat on top of bread have clearly died out in the evolutionary game. Even the few surviving specimen of men that put meat on top of bread, always cover it with cheese to confuse predators.
I have never before heard of Canadian Patriot, but from the first sentence of the editor's note, I am led to strongly doubt its impartiality:

Canadian Patriot Review Editor’s note: On September 24, 2021, an agreement was reached to free Meng Wanzhou who had been illegally held captive in Canada since December 2018 . . .

There was nothing illegal about Meng Wanzhou's arrest. The U.S. made a request under a long extant extradition treaty. As for being "held captive," she was released on bail and lived in a home that she owned in Vancouver: very different to the conditions of the "two Michaels." In the end, the extradition hearing was never completed as the arrest warrant was eventually dropped by the U.S.. It was, by no means, a foregone conclusion what the outcome of the hearing would have been. Whatever you think of U.S. motives in all of this, the process was legal.
Sorry I'm having whiplash - which line are we sticking with,

1. the one where France is a post-racial utopia with barely any consideration of race at all.

2. the one where people are already up in arms about the "costs" of having non-white people in a country that doesn't even begin to approach the diversity of the US.

It's not even false when it comes to the Nazi thing - by the way. Jean-Marie had extensive ties to Nazi collaborators and the Vichy regime. What's so bad about these ties to the Nazis if, as Jean-Marie put it, the Nazis were "not particularly inhumane"?
From what I understand, a construction "blue book" would give work rates for common tasks. How long it takes one man to dig a trench 10 yards long, or lay a 1000 bricks. From this you could calculate how long the entire job would take.

When I first encountered "Project Managers" in the 80's they were still trying to fit this model to software development.
This is something that has frustrated me for years. There has been no interest in modernizing the Linux PRNG really ever. This article doesn't go into more depth so I don't know if it's just tacking on more entropy sources and algorithm support or a real modernization.

Windows, MacOS, every BSD, Solaris, etc. have moved past the (blocking) /dev/random vs /dev/urandom to more mathematically sound solutions. (Seriously, measuring entropy?) But Torvalds, Ts'o, etc. have blocked, belittled, or ignored any movement there.

It's crazy that the OS that runs all the things essentially has a roll-your-own-crypto PRNG at its core rather than relying on actual experts for that.

Unfortunately, it's "good enough" to not HAVE to change. Use /dev/random sparingly to seed your own PRNG, change your Java config to use /dev/urandom, or (shudder) use rngd to make it seed itself.

At least once a year I hit some COTS product that craps itself under load blocking on /dev/random on a VM, causing an outage. Yes, it's a "worked on my laptop" problem, but an unnecessary rake to leave out in the garden.
Lol linking to the gray zone. Fascist punk fuck off.
Cheers to the Fig team! Fig has been a game changer for me, and contributing autocomplete backends has been fun and easy. Excited to see where they go
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The question is what the Supreme Court would allow, not what the Constitution would allow. They are often not the same.

The Court has engaged in a lot of spurious reasoning and wishful thinking over the centuries, and continues to do so.
Many countries with universal healthcare still pay by the act. In Canada, doctors are mostly independent service providers that bill the government directly. This can lead to two problems: a) they don’t do a whole lot of medical acts because it already pays so well that they can afford to slack off (e.g., work 3-4 days a week, see very little patients), or b) do a lot of unnecessary acts because it goes directly into their pockets.
The original comic URL:
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At the very least, if Samsung is compelled to exclusively make Tizen phones, I think they can pretty much kiss foreign sales good-bye. Though I guess they're in better shape than LG trying to license the OS from their chief competitor.
VS Code Remote - Containers [1] is a game changer.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers