skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reality is not "bias" and disdain for warmongers is not "attitude". Sorry you feel that way, it really shows in the rest of your comment.

And if you didn't accept that, it wasn't gaslighting it was a mistake on my behalf. I thought you did -- you still honestly don't believe many libertarians vote Republican? The data just doesn't agree with you, so either you're willfully ignorant of it or using some no true libertarian fallacy.

> see this is likely about the well worn tactic of conservative [republicans] not identifying as such. Leftists don’t have a pattern of hiding this way. OTOH, there are countless examples of traditional belief right wingers who continue to do this. Supporters around them will continue to dig their heels in saying this facade is not so.

That's all based on your no true libertarian beliefs that don't match reality though.

> All of this fits with your belief that it is not an oversimplification to label centrists, center-left, neoliberals, progressives, hard leftists, and further on the left all as liberal.

I have no such belief.

Since you bring them up, many people in the above categories from centrists to communists vote for and support the Democratic party. That doesn't make them not-a-hard-leftist, not even though many of them actually describe the Democrats as a right wing party and claim to dislike many of their policies! I don't know why you have such a mental block about libertarians who support Republicans.
Hm, it definitely works for me (on a re-try) and most people according to analytics don't get an error message (as well as friends who've tried it). I do load the models from a different domain (via cloudfront, though I've set up CORS there). Maybe you have some extra strict setting activated? (Ps big fan paul! fanboying from the interaction)
How is that different from switching from one web site to another one? eBay delisting you doesn't mean that you can't move to Etsy, et al. or set up your own website — the web has always been decentralized so there are many options.
Solving (and Animating) Advent of Code with 아희
Good luck Tolexx!

Finding the first job is always really stressful, and I really hope you find what you are looking for.

Happy New Year!
Funnily base64 suffers from a related issue that the likes of base58 correct : l and I or O and 0 looking similar or even identical depending on the font !
if there was less political division that would be nice
I like analogy #1 the best so far. People could be sending each other letters with confidential information on the insides of envelopes (particularly if it's under the part that is glued together) without realizing it, and taking the envelope apart would reveal it.

Another (digital) analogy is when departments sent out PDFs with black rectangles drawn over text, and someone just opened it up in a PDF editor and deleted the rectangles.
Like this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/90gx5u/xfce4_beos...
> most of these communities are closely knit. So they'll know immediately if you are faking i

For marriage that’s one thing. But what about other aspects. Would a person have difficulty being hired without a genealogical backstory? How?
Why? You don't think someone can have had excellent personal character while still being a product of a time and place that inculcated harmful group chauvinism? Might as well throw out all of Greek philosophy with that attitude.
This map categorizes Mexico as Central America. How does anyone get this wrong in 2021?
Sometimes analogies caue more confusion then they clarify. I think this is one of those cases. The underlying issue isn't complicated, we should just tell people what it is directly.
I install automated and semi-automated equipment in factories, sometimes including threaded fasteners, and the overwhelming majority of QC issues I observe (both on the devices being manufactured and on the mechanical equipment I'm delivering and writing code for) are not inaccuracies in torque or clamping load, but instead, failure to torque a bolt at all. The cycle was started but someone hit the E-stop mid cycle, and the fasteners were barely finger tight but you can't tell by looking at it.

A torque wrench is better than a Smartbolt once it's put on the fastener, but the Smartbolt can be measured just by looking at it.

An HN company does a similar thing with RFID tags for grease zerks:

https://greaseboss.com.au/

Again, it's not so much about measuring that the precisely right amount of grease was dispensed, but that every one of the 37 grease points was at least near the tip of the gun once every 30 days for the life of the equipment; the operator didn't forget about that one zerk that's hard to see and grease only 36 zerks for 5 years...
I have checked it many times before and score was reliably 0/10 before. Seeing your comment I decided to check it out on this site and guess what today score is 9/10.
This isn't a marketing message/post.

This is a Hacker project to explore improved ways of doing things with the new primitives of our collective technology base. In this case, owning your own identity with a decentralized identity system.

I think marketing posts are better suited for another forum, no?
Not exactly. The reference regarding flu is https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/flu-cases-covid-en... where apparently not a single case was detected in late 2020/early 2021, despite a period of time beforehand without lockdowns (roughly July through end of October). There are references in the media to colds being more prevalent throughout this entire same period though, but admittedly not during the lockdowns, as you say.

From this I made an uneducated extrapolation that the common cold pretty much stuck around somewhere and began to rapidly spread again as soon as people got out and about (I got one first week of schools going back in September, as per usual), whereas flu clearly did not.
Probably get a new job, or at least get some offers.

I've been at a (research) hospital for almost 3 years and they did not give raises through covid. So now, my calculus about working for a non profit had changed because engineer salaries have gone up so much, especially in my experience level.
Just want to point out that docker bypasses ufw, so binding to 0.0.0.0 might not be as safe as you think. Best think to do is not expose any ports at all and have your proxy connect to the container’s internal port.
More than once, i've heard this used as a eulogy; usually from son to now-deceased father.
Its almost like canceling all of humanity although it accomplishes extremely little but a CYA for the politicians is not the best way to handle this.

Im sure when are fighting the 200th variant whose symptoms are a day of fatigue we will almost be ready to end the restrictions.

And just for the record, im 2x vaccinated, not an antivaxxer or denier or something.
I'm not sure what the definition of a bad dose is, but i have never taken any flu shots and have managed just fine.

So with three vaccine shots for Corona, I'd say that the chances of getting seriously ill with the flu is much higher than Corona.

Thus my original point stands, we should start treating Corona the same way we treat the flu, starting now.
We had to ETL .csv data that must have originated in SQLServer.

The utf-16 fact about Windows was apparently unknown to my predecessor.

Who wrote some nasty c-language binary to copy the data, knock the upper byte off of each character ahead, and save the now ASCII text to a new file of the mysql load.

The encoding='utf-16' argument was all that was needed.

For want of a nail. . .
I imagine they probably have a central air system recirculating the air.
Yup, https://github.com/chc4/lineiform. It's not usable at all yet - I was building it on top of Cranelift, which turned out to be a fairly bad idea, so I'm going to have to essentially rewrite all of it with my own codegen backend I think. I've been hacking on it on and off but it's been much slower progress due to work (and writing a codegen backend is hard...)
There is no association other than these ideas are both clear rejects. I believe my point stands.
So? What is your point? Is your point to bring down those who have made it to the top on their own merit because you believe someone somewhere in their ancestry gave them a "massive leg up"? How do you prove that? And even if you can prove it, what is the fault of the person who was born into privilege? Do you mean to fault them for being born into it? If it was Nepotism I would agree with you completely. But if it was purely out of their own efforts that would be immoral. Even if it was built on a foundation left by that person's predecessors.

I would rather focus on helping those who haven't made progress because they were systematically suppressed and be given a massive leg up. That shouldn't come at the cost of those who genuinely put their own efforts to climb the ladder in their respective fields.

We have enough jobs and money to afford both. To help those who are systematically suppressed as well as continue to hire those who are born into privilege. Definitely not at expense of each other only because we want to check off some morality list. Both are human beings at the end of the day. I would want to see both prosper.
Torquing to a known torque and painting marks is fine...except there's no guarantee the clamp load hasn't changed due to all the mating surfaces wearing.

There's also too many variables in the real world if the application is critical enough. Clamp load changes with how many times the fasteners have been assembled due to the threads getting polished, how clean and dry the fasteners are, etc.
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is: Often, but not all the time. Depends on how high-security the prison is, and what the purpose of the visit is. Meeting with an attorney, for example, you're likely in private and there may or may not be glass.

The addition of plexiglass (for instance) was considered an unwelcome one recently in some prisons: https://thecrimereport.org/2021/07/20/captives-behind-plexig...
And if you think there's nothing worse than government, wait until it fails.

Seems you never saw anything outside US.
Isn't the etymology of 'blitz' in English due more to 'blitzkrieg'?
I've found there's really only one way to permanently move on, and that's by "letting go". Conceptually it's a simple technique, but challenging to put into practice. David Hawkins's "Letting Go | The Pathway of Surrender" was really useful to me when I needed to move on from a challenging period of my life. Brief passage from the book:

"Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it. The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, fearing it...It means to drop judgement and to see that it's _just_ a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all efforts to modify it any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. _It is resistance that keeps the feeling going._"

Beware of running away from your past experiences - they'll eventually catch up with you emotionally.
yes, this is one of the reasons i never take flights that transit thru the US. their border situation is atrocious, and the fact that I have to enter their country for a transit is simply kafka-esque. instead of being a civilised country when it comes to transit they’re basically the belarus of north america.
While this is stupid, i don't see anything indicating he doesn't know how websites work.

He seems to want to prosecute the behaviour in question. Yes that's stupid, but i don't see anything indicating he doesn't understand the underlying concepts. Hell, computer laws are so vauge,its not even out of the question that this meets the definition of "hacking".

Just because you disagree with what someone is doing doesn't neccesarily mean they just don't understand.
You're probably correct here.

Flu cases are tracked due to its severity. Cold cases are likely not often even paid attention to by many of those experiencing them.

Anecdotally, I and my friends and relatives hunkered down for COVID in 2020, and we had more cases turn out to be actually COVID-19 than common colds.
But would you if it isn't even an allowed application in the first place?
Sounds like a doctor's union. Is that a thing?
A user wouldn't know that there are multiple ways to encode a given character unless they're experienced with Unicode.

Additionally there are (iirc) multiple ways to encode characters even in the ASCII set.

This is purely a failing in consistent normalization schemes.
It would be nice to know what the source of the energy imported was, as it's at least conceivable that the remaining 11.9% of Scotland's energy was imported from 100% low-carbon sources in England.

Complicating matters further, in 2021 a connection between Norway and the far north of England became operational[0], so some of the energy Scotland imported from the National Grid could have come from Norwegian renewable sources.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Link
I created this site to enhance my New Year's Eve experience.

There are plenty of websites with countdown timers, but I couldn't find one solely dedicated to watching the year increment.

It's also super useful if you wake up from a long cryosleep, have access to a time machine, or otherwise need confirmation of your place in history.

Hope you find this a useful addition to your celebrations!
This doctor did not spew misinformation, he was right scientifically. The press does spew misinformation on a weekly basis, also for COVID-19. Was the press deplatformed? No. There is a process to determine truth, that's called science. Abandoning the scientific process for political goals, and economical goals in the case of the press is harmful.

Here he was deplatformed for political reasons, like crying fire in a theatre. Vaccinations are important, and criticism has a huge effect on the percentages. And under 85% the policies are not working that much.
> Currently that's the only sure way for Russian citizens to fund anti-Putin opposition without immediate consequences.

This seems like incredibly irresponsible advice: if you're worried about consequences for a political donation, leaving a signed public confession is the police's dream come true. Compromise someone's computer and you now have proof of a crime as well as something you can use to pressure everyone they transacted with, even if you had no idea to investigate them at the time it happened.

Best of all, nobody knows if that's happened unless you tell them so you can continue to quietly map out the opposition network and pressure each person you link to a Bitcoin transaction to identify their partners but otherwise stay quiet.
could you explain the difference between using Handshake/Bobwallet vs. using ENS/Metamask as login?
This is the zeitgeist of today: no nuance, no complexity. One cannot be both good and bad in same lifetime. One cannot be both flawed and redemptive. Witness the crucifixion of Ernest Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Rudyard Kipling, and countless other writers from the past.
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this because of the Playable Quotes [0] project that I worked on with @rndmcnlly.

First off, I love embedding data into images. It’s surprising how useful it is to do this! The main reason that I like embedding data into an image is because you get a “thumbnail” essentially for free.

In the future, I hope to see a more widespread use of this technique, especially for images that are the output of a set of data. Imagine a chart with the source data embedded into it! Or an SVG embedded in a PNG.

This is what we did for Playable Quotes, each quote is a PNG of the framebuffer at the time the quote was started. All of the data needed to play that moment in the game is embedded into the PNG.

That said, there are at least three main approaches that can be used to embed data into a PNG. Each has various trade offs:

The approaches are as follows:
1: Concatenate the PNG with a ZIP file
2: Use PNG chunks (this is what is done in the article)
3: Embed data using a stenography

Here are the pros and cons of each approach:

Option 1: Concatenate the PNG with a ZIP file

This is a clever technique because (in short) PNGs have length information in them and zip software will attempt to read files from the end of the file if they can’t read from the start.

Pros:

- Super easy to do: “cat original.png file.zip > new.png”

- Easy to work with. You can extract data by using the “zip” command or renaming the new.png to new.zip

Cons:

- The data is lost when sharing the image. Most image hosts and even some chat programs will strip out the zip data from the image.

Option 2: Use PNG chunks (this is what is done in the article)

This approach is nice and clean, as the PNG specification explicitly allows for this. In essence, a PNG is a little key/value database where the keys are four ASCII printable bytes.

Pros:

- Complies with the PNG standard

- Data is usually maintained, but not always!

Cons:

- Requires special tooling to use. Standard PNG command line tools don’t offer easy ways to get chunk information out of PNGs

- The extra chunks are SOMETIMES removed. Especially by services like Twitter which will try and optimize the images before hosting them

Option 3: Embed data using a stenography

This is the approach that PICO-8 uses for its game “cartridges” and what we ultimately used for Playable Quotes

Pros:

- The most durable way to keep the data attached to the image

Cons:

- The amount of data you can store is limited by the size of the image

- Special tooling is needed to extract the data

In general, my personal favorite is option 1, as it is the most useful. However, it’s sadly not a practical solution to use in a world where the tools we use to share images (Twitter, Imgur, etc) modify the images in transit.

Footnotes:

0: https://tenmile.quote.games
There never was a varna system. You are just repeating Arya Samajist fantasies that anachronistically project modern ideas back. For instance those same grhyasutras that mention not marrying sagotra also mention the rathakara as an example of a jati that does not belong to a varna.

I think a lot of the criticism of caste is based on silly assumptions but it will not help to defend if we make our own silly assumptions.
There's going to be about 300k Bitcoin created in the next 12 months, and someone more motivated to care than I am could put some tight boundaries on that estimate if they wanted to.

If a bank is about to send me Euros, how many Euros will they get to create out of nothing in the next 12 months? I could probably make some educated guesses based on past rates; but there is a lot more certainty in Bitcoin.

Ironically given the price swings, the actual asset involved here is more stable and predictable than any asset that has ever existed in human history. That is going to matter somehow, although I'm not going to guess how. In a very similar way to how the internet making communication effectively free had (or; is having) far reaching consequences that were difficult to predict. This sort of never-before-seen certainty is going to have consequences.
Yeah, couldn't possibly be that they have a valid point, just dismiss it wholesale!
Try to eat less. It should go well with spending less and the higher inflation.

Try to work out more.

Try to spend less money on stupid crap I don't need like video games.

Try to save and invest more.

Try to make my place look nicer.

Read more and watch less TV. Well, I've got a good headstart on that since November.

And ... generally ... be more grateful. It's getting rough out there for some people.

All my goals pretty much scream "I'm getting old."
While AT&T doesn’t pay well, that doesn’t sound right for a director there. I know friends making about 140 who are relatively junior developers.
I wish. Hardware backed credentials are more secure and easier to use.

The lowest common denominator is passwords. The second lowest common denominator is SMS. Even this low bar excludes some older people, customers on foreign travel, and privacy activists. Another notch up is TOTP. Requiring a TEE capable smartphone would mean losing customers or absorbing the cost of buying Yubikeys (and replacements). So this is typically only done for internal enterprise users.
> Can your neighbor, who shares your L3 cache, be using memory so much more aggressively than you that it causes you to evict your L2/L1 cache?

I'm curious. How could the "neighbor" possibly evict your L1/L2 when it is local to you? Worst it can do is thrash L3 like crazy but if your own data is on L1/L2, how would that get affected?
If you can deal with all their pop-ups,

With key and swipe and press,

And appreciate all their coding,

Though internally ‘tis a mess…
My reading of the piece is that it ascribes to the Copenhagen interpretation an anti-realist perspective - that is, the theory is nothing other than the ability to predict the results of experiments. In this view, there is no wave-function in reality: it is just a mathematical tool that appears to predict the dots on the screen well.

Scientific Realism holds that in some sense scientific theories approximate the world, not just in what the experiments observe, but also in the content of their explanations (precisely, you gain knowledge not just about observables, but also non-observables: things that the theory requires to be true, but can't show). The article ascribes this view to Einstein, who presumably thought that there was a such thing as space-time, and it does actually curve under the influence of mass - despite only seeing things that are explained by the curvature, and not the curvature, or the space-time, itself.

The article then goes on to say that the anti-realist approach (dominated by not-undeserving practical concerns and application) focuses on computation: the mathematics is good so long as it gets the right answers in the end, and the end justifies the means. Therefore, it doesn't matter what contrivances must be dealt with in-between: if you get a better prediction, or can do a new exciting thing, then that was always the aim.

Thus, I read the article as advocating a stepping back from this view: it blames this focus on sheer mathematical sophistication as the route to truth as the source of profound disinterest in philosophy by physicists (it is important to note that I think that aeon is a philosophy newsletter!). Earlier and contemporary physicists (prominently, Einstein) had an interest in not just what their theories produced, but what they explained the world to be, and the article decries the modern lack of this.

I recommend the SEP article on scientific realism, which is dense but on a brief reading gives enough of the context to recognise the article. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-realism/ (Although it is even more philosophically focused).

NB. I'm not a physicist or philosopher either, so grains of salt! My only self-endorsement is that I spent the last year reading a bit of philosophy, so perhaps I can be at least a stepping-stone to better resource.
Nah, just not bothering to set up IPv6 peering sessions.
I've heard some anecdotes about that but no hard data. This could just be confirmation bias rather than a real effect. People like to believe that their actions are having an effect, and they see imaginary patterns in randomness.