skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The list of current policies which are wildly unjust or flat-out insane, and for which this strategy would have to be applied, is always much longer than the list of candidates. There are no US elections, ever, in which it is possible to vote for any candidate who would not have to receive a long list of such twitter posts. I don't see how this strategy can work.
The current state of the art (reverse osmosis) is already fairly good. The first link I found [1] demonstrates the increase in efficiency - we're talking about roughly 3 kWh/m3. I don't recall exactly, but I think that is in an order of 5 of the theoretic maximum.

At an average, rather immodest level of water consumption per capita (~1580 m3/annum), then this is about ~4740kWh per year, or 13 kWh per day. I'd say this is significant, but then:

For comparison, current energy use per capita in the USA is 7000kg-oil-equivalent [2] (or 81000 kWh [3]), so an additional 4740 kWh is about 5%.

The real problem is that people use absolutely indecent amounts of energy and water and other resources, usually for no good reason at all...

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/45145253/The...
[2] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.PCAP.KG.OE?locat...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne_of_oil_equivalent
You can try Gentoo prefix to install stuff into your $HOME:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix
There was a pre-2010 burst of interest in DPI in the carrier world, back when they thought it would be feasible to bill different kinds of traffic separately (i.e., beyond zero-rating traffic's to their walled gardens).

That lead to an arms race from core networking vendors to push out all sorts of traffic sniffing and policing with insane degrees of intrusion that made me quite uneasy (I worked in core network planning), and it's been a relief to finally see LetsEncrypt take hold and TLS become de rigeur.

I do have some qualms about the way legal interception can be abused (in general) and occasionally ponder how far those vendors may have progressed in MITM, though - carriers and exchange points are not as secure as they should (in sometimes surprising ways), and back then finding bugs in carrier equipment was relatively frequent.

I wonder what's it like now that most of it are actually Linux VMs running someplace in their ancient datacenters.
Obviously, butterflies are the only species having a problem and everything's fine.
GPUs Applications Get the Container Treatment
400K, not 4MM
Well, you could fill all of the unused storage space on the system with random noise specified by you, then ask the system to regurgitate that noise to you (or more practically, tell you a function calculated from some set of bytes you specify). That would require that an attacker physically alter the hardware to defeat your verification process.

You can maybe come up with a version of this that uses a HSM, or simply some part of the firmware that is read-only.
Its a great way to churn through hundreds of small tasks, like hooking up database queries to web pages or changing graphics on a site.

Its a terrible, terrible way to try to design complex control systems. They must be studied and modelled and analyzed by experts in processes that have absolutely nothing to do with '2 week sprints'. =
Company borrowing billions to feed a bonfire of cash, eventually has to raise prices. Surprised?

Nice chart of the huge increasing cash burn ...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-15/netflix-hikes-pric...

What are the barriers to entry for the competition?

Does Disney-Pixar have good content?

Does Amazon have deep pockets?

Survival depends on the price elasticity of viewers
as they trim their budgets going into a recession. So is Netflix discretionary or a necessity? We'll see, but when betting on Netflix's future, my money is on red, not black.

Of course there are a few possible futures for Netflix: bankruptcy; heavily discounted acquisition;
or finding a Greater Fool, usually Microsoft in these situations (see Nokia, LinkedIn).
Probably more of an issue for people on public WiFi networks. Who knows what dns provider is being sent from DHCP. Cloudflare is easy.
Envy in the Tech Sector
Seriously. Last night St. Louis local news aired a story about an elderly woman who walks around her apartment. Good for the woman but I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/health/no-gym-no-problem-s...
Anyone else not want local news support coming from FB of all places?
Creator here: PR has been opened :)
https://github.com/brianlovin/security-checklist/pull/46
TL;DR Do your part and plant some plants, people.
The only place I recall seeing machine guns in public in the US was in the airport (just like any major European airport to be fair)
Look again:

https://developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/guides/library/p...

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/alexa-voice-service/set-up...
What is Typescript providing that you don't get by writing 1 test that checks type and by following modern ECMAScript specs? Does that justify a new syntax? The answer I think is no. I see much praise in this thread, but very little definition of why that praise is merited.
Things to add:

* Keep your software updated.

* Restrict & remove online access as needed. After the 2nd time she gave out her password, Granny's web banking was turned off.

* Lock users down to just the access they need; if managing devices for kids or the elderly or less technically savvy, consider removing admin access.

* When using any tool, get the paid version. Free means your privacy is what it cost.

* Keep backups, and know how to restore in case you are compromised.

* Set up access alerts going to a separate email account for as many of your accounts and services as possible.

Things to question:

* Not sure we can safely promote Australian-based Fastmail thanks to their backwards new laws.

* Mobile browsers, like Firefox Focus, are great - not sure that I'd put Brave ahead of Firefox.

* Not sure VPNs are really all that helpful, feels more like a personal preference vs. a real security measure.
IMHO, there's no point in individual action, we need collective political action in the form of massive government intervention, pretty much like in a total war economy. The free market clearly has failed here:

- Carbon tax.

- Carbon tariffs.

- Expropriation of all oil fields, the oil has to stay in the ground.

- Criminal prosecution of executives and shareholders of Oil companies much like what should have happened to the Tobacco industry.

- Job program (right to employment) to re-train the workforce in green technologies, specially in areas that will be affected by the aforementioned measures.
It is behind the glovebox
Reaching out and talking to people will help.

1. If everyone has 1/2 surviving child then in 150 years, our population will become stable.

2. It’s not transferable because we still need species diversity

3. People will be incentivized with ubi and all their needs taken care of if they agree to #1.

4.stop animal based foods.

5. Return half planet back to nature to reforest and rewind.

6.reverse acidification of oceans.

7. Find ways to restore polar ice caps and bring down planet temperature

8. Reduce fossil fuel dependence. Go nuclear.

9. Protect water.

Nature will rewild. We just need to stop being so successful with procreation because our highest achievement will result in our extinction.

My 2c.
The problem is that is where it currently goes... It is addressed in the article.
funny i read this on the chicago subway and there was an ad right in front of me that 65% of males "suffer" from hairloss and there is a "treatment" available in form of monthly delivery.

Being male is now a disease.
More details, from the same site, on http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/12274/Hewlett-Packard...
Are you suggesting that "we" are using the "great cannon" to target "ourselves" then?
Recurse Center founder here.

Many people have asked over the years what types of things people do at RC. It's a surprisingly hard question to answer, because the work people do here is varied and diverse, from contributing to OSS projects to silly hacks to algorithmically generated art.

We built Joy of Computing to answer this question. It's a daily link aggregation site which posts one piece of work done by a current Recurser or an alum every day.

I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any!
Get a new MacBook. Hardware based disconnect for the microphone and the camera.
What are we doing to this planet? What will it become? The monarchs are a blessing of a creature. Will we just watch them wither away? Can we escape our petty dramatized politics and think of what we are passing on to future generations? Not just high tech benefits, but mountains of plastics for packaging, toys, and many “novelties” that are useless except for cheap thrills.

But have you seen the latest VR tech? You can just put on a headset and swear your were back at that state park with mom and dad, in front of that old eucalyptus positively twitching with Monarchs.
I was reading the LKML(linux kernel mailing list) back when some.. people were pushing DBus (a message transport protocol) into the kernel (in a slightly different form, as kdbus). Main reasons were performance (dbus sucks there) and.. i think security or something. Many comments in and the main reasoning for the performance improvement (of moving it into the kernel) was context switching (going from a userspace program into the kernel and/or back). At least two senior RedHat engineers, the top kernel maintainer, and a bunch of other engineers. Out of all of them NOBODY bothered to check out why dbus is slow. Until Linus himself ran a simple test and found that the user-space dbus daemon is not optimized at all. Context switches were something like 1% of the actual performance cost. Well.. saying that nobody bothered to check is just my wishful thinking, thinking that it is incompetence or just them just being jaded by fancy technology rather then malice (there's more to the story).

Anyway. One of the mails was an infotainment engineer at some car company. Before that I, for some reason, thought that such a big and serious industry is very serious when it comes to software. But right then it clicked that car software makers are just as any other software writers (maybe a bit more serious).
This was before two hackers hacked a Toyota. And later a Range Rover (or something) over bluetooth. Bout those companies are much older and much more serious then Tesla, and probably have plenty of world class coders at their disposal.

As for the first part of what I wrote above (that i forgot by now).
Teslas are not the first commercially viable electric car. They may be among the first to have nice range (over 300km). And Teslas are not the most affordable, that goes to the Nissan Leaf (2017 and above). Granted the Nissan is not a big car, closer to a Clio.

On another though, they could just hire a security company to do a deep audit. Maybe they have. Maybe that's why they are incentivizing crackers. I do not and probably can not know.

edited for readability

EDIT: I'd maybe trust Rolls Royce. But i don't have money for that so it doesn't matter.
Is access to it lockable? Would be useful for a taxi usecase
> It sounds quite stressful.

So does being shot by police.
> Do we have any evidence that Agile actually helps

In my experience (25+ years now), an awful lot of people who are looking into adopting Agile processes are actually in the midst of grasping at straws/looking for a silver bullet. The "problem" they have is that software development takes longer than they want it to and no matter how hard they beat the programmers, it keeps taking longer than they want it to. So "agile" is just the newest cudgel.
Web Development: What’s Big in 2019?
> I don't think we should be desiging jet fighters in 2 week sprints.

Who is making this claim?
I installed Ubuntu on the PC of an elderly relative in mental decline who kept downloading malicious software. It's worked quite well. She just needs a browser and has no reason to use the terminal or anything.
That would be the "natural tendency" if I was describing something mysterious and rare that few can fathom. Whereas to me those situations don't seem really as far-fetched or hard for someone to come up on their own.

I didn't write "one can easily" to imply I have some special talent to imagine such situations (and thus had motive to leave examples off to hide the fact that I don't).

I wrote it because I really do believe one can easily find such examples, and wasn't it even worthy to go into details (since I mentioned medicine, police work, etc, I thought the cases I implied where pretty clear too).

In any case, I gave 3 examples in a comment above.
Because humans are causing the extinction and more importantly have the intellect/ability to prevent it. The problem is more systemic. This happens to be a specific case.
What does DIB mean?
That's wasn't what I intended to imply. Rather that it's not like other manufacturers found the secret recipe and we should somehow feel safer in their cars. Added an "also" for clarity.
> I don't think we should be desiging jet fighters in 2 week sprints. Airframes probably can't be modified like that

The F35 might be the first plane in history where the software costs more than the airframe development. It's difficult to find a detailed breakdown, but example numbers include

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/22/f_35b_block_4_upgra... "Figures reported by The Times newspaper pegged US estimates for upgrades to the supersonic stealth fighter at £7.67bn ($10.8bn) for software development and £3.84bn ($5.4bn) for deploying those upgrades across all F-35s ever built."

And that's just an upgrade. Now, arguably you don't want to be too agile with the avionics either, but at some point the cost of not delivering anything that works becomes prohibitive.
Right. From a naive perspective, I think it's safe to say that 2 hours of screen time watching a movie with loved ones is better for your health than a cumulative 2 hours of looking at your phone browsing social media and constantly comparing your life to others.
That's exactly what the article is about. Putting it back in the ocean is the problem.
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Why do any country want to invade other countries?
Russian regulator demands Google filters search results
some of your points are fair, but I think you're making excuses. The "Even with Canadian flights it is normal to clear US customs and immigration..." is trying to justify.. something.. but what it's really describing is a policy by which the US is forcing its immigration enforcement on to foreign countries. This is a new thing.

I haven't travelled enough to say; I've noticed the 'sterile' zones in particular in Heathrow but of course they have a vast array of international flights, and their status as a non-Schengen country means virtually every transit will be an international one (in contrast to your fair point about the US being a large country with primarily domestic flights).

On a recent trip to South America, I was reminded of how few countries have sterile zones. I made the mistake of booking through Mexico, thinking it would save time, but not realizing I'd have to clear customs going through the country each way. I also took a number of flights such as Argentina -> Peru -> Chile requiring I clear customs on my connection, as well as going through exit and entrance immigration in each (another contrast to the US, which has no exit immigration at all).

I think I got something like 16 passport stamps in 3 weeks.
I'm planning to do the same (so thanks for the link!) in addition to roping off the wild patches of milkweed in our hay fields so they don't get mowed by the farmer we lease our land to.

I'll add on to this, if anybody out there is interested, join the monarch waystation network! I got my waystation certificate in the mail a few weeks ago. https://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/
...multiple changes of ruling party...

I think you don't understand the American political system. At present there are only two parties in terms of realistically getting elected. There is no such thing as a ruling party in the sense of European parliaments. Members of a party are free to vote as they please. Hence Lieberman famously derailing aspects of Obamacare. There is also the fact that both parties in the U.S. have shifted very much to the right the last 40 years. The reality in the U.S. is that even with our so called left leaning party in power in the legislative branch and executive branch no serious environmental accords were negotiated and passed.
What's with the title? The title on the article is fine but the one on Hacker News is terrible. It doesn't mention anything to do with hooks and components are supposed to be composable. That's kind of the goal.
Google Reader and RSS has outsize importance in tech and blogging circles, but as someone who was in college in the late-2000s, I count on one hand the number of people who knew what RSS even was. I'd say FB and Twitter killed forums and website comment sections.
I work for a defense company and this pretty much describes our development flow.

Who thinks I should show this to my manager?
Playing with Stack Overflow Errors
Recommended Approach to Software Development (1992) [pdf]
What’s the Difference Between $5 Logo and $250 Logo? I Tried Both
> Last year, we worked to better understand what kind of news people want to see on Facebook.

This opening line is just all wrong. News isn't about 'what you want to see', writing news to garner clicks is basically another way of saying 'our news reporting is fundamentally biased'.

Real journalism isn't entertainment. But, I get it, real journalism doesn't sell, people don't have time to understand world problems, don't care much about corruption unless it's dramatic, don't care about plain boring facts.

Facebook understands that in order to own a market they have to spoon-feed it what it wants. Curate an audience of idle minds and feed them what they measurably want.

This play to 'local news' is simply a tool to advance their own agenda, they want to own local news and help you feel that FB is all warm and 'local' to your needs.

Your 'local' world-view, sponsored by Facebook. It's kind of sick really.
The article misses the context of our generation, in which multiple Western and Eastern governments as an underlying trend have been exercising the same behaviors.

Australia officially banned strong encryption for state surveillance this week. The Unite States got caught in the world's most intrusive global and domestic surveillance effort and buried the news of this through its relationship with the domestic press. Poland repealed its supreme court after upending its government. Israel has been criticized for its domestic assassination program targeting thousands of people a year. The United States has a threat scoring system automatically scoring political, social, economic, and other "risk" data into municipal police departments so that these people can be monitored and managed without a warrant.

The fact of the matter is Western nations have been engaging on censorship, surveillance and "perception management" and "strategic communication" (read: propaganda) campaigns at home and around the world for decades.

Chinese hackers aren't "Us versus Them". The British _helped_ the Chinese establish a modern propaganda program over the past decade. Where are the British in this article?

Overall, disappointed at the narrow view of the article. It can't offer solutions because its hasn't identified the problems.
It's not dead. Encryption has (unjustifiably) pushed the enterprise to install fake catchall certificates on proxies so they can snoop plain-text traffic. (Why anyone would ever think this is a good idea is beyond me.)
Did you fly in the years shortly after 9/11? There were soldiers armed with rifles, which may have automatic firing capabilities, back then. They aren't present now but I wonder if the GP's post is an impression from that period.
NASA Systems Engineering Handbook (2007) [pdf]
Well, I suppose the simplest solution is that they declare their passports lost or stolen and ask for new ones before getting to the US.

The new passports won't have traces of their entering Iran, and the US will not get their hands on the old passports and never know they were in Iran.
Well, you broke it. It's yours now.
I think GP means that the justification of JTB by definition is recursive and thus has no real foundation.

To call something 'true' is to know it is 'true'.

If we are bothering to debate whether knowledge is possible, JTB is unconvincing.
The author on occasion also publishes a journal about " the Lisp family of programming languages and little-languages in general", which is worth a look.

http://readevalprintlove.fogus.me/
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Breeze – An experimental, kakoune-inspired CLI-centric text/code editor in Rust
Almost all the features you mention (navigate on autopilot, blind spot monitoring, dash cam) shipped in October, not in the Christmas release.
Cities around the world are banning cars
Ask HN: Which tool do you use to take math-heavy notes?
For context: I'm looking for the best tool that I could utilize to write my college notes. I've read about TiddlyWiki, Notable, Typora (and other markdown editors)... But can't decide which would be the best and don't have enough time to try them all.
Not sure if I got that, did you mean "Do not want." perhaps?
Software's code problem
A "machine gun" in the legal sense, in the US, is any weapon or device capable of firing multiple rounds per pull of the trigger. They have been illegal to manufacture for civilian use since 1986, although devices made before that time are legal for civilian ownership at the Federal level. It requires payment of a tax to the ATF and a background check (these are called NFA items, and the Gun Owner's of America is currently petitioning the Supreme Court to challenge it).

A semi-automatic weapon can only fire once per trigger pull and then uses the force of the exploding round to load the next round from a magazine. These are extremely common in the US, but you probably did not see them since many are conceal carried or used only at home or at the range.

What you saw at airports were probably "machine guns" used by police and military to guard the airport. A civilian legal "machine gun" can run upwards of $10000 and is likely not something people would carry in public, even if it is likely legal to do so depending on open carry of long guns laws in that locality.
It's not just the Alexa-like and IoT devices, it's your entire home LAN that might be indirectly exposed.

The last carrier I worked for was running trials of a "virtual CPE" that replaced your home gateway with a much dumber and cheaper device that effectively extended your home LAN to the local exchange (at least), where the actual isolation, filtering and NAT were performed.

I switched home providers when I left there, and if my current provider ever goes the same route I'll drop my own firewall in front of my LAN.

(Theoretically there is already relatively little isolation between your LAN and parts of the carrier network if you have VoIP or IPTV, but in this case I happen to know who tests that equipment and have a very good idea of what it really does, because I used to work in that team a long time ago...)
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I'm surprised there aren't collective coordination apps for things like this.