skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I used around 30-40 wallpapers generated through Trianglify until recently, this has a lot of potential.
Gitlab is uniquely positioned to do this

Activity Pub integration issue on Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21582
Every freaking time a German dictates a number they do it in a sane way for half the number then do the backwards way for the rest which totally trips me up. I hate it.
That table has known problems. For example, see this recent discussion of a thorough analysis of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29249686
If they could generate electricity with the heat from the miners, they could use it to power the miners.

... Oh.
std::deque is odd in that there's no std size of the blocks used. We have libstdc++ that is about 512bytes, libc++ at 4096bytes, and MS STL at around 64bytes. This leaves a bunch of room for optimizing for certain cases. Smaller is more insert friendly, larger more op[] reading friendly. But push_front after a pop_front should be O(1) on all of them. Otherwise it is moving/copying data to make room. Another nice/similar data structure is something like Boosts devector that adds a pointer to vector for the front capacity.
> all the articles I see posted around it appear to intentionally avoid specifics

That's because the specifics of whatever shitty thing someone on the core team may have done are irrelevant. The issue raised by the moderation team is about structures and processes: the fact that the core team [isn't | doesn't see itself as being] under the purview of the moderation team.

That problem would be the same whatever shitty thing whoever on the core team did, so those details just don't matter.
confuses me a lot. I'm German but tend to speak numbers in English in my mind when writing them down.

also impressive is the number of cases:

eins
eine
einer
ein
einem
einen
eines

probably forgot a few
The sound of a 56K Modem dial tone was like heroin coursing through my veins. Probably because the Internet was still a rabbit-hole back then, and not the commercialized echo chamber it is now. I would spend hours just hopping from link to link, grabbing some software, music, and other things.

I don't really suffer from a nostalgia about them days, since I was naive and young, and didn't understand concepts like privacy, so I was very exposed as an Internet user (although I made sure my systems were hardened and used oldskool antivirus programs to catch malware).

Now I'm on a gigabit line and I can spawn two Windows VMs at the same time whilst running Spotify and other programs in the background. If I had that kind of hardware back in the day, I would be a different person entirely. So now I just relish my connection speed and beefy setup, and savor it, because the olden days were difficult when you wanted to grab a 700MB CD from an FTP index site.
So do eleven ("one left over") and twelve ("two left"), with a bit of stretch.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/eleven

https://www.etymonline.com/word/twelve
Not usable on the web?
You have two competing chains: Chain 1 and chain 2. On chain 1, you spend a token on a good. On chain 2, you spend no token. You wait for chain 1 to win the race. You then stake on chain 2 to get your money back. If chain 2 then overtakes chain 1, you've executed a double-spend attack.

An equivalent attack wouldn't work on a PoW chain. If you do the equivalent of "staking" on chain 2, then you're computing hashes, which is costing real-life resources. In the PoS case, without slashing, staking on chain 2 is free. In fact, this is the rational move to make every time you spend a token; stake on competing chains to get your token back.
What stops me from doing a hard fork to roll back both blocks?
https://jose-lesson.com/lin/2017/01/16/nonaginta-septem/
Why would you need to be visualize when you were awake to remember what you saw when you were dreaming? As someone who has Aphantasia but does see when they dream this question in really puzzling.
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Some DSP chips had hardware for fixed point. I think it's a shame that C never added support for fixed point.
I'm seeing a slight upward trend in the "1 dose" line (indeed just crossing the "unvaccinated" line in a latest month), but the "2 doses" line is much lower than both, and doesn't seem to be changing much.
Yes, number representation should be floating point with the magnitude written at the front.
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If you think about it, arabic numerals are a right-to-left script.

2,021: one and twenty and two thousand.
Neat! Thanks for posting this. Yes, that's totally relevant. Much more intense, of course, but it make sense that's how a blind person would "visualise".

It also reminds me of some descriptions I hear of zanshin, the zen state of total awareness.
i think it's reasonable to infer that the ghosts are angry and are killing moviegoers
global average temperature vs number of pirates:
https://www.spaghettimonster.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/...
No, it translates directly to "ninety-seven" or to however you spell "97" in any other language.
I could replicate Dropbox with rsync with far less than that (h/t to BrandonM).
To some extent, this is the overarching theme of the second season of For All Mankind; you may find it interesting.
Havn't read the article, but c-states and p-states are different to turbo disabled.
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Which is to say, who are we to judge German numbers when there are weirder ones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbric#Counting_systems
You put so much effort into that and then totally missed French? four-twenty-ten-seven … yup, 97, of course. Multiplication and addition required.

That being said. I wonder how much of those kinds of complications lead to higher IQ and higher education test scoring. Simplification also dumbs down, stunts the mind.

Chinese Mandarin isn't quite as challenging, but they too essentially use multiplication 40 is "4 tens"
The flu vaccine does give you immunity to the specific variant it is coded for.

The issue is that it mutates a lot, just like covid, so its effectiveness drops over time.
Yup. Long gone are the days of concise packaging in single executables.

Quite literally, software engineers today spend most of their time fighting dependencies and poorly built delivery machines.
No Severe Covid Cases Among Vaccinated Patients Infected with Omicron
Reading those C or C++ standard libraries is like a joke. Almost nothing is done in a direct or clear way and internal methods have cryptic names hidden in macros.

Maybe for a good reason I dunno. But it would be nice if the code was clearer so you could make sense of it when gdb or callgrind jumps into an inlined chunk ...
> It’s a system with feedback loops, it’ll eventually level out at some equilibrium.

An equilibrium doesn't entail that it's a sustainable point, or that it's actually providing value when you properly account for all externalities.
What's the function, if I may ask? Is it to be more persuasive, or not to get pinned down easily?
Yes, in the strict sense of the meaning. In general, the comparison of VDFs (a cryptographic building block) and Bitcoin-style PoW (a consensus mechanism) is not that useful. However, using a VDF as part of a consensus mechanism (see e.g., Chia) does not introduce an energy overhead.

To demystify what a VDF is, consider the delay function (i.e., the majority of the work done to compute a VDF) used by the most prominent proposals:

Let N = p*q be a product of two large primes (so an RSA modulus) and assume that the primes p and q have been immediately thrown away/forgotten after initialization. Then, computing

f(x) = x^(2^T) mod N

is believed (dating back to a paper by Rivest, Shamir and Wagner in 1996) to take T sequential steps provided that T is large enough. For a large T, the only feasible approach seems to be repeated squaring modulo N. That is, compute y = x^2 mod N, y' = y^2 mod N, ... for T times.
Working at Babbage's not long after 3.11 it seemed to me that OS/2 felt so dead, at least in retail. Still wish I had tried it back in the day.

A hard backward compatibility break yet with emulation is a common tactic in consoles and Mac now. And they do seem to leapfrog one another more often.
Gentle reminder that these are studies funded by tax payers money. If America as a country has to deny non-americans access, it makes sense. Especially considering that China is abusing democratic institutions. But it is messed up that us Americans have to pay for it cos the middleman big corporates needs to make money out of it.
There was a startup on here a year or so ago with this idea. They built self-contained cabinets and put them in people's houses as heaters. Wonder how they're doing. Sounds like an ops nightmare.
Maybe for one or two minutes, but if it costs more time, I'd just rollback my git installation.

Good Luck rolling back GitHub.
your add is just an integer add. your multiply is a mul_hi, 2 shifts, 1 add and 1 mul.
>PoW miners tend to spend more and more resources on finding blocks, until the cost approaches the rewards. But the rewards go up as the cryptocurrency becomes more popular, because the price and transaction fees go up. Therefore, a PoW cryptocurrency tends to "eat the world" as it becomes bigger.

Are Google and Facebook eating the world? They are processing petabytes of data on daily basis and every year there is more data and information being shared on the internet. Moore's law is our friend because as long we have better chips more data can be processed and analyzed.

Bitcoin's PoW is based on economy and game theory meaning if people do not find Bitcoin useful they will stop processing transactions or in reality they will stop investing and spending computation power and electricity.
Unfortunately, because all domains don't yet have DNSSEC DNS records, a strict resolver that requires DNSSEC signatures will fall to resolve all domains unless it's configured to e.g. "allow-downgrade" to non-DNSSEC-signed records for any lookup.

FWIR, the same is basically true of DoH and DoT: if it's not configured to ~allow-downgrade, DNS will fall to resolve when connected to e.g. a captive portal hotspot; and there's no indication that DoH/DoT aren't working in the browser.

How do DNS resolution APIs need to change to accommodate basic DNSSEC and DoH/DoT error handling?
I am sure it has been said, but it is not any more backwards than "thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen" -> three and ten, four and ten, five and ten...

In fact, in German it keeps being consistent, while in English and other languages you change the direction after 20... quite arbitrarily...

When you speak German they as backwards to you, as thirteen is to you when you speak English... Not backwards at all...
And yet, even Github has passwords. Even Github uses passwords as primary. Along with millions of other sites. This isn't about what a few large companies do. It's about what works for most people.

Private keys, as appealing as they are in theory, don't really work from a user perspective. The closest thing that seems to be popular is 2FA keys like YubiKeys.
Yes; interesting that they never bring up the chart showing we’re at the peak of a natural 125,000 year temperature cycle.
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Precisely. I first used Docusign when signing an offer for a condo. The subscription fee is handled by the RE agency. The commissions on a single sale pay for a 1-user license probably 1000 times over.

One may as well ask "Why does Adobe charge $30/mo for Photoshop?"
Just like real immunity, it requires exposure and a robust personal defense. The last thing you do for a healthy immune system is put a body in a sterile bubble.

There were mean, bad people before the internet too. We can deal with that fact, or fail attempting to get rid of them with censorship, while harming real information and exchanges in the process.
I got my start with

o Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines --- Minsky

o The Art Of Computer Programming --- Knuth

o Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs --- Abelson and Sussman

In that order. Everything else is syntactic sugar. <g>
What chart for October and November? Your link only goes to 24th September and says it's the latest release.

Edit: this comment and others now appear to be nonsensical because OP essentially replaced their comment with an entirely different one.
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True but performance wasn’t the goal (I tend to run it once on smallish files).

This is easier to extend if I see something new to exclude (or comment-out some rule).
It doesn't necessarily have to be lies, although truth is a possible defense - but there are issues around parliamentary privilege when politicians sue where it might not be possible for the defendant to mount a truth defence even if it's on the public record that they said something! Our defamation laws are really screwed up - basically, you need to prove that you didn't defame somebody instead of the burden of proof being on the plaintiff to prove it, and you need to have massively deep pockets to sue for defamation (you will likely part with hundreds of thousands of dollars, unless you can get costs awarded - not really anything most 'any other member of the public' can actually do), and you need the same kind of cash to successfully fight somebody suing for defamation against you. It's basically a war of who can pay for the best lawyers.

The internet comedian Friendlyjordies managed to settle very favourabliy because he managed to crowdfund literally a million dollars to fight when John Barilaio sued him. Otherwise that wouldn't have been possible for him to even think about fighting it.
> The more subtle and wildly prevalent failure mode is that the consensus will be set by the few whales, who will maximize their rent extraction at the expense of numerous small players, which will include most later adopters, aka the entire population of Earth.

And that's where competition between currencies provides checks and balances against such pathological behaviours.
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

Though one question popped up in my mind while looking at this... Given the trend of ever increasing screen resolutions with no end in sight, why don't OSes support using vector images (svg, etc) as wallpapers?
If you put the miners in a shack next to the well, you don't need a pipeline. Still need a generator and other infrastructure though.
Tl;dr someone fell for Simpson's paradox [0] and wrote a (probably 'viral') post on how Covid-19 vaccines are killing us; this is a (slightly confusing at first without context, I thought - especially because it starts of joking about correlation/causation that seems a bit different to me) rebuttal.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox#Correlatio...
My mom was paranoid because she’s what I (lovingly) dub a ‘doom cult Christian’ because she is using the foretold apocalypse as an excuse to get into ‘prepping’ as a hobby.

She got into it in earnest about 4 years ago, and sends me and my siblings low hundred or thousands view YouTube videos saying all kinds of crazy stuff with a biblical spin.

I think COVID was a sign for her that she’s on the right path.

Honestly, I haven’t dug in too greatly. I recently heard that most Christian groups are run by troll farms. I wouldn’t be surprised if she was caught in one of these schemes.
Exactly. This is why I am pro exploration but not colonization. At least not until we can terraform. Colonizing mars now would be a huge waste of resources.
Addressed in Ray Bradbury's novel The Martian Chronicles (1950).

In Bradbury's story, the vast majority of residents of the Martian colonies returned back to Earth when (atomic) war was imminent, leaving Mars all but deserted, and the Earth destroyed.

I found this hard to believe, but this set up a really cool ending.
I don't think they're necessarily being dishonest, just misleading probably unintentionally.

Speaking of paranoia, I think their poor communication led to plenty of paranoia two years ago, and it seems like there's plenty of paranoia now again.

I think being more truthful and communicative would lead to less paranoia, not more.
> So?

Wheelerof5te said Rust is becoming the "world's best *compiled, safe* language". You objected to this, but then only listed alternative languages which aren't in that group. You responded as if Wheelerof5te had claimed there was "an objectively best language period".

> They are scripting languages able to call C code, by definition they are glue languages.

If I say something like "world's best chef" then I mean the person who is best at being a chef. Not the world's best (most moral?) person who happens to also fulfill the definition of being a chef but may be pretty bad at cooking. I think the same was intended here for "best glue language" - best at being a glue language.
> Colon isn't a type of pause

It also is a type of vocal intention. Are you acquainted with John Cleese playing the "Hungarian gentleman with phrase book" in the Monty Python sketch? «I will not buy this record [mounting pause, then release] it is scratched». The first part is preliminary, incomplete, it requires the second, expressed as a release after the mounting premise: the sentence is pronounced as having a colon (I cannot check the exact sample right now - that is how I remember it).

You can imagine the difference if it were pronounced as a dash, as a more emotionally neutral interpretation of the sentence, not stressing the implications of "the record being scratched", could bring. With colon you make the first part an incomplete premise that depends on the second part to finally gain meaning or informational value or completeness, reaching to conclusions; with dash with the second part you provide the detail that enrich the content of the first part. As a vocal intention, the musicality of the syllables would change (e.g., in «it is scratched», high-high-low vs. low-low-high), and the pause would become more of a mid-air jump suspension. (Unfortunately I do not have other examples to provide on the spot).

There can be correspondence between natural vocal intentions and punctuation - as is understandable, since punctuation very probably mimics the communicational relations implied in the acting of speech, and both are a consequence of the organization of thought.
> Asperger's syndrome is not actually a recognized diagnosis anymore

True, but it is a recent change. At the time of writing (2014), it was a common term; it still has a Wikipedia page. Just because it uses one word or another, it does not make an article valid or invalid. (I am happy to redefine Asperger/HFA as Xvvbhj for the sake of a discussion.)

I fully agree that there is no meaningful difference between Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism.

> Asperger was a Nazi

Cancel culture at its best. Von Braun was a Nazi. Haber was a Nazi-sympathizer (putting himself in a difficult spot, since he was Jewish) and a horrible person in general. And?

> absolutely just a random box of facile observations.

Well, not. While most people don't hit all checkboxes, these points are very far from random. Happy to bet $100 that there is a statistical difference between autistic and neurotypical.

> "Sensory: Life on the Spectrum"

I don't know this one.

> Finally, while some folks self-identity as "aspie", I would find it _extremely_ offensive if anyone used that word to refer to me or anyone else without express permission.

I find this bizarre. And at least to me (I am autistic), very antithetical to autism. Things are true or not REGARDLESS who says them. I use the term "Aspie" and am equally OK with others referring to me that way.
> India is a very cash-based culture?

This is correct. This leads to a lot of black money floating in the market. I am not sure what's the volume of cash transactions though.
Those are big "ifs", and especially "catching Omicron is mutually exclusive with catching Delta or any other strain" seems a bit unlikely. Namely, if there's a mutated strain which is resistant to vaccines targeting the previous strain, then it also implies that it's likely that the immune response from one won't fit the other much, just as previously with different strains of flu allowing reinfection.
Radicle is trying to build something similar to what you described https://radicle.xyz/

Discoverability will probably need more work though
In the linked video at 33:10, he said he deliberately make his videos short.
> Not every occurrence in the world needs to be leveraged to air political grievances.

Sure. But many things do exist exactly for that purpose. So I think it's always worth knowing why something's being written. In this case, the funding model suggests that it's exactly about airing political grievances. Since you claim to care about that, shouldn't you be glad to know that may be going on here?
> Even worse is that people I've known and respected my entire life, intelligent people … are defending, and even calling for the escalation of these tactics.

It's a spectrum. More a question of temperament than intelligence:

Some people desperately wish to told there's someone out there, looking out for them. A wise enlightened leader, preferably in a tie or a white lab coat.

"Just follow orders and everything will be alright."

Others prefer to assume responsibility and evaluate risk on a case-by-case basis. This end of the spectrum is more sparsely populated, because it requires personal struggle and sacrifice. So such people are always a minority, with obvious implications for democracy (AKA the rule of the majority).

Most people oscillate somewhere in between, swayed by pragmatic incentives and currents of social zeitgeist.
Turkish seems to be the most systematic than:

11 => On Bir (Ten One)

12 => On iki (Ten two)

…

21 => Yirmi bir (Twenty One)

Etc
The Yoruba system is very sane and logical. For example, the Yoruba word for:

10: mewa
20: ogun
30: ogbon
40: ogoji, which is a contraction of "ogun meji", or 20 twice. Meji is the word for 2.
100: Ogorun - ogun marun, or 20 in 5, or 20 times 5.

The fun part is in the numbers in between those. But to understand them you have to learn how to count to 10, so here goes:

1: Okan
2: Meji
3: Meta
4: Merin
5: Marun
6: Mefa
7: Meje
8: Mejo
9: Meson
10: Mewa

So:

11: mokanla - 1 more than 10
12: Mejila - 2 more than 10
13: Metala - 3 more than 10

You get this point. It goes on like that until it gets to 16, when the reference number becomes 20, so:

16: 4 less than 20
17: 3 less than 20

Until you get to 20. Past 20, then you start in a manner as with past 10.

So one can say that there's really no direction in pronunciation of numbers in the Yoruba language. Just a very sane and logical system.
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I read GP as recognising but criticising the joke - saying that (with quite a bit more thought/effort probably) you could construct one as jokey and ridiculous/unbelievable but based on real sources to make the point with actual data.
Okay, and who chooses the block? (Hint: it's the node that wins leader election).

Maybe this article will help you understand just how nonessential the fact that the block is part of the SHA actually is: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi16/nsdi16.... Please read the whole article, and then come back so we can have a discussion on equal footing.
Netherlands don't require a negative test to fly if you're fully vaccinated and not from a 'designated high risk area'

https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiti...

Until Omicron was announced there were no current countries on that list as Delta had already spread everywhere.
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For anyone as confused as me: the graph colors swap halfway through the article.