skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grossly off-topic, but your "Volkswagon, Potato" reminded me of Borges' riff on taxonomy[0]. This is probably exemplary of the kind of rabbit hole one can get lost in if attempting the "real world" application during the learning of difficult concepts. Best be introduced in a sterile environment, and leave it to the workplace to destroy one's worldview in order to for it to be rebuilt according to the reality of the local context.

The list divides all animals into 14 categories:

Those belonging to the Emperor

Embalmed ones

Trained ones

Suckling pigs

Mermaids (or sirens)

Fabled ones

Stray dogs

Those included in this classification

Those that tremble as if they were mad (this one's my favourite)

Innumerable ones

Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush

Et cetera

Those that have just broken the vase

Those that from afar look like flies

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

It's mind-altering. Re-visiting this list always reminds me of the infinite potential of absurdity.
There's a paragraph dedicated to this in TFA.
It’s not the responsibility, but if you read their post it’s obviously their concern.
It is rather interesting to consider that many countries in Asia (China / Japan / Taiwan / Vietnam / Malaysia that I am aware of) happily ignored the WHO on masks and, with regards to Japan, actively promoted the airborne nature of COVID-19 early on. I remember seeing specials on NHK visualising the spread from a sneezing person in a room in March 2020. There were also a lot of helpful PSAs like the 3C model [0] and comparing the potential aerosol spread of the virus to cigarette smoke (when you would smell the smoker - he could also infect you with the virus).

The west tried to rely on its supranational institution to establish top-down consensus and then couldn't react to its failure.

Ostensibly Asian countries are part of the WHO, so why was it that the decision-makers there weren't able to adapt? Doesn't China supposedly have a significant influence on the WHO? Why didn't they intervene?

[0] https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2020/avoiding_the_three_cs.ht...
As a European, food at the farmer’s market is usually cheaper in Europe because we cut the middleman and go straight to the producer. Somehow in the US, it’s more expensive instead because “artisanal”, “organic” and so on.

As such, in the US, farmer markets always feel like a scam to me.
I don't think you quite understand the problem. The problem wasn't turning on optimizations or getting debug info, the problem was getting Eigen-based linear algebra code to run at a sufficiently reasonable speed when optimizations were disabled because doing so would make other surrounding logic easier to debug (or you needed to run some analysis tool like Valgrind on a debug build).

For example, we had simulation test suites which would run ~30 seconds of real-world time. If we can run those sims at 10x real time, each only takes 3 seconds, great! But with optimizations turned off, heavy Eigen code would run 1000x slower, which means the sims now take nearly 3000 seconds to run when bug hunting in the non-Eigen related surrounding logic. This already makes the test suite virtually un-runnable in debug builds, but if you want to then run those binaries through Valgrind (which tacks on another 100-1000x performance tax) you're now talking about something which is completely intractable. You can't run optimized builds through Valgrind without potentially introducing false positives, so you can't even run Valgrind on only the optimized builds... you just can't run it at all because your linear algebra library is slowing everything down.

The core problem is Eigen's heavy use of expression templates, which the optimizer cuts through just fine. But without the optimizer turned on, it adds layers and layers and layers of unnecessary abstraction. Because these are all templates, C++ expands all this code at every call site, making it substantially less efficient and impossible to shim out by linking with an optimized build of Eigen itself.

The only approach I've seen get close to making this work was an attempt by an engineer to use explicit template instantiation to create a separate binary with all the necessary Eigen functions which could be compiled separately with the optimizer turned on. However, this proved too nightmarish because since Eigen can template on the dimensions of everything, you need to know up front exactly all the various instantiations of Eigen types the program uses. This might be doable by writing a clang plugin or something, but doing it by hand was just way too much work because the codebase was huge, so we couldn't justify spending more time on it.
Hosting next.js on Vercel and Azure is like night and day. A lot of smaller things start breaking, like `NEXT_PUBLIC_` environment variables. For me coming from Vercel, using Azure has been an uphill battle.
https://bergie.iki.fi/

Hasn’t seen much love lately, but content stretches back to the 90s.
Plus it's not like Wolfram is taking resources away from other scientists as he is funded from his company. If Wolfram wasn't doing this he'd be CEO'ing his company, there's no cost to the public for Wolfram exploring this and potentially huge gains - though unlikely.
Sure.. I'm with ya.

The only reason I commented at all was because the OP listed a bunch of stuff that was good in blueprints, but I believe all those things are good in text too.
Tailscale does not provide an audit log (who changed what and when). This ought to be part of the MVP for a security offerring.
No, you don't ignore the CPUID feature bit. You use the CPUID to enable the feature by default, but override that default by blacklisting specific models that you know would have undesirable implementations.

So what you would do for PDEP/PEXT would be

use_pdep = cpuid.supports_bmi2() && !cpuid.is_amd_before_zen3()

and not

use_pdep = cpuid.is_intel_haswell_or_later()
You're 100℅ right.

I'm the author, and I would definitely have made that money had I continued to work as a consultant. I had secured a high paying long term contract and I broke it to work on that project.

Money in the bank is money that I could have invested, money that could have improved my family's quality of life, ...
Maybe "racist" was not the best choice. Feel free to replace it with "discriminatory" instead.

Anyway, this does not explain your plan to keep the restriction permanently. After all they will not be paying taxes that fund the war effort after the war is be over.
Not to mention bananas on pizza.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sweden-banana-pizza/
You could have replaced all nuclear power plants with new ones for the cost of the fukushima cleanup.

As always your theoretical modern designs that are safe are useless if you are still running power plants that are older than chernobyl.
> what happens if folks start selling the ‘edit’

You’re onto something. I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen if edits are not limited. We already see “wow this went viral, here’s a link to my album”
France doesn't recycle nuclear fuel anymore (since 2013).
Source: https://www.rtl.fr/actu/debats-societe/nucleaire-que-devienn...
AFAIK it may restart around 2029

The waste repository (Cigéo) isn't ready, and nobody knows how much it may cost (maybe up to 35 billions €).

The buffer (La Hague) is nearly saturated.
Source: https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/traitement-...
> You dont loose credibility by acknowledging you were wrong

Unfortunately, you do. It is something that could change and should change. But as of now, changing mind is treated as "gotcha".
They are talking about US/UK/etc paying reparations to middle eastern countries.
It must feel terribly vindicating to be shunned by IAS for pursuing unpopular research, ridiculed by your intellectual heroes for lacking social graces, branded a charlatan your entire professional career by the academic establishment despite running a profitable company for over three decades, then funding a rival institute to pursue the original research you had set out to do 40 years ago.
Oh yeah, so it is! Finally learned the word for that mystery food :D
https://qrz.is

gemini://qrz.is

Both sites are simultaneously generated with Hugo.
There's a big difference. I wanted to help people ultimately do less stupid meetings and get more value out of the remaining ones. Long term my hope was to kill meetings, not multiply those.

Plus I did not work in the corporate world anymore. I was standing aside, working on my own terms.
Prices are so flexible I usually find a hotel and then Google it to find a better price, even if I end up on the same site. The worst thing is when they advertise a price without taxes, which unfortunately is not illegal in most of the world. I think in Europe you’re required to show the final price.
I intend to make a proper write-up tomorrow, but as of now:

total: 713 links found (top comments only, one link per comment), 35 failed
Has Javascript: 549
Is Github Pages: 139
Is Cloudflare: 138
Is Nginx: 106
Is Netlify: 82
Is Apache: 72
Is Vercel: 58
Is Nextjs: 32
Is Served From S3: 30
Is Wordpress: 27
Is Gatsby: 19
Is Express: 17
Is Cloudfront: 16
Is Php: 11
Is Open Resty: 9
Is Litespeed: 4
Is Microsoft IIS: 4
Is Fly Io: 3
Is Asp Net: 2
Uses Phusion: 1

Note that these are non-exclusive; sites can be valid for multiple categories.
jannekytola.com

Small blog built with gatsby
There could be an opportunity costs, researchers working on this could be working on a different problem. Unlikely, but not impossible.
Plastic jugs let in lots of light, while paper cartons are opaque, which could have an effect.

FWIW, I do have a preference, I think milk is best drunk straight from a paper carton (in single servings, milk from the plastic "milk chugs" has always tasted worse to me).
https://nathants.com

markdown is rendered via the github api, then a python lambda with all static assets is cached with cloudfront.
Facebook closing group helping Ukrainian refugees for trademark infringement
Yes, and men or children as well, because toxic and/or abusive relationships affect every group.

> Only one case out of the 150 we reviewed involved a man who suspected an ex-girlfriend of tracking him with an AirTag.

I wonder if the sample size is too small, or if it’s really a 1:150 ratio in offenses.
My lambda bill is $4,000 per month for 21,000,000 invocations per month.

Something seems off compared to your numbers.

Maybe the length of a single execution?
Last month 96 % of all new private cars registered in Norway was Electrical
Researchers find microplastics deep in the lungs of living people
Lots of comments about his "arrogance" but i just see someone passionate, judge for yourself!

He has three long interviews on Lex Fridmans youtube channel! I greatly enjoyed watching those those.

1:[Stephen Wolfram: Cellular Automata, Computation, and Physics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez773teNFYA)

2:[Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t1_ffaFXao)

3: [Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality ](https://youtu.be/4-SGpEInX_c)
Very nice look-and-feel! It resembles perfectly reading a scientific paper (but without double columns and zig-zag scrolling through PDF)!

The text is perhaps a little bit too small by default, but nothing that can't be solved with some zooming.

The only downside is that formula rendering requires JavaScript. :(

(I would love to see a proper, and simple solution, to rendering mathematical formulas without JavaScript...)
Aes is a one-way function if you consider the key part of the arguments to the function.
Aside from anything else, drinking is very time-consuming. You have a finite amount of time on the planet, you will regret burning it by only working, sleeping or being in a stupor making yourself ill.
robmellett.com
"Still not sure which will become self-aware first: Wolfram Alpha, or Stephen Wolfram"
> Children don't train to identify objects

I have to disagree. They spend an inordinate amount of time trying to understand what they see, taste and hear.

> able to correlate them with prior information that was retained and learned

This is what we call inference.

> Case in point: if you take a child born blind, give them the ability to see, they are immediately able to recognize and correlate objects around them.

Not everyone who is legally blind can see absolutely nothing, but people who have recovered from complete vision loss [1] have problems. Mike May [2] lost vision as 3 year old child and regained it in his 40s. Despite seeing for the first three years of his life, years after regaining vision he was unable to see in 3D or recognize people from faces alone.

Blind people do not lack spatial awareness, so being able to recognize objects with context if they regained sight with would not surprise me. There are blind people that can "see" with echo location using parts of the brain associated with visual processing [3] But for example in Mike's case, he was unable to recognize close family by their faces years after regaining vision, he needed additional context.

Many things we take for granted as being innate to the human experience, are in fact learned (trained) behavior.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_from_blindness

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_May_(skier)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
Oh yeah, Erlang/Elixir certainly belong in that list (probably at the front of it).
Recovery from Blindness
What you’re saying was not clear from the start, you keep moving the goalpost.

Ironically XML allowed namespaces so css:color="red" could have totally been a thing. However CSS came out to separate content from style, so doing that wouldn’t have made much sense. I wouldn’t be surprised if the style attribute was added later.

Edit: wow I was right:

> HTML 3.0 supports style sheets via the use of the LINK element [1]

> HTML 4.0 adds new hooks for style sheets, which suggest how a document is presented. The new ID, CLASS, and STYLE attributes [2]

[1]: https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/intro.html

[2]: https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/reference/wdghtml401/new.htm...
> The moment they conclusively, provably became better than Intel, they jacked up their price, even though their processors were using the same 7nm process that, at that point, was extremely reliable and had a 93% usable chip ratio.

Why wouldn't they have jacked up their price, if provably better ?

It's not like this happened on its own, without more effort from AMD (or less from Intel) ?
These sites aren't fast though... As soon as your computer isn't the newest or your internet connection isn't the fastest, or you simply have other things happening in the background, these JS-heavy sites slow down to a crawl where more reasonable things would render instantly. They also make it easier to hide nefarious code and often break accessibility and customizability the user agent is supposed to provide.
https://wantguns.dev

Its a minimal blog I made in Zola (just cuz).
I still have to implement caching on it, which should be enough to release the source.

what does hn think ?
I wish that Azure Functions had this.

I have a function triggered by Cron once a day that goes wrong about once a month. I trigger it again using the debugging tools, but it would be nice if I could just hit a URL to trigger it again.
Data engineers know as much about data as real estate agents know about land.
No, facts are true statements. We don't know which statements about this collectively observed reality are facts. Coming up with new statements about reality and figuring out how likely it is that they are facts is the point of science.
Declassified NSA documents describe some of the systems.[1] Early systems used paper tapes for the key. One of the features was a tape slitter, so the tape could only be used one time before it was cut in half. Systems with floppy disks have been advertised. Mils Electronik sold one time key systems from the 1950s until 2017.[2] Early systems used paper tape, later systems were electronic and stored the keying material on PCMCIA cards.

[1] https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/decla...

[2] https://cryptomuseum.com/manuf/mils/index.htm
Drinking definitely used to be more consistently enjoyable than it is now, for me. One or two with some good friends around can still be nice.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I think the negative reaction to the word toot has little to do with the relative uncoolness of the mastadon, I think the issue is that toot has a scatological association.
For example: You could enter some fragile object and then let the Prolog search for best shape of box for it.

Only problem is that all (most?) Prologs suck, the realm of natural numbers is not in the search space. In this case there is also good cause to limit this realm by available printing area and accuracy.
Getting certifcate unvalid using safari on iOS
blakehawkins.com

Single MUSL binary hosted on fly.io
Context: "white busses" is what the rescuing of Scandinavians during WW2 was called, since the busses transporting them back were white.

To help evacuate Ukrainian refugees, provide medications etc, someone created a temporary help organization with the same name. That Facebook page was used to coordinate between lots of people and getting help to where it's needed.

But it got shut down, due to a travel company with a similar name reporting it. No one at fb to talk to.
https://relaxdiego.com/

Just recently (finally) added functionality that auto-tests the code snippets in my articles. I talked about it in this article: https://relaxdiego.com/2022/02/autotest-code-snippets.html
Does nuclear relieves this pressure?
Doubt so, as France buys a fair part of its uranium to Kazakhstan, which will very probably stop to supply if Putin says just a word.

The US buys 50% of its uranium to them:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-us-utiliti...
No, not really. If you change the model you’ll immediately be out-competed by anyone who didn’t change the model.
Your link is about Bucha, the person that you are replying to is talking about Mariupol.
For their safety, of course!
Early 2020 the Dutch Maurice de Hond, who studies social geography, noticed a pattern in outbreaks. His conclusion at the time also was transmission via aerosols. But because he had no related degree in virology most people ignored him. Now two years later everybody agrees with him.

It's sad that people are too proud to cooperate with other people working in other domains (and sometimes even in the same domain).
Location: Bangalore
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Email: siva.kollana@gmail.com
LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/prakash9848/
"Psychedelics, like ketamine, also have the ability to produce neuroplasticity“

What’s the evidence for this?
You are a Ferrari that is purchased new each year.

That's a pretty cheap way of looking at yourself.
Mol as a chemical unit of measure is part of the first year chemical curriculum at Bavarian Gymnasiums (in three tier school system, those are the ones paving the paths to university). I remember I hated calculating in mol, but then we also expose students to all kinds of units of measure in physics.
the article made it sound like bcachefs could replace zfs in ways that btrfs could not.

what is btrfs missing here?

i understand that btrfs raid features are immature, but if that is the issue how does bcachefs solve what btrfs hasn't been able to achive yet?
There's also the interesting "being right, but essentially having guessed and tied various other crackpot theories to the reasoning" that muddies the water further. For example, that COVID was always airborne, but it is actually the vaccine that causes it because the microchips they put in it have little propellers on them and they use them to fly around the room.
https://petermolnar.net

Runs on a former thin client under a cabinet. Static HTML made with python, pandoc, and exiftool, with a dash of PHP for error and redirect handling.
imprisoned*
I'll throw in the obligatory "it's not working without JS". Like, at all.
Parent's point is that they'd lose these people's credibility either way by the mere fact of being wrong.

To me the paths look like:

- acknowledge your mistakes: some people will accept based on your attitude, others will resent you being wrong.

- don't acknowledge: people who would have otherwise accepted mistakes now resent your stubbornness. Others will still resent you for being wrong.
> You're participating in a highly abusive harassment and bullying campaign targeting me. You're spreading fabricated claims and libel about me and are participating in the attempt by Nicolas Merrill (Calyx leader), Techlore and cdesai (CalyxOS lead developer) to portray the abusive behavior which you are yourself demonstration as the delusions of someone mentally ill and crazy.

I'm participating in nothing, I barely care about this issue. But these kinds of comments and reactions are guaranteed to cause another storm of abusive behavior against you. I know you think you are 100% right and justified but they are just using your predictable responses to trigger you again and again for their amusement.

Enjoy the vicious cycle bro, if you want to escape it, change your reactions, if you don't want to escape it, become their eternal lol cow. I'll leave you with the words of Capatain Picard: "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A-Ml8YHyM
According to Wikipedia on the initial polio pandemic: “On Saturday, June 17, 1916, an official announcement of the existence of an epidemic polio infection was made in Brooklyn, New York. That year, there were over 27,000 cases and more than 6,000 deaths due to polio in the United States, with over 2,000 deaths in New York City alone.[16] The names and addresses of individuals with confirmed polio cases were published daily in the press, their houses were identified with placards, and their families were quarantined.[17] Dr. Hiram M. Hiller, Jr. was one of the physicians in several cities who realized what they were dealing with, but the nature of the disease remained largely a mystery. The 1916 epidemic caused widespread panic and thousands fled the city to nearby mountain resorts; movie theaters were closed, meetings were canceled, public gatherings were almost nonexistent, and children were warned not to drink from water fountains, and told to avoid amusement parks, swimming pools, and beaches.”

Here’s an article with some quotes from people who were young during polio pandemics describing the countermeasures: https://cvm.msu.edu/news/perspectives-magazine/perspectives-...
https://www.fer.xyz

Netlify, built with Pelican, not really a lot of time to write though.