skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, infection is not more protective than vaccination. Vaccination is much more consistent than infection - not least because the vaccine is not packaged with immune suppressing elements.
A regional conflict like India / Pakistan is far more likely than a superpower apocalypse and nuclear power would be hugely helpful in that situation. The same goes for a major volcanic eruption or any number of other disasters we might face which affect the amount of solar energy available.
Yesterday I was shopping with my wife and was thrilled with how I could use Hide My Email in an irl sales situation - mattress shopping!
Maybe they would have recognized you had you been wearing a 3-ply mask.
It’s trivial to figure out main gmail address?
I believe the term "unsafe" in this sense predates Rust. Haskell's GHC has unsafePerformIO [1], which is very similar conceptually. Generally used to implement an algorithm in a way where it can be pure/safe in practice, but where this cannot be proved by the type system.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10529284/is-there-ever-a...
If there was going to be a food shortage in a big city which could not be stopped... Would the government tell people that there is going to be a food shortage? IMO, they wouldn't because this would cause panic buying by some which would make it happen even faster. I think they would just use some other excuse and find ways to reduce average consumption to make people last as long as possible on the limited supply and hope that the situation improves.
I do tend to read his essays when I see them circulating and I must confess that I find them fascinating. I’ve wondered if Graham himself doesn’t entirely understand why he’s been so successful or what he’s achieved in creating - and indeed whether he’s aware of the deficit. When future historians of our increasingly interesting and shocking epoch are trying to work out what happened, I feel Graham’s essays will provide useful insights into the preoccupations and delusions of billionaire think: from arguably the most powerful clique ever to have lived. In that sense I’m thankful that he writes.
In the last 6 months alone, I've had roughly $10000 in returns due to just getting the wrong thing. USB instead of ethernet, 16 port vs 24, shit like that.
That’s a different type of joke.

It’s why we laugh at “it’s behind you” in a pantomime. We’re in on the joke that the actor knows it’s behind them.
The blockchain is a terrible place to put a system like DNS.
> There is a belief that the scientific methodology will lead to truth.

Except scientists themselves do not espouse such belief. They know what they know, and also they know what they don't know; the scientific methology, too, is also based on knowledge; there is no place for "belief" in scientific research.

When a scientist puts forward a hypothesis, which is not, strictly speaking, knowledge (yet), it does not mean that they "believe" in it, either; it's remains just that - a hypothesis, which gets thrown away as soon as it is disproven.

One could argue that knowledge requires some kind of faith - you have to believe that you know something (while in reality you may or may not); but much of the knowlege we possess is "hard knowledge" - the kind that prevents us from taking actions that would definitely hurt us, for example; scientific knowledge is just as "hard," and so is the scientific method.
"Hi, I'm important and I find it's hard to be an asshole these days without someone immediately calling me an asshole"

Did I read this right?
>less of this please.

You're right to say this, sorry I just legitimately can't understand how you could be extrapolating this if you had actually seen a lot of the high profile stuff that happened on e.g. facebook in the last decade. There's just so much unreasonable behavior and tribal "us vs them" attitudes coming from all sides at all times. I've seen lots of people do like you're doing now trying to blame this on "activists" for no real reason when to me it's every group doing it constantly all the time, even the ones that you would think would be relatively reserved. I honestly think you might be in a activist bubble and you need to get out from it, I can't understand why you would be otherwise focusing so much on the tactics of some "activist milieu".
Honestly, probably not a whole lot.

Though I had originally made this because with the "+" approach, you can easily get the original address by simply removing everything after the "+", while with mine you cannot. On top of that, sometimes "+" does not work in services that do "strict email validation".
Imagine the code screaming

"Rip and tear, until it's done!"
YMMV. I cut out alcohol and my life overall has become better and more enjoyable. Alcohol can become a crutch when it's a pre-requisite to relaxing or having a good time, and then the side effects begin to make other aspects of life much worse. It's nice to be able to have fun without needing a drink first.

I think the biggest thing that made me stop drinking was learning how much even small amounts of alcohol negatively impact sleep quality, and how important sleep is for mental health and mood.
That sounds really reactionary!
I don’t care if you don’t use Shortcut. Use Linear instead, for example, since apparently a lot of people like it in this thread. I had never heard of it before. Main thing is, don’t pretend like JIRA is the only reasonable option because it just isn’t (not saying you were necessarily, but that is what I have a problem with people doing.)
> "inferior races"

> Unlike Hitler, Stalin did not use the word "race", but he acted identically against various population groups distinguished by their nationality, which is why I have used the word "race", to emphasize their identical behavior.

I don't have particular bones to pick with your history, but you're misusing quotation marks.
The thing that makes x-ism x-ism is not truthiness (or the lack thereof), but intent and omission and what it implies. The thing that is explicitly being said is always accompanied by a lot more that is not being said and this makes all the difference.

Let's stipulate that group A has statistically more X than group B. This is the truth, measurably.

If we state this fact on public television, but omit, overlook or belittle the (also stipulated) fact, that this is due to unfair advantage Y (which then accelerates development that furthers the unfair advantage of group A) that's X-ism.

The devil is in the cherry picking and context. The outcome might not even be intended. Or it might be. The crux is: Saying "that's not what I meant" is just as easy as saying "that's what you meant" (or "that's sexist") and neither is a sign of sincerity.
Shrug. I really don't think unchecked is "wrong" in spirit, since adding an unsafe block makes it trivial to write code which ignores the usual boundary and pointer lifetime checks, which is not very different in practice from turning off checks. Also unsafe code is usually wrong, and deeply difficult to write correctly, much more so than C.

Also, I dislike the word "unsafe" since "unsafe code" is easily (mis)interpreted to mean "invalid/UB code", but "invalid/UB code" is officially called "unsound" rather than "unsafe". Unsafe blocks are used to call unsafe functions etc. (they pass information into unchecked operations via arguments), and unsafe trait impls are used by generic/etc. unsafe code like threading primitives (unsafe trait impls pass information into unchecked operations via return values or side effects).

unchecked would make a good keyword name for blocks calling unchecked operations, but I'm not so sure about using it for functions or traits.
I looked at setting up a matrix server. It looks way too complicated. There is an Ansible script but it has a list of billion optional items. Too much choice is overwhelming.
https://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/21/phil_donahue_on_his_2...
Wow, I thought it was just me!

I have had a similar experience, and just wrote it off as being a different device or something.
I wonder if DDoS could be solved (for static websites at least) by using P2P as a supplementary load balancer.

This could be set to only be enabled if load is approaching a certain percent of capacity that the servers/CDN are able to handle.

Once reaching that threshold, P2P would kick in, and existing visitors could serve static content to newer visitors using something like the WebRTC + Service Worker + IndexedDB combo that www.arc.io uses for their P2P CDN.

Thoughts?
DeepMind to OpenAI and everyone else[1]:

> your hyperparameters are bad and you should feel bad

It's amazing to me that such a big goof was missed by so many for so long. All these multimillion dollar language models and people just took the scaling laws at face value.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556
They didn't call it "functional" though. They simply said that it is more functional than it was previously. If you reserve the word "functional" for only the most idealistic implementations of those ideas then it just makes it unnecessarily difficult to describe things which are in the middle.

Basically, I think "functional" is more of an axis than it is a circle on a Venn diagram.
SMS is available as a fallback 2FA method for Apple ID.
Cannot vouch for Eero Pro 6E, but I can for the Eero Pro 6. I no longer wanted to waste time troubleshooting network issues at home for insignificant performance gains concerning my use, so I purchased several Eero Pro 6s to cover my house and property perimeter. I bought them in Dec. 2020 and have had zero problems. No more long trouble shooting sessions putting a damper on my day.
As far as it being harder to let anyone allow you to build one, and to get the money -- they've already got a thing going with the government of Indonesia. It's been in the works for years, and it seems like things are still progressing[1] fine.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azzp0i0BnQ8 [video]
i think youve misread this issue. i can assure you that the us is aware of best practices. the private swctors awareness of the economics involves drives a lot of their behabior while the politicians lack of awareness of anything but the political costs drives the regulatory side.
Ask HN: Any search engineers at Google see responses to the bad press?
Though as you also mention, grandparent commenter’s words are sort of true of Hungary unfortunately.. (I live there)
Another day, another PH essay with some kind of defense for being an asshole disguised as higher discourse.
Um, I remember StrictMode was running the code twice since forever. Probably since the time it was introduced in React 16-something. Has anything changed in React 18?
> I was commenting about the overall document, and never said anything about the definition of eurodollar.

And what, specifically, was not "logical" or "consistent" in the rest of the article?

To my other point, and fundamentally where you're coming from, how is your statement here not guilty of committing an appeal to purity fallacy?[0]

> It definitely doesn't have the decorum I'd expect from a serious expert.
You can customize the bindings in logseq. I've customized mine[1] to bring them as close as possible to default Emacs and Org mode bindings.

[1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/dotfiles/blob/master/logseq/l...
Very good news, thanks for the update.
I picked this quote because it is actually a better than average represention and shows Naggum's thinking and writing at its best without the bitterness and meanness that often crept in.

I saw this post of his as not so much a criticism of Graham and Arc in particular, as a lament over the tendency in computing to dismiss the good work done in the past and just start over all the time.
And, if the email service is also self-hosted, it prevents Apple from collecting more data about your interests and purchases through your email, which it uses to profile you (to determine how to extract more money from you).
> Do you have a source for this?

https://gdpr.eu/

It's quite comprehensive, but article 4 on consent.
That sounds like a business opportunity for a service provider specializing in packet filtering.
You are reliant on the receiver’s mail infrastructure. There have been past proposals to flip this around, such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mail_2000
I'm assuming "real example" means of such unsafe-means-actually-unsafe behaviour in embedded Rust, as opposed to a real example of summoning demons?

For example volatile_register is a crate for representing some sort of MMIO hardware registers. It will do the actual MMIO for you, just tell it where your registers are in "memory" and say whether they're read-write, read-only, or write-only just once, and it provides the nice Rust interface to the registers.

https://docs.rs/volatile-register/0.2.1/volatile_register/st...

The low-level stuff it's doing is inherently unsafe, but it is wrapping that. So when you call register.read() that's safe, and it will... read the register. However even though it's a wrapper it chooses to label the register.write() call as unsafe, reminding you that this is a hardware register and that's on you.

In many cases you'd add a further wrapper, e.g. maybe there's a register for controlling clock frequency of another part, you know the part malfunctions below 5kHz and is not warrantied above 60kHz, so, your wrapper can take a value, check it's between 5 and 60 inclusive and then do the arithmetic and set the frequency register using that unsafe register.write() function. You would probably decide that your wrapper is now actually safe.
Be careful what you wish for. Parsers guessing at the authors intention is what gave us HTML.
How the secretive billionaire quietly worked to give away $12B in 2 years
Slightly related: I got the first C compiler restored and ported to modern C [1]. It runs on Linux and can call libc functions, though it is restricted to 32bit mode.

[1] https://github.com/vegesm/c72
Like increased engineering effort, announcements, etc.

Is there any internal agreement that search quality is declining?
Seems not true anymore. Ranger is back and the Tacoma still only does 22mpg a decade later. They must have found a work around
TIL that Civ IV has "Play by Cloud" which automates all of this + supports webhooks to notify you when it's your turn.
I'm a skeptic of the promises of reactivity and a fan of web assembly, but the main reason reactivity is a pain is because UIs are inherently a painful domain, not because of JS itself.
Don't know why I put Quentin Blake. Think I had a brain fart or something.
Finding a less toxic alternative isn't easy - it took decades to discover the toxicity of the current chemical, specifically because it's toxicity is so low.

Maybe, just maybe, and work with me here, it's not that big a deal. Treating everything as if it were plutonium isn't a sustainable way to move humanity forward.

Anathema to the EU's way of thinking, certainly... yet defensible from an objective point of view.
"The IEA indicates average indoor temperatures in the EU are now about 22° C" Wow, current room temperature here is around 16 degrees Celsius, perfectly fine as long as you don't wear a t-shirt. Still comfortable too. I guess it all depends on what you're used to. As an added benefit, a lower room temperature induces a higher metabolic rate [0] , which could help fight our obesity problem (okay, that might be stretching it a bit)

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/1601308
Some services do not accept email with a "+" in it.
Lowering the discourse to include events or people would probably disgust people. Most of the heresies people get canceled for seem to range from pedestrian to absolutely vile.

I'm a freedom of speech absolutist, but my only sympathies towards anybody who has been canceled have either been because the people canceling them were extremely stupid, had the facts completely jumbled, and petulantly refused to be corrected; or because somebody sheltered had accidentally shared some inherited bigoted opinion that they had never really thought about in a small, relaxed context, and had that mistake blown up by cluster two clout-chasers trying to break into the opinion-haver industry.
Wow, 802 comments here. No way I can go through all that, but I'm really curious. If you happen to have read a significant % of the comments could you do a summary? (wasn't there a blog that had that kind of thing?)
I'm confused what you mean by this? Could you elaborate a bit more.
You can't send information with quantum entanglement.

This is one of the no-go theorems of quantum information:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem>
> Note that this is no different from any other area of instruction.

Allowing parents to sue for DJ, or request a special magistrate be appointed, with reimbursement of attorneys' fees, is pretty different.

> If the teacher was very careful to explicitly state that this statement was just the teacher's opinion and was not part of classroom instruction, and if no student's grade on anything depended on whether or not they agreed with the teacher, then it would not be violating the law.

I think this is a very curious and unlikely distinction.

A 1st grade teacher who wants to read "Heather Has Two Mommies" to the class because there's been questions about April's two moms shouldn't face litigation and censure.

Look, there's a lot of benefits to students to mention that not all families look the same and to seek to use inclusive language. The kids who have an absent dad or a parent that has died benefit as much as anyone from kids understanding that families may look different ways and it's OK.

Another key point is that the law affects other situations. Some high school students are experimenting with other pronouns at school, and feel they would be unsafe at home if this was reported to their parents. This law outlaws this practice of teachers respecting students' preference of what they're called and not telling Dad, unless we meet a relatively high bar of being able to prove that it is likely dangerous.

> In other words, it's the government making clear what the standards for "classroom instruction" are in schools run by the government.

Yes, and this is clearly a state power that needs to be used responsibly. The moment we start prohibiting the discussion of certain political and social views, or e.g. evolution, we've lost.
> compare the before-and-after of the file to create better error messages?

There was a PhD thesis I read in the 90s that included a version of this idea. I forget the specifics.
Of course there will never be definitive evidence connecting sea level rise to universal flood mythology.

It comes down, in the end, to plausibility: people everywhere have always been subject to existential catastrophe, including flood, conflagration, desertification, famine, pandemic, invasion, eviction, genocide, cyclone, earthquake, tsunami, volcanic eruption, bolide strike -- need I go on? Yet, only one of these shows up as formative in all places and nearly all peoples.

There are other ways to interpret universality. One is that a progenitor people carried an origin story with them, over tens of millennia, as they spread out to cover the planet. The universal interpretation of the Pleiades as seven sisters (one now lost) can be explained no other way.

The simpler explanation for prominence of flood myths over all others regardless of proximity to recent flooding events is universal experience, in place, continued over millennia.

The end of generation-on-generation flooding that immediately preceded the rise of sedentary agriculture and civilization must have been as profoundly affecting as the flood's previous relentless progress.

There must have been, after 12 millennia, a deeply ingrained expectation that the sea would continue rising indefinitely, the world perhaps ending with the sea finally submerging all land. Building with an expectation not to be soon evicted by water must have seemed audaciously sacrilegious, in many places, for many generations after.

Association of high ground with the gods' favor must have been cemented early.

Peoples accustomed to higher ground would have, instead, continual experience of invasion by people displaced, again finally trailing off.

So, is the null hypothesis that universal flood myths are local memories, with those citing universal older experience having something to prove? Or should the older origin be the baseline, with citations of scattered recent events seeding disconnected, coincidentally matching myths obliged to find support?

The choice is fatuous. Each may be true, in different places. A recent flood event can easily loom larger in memory than legend. Absent a recent flood or tsunami, the universal experience remains.
Yes, it's P2P. Your data will be distributed around the network on the computers of other peers, with data integrity guaranteed through cryptography.

With respect to reading more, currently there isn't too much beyond the Github project, although you can learn more about my previous work here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet
The most popular open-source alternatives are SimpleLogin[1] and AnonAddy[2]. The former one was just acquired by ProtonMail[3].

[1] https://github.com/simple-login/app/

[2] https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy

[3] https://protonmail.com/blog/proton-and-simplelogin-join-forc...
Been using individual email adresses for each website I signed up for by using Fastmail.com‘s email aliasses.
- Previously I had a second email address just for sign ups, but whenever a platform was hacked and user data was leaked, my email address was burned.

So yes, this feature is super useful, and kudos to Apple for introducing this to their customer base.
1984 was "billions of masses"? None of your examples show the majority will being crushed. Obviously a small movement on the scale of thousands cannot (and should not) overthrow a regime.

The point is there is no problem. You'll continue to be popular in your own circles assuming the Chinese people are victimized, but nobody actually from there will care a whit for your paternalism. Frankly if people are going to keep opining on China there is zero excuse to be unaware of the numerous polls and studies (from respected Western organizations) on Chinese approval of their government.

How do you reconcile "Ukraine deserves self-determinism" with "we must enforce Western ideals on the rest of the world"? Moreover, how can you speak so brazenly on the heels of the utter failure of doing exactly what you preach in Afghanistan?
Its debatable how bad that is. For most (not all) people, the realistic threats do not have physical access to your computer.

However, this is kind of my point - you might put your password on a sticky not. In TOTP 2FA the equivalent is your qr code. I have never seen anyone print out a qr code and put it on a sticky note beside their computer.
Lowering room temperatures will not help european industries that do need persistent supply of energy to sustain their production chains such as glass blowing and steel casting [1].

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/gaslieferun...
Ok, maybe. Examples would help, though. Specifically: describing the process that goes from the big dream to the smallest implementation feasible in an afternoon.
Agreed, no idea why they keep asking how they should feel.

Idk dude, you tell me!
It doesn't say you can't copy anything from their website, it says don't copy paste code here because you'll end up pwning yourself, with a link to "selfxss". That's an anti-scam message, doesn't sound that bad to me.
It is very common for governments to operate or subsidize unprofitable public transport routes in the name of accessibility.
I find observational studies only useful in suggesting what to investigate next. It’s not helpful to build theories or anything resembling science on.
This has been happening for a while, and I guess the solution is the same as always? Mark them as SPAM on your email provider, and hopefully the rest of us won't even receive it.

Now if you are in Europe/related, you could try to go the GDPR way, which TBH I don't know at all what it entails here.