skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I want this to be front-page news because Biden explicitly threatened the withdrawal of aid unless a prosecutor of a sovereign nation investigating his son's company was fired. This was the same threat that you accused Trump of and everyone castigated Trump for - which was proven false.

Do you legitimately not understand that it was the perceived motivation and not the action that people dislike? No one cares about the Biden scenario because it takes five minutes of Googling to find out that the whole thing was over the British being mad the prosecutor didn't turn over documents potentially indemnifying Burisma to UK authorities when requested. Why would Biden be personally mad at a prosecutor for NOT indemnifying his son's employer?

>A classified US State Department email from 2016 shows a leading diplomat warning that Hunter Biden’s lucrative job with a Ukrainian energy company “undercut” American efforts to fight corruption in the Eastern European country.

I mean, yeah, I don't think anyone has ever claimed that Hunter Biden is someone who only makes smart choices that help advance his father's aims. Unless you're aiming to criticize Joe Biden as a parent instead of as a political figure, that's not relevant by itself.
It won't help. The majority of emissions are industrial and commercial. If you want to look at actions like that I would see them through the lens of local sustainability which is a fantastic goal. Unfortunately a single cargo ship idling in the dock would probably erase the carbon savings of every good willed vegetable purchase.

What you as an individual can actually do is contact your delegates, your ministers, your officials, your industry partners, whoever you have access to, and tell them exactly why it's their problem to solve. You not buying bananas is a good gesture, but a carbon tax that makes out of season bananas unprofitable is where we need to implement the change.
One point he didn’t make (though touched on about “web3”) is that basically the “whales” just want to create their own new finance system (ie. “DeFi” for “Deregulated Finance”)
New Linux bug gives root on all major distros, exploit released
Would gladly take any questions you'd suggest!

To be clear though, I'm not a big fan of take homes either and we're trying to limit ours to less than 2 hours total time spent and give folks a week to find those 2 hours, so it's not overly burdensome.
Why not three months? Why not six? I do not get it. How is this same conversation still happening? This was public the day the patch was sent to the list or pushed to a public git server. Do you think adversaries are sitting around for a POC? Or for you to decide to get around to patching?

I can't help but physically shake my head as I write this. I can't imagine actually asking people to try to play pretend security through obscurity because folks still can be arsed to implement some sort of reasonable update strategy. I have enough experience in tiny and huge shops to say that it's a matter of prioritization and it's just a blatant form of technical debt and poor foresight.
Wow, that's an amazing achievement, especially considering SA was having major power issues not so long ago.
> If you go back in time and look at the climate, it has changed.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

> the people who are doing the models are not politically susceptible

That works both ways, and there's a fucking fuckton, like, I can't even find the words that would describe the size difference, like Arcturus to the Sun[0] sized motherfatherfucking fuckton difference in money to be made promoting fossil fuels and the status quo versus renewables and sustainability.

An excerpt from a conversation no-one will ever hear: "I want to be a billionaire, I'm going to go into environmental science".

[0]: http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsletter/images/arcturus-et...
How does that even work? Does the NSA post on 4chan asking for l33t hax0rs to do a job?
Ford to Impose Non-Negotiable Pricing on EV Sales as Part of Model E Plan
I totally agree about mimestream. It's everything I want in an app -- single focus, Mac-native, fast, and works well.

Two other Mac-native tools that I really enjoy using every day: GitUp (http://www.gitup.co/) and Postico (https://eggerapps.at/postico/).
Since when did a Gaussian distribution have valleys?
Again, I'm not saying the market should be free. I'm asking if parent is being inaccurate with their language.
More in and more out is better than less in and less out.
I don't think you're contradicting the GP. Solving problems for fun still counts as "pressing need".

The alternative is something like "Oh, I should learn abstract algebra because it's a fundamental course in all curricula". You'll learn it, and then forget it.
I'll start with a counterintuitive problem, the one of nuclear deterrence
NASA will fly your name around the moon during Artemis 1 mission
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The Spirited Away stage show looks transcendent
I think it's easy to see that psychedelics, while valuable, aren't exactly a direct key to world peace. Why? Because we won't have peace in the world until we have peace in people. And psychedelics, whatever they do, and I think they do something very useful, do not make people peaceful. Even if a person has many psychedelic experiences over a long period of time, they will most likely still be afflicted to some degree by greed, envy, anger, resentment, fear, etc.

When we say we want peace in the world, we really mean we want peace in the human world. And the human world is made of humans. But each person wants peace to be achieved by all other humans making themselves peaceful -- very few people have any practice to make themselves more peaceful.

If you want to make yourself more peaceful, this is the way I recommend:
https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...
Here's the original proposal from Sanders' campaign: https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/
Yes, this will be 16 bytes on Arm, and everywhere else pretty much. That doesn't mean the whole outer struct can't also be 16 bytes (this struct is one member of a union).
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neurotrophic_elec...

(the IP has more edits like that to that article)
I also recommend SowiloDS led strips [1]. My family has used these in our various rooms and offices after the start of the pandemic, atop existing shelves or mounted on the wall, and I love them. The amount of light, quality, and light control they provide (with additional Hue controller) is great. I've come to really prefer the diffuse lighting of LED strips over more powerful bulbs, to light a space.

Their Bifrost-168 Pro strip produces up to 2800 lm/m, so 5600 lm for their 2m variant at $60 ($10.71/klm for the strip only), or 14000lm for 5m at $145 ($10.35/klm for the strip only). You could split the 5m into smaller strips, but that's only for experienced solderers.

You can plug them into a Hue controller (sold by Sowilo, likely cannibalized from Hue's own dimmer light strips), or whichever controller you want to use. For me, that control and integration was well worth the increased cost.

I recommend them to anyone who'll listen, and plan on using more of them in any future space.

[1] https://sowilodesign.com/collections/led-strips
Wikipedia insists on secondary sources. Primary sources are not considered acceptable IIRC.
Certainly not from an environmental standpoint, but why from an exercise standpoint?
Every system is inevitably corrupted by shitty people. It's what they do.

It isn't necessarily a condemnation of capitalism in particular, more of a recognition of human nature and how some aspects of it are diametrically opposed to the other aspects of human nature that make institutions that try and prevent the worst of the corrupting elements.
Upwork Announces the Suspension of Business in Russia and Belarus
If you're looking for a download, someone posted a mega link higher up in the thread.

Convenience link: https://mega.nz/file/GKQQVbTY#1QmzfH7r2LAilAZU2RixI4yp-9IU6Q...
Many thanks, I've got it on my NAS now. Fond memories of reading UF.
Megacity 1?
Ultimately an op amp is a hardware abstraction. Often you teach the abstraction first through its interface to understand how it allows building useful things. Then you can teach the implementation behind that interface, and all the design trade offs. And just like the formulae, you need to understand that it's a tool for simplification - distrust shouldn't come into play, just proper understanding.

At least in my EE undergrad we were taught why you would want an op amp before we were taught how to design multi stage amplifiers with discrete transistors. In fact most of the real world limitations of op amps don't require knowledge of what's going on under the hood, least of all the physical layout of the chip. Even a schematic diagram of the simplified model for a UA741 is more than you'd ever need except for a shitty SPICE emulation.

I empathize with what you're getting at, but I've seen that mentality turn into the bane of practical or working knowledge of many technical topics. It is a skill to be able to learn just what you need to learn and decide what level of detail is enough, and most of the time that skill is only provided through instruction and mentorship.
I use http://www.speedcrunch.org/ now. Very handy; quick to boot and use.
Having one or two of these in a house does not offset having dozens of 40-60w incandescent bulbs in a house 15 years ago.
My undergrad institution does not require FA to graduate. It doesn't even list as an elective.

There's a very good reason for this: FA is not all that useful if you're more on the algebra side of things.
Some theories:

* Lucrative FAANG jobs have hollowed out the indie dev market

* Apple's cultural push for $1 apps has made it hard to charge sustainable amounts for indie apps

* The rise of iOS has pulled ObjC (and now Swift) devs away from Mac software

* Our industry has moved towards vertical integration. Eg before we used to use Campfire for team communication, using indie apps such as Flint as clients because campfire had an api. Nowadays tech companies want to 'own' the whole shebang, eg Slack has no API and publish their own desktop client. But these big companies by nature have no appetite for making a nice native app, it's all electron so they can get x-plat feature parity.
The question you ask is valid. If I were to guess (I didn't downvote you), it's because of your second sentence. It hints that you're thinking about it in a zero-sum kind of way. Google benefits from a healthy and secure web. This means they are going to engage in projects that aren't directly tied to what they do, like letsencrypt, Project Zero and TAG.
"Wary" means "cautious", as in "beware". "Weary" means "tired".
VPN services have become the most downloaded apps in Russia
For all we know that’s the plan now… who knows at this point.
Thank you for taking the time to say this. I've been thinking about this myself, having seen a few articles posted recently along similar lines.

I know that one architectural solution to getting more light indoors is often called daylighting[0]. I'm fortunate to live and work in old buildings with high ceilings and large, plentiful windows. What can we do about existing spaces with inadequate light, however?

[0] https://www.wbdg.org/resources/daylighting
It’s possible that TeX is some of the most bug free code around and bugs are still being found (very edge cases, to be sure).
A 80 watt incandescent light bulb will produce nowhere near close to 20000 lumens, more something along the lines of 1200-1300 lumens thus you would need 15+ times more to produce the same luminous flux.
You may be surprised to discover that many/most physics undergrad curricula do not mandate a course on probability.
You’re using the technical definition to claim tips as not corruption. And of course we all know that, otherwise it would have been illegal.

The point is, fundamentally the current way tips are collected in the US is like corruption. And like corruption, it should be made illegal.

For those who think people can’t survive without tips, first it is a problem that they are mistreated by their employer, second make it legally binding to mandatory add 20% or whatever to the meal and pass that to the directly (again legally binding).

If you think tips encourage good quality of service, other places without a culture of giving tips have our ways of providing good quality of service. You don’t need tip for that.

I once heard tips people gave, that when checking into hotel rooms, you should hold a 20 dollar notes as hint of tip and then ask them for upgrade. If they do, then you give them the tip. This is bribery, one of the many examples how tip culture can be used in a way indistinguishable to corruption.
South Korea Covid deaths spiking
There’s tons of great stuff coming out:

Mimestream is the mail best app I’ve used in decades (gmail only). Id pay the creators $100 or more for a license if he charged.

TablePlus is decent.

Obsidian for notes.

Monodraw for ascii drawings.
Downvote first paragraph, upvote second :)

Those things are still worth doing because en masse it has an effect, and if the single cargo ship is idling in the dock, then that doubles the negative effect, so offsetting counts for... something, at least.
Just personally, I use several of those "clunky" apps daily and they're more seamless than native counterparts. Particularly VS Code. Its biggest struggle is input latency, but if I really cared about that I wouldn't have left editing in the terminal.
I have one of these things and at first it was like the sun brought to earth. But now I’m kinda used to it when on, and don’t even really notice the difference compared to the other regular bulbs.

And then the sun comes through the window just right and blows the cob out of the water.
I guess someone forgot to tell Asia about this western scientific “discovery”. I can’t take anything written in the West—-both for and against—seriously regarding mask wearing. Both sides have lost their minds regarding masks wearing, something that is incredible common in Asia before Covid.
TablePlus certainly is decent
Hey, banks will make a transaction log for those people but the odds of them letting those people see your transaction log are pretty long.
Pornhub and the Value of Bitcoin
>"Initially it took a few days for the Ukrainians to get the satellite phones up and working because the instructions on how to use it were in English, not in Ukrainian."

Seriously?! Did the president hire my parents to set up his satellite phone? I refuse to believe that a nation state doesn't have at least a couple of techs on their payroll with decent command of English. If this is true then it's just embarrassing on so many levels and I'm really afraid of how Ukraine has a chance at winning this war.
The occasional disconnect there isn't surprising at all. Whichever group at Google works on anti-phishing attacks probably has rules like "does it say it's coming from Google, does it look like a Google email, is there a picture of a Google logo, does it talk about your account, did a whole bunch of emails that look just like this one just get sent to a bunch of gmail users," etc. Legitimate emails from Google trip pretty much all of those alarms, and it makes a lot of sense to lean on the side of "phishing warning" if you're not sure. Plus, those teams are probably pretty far from each other on a big corporate organizational tree. Seems like a very reasonable sort of mistake to make.
> It won't help.

If I've learned one thing from plugging holes in my insulation, is that leaks are cumulative. A crack here, a hole there, a bad seal there, a gap in the insulation there; it all adds up. CO2 emissions, the primary driver of climate change, is a "leaky" situation. We've got a huge distributed system here. We need to plug holes at every level. We're not one CPU or one core. We can do multiple things at once. If anything, people doing local things are viral, cathartic, and set the tone for change.

Despite my doomerish top comment (I still think we are screwed), but I compost, I recycle, I reduce waste as much as possible, and these effects "won't help". Whatever.
Hey, I'm the author of the Signal blog post about SFUs. I have a few questions/comments:

1. I don't think there are many good open source SFUs to choose from. I know of 2, maybe 3 (including our new one). There may be many, but few have good rate control. But maybe I just don't know about them? I'd be happy to learn of more good ones.

2. Echo cancellation is certainly a hard problem, but it doesn't conflict with E2EE unless you do it on the server, which isn't necessary. So perhaps it may be a somewhat harder problem because you close off one possible approach (doing it server-side), but many (most?) echo cancellation solutions are done client-side.

3. You may not be completely dependent on WebRTC's echo cancellation any more because of
the new MediaStreamTrackProcessor and MediaStreamTrackGenerator APIs. I don't know if it will work for echo cancellation, but it might.
This was my original idea to solve the email problem, and I actually started coding it up. Then I realized a whitelist works as well and is much easier to implement.
I had a hardware company a few years back. It was a disaster even though we sold it to companies like CNN, Princeton University, Stanford, UCSD, UC Berkeley. If you want to do it as a hobby business, go ahead. But it's incredible how quickly your hardware supplies will change and impact your offering and you have to consider returns and the margins you will make.

I would recommend offering a software package and let the users buy their own hardware if I did it again. That's still a difficult business but at least you don't have to carry physical inventory.

Ask me more if this is relevant to you and you have questions.
Same here, I need something like this for my Lisp interpreter. I was thinking about Simple Dynamic Strings but I like this better.

https://github.com/willcipriano/Connery
its like the leetcode tests we get get to take for interviews, i can tell you that practice has made me much much much faster at solving these problems than when i first started. I know a ton of people who delibrately practice for the SATs/ACTs, and they improve their score a lot over consecutive attempts.
> My strong opinion as someone who majored in math is that, at least within the US, the standard calculus requirement should be replaced with statistics. So much more useful and so much more important as an adult.

I'm questioning your math pedagogy.

Calculus is the single most important math anyone, of any field, can learn as it's the first "practical math" you actually learn. Life behaves like calculus and in order to think about real life you need the concept of limits, derivatives, integrals, differentials, etc. It's patently absurd to say this should be replaced by statistics, which done to any rigor requires up to 2 years worth of calculus (through diff eq.) to even appreciate.

I'm shocked that you're a math major and didn't take away the biggest thing from learning analysis - the ability to think clearly through a problem and prove it correctly. While you may not be asked to vomit cantor's diagonalization onto paper for an interview the ability to think about problems you learned from doing these proofs translates to so many different fields, jobs, and life skills that I take the complete opposite view. If you want to understand anything you need to learn how to proof. I don't care if you're a nurse or an accountant. A rigorous proof based math course will change your life.

If by "learn statistics instead of calculus" you mean being able to mindlessly vomit today's new machine learning paradigm without understanding a thing then I think I can understand where you are coming from. Otherwise, I think this is some absurd parody of someone who studied math.
No it isn't. At some point data is in transit in an IC without any error handling. CRCs aren't 100% reliable. Bit flips are guaranteed to happen with non-zero probability in all digital electronics. Bad data eventually makes it to persistent storage.
I keep dreaming about rigging up some robot arms terminating in large mirrors, which would use inverse kinematics to follow the sun and reflect more light into my office window.
I have a friend who is a UX guru, and as a sort of hobby tries out various email clients from time to time. He absolutely couldn't believe it when I showed him "this great new client [Mimestream] that has made my email dreams come true."

"It looks… just like Apple Mail."

"Yes"

"… why?"
You have to think in the context of what a GUI represents at the time. Your assumption was based on the command line ethos, where Enter key plays an important role. It was true on Apple II command line too, but the original Mac interface was designed to do away this keyboard centric mindset. "Use your mouse" was the philosophy behind it. The original Mac keyboard didn't even have arrow keys, it encouraged a novel way of interacting with a machine that is so different to anything before it.

Also, the Enter key that represent so much importance to you, on an Apple machines it's always "Return", which is nothing more than a carriage return, strongly linked to text inputs. A Return key does not "enter" anything. Return and Enter are two completely different keys to the OS. Based on the design choice, Return key deals with text entry, rename is probably the only reasonable text entry function to a file explorer at the time (or even today). This Return vs Enter design choice has been consistently applied on all Apple machine ever since Apple II, which predates any windowed OS you care to mention.
they can't sell them. last week they made a law/regulation that prohibits fulfilling sale orders by foreign owners
' Dirty Pipe ' allows local-users to gain root-privileges through publicly available exploits.

Is there any chance this can be remote-exploited?
I long time ago I had an audio cassette of recordings from, I think it was Voyager, of the ambient interplanetary EM signals it encountered transposed somehow into audio. It was eerie and wonderful, a little like whalesong, and one of the most haunting and beautiful things I've ever heard.
* In reality, both of these are never written out, and everyone is expected to learn them culturally. Which ultimately leaves tourists in an awkward spot.*

It does more than confuse tourists, it locks every restaurant into the system whether the owners wish it or not. That’s why I think the “we underpay” with its pejorative tinge is inappropriate.