skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Trump was elected, it was the Democrats saying that the election was fraudulent. They repeated this message over and over and over on television, in personal appearances, etc. Shall we go to archive.org and dig up the archived video?
Word is dominant in the law precisely because of Track Changes. Most sophisticated firms have templates and macros aplenty and so really don't spend all that much more effort on formatting than they would if they used Markdown or something.
LDPC coding (combined with BCH coding) is now used for most Western Europe digital and satellite TV in the DVB-T2 and DVB-S2 standards.
Ask HN: Can we have a 30 day moratorium on Musk/Twitter posts?
I don't think we need a front-page story on every rumor or every tweet he makes, and for some reason commentators on these stories can't seem to follow the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Most of the "breaking news" stories have turned out to be false anyways. Nobody's intellectual curiosity is being satiated by this nonsense.

I propose a 30 day cooling off period. There are other outlets (e.g. Twitter) for folks who really want up-to-the-second news about Twitter.
If you've ever used CircuitPython you'll be familiar with restarting the interpreter often because you're out of memory.
Faxes are (or were originally) point-to-point electronic transmissions -- one fax machine dialing via POTS to another fax machine. In addition, the received fax, and the response sheet received by the sender, have time and date stamps that give legally-admissible proof of transmission and reception (and the sender will get a report of failure if that's the case as well).

As a former fax server administrator (and troubleshooter/maintainer of everyday standalone fax machines), I think the point-to-point nature of traditional, non-Internet fax is the killer feature: no packets split up and resting on intermediate servers, etc. Fax servers have one or more individual fax modem cards, so the only network involved is before or after the actual fax transmission.

I know fax is outdated. There are other effective technologies to replace it. But I've found myself more than once speaking up as a defender of the technology because, as originally used and codified into law, it serves a specific purpose and, as a bonus, if you know how to use a photocopier and a telephone it's drop-dead simple to use.
> committed genocide

This is an incredible claim, given that nobody has even alleged that China is killing anyone in Xinjiang.

I recall when "genocide" used to mean "murder of a race" (as both the history of the term and its etymology make clear). It's now being devalued by obviously hyperbolic, rhetorical use.

I didn't consider it "genocide" when the US killed hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Iraq. If that's not genocide, there's no way it's genocide when China carries out political indoctrination in Xinjiang.
Huh? Could you expand on this?

Disclosure: a Brit who does not see Americans oppressed by compatriot affectations.
This is something that is difficult when trying to encourage less technical users to be secure. Once you convince them to do things right, they've heard of circumstances like this and are petrified of accidentally losing something.

In a commercial environment there are ways and means¹ but getting a non-technical user to securely and safely manage access credentials is can be a time consuming education process. Especially after the first time someone comes to you to hack their stuff because they've lost their keys & they never did do that backup thing you good then about³ and you tell them it simply isn't possible.

Even those of us with experience in the field sometimes make mistakes that we can't revert, so people without that experience can be forgiven to an extent for trading security for what they think is safety (but is really just convenience).

Solutions, that don't involve someone being an unpaid 24/7 infrastructure support tech, on a postcard please!

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[1] if procedures are properly followed² code is in source control and documents are in equivalent storage, the most you should be able to lose is today's work

[2] yeah, I know…

[3] or that uses the same, now lost, credentials
See, this is what I meant. Not only reading in the paper where X was defined but have this in-depth knowledge of why a certain symbol was used and how it came to be, knowledge that probably not even all full-time mathematicians that studied their entire life have.
Too much still, also usually no GNSS reception in the usual bulb locations, except maybe for those wooden cardboard houses everywhere in the US (:

Those radio time services over AM/FM better and cheaper for thst.
To be fair I haven't used Writer much. I've used Calc a lot.

LO Writer can export to PDF when you need to preserve formatting. But if it needs to also be editable, I guess ODT is the only way. Maybe in light of the recent events you can convince your publishers.

About performance, you might want to give AbiWord a try also.
The EeePC 701 netbook is a really minimal underpowered machine, still it will run small Linux distros just fine

Really? I brought mine to be recycled about six months ago because I couldn't find a distro that would work on it anymore.

I tried at least a dozen over two days, all of which claimed they were minimalist, and some that specifically claimed they would work on an eeePC 701. None did.

All the information making this claim is very outdated, and even the minimalist installations have moved on so that they no longer work on a 701. Some wouldn't boot; the rest were unusable or unstable.

The only thing that still worked on the machine was the image that it shipped with, but the Firefox was so anemic, it could barely show any web sites, and certainly none with fancy JavaScript.
Reminds me of the moonlighting on modern airliners. Blue to calm you down and warm reds to ell your body to sleep
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This is a growing problem in many fields, IMHO. I've been wondering for awhile if it's an inherent flaw in knowledge in that if knowledge can't supplant older knowledge in a high compressed reduced form as things progress, we're just building so much information/knowledge for any given field that at some point, it may be quicker to simply rediscover the process than to search the knowledge for the prior work.
My sister recommended Wim Hoff. I'll scope it out. I had been considering buying an o2 concentrator since 2020 and I do have some voice/breath training and have found some exercises related to that that aren't dissimilar from Wim Hoff show some reduction in symptoms.

Honestly, I feel very lucky to be as functional as I am. I do worry about how medical and political systems are responding to COVID and long COVID, but largely I think good care is going to come from the bottom up and not top down. I'm comfortable(ish) with a reality that I might just suddenly drop dead tomorrow, but this experience has given me a new appreciation for the health I have that I could not have fathomed before. Because I can alleviate symptoms with diet and directed exercise and it does appear to have a cumulative effect on their reduction, I think recovery is possible without intense intervention. I don't even mind being more spacey and a bit dumber. It suits me a bit and has changed the pace of my life in a way that once I embraced has been good.

My biggest worry is that if I suddenly die and how devastating that would be for people that depend on me, but I think without an infection of a new virus or several viruses I might live a shorter, but alright life. My chance of suddenly dying because I got light headed in an elevator now being slightly higher than my chance of being crushed by a vending machine.
I noted that in the later sentences of my comment. Yes, the platform is larger. But in some cases, it's also more sensible now that standardization has had 20 years to work it over. When Gecko was being developed, it was half implementing standards and half reverse engineering Microsoft's undocumented web APIs. Still, I'm sure it's nevertheless harder today and that's why I said so near the end of my comment.
The object taking the picture can be underneath you, relative to your position on the planet.
"not interested" doesn't seem to work for me at all, no matter how many times i click it the trend almost always just reappears on refresh, sometimes even higher than it was before.
I see, this makes sense. Probably gets easier when one gets used to it.
Fewer than half in global poll believe climate change serious threat
Would love to hear your story about getting a PhD as an older person. Have you written anything about it that's public? If not, would it be possible to contact you? Thanks!
Exposure. Why medium over hosting it yourself? Same answer.

As to why the people congregated on Twitter in the first place? Now that I don't know.
There's a balance with that sort of thing though. Thinner blood to alleviate the constriction, if kept constant can cause other problems. Definitely not the worst band aid in the world though.
How is it ethical?
The old publishing model you’re referring to is now legacy. You no longer manipulate CSS/HTML/JS directly.
That makes a lot of sense, I hadn't considered that! Thank you for pointing out a gap in my knowledge.
[Up to the expected quality of a Medium post.]

It renames Tech Debt as an "organisational mortgage—a loan the business takes out against future capabilities to deliver, which has to be paid back with interest. In this way, it’s no different than any other loan, or any other debt the organisation incurs."

The difference of course is that this debt has a technical solution, as opposed to a financial one.
There's strength in numbers, as the author points out, if your goal is to convince a few billion people to speak the language, it doesn't matter much if you're starting with 5,000 speakers, or 5,000,000.

If your goal is to hang out with other language geeks, the latter one sounds preferable, but at that point, you may as well be learning Quenya or Klingon.
It should be noted that Zhang was a math prodigy when he was young, around 13 years old, however because of the Cultural Revolution in China, school education was stopped for a decade and his parents were purged and he was sent down to the countryside so he could not study at school but was forced to work in the fields and factories as re-education. It was only a decade later that he managed to get into university because universities re-opened after the Cultural Revolution, by then he was 23 already when he started his bachelors' degree.

Note that, universities could accept people who did not attend school if they passed their university entry exams because so many people were unable to attend schools because they were all closed and teachers purged during the Cultural Revolution.

I would say he "matured" later mainly because he did not have the right opportunities because he could not go to high school and after his university graduation, had no good opportunities because many good professors were purged during the Cultural Revolution so he fled to the US for a better life.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty

And I quote from the above source which is from a 2015 New Yorker interview with Zhang:

'I asked Zhang, “Are you very smart?” and he said, “Maybe, a little.” He was born in Shanghai in 1955. His mother was a secretary in a government office, and his father was a college professor...As a small boy, he began “trying to know everything in mathematics,” he said. “I became very thirsty for math.”...The [Cultural] revolution had closed the schools. He spent most of his time reading math books that he ordered from a bookstore for less than a dollar.'

As well:

'...when he was fifteen he was sent with his mother to the countryside...where they grew vegetables. His father was sent to a farm in another part of the country. If Zhang was seen reading books on the farm, he was told to stop...After a few years, he returned to Beijing, where he got a job in a factory making locks. He began studying to take the entrance exam for Peking University, China’s most respected school: “I spent several months to learn all the high-school physics and chemistry, and several to learn history. It was a little hurried.” He was admitted when he was twenty-three.'
> Also, who was the victim here, and who reported the crime?

The crime seems to have been discovered as part of the tracing of assets subject to seizure in the Ross Ulbricht cases, which is why the bukk of the assets were seized and filed for forfeiture as part of that case, and not the separate case against Zhong.

On the statute of limitations issue, its worth noting that limitations may be waived in a guilty plea, and that a defendant might do so to a lesser charge rather than facing trial on more or more serious charges (such as money laundering and/or tax fraud and/or evasion charges relating to the subsequent transactions involving the Bitcoin, which occurred at least as late as 2017, would be well within the 6-year SOL that would be applicable there.)

EDIT: To be clear, I haven’t seen a link to the Zhong plea bargain or any indictment it may have replaced (much less what prosecutors might have waived at his defense as potential charges that were never filed), so the above on the Statute of Limitations is observation of what is possible in general and how that might relate to the case, not an explanation necessarily of what did happen in the case. While there are other ways the statute of limitations might have applied differently in this case than it superficially would seem to (e.g., tolling for a request for.foreign evidence if some was used to ttace the funds) the way described above still seems most likely to me, in the absence of more facts.
This is a big part of what I like about sleeping in the bush. You suddenly rediscover what it means to be embedded in natural cycles: feeling fresh in the morning, sleepy in the evening, lethargic on a rainy day, hungry 3-4 times a day, etc. It's incredible how quickly it comes back, and how good our modern infrastructure is at deregulating it.
I'm not sure of your point, but I think I disagree. The previous comment was about going from poverty to middle class. Why won't this be possible in the future?
"The sad part is that as the trend continues we may reach a point where a mathematician's intellectually productive life is not sufficient to contribute anything novel, statistically speaking."

People talk about this a lot. While I think it could happen for certain subdisciplines (it already takes essentially an entirely PhD's worth of time to learn all the necessary background to be an algebraic geometer, so most algebraic geometry PhD students publish nothing besides their thesis during their PhD studies), it can never happen to mathematics as a whole. If one part of math gets too deep, you can always go somewhere else, where the water is still "shallow."
Oh neat. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sky view
US entities sell data left and right, legally. Freakin DMV is selling personal data[0]. Internet providers are selling browsing data[1]. Absolutely nothing illegal about the Twitter request.

[0] https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/us-cell-carriers-still-sel...
I think that your assertion about high color temperature being important is less strong than you thought it was.
Conkers are definitely the chestnuts, they are ubiquitous in England, where Adams spent a lot of time, and a well understood reference to a childhood game here. A film that recently did the unlikely events driving the plot device very well was Everything everywhere all the time. It never occurred to me that they could have been inspired by Douglas Adams.
Side issue, but why do corporate security scanning proxies block nitter?
When reading this sentence:

> We did not observe an increased incidence of neither pericarditis nor myocarditis in adult patients recovering from COVID-19 infection.

you should be careful not to interpret this as evidence of absence. The previous sentence gives confidence intervals:

> Post COVID-19 infection was not associated with either myocarditis (aHR 1.08; 95% CI 0.45 to 2.56) or pericarditis (aHR 0.53; 95% CI 0.25 to 1.13).

Here a 95% CI from 0.45 to 2.56 means that the data is statistically consistent with myocarditis being 0.45 times as likely in people with COVID infection, or 2.56 times more likely.

The sample size here is simply not enough to be more precise, simply because myocarditis and pericarditis are so rare. (It's hard to be precise about the rate of something that happened in only nine COVID patients in the study!) Hence you should not interpret this as demonstrating no difference between people with and without prior COVID infection -- merely bounding the size of the difference that may exist, and saying it can't be more than roughly a factor of 2.5-3.

To be blunt, the authors are wrong to say in their Conclusion that "Our data suggest that there is no increase in the incidence of myocarditis and pericarditis in COVID-19 recovered patients compared to uninfected matched controls." Again, the confidence interval shows that a 2x increased incidence of myocarditis would be consistent with the data.

This is a widespread misinterpretation of statistics and one that has been around for decades, so please excuse me for taking every opportunity to complain. (e.g. https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html#the-power-of-...)
Industrialization of Biotech vs. the Biologization of Industry
When you need to do anything actually useful in these apps they typically send you to a browser anyway. Or worse, you have to do so yourself because you discover something isn't fully implemented in the app part way through using it.

Recently a coworker was struggling to change some personal details online and got stuck in a loop of no access due to multi-factor authentication. The phone helpdesk kept directing them back to the site to get stuck again. The solution? In this case the app's lack of support was a blessing. Personal details could be easily changed there because the app hadn't implemented multi-factor authentication.
Count me in. Deactivated my account today.
Huh, I can't recall seeing those and maybe it's because we have an "enterprise" account but wowo.
The splogs were synthetically generated and formed an inverted pyramid. They were full of links to other sites, most of which were ‘cover traffic’ to conceal that the point of the splogs was linking to my blogs. There were maybe 10 inner circle splogs that linked directly to my blogs, then 20 outer circle splogs that linked to the inner circle splogs.

I could direct the lowest quality links in large numbers to the outer circle splogs and not be afraid that they’d discredit my blogs. The are numerous advantages of this approach, one of them is that you could get 1 link in a directory to your blog but 30 links to 30 splogs. People might say this is a short cut but no you have to do all the legitimate link building for the blogs plus a lot of illegitimate link building for the splogs, it is like anabolic steroids in that it helps somebody who is doing all the right stuff go even further.

What’s really the best is if your competitors are doing the same and you find out where they get their cover traffic from and inject your own links so they wind up spamming for your benefit or spamming stuff so bad it gets them busted.
We changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20021210061212/http://www.cix.co... to what appears to be the article's canonical location (since the page says it's the author's website).

It's fine to post archive.org links if there's really no other way, but please search first. I found this one by simply googling the title.
This is where longevity research a la Harold Katcher comes in and allows for super centenarian geniuses to shape the future of humanity.
How about a SaaS log parsing startup?
Father-in-law.
Like BIL for Brother-in-law.

Apropos, I've always wondered where the terms gf and bf, for girlfriend and boyfriend, came from, i.e. the West, or India. Wonder, because many such short forms come from or are unique to Indian English.
All you reveal with that statement is that your posts tend to irritate people on the left. There are plenty on censorious people on the right as well, but you'd have to post lefty stuff to run into them.
Good point. I suppose it’s a measure of disruption.
Holy shit the comments are terrible. Not because it's YouTube, but since when physics has become a celebrity contest, with fans fighting over their favorite theory and physicist while talking shit about other people?

I see it on YouTube like I see it on here any time any Sabine Hossenfelder article is posted.

Did a massive delegation of K-pop stans get into astrophysics? Is everything a "my idol will demolish yours any time" these days, even in hard sciences?

Sorry for the off topic. I know nothing about physics and I don't have a favourite physicist.
I was confusing JPEG XL with JPEG XR.
If google want to kill JPEG XL, this is fine. Since no one is using it I beleive.
This is a perfect example of why EU implemented GDPR. We can't trust companies to protect their users. Once money is involved, the outcome often depends on a few conscientious employees with the strength to say "NO"

Som may say that
Mastodon instance admins can read PMs freely and more
That's interesting - thanks!
I've been meaning to do this with my LUKS headers and zpool headers since reading about fast bcrypts via GPU a few weeks ago; I suspect that my FDE passwords are not powerful enough, but I'd like to put them to the test.
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> Legal documents should be written in plain text, not Microsoft Word

And programs should be written in Common Lisp, or maybe Rust, but the world is still written in JavaScript.

> Lawyers spend way too much time and money on formatting Microsoft Word documents

?? Lawyers have been using text styles since the WordPerfect days.

As to plain text, as much as I’d love to write everything in TeX, any non-WYSIWYG approach is a non-starter with non-technical users. Stuff has to plug into the existing Word work flow. If you’ve got a better plugin for handling styling in Word I’d love to see it.
I figured there had to be something like that.
Father-in-law
Agree, same in programming, you could see that f = (a,b) => a ^ (10+ b) , but not understand what it actually means and why 10 is there and not 9.

Another example is the use of commonly known constants, such as pi, i or e. No paper will define those constants and explain indepth what they mean, so you need prior knowledge or to find external resources. I think for such complex papers you will find many such cases where extensive prior knowledge is needed.
Back when I still believed (because we were told) Windows 10 was the last version of Windows, even though I hated it, I thought ads and sponsored store apps were how they were going to monetize long term. At least it kinda made sense, as distasteful as it was. Now a new version of Windows (lol) and they're still doing it.

Well Windows 10 was the last version of Windows for me anyway. I had forgotten how much fun desktop Linux can be!
That's very different than selling real time location data to 3rd parties?