skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I mentioned in another comment, what happens today is that they already socialize in their own online social networks with people exactly like them. They do not tolerate one iota of dissent or open discussion, and will ban anyone with contrary views or criticism.

If we allow them space on our open platforms, without demanding that they tolerate our views, that does not result in any kind of real conversation, it just allows them to spread their toxic views around.
Assessing and Managing Information Security Risks
Does Telegram use end to end encryption by default yet, or does it still send and store everything except for secret chats to the Telegram service in plaintext?

Also, when you use the secret chat feature does that now support multiple clients or does it still establish a secret chat with a random recipient client over which neither initiator nor receiver can control?
Internal resources (papers, wikis, talks) at big companies (AWS, Google) have been massively instrumental for my learnings.

Thankfully, some of these things have been opened up:

- https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library

- https://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks
ProtonMail fulfilled Russian government request to disable bomb threats accounts
If you put two /1 routes towards the private vpn endpoint and one route for your public vpn endpoint to your public ip it'll route all traffic over the vpn because it's the more specific route. The rest is your ip rules and your issue if you don't want any traffic in your physically attached subnet to go over the shortest distance. It's not really up to the protocol, it's the tooling around it.
scenes from the local villages,

https://kenyanlist.net/index.php?threads/how-to-chase-locust...
Because garbage programming pulls in millions of viewers a night, and networks have no problem hosting morons when it means they can sell ad impressions to anyone willing to buy them...
>silencing everyone who disagrees with you

That is not remotely what is being suggested.

Toxicity is when a site devoted to people mourning a synagogue massacre is overwhelmed by spamming neo-nazis.

Toxicity is annihilating a site's function: a site where climate scientists discuss findings needs to be free of an flood of spam from climate change deniers and paid petroleum sock puppets. Such a site exists for people to do their job not waste every day repeating the same basic information available elsewhere easier to people who came intentionally to disrupt.
It is. Health sector uses mostly statistic. We use randomized experiment and with survival analysis and longitudinal analysis.

Then we're also on observation studies with casuality since the 1980s between statistician and econometrician. We're using propensity modeling now for observational studies and quasi experiment. It's where a new wave of interesting stuff is happening all the while AI is taking up this weird hype in the programming world for healthcare.

Data science and ML really likes to make things black boxes while ignoring the data and not accounting for uncertainty. I'm going to flat out state, you're not doing this in healthcare. There is no way in hell this is going to work without statistic. Judea Pearl is gonna have to marry statistic with CS if he wants any real headway with causality and even then I'd take Rubin, Rosenbaum, and Angrist.
The internet went from subculture to being the mainstream culture, especially for politics. Roughly the point at which everyone started participating in sharing memes on Facebook as the successor to email forwards.

This made it valuable enough to be worth destroying.

So all kinds of bad actors started creating appealing, emotional, and false or misleading content aimed at this kind of sharing.

Polarisation is deliberate. Some of it from the media, some of it from parties, some of it from random bored channers, some of it from the unemployed and upset, and some from intelligence agencies and their contractors.

(This has had even worse effects in countries where democracy and media are young and fragile.)
Implementing for Loops and Iterators in Standard ML
Seems like the free market solved all the probs you mentioned, so yeah.
Viktor Frankl (wrote a book about finding meaning in concentration camps from his personal experience) described the wish as the father and the fear as the mother of an event.

I think it's possible to have very disordered wishes or to wish for the wrong reasons. Wishing for something you don't really aim or desire to achieve as a shared behaviour in a book club, is probably a waste of time. Wishing for the right reasons is probably a valuable part of human nature. The disregard for wishing likely needs to be brought into order.
It’s nice to read some good news for a change.

From the article:

> The current deadline for ICANN to approve or deny the sale is February 20. It is asking Public Interest Registry to extend this to April 20 as a result of the attorney general office’s request.

> This is perhaps the biggest wrinkle so far in Internet Society’s plans to sell the registry for $1.135 billion to a private equity company.

Are the details outside the amount public and is there any clawback amount if the deal does not go through?
I understand that, we can make 'high protein flour' out of crickets[1] it seems like we should be able to process Locusts into some sort of protein source for human consumption.

But it is really hard to actually visualize/imagine these swarms without actually being there in one. The amount of infrastructure you would have to deploy essentially on a short term basis[2] is really infeasible with current technology.

[1] https://www.cricketflours.com/

[2] Swarms are a function of environmental conditions, they grow exponentially but they die quickly when conditions change, it is the series of monsoons at the right time that have made this one so big. In "regular" years they are much smaller.
Sometimes the benchmark for northing/easting/elev is many miles away from the actual site. This is especially true with gps surveys.

It only takes a few inches to wind up with a substantial drainage problem.
In this case that group is, in fact, our parents. It's not an abstract group - it's people we know in our life. In order to make it an abstract "other", the people need to stay abstract. I don't begrudge my parents their success, I just know that I may not share the same.
HTML Basics 3: The internet before the Web – Why do we use HTML
Seriously, this particular mutation of unknown bat virus + HIV is predicted in film. I recommend to watch it: it's very scientific, and has almost no action.
You say you disagree, but then go on to spell out my position quite nicely. "For humans" implies a certain level of abstraction that quite often tends to be too abstract in exactly the way you describe. "We don't bother you with all the little details that the others make you handle!" frequently ignores the fact that those others make you specify all that stuff for a reason.

For example: "Do you want this database to be AP or CP?" "Don't pester me with the nitty gritty! I just want to store data." A "for humans" database that quietly made the choice for you would be very bad news if it later turns out to have chosen poorly for your own workload.

The first "for humans" thing I saw was Python's Requests library, and I think it earned the title. Having just built a web scraper on top of raw httplib a year earlier, I would have killed to have had Requests available. It's a great example of a project with a decent track record of mostly setting good defaults and letting devs concentrate on their parts of their projects. Since then, I have seen very few "for humans" projects that weren't so abstract as to become almost unusable. I mean, you could call MS Paint "Photoshop for humans", but that doesn't make it so.
> Compare it to using C in 1970 or Ruby in 1995

That's not the category I'm talking about, though. C (and I believe Ruby) was a major shift from what came before. Those two are better compared to Clojure or Go: dramatically different value-propositions that can make it worth the time and effort to take a chance on a new, green technology. What I'm talking about is languages that are "like X but with improvements to Y and Z".
This is evidence, but it requires corroboration from other evidence. Peer review doesn't provide additional evidence - it's just a sober second opinion that lends credence (or not) to the proposed evidence and interpretation.

Just wanted to clarify the language here.
The tilde escape predates SSH - it comes from the cu (Call UNIX) program in BSD 4.2:

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/usr/src...
"The swarms increase in size twentyfold with each successive generation and could reach India by June."

India? Am I missing something or is this is an error in the text?
Thanks for the mention, Gene. Thanks for being an early adopter, and keep those bugs and feedback coming in!

As far as performance vs C - there's not a lot of features that incur dynamic dispatch: virtual method calls, dynamic casts (as/is keywords), and direct interface dispatch. When you use interfaces as generic constraints, those monomorph into static dispatches unless the implementing method itself is virtual.

For C-style code, however, the performance should be the same as the C equivalent in Clang. File a bug if it isn't!
There aren't PGP plugins for mobile apps and people wouldn't use them if there were.
> For similar reasons, I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don't have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability. You have a revenue problem.

I'm curious why you use this wording. It comes of as slightly brash, and to many, suggests that you shouldn't worry about costs. In my experience have to be "penny wise, pound foolish" making reasonable efforts to manage cost.

You can pile on loads of tech debt which matters little at this scale (e.g. your CI/CD example), but when you are small the costs can bite hard. You quickly limit your choices and end up spending time looking for funding, if you don't have some sort of reasonable constraint.
>Is our hubris so high that we think no one else can replicate what we built?

How do we know someone else hasn't already built what we've built? They don't exactly post these things on Facebook...

....which is why we have to build it too.
Back in the 90s, new construction for the US Govt was supposed to all be done using the metric standard even though all of the supplies were in US/Imperial units. Can't imagine the headaches that caused.

Source: My uncle who is/was a contractor
It makes you wonder what cool stuff we could have done with the time and resources that are currently being put in to that. But I suppose that the people that are putting their time and resources in to that are categorising it internally as 'cool stuff' already.
This is actually a good distinction. If your side project is related to your employer's line of work then it is easy for your employer to argue that they own that creation, even if you used a personal computer and did it at night, etc.

So for example if your employer makes inventory management software for coffee shops, and you decide to make an inventory management tool for grocery stores... then your employer will easily own your creation.

On the other hand if you work for a search engine platform (ie Google), and you invent an API tool that parses recipes, and you did it all on your personal laptop and personal time, then you should be fine.
Locust are crickets so yes you would be able to
Which feet?
There’s Another Virus Stalking America: It’s Called the Flu
Want some real fun? Try to set up Ring without UPNP enabled.

Let the games begin!
The centuries-old conflict between egalitarianism and hierarchism, driven by economic and environmental pressures and to which technology is a a revivifying input.
Its all too common to lose a VP and hire a director.
Yes, been studied and shown it is overcrowding that causes this and you can by rubing the back legs of a grasshopper for about 30 mins(iirc maybe shooter time) and it will start to develop wings and change.

The rubbing of back legs in nature happens when you have high dense populations - overcrowding due to rushing for limited food in an area. Which evolving wings and flying elsewhere would be nature at play.

Real trick would be to curtail grasshopper numbers before they swarm and perhaps a more balanced approach to grasshoppers natural enemies and encouraging habits for those will do well. Chemicals for me are a desperate solution to a problem that got overlooked. Much the same way that ant do wonders with many pests for plants, yet production methods end up curtailing environments that see them thrive in area's that would benefit. So we end up with chemicals for things like aphids when ants will eat them all up for you.
> you're done for the rest of your life.

If that were so easy then I don't think much of these cheatsheets would exist.
Note to mods: I am not associated with this instance, just posting it because it's an interesting application of NodeTube
Wow, these stuff are beasts ! They look enormous !
Elon Musk's new EDM single reviewed
There was also pictorial from The Guardian a few days ago, "Billions of locusts swarm through Kenya"[1] regarding this.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jan/24/billio...
That makes sense. I guess I assumed the interop story would necessarily be arduous and crufty, but if both languages are native I can see how you might get more of it "for free".
I look forward to a future when I can answer my phone when it rings.
Great article. I'm very suspicious of attempts to "blame it on the boomers", but this has some very good analysis that should be built upon.

There are some confounding factors - the baby boom's sheer relative to the preceding and succeeding generations means that at least some of the noted effects would occur even if the "age you got promoted" probability distribution remained the same.

The specific complaints about the consulting and legal industries expansion of the career path have the issue that the size of those firms have grown massively over the time period indicated- McKinsey had 88 staff in 1951, 7700 in the early 2000s and 27000+ by 2018. That’s simply not the same company/industry and not really due to demographic trends.

Overall though, it makes raises some good points (particularly the implication that there is/was positive ageism toward boomers in the selection of executive roles) that are worth reflecting on.

BTW- it’s really Gen X (and the younger boomers) that got hosed here. The boomers really are retiring now and millennials will have plenty of career ahead after that.
This virus spreads quickly (check) but has a mortality rate of 2%, mostly the old and already immunocompromised. If that's a bioweapon it's a pretty ineffective one.
Well that's just a deformed way of thinking about stuff. What matters is whether it's true, not whether somebody will call it ageist.
^not
If the tool you're using claims its services are "free", you can bet there's nothing private about it. This whole notion of free services, is deeply flawed. Wall all have witnesesed this , first hand, from the Cambridge Analytica fallout. Facebook has royally skull fucked society, politics, and our economy in so many different ways it's not even funnny. This is why I'll never install apps like Facebook, Facebook messenger, signal, whatsapp, instagram, tictoc, or similar. It's all garbage.
...with _only_ people exactly like them.
Some comments on this Biorxiv site from an epidemiologist:
https://twitter.com/aetiology/status/1223328143647236097

"For non-scientists, if you see something posted from a site called BioRxiv, have some skepticism. It could be a fantastic paper! (I've used it!)--but. The site is for preprints, which means they haven't undergone peer review yet."
Rational thinking, manipulation techniques (you have to know them to be able to detect them), emotional awareness and stuff like that should be taught at every school. Everybody should be conscious of the fact 99% of what you find online (let alone see on TV) is bullshit, designed to troll and manipulate you and absolutely not worth taking serious (and if something really seems important - check the proofs and don't forget to question their legitimacy). I would even call for the governments to fund efforts to educate every person (adults included) this way - this clearly is a matter of national security nowadays.

I believe there is no sane way (an insane way is to deanonymize and watch everyone - China and Russia implement this) to stop the polarization/toxicicity in the first place, all we can do is develop immunity.
Couldn’t they do something like stick up big electrified nets at the crop areas?

Locusts fly into them and get buzzed? Or something similar
The "Timeless Content" icon isn't loading for me (using Brave). Otherwise looks great and congrats on the release
So much for my focus; I'm only five paragraphs in and already my mind is wandering to "hmm, attention, this reminds me of 'The Rock Warrior's Way' which itself draws from Carlos Castaneda's 'The Teachings of Don Juan', and oh crap, I haven't finished that book either . . . "

ETA: I'll leave these for the curious:

> "Proper use of attention, in warrior-speak, is impeccability."

> "When acting impeccably, a warrior directs all of his attention toward his ultimate quest: to gain self-knowledge and personal power."

> "Essentially, a warrior is an impeccable hunter of personal power."

ETA2: Gah! I keep getting distracted. Now the mention of "Alerting; Orienting; and Executive Attention." makes me think of John Boyd and his OODA loop, another thing I've been meaning to look into.

ETA3: Well, fuck. Looks like I need to start gaming again:

> "Far from reducing our ability to concentrate, video games can actually increase it. They are a powerful stimulant of attention."
Be advised that there are many posts on Chinese social media claiming the crematoriums are backlogged with people whose listed cause of death is "viral pneumonia" (or just "pneumonia") because hospitals are turning away so many and diagnostics are not catching up. Do not take statistical reporting for granted: The numbers are a best case scenario of definitive knowns. Also, bioweapons have as diverse a variety of use cases as any other class of weapon: They don't need to kill half of a population to be effective weapons.
Sadly that horse has long left the barn, fled thousands of miles, died and been eaten by vuktures. Its grandchildren are feral and flee at the sight or scent of humans.

I suspect there are only two ways to fix that issue both unlikely. Game theory and sloth favor buck passing to agencies let alone the logistical scale involved with a mytgical ideal Congress of honest actors.

The first is an amendment limiting the delegation abilities of congression to departments and agencies to be essentially programatically explicit or else be unconstitutionally vague.

The second is a precedent and jurisprudence shift as judges strike down such delegation as unconstitutional.
Would we still have a pro-vax problem if FB banned it across its properties?
The APIs (D3D, etc.) do use matrices, and that's all that matters from the point of view of an engine developer. Composing quats together is certainly faster than composing matrices, but quats are limited (no translation / skew / perspectivce / etc.), so there is no direct apples-to-apples comparison between quats and mats.
> pursuit of the demise/revisioning of atrophied systems?

So, you see the outcome as killing off the olds?
Hey, I am going to show my stupidity for a moment but I have to ask:

Why is garbage collection considered a negative thing?

I have no experience programming low-level languages, but I do follow and try new/obscure languages for fun.

Zig, Nim and V were the few I found + tried first, but I learned about Odin and Scopes recently and found them both interesting.
I assume that's a lot more expensive. It might pay off in increased productivity, but it's not as simple as "just don't do it". Where I work, I believe it would be tens of thousands dollars more per month in rent.
Imagine the source of protein you'd get! While probably not super handy (as it only happens during swarming times) and maybe even ecosystem-disruptive, turning them in to food would be useful.
If you de-platform people they still think the way that they think, you just don't see what they're thinking and have no ability to challenge it.

Then they turn up and vote...
Will fuel-air incendiary work on insect swarms?
Faster Protocol Buffers
Hmm. You're reminding me of the quote that a person becomes the average of the five people closest to them. Well, if two of those people are Facebook and Instagram... yikes.

(BTW, I think the point of the bible verse you quoted is prayer, not just having your eyes open.)
There are many, just a Google search away from "Iraq rape us military".

Here is one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
>>In reply to child post by oneplane

Hey welcome to the culture war :D The trick is not to take it too seriously. Also South park is an amazing resource / commentary on it... :D
Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?
> is why generalising these operations is considered a good thing?

> Is this operation happening in a future? or is on a list? You could argue that the type signature will let you know, but quite often it's inferred.

1) You are generalizing the input of a function to multiple types. Many of the functions you'd write wouldn't care whether you're using a List or a Future, they would accept either. It's just like declaring your Java method to take a Collection instead of an ArrayList.

2) You are getting more specific in the output of the function. If you write `filter`, it would be nice to get a `LinkedList` back if you pass in a `LinkedList`. With more common type systems, the best you'll be able to do writing the function once is a return type of `Collection` or `Iterable`.

Your method may perform horribly if a LinkedList is passed in instead of an ArrayList. If your operation really depends on a specific behavior the Functor doesn't specify, you should be using a different type than Functor.
We need less languages, more IDEs.
Yeah I've got a $5 droplet as well, but I think I just hacked together Nginx + Gunicorn (without any sort of scripts)
I've experienced the port wearing out. Using the same cable with two different MBPs, only one MBP has loose ports when plugging in.
when you restrain housing, everyone suffers.
Historically, it was digraphs and trigraphs, or sequences of two or three characters-you-can-type standing in for a single character-you-cannot-type.

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

For example, in C, ??( is [ and ??) is ] which isn't so bad, but then there's this:

// Will the next line be executed????????????????/
a++;

The answer is no, it won't, because ??/ is \ which means the next line gets pasted onto the end of the previous one, which is commented out.

But this all goes back to ALGOL, which had some important digraphs:

> Early versions of ALGOL predated the standardized ASCII and EBCDIC character sets, and were typically implemented using a manufacturer-specific six-bit character code. A number of ALGOL operations either lacked codepoints in the available character set or were not supported by peripherals, leading to a number of substitutions including := for ← (assignment) and >= for ≥ (greater than or equal).
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but nothing in that image shows the virus has been modified? Or at least the commentary doesn't say that.
Totally right - and thank you for the clarification in language.