skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I don't think you can generalize [the study] to everybody... because veterans...

It would be weird if veterans were the opposite to everyone else though.

>here can be a correlation between overall health and ability to be reinfected

But the study is about the severity of reinfection rather than the frequency
That worked well. /s
My life would be significantly less enjoyable without the foods that trigger my GERD. I'll stick with the small, cheap pill that lets me continue to enjoy carbonation, hot drinks, spice, chocolate, acidity, dairy, fried foods
Sounds like they provide negative value to the company. They are subsidized by the people who actually do work.
I’ll stop flying international when the rich give up their private jets. See: Davos.
Or bullshit artist, as Trump said yesterday ?
> Industry modifications to FreeBSD and Minix (and maybe NetBSD too?) were never sent back upstream or were sent back with a delay.

And the companies that did this paid a price for it when FreeBSD moved forward and they were left behind holding a whole bunch of patches.

After the learning the hard way about withholding non-secret sauce patches, many companies contribute back anything that they find in the 'common code' that wouldn't threaten their value proposition. You will regularly see patches with the "Sponsored by" tag in the commit logs:

* https://www.freshsource.org/commits.php

Here's one from a few hours ago by Netflix:

* https://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=75ad24775b...

NetApp, Dell-EMC Isilon, Juniper, iXsystems, pfSense, etc are often seen in base, but also in ports and also drivers (Intel, Chelsio, Mellonox).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...
Exactly my thought when I saw this. Things can go south real quick if ordinary people lose interest in politics - which is sort of the trajectory we are on. In this case people could mobilize and take corrective action; that isn't always the case though.
Holy crap… they made them take down a “Star Wars” section of their site? Why?!?
It's been my experience that IT management want to see metrics and dashboards for everything. The want to be able to plan, allocate resources, and justify purchases and staff.

How many of these did we do, how many of those, how long did it take to close this type of ticket, etc. So while the technical people could fix things on the spot, they are not allowed to due to the demand for metrics and tracking.

I can see both sides of the debate, but there needs to be a good balance. We can get stuff done and provide metrics without too much overhead.
This article is within the more general context, but we have the words of the assassin, discussion by the police of not wanting to discuss the church specifically for the “obvious” reasons, the mother of the assassin being identified by the church as being a member… “it happened because of X” is maybe very strong but lots of the story does align and is being corroborated.
There is a silver lining to extremism : it awakens reasonable people out of indifference.
Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…
Under the circumstances, surprisingly well.
Me too! At the time I did not realize just the quality of undergraduate education I was getting in the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Jack Dodd was Professor of Physics and had just won the NZ Hector Medal [1]. Phenomenal teacher - his passion for understanding was captivating. True of most of the faculty. The same Hector Medal by the way was awarded in 1916 to none other than the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford himself [2]. Yeah that Rutherford.

But my humble first year intention was medical intermediate on track to medical school. I absolutely loved biology, and loved the labs most of all. But it was in those labs where I hit a brick wall. With every lab (e.g. dissections etc), we were required to pencil draw our work. A significant part of our grade was on the caliber of fine artistry. I was a scientist damn it! Not an artist. The best I could do was stick figure level illustration. Needless to say I did not shine as a life scientist, so I moved my major into physics.

Looking back I have often wondered how many burgeoning life scientists had their careers cut short in those labs. I have also wondered if I would have stayed stymied artistically my whole life if that had never happened. I love art and would love to be able to draw. Just never went there again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dodd

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherford
The inherit risk in a given asset should not be a constraint.

You can simply lever bonds, equities or most other investments by a variety of means. For example you can get way more risk in 2-year US gov securities via futures than would be sensible.

Likewise, you can de-risk an asset by holding cash alongside that asset.
> making you a jack of all trades and a master of none.

Master of a single programming language is a moot concept, it either boils through to other languages or you just memorized the syntax really well.
https://twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1545836987885699072?s=...

@jonstewart: Ummm…No thank you
In general, browsers default security policy force a valid “https” connection to allow access to even the most rudimentary functionality. Admittedly SSL doesn’t stop every issue, especially considering the number of times issuers were caught signing bogus content (Symantec, Microsoft, and so on…). However, it does narrow the number of variables when tracking down 3rd party issues like ISPs fiddling with content.

1. disable crossorigin on your server if you can manage without..

2. hash sign static included javaScript and CSS files (for CDN services this is good practice):

cat file.js | openssl dgst -sha384 -binary | openssl base64 -A

In your html/script add content include tag check:

... script src="file.js" integrity="theHash" …

3. Force re-encode of media in a temporary VM instance: strips all user media files of non-media data/metadata to protect people from themselves, mitigates adversarial nuisances, and ensures format conforms to a known standard.

4. DNS over HTTPS (DoH) is an option now, and recommended in many cases

5. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) can be a huge resource drain for high-traffic sites.. YMMV.. sometimes a necessary evil to turn it off..

6. Should one ever allow users to upload compressed archives, unidentified binaries, webp, SVG, fonts, or TIFF? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmePLg3hdCw

7. Sanitize your input data with standard filters, and never trust the input content.. even your own (both client and server side checking of data).

8. Traffic shaping firewall to force dropping clients outside a "normal" traffic service range/session-time.

9. Interface transaction quota limit tripwire, and firewall service abuse breaker logic

This is hardly an exhaustive list, but will often reduce common nuisances.
;-)
Known for his exploitative rule of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China in the 1930s, Kishi was nicknamed the "Monster of the Shōwa era" (昭和の妖怪; Shōwa no yōkai).[1] Kishi later served in the wartime cabinet of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō as Minister of Commerce and Vice Minister of Munitions,[2] and co-signed the declaration of war against the United States on December 7, 1941.

After World War II, Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a suspected Class A war criminal. However, the U.S. government did not charge, try, or convict him, and eventually released him as they considered Kishi to be the best man to lead a post-war Japan in a pro-American direction. With U.S. support, he went on to consolidate the Japanese conservative camp against perceived threats from the Japan Socialist Party in the 1950s. Kishi was instrumental in the formation of the powerful Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) through a merger of smaller conservative parties in 1955, and thus is credited with being a key player in the initiation of the "1955 System", the extended period during which the LDP was the overwhelmingly dominant political party in Japan.[3][4]

As prime minister, Kishi's mishandling of the 1960 revision of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty led to the massive 1960 Anpo protests, which were the largest protests in Japan's modern history and which forced him to resign in disgrace.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobusuke_Kishi
I went from working at a company that offered “tech lounge” style IT where there was a place on site you could go to get your problems addressed, to one where they use more standard big company IT and the new one is so, so much worse for getting anything fixed. It’s incredible. Waiting on hold for an hour or more to just report your problem is totally the norm. Getting hardware is a massive pain and requires tons of approvals and weeks long wait times. Getting help for more subtle issues is virtually impossible. Just things like replacement cables or dongles are like trying to do a moon landing. It’s awful.
It may fix this particular problem, on one side of the transaction, but it creates new ones. What if I, as a purchaser, want to dispute my purchase? What if I was ripped off? What if the product was broken, not as advertised, etc. I like knowing there is recourse through chargebacks.

For example, I rented a vacation home last year, on VRBO, and the highly unusual contract (that was not shared until after the purchase) made me very uncomfortable. As an aside, I was also surprised that I was billed directly by the rental company via Stripe, rather than through VRBO. I requested a refund within an hour of booking.

For two weeks, I attempted to contact the rental company. I never received a single acknowledgement from them, and VRBO provided zero support. The only way I was able to get my money back was with a chargeback, showing my request for a refund within the cancellation window.

I am 100% confident that if this had been a bitcoin transaction I would have lost that money. I would also expect a rise in bad actors abusing that lack of recourse if bitcoin did increase in popularity for payment. In my mind, that is the challenge that crypto needs to solve before it can become widely adopted as a payment option.
This reminds me a little bit of “jackpot” in William Gibson’s latest novels.
Hyperpop remix! Hyperpop remix!!!
And then Mark Fisher to continue the thread...

I'll bump Debt up on my queue. Haven't been able to stop thinking about Dawn of Everything since tearing through it, it turns so much about our perspective on how the world operates on its head. And by looking at our demonstrated past, not speculation on unknown futures.
No, they aren't hard to use. They may be different to package than for, say, Linux, but even that is just different and not harder. (And it's not even different significantly if you use pyInstaller.)
I don’t think people outside the company should get a say over internal code names at all

To think otherwise is a much stronger arrogance
Very nice! There's a long history of this kind of simulation, going back to Alan Turing (or before). I used to work doing this kind of thing in the 90s, as part of the Artificial Life community. There's a lot of papers from back then if you're looking for other ideas for agent based simulations or complex systems. For that matter the ALife community itself still exists.
It should work directly against R2 - our S3 compatible object storage) w/ no egress fees: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/

Makes experimenting with things like this much cheaper.

(I work for CF)
Newest MRI scanners aren't as bad about helium. What I understand is the "problem" mostly was that they used to be designed for an environment where helium was cheap. So helium cost wasn't a major design factor prior to the newest generation of magnets. The old designs are still shipped/refurbished/remanufactured though. I also think they're still manufactured new, too, but I'm not sure. In any case most if not all of the major manufacturers have new models that drastically reduce the amount of helium to a few liters and recapture well enough to the point that both refills and even quench pipes are not required for some models.
6 in 10 Americans don't have $500 in savings [0]. You really don't see the problem with that????

People can't handle important expenses without savings. So they turn to bad solutions like credit card debt which is really expensive long term or defaulting on loans which makes future credit harder, stuff like that harms long-term financial health.

(also because the way things are going we will have people retiring who can't afford it and no fucking way am I paying for it)

[0] https://www.cbs19news.com/story/34248451/6-in-10-americans-d...
Afaik that's how https://lobste.rs works.
This looks like a very practical course that introduces a lot of tools/concepts valuable for any student in any field relying on the modern computational setup. However, actually learning programming however is just a time-consuming effort and there's no real way around it. There's a whole industry built around 'we can teach you programming in ten weeks' or whatever and it's all nonsense.

Some years ago I was working full-time in a molecular biology lab, and part of the job involved using a lot of computational bioinformatics tools. I knew a couple of CS people who were writing bioinformatics software and they showed me pages of code, and I asked "realistically, how long would it take me to learn to write these kinds of programs" and the answer was always "at least two years of full-time effort" (It was mostly C code they were working with at the time, plus Java for the user interfaces). My personal experience finally learning to program over the past few years is right in line with those estimates.

There aren't really any shortcuts, you just have to put in the hours of work, week after week, month after month, year after year. As with most fields, a lot of the introductory material is outdated for modern industry but since the more advanced technology relies on an understanding of the basics, you can't just leapfrog it, that's like trying to learn calculus without ever taking any algebra, or trying to grok CRISPR without knowing how basic DNA replication works.
No, I was not looking for a different word. Yes, disclosures are one reason for a disclaimer, and the example I gave is one. But you might also do a disclaimer like "I have no first hand experience, but many friends have told me..." again, a disclaimer is exactly as I said, reasons to take the information with a grain of salt or to be aware of the limitations (e.g. legal disclaimers like on prescription medicine commercials.)
> he accomplished rather little as a president, certainly far less than he could have, because he filled his cabinet with blithering yes men, Rather than a cohesive team that could strategize

I agree that his cabinet was a mess, but he also had a firmly GOP congress his first two years that gave him incredible backing and they passed a fair amount of legislation because congressional GOP leadership are very organized.

Now that the GOP controls the Supreme Court and quite likely will control congress in the next cycle, the next Republican president is going to have an unprecedented amount of power.
The 5% are IT managers with no technical knowledge who don't know how to use a computer.
Fair enough, it's a really muddy situation but I do see what you're trying to achieve. What makes it muddy is that some mods are just tweaks to the game, have no new IP or novel assets. While some mods are jam packed with newly developed and designed assets all of which surely deserve some level of protection if that's what the author wants. I think another reason why Nexus is so tightly controlled as a community is to avoid duplication, confusion and diverging mods.

I guess this is a community problem more than a technology one, so I don't really have any solutions to offer except to try and encourage modders to be more free with their releases. On the same token, maybe there should be more clear ways for the community to have collaborative control over mods and patches.
I think we all saw what happens when we elect a celebrity as president.
This is bad in almost all developed countries. Minors are acting bad and cannot be punished. Understandable that you dont want to put away a minor in a prison and you cannot hurt them financially either.

But our systems are too slow to adapt to new modern forms of punishment.

You want to punish a minor? Ban all his social media accounts for 3 months, take away the mobile phone and other electronics, ban the phone number, push them to do to social work during holidays.

Yet, something something human rights... and we have those brats who are terrible. Just experienced some yesterday. They are simply hostile and feel empowered by their peers.

They will grow up at some point, but until that, they must be disciplined.
Here’s a fun one from a couple gigs ago:

I was working as a DC tech at a small collocation provider, roughly 120 people company-wide. It was a standard shop these days: O365 apps, Chrome on Windows 10, Slack, etc., totally managed and locked down.

The IT staff were completely unable to control the Windows patching process. They made a lot of noise about gathering office hours for people so they could do OS & app updates when you weren’t working. Except it never, not one time worked.

It was company folklore all the times the Windows patching process took down engineering devices that were actively in use performing upgrades or changes to core routing and switching devices. So because IT couldn’t control patching, core network services were repeatedly lost during maintenance windows. Because the host performing the work would suddenly reboot to patch itself.

Now, I don’t know what lack of competence led to this situation. Maybe Windows Update is truly a horror story. But I’ll tell you one thing for certain: IT didn’t give one shit about the impact their mistakes had on production, on morale, or frankly about much of anything.

Like the rest of the workforce, IT is overwhelmed, overworked, under appreciated, and fed up with the BS. But it sure seems like they go out of their way to screw people over.
there are many different species of ladybug distribute on the world
I think what matters more is not his current views on any particular subject or knowledge thereof. but rather his well demonstrated ability to not only challenge his own views( and the current prevailing views/ countercurrent views ) - but also that of being able to surround himself by writers and collaboraters and and other people who can challenge his views.

it's very analogous to empiricism in research. I wouldn't trust him to get the right answer on his own, nor on the first time. but, I'd trust him, that it put up the the task on the issue of governance, he wouldn't be arrogant enough to assume he knows the only right way to do something, and hed actually try to sorround himself by intelligent capable people, and rely on their advice to get things done
> Centrists claim that liberals’ obsession with political correctness and minority rights drove white voters to Donald Trump

Not exactly. Centrists claim that Democrats' apparent abandonment of the working class and rural communities drove these voters to Trump. Rather than introspecting, Democrats compounded their error by imputing racism and sexism.
His apprentice/heir John Oliver as well.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/05/john-oliver-not...

Stewart’s constant “I’m just a comedian” response has prompted pushback from his detractors who have called it, among other things, a “dodge.”
I love the certainty you have. I only wish I could be as certain as you with planet-scale systems.
We are living in a fascinating time, especially because Social Media explosion is happening in parallel across the world.

Earlier, technological progress would sprout in developed nations and trickle down to the rest of the developing or under developed world over a period of time.

But SM is a beast that is rampaging evenly everywhere.

The next decade or so will be a great study in its impact, especially contrasting it across different society stratas and gain valuable insights into human nature and how societal environment directs responses.
Maybe, but I’ve noticed there’s a big difference in IT departments who will open a ticket for you/do it together, vs. ones who will only confirm that they won’t talk to you until you go back to your desk to open a ticket. I started my career in IT and have worked in both kinds. Some IT departments really have an us vs. the world mentality.

Needing tickets is just reality. Companies see IT as a cost center so they need to justify their existence, which they do with tickets. Creating tickets itself doesn’t need to be adversarial, but the process can be used to try to get people to leave you alone (or at least make it onerous to do so) if that’s what you want.
> The chamber could host around 100 people

That's going to be your problem.
> The same that everybody else can

First thing you need to understand about India — it's not the same as everybody else. The country is unique unlike any other country in the world. What works in other places might not work there.

> elect politicians who build renewable power instead of electing politician who build coal plants.

I think politicians across party lines want to switch to renewable.

Please understand that this switch to renewables can't be done overnight. And there's a huge population who can't be kept in the dark during the transition period.

Also, India is the 3rd largest producer of renewable energy (and 3rd largest consumer) in the world, behind USA and China [1]. They're making an effort.

[1] https://www.ey.com/en_sg/recai
My one-line bash script works well: https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/audible-stri...
NASA names first five targets for Webb images
Don't believe the hype. Follow the math where your instincts fail you. Check out HyperPhysics if you haven't seen it. Provides a super useful map where you can see how all the concepts relate and how they fit together:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
Back in the day, if your pencil was dull, you sharpened it with your own personal workplace sharpener. You could replace your pencil or maybe even typewriter by just going to the supplies closet and get a new one. Security was done by cleaning your desk and locking the file closet in the evening. Also, the friendly security guy at the main entrance greeted you nicely and knew your face.

Nowadays, if there is a problem with your pencil-equivalent computer plus word-processor, you have to get support from hardly available technicians. You cannot just take the next computer out of a nearby supplies closet. Even worse, after an update, all computers company-wide break at the same time in the same way, no chance for a quick fix. Security is done by weird processes that must be followed to the letter, including learning a new "key profile" by heart every 8 weeks instead of just taking along the company-provided file-closet-key on a keychain. If you use the company provided email client like it is built to be used, e.g. click on attachments, you are at fault for breaking policy and endangering security. If you fail to use obscure processes that said email client doesn't actually want you to use to check for the originator address of an email, you are endangering security. Same for the fancy new phone-replacement-software that needs you to download and execute arbitrary executables which you aren't supposed to do. And the guard at the door has been replaced by an RFID badge that any kid in the subway standing next to you can clone with his phone. Of course you are supposed to know this and wrap that badge in tinfoil outside company premises.

IT issues are so debilitating because users are powerless to fix them. They are blamed for problems that arise just because of the mandated software being unsuitable and insecure. All this gets papered over by heavy processes such that even the people in IT who are trying to help are powerless, bogged down in ticket-pushing busywork, and tons and tons of policies that actually do nothing useful.