skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boxing IT into a support role minimizes its potential contribution. If business enablement is the goal, that includes innovation, business development, and fixing what isnt broke. Coming to management with new business ideas instead of either waiting to be handed something, or only moving forward with ideas because they address risk and security.
I come from an embedded development environment, and for me simplicity is everything. But even that, I think the approach of an "all public" class is a little bit risky, and can be a pain to debug if accidentally you change an internal state.

If a class is a black box, when you put your hand inside it, it becomes the "pain box" from the Bene Gesserit.
If you use email, google basically have it. A big enough proportion of your mail counter-parties use google that running your own mail-server doesn't buy you much. The gesture is a good one and everyone should do it until google are just another tech company, I guess. But doing it now doesn't really de-google your email, sadly.
It's not precondition to service. People will be able to get the service but only lower speeds. Faster connections only opting for the "promotion"
> Fair use does not give you the right to wholesale scrape content

Yes, it potentially does. There are court cases establishing precedent that copying something in its entirety can still be fair use, as well as law and court cases establishing specific allowances for archives/libraries/etc.
Isn't one downside that the inline assembly will not be peephole-optimized by the code generator (LLVM)? E.g., you'd be saving and restoring registers that are not even used.
Where's the Octopus?
تنزيل واتس اب للأندرويد WhatsApp 2.19.168 أخر إصدار عربي مجاناً
It may have failed at adoption, but I'm really hoping Handshake succeeds. They have a better go-to-market strategy.

https://handshake.org/
The handlers usually do have diplomatic cover. The sources don't, they're local people with access to valuable information. "Catspaws" is not quite right. The people who got rounded up in China were CIA sources.
Software: Clojure with Neanderthal

https://github.com/uncomplicate/neanderthal
And Solaris if we're talking about oceans.
Does anyone use SyncThing on iOS? Last I heard the support was read only from a now defunct app called fsync. Thinking about migrating my family over, but this is a blocker for me.
The earth could support several times the current human population, just not at any sort of quality of life that resembles a suburb.
One thing that bites me is that a lot of products are marketed at businesses rather than consumers. There are things I’d use for myself or my family, but the pricing is not conducive to that. Leankit is a great example. I’d love to use it, but it would be way too expensive to justify. Basecamp is the same way (didn’t used to be). The additional features that are used to justify the high price are things that only a business would need, and therefore not useful to me.

I get it, selling to businesses is where the money is at (and probably a lot less hassle than consumers). If I ran a SaaS company I’m sure I’d do the same thing. Still irks me that so many things are unavailable due to the high cost.
Funny, that was a (highly criticized) solution used by the US when it comes to oil. Go in and remove the people with the guns - using (or buying) force when economics fails. And economic means fail quite often - people are not always rational actors who do the things that are in their best interest.
If you haven’t watched the Americans, I recommend you do. Often, handlers would extract information from citizens without them even knowing they did anything wrong. I can imagine a lot of more modern day scenarios playing out with this same dynamic.
> If we need to switch out who's in the role? Its a lot easier when there's no official title, no extra prestige, no pay raise, nothing but the burden of leadership actually felt as a burden.

No, it's harder. If nobody is actually named the leader, there can be no official point in time when the role changes hands. The organization will most often break apart at that point.
It's been done, though only in an academic setting:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/5991.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242056713_Special_o... (sorry to link to ResearchGateKeeper, though somehow by closing the tab, deleting cookies, and opening the tab I managed to get it to give me the PDF without needing to log in, lol)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074310669... (Elsevier, urgh)

I'm sure a bit of web searching will turn up more. It looks like having special purpose hardware for Prolog is useful, which I don't find too surprising. But if you make hardware, you need someone to give you money for it.

As an aside, I wonder now much of the use of Lisp machines was non-academic. I know that there were actual commercial companies selling them, but where those mostly university spinoffs selling back to universities?
This is a good alternative to the article's perspective and I could definitely see both of them being true at the same time.
> Are you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?

Does it honestly seem likely to you that that's what I'm saying?

No.

I'm saying people in the UK don't write resumes. They write CVs. Whether they're an academic or not. And they're generally a couple of pages at the very least.

I get that's different to how it is where you are - but it's normal for things to be different in different places around the world.
It's not a clear text password. It's encrypted with Windows user credentials. If someone just steals it, it won't be useful by itself.
Yes as long as there is a way to make positive NPV that's true. Take that away and the whole system does ground to a halt.
This strikes me as the quintessential problem with autocracies. Sometimes one gets extremely efficient governments in the short term, when the autocrat is competent and not entirely corrupt, but in the long run whatever short term gains were had are squandered by corruption and greed. Democracy is inefficient in the short term but efficient in the long run.
KeePassXC is fantastic, I especially like the good Yubikey integration. The one small feature I miss from the original KeePass was the password templates. I like all my passwords to follow a grouped pattern so its easier to type into a phone or something while still being strong.
Personally, I think you make it as dangerous as possible. So rather than shielding the waste, make it deadly in a matter of hours or minutes.

This won't prevent people from trying to extract the contents, but it should prevent them for succeeding. I think a few dead grave robbers / explorers is preferable to the waste being extracted and sold back to civilization.
A Drift engineer explains how to build an embedded webapp
I have read external hard drives that sat unused for 15 years. Hypothetically the bearings might dry out or something but I haven't seen one fail.

One the other hand I have chronically had problems with tapes I couldn't read, had spots of data corruption, or that took 18 hours to restore a 1500 byte file.

Part of it is that the use of tapes is less routine so it is a common mistake to think you wrote a good tape but you didn't check it and it's unreadable.

Another competitor for LTO tapes is BD-XL, which is more expensive per unit TB but the drives are cheaper.
Most varieties of plants used for crops, fruits, flowers, etc. have been so heavily selected by us over thousands of years that they are completely artificial and would not survive long in the wild.

It does not mean that it isn't sustainable. Just that we are required.
I’m in San Francisco for work and yesterday an elderly man made a comment about the heat outside of a Walgreens.

I didn’t really have much to do, and I really enjoy walking around San Francisco with it’s beautiful light pastel palette, rolling hills, and masonry so we walked and walked for about 3 hours.

I was a bit tired by the end, and his story was a bit sad at times but when we finally departed I’d learned a tremendous about one man’s life, his struggles and his triumphs.

I finished my night off at a little sushi joint where, unprompted, I recommended a piece of sashimi to the couple next to me I’d never had that I really enjoyed from my platter. They turned out to be engineers from Square and Amazon who hailed from Seattle and we talked about tech and the world and had a few good laughs. Maybe they’ll see this.

Then I wandered back to my hotel where I saw James, and Alexis who I’d met and had become pleasantly intertwined enough with that they’d invited me out with them after their shifts the night prior.

Finally on the elevator up to my room I briefly chatted with Ruiz, a banker in town for work.

I can’t recommend talking to strangers enough. Sometimes they prompt you, sometimes you prompt them, but it’s a beautiful world out there filled with billions of stories, and they all add just a little spice to life.
> In a business view, if you're standing still you're at risk of being left behind.

On a related but perhaps off topic note; Is that wrong?

I agree with everything you've said. Yet, I do wonder, is that business decision wrong? I've not spent much effort on the business side in my life, but from the outside I feel like I agree with their statement. Maybe not so much as in the "left behind" mantra, but more specifically I feel once a business reaches "success" (however you want to define that), your next objective should be maintaining/expanding the core product, and diversifying entirely.

It seems to me that being a one product company runs a risk of another company choking you out in various ways.

As an end user I of course love my products to say solely focused on the thing I want. I want Spotify to be my music app, nothing more. But I can sympathize with the decisions to diversify a companies offerings even if unrelated to the original core product.

Thoughts?
I agree. Hiding something and saying "please don't look for it," seems extraordinarily naïve of human nature.

If the threat is widespread human and environmental destruction, I wonder if an additional layer of warning does not need to consist of more constrained lethality. "We're going to show you what this stuff is, you should've really paid attention to the warnings."

"It is a place of evil: all who venture into the pit die in agony within a few days," seems like something that would have more cultural weight. And be trivially re-discoverable at any point. People don't go wandering into lava to see what's below. People wouldn't have stripped the Egyptian tombs if the warnings on the wall consistently came true. Perhaps the best warning of danger is danger.

And then, if the threat model is drilling, it seems to me very unlikely that a future mining civilisation would not understand pictures, maps and diagrams illustrating the content. Is an illustration really more culturally ambiguous than language?
"...but I don't believe you can directly transfer rules regarding books to websites."

The rules for copyright do apply to websites. Here is what the US Copyright Office says:

"What does copyright protect?
Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. Copyright does not protect facts, ideas, systems, or methods of operation, although it may protect the way these things are expressed. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section 'What Works Are Protected.'
...
When is my work protected?
Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."

Source URL = https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

More FAQs: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/

'Circular 1' URL = https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf
> None of these options is really viable, and if I could make a PCB myself in half an hour for $1, I would jump on that.

You kind of can, depending how you amortize equipment costs. This is how I've been doing this and it seems to be a good tradeoff between low initial cost, low effort and hhigh efficiency.

Up front you'll need a) a laser printer (any old laserjet will do) b) a hacked paper laminator (to increase its temperature) c) an etching tank with an aquarium bubble pump for water circulation and an aquarium heater. You'll find most of these in any hackerspace.

Then, for each PCB you'll need wax paper (even glossy magazine paper works perfectly) and copper clad FR4. Print your mask (mirrored) on the paper, clean your copper board (with steel wool, then with acetone), transfer the mask using the laminator. Then etch it.

This gives you a one-sided, undrilled PCB with 6 mil traces [1]. Good enough for the occasional SMD breakout.

[1] - https://i.imgur.com/qBeNklb.jpg
I switched to KeePassXC a few months ago (from KeePass). It was a no brainer when I noticed that I didn't need plugins anymore, since SSH keys, TOTP, and browser integration came out of the box.
Boffins stole our 3D files, gave them to FB's eggheads, claims Lithuanian biz
The new potential of geothermal comes from the fact that you don't have to drill very deep anymore. Instead of water, it uses fluids with a lower boiling point. In some places, like Boulder, Colorado, you can even install geothermal in your own backyard and use it to heat your house. It's actually a common solution there.
Now scroll down to the Engineering section on the DFINITY team page (a team in the same space with similar deep pockets)

https://dfinity.org/team
Yeah because only white people use Uber.
Starlink should make a good portion of Africa just a 50ms ping away from South Africa or Egypt.
"Here's the thing -- we add a few 'features' and then we can sell it to them."

"Don't be an idiot. There's no way millions of people are going to PAY us to put an internet connected listening device in their homes..."
There ought to be a solution somewhere in this line. This alone won’t solve it as a company could flood the docks and block out competition that way.

Having multiple companies running taxis or P2P ride apps doesn’t matter so much as users as you can still hail a cab the same way and many P2P drivers use both Lyft and Uber, creating a good user experience.

However, that’s not true for these types of bike/scooter shares. The density of bikes/scooters is not so high that I’ll be able to pick just one app and have no problem finding transportation. And, if it was, we’d be tripping over them left and right.

Even interoperability between apps would be enough to solve this.
Okay, so, guys.

People literally think i'm a child molester. People like my dad. People like the two guys who assaulted me for absolutely no reason, in public, while no bystanders did anything whatsoever (as a trans woman, i'm glad he police weren't called -- my friends have been arrested and charged in similar circumstances).

Get out of your bubble.
>Even if we completely stop emitting CO2 right now (which we can't), there would still be too much CO2 in the atmosphere for some time, leading to further heating and longer melting

Do you have any data on this? If you look at how quickly things cool off at night, Earth's biosphere reaches steady-state thermal equilibrium over the course of a few days. Your claim is essentially that we've already set off an albedo forcing function that we can't stop, and which is also stronger than existing negative feedback loops. Seems unlikely to me.
I'm usually friendly to strangers but I'd be immediately suspicious of someone asking me either of these questions out of the blue - and I'm a middle class, middle aged male.
> waiting for her extradition to the US

In a court of law, where she will have the chance to plead her case in public. If she is extradited, she will have that chance again in America. The government, in summary, will have to prove its case.

Such a system, the rule of law, doesn’t exist in China. (It does in Hong Kong.) That is why reasonable people are angry about this legislation.
2020 Bentley Flying Spur Is for When a Whole Building Needs to Do 207 MPH
Some future archeologist is going to dig up a cell phone.
Could someone please explain what it means to "encourage homelessness"? At a first glance, it looks like a passive aggressive implication that homeless people, if they just tried harder, wouldn't be homeless. Can anyone help me see what I'm missing?
You may recall the Russian "Illegals." They were exchanged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program

Also the "Cuban Five", who either served a prison sentence or were exchanged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five

You may be surprised to hear it, but the FBI (who runs internal counterespionage in the US) operates rather differently from China. I suppose the FBI could be organizing hits on American citizens suspected of spying for China, but on the whole it seems like one of the least likely abuses. The CIA gets up to all sorts of things abroad, but running a kidnap/murder program inside the country is not particularly the FBI's style.
It goes into things that are uneconomical to extract without vastly different conditions. Technically one could breakdown and separate everything by element and isotope but that would be an incredibly inefficient way of doing so.
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. Thank you for sharing your perspective.
Lol, create a summary one page. Showing your full history can separate you from the masses.
I came to this thread having the same questions (why use this over cert-manager) and this answer gives some pretty solid reasons.

Can you elaborate more on /3 ? Why is this kind of service better suited for a CronJob over a running container?
I wanted to share our teams 7 year journey from idea to acquisition with some pictures and brief moments of the people that helped along the way.

It’s been a rollercoaster of learnings, both up and down, and looking forward to the next chapter.
I loved growing up and living in Colorado. Then the Californians came...

Now I live in Florida. I like the beaches here, but I do miss the mountains sometimes.
> it also seems like a relatively reasonable ask for them to version things and continue to support that functionality for quite a long time.

Or... just don't force an upgrade. Notify me at some point that it might not be 'supported' after a certain date, and subject to data loss, etc. We understand with many other pieces of software that after a certain date, they may still 'work' but we won't get support.

There's certainly some security risks to deal with there, and perhaps reminders closer to cutoff dates would help?

But, yes, basically agreed.

relatedly, I've had dropbox on and off, but felt pushed in to paying for it, and resented that push (and ultimately never did). Had multiple client years ago all 'love' dropbox and wanted to work that way. They all loved that it was 'free', but... when I had to work with 5 of them, each sharing up to their 'free' limit with me, it put me over the free limit in to 'pay up' territory. Not a 'break the bank' amount, of course, but it bugged me that I needed to fork out.
Sounds a bit like Zurich in the 80s and 90s[1]

The problem was, while not solved, massively improved by providing heroin to hardcore addicts[2]

The only argument against it, really, is that it's morally wrong to hand out drugs to addicts. Leaving this argument aside the approach was (and is) widely successful. Not only for the city, as such, but also for the addicts who get a chance to stabilize their lifes, are much healthier and actually can hold down appartments and jobs.

[1] https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/extern/storytelling/needletraum...

[2] https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-12/us-can-learn-lot-zuri...
There have actually been times recently where I've had what I consider 'iffy' results from DDG for very domain-specific queries, but when I've double checked with !g, the DDG results were far more on-topic, and google was giving much much worse results.

That said, google's image results are still significantly better than DDG or Bing, but that's such a small part of my queries that it's pretty much a non-issue.
reminds me of the dynamics of survival whereby yeast has evolved to exude alcohol to thwart off bacteria as they both attempt to colonize a food source like some fallen apple
> loading 17.3Mb of gifs is the main problem.

The main problem is that for some inexplicable reason the text of the page isn't shown until those gifs are loaded.
That’s an entirely separate issue to what this post is about though. This is about making drug use legal.
I don't think people are arguing that this is a bigger issue, but merely that both issues are bad.

Perhaps you should be protesting the detainment of suspected criminals in Gitmo, then, instead of commenting here.
Check out www.weather.gov. There should be a link for the 3 day history on the forecast page of your location.
Are there any other reports, maybe less inflammatory and based in facts.

As we know, there are very bad people on both sides.

Hard to take it seriously when the USA was the one meddling in other countries’ affairs for such a long time (Iran’s Mosadek government in the 50’s being my favorite peeve).
I know it's Medium, but this is a great observation.
Socialism/communism/statism are just ways for one small group to control another larger one. The idea has had disastrous consequences and left people dead and starving in many countries around the world where it's been (and is still being) tried.
Best Carbon Capture Facility in World Emits 25 Times More CO2 Than Sequestered
I'd be curious if they simply couldn't compete, and they recognized that. Ie, their competition is heavily Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc which offer competing products as part of their suite. Yet, Google/etc doesn't really care about file sharing/storage. It's just one component in a much larger model.

I'd be curious if, due to cloud prices/etc, Dropbox didn't feel they could actually sustain a competitive price and become profitable. So they're trying to expand to other avenues and find something that works.
Do you mean the Drake equation? The relevant factor would be n_e "the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
99 Percent Invisible has a great episode[1] discussing exactly this kind of facility in New Mexico and the consternation it caused for a committee of some of the greatest minds of the 20th century that was tasked with attempting to write the perfect 10,000 year message.

My favorite part: "Bastide and Fabbri came to the conclusion that the most durable thing that humanity has ever made is culture: religion, folklore, belief systems. They may morph over time, but an essential message can get pulled through over millennia. They proposed that we genetically engineer a species of cat that changes color in the presence of radiation, which would be released into the wild to serve as living Geiger counters. Then, we would create folklore and write songs and tell stories about these “ray cats,” the moral being that when you see these cats change colors, run far, far away."

The chosen folklore was a song about ray kitties changing color... If you listen to the episode you'll get to hear it in all its glory.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
Yep. Intelligence is all about keeping the other side in the dark while looking like you’re in the dark.
How is reducing the fungibility of money not a step backwards?