skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quarter of world's pig population 'to die due to African swine fever'
Swift isn't comfortable to use on non-Mac platforms. Because of this I can't see it taking over from Go or Rust in the server space. (I mention Rust because the language type system feels similar to Swift's and Rust is gunning for the same server space.)

If the Swift folks want adoption, they're going to have to think about the broader developer ecosystem. There's also an inherent mistrust in Apple that I think a lot of engineers have. It feels a lot like Google Dart in this respect.
If you're not going in a straight line then your motion has a radius. This is why people lost in the woods go in circles, because their walk (unless a compass is correcting you) always has a slight curve.
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NB: The Scottish independence referendum did not allow the rest of the UK to vote. It was considered a matter for the Scots alone.

Arguably this wasn't fair. Splitting a country in two affects everyone, so why couldn't everyone vote? But if the rest of the country could vote then there'd not have been even a tiny hope the SNP would have accepted the results. In fact, they did not accept that they lost anyway, even when voting was restricted to Scotland. But it's easy to understand why the referendum was designed the way it was.

Ironically it might be that these days the rest of the UK would kick Scotland out, if they were given a vote. It's not necessarily true that everyone cares about the Union.
Thanks for the examples. This is helpful. I can't help but wonder if you or anyone else might be to elaborate on your last point:

>"Instruction-to-microcode translation is, unfortunately, not as simple as a (single) table lookup on x86_64 ;)"

Is the because of the overloading or are there other reasons it's not as simple as a LUT?

Cheers.
It's the principle of the thing.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by subjective.

I assert that, for many (though possibly not all) moral questions, that there is a fact of the matter as to whether a thing is good or bad or neither.
I don't back backup my machine states, just home directory and other data.
Enjoy the pervasive telemetry and Candy Crush ads!
> It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking.

More like even better. Glad to see a website exercising critical thinking.

> Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not?

Is it sexually suggestive? Then no.

> A gender-neutral standard would be better.

Well that's a policy ignorant of reality.
https://www.pipelinedb.com/blog/pipelinedb-is-joining-conflu...
Saw this in Greece this summer, went for a walk on my own (I like to walk around new places) at a truly beautiful headland against the sunset, I was the only one who sat and just watched it, everyone else had their back to it, framing shots, getting friends to check images...

They have the photo, I have the memory, I think I prefer my way.
The problem with YouTube’s algorithm is that it’s clearly biased towards the mainstream sources that have high P-Scores.

If Jimmy Kimmel does a monologue about his anti-gun stance, or about a recent mass shooting, he’s monetized, no problem.

But if an indie YouTuber talks about guns or school shootings, they’re almost immediately demonetized due to “non advertiser friendly content.”

Independent creators are obviously upset because they are demonetized. But they are also upset that there is a clear double standard.
Because shrinking populations causes tough economic conditions, which creates wars and famines
Often times in politics, what is a "lie" is more a matter of opinion rather than fact. Who gets to be the arbiter of truth?
Wait, what?!
This invalidates the entire list for me if there is no further proof...
Raised also in The Prestige.
A "good" landing is one which people can walk away from and a "great" landing is one where you can use the cruise missile again so by definition, a cruise missile can complete neither a "good" nor a "great" landing by design.
And how many millions of people are disturbed by those protests?
Paywall bypass: enter an arbitrary email.

ceo+<random digits>@<site domain> happens to work.
I think you raise a good point about scale. I don't think full sized rockets lifting off has as much to do with gimbals vs. fins as it does with sheer weight. The Saturn V had fins on it and it lifted off slow, and I'm willing to bet that it had a lot to do with the fact that a Saturn V on the launch pad weighed somewhere around 6.2 million pounds.

Scale it down a ways to something like a RIM-116 and you can see the scale come into play. This thing goes from launch to almost disappearing over the horizon in under three seconds and then hits the target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVk9VnUkvaU

Granted, that RIM-116 does have fins. So let's take the fins away and scale up to something like a Polaris SLBM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlXty69-Y8

Still unbelievably fast, same with the Tridents. These get popped up out of the water before they fire their main engines. It's basically free standing in the air when it fires the main and it still shoots off super fast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5KejRbD5s0
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It is illegal to both posses nuclear materials (U.S. Code § 831) and to "develop or possess a radiological weapon" (U.S. Code § 832)
This is somewhat misleading: borg absolutely does not require its server software to be installed on the target server. It supports (and works well) with a simple sshfs mount.
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You're right. I acknowledge that languages do pay a price for their flexibility and dynamism: efficient implementation becomes much harder.
I just want to reinforce this. Toastmasters is where you want to go. The quality of the speakers is excellent, but more importantly, they are incredibly kind and understand to people who aren't great speakers. This is literally the answer I came here to find, and post it if it wasn't. Toastmasters 100%.
The Bio tech seen is very credential focused. It is not like standard tech that often welcomes people with other experience. There are several likely reasons for this.

1. An over abundance of Bio Phd's.
2. Medicine in particular is tricky
3. Academics can be a$$Holes
4. They don't pay as well.
z80 and 8086 were both garbage, next to the 68000.

It's sad x86 survived this far and is still so popular. Hopefully RISC-V will put an end to this hell.
Oh no, my cat is very friendly, but only when she gets hungry. She knows who has access to Fancy Feast. Also, "from the other side of the room" probably means the cat can only see the general outline of you if the room is large enough - their eyesight acuity at a distance is pretty bad. They have broader field of view, and higher sensitivity to motion though. Another misconception is that cats and dogs don't see colors, but they do, just not the same way as humans, and not as many.
How many people would be willing to pay $10/month for something that they currently get for free?
They all close. Worst case is they'll get longer and longer as the universe expands and the objects will never be able to complete them and come back for a second lap.
After listening to Joe Rogan's interview with Edward Snowden I bought and listened to his book "Permanent Record." At this point I have to assume that at least a dozen agencies in a handful of countries are watching me through my webcam as I type this message right now. Snowden suggested (or at least I inferred) that he didn't reveal all there is to know about the scope of government surveillance and it's only logical to conclude that techniques and technologies have gotten more advanced and more subtle since he fled the country.
Another major problem is that it does not support compression: all files are stored uncompressed on the backup server (even though they are deduplicated) (sic).
> their right to prioritize (based on money) what stuff goes on your feed

It's not your feed, it's their feed; you're just the person eating it.
Just be aware that a chargeback is an instant bridge-igniter with the company or platform you’re filing it against, most considering it a breach of the TOS and banning your account.
> How is it a bad thing?

Because it conflicts with the internal human desire to reproduce. You effectively are saying "Hey raise your hand if you want your group of people to die out." I'm not shocked that people aren't wild about that.
Less about Java and more about the code pattern around it.
I did this twice with AMEX and they didn't ban me. The second time they even apologized and gave me credits.
There's a Hard Problem here, and it's that in order for this to work, there has to be 100% parity between the component breakdown on the design side, and on the development side.

In theory this doesn't sound too bad, but in reality, it's very difficult to know exactly which bits of the UI are going to become a component in code, before implementation.

Therefore, there's a very high likelihood that the visual components coming from design are not going to cleanly align with the implemented components in Storybook.
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Yeah also interested in a GUI?
The language here of "exist" is, I think, a bit of a rhetorical trick which doesn't argue the actual thing under contention.

That's not to say that there aren't good and convincing actual arguments, I just don't think this is one of them.
I'm hesitant to name the device, because thus far the company who makes it has escaped scrutiny, and I'm not the one who's going to change that right now. There was an Ars Technica article a few years ago that made reference to Xfinity doing this to notify people that they were using a hotspot. They had a follow-up article that nobody read where they pointed to the company that made the device, but they slightly misidentified them. Mostly people were upset at Comcast. The appliance is used at Cox, Shaw, and many other major ISPs all over the world: Europe, Latin America, The Middle East, Asia. There are basically two major companies operating in this space, as far as I know.

It is capable of monitoring ALL http requests, which is only about <5% of traffic going through an ISP. The more traffic you have, the more devices you need, but one can take care of a LOT of traffic, and I believe it can run as a VM. I'm not sure how it works as a VM exactly, because it also contains a custom Ethernet driver.

The same device directs people to the captive portal (if i'm not mistaken) used for logging into xfinity, or other public wifi from other providers.

Because performance is a high priority, the logging is minimal, but it keeps track of who's been served a message and doesn't collect any PII. The device is capable of serving any content, even causing a request from a third-party. So, it's possible that the content that gets ultimately injected is able to do whatever... anything a malicious advertisement would be capable of doing.

Your message eligibility is highly configurable, and can include metrics such as whether you visit certain sites, and possibly even your physical location.

There's a couple phases. First the network appliance injects so light code, using the Man-On-The-Side 302 redirect method. Once that's done, the injected code is probably going to request additional content after checking if you qualify for a message.
Depending in the jurisdiction, you might even have a legal obligation to try and get away as a top priority if you can avoid a potentially deadly confrontation.
Same experience here with teaching, it has had a huge secondary benefit for me in that I know how to run a room. I also highly recommend running a meetup.
FYI those are all functions of any deduplicating backup software, of which there are several out there, Restic being only one of them.
With that kind of ego she will soon claim "in the known or visible universe" :)
Does a recursive fold use physical recursion (i.e. requires linear stack space)? Can Fortran compilers resolve tail recursion?
1 billion people using private jets daily would emit a lot more carbon than our current population, let alone our current population in carbon balance.

Population control is both a completely infeasible and an ineffective solution to the climate crisis.
Everybody here is focusing on the writing part of the equation but that is not the most important one.

Expressing a thought is just the last step of communication.

Only organized and correctly structured thoughts can be expressed in a clear way.

If you can’t communicate well it is an indication that you are not thinking as well as you think you are, because if you were, you wouldn’t be having problems.

It is fair to say that most people nowadays still don’t know how to write or read. Illiteracy is still a huge problem in the whole world. They might know how to write a word but they can’t explain what the word is supposed to mean.

I see that everyday. My boss will write that “X team member needs to perform at a higher level”, but can’t, for the love of God, provide a specific example or direction as to what that means.

I’m pretty sure she thinks she knows in her head what it means. The problems is she doesn’t. If she knew she would be able to clearly communicate what her expectations are and how X member is not meeting them.

My recommendation is to stop thinking about how to improve the output of your thought process and focus on improving the content.

All great presenters will work months on prepping the message that they want to convey. Every word will be carefully selected because every word has a different specific meaning. That’s why we think people are great at writing or speaking. They are great at that as well, but above all else they are great thinkers.
Glacier Storage/Cold storage, which usually takes ~6h to retrieve files, on Cloud providers are really cheap (I know Azure has $0.99/TB/month), but I have a hard time finding any free backup solutions to support the very-high latency natively.

I remember reading a long time ago that Restic was not going to natively support cold storage solutions. Has anything changed?
>> We weren't tremendously successful, but we learned a hell of a lot

When you are twenty, doing anything will teach you a lot.
Yes, but in a very different context. While both are "aviation", military aviation and commercial aviation are pretty isolated from each other.
You might want to try to interact more with the cat, ask your room-mate what the favorite toy is. That's the best way to form a bond with any cat. It may be trying to assert dominance over you.
Most of the approaches used are re-usable, which is a big part of why we can develop new AIs for games faster than ever. You can take the algorithm(s) that was used in one game and use it in another.

Yes, a human is still needed to decide which approach to use, but we are slowly approaching a world where building an AI becomes easier and faster. It will become absolutely irrelevant that a single AI can not play all games, because whenever a new game comes out, someone will be able to build a superhuman AI on it within a week/month.

The brains of an AI are also transferrable. Built a superhuman AI? Send it to a friend! Compare it to a human, who would need to spend enormous amounts of time to transfer their game-brain to someone else. If you want, you can bundle all those AIs into one and pretend it can play any game.

"It's amazing that most people here don't understand that human performance in all computer games relative to AIs is largely irrelevant"
I literally laughed out loud when I saw the author's name and now wonder why the headline wasn't: "Apple leaves Linux for Windows"

Yes, Windows has gotten far better in recent years; then again, there have been great tools available for it for a while, like ConEmu and it's derivative Cmdr, so when it was recently announced that Windows 10 does SSH I smirked because I've been doing that -- and Vim and other things -- from Cmdr for years.
To be fair, Alf appears to be the open-source backend of a commercial service with a more marketing-focused website - https://swicket.io/
I m confused, the top government officials are the children or the predators?
It is, but when you create a new contact you are trusting the WhatsApp service that the public key of the other party actually is their public key. The service can always give both parties a key of their own making instead of the actual keys of the parties. IIRC you can verify the public keys via QR codes but maybe such verification wasn't part of security practices. Thus if you hack the service, you may be able to read messages even though it's supposed to be end-to-end encrypted.

Another possibility is them faking a public annoucement to all Whatsapp users about some update or something. That announcement could then contain an image that exploits a vulnerability in the operating system's image decoder libraries. Or something like that. Without further information you can only speculate, but what's certain is that hacking the WhatsApp servers gives them ways to hack the phones that they previously didn't have.
I created my own restic backend using Nginx, which allows two different users to authenticate against a repo. The host being backed up knows the credentials that allow it to append. A different host knows the pruning credentials and performs that task.

I posted this in another comment, but I did this as follows (I'm the author) - https://www.grepular.com/Nginx_Restic_Backend
There is a larger problem here: there seems to be no way to hold these big internet companies to account for misrepresenting their product offerings. For example, some time ago, someone on HN reported on a plagiarized Python book for sale on Amazon. (https://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Beginner-Intermedi...). I emailed the author of the original book,(October 4) because Amazon have a form that allows authors to report plagiarism. This is what he replied to me:

"Thank you for your note. Someone else discovered this and notified me three weeks ago. I went to the Amazon copyright infringement webpage and filled out the form. The automated email told me to expect a formal response in 1-2 business days. That was three weeks ago, and I’m still waiting."

So Amazon have, for more than a month, been told that they are selling a stolen book. And yet the listing is still there.

Now if I reported that my local bricks-and-mortar second-hand store was selling my stolen TV set, I'll bet that the police would be there pretty quickly. But Amazon and BnB can sell stolen goods or misrepresent offerings with impunity. This is not right.
SMS and MMS and phone calls are far less secure than whatsapp
My general rule is to be OK with any singular thing I use failing. This can be a hard drive or a company's sync product - mistakes happen even at companies. To do this I ensure for anything I care about, there are at least 2 copies that no single "thing" can touch both of.

So if some of your git repos are only hosted by a company and you have no local clones, that's a bad position to be in if the company terminates your account for whatever reason they might decide. But if you have local clones, it's fine. An ansible script can easily cover this (clone every repo you have).

If there are some files only in Dropbox, and you only have 1 computer sync'ing with Dropbox at a given time, all it takes is for Dropbox to screw something up and those files are gone. I wouldn't personally be OK with this. You might not care that much about what's in Dropbox though.

Beyond that, there are some files I don't want any service to have unless they are encrypted locally first. So I don't use Dropbox for that. Anything like that I keep in my regular documents folder. But those are mostly for my main "personal" PC, and don't need to sync those to things like laptops.

Note that recovering files in syncing services tends to have a limited time. So hopefully you notice before that time runs out. I have a friend that lost his military service documents while still using a file syncing service. We assume he accidentally deleted them years ago. Couldn't recover it.
Thanks! Standups looks great but we're currently non-remote :)
It's still the unavoidable consequence of the past.
Facebook didn't buy Signal. One of the original executives from Facebook left to help start the Signal foundation with Moxie precisely because he had become sick of Facebook's insane behavior.
He said he was told at checkin, your options are pretty limited at that point. Especially when you have only soft/anecdotal evidence it is actually in some vague way not legit. “If anyone asks, you’re guests of Tiffany” is not a definitively incriminating statement, and the fact that building management is hostile to Airbnb doesn’t mean any lease or city code is being violated.

Ideally there would be an anonymous review system to let people disclose this sort of fuzzy evidence though because who wants to be party to a sketchy situation? Not only are there legit Airbnb’s, there are long-standing legit vacation rental markets (think summer cabins) where Airbnb is taking over from the old alternative sites. So it’s not like every Airbnb listing is circumventing the law.
> org:”China Telecom xinjiang” “NSFOCUS” into Shodan.

I'm going to admit I didn't try putting this into Shodan because for whatever reason I don't have access to it right now. But won't this just show a list of servers running a NSFOCUS WAF? How do you connect that to ProtonMail or LeaseWeb?
Be aware that Restic does not support compression at all currently, before you might switch.
> At least two children per woman—that’s what’s needed to ensure a stable population from generation to generation. In the 1960s, the fertility rate was five live births per woman. By 2017 it had fallen to 2.43, close to that critical threshold.

(emphasis mine)

> Population growth is vital for the world economy.

Fuck the world economy, then. We're not going back to '60s.
The correlation between GDP and energy usage has been decreasing.
People who have been scammed like this on Airbnb: did you a book a well-reviewed place? As a precaution, I only stay in places with at least ~50 happy, realistic reviews. I've stayed in maybe a dozen such places and never run into anything worse than slightly unclear arrival instructions.

I'm not saying Airbnb is great, but I'm curious as to what these eventual scams looked like at the outset.

I suppose it's possible for someone to maintain a legitimate place to accumulate good reviews and then scam some fraction of people, but the existence of the legitimate place is still a nontrivial hurdle for a scammer.

Maybe I overestimate how hard it is to get 50 good reviews.
To me it sounds as if you are saying "I want the charm\location\social experience of staying with a local resident AND I want the convenience/professionalism/capital resources of the hotel industry AND I don't want to pay for the convenience/professionalism/capital resources of a hotel."

As with software, pick two.
> Regardless of you want to define it, a female nipple is still no more offensive than a male one.

That's your subjective opinion.
Just talked to someone at Airbnb. Two takeaways:

1. If the property does not match the description, take pictures (they won't just take your word for it).

2. If you are told that the original property is not available, contact Airbnb right away, and they will give you a full refund and help you find a place to stay (Airbnb or otherwise).

Fortunately, I've never had to put any of this to the test...