skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But what she believes may simply be wrong. It's just one persons opinion and regardless of motivations ascribed to others people need to justify their choices to themselves and themselves alone but some people apparently need to do so publicly because otherwise it somehow doesn't count.

This is just one interesting sub-problem in physics and if you choose for a career in theoretical physics you know that not everything that you set out to do you will achieve and I suspect that in this particular case it is a let down of fairly large proportions.

So you get a lot of internal struggle to justify the choice, the sunk cost issue is massive and your colleagues are going to go and continue without you. All that needs to be justified to the 'self', both on the off chance that they will come up with a solution when you gave up as well as about all of the time that you now feel that you have wasted.

And in the realm of self justification 'I will stop working on this problem because I no longer feel like working on it' is a lot harder to sell to the ego than 'I will stop working on this problem because I feel that it can't be solved in a meaningful way'.

I'm fine with it, either way, I've seen enough people struggle with career choices made in their 20's when they were in their 40's not to recognize the symptoms: you have reached the halfway mark in your life, what do you have to show for it? And if the answer is 'not much' then that can be a problem. But it doesn't have any value for others, that's all just window dressing and ego-placating.
> and those are just the rolled-up categories that needed their own separate ML pipeline step.

AKA ensemble models.
Apple says they're removing my game because it's more than 2 years old
Exactly, why bother, as a bank, providing much in the way of incentives for savers to stay as customers and make money from their savings. Especially when you can legally gouge mortgage holders on the flip side.
To be fair, I think they are referring to the fascist form of corporatism[1]. Which although that isn't quite its meaning (corporations + governance), it's a lot closer to using a correct aspect of fascism than most people who use the term do. I suppose Plutocracy or the less common, Corporatocracy, would suit better.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
> And it's an unknown how many servers implement those features

It's not: https://compliance.conversations.im/tests/

Obviously a new user is not expected to fathom what all this means before getting started, which is why there are curated lists of public XMPP services, e.g. https://providers.xmpp.net/ and https://joinjabber.org/ and for private servers there are projects like Snikket where the server software is developed in parallel with apps to ensure a consistent feature set.
I thought Archive.org only stores public domain stuff. Libraries normally have both historic and modern books.

For example, I see "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" on BPL's ebook list. But I can't find that book on Archive.org.
That’s all very well if you have a tech job. If you have a low paid job you’re utterly screwed in the US. I’d rather make less so my fellow citizens can live a decent life too.
Herding small and round raccoon dog children
Just checked and this is still a problem. Try this code with Iterate:

(let ((list '(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4))) ;; or whatever other sequence
(iter (for i from 1 to 10)
(sum (count i list))))

It will error out on you. The same works fine with loop:

(let ((list '(1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4)))
(loop for i from 1 to 10
sum (count i list))) ;; => 8

Now, that's a bit contrived as an example, but an iteration library should not break a standard library function call.

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/iterate/iterate/-/issues/12 - Apparently it's known and they intend to remove it in 2.0, which isn't out yet.
Metafilter has always been well moderated. This is an odd one but boards.straightdope.com also works well thanks to good moderation.
I agree with everything you wrote there.
Most email clients have the option to not autoload images.

I set my client to not autoload, it is easy enough to click to load an image if I think I want to see it. In most cases I do not!
yeah we're seeing a lot of quitters, churn, declined offers of hires due to the hybrid/in office positions. Causing a lot of chaos in projects I am on.
Testing Dotfiles with Test Kitchen and InSpec
> Based on the market a lot of people believe “buy some real estate” is the solution. But that bubble IMHO is about to pop.

I fear we're gonna move to an Australian-style real estate market. Never-ending boom, impossibly high prices for first-time buyers. People have predicted its collapse for 40 years or so, to no avail.
An alternative to the Thunderlink is a TB3 -> PCIe expansion box. Then you can use whatever card you like without need for additional software.
Caddy as a proxy is great - I only whish it was easier to copy apache-style auth/authz "satisfy any" (eg: whitelist some ips, require basic auth from others).

I also expect that as setups age, one is likely to miss mod_rewrite - but at that point/style of setup, maybe apache traffic server start to make sense. Or, just apache httpd of course.
A judge is supposed to read the smart contract source code and determine the intent?

The parties are frequently anonymous and have never interacted outside of the publication the smart contract to the blockchain and another party interacting with it. There is no basis for determining intent besides the code itself.

Are you thinking that the contracts have analogs to legal contracts? Usually (exclusively?) they only mediate transactions and behavior that is contained within the blockchain itself. There isn't an exchanging of assets that exist externally to the blockchain like real estate.

Although I think crypto fanatics think that the world will trend that way. Truly programmable money has never existed before. If more of our monetary infrastructure migrates to blockchains it will be interesting to see how current contract law adapts and is applied.

If you want to argue with 'code is law' proponent, ask them how they feel about the DAO hack and ensuing hard fork of Ethereum. That was an interesting case where the ETH community as a whole decided that code was not in fact law.
Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change
Khronos's many efforts did not take off in reality. SYCL is still very tiny comparing to CUDA, and C++ is nowhere close to overtake HDLs in semiconductor industry
You seem eerily passionate about JS all over this thread.

Nowhere did I mention that Ocaml was a dead language or a dying language. I simply stated that there are insurmountable switching costs which incentivizes them to contribute to the larger Ocaml community.
Switching to JSON over XML would solve approximately zero problems that decentralised communication protocol faces. In fact, it would only make things more complicated and less flexible.
I always wondered why there was seemingly no (marketed) business in foreign savings accounts.

If I'm willing to ride the exchange rate risks, surely there's some bank in Honduras paying a higher rate on Lempira-denominated accounts. Compared to half the derivative products on the market, it's a straightforward offering, and it also feels an ideal product for flim-flam direct-to-consumer marketing-- backed by "government bank insurance" while dodging that it's hardly the FDIC.

Is there some regulatory angle that prevents it? I had always heard some foreign banks are uneasy about taking on American customers due to having to deal with the American tax infrastructure, but that wouldn't squash the entire product category.
Good question; I'm not really sure! Will need to look into it, or have people contribute some ideas. Feel free to start a discussion on the issue tracker if you're interested in this!
You're welcome! Thanks for the nice comment. :) We have many contributors and several maintainers to thank as well.
To me it seems more like she failed at creation and found an easier path forward in arson.

In a world where FUD spreads faster than truth and not everyone is an expert in every topic: her work does as much, if not more, harm than good. Particularly in fields she is not an expert in.
I picked a bank that uses a physical token that has a little computer in it and does a challenge-response for the authorization.
This. You don't put it out, the fire is caused by a chemical reaction in a closed case. You can't stop it, only insulate it from damaging everything around it by dumping it in sand.

The fire is just a byproduct of the extremely fast exothermic reaction taking place in the battery.
Scoped and with copious warnings that the distilled advice is derived from a larger body of experience and a dynamic mental model.

“Based on my experience, here are options, how one might weight them, pros and cons of each, and what led me to this conclusion. Use as input, but not solely and without proper contextualization.”

And giving bad advice is worse than giving no advice at all. Always avoid giving bad advice, or if it sounds bad because you can’t properly communicate the idea/thought. You do harm to others, as well as your own reputation, by doing so.
I’ve never heard someone call their own country a “third world country”. Out of curiosity, which country are you referring to?
Are any of those books not available on Amazon or another bookseller?
Great questions!

> How does this work? snid just makes up an IP address? What socket API calls do you make to do this? Just pick an address and bind, and the kernel is fine with that? And it all gets routed back and forth correctly? Do you have to configure this 64:ff9b:1::/48 prefix on the loopback interface?

First you have to set the IP_FREEBIND socket option, which allows binding to nonlocal/nonexistent IP address and then you call bind with whatever address you like. To ensure the packets get routed back properly, you need a local route for the 64:ff9b:1::/96 prefix, which can be added with:

ip route add local 64:ff9b:1::/96 dev lo

> How does the decoy SNI hostname get chosen? This sounds like there needs to be a different decoy hostname for each backend service. Does that come from DNS somehow? The client doesn't just make it up at random?

The decoy hostname is specified in the ECHConfig struct[1], which is conveyed to the client via DNS in the HTTPS record[2].

It does indeed mean that each backend needs its own decoy hostname (which resolves to the IPv6 address of the backend). This means that ECH does not hide which backend is being connected to, but if a particular backend handles multiple hostnames, it can hide which of those hostnames the client is connecting to.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-esni-14.html#...

[2] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https-...
One of the books specifically cited is The 1619 Project, which if I am not mistaken was widely criticized even by professors for being a narrowsighted and completely ahistorical look at slavery in America.
I don't think Sabine claims that we can't possibly discover a testable theory that also solves the black hole information loss paradox. However, that doesn't mean that investigating the black hole information loss paradox problem itself is a good way of arriving at that theory.

Theoretical physics has always been most successful when investigating proven experimental inconsistencies - the measured invariance of the speed of light in different rest frames for special relativity, for example, or the photovoltaic effect or ultraviolet catastrophe for QM.

Investigating other effects of quantum gravity and arriving at a theory that can be tested here on Earth would potentially lead to a testable theory that also provides insights into black holes. Or, perhaps investigating the measurement problem could lead to a more fundamental non-linear theory (which QM would be only an approximation of) that would be consistent with information loss.

These are both much lower hanging fruit than worrying about effects that we have no hope of measuring (note that we can't even prove that burning a book doesn't lose information - it's just easier to explain where the information could, in principle, be going, but it's still impossible to measure with current or foreseeable technology).

Your example of gravitational waves is exactly on the money for this. If instead of focusing on the inertial & gravitational mass equality "coincidence" and on gravity's effect on light, Einstein had tried to come up with a model for gravitation waves as the only thing he investigated, chances are he would not have arrived at GR. Perhaps he would have arrived at some SR + gravity waves theory that would have taken 100 years or more to disprove, and missed all the other insights.
It’s a whole industry it’s called freight forwarding, and this specific thing is the cargo division of commercial passenger airlines.
In the 1950s, when it was bothered with? To provide a face saving way to back down without changing the official narrative in the absence of MAD constraining escalation of geographically-constrained conventional combat. Nuclear arsenals we're tiny at the time of Korea.
I feel very lucky I learned on the 68000 in the original Mac. If a CPU could ever be considered a work of art, it was the 68000
I imagine the process of "building a failsafe" is just as bug-prone as writing the main contract. It's just more code, after all.
Wow, imagine this could be very useful for a variety of logistics/routing applications (IE train routing, assembly line optimization, self-driving cars). Perhaps this kind of stuff is in play there already and this just helps make it easier to visualize?

Lovely visualizations as well. Really makes it tangible.
Similar to the author of the tweet, Apple removed a working version of my FlickType Keyboard that catered specifically to the visually impaired community, just because I hadn't updated it in 2 years.

Meanwhile, games like Pocket God have not been updated for 7 years now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pocket-god/id301387274
Death 101: Life Lessons from the Country’s Only Degree Devoted to the End
> MAM which doesn't work with E2EE...

Soo first you want E2EE so nobody can tap into your conversations, and then you want to receive text of you messages from the server archive? :hmm emoji:
This. Also, max put your Series I allocation ($10k/yr/SSN iirc, must be purchased from TreasuryDirect) before bothering with TIPs. If you have kids, the inflation adjustments can be used tax free for educational expenses, which would already make them the best inflation adjusted bond, but on top of that, you can cash it in whenever you want for nominal value rather than selling them on the secondary market, which makes them so much better than TIPs in the scenario where interest rates soar and inflation actually gets beat back (fwiw I don’t think this is as likely as currency devaluation).
If you are wanting to read some code, here's a an "ERC20" contract (a "money").

https://github.com/Rari-Capital/solmate/blob/main/src/tokens...
Great idea, I have been thinking of doing something similar but am struggling to get ISP's to support Ipv6.
Some actually block Ipv6.
> darn progressive

> you're mad

Ok, I think we should all keep cool around here.

There are many examples of people who call themselves progressives "banning" books. In the sense of school boards removing books from the curriculum (which is part of what's happening in Texas), here's a recent example: [1]. Some go as far as literally burning books [2].

[1]: https://www.newsweek.com/schools-drop-kill-mockingbird-requi...

[2]: https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/book-burning-at-ontario...
I have found that having a Master's of Science on my resume' has been invaluable.
I am 66 years old software Engineer, I would highly recommend a Master's of Science in virtually any Math, and/or Engineering discipline except Chemistry where i would recommend no less than a PhD unless you want to be a lab monkey all your life.
I worked at SRI International in Menlo Park for 13 years. In Electrochemistry right out of College UC Davis
Until I received my second and eventually 3rd Master's of Science I was considered a "Super Tech" by the PhD people there; i.e. a Lab monkey some one who carried out their (PhD's) programs When I found errors in their Math, or incompatibilities in their reasoning I earned their respect enough to be included in their (PhD's) planning but that took over 7 years.

Now that I have been effectively a Software Engineer for over 25 years, and taught my self Deep Learning, Python, and C++ I am commanding a rate of 80 per hour W2 but that required over 15 years and lots of learning.

So prove you can learn by obtaining a least 2 Master's of Science in somewhat related fields Like some Engineering, and Applied Math and things will be easier for you and somewhat more "fun"
> Black holes themselves are, obviously, impossible to image.

What we observe is the "shadow" of the black hole. The expectation is that the flux from the shadow should be consistent with zero. For M87* the observed flux ratio with the ring was ~10:1. See Paper 1:

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11238
This has happened. It’s called Ethereum.

The original fork was mostly abandoned, and is known as Ethereum Classic.
In Europe you can't, wire transfers are the main way of transferring money.
I was clearly misunderstanding how TIP yields worked, I'll read more about it. Thanks!
As someone shopping around for a FTTH offering (to get out of my current DOCSIS plan) how can I figure out which routers are compatible with the ISP's GPON?

I've had phone calls with them and the support/sales reps have no idea. They provide their own router+AP box that takes the fiber and spits out WiFi and Ethernet, but how would I go about replacing that? Their hardware is obsolete, insecure, outdated and just all-around poor! I know I could set it to bridge and place my own router in between, but I'd love to just replace their box instead.

As far as I could figure out on my own, the best bet would be getting a EdgeRouter X SFP and then plugging in a compatible SFP module. Is that right? How would one figure out which SFP module to buy?

On top of all that: do ISPs run proprietary handshake stuff on top of it, where even if the physical connection is correct, the ISP refuses working with your box? or is it just like the old ADSL days when all you needed was just a PPPoE stack?
>So if one puts their money into assets, those are decreasing in price due to the fed

Unless you are a day trader (or r/WallStreetBets trader) this should not be a long-term concern.

>Time in the market beats timing the market.

I have my assets in an S&P500 ETF and some Danish funds and stocks. Owning a good home in a first-world country is also a good long-term investment.
I have a server that hosts several websites. I wanted some of them to be installed in a separate (systemd) container (because they belong to the same organization).

I use nginx's ssl_preread module to proxy https requests to the container or to another port depending on the SNI. This is what snid does in the article if I understood correctly (without the DNS lookup because I don't need it, but it is able to do it too). It works well and it's good that the nginx at the front does not need to have the SSL certificates. In this setup, Nginx does not need to decode anything, it just does a pass-through, so this is quite light. It is also way simpler to setup than an actual HTTP reverse proxy.
Appreciate the reply, thanks for sharing the domain expertise.
XMPP works quite well with push on iPhones. I use it daily.
Dino and Gajim both work great on my Pinephone.
AT&T can only do 50Mbps to my house. Three orders of magnitude less than this person. "Fortunately" I also have Comcast which does a mighty 1.2Gbps. Both suck so much.

But AT&T tells me not to worry, it has fiber rolling into my neighborhood. I know it must be true because they've been telling me that for the past 5+ years!
Wither Harmony Square?: Conspiracy Games in Late Capitalism
I think you've got the logic other way around.
>An untracable, unstoppable & untaxable cryptocurrency might be developed

No, this will never happen and it makes no sense to actually want this, not only is it physically impossible but it's a total misunderstanding of threat modeling. The main thing these comments always miss is that these transactions only exist to serve a purpose in the real world. You can come up with all the cryptographic solutions that you want to hide communications but it means very little when someone can walk into your basement and suddenly see the hundreds of mysterious suitcases that weren't there the day before.

The only way any of these things could realistically approach being "untraceable" is if not a single person using it ever cashed out and they only spent the money on NFTs and other non-tangible items, and additionally nobody ever conducted physical barter with the NFTs. So basically if it becomes a very restricted and useless and inefficient version of a video game economy, except without the video game.
The « i dont care about coockies » plugin for firefox is superb at geting rid of that problem
I was a late Spectrum dev, as a Brazilian geek several years behind the international market due to draconian restrictions on computer imports at the time (also, dad not rich enough to get me an Amiga...). Got one of my programs survive for posterity: https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/stk-y... (unfortunately only loading screenshots here; check YS #75).

That was a powerful hacking/debugging/programming utility. I am still proud of the HILOAD command which was capable of loading files from tape in any condition: if any error was found, this command would fill a separate buffer with the relative address of every error. Then you could use other commands to inspect the data and painstakingly recover it by guessing the correct value for damaged bits or bytes (they utility could dump memory in many ways, including some popular encodings of sprites for games). There was also a whole-block SHIFT command useful for this task because a loading error could make all following bytes to be shifted left or right some bits, because the tape data format didn't have a byte-boundary delimiter, it was just a stream of bits.
The Parity multisig bug locked 509019 ETH, which is around $1.5 billion today
Right, I mean just look at my handle, I love toys and especially toys I can't afford but pretending they are anything more than toys is kinda cultish.

To reiterate in order to include non tech companies Walmart sold 600B dollars worth of products, Amazon 400B.

Berkshire has 800B worth of premiums under management. These are real life being impacted with straight injections of quality of life.
Archive.org has OpenLibrary.org as a sibling organisation. It's a "proper" library so you can check things out.

I'm not sure exactly how it works, in legal terms, but it's great for obscure books.

It also has Diary of a Wimpy Kid available to borrow digitally:

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8483260W/Diary_of_a_Wimpy_Ki...
Trickle-down only works when it isn't for 'consumers.'
I'm on telus fibre, it's only fast within telus' local network because their peering is SHIT. So unless all you're going to do is speedtest all day long telus isn't going to help you.
> So things are only reversible when the vast majority of users get impacted?

Close, but not quite. It's not a democracy, it's a plutocracy. Things are only reversible when those few who hold the majority of the wealth are impacted.