skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also a swe with a polisci degree (but no legal education or qualifications). I think the comparison between policy and code is useful, but not perfect. Are there any specific areas that are different between them that we should pay mind to?
DOJ officials to announce cyber-related law enforcement action tomorrow
Yes, exactly. To add one more detail: mount your Google Drive and save the checkpoint there.
Captcha don't stop bots anymore, they only stop humans. I don't know why websites are still using those.
> but most of them were also not scams [...] most ICOs were not put together by scammers, and many of them have made an honest effort to produced technically advance systems

As someone who's had the misfortune of finding myself at events offstage around many famous practitioners in this space... I cannot say I agree.

It's my experience that only a small minority appear to have remotely credible beliefs in their prospects. The best I could say is that many appear to be indifferent to the prospects of success for their headline venture, but extremely interested and invested in their success in collecting investments from unsophisticated buyers.

Many I've witnessed are outright contemptuous towards the victims that buy into their offerings. You can see this contempt reflected in the contractual terms of the ICO offerings which go out of their way to make sure that absolutely nothing of value is transferred with the sale of the token. You'd have to be either an idiot or simply ignorant of the terms to accept them in virtually every ICO.
I think this is really 80% of the seed stage work. It's sort of like how early pioneers discovered new lands, how geologists find oil deposits, how police catch criminals. There are techniques to do it, but it depends a lot on individual skill, willpower, and a little luck.

And generally people don't build SpaceX competitors, unless they're already millionaires or have a MBA from Harvard and such. There's a reason Elon started with fintech.
Discover the World of Mathematics
Stadia is a complete non-starter for me because of a highly limited selection and no ability to bring my Steam & GOG library into it.
There's 2 main valid reasons larger companies won't touch AMD for servers:

1) You don't know if a given linux kernel/other software will work unless you test it ... for each future version

2) The firmware updates for Intel and AMD are different.

Additionally, the excellent Intel C compiler focuses on their own processors.

The above doesn't mean you can't choose AMD, but don't assume they're interchangeable CPUs.

Disclosure: I worked for Transmeta, whose entire DC was based an AMD servers. The reason was that Intel was a larger competitor for their code-morphing CPUs than AMD was.

Coincidentally, Linus Torvalds entered the USA on a work visa from Transmeta after DEC bailed on his job offer.

I bought CS22 at Transmeta's wind-down auction, which I will donate to the Computer Museum. Several large CPU designs during that era were verified on it because it was a 4 CPU Opteron with 64 GB RAM, and 32 GB RAM wasn't enough.

Aside from Apple's A-series, that was the end of Silicon Valley being about silicon. (Many of the chip engineers on my last project ended up at Apple on the A-series.)
Hm, it seems I should have been more specific. I am aware of the mechanism, I'm hoping someone might have even a bit of insight into what that tribal knowledge is/was.
It's needed before the actual contents of the home directory are available (i.e. mounted), if I understand correctly. Nor is it actually user-modifiable:

> Since the user record is cryptographically signed the user cannot make modifications to the file on their own (at least not without corrupting it, or knowing the private key used for signing the record).

> This file system should contain a single directory named after the user. This directory will become the home directory of the user when activated. It contains a second copy of the user record in the ~/.identity file, like in the other storage mechanisms.

Not quite sure what the purpose of this copy is, given users can delete / replace it?
For once, she's not being unprofessional. Give her credit for that much.
Because they have completely different mission parameters.

Commercial crew is for ISS trips, so short duration trips, so limited life support or things like toilets required.

Artemis needs to send a lander to the moon and come back. So 3-7 days with extended life support, and the ability to land on the moon with a vehicle and take off within the size confines of a single launch.

Orion is for deep space exploration, no lander necessary, and extended life support.

So yes, three completely different vehicles. The last time we tried to combine multiple roles into a unified chassis, the F35 happened.
I know that individual people are different. But I don't believe there's a big innate group difference between today's American toddlers and 1980s East German ones that makes the former as a group pee their pants for so much longer?
> “Dell always uses Intel for a reason”

That reason sometimes being that Intel paid them off to block AMD from competing in the market:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/business/23dell.html

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/184323-intel-stuck-wit...
The literal 0 in a pointer context will be converted to a NULL pointer, which can be a non-zero bit pattern (there are some systems where the actual NULL pointer isn't all zeros). Going through a variable might not do what you think. So this:

char *p = 0;

is fine, but

intptr_t a = 0;
char *p = (char *)a;

might not do what you expect (set p to the NULL pointer).
What will ruin podcasting is when 4 or 5 conglomerates own nearly all podcasts.
It should also not come as a surprise that a company whose process is highly optimised to move product in one direction has problems dealing with unusual situations in the other direction.
Pioneer looks interesting, but it seems that the bar is too high and that other routes are easier.
Can you clarify the last part? My Spotify app has two tabs at the top of libraries "Music" and "Podcasts". The home page is a bit less discrete, but still usually has the word "Podcast" in the subheaders.

I actually really like their daily drive auto-generated playlist, it is a combination of podcasts and music (And for a 1hr+ commute I have time to take in both long and short-form media).
Well, hard work never hurt.
Eh, just as Canonical will backport Wireguard, I'd expect them to backport stabilization fixes to address issues like that.
I think we agree that Amazon should do the thing that makes the least trouble for the consumer. The wrong item is there. Return or disposal or charity or resale. One way or the other your customer is going to deal with your mistake.

You seem to have some concerns that being left with a $12K server to dispose of any way she pleases would be a burden.

I believe and her actual experience suggests that the rerun will be more trouble.

Ok same values, different views on likely outcomes, we disagree.
Pretty wild. I mean if it’s $12K...surely even a completely lackluster listing on eBay or Amazon selling of it for $2K profit after all costs/fees is worth it to virtually anyone?
I use Spotify every day and think it’s a good product. Why do you think it sucks? I’m genuinely curious.
Note that your original comment is not downvoted anymore. That's the best reason not to complain about downvotes; usually it will be reversed soon enough if the comment has merit.

Early downvotes can happen through accident or randomness; all it takes is one or two people to misread your comment, or mistakenly tap the down arrow. Or they might have a valid reason for disagreeing and are in the process of writing a comment putting a different point of view.

But getting offended and defensive and editing your comment to complain about it only makes the original comment worse, and leads to an off-topic subthread like this.

Sure, edit the comment if you need to, but try to make it clearer and more informative; that's what I do if I get an early downvote and realise the comment could have been better-worded.
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I have a very contentious address problem and have gotten humans from Amazon every time, I even had one take gps coordinates so they could re-route a truck in transit to the wrong location. Youd have to be almost intentionally messing the support process up to not get a human.
And podcast creators have no obligation to not sell themselves to Spotify...
Yes. Though do keep in mind that having cheap oil is infinitely more convenient than the substitutes we are talking about.

The world won't end if we ran out of (cheap) oil in the next few years. But productivity would take a bit of a hit for at least a while.
Uh huh, that article is from 2017 and also says this:

> Nearly 45 years after NASA astronauts last embarked on a lunar mission, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced his company's plans to send two private citizens on a flight around the moon in 2018.
Ok, but no, this was incompetence. The application he managed had around 10k users that used it a couple of times per year.
Right! Title fixed :)
Unfortunately I've seen people blankly assume that because I asked (any) question, I don't understand (anything about) the topic.
How can a few companies own something that can be produced at near zero cost and distributed at low cost as well?
I think that Substack has experienced pretty widespread adoption within the crowd who hangs out on this site.

At least that's what my Twitter feed would have me believe.
They do keep latest kernel PPAs for those who want to experiment. https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.5/
From what I gather, the difference is that it happens for n-dimensional spheres regardless of the radius, while as you say for n-dimensional cubes only for those with sides less than one. But I'm no expert so.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifsroot.txt
Yes.

And the elephant in the room is differing tax treatments for returns on equity vs returns on fixed income. Most jurisdiction allow you to pay interest with pre-tax income but profits are taxed and then used to pay dividends or buy back stock.

(Which is pretty silly and self-contradicting, if you combine it with regulation _against_ leverage. Government, please make up your mind which capital structure if any you want to prefer.)
any reason for choosing ubuntu over arch for personal computers? Or any rolling release distro for that matter
Price is comparison will be variable. If you're chasing the highest specs and framerates, you're spending more than streaming would cost. As for artifacts, I played most of Assassin's Creed Odyssey at the highest specs through Shadow and noticed barely any difference between the gaming rig I have, running it at the same settings. And I still owned the game, it was installed from my Steam library. Not owning is a legitimate concern with something like Stadia, but not most other services. Ads in Streams? Again, maybe for Stadia if they release a free version, but for most services where you're basically buying a friendly front end to something like EC2 and running from your own library of games, no- Ads are not an issue. You're already paying for the commodity computing, and Amazon or whoever will no more insert ads to game streams than they would an RFP session.
> Work by mobile phone

This one has the potential to help people in impoverished countries make a living wage. Would be really great if a company made this happen.
I've been both. I feel like both of these are a miss.

The goal is product-market fit. Hustlers get market fit, hackers get product fit.

You should have market fit before you build the product. You need to make the calls here, but it's not brute force. Every rejection, gather some data and get it closer to what people want.

Once you figure it out, build the product. No point spending 3 months on a prototype that nobody wants to buy.

It's iterative, hustlers gather data, hackers build it, hustler gathers more data by demo-ing it.
As far as I know that page is many years old, from when clang was very new and comparing to e.g. Elsa made sense. The gcc comparison is probably pretty out of date.
If Dell went all in on AMD, could they produce enough chips to satisfy demand?
Even better: don't spend any subsidy dollars at all. Use a carbon tax to turn climate policy into a money spinner instead of a money sink, and let the market figure out how to generate power.

(In political practice, it seems easier to throw around subsidy dollars, alas.)
Most of our REST endpoints can generate HTML, JSON and some of them text/csv. It's been working really well for us since 2016.
I thought it did and recall the login required a FB account.
I don't particularly like the name defer. It seems to operate similarly to Boost ScopeExit but the name does not imply that.
Exactly, the main issue is the liquid oxygen on board - withou either active cooling or very clever isolation, there will not be any left after a while, as it will evaporate.

The soviets did experiments with a blok d upper stage that was also kerosene/LOX and were able to push it to a couple days, maybe up to a single week.

So really multiple weeks are not doable due to LOX alone withou turning your already mass limitted upper stage to an advanced orbital propelant depot.

Also longer term you will start hitting also other issues, such as battery power (might need to add solar panels), stuff getting too cold/hot, long term exposure of electronics to cosmic radiation, lack of ulage fuel, etc.
Does Intel work without testing?
FWIW I don't know anything about the author, other than having scanned a couple of articles from time to time (I don't recall anything I couldn't glean from reading this article), and it read fine (and was interesting to boot).
One method allows for you to determine which compromises are acceptable, while the other does not.
Wrong point about Arch though. You can get a lot of shit done with Arch since it has the AUR and is not forcing you to reinstall anything from scratch from an old distro and kernel combo every 2 years.
Spotify isn’t doing anything to podcasts. An audio program that doesn’t publish an RSS feed that I can subscribe to in my podcast player of choice isn’t a podcast. It’s also not something I’m going to waste my time listening to.

As far as Apple, Apple’s podcast directory and app are the very definition of “open”. Apple just indexes publicly available submitted RSS feeds. When you subscribe from Apple’s podcast app, the app itself polls the publishers RSS feed and plays directly from the publisher’s servers.

You can also subscribe to a podcast directly from the app using the url to the podcast - it doesn’t have to be in Apple’s directory.

Apple even offers a public API of the podcast directory that can be used by anyone on any platform.
Yup, and at $150, I might just buy multiple. I want one to tinker with, and if it works well, I might ditch my current phone and get one for my kids as an emergency phone. I might give them a gifts.

At $800, I might buy one, but it has to be really good.
I have one question for you guys. If my company is focused on Spark and Vertica, and I want to learn data modelling on top of those, does Kimball still make sense? The article says yes in general but I'd like to know your opinions.

Currently the BI team doesn't do much dimensional modelling as far as I see. Every thing is taken from Kafka and dumped into some wide tables with all columns that we the analysts need. Actually there is no data modelling at all.
This is new to me, and I watched through the video, and in usual fashion, any use case that he and his group thinks are not common, are just hand-waved away "that's not common" "You shouldn't do it that way" "If you want to use this, don't do that".

Yet, all the things he mentioned, like, remotely accessing a locked laptop via ssh, or maintaining a external user database for a cluster of machines in LDAP, are things I do on a regular basis.

He also mentioned something about requiring a privileged daemon to change your ssh keys? Is there any more information about that?

Given the gravity of systemd, and all it's ancillary services, how long till this is the one true way? How does this work in the case of true remotely accessible multi-user systems?
Correct! More or less.
Mine uses alias rather than a function.

alias \*='set noglob; echo \*'

Works because alias expansion is done before globbing.
https://www.history.com/news/moon-landing-technology-inventi...

Stuff like

> Finally, the parachutes were folded and packed by hand. During the Apollo missions in the 1960s and early 1970s, only three people in the country were trained, and then licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration, to fold Apollo parachutes—Norma Cretal, Buzz Corey and Jimmy Calunga —and they handled all 11 Apollo missions. Their skills were considered so essential that NASA forbade them from ever riding in the same car together. The agency couldn’t afford to chance that all three would be injured in a single accident.

I also doubt that the seamstresses techniques to sew those parachutes are something easily written down
With cooperative multitasking (coroutines) you can get by with saving less CPU state. I do this for my C coroutines package [1] for x86 and x86-64 by only saving the registers required by the calling convention.

[1] https://github.com/spc476/C-Coroutines
Please, leave Mars’s surface alone! We’re merely starting to explore it and we don’t understand it. Don’t ruin it before we have a chance to.
This seems a very nostalgic take.

So long as websites pretend they are documents, they will remain bloated poorly performing synchronous applications.

Accept that websites are distributed applications and deliver great experiences.
This article is also from 2014. I wonder if the return process is smoother now.
That’s the wrong thing. It’s not “will this computer still be running” it’s “does the life of this format work over the time people will use it”. If in 2000 we had 512bit and flying cars, Unix epoch still could be the standard.

The first epoch seconds computers aren’t running things anymore. But, it lives on as a standard.

So the issue isn’t “was it a good idea to count seconds starting at 1970”, but rather “why the hell would anyone use signed for a value that can only be positive? ... and then keep doing it once they realized the problem!?”

2105 or 2106 wont be an issue for unsigned. No one will use a 32bit standard much longer let alone in the 30 years leading up to the problem date.
Yeah, I didn't want to build so I sprang for an Intel Nuc Hades Canyon, and it was a significant, massive upgrade from my 3yr old gaming rig. And it streams through Hamachi like a champ.
From a favourite Reddit thread:

- Why in the hell would a date value-- particularly one that's an offset-- be signed?

- - How were you planning on indicating dates prior to 1970-01-01?

- - - What date before 1970? We just all assume those do not exist.

- - - - "Now you've made me feel old." "How old are you?" "Let me put it this way: when I was born, time didn't exist."

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2b4kpg/conspir...

The full context is ... kind of fun:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2b4kpg/conspir...
I mean, if human culture didn't scale because there were more bad actors than good, we wouldn't have ever developed any technology, because stone age assholes would have smashed it. The issue is when bad stuff is easy and rewarding, and good stuff is hard because of systemic reasons. Like robocalls, or campaign finance reform.

So the fact that those changes are occasional and caused by individual humans, and you can, I believe, revert them more easily than they can make the changes, is a good sign. With enough eyes all bugs are shallow.
Can somebody explain what the benefit of sending men to the moon is?

I mean science or engineering. I don't mean PR or funding visibility - you can get that by sponsoring a NASCAR ride.

Both the Space Shuttle and ISS have been huge money sinks with no benefit. How will another moon visit be any different?
IIRC Spotify tried to buy Marco Arment's podcasting app.

Edit: It's called Overcast.

Edit 2: I think I read that on Twitter... but I can't find the tweet anymore.
I used Soundcloud on a daily basis, and I really like the discovery and constant new music available there. A lot of the artists I follow keep moving to Spotify, or releasing there first, and I've tried re-setting up on Spotify, but it's been very frustrating so far.
> Such people will have this greatly exaggerated bias against you, as if you have placed this enormous unwanted burden on their shoulders

Maybe what's really going is that you made them conscious of having an enormous unwanted burden on their shoulders. And every time yet another compromise is forced on them, the weight increases. And you had the strength to shrug it off.
My main issue with Spotify is there is no zombie apocalypse backup.

What I mean is, if the zombie apocalypse happened, and you were lucky enough to have solar power to keep your devices going, it wouldn't matter because you would loose access to your favorite songs.

There are a lot of folks who's only music source is Spotify.

I just hope for their sake, there is never a zombie apocalypse ;)
This "steadfast denial that we live in a society" thing is getting pretty old.
Actually, its not hard to make RTG that survives reentry, multi RTGs did just that, one of them even being relaubchen after they recovered it.

Also since some rather missinformed protests back in IIRC cassini times I don't thin anyone really cares about modern RTGs being launched these days.
Dont use it then
I cite xiph.org/monty's videos to people all the time, just to be clear (I write a DAW for a living).

If you check out infinitewave.ca you will see that actually there are still lots of resampling implementations with notable artifacts, certainly when subject to measurement.

Can you hear them? Depends on the nature of the artifacts. I'd agree that in general, the answer is no.

Nevertheless, it is still wrong in my opinion for these mics to be spreading (or even being made) without it being clear what they imply for the user. You might not hear the effect, and you might not care, but you should understand clearly what using these devices require from whatever software stack you're using.
You can walk and inspect the stack using sys._getframe() forever or the more friendly stack function in the inspect module.

* https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys._getframe

* https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#the-interpret...
Disclaimer: work for Esri.

ArcGIS Pro has had a GPU accelerated 3D mode for a long time now. Panning, zooming, mouselook, flythrough, etc are 30fps+ on commodity hardware.
There are already big suitable underground spaces in the form of lunar lava tubes. Those should help massively with bootstrapping of any undrground lunar colony.
What is the word ‘corporate’ adding to this?

The guardian’s propaganda is weirdly leftist for corporate propaganda.
How does she handle dealing with the childrens stories?
Another question.. what exactly are IT consultant's job description?
I don't get the theory why?

So the Granola company buys boxes, puts in the product, sends it back to Amazon, then Amazon accidentally puts it into the boxes pile?

Except wouldn't it be a boxes of boxes pile?

Is the Granola company recycling the outer box?
I would bet they were more confident someone would want to represent data from the recent past than that someone would still be using their research lab OS in 60 years.
Nuc makes a model called a Hades Canyon that is an awesome gaming rig for its form factir. 4k at mid-range settings, 1080p at anything you can throw at it. (And I'll be honest... Maybe I'm getting old, but from 2 feet away I can't tell the differece between 1080 and 4k.)
Fair. I don't install Arch to get stuff done, I decided to stick with debian derivatives and xfce for that, but not everyone is the same.
Google intentional living or intentional community.
$4.8T Budget with Big Safety-Net Cuts