skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Science journalists, much like journalists generally, are people too incompetent and emotional to work in the private sector, too dumb to be academics (and the standards are abysmally low these days), too full of themselves to work in charity and too bumbling, weak and arrogant to work in a blue collar or manual occupation. Journalism is an attractive career to many because it demands the least rigor and honor and promises the greatest power and influence.

Harsh words towards journalists but I do think something has changed with journalism. It's much more narrative driven and attracts people who think they're doing missionary work. It's increasingly homogenous group of people who have the same politics, went to the same school and even date in the same circles. Was it always like this?

The weirdest one to me is the modern tech journalist, who ... hates tech? Here's NYT tech journalist Greg Bensinger's last articles (not cherry picked):

- OPINION How Illinois Is Winning in the Fight Against Big Tech

- EDITORIALS Twitter Under Elon Musk Will Be a Scary Place

- OPINION Spotify Backs Joe Rogan’s Disinformation Machine

- OPINION Why Uber Won’t Call the Police

I get it, they're editorials. But every article is a reiteration of tech bad. He never worked in tech. He's been a journalist his whole life. They're all like this. Here's the NYT op-ed columnists:

Ezra Klein: Worked for Howard Dean campaign and interned at Washington Monthly after graduating with a political science degree from University of California. Klein is married to a journalist

Jamelle Bouie: Worked at American Prospect shortly after graduating in political and social thought and government from University of Virginia

Michelle Goldberg: Worked at Salon after a masters in journalism from University of California

Paul Krugman: Career academic with a brief stint serving on Council of Economic advisers for Regan administration.

Gail Collins: Started writing for Connecticut publications after a bachelors in journalism and a masters in government
First off, Justine is a better programmer than I. But, and I don't mean this as a humblebrag, the use of all global variables for state makes me uncomfortable. If this is good C code (not saying it isn't) then maybe that's why I'm not a C programmer. Whatever the case, Justine is great.
Same here. A co-worker and I both pre-ordered in the same timeframe, he got his email two weeks ago and got the deck this weekend. I'm still anxiously awaiting my email.
You're aiming for the 2% per month, they are aiming for your 100%.

The only question is who gets there first.
Adam Sandler is like the modern version of the Stratemeyer Syndicate behind the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.

Most of his movies are exactly the same with different dressing. I think Happy Gilmore was the prototype. Same plot, same type of girl, same jokes, different SNL buddies making an appearance.
Is reddit actually JS-heavy?

On my work desktop with Chromium, loading facebook.com takes me 7.2s with 4.7s of that being scripting. If I throttle the CPU to a 4x slowdown in Chromium devtools it takes 46.2s with 42.4s of that being scripting. (Only a single run of each.)

Unfortunately in the middle of some work stuff so I don't want to reboot to toggle off turbo boost to test.
I don't understand why people with literally no background as scientists feel the need to push back against demographic groups in the name of something they themselves don't actually personally understand

This is also tagged philosophy

I wish we could get this out of our community, this attempt to set people at odds by fetishizing science in a way that science itself does not actually support

It's pretty damaging
I thought it’s the seed stalk. The seed for oil, the stalk for fiber. The oil could have even been used as the polymeric resin for gluing the layers (and is very water resistant when it cures)
I would assume the import would be obvious to the intended audience, like if a philosopher commented on a discussion of async vs threaded parallelism asking why it wasn't explained why parallelism itself was important...
Ah damn, you reminded me about the Rainforest Eagle's API. That was a thought for a side project, haven't gotten to yet. I already have some ESP32s writing to MQTT (Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi), which another program dumps to Sqlite DB. I was thinking the Eagle could be writing there too.
I feel like it worked more reliably in XP and below, ever since vista I’ve had less success.
With that said, system stability as a whole seems to have improved dramatically since those days, I don’t need to reach for it very often.
Risky? Yes, substantially.

Question for you, though: how would "existing financial services" arbitrage it away? By entering the crypto market and copying Uniswap's contracts and just use smaller fees?
> People have been using laptops and desktops (including from apple), on which they can run their own software, for literally decades. Closed systems are new, not open ones. My 60 year old boomer father who has 9 years of education can find his way around on the command line. Yes, people don't understand tech very well any more because we're giving them crippled tech, and treat them as if they are helpless. It's the paternalism that makes people illiterate, not the other way around.

Yes. And because it was so challenging, totally new industry around anti-virus engines appeared because of that. And fight is still going. It has got better for sure since the beginning, but we still have hundres of thousands machines as part of botnets, because someone downloded something unsuitable from the internet.

But how many times have you heard iPhone malware in the news, other than vuln based? How many times iPhone has been part of the botnet? I can’t even recall a day.

If you can’t sideload iPhone, why you are using it? Just go with Android as it is perfect for your needs. If you are already using Android, why even bother to complain about iPhone. You are not forced to use it.
iPhone could be good for other people’s needs. Not everything has to suit for everyone. People from the large majority don’t even know about sideloading or even find use for it.
I talked to one NIMBY into becoming a YIMBY by telling her more construction--ultimately--brings down prices. Telling her about Santiago, people pay $100 rent here, no problem, and it's for basically the same thing, a lock on a door in a megacity, near public transport, an elevator, everything. Everything.

Just need to get the word out.
relevant but also self-promo:

I build https://kinopio.club a spatial thinking tool that's also (I hope) a good website. I'm only one person without the resources to build separate ios/android apps so the website needs to work everywhere and be fast and responsive
As a former Catholic, I'm a bit confused as to why this is here. It's interesting as a primary historical document, but probably only for historians.

There's a lot of platitude around reduction of suffering, alongside some strange rhetoric about the benefits of colonialism. I also laugh every time the Catholic Church preaches anti-materialist values, given it's massive and ostentatious wealth.

There's some good stuff about the dangers of unbridled growth though.
this does not strike me as level headed

this is a collection of personal complaints at celebrities and the presumption that that is in some way related to science

too much finger pointing and not a single scrap of hard evidence
you arent going to overcome IRL risk aversion by not taking IRL risks.
Apple is not forbidden by this legislation from providing a user-controlled sandbox.
ZEXE has one layer of recursive composition, so you can effectively verify proofs in a proof – but not proofs of those proofs. Lurk initially targets Nova for unbounded recursion.
that's not actually what journalism is today

that's what reading reddit and facebook is
Or Vanced

https://old.reddit.com/r/Vanced/comments/tdzmgw/other_how_to...
Did I say it was stable?

> The big risk here is impermanent loss.

How would you get impermanent loss on a pair of tokens that are both pegged to the dollar?
They look good for their age but it's not shocking they're pushing 60, at best I might accept late 40s. Very much Cruise in Maverick and even thought that about Brad on a recent viewing of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which he filmed at 54.
> Treating translations as code completely leaves out translators, who in most cases can not code.

It's a big lift to extract all hardcoded strings for a future state where localization will be 'required', especially for large companies. There's no question non-technical teams need the ability to edit strings/translations but if it means changing your infra or the way eng prefers to build it's a tough argument.

We've been building https://www.flycode.com as a platform to make strings/translations and static assets (hardcoded or in resource files) editable by connecting existing repos.
You know linseed oil cures like a polymeric resin. I think that is more likely
Fantastic tool. We all know that _we_ wouldn't leak keys, but we have all been the person to 'rm -rf /' or 'delete * from prod where 1=1;', so it's just a matter of time.

Is there a plugin that streamers could use to blur suspected keys on stream? Would that be something interesting to work on do you think? (I'm not a streamer but it sounds fun)
I think it is split into two groups, the small percent of whales that contribute a huge percent of the revenue, and a larger minority of users who consider spending money on the game as an expense like going out for drinks or other entertainment. The majority of users just exist to make a game popular as a means to entice whales who will spend money.

We are sort of in a transition period where only more veteran gamers experienced the norm of having fixed cost games, whereas now microtransaction based monetization are normalized.
It's frustrating that searches are now "whatever we want to promote to you" instead of real searches.

Something similar happens on Twitter when you search for something in the "Top" tab. It doesn't show you results with your search terms. Instead, it shows something peripherally related to what you searched, but much more popular and engaging.
AFAIK they still use it, and it plays a huge role (based on my fairly limited experience). A couple months back I did a little consulting on the side with a small ecommerce store that had recently struggled to get any traffic despite all their SEO analytics showing green except for page speed. They ranked poorly for just about every keyword that they had previous been doing well on.

Bit of CDN/Caching, upped them to a better hosting plan and they're back on track again - rankings are back to normal and page speed is way up.
pleasant/enjoyable to use was my interpretation, which I think is a sufficiently high bar that few websites (and native apps for that matter) meet
DALL·E 2 Generations in the style of Banksy
Doesn’t seem too bad to me, given that almost all the press I’ve read about it has been negative.
Yes, like the way modern shopping centres seem to be designed to disorient.
“I don’t see an anchor being dragged. I see people who see their way of life threatened, and are willing to fight against that.”

Fighting against what? Change? The science that says its not sustainable? Young people who want a future?

Way of life? As the anchor analogy was a joke, arresting progress and getting dragged, (made fun of)… this feels like a joke, but anything can be your way of life if you are stubborn enough and willing to make it your identity I guess?

“Yeah you’ve got ghosts in your blood, better do cocaine about it!” - Old timey doctor whose way of life is threatened
How to install YouTube Vanced, post-shutdown
Waiting for a site to search the in 3,2,1
ISTR lots of articles around and since the turn of the millennium about the TV/Film desirability gradient starting to reverse, at least for people not already at the pinnacle of movie stardom, with young actors with modest early career movie success actively working to love to TV, rather than vice versa.

EDIT: And, though less frequently, I've seen similar things for other jobs in making filmed entertainment, with TV getting a lot more respect as a medium for storytelling.
The kinetic energy still has to be dampened
Yes, a lot of his speaking and writing is wrapped up in inside jokes and asides to himself that obfuscate his points to everyone not in on the joke. He usually appears to be arguing against some concept he believes to be widely held (e.g. "irrational"), which sometimes comes off as a straw man. Especially because he usually states these suppositions, explicitly or implied, rather than demonstrating them with evidence. And the points he makes don't seem fully self consistent.

That said, this style of speaking in asides and nonsequitors actually works well on vlogs on YouTube, since jumping around can keep people's attention better than something straightforward and boring. Plus, visual cues can help tie things together.
Marriott confirms latest data breach, possibly exposing information
You can ask Apple to give you the tools to easily manage permissions, same goes for their parental blocks.
If you spend US$6000 on panels and batteries, your electricity bill is US$300/month, and the outages and power lines cost you nothing, then your payback time for the off-grid solar system would seem to be 20 months, under two years, not 10 years. The outages and power lines would seem to shorten the payback time further, not lengthen it. Without disparaging the feel-good control thing, which I think is reasonable and important, I feel like I must be misunderstanding something about your explanation.
I implemented an AMM in my multiplayer game (nothing to do with cryptocurrencies) for players to trade one resource for another. They can always buy/sell into the AMM even at low activity as long as there's liquidity. It's also a fun mechanic for players where they can invest their surplus and get a cut of every trade.
It's confusing because there are two distinct 'recursive things' involved. You may be noting that distinction.

On the one hand, Lurk allows expression of recursive computations (like in the cited example). This doesn't necessarily demand 'verifying previous proofs' (in proofs). However, recursive SNARKs (where proofs of proofs are verified ad infinitum) are useful for actually producing a single succinct proof of a potentially unbounded recursive computation.

So there is a practical relationship between the two recursive aspects, but they're not strictly the same thing. This is indeed a bit of a confusing subtlety.
This is a good example of the balance between using software so new it contains insecurities, and so old that it contains insecurities. It sounds like the bug was introduced in a release less than 2 weeks ago. Personally, I prefer the known unknowns more than the unknown unknowns.

As for the AES OCB bug, it sounds like something that's effectively not used at all in practice, which might explain why it's stayed unnoticed for so long.
Someone prognosticate when browsers will standardize this.
the title implies that el salvador is playing in a casino. They simply want to opt out of the united states controlled monopoly game. bitcoin is the currency out of the system and yet the transition phase has it still pegged since the net buyers are people who own USD. We are early it's going to take some time and education to fully depeg. I would say we are 7-25 years away from more than 15% percent adoption.

this article is clearly opinioned piece, not a "report". You can pull up facts and write a piece on the benefits on bitcoin. these guys clearly hate the president
Microsoft Remote Desktop for iOS gains new way to show off updated features
Because it's bullshit. They're bankable stars in an era where bankability is key (ie. superhero movies).

Their production companies exist as a vehicle to get a piece of that pie and have more creative control.
Why use raw Qemu vs something like virt-manager that's a wrapper around Qemu/KVM + libvirt?
"It's funny to see the Economist try to view crypto through a traditional finance lens."

I suppose that by "traditional finance" you mean something like economies based on fiat currencies and the like, where the value of something is based on what is agreed by market forces. That something can be a piece of plasticised paper with holograms and windowed cut outs and a symbolic value called "£10" or as I would say: ten quid. It might also mean an economy based on gold reserves (mmmmm pretty) or chickens (barter - at least they are a thing and handy if you are hungry) or something in between. Mud/earth had stupendous value in the film "Waterworld".

So, your crypto thingies bring exactly what to the party? It chews through power thanks to mining. Yes, I gather there are other forms of crypto coin that might address this but they have little value yet. The big hitters - Bitcoin etc now consume a lot of power to "mine" but mine what exactly? You can't eat the bloody things but then you can't eat a squid (nickname for GBP - pound - quid - squid) but you can eat a squid (sea living decapod).

Crypto coins seem to me to be a properly rubbish "fuck you" modern thing. You expend resources to generate a "value". That value is scaled to other values via a "market". That's how capitalism works and so all is good. However, what exactly have you generated? It's not a useful thing. You have expended multiple KWh on a calculation. I can't eat a calculation, so I think you have slid in via a side door into my market economy and subverted it.

I'm not quite sure what my final, formal argument against the current forms of crypto currencies is going to take yet but it looks more and more wrong to me.

I'd love to see your (@woah) arguments in reverse of mine. For example what on earth are those "interesting developments"? I'm not a luddite and I run an IT company.

Convince me that you bring value and not simply generate profit.
She's done so many cool things that have made it to the top of HN: https://justine.lol/index.html
I deeply appreciate you sharing this context. What do you think about my wild predictions of disaster?
FDA to approve redesigned Covid boosters without requiring data
Someone posted this link above (https://ulsterlinen.com/flax-to-linen/) which indicates that separating the seed is part of the processing.
...and still is.

Unfortunately it does not improve the search results either, because AFAIK it only proxies them from YT itself.
I get where you're coming from, but honestly, I'm not sure there's even that much logic to it.

The US federal government seems to have a largely arbitrary budget. No real experience or rational principle restrains it. We have never seen a clear case of negative consequences related to spending too much, so no one is quite sure how much might be too much. Sometimes a politician sees political advantage in grandstanding about fiscal responsibility, but seconds later, that same politician will be found funneling some arbitrary number of billions of $$$ in pork to their district.

I suspect the truth is that politicians mostly just don't care that much about science because they aren't smart enough to understand its value, or decent enough to care.

We could and should 10x the science budget, and it would have vastly more impact than almost everything else the government spends money on. But we don't because politicians see it as some amusement to fritter a limited amount of money on. Occasionally Republicans will publish a list of ridiculous scientific projects and no one wants to be caught in the crosshairs of that -- even though tens of billions are probably being simultaneously spent on murdering people in a country you've never heard of, or flushing thousands of tons of soybeans down a toilet.

Defense-related science gets an exception to this, which is why a big war is often also a big leap forward for science.
Born in the USA (1984) is one of the best selling albums of all time, something like 30 million copies. You can say it's touring, but I say that album is the thing that made him huge.

And it wasn't just album sales. At the time it was also constantly on radio and MTV (back when MTV played music).
Pegs exist until they break.

Mightier institutions than crypto coins have been brought to their knees trying to defend a peg.
The modes of operation aren't the main reason people use OpenSSL; it's the support for all the gnarly (and less gnarly) protocols and wire formats that show up when doing applied cryptography.

Progress is being made on replacing OpenSSL in a lot of contexts (specifically, the RustCrypto[1] folks are doing excellent work and so is cryptography[2]), but there are still plenty of areas where OpenSSL is needed to compose the mostly algebraic cryptography with the right wire format.

Edit: I forgot to mention rustls[3], which uses ring[4] under the hood.

[1]: https://github.com/RustCrypto

[2]: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography

[3]: https://github.com/rustls/rustls

[4]: https://github.com/briansmith/ring
> you know this just means more chrome right?

In practice, probably, but at least you'll also be allowed to install Firefox.

And things don't last forever. Another browser can always gain the crown from Chrome. Without this legislation, it won't even be possible to do that on Apple devices.
> repeated incorrect assumptions that we've finally discovered fundamental building blocks of reality

Physics has had the other problem for a while now - they know the current theory is wrong, but they can't find any evidence to disprove it, and it's wasting generations of scientists and particle accelerators to do it.
The delivery is what's key to the racist nature of enforcement since the 60s
> even non-European ones like Mayan or Chinese

A sad tangent: most of the Mayan literature specifically was deliberately destroyed during the Spanish conquest [1].

> Our knowledge of ancient Maya thought must represent only a tiny fraction of the whole picture, for of the thousands of books in which the full extent of their learning and ritual was recorded, only four have survived to modern times (as though all that posterity knew of ourselves were to be based upon three prayer books and Pilgrim's Progress).

And a typical attitude of the times (Bishop Diego de Landa, July 1562):

> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they regretted to an amazing degree, and which caused them much affliction.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
Forgot the bloody atmospheric distortion. But no worries, Astropy has estimate for that too, know as "parallax correction".
OpenStack had similar levels of contribution at its peak and had much of the same solutions. I'm just guessing the author is newer to the game so might have missed out on 2010-2013 in the infrastructure space.

One of the cool things to come out of it was Zuul, which is a merge queue system similar to Bors and friends.
People are flying across the country to buy a car which produces less carbon ... there's some things you just can't stop thinking about.
You could replace North Korea with China.
The peg could be broken as we've seen with a number of stable coins so far this year. I've explained in previous comments why algo-stablcoins are doomed to fail. The traditional stable coins require a lot of trust and I'm not sure how they fall in the capital structure of the company. Even if it were backed 1:1 with fiat, if someone like Coinbase goes into bankruptcy, is the pool of money for their stable coins protected?
BlockTube. It's great! Highly recommended.
the press was positive before, and after the release

then once users got to play, backlash started to emerge with the P2W fiasco and journalists had to clarify and follow the users

for a Diablo game it is very bad