skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> …when the science is settled it becomes a law.

This is absolutely and completely wrong. “Hypothesis -> Theory -> Law” is not actually the scientific pipeline. Theories and laws not only can co-exist, but often do.

From Wikipedia [0]:

> Scientific theories explain why something happens, whereas scientific law describes what happens.

An example of this is the theory of gravity [1], which contains laws of gravity [2].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_law

[1]: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/ESSAYS/Bekenstein/bekens...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton's_law_of_universal_gr...
Agree and disagree. Yes, you’re right that in many cases you have to rely on an external oracle, so a protocol can’t be fully “trustless”.

However the difference is that we can abstract away the oracle from the rest of the value transfer mechanism.

For example if we want to bet on the winner of the Super Bowl, in the old days we’d have to find a trusted third party to hold the money for us. Essentially a bookie. Finding a trusted bookie, especially one who’s licensed in multiple jurisdictions is really hard.

In contrast, we can probably find a trusted “oracle” for the Super Bowl much easier. For example AP is extremely trustworthy (largely because they’re not in the legally dodgy business of sports betting). As long as AP cryptographically signs the outcome of the game (as they do for all HTTPS served content), we now have a highly trusted oracle. We can handle all the other mechanics around betting and payoffs inside a trustless smart contract.

In fact we can take this even a step further and use multiple trusted sources in a multisig setup. The chance that AP, ESPN, NBC sports and Google all collude to lie about the Super Bowl is extremely small.

So while the oracle problem means we can’t completely eliminate the need for trust, it can drastically reduce the surface area of risk by abstracting away the informational layer from the value transference layer.
“You” in that context was the entity pushing the feature. I’m not sure what point you think you’re making about Facebook tracking tbh, but I don’t use Facebook so you’re asking the wrong person; to claim I am mindlessly defending dark patterns is nonsense.
Any solution for on-demand payments for different streaming services?
LowStakesConspiracy: Apple needs to keep developers buying newer Macbooks / iPhones.
Mikrotik makes a whole bunch of 10G hardware. The 8 port ones are fanless and have a heatsink on the back, and the 16 port model has a fan that only gets switched on when needed. I have one sitting behind me and it's been off all day.

It's also easy to open and replace the fan with something less noisy. Just remove a few screws, it's a standard size with a normal connector on it.

There's also big external heatsink so you could rig up a big, slow, fan to help it out a bit.

If you want to be green by the way, use fiber/DAC. The 10G copper SFP+ modules are power hungry, and Mikrotik recommends not placing them next to each other. Also the extra power draw is likely to result in fan use if you have a lot of them.
It’s compiled from Anandtech benchmarks and archived forum posts. Unfortunately I didn’t write down each source.
Today Groff+ms it's easy:

groff -step -k file.groff > file.pdf

Groff+mom it's like Texlive for TeX.

The last one it's best suited for writers.

With Groff+ms you can typeset equations, letters and articles with a 486 and less than 50MB of used space.
It's a gem.
Postscript can be set with -Tps for Groff, it may be lighter on rendering.
The GV viewer opens both PDF and PS files.
Scientific consensus on climate change is pretty well defined. Is anyone saying that messages that contradict them are correct sometimes and so Twitter is wrong in this action? Corps have been abusing capital to amplify their speech intentionally misleading public on this subject regardless of its harm. This imho is the right move.
Ok, Newtons law of gravity is settled science but also wrong.

The “settled” science of climate change makes wildly inaccurate predictions on earth, during time periods we have lots of data on.

Aren’t we past the point of no return 8 times over now?
But people still go places. All the time. Shopping, dinner, appointments, friends, gym etc and now a lot of _those_ activities are further away
Easily the best ZX Spectrum emulator is fuse, which is not on GitHub as far as I know.

http://fuse-emulator.sourceforge.net/
Ah yes, the "Globalists ;) ;) ;)"

That ticks a few boxes.
Getting 10G symmetrical May 1. I won't be able to use it all, though. Using a router that has a 10G port, but the stuff it does with packets means there's a limit I've heard of around 3G, but we'll see. Speed test is the first thing I'll be done once it's installed.

EDIT: USA, CA here. sonic.net. $40/mo with 3 free months. They'll pay up to $200 termination charges. Not affiliated with them.
> We must be in different Western cultures because I definitely don't see a lot of skill and virtuosity in most popular music.

I think it depends on the lens you use. If you're looking through a "Tom Scholz" lens, that kind of skill and instrumental virtuosity may not exist today (although artists like St. Vincent are an argument that they do). But tech has completely changed music making, production, and distribution since that time, so today's Toms are people like Finneas O'Connell, and making music today is more akin to software design and engineering.
> And your qualifications to make this call as opposed to a professional like a librarian are?

This is a... stunningly helpless and pathetic appeal to authority. Librarians are professionals in the field of locating information within a collection. They are not professionals in the field of what books people should or shouldn't read. That is a moral question; the relevant professional would be a priest or similar.
> A new build requires iPhone X support.

That sounds like a valid reason to require you to submit a new build. it came out in 2017 and most iPhones follow that build style now.
Don’t think I can agree with this list being specific to fascism. It’s a slice that holds true across every human ideology.
I had a huge facepalm the day I realized all of the syntax was clickable :). It's not even a uncommon feature I just hadn't tried clicking it at for some reason!

Yeah I wouldn't say necessarily every page needs examples of different matchers and certainly not about what all of the matcher options are. More a "if the token is shown in the syntax it should have a bullet in the syntax section" kind of approach which in the case of [<matcher>] could be as plain and short as "[<matcher>] is a token which allows you to control the scope a directive applies to. For details on how see Request Matchers." to raise the "you probably want to know more about this first" flag to anyone that just jumped in from Google or what have you to go read about matchers before trying to understand the directive.

If that makes any sense I'd be glad to raise it more formally over on the GitHub!
There are consumer 10gbit switches now, though they are on the pricy side at around $400. I bought 3 of them for our datacenter and 2 of them broke within 2 years, so I definitely regret buying consumer grade for our operations but professional gear was ridiculously expensive then. Upgraded to ubiquity now, hopefully it's more reliable, though I guess it's on the prosumer side if you ask your average net admin.
I have the impression that the discussion around XMPP isn't going anywhere. On the one side are the people who say it is outdated and can't handle mobile/multi-device/energy-efficient communication and on the other side are the people who argue, that XMPP got extensions to handle all those cases. I am part of the later group.

However, instead of arguing I think it might be better to give a short summary about the state of XMPP from a users perpective. I use XMPP every day for several years now. In my opinion the best clients are the following:

- Linux -> Gajim (also available for Windows)

- iOS -> Siskin

- Android -> Quicksy/Conversations

Especially Siskin has made great progress over the past year. While these clients can do most of the things you would expect from a modern IM client, there are still a few weak spots:

- The combination of OMEMO (End-to-end encryption) while using multiple (clients over longer periods of time) can lead to situations where some clients can't decrypt messages. This is rarely dramatic (because one of your devices can decrypt the message), but can be annoying.

- It seems video calls across different clients are work-in-progress. Conversations to Conversations works fine, but with Siskin I had some trouble.

So the bottom line is: Most things work fine, but some things don't.
An excerpt from that previous post here for context:

> Ultimately, my vision is to inspire cultural change that is grounded in a firm understanding of some basic principles (outline below). And to be clear, I don't expect these changes to take place within several years; rather, they will likely take decades if not generations to fully realize (if ever).

> The structure isn't entirely set yet, but the essays with rough descriptions are as follows:

1. Unpacking Complexity (introducing the abstract concepts of complexity and uncertainty, context, implications, the process of inquiry and understanding, critical thinking, nuance and language)

2. Reconstructing Reality (applying complexity to the real world, challenging ideals like truth and objectivity, discussing the implications of "rigid science")

3. Discovering Diversity (introducing the idea that we are all living in our own perceptions of how humans and the world works, that humans are more diverse than we'd ever imagine, introduce various personality theories/frameworks, generational differences, etc.)

4. Explaining Humans (seeing humans through the lens of our needs, reframing human nature as something more dynamic rather than static, seeing the lasting effects of our upbringing and our experiences in general)

5. Confronting Ourselves (illustrating the complicated nature of genuine personal growth, the role of the ego, challenging simplistic ideals such as "empathy" and "authenticity", discussing ways to move towards genuine love)

> Taken together, these essays will collectively be called The Beginnings of Understanding. The central thesis being that the process of understanding can and should be expanded upon to cover all of the areas above, and that understanding isn't merely an intellectual exercise, but an emotional and almost visceral one.
Ya it’s definitely the Democrats obsessed with machismo and weaponry. /s
With the advent of social media, we have new kinds of trouble. Before networked computers, sparsely spaced people on the fringes couldn't easily get together and become a critical mass politically. Now they can. Gays were the first to do this, using AOL. Q-Anon was really good at using Twitter to bring together a movement. The Flat Earth Society is now a reasonably large organization. The "woke" movement would be stuck in the Ivy League as an obscure concept like postmodernism without social media.

Note that none of these are militaristic. Fascism has a strong military component. Large numbers of troops in formation haven't been militarily useful for a century, and people's visions of war today involve stuff blowing up and dead bodies, not troops marching. So a militarized vision of the future doesn't sell.

Humans still tend to band together under insane males, though. That seems to be hard-wired.
"Twitter says it will no longer allow advertisers on its site who deny the scientific consensus on climate change"

Does that mean if an advertisers sais the wrong thing elsewhere in public they will be banned?
I don't know that argument.
The vast majority of gold speculation (well
before blockchains existed) is not based on the actual price of gold, but rather what $EXCHANGE says is the price of gold. Very few gold investors are holding physical gold.
In what way is that factual? The data I can easily punch up at the moment indicates global shipping emitted 1 billion tons of CO2 in 2020 and automobiles emitted 3 billion tons.
The Arrow of Time in Causal Networks by Sean Carroll
Whoever FireRescue1.com is says that a class B fire extinguisher is good for a cooking oil fire, but that first (presumably more usefully) you should cover it and smother it in salt.

https://www.firerescue1.com/community/articles/how-to-put-ou...
What's bad faith about it?
What are people using Element for? I know that Element is a chat app... I actually have it installed. But it's not for work or anything. I thought it could be a cool replacement for Discord.

Nobody seems to be talking about anything on Element. There are plenty of Element rooms (or whatever they're called), but no matter how many of them I check out, they're all dead silent. There can be hundreds or thousands of joined users and I hear crickets. As a platform for socialization, I've found it pretty much useless. Am I doin' it wrong?
Or they don't want customers downloading apps that don't properly support their devices. makes the customer experience suck.
You managed to completely miss the point of the zoning example, but I can't say I'm surprised.

> Your profile says you don't even live in the US, but you're originally from the Bay Area... maybe you should listen in this case rather than trying to tell people in a part of the country you've probably never even visited how living their life works.

God, what an awful, narrow minded comment. Do you seriously think that's the only part of the US I've lived in or been to? You're not even trying to have an earnest discussion here.
Clever. I think I'd prefer to do TLS termination at the proxy though, something akin to stunnel. Of course snid could be used together with stunnel, but I think it would lose the O(1) configuration then. Just terminating tls and not touching the http content would still avoid any of those http parsing issues mentioned.
The list makes some sense until you see the mental hymnastics special olympics of applying them to whatever movement the user dislikes. A lot of these bullet points are just properties of human culture so they are triggered by most real (not curated, not watered down) societies' descriptions.

Reality not only has liberal bias but also tendency towards ur-fascism.
And don't forget the "New York liberals." You know how they get, in New York.
> could argue that inflation increases the value of future income streams

No?
Not prog rock but I used Moroder's 15+ minutes long "Love to love you baby" and "I feel love" when doing 4+hrs vinyl sets in disco bars, plenty of time to go to the bathroom. If I had Göttsching E2-E4 I'd have spun that one too.
Yes, it’s 5E. I thought that cat5e maxes out at 2.5GBit. Honestly, none of my devices would benefit from 2.5Gbit in a significantly way. I run some cloud backups in the night and it’s ok if it takes extra 5 minutes.
Just to clarify, the tweet was a couple of months after the iPhone X came out.
How can the consensus change if only the side that can afford the most twitter ads get to put their position forward?
This is false equivalence. There are many things that used to be widespread in the USA but today are non-existent or greatly reduced. Just pointing to examples of different things is not a coherent argument.
I Bonds might be a good alternative to CDs but are not comparable to a savings account. Your money is essentially locked in.
Wasn't criticizing Go. It's the most Wirth-like language we have today with a vibrant ecosystem. Looking at their github, they're already on it.
Awesome. Finally someone decided to ban something that's actually unambiguously bad, useless, and materially harmful.

Even with Trump, whose banning I support, you could argue there was some value in knowing what the President had on his mind.

I really don't need to know what Exxon's PR hacks want me to believe about climate change, even just for informational value. I'm extraordinarily well-aware of what they want me to think and why.

Some things are just evil, and they become more evil and more powerful the more you feed them. Hitler was one. Exxon talking about climate change is another.
If able, perhaps focus on your earning potential. We’ve had a forty-year run of asset price inflation relative to wage inflation. We may have hit the end of this period and will see a realignment with wages increasing at a faster pace than capital assets, similar to what happened in the 1970s. The Asset Economy is a somewhat dry but interesting book that presents a more academic take on the economic patterns of the last forty years.[1] The increase in unionization efforts, anti-trust, and the inability of the FED to manage inflation seem to point in this direction.

Otherwise, monopolies still seem strong for now with pricing power. Areas the government will print money to fund also seem like a decent bet: defense, climate, …? And you can try to maintain purchasing power with gold or crypto or real estate (in non-bubble areas). But we may be entering some challenging times for those with assets.

1. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Asset+Economy-p-978150954345...
I wonder what systems the ISP has in place to avoid such networks becoming sthe source of DDoS attacks.

Given the generally dire security of home routers (and understandably low security of most home networks/users) it feels a little like giving people far more power than most can safely wield.
so where is a good example of that litmus test being passed, where self published books are also routinely hosted?
I see it the other way around. The "movement" does not exist without RMS.

FSF itself is pretty woke nowadays so they have diluted and taken their mission in another direction.

As for the RMS attacks, he did the heresy of thinking out loud on a private mailing list which do-gooders promptly leaked and framed.

Your whole question is silly. He's not 'recuperated' since there's no authority to decide this. It's kinda hard when you replace institutions for woke mobs.
Is the article being new a prerequisite for it being relevant?
I think generally "YouTuber" is taken to mean somebody who is building particular YouTube personality/brand thing.

But even if we want to be very general and just parse it using default English, the -er suffix would mean someone who is doing something. I believe it would be more accurate to say Feynman was YouTubed.
According to Musk, for Tesla, batteries will be bigger than autos. Full Safe Driving will be bigger than autos (because of driverless taxis), and the robot will be bigger than autos. So if you buy into this then the stock is justified.

I personally expect Tesla to continue to be a fabulous car company but these other segments seem unlikely for various reasons.
The "zoom" spam in Vietnamese just kills me. How does that get through??
I think that's the point. From an outside perspective the black hole will evaporate before the thing falls in. Thus a thing can never fall in. From its perspective the hole will emit more and more intense radiation and finally evaporate just before it hits the horizon.

If true, I think you can go even further and say no black hole can completely form; the collapsing matter just gets exponentially closer to being fully black until the effect of the Hawking radiation outweighs the gravitation, but it all evaporates before going fully black. No?

(This latter part assumes there's some Hawking radiation or equivalent from pre-black holes as well. And I'm not sure whether that would be unitary or not, so it may not resolve the information paradox anyway).

(Edit: I think the pre-Hawking radiation would be unitary, since the only reason Hawking radiation is not unitary is because BHs don't have information, but pre-black holes are not black holes. So doesn't that solve the info paradox? Without resorting to holographs and whatnot? Where's the error?)
That’s nice!! $40/mo? That does not sound like US price.
Gun ownership per state has a slight negative correlation with gun death. There's another variable which correlates highly with it. It's very low in Japan for example.
It’s also possible for neither side to be correct.
Appeasement is bad policy either you appease to Hindus extremist or Muslim extremists. Please don't undersell the BS of Hindu or regional extremism in India. In Mumbai, political powers hate and beatup north Indians. So please don't project the picture, that the glimpses of akhand bharatvarsh are pretty.
I did it was called the eighties. But truth to be said, people were not 100% happy, yes there was the nuclear MADness, but also deep down they knew this modern society was making them more and more irrelevant. But they clinged on the perks and tried not to mind.
Check how often guitar-pro changed their format for no perceived benefit. Corel didn't even support svg, last time I checked (years ago, admittedly).

The point is: a locked proprietary format is in the interest of proprietary software vendors. It benefits the vendor but hurts the user.

The vendor can even make something document well enough to be used by governments but closed enough to be impractical to be freely implementable. See ms office formats.
Political viewpoints seem more polarised than they were 20 years ago, in America is probably started with the rise of the tea party and Palin’s 2008 bid.
Hi Keenan. Do you have advice for how a programmer can get started with implementing repulsive curves if they’re not familiar with the mathematics in the paper and video?
You are wrong, full stop.

If one cannot talk about why Joe has two mommies and no daddies, or why Jane's mom should now be called dad (necessary consequences of the "don't say gay" bill - and very much intended by the bigots behind the bill and behind those bigots who support the bill), then one is _erasing_ gay people from society.

My 62-year-old brother-in-law tells me that knew he was gay (but didn’t have a word for it) from about 6 years old. He still had to go through a bunch of figuring out what that meant, but if society hadn’t been stuck where it was when he was 6, he may have saved himself a lot of pain growing up.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Climate change is an unproven theory, far from the certainty that the political side of science makes it out to be.

For all intents and purposes until we have better modeling climate change is largely a political topic.

People for the most part have a pet form of energy generation they want the world to switch to and use wildly inaccurate climate models to beat everyone who disagrees with them over the head with.

See Germany and switching to oil and gas over climate friendly nuclear and trying to get gas added as a renewable form of energy and nuclear removed.
the c pointer syntax is perfectly fine after realize you its just the operator precedence rules but in reverse.

int foo, *bar, baz(), (*zyzzy())();

i do not understand why blowhard rob pike types dislike it. its exactly the kind of elegant you would think they would like
For an employer? They would have incentive to pay you a lot less.
I think this choice of litmus test say a great deal about you, and basically nothing about the phenomenon of banned books.
Yeah it's a bizarre comment. "Rural areas don't have as many drug problems if they don't have the economic issues most rural areas have." I mean sure, but most rural areas have been doing not so well economically.
>but I fail to see a use case over my 500Mb/s home connection.

The last time I thought I have not enough BW on my 50Mbps connection I learned what it's just my T440 is not enough to decode h265 extremely compressed stream over an SFTP streaming over WiFi, which gave around 20 Mbps at best. After toying|fighting around with wireless settings I found the main culprit was my Intel 7260 (or whatever) WNIC, not the CPU, Internet connection BW or the server throughput (10Gbit, despite being an IIS instance).

YMMV
I don't know who are exactly "my buddies" you are referring to, and this is not Genocide.