skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories like this focus on technology, but I think the more accurate narrative is that top-down, pre-planned design urban design is just a bad idea that comes around roughly once a generation. It never works, but it appeals to people so much that they ignore the mistakes of the past. Le Corbusier died in 1965, so it's about time for another iteration.

For architects, green field development is a chance to realize their dreams without constraint. For analysts and intellectuals, it's a chance to properly test theories and get clean, measurable data. For politicians, it's a way to receive full credit for a project and avoid the backlash from disrupting existing cities. For urban reformers who are burned out on the slow, uneven process of updating ancient cities, starting from scratch is a chance to improve things cheaply and escape dependency issues. For contractors and technologists, it's a chance to sell profitable end-to-end services.

But for everyone who lives there, it sucks. The same way Joel Spolsky reminds us that the warts on old software often serve real purposes, old cities are full of concessions to climate, travel patterns, consumer needs, and general sanity. Lucio Costa might want symmetry, lack of sprawl, and clear traffic lanes, but the people stuck living in the piloto of Brasilia want memorable layouts, walkable streets, and gradual expansion.

The silliest thing about most sci-fi cities is that they're all gleaming spires and high-tech grandeur. As you say, the cities of the future will grow from the cities and towns of the present. Any vision worth attempting needs to leave room for the people and the history already there.
A lot of people call themselves journalists are actually activists though.
> Expandrive

How does ExpanDrive compare to AirExplorer¹? The ExpanDrive UI looks cleaner.

¹https://airexplorer.net/
Docker for Pentesters
I believe it. FWIW, I think this problem has been a theme of SF politics & transportation reporting since the 90's. I predict that it won't be solved until the SV/SF tech money bubble deflates some day.
News like this seems to be dominating my feed lately. Very depressing.
From the money they burned on Paper, multiple UI changes and that disastrous site redesign of a year or two ago, they'd probably be able to cover the cost of most of users on free plan. Storage isn't that expensive.

Still, I pay. I get increasingly bad service. The only reason I didn't switch yet is that all competitors are strictly worse, and I'm too lazy to set up Syncthing.
You may consider formatting your terms of use.

Right now it is just a giant block of nearly unreadable text.

Also, out of genuine curiosity, is it really necessary to have over 1/3rd of your terms and conditions simply limiting who is linking to your website? Is this a common T&C for social media sites? Requiring written approval for someone to link to your site seems... Counter-productive for a social network
Assuming the weapon is radio jamming I wonder how it knows which frequencies to attack. Seems like any decent military would be able to come up with easy countermeasures for jamming.
I've had the opposite experience on Windows. I always put swap on HDD, because I've been bitten several times by memory leaking applications rendering the entire OS unusable until the SSD with the swap file ran out of space.

Windows would happily grow the pagefile beyond the limits I had set, and if the allocation loop was tight enough the OS chocked on handling all page faults. As in using literally minutes to respond to keystrokes.

By putting swap on a slow HDD, Windows has plenty of time to service mouse and keyboard input while waiting for the disk to respond, allowing me to kill the offending application before saturating my disk.

I assume this behavior was OK back when computers had very limited memory, and disks were slow anyway. But these days, if a single application wants more than the available memory (physical + pagefile), I'd rather the OS just said no to the application.
Might end up in Beyond Meat and similar for all we know.
That's a pretty good excuse actually, we're running out of people.
I just checked the label of my freshwater guppies' favourite food: sure enough, it's pure fly larvae. It was so shocking to me how voracious they were for the tiny grains of ground larvae compared to the typical fish/grain meal flake food. It was touched on in the article: it's not very cheap yet. But it's abundantly clear to me that this type of highly efficient nutrient transfer is going to change the agricultural food chain forever.
Frankly I think the kremlinology is a lot less interesting and useful than the engineering facts, which are that Curve25519 is more misuse-resistant, faster, and easier to implement in constant time. People shouldn't be using the P-curves anymore.
Swap sucks, but OOM killer sucks more. It certainly isn't a great solution, but it's good for temporary spikes.

You can adjust "swappiness" if it's moving stuff to disk too aggressively.
I dont know a lot about him, but his specialization is a good source of outperformance. If he was to write a graphics based C++ library I would have no doubt he would be a 1000x times developer. If he was forced to modify a existing old corporate CRUD codebase, I'm not convinced he'd be 10x.
Recent discussions about JMAP in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19839104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18996200

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766709
I run the division at my company that builds crawlers for websites with public records. We scrape this information on-demand when a case is requested, and we handle an enormous volume of different sites (or sources as we call them). We recently passed 700 total custom scrapers.

Recently, we have seen a spike in sites that detect, and block our crawlers with some sort of Javascript we cannot identify. We use headless Chrome and selenium to build out most of our integrations, I'm starting to wonder if the science of blocking scraping is getting more popular...

I don't think what I'm doing is subversive at all, we're running background checks on people, and we can reduce business costs by eliminating error-prone researchers with smart scrapers that run all day.

I don't want to seem like the bad guy here, but what if I wanted to do the opposite of this research? Where do I start? Study the chromium source? Can anyone recommend a few papers?
Tracking Anonymized Bluetooth Devices [pdf]
That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying. It puts emphasis on "Is it acceptable to post this". I'm talking precisely about ignoring those posts altogether.
That's sort of presumptuous. For example, I recently needed to create a ORM w/ SQLAlchemy that consisted of animal/{dog,cat} style inheritance. I googled it and came across this wonderfully written page:

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/13/orm/inheritance.html

I've been using SQLAlchemy for about 3 years now and I have used it to make my life so easy that I feel bad for other people who struggle with SQL.

Does this mean I am not familiar with it or that I know exactly what to look for?

Food for thought for you, perhaps.
Shopify GraphQL API Design Guidelines
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In the olden days you would be right, but today's drives are fair. Everyone takes turns driving and shooting. Everyone in the clubhouse after the hunt. It would be anathema to leave someone out and that would not be my scene.
Yeah, that's his biggest problem. I was with him as he presented evidence, but then he just dives into all kinds of conclusions and wanders straight into conspiracy theory territory and loses credibility fast. I do think the gas pipeline theory as some real merit and, it appears, to have some strong circumstantial evidence to support it, but to draw conclusions from the data? Sorry, but you just can't. There isn't enough, and to try linking it multiple mental health issues? That's not how that's done.
From TFA:

> An acre of land used to raise soldier fly colonies can produce more than 60,000kg of protein per year, according to various peer-reviewed estimates. That’s several orders of magnitude greater than the per-acre protein yield of cattle (about 18kg), soybeans (430kg) or chickens (816kg).

At least from a land density POV, it wins hand over fist.
Also, Dropbox is not going to drop file syncing; it is who they are.

Google might drop any of their file syncing solutions, possibly even all three!
People fear the day the authorities proclaim their [inherited art collection] to be 10x the value from yesterday...

Fixed that for you. This situation is literally not applicable to 99.999% of the US population.
Keybase has a Teams feature so it's built more towards your use-case. I use it to trade Stellar (XLM), file storage/management, and sharing/proving all of my platform identities. I haven't had a chance to get too social on it yet so I can't comment on the chatting experience, but overall it's a neat platform. It also has a command-line interface.

If you end up signing-up, follow me @ https://keybase.io/jbales
I'm curious if the author had just injected a URL as plaintext, no JS involved, does the Googlebot also follow strings that just look like URLs?
> This happens because product managers, developers, designers, ect, like to get creative. They think that they need to invent something new

Capitalism is supposed to be about efficient allocation of resources. Cutting down the fat. Taking away materiel and capital from people who squander it and giving it to people who can put it to good work.

How come that those product managers, developers, designers, etc. all have jobs? Why weren't they trimmed away as the fat they are? Why does this keep happening to almost every SaaS company out there?
How does Org-Mode compare to modern note taking apps like Keep? How does Org-Mode handle media files?
Your judgement doesn't really matter in this situation, the distinguished engineer and the rest of our senior team thinks I am doing an awesome job and they review my changelists and design docs. But I realize there is not much I can do to convince you, in your mind I don't exist so you try to find alternate explanations for everything.

> Again, I don't know your team, but I would doubt there is no-one on your team you can teach.

What would I teach them? I can go into an unknown codebase in a new domain and solve problems quicker and cleaner than the team who wrote the code. There is no secret knowledge I posses, no bag of tricks I apply, I just see the code, figure out what happens and solve it. If I could reliably teach that to people then I could become the richest man on earth.

My skills are good enough to reach a decent position as an IC, nothing to brag about really, but they aren't worthless either.
Agree. I don’t get it. Plants fill the protein need without the need for bugs. Bug protein seems like a solution in search of a problem.
Is this a variation on the common lament that the media always shows negative news, or sadness about the oncoming climate crisis?
Are topics coming from twitter trending? Also, can you add filter of industry-wise topics? Good work btw :)
I'm currently living this. About a year ago I inherited a large codebase that has been allowed to accumulate tech debt for the past 5 years. This was all done in the name of adding new features and keeping the business competitive. But it's time to pay down the debt.

I've had MANY frank conversations with both product and engineering leadership about the current state of the world. The VP of engineering is onboard and understands the pain of what we're going through. Product is a bit harder to convince, but just as important -- probably more important. They understand that my team is having to spend 20%+ of our time just bringing the code into this decade, because I set that expectation early and reinforce it often.

I argued AGAINST a from-scratch rewrite because I knew it would never be ok to stop shipping. But I have been able to convince them that slowing down now will let us move faster later.
Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers 0.2.0 (Clojure Book WIP, GPU, CPU)
But is that value people will pay for? Clearly Dropbox doesn't think so.
planetsourcecode.com
This is literally the type of situation that only handles to billionaires and the ultra-wealthy. Situations like these are handled by a dedicated unit of the IRS.

Unless you have an inherited art collection worth millions, this will never happen to you.
"In this case, the beneficiaries, Nina Sundell and Antonio Homem, have paid $471 million in federal and state estate taxes related to Mrs. Sonnabend’s roughly $1 billion art collection, which included works by Modern masters from Jasper Johns to Andy Warhol. The children have already sold off a large part of it, approximately $600 million worth, to pay the taxes they owed, according to their lawyer, Ralph E. Lerner."

This is the worst part of the article to me. Forced to sell your inheritance to pay the taxes on it... Seems ridiculous.
> The justifications for a high tax rate don't seem to apply to inheritance of items that have high sentimental value but low utility.

There's nothing accurate about saying an expensive work of art has "low utility."

(and as I pointed out in a separate comment, an inexpensive work of art won't be taxed heavily so the whole point is moot)
If you're interested in following the latest climate change related news check out Paul Beckwith's YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr546o7ImhGM57qoY0hHvkA

He does 15 minute videos reviewing the latest papers and news.

Headline: everything is happening faster than predicted.

[I'm not affiliated with Paul in any way, I just like his videos.]
Grubs?

Fly calves?

SFMHPP? (Soldier Fly Maggot High Protein Powder)

I suspect some variation of the latter is how this will get into the food chain. Identifiable insects get in the news, but it'll probably be as an additive where it sees most use. After all what percentage of chicken is sold as actual whole pieces of chicken rather than reformed, breaded, sauced, otherwise processed meat?
Things are not quite cut and dry operationally. Some places may have only a few hundred MB of data but they need really high availability and performance (probably picked the wrong solution IMO but still...) which is better guaranteed hosting it yourself and perhaps even outside the cloud. Most places the availability of whatever a hosted solution provides is a better value than spending engineering hours to maintain these things. Devops / SRE folks are expensive compared to most other engineers that deliver features primarily.

My point is that a ton of companies (more for cultural reasons than business requirements IME) are so freaked out by any downtime in any way that they’re going to pay for an engineer to just maintain these things themselves.
I didn't see much evidence in the article about 'ghost towns'. it may be true but the article didn't back it up.
Oh no! Is there a tax we can pay to a international banking organization that help stop this?!?!
this is good info, because when I searched it was talking about Lotus so felt like I had to be in the wrong area.
Probably not the full story. What do these bugs need for food? Plants take in water, micronutrients, air, and sunlight.
I don't think "expostulated" means what you think it means.
Classic ASP?
Nobody I know flocks to the city for anything. Sometimes we drive in to the urban center, most of the time we do not. There are lots and lots of things to do without going downtown. Lacking for entertainment, or being bored, neither is something I've ever had a problem with.

I think a lot of people here think suburbia is some vast wasteland of houses as far as the eye can see. Sure, that exists in some places, but a lot of us live in vary diverse suburbs with mixed residential, retail, commercial, etc.

I also have to say I have not met anyone who lives in my area because it's cheaper :). If anything I could save a few bucks by moving closer to the urban core. Again, I'm sure the cost thing is true somewhere but America is a pretty big place.
Flip side is that all Alaskans have the oil dividend to pay tuition with.
Of course, in any case if you have enough RAM for your tasks.
Could be used to feed animals!
That was maybe true before, but in that era for me it's pretty clear that they are chasing the bulk of new internet users for which the folder/files metaphor is not intuitive. They use social media websites and apps and have photos/videos that they access through an app, not from a file explorer (desktop OS are moving in the same direction of abstracting the filesystem too). That's why they (and Google Drive and others) are moving from "a folder that sync" to "let's auto detect and sync media".
Asians are treated as second class citizens in other ways as well. Funny that you focus on affirmative action...
Have you taken a dive into radio ECM and ECCM? I highly recommend it, it is fascinating, and is highly complex. Modern ECM is much more involved than "shoot high amplitude noise on all frequencies from a particular direction" and even the declassified stuff is clever. It's a cat and mouse game much like internet exploits. Makes questions like the ones you pose seem only surface-deep.
Correct: you can call Python from Swift OR you can use AD but not both at the same time.
They are also great animal feed. Chickens and fish find them irresistible
That quoted Quora answer sounds comically tone deaf and deeply inconsistent with the way users of even very simplistic products like this demand features of growing complexity, let alone how companies make money off this by cost effectively reaching use cases in the long, weird tail not addressed by the basic version (especially when eventually selling to enterprise).

What a monumental lack of imagination.
How would he have convinced his wife and kids that that was necessary?
in the 2007 time-frame, the US National Snow and Ice Science Center showed up en-masse in California and were flipping out about ice changes, semi-desperate to find some way to communicate to the public about it. Post-"Inconvenient Truth" and early days of Twitter, the idea that if "somehow, someway, people could know about this" things would get better faster, was the knee-jerk idea amongst people who were immersed in details.

Twelve years later.. and .. recurrent headlines on YNews ? US EPA being dismantled, with the legal authority to regulate air pollution at the center of it.. Mixed signals from the other world economies, while posturing for trade routes through the Northern passage, and billions bet on small changes in oil prices each day .. Whats to worry about.

Is it that goof founder of 360-dot-org that said something like "Do something, just do something" ? Panic and gossip are clearly not enough.
Herein lies the challenge. The user that is so ill trained that AV is a great idea actually needs an environment locked down sufficiently that he can't ruin his own day not a tool to analyze in real time whether he is doing so right now.

Those more skilled would be better off just using their wits.

The set between is empty.
Please use some common sense here. If you couldn't even sell it for a $1, then how are you expecting it to be valued at more than $1?

The IRS valuation of art and other collectibles is based on polling independent third-parties the likely fair-market value of the art/collectible at issue. If the situation proceeds to court, then they develop a formal appraisal (or occasionally hire an independent third-party appraisal, depending on the item being examined).
What do you use the cricket flour for?
Compromise converting future crypto credit into todays congress credit. I expect Facebook to have a easier life from now on.
It's more than austerity here - their governor also punitively cut their state Supreme Court budget for upholding abortion rights.
What did you convert to Base85? The UTF-8 representation? The Unicode character ids, as 32-bit, appended after another (UTF-32)? The UTF-16 encoding? Big or Little Endian? Or with BOM?

There are no raw values.

The same string, used in Qt/C++ vs. stdlib/C++ results in different raw values, because it’s encoded and handled differently.

The fact that you believe there is a single true "raw value" of a string already shows why it’s important to make this explicit, because your code will break if used in different environments, and definitely won’t return the correct result.
Tech nothing - if I couldn't get to the power I'd tape an acoustic tile to the thing and drape the whole mess with a blanket. There's a reason most fire alarms in the US go off when disturbed, and are loud enough to cause hearing damage in an empty room; that's what it takes to fight the inevitable unplugging and silencing attempts aimed at a major safety device.

But the next line is "I hate technology but my husband is an early adopter. He has to have everything first.”, so I'm pretty sure the problem with taking a hammer to the speaker is marital rather than political. This isn't 1984, it's a lesson in how bad design aggravates social friction and personal disagreements.
As sarcasm is exothermic, that's both literally and figuratively not helping.
How else can you structure things then, without allowing this to be a loophole to avoid estate taxes entirely?

Assuming you are rejecting the entire idea of estate taxes, I suppose.
Please donate $1 to the Jay Inslee campaign, he's the only American Democratic candidate that has dedicated his campaign to fighting the climate crisis. Unfortunately, he's down in the polls and needs more supporters to keep him in the debates.
The article says the system used radio frequencies to jam the drone, which brought it down. Presumably a Cessna would remain airborne with a human at the controls.
With your requirements from another post in mind:

Regarding file transfer, 'age' was mentioned in a previous thread. Problem is that it hasn't been implemented yet...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yHom20CrsuX8KQJXBBw04s8...

Regarding a secure group chat messenger with your two requirements mentioned, the consensus (among experts that have given their opinion here) seems to be that there is currently no such solution (I guess some versions of Wire could fit given that they seem to have on-premise deployment: https://wire.com/en/pricing/#pro/).
"After 4 and a bit years, by far and away the most popular method with an uptake of more than 90% is versioning via the URL. So that's all V3 supports. I don't care about the philosophical arguments to the contrary, I care about working software and in this case, the people have well and truly spoken. I don't want to have to maintain code and provide support for something people barely use when there's a perfectly viable alternative."

Well said !
> And most JS frameworks confuse the logical structure of an app with the 'physical' structure of the DOM.

Because that's what JavaScript does. How is it any different than document.getElementById or the window event handling system?

The point is if we're going to do it we might as well do it well.
Very understandable, and also yet another example of why we can't have nice services on the Internet. Traffic from bad actors pushes anyone offering an API in a similar direction, or discontinuing it altogether.
How this should look like, in a more perfect world:

- The "unobtrusive folder-that-sync app" is produced by multiple parties following a standardized protocol.

- The cloud storage server is handled and secured by different businesses, all following a standardized protocol.

- The user buys an app, and a cloud storage service, and they talk together.

I wonder what are the steps - cultural, technological, perhaps legal - to force SaaS vendors to cut their bullshit, unbundle distinct features, and start competing on merit instead of marketing budgets and control over user data?
I am glad you are giving your kids more opportunities than you had. I did not have the same experience growing up in a suburban environment, and my kids aren't the least bit lacking for activities, so to each their own. My suburban neighborhood also has transit service, so there's that.