skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see what you're getting at. A story like this one:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-marines-isis-inspired-...

You would ask the question "How far would he have gotten if an FBI agent hadn't got involved?" There seems to be a pattern of "idiot makes vague threats on Twitter" => "FBI agent encourages him" => "FBI waits and eventually arrests, plot thwarted." in a lot of these stories, which seems to be the basis for your categorical assertion that

> every terrorism prosecution that involved a foiled plot in the past ten years or so has involved the FBI convincing some helpless, directionless loser to do a bad thing and then arresting said loser and claiming victory against Al-Qaeda

So I can see why you would think Jameson fits the pattern.

How about this guy?

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/10/us/9-11-memorial-bomb-plo...

> Australi Witness urged the FBI source to put nails, glass and metal into the bomb, according to the FBI-authored complaint. He instructed the FBI source "to dip the screws and other shrapnel in rat poison in order to inflict more casualties," the complaint states.

Doesn't sound too helpless to me.
This reminds me a lot of Apple's OpenDoc but reincarnated as a web-based SaSS product. Key value is openness; I'm not sure how well that can be achieved in a tighly closed ecosystem, but I wish them all the best!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
Most purposes: They are governed by a board appointed by the governor. While not employees of the state, by law their employees are regulated under the Civil Service Law.

Other purpose: Their debt is not an obligation of NYS.
I think most hangs on Linux today are caused by low memory pressure, see this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20620545

No swap, some swap, huge swap, swappiness=0, zram - nothing helped me.
> 2) Small work sizes. As the size of each work item gets smaller and smaller, the proportion of the runtime cost which is spent to dispatch the work becomes larger and larger.

This is where I'm at, with an application that spends most of its time task switching. Worst part is, I don't have any great ideas about how to fix it.
Most cryptocurrencies I've seen look like a scam and the majority of them end up being one.
I read somewhere between 480 million - 1 billion animals have perished, especially the less mobile species like koalas.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/6/21051897/austral...
It takes me an hour to mow my lawn. Sometimes I can go a month without cutting it, sometimes I have to cut it every 3 days. Depends on the season, amount of rain, etc.

I spend more time doing other crap like weeding, fertilizing, trimming, picking up sticks, etc
I enjoy how many people go there expecting to find a small museum about dinosaurs, only to realize it's.... uh, not that.
as discussed recently here[1], I hacked together a PoC to ban any unicode in URL's as an anti-phishing solution to mitigate homoglyph attacks. It works on Linux by hooking directly into the kernels NFQUEUE and processes any requests that are being sent to your local resolver (dnsmasq/unbound, etc) on port 53.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21824350
tl;dr -

Rethinking how a space is structured could change the ways people do their jobs, Mr. Dewane says. His solution, one beginning to gain traction across the U.S., is a concept he calls a “eudaimonia machine,” its name based on the Greek term for human flourishing. In it, workers move through five or six distinct zones during the day. Each space has a purpose, from socializing to research, allowing people to alternate between focused work and chances to recharge. The design culminates in individual “deep-work chambers,” intended for focus. …

Rethinking how a space is structured could change the ways people do their jobs, Mr. Dewane says. His solution, one beginning to gain traction across the U.S., is a concept he calls a “eudaimonia machine,” its name based on the Greek term for human flourishing. In it, workers move through five or six distinct zones during the day. Each space has a purpose, from socializing to research, allowing people to alternate between focused work and chances to recharge. The design culminates in individual “deep-work chambers,” intended for focus.
Would be nice seeing smartphones and tablets with AMD instead of QC or Apple.
Those employees should find somewhere else to work.

Or negotiate better working conditions.

According to the article, one guy is suing for poor working conditions leading to PTSD and dozens if not hundreds of moderators are expected to file similar lawsuits related to poor working conditions. I can't imagine FB would find it beneficial to continue to deal with so many individual lawsuits...
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Depends on your climate. In the PNW for example you don't have to water really so having a nice lawn isn't an ecological disaster that the article would make out.
What the hey? No hash values posted after downloading the Firefox binary.

How can we tell that we got the real deal, especially if the original Firefox binary got compromised?
Exactly. It reminds me not only of the Ukrainian airliner shot down by Russian-backed forces in 2014 but also of the Iranian Airlines jet shot down by the USS Vincennes in 1988. So tragic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Yes, for a while. But I wonder how that happened.

Assuming that the timestamps in the archive.org timeline are UTC:

2020-01-08 17:03:04 UTC capture with content
2020-01-08 18:02:12 UTC capture with "Uh-Oh ..."
2020-01-08 18:10:22 UTC capture with "Uh-Oh ..."
2020-01-08 18:10:25 UTC capture with "Uh-Oh ..."
2020-01-08 18:11:28 UTC capture with "Uh-Oh ..."
2020-01-08 ~22:40 UTC 17:03:04 capture present
2020-01-08 ~23:40 UTC 17:03:04 capture missing
2020-01-09 ~02:40 UTC 17:03:04 capture present

As I understand it, archive.org will take down captures if robots.txt is changed to exclude them. But that can't be the explanation here, because that robots.txt edit would necessarily have occurred after ~22:40 UTC. And that would arguably have taken down all of the earlier captures.

So arguably this must have been a manual intervention.

And again, no blame. It's just metadata.
But peep holes are one-way, and the manufacture does not have the ability to remotely view the peep-hole.
For reference, that's a quarter acre.
If Iran feels threatened that they would be at the brink of destruction, i.e., with a disproportionate attack by the US, look to active operations in allied countries.

Don't get caught up in specific words like sleeper cells or terrorism. I have no more information than you. I just know if I don't have a nuclear bomb, I need a nuclear option and I expect today's press conference by Iran with the flags of all the groups they support was a signal of the threat.

Perhaps you personally profited from the Iraq war, but US taxpayers footed a bill in the trillions to keep that going. People died. It isn't a game of Civ.
Am I the only one in this thread doesn't regularly fall asleep or get distracted watching a show/movie? Multiple times a week in having to fight to find which episode or where in the movie I was. This is painful with the atrociously slow uis of every app I use.
IIRC all the AM4/ThreadRipper/Epyc chipsets are on a 12nm or larger process and still produced by GF.
Hey, thanks for this feedback. Does lowering the detail (using the control in the top-right) achieve a result like the one you describe, or would you like to see something even simpler (by default)?
My fundamental question on calorie restriction is that women have been doing it for superficial reasons for quite a while, but women's superior life expectancy seems soley due to high risk behavior by men when they are young and middle age.

I've never seen anything testing that hypothesis.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
5 miles one way? Genuine question but why would you want to commute 5 miles on a scooter multiple times a week compared to a bicycle?
Do they have separate power supplies? Have steps been taken to ensure that fire can’t spread from one room to the next? What would happen if there was an explosion?
Fair enough. Having a "OSS-compliant" license which supports "payment to run the sofrware" would help open-source startups like us but I guess
"requiring payment" will hurt the "Freedom of Speech" part of OSS.

An analogy would be - you have "Freedom of Speech" in a democracy but it requires a 100$ payment. Maybe?
Which supplements are you taking? NMN? Niagen?
> What is my recourse for preventing my private property from being recorded?

Either put up a visual barrier or move.

This sort of thing is why I consider products like Ring to be terrible and highly antisocial. I would avoid even going into a neighborhood that had many of these installed, let alone live in one.

Also, am I the only one who thinks that the prevalence of these devices in a neighborhood is a very strong indicator that the neighborhood is sketchy -- either it has a lot of crime, or it has a lot of very paranoid people.
What tech companies are based out of the LA area?
There's a spare generator at the Manic 5 dam for super-high demand events like Christmas, Easter, and also cold fronts, and maybe a spare gas plant somewhere. Otherwise the purpose of holding back water at night is to prevent reservoir depletion in low-precipitation years, rather than building extra capacity for high-demand peaks.
Just so we’re clear, it’s tremendously useful to be able to visit any of these cities and understand the subway maps if you’ve already experienced any of the other three. Suing over a good UX decision is a dick move.
>Fair use doesn't even come into it. Naked facts are non-copyrightable. They have no protections whatsoever. Facts are public domain.

A map isn't "naked facts", maps can certainly be copyright protected.
> the only real fix is

What an irresponsible statement. Science has not yet exhausted the frontiers of biomechanics.
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Fundamentally concepts are enjoyed by most everyone, including those who are learning about them the first time, especially when they're explained clearly.
I think the biggest advantage scooters have over ebikes is that for a lot of people, there’s a place to store a scooter at both ends of a commute (under a desk) but not necessarily secure bike storage.
Scientists have warned about this for decades, but they were smeared or even harassed by bad-faith actors. I wish that those responsible would be punished or at least demoted.
Exactly. If there was a way to optimize the process of managing the fleet, either by predicting where people want to go from and to or having to recharge the batteries less frequently then these services would be more viable. Maybe the new type of batteries will open up opportunities here.
If you think carbon taxes are going to stop a 3 year drought from occasionally hitting Australia, a region with thousands of years of documented dry spells, I don't know what to say. We don't control the rain. The only sensible thing Australia can do is prescribed burning and bush thinning.
This is a very funny idea. Would be nice to see more options for customizing event titles in the future.
CompuCom, this shit is definitely CompuCom. If that's not what you're talking about, well, I experienced all of this there too.
Isn't that true for most OSS licenses (not being tested in court)?
Snapchat and Tinder come to mind
> I trust Amazon/Ring more than I trust some random Chinese company.

Really? Why?
The part that piqued my interest is that there exist neurons that code for a particular location in your field of view. So if you had a neural link implant you may be able to write software to tell not just where you are looking but what you're paying attention to.

We can currently tell where you're looking with eye trackers, but that doesn't work outside of a controlled environment where you can place a camera in front. And that is not the same as what you're paying attention to.

Imagine if your car detects a potential danger around you and could know if you've seen it already or not. Or if your IDE rearranged itself based on what you're paying attention to.

Not by itself worth the intrusiveness of an implant, but if you already have one, I wonder what we could do with it that wasn't possible before.
The weights arent averaged unless the training step is synchronous. Even then most of the times it is the gradients that are added up rather than the actual weights.

For inference, I dont think there are many papers that claim direct average of weights perform better than any single model. It is usually the output that is accumulated in some way.
Really interestingly, the IO die and the X570 chipset are both the same piece of silicon running different firmware. That's creative and an interesting vector to increase your yields.
Oh wow. First time I found out about that. Then it's clear: Insomnia is 100X better than that bloated Postman!
Hi. Yep, it will write your Ilograph file when you save, certainly. It doesn't create other random files or anything like that, though.
Thanks for the details here. Doesn't this mean that that au pairs filing suit here are going against the purpose of the program so long as the host family isn't abusing the system (i.e. more than ~40 hours of help a week)
> I guess if all you care about is the market going up, you're better off if people know about less risks.

It's even more crass: the interests of a few oil/coal companies allow us to paper over the very real dangers of fossil fuels &c. to the detriment of basically everyone in the world, every other industry.
Bear in mind that resolutions back then were much lower than now, and not all computers had 24 bit color frame buffers. Video cards ran one monitor for the most part, with no others attached.

Be had well written multi threading and preemptive multitasking implemented on a clean slate - no compatibility hacks required. That meant it worked well and was quick/responsive. There were still limits, and the OS didn't have many security protections that would get written in today.
I see a ton of Ninebots during my commute, seems like more and more people choose to own. Even folks at my company own various escooter variants.
Mathematical nitpick.

A vacancy rate of 10% is an occupancy rate of 90%. To house everyone with a 90% occupancy rate, you need to have 100 / 90 in available housing stock, which is 111.1% of occupation requirements.

If you only build 110% of what is needed, and no one is homeless, the vacancy rate would be 9.1%, or ( 1 - 100/110 ) .

The point still stands. Cities need more housing than strictly required for residents.
if you're sending it inside the gmail interface to a gmail address I doubt it makes any difference

sending to outside gmail I suspect it will count against you (though major providers likely have special treatment for Google's MXes)
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As I understand it typical occupancy rate is 95%. Looks like there are ~400K housing units in SF (not total bay area).

That would imply there are 20K vacant units just for frictional reasons. I expect the number of these type of vacancies exceeds the number of homeless in almost every city in the US
scooters not cars though...no divers needed
A carbon tax has almost nothing to do with the current fires in Australia; sounds like you have an axe to grind.
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The advantage of scooter and bike share over owning is spontaneity. I love being able to grab a bike on a whim without any planning. And one-way trips is a big advantage, which of course only works because people are shuttling them around.

I think the relative efficiency of the share model needs to be weighed against the inefficiency of everyone owning their own while only using it a fraction of the time.
Exactly, I'm actually considering owning a scooter specifically for those situations where I don't have a secure place to store the bike at the other end of travel or during some interval.
I'm definitely with you about prevention.

> That's fine if you want to spend trillions moving the cities of Europe and US to Siberia.

I don't even want to get into thinking why and if Russia [1] would let the people of Europe and the USA in, but that's only about 1 B people. There are many more out there.

[1] The Nordic countries and Canada, and probably the south of Chile and especially Argentina, are similarly well positioned.
I came up with another "solution" using the linux kernel NFQUEUE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22003933
Does this have anything to do with red look darker when there's less light?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect

edit: maybe not. Looks like one is physiological, the other physical
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I do a lot of travel and, anecdotally, there seems to be a huge variation in popularity of rental scooters by city (even just considering the cities where one or more companies operate). Wide bike/pedestrian paths are probably one factor and weather is another. But they seem very popular in some places and barely used in others for reasons that often aren't immediately obvious, at least to me.
Fun vid that might bring back some memories :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA "SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²"
Australia's wildfires are being caused by arsonists. 183 arrested so far... https://www.christianpost.com/news/australia-183-arrested-fo...

Left-wingers seeking to "prove" climate calamity.
You could grow salad in the cupboard. Lettuce is one of the few crops that would be economical to grow under indoor lighting. I believe that info comes from here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsaufB5F8dk

If you think LEDs have gotten epic, check out his research. They're just getting to be more efficient than HPS.
Yeah, acknowledging flaws is more useful than ignoring them or papering over them.

> "a world market for maybe five [building-size] computers" on my one-of-billions smartphone

Though in some of Asimov's books' terms, it easy to imagine that the internet would have counted to Asimov as having only one "building sized computer" and we just have billions and billions of terminals. The microcomputer revolution remade what the world calls a computer [1], and it's hard to predict futures when the words themselves shift out from under you. ;)

[1] Just as I like to half-jokingly predict the lasting impact of the smartphone revolution is that it is possible the word phone eats the word computer, bringing about AT&T's 50s retro future visions in a roundabout pathway they didn't foresee.
The end result is the same either way: The law, including all required references, must be available to the public in a free, non-discriminatory, and modern form (i.e. on the Internet, not a single paper copy accessible only in the basement of the state capitol building behind a door marked "beware of leopard") before it can be enforced. That means the state must find a way to make the law available to the public before it takes effect, and standards organizations likewise must agree to allow public access before their standards can be incorporated into the law. The federal government can, of course, revoke the copyright on a standard to achieve that result if permission is not forthcoming—despite the name it's merely an artificial privilege, not a natural right, and as such ought to be revoked the moment it fails to serve its intended purpose of benefiting the public.
Renting a home devalues it through normal wear and tear. We see this during housing price drops in our local housing market (Montana) as well. The investors would rather a house sit empty than rent it or sell it at a lower price.
I mean, they haven't taken it to court. They probably have a brand management team (understandably, because that impacts use of the subway) and some overzealous employee took an hour to file a complaint with Etsy.
Also Youtube, Honey, Bird, Headspace, SpaceX.

Nowhere as dense as the Bay, but there are a bunch of success stories.
98.6°F is an over-precise conversion of 37°C. The number was originally measured as 37°C, with two digits of precision. It shouldn't have been reported as 98.6°F, though a correct rounding would have been even less accurate: the number is closer to 98.2°F/36.8°C, but the proper rounding of the conversion would have rounded up to 99°F.

There is, of course, significant variation from person to person, so two digits of precision is probably all that's really appropriate.
Paw’s fantastic, and a great example of a native Mac app.

I’d really like to see something similar in Windows.
I've been considering Ubiquiti since I'm going to redoing all the networking in my new house. Does Ubiquiti offer inner sort of facial-recognition-based alerts?
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That doesn’t mean the APIs aren’t first class citizens.

If you go watch Channel 9 (Official MS) training videos, outside of the let’s get setup videos, the devs and presenters are almost always using the APIs to interact with Azure either through Powershell or Visual Studio.
The biggest reason for me would be to prevent sweating in your work outfit. On a scooter you can go fully dressed for work.

I enjoyed biking in Austin, but as you can imagine the intense heat a good portion of the year meant a full outfit change and shower after every ride just to start the day.
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I came up with another solution to work separate from unbound/dnsmasq using the NFQUEUE in the linux kernel. I basically am processing the dns packets in user-land :) ... bit of a hack but it made for a great afternoon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22003933
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This debate is very old. Newton and Huygens fought long over it .. and eventually it was solved by: it is both or rather neither.
It is a quant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality#...
For sure this will burn you at work eventually if you use it. That said, if you need this, maybe you need to actually brush up your CV and find a job that doesn't destroy your productivity with meetings :)
Leaves 12 markets and lays off 8 people per market?

For a company with a physical product and inventory, 8 people per city seems like somewhere in the neighborhood of sobriety, possibly verging on stingy. Not the sort of excess we so often find in a tech company that is experiencing layoffs.
That is how strings work in Delphi/Pascal.

All strings have a reference count. When you change a string, and the ref count is not one, it is copied before the change. If the ref count is one, it is not copied
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VictoriaMetrics author here. I like the post, since it is cleanly written and it isn't biased to certain solution. I'd recommend readers trying all the mentioned solutions - Thanos, Cortex, M3DB and VictoriaMetrics and then choosing the solution that fits them the best.

Each solution has its own weak and strong points. The main selling points for VictoriaMetrics are:

* Operation simplicity. This is especially true for a single-node version, which is represented by a single self-contained binary without any dependencies. It is configured by a few command-line flags, while the rest of configs have sane defaults, so they shouldn't be touched in most cases.

* Low resource usage (CPU, RAM, disk space and iops, network bandwidth).

* High performance.

See also an interesting talk from PromCon 2019, where all these solutions are compared by Adidas monitoring team [1].

[1] https://promcon.io/2019-munich/talks/remote-write-storage-wa...
I have a Neato, which uses magnetic strips for boundaries. No batteries, and in 5-ish years so far, no problems.
Let me just google that