skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The material held in corporate systems from which reports were made to the federal government is not subject to FOIA.

This sounds like an entire problem of its own. We're talking a medical treatment the government is doing its damnedest to mandate.

There needs to be an exceptional level of transparency here.
I would have preferred giving lower priority in hospitals to voluntarily unvaccinated persons seeking COVID treatment. That would require no violation of personal freedoms and avoid the great economic cost of implementing a lockdown at the start of the touristic winter season at the cost of letting these people suffer the consequences of their belief that the vaccine is more dangerous than the disease.
As far as I can tell, there are no drivers - this OS runs on QEMU only. I guess if you are lucky, you can get it to boot on a real system accidentally.

This is the opposite of Haiku-OS, for example, which tries to provide at least the minimal amount of drivers, and some people are using it on real hardware.

It was actually a really interesting decision, to concentrate all efforts on the fun parts of OS development, and completely ignore the 80% which is boring, frustrating, and requires a large continuous investment to stay up to date with the latest stuff. Looking at Haiku, they have been working on their OS for decades now, and still aren't in a generally usable form.

I'm not sure what a QEMU-only OS is actually good for, other than playing around with it, but maybe I'm not the target audience :)
There’s no irony here.

Ransomware would keep going if cryptocurrency disappeared tomorrow, these people have the infrastructure to receive and launder huge wire transfers.

Even the far less sophisticated african groups manage that, read the Hushpuppi indictment for an example.
In my limited experience (mostly hearing complaints from others who have to use them, rather than personal experience) there appears to be a lack of non-open-source options too!

I think the problem is that everyone wants something slightly different from an LMS. If they are lucky there is something out there that works the way they want out-of-the-box, otherwise they end up trying to bend something else into the target shape or using something that tries to please everyone so ends up overly complex and unwieldy.

> which are very restrictive in their feature set, and not customizable

What you want to customise could be key. Can you name a non-open option that you think would be at least close to ideal for your plans, without too much panel-beating to change its shape, and why that one in particular is attractive? This might help with getting better suggestions for alternatives.
> But, there is absolutely 0 reason for Google, Facebook, etc to know how many devices are operating in your home

Considering every request going to their servers likely already contains a cookie that identifies them entirely it's extremely likely they already have this information.
OP claims it's "obvious" that the staircases are designed for defense, contradicting the article while giving no evidence. This despite the fact that the whole point of the article was that there does not appear to be evidence to support this claim.
This is the first time I hear about that people in Polynesia have something against the term "Polynesia". Do you have any resources where I can read more about how they feel about the term as when I've visited many of the islands, I've never come across this before.
I find the "dark forest" of Ethereum (https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest/) fascinating rather than terrifying, though I might be scared if I put in a good chunk of money and risked losing it (which is why I don't plan to invest myself). There's an intellectual beauty in creating a world people can choose to join, where "code is law", developers construct castles out of air and pure logic, trying to write "correct-by-design" code, and others look for creative ways to exploit the letter of the contracts. It reminds me of the beauty of formally verifiable algorithms (sorting algorithm bugs, probing hashmaps, distributed systems), various models and tradeoffs for undefined behavior in C++ and LLVM and Rust, atomic memory orderings and using Loom to find bugs, or binary exploitation and vulnerability development. Though I haven't actually worked on any blockchain tech and don't plan to start.

However I don't want a Web3 built around "pay-to-play" which rejects the idea that anyone can read, write, and publish without paying for the privilege. The web I want is closer to Gemini (a simple transfer protocol and a hypertext format built around user-chosen presentation), instead of HTML's complex element hierarchies often unreadable without CSS's author-dictated formatting, JS's drive-by code execution by design, or Ethereum's rejection of permissionless access.
It wasn't for saintly reasons; I saw clearly that it would do no good. If we paid, there was no guarantee the attack wouldn't come back the next day. It would solve nothing - actually, it would be worse because it would put us at their mercy. If we couldn't overcome it, get back online and block the next attack, then I didn't deserve my job and the company would have been better without me. Paying wouldn't make the problem go away, it would have made it infinitely worse for me.

So saintly? No way.
Check out OpenOLAT. Many universities use it and if offers great integration for assignments, self-tests, video-calls (big blue button), etc.

https://www.openolat.com
Harps: A new general purpose language
I think even from a practical perspective it is shaky - forced medical procedures are distasteful but they are already morally on the table for things like insanity and similar things where decision making is impaired. So the raw power to do it is probably there and the ethical line is always subject to negotiation.

But how often are emergency powers of this nature rolled back? If governments put the monitoring systems in place to enforce a vaccine mandate it is never going to go away. It'll be War On Terror all over again, the theatre for getting on a plane is still ridiculous 20 years later. The vaccine mandate tracking and enforcement seems a lot more invasive than that.
Another open source option: https://atutor.github.io/atutor/
Right now in Switzerland there's 16.8% COVID patients from the hospitalizations. Would you call this dramatization?
Or one of those abandoned grocery stores in zombie apocalypse films. At least that's the first thing it made me think of.
Most IDEs allow you to define your own colour scheme - have you tried doing that and setting it all to one colour?
That seems to be a very unusual case, but because Maven uses PGP keys, the domain owner would need to ALSO transfer their own PGP keys to the new domain owner, otherwise lib consumers wouldn't automatically (at least) trust their releases under that domain name.
If we look at life as a game of Poker, luck does matter, but what matter most is knowing what to do with luck. You have to have good strategies to minimize your losings when you are unlucky and maximize your winnings when you are lucky. You have also to know when to bluff. You have to also be good as calculating risk vs rewards but also to know some psychology.

Nobody is infinitely unlucky and nobody is infinitely lucky. So, to become rich, you have to know how to use the opportunity the second it arrives. And you have to recognize that opportunity.
It's a good point: can any imagined use of hydrogen for cars even begin to compete with all the other demands for it? They might always outbid the car owners.

For aviation, LH2 has such fantabulous efficiencies that we can expect to see all serious air transport switched over by 2050 (providing civilization doesn't collapse first).
This is electrical to kinetic energy, which is an entirely different story.

The sun basically provides unlimited energy, so efficiency isn't as important.
It's eerie how almost anyone that talks about how they're "not to live in fear" almost always instantly follows that up with some kind of lone-wolf fantasy.
Yeah, there might be legal/monetary implications to it too, as I have taken this role as a consultant through my own company.
Ah yes I remember that. It’s horrible.

Every day I see people still doing it though here in London. There is no excuse. Not one.

Actually two weeks ago there was a huge Jewsons truck blocking an entire junction while driver was on his phone. The driver in front of me who was blocked confronted him and he told her to fuck off and what was she going to do about it. She used her phone to take a photo of him on his. I hope something is done. Some people are so arrogant and thoughtless.
The current Covid-19 vaccines don't reduce people's risk of infecting themselves and others by nearly enough to control Covid outbreaks, and reality doesn't care about whatever sense of justice or political viewpoint is making people believe they do anyway. There's also diminishing returns for vaccinating the remaining part of the population, since their limited effectiveness means it doesn't take particularly high vaccination levels for vaccinated people to be the main ones who're catching, spreading, and getting hospitalized with the disease.
> Actually, the source can lie since the compiler could be buggy. The disassembly won't ...

...unless the disassembler is buggy.
The point is that he did research and didn't find any evidence to support the claim that the staircases were designed this way for defense. We can't know (without reading his book) whether this research was thorough, but the onus really is on the person making the initial claim - that the staircases were designed for defense - to support it. His claim is simply that there's no evidence to support that initial claim.
I pretty sure that you've misunderstood the comment.

The problem wasn't about _being able to land_, when in the middle of nowhere.

If you're "in the middle of nowhere", how are going to get a helicopter to you? What are you going to tell them with no address etc.?

By going towards a town, they'll know where to fly to, so they can pick you up.
>got its boost in 2020

This website is now among top 1000 websites on the web:

Alexa rank #463 https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/worldometers.info

SimilarWeb rank #635 https://www.similarweb.com/website/worldometers.info/ (~100M-150M visits/user sessions per month)
I'd challenge these being "obtuse", I think it's more likely that they are designing for a different type of customer.

As an engineer working on a production system, everything in code, etc, I don't really want an alert saying "Are you sure you still want to be running your database?". This isn't really a feature that most production systems need.

What I'd like to see is features for experimental work – being able to mark an AWS account, or org, or maybe individual services/resources, as "experimental" and have it auto shut off after some reasonable amount of time, with clear warnings during use (as much as possible) that this is an unsupported experimental service.

Hell, if the time limit/capacity limit was low enough, I feel like these could be a permanent free plan with cloud providers.

The question is: are these customers worth designing features for? I could see why they might not be, although I think it would be beneficial to the industry.
freedom of choice. it'll never be perfect, but it will get better. we now have another option we didnt have in the past.
Effekt – A research language with effect handlers and lightweight polymorphism
20% of the people own 80% of the wealth. But I think that if we level the field, confiscate all the wealth, in 20 years we will still have 20% of the people owning 80% of the wealth, and from those 20%, 90% will be the same people.

Luck can be a factor in becoming rich. Being smart also is needed. But apart from this, you need to have determination and some sort of talent and knowledge to use the opportunities as they appear.
This is the case for the castle in Versailles (obviously not medieval).

There areplenty of doors (more or less visible) that are used to split the public and private activities (and a way for servants to better navigate the castle).

The doors are not always hidden - they clearly separate these two worlds, and may also led to very nice places that are just not public.
This method goes Sun -> Hydrogen -> DC

100kwh of Solar energy generates 13.8kWh of Hydrogen, which is about 50% efficent thus generates 7kWh of DC

Going direct to DC is 23%, and the battery layer drops that to 20%, so 20kWh - about 3 times as efficient if you are using storage.

That's not bad, there are many applications where you'll take the extra land/solar take to provide the flexibility and density hydrogen can provide. Sure not for normal grid connected and static usage, but for mobile and temporary usage.

And that's not to mention all the other uses of hydrogen in industry that, without this method, would have to be generated by Sun->DC->Electrolysis
after reading that article it seems to me that "idiot-yet-intellectual" might be fitting JVN.
What I am really concerned about is the social divide on the topic. I've seen close friends arguing fiercely about the topic of vaccination and not talking to each other after that.
> For the software I buy one time price is often about the same as the annual subscription.

That of course changes the balance. In our case the annual sum of the subscription is much less than that. More like 2-3 years before intersection, though I forget as we've had this system for over a decade now.

It should be noted that we're also in a segment where customers will need a new version now and then as rules and regulations change.
Can you recommend any resources on using the self test HW (assuming JTAG/SWD/GDB are all setup, although I'd love to see any recommendations on those as well)? I currently don't know anything about the trace macrocell.
> The state-of-the-art seems to be Moodle or Canvas which are designed for universities - they use archaic UI and features.

Let me add 'Blackboard'. What a joke of a piece of software. If I agreed with people who think blackboards are bad and should (have) be(en) replaced with whiteboards, the joke might be 'ha ha it's old and crusty it's even in the name'. I'm a few years out of university so I wouldn't know where to start on its problems - though one thing in particular I remember was it's weekly offline for maintenance window on Wednesday afternoons - but the university paid a disgusting amount of money for it. Lecturers thought it was crap too. The Computing dept. had its own system (built and maintained as a Summer project for undergrads I believe) that did mostly the same (well, the bits it needed of course) that worked great and must have cost ~nothing. They were starting to be forced on to Blackboard as I left.

tl;dr: It's like SAP for universities.
This is just not true. There are several multi-Billion dollar public companies with millions of users and thousands of employees built on Rails.

In fact, the philosophy of convention over configuration et all makes Rails MORE scalable and easier to onboard new people than anything else out there that I’ve seen.
On Developers' Personality in Large-Scale Projects: The Case of Apache (2018)
A blanket measure (mandate something for all) is always easier to rationalize than a targeted measure (in this case, denying a person hospital admission). So while some politicians will agree with your spirit, they won't be thrilled to implement it.
you can pretty easily buy and sell that much otc with any of the big exchanges. happens every day.
Would you recommend any company take their website v6 only right now?

What are we supposed to do until IPv6 adoption reaches 100%? Just say that only existing v4 holders can have dual stack sites?
Hey everyone! I'm the organizer for Handmade Seattle. It was a pleasure hosting SerenityOS, as Andreas is an inspiration to us.

If I may plug, note we are 100% indie and upload presentations for free. We have a newsletter [0] but since HN loves RSS we have that setup as well [1].

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It's interesting people like to bring this up because this is also a non-issue as a publisher needs to provide PGP keys... if the domain expires and someone else takes it over, their PGP keys will be different and it's up to users to decide whether to trust those...

When a domain changes hands, it's also up to users to decide whether to trust the new owner's TLS certificate... I am saying this because this is forms the basics of Internet security, when people bring this argument up, they show a certain ignorance of how things work on the Internet in general.
> Under current UK laws, drivers are banned from texting or making a phone call (other than in an emergency) while using a handheld device. From 2022, drivers will not be allowed to take photos or videos, scroll through playlists or play games on their phones when driving.

Incredible that the lawmakers were stupid enough last time to ban not phone usage in general, but just texting and making a call. And now they are repeating the same mistake by specifying that it's illegal to scroll through playlists or play games? Just ban phone usage nonstop already like other, sane countries. Make an exception for navigational purposes, and hopefully we can have fewer deaths because of distracted driving.

Or even better, create a law that outlaws being distracted by anything while driving, requiring drivers to stop if they are distracted.
> Do you actually play chess? Half the moves made by an AI at 3500+ ELO (e.g. Stockfish 13+) is completely alien to even a human super GM like Nakamura or Carlsen

No they're not. GMs get thrown out on certain moves, because we tend to play chess strategically, that is, we make a plan and try to find ways to make it work. AIs look like they have a plan and then immediately change course when they compute it's beneficial to do so.

As GP says, it takes a minute or two, but those same GMs will (Nakamura does this constantly in some of his streams) reevaluate the strategy, play some lines to see what is tripping the AI and then figure it out. It's that rapid change of strategy from, as an example, extremely defensive to wildly aggressive, which makes them suspicious that they're playing a computer.

> And here I think we see the same thing: although a superhuman AI 'understands' chess better than human experts, its understanding is still leverages the same concepts.

In that I'd agree with you that GP is wrong. For the AI there's no concepts, it's evaluating the chance of success, the perceived "weights" are irrelevant, you could map any number of concepts and get a correlation between them.
If you don't ever share the recordings, it's not too different from making very detailed notes. But yes, it could be illegal.
I tried Open EdX once, it was unbelievably difficult to get it up and running, despite it being a Django app and me being pretty experienced with Django.
Yeah... it's not just that. I do like seeing keywords in one color, functions in another, etc. VS Code is definitely gaudy, but I've adjusted color differences before. It's just something else. I'm actually wondering if it's the retina screen. Too small and crisp. Everything's so goddamn beautiful you're stuck staring at it instead of reading it...
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Diffusion is also a problem. A very efficient form to store hydrogen is a solid block of metal, which of course comes with similar restrictions as batteries, if not worse.
> And to be clear, my claim is that human experts usually (not always) understand the pros and cons of a move made by AlphaZero.

It’s more than human experts apply a posteriori the tools they typically use to analyse chess games to games played by AlphaZero. These tools are specifically crafted to analyse chess so they obviously shed some lights on what’s happening but even then some plays were seen as counterintuitive.

An easy example is how AlphaZero can sacrifice pieces or tempos to cripple the mobility of the opposition pieces. If you carefully analyse the full game, you can see that it’s probably why the move was made but it’s completely counterintuitive when it’s played as the relative value of some winning tradeoffs made by AlphaZero are impossible to evaluate for a human player.
So we are back at blaming China? For what, a couple of weeks delay in locking down Wuhan, a decision by local authorities? China locked down harder and faster than any other country. Heck, they even locked down Wuhan harder when it was still seen as local thing than Germany is locking down, and taking measure against the 4th wave, now.

Blaming China, and one wrong recommendation about masks for the mess parts of the developed world finds itself in is just disingenuous. After Italy was a couple to days to slow in 2020, we know what to do. And we fail doing it. And that failing has nothing whatsoever to do with China or our experts, but rather large swaths of the population, and politicians, refusing to accept measures and guidance.
Haiku is actually quite usable on a wide variety of hardware (I use it myself on bare metal), it only needs a browser port such as Firefox. Falkon has been ported as of yesterday, but still might need fixes and stuff.

In case the the graphics drivers are not supported, VESA and/or Framebuffer drivers come to aid, and provide a usable system.
I am sorry but you're completely wrong. Modern engine's moves are usually easy to understand if you can play around with the engine running. The engine is just way more precise. Usually the variations needed to understand the moves aren't particularly long either. For me (2300 ELO) it's usually 3-6 ply deep when I go "ahhhh obviously this is better".

The method you're referring to is based on detecting how often a human picks the top move out of 2-3 similarly rated ones and most of the time understanding which one of the 56.5%, 57.1% and 57.3% moves is the best is difficult but understanding why 55% move is better than 51% one is usually pretty easy. I am using AlphaZero/Lc0 evals here btw as I find them more intuitive than traditional engines ones.

I think your opinion might have been formed many years ago. There was indeed a time where engines like traditional Stockfish (before NNUE) were already much stronger than humans but their strategic play made little sense. It turned out that they were in fact weak strategically and modern crop of engines showed it. Try running Lc0 with modern network vs say Stockfish 7 and you will see games which could be described as humiliating defeats one after another.

It turned out that we are actually very good at figuring chess out. Not very precise, slow and inconsistent but we've got most of the high level concepts right.

It doesn't mean engines don't come up with occasional move that is just too deep to get without long analysis and too counterintuitive to consider during play. It's just rare. Most of the moves are intuitive, and make a lot of sense to a human.
This isn't much money in the USA. The rule of thumb is to save 10 times your income if you want to retire by age 67. Given that an academic is at perhaps $100K salary a year, that would mean it would not even be enough to cover retirement since after taxes it would probably be less than $700K. In many parts to the USA, e.g., parts of California, that's not even enough to buy a modest home. It depends on where you live to assume that's enough to be considered even close to rich. About 10% of Americans have a net worth of over $1M.

https://spendmenot.com/blog/what-percentage-of-americans-are...
True, but like all security measures the point is to make things harder for intruders.

Security through obscurity is prudent in addition to other measures, so would this. (Regardless of wheather this actually was a thing or not).