skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
friends: all my friends use discord

school: there were various discord groups most people joined

work: Most of my communication with coworkers is over discord

fun: all online communities I'm a part of have a discord server

>But not all of those are smartphones and there are still large numbers of people in the world who don't have any of this, nor do they have internet access

Everyone I know IRL has access to the internet and except for some kids everyone has a cellphone.

By everyone I didn't mean literally everyone. I meant that if I want to chat to someone or about something 99% of the time discord is the place where that happens because that person uses discord or a discord server exists for that topic.
The thing about race is that it isn’t all that scientific or verifiable. I can check whichever box I want. Just because I look a certain way doesn’t mean I am a certain way.

Maybe in the future my race will ebb and flow with whatever absurd nonsense the “woke elite” is yelling about. Who are you to call me a liar, you bigot.
Shadi Hamid is one of the smartest people writing in media today. His sub stack has great articles not only on race, but religion and international affairs: https://wisdomofcrowds.substack.com/people/3785359-shadi-ham.... He’s rare among left-leaning American thinkers in that he’s actually religious and approaches issues regarding Islam and Muslims, and religion generally, with a perspective that’s otherwise mostly absent between secular liberals and Christian conservatives.
Reminds me of the documentary Operation Odessa about the characters brokering the deal between a drug cartel and Russia for a submarine to smuggle drugs. “Do you want the missiles too?”
Yeah, I mean... Yeah. How is that an argument for just using `body {font-family: sans-serif}`?
I am referring to the conclusions section:

> First, people respond to dangers outside their door. When a pandemic rages, people believe in
social distancing regardless of what the government mandates. So, we believe that Allen (2021)
is right, when he concludes, “The ineffectiveness [of lockdowns] stemmed from individual
changes in behavior: either non-compliance or behavior that mimicked lockdowns.”

> Third, even if lockdowns are successful in initially reducing the spread of COVID-19, the
behavioral response may counteract the effect completely, as people respond to the lower risk by
changing behavior

Since it is an obvious consequence of the germ theory of disease that isolation stops the spread of disease, the only real question is if lockdowns are efficient at enforcing isolation (and in what conditions, with what costs etc). At best, the paper concludes that they are not, and that government propaganda about the risks of the disease works as well or better.

> You're attempting to refute a meta-analysis of studies looking at all the data with the example of a single country. That's meaningless. A single data point can falsify a theory but it cannot prove a theory. To prove lockdowns work there has to be a consistent impact of the policy.

I would say the null hypothesis would be that lockdowns do work, by relatively simple, almost mechanical, principles (lockdown forces isolation, isolation means the virus can't physically get from one person to another).

And there is basically no country that hasn't seen significant isolation that did well in the pandemic. Whether that isolation was caused by efective, if perhaps draconic lockdowns (such as in China or Vietnam) or by cultural norms and self preservation (such as in Finland or Norway), this remains true.

The real exceptions are countries that successfully isolated themselves from the outside world, and thereafter isolated only those carrying the virus, through broder closures and strict quarantine requirements plus testing - Taiwan, New Zealand are examples of such.

For this type of response, using broad statistical studies that equate very different ground-level phenomena (lockdowns varied wildly in form and in the degree of compliance, but the paper ignores all that in its quantitative data) to make it look good on a graph are mostly misleading - but what more can you expect from three economists dabbling their hand at epidemiology and sociology?
It can be.

But I think it's also often a mistaken "theory of mind" with some nerds who can't grasp that what's obvious for them is not obvious to everyone else.
Thanks for your response! That encourages me to start working on that project. I think there's a need for that too.
German only, but still a fun listen: "Friedrich Anton Mesmer und der Animalische Magnetismus" https://www.geschichte.fm/podcast/zs237/
Look for deeper reasons. This is a way to divide people and put them against each other.
> Israel government is not responsible for Pegasus.

Every sale of Pegasus was cleared by the cabinet.
Indeed. And practically it does become important for example when transcoding later...
And it's probably the main reason MongoDB is a thing at all.
How much did it weigh? A lot of older cars with high mpg were built like tin cans compared to modern safe vehicles.
Any guides for grid-less fluid simulation? I'd want to set up an unconstrained simulation, one that's using CPU only for the parts where there's actually particles to simulate. Doesn't have to be accurate at all, as long as it produces vortices.
Microsoft Common Data Model (CDM)
It has majority opposition in California.
Joe Rogan is a both-sides-ist. He shows people who speak the truth, and people who speak lies, and then claims to be impartial because he showed both sides.

Imagine this in any other field. It is not exactly reasonable to separately bring both a Nazi and a non-Nazi and claim to be impartial. In that scenario, most likely the normal person would sound relatively ambivalent, while the Nazi would be extremely agitated and emphatic that urgent action must be taken.
Sure, it was a tongue-in-cheek comment on how it could be interpreted both ways.

I would say though that prioritising a 20 year old BIPOC person over a 64 year old would be quite a disadvantage to the older person...
There was also a break between 8 and 8.1, yep.
This seems like a nightmare. If I’m focused on something I don’t really want anyone distracting me, especially not a girlfriend.
Truthfully, there is a reason for cursive. Not lifting the pen is a big time save, and cursive is designed to be written without that. EG, F doesn't require a pen lift pause to make the lower bar, in cursive.

The way the letters are written are also for maximal speed, and of course, you don't have to lift pen between letters.

Any skilled cursive writer will tell you, it is many times faster to write legibly in cursive over block letters.

Do we need to learn it any more? Well, I'd say not for the speed benefits.

But discounting the speed benefits, acting as if they are a lie, is silly.

From my side, I see a lot of people complaining about leaning "dumb things" in public school, in these responses. Wow.

Totally don't get the point of it.

And of course if we removed what everyone on this thread complained about, in the public school curriculum, well, there'd be nothing to teach! Because everyone likes different things.

Which is part of what public school is supposed to be about.

Teach the basics, while seeing what you excel in, what interests you.

You know what cursive teaches, outside of itself? Fine finger control. Brain to finger control mapping.

It is an entirely different skill than keyboard pecking.

And while you are learning it, you are still learning grammar, learning to craft thought to speech, and so on.

There is no loss here.
The difference versus acedemia of old is that science used to be the hobby of rich gentlemen who were under no financial pressures to pay their mortgage and feed their families. Nowadays, I have no doubt everyone is in their field because they love it and want to further it, but if you have to choose between unemployment or taking on projects that you didn't choose most can live with the latter.

So the solution is to somehow decouple it again. Give universities a blank cheque to employ scientists to work on whatever for sciences sake, not for business. Sure, that's obviously open to exploitation in a new way, but we only need one major discovery for the whole thing to be worth it which we can't get with small incremental research.
> showing how cool they are

That would've been writing a custom kernel extension to track this down, but fortunately tracing exists these days.

Seriously, I don't see anything wrong here, it's about the same route I would've gone down. Except the other way round because writing a custom ~/bin/mkdir would've saved me reading up.
I agree, analyzing it is probably outside the scope of any individual researcher. Nonetheless it feels like something you'd want to do before taking OWS as "a new model" for intervention! It's probably better than "control" (doing literally nothing) but was it better than, I don't know, instead subsidizing / organizing grocery delivery and other kinds of social support networks for two months? That's certainly less scientism-sexy and technocratic but if you're talking about maybe 20k deaths out of a million, it seems like we should be able to do much better. (At that low an impact, I might even believe the cost savings alone from the longer negotiations were justified - if I believed Germany would reallocate them to public health programs and not a new highway or gas pipeline or something.)
Still better to point them at NZ, to get the capitalistic overlords hiding there :-)
It somehow bothers me that the TLDR is much longer than the actual text, but nice little tool anyway.
Is there an actual reason why you think it might not be preferable to survive? You can always change your mind if it turns out that it was the wrong choice, right?
> The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms and warns such measures could even drive it to harder-to-address corners of the internet and exacerbate feelings of distrust in authorities.

Let's move towards reviewable moderation.

I'm happy to see this issue recognized by research. I believe secret removals, where authors of content are unaware it's been removed, are the primary problem. Removal in and of itself might not be a big deal if we could all review what's been removed.
How Facebook Is Morphing into Meta
That dialogue happened at an early enough point in time when that was not the case.

Glad to hear they have a web UI now. Even if I use the phone app, the web app is an important backup to have.
I agree with you, and at the same time, I notice your username says throwaway.

It seems liking the C language is frowned upon in this site.
No, No. Algae-farm for fuel and food. Yummie!
> Most cs work is equally useless. It’s all a farce.

Hey careful there, it must depend on the area because all the type theory and functional programming research comes with and always came with proofs and working code. It couldn't be more rigorous and useful.
Yes, but it's still not a far-left fringe idea there.
You can set frozen=True to make a dataclass immutable.
I’m having a hard time understanding how “I forgot to change gears and then hit the gas” can be classed a UX problem. Sounds like PEBKAC.
The former is universally an excuse to not get vaccinated. If we had very reliable vaccines it would be reprehensible for so many people to refuse to do their part to immediately end the pandemic, but given current data it is not so clear.

The latter is pretty much moot.

You do have to understand that when people say "I got banned because I said COVID may have leaked from a lab" they don't actually mean "I got banned because I said COVID may have leaked from a lab". It's significantly more likely that they got banned because they said COVID definitely leaked from a lab funded personally by Dr Anthony Fauci to create bio-weapons against America to aid the spread of communism with Chinese characteristics because he is secretly an illegal immigrant from Kenya.
If you are using node.js and looking for PgSQL based JobQueue, PgBoss (https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss) is a solid one!
How to Build a Hypercomputer
If the entire chain state was only this decision and nothing else in the future and that majority could be coerced without major contention (which is not really possible off chain either) then that might work, but the problem is that all the other decisions that need to be made by the validators will require those people to be coerced to vote accurately in the present and in the future on the forked chain states.
Not only is the TLDR longer than the actual text, it repeats it almost verbatim before adding additional information.
Unfortunately it's paywalled and in German, but according to an interview and investigation done by Süddeutsche Zeitung, they are indeed part of the Plymouth Brethen: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/abus-unternehmer-reli...
Monitors and TV encode signals much, much differently.
Oh it’s even worse than that. What Americans call “race” is a mish-mash of race, ethnicity, and nationality. As a Bangladeshi immigrant kid, I was deeply confused about what “race” box I was supposed to check.

While race is arbitrary, ethnicity and nationality are not. Bangladeshis have a definable culture and we make efforts to enforce cultural norms within the community. The “self-identification” trend is bizarre in that context as well—you have young south Asians “celebrating their racial identity” by acting indistinguishably from white Americans. Ok kids.
What is sterilizing immunity?
I never learned about open and closed "sets" in R, in high school, only intervals.
It was an amazing technical achievement that they pulled off, but also a lot of work instantly destroyed with one patch.

Somebody's day got ruined when that was discovered.

And kudos to the Google project zero guys for an amazing writeup.
Wasn’t it movable type that had a dynamic admin area and then produced static assets every time a user saved a blog post.

Everything was generated on the server but only static pages was served to visitors.
I am glad we found something to complain about on this post. Good job!
I’ve done some hobby game-developing in the browser and I always end up frustrated by the poor and inconsistent performance.

Using Unity to compile to the browser seems to yield much better performance out of the box
Thanks for the extra details!

I think idle games are a special case here, in that variable timesteps aren't necessarily a liability for them. In an ideal world, one would like all the systems in an idle game to be able to quickly simulate arbitrary amounts of time (for offline progression etc), and if the whole game is made that way then in principle one is immune to throttling. But I think games actually built that way are pretty few and far between.
Time is running out for those. I have a car that is now over 20 years old (awesome car, I will miss it once it fails) and even that had electric windows in the most basic variant. Of course they will fail in winter regularly...

Bought it 7 years ago for less than a modern GPU currently costs. If you have a mechanic as a friend it can be extremely cheap to own a car. I wonder how the used market will look in the future, I guess prices will be a lot higher and many not security related features will be broken.

Buying a car > $15,000 is always idiotic if you do in any way care about losing $15,000 in my opinion. If you don't care about the money, a happy spending to you. Otherwise get a company car that is financed by other tax payers.
Good for us if it's so. I'm just concerned about the bugs existed for long enough for the exploit to be relevant and still haunting some diplomats' phones, despite so many publications. And many people discussing legal and political (doomed to be inefficient IMHO) rather than technical solutions.
I’m sorry, does Wikipedia now take donations in airplanes? Or are you making an ad hominem attack?
I personally use one public key which I securely synchronise between machines, which can then be added to, and hence access, all the systems I need. In this case, you just have one keypair (two text files) to store. You can put the contents of those files in Excel if you really want to.

By the way - regarding doing this for thirty years, be careful with that as a plea to authority - I read a tweet recently along the lines of "Do you have 30 years experience, or have you just done the same year 30 times?"
https://archive.fo/8NojL
The idea of "class" is vague (and slightly offensive) which is perhaps why it is being used here.

In any case, "According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, middle class is someone who earns 75 per cent to 200 per cent of the median national income."[0] and, as you say, the median "Equivalised household disposable income of individuals" is £29,900 according to the ONS.[1]

I'm not sure if "disposable" here means that the OECD definition doesn't apply, but I agree that the article would have been less misleading if it had used a less subjective term, and a less extreme definition.

[0] https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/budget/middle-income-what-...

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...
This is a quick+dirty fix (which is probably what OP wants in this situation).
You probably want per-device ssh identities. There's a few advantages to this.

One is, if an identify is ever compromised you can revoke it without loosing as much downtime (one device is compromised - just revoke that key - you now still have access on other devices) if you don't do this, you'd have to revoke the one key you use, which means you have to repeat the pain of copying identities between devices again.
Unfortunely as names get reused, Surface was initially something else at Microsoft.

A screen based table which one could place tags with IDs that would trigger tag specific menus around the card and a .NET SDK to go along with it.
Collecting data, sometimes spamming the network with faulty code, some of them have cameras a lot of people don't even know about (since they blend in with the frame), and of course showing advertisements in your menu bars and sometimes when you start the TV.

Since when have we become complacent in subsidizing our product purchases with... more ads for other products? It's absolutely ludicrous.
As Elon would say. Send me a sample, then we'll talk.
Run-Ahead (2019)
One place I worked had very explicit rules about that that would be drilled into new recruits. Besides --help, running without argument was also required to print the help.

I was told that this rule came about when they "discovered", presumably at nontrivial cost, a disk imaging tool that would default to unconditionally mirroring the first hard disk onto the second.
Honestly, the MCU market is not that bad off according to some people in the embedded industry that I know. MCUs can be made, profitably, on newer smaller nodes.

It's the things like power management ICs, that have to deal with much larger currents and voltages, that are problematic, and you can't respin those on smaller node, and that's before you go for automotive grade tolerances.

That new MCU with new safety certification (and there's a lot of those going on, even a layman like me can see a push for equivalent of Integrated Modular Avionic in automotive) is going nowhere if it can't get power.
I still can't stand the smell of nutmeg 30 plus years after this failed experiment.
Allowlisting is also one of the best security practices you can implement, because allowlisting significantly reduces the problem space of executables you have to consider (and dangerous executables, if found, can be removed from the allowlist). There's always a chance that a piece of malware which somehow breaks the sandboxing and isolation can find its way onto someone's device; allowlisting greatly mitigates this possibility.

Endpoint security is everyone's problem now, because everyone has one or more always-connected devices. The future of computing is a signed, remotely attested path from power-on to user application code, all checked against an allowlist of approved binaries. For most, this will be a good thing.
If by “affirmative action” you mean racial preferences, then no, it’s extremely unpopular both for employment and education: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/05/08/america... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ...

A majority of every minority group opposes expressly considering race in hiring and education. The prevalence of these policies is the result of its popularity among the white social liberals who increasingly run the country’s businesses and institutions.
No surprise, given that it started its life an an Azure editor (Monaco editor).
Really? That's disappointing.
I have the same thing, I can easily break out of code and get right back in to where I was, I can even pretty much do it with hours break, unless things are going very badly with the code in which case I cannot handle being interrupted.

I wonder if it's my ADHD that does it actually, I can handle quick changes of attention because after all that is what I do, but if things are a problem I need all effort to not switch attention and lose what I am doing.
Rebellion of the Last Generation
> To the extent the team generated confidence intervals at all (which for Report 9 I don't think they did), it was by running the app several times and then claiming the variance in the results represented the underlying uncertainty of the data, when in reality it was representing their inability to write code properly.

Functionally, what's the difference? The output of their model varied based on environmental factors (how the OS chose to schedule things). The lower-order bits of some of the values got corrupted, due to floating-point errors. In essence, their model had noise, bias, and lower precision than a floating point number – all things that scientists are used to.
I agree, but it's not even that.

I don't think most people really try to argue against "science" as is, or even the scientific process in the large scale. The gripe we have is against people who first do bad science (or popularize them), refuse to admit they're wrong, then patronizingly tell the public to trust them anyways, and still have the audacity to reassure us that "it will all work out (50 years later)".
In a world that thinks developers (any kind of developer) only uses Macs.