skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They point out the NYT does the same thing, but that does not contradict anything in the NYT article, and has no bearing on what they did. Finally, they yell "debate me!" but rather than proposing a debate on the facts in dispute, instead want to debate federal tax policy which neither controls.

Doesn't the whole NYT article is based on the fact that Fedex influenced the federal tax policy to avoid to pay theses taxes?

Doesn't the goal of NYT by publishing this article is to show how Fedex gained from the new federal tax policies and thus trying to make that change toward something less generous toward Fedex?

Thus NYT believe that Fedex and themselves can influence the federal tax policies which makes a debate the right kind of platform.
No more than say, building a model airplane or model car. The movements for these watches especially are relatively cheap - you can find plenty of 7S26s on ebay for right around $20-25 - so the cost of replacing one that you might mess up is low. i recently rebuilt a similar movement with no prior experience and am actually wearing the watch right now. The best tool to have is a loupe, a good set of tweezers, and patience!
Do you work with https://plumelabs.com ?
Kotlin 1.3.60 Released
Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2019
Some notes from a FreeBSD user:

> shell things

(duplicating from other comments) Bash is indeed not in FreeBSD base; it's easy to install it, but not installing it is also a valid choice. The default login shell doesn't make a big difference, you can use chsh to change that. I also agree POSIX sh isn't quite enough for a lot of scripts.

> [ sysfs, procfs]

These are sort of available, but really just for compatibility with Linux binaries; take a look at the man pages for linsysfs and linprocfs. Just a note to say they're not totally missing, but I would agree they probably don't contain what you're looking for anyway.

> In some cases the sysctl output is not easily machine-parseable. For example, the uptime information from sysctl -n kern.boottime

Depending on how easy it is to process binary values, sysctl -b kern.boottime could be useful here; you'd get two raw integers.

> FreeBSD's netstat -I em0 -bin returns a tabular display,

You might try netstat -I re0 -bin --libxo json or similar. libxo was added in FreeBSD 11.0, and I think got plumbed to the networking commands at least (I see it's not hooked to sysctl in 12.0, so probably not in whatever 11.X pfSense is on either, although it would be useful). check man xo_parse_args for more details.

> nothing recognizes --help

--help is a GNUism; usually the BSD version is -h (although, not for netstat), and yeah, the included help text isn't super useful unless you know what the things mean... pfSense is intended for resource constrained systems, which I guess justifies no man text... but I'd install it it's possible, it's super useful.

> Perl would probably be another good choice

(this isn't accurate, as noted by comments) Perl is a nice choice on FreeBSD, because it is part of the base system (unlike, as you noted, bash). This can sometimes be a bit tricky, if you want a new perl feature, but as long as you're writing run of the mill perl (which everything described here should fit), as long as it's not a positively ancient system, you should be ok.

Anyway; it looks like you've learned quickly; enjoy!
It's a bit like people drinking coffee in the office, horrendous smell that you can smell from miles aways and makes you nauseous but you can't tell to not drink it.
After watching The laundromat, I think it's big news.

Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth, and why they're trusted to do it. This can't be secure or safe. I'm curious about the diplomacy and the political implications of this.

What if their office get robbed? What if the island gets attacked? What if one of those shady bank defaults? What if one of the people who manage it suddenly die? I mean apparently there is a long list of why it's risky, and I don't understand how this is even legal at all. How do you wire all this money to such a small place, and how can they trust so few people to hide so much money? I have so many questions.
New version of tus-PHP v1.1.0 released
Any idea how good the Awair monitors are? I recall a report saying they were just so-so but Awair recently updated them to be more accurate.

I personally use an IQAir Air Visual which is highly rated and meant to be very accurate as far as consumer grade stuff goes. It's solid, reliable and the iOS app has been great.

That said after installing piHole I noticed it making 17000 DNS requests a day to a non-existent host:
https://imgur.com/tPgwGoK

Explains why the DNS Resolver on my router (pfSense) kept crashing at least.
Pokemon is using a local WiFi feature I didn’t know existed until I started playing. The WiFi symbol on the switch has L on it. Meaning it’s searching for users connected to WiFi but it’s not connected to the internet.

I might be able to sniff the packets later today.

To me it looks like a Roku issue. A device shouldn’t go into a reboot loop if it encounters something unexpected. I also heard the switch uses its own version of Bluetooth to add 8 players but since its nonstandard they won’t let you connect any BT devices to it.
I'm glad they mentioned ROM and Sequel. But of course, pragmatism beats favoritism.
AI Update, Late 2019
If I shoplift a bag of Doritos, the shop has one fewer bag of Doritos.

If I pirate a show, it doesn't disappear from Disney's hard drives.
A tight little RWD coupe with 1500 pounds of battery weight is not going to perform significantly differently.
Please don't be a corporatist. It's not like corporations will stand up for you once you've given them your rights.
On the right track.

It's more that buying old PCs is safer than trying to reverse engineer drivers. Buying enough extra hardware to have spare parts for the life of the product is a pretty well known and cheap way to insure no down time.

I have experienced even when the original driver writer (me) is still on staff, it can be less expensive to just keep buying old-spec PCs than rewrite the code for a new OS. I make the company more money writing new code than supporting code that's a decade old.
Sometimes PlantUML for rather simple diagrams.

For more advanced diagrams I use Enterprise Architect (https://www.sparxsystems.eu/).
The Switch is capable of communicating both over an existing network through a wired or wireless router, and through wireless peer-to-peer communications with other nearby Switches. Previous Pokemon games (and other games on the Nintendo 3DS) have used local wireless as a constant background feature in this manner, but to my knowledge, most Switch games that use local wireless only do it at specific times (when playing multiplayer) instead of always-on in the background, so it doesn't seem unreasonable that only the Pokemon game causes this problem, or that it would be heard by nearby devices on other networks. Other games would break it only when someone is actually playing local multi-system multiplayer Smash Bros or something, which is going to be rarer and you're probably less likely to be trying to use the Roku at the same time.

The only thing I would find implausible about breaking Rokus by proximity would be why the Rokus are picking up the communication from a Switch, when presumably they didn't break whenever someone used a 3DS within ten yards (or we'd have heard these complaints years ago). But that could easily be down to changes in protocol by Nintendo between the two systems, such that one is ignored and the other is mistaken for relevant data.

I don't have a Roku or an easy way to inspect nearby wifi packets, so I can't easily test this theory.
I think that was Alan's original conception of objects (at least as could could be implemented in Smalltalk-72).
VN didn’t smoke and your first sentence is obviously exaggerated.
Yes, I suppose that is a risk; as with our (allegedly) progressive-taxation system, a carbon tax could invite loopholes and creative accounting, both in public and private sectors. It would take a significant groundswell of grassroots political will to apply a carbon tax fairly and universally; perhaps the dividend would make it a little more salient and less abstract, making it easier to calculate that company/department X is taking $Y out of each citizen's pocket, as opposed to more convoluted federal spending, regulatory capture, etc.
This is exactly the stack I used when I started building a webapp in Haskell, it was nice. I never finished my webapp though (but that wasn't Haskell's fault).
Companies other than Intel are continuing to pursue irrelevance for industrial or high-stakes operations themselves.

Sometimes you've got to have a Bozo when a competitor or associated business has one or more Bozos in a decision-making position.

Just to be seen as competitive or up-to-date.

Apple and especially Microsoft made more money from anti-recycling after they pushed it into a position where the original superior engineering was not as lucratrive for the shareholders.

Users should be grateful since they were not squeezed more thoroughly even sooner.

The anti-user effect is just collateral damage.
Make is my default. However, as the project grows, I find myself wanting to organize modules by directory and I find it cleaner to switch to CMake which then generates the Makefiles for me.
Broadcast for service discovery is totally fine.
Having worked closely with and been friends with journalists:

It's because they believe in the work, find it interesting compared to other lines of work, or were inspired by other writers. They don't get into it for the money. They leave the profession or advance in position for the money.
Flat Earthers are like Nazis in that they’re numerically insignificant but tend to get an awful lot of media attention because reasons.

I think people find it convenient to have a boogeyman who is so obviously either scientifically (flat earth) or morally (those darn Nazis!) wrong, because it justifies keeping a closed mind about other issues.

“What’s that? I should listen to people I disagree with because they might have a point? But what if the people I disagree with are flat Earthers or Nazis?”

As usual, slatestarcodex puts it far better than I could: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/15/the-cowpox-of-doubt/
Inverse of "this year" is also very frequently desired.

Searching for a topic that's recently become, er, topical, but I'm interested in earlier discussion.

DDG's very limited date-ranged search is especially frustrating here. Book search is often more useful.
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus
So, is the Switch (in certain circumstances caused primarily/only by this game) breaking 1, or is the Roku breaking 2? Neither seem to have broken either until this particular interaction.
>Rather "He died because dna replication wasn't perfect and caused his liver to develop cancer", but I don't fully agree with article author either.

I think they meant the "unfixed bug" was that the liver can't process the lethal poison (as it does other toxins).

It would be less of a bug than a vulnerability though; imperfect DNA replication leading to cancer is spiritually closer to a bug, IMO.
But is it just protecting the organization, as one is typically paid to do, or is it an "irrational" decision? Science and math cannot tell you what the "correct" decision is without some reference goals, and the reference goals are probably subjective.

The most objective such can be that I can see is giving estimated probabilities to the owners of a company or org. Example: "Insurance policy X will reduce our estimated profits by 20%, but will also reduce our chance of going bankrupt in the next five years by 15%". Whether the owners/stakeholders want that trade-off is up to them. The universe otherwise doesn't "care" what your trade-off preferences are.
I found former prosecutor and current defense attorney Ken White's perspective on Epstein's death very interesting. Many of the arguments for a conspiracy are based in a misunderstanding of how awfully our justice system treats people all the time. Being on suicide watch and not being helped is normal.

> Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, and just how (shamefully) normal it is for prisoners to die in custody due to indifference, overwork, malfeasance and sadism on the part of prison authorities.

> In the Atlantic, White tells the stories of 32 inmates who died (or nearly died) in US custody, under circumstances that are every bit as absurd and negligent as those surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death.

> The point isn't that it's inconceivable that Epstein died as the result of a conspiracy, but the conspiracy theories that say that it has to be a setup because it's so implausible that prison authorities would be so totally useless are thoroughly disconnected from reality.

https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/malice-vs-incompetence.htm...
Privilege and Inequality in Silicon Valley (2016)
These kind of features have been in pokemon games for over a decade. All the DS pokemon games search for other local Nintendo DSs’
If you can auth without intending to that seems like a bug to me.
> prince of Wales

Andrew is the Duke of York, not Prince of Wales - that's Charles.
This (and other things about not knowing who the manual raters are, or what cultures they come from and bring to the conscious ans subconscious table)should be of concern.

Depending on what region of the world the publisher is in, and what region his/her readers are in.. and where the raters are from, can make some issues.

Some years ago I sat in a class at a college for building contractors when the subject of burying electrical lines came up, people scoffed at the cost, then the teacher did a survey and found that 90% of the class thought radon gas was a fairy tale conspiracy theory, not real, and not something they would ever consider when building.

Half of those in the class had already been in the building professions for years and some cases generations.
I think "stealing" is the semantically/technically incorrect term that's used as a sort of justification for not compensating the creator of a work, who paid to create that work, even though that work is considered valuable to the person using/watching it.
Heavy Water
Looks like a classic example of controlled opposition.
They've always been pretty conservative as far as game design goes; somehow I doubt they'd be pushing any boundaries on the backend.
I’m looking for a co-founder/partner to start a new IT business in the USA.

I have an awesome team of engineers (not the average ones, they’re top stars), but I have no idea how to sell their services on the USA market.

Reach me out on ilya.p@rd17.org
Evidently it didn’t work.
Lying by omission is certainly a thing. Selective publishing is similar and while not technically a lie, is dishonest. I think you'd have to be naive to trust wikileaks is impartial.
Are the local law enforcement outgunned?

I was living near Boonville and there was an illegal grow op run by Mexican gangsters. There was a car that had "broken down" by the side of the road and the lookouts openly hung out there "fixing" it. For months. I was told that, although the Sheriff knew all about it, he wouldn't do anything because the gang was just too well-armed, violent, and well-connected to bother.

Otherwise, if it's not some weird shit like that, I can't understand how/why the law wouldn't be more on your side.

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If your particular tormentors are gang-connected I would recommend you GTFO ASAP.

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Are you willing to injure or even kill another human being, considering that these bastards are not threatening your life, just trashing your material possessions? (Which is still really really bad!)

Remember that you don't have to actually shoot the people. A bullet whizzing overhead is known to have a cleansing and tonic effect on muddled thinking.

It might be sufficient to simply post some of your old targets from the shooting range up around the place. Ones with bullet holes in them. It's a subtle way to let your unruly neighbors know that you are reaching the limits of your patience.

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edit: Reading some of your additional comments, it seems like guns are totally not going to help your situation at all. Like, not even a little bit.

I don't know what to tell you. It sounds like you're at the front lines of the apocalypse. My heart goes out to you.
Some near-term arm64 hardening patches
I remember fondly those early days with PHP before it dawned on me how many peculiarities it had. However to be fair these steps came only after you’d managed to set up the server which was non-trivial on its own.

These days I feel like python/flask does it simpler. True you need to define a function and use a decorator, but saves you having to set up the server before getting started on site itself.
I'm running a DH87RL with the 2018 BIOS. It's pretty remarkable that they released those updates after 6 years of nothing, though they only changed the CPU microcode. With the number of CPU vulnerabilities being uncovered recently, they're probably deleting the BIOS files because they're tired of maintaining the microcode patches.
Why Do Police Drive Cars?
"I don't really understand why this would be an advantage in a large app." They make quite a few points in the article:

> The tangle of dependencies, callbacks, and relationships can grind your entire engineering organization to a halt.

> Why do we want encapsulation? As an organization grows, any public interface will eventually be used.

> So we start to take a defensive approach to modeling, only making public what we are sure that we can support. This makes these models easier to support because they have a smaller surface. They are easier to change internally, too, because there are fewer different uses.

> It has also helped teams collaborate and create contracts for interactions.

"but then you have to slow down and add all those wrappers for active record stuff" you also have to slow down to resolve technical debt and deal with collaboration, among other things. It seems that the approach they describe is giving them a positive opportunity cost. There are always pros and cons.

"And unless I want to restrict stuff I would want the default to be exposed" the article explicitly says they wanted to restrict stuff.
TBH legendary issues like mails failing over 500 miles [0] or recent reddit post about MRI disaing all iPhones in the hospital [1] take the cake

[0] http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9mk2o7/mri_disabl...
Odd for sure, but not wrong.

Anyway there’s only one sun and many black holes.
> Haskell is extremely complex

I extremely disagree. I think C++ is extremely complex. Haskell is simple by comparison [0].

Once you understand enough Haskell to write basic programs in it this stack is roughly similar in scope to a Ruby + Sinatra or Python + Flask web application.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNRju6_yn3o
Earplugs are great, but they can't play the podcast I use to fall asleep (Sleep With Me).

Without it, it's hard to quiet the racing thoughts in my mind that keep me up for hours.
Great, so when I get fed up with Google results and give up, it compounds the problem further.
And the later ones (and all the 3DS ones) have the option to do that perpetually in the background, which would probably be why this issue comes up here instead of on other local multisystem Switch games that only do it at specific times.
Epstein wasn't a normal prisoner. None of this is particularly relevant.
I'm no fan of coffee but you seem exceptionally sensitive in this regard.
> for many they are a necessary evil

Don't get me wrong, on an individual level I strongly agree that cars are necessary for probably 90%+ of the united states for a reasonable standard of living. That's kind of the issue: we've built a spread out, suburbanized environment where the only people who can live without a car, are the people who live really close to the downtown part of the city. These people, in an ironic twist, have to breath the fumes and hear the sounds of the hundreds of thousands of cars belonging to those outside city center who drive through every day.

My argument is just that it doesn't have to be that way.
I don't know what answer they're due, except "This happened because you reused a password".
Oh! And then there are the mentally ill. There was this one woman who would hold meetings in my shade structure. She would arrange chairs in a semi circle and talk to the chairs. There weren’t any others...it was just her and her dog. She’d talk to them and ‘hear’ them.

She would be so irritated when I come by and she’s hold the door open to let ‘them’ out..thanking each one of her invisible friends for coming.

I knew she was harmless but i always locked my tools away. Once I forgot to lock a pair of shears and the next morning, the lavender hedges were all razed..she had gone on a rampage on the greenhouse plastic..shredding it.

I finally called the cops. They were sympathetic but said they can’t do anything unless I file a complaint and ask that she be arrested. I was reluctant to do this..and they said that their hands are tied unless they book her. If she is mentally ill and someone had filed a missing person report, this was the only way they can question her and detain her..maybe get fingerprints. I don’t want anyone to ever stay in jail because they are mentally ill..but I relented. She came by a few more times and then she moved on to another area from what I heard.

This is a whole another kind of trespassing. I have no answers. Just frustrated and really sad and angry.
And NYT can say it is big corporate paid advocacy and the FedEx brand will taint it. My point is one brand is seen as more trustworthy in this space, and perhaps in general. You're also assuming that media companies are strictly competitive and dont align on perceived truths

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> and oh by the way, if you report on anything of societal value (rooting out corruption, printing stories about drug cartels), you may get yourself killed.

Don't forget sued, which prevents many independent journalists from being as aggressive as they should be with the plutocratic class and large corporations in countries where murdering journalists is still verboten. If you don't have the legal resources (and insurance) of a major news organization behind you, good luck writing the type of stories that cause discomfort to the powerful.
I think you may be mixing up active jamming (which works like shining a searchlight in someone's eyes--they can't see or track you, but it's very obvious that there's someone out there) and passive stealth (which tries to reduce the emissions that the vehicle emits or reflects).

Anyone can make a jammer, but it only helps if you can evade your pursuer before they get a look at you optically; it's not much use for a lumbering oil tanker.

As zentiggr says, you can get some degree of passive stealth just by turning off your own radio/radar, but anything more than that requires a custom-engineered (and strangely-shaped) hull, propulsion, etc. that takes military-level money to design and would be extremely obvious in any port. So, again, not practical for this kind of smuggler.
POSIX sh is a sensible default; and the technical work to do it would take less time than we've spent writing these comments. However, actually changing the default, would be a major effort; you'd need to form a consensus that the new default is better than the old default, that it's so much better than the old default that invalidating any documentation that relies on the old default is worth it.
Thank you. I'll try out the `sysctl -b` and `netstat --libxo` methods tonight.
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