skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wikipedia absolutely does.

Well, yes, I wrote myself that Wikipedia quotes it as a negative thing, but in the chapter where they list examples of people using it wrongly. The official definition they write in the beginning of the article is not negative. The section we're both quoting from is literally called "Woke as a pejorative term".

> I'm frankly flabbergasted that people have such a difficult time comprehending this usage of the word

I know how people (mis)use the word. There's the original and official meanings,

- "aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues" - Merriam Webster

- "alert to perceived racial prejudice and discrimination" - Wikipedia

Then there's people who use woke as an insult and changing the meaning of the word completely, the definitions we now both talked about and can be found on UD and on Wikipedia, and I'm repeating myself here, but in the section where they list the pejorative(!) usages.

One other funny detail of using UD as official definition is that it has 60 pages filled with different interpretations.

Even funnier to me is that the 6th most upvoted definition is a quote by Paul Joseph Watson, a far-right conspiracy theorist.

I still don't understand why you pretend like I don't know the different meanings of woke. I was complaining about people using the word woke to just complain about anything left from them they don't like, which is as embarrassing and childish as people on the left labeling everyone they don't like as a fascist and thus also completely misusing a pretty well-defined word.

But it seems to me that this is exactly the strategy of someone like Paul Joseph Watson. Taking a word which is used positively by people he doesn't like, start to use it negatively while hoping that this trend catches on until the word has the opposite meaning of what it once meant, while at the same time discrediting people who used it in a positive way.
Without Chrome and their push to force https I doubt that the web would have become so encrypted. But then CDN services did start centralizing https as well (because users don’t want to deal with certificates). Metamask and popular wallets, as well as layer 1 projects, have to decide to invest in these areas.
When you say “breaking” in that comment are you talking about backwards compatible API changes, or straight up bugs? It kinda sounds like you’re talking about the latter, which of course isn’t within the scope of semver.
There are (at least) a couple other languages where some local genius saw writing and developed a syllabic writing system: Vai (West Africa) and a language of Southeast Asia whose name I can't remember (the invention was fairly recent). Maybe also Yi (spoken in China, but written in an entirely different script).
Outwardly, Europeans are very tolerant. However, their society is pretty homogeneous, especially outside of large metropolitan areas. In my opinion, a lot of their tolerance is lip service because its not really a problem they need to confront on a daily basis.

This is just an anecdote, but I was walking with a friend in Berlin and we went to get on the subway. A group of guys came up to us, pushed us out of the car and said "No Asians allowed." No one else on the car really cared.
Or just selling their home.
I was primarily a macOS user prior to Windows becoming my daily driver for personal computing due to game availability, but I'm about to switch back. The other day I tried to set up a Zoom call with friends. Normally, I either Zoom from my work computer or use my phone to join, but this was an extended personal call, so I tried to set up my Dell laptop for Zoom for the first time in 3 years. Process:

1. Connect external webcam due to poor quality of laptop camera. Looks like a grainy 90s CRT TV.

2. Connect AirPods because speakers on laptop sound blown out.

3. Start Zoom. Zoom stops responding during test call and continually crashes every time I try to re-launch.

4. The Windows audio system itself crashes. I can't hear any audio or attempt to switch audio devices.

5. Restart computer. Now, the audio system is running, but Bluetooth isn't running, and I can't connect my AirPods.

6. Restart computer. Now, the audio system and bluetooth are both available, and Zoom starts! Hooray!

7. Have Zoom call.

Don't even get me started on printers. I've been dealing with this for years. It may just be a Dell driver thing, since my husband claims to have no problem with Windows stability with his PCs. I'm buying a Mac next week.

Nothing against Linux, either. I love it for software engineering. I just find Macs nice to use for their integration with my phone for personal use.
Are you claiming that there was zero cultural transfer along with the material trade happening in the Bronze age?
Ask HN: How is encryption-based ransomware still a thing?
From my understanding you only need two countermeasures (i) an append-only database (no mutable data) to store everything business critical and (ii) use virtualization on all clients to quickly re-provision a clean OS version.

So why does a recovery from ransomware take more than 300ms?
How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens.

For 150 pages it is so well written. The method has the potential to change your life at 18.
I’m not saying Metamask is a good tool, it’s not that easy switching to a good tool today anyway, we will see what happens in the next years but I expect that this will be an active area of research and improvement.
> Changing semantics of a query operator is something worth saving for a "big major" update, if you change it

Arguably, it was so important that they did a big major update just to deprecate it.
That's one of the more useful ones!

It's effectively a low-precision 4-component dot product feeding into an accumulator, which means it is a building block for larger dot products. Large dot products are very useful both in signal processing for FIR filters, as well as machine learning algorithms. The masking is just a bonus available on most AVX-512 operations and lets you do branchless if conditions.

The majority of vectorized routines I've written have used a multiply-add building block like this, including image resizing, audio resampling and low/high pass filtering, and audio/video compression.
probably the exact same response you would have had if one of them was in control and symlinked emacs to vim.
Thank you, this is very encouraging. I've felt guilty about a new part-time project not going well, but it's my first one in my current pattern. So to consider "start a new part-time project" to be itself a project makes a lot of sense.
If Postgres feels too heavy, don't worry! Just use SQLite, and swap in Postgres later once you need to.
But what is the likelihood that this result applies to humans vs. doesn't apply to humans? It doesn't sound like you can say. There are also differences even between two different humans. Simply being different is not enough to discount a result using a model that has otherwise proven successful.
Worth reading on this is 'Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It'

https://b-ok.cc/book/3383661/e3e6b4
Yes, good question. I spent probably 5 hours a day for a month learning and experimenting before I wrote the article. So a significant time investment was made to find out about these items. I am saving you that time by giving you this information. So you will make more money per time spent than I did, but I will be happy to have saved you the time, while benefitting from the knowledge I have helped others and made a small referral fee in the process.
Google speakers are losing features due to Sonos patent infringement
Hmm... Why? It seems a bland, but rational statement. It's a simple way to say that they strive to pick the best ones. Yes, it's almost useless, but it's a way to get the conversation going.
> Security is not more important than reliability.

Yes, it is. In most cases Confidentially > Integrity > Availability. Systems should fail-safe.

There are some scenarios such as medical devices where integrity or availability trump confidentiality. But most information systems should favor going offline to prevent a breach of confidentiality or data integrity.
Emacs doesn't just work out of the box. Nobody has time to fool around with Emacs and learn a bunch of non-standard shortcuts. Just to do what you're suggesting it would probably require installing an entire package manager within emacs, then using that package manager to install some packages, and installing whatever packages outside of emacs, and maybe you'd even have to put some lines in your .emacs file, and probably even more steps. There's a 100% chance there will be some issue along the way. Emacs is an archaic dinosaur. It has a high barrier to entry. Nobody uses it except computer programmers. Many graduate students can't even be bothered to install TeXMaker. A lot of them use Overleaf just because it's the path of least resistance.
Well for a start you need to know how they got into your system, sure you could patch it all up in '300ms', but they'd just hack you again straight away.
You're on the right track. I think that the issue with this whole concept is that it didn't go far enough. People got too worked up about the myths and started acting out which messed with other norms and laws, but what if they simmered for a other decade? Not that I want to see the result of that, but it's a curious idea imo.
The web3 providers mentioned are the most popular, but they do not control distribution. That's the whole point. Anyone can distribute the data on the blockchain with no clear legal repercussions unlike with music where you will get sued for distributing music without permission.
You'll have to do your own research on that if you want to know.

I don't have any horse in this race, personally. I don't have kids and don't have plans to pop any out of me, so I don't feel the need to investigate further.

But I still want to point out no one in this thread so far has any data or experience interpreting it to claim "my kid is not a rat, therefore the study means very little."

I'm happy to be proven that rats aren't a good indicator for what the article claims though.

There's a lot of bogus academic papers out there, especially within the past 10 years.

But I'm also not going to interpret it with my "gut" feeling of rat != kid on this because it's way out of the scope of what I understand. There's better people outside of hacker news comments that can explain this stuff better.
They are happening faster than expected because IPCC reports have been sandbagging for decades.

Could you elaborate + provide a few sources for this?

I'm not doubting you -- I'm just curious about this assessment and would like to understand how you've come to it.
I'm absolutely confident I can discount it in the sense of "reduce its predictive power" compared to a study in humans, but I already said I'm not discounting it in the sense of dismissing it entirely.

> It doesn't mean 0 predictive power.

BTW, I also think that most of the time you shouldn't change your daily behavior based on one single human study.
IPFS isn't magic. Someone has to store it.

IPFS is basically Bittorrent plus a financing system. Arweave charges US$5/gigabyte for permanent storage on IPFS. This is supposed to be forever, funded by investing the money and speculating in the declining future price of storage.

You can supposedly put academic papers on Arweave's version of IPFS.[1] But if you try "Browse", nothing appears. This acts like another one of those distributed systems that isn't.

[1] https://ss6puabcq3ch.arweave.net/5Yeg3wT4COQL6Bz-tdp9xlmeiwg...
He did say quickly
but you do do get Snap installed whether you asked for it or not.
I think you are economically clueless. Reading may help you.

Rather than raising taxes and cutting spending, our leaders, including Democrats and the Fed have printed enormous amounts of money to help the poor. The average American family last year received over $50,000 in COVID related support including the Child Tax Credit, expanded SNAP benefits, Unemployment insurance and ability to wave loans including student debt and mortgages.

What is the point of tax increases when we have exactly the same result printing money?

Ironically, the primary driver of inequality, that you complain about is the FED's purchases of bonds which suppresses interest rates on the long end - and holding interest rates down on the short end. This makes stocks appear to be cheap. The stock market is correlated with the FED's balance sheet. Adjusting income taxes, will do little or nothing to address wealth inequality.
It's mine but I admit I use it constantly when discussing NIMBYism.
In 1959 LIFE magazine ran a pictorial feature on RAND, with pictures by the noted photographer Leonard McCombe. [1] Some pictures from the LIFE article appear in [2], pages 130 - 133.

The pictures show RAND staff including nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter [3, 4] lounging in modernist furniture, or reclining on the floor, in a dimly lit seance-like circle among bookshelves near a spiral staircase, where a young woman sits taking notes. The pictures really capture the mid-century prestige and mystique of think tanks and defense intellectuals.

[1] LIFE Magazine May 11 1959 Pg 101 PICTORIAL ESSAY: Valuable Batch of Brains: an Odd Little Company Called RAND Plays Big Role in U.S. Defense. Photographed for LIFE by Leonard McCombe.

[2] http://www.ephemerajournal.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/issu...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wohlstetter

[4] https://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/w/wohlstetter_albert.html
totally different
This article blames teachers unions on school closures. I am not pro or against unions. But where I live teachers unions do not have any decision making power. Some leverage? Yes, but only a little and even then only around negotiating basic things like salary. The choice is with the school board and superindent. School districts are staying virtual because they don’t have enough staff. Teachers, yes, but more so support staff—bus drivers, classroom aids, custodians, food services, etc. parents are being told, “sorry there will be no bus today, you will have to drive your kid to school.” Schools are closing because they can’t keep staff and half the students and teachers are sick and virtual anyway. Try teaching 15 8 year olds virtually and 10 more in person at the same time. It doesn’t work. The jobs were not great before and they are awful now. Not a lot of people are excited to become a teacher these days.

Now, if you want to talk about school choice, and, in this model I suppose you are given a tax credit, you will create the exact same situation we have in higher education that everyone complains about being too expensive and a scam, and price gouging, etc, etc. because schools will compete to create the biggest and flashiest school to attract the best and brightest, but more importantly richest students. The other schools will be impovershied and facilities will get worse and worse.
I believe that it's possible for there to be a reasonable use case for a pointer to something that changes, though I'd appreciate an example because I can't come up with one. If it links to something that's not on some sort of blockchain, then what's the point?

If an NFT contains a normal URL, how could that possibly be valuable? The domain could expire or be transferred, or the original server hosting it could go down. I can't imagine any NFT that holds "ownership" of a real world tangible asset having any meaning whatsoever.
Yes. I regret not being more clear in my original comment, because the scheme I alluded to is an application of public key cryptography, such as Certificate Authorities, and is not about cryptocurrencies specifically.
It seems like a very common name in America. Sam is pretty common and I’m guessing Harris is top 20 most common surnames? Has a nice enough ring to it.

Samuel Harris sounds a lot more formal so as the child gets older and if they go into law or something they’ll have a respectable sounding yet common name, easy to understand and spell.

It’s a relatively short name which, as someone with a similarly short name can tell you, is a small yet frequent convenience.

I’m assuming you’re asking about naming your child. But this name could also work pretty well for a pet. Sam Harris the goldfish, or Sam Harris the dog, sounds great.

I say go for it!
Web2 was more about ajax than centralization. It was being able to interact with websites without needing a full server rerender on every interaction. Why is everyone trying to rewrite history.
Great post, but IMHO it should have been called "My First Impressions of Ethereum". The web3 ideal and movement is much larger than Ethereum only, and many are focused on solving these issues. For example Mina allows for mobile clients to verify the blockchain using recurring ZK proofs.
VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/) has always handled shuffling music without issue for me on Linux (and any other operating system). Have you tried VLC yet?

Also, there are other Linux media players that focus more specifically on music:

- Lollypop (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Lollypop): GTK-based

- Elisa (https://elisa.kde.org): Qt-based

- Vvave (https://vvave.kde.org): Qt-based, mobile-first
it's a typical new world vs old word sort of thing. In Germany its not much different. In terms of general tolerance, safety and so on most European countries are perfectly fine but if you brought a girlfriend or boyfriend to your parents who is black or muslim or 'foreign' in some way you might get weirder looks than in the US, say.

Japan is also like this. As a foreigner it's one of the safest and formally nicest places to be, but you will run into a lot of underhanded double standards.
Could you comment on why you recommend Postgres (vs say mysql)? I know mysql well but haven’t had much exposure to Postgres.
How did unit tests not catch this?
It does deep-learning based denoising and super resolution, de-blurring (as a result of camera shake or out-of-focus shots), sky replacement (e.g. if you took a shot on a "severe clear" day it can make your sky cloudy), and depth-aware haze removal. It can do auto-portrait touchups. It can automatically tweak a subject's apparent age and expression, it can transfer a style of makeup from one subject to another. It can adjust lighting in post, you can actually move the highlights and shadows around. Etc.

It's kind of amazing tbh.
Have We Forgotten How to Read Critically?
Its only an addiction when you connect your identity to the outcome.

The problem is that when you are building something with just an expectation of contributing to the world or intrinsically, it doesn't hurt when you don't get 1000 active users but you are still working on it because you "want to".

I spend 80% of my free time on side things because I love learning and I am curious about the world and that makes me happy.

Socialising and exercise is the rest 20%...

Think balance is subjective for everyone but you can easily notice it when something just makes you miserable.

For instance when I am learning to code, the bugs and things that I don't understand are so freaking frustrating... but I keep going anyways because its interesting.

We are all writers of our own stories including balance I would say...
Remember that the Monty Hall example even tripped up Paul Erdős
Hey, the admins are being biased in my thread. They allowed a user to hijack the thread accusing me of being a liar. The thread has lost all of the original context and chocked the thread.

They've also been extremely biased in the number of supportive comments they've deleted as well as allowing comments that are personal attacks and name calling in violation of HackerNews rules claiming "fairness."

Please support me in asking them to remove the entire thread if they can't apply the rules equally. hn@ycombinator.com

In addition to the bias of allowing Alex to go by his legal name to avoid being identified after providing extensive documentation of Alex being his preferred name.
Don't want to bother with OS updates? CoreOS exists. And containers abstract away the fiddly parts of running services. Firecracker/Ignite exists. I feel like all the parts are there to build what you want. Except there's no market for it. Even if it were free and easy to run your own Nextcloud instance, most users would never switch away from Google/Apple/Microsoft.

Techie users can roll their own servers. Power users can buy a NAS with 1-click service installs. Normal users don't even want alternative services.
Windows is for the people that knowingly pay to build their own digital prison with ads, where they will be beaten up by other prisoners.
Do you have any recs for where to buy ALA and ALCAR from? Reddit seems to recommend nootropicsdepot which I've honestly never heard of before today.
Aquamation: Eco-Friendly Alternative to Cremation
That is what I learned FORTRAN on too, a CDC cyber something (a year earlier). I do not even remember what happened to my text book for that class. And my first job was in FORTRAN a year later (which I messed up royally).

As someone else mentioned, I have been thinking of getting back into FORTRAN.
Sure, but that applies to any kind of malware and is orthogonal to the actual question of ransomware. Fixing the vulnerability is more often than not simply an update of the vulnerable server software, while recovering the data and bringing the entire IT infrastructure into a functional state is currently the time consuming part.
I didn't know that. I once hired someone to do that but didn't know it had a term, or that it was common, or that you could find a service when you needed it.
Your “trial period” idea doesn’t scale.

You want your new hires to come in with confidence that they really were the right people for the job. Not thinking they have a target on their back. And nobody comes into a job fully formed like Hera springing from Zeus’ head (or was it the other way around). Even your l33tcode super soldier hires are going to fuck up SOMETHING in their first three months.
The "Walking Distance" episode of the original Twilight Zone is a classic. Captures you can't go back.

But I have to say, I dearly want to hear what the elderly at the end of their lives have to say to us. Whether I act or not is up to me, but I want to hear their piece.
I'm primarily a windows user with a couple of linux-based servers. I just went through this very thing, except I ended up spending hours Googling after failed updates to ensure I could jump to latest LTS from two LTS versions behind.

Half way through I cursed myself for not having documented my set up well enough to just wipe and install clean latest LTS image so I wouldn't have to wade through various forum question/answers.
The Importance Trap
The total cost of my plan, including the part my employer pays for is less than $500/month, and I’m of the opinion it includes too many provisions but I couldn’t find similar plans that didn’t include the coverage I didn’t want.
> Everything I have done is based on my current understanding which is not really complete.

Sure, but that's what time traveller you brings to the table, some "future understanding".

I would hope I would listen, deflect my trajectory somewhat at least.
Surprising comment from you. I think hardy would agree that this is a good idea.
Actually, iirc the Apple M1 has that x86 memory model thing on P cores only. And macOS must then only schedule x86 processes on those.