skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another way to look at this is that you are either beating your schedule or your schedule is beating you. There is no way to consistently balance on the knife edge of consistently estimating correctly and delivering on time. If you do not plan to beat your estimates, most of the time you will be behind.
Black Start
The title and last paragraph are so incongruous with the rest of the article that they feel tacked on by editorial to both-sides the issue and/or get clicks. There's no both sides to "Chinaman Mountain."
What you're doing sounds distantly related to http://www.rosettacode.org
determinism implies that afaik?
If loan forgiveness were to happen I would feel bad for someone in your position, but i would feel much worse for the kid who made the hard, but perhaps rational or only choice to forgo college entirely to immediately work and help the family. How is it fair for those individuals?

Many working class 18 year olds will be punished for making what they thought was a pragmatic choice.
Ultimately, hydro power depends on oceans supplying abundant water vapor to precipitate over elevated topography. No oceans, no hydro power. You also need topography: no land, no hydro power.
This is such a thoughtful idea--I'm sure she really enjoyed it. I'll bet there are some people who would enjoy being able to buy a "modern" rotary phone for purely aesthetic reasons.
> to work there because the work is super interesting and would look very well in my resume.

If a prospective company do due diligence they will likely find out you worked below market rate and use that to lowball you. You would have to give a good justification why you are worth paying 2x more.
Ooof...not in my view. The last thing I need as a developer is to deal with non-technical people.
Not the OP, but I have some from when I turned mine into a mobile phone:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
Weirdly, it's already significantly easier to find Rust (or Rust-interested) developers these days than C/C++. If your main concern is being able to hire devs then Rust is a clear win.

And don't sleep on Sealed Rust. They've surely got a hard road ahead, but there are some dedicated folks working on it.
The group having the most difficult times in China is the film makers. There are no clear guidelines on what specifically you cannot say, a lot of things can be accused to be problematic if the film is open to interpretation. The film is extra hard because you're pouring millions of dollars and hundreds of people into it, and they might all go into nothing by just a flick of finger from the publication authority, for something you might not even mean.
MIDI DIN to USB adapters are really cheap and I've never had a problem with even the most generic Amazon one.

You don't mention your level of MIDI expertise, but what you should probably know, if you don't, is that analog synths with MIDI outputs are almost always MIDI-out only, unless they're mad expensive and have motorized controls (or use digital pots to control analog hardware, which is vanishingly rare).

Of course, you might be able to send notes to the synth via MIDI if it's got onboard MIDI to CV conversion, but you probably won't be able to control your synthesis parameters with MIDI. Your mileage may vary and I could be wrong, and if it's a newer analog synth you might be able to do it. But mostly you'll be able to sequence notes from another device with it. No matter what, you'll probably have to spend some time with the synth's manual just to get it running. It's good nerdy fun though.
That seems unecessarily excessive, but in the face of a surge combined with a short deadline (expires Jan 9th) I would be hard pressed to write that down in the history books as and authoritarian atrocity.
Except she does not "deny" quantum mechanics, and she does understand the math.
True, but the problem is I do not believe any apps implementing TOTP allow for codes over six numerical digits. So the real world standard (Google Authenticator) does not support it.
Any plans to make the phone work?
I'll have to look into those derivations. Thanks.

> There is an additional postulate, namely that the state vector is the real world we inhabit.

Well, yes, it's a model for the physical world. Refusing to accept that the state vector is the real world we inhabit is tantamount to rejecting the existence of an objective universe, in which case any discussion is moot, or to the outright rejection of quantum theory, which seems irrational. (i.e. "I don't believe the state vector represents our world, despite it being the best physical model of our time")
"sub-Saharan Africans have some genetic differences from other clades" is not tantamount to scientific racism and you're doing yourself, them, genetics, and the scientific community a disservice. Neanderthal DNA is not magic fairy dust. The differences between Neanderthal and H. sapiens brain cell organelles in vitro are well known.
How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell.

Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will be inaccessible without logging in. This became even worse with covid, where I had to basically guess which part of their service was open.

So I was hoping for some workaround, like using nitter to bypass Twitter's new account requirements, but it looks like I'm out of luck.
I've implemented SCIM in two languages (Java and Go) starting before v2 was approved as RFCs - feel free to contact me via the email in my profile if you'd like some insight.
> Say you are thinking of a number between 1 and 10,000 and give me one thousand attempts to guess it. To make it harder, you change the number every 100 guesses. To make it harder still, you are thinking of changing it every 50 guesses. Would that work? Well, in the first case I get 100 guesses at 10 different numbers, in the second I get 50 guesses at 200 different numbers, but that makes no difference — I get the same number of guesses, and I only have to guess correctly once to succeed. Mathematically, it boils down to the fact that (xa)b=xab.

That's blatantly false, of course it makes a difference, because it makes the events stochastically independent.

If I choose a number between 1 and 10, and I give you 10 chances to guess it, you have 100% chances to guess it. If on the other hand I change it at every guess, you have only ~65% of chances to guess it.

Edit: fixed the % of chances, it is a binomial distribution, and I totally miscalculated it
Due to pandemic I had to go full remote. Lines blurred for work and personal hours. Not so much for the employer, but for myself. So the first thing I will do once the dust of pandemic settles, if it settles anytime soon, I’ll find a job in my city (my company is based in another city right now) and just go to office everyday.

Back then I honestly didn’t even have it in my mind that I do this work at this company after 5pm when I left my workplace. Now my house is my workplace. It used to be my most personal space.
> the current batch of vaccines does not nor did ever guaranteed you won't contract and spread COVID

Guarantee, no. But the thought was that it would greatly reduce the risk of spreading the disease, such that once a sufficient number of people were vaccinated herd immunity would kill off the virus and end the pandemic. We're now two years in with a 73% vaccination rate in the US (not counting those with natural immunity), with even higher rates elsewhere; still no end in sight.

If vaccines aren't going to end the pandemic, then something else needs to. Will a pill that reduces the lethality of the disease by 89% be enough that we can finally put this to rest and go back to normal? If not that, then what?
I wish TOTP supported a PIN. That omission makes it pretty useless for high security applications.
Sure, whatever. Tidal energy is still not hydro power, but rather a separate thing.
s/happiness/meaning

end up in the same boat
The "most reasonable" interpretation to go with, in my book, is by what was actually said -- not what the guy might have said, had he thought about the matter through a bit more.

That's how I do these things. You can do whatever you want of course.
If you're looking at it from an end-user perspective then it's the fault of techsparx.com.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.10.012
I've looked many times! I always enjoyed using rotary phones, and I'd love to see a modern version that supports today's features like caller ID. I've seen a few, but they're often "luxury" models with exorbitant prices.
With bayesian probability a single observation can be informative (in the sense that a single observation leads to a change in distribution over hypotheses or parameters). It's a matter of narrowing down beliefs on weighted possibilities though, not a definitive answer on the state of reality.
I must clarify this because you're right. I checked with my buddy on T-Mobile that has a Wireguard VPN and it works fine. I think it has to be an MTU setting that needs to be changed. Or it could be a geographic block but I find this theory unlikely.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Software You Rent
I remember when my grandparents’ phone company did some sort of upgrade in the 90s that forced them to use a touch tone phone. They returned the rotary phone they had been renting from the telephone company since sometime in the 50s.
Thank you for the post! At some point years ago I started realising that most problems in SNMP are stemming from badly implemented SNMP agents. Those problems can be:

1. Returning values different than what the MIB says.

2. Missing values that are not optional in the MIB.

3. Broken getnext code that returns an incorrect oid, which could even lead to loops. Net-snmp will detect it, but proper snmpwalk gets broken.

4. Broken getbulk repeater code that can cause crashes if the repeater is too large.

5. OIDs that will crash/stall/slow the agent.

6. Implementations that cannot handle simultaneous requests. Admittedly this is notoriously difficult to achieve: most MIB implementation code is not reentrant for various reasons.

7. SNMP SET is very difficult to implement, cannot be meaningfully used for almost anything beyond extremely simple stuff.

8. UDP encapsulation can cause MTU/fragmentation issues that are a nightmare to debug. Net-snmp actually implemented transports such as TCP and it was very nice, but it never caught on in general.

Bonus, there is also the not related to implementation problem of:

9. The query semantics of SNMP are non-existent, and the indirection in the SMI is cumbersome, which means that as a client/manager you'll have to do all sorts of data wrangling to find what you need.
That would be fine if you did not mind colliding with intergalactic medium at lightspeed for two million years.

The term "erosion" seems inadequate.
Pretty amazing if you think about. The operators would have to be pretty brazen to operate along the Southern California coast for any length of time, let alone follow Navy Destroyers.

Do consumer drones still require line of sight? I don’t mean pre-programmed routes. Could operators sit in a car or house and operate the drones with zero concern of being caught?
It seems likely simply because life came into existence almost as soon as physically possible on earth.
it has become significantly better, especially that of SwiftUI. When I followed the doc this summer, I actually got up to speed very quickly on swiftUI. I will say Rayenderlich has a habit of either over-engineering things, or engineering things in a way that's not needed in my use case. So I find his tutorials to be a reference at best.
It's perfectly readable with Javascript off.
Why should software be unlike other industries that are held accountable for their products? Imagine everything in your life had no warranty and click through eula type terms and changed uncontrollably to improve some metric for the manufacturer.
I suppose it all comes down to when life and environment are on the line instead of just revenue, and for revenue as you say the people who can afford it pay for it and enforce it with their contracts. To me therein lies the difference between programming and software engineering.
> In those cases, at the very least always prompt for 2FA for accounts that require it, regardless of if password auth succeeded or not. Don’t tell the user if it was the password or TOTP code that failed.

This still leaks that the account exists and has TOTP enabled tho.

You have to choose if leaking the correctness of the password, or allowing DoS of a login, unless all the accounts have the same MFA.
Exactly.

I’ve lost my source, but teachers had the highest job satisfaction of any job in the US when surveyed at a random point in the middle of the day (they rated it lowly overall due to low pay, but during an average day at 2pm they were enjoying themselves)

Nurses hated their job.
This is one of life's great mysteries. Given the hosting provider for 2b2t, we know pretty much for a fact that the packet spam from 2018 and 2019 (before I knew about the project ;)) would have cost tens of thousands of dollars in bandwidth overages per month. Yet, he never added a packet limiter until an unrelated exploit could cause other clients to crash due to spamming an offhand swap sound effect. It took the exploit going fully public, plus another 36 hours or so, for it to actually get patched. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In fact just starting to say things like “sorry I can't make that meeting, it's my day off” or “it’s my off time” even in a full time job can make your life so much better. Or at least make you leave that job if that’s met with resistance.

Most of the time and I mean most of the time people add you to odd hour work or more work because you don’t say no.
> students all learn the same concepts at the same time, but students that can handle more complex work still get it.

This is a failing approach. Math is built incrementally: you don't do "more complex work" for the heck of it, you progress incrementally by building upon what you've learned previously, throughout the K-12 curriculum. Having the students march in lockstep and literally "learn the same concepts at the same time" is a recipe for severe, enduring, unaddressed gaps in foundational math understanding, of the sort that is critically relevant to all subsequent work in STEM including statistics and data science.

Heck, the gold standard educational approach is "mastery learning", which is based on not having students progress in lock-step, but everyone learning at their own pace with close-to-individualized tutoring to the greatest feasible extent. The approach you describe is trying to do the opposite! Forget about algebra, this is exactly how you get students who can't even grok fractions in 8th grade or so.
Did anybody pick up on how the fingerprint doesn't come back? I wonder why that is.
If you find a german tank with a serial number 200, your best guess of the total number of tanks they have is 400.

With the same logic, we can guess that civilizations that discover nuclear power live around 150 years.
> It’s certainly better than SPAM.

That’s quite the ringing endorsement.
There's is definitely an axiom built into many world's.

Something along the lines of "things we don't observe are as valid and exist as much as things we do observe"

That's an addition over the usual "things we observe exist"
Ideally there would be a treatment for the "I can't breathe" stage. Unfortunately anti-viral drugs' effect depends on inhibiting future exponential replication. Kind of like how fire extinguishers are good if one sees and smothers the first flame but are moot if flames are already shooting out the windows.

Paxlovid might not even be easy to use. Five days might have already passed from infection to first symptoms to urgent care visit to PCR test result. And that's assuming the drug is in stock.
What would police investigators possibly have to gain from making this up?

It’s not even an outlandish claim. Knowing the technology and the region this force covers it sounds perfectly reasonable to me that a least some thieves are experimenting with this technique.

Come on. Not everything is a conspiracy.
Oh, man, I'm glad you cracked this. I spent days getting the Neuma stuff to work and I think I finally got it sorted out, but it was such a bear that I didn't bother sharing it with anybody else.

My own use case for this is that my main synth tool is my 2nd gen 12" iPad Pro, but I hate having to deal with the Camera Connector and the irritating fact that it won't recognize my higher wattage USB-C power adapter and USB-C to Lightning cable. So if I want to use it for any length of time I have to use the factory power wart, which actually loses power if I'm running the iPad at full brightness and using a lot of CPU on synthesis. Which makes it really annoying to work on stuff for long periods, and I can't plug in my iRig Pro and a synth unless I'm using a powered USB hub.

But this is great. I can just keep the Pi running and hooked up to the synth, even power it off a USB power pack for doing stuff on the go. Thanks for sorting this out!
I'm not particularly concerned about free will. But we have to have some notion of effects following from causes if we're to be able to reason about physics at all - otherwise the universe might as well be just a pile of stuff happening one after another with no rhyme or reason to it. Superdeterminism undermines that completely.
You haven’t seen many hierarchies have you…?

The people you get at the top are usually the people who are great at getting to the top and not much else. Dull bureaucratic players are the most numerically common. Sociopaths are next in the ranking. They would be the most common if they were not so often as destructive to themselves as others.

Every now and then you do get a “good king” who is both competent and effective and not a total psycho. These can be wonderful and very effective but they are rare. Usually they get beat out in hierarchy games by those who specialize in winning those games.
That is not correct, this patch is meant to prevent block break desync, which is when your client and the server disagree about what blocks are placed in the world. If the server discards/ignores anything your client sends, the server MUST reply telling the client to undo that action, otherwise desync occurs. (e.g. "i have broken this block" -> the client is too far to reach that block -> the server has to reply with "set that block back to air").

The original version of this patch https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/blob/d934dcc1e3e8b1ac34acef... fixed that desync, but it allowed you to force the server to generate an unlimited amount of chunks, which is an expensive operation.

You could only find players using this patch after it was modified to only reply if the chunk was already loaded. But at no point in time was this patch able to reveal if a chunk had been previously generated or not, that is a separate unrelated issue in which Spigot will reliably send a partial chunk on initial generation, but never for a previously generated chunk.

Take a look at https://2b2t.miraheze.org/wiki/Nocom
Yes, zstd is one of the officially registered content encodings https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parame...

I don't know if any clients or servers support it, but it's registered.

It's not going to help with images or videos though. Well it might help with bitmaps, but not as much as an image compressor would. Anything that's already compressed isn't going to get smaller with a general purpose compression tool, unless the existing compression is really bad at its job. There are some purpose built compression tools that can recompress specific formats for smaller results, the one I can remember is dropbox's lepton https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/lepton-image-compression...
The Billionaire Battle for the Metaverse
> if you randomly decide after the particle is launched whether to measure it or not, the interference pattern still appears.

So, if you run an experiment and in 50% of the time the machine measures the particles and in 50% don't, does it still form an interference pattern in both cases? That does seem odd. I would expect that whenever a measurement is made, the interference pattern would disappear.
I think you can get most of the benefits of the enhanced protection but setting specific features yourself instead of the one "do everything" flag.

I have 2FA required on regular logins for example, which can be a Yubikey or authenticator app token. At the same time, I have app passwords, used by my emacs-based email setup. Mu4e gives me instant search-based access to my saved email, and pretty good security elsewhere. Is that an option?
>It does seem
>you seem to have

also ironic :)

but really I'm expressing the uncertainty I have in my statements :)
It’s not hard. Just interview around in higher pay locations. I’m not even that good and I’m at 140k now for Java
Honey bees, Varroa mites and unintended consequences
There is no misunderstanding on my part. I’m pointing out why I think the current system is not sustainable. I’m complaining about the setup of the current system. Since the abandonment of state legislatures appointing senators I think it’s common to say senators represent the people of the state that elected them.

The House is not proportional to population since each state gets one member of the House regardless of population size. One Representative from California represents around 745,000 people and this number is greater than the population of 6 states.
Is the LDL response to saturated fat a sign of a healthy individual? (2018)
The comments are really a mess

Some people are suggesting to change how DevOps works by going against the definiton of DevOps

In that case, please don't put DevOps in the engineering title anymore
This is a manifestation of some internecine conflict among the top CN officials, calculated to deliver a calculated embarrassment. It's poor propaganda, but what you see is only the least important part of what's happening. That is, it's not meant as propaganda.
That’s not what was messaged to the general public from our leaders. The narrative went from “the vaccinated cant get infected” to “the vaccinated won’t really transmit it”, so “its clearly the unvaccinated who are the problem” to “well it turns out vaccinated people can get and transmit Covid just as well as unvaccinated”.

And if vaccines wouldnt “end” Covid why so much discussion on R values and “herd immunity”. The messaging around that went silent pretty quickly when it was clear that wasn’t happening with Covid.

And the only reason the narrative changed is because it was plainly obvious to the general public things weren’t going as planned.

But I get it, you cant predict how a new infectious disease will pan out, but holy shit has the PR messaging ever been terrible.

But then I wonder if that was intentional? Would the public ever have gone along with all this if the government was honest and said “we’ll continue to have restrictions for the next 5 years”?
Nothing so advanced, I'm afraid. The Monte Carlo system just creates a thousand points (2d position and velocity), and simulates them at 1 generation per second, culling points that are unlikely and reproducing points that are likely based on observations (clicking chunks and hearing back "loaded" or "unloaded").
There's a free book "The Swift Programming Language" that should answer most questions about the Swift language and its standard library. The web version is here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/index.html