skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like your question. I’d offer these differences:

- You get access to a wider variety of machines at a gym than you can afford or store in your home. Whereas you probably just need 1-2 3D printers and power/hand tools don’t take up much space. Also, even if a makerspace had a wide variety of machines, non-members couldn’t tell you what those would be or what they’d necessarily do with them, unlike a gym.

- Working out takes 30-60 minutes. Making something takes whole evenings; that’s a lot of time to spend out. Classes are shorter but have the problem where only novices and moderately interested people want to do them.

- Working out in a room with others is social and motivating. You’re surrounded by people who look like what you’re working toward, etc. Making things with others is also social, but fewer people are used to tapping into that as a motivation to create. And highly accomplished makers aren’t usually as attractive as people in peak fitness. :)
Credentials or just account names?
And if fd 1 is reused for something, that something becomes, by definition, stdout.
Some countries are worried about extraterritorial enforcement of US trade policy, but they're afraid of confronting the US over the issue. Here's a recent discussion on Radio France Internationale about the issue: [1].

France would like to confront the US over the issue of extraterritoriality, which many view as undermining French sovereignty, but they can't do so without support from Germany. Germany is afraid of tariffs on its auto industry, so it won't go along with France in standing up to US overreach.

For the moment, the US is able to act in this manner. As long as no coalition of countries forms to push back, the US can force everyone else to stop doing business with Iran, with Huawei, and whomever else it chooses to cut off from the world economy.

As a report for the French Senate points out: [2]

> The European Union and its Member States have shown unity in affirming their determination to counter the effects of aggressive use by the United States of its economic and geopolitical pre-eminence. What is at stake today for Iran could also, tomorrow, apply to other countries targeted by American diplomacy.

I think this sort of behavior sets a very bad precedent, though, and will undermine the post-WWII order that the US played a central role in establishing. The US agreed to bind itself within a framework of international institutions, as a form of enlightened self-interest, but more recently, the US has increasingly acted in a manner that appears purely self-interested and short-sighted.

1: https://player.fm/series/geopolitique-le-debat-65224/geopoli...

2: https://www.senat.fr/notice-rapport/2018/r18-017-notice.html
i was evicting some tenants who had a brand new bed from rent-a-center, and the guys came to pick it up.... one of them forgot his hex screw driver, and called into the manager to say he "saw bed bugs" and then they gave the guy the bed for free -- actually i wound up taking it, but i think if u say "bed bugs" when it comes to those beds, all of a sudden they dont want it back (no it didnt have bed bugs)
Apple is making corporate ‘BYOD’ programs less invasive to user privacy
there are ways to store this information without storing the photos. Developing signatures which are stored and discarding the photos, for example. Consider how a site like haveibeenpwned works.

The photos themselves are pretty useless anyways. A database of images will only ever be searched by an ML algorithm for which signatures should be good enough anyways, or manually, based on highly specific timestamps, by some form of police.
Renting things is a financial tool and it can save you money. The calculation is simple. You estimate the difference between how much something costs and how much you can sell it for once you're done using it. That's your real cost to own it. Compare that number to the cost of renting it for the same time period. If the cost to rent is lower, renting is a better deal.

For larger and more involved transactions (especially homes) things get more complex, but that's still the basic arithmetic.

Making more things rentable isn't a big problem. The big problem is that many people don't understand this arithmetic so they end up shooting themselves in the foot when you start giving them options. And unfortunately the people who need this knowledge the most are often the least likely to have it.

There's a simple solution which is to just teach a great personal finance curriculum in high schools nationwide. (Well, as simple as solving a problem for hundreds of millions of people is going to get.) Of course this being HN we can probably dream up fancier solutions like incentivizing people to take some personal finance training online.
I think the trick is only owning assets that might appreciate in value.

I wouldn't want to own a car because the value of cars drops as soon as you take the car out of the lot. But owning a house /apartment might be a good idea if the market is relatively stable and you can actually afford it.

It also depends on lifestyle. For a person like me, who moves around a lot, owning furniture for example doesn't make sense. The moving costs, maintenance costs and so on are just a pain. I'd rather rent the furniture, or rent a furnished place.
There is no guarantee offered by the standard that you must be able to read and write to memory allocated by malloc(). What if the memory was allocated and just a split second later, the physical RAM burnt out due to overheating? How is the standard supposed to guarantee reading and writing to it then?

Both the hardware burning after memory allocation and lack of availability of physical memory after memory allocation are outside the scope of the standard. The standard says nothing about them. A C program can fail in these scenarios without violating the standard.
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Thankfully, Indian government websites still use their own captchas - which though not as 'secure', works for most of the cases, and don't take minutes to solve.
so in each game the money that is not won is collected in the pool until the pool is bigger than the overall cost for all tickets?

and in other games this doesn't work because they are 'winner-takes-all'?
One small difference - eventually they pay the bank debt off and own the item. The as-a-service users pay forever.
Amazon had a restaurant business?

The funny thing is, Amazon probably could do a good delivery restaurant business. There are already many "delivery only restaurants"[1] Uber Eats encourages others to start them. But Amazon, unlike Uber, is capable of building physical infrastructure. The future of this is "food fulfillment centers", large warehouse spaces which house various specialty kitchens. Common functions, such as shipping, cleaning, equipment maintenance, and order handling are shared. Surprising that Amazon didn't go that way.

[1] https://ny.eater.com/2016/9/26/12717518/delivery-only-restau...
>> And they're doing nothing to the repair shop - they're just appealing the case to a higher Norwegian court which is their right. That in no way is harassment.

If harass is not the right term here, what would you call it? Legal maneuvers? Business maneuvers?

I bet Mr. Tim Cook has not said more than a few sentences regarding this case. Maybe none at all. And the lawyers are making their few hundred dollars an hour happily while sending off reams of paper with legalese printed on them.

And on the flip side is a small mom and pop shop running a small business. Repairing electronic gadgets. Do you know how much good such electronic repair shops do for our environment?
Also if you pay off the mortgage let's say $2k/m then you are $2k/m better off after tax. Otoh if you rent and invest you need to make $2k/m after tax (so maybe $4k/m before tax, depending on where you live etc.) from the investment to be in the same position.
The OP is what I responded to. That idea is what I described as a train-wreck. And I stand by it.

I agree it's not a train-wreck to have your browser offer the choice of Google, Ask Jeeves or Lycos upon performing the first search. What this is is pointless. Nearly everyone doesn't care and will just reflexively select Google. The remaining people will have changed the setting themselves anyway.
Sure, it's quite a few years old at this point but basic specs:

- Supermicro X10DRL-i

- Dual XeonE5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz

- 32 gigs ram

- 32 gig boot stick

- 512 cache ssd (being upgraded soon to 1tb)

- 27 8TB drives, one for parity, one currently dead that's waiting a replacement

Running Unraid which has served me well.

Thing is sitting in a lack table from ikea which this particular model they stopped making. It has a bottom shelf and came on casters.

One thing I did do right away was replace the stock cpu fans for noctuas since the server would be right next to me and noise was a big deal. Temps are a little higher than they would be with the stock fans but still within safe ranges even under load.

Im almost out of space and I don't really want to upgrade to 10tb drives yet...

Using it primarily for dev and backup.
Except, wait... tell us why we'd remove China (or any other part of the world that seems less important to you) again?
To be more clear: without my custom thread pool harness, av1 gets 0.2 fps on this same machine (under 700 frames per hour).
Of course if it's an essential service like healthcare, formal education, paying bills etc. people will be forced to use it (if there's no option to change that service itself). But for that fancy startup showing some content for to consume when it's not necessary, I will just close that website.
There are collaborations between mobile network providers and push notification providers to get these sockets special-cased. I.e., they won't need keep-alive at any regular interval. So the radio can actually get layer-1 pings (like, when you're called, or get an SMS) for push notifications.
It's not about winning the case, it's about forcing the other side to show their hand.
Nice quiz :-) My attempt would be:

select b1.Brand as brand1, b2.Brand as brand2
from bicycles as b1
inner join bicycles as b2
on (b1.Colour = b2.Colour)
where b1.Brand <> b2.Brand
This is bad news, it was one of the best food delivery services in the U.S
React-redux 7.1.0 (the one with hooks) released
Boo missing two of my talks “latency, availability and cost: withstanding regional outages”, and “precision chaos”
It seems like you'd see the same kinds of problems with this as you would with predatory lending: even if the cost of a loan (or renting in this case) were much higher in even the medium term, if you're poor enough, it still makes sense because the alternative is not having enough money to live on, right now. Loans and renting are IMO potentially the same thing in this context.

It seems to me there's a fairly straightforward regulatory solution to this issue: require tighter financial checks, or reduce the protections given lenders in case of default.
> On May 31, 2019, CBP learned that a subcontractor, in violation of CBP policies and without CBP’s authorization or knowledge, had transferred copies of license plate images and traveler images collected by CBP to the subcontractor’s company network

Sounds like CBP's issue was less about compartmentalizing, more about controlling for how the subcontractor accessed the data.

Honestly the problem sounds more like something borne from ignorance than malice. It's a headache having to download every image you have to analyze, so why not copy the whole thing to a local network drive and work with it here? And then some hacker lifted it from the local network drive.

Anyway I wasn't talking about the CBP specifically. I was responding to the question about why decentralization saves you from compromise. My response was that compartmentalization is useful for damage control.
I thought it was the former but checking again it looks like I misread and it was only the latter. That's still pretty rude but nowhere near as bonkers as I thought it was.
Oh snap you're right, how have I never noticed that?? I mean my point stands about Succesion but I have to eat my words here about Billions.
If you establish regular communication with your Gemeindeverwaltung, and simply get approval for all changes and renovations, you will never be surprised.
Psilocybin may provide somewhat of a reasonable approximation of this at appropriate dosages.
I feel like it's kind of ironic that a probe named "snoopy" was hard to find.
I am from India, not using VPN. Except for storefronts, everything I get looks like from US-traffic lights, cars, buses (including yellow school buses), cross walks etc.
There have been many discussions on HN about this before. Google is making us its free slaves, when they can clearly know in the first click that we are not a robot (it used to work perfectly! How can it unintentionally become that worse?) Is there no Google employee here that sees how absurd this is and get this message sent across?
Technically you're right but the reality is that most people who choose to rent things other than a place to live are doing so because they want to use something that's better than what they can afford to buy on credit or outright. It's much more often about living a luxury lifestyle rathe than pragmatic financial sense.
How does the collusion work? Just curious since it seems like such an inefficient market (our realtor was a good friend of ours, he /did/ have good local market knowledge and things to say, but no way did he have to do more than 4 or 5 hours of work total for us...)
If you let someone else manage the hosts your computer resolves, you are trusting that someone as much as your ISP. A man in the middle.
Same here. When this highly advertized service was launched ('just a click!') it worked perfectly. Slowly, over the past couple of years, they deliberately replaced that wonderful service with another one where we act as Google's unpaid workers.
My supervisor's opinion on this topic seems to be that we would not end at category theory, but that it is a step into the right direction of where to focus our attention.

EDIT: For example, my MSc was on the topic of a category equipped with a functor into it. This allows one to construct (parts of, e.g. I haven't done subobject classifiers) a self dual set theory.
A lot of people just keep their credit cards maxed, pay the minimum every month, and re-sell things they've bought at a loss.
Model 3 vs. e-tron charging on Ionity 350 kW charger
So in other words the $499 12C/24T 3900X?
I am also getting way more captchas at least since the last 6 months. Exclusively using Firefox with clear everything on exit, multiple profiles, fingerprint flag on, some addons etc. No VPN. I get captcha almost all the time, even for Google searches from Firefox address bar (one out of 10 searches I think). But never gets a captcha for Google websites (gmail, youtube etc).
The gaming part comes from single thread / low thread count performance. For instance, in many games, having a lower ST perf means losing frames by "bottlebecking" the system.
I live in Germany and I never heard of this "need". Nobody forces you. Yes, you may want to change your old heating (that's what I do), but you get a lot of subvention from the state. You do this, then you also get some good terms on taxing etc.

Same with electricity. You get a better insurance policy if you have it new.
Thank you. Above his funeral, another P-51 driver gave him a spectacular sendoff.
I'm the current SCons project Co-Manager. Nice to see spirited conversation.

A couple data points on performance. A current snapshot of MongoDB's repo will do a null incremental build in 53 seconds on my i7-2600 with non-ssd drive. (Null incremental build = fully built tree. no need to rebuild anything).

In the last few releases we knocked that down from about 63 seconds.

Currently we're working on a number of performance related items and hope to make some strides here.

Note the article sited is fairly old: https://github.com/scons/scons/wiki/WhySconsIsNotSlow (from before 2.4).

That said there are (currently) faster build systems. SCons tends to be most valuable when the build is complicated.

So as you can see.. the current maintainers don't argue that there are no performance issues with SCons. But we're working on them.
What would stop the first person to take everything and sell 'em on ebay?

Essentially making this no difference than selling to a recycler or a salvager.
How self-driving startup Aurora is wooing carmakers
I think you might be partially on to something here; generally the idea being that food delivery is essentially commoditized and Amazon is uniquely suited to thrive in commoditized industries with their vast infrastructural advantages.

They do have Whole Foods and Amazon Go, which both supply ready-to-eat foods along with meal kits. It would be a minor logistical challenge to simply start preparing their own meal kits on-demand and delivering them via Prime Now (which operates inside the exact same markets as Amazon Restaurants?) with the bonus benefit of owning quality control in the kitchens.
On the other hand, in arbitrage, it’s winner takes all.
Microsoft simply isn't a big player for the consumer/luser segment anymore when it comes to the services that tend to come up in these conversation (e-mail, social, ads, etc). For these services they're more B2B. They're not a data company like Google or Facebook.

Interesting, though, how their compliance with censoring and filtering etc in China for years barely register compared to the outrage Google gets for even preparing for it.

And thinking about it, Microsoft IS big in social with acquisitions like LinkedIn, Skype and GitHub.
But no one's getting concerned or outraged on those accounts. After being the nemesis for so long, I think they have learned to play this game very well this time around.
So rate-limiting is "user-hostile", but permanently hell-banning someone because their network is considered "seedy" is user-friendly?

Incidentally, you still need rate-limiting if you use Google's CAPTCHA. If you don't rate-limit CAPTCHA endpoint, an attacker can DDoS you (especially if your server-side captcha component uses low-performance single-threaded HTTP client). Furthermore, an attacker within the same AS as their target can purposefully screw over their account by performing attacks on Google's services until the reputation of the network hits rock bottom.
Kudos to you for sticking to something for (at least) 8 years - it's very very easy to become discouraged, so it's inspiring to someone continue to press forward after so many years.
I have never come across a compliance policy that people didn't hate.

Compliance, almost by definition, needs to make people's job harder, or create extra work. Because people are lazy, and they tend to go for the path of least resistance, and those are not good things in the context of safety and security.
Not sure why you've been down voted, but it's true.

We are either a) no longer close to the journalism sources to determine their trustworthiness or b) we were being fed the narrative through print and were ignorant to the manipulation through blind trust.

This is not saying don't trust anyone and put on our conspiracy hats, it is saying that we must honest in admitting we should be reviewing, comparing and challenging our news sources until they build sufficient quality to allow trust. (incidentally, I also think part of the reason people hate media sites pay-walling content is because it's asking the question before demonstrating trustworthiness)
The juice problem is easily preventable as long as you don't have a spouse who disagrees with a no-juice policy.

You'd also have to diaper kids for years after you'd normally consider them potty trained. Small ones don't plan ahead, don't tell you in advance, and aren't as determined to hold it as you might be.

You'd also need to have something to clean dirty hands.
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Imagine NASA not recovering the astronauts after they splashed down as punishment. With 'we couldn't find them' as plausible deniability.
GPS doesn't make your location known at all, it's receiving only. It sends information about your location to nobody, it triangulates your position from publicly broadcast signals.

And, I would much rather "make my location known" to about fifty other companies before I would want Google to have it.
Ah, this is too bad. We used it at home occasionally. Everything we've used has either gone out of business, cut ingredients to an embarrassing portions, or raised prices way too high (probably to where they need to be to be sustainable).

It's not a viable business, I think. Not without some big leaps forward.
Part of my job is designing software that is resistant to amplification once the hacker is already in, so maybe I can help here.

When you plan your security, step 1 is making it hard to get in, step 2 is making it hard to persist, i.e. plant a command and control process somewhere inside the perimeter, and to move laterally in the system, i.e. get from one service into a more important service.

There's some basic stuff, such as firewall rules that prevent outbound traffic from ports/processes you aren't expecting. That makes it harder for the hacker's command and control systems to get instructions. There's other stuff like using separate credentials for low sensitivity vs high sensitivity systems, two-stage approval processes for especially sensitive operations to prevent a single compromised user from being able to get to the good stuff, automatic password rotation so that exfiltrated tokens aren't valuable, and more.

Those are just single things though. I think the more interesting part is an exercise like this: assume that the hackers have compromised a developer's computer. In that case, what does a system look like that would prevent that developer from exfiltrating payment info? I would argue that the developer doesn't normally need access to real payment info, so maybe the network should be configured so that the developer is unable to SSH into that set of database servers without first requesting a special short-lived SSH keypair. That at least means the developer has to explicitly ask for access. That doesn't make the hacker's job impossible, it just makes it harder. Also makes things less convenient for the developer, so is it worth the trade-off? For especially sensitive data, it probably is. With this setup, maybe the hacker gets to the account information, but they're stopped short of account numbers long enough to notice the breach.

This is all on the theoretical side, but that's the thought exercise once you go "let's pretend someone compromised ____ system."
Equifax is in the private sector.
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DevOps and Your Definition of Done
Throw one trillion* one-meter styrofoam squares coated top and bottom with aluminum (both sides in case they flip over) into random spots in the ocean. They degrade over the next few years, so they clear themselves out.

* Plus or minus a few orders of magnitude... haven't actually calculated this.
That's right. And it should work as advertised in the documentation.
Anyway, I was responding to the "cell networks don't allow" part of your comment. Cell networks don't have a say in what I do at IP/TCP layer.
> better off with a mortgage because it forces them to save money

I'm going to go ahead and guess you don't have a large peer group who were buying houses in the late-2000s. A mortgage in no way forces you to save money, added to which it has a tendency to decrease savings due to the moral licensing of exactly your train of thought. "I'm already saving with my sweet ARM, I can afford to lease that car!"

People who are financially illiterate are going to be bad with money, regardless of the system.
Hm kind of reminds me of Ikea's food racket. Actually I'm sitting here trying to think of why that wouldn't work but I honestly can't. Cool idea!
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I'm just confused the libicu shared libs are ~25MB big. Why is that?