skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Power and office are two different things. Someone can exercise a great deal of power in advancing or killing legislation while never holding office and allowing all the office holders to call them names on TV.

What matters is what policies are enacted. Here's a nice video on the topic that summarizes a Princeton study https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
Not at all as you did not apply the quality control to the data as you suggested it needed to have to come to a conclusion.
Until consumers demand this as a requirement, it won't happen. Almost everyone would rather have a compiler/language/OS/ISA/CPU that's finishes faster some of the time, rather than one that finishes at the same time all the time. It would just appear (especially in benchmarks) to be slower for no apparent benefit.

Maybe we can introduce a new set of instructions that are guaranteed to be constant time, but good luck convincing the compiler/language/OS to use these slower instructions even if just for the code that is important for security.
That's very interesting. How did you implement this? : "I've taken to supporting cross-references across the repo, connecting references of the form ^^{foo} to anchors of the form @@{foo}, wherever they appear (code, comment, docs)." Do you have a link? Would love to check it out myself. I'm also curious - why do you think most people are against docs living inside the repo?
Why nothing works the way it's supposed to (1976)
- Incident report: Regression. When running on AWS, page size of 1000 causes the process to crash intermittently with data loss. Recommendation: reduce the max size to 500.
If you can call _exit() and exec, then you can call other functions too. I do believe that the Open Group has changed the description of vfork() to discourage its use because of an old and incorrect paper from the 80s. Actual implementations of vfork() are not as dangerous as the Open Group text purports them to be.

Moreover, most posix_spawn() implementations use vfork(), and they call more functions than _exit() and exec on the child side.

Let's be reasonable about these things.
I’m a little confused about your attack vector - how feasible would you reckon it is to place such a malicious script on the largest public websites in existence, versus just getting the victim to install a Trojan? The latter could just literally monitor the user.

I’m not saying your paper is technically wrong, just practically infeasible.

Right now, you’ve chosen very specific websites. Have you explored if there is a correlation between specific scripts (react, jquery, etc) and whether websites with similar setups cannot be differentiated? I was also curious about content/non-homepage paths. Your conclusion seems to be that interrupts/etc are the primary indicators, so I suspect there’s a connection.

Edit:

In my experience, large websites and most web apps don’t use CDNJS/etc, but bundle their code - this would make injecting your script much harder without a supply chain attack.

On second thought, given CORS I think this attack is actually impossible. How would your embedded script communicate your findings with your server? You would need to control the originating domain itself…
No one actually paid those rates, so it goes. The narrative is that part of lowering the rates was closing the loop holes...
Still got my pin from WWDC18, lovely little thing.
There's already NATO bases in the Barents Sea (and Turkey via the Black Sea) in addition along their land borders via the baltic states (minus Belarus). Their actions have also pushed Finland and Sweden into the arms of NATO.

The thing about the Cuban missile crisis is that Kennedy was able to get Russian missiles AWAY from the United States. Russia's actions are getting hardware placed closer.

And why is that? Probably because Russia will tolerate it in exchange for territorial expansion. Even after the 2014 invasion of Crimea there was open talk about how NATO was obsolete and a waste of money and effort. Russia could've probably eliminated any NATO threat without firing a single shot. It was already seen as a relic of the cold war. Instead, Russia's actions have given a renewed justification for NATO's existence.
Or AT&T.
What can an attacker do by knowing how many much queued crypto work there is?
Location: Wilmington, DE
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JS, node.js, Python, Flask and Django
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-hamilton-a62340134/
Email: markhamilton3325 (@) gmail (dot) com
Syria was the worst part, because the fallout from that was really bad. Not sure we'd have had Brexit without the extra pressure that put on Europe. Likely empowered Erdogan somewhat (doubt it made a big difference there, admittedly) and contributed to the rise of far right parties in Eastern Europe. Plus, you know, sucks for the Syrians.

Nb. what I blame him for isn't the Syrian civil war itself, but for choosing to get involved in such a way that it's dragged on indefinitely, rather than concluding it one way or the other much faster. This also contributed to destabilization and suffering in Iraq.

Continuing to allow Afghanistan to bleed for his entire 8 years while everyone at the top (and probably most folks in the middle, and at the bottom) knew no progress was, had been, or would be made was a straight-up crime (see: the Afghanistan papers).

But sure, it's hard to beat Bush II for "foreign policy fuck-ups". Dude's a legend in that regard. I wouldn't be surprised if historians in 2100 will look back at that and see it as America falling on its face at the starting line, for this century, and never really recovering.

> Trump’s foreign policy was largely symbolic and detail-free, focused on breaking up US soft power to aid Russia, symbolically opposing China to appeal to anti-Asian racists, making up nonsense about Latin American immigrants to appeal to anti-Latino racists, continuing middle East aggression (and the Muslim ban etc.) to appeal to anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racists. To the extent things went okay it was largely down to incompetence and uncoordination.

Pushing NATO members to meet their defense spending obligations ended up being damn-near prescient, even if the rest of his action on NATO was mostly bad. I'd love to see more breaking down of trade relations with China, so that part was fine by me. Lots of his rhetoric was idiotic but at the same time it was refreshing to see anyone in power talking anti-neoliberalism, for once, even if he was either too ambivalent in-fact or too incompetent to accomplish much. Withdrawing from Afghanistan was way overdue and it disgusted me that NPR ran with "it's just too hard to withdraw in more time than it took to put the same number of soldiers and same amount of equipment in-theater" bullshit, in response. All his stuff related to the Southern border was moronic, of course.

I'm not saying I think he was great—dude belongs behind bars 10x over, I'd say, including for some of his foreign policy actions. In fact, a lot of it's just that, after his predecessors, accomplishing very little was kinda an improvement.
It has a medium level of spam, but if you stick to name brands sold by amazon, you generally get what you pay for.

It's replaced the department store, and usually has better service / return policy than a department store (Target etc.).

Costco might be the exception but generally I don't go to costco to search for a specific product. They either have some general version of a product, and if I'm willing to buy that I will; swim goggles for example. Perhaps I want TYR swim goggles. Costco will have better pricing on Speedo goggles but won't sell the TYR mirrored version I'm looking for. Click, bought on amazon, arrives next day.
Based on the Beechcraft King Air 200, the same aircraft used by shadowy groups funded by the "black budget" for hunting terrorists, drug lords, or anyone else the DoD or the three-letter-agencies designate as a High Value Target. This is pretty much the same mission profile -- airborne surveillance -- but with a different sensor package. Makes me wonder if Predator or Global Hawk UAVs, or retired P-3 Orion aircraft could be used in a similar role. Spy planes are spy planes...
Wow, I didn't know that frequency scaling on CPUs was a function of the workload being processed, I thought it was a function of CPU temperature, which would be much less easy to glean meaningful data from (presumably it has a large deal of hysteresis, and you'll have to somehow run a computation millions of times and then run another computation millions of times and compare them). I'm not convinced that I'm wrong.
Ask HN: What other forums do you visit?
Aside from HN, do you visit other forums?

I used to think traditional forums were completely dead, but after getting into working on cars I am frequently on both https://www.tacomaworld.com and https://www.e46fanatics.com

Interested to see if others hang out on SW forums or other hobbies.
> At some point you have to consider whether this level of diplomatic incompetence is intentional.

Please, enlighten us, what should be done?
> The MLB production is crap. They really need to stop making it look like an Apple product.

There are a few things I would change (the odds gotta go, and I wouldn’t mind a more compact scorebug) but on balance I really like their choices. Give me Apple’s gfx package over Bally or TBS any day of the week.
They could have everyone work in the basement for at 4% discount on rent too. Great stuff - totally not dystopian at all.
Do you think society is currently tilted too far in the direction of undermedicating ADHD? That though we went from 5.5% of children diagnosed with ADHD in 1997 to 9.8% in 2018 we still have more ADHD yet to find? More than a tenth of children are so psychologically flawed they need mind-altering medication to address what's wrong with them?

There is a widespread belief in ADHD and that it should be medicated. That's why millions of children are so medicated. There is institutional belief in that idea as well - that's why so many doctors prescribe these drugs to children. It's not the case that treating ADHD is some minority view that needs to be protected from criticism.

I read your comment as suggesting that I shouldn't share my opinion on the topic because my opinion stigmatizes children who need help. I hope I can highlight the problem with that sentiment by giving an example like if I said you shouldn't share your opinion because the children who are over medicated need help and you are silencing and stigmatizing ideas that would help the over medicated kids.

There is no reason to think my comments are "utterly irresponsible" or "damaging" and you are being hyperbolic by describing them so - any more than your comments are damaging because they encourage over medication. Again, I'd refer you to the "defensive" element of my prior comment. And, since you've mentioned tropes, one trope I'd like to point out is the trope of thinking that "Because I strongly hold belief X I will accuse anyone disagreeing with X of being bad or harmful." You are entitled to your opinions, but not to try and silence people who disagree with you.
i always use ublock
Thank you for pointing to ASRS.

My father is a retired airline pilot and we loved talking about safety, how things can fail and how there is a culture of learning for everyones mistakes. I mostly remember the pilots replaying actual crash scenarios.

But you are absolutely right, ASRS and learning from almost-failures is also critical.
Isn't it? It probably wouldn't require any novel statistical techniques.
I've had third party cookies blocked for ten years. Some sites don't work. I don't use those sites.
I used to think this, but over time I changed my mind. Plenty of capital, particularly in an increasingly digital economy, requires no land, and ignoring that privileges that digital capital even more than just not being tied to physical space does already.
> Instead of "Men's and Women's {SPORT}" we would have "Female and Unlimited {SPORT}".

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what we have now, women play in men's sports on occasion. Ironically, the names "female" and "unlimited" suggest being a woman is a handicap, which is probably why it was renamed to men's in the first place.
So Putin might nuke us and therefor we should be afraid to stand up to him and essentially let him have whatever he wants?

That's truly moronic.
Haha so constant time algorithm isn’t constant time
You mean you've found some... ~awesome~ tools from it?
Getting there more everyday.
The media and the vast majority of US pundits were saying the invasion was impossible. US intelligence was being criticized before the invasion for being alarmist.

Again, just read the news articles from January/February of this year.

It sounds like you weren't paying any attention to this in Feb and are just trying to come up with arguments to support your points.
OT but since it's giraffe_lady whose comments I've often appreciated...

In most cases, I just flag comments that violate the guidelines and move on, regardless of whether I agree with their substance.

In this case, I agreed with the substance of the comment more than usual, so I tried to offer constructive criticism (in addition to flagging). Civility isn't appropriate in every context, sometimes incivility is important, but I think it's for the best here.

I've had a lot to say about my disaffection with how HN is structured, particularly how "assume good faith" makes HN unfriendly for outgroups (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215998 ) and frankly would love an alternative. But my ideal alternative would also emphasize civility.
What is the wall there? Pre-Feb 24 status quo? Why does Putin need to commit suicide in that case? He didn't need to commit suicide before February.
What has become very annoying is so many sites are using "third party cookies" for whatever asinine "single sign on" product they've been sold. The number of redirects my browser undergoes when I log into my health insurance portal is mind boggling.
H2O Wave has a similar (probably tinier) Grammar of Graphics API: https://wave.h2o.ai/docs/plotting

Leland Wilkinson (GoG inventor) and I designed it together a couple of years back.

The function for creating marks (a layer) tries to be as "flat" as possible, in the sense that it should be possible to render most common kinds of plots without having to pass nested/hierarchical options: https://wave.h2o.ai/docs/api/ui#mark
> How is it on Github?…

The whole sentence I wrote was: "But figuring out how they got access to a private github repo is to some extent back on github, at least potentially..."

> …That feels like a failure of logging on Github's part, without any additional information.

There you go, you answered your own question too.
Asexuality on an individual level is fine, you shouldn't feel bad about it. As a societal phenomenon, it's worrying, and we should investigate.
I almost didn't have a comedown when I started taking Ritalin. Few years later it became a nightmare. I was becoming extremely annoyed every afternoon and was pretty much useless in the evening as a result.

I also started having very annoying anxiety in the morning after taking meds. And all that with a reduced effectiveness of the drug - clear slowdown in the afternoon after lunch which I didn't have in the beginning of treatment (the dosage was more or less constant from the start after initial titration).

Ritalin clearly affects my sleep patterns. On it I never feel rested and wake up with a feeling I haven't slept at all. There was no change, the effect was present from the start. It takes at least three days without meds for it to be gone.

Finally, Ritalin is definitely bad for my creativity. For instance, I have a habit to play piano or guitar as a way to relax since I was a kid. Composing or improvising at least 50% of the time. This invariably stops when I am on meds - it feels like the activity becomes dull and stops being pleasurable.

All in all, I think it is great that the meds exist and work for a large number of people. That being said I can't stand when someone praises stimulants alluding the consequences of taking them are invariably positive and the side-effects are trivial (if they are acknowledged).

Sadly, most internet discussions on ADHD meds (among people who don't deny it) are infected with overly simplistic toxic positivity: "get diagnosed and treated and your life will be fixed while you'll be happy". The first part I agree with but there is no need to trivialize - the life is more nuanced than that.
If you're writing a simulation or a test, then you'll want the PRNG to stay unchanged, and you'll want to be in control of any reseeding.

For all other RNG uses, you really do want it to reseed.

A cryptographic PRNG vs. a simulation PRNG are very different things, and should be different libraries.
Excellent point.

In this case, the name used here is masking, referring to what is called data masking, and the reference was to adding noise. There are other operations(as you point out) that could also be used (substitution, shuffling, etc.).
The fight is impressive. The female born athlete has been impressive. In a sane state of mind the challenge should be seen as unfair IMHO. Thank you for the link.
Needs tags and a search function
If your twitter mob stays on twitter, that is free speech, stupid, but that is your right to be stupid. when your twitter mob starts to take action(swatting, doxing, physical attack) is when it starts to matter.

First note that mobs are ugly stupid irrational things in the first place.

Now ask your self. agree or disagree with the message, who is this mob attacking are they attacking their enemies? if so this is a legitimize mob, they have goals, objectives and are acting on them. you may be on the other side, they may be your enemy but the attacks are valid. leave the fight to them and the people they are attacking, or take a side.

however if the mob is targeting civilians, random people, causing willful destruction for the sake of destruction, that is, are they looting? This is an illegitimate mob, their message has no value, they have no right to exist and should be actively suppressed by all.
I can sort of agree then you throw in loose correlations like less worshiping of gods = higher ADHD diagnosis, among others. If you look at the bible belt, there's lots of drug abuse, especially opiates among them. Do you have any data that positively proves more worshiping of gods = less drug use?
yeah - we were accquired as part of their 'cloud services' shopping spree...
so far, it seems like they're TRYING to drive off the very people they acqui-hired. Contracts seem more like a Tata level staff aug. then a 'professional services' play.
I thought I did.
No other forums: just QuiteRSS and a well-curated OPML file of channels of interest to me (and which overlaps with the HN audience).
I just noticed today that it says I'm not subscribed anymore. I successfully re-subscribed, though.

The subscriber number shot back up in a hurry.
Universal Health Care Could Have Saved More Than 330k U.S. Lives During Covid
Puh-lease. Any other argument other than that tired argument. As if the US military has not been complicit in similar business around the world.
> When I buy a house in Dubai with bitcoin, there is no fiat involved.

I'll bet you they didn't buy and pay for the materials for said house with bitcoin.

I don't really know what your point is now as you apparently view bullets as an asset class, so I've kind of lost your story. If you think you're going to make a much of money on bitcoin I'm not sure why you'd get rid of it. I invest in securities because I think it'll outperform the default choice, I don't invest in things that I think will under-perform it.
Hansen Writing Ball
I firmly believe Musk, Gates, and Buffet to name a few do more good with their money than if any government got their hands on it. Not all the billionaires are bad.

A side effect of a wealth tax is that instead of wealthy people building wealth that's just going to be taxed away, it would incentivize funding charitable foundations like the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates has done a lot of good with his foundation, but that doesn't meant that one person should control that much money.
I have a few friends working (or having worked) at amazon and quite happy (especially at AWS). I don't think they're in the same bucket as IBM and Oracle.
haha, ok, so now we're just quibbling over the definition of short term instead of discussing the concrete question of how volatile USDC's treasuries are? Just replace instances of "short term" with <= 3 months, now are we in agreement?

My point is that your 10% figure is not applicable to the treasuries Circle claims to hold. You can call them whatever you want.
Speculative assets rarely crash, despite people wanting the drama of it all. If ETH went to $100, enough people would buy it in the hopes it would skyrocket again and make them fabulously wealthy, pushing the price up, but lower than last time, until it cycled back and so on until it fizzles out.
Thanks for suggestion! Certainly looking for more books in this vein and added it to my book list.

So far it has blown my brain a couple times - some of the most illustrative prose I've read.
I’m not sure if we read the same interview. The documentary guy also just hand waves towards chili pepper shortages, which is what the original company email also clearly says. There is no real additional information, just filler.

I’m not convinced that the average person would find it hard to understand that a shortage of the input ingredient would cause an output crisis.
> The breakdown in diplomacy with Russia is the worst part. The previous administration at least had diplomacy. The current one just pushed them into this.

If by diplomacy you mean kowtowing to everything Russia does, I'm not sure that's much better.
Virtual example:
https://vimeo.com/43124993
Easier immigration. Smart people generally want to leave authoritarian governments. We've been making it increasingly difficult for almost 2 decades now. It's ridiculous that we turn them away when there is clear evidence that they grow the economic pie for everyone.

It's also messed up that we don't consider the downstream effects of sanctions as collateral damage. How many millions of people can the west allow to starve due to sanctions and still hold the moral high-ground?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/06/sri-lanka-faci...
The increase is almost entirely in bisexuality. I think the biological argument is strong.
What makes the pope, a man who has dedicated his life to the study of religion and God an expert in global politics, that a quote from him has more value than a comment from anyone here.

He mentions in the article that an unnamed world leader told him Russia would get upset at NATO being so close to their border. Putin has publicly mentioned this multiple times before the war with Ukraine.

Finally, Ukraine has the right to join any alliance it wants and for Russia to invade over that is bullshit. If you want to bring up promises about not joining NATO then we must talk about promises not to invade. Russia has already done this before in 2014
I think the distinction that the parent is making is that Rome fell in the West, but the Eastern Roman Empire lived on for quite a long time afterwards.

Bret agrees, and notes this repeatedly in that series.

Where I think he would disagree with the parent is that they seem to be implying that the fall in the West was therefore not a particularly significant event that might deserve explanation, whereas Bret would point out that cities shrank, cows shrank, mail links got bigger (more vulnerable, less material, less effort) while fewer people were armored, and on and on... Things changed for the worse for a huge number of people. That things didn't change the same for another group of people (who, in some contexts, are quite reasonably treated as part of the same larger group of people) is interesting! But it doesn't make the changes in the West unimportant or uninteresting.