skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the present, faking something like this convincingly is probably more expensive than just passing off stock footage as the real thing. If they are motivated by laziness/greed, I wouldn't expect them to cough up the resources for an outright 'hollywood fx' style fabrication.

(When the stakes are higher and spy agencies are involved... who knows.)
What IPFS means by 'immutability' is that the mapping from id-->content will never change. That doesn't mean that the content will always be available on the network and accessible to any viewer. If you remove the content from the network (aka all nodes stop hosting the content), then no one will be able to find and access it.

For example, if bad person A adds something illegal to a node they host on IPFS, then person B can legally compel them to stop providing that content (ex by suing them). While the id-->content mapping would still be immutable, the content can no longer be found/viewed because bad person A is no longer hosting it. There is no "automatic persistence" in the IPFS network, so only nodes that choose to host a piece of content will become providers (aka no automatic process will keep bad content around if all hosts have taken it down).
> There's too much fragmentation in this space and it'll be hard to have the self-sustaining critical mass.

You do not need to have a single platform, though. All you would need is a single, in the best case open, index of meetup sites and descriptions. For that to work, you would need a simple protocol, e.g. myownmeetup.com/meetup.json, which the aggregators can crawl.
Republicans rejoice!
> instead find indie youtube channels.

Like Infowars?
Huh, I could have sword the Xperia X port also used BTRFS, but I guess I never checked.

(And yeah, those issues were how I found out: unable to create files while having "4 gb of free space" - not helped by the fact that it didn't run the balancer automatically.)
You touched on the education without student loans is a major benefit to the military. Another is the ability to buy a home with no money down and not have to pay mortgage insurance. It's easy for those in the military to feel like life is passing them by as they witness cohorts graduating earlier etc. but those benefits can make a big difference in the long run (not to mention the intangibles you brought up).
You're right, I overestimated this by quite a bit.

This site shows Athens over 20 degrees (just) on average, six months of the year.

https://www.holiday-weather.com/athens/averages/

These days I only go home in the summer (July to September to be more precise) so I guess I've inflated how hot it is, in my mind.

Now I'm a laughing stock. And rightly so.
Apple Releases iOS 13.1.3
Anything the government knows about you COULD become (and in many nations, already are) a liability. Even things that are completely harmless.

On top of that, let's say that you do become a suspect of a crime you didn't commit. Every little shred of information that can be found is going to be used to paint a false narrative against you. Why would you want anybody to have ANY information on you at that point.

Surely you've heard of "the right to remain silent" and "pleading the 5th". Anonymity online is the internet version of that.
Linux today can’t do half of what VMS could do in 1999.
I hear community colleges put out there as an option to move into a 4 year state school often. I can't help but think it applies to many more states than I expected initially.
Austin and Chicago definitely fit in that overlap. On top of that, when you compare SF to say, Cleveland, sure the median salary in SF could be 2x as high, but the median home price is close to 10x as high.

NIMBYism is going to absolutely choke the bay area over time, and newer generations of startups, VCs, and accelerators will wise up and broaden their horizons. The frequently parroted argument of "SF has the best pool of engineering talent" only goes so far.

Especially when quality engineers can move wherever they want, and Stanford and UC Berkeley aren't pumping out nearly enough CS grads to justify the absurd cost of operating for startups to stay there.
Isn't short term cap gains taxed like earned income, which below $50k a year is 0 in CA? For federal if you make <$52k (w/ standard deduction) you only pay like a 11% tax rate.
I don't mean to comment about how much a down payment should or shouldn't be, but that affording a house takes more than just money coming in (i.e. a good salary). You also need savings. This makes it hard for a lot of first time house buyers, and I think especially, young people, to buy.

Hopefully, you can save at a rate higher than the rate at which the down payment increases due to house prices generally going up.
That's nice but (you guessed it) I don't have iOS. I think it should just be a part of DDG, as it is also the simplest solution. Perhaps they can just show a bunch of common "!..." buttons, so they don't even have to use the name of Google.
> That is not the argument being made. It is an argument that having friction in the process to do something that may have dangerous outcomes is sometimes positive.

The argument being made, as far as I can tell, is that this tool will make doing bad things easier, and thus this tool should not be made. As any tool to resist censorship will also enable said bad things, I do not find this to be a valid concern. (And since some governments would list censorship resistance itself as one of those bad things, this is always going to be true)

> It is much the same as arguments that there should be gun training required to purchase a firearm.

I think the tech equivalent to this would be mandating a "don't sexually exploit children" class before allowing purchase of a computer. (As you might guess, I'm not a fan)

> Adding friction to a process sometimes provides positive benefits.

Sure, but you have to make sure the collateral damage is minimized AND that you're actually catching the offending segment of the population. Mandating gun training before purchase is actually a great comparison here - the vast majority of gun crime in the US is committed with illegally acquired weapons (which would be unaffected by the mandate), just like I imagine that the majority of CSE imagery shared on the internet uses something more robust than OnionShare. So in both cases you'd have high collateral damage with minimal impact to the population you actually care about affecting...
Corretto is decent, but AWS just doesn't get non-Amazon devs/tooling, and so e.g. almost a year later, there is still no alpine docker image: https://github.com/corretto/corretto-8-docker/issues/1
China’s Culture Creep
Finally! Soon I won't need to start Chromium to debug something as simple as websockets anymore.

I recently found out about the CSS tooling Firefox has for flexbox (they're quite hard to discover).

Another feature I sometimes use in Chrome is the ability to specify my own network throttling specs (based on measured throughputs of customers and users) instead of the default profiles. It's much less of an issue than the websockets but I hope that custom network profiles become a feature as well soon. So far none of them seem advanced enough to not necessitate a virtual instance of pfSense with a shaper (to allow for burst speed/packet loss/etc.) to reliably reproduce customer network behaviour but every advancement here is a step closer to ditching my clunky setup.
Get Unused Routes of Large Rails App
I'm genuinely looking forward to this. I used VMS back in the 90's and loved it as an OS. Clustering, versioned file systems, reasonably well formed error messages; it seemed very civilised.

It'd be nice to be able to run it in a VM and see how much I've forgotten. I've got an old workstation in my loft, but haven't really got the room to have it setup.
Immutability on ipfs just means a given address will always point to the same content. It doesn't mean that content is or will always be available. Nodes who host harmful content are responsible for hosting it whether it's on a peer-to-peer network or a server/client network.
Interesting, I can see where some of my confusion comes from if it was discussed but not completed. It's somewhat disappointing as I do think the ANSI MERGE statement is a good tool.
> They say they were driving with family members on 3 October when, to avoid an animal, they veered onto a small road.

> A police officer then pulled them over, told them they were in the US state of Washington and arrested them.

Horrible and inexcusable experience to be sure, but the explanation for how they ended up in the US needs some work.
People don't realize they're exposed to mmwave already. If you're on a jet or ship, in sight of a jet or ship, near an airport (not just going through a body scanner), near a weather radar station, within line of sight of a microwave relay tower, walking through automatic doors, or driving, your body is absorbing mmwave RF from something. All of those sources are from radar, which is a lot more common than one might think.
Hogwash.

Source code is as moral or immoral as a box of nails. You can use it for good and you can use it for evil.

The reason why we've had such a massive boost in productivity in tech is precisely because of all this unpaid labor. Does it suck that the builders of said code didn't receive much (or any) compensation for their work? Sure, but then again, that was never the point. You don't volunteer at the local SPCA and then complain that you weren't rewarded enough.

Open source has eaten the world. Most of the closed protocols, closed formats, closed systems, closed specifications, etc have died over the past decade, precisely because we have freely available interoperable software and specifications.

This "ethical code" movement will only gum up the works by mixing in a whole bunch of incompatible licenses: This npm component requires that you not use it in nuclear tech. That component requires that you not eat meat. This one requires that you not have dealings with China. It'll be chaos because nobody could ever satisfy them all, which means that no legal department would ever authorize its use, until a few sane people managing these software collections/repositories finally wake up and say "No crazy licensing allowed."

Leave politics out of the tools you build. Politics don't belong there.
If social media posts cost 0.01, things would be way better.
This is a reply to your reply.

Taxation is not theft. You either work in the country and make money, and use everything around you in that country that was provided by taxes (roads, sewer, fire, police, etc) or you don't work and don't pay taxes.
You realize that out-of-state tuition for UVA is about $65k a year, right?

https://sfs.virginia.edu/cost/19-20
Flight Tracking
Don't forget to like, subscribe, comment, retweet, share on Facebook, share on Linked, Airdrop to everyone around you, buy from the company sponsoring my video, and keep watching past the four minutes of extra padding I had to add to the start of the video to trick Youtube's algorithms!
What about if you have an android device on your person?
> In Sima Valley, California

That's Simi.
Find me a vehicle manufacturer currently in business that hasn't been sued and sells more than 100,000 cars a year.

I see the .au domains and while I don't know how stuff is in Australia, the United States it looks like more than 10,000 class action lawsuits are filed a year [1]. Hell I just got an email about one this weekend where apparently Audible was sued for not making it more clear that credits expired if you didn't use them... I mean, as long as I can remember (and I've been a member over a decade) Audible has explicitly stated that you can only accumulate so many unused credits and that if you cancel any outstanding ones are nullified. Lawyers make BANK if they win a class action.

So did they get sued and then issue a recall, yes it looks that way but in the case of my recall it was voluntary and involved no lawsuit that I know of. They found some defect that happened under extremely specific (and unrealistic for 99.99% of drivers) conditions and issued a voluntary recall. When I got the notice the Truck was 15 or even 16 years old and we hadn't had it at a dealership in 2 address (I'd never had it at a dealership under my name) yet they found me to tell me and then sent the notice every few months for a couple of years until I notified them I no longer owned the vehicle per the instructions in the mailings.

[1] https://gettingthedealthrough.com/area/82/jurisdiction/23/cl...
The US definition of "urban" is basically anything that is not rural. Includes suburbs and small towns. People who don't consider themselves city folk and have never used Uber or heard of instacart.
Instead of hearing about it on facebook you can hear about it on meetup.
I'm surprised that there aren't dozens and dozens of comments here lauding Lampert's behavior and business strategy here. After all, tech and HN are chock-full of libertarians and Ayn Rand lovers.
"... better than feeding the bloated government bureaucracies."

I think this is probably the core of most of these disagreements. If you approach taxation with the assumption that it's mostly just money going to waste, then yeah, you're not going to be very supportive of taxation, especially high tax rates for high income, high net-worth people.

But even if you come at it from that point of view, it has to be acknowledged that there are certain kinds of services which are almost impossible to deliver other than via the government. The private sector will not give you healthcare for all, or any meaningful mass transit (much less HSR), or properly maintained roads and bridges, or a military, or any of a thousand other things that your multiple levels of government spend money on. Yes there is some waste due to corruption or bad decisions, but for most people that is an accepted cost to getting the services that can't be had any other way.
I'm using Google/Motorola's Nexus 6 with LineageOS, which was released a year before your iPhone 6s and it still gets the latest updates.

Meanwhile, my mid-2011 Mac Mini was cut off from getting macOS updates after High Sierra last year. But because it allows the installation of other operating systems it still can dual-boot the latest Windows 10 and the latest Debian Bullseye just fine.

The only way for any general computing device to last is if it gives the user freedom to control the software that runs on the device. All iPhones suppress this freedom which means game over for longevity.
I googled it and it was 2012 I was thinking about. Multiple planets aligned in 2010 (just as they did in 2000) but the real conspiracy stuff was 2012, which has it's own Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

Unfortunately the math no longer works out but those crazies love clean decade numbers like 2010, so I'm sticking by it.
To youtube's credit, infowars got banned over a year ago.
This is neat! I once found someone’s debit card on the street (in the US). It had a small face shot on it, so I found them on Facebook and sent them a message. Of course, Facebook had already started doing the “messages from non-friends are really hard to find lol” UI dark pattern, so like two years later the woman responds thanking me, but also saying she just canceled the card. Which is what I would’ve done, but I at least wanted to provide some peace of mind or closure that it wasn’t stolen or anything.
Closing costs will kill you if you are doing this too often. If you are pretty certain you will stay at least 5 years, you should be ok.
While I sympathize with this line of thinking, it's a question of value. Meetup is already charging organizers, while providing what is a pretty bare-bones app and mass email service. It's also a change that fundamentally changes the dynamic and incentives of the communities already built up on Meetup.

It's like if your local dry cleaner changed their pricing from $5/item to $1/square foot of fabric.
What? How could that be legal? You can't say "Comparisons with competitors are not allowed" under a free market... right?
I think even moving things that started on the ground would probably be crushed by the weight, since they would be at the bottom.
HS/Mechanics – Custom Cars Staff – Houses – Drugs – TrackyServer
> Does that mean you would never be comfortable with with a complete UI overhaul?

I'd like for the old interface to be still around, so I can click though the nav layers like I always have. At the end, instead of the information / setting I'm looking for, I'd be fine with info on how now to find that info/setting. This "tutorial" should obviously be kept up to date on later UI changes. It also requires the info/setting to still be available... so no dumbing-down please.
If we wait long enough, the planet is going to get rid of the desert.

> For several hundred thousand years, the Sahara has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000 year cycle[8] caused by the precession of the Earth's axis as it rotates around the Sun, which changes the location of the North African Monsoon. The area is next expected to become green in about 15,000 years (17,000 AD).
I mean Lambda School is the equivalent of a 2 quarter college program. Everyone understands how fractions work -- the push back is that people don't think the fraction analogy you're using makes sense here.

I teach a 10 week program and students who drop out 4 weeks in are offered an option to return to complete during the next offering but are on the hook for the full program costs. This does not mean I think someone who drops out of college after 1.5 years should have to pay for 4 years. It's not the same situation.
It is illogical, but allows policing when things are perceived to "get out of hand" which is an interesting way to have things both ways (both as citizens, and as law enforcement). It's a delicate balance that could be easily thrown-over, but so far has managed to last. We'll see how long it can continue though given a lot of boundary-testing.
>... prior to its unveiling in 2007, Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs did not intend to let third-party developers build native apps for iOS, instead directing them to make web applications for the Safari web browser. However, backlash from developers prompted the company to reconsider, with Jobs announcing in October 2007 that Apple would have a software development kit available for developers by February 2008

Let me translate that:

Steve Jobs did not intend to let anyone else profit from iOS, instead directing them to make web applications for the Safari web browser that would provide subpar experience.

They released a publicly accessible SDK in less than 4 months? And you believe it wasn't in their plan at all to allow anyone else to develop on it? They clearly planned to have a way to sideload app on it. Itunes already existed since 2001, it wasn't anything new for them. The only things they decided to change was to allow everyone to access it.

Flash would have been a way to allow everyone to access much more powerful feature. This is why they avoided it. The app store was an alternative that allowed them to keep control of it.
What if the problem with sodas isn't only the sugar (variants) but the preservatives?

I mean, why do we presume the preservatives don't affect the body's ability to process the rest of the soda content, so it accumulates?
Absolutely incorrect. I worked there for 3 years, saw one person fired, and everybody who joined with me ended up vesting their shares. Most got promoted too.
Isn't eventbrite the most popular one of these alternatives?
Unfortunately, I found this wholly unconvincing. I sincerely doubt it is a grand ideal, carefully thought-out, or well-funded. Expecting an idealized set of well-crafted axioms for accessing public spaces with demand outstripping supply at an accelerated pace will almost certainly lead to disappointment. "Special knowledge" can be as simple as knowing the right person to befriend to add your name to a list. The example of regressing to ancient non-internet fax instead of even straightforward USPS snail mail tells me they don't have the correct answer either.
If a meetup is not even worth $2 to attend, is it really worth an hour+ of your personal time?
Something feels wrong about this analogy. There is a difference between something that's designed to maim and something that could maim if it's misused.

I am not sure where Tor fits into that distinction, and I think that's the issue.
You also have to factor consumerism and entitlement into the issue. I make white collar money, but live in a blue collar neighborhood. This makes housing more affordable and there is no temptation for "Keeping up with the Joneses".
What are some of the best places in the world to travel to?
> blue states like Michigan

Both houses of Michigan's state legislature have been Republican-controlled since 2011. Not much of an example of the Dems controlling voter rolls at the state level there.
Loot Box Lottery
Applications that run on OpenVMS tend to be really important and have been in continuous operation (including upgrades where new ISA's were introduced) for decades. It was ported to Itanium and missed out on taking advantage of the 64-bit x64 wave. As Intel has moved high end reliability features to the Xeon line OpenVMS applications can be moved over to modern hardware.

It's not so much that it's relevant to everyone, but it's a super interesting topic watching it get ported.
Are all the links in the parent from wellrespected climate scientists?
D comes with a lot of "casual parallelism" baked in at the language level, and in its standard libraries. Actors are just one feature among many.

You -can- explicitly manage threads and processes like in other languages, but much of the time there is a more lightweight, expressive construct available.

For instance, you can turn this loop:
foreach(ref i; arr) i = i * i;

Into a parallelized loop by simply:
foreach(ref i; parallel(arr)) i = i * i;

Example was shamelessly lifted from:
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/multithreading/std-parallelis...
> the GMAT is a tough exam

It might work ok as a way to filter out people who had a poor quality undergraduate education, but it is not a tough exam. I got a 700-something score (95th percentile) in 2011 on my first try with less than 6 hours of preparation. The math portion of the GMAT was primarily about doing mental arithmetic, and did not involve any mathematical concepts past the middle school level. The language portion was primarily about English reading and writing skills.
It appears to me that you're calculating on only one child per generation. That's possible, but it isn't the norm.
Agreed, I want to contribute.

So I can direct people away from where I live, so the prices don't skyrocket.
How would that reset their progress? The leaks have revealed that our secret organizations are pretty open (at least among themselves) about parallel construction. For instance this article [1] reveals some slides of the more harmless surveillance data on a target. Nonetheless, in a giant disclaimer at the top the NSA reminds their agents "This information is provided for intelligence purposes in an effort to develop potential leads. It cannot be used in affidavits, court proceedings, or subpoenas, or for other legal or judicial purposes."

And as the leaks have fallen off the news cycle, along with an interesting rise of misinformation in social media, you gradually see people beginning to understate what was revealed and to show ever less concern over it. It's actually a phenomenal demonstration for how a secret agency should handle a leak to avoid any meaningful consequences of what is ostensibly ground-breaking information on programs that are, at best, in legally grey areas, all being released to the public en masse. Snowden no doubt felt that his leaks would change our approach to intelligence if not our entire nation. In reality, next to nothing changed.

[1] - https://theintercept.com/2016/08/14/nsa-gcsb-prism-surveilla...
Which is dying anyways.
A lot of this sounds similar to MS SQL Server - the MERGE one sticks out, does Postgres not have MERGE?