skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that "exactly one account for election voting" and "untraceably anonymous" don't go together.

What we've got now is a physical mixing where you "prove" your identity to a clerk at the assigned polling location, you are issued a physical token which you fill out in privacy, and then the token with the voting information on it is mixed with all the others from that polling location. By having opposed auditors watching vigilantly, we get some confidence that ballots are not altered or replaced.

Let's say that you have a system which has a single account for every citizen (fine in theory), which can issue an anonymous bearer token that can be used for voting later. That bearer token is now vulnerable to being sold, confiscated, copied (but only usable once, so there's a race), forgotten, and can go unused.
How long until the Fed drops interest rates again? Probably not that far off.
> I don't get the nsfw part

I interpreted that to mean that in the poster's workplace, they can't just put headphones on or play sound through their PC's speakers, but they could read through a blog post in the downtime between tasks.

I've worked in environments like that, anyway, and think they're pretty common.
species A becomes subdivided into 2 variants Ax, Ay
those being the same species, can mate (think for instance, citrus variants)

but somehow they get separated, and start evolving slowly different, and here's the crux, at some point the genetic changes no longer allow viable reproduction should they mix again, at that point they have evolved into separate species

it's not that Humans (Ax) came from ape (Ay) but rather they evolved out from some common ancestor (that may or may not still exists today)

when they say "humans descend from apes" does not necessarily mean from actual current modern apes

and the flaw in the child's reasoning is that presupposes a linear change "from this point on, we have humans, before, we have apes)

that's enough simplification for a 5 year old?
Littr.me: Link aggregator inspired by Reddit using ActivityPub federation
The media is now responsible for Musk's unhinged twitter account? Man, people really will blame them for everything...
Nanosheet-Based GAAFETs Bring Significant Benefits in 2025
Kind of a Sarbanes-Oxley for privacy?
Then you'd have to worry about what they put back in.
Good for you, I have nothing against IVF or kids, to be clear, so long as you think the sacrifice in disposable income is worth it!
What part of their soul do they have to sell to achieve that, and maintain it?
He's a likeable human being, honest and operates in good faith.

Maybe that's hard to understand for some of the scum in this site.

His interview with Joscha Bach is amazing.
Sure, that will work great — IFF — we're explaining it to an experienced person who's already developed has a feel for the physical properties of materials, selection and use of tools, and shop safety.

To people like you and I with that kind of experience and sensibility already trained in, a few sentences and we're more than good to go, because we'll intuit the rest from our pre-existing knowledge.

And, even to a person with general feel for tools and materials but new to automotive, even eplaining torquing takes more than a few sentences. You can't just say "pull the towque wrench until it clicks" - you need to explain that you cannot push it faster, and you cannot keep clicking it mutiple times, as both of those will result in overtorquing. Ensuring that both stud and lug nut threads are clean & properly lubricated, or the spec'd torque won't actually create the required thread tension to hold... it's not just 3 sentences, it's more like a 15min lecture.

For everyone else, it is like explaining it to a monkey — they might hear it, but will get some of the explicit instructions wrong and make bad or random judgements about everything else. Even if some of the major things are gotten right, there's a 100 other things that can go wrong - they don't mount the socket quite right on the nut, push too hard and slip with the wrench, scratching the adjacent body panel, and sure, they redo it and ultimately get the torque right, but now there's a scratch on the customer's car... or something is off and they don't have the shop sense to know it, then some accident happens... I've had even good mechanics who properly torque things spin the nuts on then forget to torque one wheel (maybe distracted by a call, didn't get back to it).

We've all been around the cringefest of people with zero (or negative) mechanical or tool sense in a shop — constantly hoping that they'll leave soon or learn fast. At least the people who want to learn probably will with good experience and guidance. But I sure as heck wouldn't want some poor salesguy who doesn't even want to be there working next to me or working on my car.

I do get the personnel shortage, and Tesla definitely needs to address their constantly reported nearly Google-horrible service. I also think it would be OK if they asked for volunteers from other staff who has experience. but somehow, it looks more like it's just another mad scramble. Some will get it right and learn something, but it'll mostly be more fckups, done faster.

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Like a glass jar that has been dropped onto a stone floor.
This simply reminds me of the absolute graveyard of Logitech M570s that I’m holding on to for some reason. A couple have worn out switches, others need cleaned. Love the thumb trackball.
I like Lex, he exudes this sense of genuine curiosity on the subject matter at hand, from tough issues as "what is consciousness" to different fighting styles. He allows the speaker to articulate their thoughts and expounds on keywords that may confuse the general audience.
People with long commutes is my guess. I listened to lots of podcasts when it took me longer to get to work.

Now that my office is just a 15 minute bike ride away, I don't bother listening to podcasts any more.
That's really strange. I think the UX improvements were fantastic.

Given that KMail is really the only true open-source non-janky Android email client it's incredible to me that people can be so uncharitable.

With the UX changes came long-desired fixes. KMail may be the only O/S mail client at this point with a fully working IMAP search (after Apple Mail screwed it up years ago). Plus they fixed a super-irritating power mgmt issue.
I believe that the direction of a managed language with value types is a good goal.

I especially like Java’s plan of introducing them: according to the latest design iteration, there will be 3 buckets of objects: current identity-having ones, value classes and primitive classes.

The second category would drop identity, but will keep nullability (for example two DateTime instance of the same value will be considered equal on a VM-level, allowing for optimizations like allocating DateTime’s inside an array serially, or stack-allocation. Nullability is important because there is no sane default value choice for for example a DateTime. But this value can be encoded cleverly similarly to what Rust does with optional)

The third category will loose nullability as well and current primitives will be migrated to it. So a ComplexInt “class” will be possible to implement with “zero” overhead.

My point being that there are two ways of improving performance, either showing more knobs to manipulate, or to raise the abstraction level, allowing cleverer optimizations. C# does the former, while Java never went that route, and I think that the latter approach better fits a managed language and can easily push it for like 90% better performance at a fraction of developer complexity.
"Seeking Certainty in Uncertainty"

Definitely think that their homepage slogan needs an update after this.
He taps into the same psuedo intellectual space as Rogan.

He's also a Putin simp which is a huge negative
> Perhaps, pass supports similar functionality now?

It does. I use it every day.
If you look at his videos sorted by oldest first, it starts off as a gradually growing page about AI research.

As more and more quality interviews are hosted with non-household names, his podcast starts getting viewership, and that allowed him to get bigger names on, which then allowed him to get even bigger names on, and so on.

https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman/videos?view=0&sort=da&f...
Branding.

Member of elite institution (MIT) - check.
Expert in hot field (AI) - check.
Famous guests - check.

Anyone who checks these boxes can attract a large following for a podcast, youtube, etc.

MIT is perhaps the magic ingredient with the most brand power, through which he was able to attract initial famous guests. From there, snowball.

This is not to say that Lex is not hardworking, intelligent, consistent, etc. But being a MIT AI researcher is a vastly leveraged starting point.
Who wants to be a billionaire? Most don’t
I could see usage for web developers who would like to develop in Windows (natively without WSL) and then deploy it in a Linux server by just copying files via SFTP.
MDM-based parental apps can get your child’s phone number
https://archive.ph/2022.06.17-132537/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
1. Print money indiscriminately, long after the economy has recovered.

2. Institute a forced lockdown on the global economy without sufficient evidence or understanding of the looming disaster

3. Print even more indiscriminately and hand out "loans" to practically anyone wtih any kind of business

4. Insist that inflation is transitory

5. Say you're going to raise rates. But don't raise them high or fast enough, allowing inflation to creep up.

6. Panic.

Unreal incompetence. A bunch of suites in a boardroom shouldn't have that much power over the global economy.
Are you saying "gaslight" doesn't mean what I thought it did all this time? I feel like I'm losing my mind...
Himitsu: A Secret Storage Manager
This is not about power saving, it is dynamically, on the granularity of individual instructions, balancing the thermal dissipation available across cores. When some cores are relatively idle (e.g. waiting on cache fill) it uses the available amps to run other cores at "turbo boost" frequencies.

For some single threaded code we force other cores to idle so that one thread can get maximum cache and maximum frequency. A similar approach could be used to minimise the power analysis signal.
> Arbitration at the highest echelons of power is done with weapons

True, there is an implicit threat of violence when parties interact at that level. But there is also a hope on both sides that if all the rules are followed, violence will not be necessary even if one party gets the better of the other. E.g., the central banks of unfriendly nations transact with one another according to international norms and rules, even though either side could escalate to "kinetic" reprisals. The force of norms and rules is strongest between parties with balanced power (otherwise the stronger side can just pull a Commodore Perry like you say).
That's largely due to the general move away from cluster munitions. There's still plenty of the M30 series, whose 160,000 preformed tungsten fragments would be an ideal weapon for use against a fragile and static solar array.
> I don't really understand the UK government.

They need some crazy headlines to try to win the next by elections. When the pensioners will realise that they have to identify themselves to watch porn, the bill will be retracted.
I use both on a daily basis. TSC is much faster than kotlinc for me. I'll give you that eslint is slow too.

I've recently been profiling kotlinc and there are files in our codebase that compile at 5loc/s!
I thought you were joking...But holy cow you were not.

"Boris Johnson's government looked at building wave machines to stop migrant boats crossing the English Channel": https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-wave-machines-migrant-boa...
I once saw a plane leave before boarding time. Everyone was in the terminal already and bad weather was coming so the pilots rushed boarding to get in the air before the storm (well they tried: we spent 20 minutes on the taxiway waiting out the storm, but if they had been 1 minute faster they would have been able to get above the storm before it hit)
There's something to be said for being specialized. Multi-hour discussions aren't my thing but, as you say, some number of people apparently really like a longer lightly-produced format so it's got a decent niche.
I'll bite:

I believe Trump declared by fiat that we should leave Afghanistan twice-- once at the beginning of his term, and again in an explicit written directive to the Pentagon after he lost the election in November. (That written directive was essentially ignored by the Pentagon.)

Where was Democratic support on those two occasions?

And if they didn't offer overwhelming unconditional support for Trump's position of complete withdrawal (which I believe they didn't), what possible reason could there be other than hurting Republicans?

Keep in mind that Dems still strongly support Biden's withdrawal, even given how botched the execution of it was.
Seconding the Doom recommendation. There is no need to become a guru before you can be productive, or to use Emacs for all your coding just to make good use of it for notes. Doom is a great way to quickly get up and running for notetaking with Org mode.

Get used to the basic workflow for a little while and forgive the monospace-ness while you evaluate the workflow. I like taking notes in Gollum wikis, the wiki format used by GitLab and Github. The project management features enabled by default in Doom will kick in for that. Decide how you feel about those.

If you like the workflow, take a look at org-modern and take a few minutes to work out the proportions for variable pitch fonts. Then you can have Org text render in a nice, proportional font that you like and use monospace only for the embedded source code (including shell languages) blocks.

As an alternative to the using git repos to store notes collected into projects, take a look at Org Roam v2 for keeping a topic-based knowledgebase that you can work with without thinking much about the filesystem, and which offers mindmapping features.

That stuff works great for me, has required zero substantial elisp knowledge to get working, and has been natural for me to ease into. I hope you find a workflow you like!
What if I create a backdoor but during the code review it gets noticed?

Or does Australian government also supply some handbook about how to do it properly?
Lex is similar to Joe Rogan. If you don't like Joe, your probably don't like Lex. (Joe's obviously Lex's idol.)

Like Joe, Lex does some research before each podcast, but also like Joe, he can improvise discussions as needed on a variety of topics.

I think these, compared with some level of (Nerdy/Goofy) kind of charm and humor are his main advantages compared to most podcasters (and similarity with the successful ones.)

Now, here is how I think he differentiates himself from Joe:

Lex has a real academic background. He is able to follow must scientific topics at an intermediate level, and some at an advanced level. This can sometimes lead to interesting discussions on some relatively advanced topics.

In particular, it may be interesting for those who have general/broad interests in nerdy topics, without necessarily being an expart on the topic of the specific podcast.

Lex is even less confrontational than Joe. He provides a platform, and even if there is some pushback, it is not aggressive.

This is a draw for many academics (the dryer type) who would not fit Joe's podcast, as well as some nerdy business leaders who want to reach his audience (or perhaps, in some cases, just enjoy speaking with him).
Lex doesn't seem to show a bias most of the time.

He asks open-ended questions with deep understanding
The difference is that Islam proscribes death for apostates very clearly in its laws, whereas catholicism does not. You're on a list, like a birth certificate. In general, you cannot force another person to erase their memory of you, but certainly not killing you would be good.

It's rare in the US, but it does happen in other parts of the world (killed for being apostates).

Not going to comment on anything else, just pointing out the obvious difference in kind here. Death is orders of magnitude worse than having your name on a list.
The EU had some teeth when GDPR was passed. Even if I'm not in the EU, there are lots of countries that are, so cost/benefit of compliance seems reasonable.

When I hear about strange Brinternet rules, I just think why should I care about a single country and their strange and costly laws. If UK users want to reach my site, change your laws or use a VPN.
> In case you haven't heard of this, Dr. Lenski dealt with some science deniers who tried to smear the experiment:

Reading it, it seems like the first request was silly, but the second was very straightforward and not rude. The second response was an extreme overreaction to the second request, which did little more than say, "Actually the paper doesn't contain all the data; please may we have the data?"
Yes i've discussed it with them, they are unwilling to offer this service at the moment. I reckon the database is their crown jewel and they don't want to make it too easy to dump it.
The foot has been criticized for being an arbitrary measurement with no real relation to a repeatable physical distance.

However, it turns out that a foot is within 2% of the distance light travels in a nanosecond!

Because of this, the foot becomes really convenient when talking about latencies. For example, if something is 6 inches away from the cpu on a motherboard, the lowest possible latency to reach that is 0.5 nanoseconds.

Time to push for the adoption of feet everywhere /s
In my experience, Python is far less readable than languages like go. The information density and semantic whitespace of Python really hurts readability.
This had me giggling, thank you
I actually believe that bit — but it does look bad.
The Outage from Hell
It's squatting if you're not using the domain name for anything other than reselling it.
USB-C iPhone could become mandatory in the US
I'm pretty sure `pass edit foo` does more or less what you seek: it launches $EDITOR with the full contents of whatever's in foo, and would therefore naturally support whatever markup or editor shenanigans you want for your preferred workflow. Or `pass show foo`, which you could pipe any which way for whatever processing you see fit.
> Some projects have attempted to solve that problem by providing enterprise consulting (MySQL), SaaS hosting (Elasticsearch), getting funded/acquired by a megacorp (Google, IBM, Oracle)... but for Mozilla and its various projects I can't see any way of monetization.

You see, they had a good chance with doing the exact same thing with Rust and creating a consultancy around it, but they threw it all away. Erlang and OCaml also still have consultancies around their languages as well and I already suggested something along the lines of that before, but for Rust [0].

Instead, they wasted it on the Rust Foundation and threw away their trademarks where it has been hijacked by the same companies competing against Mozilla. An opportunity wasted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144350
> If anything, C has an even bigger advantage on modern CPUs because it has easier access to things like vectorize/SIMD intrinsics. It is also easier to tweak your data dependencies to help the branch predictor.

Have you seen the ridiculously complex optimizations that C compilers do to maybe turn some shitty for loop into vector instructions? C is terribly bad fit for this use case and hardware tries to get closer to C than the reverse.

C++, Rust but even C# and Java has much better SIMD support than C has.

EDIT: It really doesn’t help C (and some of the listed languages as well) that they are very imperative. SIMD is exactly the place where pureness and some form of FP is much better at allowing these kind of optimizations (a map of a pure function can be “trivially” optimized into vector instructions, while it is really hard to decide whether this for loop is safe to convert, and it is really up to the heuristics of the compiler. A bit of rearrangement can cause a failure to optimize, resulting in a huge drop in performance)
Oooh, please, do share with us who is the 'real' smart person (journalist)?

Trump was president of the USA, that's not exactly unsuccessful. But not oil dollars or Rothschilds rich I suppose.
The tests the courts use is whether you can actually physically leave control of the organization. Having your name written down or having a spiritual belief that some ritual is permanent, etc, doesn't count as not being able to leave.

Are you asking the court to make a judgement on theological matters (i.e., the state of your soul)? Surely you can see why they don't care.
I'm chiming in again here... Germany 100%. Do you want your kids to live with the elevated risk of getting shot, school shooter drills as casual as fire drills, and then the prospect of the principal of the school being insane and getting one of those surprise active shooter simulation drills? I'm lookin at the situation as it only being a matter of time before a TEACHER snaps and starts bucking away kids with a shotgun after being called a funny name one too many times. That alone would influence my decision to keep my family out of the USA.
As well as a cranelift backend https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift
He’s active on his subreddit, that would probably be your best bet.
Limited liability companies in Ireland don't provide any protection against liability for criminal acts (nor do any countries), so I think the ideal would be to move to a jurisdiction where the act is not criminal or cease the criminal actions.
I have one of these and it’s by far the most comfortable trackball I use. It took a bit of tweaking the sensitivity to get it to the point I like (it’s very sensitive out of the box) but the firmware’s all free so I can tweak it however I like :)
Joe Rogan etc connection almost certainly key in attracting an worthwhile audience size.

I suspect that for many guests it’s key that he seems to create a seemingly pleasant and relaxed environment for them to talk at length with someone fairly knowledgeable about things that interest them. Very different to most interviews.

For others (Zuckerberg for example) I can only think that it’s their perception that he has an audience that they want to reach.

Edit: Just to add - all credit to Lex for apparently encouraging Andrew Huberman to start a podcast - I find the latter genuinely hugely engaging and informative.
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
Would you mind telling me how you enabled it? I just downloaded specifically for this feature and I haven't been able to figure it out just yet
Musk may end up being the most influential person to:

1. Electrify our vehicular infrastructure

2. Get humans to the Moon, if not to Mars

3. Accelerate the unionization of Silicon Valley tech workers

His approach to remote-vs-in-office work is less that of a data-informed futurist and more that of an autocrat. Just as he's loudly supporting public free speech as long as it's his speech, I predict within a few months of taking over Twitter (assuming he doesn't just eat the penalties for dropping out of the agreement) he'll be loudly proclaiming his support of democracy as long as it's not within his companies.
It seems to me like you are inventing ridiculous interpretations. A city of a million can do whatever it likes with private and public fund raising to support it's art and sport choices. San Antonio wanted a professional symphony for 1/4 the rate by impoverishing the participants. They didn't come back to the table because they should find another job or a different city.

The rebuke of the performers for not negotiating is right in the OP. It's not the performers fault that there's no workable solution for the cities level of interest in a symphony. If the symphony goes down in quality there will be even less money.
Your Past is my present – how Volodymyr Zelenskyy uses history