skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the Snap distribution system working as intended with unfortunate consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure
It might not be realistic to fly a pressure vessel large enough to simulate the low atmospheric pressure as well as the low gravity. There are probably also safety concerns; the rotors on serious R/C helicopters store enough energy to basically decapitate a human and these are probably somewhere in that neighborhood given the requirement to generate lift in Mars' atmosphere.
I found the keyboard to be amazing for the first week.

But the clicky punch immediately degrades even if you don't get a nanoparticle under one of your keys. They regress quickly to a mushy tactile feel.

It's as if nobody at Apple tested the keyboard for more than a week, nor outside of a pristine cleanroom. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the root cause of all this, because I could see why someone would think the keyboard was an upgrade if that was the extent of the QA testing.

If the keyboard felt like it did the first week but for four years, I would consider it an upgrade. But it's a comically far cry from that.
>Yes, but that works on the idea that providing no glucose to the body will make it switch to fat instead. So it's not really diet "controlling" which fuel source to use

I think there is just a difference in the use of "controlling" here. Fat/Glucose will always be used jointly as energy, but the idea is to "control" which is the primary fuel source. A Ketogenic diet or ketosis is part of that, still giving you a fair reading I can understand how you conclude that is not "control", though I would argue it is because I am controlling my fuel source, but to your point I am not eating whatever I want (carb/sugar heavy diet) and controlling my primary fuel source like a light switch.

Separate and apart from the diet, there are other things you can do to "control" or "train" your body to burn fat as the primary fuel source. Again keto is a large part of it, but lets assume I am in ketosis and about to go for one of my runs...in short, aerobic or anaerobic. Is my body going to go for the fat or is it going to go for the available glucose which is the preferred energy source for anaerobic exercise? Also, in anaerobic exercise the muscles produce lactic acid as a by product and as anaerobic exercise can only be maintained for a short period of time, when its over and the body is recovering the lactic acid goes to the liver and is converted into glucose, of course that raises the blood glucose level which in turn may encourage the body to use as the primary fuel source. Keeping my run aerobic I am "controlling" the primary fuel source and burning fat, both in the short term (same run) and long term (over periods of time) I am training my body to be pushed harder and harder while maintaining my aerobic threshold increases.
> If you have a single monolith, written and ran by a single team, it doesn't neccessairly get more complex as you throw more servers at it.

In which world does our monolith only connect to a database that is hosted on a single node ;)
Most often we have at least 3 database nodes 3 x nodes, 3 redis nodes, whatever. even when we run everything on vms instead of bare metal instances (for which k8s even works) we would still need to manage them and create an insane amount of work to manage/keep them running. in the worst case people would ssh into them
There is a lot to like here, but I wish viewing by tags had a more obvious sort applied.

Some items included aren't of interest to me, so naturally I'd like some way to filter those out. Viewing a tag is a good way to do that, but then I lose the chronological organization.
Pentagon: 126 bases have water contamination linked to cancers and birth defects
While technically true, this way of looking at the world feels a little pedantic.

Yes, all words and objects and categories are only leaky abstractions. Our universe is a shimmering swirl of unique patterns, all boundaries ultimately fuzzy.

At the same time, there is observable structure. Words and categories emerge and are judged by their usefulness, how they help us in everyday life -- despite being leaky abstractions. They're never bulletproof descriptions of reality, or you wouldn't be able to say much.

"Jock" vs "nerd", "white" vs "black", "tiger" vs "rock"… Among the infinite axes of how to slice and conceptualize reality, which ones are worth giving a name to? Who decides?
I've had the keyboard replaced twice for the exact same issue, the "B" key kept repeating. I'll probably have to pay extra if it happens again, but already you I've lost about days waiting on the repair since they have to ship it out.

I prefer to use an external keyboard when I can, but that can't be avoided all the time.
Apple filed a patent for ingress prevention this year to address this issue. Not sure when it will make it into production:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180068808A1/en
Across time the vast majority of crime seems to originate with hunger and other desperate situations.
Could you expand why? Every social network has its KPIs.. Facebook likes, Twitter followers and retweets, Reddit karma. Klout always seemed like an aggregator kinda like Metacritic is for reviews.

I never understood the visceral level of hate that Klout drew.
K8s is a beast, and it has a fairly specific workflow, which for most people is not a good fit.

For example you need to understand that certain workloads dont fit well on the same box (DBs and anything IO/memory sensitive for example)

Then there is the "default" network setup where each node is _statically_ assigned a /24. (because macvtap + dhcp is "unreliable" and inelastic apparently.)

Now, I've heard a lot of talk about you either use k8s or ssh to manage a fleet of machines. That pretty much a wrong comparison.

K8s provides two things a mechanism for shared state (ie. I am service x and I can be found on ips y & z) and a scheduler that places containers on hosts (and manages health checks.)

If your setup has a simple config scheme, (using a simple shared state mechanism, like a DB, or a filesystem, or DNS) or you have no issues with creating highly automated deployments using tools like CF, chef, anisble cloudformation $other, then k8s has vanishing returns (it sure as hell doesn't scale to the 50,000 node count, because its so chatty. )

Basically its a poor man's mainframe, where all the guarantees of a process running correctly regardless of what is happening to the hardware has been taken away.
https://blog.github.com/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/

Seems that Github also destroyed a database.

Accidents happen. Both companies seems to be open about their issues and are willing to improve. I do not hold it against them.

It could in fact result in a a more stable service, as the developers will start thinking about all the other stuff that may happen.
Or maybe just go there as a part time low skill worker, so that my whole trip is funded and at the same time I don't have to work more than a few hours a day. I just want the feeling of having lived in Antarctica for a few months. (internet access is a must).

Your idea of an "expedition" is pretty damn weird.
Good book about exactly this is Orwell's Animal Farm which is an allegory to the Russian revolution itself
Presumably they mean they can't see the source code.
This is exactly why you should not run random docker images and snaps. Docker images are also run as root in many cases. It is better to build app images from scratch and understand what exactly goes into the image.
It probably refers to distribution of binaries without source code, which MIT license allows. Wording could be better
Of note, the position held by Marcus du Sautoy as "Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science" was created by donation from an ex-Microsoft programmer Charles Simonyi. Du Sautoy is responsible from helping get this exposure via Weinstein's presentation at Oxford. This role at Oxford is great idea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simonyi_Professor_for_the_Publ...
Have a look at the example icount.py: It rewrites binaries to count the number of instructions executed.

Therefore it seems the rewriter can modify already existing binaries corresponding to some rules in Python files by inserting additional instructions.
Regarding point 2, without a government, what would prevent groups from forcefully taking over the means of production and limiting access?
Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border Are Unconstitutional
All heavier-than-air flight on Mars is subject to the same issue, but it's presumably still more efficient than using rockets. If it works, it works.

I expect the real problems would come in scaling it up; I doubt a typical helicopter rotor/head assembly would hold together under the high head speeds needed on Mars (or you could maybe use very long blades, which comes with its own problems).
Highly recommend Eric's episode on the Tim Ferriss podcast https://tim.blog/2016/01/13/eric-weinstein/
Until the water starts insisting on breathing.
I upgrade my two macbook pro 15" every year. I have not upgraded since 2015 due to these keyboards. Come on apple. Go back to the 2015 keyboard... nobody ever complained about that keyboard. This is the risk of "fixing" a problem that doesn't exist... you can actually break something that was reliable.
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Boston Dynamics’ robots learning how to run outside and navigate autonomously
Could you use something like years instead of generations? It's not clear what time periods you're referring to.
North Korea details plans to dismantle nuclear test site
I'm trying to understand your expectations. You wrote:

>Next day on-site service is a standard for business laptops, I expect that. I was surprised it was for free

Do you really mean this? If Apple had charged you then next-day on-site service would have been a good experience? It's only because this was not even a possibility in this story that you are saying they're a joke?

just trying to understand your expectations here. (And FYI I don't have any relationship with Apple, Dell, or any other parties we're discussing.)
So you answered your own question... just don't look at the blocks that are marked as "outdated/spam/etc" if you don't want to (but history would still be preserved)
Definitely a weak point. Of course, the analogous problem in capitalism is where a company is so successful that it can pull the ladder up behind it and inhibit competition.
The problem with snaps is that they didn't take security really seriously on desktop: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-u...

>"X has no real concept of different levels of application trust. Any application can register to receive keystrokes from any other application. Any application can inject fake key events into the input stream. An application that is otherwise confined by strong security policies can simply type into another window," he wrote.

They might have wrapped X protocol to provide more security and control. Instead they decided not to.

They might have created a system which is as bulletproof as on iOS where you can install any apps and be 99.9999% sure that they won't steal your data unless you allow them to. But they created this instead.
There is no review process or central restrictions on who can upload to the Ubuntu Snap Store, so in a sense, this isn't surprising. https://docs.snapcraft.io/build-snaps/publish

Does the name "Ubuntu Snap Store" carry a connotation that code is reviewed for malware by Ubuntu, the way that the Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. mobile app stores are? Or does its presence in the software center app imply a connotation that it's endorsed by the OS vendor?

I was at a PyCon BoF earlier today about security where I learned that many developers - including experienced developers - believe that the presence of a package on the PyPI or npm package registries is some sort of indicator of quality/review, and they're surprised to learn that anyone can upload code to PyPI/npm. One reason they believe this is that they're hosted by the same organizations that provide the installer tools, so it feels like it's from an official source. (And on the flip side, I was surprised to learn that Conda does do security review of things they include in their official repositories; I assumed Conda would work like pip in this regard.)

Whether or not people should believe this, it's clear that they do. Is there something that the development communities can do to make it clearer that software in a certain repository is untrusted and unreviewed and we regard this as a feature? The developers above generally don't believe that the presence of a package on GitHub, for instance, is an indicator of anything, largely because they know that they themselves can get code on GitHub. But we don't really want people publishing hello-worlds to PyPI, npm, and so forth the way they would to GitHub as part of a tutorial, and the Ubuntu Snap Store is targeted at people who aren't app developers at all.
Probably referring to forager societies pre agriculture.
The FX991EX is just awesome!
I'm not familiar with Ubuntu snap store, but how does it compare with Google play store in terms of security?

For example, do apps need to request permissions for accomplishing specific tasks, or is there any kind of sandboxing involved?
Nice case study in why Arch types are adament that you should properly take the time to read your PKGBUILDs.
It’s well worth reading the books on him by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Stalin was incredibly well read, sleeping little and devouring books at the seminary where he studied, and he carried this on through this life. It’s chilling the way he behaved to relatives of those he killed. Stalin had a creepy way of referring to their deaths as though they were unfortunate events that weren’t arranged by him.
ohhhhh. Got it. Thanks! This is really clever :D Thanks.
>But it's good enough for government work

Government racial data is intended to reflect culture and has nothing to do with genetics, it's not intended to be scientific nor should it.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/RHI425216

>The U.S. Census Bureau collects race data in accordance with guidelines provided by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and these data are based on self-identification. The racial categories included in the census questionnaire generally reflect a social definition of race recognized in this country and not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically.
> Therefore the "coherence answer" is exactly and precisely the correct one.

The correct answer to what question?

If the question is why we don't see iridiscence when "white" light (wavelength 380-740nm) is reflected on a "wide" film (several orders of magnitude larger than the wavelength), do you really need to talk about lack of coherence? The fact that for a particular width the film will supress/enhance thousands or millions of colors across the visible spectrum should be enough to make the resulting light white as far as human perception is concerned, I think.
I was rather excited a while back when discovered iso lisp/ standard lisp/EU lisp. A few newer than common lisp standards that tried to extract a sane subset of clos and some other cl features (but trying to avoid cruft and overlapping functionality). Unfortunately, there didn't appear to be many viable implementations; one French one that was commercially licensed, and. Not much else that I found at a time.

But it looked a lot like the good parts of cl (pragmatic standard) with the good parts of scheme (small, but not minimal).

At least on paper. I guess the fact that there's a lot of viable cl systems and not really any iso lisp systems is telling...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISLISP
Indeed, there couldn't be a better heat exchanger !
Does it?
For a part of humans this has always worked. Every mammoth hunted down- was socialized once it was back in camp.

Sure the chief-tain had a say, but in the end, i think for a lot of human history as hunter gatherer without big storage- we ran on socialism.
Which is why it reappears again and again.

Want to talk to socialism that's oh so unnatural? Close your browsers, stand up, talk to your spouse, lie about one of the neighbors having won the lottery. Observe.

Also, for all the bad it does to the economy as a total- at least, it resets the inequality, that prevents alot of Americans today from realizing there full potential.

Somewhere you have to draw a Finnish line, so that the race can start over.
Gary. If this is you. You know who I am. This may seem encrypted, but you know where to find me. - P.
I prefer the BSD port system.
Nice article, good to hear ed is not dead. =)

You could also just add the text after the matching line. A little simpler and more straight forward.

$ cat > /tmp/ed-script
/baz
a
- elephants
.
w
q
$ cat /tmp/2
foo:
- bar
- baz
- bananas
$ cat /tmp/ed-script | ed /tmp/2
33
- baz
47
$ cat /tmp/2
foo:
- bar
- baz
- elephants
- bananas
$·
I was there for a whole year, in a scientific base of my country. Being a controlled environment, I couldn't relate much with the items, except for

> 10. Re-entry.
> There is often a huge sense of isolation and disconnect when you come back to everyday life. For so long, you have been out in the wilderness and singularly concerned with survival and mileage, so when you get back to the real world and people talk about their jobs, or what they did at the weekend, it all feels foreign. You must remember that people have their own lives and their own interests. Just because you like Antarctica and polar expeditions, it doesn't mean anyone else should give a damn about you or what you did.

It was hard to come back to the real life...
‘Shell-Shocked’ in Hawaii: How Lava Overran a Neighborhood
I do tend to believe that the presence of a package in the Debian repositories is a limited representation of quality/review, as there is a package-maintainer and apparent community decision as to whether or not to keep it in the distro.

Is that perception correct?
> Does the name "Ubuntu Snap Store" carry a connotation that code is reviewed for malware by Ubuntu, the way that the Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. mobile app stores are?

As far as I know, Apple is the only company that manually reviews the code of apps, and even they let some (in my opinion) malware through [1]. Everybody else just does some heuristic anti-malware checking and then publishes the app.

1: Uber was permanently fingerprinting devices, even though Apple was disallowing this kind of tracking in their ToS.
I’m not the author of the comment we are both replying to, but I’m pretty sure you’re trying to use his comment as a soapbox to push your own views.

Moreover the quoted paragraph does support that claim, and you still have not engaged with it. You are the one failing to understanding statistics. The quoted paragraph does not support the idea that people can’t be categorized into races, of course depending on how you define race, but you’re the only one talking about that.

I think you need to check your tone and stop trying to politicize this discussion. You might have good points, but I’m really disappointed in how you seem to be trying to incite people.
>It is strange reading this - 330 generations ago, the entire world was communist. This began fading away, whereas nowadays only a few people live like this, deep in the Amazon and in other out of the way places.

We could argue about this all day and not come to real conclusions.

My belief about pre-history is that you were ruled by physical strength, not consent of the governed. I'd call it feudal, but it wasn't that organized, just your local strongman (or local charismatic person) getting... well, whatever you and your friends couldn't prevent them from taking.

Of course, I have no more evidence for my theory than for yours.
It's a numeronym. From the horse's mouth: https://twitter.com/dankohn1/status/982013434555523072
I have a very similar experience. My parents weren't heavily into music, but my mother always played a Simon and Garfunkel tape in the car which lead me to the rest of Simon's discography once I was old enough to find it.

My peers - and bandmates - didn't share my appreciation. I vividly remember an argument with my high-school band that ended in a dog rough performance of Sweet Child of Mine at a school talent show which included a broken guitar string during a solo, inaudible vocals, and off beat drum fills.

Later in my music career, musician friends came to understand the beauty of his songwriting and musicianship. It was really great to finally share my affection for those songs.

Simon influenced my own songwriting more than any other artist.
New law would stop Feds from demanding encryption backdoor
Could you give sources?
It is hard for me to believe that 330 generations ago there was no one that wanted more than the others in his group.
Yes they are "second tier" phones. The world is buying 2nd tier phones and even the average selling price for Samsung phones is around $182 (http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-and-samsung-sell-phones...). In the grand scheme of things, an insignificant number of people are buying high end Android phones.
It was written in 2013, so that couldn't have been a (useful) motivation by the author...
Arch makes it clear for users that AUR packages are not official.

Ubuntu snaps very easily installable, just a quick command away, which can give users a false sense of security.
The issues with X11 you mention is part of what Wayland tries to fix. And why early on seemingly benign things like screenshot tools broke.
Every line of code should have been reviewed by at least one DD. But the system is self policing, so it's hard to guarantee that that's the case. But Debian certainly leans towards being a curated collection of software rather than a wild west.
Anil Dash on making Glitch sustainable
Ever since I learned about it and then read up on it Anaconda has been my go-to way of using Python. Python packaging is a huge mess.
> So I had a total system replacement of a £3000 laptop because of a crumb. Insane.

What is more insane is that the KB is riveted to the top of the shell. If you want to replace it (good luck finding a kb) you have to drill out all the rivets.
I suspect that as well, but I see estimates for generations ranging from 20 years to over 100. While it's quite far back in time either way, there's up to 10s of thousands of years difference.
I fail to understand why you are downvoted.
Someone care to explain?