skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This depends on the setup really; it's possible to limit sudo access to only some commands, like so:

%veracryptusers ALL=(root) NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/veracrypt

An inexperienced systems administrator might use this to allow some users access to the mount command so that users can use their encrypted USB drives to carry around sensitive data, not realizing that through the intricacies of the Linux filesystem this can lead to privilege escalation.

Such a config would normally give you sudo, but not a root shell; allowing certain users to use ping floods to test the network by giving them access to the ping command as root, for example, would not expose much security risks other than flooding the network.
Java had a native gcc front end way back in the 90's. No one used it and they eventually dropped it. This isn't really a killer feature for the problem areas targetted by Java developers.

Android ART is, effectively, a native compiler for a Java-targetted (but not JVM) bytecode too.
Topological Game
This was a Ludum Dare contest entrant. Sometimes, the journey is the destination.

Writing an SQL engine is like writing a ray tracer or implementing a compression algorithm: every programmer should do it!
I'm CTO of a legal tech company, and we've set pretty realistic goals: define a good schema to describe contracts, link them to relevant knowledge, and track how they change over time like git. We use some NLP for figuring out how a contract is structured and identifying clauses.

The number of competitors we saw start up 2+ years ago, promising a fully-automated lawyer, predicting outcomes to cases, building smart-contracts that would somehow be perfect and not ever be contested or need to keep up with case law, getting funded was shocking. Less shocking is how many of them I've seen collapse under their utterly unworkable premise over the past 6 months. Worst part is, this is actually bad for us, because all the baseless hype has eroded trust in the industry.
"Out of sight, out of mind" is real and not uncommon.
Even that seems way too much. The original would be much easier as:

if (nullableVariable != null) {
boolean success = nullableVariable.someMethodCall()
if (success) {
return success;
}
}
return fallbackIfNullMethodCall();

And even that can be more concise if you prefer:

if (nullableVariable != null && nullableVariable.someMethodCall()) {
return true;
}
return fallbackIfNullMethodCall();
Fedex keeps delivering other people's stuff to my mother in law's house. The correct addresses are within a few blocks. I can assure you that Fedex really doesn't care or help in this case, over several instances of it happening. I suspect that this issue like others being described can come down to the driver that does a route, and what they do.

I would be surprised if Amazon is not using their Ring doorbell cameras to check on deliveries. They will provide evidence of what really happened when customers and delivery dispute it. For example it is clear if the doorbell was rung, or in some cases if the vehicle even went down the street.
Joe's Datacenter is known for hosting hackers and spammers.
Disney has Mandalorian. Amazon has The Expanse and recently picked up Ringworld for a tv-series too.

Another unnamed network is supposedly currently considering Red Rising series as well.

Sci-Fi dystopia is hot right now.
I think it would be great if people were required to answer a questionnaire with even a psych evaluation in person for wanting to end life.

I don’t think any person should ever be refused their request to die. I just think the information is valuable to obtain for going forward by designing society to be more favorable for people to want to live. Currently a lot of people with tremendous psychological pain are being forced to continue being in pain because people don’t want to let them end their life. People with depression should be able to have free will over their own life.
I'm curious if they'll remember that Hiro Protagonist is multiracial (Black and Asian) and that this plays a role in the plot.
Nail printing machines exist. https://www.amazon.com/TUOSHI-NP10-Portable-Printer-Support/...
Maet. "have some maet, mate"

(this is a riff on mylk which is what the nuts are doing over the dairy aisle)

Soy links are universally crap. Nut loaf is better. Not<x> is quite popular, but the meat aisle packers are now fighting back, ring-fencing the vegan fake meat options to a slum stand at the end.
Most people still work at small to medium size businesses, and depending on business type and density, it doesn't make sense to have a machine like that. Those big machines aren't inherently better, they've just faster at serving lots of people, but at the expense of cost to run and service, and that cost can be a lot (especially the up-front cost to buy).

As for downvoting, I guess people thought you were being dismissive of smaller workplaces? I dunno, I'm just guessing there, since I didn't feel the need to downvote you.
If you're in Oakland, you can get haircuts for $15 at Lee's Barbershop in Chinatown: https://www.yelp.com/biz/lees-barber-shop-oakland

Probably not the point, but there's generally no wait, little small-talk, and he'll clean up loose hairs with an industrial vacuum
Microsoft gets ready to roll out the new Edge to Windows 10 via Windows Update
Is the actual logic different in Java vs Kotlin examples?

In Java: when `nullableVariable` is not null and someMethodCall() return `false` then we return what `fallbackIfNullMethodCall()` returns right?
and in Kotlin in that case we just return `false` from `someMethodCall()` because this is not null and `fallbackIfNullMethodCall()` is not even evaluated?
Does it taste like sadness, like in Better Off Ted?
I wouldn't start with C++. I did and then programmed in it for about 15 years. I liked it but looking back you spend a lot of time thinking about things that have nothing to do with the real world problems you are solving. And there are still far too many ways to do one thing. Despite modern guides etc you will still come across all these styles and they will distract you. Python is a great start. Virtually no bs, just programming. If you want static types then java or go or c# it doesn't matter. Stick to gc'd languages at the start.
TAP.
It is a race to the bottom with one man having more wealth than 20 million Americans. Amazon delivery folk, and warehouse folk, need to unionize and demand better wages and working conditions.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, 'no cost' is a physical impossibility.

Someone does pay for transportation, and the question is, who does?
There is a simple macro view I don't see mentioned much: For the economics, in a word, the robots are deflationary. Usually in deflation people lose jobs.

Then there is the old remark IIRC "deflation is the easiest problem in the world to solve -- just print money."

It may be that the current pair of low interest rates and low inflation are just from such money printing for just such deflation.

Then with the low interest rates, businesses can afford to borrow to do the R&D for the (more) robots.

Also generally with the money printing, there is more money sloshing around which tends to result in more hiring, more jobs, and lower unemployment, and sometimes even training new workers.

So we've got five together: (i) More automation (robots, computing, the Internet), (ii) low interest rates, (iii) low inflation rates, (iv) high stock market, and (v) low unemployment rates. With tariffs and trade deals, we may have more jobs for low skilled workers.

I'd like to know in more clear terms just what Amazon is using cargo planes for: The usual idea is to use boats and trucks to move products to a retailer's warehouse and then use something like FedEx, UPS, or USPS from the warehouse to the end of the last mile.

A guess: Amazon wants a warehouse in each major city, maybe 100 - 200 in the US. From each such warehouse, they deliver to the end of the last mile by small trucks. For the popular items, they stock these warehouses via trucks. Then they also have a huge central warehouse, stocked by truck, that has all the rare items and each day have their planes fly at night moving the rare stuff that has just been ordered to the city warehouses for delivery by truck during daylight. Maybe.

Amazon needed a lot of computing for their Web site so setup their server farm(s) and also provided such computing to anyone via AWS. Well, Amazon needs lots of warehousing and small truck delivery so maybe wants to provide that to every other business that needs warehousing and small truck delivery.

In some cases there're big efficiencies there: E.g., for a lot of items, it comes out of the factory for, say, 10 cents but the consumer pays maybe $2. The $1.90 goes for advertising, order taking, warehousing, shipping, payment, and some earnings. Well, Amazon can save a big chunk of the $1.90 which for the US, and much of the world, would be one heck of a big increase in economic productivity and a lot of deflation needing still more money printing! My guesses!

For more, why do people need private cars? Sure: A big reason is for shopping, e.g., getting groceries. Well, do warehousing and small truck delivery well enough and can replace a lot of the need for private cars, even for refrigerated grocery items, milk, butter, cream, eggs, lettuce, ready to bake pizza, and maybe even ice cream!
How well would that work with curly hair?
> Boeing goes under

We are way way far from that and if it does come close I would bet on bailouts and government intervention
Boeing isn’t going to go under
Instagram hides false content behind warnings, except for politicians
They should add Alicloud.
Open-records requests can be a huge amount of work, even if the records aren't secret - it's common for requesters to have an axe to grind, so you might want to know what that is (and whether you should be honoring the request, and whether that's actually optional, all of which isn't necessarily trivial); and it typically means you need to review all those documents - and understand them. Even if the examination is just cursory, although I have no firsthand experience, I can well imagine that for technical documents that were secret in a secretive organization this is going to be a time consuming process nobody really wants to do. As such, I don't think it's weird or even really all that sad when a request hits some speedbumps. It's kind of inevitable; it's work, it's specialized, it's not all too rewarding for the institution, it's thankless for the specific employee... It's a testament to the solidity of bureaucratic institutions that it gets done at all. Frankly, this all sounds like the process worked about as perfectly as you can expect - they actually got the data, all of it, and they could distribute it literally, too.

It would be nice if it were easier to achieve transparency; but the flipside is that overzealous transparency laws can be abused too; at least here in the Netherlands there have been several cases where... creative... citizens decided to cash in on the fines imposed for non-compliance with such requests by spamming (iirc) municipalities with requests which had been phrased to be hard to deal with quickly, and hundreds of which submitted simultaneously. I believe the law has changed, but even so - requests like this aren't free. Somebody else is paying; and that's fine - but to expect them to furthermore go above and beyond and push for excellent service and quick turnaround is perhaps a little unreasonable.
That's exactly the point of the comment you're replying to.
Wow, that's really good to hear. One of the chief complaints I have about CT is the lack of agency. Not that this solves all problems, but good on Chrome and Safari for enforcing it
I agree. I wonder though how these kinds of funding decisions could be made without too much money just funneled to friends of the reviewers pet projects. Its not like you can just put out a bid for cheap fusion and award the lowest bidder.
I am stunned still when not talking to anyone is considered a selling point
Elastic rates are really what you should be comparing when using cloud IaaS services, though. That's where the price works out in favor of using cloud IaaS hosts in the first place, after all.

If you have a stable set of instances and a known lifetime for them, then, before trying to calculate whether AWS or GCP is cheaper, step back and plug those same numbers into a regular non-cloud DC managed-hardware-leasing pricing page.
Especially if they rename it and sell it under a new brand. I’d go for a “737 Neo”, only nerds can make the difference (even between a Boeing and an Airbus).
So fuck the middle class because the rich don't want to pay taxes?
Non paywall version on cnbc.com:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/boeing-will-suspend-737-max-...

Boeing's official statement:

https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2019-12-16-Boeing-Statement-Reg...

The relevant part:

"Safely returning the 737 MAX to service is our top priority. We know that the process of approving the 737 MAX's return to service, and of determining appropriate training requirements, must be extraordinarily thorough and robust" ...

"Throughout the grounding of the 737 MAX, Boeing has continued to build new airplanes and there are now approximately 400 airplanes in storage."

"As a result of this ongoing evaluation, we have decided to ... temporarily suspend production on the 737 program beginning next month.

We believe this decision is least disruptive to maintaining long-term production system and supply chain health."

Note: temporarily. It's still just a pause button.
Is Ringworld really dystopian? I mean the ring world civilization(s) did fall, but Known Space and the puppeteers were pretty much doing OK.
Rails

Vue (if necessary)
just wrong in general, but if were being specific about total reclaims case, you are suuuuper wrong because they were highly profitable, and despite the hilarious math flub at the end, he is still correct in noting that they would have taken home many millions processing the waste correctly.
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The book is a lot of fun, but it's also not a sacred text. It's a story about a pizza delivery driver who will be murdered if he delivers pizza too late and is also a hacker getting bound up in a story of Sumerian brain programmers run amok. (And somehow these brain programmers also can infect someone's blood?)

For all of its foresight, the book is goofy and dated as hell. If it's going to come to screen there's no way the adaption doesn't either:

1) Update some of the goofier stuff (upsetting the fans)

or

2) Leave it all in, in all its 80s action movie glory. (Which won't look all that great in the modern zeitgeist.)

I'm already expecting people will be disappointed with whoever they cast for Hiro, for either being not Black enough (or too Black) or not Korean enough (or too Korean). Similarly, do they outfit Y.T. with a retrofuturist 80s interpretation of what it means to be a skater punk? Or do they update it to be a 2020s interpretation of what it means to be a future skater punk? There's no answers to these that satisfies everyone. Someone will inevitably say it was 'ruined' no matter what the show runner does.
But they're totally fine with regulation of people, interestingly enough. Maybe not the real libertarians, but certainly the conservatives.
I do not like author X. A very, very long article about it. The end.
(2002)

It's nice to put the year of older articles in the title. Thanks.
Last week my grandmother had a stroke in her sleep--the most major of a series of strokes that she has endured for slightly over a year that have sent her slowly sinking into dementia. After several days in the hospital without having regained consciousness, her advance directive was enacted and her feeding tube removed. She's at home now in hospice care, surrounded by her husband and children. There's nothing left to do now but wait for death.

Of my two grandmothers, she's the lucky one. The other was T-boned while driving by a pickup blasting through a stop sign. Her body was shattered and her freedom and mobility irrevocably taken. She spent the last two years of her life sequestered away in a nursing home, her mind deteriorating, her few nearby children visiting once a week at most, her husband dead 15 years hence.

Death sucks. But the hell on Earth we force people to endure while waiting for it to arrive doesn't seem much preferable.

Have an advance directive, folks.
> Was it a great book? No. But there is about a 50 page section in the middle that makes the whole damn thing worth it.

Could you not read just the good part?
Public fund, public production. Take antibiotics research out of the IPR domain, and put it back into public health funding.
The biggest scam WeWork pulled was only lightly touched on: getting investors to compare them to a software company. I'll never understand how a group trying to monopolize office space so they could jack up the price in the future has anything at all to do with tech.
Lisp Macros by Example
If you provide PTR that points back to that name, configure web server to handle requests to that name, you basically makes the domain an official one.

As your users start using it, the owner of the name can now point the AAAA record to another server that will act as a proxy, request a new certificate (he owns the domain) and see all the encrypted communication.
They totally missed the mark on this one:
"What’s meant to distinguish Infinite Jest (the book) from various artefacts that precede it is the conflation of entertainment with drug addiction, and this notion is, I think, fundamentally flawed."

It's now pretty clear entertainment can be neurologically addictive, as evidenced by the social media companies and their abilities to predict improved engagement.

On top of that, we've now got an attention + an opioid addiction.

If anything, DFW was just very early at predicting the medium term state, complete with national secession movements.

Not bad for a 'verbose' fiction writer.
> "Establishment of religion" means "an organization of religion"

Reading "establishment" synonymous with "organization" would be anawkward and un-idomatic even today. Would you call the ACLU a "civil rights establishment?" Would you call NARAL a "women's rights establishment?"

There are good reasons to believe that's not the sense in which the word is used. The Constitution repeatedly uses the word "establish" in the sense of "to make official." It uses the word "establishment" in one other place, referring to the requirements "for the Establishment of this Constitution.” I.e. the requirements to make the draft constitution the official law of the country.

And historically, "establishment" was used precisely in that sense--a religion that had been made official. The Church of England was an "establishment of religion." The Colonies had had "established" churches, and many, but not all, had "disestablished" their churches. “An establishment of religion” is not a weird way to say “religious organization” but a legal thing that existed at the time that made sense to talk about. And what the First Amendment does is prohibit the federal government from making laws with reference to those "establishment[s] of religion."

Within that framework, Congress was probably prohibited from establishing a national church. But why? Is the answer: because established churches were bad in the same way that cruel and unusual punishment is bad? That would be an odd reading given how many of the original 13 colonies had some form of government supported religion. The other interpretation is that the amendment endeavored to protect these establishments from federal interference. That’s what makes the most sense given the structure of the colonies at that time.

Within that framework, incorporation doesn’t make sense. You take a provision that was intended to protect states' rights to maintain their established religions free from federal interference, and turn it into a provision that eliminates the very right the amendment sought to protect. https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Ντόρτμουντ – Λειψία, ματς τίτλου στην Μπουντσελίγκα
Now the question is: could I get a refund the way Bender tried it with a coin?
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Continues Drifting, Crosses Prime Meridian
"both, most importantly, work up an elaborate – and elaborately digressive – plot which deliberately ends as unsatisfactorily as possible."

I've only read about DFW's work, I haven't actually read them yet. But the quote above, in addition to your first sentence, sounds exactly like what DFW would be attempting to demonstrate an unspoken life parallel, or that it's about the journey not the destination, but even so, once the destination is reached the journey is pointless and forgotten.

There's definitely an unrealized expectation at the base of this review.
Netflix has Altered Carbon and Black Mirror.
For the majority of the story, the fallen-empire setting of the ring is dystopian. Earth itself is a utopia, which bores the main character and is their motivation to explore the ring to begin with. So both?

Even if they don't follow the main plot, the ring presents a great backdrop for exploration and the freedom for some pretty interesting stories.
Probably because the name is toxic.

But I don't think it will work, because it takes time to engineer such a modification, and more time to get FAA approval.
The first time I tried reading Infinite Jest I felt that I was dealing with DFW's own personal trauma. I think I made it about 10% of the way through before putting it down.

The second time I picked up the book, I made it all the way through and thought it was absolutely brilliant. I see this in the same vein as Paul Beatty's _The Sellout_. There's a lot of stream of consciousness, there's a plethora of characters, and you have to really be paying attention to figure out exactly what's going on. These books aren't for everyone, but they're certainly important parts of American Literature.
I chuckled a little at "relative ease" (nothing involving university legal stuff is easy) but ran some numbers to see how feasible that would be.

The median Phase II trial costs about $10M and has a 30% success rate; Phase III costs a lot more (say 2x that), but has better odds (58% advance to approval, and 85% of those get approved). Neglecting Phase I and everything before it, the expected cost is therefore about $16M (over ~3 years) and gets you an approved drug 15% of the time.

There are only 11 individual universities (plus three university systems) with endowments over $10B, but a surprising number with endowments in the $1B range. The draw rate on endowments is usually capped at 5% so that the principal remains intact, giving you around $50M for the entire university's endowment income.

A single trial would therefore consume about 10% of the endowment income per year--and with a 15% success rate, it's probably not going to win anything. There's no way a university president is going to let a group of researchers make a gamble like that.
Not being assaulted is privilege now?

I live down town. There's a homeless man on drugs who screams at the top of his lungs at random people every so often until the police come and pick him up.

If you would rather he not be out of sight and out of mind please send me your address, I will buy him a one way ticket so he can camp out in your back yard.
> Maintainer: 'Most companies were reluctant to support the project their product depends on because it is available for free'

The perennial problem. And it's probably more likely for a company to hire someone else to work on the project than to hire the original developers.

Well, time to port BSD PortalFS back to macOS.
Why isn't anyone using the ternary operator ?

return (nullableVariable != null && nullableVariable.someMethodCall()) ? true : fallbackIfNullMethodCall();
Wayne & Garth demo’d an early version of this concept decades ago:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AioVDsXidh0