skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine there was a fire near where you live, constantly spreading and endangering lives in your community. Would you say people can just "learn to live it"?
It’s a rather novel and very strange to say that something hasn’t been detected because you haven’t found a particle responsible for it, even though our whole existence and all our everyday experiences are grounded in it.

Gravity is the effect. It’s there. Whether you explain it with force carrying particles or the geometry of space time won’t change it.

Dark matter is one hypothetical explanation of an effect (or rather several). It’s possible to find another explanation for the same phenomena without changing the phenomena.

In other words, gravity and dark matter have very different ontological status.
> On a side note, the wording in English might give the impression that the German government decides EU law...

First, the text „lehnen wir ab“ can be read as “we won't accept”, in the sense that these legislators are against it. But legislators all over the world say stuff like that all the time, and in the end they often get overruled or outvoted anyway.

Second, I think in a (negative) sense the German government does decide EU law — just like any other national government within the EU does: IIRC, in at least one of the (confusingly) many entities that decide on EU-wide legislation (Council? Commission? Ah, fuck knows...), all the national governments are represented with one vote each, and unanimity is required, i.e. they each have a veto.
Here's the link on CoVariants (aka 21K): https://covariants.org/variants/21K

Gives a better breakdown of what we're actually talking about.
Bigger than VR/AR, IoT, AI or smartphones? Chaum was talking about digital currency around the dawn of the web so I’m not sure you could say there’s been anything much less incremental there.

The thing to remember is that by now we’ve had over a decade of people making very big, obviously unfounded claims and failing to deliver much of anything. The people in that space trying to recoup their investment even felt the need to rebrand as “web3” to shake the resulting negative reputation. The obsession makes a lot of sense simply as recognition that, having failed to develop public demand, the only way for anyone involved to maintain their current valuation is by selling the possibility of future usefulness to new buyers.
Testing of vaccines against this new variant is already starting.[1] First results in 2 weeks.

Pfizer says that if they have to generate a new vaccine for this variant, it will take about 100 days.[2] That's the great thing about this mRNA vaccine technology - given the gene sequence of a virus, a vaccine can be designed. The original Moderna vaccine was designed in two days.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/omicron-variant-prompts-concerns-ab...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/pfizer-release-statemen...
Do you have a source for that? Or know anyone who has actually done that? Specifically, persons not resident in DE, or not citizens of DE?
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Bought from the initial batch of PBPs, it sat unused for a while apart from a couple short trips. I wanted something more portable than my aging T430 at the time. Eventually I realized I did not need the T430 at all (shortly after getting video output through that cursed typec port) and consolidated my data into the PBP and an externally enclosed SSD.
it is quite funny that the more you will follow this thought process to make everything more customizable, the more browser-like environment you will recreate.
eg, rendering custom layout based on a file (html), styling from a file (css) and
so on.

Edit: typos
o micron literally means "small o" and o mega literally means "big o", but those computer scientists, when they use "big O notation" they write it with an O. Omega is sad :(
Tons of politicians talking about it. Several countries actively going that route.

However, nuclear takes a long time to implement. Much slower than renewables.
When looking back like that, it's mind boggling to realize how far we've come. I sincerely thank everybody who is mainlining their devices, reporting bugs, sending patches, reviewing and testing patches, maintaining packages, updating the wiki, helping out others. Without such a huge and skilled community, we wouldn't have made it this far.

And yes we have a challenging road ahead, as the blog post mentions. But at the same time, I believe the wider Linux Mobile community has reached critical mass of developers and projects. There are so many great projects in this space now (which collaborate quite a lot, Mobian developer kop316's MMS efforts is just one great example). Multiple phones where mainline support has a bright future. Even if a few of these projects or even phones should fail, Mobile Linux can still carry on. Let's find out where we all can carry this effort in 2022 and the years to come!

Thanks for this post, Drew!
> Money in the US has "In God We Trust," and it's not inherently religious

US currency in itself isn't inherently religious, but the decision to put that phrase on the currency was religious, and so is the decision to keep it there today. Now, it is not just religious, it is also very political, but the two are very often intertwined: it is a form of politicised religion, or religious politics.

> So I'm not sure the proclamation makes Thanksgiving religious. The origins might, though

I think to most Americans in the 19th century and earlier, the idea that Thanksgiving was a religious festival would have seemed obvious–it was about giving thanks to the deity, assuming a Judaeo-Christian conception of deity. Now, no denying that it became quite secularised through the course of the 20th century, and to many 21st Americans it is an entirely secular occasion, and if "thanksgiving" is anything more than an empty word, it is thanks directed at one's friends/family/colleagues/acquaintances/community/etc, maybe even at the cosmos, but not at God in whom one quite possibly doesn't believe.

As I said in my original comment, other religious festivals, such as Christmas, have also become highly secularised. But, even though many celebrate Christmas in an entirely secular way, people still remember its association with Christianity, which makes many non-Christians feel uncomfortable celebrating it even in a secular form. Thanksgiving was never so explicitly Christian, so Jews and Muslims and others feel more comfortable in celebrating it.
Are your mills in a similar state? I’m no machinist, but I would think it hard to stay in business when the means of production are constantly down for unplanned service.

Screwdrivers are more of a consumable than a capital good.
> ...create perfect lighting throughout your day...

Okay, time and location aside, how is this lightbulb supposed to know how much light I want?
> For example the C++ threads are limited only to the features provided by the POSIX pthreads, even if most operating systems have additional features for multi-threading.

What facilities are you thinking of?

> PL/I on the other hand, already in 1965 had more powerful features than the C++ threads.

Given that the term "threads" originates in the 65/66/67 era, this is an interesting claim.
The DNS root is pretty well distributed. There's 13 different IPs run by several different organizations, and AFAIK they're all running anycast these days. And anyway, the root zone is tiny, changes infrequently and could really be AXFRed a couple times a month and you wouldn't miss much.

The larger tlds aren't quite as diversely hosted and certainly aren't amenable to long term caching, but it should take a major f up to break those too.

Some of the minor tlds, even the more popular ones do screw up from time to time though.
The incentives are not well aligned for nations to be open about what their labs are finding.
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May you share where? From a cursory glance, US retailers only sell them for 1.5x the price: ~120 USD
HN cooking column.

Reminder: you can happily comment and weigh in, but you don't have to upvote it
I can’t imagine people subscribing to Disney’s patreon, or to key grip #8’s patreon. That model will never work industry-wide.
Wasted all of it on making a hat.
Thank you, not the person I was thinking of but that's an excellent point-out.

I had two books in mind that I was completely misremembering as by the same author. In fact they are by two different journalists. The United States of Paranoia and Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History.
Software too, unless every small piece of it has a dedicated full-time maintainer. If there's an infinite stream of tasks incoming, why go improve something that fits the current use well?
Upvoted simply out of controversy and curiosity.

It's been a long time, and I've not delved deeply in to a wide swath of languages (recently), but surely the features he's citing are in other languages? Hell, even the list of "features only Lisp has" keeps shrinking by the decade. Some of these PL/I "features" feel like things you could trivially implement in a library in other languages (ie, not have to implement half of PL/I to get those features). Some of it sounds simply like syntactic sugar, and not actual features.

What am I missing here?
I think most of the Chromebooks based on the rk3399 had LPDDR3 RAM and this has v4 RAM. Of course that has caused issues with suspend to RAM because new code paths in TF-A...
No

I agree with that, when there is money involved things can get poisoned very quickly, but we can develop better reputation systems. And people have jobs, this would be making it easier to earn while enjoying free time.
People have been fight the internet advertising economic model for awhile. So there is some monetization dependency already. And we will have to decide where it will pivot next

We can't forget forget creativity, intrinsic value and allow dissent. But like I say above not everything will have to be valued, there is separation, you can put content into IPFS without emitting NFTs

I think blockchain technology promotes less lock-in, not more. Probably several METAs will appear competing with each other, we just have to choose the one that promotes more freedom and interoperability
How does it compare with a T430-like Thinkpad? I bought my second-hand T430s for 200 CAD some 5 years ago, still working well for it's purpose and I didn't bother moving to a lighter OS (am on Win10).
> "I thought it was gambling and immoral, but now that it has made billions there might be a point"

That is an inaccurate/misleading summarization of my post. It is a least-charitable interpretation structured to forward your own viewpoint.

When I thought the game was simply gambling I ignored it (and in fact I assumed it was earning high revenue). This financial times article explained that the game is not gambling and instead is something more complex. The mechanic of ownership allowing players to lend in-game assets to free players for the purposes of in-game currency generation is novel to me. The additional fact that the earned in-game currency can be converted to real world cash is not novel but certainly interesting when combined with the former.

Ostensibly, someone can find a sponsor who will lend them in-game assets. They can then apply/increase their skill in playing the game to earn a share of in-game currency. So for zero stake they can earn in-game currency that is convertible to real world cash. That, to me, is NOT gambling.

Another person can invest real-world cash to buy in-game assets. They can then seek out people willing to play the game on their behalf. By finding and retaining the best players they can earn a share of the most in-game currency. That, to me, is close to gambling. It reminds me of horse owners who participate in competitive racing. People gamble on the outcome of races to be sure. But it is a stretch to me to think of the horse owners as gambling. They are investing in the best horses, the best trainers, the best jockeys with the hope that those investments will lead to enough wins to turn a profit.

A growing market, especially on Twitch, are competitive gaming orgs. These orgs seek out the best game players and sign them to contracts. They then turn a profit by leveraging the players success into brand sponsorships. I see a lot of parallels between the mechanisms behind this game and real-world economic activity.

The fact that a pretty prosaic mobile looking game ballooned to such a valuation and attention suggests to me there is something worth being curious about here. It is causing me to think. Apparently it is causing you to turn away in disgust.
Doesn't this accurately describe IoT implementations?

You're looking at transcending the physical, while simultaneously being trapped by and having to deal with its messy realities.

Seems a pretty apt metaphor.
What profit did legacy Edge bring them? Considering all the development efforts, I'd believe it was more of a money sink than anything else.
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Is it really amazing? Haskell's been around for a while and has had an interpreter on all sorts of old computing platforms. Hugs worked on Plan 9, of all platforms.

Haskell's pretty antiquated and the community's pretty dead compared to what it once was, if not in sheer volume of people then in the amount of competent ones.
Getting vaccinated is also a good option if you're concerned about your health.

In fact, the optimal might be to get vaccinated and then get Covid on purpose. Thus you get the mildest possible case. After that your immune system is properly trained and subsequent infections will be milder.

I'm double-vaccinated but strongly considering this option now as corona passports are being discussed in my country. Fuck that logicless shit (restrictions should apply to everyone equally).
There’s the Godel Prize for theoretical computer science, the ACM Turing Award for more general contributions to computing, and of course the Fields Medal (and nowadays the Abel Prize) for math.
I'm a bit shocked that MAIL-FROM auth was ever accepted, let alone until 2012. Even the other auth methods via email seem somewhat dangerous, though I sincerely hope these registries follow extremely strict policies for key management.
In general, this bias towards preferring data that preserves the status quo vs data that tells us we need to be active in anticipating and mitigating future risks is 1) very human and 2) detrimental to long term success, regardless of the domain in question. I don't blame you for having doubts, and you're probably aware that scientists also have doubts. That doesn't mean they shouldn't do their work, and give us the best information they have with the tools at their disposal.

Regarding climate change specifically, I make the point that we are seeing effects already because it neutralizes this line of reasoning entirely. This isn't about some future risk that we can see debated in academic journals of questionable provenance. This is about real effects that are happening today.
They call them segmentation registers in the source, but it's really paging hardware in the modern parlance. The estabur function in your citation can be seen iterating over the whole virtual address spaces (one each for I and D), and setting the permissions for each 8KB page. It's not super clearly written code, but those ap and dp variables are pointers to PTEs.

The hardware they're programming against is a KT-11D (compatible) MMU. Here's it's user guide: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1140/KT11D_UsersMan.p...
I'm a pretty corny person, so I enjoy them. Not laugh-out-loud funny, but at least smile-worthy.

I do really enjoy his presentation style, and the technical content is well-written and fascinating.
busy beaver function of (a finite number) is hilariously big, but a constant. So there is a constant bound on the duration of all terminating programs using finite memory.
The source code from 1995 is in here (wwwbrowser.tar.gz): https://web.archive.org/web/19980524232845/http://www.cs.cha...

There were updates in 1997 and 1998 but I haven't been able to find newer source.

I haven't tried building it myself. You'll need HBC and the Fudgets libs to build it, this might be the best source for those: http://web.archive.org/web/20090213111319/http://www.cs.chal...

Edit:

There are newer versions of Fudgets [1] that build with GHC, and some newer versions of InternetLib [2] (support library, but not the browser) including GHC binaries for Linux [3] (though quite old now).

[1] http://www.altocumulus.org/Fudgets/dist.html

[2] http://www.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/untested/Source_code/ol...

[3] http://www.altocumulus.org/~hallgren/untested/for_Linux/old/
Poverty refers to the impoverished, which generally implies in need of assistance from others and has negative connotations entirely unrelated to what's being discussed here.

The laptop is targeting a specific price point, its specs are appropriate to that price point. There are plenty of reasons to want a low-cost linux laptop that have absolutely nothing to do with being poor.
I bought one in early 2020 which has been sitting mostly unused, mainly because of how painful the trackpad is (even with the best available firmware), how clunky the keyboard is, and the complete lack of color profiling capabilities in the Rockchip DRM driver - the display of the PBP is in my opinion just terrible, and there's no way to profile/tune it to make it bearable.

That aside, I think the platform is interesting and useful from a technical and computational perspective. eMMC storage has some shortcomings making it a bit sluggish and stalling during concurrent I/O, but an NVMe SSD gets around that problem.
"Covid deaths" are also a very meaningless metric where every country or region does whatever it wants. Excess deaths would be a better metric, but also hard to remove from there all the damage done by lockdowns, stress generated on the population, and by hospitals stopping attending other diseases in some places.
Why would anyone use RSA when we have X25519?
All of this depends on what you think Canadian Armed Forces are there for. Canada could have a number of aircraft available as a quick-reaction force, and forward-deployed in Germany for convenience (as well as to help out an ally). Alternatively, Canada might forward-deploy to Germany to set a 'tripwire' against Russian aggression, or maybe to improve cross-training with other European countries.
Most people in the US live paycheck to paycheck. High-interest, short-term loans on small principals to the working class have been around for a long time.
> In the EU - previous infection and recovery gives you a COVID Pass

Is that consistent? I had heard it's based on antibody test - you get a limited time pass.
I see no sources, citations, or relevancy in that old comment
But monitoring and maintenance are things someone needs to do if they operate a site, period.
You could also break something with your dull tools.

This is why you can't just drive a car until it breaks, you get it checked out.

Then again, cars are a private good. When it's your property vs our property you have more of an incentive to take care of it.
Variant is masculine in French. Well, the feminine form “variante” exists as well, but is not used in this context.

Also, both the masculine and feminine forms, “nu” and “nue”, are pronounced exactly the same. “Le variant nu” in French would always be ambiguous.
The more modern digital screen slot machines I've played now have 2 buttons, one that selects how many paylines, and one that selects how much money per payline you bet, and have rewards that can trigger minigames. I wouldn't say they're more engaging or fundamentally different than classic casino games, but I think for casinos there will always be an incentive to design games that can be optimally played by any drunk player.

On the flip side, as someone who used to be an obsessed video game player, behind all the fancy media assets, all I see in most videogames is running through a maze and watching the output from pseudorandom number generators.

To make a casino game that is actually fun, by gaming standards, I think it would look like World of Warcraft with an in-game integration of marketplace for gold and items instead of going to ebay.
> I live in Brazil and European countries really try to dictate what we can and cannot do with our Amazon,

Ok. Will you please return the money paid for conservation then?
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> the PL/I method was to group the error handlers at the end and pass the labels of the error handlers to the invoked function as alternative return labels.

The idea of an alternative return address - that is, allow the calling convention to pass more than on return instruction pointer - seems both simple to implement and really useful. I guess in the modern gotoless world the trouble is structuring the syntax around the call.
Amusing that you say this, since it’s mentioned in the article:

> the Cuban concoction cafecito is made by quickly whipping the first few drops of moka pot coffee with sugar, creating a paste that both flavors the coffee and simulates a classic espresso foam.
It does. It sounds like the Unicode handling in Python 2, where your program would still appear to work if it confused bytes with codepoints (through implicit decoding/encoding), until you get a non-ASCII input somewhere and everything blows up with a UnicodeDecodeError somewhere far from where the problem is.
We need a Theia. Some prophecies come true
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> I wouldn’t call it modern however

I wonder how the claim stands up if we remove that "modern" adjective. Or perhaps consider that "modern" languages don't have some of these features as they turned out to be "harmful" (see Dijkstra's "GOTO considered harmful") - at least one reply in that thread calls out one of these "missing features" as very dangerous, sort of like how some C++ projects will forbid features (private inheritance, etc) for ease of maintenance.
If the author is reading this here, I'd urge you to replace those RIFA metall-paper caps near the mains switch. At worst they're a fire hazard, at best they blow their nasty guts all over their general vicinity.

The 3478A is a pretty decent and versatile meter. It has three weak points though:

1. The aforementioned RIFA caps

2. A lot on the analog side is done by a hybrid, including driving relays, input switching and a bunch of trimmed reference resistors (current source gain and parts of the input divider iirc). Also, the mounting of the hybrid is also what holds the front/back input switch in place. Stuff's flexing a fair bit when using that switch! If that hybrid is shot, the whole thing is pretty dead.

3. The calibration is stored in a battery-backed SRAM on the outguard side of things. I don't think you can extract the SRAM contents, so battery swaps need to be done live. If you send one of these in for calibration, it's going to be about as expensive as another 3478A (n.b. the circuit allows you to do stupid things like e.g. shorting the battery for a short time, because the SRAM is fed by the battery and the power supply through or diodes, and there's a 1uF or something like that tantalum near the SRAM. I don't know how long it survives off of that cap)

4. Don't feed mains into it when in ohms mode.
You mean like we learned to live with the far more deadly (at least initially) influenza?

As your body increasingly comes in contact with it you’ll build a solid immunity. Similar to the other mRNA viruses such as RSV (dangerous to babies, but almost no one else).
there is Doctor in Brazil "Dr coimbra". who is famous for defending huge doses daily of Vitamin D > 10.000UI/day ( sometimes 100.000UI/day ).
He have followers similar to a cult, its impressive how preenche the use of vitamin-d to every Kind of desease.
...and routers
It is easier to find someone who give you just papers and flush your dose out. But anyway... Proof of anything based on digital ID is pointless and should be abandoned as soon as possible.