skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being charitable I think they mean some sort of betting site where people put money behind opinions and lose it if they are wrong or gain it if they are correct. Giving a sort of wisdom of the crowds. This of course is still subject to some authority who can say what is right or wrong on any particular issue so doesn’t escape the trust problem. Also the credulousness of the current crypto users makes me question how valuable any signal from it would actually be.

The idea of merely trusting people because they’ve spent money is hilarious in the face of propaganda and advertising.
I think a source of bitrot the author doesn't mention comes from a combination of two things:

1. People modifying a large codebase generally don't have a complete understanding of the codebase (and this becomes more common the larger the codebase is).
2. "Chesterton's fence", i.e. modifying something you don't understand often has downstream effects you are unaware of.

It's the codebase equivalent of the 2nd law of thermodynamics - entropy always increases =).
I've often seen banners stating "Downloaded on such and such date, by this and that university" on papers downloaded from sci-hub. I'm hopeful this hidden metadata won't hurt them either.
The rent seems insanely low, it's hard to find a single-room apartment for that price in a medium-size city. By 1919 you have most of the utilities we expect to have in an apartment, so that doesnt seem to be a factor. Is there some factor not mentioned in the article, or have rents just gone up more than other things?
> It's always been less of a philosophy and more of a ruling class handbook on how to conduct oneself.

Why is that not valid still? No model or strategy works for everyone. A philosophy aimed at people at the top still has value unless you prove otherwise. It being in a niche does not disqualify it automatically.

The ridiculous part in the articles you describe is the targeting, not the ideas. It's the age old fallacy - train as Arnold did for the Olympia and you are going to get as big as him, when in fact he got big first, then adopted the training style and if you would copy that you would only get injured. In the same way a philosophy for top leaders could be very bad for the bottom socioeconomic class.
Htmx: HTML Approach to Interactivity in a JavaScript World
Patents (the way they are used today) are often mentioned on HN as something pretty damaging to progress, but these efforts of maximum monetization of the scientific publishing industry are no less of an evil.

If you can donate to SciHub, and if you're publishing look for open alternatives to Elsevier's claw.
I have personally written (lazy) code that calls execve with argv=NULL. So it'd break that.
There is no evidence that the safeguards are lax. Despite a LOT of time, work, and money spent trying to demonstrate it over the last 10-20 years.

After the 2020 election people searched high and low to dreg up examples, finding only a paltry few.

If it's so lax, how would you go about doing it?
> All submitted manuscripts are read by the editorial staff

> Editorial decisions are not a matter of counting votes or numerical rank assessments, and we do not always follow the majority recommendation

https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/editorial-policies/p...
A massive, multi-national takedown across the planet for 12k nodes? Thats well beyond the DMCA

I can only imagine the cost to do that
The MVP wasn’t scalable.
Did that propagate to other countries afterwards then? For example left and right in the UK have the same meaning as I understand them to have in the US although of course in the US all parties are right of what the UK would call centre.
When I installed new windows, I go trough all the settings I can find and disable everything. I used to also look up scripts to disable parts of windows (delete cortana) I didnt care about, as well as bloatware that notebooks come with. Rarely I havent run into some issues a year down the line which I knew is caused by "something being disabled", but couldnt google what might be causing it and thus never resolved the issue. Now I just let it rot as I got it, at least everything works..

Point is, disabling junk helps until it doesnt, and its much harder to enable one piece of junk after I forget what all I did in the first place. It would be nice if disabling windows search wouldnt make first attempt to open start menu not work after each restart, and enabling search didnt fix it. But everything is so interwoven that disabling "stuff I dont need" is shooting myself in the foot with a really long gun..
The author of the tweet also supplies a tool for cleaning the metadata in pdfs.

https://gist.github.com/sneakers-the-rat/172e8679b824a3871de...
https://health.ucdavis.edu/newsroom/news/headlines/what-is-g...

https://www.thegoodgut.org/restore-gut-health/
Confining a person is bad. But we imprison someone who did that. Thereby, to show that freedom taking is bad, we engage in it. To me, this is a paradox.

r/im14andthisisdeep
I love those screens,so much easier than looking at the menu board,which they make increasingly confusing. I still remember this conversation at McDonald's a couple of years ago: do you have ice-cream? Yes. Can I have one. What type would you like? What have you got. Mcthis Mcthat,etc.. The hell is that I'm thinking. I ask for a random choice just to get out of the situation.
Lower demand perhaps - e.g. the maid is living with you so they don't need their own place to live.
I tried solving this a different way for my selfhosted services.

Instead of running certbot on every server, I wrote a custom ACME client that runs on a master server and is responsible for requesting/renewing all certificates that I use. It also automatically deploys each cert to the correct server.

It is a single point of failure but it makes tracking certificate expiry, renewal and revocation so much easier.
> If it's not in your CI/CD scripts, it's not actually getting checked.

You can make a similar argument and say you must write in a sound type system language, and TS typesystem is unsound.
Its done now https://www.npmjs.com/package/optimg-wasm
Still very rough though, Will do a better job when i have more time.
> Then Google reviews it, makes a decision, and loser has to pay for it.

I'm afraid they'll have incentives to automate that review, and then simply repeat that you can't appeal. Now you still can't access your file AND you're out of a $100 :-/
The website has a page covering the SNES port : https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_SNES/index...

I like the comments about how they had to keep optimising because management wanted to save money on the cartridge hardware!
That would be an interesting argument. It is a bootloader (syslinux), the Linux kernel and an extensive userland, including dpkg and full set of root certificates. TBH, that is almost everything I need. I install a handful of additional programs, some static binaries compiled from personal source code archives, some programs from the Debian repositories, and I am good to go.

Perhaps it would come down to what exactly in the userland defines Debian as Debian. There are certainly differences in the rootfs as I go from one distribution to another.

It would be like arguing that NetBSD install media is not NetBSD. For me, it is absolutely NetBSD, just a smaller version.
> I don't know why you're arguing with me back and forth like this.

I am trying to understand if the claim you are defending:

> concatenation is a natural product, not a sum

has any merit. I'm "arguing" to see if you have any rebuttals to my objections to your reasoning before I conclude that no, it doesn't.

Going back over this thread I am puzzled by one thing: that original claim was not yours, it was from /u/naniwaduni. You opened with "string + string". Why are you now so vehemently defending "string * string"?

Oh, and just for the record:

> Make those two words mean something instead of literally giving them strings, and see what they tell you.

Well, yeah, of course. Addition applied to fruit is a different operation than addition applied to strings. So?
Gonna be unpopular answer, but drugs, specifically psychedelics. Shrooms has been a game changer for me, I do one medium trip pretty much every year as a "reset" - during the trip, the current life that I live becomes a superficial layer of patterns that I can clearly see, and I can go through thought journeys on doing things different and see how I feel about them.

I don't know if they will help you, but generally its a good idea to try psychedelics at least once because the potential benefits outweigh the very minor risks by miles.
Elsevier, Axel Springer, et al. - proudly publishing research sponsored by EU and national grants... and hounding anyone who doesn't pay 20 EUR for every PDF! Anyways TIL about mat2 and dangerzone.
>>>if I had to be a medieval king or a poor person in Cleveland, it is such a no-brainer I can't even understand how the question is being asked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England#Death

The King of England died from a disease caused by getting shit particles in your food. Diarrheal disease deaths are barely on the radar of US fatalities. https://www.healthdata.org/news-release/despite-reductions-i...
cough Look at the forest you're in.

Everybody mourning the "old" internet while posting on a text only news board with a great community of people, constant traffic, new inspiring stuff daily and best of all without ads or pervasive trackers.
Microsoft Office, cloud services, and Windows boost revenue in Q2
I agree! what kind of project were you working on that you consider a 'huge project' genuinely curious to learn how other people are applying this to use-cases beyond home automation!
> Very true, “red” and “blue” had no political meaning in my childhood

“Red” had a very long established political meaning before the new one for “Republican” was adopted, visible in phrases like “better dead than Red”.

“Blue” didn’t, though.
I would download from multiple accounts, and then compare the resulting file, normalize the differences.
Do you have an example to back that up?
I absolutely agree that shorter lifetimes are likely preferrable over the additional complexity that comes with OCSP Must-Staple. That being said, one benefit of OCSP Must-Staple is that you don't need to authenticate yourself to get the OCSP response. Another benefit is that Certificate Transparency Logs remain smaller, which in turn also benefits CRLite filter sizes.
Rather, any Universal Turing Machine can be programmed to calculate whatever any other Universal Turing Machine can be programmed to calculate. It's not necessarily done with the same features, or use of resources.

In some cases, the only way the features of some UTM A's architecture will be obtained through UTM B, is if UTM B is used to create a simulation of UTM A, and so then that provides a way to execute the UTM A instructions themselves. In that situation, UTM B itself has not acquired the features of UTM A.
Slightly related: I may want to contribute to the cause by building a very small personal site on a broadband connection (unfiltered public dynamic IP plus DuckDns) after I solve some health problems and relocate, hopefully within a few months. If I'm lucky I should get a better connection than the roughly 60down/22up I have now, which would seem ridiculous for that use, but I'd make a strictly static site, no Javascript, small images and no or extremely small downloads (torrent might help for bigger ones, if any). I don't plan to build any community around it, just to document projects I would discuss on newsgroups and possibly here, so no user input would be involved.
Anyone here who had a similar experience can share more information, caveats, suggest tools, etc? Thanks.
Would you have to do that or would putting the squeeze on nodes in jurisdictions you could reach be enough? Not complying comes with a cost so presumably they would ultimately be forced out or to convince their peers to fork.
Can you provide formal verification proof of your own safety?
One thing worth mention is you should block all the easy options (social media, video, games) at morning/afternoon. For me once I do those easy things at morning they seem to stuck at working memory for long to hurt my whole day concentration. I allow those easy options at dinner time as a small reward and block them again at 21:00 to 23:30.
RE: revocation broken

Absolutely. Especially with the advent of protocols like ACME it just makes sense.

Here's a nice blogpost from smallstep (not affiliated) on this topic: https://smallstep.com/blog/passive-revocation/
I doubt that, because there’s no easy way to browse or view content on the blockchain. Someone could make a website to view blockchain data in a human-readable way, but that’s…just a normal website that can be taken down or censored as easily as any other. And of course, there are undoubtedly much, much easier ways for someone living in China to find information about the Tiananmen Square protests.
Well put. Apart from the lengthy threads here regularly on how flawed the very notion of free will that's necessary to even justify this focus on vengeance, I absolutely agree with you that if you're going to argue for vengeance and have a moral leg to stand on you better at least not argue for such an outcome.

I like to point to this page from Franquin's Idées Noires (finally in English as "Die Laughing", only a few decades late) [1], which makes much the same point as you. (The whole book is very much worth it if you like dark humour - it's a crime it took so long for it to get translated to English given how many other languages it's been translated to decades ago)

Translated the speech bubbles are roughly:

"The law is clear: Every person who voluntarily kills another will have their head cut off. Let the executioner do their job."

"Over here, my friend."

"And so a good deed done..."

"Sorry, but the law is clear: Everyone who voluntarily kills another..."

[1] https://i.pinimg.com/474x/c5/3c/45/c53c451e1fea4fd04ea6cf674...
> They are not an option here.

And yet they are still the battery of choice by the automotive industry who are also weary of each of your concerns. There are very good reasons as to why cars do not have LiPos.

> [..] they don't like heat, [..]

In terms of thermals they far much better than LiPos (you don't need a heating/cooling system for your lead acid battery).

> [..] they don't provide as high currents, [..]

The starter motor in your car will sink hundreds of amps during initial turnover, something you will need just a fraction of for an e-bike. Assuming your 12V lead acid battery sags to 9V under load and you're powering a 1kW motor, you're looking at a draw of about 111A, compared to 600A+ from a start motor. Share this across multiple batteries and this also reduces sag.

> [..] they can't take as many cycles.

In terms of cycles, I've personally found that my car's battery takes 10 years or so to stop turning over the car or holding a decent charge. Given that lead acid batteries are significantly cheaper and can be maintained, exist all over, can be easily recycled and are about to be in massive surplus when we see mass adoption of EVs, they make a lot of sense for a cheap e-bike revolution.

> [..] Lead acid batteries are heavy, they are large, [..]

> E-Bikes are already too heavy and bulky.

As I said, the purpose would not be to cycle the thing. A motorbike for example would be a lot more heavy, yet nobody claims they are non-rideable.

Also bare in mind that we are not looking to build the carbon nano tube $100k e-bike of dreams. This is just meant to be a working horse.
>The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.

This "gloomy narrative" first and foremost served well for decades to depress wages and wage expectations and ensure a considerable supply of cheap labor exists.

The political argument was even spoken out quite freely from time to time, and it went like "well, if you [politicians] don't ensure labor is cheap, we [rich corporate owners] will simply automate away all the jobs and your voters will be left unemployed". The narrative of this development seemingly being "inevitable" and the necessary tech always being "just around the corner" for the automation of practically everything played so well into this, that it leads me to assume that interested circles knowingly pushed this narrative for exactly these political reasons. And a lot of technologists helped hugely in this push, often not because of political or economical gains (though quite some probably own tech stocks or work in the tech sector and thus stand to benefit potentially, but I also know tech enthusiasts for which these both don't apply) but because of tech fascination.

The truth however is that automation is a hard and costly business with clear limitations, and even many simple jobs are probably not automatable for decades to come. Automation often just helps to make certain jobs more efficient, but the efficiency gain is immediately being consumed by extensions in service and/or complexity that would not have been possible before, but leave us with a net zero in the change for the need for human employees (or even an increase!). But that did not stop the automation zealots from pushing their political agenda, because it's just too helpful in ensuring that most of the monetary value of the efficiency gains ends up with them and their shareholders instead of the human workforce.

So the newest paragraph in the book is "AI will automate away even all the complicated, brainy work!" and a surprising number of otherwise smart people fall for the same trap that has already been successfully used to "manage" the lower-paid untrained workforce for decades.
Mosaic Maker
People throw this claim around, but note that:

1. It's only theorized that pi has this property.

2. Storing the starting index of the digit would likely be larger than any computer right now can hold, and possibly bigger than the estimated number atoms in the universe.

3. What a judge cares about is that you used the number with the intention of accessing the file, not the particular sleight of hand method by which you accessed it. If you cheekily share your favorite number that just so happens to be the starting digit index for "Limp Bizkit - Nookie.mp3", that's what the judge cares about. No need to outlaw pi, no need to outlaw numbers, it's all about intent. That's why they're called judges. They judge people and their intentions.
Linux system service bug gives root on all major distros, exploit released
Right. If you want to dox yourself, go ahead.
Building a cathedral is not like building a bazaar!
Productivity will be up considerably and variance will be down. But for the most part you now have machine operators hired rather than machinists and those are to different professions entirely, which rightly have different real wages.

Someone who is capable of cleaning a machine and loading materials and tools as well as unloading product is valued different than someone who actually knows how to make any kind of object that is within reason to be fabricated with lathes, mills and other shoptools, which is what a master machinist is. Those people are rare, they always were rare and historically they were valued as much in the past as they are today. Using them to operate a CNC machine is a complete waste of their skills. Typically those people are making one-offs that CNC jockeys would not be able to due to the difficulty of setting things up and/or the need to get it right the first time because the part is irreplaceable.
In this context I’m assuming MTV isn’t music television that for some reason has decided to become a valley startup instead of playing music on television (would fit the whole SV pivot mentality)
The train between Machu Picchu (Aguas Calientes) and Cusco had three classes, the lowest of which was restricted to Peruvian citizens and residents. To be clear, Peruvians were free to use the second and first classes if they were willing to pay, too, but only they were allowed to use the very cheap third class. If I recall correctly, the second class one-way was about US$35. It struck me as being a bit fancier (and unnecessarily so) than second class in a DB (Germany) Intercity Express.

My aunt and uncle took the first class as part of their far more expensive Peru tour, and were not exposed to the direct cost, but judging by the pictures, it was luxurious.
This is unnecessarily complicated to do for SSH, since SSH (and the Yubikey) support FIDO2:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/u2f-fido2-with-ssh/
All you need to do is download two documents and diff them, and delete anything that doesn't overlap.
> When you honor accurate intuitive signals and evaluate them without denial [...]

Just be right all the time and you will also only have real fears and avoid the imaginary anxiety inducing ones. Again, you just have to be right all the time in predicting the future by correctly evaluating the infinity of variables and how they come together to create risks. Small potatoes. /s

When you take this "small" requirement into account the article basically becomes "be right, don't be wrong". Well, thank you very much.
It is less, because that stat is for whites. Colorblindness is hereditary and more rare among blacks. Even among whites, some regions of the world have a lot of it (Hungaria), others less.

The other reason is that most of it is subtle colorblindness. Those people don't see black and white, they can distinguish primary colors perfectly fine. They have trouble with waaaay more subtle differences between colors - when you add a bit of green to rgb.

Yet other observation is that with exception of electricity where color codes are confusing ever for people who complete vision, the colors used in traffic, in graphs in books, in toys for boys actually tend not to use subtle shades.
Amazon abandons influence campaign designed to attract staff
Stop drinking if you do.

Stop coffee after midday if you can.

And go for a walk every night instead of sitting at your desk. Don't listen to music whilst you walk. You'll start to notice things, which will be interesting. After a few walks you'll be familiar with the environment. This will allow your mind to wander. Once you can get back a wandering mind, you'll find your imagination may come back, and you'll probably notice the exercise is helping with energy levels.

After a while you'll find you like evening walks and you will be starting to think of a lot of stuff to do when you get home.
I get more benefit from HN than any other source. The signal-noise ratio is still poor, but it's still great. At the very least, there are excellent books, there are people who help you get stuck out of things, and there's good product recommendations.

There is a large techbro demographic here, and certain topics to avoid. But the tech part rubs off. I avoid browsing daily though; it's too easy to get sucked into arguments, complaints, and gossip.
This is also true in many parts of the US (for tax-payer funded places like parks). The distinction is usually based on state (or town) of residence.
https://youtu.be/LQCU36pkH7c
Wealth is a zero sum game, And when 1% holds more than 50% of entire wealth then inequality becomes the root cause of every social issue as the 1% has enough incentives to preserve the status-quo.

If declining poverty means at the end forced to serve that 1% by shitting in bags because there's no toilet breaks, Then I'm not sure 'celebrating the decline in poverty' is on their minds.
I heard it was military slang designed, so yes to drop the explicit f-word, but not to be polite, rather to have an acronym since so much else is an acronym

SNAFU situation normal all fouled up

FUBAR fouled up beyond all repair

leading to the temp variable names "foo", "bar", and "baz"
How things work at top econ journals: Gelman