skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've seen the opposite, not a single person who wants voter ID is against making it freely available

I have. I've met plenty of people who say if you aren't willing to spend $25 on your ID you don't deserve to vote. But that's really besides the point given that it only addresses one cherry picked issue out of a number I brought up. Doesn't matter if the ID is free if you have to spend 3 hours bussing to and from, waiting in line, and bussing back from getting it. Or if there is no public transit available. Doesn't matter if the ID is free if there is an hour long line because there aren't enough polling places in your area and we've banned mail-in and drop off ballots. Or if you are simply too infirm to make it to said polling place. Or aren't willing to wait in a large crowd of a hundred of your closest strangers I'm the middle of a pandemic.

How many of those pushing for voter ID are prepared to spend tax dollars on those issues? Texas certainly isn't.

> but voter ID's in those states have not shown to decrease minority turnout in elections.

Depends on what studies your looking at https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-14-634

I suspect you are referring to this one which a number of conservative outlets have been circulating recently: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25522

They conviently never mentioned that it also found that voter ID had no impact on fraud either.

> It's a completely fake issue.

Voter ID to prevent election fraud is a fake issue by the same metric. Yet I assume you are genuine. Why can't you extend the same courtesy to me?
I haven't run into anyone who uses Dynamo for anything other than managing Terraform backend state locking. And I think that's still the best use case for it: you just want to store a couple random key-values somewhere and have more functionality than AWS Parameter Store. Trying to build anything large-scale with it will probably leave you wanting.
Fair point, I was thinking of just smoking, and not other forms of consumption.
Mainly was LIBOR used in the EuroDollar market?

Anyways, it seems like there is a need for a system that is transparent, immutable, and accessible to everyone... Crypto? Matt Damon is calling.

Cheers
You lure your customers in, and then you fuck them with some NFTs. You can't just sell food to people.

Thing is, people have been shelling real money for virtual items for a long time. Remember MMOs, hell even Diablo? Team Fortress 2 and the whole hats money making machine? Well, now all that is going to end up mainstream.

I don't like it one bit but status symbols have been around since before there were humans. You can see this shit in animal societies, too
Did you consider getting a white noise generator?
I self-studied advanced textbooks in the same classroom with the rest of the class. The teacher approved it though and sometimes gave me tasks she couldn't solve herself.
An actual Turing machine maybe? I’m someone built one by now.
Those are all good points. I still think evidence shows that weed is likely the less harmful option of the two. In the spirit of harm reduction, if I had to choose one of them to start with, weed appears to be the rational choice. But there’s no one telling me I have to use either of them.

Coffee is still my favorite drug, and I’ll fight for that one.
How is that a counter to to claims about its health effects? They're not saying alcohol has no positives and it's for terrible people, just that it has negative effects on health.
It's not possible to get the autocomplete unless the function/method you're calling takes a union. Many libraries can't do that because they need to be flexible in what they receive. So yeah, you can define a union, but editors don't have the context to know your union applies to the call.
No JSON, please. You can't have comments. A JSON config would a deal-breaker for me to use a server.
That's touchingly innocent.

As an example, take Bernie Madoff. He took in people's cash and then sent them regular statements about how much money they had. But they were just statements doctored to look good. When some people withdrew money, he just gave them money that was handy. At some point, the difference between the numbers on the statements and the actual assets was over $50 billion. More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal

None of the Madoff investors "allowed" it. I don't know anything about Crypto.com, but the same thing is surely happening with other "crypto" companies. It doesn't even have to be malice; often a failure starts out with some event like a sudden loss to theft. Insiders believe they can make the money back, so they just keep on operating and hope nobody notices.

This opportunity for divergence between reported and actual funds is one of the big reasons US banks are highly regulated. The FDIC is on the hook for large sums in the event of failures, so they're quite vigorous in making making sure that doesn't happen too often.
Any recommended music subreddits? I'm especially interested in finding links to good stuff on bandcamp.
When I worked in investment banking, all our debt models were pegged to LIBOR. Rest In Peace! God bless the IB analysts scrambling to plug their models with replacement rates and weird hardcodes!
He is my all time favourite science fiction author. If it's existential dread you're after he delivers it in spades.
Indeed, seems like the IBM "fiasco" with PCs looms large here. The dominance of clones was awesome for consumers, not so much for IBM.
See it in action: https://twitter.com/ryaagard/status/1483592308352294917
I still can't believe that Matt Blaze finally sold crypto.com to them, after so many years of refusing.

We all have our price.
Before I continue, I think it's also important to note different people metabolize alcohol differently and feel its effects differently. Many Russians can take care of 0,5L of vodka in one sitting and still function. (Russian men aged roughly 20-45 also die from alcohol at absurdly high rates.) So as with all things, our discussion is purely a subjective one -- I find it useful, though, as it helps me analyze my own drinking habits.

> Your claim that moderate alcohol consumption makes things more fun is part of the point of my post. Is this actually true, or just a rationalization of people who already drink?

Right. It's a good question, and I don't know the answer, and I've tried hard to introspect and distinguish between rationalizing and it being true.

As someone pointed out above, the fire starter analogy is better than one might think -- if you are enlightened enough, you don't need alcohol to start a fire. In my experience, though, few things open up a conversation with a stranger as quickly as a little alcohol. I'm not saying I've never had an intimate conversation with a stranger in which we both showed vulnerability without alcohol. But the psychoactive aspect of intoxication makes those conversations with alcohol more memorable, stranger or closest friend. I've tried hard to determine whether I'm just fooling myself, or if alcohol is actually making something "funner". My conclusion is that if I am fooling myself, the trick is good enough that I'll probably never figure it out.
Is it ethical to follow the license the answers are contributed under? Of course. I see a proper citation in the video description. What's the issue here other than your subjective sense of accessibility?
"You're gonna feel like a damn fool, laying out at that hospital, dying from nothing!" - Redd Foxx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6grI16niGXA
GDOP is sometimes taken to mean the largest eigenvalue or trace of the covariance matrix. It's a metric for the badness of the estimate.

Often, GDOP is broken into components HDOP, VDOP, etc for the values corresponding to some earth-fixed coordinate frame. That starts to look more like statistics about the covariance matrix.

Here's a derivation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision_(navigat...

Here, it ends up being (usually) the sqrt(trace(covariance))
I would love to use this but it's a bit confusing what this does specifically. Some feedback:

1. Tell me up front does this cost anything?
2. Can you show me some clear examples on what this looks like? A video would be great.

Best of luck with this, you will help a lot of people change their lives for the better. I wish you nothing but success.
Frozen vegetables are basically raw, untouched, pretty good for you food, and they are grown by pretty terrible corporations trying to make as much scummy money as possible, and it STILL only costs me about a buck a pound or less at the grocery store.
Exactly - these formal methods have implicit assumptions in them. Within their axioms/priors they are proven correct. But the devil is in those assumptions. And that is disregarding the rather foggy notion of 'proof'. Is this proof written in a formal proof system that automates the proof? Because if it isn't you have another source of error. Even if it is in a formal proof system, who is to say that there is no error in the formal proof system? I admit that each layer adds more assurance - but appealing to 'formal proof' is a bit like appealing to god, it's an appeal to an unassailable authority. When in fact, once you know the details these things are never so clear cut.
The Subtle Art of Fucking Up
What Is Libor And Why Is It Being Abandoned? - https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/what-is-libor/
"...this would seem a strange time for the 76ers to end their contract with Color Star, the Cayman Islands-registered, Dubai-based ready-mix concrete outfit pivoting to Web3 technology and hyping the forthcoming launch of a celeb-populated metaverse" Such a fantastic quote
Not quite an AI but you can filter Reddit posts in RES by using keyword filters. Really great for clickbait topics.
80 sounds old for smoking to.
I worked at a company who re-implemented the entire Dynamo paper and API, and it was exactly the same story. Completely eliminated all my illusions about the supposed superiority of distributed systems. It was a mound of tires held together with duct tape, with a tiki torch in each tire.
What's the origin of the legacy_parse_param size parameter (from struct fs_context->fs_private->data_size)? Is this a mount option, a format-time fs configuration option, or does it require writing a specially-crafted inode to disk? The exploit says the user needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN, so I'm guessing it's the first one?
Crypto.com giving me some WAP

> with enhancements we’ve made to our security infrastructure and the introduction of the Worldwide Account Protection Program.
You don't, and it's foolish to try. Open source is philanthropic and high-trust. Start putting numbers and formulae on top of that and watch the culture crumble as people optimize for newly-established metrics. In fact, didn't that happen recently with Hacktoberfest where the people with the most contributions got T-shirts, and promptly people started gaming the metric just to win the T-shirt?
What makes an tech person an 'engineer' is being competent with data structures and algorithms and other classical computer science subjects.

They can work on high difficulty 'engineering' problems.

A developer uses libraries with that stuff already made for them and is limited by the available tools but can still get a lot done.
Everyone knows this. Some choose to believe the 1 or 2 debunked and unrepeatable studies that show small amounts of alcohol is good for you rather than the mountain of evidence that says it isnt.

If you want to drink alcohol, that is fine. But pretending its healthy in some way is lying to yourself.
Why COVIDtests.gov worked where HealthCare.gov stumbled
I have the same shared trauma response. Really does have me thinking back to my school years and trying to grapple with the two opposing feelings of "that was a lot of fun" and "gosh, why is it still giving me nightmares?"
C-h i d m Emacs Lisp Intro RET

Need that d to take you back to the top directory if you happen to be browsing some other info manual already.
The regulatory overhead to getting a drug approved by the FDA is enormous and this places a huge burden on small companies. I have no magic ideas for fixing this but it's a classic problem of regulatory capture, in many other fields besides pharmaceuticals. I suspect there are ways that the government (and/or private funders) could effectively centralize just the testing and data collection, while keeping the R&D independent and flexible, but it would require a different mindset than we usually apply to public policy.
Glad to hear it, also happy to see that LWN is still thriving.
I think the problem is that you need to subscribe to know the pricing model, I don't try anything that don even show the pricing up-front and what difference licenses they offer, is like they want you to make into production before you notice that you have unlicensed software and pull the trigger if you dont pay.
that's is really nasty business model.
Not the person who said it first, but I dislike all of those things except lemon[1]. In addition, my wife likes cranberry preserves with poultry and applesauce with pork, both of which I find distasteful.

However pineapple with anything savory is by far the worst for me. I prefer to not even sit next to my wife and kids when they are eating pizza with pineapple on it because the smell from it is enough to throw the taste off.

1: Okay, there are some sauces that technically have some orange or orange juice in them, but have so many other ingredients that it really just adds the tiniest hint of tangyness. but e.g. duck a l'orange is too much orange for me.
my understanding of intuition is that it's a construction like all the other concepts, how it's constructed is not clear, but it's a construct non the less, just like someone really has a 'gut feeling' against mask, and use another our brain to construct a 'theory' and 'analysis' why it's wrong.

this 'superpower' idea is as stupid as saying that 'freedom' and 'personal choice' can make you immune to virus.
The whole idea behind patents is that it opens up trade secrets and makes them available to society.

So what we should have is a system where some inventor sells their idea to society (a government institution), which then determines what price they are willing to pay for that invention.

So, we should have no more monopolies on a technology for certain periods (what a stupid, stupid idea). Just pay for the invention if you want it to be opened up.

Everything else in our society works with dollars, so why not this thing?
People who are not criminals deserve transaction privacy, as well.
> People want their doctors to not know what they're doing?

No, you're right, people who go to a doctor certainly don't want their individual physician to be incompetent. I believe parent was talking about a less specific, somewhat "anti-establishment" point of view. Folks who feel that they've been failed by medical doctors, for example -- a chronic condition that they can't get help with. Or people who have other reasons to believe that the medical profession is ossified, or beholden to interests that don't serve patients -- critiques of that sort.
I think this is an extremely important and timely development, I sincerely hope that you succeed and will be following the project closely from now on.

One more question: does the CHERI add on introduce new 'uLimit' like limitations, for instance the number of allocatable blocks or will it scale seamlessly with whatever the various memory management functions and system calls provide?
> because there is no one to expose them

I do not believe this. Why do you think so?
I live in Houston - the water main actually froze last year. It sucked, to say the least.

Unfortunately, problems like that are very hard (expensive & time consuming) to fix.

But my house was warm due to excellent insulation and running the fireplace for about 8 days straight.
Being born with the internet i cannot even imagine what would be my life without it.
Would love to hear the backstory on how this deal ever happened.

Granted sports organizations and can be as dysfunctional as any organization, but you would hope they would do a little vetting of who they make deals with.
> In 1986, at age 17, it hit the big time: Libor was taken in by the British Bankers Association, a trade group described later by The New York Times as a “club of gentlemen bankers.”

What are the chances that this "club of gentlemen bankers" always intended to manipulate Libor to some extent?

I know finance and banking is very complicated; maybe someone will come along who happens to have been a banker in London in 1986 and will set me straight. Otherwise I find it hard to limit my cynicism when enormous amounts of money are involved.
The topic of this post is covered in an interesting book by John C. Gowan, called Trance, Art, and Creativity[0] which was brought to mind by another recent submission, "What it means to teach gifted learners well"[1] (Gowan was founder of the National Association of Gifted Children in 1958)[2]. I first stumbled on his work (which spans a wide range from educational psychology to esoteric parapsychology) in a bookstore in Ithaca, NY and have always been curious if others are familiar with it.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20090101190837/http://www.csun.ed...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30002087

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-14-mn-3024-s...
I get it. When I think of weed, my first mental image is still of someone passing a joint or bong around. I was surprised at how many measured dose options there were, though. Want a bag of watermelon gummy candies with X mg of THC? They’ve got you covered.

I do wonder how much variance there is in those. Is that 5.0 mg += .1mg, or “eh, about 5 on average”. It’s easy to dose alcohol as you know how much alcohol is in an ounce of whisky. If you find one that’s stronger than another, your taste buds will let you know quickly.
A bit related, I can't remember the exact details but I read or watched somewhere recently that it was key in taking over some regions. They would gift village chiefs alcohol and have them sign away rights to their land under the influence.
You throw bodies at it. A small bunch of people will be overworked, stressed, constantly fighting fires and struggling to fight technical debt, implement features, and keep the thing afloat. Production is always a hair away from falling over but luck and grit keeps it running. To the team it's a nightmare, to the business everything is fine.
Most people looking for flavor aren't smoking. Vape products these days are designed with specific flavor profiles. I'm not talking about the strange mango/bubblegum/etc flavors, I'm saying most weed itself has designed flavor for extracts these days. In the same way that orange juice is a design flavor (manufacturers will work with the brand to combine sugar/juice/oils/scents/pulp ratios), most dab vape concentrates are reduced to their bare components then recombined to achieve a flavor profile desired. Want it more skunky? More piney? Sharper? Softer? It's all achievable and designed.

The industry has changed drastically in the last decade. Consider smoked weed to be analogous to moonshine when comparing it with alcohol. That's not a dis towards flower, but many products are just as heavily designed as a bottled beer or scotch is these days.
> What's the current state of the telephony stack for Linux? Are there competing projects? For the most complete project, what is missing WRT the pinephone? What isn't possible to do on it currently-- say, by fucking around in a terminal window-- that must be developed for pinephone be considered to have an API suitable for a cheap, modern smart phone?

I can't answer this from a technical perspective. I can answer this from a user experience perspective. I use a pinephone as a daily driver. I mainly communicate with people via SMS/MMS. The current state of things is this:

Ususally SMS/MMS works, but sometimes it will stop working for a few weeks. Then I have to track down the magic AT commands I need to send to the modem to make it work again. The modem constantly disappears and reappears. This happens about 10 times a day. It will disappear for sometimes hours at a time before coming back. During this time, I cannot receive SMS/MMS or phone calls. Phone calls work, but call waiting and three way calling do not. And I forgot to mention, MMS doesn't work just yet. I have to compile a (fairly stable) MMS application from source because distros are waiting to ship it until it gets a "stable" release.

In general, I would not yet recommend a Pinephone to anyone whoever relies on their phone for anything mission critical.
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I use one and have had a couple over the years. Decently cheap and I functionally just want a laptop form factor and UX for a tablet use case: web browsing, some light app usage (often for casting / streaming), and also being able to type as needed, all from an actual couch / on the lap / wherever. Used to be no Android App support so that part was a no go and now you have the linux containers to fall back on if you need to run something else or want a proper terminal.

I have a bulky work laptop and a big desktop PC. The niche left over maps to a nice slim, fanless device for casual usage very well in the Chromebook space. Maybe preaching to the choir here, but my keyboard will need to be pried from my cold, dead hands and the tablet + detachable options all seemed way too delicate.
I see patents as a mechanism for extracting tributes for the US Empire / sphere of influence. So while patents hurt innovation they are probably less hurtful than alternative methods of extracting tribute.
That flipchart presentation reminds me of so many PowerPoints that I'm feeling a little targeted...
I'm fine with this. LWN is a great value as it is and I don't mind paying a little bit more.
No one is forcing you to drive to work either. Many people in don't even have a license, yet make it to work each day. You even said it, "might be forced" meaning there are possibilities in which you aren't.
U.S. Moves to Drop Case Against MIT Scientist Accused of Hiding China Links
You probably don't need a knowledge garden
Meh, I like Cascadia Code[1], especially after the designer fixed the awful "fun" italics.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
Majaro package manager was broken when my pinephone shipped! Took me hours with a crashing UI to update and recover.
How did MSG get such a bad rap? The anti-MSG marketing was really strong and even made its way into pop culture. I can think of a few other controversies where there was a corporate food lobby behind the marketing, whether to vilify or promote, with lasting effects for many years. What is good versus bad?Butter, Margarine, coconut oil, corn oil, vegetable oils, meat (keto), carbs vs no-carbs, milk protein as cancer catalyst. Coffee gets assailed every now and then, and then a counter study would appear. Blue zones, caloric restriction, etc etc.
Ah ok, then I misinterpreted.
You are making assumptions that the log upload system is working in the first place. It's just another moving part in the equation. Since logging normally shouldn't affect production traffic latency, you usually want to offload responsibility to a separate process/sidecar/etc. That requires intermediate storage as logs are generated, which can fill up (disk or ram, it's all finite). Since you don't want just any person sending logs for processing, you now have to ensure this separate process is authorized to upload data, which means you probably have another security token in play. The search system must index the data in near real time, which may lag due to data backlogs, service disruptions, etc.

It's hard to beat the power of a live log tail when you need it.
How to Download and Back Up YouTube Videos
Yes but "The Lancet"