skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you looked into Guix? In some ways it's a bit simpler and cleaner because it is a much more recent effort and Scheme is somewhat easier. It might help with the learning process in case you disliked Nix. GuixSD does have some other drawbacks. I'm personally running NixOS but both are very cool.

Nix certainly has a steep curve, but simple things are not that hard. I got committed to migrate to Nix one Monday. I spent the whole morning reading about it. In the afternoon, my workstation was already up and running. On the same evening, I packaged two exotic things I need which weren't on NixPkgs. Next day, I fixed my favorite window manager, which was broken on NixPkgs. I maintain all these on NixPkgs now.

Complicated things are not that easy, and I would not have been able to do all this if I had encountered non-trivial issues in the process. I also totally understand that the learning curve is steep. Nix has too much legacy stuff and cruft built in. There's the classic Nix command, Nix 2.0 and Nix flakes. They are all coexisting and not very well documented. Nix needs more manpower, funding and tooling.

With that said, declarative stuff is poised to be harder for non-trivial stuff. Just like Haskell is harder than C, NixOS is harder than ArchLinux or Alpine. I still very much find it worth the effort for simple workflows. I can now update remote machines without fearing breakdowns and state is very explicit.
Well, if you want to meditate on multi-layered themes, there's always the wild fox koan [1].

As others have noted, concentration in and of itself is not all of what meditation is. There are so many different sorts of practice traditions. In some practices there isn't an object of concentration at all, for instance in Mahamudra's teaching of samatha [2].

And you're certainly right that meditation can lead to unhealthy mental states, which is why it's important to work with a teacher or a practice tradition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_fox_koan

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamudra#%C5%9Aamatha
Hehe Quartus II is terrifying. It is like 10s of gigs of basically it's own distro. I have seen it showhorned into Nix but at the end of data it's a garbage heap of a "package".

Nice example :)

Yeah for me it's just more interesting to attack the problem at the root: developer UX, autogenerating packages from things like Cargo.toml, etc.. Prebuilt binaries is not something I really care about that much, and are existing tools do handle it quite well surprisingly automatically .

It's linux, if you are using some rando prebuilt binaries (not your distro's, or other trusted build artifacts cache) it's always a tragedy.
GitHub Actions with act to test stuff locally is actually pretty usable. We use on-prem k8s-hosted runners to get access to servers/clusters with limited internet access, works great.

But as always with “”gitops”” themed tools I think it’s pretty awkward to handle rollbacks. Either you take the stance that master is the source of truth and let the CI/CD tooling revert commits if deployment fails, or you store that state elsewhere and allow e.g manifests to diverge from git.

I would be curious to hear how other people do it
I assume this includes the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

Moderna is banned in certain european countries for people under 30 because of myocarditis risk.
I don't see the problem. Once you have enough bits to resolve every pairwise difference you're just reduced to the problem of comparing the sums of two lists of n bit integers and I'm pretty sure that's in P.

If it's not then that should be the main point here, sqrt has nothing to do with it.

EDIT: You also know what the largest possible error is on each pairwise delta so if you add log(N + 1) bits you handle even the worst case where one sum is +N x maxerror and the other -N x maxerror.
Crap. I was hoping we'd get some progress on that.
Grading My 2021 Predictions
Rarely/never

They're designed to trick most people into getting spam indefinitely and never being able to turn it off
yeah, I don't think that's a useful insight. I would say that if a result is not statistically significant, you shouldn't consider it to be the "best available estimate" (which is sort of a different concept anyway) unless you're willing to deal with a very high false positive rate.

BTW I set my p threshold at 1e-6 for a single test, 0.05 is just crazy. On the other hand, I've worked with systems where nobody cared about the significance, just that the weights that got pushed to production made more money than the last set of weights.
Technically, it was C++ limited to a tiny subset of C++ features. Shel wasn't so keen on all that fancy C++ stuff but thought there was a role for "objects".
That's quite literally the opposite of how Russel's teapot works. Russel originally thought up that scenario to show how silly it is to put an unprovable idea forward (specifically the existence of god, which Russel absolutely did not believe in) and expect another party to disprove it when doing so is impossible. Here in this thread you've put forward an unprovable idea and now expect others to disprove it, which is the exact scenario Russel criticizes. How on earth did you interpret it so wrongly that you came out with the exact opposite of the message that Russel intended?
> It’s to protect teachers, staff, peoples families...

The article says otherwise:

> “We need to make sure schools are safe so that all parents are comfortable sending their children to school,” said Pan, a pediatrician whose legislation has strengthened oversight of vaccine exemptions in previous years. “And we want to keep schools open.”
Differentiation from Linux is a hot topic whenever FreeBSD is discussed. I could get behind “converge to a fixed scope, and polish relentlessly” as the primary ethos.

Wouldn’t it be great for FreeBSD to be the first OS to have a release that was actually, truly finished? At the moment, all OS releases are just waymarkers on an endless, goalless roadmap of perpetual development.
You're missing a few pieces. The amount of electricity needed to protect the network is directly tied to the value of the block reward.

This depends on the value of bitcoin, true, but also the amount users are paying in fees and the reward era we are in (see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_supply).
How to Dockerize a front end app using React JavaScript
Yeah, compared to a war it's a lot cheaper for NATO to do some posturing.
This is relatively new then. As part of some testing last summer for how to handle a migration from one Drive to another, I generated a folder that had I think 10k files in it. They were all named 1.txt, 75.txt, 8492.txt and their contents matched the filename (i.e. 1, 75, 8492). They never got flagged for me. That was for a Google Workspace account, though, and they were deleted a few days later once I was done with the tests.
In my opinion this video had a decent set of views around the intent and reasons for the timing. [1] I think it's worth at least listening to in the background. If they are right it might explain the end-game.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ExRbjmcf-8
Careful there. My law firm in east Texas happens to own the patent rights to a system and method of concatenating a plurality of 1s and 0s for the purpose of generating an encoding of a creative work, and as such you are in peril of infringing on one of my claims with your concatenation of 1s and 0s!
> The other problem is the condescending replies from the higher tier nix folks while everyone else struggles.

You may not like the reply, but the fact remains: the comment I replied to was a lie. It says there's hardly anything but Wiki pages and Nix Pills and that there's no "easy to find, documentation of its "standard library". And the exact document has been two clicks away from them for a long time.

> I just stopped bothering.

Another problem is your impatience and inability to perform searching and research for necessary information without anyone's help. The lack of focus and motivation to spend a little extra time to discover, learn, and build an intuition around a new toolchain is on you. How much time have you spent on useless media content on youtube or netflix lately instead having another try with the tool?
In those days was indeed 1983. None of the many C compilers I had access to at the time could do it in one command. Everyone I showed it to was surprised and pleased that it could be done in one command. I was in the DOS world, not Unix. Very few DOS programmers had any experience with Unix, or any access to a Unix machine. This was long before Linux.

> Try what? I know (and mentioned) two distinct ways of looking at the assembly code produced by my C compiler

Do you find:

cc -c test.c
objdump -d test.o

faster or slower to type than:

dmd -c test.c -vasm

especially when using command completion? For me, it's no contest, especially when doing it repeatedly, and with command completion.

Besides, I like the concise output of -vasm:

foo:
0000: 89 F8 mov EAX,EDI
0002: 01 C0 add EAX,EAX
0004: C3 ret

better than objdump's:

test.o: file format elf64-x86-64

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <foo>:
0: 55 push %rbp
1: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
4: 89 7d fc mov %edi,-0x4(%rbp)
7: 8b 45 fc mov -0x4(%rbp),%eax
a: 01 c0 add %eax,%eax
c: 5d pop %rbp
d: c3 retq
It's also your tax ID, unless you've filed for a separate one. While the original intent may have been that the SSN would only be used for Social Security, by now various places are required by law to collect your SSN even if they have nothing to do with the Social Security Administration. But that isn't even the real problem here. SSNs are an identifier (username). Merely knowing someone's SSN shouldn't grant you any extra privileges. It's not a secret—lots of people know it, and it isn't even hard to guess from age and birthplace—and yet people treat it as if it were something akin to a password, as if knowledge of a person's SSN were enough to establish identity. By this point in time we should very well know to use only zero-knowledge proofs for authentication and not even share the secret with the entity one is authenticating to, so they can't turn around and impersonate you to someone else.

The same goes for credit card and bank account numbers. As anyone you've ever paid with your card or by check has access to these they can't be considered particularly secret. The problem is that the system barely has any authentication built in. 4-digit PINs and hastily handwritten signatures only an expert can verify do not offer reasonable security. Chip cards are a bit better (non-clonable, require physical possession) but only work for in-person transactions.
Hey your video got taken down because of a copyright claim. Was that legit? I had the video up last night, didn't finish it (was a long one), and right now I can't watch it anymore.

Regardless, loved it. What's your channel link? I like the time you spent pre-ambling about narcissism and then leaving space for the 8 minutes of just the interrogation, then returning with commentary. Often channels I've seen just call things JCS inspired and basically upload only the interrogation, not the analysis of the behaviour.

If you're getting flagged on material that isn't specifically theirs that really sucks. I don't recall seeing any watermark on the video (tbf I wasn't looking for a watermark), and I'd hate it if your amazing content is getting blacklisted just because another channel doesn't like others doing better work.
I don't agree with that last assertion, and would counter that our reverence for the founders and their documents has papered over a lot of fucked up shit baked into our governance (the fact that a Wyoming vote is 50x more valuable than a California vote is hard to get past). But reasonable people can and do disagree about it.

I don't think reasonable people can disagree about Jefferson being a hypocrite.
i really like this, going to follow it for a bit
SV is only dying due to remote work, which is due to COVID. If COVID stops being a problem, in-office will return, and SV will come back to life. A lot of people know this, and a lot of people are anticipating COVID to be over soon. So there's reluctance to put down serious roots elsewhere (besides the big companies like Goog and Meta that already were expanding to second-and-third-tier cities pre-pandemic). If COVID continues to necessitste remote work for, say, another 2 years, you'll see micro-SVs spring up, probably around top-tier engineering schools.
That is what I saw, I can still access the file. I do wonder, though, if there's some threshold of flagged files where they suddenly enact some other punishment.
What happened to all the other states? Not including them seems like cherry picking.
> Eastern Europeans always have war with Russia on their own territory

oh you mean when 250000 Romanians, 250000 Hungarians and some Croats decided it's a good idea to fight the battle on the Volga? (look at the map). That _is_ funny!
>I hate that I always end up referencing the Lex Friedman podcast but it is often relevant to discussion on HN.

I do the same thing and feel the same way, like I'm astroturfing or something. If its any consolation, I don't remember ever seeing your references and I hope you don't remember mine.
Yes, this small scale disregards sociology and technology that can leverage individuals and widen the gap of output.
I'm seeing this, too, but only for www.cloudflare.com — not hosted sites.
Apparently OP really hates visiting notaries.
You can’t tell if it’s interesting until after you have read the GitHub read me. That’s the problem.
We run everything on Linux except our PostgresSQL database which is FreeBSD and ZFS. Have nothing but good things to say.
client side rot13 to the rescue

(... I have actually used this in the past to work around my employer's moronic proxy)
Yes let's donate more money to Pfizer
Install Lepton, it fixes all the issues with the UI.

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Is NixOps still a thing? It might be cool unifying nixpkgs with cloud infra, although Terraform and friends seem to already provide 80% of the value of such a solution.
I did notice it flagged "1", "1\n", but not "1\r\n". Then, it didn't flag "0", but did flag "0\n". So line endings seem to matter as well, but not in some consistent way.
The optimal human performance formula: the basics
The vaccine is not "completely ineffective" against omicron. Effectiveness against hospitalization and especially death continues to be excellent.
The weird thing about the current homepage (at least the version I see in the UK) is it shows me lots of pictures of products, but without any description. So I just see lots of eg. grey cuboids with buttons and lights. Do they expect me to click on them all to work out what they are?
the author intentionally crafted a lengthy piece of misinformation, in bad faith, with the intention of having it be misleading, using cherry-picking and rhetorical/social media tricks, intentionally trying to fool most people with a slick arguments instead of correct ones... but she somehow believes her own line of bullshit 100% genuinely, even though she was the one who spun it to begin with?

you can't just call everyone who disagrees with your worldview L. Ron Hubbard and be done with it.
> I find it ridiculous that there are very vocal people in Eastern Europe who are so willing to go to war, and with Russia of all countries.

Wait, who? Preparing to defend yourself in case Russia decides to go to war with you isn't the same thing as being willing to go to war with Russia.
We run GHA with auto-scaling self hosted runners at scale (~1000+ runners at peak hours) pretty well for PyTorch but it is a labor of love and patience.

However I'd say that Github's been pretty receptive to feedback and has actively fixed almost every wall that we've run into (if we haven't been able to fix it for ourselves)
And American Express, Capital One, Wells Fargo, and Coinbase
Mining profitability is subject to conditions besides the price of a Bitcoin, for example: energy prices, block reward changes, regulation, hardware availability and pricing, etc.

It's really not as simple as hash rate = price. It's more so that they are correlated in direction of change.
Yes, I agree with the downsides of the existing approach, and you're absolutely right re "Languages really should not have any implicit way of constructing identifiers".

I'd still say it's fine if it implicitly names output columns, for convenience.

I referenced your comment in an issue and listed some options: https://github.com/max-sixty/prql/issues/5
An observation made by shrewd businesspeople throughout history is that you can only trust money. No amount of words, documents, statements, etc... matter unless someone is willing to put up real cash. If there are no consequences, then by definition misdeeds aren't punished and will be effectively incentivised.

E.g.: You can trust a legally enforced warranty with full refunds guaranteed by the government, because it costs real money to the manufacturer. You can't trust a "Best Quality!" sticker. It basically costs nothing. It's just words.

Copyright protection laws are the same kind of thing. While the marginal cost of enforcement is zero, there is similarly zero incentive to do it correctly and respectfully of the law.

If there was enforced financial penalties for each screw up, then it is assured that any errors like this will be ironed out very quickly.

No penalty? No bug fixing!
If you want to not be behind a screen, what you’re looking for might not be mechanical engineering at all. The guys/girls on the floor of a shop full of CNC machines and 3d printers aren’t usually engineers as such. Manufacturing/fabrication is obviously a whole different universe than the typical HNer inhabits, and has a very different culture- but it can be very high-skill while usually a having lower formal training requirement. (Perhaps even can be a useful stopover before beginning studies to go back behind the computer screen as a MechE.)
Pretty sure Superman/Clark Kent’s glasses is actually an adversarial attack, place it anywhere and the object/person will be mislabeled!
That's harsh and definitely not the benefit of the doubt. Seems more likely to me that OP didn't think about putting (2012) in there.
Thanks! I had not heard of OVHcloud before. That looks like what I want.
AX.25 in User Space
Serious I'm upset that google drive can block files that you own, I feel my trust betrayed. We're really moving to an dystopian age where companies can control your personal data.
It's AI. Automated Ineptitude.
Right, it seems to be only for their landing page. Their subdomain for their client dashboard still works https://dash.cloudflare.com/
The tetanus vaccine for children probably makes sense.

In recent years, tetanus has been fatal in approximately 11% of reported cases. Cases most likely to be fatal are those occurring in persons age 60 years or older and unvaccinated persons. In about 20% of tetanus deaths, no obvious pathology is identified and death is attributed to the direct effects of tetanus toxin.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/tetanus.html

I'd argue the heb-b vaccine is a good idea too.
The vaccine is very effective against severe disease and death in omicron. It also still provides a 50% reduction in risk of any infection, iirc.

You can easily check these claims--scroll back a few weeks in the feeds of @zeynep or @EricTopol on twitter. They cite good data and studies.
Seasonal colds don't result in potentially months of "long-cold" symptoms, nor do they significantly increase the risk of diabetes, nor do they regularly hospitalize and kill people on a large scale.
> large indoor gatherings were also not allowed.

Indoor gatherings were banned. But going to the mall wearing a bandana was allowed. And it was much more likely to transmit COVID than sitting outside at the beach.
Seeing this as well. Curious to know what happened.
I start with the folders. Create ones on broad categories like "Math", "Physics", "Politics", and each of those could have subfolders (folders are called collections in zotero). An entry can be copied to multiple folders but its copy-by-reference so you see the same file and notes and so on in whatever folder ever you view it. Tags are added as meta-data and I use them for searching the library for things. In a given collection you can select a keyword/tag and it will highlight all items with that tag. I've been using zotero now for years and many 1000s of entries. It's by far the best tool I've used for organizing my stuff.
You might also end up carefully researching all the parts, only to find out that a new major FreeBSD release breaks hardware support for something. Had that happen to video on one of my netbooks.
Mostly because it has become politically expedient to tighten exemptions. In the past the demographic requesting exemptions was mostly liberal hipsters, so there were generous exemptions, but now that the Democratic party stands for COVID vaccination mandates the exemptions are being tightened.
FYI, those other vaccines actually have benefits for those children. Requiring vaccination when there is almost unmeasurable benefit to the recipient is unethical. It's sad that kids have to bear the brunt of all the fear going on right now.
this is great, i hope you don't have to work anymore!
Ah yes the Maserati problem https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-Maserati-Problem

By the time you're running a [catering business | massive sysadmin team], you're already a huge success. Congratulations!
> This was back when we knew next to nothing about COVID. We didn't know yet what was safe or not. We didn't know if it was transmitted via the air or via touch. We didn't know what was safe, and what was not.

No, that's post-hoc rationalization. SARS-CoV2 is a coronavirus. After all was said and done...it behaves pretty much like other coronaviruses. We know a lot about coronaviruses, and did back then, as well: they're seasonal; they transmit via the air; they don't transmit readily outside; they're sensitive to heat and light; they don't live long on surfaces; they induce long-lasting B- and T-cell immunity after infection.

Moreover, certain things we knew about SARS-CoV2 from very early on, but completely ignored. The original data out of China, for example, showed that the virus posed miniscule threat to children:

https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14853024107844321...
" synapse is being updated properly by someone who knows what he is doing" - you are lucky to have such help (or the knowledge to do so if it's you!)!

I've perused the needed changes a few times as I try to prepare for an upgrade from 1.26 to current.. I'd love to have some mercenary help with the process - especially if it could be not just upgraded synapse, but also transfer to a new server and made to work with Debian 11 - (mine is currently on Debian 9) -

If nothing else I'll be exploring the porting / moving of the postgres DB to a new datacenter with larger HDs and trying to connect the syanpse from the old DO drop.. then try to move the rest -

My first three experiences with installing synapse makes me worry that I'll give up and nuke the whole thing and try to start with a fresh new install and see if that even works on the new box.