skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> incestuous relationship between the media and the politicians

the name Conrad Black comes to mind for some reason ...
Yet another post where the top comment is some dweeb selling a facile perspective and trying to be an activist. Great website, Dan.
I would recommend trying something like l-theanine, or other any of the other supplements which have purported effects on focus.
Why is there no float type with linear precision?
> Further I see no desirable “differentiation” for a customer to be interested. It doesn’t in fact even solve a customer problem.

document signing is just another form of attestation (“i agree to the terms outlined in this document, effective on <date of signing>”. blockchains are really good at providing tools for attestation. the specific customer advantage? it’s extremely difficult for your counterparty to claim that he didn’t sign your term sheet if he changes his mind. you just point to some record on the blockchain and say “this has your digital signature on it. it says you agreed to those terms, and it was published at <date/time>”.

obviously, DocuSign solves this problem of attestation, by custodianing the documents and putting meaningful reputation on the line in order to remain trustworthy. OTOH, it’s not unheard of to see for-profit companies cash out their reputation (e.g. big brands which sell the brand/logo to cheap manufacturers once the company stops innovating). attestations on a large blockchain (like Bitcoin or Ethereum) augment that reputational cost with a financial cost: even if Docusign decided to cash out their reputation, it would cost billions of dollars to reverse the attestation: a significant barrier.

so it depends on how much you — or the parties you deal with (ex: courts) — trust Docusign. it’s not inconceivable to me that at least a handful of customers might say “i don’t completely trust that any document middleman will not lie about my counterparty’s attestation down the road. but i do trust that blockchain B is secure enough to prevent reversals, so this blockchain-based document signing service might be a better product for me.”
What the hell is GoF
The claim was no trolling. Not trolling gets hidden eventually. Other systems hide unpopular statements too. Trolls can work together. And Polis shows the most agreed and disagreed statements apparently.
With an investment bank, you can negotiate an agreed upon price. Here you're at the mercy of whatever unpredictable gas fees a cabal of invisible miners decides to charge.
That's not what's being questioned. It's not about the vaccines effectiveness. It's about Trust.

The point being, this type of "science" being published like this (i.e., absolutely no recognition of its bogusness) only widens the trust gap. It only confirms the perceptions of those with questions.

Put another way: Why are so many "journalists" and "scientists" repeatedly going to such extremes based on so little?

Regardless of what you do or don't believe about Covid, the vaccines, etc. this pattern of propaganda should be a concern. In time the pandemic will pass. On the other hand, these type of behavior normalizations tend to persist. No one should be comfortable about such things.
Complexity isn't a single thing though. The problem can be complex, a specific implementation can be complex, the codebase can be complex.

I recall implementing some linear algebra numerical code. The problem was a bit complex, resulting in a bit of code complexity.

However I realized I had some extra information I hadn't used, and I spent half a day going over the math again. After a couple of pages of derivations I could narrow down the result to a couple of dot products.

So, I ended up with a commit where I had 100 or so lines of comments including equations to justify my two lines of code.

The implementation became super-simple, but why it worked was suddenly not so simple. I had effectively moved complexity from code-space to problem-space.
Uhhh... yup. Which is why I posted the section of the article that mentions low vaccine demand. In response to the implication that it doesn't.
the only hope that pills from Merk & Phizer could really reduce risk of hospitalization & death. otherwise we are poised for new lockdowns.
Python Oxide
I think Z-lib indexes libgen's recent uploads much faster, so it makes a difference for newer books.
After thinking about this, I realized it makes a lot of sense given what LPL is saying.

After all, if you spent a fortune in some lock and the locksmith can open it in 5 seconds flat, you’ll feel ripped off. It’s possible that a lot locksmiths believe the locks to be safe, and they think they’re saving time by going the drill route.

Not to mention that if the locksmith is selling you the lock, he will want to avoid damaging their reputation.
If the protein subunit vaccines work out, availability will be much less of a problem (because they would add a bunch of a capacity and are easier to handle).

Of course vaccine hesitancy/resistance is not solved by availability.
that's called fixed point. there isn't hardware for it because it is cheap to make in software using integer math.
> You can break a window open or just find an unlocked door if you are looking to do some bad shit.

> A higher security lock on your home isn’t going to make your flimsy door harder to kick down, or your window harder to break

From the keynote, that's why LPL puts a heavy focus on bike locks, gun safe locks, etc. The audiences for those locks have a more vested interest in physical security than mere "social conventions". A well-locked bike makes it more difficult for a thief to get all the / enough value from the target. A well-locked gun safe prevents accidents and saves lives.

Also, I live in an apartment on an upper floor. No accessible windows. The only viable way into my residence is through the front door. (There are like two RFID-gated doors before mine, but tailgating renders them pretty ineffectual, and let's not talk about elevator security. [0]) It's not worth it for me to put a better lock on my door, but I'm also not kidding myself about its effectiveness.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I
Alternatively, https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3A%22index+of+%2F%22...: "how to tell if an open directory index was created by a macOS user"
I’ve been having difficulty recently trying to get bazel and rust to work together nicely.

It seems like cargo does a lot of heavy lifting w.r.t. dependencies which Bazel does not like. Do you have to vendor your dependencies- and your dependencies dependencies. Ad infinitum.

There is cargo-raze which helps, but only if you’re making a rust library: not if you’re making a binary.

So maybe it works for this case.
Also the long pin might be long enuff to prevent comping, as demonstrated by the Lock Picking Lawyer.
It’s a chemistry pun about the process of oxidation, oxides (such as rust) have a chemical formula of XO3 where X is the oxidized element. The library is called Py Oxide (PyO3) where the oxidized element is Python
The flu vaccine doesn't give you immunity to flu either. So the definition of vaccine was wrong in this way even before the pandemic. But nobody cared.
Another version of the old "hit with a hammer" parable, albeit one where the incompetence of the elecrtician is rewarded.
It’s a double pun because -O3 is the highest optimisation level for many compilers.
If it was cheaper there would be no need for bitcoin as a driver (and then also to completely waste it, in the broken window fallacy sense).
> This specific case is an example of rationing medical services; if we accept that's OK now, what's the next class of people no longer worthy of treatments? The obese? How about we extend it to anybody who'se been chronically ill for more than say, 6mo? They're such a burden on our "overloaded hospitals" already arent they? And so on.

Being obese is not a choice. Being chronically ill is not a choice. Not getting vaccinated is a choice.

There's no good reason not to get vaccinated and if sane people want to protect themselves from any unnecessary risk, ostracizing unvaccinated people is a very good approach.
In case you're not aware, your comments come off a bit condescending.
Does Github?
You can always make money selling the dream of impossible fortunes. Think dropshopping, work from home schemes, penny stock trading and the like.
Why is that limiting? Can you honestly read more than 5 books in 24h?
Thanks. I found this nice view: http://repairfaq.cis.upenn.edu/Misc/Blu-ray/site1/ps3diode-i...
If you want something completely insane check out standard French. 97 is "quatre-vingt-dix-sept" which translates directly to "four-twenty-ten-seven". Quebec French does this sanely though at least.
German swapped numbers are also possible and correct in Czech language "sto sedmdesát pět" is the same as "sto pětasedmdesát".
“Gang of Four”. It’s how the book * Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software* is often referenced. The “four” being the four authors.
This unfortunately, is a known issue. I tried adding a download button, but that also only worked on desktop. Probably some browser policy thing. The same is true for Android (Chrome and Firefox Nightly).
Wow...I thought you must be exaggerating, went to the site...and could not tell from it just what the heck POTA is. I could guess because I had heard previously of SOTA (Summits on the Air) and POTA is like SOTA but in parks instead of on summits.

This site [1] gives a better idea of the basics.

Here's an article on SOTA [2].

[1] http://www.hamparks.org/

[2] http://www.arrl.org/radio-operating-from-summits
3. If they're raising $1.3b in ETH, then that'll be enough to buy a $2b team in a few years ;)
> Flared gas in texas, for instance, could provide more power than the network currently uses.

While the amount of gas that is flared off is immense (25-30% of the actual consumption of the US and Europe), the problem is that it is only flared off because there are no pipelines to transport the gas away and the amount that the small oil wells produce is too low to justify the cost.

If it were for me I'd force oil well operators to either build a small secondary pipeline for flare gas alongside oil pipelines or place a small power generator to contribute to the electric grid, but unfortunately "regulation" of any kind is seen as a bad thing in wide parts of the US.
Yesterday Once More
There's a selection bias at play here that one would be remiss to simply ignore -- elite athletes are likely on gear, the cardiovascular disease is probably due to misuse of said gear for a large part of these deaths.

There's recently been a swathe of deaths in the fitness industry but in that space it's clearer to see, every other guy is on TRT and half of them at least admit it. There's a running strain of Roganism as well, that healthy people don't need the vaccine and the elite athletes might suffer in some unknown way from it.
What I always wonder, do French programmers generalize this numbering scheme to pronounce 0x4B as quatre seize onze?
The Guardian is an establishment rag for the left-of-center market, no more serious (except inside its intended audience bubble) than the National Enquirer.
In Czech, both variants are possible. The German one is less frequent, though.
"It feels good to dig through all those layers and unearth a little treat, no matter if it’s just hair dye or sweatpants."

This doesn't ring true for me at all. Is there a particular personality type that finds this enjoyable?
Maybe that’s what they meant, but PVC is also used for water distribution, cold water supply, and sprinkler piping (obviously all cold water but still pressurized supply applications), so it’s not at all clear that when they said PVC they meant PEX. CPVC is rated for domestic hot water supply, so they could have meant that as well. I’d say PEX was an underdog rather than the obvious alternative meaning.
While Python's bindings in other languages are great, and Rust has amazing features regarding memory safety, I think saying they are the best in their area is a bit too much.

For compiled languages: Rust is the best when you care about memory safety. C is the best when you care about performance/simplicity/portability. C++ is the best when you care about modularity, Assembly is the best when you care about lowlevel stuffs, ...

For interpreted languages: Python is the best for data science, Java is the best for entreprise, Javascript is the best for speed, ...

Each one have a use case where they are the best. And those use cases I listed above, are entirely subjectives and will never be the same from person to person.

If there was an objectively best language period, why would other languages exist?
Are you talking about the increased IO and disk usage due to doubles being twice the size? Because the conversion itself is usually done in hardware and is extremely fast.

Anyway, I've never touched a serialization library that doesn't mess with the data types it gets. There is always some conversion needed, and this one is on the easy end of the scale. The fact that composed types (records and arrays) aren't on the list is a much larger troublemaker.

(Regardless, I'm curious about the applications of 13M inserts per minute on a synchronous single-computer database. Pushing a machine to that extreme looks very interesting. Is that application something you can share?)
Journalism is being replaced by machine learning. The irony here is the IT department will be the ones implementing your bionic replacement.
I don't get it. If they are hidden within valid but never occurring crontab dates then they don't get executed. What am I missing?
In Minneapolis Schools, White Families Are Asked to Help Do the Integrating
Yes, ETFs and Mutual funds are both registered securities. They are regulated instruments/investments. They could not be sold, legally, if they were not registered with the SEC (it doesn't have anything to do, specifically, with being traded on stock exchange- a security can be non traded too)

The parent comment is pointing out that this looks like it meets the same definition as those other things and needs to follow the same laws, no matter how much people like it, want it, think it's better than what's it's "replacing"
> elite of devs and mining pool owners

You forgot a (perhaps even more) crucial part: the exchanges/stablecoins!

They're the whole reason this clown show is considered "finance" rather than funbux.

And they're all extremely suspicious. And by suspicious I mean obviously fraudulent. The value of Bitcoin (!) is propped up by Tether printing fake dollars backed by nothing.
And a third of passengers were not wearing masks during the flight despite it being mandatory.

It's just security theater, we pretend to obey the rules, and they pretend to check.
Archived at: https://archive.md/JJ0JU
While the closing paragraph offers hope, there does not appear to be any basis for it, in the history.

AI is a tool of the powerful.
PoS is more quantum-resistant though. If someone were to build a quantum computer capable of running Grover's algorithm on bitcoin hashes, they would get a quadratic speedup over classical miners. That's a threat that doesn't exist on PoS.

(Both would be vulnerable to Shor's but post-quantum signatures would fix that.)
C, C++, and Assembly aren't safe, and Java and JS aren't good glue languages.
There's no way on earth they can actually know the movie-viewing history of those who recently died. So the data must simply be fabricated. It undermines the point they're trying to make. They should have used a real example.
Cool! Machine learning analysis of music seems to largely be at the audio or midi level, and not really at the symbolic level. What kind of learning techniques would be applicable to structures like musical meter?
How did you teach yourself?
You are giving them too much credit, it will be copy and pasted from the post/thread/comment/accepted solution that you have already stated you have tried and does not work.
I'm mostly just avisual.

I did spend several years in high school working on traditional art skills because I thought it would be neat to be a 3D animator.

I eventually concluded that while I was making progress, I clearly didn't have the natural abilities some of my friends did, and that it would be a constant struggle to have a career in the field.

Obviously, I now understand better why my friends had better natural skills than I did.

I used to use mindmapping software extensively to process and think through ideas and their connections (Tinderbox, specifically: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/).

I now suspect that my other friends weren't as excited by it because they could do a lot of that stuff mentally.

These days I mostly figure things out by writing plain text in Markdown files. My inner world is pretty much just words, and that's how I output things now.
San Francisco is roughly 1/6 the size of Singapore and roughly 1/10 the size of Hong Kong.

Pop density is ~6.8k/sq km in HK and 8358/sq km in Singapore. In SF that number is under 500/sq km.

There are a lot of similarities but also key cultural differences that make that possible. I suspect that Americans won’t accept that level of density - probably because there are more rural opportunities. Look inside the room of some of this government housing in HK. I would gladly rent something like that in SF and it would be a downgrade from my van but I can imagine many of my peers who can’t handle it.[0]

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl...
>If there are 123 new covid cases in the cycling club, I'm not going to the meeting; it's not because of the 3 or the 20.

Are you skipping because bicycles are SUPER popular during the pandemic and you don't want to fit into the crowd?
Not a hypothetical: https://pagesix.com/2021/10/11/amazons-jeff-bezos-has-date-n...
Dissection of a Blu-ray Reader Assembly: The Optics
Indefinitely, because there is no viable alternative at this time.
The difficulty is where the security comes from. Bitcoin's goal is to have the highest possible prices and difficulty so that nation-states and alien civilizations can't hack it. It's very easy to have a cheap low-difficulty coin. Equally worthless too. You need to understand that proof-of-work is actually proof-of-waste - the waste, the difficulty, the cost, is the security.
Over 40
I've personally opted to never use the expression "half five" in English because it seems able to cause any amount of confusion and misunderstanding among people from different linguistic backgrounds.
Verbosity.

Number of unnecessary abstractions.
> do they get a choice of what block they append to the chain? No they don’t.

Of course, they have a choice. If didn't, miners would serve no purpose. We would just have one block and that would be the block that would be appended. The consensus would be achieved automatically, without any need of guessing secret numbers.

> And if it was an election, wouldn’t the result always be the same with largest miner always winning because they have most votes?

No, because the miner is elected at random. The crucial point to understand is that their chances of getting elected are proportional to the money they spent. That doesn't mean the largest miner will get elected 100% of the time.
Interesting that Americans commonly say "The fourth of July".
Is that a carry over from 1700's American parlance?
> It seems like cargo does a lot of heavy lifting w.r.t. dependencies which Bazel does not like. Do you have to vendor your dependencies- and your dependencies dependencies. Ad infinitum.

I'm really hoping bzlmod helps in this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxOCKtU39Fs

The story for external deps is indeed extremely painful right now.
Its so so clearly a joke. Come on man.
JW, have you seen any self-hosted anonymous, no registration, e2e encrypted, ephemeral messaging tools? Bonus points for mobile apps that prevent screen caps.

I'd love a Bring-Your-Own-Network with above features that doesn't require SMS, email, etc. registration that "private" apps like Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, etc have to growth hack to mainstream adoption.
No, it is not "obvious" to everyone at all. You can still see people here claiming that one should move to a centralized provider since they can guarantee nine nines of whatever, and that self-hosting is way too hard to make reliable. (Which is double irony when the centralized provider goes down and then the excuse is "well, that's because they're big!". If only...).

In any case, the point was that Github.com just sucks, rather than everything cloud sucks. For the past year, they have been down a couple of magnitudes more time than I have spent managing my server.
> I'm curious how any technology can overcome that

Faraday cage/foil wallets for things that don't require any auth or PINs or even a button press.
Or an advertisement for the new movie.
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The fact under contention is very specific, not just general vaccine hesitancy. The article appears to fail to mention it, unless there is some other quote that can be shared beyond the paywall. More interestingly, here's an approximate heatchart of the probability that a given paragraph in an article will be read by the average reader, by the position in the article the paragraph appears:

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There is a huge difference in attention between (free) headline & subtitle, and a (paywalled) paragraph squirreled somewhere near the end, which I am willing to bet is the case for the nyt article.
anacron can run entries that are past their due date.

...after reading: but also because one entry has a valid "every 30 minutes" specification :) and the rest are only used for storage.
<<Edit: maybe I should have prefaced my comment with the following: I am going to argue as if you were referring to a self-sustaining colony on Mars because the idea that an Earth-dependent martian city might improve odds of survival does not make much sense at all, imo.>>

Sure, that could happen but expanding to Mars would improve the odds of survival (because an extinction event on both planets simultaneously is less likely than one just on Earth). Earth is currently a so-called "single point of failure" (SPOF)[0] for humanity and all forms of life that we know of.

If we spread humanity and life to Mars and beyond (in an independent/self-sustaining way and not just as an outpost that depends on Earth), neither of the planets alone is SPOF anymore. The solar system is still SPOF but even the close galactic neighbourhood might not be of much help against events that threaten the solar system as a whole (see e.g. about the effects of a gamma-ray burst [1] in our 'proximity'. Note when reading [1] that 1 kiloparsec = 3200 light years! [2]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_point_of_failure

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Effects_on_Ear...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
That is exactly what I thought of too. So far the symptoms appear to be very mild and this could be a good way to scale immunity
I agree that it’s not stock in the traditional sense, but neither of the people in the chain above me seemed to think so. Just because it’s not-for-profit doesn’t mean that it can’t sell for a lot (people buy team merch for a lot more) and the vote seems to mean something even if not much.
What's the joke? It seems to me they're trying to make a point about the study that appears lower on the page, the one claiming that vaccinated people are dying at a higher rate than unvaccinated.
It's pretty warm, average daily temperature for December-January is 27C:

https://www.holiday-weather.com/colombo/averages/december/

https://www.holiday-weather.com/colombo/averages/january/
Another Spurious Correlations [0]. The message will always bear repeating.

[0] https://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations