skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently the game would seem to be balanced towards quickly "brute-forcing" the words one by one. E.g. I've now finished two Wednesdays under four minutes and average four stars while the game says "5½ minutes (with practice)", and English is a second language to me:

> Three Magic Words Wednesday/Week 5: ***** in 03:43/21 guesses
Then read the power plant studies published every few years by numerous institutions.

There are no showstoppers.

Here is a good (stellarator-focused) resource made by PPPL:

http://firefusionpower.org/
It's okay for desktop use but frustrating on mobile.
Opinions on Web3 from Tim Orielly, Benedict Evans, Esther Crawford [audio]
In what sense do you think this is good for sustainable energy? Do you think it will cost less, or have less environmental impact than, say, newer deep well geothermal? I'm not so optimistic that costs could ever be competitive with geothermal.
> The Kelly criterion maximises growth when the wealth compounds multiplicatively. It makes no assumption about the shape of utility.

I looked this up and you're right: the Kelly maximizes the expected geometric growth rate. However, the question to ask is: why do I want that? The obvious thing to want to maximize is not the expected geometric growth rate, but the expected amount of money (which it seems Kelly does NOT maximize).

The rationale to choose to maximize expected geometric growth rate is that it is equivalent to maximizing expected logarithmic utility, which is something that you actually want.
Somewhat comparable to F/OSS, except without the grants.
This is so awesome.

For those wondering why a pooler is needed, Tl;DR containers.
It's much more normal to have hundreds of containers running an application configured to have tens of connections. Now you have thousands.
Each connection costs postgres something on the order of ~2.5MB ram, so once you get into the thousands you're starting to talk real numbers = ~2.5GB

Problems I've had with pgbouncer in the past:

- stats. Any modern tool should natively emit its own statistics in something like statsd format.
- pgbouncer is a single process - I can't throw more CPU cores at it to make it faster.

Problems that I'm still struggling to solve...

We use RDS/Aurora which uses DNS to fail over. Yes applications should handle this. Yes they should retry. Yes devs should have tested this. But in any large company this is a uphill battle involving many teams and apps. Much easier to introduce a proxy layer to handle fast failover. Even better if it can re-try queries that fail transparently to the application.
And you will still be able to do that.

That being said, they could things as Purism does: https://puri.sm/posts/from-fab-to-table-librem-5-usa-supply-...

Not sure how that would protect from something like: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-11512-cia_vs_wikileaks
Jokes aside, last year an algae bloom in Tampa bay killed mega-tons of sea life, dolphins, sea turtles, Goliath groupers, and all.

And the neurotoxin that does the damage also harms people!

For a little perspective, Tampa bay still hasn't recovered from the last red tide event in 2017 which is evident by the specific fishing regulations implemented for the area.
I have a private CA (managed with cert-manager) and trust it on my systems, and issue certs for internal services from that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, this is a mechanistic study and the "likely related" claim is yours - I think there's a lot of evidence on exercise as it relates to mood regulation though.
It can be tricky to get self-signed certificates put into all the various places where they need to be. OS level certificate stores, browsers, mobile devices, curl, python/requests, VPN clients, etc. There's always some weird exception case.
If you are interested in this topic, you should also check out this short book:
https://www.amazon.com/Liquid-Gold-Logic-Using-Plants/dp/096...
Just beware that the records of the TLS certs are public. So you'll leak a some hostnames. This might or might not be ok.
If you can automate DNS, create a wildcard LE cert and have a cronjob to maintain it around your different places from the one place you issue it. That is what I do.

Before that I just bought one wildcard cert and used that. Can be bought at less than 50 bucks and then no hassle.

If I could not automate DNS and I don't have 50 bucks per year for it, I would create a small CA myself, trust it in my browsers and issue certificates from that.
Lavender oil is the most powerful one so far. Diffused, mot drank lol. It is effectively melatonin and smells great. Quality varies a lot, but Young Living makes really high quality ones. (Yes, I'm aware of the shadiness around YL, but this is one of the good products).

A far cheaper alternative is chamomile tea.
I think the science fiction stuff I'm thinking of assumes the audience just wants to see a story about one broken family succeeding against personal and scientific odds to save the solar system with one small device that has been stored in a shed somewhere on a ranch in Oregon by a scientist who continued to do his work after his project was hijacked by the military.

;-)
I think you need multiple generations (subsequent) of stars in order to get heavier elements - which are probably needed by life.
So maybe the universe is not _that_ old.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-generations-of-stars-have-the...
Honestly, I didn't and still don't really understand the phrase "disaster capitalists" which probably aided the confusion. What is it supposed to mean? Someone who promotes capitalism to the point of disaster? Someone who trades with disaster as their currency?

It also doesn't help that you start with "Further evidence that...". You can't assume any of your readers are already on board with your conclusions. In my experience, the kind of people who make these kind of comments tend to be closed to debate and commenting in bad faith. For example "further evidence of political-correctness gone mad" is a classic one.
I think this is akin to the general problem people face when trying to convey why Haskell (or a Haskell-like library) is useful/awesome to them to a target audience that isn't already familiar with the subject.
Simple and straightforward examples struggle to show any benefits that generalizations could/would provide. Complex examples are hard to explain without loosing most of the audience in terminology they don't understand. Or they just go on for way too long because they constantly drift off into explanations that don't really move the overarching subject forward.
OldHandhelds.com has a whole lot of stuff.
I really like my low status high wage job!
Aren't serious journalists supposed to publish retractions, or corrections to the article? But they simply removed it, and to make it worse, they even pretend it never existed, returning a 404 instead of "this article has been removed".
I decided to build a nine-bit computer
>To be clear, you can study high cholesterol by simply having test subjects eat eggs. It reliably raises serum cholesterol in real time

I must admit this goes against what I know. Lets look into it together; nothing older than 2005 will be allowed.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you...

Harvard ought to be a good source:

>The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food. Although it remains important to limit the amount of cholesterol you eat, especially if you have diabetes, for most people dietary cholesterol is not as problematic as once believed.

So exactly what I said.

What's important as well, 'especially if you have diabetes' because as I said, as did my webmd link say. It's sugar that is doing it.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/dietary-cholesterol-doe...

Healthline fantastic source because they source their sources. Literally the title says exactly what I said.

>The amount of cholesterol in your diet and the amount of cholesterol in your blood are very different things.

I could probably steal healthline's sources but I'll just leave it here.

>All of the egg-industry funded studies which try to show that "dietary cholesterol doesn't affect serum cholesterol" are doing extreme mental and linguistic gymnastics. That statement, which can sometimes be shown to be true, only applies to dietary cholesterol in isolation from any other food, including cholesterol in isolation from the rest of the egg. Dietary cholesterol with saturated fat, which is the most common way that dietary cholesterol is consumed, does more to raise serum cholesterol than any other food. Oh, and also high cholesterol is a necessary condition for heart disease

As I believe I conclude above. This 'egg-industry' boogyman is untrue. In fact, your body will continue to produce cholesterol for you if you eat a low cholesterol diet. It's obviously not sufficient, we are evolved to be on a high cholesterol diet. What a low cholesterol high sugar diet does is hide the huge dangerous spike in ldl that the sugar causes. This is a tremendously unhealthy approach to take when the correct approach is no sugar.

Let's discuss what cholesterol is used for. Testosterone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone#Biochemistry

If you eat a low cholesterol diet. Your testosterone will be tremendously low. So for example about the same time this all came to light is some youtubers(try guys) went and got their testosterone checked and it was so low that they are either 100 years old, castrated or women. Virtually all those guys are probably incapable of having children and their doctors should be putting them on supplements to fix this asap. Huge health risks like osteoporosis is near certain.

Did you know that fertility clinics is an amazing industry profitability wise. Customers lined up around the block waiting for months.
I wonder how many of them also wanted to be an astronaut when they were kids.
I've seen those copper busbars -- they drill holes for water throughout them. The whole design of high-B field environments is fascinating; you end up with things like Bitte designs with split rings and a whole lot of engineering to stop the copper vapourising. Highly recommended if you're ever in the area – they do two sorts of tours (or did, prior to covid), the "general public" tour and the "scientist" tour. I went on the latter. The sight of two giant robotic arms playing Jenga to train their operators is not one to forget.
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No.

There's been a lot of work on the topic. Including simulated Mars mission where people are isolated for the same length of time, in the same amount of space.

For examples:

- MARS-500 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500 .

- a NASA one which starts this fall - https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-is-recruiting-for-yearlong... .

- HI-SEAS at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HI-SEAS and see also "When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong" at https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/06/mars-sim...

Oh! And that Wikipedia page points to a list of such programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mars_analogs

Plus experience from people overwintering in the polar regions, living solo on islands, etc.

It's not easy, but it's clearly doable for at least some humans.
I code, and I'm not a developer. In fact, coding liberates me from dealing with software development. The programs I write typically only have to work once, for one user (me), and so are much easier to write than real software.
> Travel itself isn't fun at all.

YMMV.

Having to fill in bureaucratic forms and pick your nose on demand with a stick, probably not fun.

Hitchhiking? Long distance sleeper trains? Motorhome? Sounds great to me.

I'd get on a Soviet sleeper train if it just took me from my house back to my house via some rolling countryside with the provodnitsi.

Outlier example, but I mean, I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that flying on a private jet wouldn't be fun.
They broadcast on all channels, of course, but the actual authors and actors engage predominantly on IG.
I have only one internal server which is coincidentally also accessible from the public Internet. I use NAT hairpinning for the external interface of my router and forward all packages on ports 22 and 443 to my server, so its TLS certificate is also valid from inside my LAN.
I like the monthly round up of articles here.

https://interrupt.memfault.com/
There is a long history to this. The original browser warnings were along the lines of your suggestion. Then it was discovered that regular users just clicked through the warning when an attacker MITM'ed their bank. There followed decades of making the warning ever more scary sounding and ever more difficult to bypass.
I like this one:

> Listening Is in Your Interest, Even If You’re Totally Selfish

Decades of touchy-feely woo woo about the power of empathy has convinced people that empathy is a magic hack that makes you feel totally fine about people no matter what heinous things they do. If you empathize with someone, if you "understand," then you'll realize why they behave the way they do, and you'll realize it's all okay.

Naturally that makes people wary of empathizing with people they believe are behaving in a destructive way, such as their political enemies, sexual predators, etc. If you empathize with someone too effectively, you might lose your motivation to oppose them.

That's flat-out wrong, and it makes people less effective at promoting their own values in the world.

Sure, you might learn to feel sorry for a sexual predator or realize that an opposing political view has some internal logic or even a kernel of truth, but that isn't going to turn you into a defender of predatory or destructive behavior. Empathy for a flat-earther isn't going to convince that the earth is flat, either.

Know yourself. Know your enemy. Know everybody in between. It makes you safer and more powerful in the world, and it's only dangerous in a good way.
(Untested idea) I'd suggest creating your own Root CA with an expire-date far in the future. Install it's public key as a trusted certificate and all derived certificates should not prompt any issues anymore
Most car software is rubbish.

So far, everything that my car replaces with a touchscreen that used to be a physical switch is a complete downgrade.

My car features a D-pad on the wheel that also works if you swipe over it, resulting in bad inputs and causing all kinds of frustration. It's my first new car and I'm feeling like I want my old car back. I seriously hate touchscreen controls and my only physical input is faulty
> In 2014 a card that doesn't have a chip might as well be broken.

Chips were basically non-existent on US cards in 2014.
I thought Let's Encrypt wouldn't give you a cert if the domain on the cert resolves to a private IP. Good to know - thx.
Yes, but how much is a "slew" relative to the entire roster of working journalists?
EasyRSA. Install the CA on my devices, distribute the SSL certs to the devices I care about. (Mainly NAS, OctoPi, PiHole). The me PiHole serves hostnames too, and DHCP.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200612185122.327860-1-andreal... goes over what futex2 introduces
Anecdotally, I can say I have traveled for leisure (not work) every month or two for the last 5+ years, 90% of the time to a new place, and my experience aligns with @peoplefromibiza's perspective.
A lot of startups' products are write-intensive applications with the following requirements:

- strong read-after-write consistency (or their users could receive inaccurate information)

- as-high-as-possible availability (because they lose money whenever the site goes down)

- low-latency operations that are difficult to optimize--such as recommendations, complex full-text search, or large graph traversal

And engineering teams don't notice that their solutions are suboptimal until their product hits scale.
100% agree, but there has "always" been that push.

What is sad is now there is no creativity, no exploration, no true fun.

the example the original poster in this thread said about "hot girls" in netsec.'

On Twitter, status, identity and gender play a big role vs just knowing content, or actually knowing how a computer "works." Then if you have enough followers, it seems your voice is that big .

I don't know if it's always been "like" that, or not. But, the more accessible something is, the more it seems to be diluted.

I played and broke operating systems and electronic devices, posted about my experiences online, and then it was magical when someone would take my info, add on to it and said they could do x, y, etc - jtag exploration, eprom copying (lol that old), finding root accounts on embedded devices and just breaking stuff.

So that's why I deleted my twitter account a couple of years ago, I never understood it, and I still don't. I just see screenshots of crypto scams and people stating opinions and then having to apologize for their opinions.
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The boundary between external and internal isn't quite so clear as it may seem.

While many countries have given up on travel restrictions, Taiwan still tests and quarantines all travelers and publishes daily reports about detected cases. The most recent one https://www.cdc.gov.tw/Bulletin/Detail/kMqQS4UPtrLKyXsFknCV7... has 10 local cases and 44 imported ones, of which 5 are from the US, 3 each from Austria and the United Arab Emirates, 2 from the Netherlands, and 1 each from Germany, Vietnam, France, Cambodia, Israel, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Spain, Singapore, Greece, Malaysia and India; 18 others were still under investigation.

Despite the geopolitical situation between Taiwan and China, there's still a lot of trade and consequently movement of people between them. If there were many more infections in China than reported, it wouldn't go unnoticed in Taiwan.

Even within China, it's hard to separate internal and external. If doctors keep diagnosing patients with COVID but are told to keep quiet about it, many of them will still try to warn their family and friends, like Li Wenliang did. And Li Wenliang was declared a hero and a martyr, so some idealistic doctors might very well take that as encouragement. Conspiracies get harder to maintain the more people are involved.

So China's "COVID Zero" policy doesn't actually result in zero cases being reported; zero is just the goal that'll probably never be reached, because there's always some big outbreak somewhere (e.g. most recently in Baise, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, at the border to Vietnam) and even when the first detected case triggers an immediate lockdown, it takes a few weeks for the outbreak to fizzle out, by which time there'll be a quarantine failure somewhere else.

As for how desirable it is to isolate the population from the pandemic, well, as long as there are vaccines that train the immune system as well as an actual infection while being less dangerous, it's preferable to vaccinate everyone rather than expose them to the virus directly. The problem for China is mostly that the vaccines they've been using don't seem to be very good.
Not what you asked -

I (no expert in neuroscience) had come across a neuroscience article in around 2004, which I could not find again, and on which I never came across anything else either. This said that myelination happens differently in different parts of the brain, culminating everywhere by adulthood. I had found that very interesting. If someone knows more about this, I would like to hear. :-)
The main reason I want them to be paid more has nothing to do with deserving more. The overwhelming majority of journalists certainly don’t do work that deserves higher pay. The problem with the low pay is that they become highly prone to viewing the world as much worse than it is and sowing discontent. A financially comfortable journalistic class that feels the weight of taxes is more likely to defend hard work and keeping the fruits of their labor instead of arguing for an ever larger unaccountable and ineffective government apparatus to fix problems that they could fix themselves with their own money.
> Ultimately the choice of video conferencing software used by your employer is so utterly trivial

I don't believe this to be the case, I am not mandated to run a particular editor (for example), but teams is mandated to be open and running at all times in order to talk to people, and alternative channels are verboten.

> Especially given we're talking about teams which you will probably STILL have to interact with whenever you communicate with other organisations since it's one of the market leaders.

Foregoing all interaction is different than running it as the primary and sole communication platform.
Isn't there a log to immediately know what wallet coins just came to to the new address? E.g. you could check the history of the new address, to see where the coins came from, before approving the transaction by first verifying it didn't come from known stolen funds?

Isn't that the prime value of blockchain - the immutable chain/record of transactions?
I have my own 2T PKI.

Pro: you would know how some apps crash (and sometimes burn) when PKI breaks. Also you would know what every other distro guy thinks he is smarter than everyone and do the PKI his own way.

Cons: see Pro.

NB: Windows PKI in the ADDS environment (at terms of distributing the RCA/ICA trust) is a walk in the park compared to everything else.

NB2: Java keychain is PITA.

> Behind home routers, it's still a tedious topic

Buy a domain, park it at Cloudflare/Ghandi/whatever ACME supported provider, use DNS-01, push or pull certs to the local network.

There is no problem with the process, only with laziness and automation.
I would encourage you to read Dr. Gabor Mate’s “Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39899253
The point is that they're changing their habits. Of course we ignore the n times they've gone before, now instead of their habits meaning they'd go m more times in the future, they're going to be going p times in the future for some p that is much less than m.

So it's not about how often they've done it over their lifetime so far, but about how many times they will be doing it over the rest of their life.
> Injecting a large amount of capital all at once into a project just isn't efficient.

SpaceX would beg to disagree here. The reason why they are so cheap, agile and sustainable (=reusable rockets) is precisely because SpaceX got a load of money without the "pork" requirements that were commonplace with ULA & friends. That enabled SpaceX to embrace vertical, on-site integration and go for what was technically the best option instead of what was required by some buffoons in Congress.

Although a point may be made that a "hand out cash" program needs a competent, strong and undisputed leader at the top. There's a lot of issues with Elon Musk, but it is undeniable that he is a very effective and inspiring leader.
I'll try to do this for internal IPs using traefik on Kubernetes. Any pointers?