skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is categorical thinking.
behavioral psychology, molecular genetics, behavioral genetics, ethology, endocrinology, etc. will all provide their own "demonstrated answer" to the same question, even when they will be contradictory to each other.
> How is, "A poll on a single issue is not the same as electing an entire person." a tautology?

The problem isn't that you're saying they're different. The problem is that you're defining "will of the voters" narrowly, being equivalent to the result of an election. This makes your argument itself a tautology - if the "will of the voters" consists purely of how they voted, then of course the currently elected representatives are always the will of the voters. But if we're discussing how effective our representational system is, then your tautological definition is completely uninteresting.

> The will of the people is (usually, always federally) expressed in selecting a representative, not in any single issue, and that's by design. "The will of the people" isn't, "Legalize marijuana" it's, "My representative figures out a way to sanely legalize marijuana while balancing thousands of other initiatives and objectives according to their urgency and importance in a way I would, overall, approve of."

You're doing it again here, presupposing that a "voter's will" can only consist of what they can express through the current voting system, as opposed to what they would like to express when voting but cannot.

My reference to a single issue opinion pole is precisely to show how voters' desires differ from their representatives' actions (with the assumption that pollees are representative of voters). If we use your definition, then the obvious "will of the voters" is to keep marijuana illegal, but this isn't saying much. Whereas using the broader definition, then we can talk about how the representative and plurality systems thwart the will of the voters by making them express their will in terms of constrained choices.
Venywhere – Work from Venice
I didn’t know what the middle income trap was. I just looked it up and Brazil is one of the 2 examples used on Wikipedia. It appears from a little bit more Googling that Brazil’s GDP is much higher than it’s average income, suggesting that it could afford a UBI, no? (Edit: South Africa is the other one, and it too appears to have higher GDP than income in comparable adjusted PPP dollars.)

I might contend that all countries might be able to afford universal healthcare, that universal healthcare is actually less expensive than private for-profit medicine regardless of the size of the economy. While people do contend that publicly funded healthcare might be more expensive, it seems like the main argument these days is that the quality of public healthcare is lower than free-market healthcare. Unfortunately, the US is one of the biggest and best examples of being both more expensive and worse quality than a decent sized list of countries with public healthcare.
Probably because they want to be the middle man for these services they provide or are going to. After all just like Apple they feel entitled to these cuts. The people who buy these gadgets are people with too much money or techbros that go out of their way to justify the control apple has over the platform or 30% apple takes.

Business wise it makes sense. And of course if everything is not locked down then you can always scare people with hackers.
Direct conversion of CO2 to solid carbon by Gallium-based liquid metals
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/aussie-team-solid-plan-car...
Most junk calls these days originate outside the USA (e.g., fly-by-night boiler-rooms in India, Russia, the Philippines, &c.). The DNC list doesn't apply to them, and most countries turn a blind eye to these operations. The occasional bust is nothing more than a PR stunt. Law-enforcement agencies in developing nations are perennially underfunded and the agents are amenable to bribes in order to look the other way.
The missile is faster and travels a greater distance, and the interceptor is smaller and slower. That's because every target needs to have interceptors nearby, but you only need one missile.
Land value tax seems like a terrible idea. The land doesn't generate value, yet you need to some how generate enouhh tax to support people. It seems this would drive down inequality by making everyone poor.

It makes sense to tax money where there is money - income and gains.
It's not a $3 million book, it's an ad for a scam paid by the bag holders, which can be you.
Ah sorry, didn't know that phrase was ambiguous. In the UK it often refers to large household appliances such as fridges, washing machines etc...
100% agree!
European cities are starting to have car-free zones (Paris, Madrid, and more) with really good results.
This is an extremified version of the general progress of technology in warfighting though: while we have the stories of automotive factories being converted to produce tanks during World War 2, that was something that was only possible in the environment of the time.

More then ever, you go to war with the military you have, the outcome is going to be decided very quickly because the rate of equipment attrition is enormous: military victory will be decided in weeks, not years (you can of course still lose the occupation, but that's a different matter).
Yeah, really I just want an open-source poker solitaire that asks me what I should do and then shows me the odds after I answer.
do (till) svidaniya (seeing, i think it's called gerundive in english grammar)
Hello fellow Morris County friend, let’s do a lunch sometime
> I'm well aware. How does this help the attacker attacking the higher-entropy string I outlined?

Well, suppose the attacker is aware of your password generation method (e.g. it's in an open-source password generator, or you wrote down your method and someone stole the description). You have specified the generator as { 5/6 "password", 1/6 "hj5^@l2jl9GGk;Clkm(0]" }. In this case, the attacker will guess the password pretty quickly -- on the second guess at worst -- even in the 1/6th case that it is "hj5^@l2jl9GGk;Clkm(0]".

This is because the string "hj5^@l2jl9GGk;Clkm(0]" doesn't intrinsically have entropy. The generation method is what has entropy -- but in this example, not very much entropy, which is why you got hacked.

> How difficult is it for an attacker to attack a password consisting of four lower case english dictionary words?

It depends on the dictionary and the cost to guess a password. If you choose from, say, the 3000 most common dictionary words, then it will take the attacker 3000^4 = 81 trillion guesses to guess 4 of them. If the application has appropriately used salt and strengthening, such that it takes eg 10 core-ms to check a guess (with a function like argon2 that's annoying to run on a GPU), and the attacker throws 1000 cores at the problem, then this will take about 81e12 * 10e-3 / 1000 / 86400 / 365 = 25 years to exhaust the entire space, or half that on average.

Of course, the attacker could use more than 1000 cores, so this difficulty is surmountable, but it is pretty expensive to break. If your account is high-value, then 5 or 6 words would be a better choice. Also, if the service doesn't strengthen the password, and the attacker can acquire the hash, then 4 words is definitely not enough.

> I'm not sure who has dictated that this is supposed to be how entropy is used for password management.

I'm not sure what you mean by "supposed to be used" or "dictated". You don't have to use entropy to analyze password management, but it does make for a good analysis. The theory has been around for decades. See eg https://diceware.dmuth.org.

Theorem: if you sample a fresh secret (e.g. a password) from a distribution D of min-entropy x bits, and if an attacker then tries to guess it based on no other information (i.e. they might know D but they didn't like, already phish the secret), then in N guesses they will succeed with probability at most N/2^x.

Proof: By definition, the probability that any one guess is correct is at most 1/2^x, so the overall probability is at most N/2^x by the union bound. Easy peasy.

Note that this theorem does not hold if min-entropy is replaced by Shannon entropy, which is usually what people mean when they say "entropy" without qualifications. Note also that it makes no assumptions about character sets. The character set would only be relevant if each character were chosen iid, or if the attacker decides to attack the password as if this were so.
I'm curious to see if this means I'll be able to use Wine again on MacOS post-Catalina (10.15) when Apple removed 32-bit support. I'm still on an Intel-based machine back from 2019 so I'm hoping this means support in the near future when a new version is available on Homebrew.

Then again I might be interpreting the release notes incorrectly and getting my hopes up for nothing.
Thank you for the kind words.
We do, in fact.
Here is a link to a recent paper using ERP: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002839322...
I'd say the fundamental problem with social media is that current incentives strongly encourage companies to make bad social networks.

Cutting advertising and mass spying out of the picture could be enough to all but completely solve the problem. But there may be other ways to fix it. Maybe significantly increasing the liability and risk platforms are exposed to for widely-posted/shared content.
More about it here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-18/eager-for...
Yes, and it makes you wonder what other amazing things we're missing out on, but for some quirk of law or successful lobbying.
It should be remembered that NGINX is used as a reverse proxy for a lot of servers behind the scenes. That NGINX is the web server identified up front doesn't mean as much as it might because of this architectural construct. I use NGINX to front a sites that have Apache on the back end and as a result, the Internet spiders think my websites are running NGINX rather than Apache. NGINX is incredibly easy to configure as a reverse proxy, image router, and SSL front-end. Thanks Igor.
But in this case they are enforcing the law. The prosecutors and courts are the ones not putting them in prison.

And to the people saying UP just needs more cops, they wouldn't need more cops if as criminals were caught they were taken off the streets by prosecutors. If someone is successful at stealing from trains, but gets caught every 10th time and has to spend 4 hours in a holding cell, why would they quit stealing from trains?
This looks pretty cool. What makes me reluctant to try this is tool fatigue. We're already using Linear, Notion, Loom, Figma, Slack, Github, Graphite, etc... Something that integrates with our existing tools rather than replacing them is what I'd most like to see. Linear integration is great, but it feels incomplete for our existing flow without integration with Notion.

On a tangential note: the use of the term "maker" confused me a bit. I would usually not consider PMs to fall under that label.
Exactly, it’s like Frog And Toad. “These game companies must be punished so they stop abusing customers!” cried Toad as he bought another game.
> I got the $10 million, because it was going to be my job on the line, and potentially, my ability to work in industry at a high level, ever again, in the future.

I don't get why working hard to meet a deadline but unfortunately missing it would get you blacklisted from the industry?
Israel is its own nation and it isn't America's business what it does to its own citizens. However, their tools are used on American without warrants. It would be in our interests as citizens to flag all employees of NSO as spies and try them.
I posted this because of this interview Michael Bang Petersen did last October (there's a transcript but you have to click to see it, then scroll down to where Petersen appears):

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/does-socia...

I thought it was surprisingly excellent, with lots of insights cutting directly against the most hyped notions.
> The government can't "simply" take things away from me, at least in the US.

Yeah, maybe calling it "simple" was a mistake, but here I'm thinking about exactly such things as search & seizure and eminent domain where you can be legally deposessed of literally anything that you "own".
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> a novel architecture

Is this simply referring to event-driven I/O (using select, epoll, or the like), or something else? I'm pretty sure event-driven, as opposed to forking or thread-per-connection, web servers were well established by 2002, though perhaps primarily in commercial products like Zeus.
> You save… uhhh… one power outlet?

A power tap block is $3. :)
It should be illegal to remove features from a hardware product with a software 'update' without offering all pre-existing customers to return the hardware if they affirm the removed (or newly pay-gated) feature was a factor in making their purchase.

Customers currently have zero recourse, because they are paying for the hardware, but the software allows the hardware functionality to be changed or removed at whim without any financial risk to the company. Credit card chargebacks may work sometimes, but only if the purchase was recent: 'smart' hardware vendors often ruin their products more than 90 days after purchase.
iOS Safari (for iPhone) still does not support the Fullscreen API. Works fine on iPad, but not iPhone. Why?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fullscreen_...

And some weird CSS behavior that only exists in Safari right now: like :first-child selectors, limited flex-basis values, the gap property not working in a multi-column layout... It's mysterious discrepancies like this that drive me insane doing frontend for iOS. Apple can't spend a crumb of it's $2T+ getting their browser and dev tools up to par with even Firefox? Please
Burden of the proof yadda yadda. What's the conspiracy? Facebook teams with CDC to tackle vaccine hesitancy? Is that it? This is a conspiracy if you are a keen Alex Jones fan.
Here's my checklist (some of these are the default on Ubuntu):

- disabled root account password
- ssh rejects root, allows only key-based auth, listens on non-standard port
- fail2ban is installed and active
- firewall is enabled and all ports are "closed" by default
I have a local disk for fast backups. A NAS for backups with change tracking once a month. And once a year a disk goes off with a family member to a remote location.
This is exactly the play I think will happen. I can also see them including for example a WoW subscription and maybe a monthly hearthstone pack or gems as part of Gamepass.
Not for a couple of versions but I think it's inevitable. It's in their DNA as a company to push embrace, extend, and extinguish.
The US won and then lost Desert Storm the same way it won and then lost Vietnam. Anyone who was saying that Saddam would be able to repel the US was engaging in WWE-style theatrics, but anyone who thought it'd turn into an unending mess would have been right (but was anyone saying that?)
GPS is truly one of those technologies that bring the adage "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" to life.
Asperger's is just part of the spectrum,and the experiences of individuals on the spectrum vary widely. Calibrated autism severity scores in our sample are pretty equivalent in males and females, but there are differences between the sexes.
Close enough. There are very close matches in Italian ("arrivederci"), French ("au revoir"), Romanian ("la revedere"), but for English these are the closest.
This is a mix of surprisingly good arguments and absolute howlers.

In my experience, the only way Google search results could be less relevant is if they disregarded the query altogether and invariably dispensed a liquid almost, but not entirely, unlike tea.

More outrageously, wet streets apparently cause rain: "sectors where prices have actually been rising and contributing to inflation". You heard it here first folks, from the self-proclaimed most reliable source of information in the universe.
Is anyone aware of cli tools with similar functionality (besides chepy[0])?

I appreciate the magnitude of cyberchefs operations, but having to switch to the browser for these tasks can be cumbersome at times.

[0] https://chepy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Edit: I had missed that cyberchef offers a node API exposing most of its operations: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Node-API
From my limited experience, lighttpd has non-stellar documentation and the community (including devs) is kinda rude. nginx has better documentation and a much more welcoming support community. At least for the tasks I use it for (proxying a bunch of random services on a home server), the syntax is a lot easier than lighttpd and it's easier to bring in goodies as modules that would require recompilation on the lighttpd side. It might be a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, but the nginx binaries are also a lot of up to date in the package managers I used. On a raspberry pi I ended up needing to compile from source to get a modern version, which got kinda annoying.
I believe the comment was referring to 'a person of Jewish heritage' who do not convert to Islam.
No, but my play would deteriorate at the high stakes. A computer would play the most optimal strategy it can regardless.
Imagine if the military had this mindset.

'We should surrender our lawfully owned territory in case force might be used against us in the future'
re: dobot, that's an impressive robot arm, and it's even cheaper than what you cited! ($2700 on the product page)

My first thought is why don't we see more food automation? ex. retrofitting these in a mcdonalds kitchen should be in the realm of possibility. Food is my largest expense behind rent and taxes, I imagine the same is true for most.

The fidelity and affordability of these machines has definitely taken a huge leap forward in the past few years. Many will echo "the technology isn't there yet", but it certainly feels like we're on the cusp of full robo revolution. Excited to see how far this will go by 2030.
Step one is to find someone who even knows that the source code still exists - it may well be lost forever.

If someone turns up saying "yes I have a copy of FlexOS/386" then I can take next steps which is to work out who to talk to about open sourcing it.

In my opinion alot of senior tech people like CTO's and CEO's are interested in things like computer history and the software community.

A company that open sources its defunct software at the request of the community is showing itself to be a good corporate citizen - they get to do a press release that might catch the attention of some good engineers who consider taking a job with them. Anything's possible.

Worst case is someone finds the software and the company that owns it says "no" - nothing ventured, nothing lost.
Using multiple receivers on the ground to improve accuracy is done, but the details are different to what you describe. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
I think what he means is, "follow the money".
Especially not Amazon packages drop-shipped from China…
Lol, awesome. I built the Stripe integration for this site in 2013. The first day we launched, we landed over $100k in subscriptions.
I've read somewhere that it wasn't always the case that something worked flawlessly on physical media.

Things are way different now.
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It's so depressing that – at some point in the future – I'm going to want a really clear and precise explanation of how GPS works and the likelihood that an internet search directs me to this excellent, clean, and ad-free blog is essentially nil.
Do (до) is basically “till”

Svidaniye (Свидание) has several meanings:

- most common modern single-word usage is for date as in “romantic date”

- archaic is for “meeting” that remained in this goodbye form.

So “do svidaniya” is literally for “till we meet again” :-)
You don't re-link binaries. The vendors ship you a new build. Your OS should not have any libraries other than the ones it needs to function by itself.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks this
So how would you handle a proprietary system not on Google?

This is why these questions are important. The skill set is logic and deduction not regurgitation of ideal solutions.
Whenever I see "select count(star_sign)" I shake my head. The first optimization you learn as a newby dabbling in SQL is to always use "select count(some_fucking_id)" and not "star_sign". Who wrote this query should be fired, because it has 2 of this problem, one in a subquery!
It's still a market that affects a lot of people's lives. I think it's good for them to stop these huge mergers. Let the small to midsize companies fight it out, but we've had enough of these huge and getting huger tech companies strangling out competition and innovation.
Many people have argued that the US court system is failing for decades. Now that covid has hit, and the poor management of US courts, jails and prisons has been stressed to the point that continuing normal practices was going to kill a large percentage of people arrested for any reason and the prison guards who work there, the failures have transformed into publicly visible problems.

1. Jail conditions have always been bad. The jails are already crowded for normal conditions - in many jails the only way to isolate/quarantine someone is to literally put them in solitary confinement cells, and aside from that being an actual inhumane practice, it doesn't scale. So covid positive inmates were just kept in the normal population (sometimes they tried to separate them into covid cells and non-covid cells) which made it spread incredibly fast, and quickly overwhelmed any medical facilities inside the facility. Normal transport puts officers into close contact with prisoners, which means it's not easy to transfer them to somewhere else, and nowhere else had space anyway.

So today, in some places people aren't being held in jail until trials for non-violent crimes because the decision has been made that increased low-level crime is an acceptable trade-off when the other option is the government directly causing the deaths of people simply for being arrested. I think that if those are the available choices, they have picked the right one - but obviously those should not be the choices!

2. They aren't walking out of court. They aren't even getting to court for a trial for months and months. Something like 95% of US convictions are arranged in plea deals because the court system is literally not capable of holding trials for everyone with criminal charges - and that was before covid stopped all courts for a few months and slowed them down so that there are massive backlogs even from normal. This partly causes the first problem, because the long wait times builds up the large population of people who haven't had a trial yet. We aren't putting in more and more money, so as this population gets larger (and includes completely innocent people, remember!) we either give them worse and worse conditions in jails, or let more of them out of jail to wait for their trial.
I wish America was the sort of nation that would sanction them for using draconian surveillance of their own citizens.

Unfortunately Israel is effectively politically sanction-proof - even for much more abhorrent policies and actions.
In any case, it has no place in any meaningful discussion of quantum mechanics.