skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to see how many of the HN crowd use the web interface. I would've thought that this would be the one place on the internet where web interface usage would be the lowest and IMAP clients the highest. Personally I just use Apple Mail, it's good enough at what it does.
One outage: Sep 10

> Aer Lingus is seeking compensation after an outage to its IT systems led the airline to cancel more than 60 flights *last night*.

Data Center News reporters get tired too you know, it's a lonesome job.. :-)
They did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosphor persistence was perfectly tuned for comfortable, fatigue-free document viewing.

Curiously, tho, I don't think it was a perfect 72dpi like the 9" CRT in compact Macs, so it's not precisely scaled with printed output.

[1] https://lowendmac.com/1989/macintosh-portrait-display/
Could a captive portal be doing that? How would it capture my request? Maybe DNS intercept that redirects me to some of its servers before doing a redirect?

I don't think I have an app sniffing my phone. It's not rooted and it happens semi-randomly.
Bullshit me once, I stop listening. Those aren't follow-up questions, they're coffin nails. Blowing smoke up my ass about "good questions" is one of the most consistent ways that hucksters reveal themselves.
Hm - I can't see how this is functionally significantly different than EasyMotion[1] or Sneak[2]. Not a knock on it - just curious if I'm missing something.

My problem with these types of plugins is that, although it's a bit more annoying to type out a few more characters, with my vanilla Vim workflow I can pre-compute the motions in my head - I can figure out I need to type d7l or whatever way before I get to the point in my editing where I need to, and as I'm typing it out I'm already thinking about what I want to do next. With sneak, easymotion, or leap, it looks like I can't actually figure out what keys I need to press to get to where I want until I've already started the motion. That means I need to take some time to read the label, etc. So maybe I've saved a few milliseconds of not having to type one or two more keys, but I lose that and more by having to parse what to do.

Curious about other experiences and if I'm off base though.

[1]: https://github.com/easymotion/vim-easymotion
[2]: https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
Totally agreed, I clarified that only in case someone has a particular strategic insight to share.
I am quite sure JOVIAL, ESPOL/NEWP, ALGOL and PL/I dialects, Lisp, which predated C in more than a decade have enough abstraction capabilities, even by their state in 1972.
Such a dogma...
Having worked on a similar system in the past - it’s a trade-off.

On one hand, all your domains match across all environments/deployments and you can set a cookie and refresh to switch versions fast. Only 1 HTTPS cert and no subdomains to manage. You could invisibly do a slow rollout of deployments by slowly changing cookies. Fun stuff like that.

On the other hand, you have to have special links to set the cookies, and you end up building some kind of environment/version indicator somewhere or else you’ll lose your mind when debugging. And buckle up for when you accidentally switch versions in a different tab instead of using Incognito and screw up some debugging. Or try explaining to a confused marketing person that they’re looking at the wrong version of your landing page because a cookie they don’t know about is set wrong.

It’s all trade-offs. Personally having used both approaches I think the cookie method sounds better than it ends up being in practice. Different domains is uglier, but more clear.
Seems it's a bit older than the concept of "data science" (founded 1827, 195 years ago) and also just happens to also teach data science.
haha, good question...
While I agree with the message you are trying to convey, the 2020 case doesn't have to be more complicated than the 2010 case:

2010 edit an html button:

0. Install an ftp client (you need to mention that if you mention installing git)

1. pull the file from ftp or sourcesafe/svn

2. edit the button

3. upload to ftp

2020 edit an html button:

1. clone the code
2. edit the html button
3. commit changes
I'd recommend starting with the first blogpost of this series (https://acoup.blog/2022/09/16/collections-teaching-paradox-c...) - it's a good read! It delves into the differences with other Paradox games - the second paragraph is actually a short answer to your question:

This first part is going to focus on the way that Crusader Kings understands rule and rulers. This in particular is a fascinating place to start because unlike all of the other Paradox grand strategy titles, Crusader Kings III doesn’t actually feature any states in the narrow sense of the word; none of these rulers have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. This is an enormous difference between CK3 and its sibling games and well worth diving into.
None of that is even remotely feasible or legal at commercial airports in developed countries. Ask anyone who works in airport management, or for the TSA. There is zero chance that they would agree to compromise their security control and baggage tracking systems just because one airline happens to be having temporary operational problems. Not going to happen.
Official Fastmail Android app is working for me.
I think I got your question right (but perhaps I was not totally clear in my answer).

In a nutshell: sure, there are lots of such possibly useful models that use trees (you can even come up with new ones yourself). Random forests or GLM regression trees are two examples.

My point is that, because standard decision trees do not attempt to explicitly model probabilities (they just try to partition the data in "homogeneous groups", in some sense), you have no pre-baked assurances that your "score" will actually be well calibrated (i.e., no assurances that it will actually be a good predictor of the raw probability/confidence).

Sure, you could come up with some "decision tree"-like (i.e., partitioning algorithm) Bayesian method that would (maybe) ensure reasonable calibration of "confidence"... but, at that point, are you even using "decision trees" anymore? Probably not.
excellent application.
you can often test dpr issues by zooming and refreshing. Different zoom levels give different devicePixelRatio values including many non-interger ones. At least in Firefox/Chrome
It was down for me for a while, but is now back up. Western Europe.
More variants allowed would help a lot - if a setback is because of neighbors, allow it to be varianced with cooperation from the neighbors.
it works in europe as well.
> If USA can grant permanent residency in exchange for military service, the whole world will flock to the states. Isn't it an instance of mercenerism?

We already do, at least during war time. I served with someone who enlisted directly from Mexico and was getting citizenship in return. Other militaries do it with us too, for instance the French Foreign Legion and Australian military recruit heavily out of the US.
>A typical student who did the “right things” starts life with 60-120k in debt.

Very few degrees are worth taking on that kind of debt. Also, doing the first 2 years in community college with basic FAFSA is very affordable. And since when do college students not work while going to school? My nephew finished his mechanical engineering degree a couple years ago (State University system with first 2 years in community college) and he ended up with under $12k in debt which he already paid off.

Then again, he didn't decide he just had to go to an out of state private university for all 4 years while not working at all. Vastly different approaches will deliver vastly different results.
Your experience is completely different than mine. I find one slow seeder that doesn’t have what I want or find a low quality rip in a language I don’t know.

Or I can just search on Google and usually find it either on a streaming service I subscribe to or it will give me a list of places I can rent it.

I will gladly pay three bucks not to have to deal with bit torrent
Google “Amazon stickerless commingled inventory” for the gory details.
Do you have an automatic setup to do this, or is it a manual process?
I’m just providing an alternative. Not everyone wants to use Firefox, and many apps have use built in browsers for links like Reddit and TikTok.
Estimating SARS-CoV-2 transmission in educational settings
> It appears the market doesn't give a shit about company fundamentals right now.

I don't think it ever did. I think it's all about the free money pouring into the economy due to low interest rates set by the federal reserve. They turned off that tap, the flow stopped and the economy screeched into a halt.
It’s just good sales really. Sales is about listening, not talking.
You do believe you have a right because you do so contrary to law. You can frame your actions as moral and rationalize your lawbreaking all you want, but you’re still breaking the law. Imagine if everyone acted this way? I can get metaphysical about all kinds of things I’d like to do contrary to the law, and create all kinds of rationalizations like “no one is hurt by my actions”. But that’s not quite true because if everyone acted in such a way, society would break down. At the end of the day it seems like you’re just rationalizing selfishness.
8 and 16 bit hardware without vector units, nor modern pipelines with instruction rescheduling.
Some college towns have elaborate laws to prevent frats, and having adults living together who are not related by blood or marriage is basically outlawed. It’s weird.
Have you seen there is a "Landmark" Anabasis now? I don't know what the translation is like, but when I read Herodotus & Thucydides all the maps were a big help, and the appendices had lots of interesting bits of info.

If anyone has an opinion on the translation they used, I'd be curious to hear it.
Was offline here but it's just come back.
Of course they don't always; certainly IRV is sometimes mechanically better. I believe we can construct examples where FPTP would happen to work out better given the same honest votes, although I do think they're more contrived - see below for details. I am more worried about what happens in practice, though; as I said, people understand with FPTP that they need to vote strategically and understand how to do that.

Contrived scenario for FPTP picking the Condorcet winner while IRV fails to:

Back to the "which theocracy, or do we just tolerance?" question, but now each religion has at least two candidates and secular tolerance has a bigger constituency.

19% S, ...
16% A1, A2, S, ...
15% A2, A1, S, ...
14% B1, B2, S, ...
13% B2, B1, S, ...
12% C1, C2, S, ...
11% C2, C1, S, ...

FPTP picks S, sort of by chance, which is also the Condorcet winner. IRV consolidates the C votes behind C1, then the B votes behind B1, then the A votes behind A1, then discards S.

I think that works out, FPTP makes the right choice for sort of the wrong reason while IRV makes the wrong choice. But I do think the much bigger concern is FPTP-with-strategic-voting behaving better (or at least no worse) than IRV-with-whatever-happens-in-practice.
What I don't like about these news is how abstract they are. Sure, it could lead to age information leaking but my imagination isn't working to figure out how that would impact me in a concrete way. Anyone could share possible bad outcomes?
He is a master, as he can produce realistic sketches/art, as well as comical adding his own unique flavors to it. He is really a swiss knife. You might not like a type of drawing but he definitely has it all. And his memory, and stream of consciousness sketching is what is superhuman, and they're super detailed massive sprawls of a sketch.
I mean it's a matter of perspective but... we are aren't we?
Well, the biggest one is war, and it's nowhere near "running out". In afraid it will spill off to the rest of the world eventually.
I used to love the “nipple” on thinkpads for that exact reason
It's not about my comfort, it's about you jumping to a conclusion without giving any other possibility equal weight.
Same thing happened with me as well. When I tried to recover it, they asked me to write exact email subjects and email contacts. I provided them with more than 6 email subjects and emails contacts name to whom I had mailed in the past. It still kept saying that the data you provided is insufficient to prove that it's you. At the end I had to create a new account.
This is really impressive stuff! Congrats on the launch! Does this work for next.js apps?
In a sense that’s very true. However the biggest wrinkle is that most of your cells share a single common ancestor cell. If your body is a community of microbes, it’s mostly a village of close relatives, not a symbiote like coral.
This point of view is a fallacy itself. ORMs are about productivity and maintainability. Some of us write enterprise applications where ORMs are a godsend. They're not a replacement for being knowledgeable in SQL whatsoever.
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency#History it was David Chaum, not Chase.
Fair enough, but at that point it was already down for at least 15 minutes for me.
Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. I think I prefer the more explicit version over the seemingly more elegant version.
There's a haboob hitting the California desert as well! So, we're pretty well stocked on disasters.
I’ve never had stock options in the first place if that makes you feel any better.
Happy to explain in a bit more detail how it works:

So Reflame does not use any of the exact same high-level, user-facing tools you might be using locally, like vite, webpack, npm, yarn, etc. Those tools are designed to be ran locally, and so if we wanted to run them on a server in a shared environment (e.g. in CI), we'd need to spin up a VM, install those tools, git clone the repo, before even starting to do any real work. This makes it impossible to offer the kinds of latencies Reflame is targetting.

To answer your question on what Reflame actually does: it composes a bunch of the low-level primitives behind the tools we run locally (along with a boatload of custom code), and runs them in a server, against every single module that gets sent in through our GitHub app and VSCode extension, and then deploys the result.

For npm packages specifically, instead of running npm install, it currently makes use of the lower level arborist library that npm is built on top of, to run package installations server side, then transforms, caches, and deploys the results. This was done to get an MVP out quickly and is not an ideal setup at the moment, because the caching behind it is not very granular. The first time you install a set of packages our servers have never seen before, it can take a while, but subsequent times it becomes instant.

This is really the achilles heel in our instant deployment story, and something I want to work on soon is a custom package resolution system using content addressing, similar to pnpm, that's more amenable to space-efficient, shared granular caching.

Package locking and private npm packages (private github repos are already supported, in case that's what you were referring to?) are not yet supported, but should be simple to add on top of the existing system if there is demand. Let me know if these are blockers for you!
I use spr and git fixup for this workflow and it's really helped me breakup my changes better, managing multiple branches and stacking changes that way is a huge pain, but this workflow has been huge for me!

SPR: https://github.com/getcord/spr

Git fixup: https://github.com/keis/git-fixup
“He’d captured strange and distant worlds in greater detail than ever before. They were beautiful, magnificent, full of awe and wonder. But beneath their sublime surfaces, there was nothing. No love or hate. No light or dark. He could only see what was not there, and miss what was right in front of him.”

— Roy McBride, Ad Astra
From my understanding, Bluetooth is vulnerable in the pairing process, but secure after that.
My sense is that is wrong. Case in point, I deal with a group that has a relatively elaborate set of excel workbooks to manage their process. None of the workbooks are great, all of them created and maintained by different teams, and there is persistent discussion of needing to accrue tools or some guy even threw together his own MS Access db to substitute for the workbooks. What they do is not at all beyond what Excel could handle, but it is the lack of fundamental process and methods to design a proper system that is the code and fundamentally problem.

I feel that is frequently the issue, fragmentation and derivation caused by a lack of fundamental first principles thinking, willingness to tackle the issue from the ground up. The outcome is then talk of bolting on yet another tool or some fix that really only ads debt.
> The 95% confidence interval is in reference to a probability distribution, I'm not sure what you mean when you say that frequentist answers aren't in terms of those.

Maybe I should have been more explicit. Let me complete what I wrote above:

"What is commonly understood as 'Bayesian methods' will give answers in the form of a probability distribution FOR THE QUANTITY OF INTEREST. What is commonly understood as 'frequentist methods' will never do that."

In the sex ratio example, the 95% confidence interval [1.1 1.3] DOES NOT mean that the probability that the sex ratio is between 1.1 and 1.3 is 95%. What it means is that when you calculate confidence intervals using this method 95% of them will contain the true value of the parameter. It's not the same thing.

> As for your bayesian answer, there is a prior that would make their result equal to the frequentist one

So it doesn't _always_ give the same answer, does it? (In the best case you get the same answer by twisting what a confidence interval means and only if the "magic" prior is used.)

If you mean that frequentist methods shouldn't be used if they give a different answer I agree!

The problems with frequentist methods have been known for decades: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2281869

They are used because the are easy even though they give the wrong answer (or the answer to the wrong question) - not because they always give the right answer.
We were told it wasn't possible for the vaccine to be present in breast milk. Why does it seem like so many of the "conspiracy theorists" keep turning out to have been right, or at least closer to the truth than the truth we were being fed?
It's really incredible: https://www.munistandards.com/texas/houston/parking-requirem...

Note that the table has a lot of pages, requirements go up to 14 parking spaces per 1000 sqft GFA for "bars, clubs, or lounges"
Not much of a difference if it was directed at a patch or person - calling someone's end-work idiotic and unintelligent is basically saying the same of it's creator...

It might be better than previous language, but it's still crass and abusive on some level.
Good, mor job security for us.
Summary of the results (page 137):

Protocol Sniffing Injection
Plexgear Yes Yes
Rapoo Yes Yes
Logitech No Yes
Corsair Yes Yes
iiglo Yes Yes
Exibel Yes Yes
Razer No No

Choice quotes from Chapter 6 (Discussion):

The results show that 9 out of 10 keyboards have at least some form of vulnerability. Out of all the keyboards, 8 of them were shown to contain new previously unknown vulnerabilities that could grant an attacker full control of the computer of the keyboard. The severity of these vulnerabilities in combination with how prevalent they are show that the usage of wireless keyboards should in no way be used in any situation where security, privacy, or integrity is of any concern whatsoever.

[...]

Out of all the keyboards, only one of them actually promised any form of encryption as part of the marketing of the keyboard and this is the Corsair K63 Wireless. The keyboard is marketed with 128-bit AES encryption but as the results of the penetration test show, this is not the case. The keyboard’s only obfuscation of the wireless transmission is a simple XOR of the payload with a static key that can potentially be reverse engineered automatically with some very simple calculations.

[...]

Razer BlackWidow V3 Pro was the only keyboard not shown to contain any vulnerability. As a result of this, it is deemed the most secure of the targeted keyboards but it could still be vulnerable to some unidentified vulnerability that requires more time and resources compared to the rest of the keyboards
The weird thing is, having been in frontend dev since around 2013 I feel like it's the simplest it's ever been.

I'm more productive than ever, but I suppose mileage varies.
So what you're saying is, our culture makes nice living impossible, and we should work on that.
Talk to any developer who's been around for any period of time, and they'll tell you that dealing with time is a PITA.

What's bad is that there's no real thought given to interplanetary time. It's alluded to occasionally in SF, but there are no RFCs etc about it.

Earth has UTC. Mars will presumably have MTC. What about things wandering about? How will that be mapped?

More importantly, what happens to timestamps, GUIDs, etc?
I'm sure it's the patch that feels insulted instead of its author.
Biden signs executive order on EU-U.S. data privacy agreement
UK Average House Price Unaffordable to UK Average Salary
Just from skimming the docs, it looks like Leap's target keystrokes are more directly tied to the buffer's text (2 char prefix + optional discriminator), while Hop generates arbitrary labels... I can imagine the former feeling much more fluid, but haven't actually used either.
Very cool, I may use this for my next React project :)
Yes let’s stop local channels from being able to produce news, television networks from having exclusive late night broadcasts, ESPN from producing “ESPN Tonight”, newspapers from paying for reporters and editors, console manufacturers from having exclusive games, website owners from commissioning writers, etc
Yeah watched Master Kim a lot. And he always has fun sketching and interacting with people as his job. This wasn't his job, just his passion. Definitely genetic factors, etc, can lead to cardiovascular disease...we don't know every thing to comment. He was getting tired, more from traveling around a lot, as I talked to some of his entourage a week before his passing, don't know how much that affected his heart health.
Setting aside the fact that this is William Shatner, and that he went for free- I would actually say millionaires/billionaires are probably the people who need to learn this lesson more than anybody.
Cable was bad because of long contracts, ads, and forced bundling. What's wrong with optional bundles? From my view point streaming is still better than cable in every way.
mainframe: building sized

minicomputer: room sized

microcomputer: desk sized
No. HIPAA is about sharing PHI between covered entities. P stands for Portability. Unless Jenny is working in one of those covered entities and Jenny's boss learned about her covid and pregnancy by pulling PHI - then no, it's no under HIPAA.

Her boss doesn't have a duty to keep it private in any legal sense. Jenny can ask not to tell anyone, but legally, it doesn't matter.
Either the snapshot route to have a base image you can then run a single script to install the app. Or use something like Ansible to have reproducible configuration.
There's a tremendous situational irony with the massive cookie notice at the bottom of the screen when this loads.
Switching World to Renewable Energy Will Cost $62T, Payback Would Take 6 Years
That’s how it works here - is it not the case everywhere!
These organization should change their infosec posture to support sudo on dev machines as standard issue, especially if you’re issuing laptops. Maybe I’m immature but I’d prefer not to suffer as such for the sake of a “rite of passage” from ages past.
>Why does this happen?

A lot of people value more enhancing their résumé than solving problems