skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Infrared_Countermeasure...

>Infrared guidance systems in heat-seeking missiles are designed to track strong sources of infrared radiation

>Directional IRCM, or DIRCM, allows for a countermeasures laser to be targeted directly at an incoming IR threat.
Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
Does rsync.net have any way of doing two factor authentication, at least for administration purposes?

Couldn't find anything on the site. Sure, I get that it's probably primarily built for unattended automated backups, but still.
Parent's point with the carport is that it would also keep the car from heating up in the sun. "Anywhere else" doesn't necessarily provide the benefits he's talking about.
Why does Google open source stuff but not care about open source?
I never understood why people hate the successful.
You can turn any software into an equivalent piece of hardware, which meets the non-subjective matter test you're proposing.

Similarly, I can convert any hardware into a software model of it, which makes it into pure imagination.
Well, there is nothing magical in a magic after you explain it.
> They're not gonna walk it out into a firefight but it makes sense for getting heavier weapons into the hard to get to places you inevitably wind up wanting them.

No better than a souped up ATV would. Probably worse, with harder maintenance and more breakdown potential.

> Also, it's worth remembering that this is a prototype, not a finished system.

Doesn't matter, it's the concept itself which is nonsense.
Given past cybersecurity incidents I'd be very leery of getting one of these. Some relevant links are a description Titan Rain [1], an article about China hacking a Navy contractor [2], and a 3-star general's interview about his concerns regarding Chinese hacking [3]

[1] https://www.cfr.org/interactive/cyber-operations/titan-rain

[2] https://beta.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chin...

[3] https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/07/16/the-chin...
You're right, but it's not 2^8. It is √2^64 = 2^32.
That part also jumped out to me, but made me worry that the author isn't accounting for novelty effects. When you make something weird at first it does well, and then later as people get used to it the lift goes away or even turns negative.

With a lead gen funnel, where everyone is going through for the first time, this is much less of an issue than a site with long term users. In the latter case you want to measure learning effects, while in the former no individual is in a position to learn. Novelty could still wear off in lead gen, though, as companies copy each other and your weird new pattern starts to show up elsewhere and become familiar.
"You could even set up a small still life around the monitor, and get accurate reflections and ambient light in the room."

I think this would be a final additive pass after the pixel setup. Would also allow you to turn it off selectively...

The more I think about it the more I want to try it out.
I don't think my point can be made any more clearly.

People are misinterpreting the news. It seems like your position is to blame the news, and you seem to think this is a new issue.

My position is that this is an inherent factor in production and consumption of the news. Books like Manufacturing Consent, and The Condition of Postmodernity are important to understanding this view and the social processes that support it. A classic example is the reporting on the sinking of the Maine more than 100 years ago.

I don't think that forcing news agencies or social media companies to change is a real solution. The solution lies in improving people's ability to read news critically across all mediums and to understand the context of media and social conversation and how it subtly serves those in power.

Lastly, I don't agree with your characterization of very standard reporting practices as "presenting speculation as fact" and I've clearly explained why above.

This will be my last comment in the thread. Thanks for engaging.
Many universities obtain patents on research outcomes as a matter of policy.
Peacetime everywhere. The post-WWII wars are all tiny by comparison. The nuclear era is historically unprecedented in the total lack of direct warfare between major industrial powers.
Not personally, but we do have mixed teams.

AWS, Azure, actual hardware racks, plain old VMs, JEE containers, .NET packages, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, whatever scripting stack, but surely not one line of Go related code.
>why should they become unpatentable because they're machine-implemented?

The machines, computers, are so widespread and accessible that a huge number of people are making such new methods constantly. The patent system hinges on a patent office that can reasonably assess novelty and obviousness. With software that's impossible.

I'm not saying that non-software patents are necessarily great, just that there's a clear distinction between a patent system that handles 19th century steam engines and a patent system that purports to handle software in an age of ubiquitous computers.

This is one of several intellectually honest cases for ending software patents that don't necessarily end all patents.
Are you sure it was sent by them? What if they have given out their email passwords.

You should never have to provide your password. Setup 2FA.
I used to work outside of tech and noticed that people in other areas think about it more. We (tech) default to systems for recurring things like what to wear but I remember more creative fields like agencies and media seemed to think about this a lot. Walk through a creative agency office and you can see that everyone makes an effort each day. Maybe there will be some more feedback from those people. Just a thought.

As for me, system all the way. 6 t-shirts, 3 jeans, jacket when needed.
I've got a couple of extensions on Firefox on Android, which make browsing bearable. But whenever I take out my iPad, I want to put it away. Large parts of the web are extremely annoying to me due to the ads, paywalls, popups, modals, cookie warnings, fingerprinting and what have you.
Today is the "Day of the Programmer"
Honnold enrages me. Free soloing is a fundamentally irresponsible act; it shows utter contempt for anyone in your life who loves you.

Doing it on the stage he does it, with literally millions watching, is exponentially moreso.

Fuck him.
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> Completely sure it not "illegal, and the grounds for exclusion from the Knesset, to disagree with that statement."

“A candidates' list shall not participate in elections to the Knesset, and a person shall not be a candidate for election to the Knesset, if the objects or actions of the list or the actions of the person, expressly or by implication, include one of the following:

“1. negation of the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state;

“2. incitement to racism;

“3. support of armed struggle, by a hostile state or a terrorist organization, against the State of Israel.”

https://www.knesset.gov.il/laws/special/eng/basic2_eng.htm
15% faster is too low. If they're far away, as the scenario with the long term probing implies, then the second probe should be orders of magnitude faster.
I get Google Maps. For a while if you typed "alexa app" you got an scam that tried to sell you a "echo subscription". I stumbled into it when an elderly man with poor vision got fooled because his screen magnification was so high the paid ad was the only thing shown on the screen when he searched. He would've had to scroll down to see the actual search results. Looks like Apple finally nerfed the imposter but now shows the Prime Video app before Alexa.
That seems correct. On top of that, if you ever need to choose more than half, you choose n-k first then reverse the set. Could it be that the distribution condition is not satisfied? Although I don’t see how. The article could’ve explained the problem better (I mean it keeps reffering to “draw without replacement” - what does that even mean).
Why are these walking machines always so slow? I think Neal Stephenson described a skateboard with hundreds of tiny feet, moving faster than wheels on any surface. I want to see that.
You can replicate almost any plot with R
The same could be said for physical shopping, though. The majority of people are not going to drive out into the countryside or the warehouse district to find your particular clothing store. They're going to walk to the fifth avenue shopping district or Herald Square. And, indeed, your competitors are all there, even if the user intended to go directly to your store. You can easily observe the same phenomenon in the clustering of car dealerships.

I mean the fundamental observation, I feel, is that you don't have a right to be free from competition just because the user has heard your name. To believe otherwise is anti-user and anti-consumer. It is good that Basecamp's competitors can advertise to its potential users, because that increases the level of competition and information in the marketplace.
Considering how there's a lot of developers doing just fine without having any degree in Computer Science, let alone a "top 25 university", I'd argue that a degree in Philosophy is more valuable.
It's also anti-competitive behaviour which in the end makes the fine an acceptable cost for the virtual monopoly.
I've heard chem trail conspiracy theories, it seems that there is a hint of truth in them, but still ridiculous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
Digital Hearing Aids Turn the Whole World into a Giant MP3 File
Do not flatten your SPF record
Nuclear power and renewables don’t have to be enemies. New York just showed how
> Imagine being trapped in a horrible situation with no freedom to escape.

If you look at the people who are traped like that, it's because their nation state failed.

They mostly want to migrate to places with strong nations states, why do you think that is ?

It's because strong nation states, can create good living conditions.

That said that doesn't mean many of us couldn't take a lot more immigrants than we currently do.

People tend to forget, the only guarantee that you are born with is that one day you will die.

Every other privilege, right or whatever you want to call it was fought for (often quite bloody ) and build by societies, and nation states are latest iteration of societies.

Is that fair? No. But that is life.
That armor's too strong for blasters.
Pretty important point for how far we should regulate something.

I think the gaming community would want loot-boxes completely banned under the guise of "gambling".

The individuals that would spend an unhealthy amount on these loot-boxes are not individuals that will stop their behavior if lootboxes are banned or even regulated.

These individuals have know that you can't get your money back, you can't earn more money and you can blow your life savings on it. With no return promised, monetarily, these individuals know the money they spend can't be gambled back. Thats the crux of gambling and their laws. People truly believes one more bet and they can get it all back.

It's insane if a person on Overwatch or Fortnite truly believes the money they waste if beyond their budget is a good investment at all. That problem lies with the individual not EA and loot boxes.

Those people will have constant issues with their finance until they seek the help they need to stop. That could be learning better budgeting behavior to identifying they have a gambling problem.

That could be a gambling impulse but really we know people that constantly spend their money carelessly regardless of some mental addiction. A lot of people lack of financial control shouldn't create laws to dictate to companies what they should do, especially in a market saturated with competition that don't deploy any of these practices simply because these people refuse to follow a monthly budget thats within their means.

We don't remove things from society just cause others have difficulty with it. Now I have no issue with more regulations especially targeted at kids, but let's be honest here. Most of this should still fall on parents and education. Companies caught pushing to sell these random loot-boxes to kids should be addressed and fined. Especially the ones that use streams that buy these boxes and open them with kids audiences. These companies that sponsored these streamers should receives fines for targeting kids. Also like to see some form of guarantee or odds exposure.

Long rant, but I find the fact you can't get monetary value back makes it extremely different than the current types of gambling and should effect the way we regulate it. End of the day, when no monetary value can be extracted we are regulating random chance and rewards...silly path to go down to call anything random and rewarding essentially gambling.
I live in Amsterdam and I would argue the exact opposite. There are tons of crappy restaurants, bars and night clubs here, primarily in the more touristic places. These places serve shitty food and have shitty service. They get away with it because they do not need repeat customers. There are new tourists that will visit every single day anyway, so why would they bother serving good food and treating their customers well. In my experience less touristy cities in the Netherlands have better food and friendlier service for a lower price.
I am not sure. I think it was more about him not expressing himself in the normally accepted ways. Which is something I can relate to.
Americans are no lesser, they have spies too.
Nothing is free. People who pay taxes pay for it.
A tale of two markers [That should have pointed to each other. But didn’t.]
I too have spent some time pondering this equation. I've written down some of my findings.

https://nixpulvis.com/math/00-euler
Wait Wait...Tell Me
It's unlikely that China will remain so in the long run, as their own R&D output continues to rise.
>I watched a TV show called Billions and it is illuminating as to how these big companies and people easily avoid touched by the law.

1. Half the show is about the AG of SDNY throwing white collar criminals in jail.

2. It is fiction.
How long do you think it will take you to shuffle a list of size 2^64?
The Blockchain-Based ‘Handshake’ Solution: An Answer to DNS Security Issues
I've been trying to customize emacs into a useful editor for weeks now.
Ok I'll take a shot at it.

Pick a number between 0 and N. Let's call it p for pivot. Each draw after this initial draw is either less than p with probability p/(N-1) or greater than p with probability 1-p/(N-1). You need to make k-1 additional draws. The probability of m of those draws being less than p is given by the binomial distribution. Choose m from the binomial distribution. Then run the algorithm recursively on the space 0 to p-1 and p+1 to N. Some pseudo-code.

def deckpicker(N,k,offset=0):
if k == 0:
return
p = uniform_dist(0,N)
m = binomial_dist(k-1, p/(N-1))
deckpicker(p-1,m,offset)
print(p+offset)
deckpicker(N-(p+1),(k-1)-m,offset+p+1)
There's an entire black market around creating forgeries of branded SFPs and other transceivers. Source, I've been bitten by it.

You may think you're buying a branded SFP from a vendor(Cisco, Juniper, etc), when in fact the vendor in question has not tested that SFP with their gear. There are subtle differences in SFPs and there is good reason to have them tested with your vendor's gear. Not saying the price hike for vendor certified optics is justified, but link flaps cost time and money.
Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness
bhyvearm64: CPU and Memory Virtualization on ARMV8.0-A
Using Deep Learning to Inform Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases
“A bookshop owner is unqualified to be a literary critic. It’s more useful to know the distinguishing features of the first edition of The Pickwick Papers than to have read the bloody thing, and it’s always best not to bandy lit crit across the counter.”

I strongly disagree! In fact I would say for typical customers this is exactly what’s expected of the bookseller.

To find examples of great booksellers not from this mold I suggest two wonderful books: “The Seven Stairs” and “Medium and Rare”.
Isn't it a progression?
Gain a Competitive Edge with Product Data
Ok, but having Brussels dictating national policy is un-democratic no matter how you slice it. And maybe the EU is being held up as a scapegoat, but there's much to be said for self-determination and knowing that your vote matters, which is the same problem we're facing here in the US. The latest Democrat debate was nothing but full-on statist, Maoist, Marxist bs. They want to completely eliminate our Constitution and Bill of Rights. No thanks.
Trump Begins Border Wall Construction in National Monument
Though it remains in the environment even after the operation and civilians will be exposed to it. This has been the case in e.g. Balkans (https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/world/radiation-from-balk...) and also in Iraq (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-ur...)
In correct English one would state fully, completely written in X.

Modern stacks are seldom pure blood language X, thus if 5% of it is written in Y, the product is written in a mix of X and Y.

Which I also mentioned on my comment, "Yep, they aren't pure C#", naturally overseen when one intends to champion its language as "Year of Desktop Linux" on IT infrastructures.
In my city’s bus system baby buggies and bicycles have 0 priority. If you live in a city you really should have a collapsible one. But if you do bring one aboard a packed bus the most will get is a scorned look. Basically, no one wants to be the one to kick a parent and child off the bus.

Bicyclists on the other hand have no excuse and get no compassion. If the bike rack is full you wait for the next bus.
Inside the Electric Airplane Industry
Why would a union want more prisons? Surely the whole point of a union is to lobby for better pay and conditions for its individual members, I don't see what the incentive is for the union to create more prisons, to get more union members? Why?
Glasgow also has only 1201 annual hours of sunshine, less than 3.5/day. What a strange example to choose...
interesting tip ! Very clever, thanks !
You could say that Eisenstein was doomsayer about nuclear fission.

And we did came quite close to doomsday scenarios, cold war, but also false-positives in automated detection defense systems.
You're not far off on the math for the most efficient cars, but I can't even get that much solar on top of a 23' camper, and that's with full sun and assuming I can park directionally. You're talking about 80 sq ft. Even taking into account these more efficient panels, you're looking at maybe 10 mi a day range added, best case.

And that's assuming you're parking outside at all while at work. In suburbia you might be. Good luck in any big city.

Overall I don't see how this is going to be economically efficient any time soon, even in the best use cases. It seems better to have fixed solar and a plug. But I hope I'm wrong.
I had a lot of failures since my company switched to Azure AKS... losing clusters, losing API server=crashing operators and so much more...
Lesson in : don't go with AKS !
> Why is it more difficult?

First, I think it's important to point out that there's a difference between a fully distributed team and a mostly-local team with some remote members. A lot (not all) of the problems have to do with the disparity between the colocated and non-colocated workers. For example, the colocated majority in a mixed team will often cling to old habits wrt soliciting or providing feedback/approval on commits, conveying important news, etc. Just turn your head a bit and speak a bit louder; everyone will get the cue and listen in. Ditto for learning new tricks by hearing or seeing someone near you. There's no incentive for them to do anything but what works for them. On a fully distributed team people do develop alternatives because they have to.

Other things that are more difficult remote include anything involving a whiteboard, from design discussions to planning sessions. Online alternatives are never as good. Inability to participate in group social activities, or to detect nuance in conversation based on tone of voice (where a fully distributed team would come up with textual alternatives) can lead to a surprisingly quick erosion of mutual trust. This is why people who do work "full time" remotely - like me BTW - still benefit from frequent in-person visits.

> Is this uncommon across the industry?

I think your experience sounds a bit exceptional, but there's probably a lot of variance according to technical area and project characteristics. For me, working on a large codebase with lots of hidden coupling so that no individual project can be accomplished without tight collaboration at least across the dozen-person immediate team (if not the broader 40-person team), being remote is a real handicap. Can/should the codebase be fixed? Sure, but that project itself requires even tighter coordination until it's done. Were I to attempt it, I'd have to be on-site for months.

I think there are more bad codebases and weak teams than there are the opposite, so my guess would be that my experience (and this is not the first team in which I've been a remote minority) is not far from the norm.
I've ready Rogoway's articles on this. He starts from real and public announcements by the U.S. military -- which is pretty newsworthy -- and then he spends a lot of time trying to come up with sensible, scientific explanations. See for example this article that compares the sightings to recent designs for radar-reflecting balloons [1]. TL;DR: the Navy made this newsworthy. Rogaway just seems to be doing reasonable investigative work from that starting point.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...
Google made some pretty serious moves in the last year.

Their recent algorithm update is forcing news sites to improve their overall content quality

and by now highlighting original reports it will force news sites to write original content and not just rewrite each other articles.

It's cool to see how Google is changing online journalism
> This reminds me of why you don't make your own game engine when you are building a game. You'll spend months or years working on exactly what isn't a game.

I've done exactly this. It was a really good game engine - sprites, animation, LUA scripting, and everything. But once I had it running the original inspiration for the game was gone.

I learned a lot in the process so I don't count it as wasted time.

More recently,I built a my own static site generator like everyone else and their dogs. I guess I really never finished it but it is feature complete enough to do exactly what I need even if nobody else is ever going to use it. Like the gp's forum software, that is a kind of success.
See my edit! Oops.

Anyways, if you were to keep it in some hash-based structure, you could check membership! (But I'm sure you already knew that :)
Unpopular opinion (though getting less so): the politicization of nuclear energy in the 1960s and the resulting lack of investment & R&D advances may go down as one of the biggest blunders in human history.

Even with some modest ongoing investments, we'd have designs that are FAR safer than systems currently in operation.
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If your DNS traffic is in the clear, I can pretty much determine what sites you are visiting, simply by passively sniffing your queries.

If you really don't think that is a threat, you're foolish.

Also I would like to see proof regarding Chrome "forcing" itself to 8.8.8.8 - I have never seen that. I run Chrome on Linux, Mac, and Windows.