skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You used “either”, then “nor”, sorry I lost the point you were making. Wasn’t sure on your point about the adversary already owning the pipe.

Tailored exploitation is a good point though.

Admittedly RPi isn’t any current advice except for outdated hobbyist advice. If I cared to defend against nation state I’d avoid gen purpose CPU’s altogether and focus on in house manufactured minimal circuits, possibly fpga’s and printers or some other trusted peripherals. I’d build my own keyboards too.

The poster was concerned about video being hacked. This would be hard to hide, at least for being owned in real-time, if one were keeping track of the packets coming and going. If you’re whitelisting all your outbound and disallowing inbound, and if your decoupled passive nids is set up right you at least have the physical network layer covered.

If you’re targeted for tailored exploitation then you’d be considering a scif anyway if you really have something that important to hide. In a pinch, a faraday cage would probably be a good idea if you can set it up right. Don’t trust any devices that come in or out.
God forbid you make a small mistake on a technical interview or don't know the "trick" to answer a leetcode question. Any small mistake is enough to crucify you, and previous employment experience is ignored in favor of basing 100% on technical interviews.
Social media works this way on the scale of millions of people.

People disseminate unpaid political messages all the time. Curated feeds or not, they are seeing things which are popular amongst them and they reshare posts they like.

You can argue that people aren't interested enough in politics, but paid ads are not a good and balanced way to get people engaged. It leads to them having an even more skewed view of politics as it biases them towards the interest of those with the most money for political ads (as opposed to what is best for their community). Those interest can align in theory, but if we are trying to select the optimal system, why add paid advertisements if we don't need to?
A company that is based on a tax loophole doesn’t behave ethically?
An old friend of mine who was very comfortable with speaking told me it was acting that helped him. You get to practice saying someone else's words, until you're ready to use your own.
Or better make your business model to rely on all of the above.
I think less people sooner will help us lower greenhouse gas emissions. We need to support efforts to educate people and help with family planning. We should also encourage people to have less kids in an effort to stabilize our ecosystem.

Less population could lead to a lower GDP or it might not. If worker productivity and automation rise as population falls the GDP decline could be offset. This is something we need to consider especially when considering the initial statements of this article.
Names are important. I'll give you that.
It all hinges on if brain death is the complete annihilation or degradation of the soul that lives on it, or not. One is gone to the extent that the patterns of information that live in the brain and comprise the individual are permanently gone, and not just on pause after what is today considered neurological death. If that fire (and the entire structure, really) isn't completely put out, maybe it's possible to re-kindle it?

As a tangent, Ted Chiang has written a wonderful sci-fi short, on a very mechanical parallel world that touches on this very non-mechanical topic: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
There's no reason they have to be structured this way, but unions usually work through voting, and the tech sector has a LOT of pretty shitty people coasting, and they'll get a vote that's worth the same as anyone else's. They'll vote to protect their coasting.
The amount I am recruited and asked for various forms of interviews -- "grab coffee?", "grab lunch?", "quick 15 minute conversation?" -- can be seen as a counter-example that while cash is our payment, we are not "blessed" to have jobs. They are blessed that I chose to work for them. I can choose to work anywhere at this point. The money isn't the point. I'm not going to contribute to more human suffering, and you won't get to take advantage of my talents if you do.

It's about being a team player for humans first, corporations second. You seem like a bootlicker to the capital class (or an "entrepreneur" trying to LARP). It's the shitty boomer attitude of "you should be grateful to have a job at all." To that, I say "fuck you."
Are there other languages that can do the trick done with "close()" on the file there? A type with a method that can make the type compile time unusable after being called!

that is pretty neat.
There's also Duplicacy which I feel is a bit more mature than restic (I felt it more performing and it also has a web interface but the lack of mount capability that restic has is what I miss and retention policy is quite easier to specify for restic too), though it's a paid software for non personal usage.

But paid is good that the author has less reason to move away from it. (As mentioned elsewhere, restic hasn't been updated in a while but they recently changed their pricing to be much more agressive which I hated. I wish they give it a softer pricing model than cost per machine.)

https://duplicacy.com/

Their comparison of cloud storage providers gave me a good insight on what to choose in terms of performance.

https://github.com/gilbertchen/cloud-storage-comparison/

I use both restic and Duplicacy, so my backups are done by multiple implementations toward multiple destinations not to get bitten by one of their bugs to avoid the saying "backups aren't working when you need it the most".
Yep, I'm assuming the graphic is right because it makes zero sense that a metropolitan area could somehow grow more food than it needs.
And they'd still say, "You're not the government."

And they'd be right. If you were part of the government, you wouldn't need to ask to see the data on her Facebook or whatever. You'd probably already have some secret access.

I mean they're right. "You're not the government, and if you were you wouldn't need to ask."

Point is, they trust the government implicitly. (And, for most voters, completely, in matters of security.)
Reading this post is frustrating. What they are describing is where column store databases were 20 years ago. Perhaps at some point the folks at TimescaleDB will read Daniel Abadi’s 2008 paper, which describes the key elements of how all modern column stores work:

http://db.csail.mit.edu/pubs/abadi-column-stores.pdf

The key takeaway is that columnar compression only accounts for a small minority of the speed up that you get for scan-oriented workloads; the real big win comes when you implement a block-oriented query processor and pipelined execution. Of course you can’t do this by building inside the Postgres codebase, which is why every good column store is built more or less from scratch.

Anyone considering a “time series database” should first set up a modern commercial column store, partition their tables on the time column, and time their workload. For any scan-oriented workload, it will crush a row store like Timescale.
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I think it's a mistake to look at "the last few election cycles".

The people making all of this noise were children during that time. Just about everything has changed in the last 5 or so years, and a lot of that change appears to be driven by the historically massive and historically diverse Millennial generation.
Also in my experience (mainly business) I experimented that Jewish people are much smarter than the average non Jewish business people I've been dealing with. At best I could get a draw, never a business win. (I don't mean anything bad or implying anything more than what I've written. Please read my comment in a positive way).
Going to a very small list of countries purely to make more money, when you already have a billion dollars, is not at all a necessary or important life activity. The inability to do so is a very trivial inconvenience.
I've never heard of that organization. Do they have a web site?
This is true in a lot of places. In my PhD program (in a US university), the vast majority of us are not US citizens.
Getting Work Done: Leveraging Calendars, Task Lists, and Project Plans
wow!!!!!!!!!
Allowing eggplants and peaches to find each other easily was why thefacebook spread around college campuses.
I think they mean gone as in not returning to that individual. It has gone somewhere.
> The XCode profiling is mostly for iOS apps - not server side code. You wouldn’t really be better off using a Mac for profiling server side code.

Instruments, which ships with Xcode, is quite powerful.
Why did you choose Mac Pros?
I think the parents is somewhat justified, there is a very fine line between "hacking" as described here and scammy. It is almost inevitable it gets to AirBnB level if that is your thought process. Would be interesting to hear their take on issues like airbnb are facing, and if they thinking this "room owners" in these cases are also "hacking".
If they aren't ok having their hand bit, they'll either stop feeding (fire them) or protect themselves (capitulate).

Companies fire the whiners and radicals all the freakin' time. The fact that these folks are still there says that they weren't, in fact, biting that hand.
The recent Square CTF had some good Go related challenges, e.g.

https://squarectf.com/2019/lockbox.html
I don't think it is true that Organized Crime fails in the end. OC organizations like Cosa Nostra , Yakuza, Triads and many others are not disappearing any time soon.
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Every game of Starcraft is decided by an extremely large amount of small events. It is very rare that a single event or misclick is responsible for the outcome of a game, but it happens occasionally.

Since players take so many actions during the course of the game (well into the tens of thousands), inevitably some clicks will be sub-optimal, and they all have a tiny impact on the outcome. Some professional players do specific exercises to improve their clicking accuracy in order to gain efficiency by reducing misclicks, but generally clicking accuracy is not considered a big factor compared to raw speed. Most players try to attain the highest possible clicking speed while maintaining an accuracy level that is "good enough".
I dunno man. I think 7 billion people might be enough.
I have seen plenty... but not all that much substance. Much of it had the form of "How could they be so stupid to make those design choices!", as if the author's preferred approach was The Only Right Way. I've seen criticism that said "They couldn't have known anything about Modula 3 for them to make that choice!", when in fact Rob Pike talked about stealing an aspect of the object file format from Modula 3. Yeah, he knew it, and probably knew it in more detail than the critic did.

Apart from "They should have done it the way I like!", the main criticism I have seen is lack of generics. That's a pretty common complaint, from a lot of different people.
Anyone who figures out how to cheat the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics probably has no interest talking to riffraff like us. Just be glad they haven't harvested us for something and move on with your life and civilization. And whatever you do, don't make [eye] contact.
I didn't realize solving the problem was as easy as renaming ICE back to INS.
The United States government treats it's citizens like the enemy.

Why on earth should we accept this situation?
I totally agree. There has been some progress here recently. Have you checked out DBT and their testing features?

https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/testing
One specific thing to level up your expression is to resist using the word "like".

Some people use "like" endlessly and I've found it's a sign that they're afraid nobody understands them, so everything they say is an analogy or metaphor to try to relate to the other person.

It could also be because the person is not taking any time to formulate what they want to say. Which leads to a ridiculous amount of redundancy in their story... which makes their story a bit lame..

"So like, I was walking down the street and like it was super hot, like really hot. Then I saw like this weird thing, it was like a big furry thing or something"

A little less "like" a little less metaphor.

"It was pretty hot, I was walking down the street and was shocked to see a bear!"
Could the state be importing to then export on ships?
Gitmo’s a great example. Under Bush it was immoral. Under Obama? Barely heard a thing.

Sure standardUser might have thought it immoral all along, but did he attack both parties (when in power) with the same zeal?
Protected mode segments are very different than real mode segments. I was talking about those.
It's great if websites work without Javascript but, I don't think its fair to call them poorly designed if they dont.

The web is made from HTML, CSS and Javascript. Turn off one of them and of course things aren't going to work or look right.
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Exactly, thus my question.
> It's not clear to me why tech unions would do this.

As soon as you have a union, you have 2 groups. People are who are in the union and people who are not. Tenure-based seniority obviously benefits people who are in the union to the determent of those not yet part of the union.

It's probably a solvable problem but I think it's pretty obvious why most unions end up with seniority-based policies; It's the natural consequence of a democratic organization.
There aren't really 'hard' counters, there's just a high chance you'll win.

Flash had a 70% winrate overall and had time periods of 90%+ winrate.
And earlier Starcraft Remastered :)

Blizzard is as stale as it gets right now.

It is very sad that Blizzard was:

- the creator of Warcraft, which popularized RTS,

- Starcraft which basically created esports (and popularized RTS even more)

- Diablo which popularized hack-n-slash RPGs

And now all they do is remaster after remaster (or "classic").
because this is how they shield themselves while thinking tha half the folks in the office around them deserve to be deported or detained and actively think of most of their peers as less than human.
There are studies that show are an inverse correlation between female fertility and IQ.
Finally QBasic has a serious competitor.
Except you would need to remodel every exusting restaraunt to have conveyer belts behind false walls. This isnt the next step, it will not happen. Walk up windows for ordering and numbers are already increasing. That is the next step for reducing server numbers.
You knew when it was sold to MS that this was gonna happen. It's why that was the day github died.
> I don't know why anyone in Spain seems to care about Catalonian independence.

I never cared, but I do care about the image they are projecting of my country (specially as someone living abroad). Moreover, they are doing great getting the worse of everyone.

I never liked nationalism (including Spanish nationalism) and now it's worse than ever. And I do not like anti-riot police, and I do not want my government to close web sites, and I do not like to see Barcelona burning, and I do not like the hate I see in the eyes of the independentists when they talk about Spain, neither I like the hate I see in the eyes of some people when they talk about the Catalan independentists or even about Catalonia. And I think I could accept all this if it was for a good reason, but I think it is just stupid nonsense (did we learn nothing from Brexit?). We should be moving forward towards some kind of United States of Europe, and worrying about doing something with all these people from Africa who keep coming here, not about breaking apart and stupid flags. I get many questions from friends from all over the world, and I do not know how to answer them, I just feel shame. That's why I care. If tomorrow the Spanish state disappears and we just become one big European country, I would not mind at all.

By the way, you are right about what would happen if an independent Catalonia joint the EU. As a wealthy region, they would have to pay. However, why would the EU allow to join a wealthy country who just decided to break their own laws in order to not subsidize poorer regions?
This is a great response, your humility is profound. Screenshotting for posterity.
SuperTux Party is another game in that spirit:

https://anti.itch.io/super-tux-party

It's fairly new and made with Godot Engine 3.0.

https://godotengine.org
From Frab's schema.rb:

create_table "people", force: :cascade do |t|
# ...
t.string "first_name", limit: 255, default: ""
t.string "last_name", limit: 255, default: ""
t.string "gender", limit: 255
# ...
end

Our schema has a similar table, but with "prefix" instead of "gender", where on the front end a list pops down with Mr., Ms., etc. We just use the prefix to form the full name.

I wonder where the need to track gender comes from in such an app. We manage events and conferences too, but gender hasn't come up beyond the salutation. Since they do care about gender maybe they will soon also want pronoun and possessive_pronoun columns.
Yes. Organizing doesn't mean you fire everybody and hire new pro-union workers. It's the same people. They're just given a more direct power structure for dealing with management.

When you take people who are already vocally upset with the company's ICE contracts, and give them negotiating power with management, you're not going to suddenly see them turn pro-ICE just because they have a union and ICE also has a union. That makes no sense.
> So Amazon have, for more than a month, been told that they are selling a stolen book. And yet the listing is still there.

If Amazon acted quickly, you could easily take down the listings of your competitors simply by making false claims—which has happened in the past.
There is some good advice in this discussion. My own personal checklist for when I have to give a talk. Not perfect but it helps me: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854744342.html

(It is oriented for church but the steps would largely be the same elsewhere.)
What's the alternative? It's not like Blizzard has given any meaningful apology or done anything to remedy the situation.

All customers can do is boycott and protest. Nothing else will cause any change in behavior. Unfortunately, employees will be hurt in the process.

Wouldn't it be better for employees to stage a big moment now, force Blizzard to backpedal, and resume being a game company sooner? A long, drawn out thing is worse for everyone.
Court says frozen embryos are marital property and can be destroyed
In the case of WIMPs, the authors thought the name was funny, and published several conference posters before trying to publish in ApJ. The editor of ApJ normally rejects cute names, but let this one through because it was already in the literature. He regretted that decision when the MACHO paper arrived...
Fair. Although, that surplus killing link does list a number of animals that weren't affected by human-driven natural selection.
"I'm doing nothing wrong..." Tell them that they're thinking in terms of today's standards. Imagine someone coming to power in the future, when standards have undoubtedly changed, being able to go back in time and prosecute for crimes committed in the current day. This has already started with Tweets and stuff people made 10+ years ago when they were young and dumb. Viewpoints they probably no longer hold, as they've matured. They're getting fired now for things they said then, because there's now a permanent record of it. Soon, if not already, we will no longer allow people to grow and make mistakes along the way. You will be judged for everything you say and do, places you go, things you spend your money on (cc records), people you associate with, etc. But, you'll be judged by a standard that doesn't exist today, and you don't know what it will be 30 years from now, or who will be doing it.

To take it to the extreme. Ask your friends what they think Hitler (or pick some other mass murderer) would have done if he had such capabilities. How many more would have died, and would it have taken as long? They had to go door to door back then and physically search. Now they could just keyword search and not only find you, but everybody you've associated with, and who they associated with. If you wanted to find Jews, or homosexuals, or whatever you wanted...it's all right there. Just type the query in that little box, on that magical little device in your pocket.

That's too much power, for anyone, at any place or any time to have. To say it will never be abused, now or in the future, is believing humans are perfect as-is and things will remain consistently the same from here on out. There has never been a time in human history where things just stayed the same. Very, very short sighted.

Ask your friends if they've ever done or said anything at any point in time in their lives that would absolutely destroy their reputation, if the world could watch it happen right now.

There was a pretty damn good reason why the founders created the 4th amendment. Sadly, those are just words on paper now. We gave it all up for the excuse of 9/11. That was a long time ago now. Technology/storage have been progressing quite rapidly since then. And many consider the person who lifted the veil to be a traitor.

Smile, you're being recorded.
It's interesting to read back over past discussion of this question.

Among the more interesting academics is Herbert Simon, and his 1977 essay "What Computers Mean for Man and Society" makes a strong case for the positive impacts of increased utilisation of computer technology. It also specifically discusses the privacy concerns, in one paragraph.

That, unfortunately for Simon's case, contains an egregious factual error, though one which may not have been known to Simon at the time:

The Nazis operated with horrifying effectiveness and thoroughness without the benefits of any kind of mechanized data processing.

Screenshot:

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/103059230160200494

Source:

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a9e7/33e25ee8f67d5e670b3b7d...

Unfortunately, we're now very well aware that this was not the case. Not only did Nazi German prosecute the Holocaust with the extensive aid of mechanised data processing technologies, but they did so using American technology, provided and supported, with full knowledge, by IBM:

Edwin Black has documented this in his horrific book, IBM and the Holocaust (2012)

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ibm-and-the-holocaust-the-str...

To paraphrase Lord Acton, it appears that data corrupts, and absolute data corrupts absolutely.
Hey! I wrote flap in TCL module for it! Loved using AOLserver but writing the extension taught me to fear threads - now loving Golang :) but I miss AOL, AOLserver, SAPI and TCL in the evenings.
SuperTux Party – open-source party game made with Godot