skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's that simple.
There is always a fine line between complexity and compatibility.

The things that are barely used/almost unused are the things that often end up the least tested or looked at.

Depending on how complex they are, and what they do, this is a recipe for bugs/security issues.

When you have thousands of these things, not removing them over time is a great way to end up with a huge mess.

On the other side, as you say, removing any of them rarely benefits users directly (except in some individually minuscule way like binary size).

What seems to happen here strikes me as a reasonable balance - people try to trade off the complexity of the feature vs its use, and wait for it to become unused enough that it might be worth removing.

As you can see, here they decided it wasn't worth it, and it's still there today.
It’s not a deadly disease it’s a parasite. Though I do believe humans are the primary hosts. Filtering water, using deep Wells or anti-parasitic drugs are what’s driving down the number of cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis
IMO, Carter is the 2nd best ex-President of the United States.

(Washington is 1st because he was the first ex-President)
Maybe this is naive - but why is software compatibility so important for servers (that mostly run open source software, like psql)? I assume none of it is written in ARM/x86 assembly language and all of it in higher level languages like c/c++/python/java/js/etc that can be compiled/run on RISC-V?
I mean, these terms are defined and widely understood, so, um, no.

"gold open access" is where you publish to a peer-reviewed open-access journal, which may or may not involve the author paying for the privilege.

"green open access" is where you publish to any peer-reviewed journal, and then the author self-archives the paper somewhere, like an institutional website, arXiv (as a "post-print", not a pre-print), or even Sci-Hub.

There are discussions involved about copyright and license and so on, but that's the gist of it.
> The proof relies on a curious fact about high-dimensional geometry, which is that randomly distributed points placed on the surface of a sphere are almost all a full diameter away from each other.

That should be √2 × radius.

Looking out from the North Pole of hypersphere, almost all points lie near the equator, not the South Pole.
Having to run a command for each "client" is a bit limiting; another approach is the one done by jj (https://23.fi/jj/) which opens a fake filesystem where you can directly read from and write to files. You can have a process tail a room, another one writing notifications to another room, etc... Having filesystems like that also means you can mount them from another machine if that's your desire, or use standard file moving tools.
DSCOVR is a pretty cool project. It always stays on the sunlit side of the earth and has a decent camera (called EPIC) viewing the full disc. You can view it here[0].

[0] https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/
YC funds software companies disrupting large markets. Software has high margins. Large markets are easy to intuit. Therefore business plans aren’t as necessary as opposed to other types of investors eg private equity.
how long we have raspberry pi or equivalent priced SBU on risc-v?

my understanding is that would be a gamechanger because many people would be exposed to it. right?
It's surprise me how in the US and other countries there isn't any movement like Bizum in Spain, which you can pay in stores and give or receive money with other people only interchanging a phone number linked with a bank account.

That service is maintained with practically all banks in the country, valid to use with any other person who also have an account, doesn't have any transaction or a monthly/periodical fee, can't roll back payments easily if you screw up, and some other advantages.
Leave. My. Back. Button. Alone.
> 140

It's been 280 for a while, but your point still stands.
Word Mastermind (1972)
The Bitcoin Laundering Case Confounding the Internet
Accenture has a "rich" history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Split_from_Arthur_An...

Remember Enron?

Oh yeah, sure, they were separate divisions and all that...
Let's say you compromise my social media account. You can immediately post as me, but that isn't so useful. You would probably prefer to have ongoing access to my account, so you can post as me at some future point when you have something you want to promote.
Lets try, just to be sure? If I earn 1500 euro per month and pay 1100 worth of bills. I need a new computer and a new TV every 5 years or so. I have 400 left for food etc so saving more than 50 per month would be unreasonable. How much money do I have saved up after 5 years? 50125=3000! Should be enough for a modern computer. For comparison, doing the same job in 1985, earnings: 4500 guilders bills: 450. where 1 euro == 2.2 guilders. I set aside 3000 per month for the TV&PC. 3000125=180000 or 81818 euro. Hummm... Lets adjust that by 50% for possible inaccuracies(?) 40 000 vs 3000 seems like it wouldn't bother me if the TV&PC was 2, 3 or 13 times as expensive?

I could be wrong of course but it seems to me consumer electronics need to be so cheap because people don't have money.
“Russia's Elon Musk” is developing hypersonic rocket cargo planes
CORS is primarily a concern for frontend engineers, though its implementation depends on backend. In my experience, many backend engineers struggle to understand it because it's not their concern.

I found comparing CORS with CSP helpful in understanding both concepts: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50726191/1472186 (I wrote the answer)

Also, like others have pointed out, CORS or CSP depends on the client (browser) to enforce it. So it doesn't protect against attacker with customized clients.
I’ve found a nice Roam workflow that makes use of the daily notes, tags for projects, todos and dates. That’s enough to list out tasks each day and add a reminder. I can also set up queries to filter by dates, task status and projects for reporting.
Interesting bit at the very end:

"As agents were about to begin the search, Ms. Morgan and Mr. Lichtenstein said they would leave their apartment, but wanted to take their cat, the filing says. The agents allowed Ms. Morgan to retrieve the cat, which was hiding under the bed.

But as Ms. Morgan crouched by the bed and called to the cat, she positioned herself next to a night stand that held one of her cellphones, the filing says. She then reached up and grabbed the phone, and repeatedly hit the lock button in what prosecutors say was an apparent effort to make it harder for investigators to search the phone’s contents.

The agents had to wrest the phone from Ms. Morgan’s hands. Court records provided no further information about the cat."

Do you think she was trying a hard reset or something?
Ah yeah, you're right, I forgot about wide modes etc.
Australian Government introduces ‘troll’ bill in Parliament
A Happy Compromise Between Customization and Cacheability
SRS works well enough for me. At least it's near the top in the ROI optimisation.

But remember that it's just a scheduling mechanism to save you time, not to help remember, necessarily. I like the Harry Lorayne book on memory for various tricks and techniques to actually remember. It's not groundbreaking but goes over a lot of the standard and proven memory hacks.
From observational data, climate crisis is not evident yet Euro.Phys.J.Plus
Post Office scandal: 'I want someone else to be charged and jailed like I was'
> ideas that he stole outright

Maybe; but I'm not familiar with anyone who has stated the case so well, although he obviously had predecessors as anyone has. Perhaps a failing on my part, but there's probably a reason that his writings have endured in spite of the person. Either way, I think it's a mistake to dismiss ideas merely on account of who either proposed or popularized them. I think the ideas can be divorced from the person.

Or more contemporary; personally I think Donald Trump was a horrible president and all-round horrible person. But I also think he occasional said some things where he was actually right, and not everything he did as president was wrong either. Too often do I see people dismiss things merely on account of "Trump saidit!" I understand the sentiment, but you risk not addressing problems merely on account of who brings them to attention, which at best means the problem continues to exist, and at worst ignoring them makes them worse. This can be very dangerous.

At any rate, if you know of better authors to read, then please, let us know.
I don't want to sysadmin my phone, I just want to remove Google from my threat model. That means I'd like everyone to be able to buy phones which come pre-installed with F-Droid as an alternative app store, so people get the benefit of reproducible builds of free software apps (ideally with binary transparency, and verifiers in multiple jurisdictions).

Reliance on Google as a third party is just another example of the blind-spot that Marlinkspike has about the dangers of centralisation. This is seen in his resistance to making Signal work on devices that don't use the proprietary Google Play services[0], and the slowly boiling frog of developers no longer having control of their own keys when publishing in the Google Play store.[1]

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/5450

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/01/android_app_bundle/
> spaced repetition is for memorization; I'm not trying to memorize

Only if you use it as such. SRS is a scheduler to help you optimize your time, to not spend time on things you probably don't need to refresh. The actual memory/learning part is orthogonal.

I use SRS to plan different practices of things (in my case programming languages or concepts). If I consider that I did one of them well, I mark it as such and won't see it for a longer time, if not, I mark it badly and I'll see it again sooner.
Optimism is a blockchain quite a bit like Ethereum, so the "database" mental model might be a bit confusing for a frame here (as it isn't like they are some centralized service), but no: this doesn't let you directly create ETH (which would be much much more devastating); it only lets you create something we might call "OETH", which is Optimism-specific.

The native currency on Optimism (used to pay gas, like ETH is used on Ethereum) is effectively ETH; but, as it isn't Ethereum, that ETH on Optimism has to actually live on Ethereum: it gets locked into a contract there which acts as a repository/reserve for all of the ETH being used on Optimism.

When you deposit ETH in this reserve on Ethereum you get credited the same amount on Optimism in the form of cryptocurrency IOUs (which we might call "OETH"), and you can later withdraw that money back to Ethereum, whereupon the OETH is destroyed and ETH is unlocked from the reserve contract.

The bug here (which I go into detail in in my post-mortem, along with another / different description of how these "bridges" work) was in the VM used for the smart contract behaviors on Optimism, which would mean you could arbitrarily replicate OETH (the IOUs for ETH).

For avoidance of any doubt: you couldn't use this bug to create an arbitrary amount of ETH/Ether, but the issue is that a lot of people call the money on Optimism--which is normally backed 1:1 with ETH--"ETH". (There is a discussion about what it should be called in the Ethereum chains database; I personally think what we need is a terminology for describing the full path whenever you have "ETH via an indirect path".)
Is this true eradication or elimination? A reduction to zero cases is amazing and awesome, but is there ever a chance of the disease being truly eliminated?
so good. thank you for reminding me this exists
Your postmortem page throws a "Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM" in Firefox under Fedora.
I dont think SPARC is a very good ISA. Before RISC-V there was also OpenRISC, which early on had some of the same traction as RISC-V in the open source community. But both SPARC and OpenRISC has branch delay slots, which was, if I remember correctly, one of the things the designers of RISC-V wanted to avoid to have a more scalable ISA. Branch delay slots are supposedly a big issue when designing high end superscalar cores.

RISC-V is very well thought out when it comes to scaling from the smaller MCU cores to the largest supercomputer CPUs. With a coming revision the code density with the compressed extension is even better than ARM Thumb, while being better designed than Thumb (no mode switching)
It's actually 52 m. The cab of the overtaking truck has to clear both the truck it's overaking and place itself one full length ahead.
> - spaced repetition is for memorization; I'm not trying to memorize

I strongly agree. In the learning blogs (e.g. SuperMemo wiki) and forums I’ve read (r/Anki), there is a bias to solve every learning problem with space repetition (very roughly, flashcards on a computer program scheduled in an optimized way).

I’ve seen users try to make it work for math and physics, and though it may work for some users, the approach was ultimately a distraction in my experience, from doing lots of practice problems.
Those skills are unrelated.
What I see is definitely more dangerous. Cars stack up in the passing lane behind the passing truck. Impatient people then jump into the empty slow lane to pass the line of cars on the right, then merge greedily cutting in front of the line, making the whole situation worse.
Ask HN: Disillusioned with the direction of society and technology
Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.

Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.

They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.

Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole.

For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.

What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?

I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.
Dense traffic is less safe than loose traffic. Having a dense traffic flow behind the blockage is going to negate any wishful thinking improvement you get by reducing traffic speed by 10%.
gtfo with that. it's a generous payout.
It reminds me of Gabin Belson, CEO of Hooli, from Sillicon Valley
Yeah, that would be my advice. Either export all images from iPhoto, original files (not compressed, down-scaled). Then pull them into Photos.

Or literally open the iPhoto Library folder and go rescuing your photos. There are all sort of thumbnail versions in there for performance, so you'll have to discover the folder hierarchy to find your originals, but they're there.
Chat app/Slack clone is good material for learning a range of Elixir concepts.
> I mean, I’d assume it was a snake. Not sure what else I’d assume they were talking about.

Shout it at me and I'd be fifty-fifty whether it's a snake or a car (the Dodge V-10) you mean. But I'm a car nut; I'd assume for normal (English-speaking) people the snake would be the obvious default meaning.
Seems humans are the primary hosts, so yes it’s possible.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis
Show HN: Visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding
Long time reader, first time self-promoter.

I'm a bicycle mechanic that figured I could make the process of bicycle wheelbuilding faster, more accurate and more satisfying. I do it by sampling digital indicators, rendering the data in useful ways, and injecting domain-specific insights. The UI interaction happens by foot pedal so my paradigm retains the traditional way of working with your hands.
The parent comment suggested that both trucks were going as fast as their engine control would allow.
Interesting but fairly difficult to understand.

Is it true what I heard that databases are more complicated than operating systems?
Hah! When I added SSL to my site a few days ago, I really cranked those settings hard trying to optimize for "security" on the Qualy's SSL Server Test. Do you know what the most secure cipher suite you actually support is (and are you sure the issue isn't that you aren't merely using a particularly-out-of-date copy of Firefox)?
When rpi was a new thing writing Python in it was a pain in the ass. You had to compile a lot of stuff from source, which was a huge time sink.

To this day writing ARM lambdas on AWS has its own gotchas.

Idk, I think their CEO has a point, it's just that it might be a short lived one given how much money Chinese companies are throwing at risc V.
AFAIR it’s never the server that rejects the request in a CORS scenario: The server indicates what origins are allowed to call the API and the browser cancels the request on behalf of the user if called on a website that’s not on the allowed list. The server canceling the request based on a header would be insecure since the client can send arbitrary headers.
Gaming mice?
>Price is an extremely effective means of restoring flow to a congested system.

That's like saying famine is a great way of dealing with overpopulation.

You're fundamentally taking a small subgroup (the trips that are justified despite the increased cost) and saying "look how good things are for them" while completely ignoring everything not in that subgroup. By that same (asinine) logic the SF housing market is great for homeowners.

At best toll roads function as fuzzy rationing (and that isn't great either) where the masses only take the most critical trips.
Or the unusual 2 words... "Public sector"...
> Even if you store as a time stamp you can pull out just the year, month day.

In general, you need a timezone for that.
I think notes are generally a good idea to help you summarize the knowledge you've acquired while spaced repetition is the aspect that will help in retaining the knowledge you've learned. The important thing is that the notes are written in a way you understand and can be picked up and read-again with a limited amount of context. What I mean by 'limited context' is sometimes I forget big portions of what I've learned and writing notes as if I'm teaching someone who knows very little about the subject allows my future self to pick forgotten things up faster. I personally use one of the Anki apps to do this myself.

The best form of spaced repetition IMO is the application of the acquired knowledge in a big project over time. That way re-visiting the concepts comes naturally as you continue to develop something over time.
True eradication was the original goal, but since 2016 there's a zoonotic reservoir in dogs which complicates that. If not for that it would've been eradicated a few years ago and it's currently unknown if that can be brought under control.
> Fedora & the vast majority of packages have been ported to RISC-V since 2016/2017. Debian about a year later.

Any idea whether distros are planning to move towards the upcoming RVA22 profile or are they going to remain on GC?
No such issue under Firefox 97 on NixOS; are you using a recent version of firefox + ssl lib?
This is a net-worth calculation, not an income-based on. To see the flaw in this, note that if you liquidate all the wealth of the "top 0.1%" you can do that once, and no more.

All the billionaires in the world hold enough assets all together to pay for c. 6mo of healthcare across the EU. So in that one-time liquidation, you get 6mo of one social service for one medium-sized continent.

Sure, it's an impressive amount for a few thousand individuals to hold. More impressive, I'd say, is the net output of those few thousand individuals (ie., the 1000s of industrial bets they make which increases wealth for everyone over the long-run).

Wealth statistics are often quoted to deliberately outrage the status-anxious; if it really were teh case that 0.1% of people could somehow fund lives for 80%, they'd be a revolution overnight.
OpenBSD has some support with 7.0:

* https://www.openbsd.org/riscv64.html
Cool hack and writeup!
I’ve read Protector many times over the years, and this summary misses only one thing: he’s a superstrong duck.
I agree on the subtlety. Personally I think that expressing the most miniscule thought about having a lawyer should trigger that process. In practice, the judiciary system has ruled that requests for legal counsel must be unambiguous in the wording used. At a very minimum there should be something like a Miranda warning that does not allow police to continue without-- at each stage the word "lawyer" is said-- asking "are you asserting your 6th amendment right to legals counsel? Please answer with a Yes/No." That's off the top of my head though, maybe there's a better way
The analysis was interesting but the end result was pretty terrible. Of course music in the past was often considered terrible by the following generation, a trend that still exists today.

What I would really like to see is an attempt to write multipart contrapuntal works like Bach with some kind of AI. The rules are fairly well understood, but Bach knew how to adapt and even violate them all but still wind up with amazing pleasant music.
There will be people who comes out to say we shouldn't do this because it means dictators will live longer or that old people will remains in power longer, as if old people are a blight on society.

I would consider it good news if old people had to live with their decisions and problems they created instead of leaving it to the next generation.
Obsidian.

I copy/paste what I think are the "atoms" of the thing to learn.
And i build a small graph of interconnected .md files in Obsidian.

To me, it is very important to break the medium that brings the information into a graph that suits you the most. (call that process my knowledge ETL, and the result .md files my personal knowledge graph :)

PS: the funny thing is that you indeed refactor your graph when you come back to it with more knowledge. You usually do not remove things, but reorganize it in a better way. Very interesting process...
Not quite. With date, the timezone comes before the year.

LC_ALL=C date => Sun Feb 13 14:27:18 GMT 2022
When something wants to be involved in financial transactions and it can be described as "scary" compared to PayPal, you've engineered a problem. PayPal has a history of being customer hostile and withholding funds without notice. I don't plan to read the FB TOS because I have a hard block in place for them but that's a pretty damning statement.
That Strict same-site cookie won’t be sent if you use any third party payment systems (like stripe checkout). It’s basically useless because if they cancel or complete the payment, the browser won’t send the cookie and forces the user to login again.
Btw, always keep track of the resource that you copy/paste from.
Like Google used to have and do, back in the day when they were still not evil, AFAICR.
Why, I'm an emotional wreck I guess to notice these things! Maybe when you calm down you can examine the assumptions behind the method of examining p-values in the paper you cited.
Your link actually states "There is no medication or vaccine against the disease."
Focus on yourself and what you can improve about your own life and the lives of others close to you. If you focus on things outside your sphere of influence (ie, you can't fix it), you will only upset yourself and live in a state of unhappiness.
Many of pg's writings could be categorized as flamebait — if you're not listening closely.
Nim has made me passionate about programming again