skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Christian Church actually said bathing naked was forbidden ... the pope instructed all public bath to be closed ... The monks order clearly said to bath only once a year ... My understanding was that bathing was strongly discouraged by church ...

The article does highlight and bring some context to this:

... Well the idea that medieval people didn’t bathe is a persistent myth ... Why is that? Well part of it is a modern misunderstanding of the idea of bathing. It’s true that we have medieval sources which warn against “excessive” bathing. But here’s the thing, that wasn’t really about being clean, it was about hanging out naked in bathhouses with the opposite sex. They didn’t want you to not be clean, they wanted you to not be going down the bath house and getting your fuck on.

... And yeah, some holy people didn’t bathe, notably saints who would forego bathing themselves but bathe sick or poor people ... But if you bring that up you are missing the point. Medieval people thought that bathing and being clean was really nice, so giving it up and living with your stank was a sign that you had given up on the corporeal world and only thought of heaven. It was holy because it was uncomfortable, like wearing a hair shirt, or eating vegan, and hitting your chest with rocks and sitting in the desert trying not to wank. You know, standard saint stuff. It is mentioned because it is uncommon and uncomfortable ... These things, while they make sense in context are often taken by people who have never learned a damn thing about the middle ages and read in the worst possible light.

> Muslim and Byzantine records mentioned how dirty westener were

That may have been probably true from the perspective of muslims because in Islam personal hygiene is part of the religious obligations of muslims. Religious muslims are supposed to pray 3/5 times a day, but before they do so they are supposed to clean themselves as per a prescribed ritual called wudu ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wudu ). So a religious muslim, even in the medieval times, would be cleaning himself atleast 3/5 times a day (and that's apart from regular bathing). Thus, in comparison to that, some non-muslims could have been perceived as "dirty". It would have been even more so for them if they also learnt of christian saints and / or leaders promoting not bathing as a path to salvation, when their religion tells the exact opposite.
“Sign in with discord” = “We’re not serious about anything, come back later when we actually want people to use this”

Discord is a cancerous black hole on the internet.
I do. But I live at a fairly high altitude. If I don't put on the sunny, I'll get a bad burn in ~15 minutes of being outside. That's short enough that mowing the lawn or taking a walk will burn me. I got tired of always having a bright red nose or arms that just hurt. So, now I just have a bottle sitting by the door and schmear some on before going out. Also stopped wearing sunglasses, as they make burns worse. Again, I live at altitude.
>This is then used to drive a turbine that generates electricity.

We could have Nuclear Fusion but we will still using turbine to generate electricity. :P

>these smaller reactors are actually likely to produce more radioactive waste than conventional plants.

>nuclear power expert M.V. Ramana also points out that the cost of renewable energy like wind and solar is already lower than that of nuclear, and continuing to fall rapidly.

Why are we repeating these same questions when we already have an answer? Edit: Solar and Wind aren't constant, and nuclear waste is a solved problem.

>SMRs could cost more than bigger nuclear plants, he adds, because they don’t have the same economy of scale.

I thought the whole point of SMRs were economy of scale?

>Tellingly, some utilities have already backed out of NuScale’s first project over cost concerns.

Anyone could chime in here? Was it because NuScale is too expensive?

I was expecting SMRs, once approved could be built much more quickly. I was thinking in terms of 3 years with perfect project planning. But right now even the earliest ( and likely optimistic ) first SMRs site is 2030. Why does it take so long?
It's impressive that the search result has didactic steps towards a solution though....
F... off, where "F" stands for "fork".
Claim what? If you go through the results and exclude the individuals who didn’t show the outcome you wanted to see, that’s called cherry-picking. It’s a well-known phrase.

There is a concept of subgroup analysis in studies like these, but you have to be careful about how it’s done and what conclusions are drawn. If you simply select positive results and exclude negative results then even the placebo group would show great success.

This study showed that telling people that they were microdosing was more important for the perceived outcome than the micro dosing itself. In other words, placebo is key to making it work.
Professor of music unravels centuries-old authorship mystery
If the failure mode of clever is "you're definitely-a-Nazi.", that's on them.
I'm glad the tide seems to be turning against GraphQL.

Your company is not Facebook, you don't have an impossibly large graph dataset that needs querying

I've used it 3 times, each time it was a nightmare. REST with some additional params to query extra data is so much easier and safer ... that's just not very cool I guess.
Looks neat, but in what way is this serverless?

It's a pretty complex diagram:

https://github.com/matanolabs/matano/blob/main/website/src/a...
> - Makes caching more challenging since there are now more possible permutations of the data depending on what query the client uses. A hacker could just spam your server's memory with cache entries by crafting many variations of queries.

You could use something like https://stellate.co/.

> - Makes access control a lot more complicated, slower and error-prone since the query needs to be analyzed in order to determine which resources are involved in any specific query in order for the server to decide whether to allow or block access to a resource.

Hasura and Postgraphile can do this - in the case of Postgraphile it obviously requires Postgres.
I'd bet that the author did try to publish that in a peer-reviewed journal. He just doesn't want to show the review he got.
Code golf for physics?
I am enraged that the local anarchist secondhand bookstore and lending library was replaced right before I moved here by condos and a brunch place.
Not yet. Maybe he will survive to come out the other end, like Chelsea Manning.
I ran out to Barnes & Noble and bought your book right after seeing your post and seeing one nearby that had it in stock. (Amazon was going to take a couple weeks to send it. Actually some other company was the sender. Weird. Also I didn’t notice you had it online but I like having the book and paying you anyway. :) )

So I picked up the book Thursday and finished the basic ray tracer Friday :) Not counting chapter 5 of course so there’s a lot more that I can add from here but it’s made me interested in multi-processing to make it faster, (mine is in unoptimized Python currently, using pygame to have a canvas/window and calling it for each pixel), maybe using GPU shaders to do it (never used those before), and learning about techniques other people are using[1][2] (from YouTube etc), and going down the rabbit hole of old CGI animations from the last 50 years[3].

Looking forward to the second half of the book this weekend. I have written a basic renderer before. I did an independent study class in college and I wrote a stereoscopic one for the iGlasses VR headset[4] in the 90s (you just have to draw using two cameras and interlace the images).

[1] https://youtu.be/A61S_2swwAc “NamePointer - I made a better ray-tracing engine”

[2] https://excamera.com/sphinx/article-ray.html “A reasonably speedy Python ray-tracer”

[3] https://youtu.be/WV4qXzM641o “The Compleat Angler (1978)” Ray tracing animation with refraction, rippling water, etc. from 1978!

[4] https://youtu.be/NoVMIVY5tPA “Virtual I/O iGlasses”
Back in the day, cookies were delicious delicacies:

https://i.imgur.com/YeGGd4B.png

https://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/24/cookies-are-no-longer-...
This editor is crazy fast and is only a 15MB download (.deb)!
Write your program around an event loop which if its an interactive program it already has. And read man signalfd.
Is it thought that any of these lost wepons were an off the books way to provide non nuclear allies with a deterrent.
https://draftable.com is my go-to tool in this space. It understands text flow and the difference between structural and formatting differences, and is amazing when given PDFs of legal docs that you need to retroactively get a redline for. Incredible tool, free but not open source.
OTOH, that's my least favorite book of his. Ironically, it's probably his most "clever" book, using contrivances for humor.

In most of his other books the humor is not the primary goal. But they're filled with witty characters, so contain much more good humor IMO than Redshirts where humor is the primary goal.

John Scalzi writes some of my favorite books, but Redshirts isn't among them.

Our disagreement is another example of the central thesis of his linked essay!
>The Christian Church actually said bathing naked was forbidden

There's no "The Cristian Church," I think you're referring to a modern misconception on a Catholic ban on mixed bath houses. They still had bath houses, they just banned men and women being naked in them together. These bath houses were often also brothels, which makes the ban perhaps still prudish, but nothing extraordinary.

Monks did bathe rarely, which is discussed in the article.

While most of the great old public baths of the Roman era closed, there are illustrations and archaeological evidence of bathhouses in the Middle Ages. They're wooden and much smaller affairs, but they still exist.

I recognize a few other common misconceptions of in the rest of your list, and there's a number of issues with "Muslim and Byzantine records mentioned how dirty westener were." There were certainly cases where "Westerners" thought "Muslims" and "Byzantines" were dirty too, that's a standard way to otherize other cultures. Cross-cultural judgments of hygiene are not a thing one should take at face value. But also all three of the labels "Western" "Muslim" and "Byzantine" are broad generalizations. To generalize about their attitudes towards others or bathing is to be in error, as these were neither constants nor universals nor even truly discrete groups.
> Simple, reliable, interoperable.

I like that.
Go and Rust - these are just languages. They do not fundamentally change the world in any way.

Free email and chat - come on. Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, ICQ, we had all that - without feeling violated from all the aggressive data collection, which leads me to... machine learning libraries. That's what they are used for.

Most of the technological "advances" since 2007 (Facebook, Twitter, mobile phones, big data) have been used to steal and monetize our focus, and hence we have half of our kids on Adderall. That's what we really have to show for it.

And notice that all these names you dropped - layman would have zero idea what those are. They mean nothing to an average person. My point is about the larger culture of innovation across all industries, not just some stuff deep inside the software world.
Make acquaintances on the Internet.

You can get to know someone enough to know they're not a scammer.
Have you been an instructor yet?
At least one country sees value in being deliberately ambiguous about possessing nuclear weapons.
Are the claims about the shortest distance, maximum force, and shortest instant of time all undisputed? Makes the universe seem really discrete and simulation-y.
> What factors mitigate this in the wild are largely irrelevant

Why? If we find a link indicating exercise reduces or eliminates the cancer risk associated with eating meat, then it would just show another option for behavioral change to produce positive outcome. More options is not a bad thing.
You are right that this arrogant attitude is juvenile, but it is prevalent amongst humans in all areas. Unfortunately, there would be few developers to work with if you apply the policy of not working with arrogant, dogmatic developers.
This absolutely happens in commercial contracts. Consumers have more statutory rights, though even for stuff that consumers might buy there are examples, notably property.

“Caveat emptor” has been knocking around as a phrase for two millennia now for a reason.
That's it?!
I think the GP's comment was more about the latter part of the quote, about the author not being affiliated with a research institution.
It takes more than one person to lose a bomb. “Losing” a briefcase is much easier.
Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature due to Excel
Fusion is probably 50-100 years away at best. It’s just to difficult
Body oder is an odd one. I saw a sibling post talk about skin biome and I feel that has was more traction than it is credited.

As an example, I can definitely develop body oder. However, it generally takes me longer than the rest of my family. I can do 30 miles on my bike and just need to change clothes. And I basically never use deodorant.

To see this at a notional level, consider that deodorant is not common in Japan.

There was an amusing viral video not long ago about people remembering growing up that they had a bath day. Typically Saturday or Sunday, when they would bathe for the week. This is not that uncommon. Well, was not.
Tips and tricks for using GitHub Projects for personal productivity
From what I've read GraphQL makes the most sense in the context of large scale teams and large databases. It introduces a large amount of overhead to your backend to parse queries, but allows those queries to be more flexible and not think about the database's schema which is a tremendous boon when you get to the scale where communication between teams is more expensive than implementation time. For junior and midlevel devs watching youtubes and reading blogs it's obviously an exciting technology because of what it promises (in this sense GraphQL is hardly unique), but there's a practical cost to production workloads.

That said, if I'm not mistaken GraphQL is almost explicitly designed with a versionless paradigm in mind. Whether or not that's a good decision is up for debate, but it's less "no clear path" and more like it's the responsibility of the backend to add support for new access patterns without causing old patterns to fail.
There's no servers to maintain in the entire architecture, we heavily use Lambda and even use MSK serverless for Kafka.
it depends, of course. to experience a transpersonal / “spiritualized” angle into reality can be deeply challenging for non-religious, non-spiritual, or atheist folks.

or it can feel quite curious, new, refreshing, even liberating.

or anything else along that spectrum.
> I fail to understand how 2FA TOTP gives you junk calls?

Companies pushing to have your phone number for 2FA, even when better alternatives are available, is what gives you junk calls.
None beyond their normal public filings I believe, which are highly qualified and if wrong beyond those qualifications they’d have been in hot water a long time ago. In the analogy, it would be like claiming the Public appraisals/tax records with the county were lies all of the sudden (when they aren’t) to try to get out of the deal.

But if you have evidence to the contrary, please post.
Huh?

Go was created in 2007, before Bitcoin and the concept of a blockchain.
I support the spreading of Alan Watts teachings.

https://youtu.be/ZzaUGhhnlQ8
That's not it. Digits after letter didn't stop Google from interpreting the original UUID.
I didn't say he was wrong (about this).
I would love a [forked] Ruby to replace Javascript. Have it embedded in browsers too.
“No.”

Then close it. Then ban him if he persists.

There’s no need to waste your time and energy justifying yourself. In fact, attempting to will probably be taken as an invitation to argue, thus wasting even more of your time and energy.
I used graphql at one place and our stitching was a disaster. I'm thinking bad decision.

We also had micro services. It was the most unstable backend I've ever worked with.

Yet the architects who picked all these techs were mostly lauded and didn't stick around to deal with the mess.
it's almost always far more than good enough for human ears.

audiophiles' continuous search for "perfection" is pointless because human ears are not perfect. not by a long shot. I don't care who you are.

just like how your eyes lie to you, so do your ears.

48kHz is not a difficult clock rate to maintain perfectly. at all.

all you need is a DAC of regular every day commodity quality, and an equalizer if you think "warmth" is a quality of vibrating air.
Thats what came to my mind too.
Both formal and informal peer review are why I like the FOIA, and standards / competition discussion to be open in general. I actually dislike closed peer review, or at least without some sort of time-gated release.

Likely scenarios, and that closed review hides:

- Peer review happened... But was lame. Surprisingly common, and often the typical case.

- If some discussion did come up on a likely attack... What? Was the rebuttal and final discussion satisfactory?

It's interesting if some gov team found additional things... But I'm less worried about that, they're effectively just an 'extra' review committee. Though as djb fears, a no-no if they ask to weaken something... And hence another reason it's good for the history of the alg to be public.

Edit: Now that storage and video are cheap, I can easily imagine a shift to requiring all emails + meetings to be fully published.

Edit: I can't reply some reason, but having been an academic reviewer, including for security, and won awards for best of year/decade academic papers, I can say academic peer review may not be doing what most people think, eg, it is often more about novelty and trends and increments from a 1 hour skim. Or catching only super obvious things outsiders and fresh researchers mess up on. Very diff from say a yearlong $1M dedicated pentest. Which I doubt happened. It's easy to tell which kind of review happened when reading a report... Hence me liking a call for openness here.
I get your point, but consider this: I can not speak for OP but I have the same background as OP and I had the same reaction, even if I would try to phrase it more mellowly. I receive "crackpot" papers to my email multiple times a year. I generally try to engage with these "lone geniuses", because everyone deserves respect and not everyone has been lucky enough to be introduced to Physics in a structured way that would let them self-correct if they are making a *silly* mistake. I try very hard to not be patronizing when pointing out mistakes. I actually read the papers and try to do the best possible interpretation of crackpoty statements. I point to actual research question that are closest to the nonsensical metaphors used by the authors. I suggest reading materials. But in the vast majority of cases these authors do not care about doing the actual work to correct glaring mistakes, they just assume everyone else is wrong. So, it is quite reasonable to use the signals that OP detected in order to say that the paper is nonsense. That signal has been 100% correct for me for the last 9ish years, and I did spend the time to check exactly because I dislike the elitism of using this signal.
See also diff-pdf https://vslavik.github.io/diff-pdf/ that I usually use for this. (Seems to be relatively popular; 1.4k stars on GitHub: https://github.com/vslavik/diff-pdf)
So much small scale fraud relies keeping the losses below the level where someone is willing to risk getting sued. The kind of people who are doing this would be highly likely to try things which would end up with you needing a lawyer - even drafting a letter, much less showing up in small claims court would cost more.
The workflow of most big apps is pushing to get your phone number, validating it through SMS, and after that allowing you to use other 2FA. It's stupid from a security point of view.
"Security"? But we all know here this is a fantasy, and RISC-V won't be an exception.

When I am thinking RISC-V, I am not thinking "security" at all, I am thinking "no toxic IP tied to the ISA".

"Somebody" wants to make a CPU able to run RISC-V machine code? No need to ask some specific MF corpos, and if "authorized", to have to pay that specific MF corpos.
I am pretty sure they are saying is that the matano portion of it, which does the security log processing, deploys in a serverless fashion (lambda I assume?).

This means as a dev you don’t need to maintain a server, or even container image, you just deploy the code, which is less maintenance overhead and more scalable.

The diagram just shows how it interacts with the other components of the log pipeline.
CudaText has its slow parts (scrolling by Mouse-wheel is not smooth), we are limited by the fact of missing hardware acceleration. But it has its fast parts: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/CudaText_VS_other_editor...
CircleCI's competency matrix in the blog post leads to Google Docs (with ouid removed):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/131XZCEb8LoXqy79WWrhC...

Here's a Scribd link to a (public) version of the competency matrix. Unsure when it was uploaded:

https://www.scribd.com/document/503555180/CircleCI-Engineeri...
> I don't really get your post.

That's because we are going down a rabbit hole far away from the original premise... We are talking mostly about social media here (as cited above) using 2FA... 2FA in more high value settings is a separate discussion.

In Private settings, 2FA can still be compromised by data scraped from social media, that catalogues data even on people who do not create social media profiles.

I am not arguing against the technical merits of how 2FA operates, but even with a Yubi Key, a user with system access can be compromised if they are physically extorted or abducted along with their key. The real world is a factor in security, it is not overcome by encryption.

I have listed several aspects of flaws to the security model in other posts here. Arguing about the technical bones of 2FA is a distraction/sidebar from those other valid points.
No is a full sentence.
Have you tried it? They're pointing at something here that all of humanity has tried to point at.

I'm a very strident atheist and even I would claim that I have "found god" while high on mushrooms. And you and I both happen to be "it".

I'm not pointing at the institutional god. But I end up using the institutional words, because it's hard to find other words that describe it properly.

Alan Watts is the closest I've found that describes it without using religious phrases.
No I haven't, I've quoted from Wikipedia, and you've taken a tiny piece of that out of context.
I didn't know nuke depth charge were a thing. That sounds like a nuke hand grenade.

How do you get out of the way?

Dropped from aircraft I suppose.
It's not, but sloppy terms are common there.

People who use the words "principle of least action" and "the principle of stationary action" usually mean the same thing.
The Strand is only worth going to as a tourist attraction (if you’re fully aware of its status as such), or if you need big art books (they’re unmatched in that category).

In NY, I’d say take a look at Left Bank books (rare, old literature, photography, art books - some are even early editions of classics), Codex (little used shop with a fantastic selection), Mercer St Books and Records (basement hole in the wall), Westsider Rare and Used books (an UWS classic), Unnameable Books (good events and a literary selection).

For new books, McNally Jackson is the preferred one for the reading public. Their staff selections are useful and they have a dedicated poetry and chapbook section.