skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people including me (and I'm old, conservative, technical geek) are not actively social. Not being actively social is not at all the same as antisocial. Antisocial is associated with a negative behavioral aspect, a disorder potentially. Not wanting to have a beer at the pub doesn't make me antisocial. I don't mind shaking hands but, from a medical perspective it seems like a tradition that would best be left in the past.
> India was a number of different states and empires in near constant war with each other before modern times.

At different times yes, but there have been Empires of significant size for several centuries. India is about the size of western Europe, and people have have a shared civilisational history in the form of epics.

> I'm trying and failing to see who is it that is imposing uniformity on Europeans in the form of language or culture.

Conflating linguistic or cultural homogeneity with nationhood is a European limitation, does not apply to India. The EU is constantly struggling with "Integration" and Brexit is a result of the inability to expand beyond language barriers.

Civilization is a step above culture, but takes longer to establish.
> Truman wrote, “My object is to save as many American lives as possible but I also have a human feeling for the women and children of Japan.”

https://www.nps.gov/articles/trumanatomicbomb.htm
Looks like they are trying to create a distinct set of APIs for third-party advertising (and I think everything else) SDK libraries. Those libraries are submitted to Google independently from the app. The apps now have to declare they are using library X version Y and Google will deploy that library to the end user's device when the app installs.
The public does not decide what to do on an ongoing war specially during the imperial Japanese rule or any modern war with an organized army. The Americans just have a habit of destroying city with non combatants during world war 2, they've done it in Europe and Asia.
Not of late. I've had someone from Amazon email me every few months, but I guess I'll prepare for a barrage.

No, I'm not looking, and I've never wanted to work for Amazon.
The level is different for everyone, but a really simple model is to spend no more than 4% of your investments every year, so it depends on how much you spend. https://old.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ is a reddit community that goes in depth about this
I have a degree in Nuclear engineering, although I haven’t been practicing in a while. Your explanation is accurate and well described.

> actually I think there are two sets of rods, not all of them are individually actuated

commercial reactors have 5-10 “banks” arranged symmetrically, although only a subset of those are typically used during power operations [1], so you weren’t far off. Rods are rarely controlled individually, the only case that comes to mind is for identifying and then limiting the reactivity in a “leaker” fuel bundle (one where the cladding has been breached by a foreign object, so it is leaching contamination into the coolant - this is undesirable but expected).

[1]: edit for more information:
PWRs and BWRs differ substantially here:

PWRs primarily use boric acid in the coolant to limit reactivity at the beginning of a fuel cycle, which is diluted out over the course of the cycle. One bank of rods is used for fine reactivity control. This gives them a generally even power distribution across the reactor.

BWRs primarily use their control rods, so start the fuel cycle with substantially more inserted. A significant part of designing the fuel layout for a cycle is also designing the control rod patterns to be used over the cycle, to control excess reactivity while maximizing fuel use. Power distribution across the reactor can vary wildly, so it’s a much more challenging engineering problem.

I just remembered I actually have a detailed visualization illustrating (modeled) power distribution in a BWR. You can easily see where control rods are inserted and how that has shifted the power around. https://www.kmr.me/posts/coremap/#content
The parent you are responding to is talking about deregulation in a different context and with a different purpose. Regulation and deregulation are both broad terms and talking about one does not requisite jumping to a different topic. Doing so just means we'll fight all day because you can find examples on both sides where they had disastrous effects. We need to be more nuanced than this. I'll also argue that the parent should be more specific to avoid these types of responses too.
Ideology responsible for millions of deaths by USSR, Communist China, Pol Pot and other similar regimes.
I got solar a few months ago and I am shipping 7kWh back each day and trying to find useful stuff for the electricity (may even give in the Air Conditioning crowd prior to temps hitting 35 Celsius). I am all for efficiency but cheap solar changes the material conditions significantly.
> Japan would have been willing to surrender, if the terms allowed for the emperor to remain in power.

Conjecture

> but Truman wanted to drop the bombs so

Also conjecture
Next step is bring native apps to the desktop. Then we'll be cookin'
Then why couldn't they drop one demo bomb in a sparsely populated area, wait a week, then drop the second one in a population center if no surrender is forthcoming? Is the delta is probability of surrender really that much lower that it's not worth trying to save 200k civilians via this approach?
>users shouldn't have to spend 15 minutes installing an ad-blocker

I'm glad you made it so obvious how seriously your opinion should be taken.
shrek ain't pixar tho
I'm not only talking about the hangover (But you've inspired me to look into MAC), I'm talking about the things you do when too drunk at a bar. Acting like a fool and being embarrassed about it, spending a lot of money on drinks only to not even remember the next day.. things like that.

Going out to a bar and having the right amount of drinks can definitely be Type 1 fun, but when you pass a certain threshold of drinks it slides to Type 4
I wonder how many of these people complaining have even used it lately. Firefox with ublock is indispensable for me. I can't do DNS blocking everywhere all the time. You can disable any BS experiment stuff they put out through the about:config page. Chrome OTOH is spyware trash with a google account forced login dark pattern built right into the browser. I could do degoogled chrome but I don't see the point. What do I get? Floc style experiments?
You can disagree - but the evidence is pretty unequivocal. There was never mention in any of the decision making bodies of any context that it was a primary motive. What we have to go on was Stalin's paranoia.

It was very well documented that the entire push of the United States government was to involve Russia in the pacific theater. Major concessions had been given to get the Stalinist government to do so. While there certainly were hawks that viewed this as opportune to keep the communists in bay, the documentary evidence drives to the opposite conclusion.
It certainly doesn't sound legal to invalidate your gift card balance, and it seems at least in one case a banned person received reimbursement in the form of a check.

> “All open orders were canceled, I just could access digital content purchased in the account. I had over $100 in my gift card balance and Amazon agreed to send me the refund, I received a check in my mailbox after 1 week,” wrote Do, who calculated that his rate of return for Amazon is about 17% — ordering 104 items and returning 18.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/if-youre-returning-a-lot-o...
Cash bail wouldn't have prevented him from doing anything if he was rich. How do you propose to address this inequality? Me, I'd prefer we evaluate them immediately to decide if they should remain locked up based on the merits of the case and not how much money they have, and get them into court faster.
I can tell you in New York, utilities were compelled to divest from power production. Your state may vary.

Similar to the charter school scam, the scrappy upstarts bonded out lots of debt to buy up power plants and subsequently became a powerful lobby to keep their cartel tight.

Some of the remaining municipal energy co-op utilities were exempted from deregulation, and all of them have lower cost structures.

I know Massachusetts is a similar story, not sure about others.
I would argue the opposite, there's a really strong skill transfer between gamedev(esp on the engine side of things) <-> embedded development. Both deal with hard constraints(performance, memory, storage) and you use similar approaches to deal with them.

At a more high-level HMI/game design has a pretty large overlap. No one knows what "fun" or "easy to use" are, so the approaches to converge there are similar(rapid prototyping, etc).
> This is an oxymoron. How can you mathematically enforce a purely social concept? Property rights aren't tangible things; they are creations purely of law and of the societies they inhabit. Can you mathematically enforce that no one build a house on the land I own? That no one picks an apple from my apple tree, except with my permission?

Land or an apple tree aren't natively digital assets. So no, they cannot be cryptographically enforced. Bitcoin is natively digital. If I alone have access to a wallet (i.e. memorized a seed-phrase), my rights to that bitcoin are enforced cryptographically and defended by the power of the network. "Ownership" meaning I have exclusive rights to "spend" them.

"Social construct" still absolutely comes into play though. The social construct is money. Bitcoin being money is a manifestation of a social construct. Are you suggesting something being a social construct means that they are not "real"? Because that would be a MUCH larger debate.

> I just don't see how cryptocurrency helps the unbanked--what does it bring that M-PESA doesn't bring?

A trustless and self-sovereign way to store value? This becomes increasingly important the more corrupt your Government is. For example, if your government wanted to freeze your money because you participated in a protest they don't like.

> Furthermore, how are those benefits worth the externalities of cryptocurrency, specifically the massive energy consumption that undoubtedly fuels the climate change that is slowly worsening the lives of many of the unbanked it's purporting to help?

Electricity consumption, in and of itself, does not fuel climate change. CO2 emissions do. Also depends on the relative climate cost between one system and the system it looks to replace. For example, electric cars are bad for the environment if you look at them in a vacuum. But, they are better than ICE cars. So they are applauded.
> I’m proud of this but realistically this is primarily down to luck.

I don't buy this trend of looking at everything through the myopic lens of privilege.

Lots of people have had the same luck as you and I, yet have achieved nothing

> Compared to all the luck, my actual hard work is almost inconsequential.

There are necessary and sufficient conditions. As the saying does, "Luck favors the prepared mind."

Some of the "lucks" you have listed are necessary conditions ("Lucky to be born reasonably healthy. Lucky to be human." If you're born a dolphin or with a disease that kills you before you turn 15, you won't get to be a "successful software engineer)

Some are neither necessary not sufficient (money to pursue education + work ethic: I know very lazy yet very successful coders that don't have a single diploma in their name)

> Compared to all the luck, my actual hard work is almost inconsequential.

And yet, it's the one you have control with (you can decide to work more or less or not at all).

By extension, I can't understand taking pride in something totally outside of your control ("I'm proud to be human!") or non sensical ("I'm proud to be lucky!")
So essentially the flatly unacceptable terms were the exact same terms that got accepted, except for the US military bases?
My first guess was "friend", a la the Doors of Durin.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Doors_of_Durin
Ask HN: Any good blogs or resources related to enterprise security?
I really enjoy the Lit model. It’s quite a bit faster than React, it is a tiny bit of syntactic sugar on top of browser APIs. It’s powering Photoshop (https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/) and a future release of YouTube I believe.

Take a look at real code here https://lit.dev/tutorial/ and component conceptual model here https://lit.dev/docs/components/overview/
> pretty much impossible to solve

Literal understatement of all time…
Fighting against the germ theory of disease is definitely conservatism.
So... you're saying it's possible!
But I was talking about barbershop quartets and the specific sound they are generally going for based on my experience with and impression of that genre. I don't know much about string quartet music so I wouldn't wager a guess about what they do.

My impression of barbershop harmony is that they're not particularly concerned with how the melodies are tuned. I don't think there's much deliberate intention there, other than that you obviously don't want frequencies to drift too much throughout a song because you want to be in the right ranges for each vocalist. Barbershop harmony seems much more concerned about the "vertical" tuning and my hypothesis is that they do tend to hit very close to the low integer ratios. Can you think of a reason they wouldn't intend to do that? The harmonies tend to be pretty close (unlike a piano) and I would guess that the human voice is less inharmonic than piano strings (although bowed string instruments are very harmonic, right?).
This goes straight to the core of what makes authorization in complex applications such a challenge. You hit the nail on the head when you say that authorization in inseparable from each application's unique circumstances.

At the most abstract level, an authorization decision is an answer to the question "is an identity (user, service, computer, etc.) allowed to perform an action on a resource?".

Each one of these constituents (identity, action, and resource) may include contextual information that is unique to the application at hand. Aserto gives you the ability to imbue each one with the necessary information.

Identities are stored in a directory where they can be enriched with arbitrary data. Roles, teams, attributes, and anything else that is directly tied to an identity whose actions need to be authorized.

Relevant information about the resource being accessed is collected by the application and sent as part of the authorization call.

Then there are the authorization policies that receive identity and resource information and make decisions.

There can be multiple ways to model an application's authorization scheme. In your example it sounds like the user (identity) is a care giver and the "resource" is patient data. If users belong to numerous care teams and their membership in them is highly dynamic, your application may perform the FHIR query to retrieve the identities of the the patient's care team prior to the authorization call and include that information in the resource context.

The policy can then make decision based on whether or not the acting identity is a member of the team, as well as any other relevant information (e.g. are they the patient's primary care giver or a specialist?).

There are many advantages to keeping authorization policies separate from application logic. Change management, provenance, and testability are a few.

Having a single place where all authorization policies are defined allows us to reason more deeply about the behavior of our applications.
Well, use TLS and every TCP-using application is already secured.
Most people don’t visit URLs by typing them into their browser. Links, messaging apps, email, native apps etc. account for more than manually typed links do.
Windows is also a guest OS on Hyper-V, running on privileged guest know as root partition.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-w...
Without firsthand knowledge, I heard SDE 2 can get up to 400k and SDE 3 can get 500-600k. Crazy.
I honestly don't care how they rationalize it, either they respect their users' privacy, or they don't. They have demonstrably chosen the second option. Having opt-out telemetry and experiments is really bad. Not actually disabling the telemetry when you opt out of it is absolutely inexcusable. There is just no other way of interpreting it than that they don't give a flying fuck about what their users want. The fact that they want the data is enough to disregard any choices made by the users.

Pretty much every single violation of privacy can be rationalized with someone feeling like they need the data for some reason or another. Mozilla does not get special dispensation to spy on their users.
I've told 20-30 Amazon recruiters that I'd never work for Amazon.. ever. I haven't heard from them in a month or so, so I think they might have finally gotten the message.
Do virtual adapters on VMs for communication between host and guest stand to benefit from this? For e.g. scp between host and guest. Current max mtu size on VirtualBox is 9000 right?
Yes, for reference the capability of the Delta IV Heavy [0] (which launched the Parker Solar probe) is ~28,000 kg in to LEO. And the Parker solar probe [1] was only 685 kg. I don't know how close to the limit of the mass this is to get in to this orbit, but it still gives you an idea of the capability to get something to the Sun versus in to LEO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
I think you could have got a comparable death toll just in Japanese POW camps if negociations for the surrender had dragged on a couple of months more, wouldn't need an invasion.
there's just no way we should all be scripting in a language where typing out anything more than a single command necessitates a cascade of "well ACKshually it should be done this way" corrections, whether it's from a static analysis tools or your grey-bearded Bash-wizard coworkers.

We are eventually going to look at using bash and similar shells for scripting as the bad old days.
The first point is just really wrong. The harmonic series is not integer multiples, and you don't have to get very far in the harmonic series before you encounter radical microtones that no European musician would have ever considered in-tune for the last thousand years.

The order of intervals in the harmonic series is:

Octave

Perfect Fifth

Perfect Fourth

Major Third

Minor Third

Subminor Third

Diminished Third

Supermajor Second

Major Second

Neutral Second

Minor Second

And that's just the leading edge of the series. Between distant notes in the series you will find the neutral third, subfourth, superfourth, superaugmented fourth, subfifth, superaugmented fifth, supermajor sixth, and neutral seventh.

If you want to claim that our intervals all come from the harmonic series, then in order to include the Minor Second, which everyone would agree is pretty dang important for our music, you must also include all the intervals listed above that nobody's ever heard of. It's simply wrong.

The major scale has nothing to do with the harmonic series except by coincidence. The Tritone for instance, never appears in the harmonic series, and any music theorist will tell you that's way more important to our music than the Minor Second.
Push notifications are a separate form of 2FA, they're not TOTP. If anything, enabling TOTP and disabling push-based 2FA would solve the problem.
In its own terms, Marxism seeks an end to alienation and exploitation. That is to say, the Marxist vision is to create a utopian society. Heaven on Earth.

When heaven doesn't come, you need a scapegoat, and the Marxists start killing people.

Ukrainian pogroms, Great Leap Forward, Khmer Rouge, there's enough examples to be convinced that Marxism is inherently genocidal.
Then a few years later you joke about it with your friends and it becomes Type 5 fun :)
I have to agree that this timeline implies too much malice.

The null timeline of new egg just shipping an RMA'ed broken mobo in the first place seems more plausible to me.

The "This was customer damage" RMA rejection though I do not think applies. Hard to see any "honest mistake" there.
Yahoo web-hosting.. didn't know that still existed :)

Gotta love how he does stuff :) It's like the Twitter profile for Robert Downey Jr "You know who I am." Just baller :)
That's a very academic perspective which I cannot share as a musician. Music needs no formal specification to exist. It's like a language, but a language for emotional, not rational communication. Btw. science exists by itself as well and doesn't depend on a "scientific method". Like in music, philosophers tried to understand how science works after the fact, and there is a plethora of philosophic optinions how science works. And we can pretty well do science without caring much of all those opinions. The same applies to music.

> Jazz musicians who can't cite theory don't use 7ths by accident.

I don't understand this argument. It's unavoidable to use 7ths, regardless whether the musician can name the interval or not.
Monkeysphere: Using PGP for SSH verification/authentication (2012)
Also known as "Top Gun"
it's cool, but the problem with previous graphene transistors is that they didn't really have a bandgap, meaning there wasn't much of a difference between on and off, making them unsuitable for use in computers. It looks like that could be the case here too.
I built Sitetruth.com to try to solve that problem. I'm going to shut it down soon.

The goal of SiteTruth was to try to find the real-world business behind a web site, and look up information about the business, such as how long it has been in business and its annual revenue. That's become harder and harder over the last decade.

First, it's now acceptable to have an online business with no real-world address and no visible legal existence. This is illegal in the European Union and illegal in California if the business accepts payments, but enforcement is nonexistent.

Second, more sites have become inaccessible to scraping by servers. I have a system which looks for a human-readable business address on a site. It looks in the obvious places (front page, "about", "legal", "terms", "contact", etc.) and quits after trying the 20 most likely pages. It uses a honest agent ID ("Sitetruth.com site verification system", registered with the now meaningless "bots vs browsers" list) and obeys robots.txt. A sizeable fraction of the time, it can't read the site at all.

Third, the data sources for company information have been becoming less accessible. There used to be two reliable data sources: Hoovers, and Dun and Bradstreet. They merged. Dun and Bradstreet for a while became rather corrupt. They licensed a company in Santa Monica, CA to use their name, and sent the small-business part of the business to them. This unit's marketing approach was "Nice credit rating. Be a shame if it something happened to it". After much litigation, DnB HQ bought the Santa Monica company, but the reputational damage was done and DnB is no longer the gold standard of company information. There are lower tier data sources (look up "US Business List"), but the data quality is poor. Anything based on user recommendations, like Yelp, gets spammed, so that's out. Yahoo Directory, which was reasonably spam free, is gone.

Fourth, the SSL cert industry became corrupt. OV standards were never very high, and EV standards started slipping. Then there was the Cloudflare problem. Cloudflare is a certificate authority, and they issue certs to themself for domains which run through Cloudflare. So looking up a cert just gets Cloudflare's info.

Fifth, Google is making it harder and harder to have Chrome plug-ins that critique their ads. I dropped Chrome support recently, and only have a Firefox add-on at this point.

So, after fifteen years, Sitetruth is coming to an end.