skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disingenuous. The implication of the grandparent comment is not that the persons experience happened 2 years ago instead of right now its that its automatically invalid because of it. In context the word historical doesn't mean anything useful.
Bitrot is generally from two sources:

* At the sector level in physical media (tapes, disk drives, flash). The file will be largely intact, but 4- or 8-KiB chunks of it will be zero'd out.

* At the bit level, when copying goes wrong. Usually this is bad RAM, sometimes a bad network device, very occasionally a bad CPU. You'll see patterns like "every 64th byte has had its high bit set to 1".

In both cases, the only practical option is to have multiple copies of the file, plus some checksum to decide whether a copy is "good". Files on disk can be restored from backup, bad copies over the network can be detected by software and re-transmitted.
I routinely pull "Technical Report" PDF's from https://www.sedar.com/new_docs/all_new_pc_filings_en.htm and generate summaries.

Eg: today Search Minerals Inc. released a Preliminary Economic Assessment on a rare earth project.

That gets tied into a GIS database of other projects along with timelines, tonnages, etc.
It sucks to criticize, but I concur in the case of the site's article on neural networks [1]. They state that the successes of neural networks "defy mathematical understanding." Universal Approximation Theorem is sufficient; even if you give the benefit of the doubt that they refer to interpretability, there is active and fruitful research into NN saliency. (As an aside, I'm curious how such a quotation got published in PNAS?) It goes on to criticize NNs as not being biologically accurate, misunderstanding the purpose of NNs.

Perhaps this is due to the site relying heavily upon newspaper articles, as opposed to actual research.

[1] - https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/mathematics/neural_networks...
There's a lot of work to do.

* At least some of the articles in psychology and language have been written by someone with an agenda, or a limited education in the field. E.g., the article about turn taking (https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/language/general/conversati...) talks about "endogenous oscillators" as if it is accepted that that's the solution to the problem.

* Philosophy mentions the Liar Paradox next to Free Will. These two are not quite the same.

* The article on intelligence doesn't even try. "Further reading" refers to a 27 year old report that had to calm the seas after the publication of The Bell Curve.

On the other hand, what's the point of listing everything in language, psychology and philosophy? We know next to nothing about these with any level of certainty. They could just be single entries. Now it seems as if the only thing unknown about language is the origin of the word abacadabra.
This article is not new, this is the second time I encounter it, it seems it has been published in 2016.

Most users of xz probably won't read it and will keep using it. And it's probably fine for most use cases, though lzip would most likely be better in every scenario if available.
I don't understand why Manning (the publisher) can't use copyright to go against the fradulent sellers. Isn't a copyright violation a very costly court case in the US?
The Light Rail isn't even free here. Of course, about 10% of passengers actually pay, 90% refuse to pay because fare enforcement is racist... or something...
How would one make money out of doxing racists?
That's one way of winning a game :)
All the traditional UNIX/POSIX archive formats are inadequate for archiving modern file systems, because they lose a part of the file metadata, e.g. they may lose the extended attributes or access-control lists, or they may truncate the time stamps.

Most archivers have various extensions for the tar or pax file formats, to deal with modern metadata, but the format extensions may differ between various "tar" or "pax" implementations and not all such extensions really succeed to not lose any metadata.

One archiver available on Linux/*BSD systems, for which I have checked that it does the job right and it is able to archive files from a filesystem like XFS, without losing metadata like most other tar/pax/cpio programs, is the "bsdtar" program from the "libarchive" package, when used as a "pax" program, i.e. when invoked with the options "bsdtar --create --format=pax".

Since many years ago, I have been using exclusively this archiver, to avoid losing information when making archive files. It is also very versatile, allowing to combine archiving with many finely configurable compression or encryption algorithms.

Some years ago, the most widely available tar program, the GNU tar, was not able to store XFS or UFS files without data loss.

It is possible that the GNU tar has been improved meanwhile and now it can do its job right, but I had no reason to go back to it, so I have never checked it again for changes.

Of course, Windows file formats, e.g. zip or 7z, are even less appropriate for archiving UNIX/POSIX file systems than the traditional tar/cpio/pax.
Your teeth will be affected. I spent a year drinking as much coke as I wanted. The teeth issues that resulted made me never drink the stuff again.

If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing.. stay away from the coca cola.
We could have had a perfectly good industrial revolution with more mechanical safeguards and less child labor.

If a machine is 20x faster than human labor, and making it safe knocks off 10%, that's fine. And it'll leave you with better employees over time. It's only a problem if you're in a race to the bottom that doesn't care about worker safety.
So the chain went like this: link in PDF -> URL 1 -> push notification -> URL 2. What was the advantage to the attacker of doing that, rather than just having the link in the PDF go directly to URL 2?

Also,

> Press "Allow" to verify, that you are not a robot

I assume that everyone reading this article knows that no legitimate CAPTCHA will ever ask you to do that. How can we teach this kind of thing to the rest of the world?
Supply/demand argument fallacy: because the price of a home is not driven by the costs of construction. Homes are nothing like normal goods.

Property prices are driven by the amount people can afford to pay on their mortgage, with the free variables being land price and house size.

Housing booms and crashes are only slightly linked to the cost of building a home.
Agreed!

Curious, what areas/topics are these spaces? I myself have been hoping to find them but don't know where to look.
French Encryption Control Regulations
My experiences buying books from Amazon have been basically positive apart from the generally poor state of on demand printing. As far as I'm concerned they do get it right.

Cynical programmers don't write about OK experiences.
I don't think you nor anyone else knows when AGI is likely to happen. I also don't think that incorrectly believing a machine is sentient when it is not is a "bigger danger."

Again, an improperly aligned AGI could kill the entire human race. I'm not sure what harm incorrectly believing a machine is sentient might do, but I don't think it would be as bad as human extinction or enslavement which are both real possibilities with AGI.
> It runs 24/7 on a tiny land and material footprint.

Isn't that a myth though ? Nuclear plants have planned and unplanned maintenance downtime. They actually have enough of these in my country that it's deemed unreliable or as reliable as wind turbines (depends on who you ask).
I don't think so, though I did struggle slightly to understand the schematics. That system still seems to humidify the incoming air, just in two stages. I might have missed something though.

The point is if we don't care about losing the water to the atmosphere (in climates where water is not scarce), we don't need a closed water cycle. For your house outflow air, on the psychrometric chart, you follow the isenthalpic line with evaporative cooling as far as though can (the diagonal lines from bottom right to top left ending in the wet bulb temperature, which is adiabatic in our case since constant pressure). This gives the temperature on the cold input side of the heat exchanger, which cools the incoming air, which will have an increase in RH, but only due to temperature change.

I posit the system would work well to reduce uncomfortable temperatures to be more in normal range in temperate climate extremes.

I found one company that supplies exactly what I'm talking about: https://www.homevap.nl/en/overzicht-koude-bevochtiging/homev... though I'm tempted to try something homebrew using a piezo water mister.
I don't need compatibility with other machines, I just need to know that in 20 years I'll be able to decompress my files.

lzip might get there eventually, but it's not there now. xz has enough usage behind it that I'm not concerned.

bzip2 has enough usage but the compression ratio is worse. zstd has neither the usage nor the ratio.
Someone gonna have to TLDR that shit...
I don’t think heavier batteries with less battery life are gonna do much for Americans.

Not unless we can get into small vehicles real quick- and given that the chicken tax has been imposed by executive order since 1964 I don’t see that happening.
Amazingly enough it’s not even possible to be sure you’re buying a legitimate Kindle book anymore.

I often buy classic books but want a particular edition which might include specific notes or a translation by a specific writer, but following the Amazon search - actually clicking on a link where I’ve constructed the search with meticulous attention to the terms that are essential to me - will often lead to a totally random result from an unknown ‘publisher’ which meets none of my criteria and wasn’t the link that was presented to me.

Obviously all the reviews are bunched haphazardly together - including the ones that praise the translation which the presented book doesn’t include, and the ones warning about poor formatting from the pirated edition.

If Amazon can’t even sell Kindle titles without commingling, then it blows my mind people buying electronics from them.
Interestingly, "wiki" means (in Hawaiian) "fast" (used by Ward Cunningham in '95 for "very fast web").

So, no, the process may not be fast. But in topics like "the best competitive sports club in the world", some may prefer to keep intervention more controlled, depending on the general intention.
A big problem is that the uploader can't dispute it properly...
Is it? Is the culture of Paris fairly homogenous? New York? London? Berlin?

I would imagine the place has some shared cultural understandings, generally, but that a big city is going to be much more heterogenous. But maybe I'm thinking too micro scale.
Hypothetically, it could run a bit deeper than that.

Amazon also runs a Print-on-demand (PoD) operation and offers that as a paid service to booksellers. Several years ago they acquired a company called BookSurge which was into PoD. Booksellers can store their virtual book inventory (i.e., print PDFs) on Amazon's servers and Amazon would route a customer order to their PoD service to print the book and ship it on demand.

While this is a legitimate service for legitimate publishers/booksellers who own the rights for the book, it is quite easy for unscrupulous sellers to just virtualize their entire illegal print operation with Amazon undermining authors and publishers.

I am not sure what kind of controls Amazon has to prevent abuse of their system.

Just to be clear, I am not insinuating that this case (or any other case of counterfeiting) has anything to do with Amazon's PoD operation. Just that this is an attack vector for them that potentially impacts legitimate authors/publishers/booksellers.
You must read it with relax mind. Do some outdoor sports activity and get tired physically , take a rest for few minutes and then read it.

Spoiler Alert : Towards the end of the blog, he actually telling you the real meaning of Vipassana or how to live meditative life.
Git also uses octal to encode entry modes in tree objects. That’s despite tree objects not being ascii-readable (object-ids are stored in binary form rather than the hex used in most other locations).

TBF the only common numeric format I’ve yet to see is base64, git uses octal, decimal, hex, binary (BE), at least two completely different VLEs, plus a bitmap scheme.
The author has said they've read the comments here, so is presumably not interested in correcting it.
> The cool thing about squashfs is you can efficiently list the contents and extract single files.

What’s the story look like around reading files out of squashfs archives stored in an S3 compatible storage system? Can what you mention above be done with byte range requests versus retrieving the entire object?
Same here in France. I've never gotten a counterfeit (that i know of), and sometimes I've gotten lower quality than expected stuff, but returns take care of that. Across electronics (multiple switches and ethernet cables, batteries, usb cables), clothing, random small stuff (like a trash bag holder or laser meter).
>highly "ideological" in this forum.

now you got my attention?
It is. We receive light from the sun in the visible light range. Earth emits something like 20 photons in the infrared for each incoming visible light photon. The reason is that the sun’s surface temperature is ~20x higher than Earth’s.
> CSS Grid (and Flexbox) at scale.

What does "at scale" mean in this case?

Anyway, CSS could be considered a mess, especially for layout, but given its history, it's quite reasonable. I worked on something where every element had absolute positioning in the browser. That gives excellent control over the layout, but leads to all kinds of other issues. Flex and grid are two easily understood, productive solutions to the general problem, just not 'perfect'.
I have no idea about Flutter but just wanna thank you for creating such an incredible app. I use it everyday.
What despairs me is, if it becomes well-known among the general public, Amazon can just say “Ok, we’ll stop comingling now, we’ve identified this as the cause, it will get rid of the problems” and they’ll get another 10 years of us having to prove that they have other problems (the slew of Chinese vendors who can dodge responsibility).

But the press won’t even take issue with Amazon’s comingling. I wonder why. The press always seems to cry on the working conditions, without ever mentioning how dangerous the products are to consumers too. I bet our governments have ties with Jeff Bezos…
I disagree, if they are running the event, they are responsible for ensuring the safety of participants. You go skydiving and the chute fails in a totally predictable way, the company who takes you up shouldn't just shrug and say, "well, we aren't responsible for the chute, that was provided by another company"
Call them, tell them you'll publish an expose with their real name and get them fired from their job unless they pay you $5k.
RedwoodJS vs. BlitzJS: The Future of Fullstack JavaScript Meta-Frameworks
This conversation seems to me a bit outdated: building a fission reactor takes one or two decades and its kWh is costlier than alternatives. To get something cheaper, we need to wait for the next gen of technology, in one or two decades. Lucky if we can compete with the costs of solar, wind and batteries in a decade.

Even with the support of greens, government, scientists, etc this is going no where.

Nuclear fission is dead, why trying to revive it? What's the point?
That's a good idea, thank you! I simply installed zsh over the package manager, autocomplete seems to work other than rsync. I'll look into it when I get back to the computer and report back.
Price & usecase wise your machine should be compared to a Mac Studio, no?

And let‘s see what an actual Mac Pro performs like.
Body could be 'subtle' astral/etheric matter.
Flesh is strictly physical biological matter.
Because the big circle of life.

The people on the C standards committee are gold bricks that say things like we won't add anything to the standard that isn't implemented in two or more compilers.

The compiler writers program in C++. And say things like if you want that feature that's a good reason to use C++ and stop using C. But if the standards committee adds it of course we will.

Also embed is exactly the feature that end uses would find very useful and compiler writers would not care about at all.
You might be right about such a verse, but I'm not sure off the top of my head. I can assure you though that you can find Christian proponents of both A-theory and B-theory of time. This is an active area of disagreement, particularly among philosophers (although it's true that a lot of question are under active disagreement among philosophers!). Example discussion, which I'm not up to date on myself: https://iep.utm.edu/god-time/
If a state actor is trying to engineer a bio weapon to kill me specifically, I think there’s a number of ways they can get my DNA.

Though I don’t think they’d need to- I think if the CIA wants to kill me quietly they’re gonna bump into me on the sidewalk and use their own undetectable poison that isn’t specific to me.
> unknown ... origin

? Serenus Sammonicus?

Edit: ok, I read the page, I see what was meant.

But a problem emerges, it could get evident seeing as their source is Wikipedia (?! "I know that because somebody told me"?!): it is epistemologically not trivial to state ignorance. Even when the learned does, the protocol is that "John, PhD, on that occasion expressed ignorance".

It may be a reason why once upon a time we had erudition, much more highlighted than nowadays: some attempt towards completeness in the exploration of sources.
Google alert: my name, the names of familiy, friends and certain people. Also the village name I grew up in so I know what little going on there.
You're the one that made it some weird nationality thing.

If you hadn't specifically asked about "the japanese", we'd be talking about chess programmer vs. robot engineer.
Yes. Trivially, uncountable infinities have to be larger than countable infinities do they not? The set of reals contains within it the set of integers for example but also contains a bunch of other stuff. (Not a mathematician obviously).
The problem is how hard they are to avoid even when you try.

I swore to never be a customer of them, after they screwed me over with a contract, then they eventually bought the major cable providers in Germany.

Now there is no way around Vodafone if you are in a region where cable is a better option than ADSL.
I have a book printed through Amazon and there's no exclusivity. Not sure if there's something new, but I don't think many authors would go for that since Amazon provides basic zero additional support.
> Cross platform full screen is hard.

That paragraph is quite fascinating. I mostly work with SDL and Allegro and I've chased a fair share of similar bugs there already on various platforms, most notably fullscreen handling under Wayland, but I never had to care about breaking other platforms with my fixes because platform handling is quite reasonably abstracted away in SDL (and SDL supports a lot of exotic platforms aside of those you mentioned, so it would be pretty much impossible anyway). I don't know winit, I wonder what in its design makes it so troublesome there.
What? Secure Boot doing anything to force you into Microsoft solutions is a hardware vendor/supplier issue. They're the one that configure the secure boot parameters, and with minor exception (don't buy bad products...) they do not lock you out of booting non-Microsoft solutions.

I fail to see in any way how preventing the loading of unsigned drivers in the secure boot chain is "vendor lock-in".

Furthermore, that signature does _not_ have to be Microsoft's. You can sign a driver with a private CA and provided that signer is in the trust store, it will be loaded.

>at my workplace, one of the top 5 security firms in the world

Cool, my dad works for Nintendo tho. Agree with other poster, not sure if you even know what Secure Boot is. Seems like you read an article on Slashdot about it 10 years ago.
My (now ex-)lawyer disagreed with you. "Money is international", he said, and "if you're going to own some Nestlé shares, it doesn't matter whether you own them through a shell in this country or that." The most important factor according to him was that the shell company should be in a country with a stable, predictable taxman.
This to me seems less of a problem where I come from, Italy.
It's true that most Italians indulge in sugar when drinking coffee (which it's a terrible practice, we should instead push for better specialty-grade coffee that doesn't need sugar).
At the same time what Americans call "condiments" it's basically just olive oil, some salt and pepper for 95% of our dishes.
A traditional mediterranean diet, made primarily of grains, legumes and vegetables with some occasional meat and fish is what me and most of my friends' families would have for dinner.
Of course, there's the ice cream, the cakes, the BBQ with friends, etc. But I'm just thinking about the normal daily diet here. And the standard seems pretty healthy, with most sugars coming from seasonal fruit.
Yes, I'm going to make the outrageous claim here: children should not be expected to work next to industrial machinery with inadequate safeguards.

I know this is controversial to some, such as userbinator, who believe that industrial robotics without safeguards are just fine to mix with children.
Less evaporation happening is exactly the mechanism by which the wet bulb temperature is higher the more humidity there is. Sweat dripping off doesn't invalidate the model because heat is still being pulled away at the maximum rate, it's just that the body is expressing more moisture than actually needed.
> The cost of climate change clearly far outweighs the cost of nuclear plants and waste.

Um, yes until you factor in failure rates due to incompetence + natural failure. Chernobyl, look it up, massive cost, massive loss of land, death/cancer rate of all exposed nearly 100%.

Until you can solve the "corrupt bureaucrat cuts corners he doesn't understand" problem, and also demonstrate that the failure of a single reactor doesn't cascade and cause every reactor to blow (if you increase the density of reactor distribution a single fallout has the potential to cascade to every reactor).

I remain skeptical about the fuel waste issue being solved, I've heard that a number of times and its not exactly been true, what is usually meant is that the fuel can be re-used somewhat indefinitely, after being repurposed in special containment facilities, not that the spent fuel safety issue is resolved.

And, it won't even solve the climate change issue - even after going 100% electricity and/or renewable fuels, we still have a considerable chemical infrastructure to resolve, and we still have the heat waste issue to resolve (making things electrical doesn't solve energy and chemical expenditure affecting weather patterns, albeit it is better than pumping CO2), an infrastructure which will need to be utilized to create said nuclear reactors.

Climate change will slowly roast us all to death, a nuclear failure will, instantly fry us all to molten pulp, I know which one I prefer.
I had something similar happen to me when I ordered a copy of Epictitus's Enchiridion, and I received a tiny leaflet (20 pages), with gigantic font and no real content.

I paid for the "book" presuming I would get a nicely bound and accurate translation. Instead I received half of the book, with an open domain but outdated translation from the 1800s, and no form of recourse.

Amazon is quickly losing my trust.
It’s shocking Amazon aren’t doing anything about this instance when the issue is raised directly. How can a store be complicit in selling bootlegged items and when confronted with it do nothing?

If it is indeed endemic in some categories at Amazon then surely the leadership at Amazon are aware. Do they just not care?

If I were a publisher I’d be furious at this situation. A regulator really needs to investigate and make Amazon police this more effectively.