skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Am heutigen Donnerstag, 28. November, wurde in Baden die letzte Schweizer Telefonkabine abmontiert."

Translates to "Today Thursday November 28 (2019) the last payphone in Switzerland was disconnected."

The cool thing with these payphones was that they had their own publicly available number so you could call them. Something I had not seen in other countries.

Source: https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/kein-anschluss-unter-dieser-numm...
Yeah, I sort of assumed anyone interested in this sort of thing would either already be hosting a probe, or find it obvious that they might as well do so. I've had one lurking in my basement for a little over a year now, and it's racked up several million credits which I'm happy to transfer to people doing interesting research cuz I'm never gonna use 'em myself. PM me. You can't spend more than a million a day without special permission...

I read the commercial-use permission differently — I think it's granted by default if you give credit and link to them as per these terms. IANAL but do your own reading: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/commercial-use/

The ATLAS toolset is here, including APIs: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements-and-tools/tools/

Speaking of Github though, if you're looking to take this even further, sharing your scraping and analysis scripts might find even more collaborators and ideas. But I understand if that's not permissible under your work-for-hire agreement or whatever.
First the Tokyo Olympics, Now the Special Olympics Faces Phishing Menace
Mine does (2017 Renault).
I'll add here because parent is flagged, but the fires can get so hot that the radiant heat will kill you from 100m away.

The firestorms suck up all the oxygen, and can cause massive 'fire tornadoes' that have literally flipped a fire truck onto its back.

It's not a question of 'just' sending the trucks in.
http://archive.md/5ZM9V
That's true, in most of the company's I worked (includes the current one) I'm not interested in the product at all. I work there because I can decide which tech stack we use, try and learn the fancy stuff and have some fun building it. Why? Because I can - I am one of the few "good" dev's out there. So many companies are hiring and they take what they can get. And I as a dev can choose where I want to work. And of course I choose the interesting one. In conclusion there are much more companies hiring then good dev's looking for a job. So the company has to make itself interesting for dev's.

But I don't think that's bad at all. With modern devices and Browsers you can't tell the difference between using a framework or not.
Gamefromscratch [0] has a decent series, as does GDQuest [1]

[0] https://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Godot-3-Tutorial-Series...
[1] https://www.gdquest.com/
http://archive.md/ItaXn
You're saying that you want an isa where a branch is done something like

Cmp rx ry rz # compare rx ry, write result to rz

Jmple rz, ra, imm # jump +- ra+imm if rz < 0

Which would avoid the use of a implicit condition register, as well as the short offsets that a combined compare+jump suffers from?
I will add to this for small business owners, my parents who have a restaurant got contacted by "Google maps support" who had tricked Google maps to have a wrong address for the place, and then contacted them to "resolve the issue with a fee".
No, for many managers the fact that the deadline is fixed means they can death march you for all the functionality they decide needs to be complete at that date.

The idea that adding additional process to manage your managers is laughable at best.
Depends. Some can, but my industry cannot. I write seasonal software. A release in May won't be used until the next March, so there is no point in any release that isn't in January/February. (A march release will be skipped because they are scared of bugs, February releases gives customers time to upgrade and test before then critical time when they need it)

Thus for me it makes the deadline or it doesn't. Early isn't a benefit, late is a problem.
Kind of like saying "extraordinary procurement" instead of "theft".
... which seems like a good premise for a Black Mirror episode!
At the risk of burning away virtual points, I have the following observations and opinions. I respect the encryption technologies that Signal has developed, but I'm always frustrated with Signal as an app, platform and where it seems to be headed. Throughout this talk, the one quote that came to my mind for every point he was defending was this:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." ― Upton Sinclair

I also found it amusing when he said that it's easier to switch from WhatsApp to Telegram to Signal. The truth is that switching people from WhatsApp to Telegram, in my experience, will earn you brownie points because Telegram is a lot more feature rich than WhatsApp (let's keep the encryption part aside for the moment). If you manage to switch people from WhatsApp or Telegram to Signal, again in my experience, you'll lose credibility and trust because Signal, for all the money the foundation has, moves at snail's pace. Moxie's argument early in the talk about centralized systems being able to change fast just does not apply to Signal. It still lacks stability in delivering messages. Its UX for joining groups, re-joining groups after reinstalling your OS, etc., completely sucks. Don't even get me started on Signal treating its users as if everyone uses a burner phone and doesn't care about keeping their conversations when they switch devices or even have to wipe a device and get it running again (Signal on iOS still explicitly prohibits backups after so many years, and the Signal team's most recent addition to the app was stickers!).

The example for switching from WhatsApp to Telegram to Signal being easy because it's tied to phone numbers is disingenuous. Following how WhatsApp and Telegram identify their users may not be the best thing to do. Signal assumes that people always have the same phone number and that phone numbers are the best way to identify people. But it fails to acknowledge that using email addresses to sign up (at least as an option for those who want to avoid phone numbers), like how Wire does, provides people a choice in how they want to appear on a platform. I know people who don't want to use a phone number based platform because they don't want all their phone contacts to know that they're on a particular platform (this was partially solved by Telegram in an update a few months ago, where you have control on who gets to know that you're using it, even if they have your number in their address book). His non-answer for the question around the 38 minute mark on Signal being tied to a phone number and that being a risk shows that Signal is stuck with what he/they believe is ideal, and refusing to acknowledge that this is a big problem for some sections of people...the very people Signal claims to be most useful for.
It reminds me of this:

https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Best practices around this have already been established. Most if not all event stores - which Kafka is not - have a concept called 'position.' You save the position atomically along with whatever you did with the message. Then if you crash, you simply ask for all messages starting from that position. If you have a new service (or a new projection), your position is 0 so you get everything.
The problem I've had with async updates is that they often get ignored because everyone that could help is busy at the time, so you still need the actual standup to just remind them about it. How do you get around this?
I have several ARM dev boards and am thinking of getting a PinePhone, am happy to pay upto $200 for something to play with but not $1000.

The HiFive Unleashed is interesting in that it has a lot more RAM than cheap ARM dev boards, for the same money though I could get a HoneyComb LX2K ARM system.
>Having lights is certainly to improve traffic flow rather than safety.

As a pedestrian I want traffic flow to be as predictable as possible because that makes it easier to get where I'm going safely and lights accomplish that goal better than roundabouts or stop signs even if the traffic speed through intersections is higher. Higher stakes, better odds.
When management doesn’t trust devs, they micromanage. Often on things they’re way out of their depth on.

Though in my experience, devs do not trust “management” writ large. But they will trust individual managers who see their job as representing their teams within the management hierarchy and protecting them from the suits. That trust isn’t automatic and usually has to be earned.
Adding to what others have said...

* the state-based Rural Fire Services are staffed mostly by volunteers

* and have been inadequately funded for the last few years, despite warnings that this fire season would be a shocker

* we don’t have enough fire bombers

* leadership by state and federal politicians has been a complete joke
PinePhone: The Smart Phone That Runs Multiple Linux Mobile OSes – MobilityArena
Would you mind sharing your email? You have a fantastic way to build a message and we are looking for devs with that kind of skills.
I live in the west and we just use mobile payments without any hoops. It’s not the west that behind it’s only America that’s lagging behind the rest of the developed world.
Type of planets could be more habitable than Earth
Why volt instead of volta? (2019)
I was replying to a comment about ML, not AI.
Its almost like a country can do more than one thing at a time.
For OPT, the employer (apparently) doesn’t take part in the process of getting the visa. I think the best skeptical take would be that maybe he didn’t tell his employer he had OPT status, so maybe he avoided filling out that part of the form, signed it, and hoped for the best.
Chelsea Manning Responds After Top UN Official Labels Her Imprisonment 'Torture'
I found the Adafruit "what size is this resistor" captcha pretty clever: https://blog.adafruit.com/2010/04/21/resisty-resistor-captch...

Not suggesting it's broadly useful, but cool nonetheless.
None of those events were remotely comparable to MH370, which included actions by whoever was in control of the aircraft to disable systems that would have given additional information concerning its whereabouts.

In this thread, you have gone from the position that the cost of retrofitting would prevent the adoption of improvements to radio communication, to a position of advocating just such a change over a different matter. In both cases, the answer is the same: if there is an available solution that is seen to provide sufficient amelioration of a sufficiently serious problem, the cost will be borne, as was so in the case of TCAS.
Precisely. I recently stripped out my apartment (that I own) completely and redoing the electrical wiring and I have zero interest in installing smart stuff. I just have 4 dimming switches all next to each other that control all the zones, at both ends of the apartment. I can't understand how home automation would improve my quality of life if you factor in the added complexity.
That's command-query responsibility segregation. The command stream gives you the nice log of everything that happened, while the read database is easy to query (and to reprogram if necessary).
I disagree. This sort of new-age wankery is a direct route to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
If you don't want to share it publicly, you can find me very easily over the internet under the same name
That is a very different question - both dropping integral a very vast and the entire press vs particularly large publishers.

The answer is yes but irrelevant as so are embezzlers, serial killers or would a hypothetical few who literally want to actively to destroy every trace of it.

The question is vague enough that literal cancer could get both yes and no as answers logically (cases caused by society part of it vs existing independently in species without anything to remotely qualify as a society).
To the creator: since most (all?) of the beetles are symmetrical, couldn’t you generate left halves and then reflect it to create the right half? This could help you prevent asymmetric generations
Imagination and Apple Renew IP Licensing Agreement
Eh, I think you could teach 90% of how taxes on wages, investments, and property work in a simple class for teenagers. It's the other 10% that takes years of study and legal expertise--but the vast majority of people don't need that 10% more than a few times in their lives (e.g. if they get very rich, retire, have to handle a complex family financial situation, or are otherwise massive outliers), and hiring a tax attorney at those times is probably a good idea regardless of whether or not you learned the basics in school.
Teach them this simple heuristic:

No tech company these days will ever call a customer, especially not Microsoft.

If you do receive a call from a more traditional institution like a bank, don't divulge any information. All banks have strong identity theft protections in place, but you haven't authenticated the caller. Ask for a reference id so that you can call the company back using a phone number that you yourself looked up on their company web page.

If the caller has any reason not to comply (and they will have plenty of reasons why they can't), or they insist you use a number that they provide, hang up and forget about it.
and urinals...
Isn't it easier to see the evil parts of advertising if one calls it a form of propaganda than the other way around?

In my opinion: using the first sentence of the wikipedia articles for advertising and propaganda, I would argue that advertising is a sub-set of propaganda:

Propaganda is information that is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

Advertising is a marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
The cable being plugged in tells you nothing about the state of the connection at the upper layers. Also, the icon doubles as a shortcut to connection status and settings panels.

Do you think it's clutter? Drag the icon to the overflow menu, you won't see it again unless looking for it. This is why I value customizability and use Windows.
Bare Metal WASM
The Freeze-Frame Revolution
2019 Learnings, 2020 Expectations
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Define "trust". As an industry I think we often talk about the wrong things here. People look at this from the point of view of controlling IT & developers (controlling costs, deadlines, functionality, etc.) when really everyone should be looking at it instead from the point of view of maximising value to the business. That's what Agile is really all about - it should really be about trusting that people will make good decisions based on the currently available info (which will likely be different than when you started the project), do good experiments, and find good compromises. This is especially true if unforeseen delays to a team's work has a knock-on effect on other people (which a good manager will try hard to decouple and avoid, deliver incrementally to lower the risk, or at least include healthy contingency for).

IMO, you should only really care about imposing deadlines as an answer to the question "how much time is it worth investing in solving this problem?" If the scope of the solution becomes larger than expected, and it starts to look like it won't pay off, abandon it and start doing something else instead. You had a good experiment which was entered into in good faith based on the data available at the time. That's the nature of experiments. Learn your lessons and try the next one.

Trusting that your teams have good plans that fail early and incorporate fast feedback loops is generally the only real way to make sure that they have realistic scheduling/deadlines for those plans and that they are likely to generate real value. It amazes me how many people in management seem to put their efforts and emphasis mostly on scheduling the plans, rather than the plans themselves. I guess it's easier to come up with estimates for things, than it is to come up with good strategy and business value propositions/justification.

I really recommend reading "A Seat at the Table" by Mark Schwartz (ISBN 9781942788119) for a good exploration of how agile meets management trust issues, budgeting and longer term planning, and how to try to break down the barriers between "IT" and "the business" (when in most modern companies, IT is the business).
I’m still confused. Nothing else can explain a period of dryness? I feel like it’s convenient to blame global warming without considering other ideas.

Please note, I say this as a huge climate change activist. But this feels similar to blaming hurricanes on climate change to me.
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All of the dynamic content on each listing is generated via a series of different machine-learned AI models.
I tend to take a fairly dynamic approach to design.

In many cases; especially where you have heterogenous projects, done by multi-disciplinary teams, dated milestones are pretty much required. You have to have some thing, by some time. I worked like that for many years, as part of massive, multi-national teams.

But these days, I have the "luxury" of generally working alone, or as a member of a casual open-source team that doesn't have any specific deliverable deadlines.

What I do, is define what "done" looks like, and set some very fuzzy milestones. At each of these inflection points, I reexamine the work I'm doing. In some cases, I decide to bin the whole effort, and either rewrite it, or simply scrag it, and move on to the next in the FIFO. In other cases (less often than I'd like), I am ahead of expected schedule, or the functionality of my work is better than expected. Boo-Ya. Go Me.

The important thing for me, is that I have a solid idea of a deliverable. It may not be associated with a date, and may be subject to revision, but it exists. At some point, the project needs to be released.

That may require some compromises, and it will require some tedium, like signing and provisioning, as well as producing marketing copy and graphic assets. That's part of what you need to do to have shrink-wrapped releases.

A lot of times, I can put off some of the sexier stuff for a 1.1 release.
It goes both ways. At least once a day (in the USA) I see a pedestrian walk or run into an intersection against their own red. A few are lost in their phones, but the vast majority simply take a glance to make sure you're going to slow down, and then charge on through.
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Unfortunately the biomedical field gets a bit too excited when Google publishes some work, so what should be minimum requirements get thrown out the window for fear of some other journal getting to publish it.
I can help answer this, one of my parents is a volunteer firefighter who was helping within the last few days. The current mandate for the CFA is asset protection, ie; protecting houses, farms and other properties where they can. It's understood that the fires can't be put out in the current conditions, so resources are focused on protecting buildings for now.

We're hoping for rain, but that's probably not going to appear in any significant quantities for a couple of months.
I've convinced many of my loved ones to get two-factor authentication on at least their primary e-mail addresses and to treat everything as something that can be compromised e.g. don't make any of your bank accounts front facing that have any more money in them then you are willing to lose.

Obviously this doesn't protect them against the complete set of problems but it is quick to implement and keeps me from being the personal security manager of those I care about.

At the end of the day if someone is running a sophisticated phishing scam some savvy people are going to fall for it - I think the name of the game is damage mitigation not prevention. As long as you can mitigate people from losing a life changing amount of money I think you've won here.
'If you do receive a call from a more traditional institution like a bank, don't divulge any information.'

The problem with this, in the UK at least, is that banks do call and ask for personal info such as date of birth, etc. The irony always seems lost on them when you refuse to give it.
Weaker? Senior? We have something to learn from every one.

Nobody should be an asshole. Nobody should be working alone.

Both of these are great ways to create a really toxic working environment, please don't perpetuate it.
Systemd Is Approaching 1.3M Lines
Have you heard of wendy[1]?

Might be useful, I'm not entirely sure if it suits your case because my experience with inotify is limited to playing around with it and nothing substantial coming from it.

1: http://z3bra.org/wendy/
(Author's blog post: http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/03/under-wendys-dress.html)
As an expat in Istanbul, I imagined you were surprised nobody tried to run you over. My only remaining fear in life is being run over by a taksi in Istanbul

A friend of mine who grew up in Cihangir moved to Portland last year and managed to get hit by a car. She was confused the car was giving her the right of way to cross, so she sort of stepped back. He waved her on, she got nervous, stepped back again, he said "OK" and started going, she then jumped right in front of him.
> Faced with a choice between beef or fake beef that tastes exactly the same, most people will just go for the real beef.

How can you say that with certainty? There isn't any fake beef that tastes similar that I am aware of.
An app can be successful on many metrics, profitability is not the only one. Slack is successful in that it has 10 million daus, 85000 paid users, and it managed to have the company valued at 12.4 billion dollars.

Ignoring the valuation of the company I would consider any program with 10 million daus to be successful.

And funny enough 10 million people choose to use slack and 14 million choose to use discord over irc every day despite the supposed "bloat" of the software.

If you are a developer building an mvp and the thing you are worrying about is "bloat" I will put money on you not being successful.
It came, seemed to be defeated, then seedboxes rescued it. Never bought an e-book or mp3book (read out loud) since.
Everything gets scanned or read. Publishers gave themselves head shots based on greed...
Also want to ask if anyone has a 'parents' Linux setup that has worked well over the years... I tried once maybe 8 years ago and had to figure out how to walk my mom through a kernel panic through the phone... didn't work well :)
How about gorillas they are 4-9 times stronger than a human on a vegetarian diet (some termites and ants) and they are pretty close to humans genes wise