skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS doesn't send you codes via email like DigitalOcean does. The situation as stated doesn't exist at all.

If you forgot your password AND lost access to your email so you can't use the reset link, you can contact them at https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/ without having to log in. They have a special system for lost login support requests.
I’m curious if the statement “happy developers create better systems” holds any weight.
Oracle in Talks to Buy Cerner
that was old tech, and it's not part of the BETA topic is about
> how dare these serfs with good test scores defile our institutions

It's worth noting that the term "meritocracy" was actually coined by somebody criticizing the serfs defiling sacred institutions.
Thanks. Most importantly, though: why?

Is there some race condition about updates or bulk updating?
I guess it's not so hard to believe you're getting downvoted by shedding light on a situation about censorship.

The first question in everybody's head when reading this article is, "Were the vaccine trials legitimate or not?"

BMJ does not even come close to truthfully answering this question. With their authority as a medical journal and a very limited amount of evidence, they give a clear and incorrect impression that the vaccine trials were not legitimate.

Do they report on the limitations of their evidence? No. Do they report on the perspective of employees at other trial sites? No. Do they get quotes from Pfizer, other health orgs, Ventavia executives? No. Do they report about other speculative factors at play from Ventavia ex-employees? No.

Are they purposefully hiding new relevant information? Yes. They leaked in their own article that the FDA is aware and reviewed the Ventavia trial.

> An FDA review memorandum released in August this year states that across the full trial swabs were not taken from 477 people with suspected cases of symptomatic covid-19.

After insinuating earlier that there is a complete lack of oversight.

> “There’s just a complete lack of oversight of contract research organisations and independent clinical research facilities,” says Jill Fisher, professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials.

Honestly, BMJ seems to be working very hard to lie using true facts. I have no objections to their articles being marked as false.
I've had such a bad experience with the macbook layering (touchbar too), I feel like it might be more hassle having to turn the layer on and then press the key.

Whereas with a dedicated fn row, it would be a lot easier. I'm quite happy with my adv2, but I can't wait for the reviews.
Reminds me of Crystal, which I’m also using with HTMX. I’m afraid if I check out nim I’ll have to start all over :)
I think another interesting aspect of software development is that critiquing others' paddling technique (code review) can be as or more valuable than just paddling yourself - it makes both of you more effective paddlers.
I disagree that journalism that uses stories, quotes, human interest is bad or causing our misinformation problems. There is a LOT of great, factual, reporting that use real stories.

A great example is this recent Wayfair child trafficking article from WaPo (worth a read if you haven't). [1]

Adding in the real life experience of the supposed victims, those who spread the information, and then the final story of a believer. How this was the start of her radicalization, directly leads to QAnon, and finally she went to Jan 6 and died. Powerful story from start to finish which is 100% based in fact. This brings what a lot of us view as fringe & quirky online craziness into the real world with real consequences.

IMHO the big problem is opinion masked as news.

I constantly report on Apple News examples of this. Fox News does it all the time. They put out pieces on there that are opinion and not reporting that are not labeled. They put headlines and push notifications that are opinion but not labeled. A lot of people only see these and don't actually read. They are not reporting facts, or the piece uses just a few facts to support their opinion.

When WaPo, NyTimes, even more 'conservative' outlets like WSJ publish they put 'opinion: ' in the headline or minimally the byline and a graph at the bottom about the writer.

I'm picking on Fox but they aren't the only bad actors this happens on the left too lots of online outlets like Vox, Mother Jones. But Fox is the modern pioneer of opinion 'news' and probably have the widest audience of a mainstream outlet and IMHO take it farther than what are more like obviously political blogs.

Their top shows are all opinion but parade as news. A lot of these personalities have segments that are not based in reality and especially not factual (Tucker Carlson's jan 6 show is probably the most egregious recent example).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2021/way...
Natural immunity followed by a single dose is the strongest immunity available supposedly. Many of us likely have cross reactive immunity from a previous Coronavirus infection from before the pandemic.

Regarding "better antibodies", that doesn't make any sense to me. More in number perhaps, but better? It's the exact same formula being given as boosters.
I have a cousin, in his sixties, who sent an email to my family in March 2020 claiming that Covid was being caused by 5G towers. This led to an all-out flame war between him and myself, on an email chain that was CC:d to twenty or thirty family members. We don't speak anymore. I assume he's just gone Q-nuts off the deep end.

That alone would be unremarkable in America these days. But here's the thing: This man is a very highly educated engineer, retired, who spent a large part of his career working on the Superconducting Super Collider. It's beyond my comprehension how someone so grounded in science and math, someone who'd had that job, could come to believe something so stupid.

Ultimately, it's humbling and depressing to realize how fragile our puny brains are, and how easily deceived. Speaking for myself as a programmer, I know I rely on the correct functioning of my code to "prove" to myself that I'm doing my job well, that my logic is sound, that my understanding of a given domain, and of users' and clients' needs, comports with some shared framework of reality. In theory, that should give me and others some reassurance that my methodology for ingesting data, synthesizing ideas, understanding and (maybe) opining about other domains would lead to me not coming up with something that's totally fucking orthogonal to reality. And yet - couldn't my cousin say exactly the same thing? I give up.
At least facebook employs enough devs that, hopefully, the Bacon number to a Facebook dev is 2-3.
on the other hand, just on the off chance that it is malware, you really don't want to be the guy who didn't ask about the package called "itsdangerous"
This message would be much more believable if you didn't use it to advertise a (necessarily exclusionary) religion.
They sell placebos without you needing to give money to quacks practicing 18th century pseudoscience
From the OP:

> Seriously, I can't think of a single reason why they'd add that for themselves. They build real Mach-Os with their own process. They have no use for raw images.

> They are saying "hey, use this, it's easier and we won't break it in the future". This is for Asahi.

Previously, the bootloader only supported loading macOS kernels. Asahi had to work around this by creating a second-stage bootloader that looked like a macOS kernel. Now, Apple has added official support for booting things other than macOS kernels -- which is not something Apple needs to do internally.

Remember, Apple spent a LOT of engineering effort developing a boot policy system that allows users to run unsigned operating systems on an M1. This is not something that came about by accident; the M1 uses an iPhone-based secure boot chain that's not anything like the UEFI-based bootloaders on x86 Macs. The Apple engineers who designed this system often hang out in marcan's livestreams and answer questions.

If Apple didn't want people to run alternative operating systems on Macs, the M1 would have been the perfect excuse to block them for good. In fact, it would have been easier to lock down the bootloader -- just use the iPhone bootloader as-is, instead of developing all the extra features needed to boot unsigned kernels. The sheer amount of effort they spent on the boot policy system indicates that they plan to keep it around for a long time.

Now, people are using Apple's custom-operating-system support to run custom operating systems, as intended. Apple engineers realized upcoming changes to macOS would break their customers' officially-supported workflows, and so they added a better workflow that won't break again in the future.
The Witcher Season 2
Gmail and other gsuite apps’ developers, would you please use Fuite? Thx.
There are days when I feel like I'm outside the boat, calling out to all of those guys, saying, "You know you are in a swimming pool, right?"
Well, the old saying was that the communists would hang the capitalists with rope sold by the latter to the former. It seems like the capitalists always seem to keep ahead of the communists though.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/02/22/rope/
There will never be guarantees.

The "up to 48 hours" is commonly used because that's the ttl of many things that matter. For instance, NS records for names in the .com zone have 48 hour ttls.

You can give better estimates to your users if you know the state you're transitioning from. For instance, a brand new .com domain would be 15 min negative ttl plus the .com zone file update frequency.
If we open up the issue for discussion again, what we will get is some Google/Cloudflare protocol which “incidentally” centralizes everything.
I don't understand how this is in any way relevant. This article is for people who do want to recover their account.
See also: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/passage
Changed from https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/15/azul_introduces_remot... above. Thanks!
But.. why not use foo['bar'] vs foo.bar? Are the extra 3 characters so annoying you have to rely on a new library?
It's not what's said, but what's also said.

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal...

The current cycle smells like insanity among other things. There are plenty of questions. "What questions?" is not one of them.
Short-term housing is different, if you lower rates below a certain threshold you are competing with local motels but you are offering a residential space governed by a different set of laws.

In other words, low-cost short-term housing attracts people that can book a stay for one month that will continue to occupy the space and stop paying until the eviction is processed. Eviction is a 3 to 6 month process in most counties in California, and it typically costs $10k-$15k. That was before the pandemic, evictions were completely suspended since.

Short-term housing / corporate housing does not require proof of income, credit check, etc. That would create a barrier of entry that would deter the majority of the clients; they would flock to the first available Airbnb. These travelers are typically staying for a couple of months and don't want to go through the hassle of lease approvals, agreements, credit checks, etc. Many of them are foreign and unable to provide the documentation necessary for a typical lease agreement.

You do make a valid point, however. Rent should be driven down as the market dictates.

For long-term rentals (your typical 1 or 2 year lease agreement with the building) there is another reason why rent does not drop significantly: most of the large rental buildings are owned by banks. There are clauses where if the rent per unit drops under a certain amount, the interest rates increase. There are several other clauses that disincentivize rent decreases. In addition, not every investor in a real estate investment trust has the same terms. When things go south (rent drops, operating costs increase, rate of evictions increases), investors that hold a fraction of the REIT will be the ones taking that loss, while institutional investors that provided the majority of the loan are protected. Thus it's in the interest of the more powerful investors or lenders to keep the rent where it is, and let the smaller investors take the loss.

We as property managers, whether long term or short term, can only fluctuate the rent within a certain margin. It's easy to oversimplify as "why can't you just drop the price", but there are bigger players that hold the cards, and they decide what the rent is, and if units are to remain vacant, who will be taking that loss. And it's the new guy that just entered an REIT with a mere $100k.
The supreme court did recently rule for forced arbitration, making this idea mostly a no-go I would think. Collective bargaining, and forcing contractors to be employees are the more realistic options. If you can't actually choose your working time, and work 32+ hours, there's a good chance you should be an employee, or at least the option to become one should exist.
The issue is that proper investigation was not done. We need more transparency and this is not what is happening. What happened with the data from these researchers? There are no indications that they were removed from the study analysis. If the problems with this one researcher is swept under carpet, how do we know that there are not number of other researchers with different problems?

Without this vigilance how do you distinguish between ivermectin studies that showed a positive effect and vaccine studies? Some of ivermectin studies but not all were discovered to be total frauds. At some point when you see too many problems you just have to distrust them by default until proved otherwise.

In fact, I think that there is possibility that the Pfizer vaccine trial results turned out quite different from effectiveness in real life in part due to issues like this.
My post was influenced by your comment about absolute empiricism being magical thinking. Now, you did qualify ‘empiricism’ with ‘absolute’, but the author of the post to which you were replying seemed to be adopting a pragmatic form of empiricism, much like the one you have adopted in the first part of your last post. It seems to me that bringing up ‘absolute empricism’ here seems to be something of a straw man (though maybe the original post was edited before I saw it.)

FWIW, I completely agree with that person’s view that saying “Well, it’s not physical” to the question of what a mind is and how it works, is a non-answer that avoids the question. Materialism has not answered that question ether, but it is a double standard to deprecate only materialism on that basis, as the author of this thread’s root post did.

The philosophy of mind seems to me to be hobbled by its fascination with zombie arguments, which are rather cleverly constructed to persuade one that a philosopher’s metaphysical speculation is a stronger guide to how the universe is than any amount of empirical physical evidence.
Well, yes it could easily be gamed by parties with political interests, but FB's system of fact checking is parties with political interests.
And tar/pad them, encryption if not done carefully when combined with compression suffers from the same kinds of problems as ECB.

AKA, it wouldn't surprise me at all, if given a disk with 100 folders, each with 8-15 encrypted files each, that someone couldn't figure out which albums comprise a good number of those directories simply from the resulting file lengths.
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain (1959) [pdf]
(Article was behind a paywall)

As a European, I have to ask, how can a university qualify the students without having any standardised test?

At every level of my education I had country-level-standardised test. It was always the most important factor in getting in.

It also had an effect of allowing students from very remote, small towns to study in the capital, because of their top scores.
Athlete as Creator
>Or it means that FDA is not doing its job properly.

So you're saying it "raise[s] questions about... regulatory oversight"?
Oh. I misread your suggestion. Yes, if you can somehow have all the services living within the same address space, a shared heap could probably be better. In the model described here we're talking about a multi-computer distributed system though, not a bunch of containers on one machine. Also, by merging everything into one address space you're now potentially making the blast radius of a security vulnerability much larger.

Also, it's not instantly clear things actually get better because while your heap space is larger, so is your object graph and the rate at which your objects are getting created is larger. You'll get some compression out of it by sharing the class information across services but not much more than that.
Astronomy Picture of the Day on April 1st 2005: NASA finds water on mars[0].

[0] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html
I'm reading all these comments and keep asking myself if I'm missing something, because I honestly sort of like pandas' API?

Sure dplyr is nice -- it felt that way on rare occasions that I got to use it, at least -- but you get used to anything.

So since I'm using python and know it quite well, I'm just more comfortable sticking with python's pandas framework rather than switching to R for data processing
GDPR seems straight up common sense to me, but ...

At times it seems like the common sense behind the GDPR is not -in fact- entirely common to American (lawyers) somehow.

That can't be entirely true though, since some US states seem to have been considering similar laws recently.

Color me confused by it all. (see also an earlier comment I made in a similar conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29126413 )
> The age backend is an experimental crypto backend [for gopass] based on age. It adds an encrypted keyring on top (using age in scrypt password mode). It also has (largely untested) support for specifying recipients as github users. This will use their ssh public keys for age encryption. It is well positioned to eventually replace gpg as the default crypto backend.

https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass/blob/master/docs/backends...
I'm glad I live in a country where only grades and standardized tests are taken in account, and colleges don't even know the race or background of anyone.
Thanks. That's a more reasonable statement but I still stand by my main points that 1. a much, much larger contingent would stay than Americans seem to think, 2. the US is far less desirable a location now than ever, and 3. those that do come to the US will not be going to our backwaters, hell the standard of life in Taipei is arguably higher than in top American cities.

I also think violent takeover is a remote hypothetical but that's another discussion.
Hmmm... I'm still having problems with the URL filter, Article URL is:

<https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/DR+Automation+Using+Public...>
My extremely naïve, reductionist take:

The point of NFTs is money.

If people could have figured out how to attach a price to replicable data and convince people that it was worth buying ten years ago, they would have cherished it as much as they are now. The technology and the evangelism are nothing more than distractions.
Well, do you think our politicians aren't in the same position of the esteemed Michael Kail, VP of Netflix IT Operations? People in power are going to be hit with sex, money, or power. Money, it seems, is just the easiest attack vector.
How much water do you think is on Mars?
Better or worse than littering a country with depleted uranium munitions (that you only occasionally fire at civilians)?
Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server (2019)
I rely heavily on the foot pedal. The single-pedal is too light and really wants to be bolted to something heavy so it doesn't slide around. The triple-food pedal is much nicer, just because it's heavy and stays put. I map all three foot-buttons to the same thing.
Repeal section 230.
That’s not fact checking, that’s reputation assessment.

It’s not hard to keep a list of journals and assign them a reputation score. Commercial services do exactly this.

But even the best journals screw up, especially in their blog posts!

Remember the “fact-check” wasn’t for the peer reviewed article itself, but a blog post promoting it.

Even if the BMJ has a high reputation score, not all of its blogs should share that. It might be run by the social media team - not the editorial staff.
https://www.voanews.com/a/european-drug-regulator-recommends...

The first one is Swedish and the second is British.

The US is much better at creating visibility for its accomplishments.
This just makes me feel worse because I'm a very hardworking noob.
Briefly - it is because React batches and executes setState calls some time in the future - thus you MUST use a function call to get a non-stale state.

Refer to my more detailed explanation elsewhere in this thread.
I went to see Manor at opening night. I thought it was OK, I was entertained. Was weird to find out (just now!) that it had got an absolute mauling in the press. It makes me wonder if I have terrible taste, and to what extent the 'quality' of a work of art is constructed after the fact by a social in-group (the critics).

Relatedly, I've started watching movies at random, without reading reviews before or after, to try to develop a sense of what I actually enjoy. Whether I have any real critical faculties at all. Perhaps it is all just received opinion. I re-watched League of Extraordinary Gentlemen last night though, and can confirm that it is in fact bad.
There is also the more IG-like Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/)

For those who don’t know, ActivityPub enables all of these (Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Friendica, Misskey, etc) to work transparently between implementations and servers.
The main argument in favour of age is that it only does one thing: encrypting files, and does it 'well' in the sense there is no need to edit your gnupg config file to exclude all the crypto from the 90s that your version of gnupg might decide to default to.

This makes things significantly simpler in terms of the code for age, which reduces the possible bugs and possible misuse.

GnuPG is more versatile and tries to solve a number of (arguably, orthogonal) problems, including signing and authentication (by users and also of keys in the web of trust). This leads to more complexity, and some parts, e.g. the web of trust, can't really be described as being a success. Others, such as sign and encrypt, likely don't achieve semantic security (also the case in SMIME / CMS, and I'm not sure if this has ever been fixed) and definitely don't achieve the forward/future secrecy guarantees of say Signal. Age isn't trying to be a messenger, so it doesn't need to worry about this.

It comes down to this: if you use AES-Something with GnuPG or you use ChaCha20-Poly1305 with Age, it is unlikely ever to be meaningfully broken in our lifetimes (including if you are currently 1 day old and including by quantum computers) and everything will be fine. But age will only use ChaCha20-Poly1305, and the format is pretty simple, while GnuPG can be convinced to decrypt CAST5 encrypted messages and has a much more complex format that introduces a greater risk of binary parser vulnerabilities.

Age is written in Go (there's also Rage, written in Rust), whereas GnuPG is a big old ball of C, so if there are parser bugs, GnuPG is bad news and Go/Rust are likely hopefully sound.
Is it clear whether it's a "fork" (i.e. the entirety or a significant portion of the code is used in the derivative work), or whether they just found some utility snippet in an open source project and forgot to wash it?

Also isn't TikTok Chinese?
That misrepresents how Tesla sells FSD. The actual current functionality is shown in clear bullet points at the time of sale. It is not buried in a legal agreement.