skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lost Girls is a good point (I haven't read it, but I know the rap on it, and I know the rap on Moore, and yeah I'd probably be pretty squicked out).

I didn't know that about Besson! You may have ruined Léon for me. You really need to believe there's no question where Besson stands on sexual relationships between generations to stomach that movie.
Billionaire Leon Black targets New York elite in fight against rape claim
> This is extraordinarily naive.

I obviously disagree, and think that's a pretty dismissive comment.

> A standard existing just to have a standard is far better than every browser implementing its own scripting language.

We shouldn't be stuck with a language just because one person decided to invent a language in 7 days over 26 years ago for the internet at the time, and now we are stuck with that language forever with a VERY different internet. I would like to think in 10 years time we can move to a web where people have a choice of language.

And that doesn't mean what you imply - which is that every browser has it's own scripting language - because it's possible to architect an environment which allows for multiple programming languages in the browser (see bytecode, JVM, CLI, webassembly).

Is it really that naive to think that's a better way forwards?
I think they may be referring to the "pop" some tech companies have gotten lately where they may have been purposely undervalued so when they IPO they get a nice 5-10% "boost" and good publicity when they open.
> I am confident that somewhere between 10% and 50% of papers published in good journals are wrong, meaningless or fraudulent.

My experience is that this lies closer to 50%. This is the real problem with academic research and it’s only getting worse over time
What does Google display for you (it can be different from user to user) and what should be the expected result?

I'd say they map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_Island_(South_Shet... to a single country Antartica and assign that GMT+13.

Google has a 'feedback' link below the timezone result to report issues.
Some jokey commentary on the pandemic I think
In our house we just don't turn on the main lights after sunset and have dim lamps in the corner of most rooms.

Generally about 200 lumens. This kind of thing:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/rollsbo-led-bulb-e12-200-lumen-...
Not to mention the centralization of much of the coinage of BTC/Ethereum in the cryptocurrency exchanges. The killer feature of BTC is the ability of the entire population to achieve consensus about who owns what and have ultimate faith in the whole process. Owning BTC through an exchange is antithetical to the whole concept of BTC.

It's questions like yours that never get answered when others are trying to sell me on cryptocurrencies. These are basic questions that must have answers before BTC would ever be able to operate as a currency at all, let alone the currency.
Wait until this "Proposition Joe" hears about the concept of software.
What do towns full of software developers produce? There are developers that like living out in the country.
> maybe you are just bad as a programmer (nothing wrong with that)

This was actually my impression after reading the post. A bad programmer making a lot of ill-informed complaints. Zig is an unfinished low-level language. Not suitable for bad programmers.
> Alps mechanical switches are notorious for dust and dirt ingress

This is not accurate. You are thinking of cheap Alps clones. The “complicated” SKCM/SKCL switches from the mid 80s through early 90s have fancy switchplates that give an extremely clean electrical signal and have contacts entirely enclosed in a switchplate. All sorts of 20+ year old keyswitches (including Cherry MX switches) start to feel “scratchy” when they get used with a lot of dust/dirt inside, because the plastic gets scraped up.
Another way to think of this problem from a risk perspective is the following.

"I am long equity exposure in some startups. I would like to reduce my exposure. Is there an effective way to hedge my downside risk?"

If the basket of startups is somewhat diverse, then the first question is whether you can find exchange-listed companies or ETFs that operate in, or generate revenue from, the same sector. The diversification will reduce your single-factor exposure, and put options on that exchange-listed instrument will give you some insurance in the case of a correlated crash.
currently returns "Bandwidth exceeded" but here's a snapshot from archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20211221041947/https://morganya....
The person you replied to posted a link in a sibling comment that shows 90% of combined Federal and State SNAP money is spend on food.

From that link:

> Eight percent of total federal- and state-funded costs went for administration, less than 2 percent went for services for beneficiaries, and about 90 percent went for food that beneficiaries purchased.
Both great points that can be easy to overlook, especially once one gets into their career a bit.

Know yourself, and know your audience.
Thanks for your reply.

It's interesting to know what the perceived weaknesses and strengths are. Nim does have pattern matching but it's rarely used, whereas it seems to be used a lot in Rust (probably because of the prominence of enums). Nim has static lifetime management, but it's mainly used for eliding and thread safety (for now). Traits are an interesting feature, and make a good example of why I'm so bullish on Nim: someone has already replicated them with a macro: https://github.com/haxscramper/nimtraits

The popularity critical mass thing is mainly getting eyes on the language, but I think Nim has a slight advantage in that it's incredibly cooperative with its compile targets and FFI. Like Python, it's great for good glue code and 'scripting' without the performance penalty, and I hope that helps it meld into people's toolboxes over time.
Yes, no doubt that there are faster algorithms for specific matrices. That matrix you are bringing into the discussion is only n-dimensional, so not surprising that you can multiply it faster than a matrix that is n×n dimensional.
> It was pretty clear that the constructionist vision of education that the OLPC folks were promoting made sense for SOME kids, who were bright and self-motivated, but it wasn't where most kids were.

Maybe the problem was that most of the kids' natural love of learning and creativity had already been extinguished by compulsory school. Or as Papert put it, "Children seem to be such remarkable learners on their own, but then they enter school."
From what I can tell from engaging with Flat Earthers, it's actually 50/50 people who reject everything reasonable they've been told, and people who are playing a game.

The game is fun and simple: pretend you believe in the Flat Earth to piss people off. Refute their scientific facts with questioning and amusing statements, like "I never said it wasn't a circle" or "How do you really know Australia exists if you haven't been", etc. You win the game if the other person gets mad and truly believes you believe in the Flat Earth. You lose if either they don't believe that you believe this, i.e. if you've given it away with your facial expressions, or if they manage to actually present convincing evidence (e.g. like Carl Sagan's sundial shadows) that cannot be refuted.

I have conversed with both kinds. The latter can be highly amusing people to talk to, the former are legitimately strange and I can't fathom how they come to exist. The linked post may be correct; I think some people simply have the innate urge to reject everything they've been told and to look for a countercultural answer instead, regardless of the subject matter. At least this is a safe direction to channel their madness into.
(The other coauthor here.)

Teddyh's answer describes some of the technical aspects, through I would like to add the security scenarios that Mandos works to address. Any security measure is in one way or another designed with known threats, assets and costs/outcomes.

If one operates a bunch of servers with FDE in a server room, getting there every time there is a need to reboot is a significant problem. To mention a few causes, redundant nodes going up and down in the middle of the night, updates to the operating system and kernel, and misbehaving hardware. At the same time, those servers are likely to hold a lot of sensitive data to companies or persons, especially email, which puts the administrator at conflict between using full disk encryption or not using it. In my experience, unless there are regulations that dictate otherwise, servers are not encrypted because of the hassle and downsides of manual or needing to attend reboots in person. This was the initial case as to why Mandos was created many years ago. If the server hall loses both primary and backup power, there is a real risk that the administrator does need to travel there to bring the machines back up. That would be one of the major trade offs, through I would still recommend administrators to do that, compared to the risk of an unencrypted disk getting lost, stolen, or cases where someone comes in and takes all the servers.

There are naturally other scenarios that one can use Mandos for, but like any tool it's good to know whats it is designed for. It is not intended to replace setups where one is already using FDE where one types in the passwords manually at the terminal and is happy with it. If one does not need the unattended aspect but want to remotely reboot the server, there are things like Dropbear or IPMI/remote KVMs, in which case the security will rely on those components' security. In my experience, IPMI's security should not be exposed to the internet which means one first needs a security entry point to the local network. Dropbear uses ssh which mean one should use client certificates and verify the signature before use. Depending on the use case and what risks one wants to take there are benefits and drawbacks, but the key point I do want to come back to is that people really should use full disk encryption and Mandos alleviates the primary reason people don't use FDE.
Why? Rabbinical judaism is not the same as the Second Temple faith. Research its history and if it preserved the same interpretation of OT
Keeping it secret isn't as critical as you make it sound.

KeePass is open source. You can review the crypto, or pay somebody competent to review the crypto, or trust that the project or some 3rd party has done so.

I wouldn't go out of my way to publish my KeePass file publicly, but any attacker who can break the 256 bit AES encryption, or brute-force/dictionary-attack it's key that's using Argon2 KDF with enough rounds to take 1 second per key transform on my laptop, is well into the "I stand no chance against state level actors specifically targeting me" category, and I'll just assume I've lost to them already. In the immortal words of James Mickens: "If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU'RE GONNA DIE AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." If ASIO/CSIS/GCHQ/GCSB/NSA want access to my accounts, it's unlikely having passwords that are only in my memory is going to make much difference to my personal outcome. If a driveby teenaged script kiddie hits a zero day on one of my devices and pops my KeePass file, I'm not even sure I'd bother changing the passwords.

I'm happy enough storing the KeePass file on my (encrypted) laptop hard drives. I'm OK with using iCloud to sync it to my phone. I'm fine with it being part of my regular TimeMachine backups to a pair of external usb (encrypted) drives, and for a copy of that usb drive backup to be synced to an encrypted S3 bucket.
Wait till he hears about crypto
How can Apple sue them for adding their domain name to a blacklist?
well, it was authored for the PS2 and GameCube, I think. for those platforms I imagine you'd need to use assembly at least a little to get the desired performance.
I think a lot of "they should have just given them a laptop" commentators forget just how expensive these were at the time. Making a special BOM to make a "cheap" laptop would have walked into precisely the same problems OLPC hit.

Post-hoc reasoning.

I don't like some of the MIT post-hoc reasoning too. "we like this keyboard BECAUSE its hard for adults to use" is crap.
With Boston’s proof-of-vaccination mandate set to begin, businesses worry
You have provided no definition of this 'inherent value' you claim to exist. You keep stating conclusions in absolute terms with nothing to back it up.
That article is about -s -w and goupx.

goupx is not necessary after go 1.6. https://github.com/pwaller/goupx#update-20160310
Why does being or not being a medical doctor make you more qualified to promote censorship.

I think there is more weight behind laypeople defining norms they believe society should adhere to (democracy effectively) vs a group of technocrats stepping outside their lane and trying to control what / how media is published.
>how about NIH funding those gain-of-function coronavirus experiments (which included human testing) in Wuhan?

Politicians expressly disallowed those experiments. Don't stir stuff up just to stir. It was a non-political agency exec (Fauci?) who apparently sidestepped the typical review process where they would have been killed, and funded them anyway
Is reducing the number of employees per McDonald's a bad thing if the total wages and total employees for all McDonald'ses go up?
Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective
> A few of the kids I was working with loved working on their own projects and discovering new things. But for most kids, just giving them tools and letting them play wasn't really going to result in the kind of learning and creative expression that Papert and his colleagues were promising

That’s the Media Lab in a nutshell. It attracts builders from all over the world. And it naturally selects for people that are self-learners.
In Kubernetes 1.22+, you can use ephemeral containers: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/d...
See reports from the boots on the ground mostly ending in early 2019:

http://planet.laptop.org
"Build it for $0, sell it for $2, minus $0.25 marketing costs."
Wtf is going on in Australia over the last two years? They’re devolving into a tyranny.
Same way you decide when to resign in a chess or go game. When you know you are going to lose with certainty, or you are hopeless.
GB, not GBC. The GBC added a custom color pallete over a GB with a button combo on start and that's it.
You are not a visual learner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA
Most of the work has been on CI/CD, Windows, rationalizing and modernizing the code, and Zheng, Pawar and Goodman contributed a stochastic gradient descent solver, described here, https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04626 with benefits pointed out by Börsig, Brandes and Pasztor https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.10376 but it's not a default solver, you'd have to ask for it. Great people joined (took over?) the project and have done an amazing job of triage on open bugs, and some were even fixed. We rewrote parts of the network simplex solver to eliminate some of the dumbfounding "trouble in init_rank" errors. We have a long wish list, and are hoping for funding to do some of this work.
Market makers likely know how thing works and react to a volatility spike. I wonder what was the traded volume during the event and how it matches normal order book disposition. If only retail orders left in the boom then there will be very low volume. If there were pre-planted orders from the manipulator then all liquidations should hit them. Remaining orders should disappear shortly after the event, as soon as liquidations complete.
I'm as pro-nuclear as they come, but this blog post [1] that came out a few days ago kind of made me change my mind. The main issue is that nuclear power plants have a thermal power plant inside. Even if nuclear experiences some unbelievable breakthrough, the thermal power plant will still cost as much as an good old coal burning power plant, and those are not economically competitive anymore. And by the way, fusion has the exact same problem.

I still root for nuclear. Maybe NuScale's small modular reactors [2] will reduce so much the construction costs and time to deployment that nuclear will be competitive again. Maybe China's Helium cooled reactors [3] will turn out more economical than dreamed.

In the end though, nuclear seems to me to be the only realistic option for the exploration of the Solar system. In which case, we should continue to pursue nuclear even if it's not economical right now.

[1] https://austinvernon.site/blog/nuclear.html

[2] https://www.nuscalepower.com/benefits/cost-competitive

[3] https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Demonstration-HTR-PM...
This article? Not at all. Does you need to understand D-Bus to use systemd? Not at all. It is just implementation detail. I have an idea to leverage that in future to slap distributed service management on top of systemd, but in normal operations you will probably never spot that everything is D-Bus backed.
how many vectors are needed to conclude the distance of point A to point B in the 8th dimension? does it remain constant?
I've come to realize the relational model is not a great fit for most data.

It constrains your data model for the purpose of representing your queries in relational calculus, which allows a corresponding relational algebra to operate on them to help optimize disk access. This comes at a cost. Although, if this is your primary goal then that's fine, which it has been for many.

Data these days is deeply nested or document-based, and encoding this in the relational model is incredibly unwieldy, with huge ugly join queries, and the planner starts making random guesses at 6 joins or so.

Everyone ends up with a rigid, and poorly normalized physical schema to suit the sql planner. Think about all the times you avoid M-M joins because your queries will explode in complexity.

Also, pretty much every app these days wants streaming updates to queries. The optimizer doesn't optimize for streaming updates and most streaming is done by polling. Incremental view maintenance is also very difficult to achieve as well as streaming SQL.
The point of the hygiene optic is just that. The all knowing, all powerful, all loving God incarnate by definition should know all about hygiene and germs and quantum gravity and Pokemon and Covid and everything, by definition.

Yet, instead of teaching people about hygiene, God chooses to condemn the world to 1500+ years of easily preventable infantile death and all other kinds of suffering. Because, don't worry, afterlife is awesome, unless you go to hell like most people.
PL/pgSQL is great to cut down on network round-trips for relatively localized changes, though it can be surprising for folks used to keeping all the work in the app layer. DBs can also become CPU bound bottlenecks.
It said "made me love comics" so I immediately thought "so that was someome prominent in the past" and then "taught me to have them" meant "ok, so he's controversial enough to warrant a 'I was triggered when I understood those comics/his personal ideas' article" - put two and two together and bingo.

If it said the same about a sci-fi author, I'd have guessed someone like Heinlein (or maybe Asimov).
Use bottled water certified to be safe for use by babies.

Or something like https://www.eldoradosprings.com/ or https://rmbw.com/ or similar near you.
> "Remotely send money" is a super hard thing to do. I literally just struggled for a month with a transfer that included 3 countries, none of them is English speaking. It required...

But this only shows that some (many?) places are woefully behind on online banking, not that blockchain is required. I can transfer money abroad from my bank account to, probably, yours (do you have an IBAN account number?) with just a few clicks more in my online bank than a domestic transfer. If the banks in your target countries caught up to that (not incredibly advanced) standard, you could have done that too. And I'm fairly sure neither my bank nor the ones of my recipients, nor the systems in between them, use any blockchain whatsoever for this.

So not a valid example that blockchain is actually needed.
> Apple provided a fully functional demo app called Sketch which showed important architectural patterns like undo/redo. When developing my first Cocoa app, I’d basically go see how Sketch.app implemented something and copied the approach.

For reference: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/Sketc...

This was a tad difficult to find due to the aforementioned commercial Mac app called Sketch.
Myocarditis: Covid-19 is a much bigger risk to the heart than vaccination
The Last Single-Letter Domain (2021)
Marvel is once again hinting at doing something with Miracleman. A month or so ago some Kang the Conqueror comic ended with a Miracle Man logo. Word has it they will be releasing an omnibus of Moore and Gaiman and Buckingham have finished at least 4 issues of The Silver Age.
I would buy a new gopro to solve weatherproofing, add some kind of heating element to the case in front of the lens to prevent frost/condensation, put a shield above it to keep the rain and snow off as well as the sun, just for good measure.
Spotify mum after Rogan critics call to prevent Covid misinformation on platform
The Kubernetes folks' solution to this is the addition of `kubectl debug` (added as `kubectl alpha debug` in Kube 1.18, graduated to `kubectl debug` in Kube 1.20) as an alternative to `kubectl exec`. It takes an existing Pod and lets you attach a new container with whichever image you like, so that your production images don't need debugging tools.
If you start fresh would you use Kaniko or Podman? Trying to find out the best way to avoid docker —privileged on custom Gitlab runner
NIH likely funds 2/3rds of US biomedical research and ~1/3rd of global biomedical research by dollar value [0]. That link lists other big sources (ERC, MRC, US DoD, HHMI). My sense is that this landscape will change rather quickly with pandemic-inspired biomedical/defense initiatives and more private institutes in the US.

Moreover, NIH funding, due to its central role in supporting biomedical research, is often necessary for getting a tenured PI position. Many high caliber R1 schools require multiple R01 NIH grants for tenure. Often private funding sources are less valuable to universities because they pay lower indirect rates (<10% vs >40%) on sponsored research. As institutions are so dependent on NIH funding, the NIH can exert influence far beyond the research it funds directly.

[0] https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Australians definitely seem to have embraced living in an authoritarian and autocratic state. There are way too many examples in recent memory:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/09/austr...

Threatening journalists for exposing Australian war crimes:

https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/jail-threa...

And of course how the Australian government has disavowed Julian Assange.

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/australia-julian-assange-wiki...

Dictatorships will be freer for Australians at this rate.
Not the only sloppy writing.

> TSMC set forth a three-year plan to spend $100 million on expanding its chip and packaging capacity [... but with global uncertainty], TSMC is only talking about spending somewhere between $40 billion and $44 billion on capex in 2022.

That's only 400x as much, after all.
That's right, yeah.