skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great reminder to not get too dogmatic about anything, even when business, government, healthcare and scientists are all aligned.

I'm curious if there were doctors and scientists who dissented from the cigarette consensus prior to the 60s? And how were they treated in such an environment?
Because of CDNs like Cloudflare, that are basically name-based virtual hosting.
If you want to avoid using SMS in iMessage, you can just turn it off in the settings. Very easy for anyone who wants to avoid it.
Why are we still tailing log files?
> Do you mean for the TXT record?

I mean that during the max_age time the MTA knows that the target MTA has/had a policy, so it could directly query that again instead of doing the DNS lookup. But probably the spec writers did not want to risk MTAs getting hammered with HTTPS requests on every failure.

> Either way, the cached policy will be used until its max_age expires.

Ah, thanks. I got confused by the DNS spoofing, but of course since the policy is protected by PKI TLS even if the attacker can redirect the MTA to evil.com/policy.txt the cert won't match, and the email recipient domain is already in the email to be delivered. (And if that can be spoofed, then the mail contents are also very likely accessible.)
> But in Plan9 there's no setuid binary at all yet it's not a problem?

I think you mean, 'and therefore, it's not a problem.'

In plan 9, the program that allows you to switch users needs almost no privileges.

> Plan9 has no better way than that, no way to make /bin rebinding work in a way that makes sense for privilege escalation.

Processes aren't allowed to become privileged without obtaining a cryptographic capability token via negotiation with the authentication agent. The auth agent which was started at boot will write the secret to the kernel, and give you the hash of it so you can prove you are the rightful recipient of that uid switch request. If you don't have the right secrets, you don't get a token.

You can't swap the devcap in the authenticators namespace, and negotiating with a rebound devcap is simply not going to work, because your authentication token wasn't written into it. You don't have the ability to change what the program doing authentication sees.

In summary: There's no information attached to the binary, and no capability grants in a namespace you can rebind.

If you want to namespace this sort of authentication agent, it's also possible -- you can authenticate, escalate permissions, and start your own agent talking to devcap -- but the capability to start a functional authentication agent is guarded by capability tokens. You need to be authenticated to allow authentication.

Removing suid binaries with config files as a method for privilege escalation is the right path. They don't play well with namespaces.

Cryptographic capability tokens that you can delegate to other programs do.
We’re not threatening war against Russia, we’re threatening sanctions. They’re the ones that annexed Crimea. They’re the ones surrounding a sovereign nation with military forces.

[edit] I mean look, call it what you will. The United States having invaded other countries on no pretext is an explanation for why Russia thinks it can get away with this, but it’s not a justification in the moral sense. They are still agents.
And sanctions are not war. Threatening war would be saying we’re going to tell our soldiers to kill Russian soldiers if they invade, and we’re not doing that.
>Is it fine to question a scientific consensus on effective ways to fight a global pandemic?

Yes, it is always fine to question scientific conclusions with legitimate concerns.

Or we could always revert to letting the church decide what valid science is, I guess.
>>>Some very powerful governments (like Austria, Brazil, and Indonesia) have already signed it and it is already ratified by 59 nations. This is hardly a bunch of plebs signing a petition.

Austria? Brazil? Indonesia? None of those are nuclear-armed states...which means that their "power" is effectively ZERO. It also costs them nothing to slap a signature on a document that has no material impact on their national security, because they have no capability to lose. You seem to have a very....idealistic view of international relations. Let me explain how nuclear disarmament would play out in the real world:

UN Signatories: We don't think anyone should have nuclear weapons.

US/Russia/China/etc: Nah, keeping these "just in case" is an important part of our international influence.

UN Signatories: I guess we will have to forcibly disarm you?

Nuke States: You can try. Invade me, and I'll burn your entire population to cinders, and make your lands glow in the dark for the next 10,000 years. ( https://geopolitics.news/euroasia/russia-adopts-nuclear-firs... )

UN Signatories: Ok on second thought we'll just send you another sternly-worded letter....

And that's how the conversation ends. Because sovereign states that are unable to enforce their will on others have no real power.

>>>What I’m pitching here is for you to contact your national government and encourage them to sign it if they haven’t done so already.

I'm a citizen of not only a nuclear-armed state, but arguably the world's most influential global hegemon: the USA. If any of my politicians even HINTED at supporting such a disarmament, I'd vote them out of office ASAP.

I read the entire treaty here: ( https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_... ). The Preamble reads like it was drafted by a drum circle of hippies, stoned on a beach in California. It's not written in a manner that is in any way persuasive to the people who actually need to be convinced: the national security leadership.

If this is a policy you seriously want to advance, I recommend taking a hard look at how national security professionals establish values and objectives, assess problems, and work through cost-benefit analyses in pursuit of said objectives. Know your audience, or you will never talk them into an alternative course of action.
The OG Winnie The Pooh stories ar ridiculous and hilarious and my kids loved them. The language in those stories had us all in hysterics at times.
Fair warning everybody: vegetables are packed with nutrients.
People forget in the 8-12 year old range kids have their own ideas about things. Kids understand a lot and perceive when adults don't care about what is good for them at some level.
Living in Dick's world makes his work have a bad taste.
A disinfectant made from sawdust mows down deadly microbes
Additionally nowhere in the “whitepaper” does it explain how this smartphone-powered retrieval works. Presumably by attaching a lens to the camera, but then the claim of “with only a smartphone app” is false.

Additionally assuming civilisation falls, the ability to shape a lens that can discern nm details will probably be lost also.
Have you even gotten an email from them yet on your oldest accounts?

Mine is from '08 and I have heard no official communications from them.
More like welcome to the parents of any child club. School isn't designed to teach, it's designed to be day care. If you want special day care for your special child, it'll cost you, and may or may not be worth it. As it stands, I don't actually recall learning anything in school, or anyone really caring that I did or didn't learn anything, beyond getting me a passing grade of course.
Sure, but the problem there isn't the law, it's the cops and prosecutors.
healthcare.gov launched before USDS was established. I would argue that part of the reason USDS exists is that fiasco which if I recall correctly was mostly CGI Federal.
If that's been the question this whole time, the answer is no, this is not just a ruse.

https://app-updates.agilebits.com/product_history/OPM7

They provide a reliable service that's never let me down when I needed it, have security updates and bug fixes, provide great support, track OS and hardware updates... not much more they need to do to justify existing.
Eventually it's meant to have enough content/functionality to be a replacement for both.
> to face the consequences of no longer being the world's reserve currency, and the failure of the petrodollar.

Meh. While it definitely has upsides, it also has a big downside too. It pushes purchasing power of US consumers down.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-class-politics-...
Being able to store an order of magnitude more data than a typical smartphone's output image size does not bode well for the reading process being simple or practical.
Just wanted to add my recommendation for checking into Davidson as well.

They offered a summer academy that hopefully will start back up again after covid and also have an online program that may be a good alternative to full home-schooling if you were considering going that route.

Update: Beast Academy is wonderful. AOPS is great too. Both very good suggestions. Your daughter may also like the math content produced by Poh Shen Loh [1].

1. https://www.poshenloh.com/
> but he falls way short on characters, dialogue and plot.

Like most sci-fi writers, to be honest.
Pyrophone
It just seems like what is actually happening, the future we are getting. Mix in some Idiocracy and Infinite Jest and the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar and that’s what we have.
Wearable Computing: Remembrance Agent and Privacy (1996) [video]
In my school district, not every school had a GT program; if your base school didn't have one, you'd be instead bused to the nearest GT program. You'll need to compare school districts or (better yet) student populations, rather than merely schools, to get a better estimate.
I will literally go pay someone else more money a year, than pay google for the same services, because of how difficult they make it difficult to migrate my data out.
Why do you think the execution was poor?
I remember hearing somewhere that even one cigarette will paralyze your alveoli for 24 hours. This would, I assume, make you more susceptible to contagions since foreign particles will make contact with your blood for longer period. If this were true, then even one cig a day would be a real problem, especially in Covid-times.
Yes but you can bribe people to get your transaction processed first, and it will go through in... about 10 minutes. Also by design.
Right it's Tide laundry detergent, not baby food, that pretty criminals use as currency.

https://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/
So what you call a passphrase I would call a password, but its the secret bytes which have to be known in order for the blockchain to allow the move.
In high-context environments that correctly incentivize truth seeking and long form debate? Sure!

In low-context, short form meme warfare with the only intention of spreading an opinion that the consensus believes is both incorrect and detrimental? Absolutely not. That's what you're doing right now. Knock it off.
The PR backlash costs worth way more than what this would have saved.
structural realism [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive_realism
As long as we also address the other concerns in my post. You know ensuring that everyone has easy access to getting that ID (just being free isn't enough it needs to be accessible, as does voting).

Now you just have to convince everyone else pushing for voter ID to actually put in the work (and spend the money) to get that done, and we can get this thing rolling!

Good luck!
I should add that under no circumstance will we be remotely able to pump 18 million cubic km of surface water down to the ocean depths, in this or the next century.
But can't mistakes happen with low-tech repossession too?
I spent about a decade pretty much solely in dynamic languages (ruby and javascript mostly) before switching to pretty much entirely working in a fairly lame statically typed language (java). Languages with static type systems are enormously, glaringly, better. Really where the benefit comes from is static analysis; it's just that languages with static type systems have better static analysis capabilities. This may not strictly be the case in theory but it definitely is in practice.
I don't think it's decades of atrophy. In 2014 the state simply got rid of the GATE requirement. Districts abandoned their programs in droves after that. It was much more binary than a decades-long decay.
How do you KNOW when to pivot?
And now Tobacco companies have latched on to, and are promoting Marijuana - something that is even more addictive, and both mentally and physically more harmful (in the long run).

> Marijuana also affects brain development. When people begin using marijuana as teenagers, the drug may impair thinking, memory, and learning functions and affect how the brain builds connections between the areas necessary for these functions. Researchers are still studying how long marijuana's effects last and whether some changes may be permanent. Long-term marijuana use has been linked to mental illness in some people, such as: temporary hallucinations, temporary paranoia, worsening symptoms in patients with schizophrenia ...

Source: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
I'm trying to figure out, if I sign up for a fastmail account @mycustomdomain, which is what my "legacy g suite" also uses... I guess I can probably still transfer over with IMAP before I change the MX and try to cancel the google "legacy g suite" account.

It's pretty confusing.

I wonder if I can manage to create an "ordinary" google account with the same email address afterwards.
HN is a very strange place. Maybe around a week ago people were complaining that 500K that YC puts now into companies is not a lot of money. Now they are complaining that 6$ per month per user in Google Workspace lowest tier is a deal breaker for them.
Will they ever yield that?!
Thanks, set to merge.
Hangouts was, for a time, fantastic. Integrated SMS/rich messaging (like iMessage). Seamless video calling. Spot on.

Then they started gutting bits of it with no apparent reason beyond supporting empire building by other teams.
This exact feature exist also in the pro(2€/month) version of https://ticktick.com/
Russian total trade in 2020 was 550M. Poland has 510M total trade same year. Russian external economy is really very small.
FWIW you can't take a $1 salary anymore. The IRS requires every to make minimum wage, even owners, and you must get paid "commensurate with your experience". ie. You can't work as an engineer in the Bay Area and pay yourself $30K. The IRS lets you get away with it for the first few years of the business, but a public company can't do it.
Show HN: Wordlet – A Wordle Bookmarklet
Add change day button to Wordle
How powerful is this, really?

As soon as you try to do anything useful to foo it's not arbitrary anymore. You have to make some kind of an assumption on the underlying type, check for keys, nulls, maybe it's a number (the right number?), maybe it's a list. So now you have to scatter some boilerplate checks everywhere you touch a part of foo.

If you could parse it into a typed structure up front, you'd only have to deal with this in one spot, and have guarantees for everything else that follows.

Bonus: if your typed language has good support for records, you can even do this in a way that only provides structure to the parts you care about, and is robust to changes to any other parts of the json.
This is pretty accurate I would say. Although, Go is more popular outside of Google than inside it and the original dream of "Replace all Python and most C++ and Java with Go" is laughably dead. Google used to require SRE teams to explain why they weren't using Go for new projects and they abandoned that because it was ridiculous and no one took it seriously.

There are quite a few internal projects written in Go, but it feels like any time one of them gets big enough to matter, someone ends up reimplementing the important parts in C++ for performance reasons.
It’s weird how the article does not give any example of languages that did spread and become dominant without any coercion.
They do exist: Swahili and Lingala for instance. They mostly spread through trade and as « neutral » language used to communicate between ethnic groups (with their own language).
It seems you would be far better served by something like Beast Academy [0] or Singapore Math [1].

A gifted and talented program generally just accelerates the core curriculum (i.e. teaches a grade ahead). Art of Problem Solving [2] has a compelling argument [3] against acceleration:

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“For an avid student with great skill in mathematics, rushing through the standard curriculum is not the best answer. That student who breezed unchallenged through algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, will breeze through calculus, too. This is not to say that high school students should not learn calculus—they should. But more importantly, the gifted, interested student should be exposed to mathematics outside the core curriculum, because the standard curriculum is not designed for the top students. This is even, if not especially, true for the core calculus curriculum found at most high schools, community colleges, and universities.

Developing a broader understanding of mathematics and problem solving forms a foundation upon which knowledge of advanced mathematical and scientific concepts can be built. Curricular classes do not prepare students for the leap from the usual one-step-and-done problems to the multi-step, multi-discipline problems they will face later on. That transition is smoothed by exposing students to complex problems in simpler areas of study, such as basic number theory or geometry, rather than giving them their first taste of complicated arguments when they’re learning a more advanced subject like group -theory or the calculus of complex variables.”

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[0] https://beastacademy.com/

[1] https://www.singaporemath.com/

[2] https://artofproblemsolving.com/

[3] https://artofproblemsolving.com/news/articles/avoid-the-calc...
Check out Legend (formerly moo.do): https://legendapp.com/

Found it several years ago and used it regularly for a while. It has a nice mixed model for blending calendar, email, lists, tasks. Lots of drag and drop capability, keyboard shortcuts. Loads fast. Mobile app. Customizable views you can quickly switch between, e.g. 3 column email on left, tasks in the middle, calendar on the right.
I think so, too. But I’m not sure about some of its assumptions. The first anecdote bothers me: it doesn’t take intelligence to learn how to perform long division. It’s a stupid, mechanical procedure. This sounds like the common case of a student being led to think that he’s stupid because a teacher was inept at explaining something. It’s why so many are taught to hate math in school.

The big assumption that runs through this is that society rewards intelligence. I know Sullivan modifies this idea in the last paragraphs, and I want to suggest that, while some people who have other skills mixed in can use their intelligence to their practical advantage, it’s rarely rewarded with material advantages on its own. Well-off people are generally well-off not because of inherited intelligence, but because they inherited being well-off.
I don't understand how so many smart people are convinced that MMT makes sense.
Because the switch (PLX) became too expensive by acquisition. Maybe there are cheaper alternatives for now? but is it support Gen4?
I understand less than before. Originally I assumed "troubling relationship differentials" meant "their relationships struggle with the difference in status from them and people in power over them". Now you're describing someone asking you a question as a "differential effect" and saying "thinking about differentials" as a plain noun, a structure that only allows the mathematical definition of "differential" to fit for me.

I spent time reading this link trying to understand what you mean:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/392979/different...
..."In my interviews with Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in 1994, Baker acknowledged (and Shevardnadze confirmed) that he told the former foreign minister the United States would not “leapfrog” over a reunified Germany to move closer to the borders of the Soviet Union.
There are reports that Baker was willing to put this commitment in writing, but that national security adviser Brent Scowcroft convinced the president not to do so."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/18/bill-clintons-role-i...
USDC flipped USDT, not a problem for long.

Even the Winklevii won't keep this piece of trash for much longer.
That tradition hasn't died out yet. There are a ton of common sense things done in many European countries that aren't implemented in the US because of apparent links to "communism."
Iraq and Syria wanted to join Warsaw Pact?
Biosafety of human environments can be supported by use of renewable biomass
Set to merge.
Yeah, you have to work so hard to write maintainable code in "dynamic" languages. It's also super hard to debug them. It's easier to write the first thing that runs, but that's not enough.
When the $21 Trillion EU puts their big boy pants on and form their own army, they can have agency (Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Libya, Syria, etc, etc).

Until then, the 900# red white & blue gorilla of NATO is driving. Folks don’t like it? Well, time to stop whistling “The Yanks Are Coming” every time they want to tussle with their neighborhood.
Reality copied his worlds and now they seem overwrought. Just like how Tolkien made all kinds of stuff everyone copied, and now you get people with no historical perspective calling him a hack for being derivative.

Like most famous sci-fi writers, Phillip K. Dick likely worried about the things he wrote about and hoped technologists would take it as advice against when faced with the same choices as the people in the stories.
By far, my favorite accomplishment from last year was (effectively) automating a barcode lookup. The historical process took 5-10 minutes and was performed 5+ times per day. My half day of scripting now saves ~1HR of daily labor. Nearly a year after I created it, and one woman still stops me every time she sees me to thank me for improving her job.
This is good. I host a family email domain with G Suite, and every time I've brought up switching away from google I get big pushback from family members on spending any money for email hosting. Google forcing the issue is good, because now I'll have exactly the excuse I needed to switch to Fastmail.
I remember watching it and I thought it fell apart in the second half. I really cannot remember how it ends, just that I didn’t like it. The concept of erasing your memory after you complete a job stuck with me, and was probably the most remarkable part of the movie.
Something that's even more shelf-stable, yeah, but it obviously still gets used unless you think people like the idea of their money turning to suds when it gets a little wet.
Yes. 'it's flagged as a VOIP number'.

Last week I had a DHL delivery and they required account setup so I could validate my delivery address, or that was the excuse. Account setup required validation via email and SMS. SMS never arrives to VoIP phone.
There isn't evidence to suggest cigarette smokers are more likely to catch covid
They managed to convince themselves via a combination of wishful thinking and basic economic illiteracy - that's all there is to it.
Obsidian not going open source is a big reason I'm apprehensive to start using it.
I'm saying that if you know you have a bad prosecutor, you should hold off on passing that law.
Number of people on government websites now
once I tried using Obsidian, could not use it properly. Now saw dendron and its inside VScode, will try and see it...