skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lied to the C-levels at a previous company about how hard it would be to monitor and log the instant messaging traffic of everyone at the office. Everyone was using AIM and there was no encryption, so it would have been trivially easy (I verified this, which was scary).

I then lied and told the CFO and CEO that it would be prohibitively hard to do and they dropped it. :P
> it would strip citizenship from the children of green-card holders and illegal immigrants alike, leaving millions of American citizens suddenly without a country.

Would it take a person with citizenship and remove their citizenship, or would it simply not grant them citizenship?
Browsing the global timeline of the main and pixiv instances could probably let you see most of the network.
Tangential... but why do the US call them 'Chips' whereas in the UK we call them 'Crisps'?
> What seems more possible is that she was what intelligence types call an "asset"

You seem to be using “spy” to mean “intelligence officer”; most of what in common parlance are “spies” are external agents or assets of intelligence services, not the officers who manage them.
In high school, almost all the IT work was done by the students who were trusted by the computer class teacher. That trust was often used to facilitate light-hearted mischief.

A colleague of mine developed and infected every student-accessible computer with a remote-access tool listening over a TCP socket. We'd mostly use it to open and close CD trays.
Another colleague was unsatisfied by how the TCP approach made the CD trays go off one-by-one if you tried the batch mode, so he wrote another remote-access tool, this time masquerading as a Windows service, and listening over UDP. Then he'd use UDP broadcast to simultaneously open and close CD trays everywhere in school.

Fun times.

Oh, and one of the first things they did to me when I was getting to know them was installing and hiding simple PHP script in my WWW folder on my account on school server. The script would basically evaluate its input param in backticks. That is, a minimal remote shell accessible in my public folder. AFAIR it took me couple of months to track down why some weird things were happening to my account from time to time.
Or when fixing a large production issue at 4:30 AM when you're the only one awake.
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Honestly, a continuous connectivity model was an ambitious bet early on. Wasn't cellular data at the time basically using the phone as a 9600bps modem at astronomical per-minute prices?

If continuous connectivity was unavailable, I could imagine an somewhat different ecosystem developing. We could still have sexy phone/PDA devices, but with software optimized around caching and making use of a transient connection.

For example, "feed" based apps like HN/Reddit/any typical news sources tend to pull the latest feed when you open the app, then load individual articles on request. In a limited-connectivity world, you'd see the app sitting in the background, waiting for Wi-Fi or a sync cable or however it was hooked in, and then pulling as many articles as it could to a local cache, so you could read them completely without data later.

I'm actually surprised this didn't happen much more in countries where data was spotty or expensive and limited.
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You sounded quite expert in your first post.
Definitely stay away from Sonos. I bought a pair of cheap Ones a month ago and next thing I knew I had four Ones, four Play:1s, two Beams, and a Connect.
Apparently the signals from Voyager have a "received power 20 billion times weaker than that of a digital wristwatch."[0]

The DSN website is a really good read. Along with supercooling the amplifiers they also use "special techniques to encode signals so the receiving system can distinguish the signal from the unwanted noise."

[0] - https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/about/
[A] special clause in the bill could actually take away points if the applicant tries to bring his or her spouse...Drafters of the proposal said that it was modeled on similar systems used by Canada and Australia. But this is actually not how other countries treat family members under their points systems. In the five countries we examined that currently use similar points systems–Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South Korea and New Zealand, spouses of applicants do not negatively impact the overall accumulation of points.

https://qz.com/1195155/trumps-merit-based-immigration-propos...
https://everything2.com/title/usenet
There's nothing language-specific about that idiom. In English, it's staircase wit. It should work in most languages as long as you have the story to go with it.
Well, if the receivers are always-on, and listening for the UDP packets from the Windows PC, then surely any lag causing de-syncs would be minimal - in the millisecond range.

For a one-speaker-per-room setup, it would probably be 'good enough'.

Needs investigation I think.
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> Facebook is useless because the village idiot gets more say than the scholar

This here is a problem in and of itself. Selecting whose voice is to be heard the loudest is no mean feat and simplifying this problem by simply throwing scholars at it shows a lack of respect for just how hard this problem is. Scholars have been known to hold and present pretty atrocious and even murderous ideologies. Who's to say we should trust them and not ordinary Joe who goes about his business in a small but deeply meaningful way?
First dinosaurs appeared as early as 230 million years ago, when what later became India was a part of the huge continent:

http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240

India became "an island" continent only almost 100 million years later than that.
What it would purport to do depends on the precise wording.

What it would actually do is get quickly struck down by the courts with no effect, since executive orders can't validly contradict federal statutory law or the Constitution.

Both sources of law currently protect birthright citizenship, except for the children of foreign diplomats who already don't benefit from it today (no new executive order needed).
It is my understanding that you can mitigate this to an extent by making larger scopes or employing techniques like interferometry. I haven't found an absolute 'hard limit', only a limit based on the size of the resolving device.

I'm generally a moron in this area though so I'm certainly missing large swaths of information.
Ahh, if only Apple released a non-touchbar MBP with Touch ID! I'd have used this in a heartbeat.
I would like to know more about this. Is there a proper book(s)/source(s) that I should follow? I never came across segment trees in my Data Structures class and I have rarely found the
need to code one up in my job yet the screening process involved coding a question using segment trees. How do people get to know about these?
The first time I read (in school) about an asteroid hitting the Gulf of Mexico and causing the extinction of the dinosaurs, I looked at a map and sure enough the Gulf of Mexico looked like a big round hole where the asteroid must have hit.

Later I realized that the dinosaur-killing crater is much smaller and buried and hidden at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. I also learned that the Gulf of Mexico was formed to due plate tectonics, not due to an impact. What an odd coincidence that the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit a location on the Earth that looks just like a huge crater, but isn't a crater at all.
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I hope Mastodon will develop into a real twitter alternative one day. Currently it’s rather “empty”

If anyone is intersted in a German round-up of Mastodon:
https://www.achtungtechnik.de/archives/2018/mastodon/
I also hoped it would bring screens readable in solar light to the market. I still miss it regularly and am always surprised not more people want this!
I just wanted to go with simple one-liners. But you are right.

Yes, I will try that. Thanks for the tip.
Can anyone just dig? I’d love to join the journey for a week or two.
Do you have any source for this?
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How did you get sharper?
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Here's one:

4 hours by car from San Francisco. It says you can't reach South Lake Tahoe, but Google Maps (and my experience) show that it's usually about 3 1/2 hours.

https://oalley.net/map/bd7
There are multiple account migration issues, the hardest is what happens when the hobbyist/volunteer instance you use inevitably goes down for good - you lose your address, your social network connections, your posts/history etc. That's unlikely to happen if you use the main Mastodon instance, but an aim of Mastodon is that you don't.

In that situation you can't log into the old site to edit your profile to have it redirect people to a new account, and even if you could the redirect will still go down with the server.

Mastodon can't fix these problems alone because the whole fediverse protocol needs to be rethought. Hubzilla saw this as the fundamental issue facing federated social media and so it was designed around a solution they call "nomadic identity" - you can shift your Hubzilla identity across many servers, keeping all your posts and subscriptions, and all the Hubzilla stuff updates and points to the new place, but subscriptions to you from Mastodon/fediverse will still break.

Perhaps Mastodon can lead the work on a newer protocol for the fediverse.
Canada is getting plenty of less educated irregular migrants right now, primarily those departing from the US after the Trump administration ended their Temporary Protected Status programs which had let them stay legally in the US. Any of those affected who are highly educated are probably using the points system you describe to enter through regular channels.

Also, Canada has exactly the same birthright citizenship policy as the US, though it's merely in Canada's statutory law, not also in its constitution.

(Edited to replace "those people" with "those affected" - I just meant a neutral reference, not a phrase that racists often give a derogatory meaning.)
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I do not compete with shark, but don't put us in the same tank

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Is there any chance the Windows demo binaries can be made portable?

That would make it easier for users not having administrator access to evaluate if PgModeler fits their requirements. :)
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On the other hand, earth is a finite sized object, and so are photons, so there are only so many photons to work with no matter how large your detector.
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Rumor has it his brother, Bruce, was fairly successful as well, though nobody seems to know what he actually does...
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Why couldn't you create an email identity specifically for social networking.
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Because Joe doesn’t have decades of peer reviewed work as his context when posting his views and thus reasons from statistically limited experience.
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I wonder if in the long run Mastodon will still not be an "outrage machine". Twitter also didn't start out as a vent for political outrage, but as a platform grows it gets more bad apples. In the case of Mastodon it's decentralized nature actually provides them more security. It will be interesting to see it play out.
>This analogy is not generally accepted by most philosophers. Briefly: philosophy is not a science.

Which philosophers are you referring to? I'd agree with "many" but "most" is an empirical claim I'd not be brave enough to make. Do you perhaps mean to say "economics isn't a natural science"?

Case in point: there is tons of kuhnians running around that think of science as a consent-seeking endeavor with agreed upon principles. They recognise that any hard delineation between say econ not being a science but physics being one, usually kicks out a lot of progress in physics as not scientific. Especially those theoretical physics whose predictions are extremely fruitful bbut where experimental data is out of reach right now.
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Snapcast would likely work better for this use case - it handles audio endpoint synchronization.

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
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Thanks for replying. I guess:
https://gun.eco/explainers/data/summary.html
sums up the situation - but there's a few things that aren't quite clear: by design, everyone can access all encrypted data? So there's some meta-data that's easy to find, such as checking if an account exist, and how much data is associated with it - and the ability to record the approximate rate that data is written to the account?

For example, if the login is an email, the app is an exercise logger - I might be able to infer that someone is out jogging by looking at the data?
Hilarious about the test cops. Testing seems to, so far, be a fairly wishy-washy task.

The spec thing makes a lot of sense. The project I’m learning with is not ideal because the test environment takes a moment to boot but it’s peculiar and challenging me to consider real-world scenarios, which may or may not be a good thing but I’m near wrapping it up. It’s a plug-in for a few different content creation softwares.

I would say I knew what I was building, but there have been unknowns about which particular approach will meet my standards and still be DRY. They all worked great with prototypes but I discovered some edge cases late in construction. I found TDD very satisfying but now I have an instinctual doubt about it.

Your thoughts make a lot of sense. I guess one of the main things will do next time is avoid all the extra unit testing I did early on. I think I was honestly having too much fun. Someone should do research on if automated test coverage illicits the slot-machine effect.
If you go back to 200 million years you'll see India firmly attached and it broke away ~150 million years ago, Dinosaurs are ~240 million years old.
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Can someone tl;dr?
oh hey you suffer from the whole aphantasia thing too? i think that really made the process of answering what a church steeple is a bit more difficult; i was unable to actually construct the perception of a church from the past, though that isn't just due to the aphantasia but also the rarity with which I even am around a church. but that being said when thinking about the church steeple, my mind more represented it as an attribute of the architecture of the church, one that contextually refers to the ceiling as it were. and then after comprehending that my mind constructed the experience of processing some abstract church holistically and relating the steeple as a pattern of data within the data set of the church as a whole
Oooh wasn't aware of Snapcast. Thanks! Bookmarked.
I think fast when it comes to language and logic but my mathematical thinking is very slow.

In math exams at university, I usually only managed to get about half way through most exam papers. Amazingly, I still managed to pass most math courses. I knew most of the answers but it took me so long to solve them that I could never finish the whole paper.

I had to really know the stuff just to get an average grade.
I don't think this story can be easily summarized. I would advise either reading the whole thing or skipping it altogether.
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The same that that structural test creates unnecessary coupling there will be other tests that create that coupling as well. It is a learning phase. You will realize that there are things that you can do and things that you can't do while testing.

Once I learned how to test properly, TDD has been helpful, never a hindrance.

In case you haven't read them `Test Driven Development By Example` by Kent Beck and `Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests` by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce are great books
How we built a globally distributed rate limiter that scales horizontally
After working in the Python speed optimization space as a consultant for a while I have come to see Cython as not really being the right answer for a lot of situations. The main reason is that CPython is slow but Cython really is quite heavily constraining you to the CPython runtime. Cython is significantly different enough to not be Python but it isn't the language I'd want to choose (C/C++/Rust) for going the whole way with foreign function interfacing (I might blog about this again sometime). Sure it's easy to get started with it but I feel like the maintenance costs are higher than people think.

Numba on the other hand has a few nice use cases (where "nice" means close to Pareto-efficient improvement), but I tend to just be using PyPy if I'm going with JIT approach. If for some reason I had to use CPython but had a few bottleneck functions that could be sped up with Numba I'd strongly consider it.
Wonder what the noise floor is at those receivers ;)
I find US proposal exact same as Canadian one. Under Canadian system, a person without any family is able to gain more points than one with spouse. Because the spouses gets judged on their own qualifications like degree, English language ability etc.

I think that article is incorrect. Try the points here yourself:- http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp
How do we manage identity and reputation on the internet?

I don't recall that being a particular problem in the Usenet era. One's identity wasn't particularly important unless you were representing an organization, or if you were yourself famous. One's reputation was built on your body of work, the accuracy and integrity of your content, and the helpfulness of your presentation.

What killed Usenet? What delivered its most severe and ultimately fatal wound was the downward spiral of signal-to-noise ratio. The biggest contributor was spam, which completely overwhelmed unmoderated newsgroups. Another was the "endless September" effect of the massive influx of Outlook-using, AOL-trained new users with no respect for, ir interest in, the community civility of most existing audiences. FAQ reading before posting became dismissed as old-fashioned. "Top-posting" over relentlessly recopied content replaced thoughtful, contextual quoting. Duplicated questions that had been answered many times before (and white answers were easily found) crowded out new content and wore down longtime contributors. Finally, the difficulty in profiting from traffic sent many content providers into their own SEO-happy walled garden.

So, instead of, say, one well-curated FAQ article about how to root a given phone model/network combination, you get seventy different recipes on YouTube and proprietary forums... many with their own unique, fatal oversight that lures the novice into bricking his or her device. Yay, progress.

I started participating in 1986. Sadly, I don't even remember which year I abandoned my last newsgroup.
The H1B study sounds suspicious and the defence of the H1B program weakened an otherwise strong article.

H1B abuses have been long documented so while there are legitimate benefits to it, they are outweighed by the problems.
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HM, what is the advantage of having that as opposed to just using your phone, especially at this price point?

You could even have it charged from the dynamo.
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that's why I hate dealing anything via phone.

When someone calls me (it's a recruiter, or other) I've almost always put him/her down with the line: 'Please send me a text message, e.g. an e-mail and call me back tomorrow' or something - I prefer read information first, think over it, and then do the answer.

But I think that's the main objective of phone scammers to fool you around and put the quick (bad) answer on you.
Most people use products, not protocols. We need a more product-oriented approach. Decentralization and federation aren't the first or second item on the list of things most people are looking for, unless we get to "exactly like X, but decentralized."

It's wrong that people don't understand or want to not depend on something like Facebook. At least where I am, a lot of people understand the issues. But there's nothing really like it, and life in my city is quite difficult without.

It's nothing that can't be fixed though! I think a project like Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org/) is doing things right. We can get there.
Vice breaks an agreement and puts a Chinese woman at risk for their story, then does everything they can to stifle her attempts to seek legal help, most notably starting with the original journalist, Jason Koebler, and aided and abetted by Sarah Jeong, who used blatantly underhanded tactics in order to undermine Naomi's credibility.
Mastodon is not based on GNU Social in any way other than they both used the OStatus protocol. Before ActivityPub became the norm.

GNU Social is made in PHP and Mastodon is made with Ruby and NodeJS. So two wildly different implementations.

Mastodon also looked more modern and followed more so called modern developing practices. Which is why I think it caught on more than GNU Social ever did.