skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recognizing reality need not be political, but refusing to recognize reality for political reasons definitely is.

Getting China offside means 1 in 5 people on Earth would no longer get WHO advice and state media would undermine them at every turn.

Getting Taiwan on side means appeasing political activists in the West and having little if any measurable positive health outcomes, the Taiwanese are used to this state of affairs and have more than competent doctors and lawmakers, they are one of the smartest countries on Earth.

Despite the closeness and affection between my own country and them, when their foreign minister visits they don't go near parliament or meet elected officials in public, they go to trade shows and meet with industry.

As much as it might pain some to accept, compromises are the best outcome for all here, the WHO is being realistic about the position they are in. Hopefully more sideline commentators can be too.
Original article/warning from Threatpost: https://threatpost.com/salt-bugs-full-rce-root-cloud-servers...
Ah! I've been saying we should do this for years now. Everyone in the cloud space is reinventing the wheel when what we need is a cloud OS that abstracts away multiple computers. I can see a bright future for a project like this.
I disagree. I think you have to accept the consequences of destructive behavior. If someone was talking like this at my office, I'd expect them to be fired. Same as if they were outwardly racist or sexist. It's detrimental to other people's well-being.
So cripple American companies, making it impossible to compete with countries that don't have the same restriction?

The only issue with the fines in this country is that they are too low to actually affect behavior. There is definitely a number that would be effective.
Hmmmm, is this why Austin has had continuous surge in population (from immigration, anecedotly mostly from California) for past several years?

btw Austin is horrible, don't move here. ;)
David Icke rose to fame long before the Internet.

Mormons.

Scientologists.

The benefits of smoking tobacco.
The danger of smoking marijuana. (And vice versa, depending on decade.)

The aberrancy/normalcy of homosexuality (take your pick... depends on the decade.)

The vast conspiracy theory that is the Red Mensce. The vast conspiracy that is evil capitalism. (Once again, depends on the decade and locale as to which disinformation campaign is at work.)

Etc.

All of these -- and dozens of others -- thrived pre-internet.

Youtube -- like newspapers before it -- is dying. The ability to host, index, and disseminate video content is spreading st breakneck speed. Youtube is at the point that magazines were several years ago: becoming more and more sanctimonious until it will awake to discover nobody is using their content.
The most likely explanation to me is (4) -- but it's because flour (et al) producers are struggling to get their flour into the consumer supply chain. Shipping goods to businesses is quite different to shipping it to consumers -- businesses order in bulk and (to be frank) don't care as much about trivial things like packaging or minor product differentiation. Compare the giant packages of cheese and cured meat at your deli counter to the small individually wrapped packages you get elsewhere.

Costco is the exception here (their entire business model is to buy things wholesale, from the business supply chain). Most grocery stores can't stock 12.5kg bags of flour because they don't have enough space on their shelves, not to mention that in their view most consumers would be put off by a lack of choice (even if it means that products are in stock).
ElementaryOS now have a new email client that uses the Evolution libraries but has a Geary-like interface:

https://github.com/elementary/mail
> For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed.

Ah yes, because people have never had their entire Google account terminated because they posted one too many emojis in a chat...

https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtub...
Couldn't YouTube have adopted Reddit's quarantine concept? (Ignoring for the time-being the inherent tendency of such a concept being used to drive out dissent as happened with Reddit with respect to fringe conservative voices)
I think this may be something that varies to region.

I lived in the UK for 32 years and never sent a fax or even saw a fax machine outside of a museum.

Couple of years ago I moved to Australia. Got a credit card for travel with Bankwest. In order to set up a direct debit to pay it off I had to fax them.

In the end I got them to fax themselves my details.

I'm not sure whether Bankwest is just incompetent, or if they deliberately make this difficult so that more people will miss their payments.
> It is not currently used as the primary means of news by any segment of the population

This is wrong. I'm ~19 in the UK. My entire demographic gets their news from either Google, YouTube, Facebook and word-of-mouth, younger people even more so.
> where's the insecurity?

All of the other security issues aside, how about simply walking over to the unprotected fax machine and leaving with a stack of "private" records?

Not sure you want to die on the hill of defending fax security.
> Yet we never seem to hear...

For reference, do you hear about any internal German politics?
I have a thread, too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22353309

Frankly, I don't think these videos alone are the highest quality evidence of this kind of thing, but they are interesting because it is difficult to dispute the credibility of the witnesses and the timeline of events described by them. Usually you get some tangible evidence (video) or solid witness testimony, not both at the same time.

I've never clearly seen anything with my own two eyes that I couldn't explain in prosaic terms. However, I know groups of people saner than I who have, and science suggests its highly improbable we are the only planet with life [0], let alone the first one to evolve a sophisticated civilization. People come up with Great Filter hypotheses and what not to compensate, but considering we may be less than a century from self sustaining space stations, that hypothesis is running out of air for its only known test trial.

It kind of sucks to think we don't really have manifest destiny with the universe, but the burden of proof is on the skeptics to prove there are some really damning parameters for the Drake Equation before saying it is so unlikely that there are aliens in our neighborhood.

[0] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1350/are-we-alone-in-the-un...
I am likewise amused and completely agree with the idea. Every fax app I have used is either clunky, overpriced, or both. I hadn’t heard of Phaxio until now and am look forward to cURLing my next fax. However, there is some dark part of me that wants to make a clunky bash script for it nonetheless in order to keep me from enjoying sending a fax.
This is such a classic example of the type of argument I see from most anti-systemd proponents that it made me laugh out loud when I clicked your link.

For the lazy, here's the context of that cherry-picked sentence:

> In order not to break screen we currently do not set kill-user=1 or
kill-session=1.

> Note that in some cases it might be a good thing to kill screen sessions when the user otherwise logs out (think university, where students not logged in on a workstation should not be able to waste CPU), in other cases its a bad thing however (i.e. in yours). That means it must be configurable whether screen is considered an independent session or not.
The short story "The road not taken" by Harry Turtledove springs to mind.
I can see that it costs anywhere between $40k to $80k. And the starting price is only for research.
Thats really buggy with Firefox ESR, Mozilla are adding more WebExt APIs to make it work better though so hopefully it will work at some point.
>The digital telephone network is exclusively a switched (not packet-based) network, so you're guaranteed near-zero latency.

Seems like this fact could be exploited more often in internet applications. High bandwidth channel for static assets, low latency channel for e.g. player movement data?
I did the rural move ~3years ago. I'm on the outskirts of Brisbane, about an hour from the CBD. We chose here so we have the option of commuting to a decent size city if needed and it was as close we could afford a reasonable size hobby farm of 40 acres.

It's one on the best decisions our family made. The lifestyle is amazing. Being around nature and animals feels more right than city living. Family time and kids upbringing seems so much better. That said be prepared for it to take over your life. It's time consuming and a bunch of weekend work. If you dont like endless chores or dirty physical labor it could be a bad experience.

For me the balance between a home desk job then an afternoon on the tools/tractor is a perfect blend.
> That 90% number seems really hard to believe

As context, I spent three years driving right around Africa, and before that two years driving from Alaska to Argentina. I've seen my fair share of collapsing infrastructure (Congo... Mali... Sudan, etc.) and what happens in just a few days without electricity.

In less developed countries the impacts are actually much less than they will be in our developed countries, because the people there are used to things failing, and their lives go on regardless. i.e. many people have beasts of burden to carry loads and farm, they have bicycles or walk to get around and they grow their own food.

For us, it won't be so easy.

- Very quickly all the perishables in the stores go bad, and food shortages become very real very fast.

- ATMs don't work - therefore no cash for anyone.

- Gas and diesel are very hard to get out of underground tanks without electricity (yes, you can hand pump it or use a generator... but how many of those are sitting around ready to go?)

- Communications go down - no cell phones, no internet, no radio, no TV. It's extremely hard to get accurate information in that scenario.

- Soon everyone is just focused on survival, so many other basics fall by the wayside. Garbage collection. Sewage, drinking water, medical supplies and much more all stop working.

- In places with low population density and where people have some "homesteading" skills this might not be so bad - they can just shoot a cow once every few weeks or whatever. In downtown LA, NYC and Chicago, it's extremely bad.

In just a few weeks you have mass hysteria, and things go downhill fast. Just look at the scenes in the big box stores when COVID-19 hit of people getting violent and stockpiling toilet paper. Now imagine how desperate everyone would be if the power was out, and in all likelihood will be out for months.
Not the most elegant solution, but the price is right. Anveo.com has plans for about $2/month for their VoIP service. And a web based outbound fax that has worked well for me. No extra charge for the outbound fax.
As another person living in Austin, do you see our current pandemic increasing or decreasing immigration in the next couple years? I have a guess it will actually increase as companies shift to lower cost locations.
I'm not going to shed a tear for David Icke, but this quote is very concerning:

> YouTube has clear policies prohibiting any content that disputes the existence and transmission of Covid-19 as described by the WHO [World Health Organization] and the NHS [the U.K's healthcare system] [emphasis added]

The WHO at least has been flat out wrong several times during this pandemic, such as telling people not to wear masks. Anointing one agency as the sole source of truth and censoring anything that contradicts it is not going to lead to a good outcome. People need to be able to question authorities.
That supposes Earth is special and deserves a particular treatment.

It seems likelier that we are too far from interstellar civilisations to be visited by them, or that there's no interstellar civilisations because of a Great Filter, or even simply that earth is not interesting enough for them to visit. Or worse, they do visit, but the human race is not interesting enough for them to make their presence known to it.
>> right wing conspiracy theorist nutjobs

>This kind of language is not acceptable in this platform.

Correction: Right wing conspiracy theorist nutjobs are not acceptable in this platform.

>David Icke is a citizen of the United States.

He is?

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

>David Vaughan Icke (/ˈdeɪvɪd vɔːn aɪk/; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist, and former footballer and sports broadcaster. He is the author of over 20 books and has lectured in over 25 countries.

Where and when did you hear that David Icke became a US citizen? Citations, please.

Are you a citizen of the US? I ask, because you obviously don't understand what the First Amendment actually says.
I feel like they've had an incestuous relationship as long as we've had both.

It is a bit goofy to call out a amplifier without even a SPI or I2C bus for config though as compatible. I'm not sure how Vista would know the difference between this and a tube amp.
This is a valid point, but as a matter of pragmatism, these platforms are going to have to police information there's no way around it.

It looks specious right now ... but in reality, they and everyone else have been doing it from the start.

It's really easy to garner attention, and even easier to buy it.

Foreign agents, like governments, can use this as a tool to nudge populations, and in many cases, that's all that's needed to change outcomes, particularly in things like elections.

As just one example.

I do however believe that platforms of sufficient scale also become a platform of public, like 'papers of record' have a special status, maybe some sites should as well.

What we need for the 'big platforms' is some kind of smart, modern regulation that maximizes freedom of expression, maybe flags the rubbish as rubbish and very rarely moves stuff off-platform.
I think the censorship is for political reasons rather than for misinformation. David Icke has been spreading misinformation for years (e.g. lizard people) but that isn't political. COVID-19 is.
That's a slippery and dangerous road to say whats propaganda and whats right speech, and saying propaganda isn't allowed is like saying you can't have the government give announcements either.
That thread also mentions the solution that will work: https://askubuntu.com/a/904125

I.e.,

systemd-run --scope --user screen
Thoughts on side projects while working at a big company?
It's common for big companies to add in your initial contract that anything you work on is the IP of the company you are joining. Any advice, stories or thoughts on this being an issue with side projects while at a big company?
What a strange comment.

Is David Icke a right winger? A nut and probably an anti-Semite ya, I would agree with that.

Would it be ok then for left wing nuts to get the boot also? Or only certain political leanings get booted with the cheering section saying "good"!
> Some people, after being exposed to misinformation, chose to believe them.

Some people, after being given the opportunity to gamble, choose to place a bet, even when it has a negative expected value. Should Nevada ban blackjack?

Some people, after being given the opportunity to buy insurance, choose to buy insurance, even when it has a negative expected value. Should we ban insurance? If not, what about credit default swaps?

The reason central planning doesn't work is that everything is much too complicated for a central planner to be able to make good decisions about everything. People who are close to a thing know it better than people who are far away, so the decision is best left to the individual. It's their life, they're the one with the best incentive to get it right.

> Do you have evidence that the truth more often than not win over lies?

Let us take this question to its logical conclusion and apply it to the censors. If the censors can't tell the truth from the lie then they may end up censoring the truth instead -- oops. But how are they any more qualified to decide this than anybody else?

This is doubly true when you're talking about a platform. As if YouTube has "medical expertise" in its bailiwick.

> It is possible that platforms, being designed the way they are to maximize corporations' interest naturally lead to unintended consequences.

That is absolutely possible. But maybe then the answer is to design them differently rather than keeping the bad design while throwing hatchets at random civilians because somebody who themselves has no unique competence thinks they might be wrong about something.
Increasing number of SV companies are getting comfy with remote working due to the pandemic. That’s likely to contribute to the exodus from CA as well.
> I believe in shining a light on them

I hear this a lot. Light is the best disinfectant. What evidence do you have for this? I've never seen a bad or immoral or harmful idea die out when more people learn about it and scrutinize it. However, I have repeatedly seen the opposite: Sharing bad ideas increases their audience, increases ignorance, hate, fear, and human suffering. You're looking at an article describing this phenomena right now.

More importantly, I've also seen the opposite: Private platforms actively suppressing people trying to harm humanity does work. Deplatforming these people and, importantly, showing social pressure that these are bad ideas and shouldn't even be entertained as valid debate, has shown to work repeatedly. In fact, social pressure is one of the most effective tools against hate and ignorance like this.

I don't think you're basing your "shine the light" argument in evidence, which I suspect is ironic because I suspect you believe you're objective and use evidence to judge things.
I got a MSc in Computer Science from Bristol University (UK), having previously done a BA in History.

It's deliberately set up as a conversion course. You study an extra semester and there's a lot of work.
> Everyone is buying a mega bag thinking that they will now suddenly do a lot of baking

I normally go through a 5kg bag of flour every month or two, just baking some breads and cakes occasionally. So far, I've gone through almost 20kg of flour in 6 weeks. And I know many others who are baking much more than usual

That said, mine is mostly a couple loaves of bread every 3 days substituting a couple bread products from the grocery store every 2 or 3 days. So not causing extra demand for the ingredient, just a different format (i get my flour by the 5 to 10kg bag, the grocery store that normally does my baking likely gets theirs in ...slightly larger volumes)
There was a comment about Paypal migrating some jobs over there. Don't know about their veracity.

Funny as I'm moving back to Round Rock, but as a remote worker. Housing is about to get more expensive I gather. :(
People are being gatekeepers here. I have a MechE background too and I liked software and taught myself it and work at a FAANG now. Ignore the haters, study and if you can clear the interview no one cares about your degree.
A system like Ansible, in particular, doesn't install anything resident on the servers it manages, nor manages state which could be exploited on a management machine. And in one sense, it's like writing a shell script and running it on the server via SSH. Manual provisioning scales well enough for a single server but is much less secure when you scale past one server, or need to be able to rebuild that server in a hurry, like when your cloud provider inevitably deletes it.
Ask HN: Learning Software Development Remotely?
I've been in an analyst role for several years that has given me a taste of software development. The company takes on contract work so the work changes often. I get asked to do one off tasks like PowerShell or BASH scripts. I'll handle a lot of database tasks as well. Developers say I'm really good with SQL queries and its making we want to look into software development.

I've asked for some recommended learning resources but they didn't have any up to date answers. Everyone has told me to stay away from bootcamps though. I'm furloughed as of this week, but I'm allowed to expense some of my learning budget. Does anyone have any modestly priced video courses like Lynda/PluralSight that they can recommend? I also wouldn't mind spending some of my own money on a remote bootcamp if that was the best way to go.
Not necessarily true:

> Provincial laws, other than in Quebec and Ontario, regulate only the use of term professional engineer and not any title with the word engineer; in Quebec and Ontario, the term engineer is protected by both the Engineers Act and by Section 32 of the Professional Code.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_...
Not a convincing argument. The average newspaper is all clickbait drivel.
"presupposes a lot of things about society that are, in my observation, no longer true."

If you're thinking that 'society used to be able to tell what was a lie from the truth' I'm sorry to say but that was never close to being true.

Newspapers were a pretty strong filter of information and therefore could have some kind of 'rough' credibility, biases notwithstanding obviously.

But with 'every Instagram a source of news' ... we have an existential truthiness problem that we're only beginning to learn to deal with.
Honestly; I'm not sure; I'm a working computer scientist, not a working mathematician, and I use a proof assistant (Coq) all the time to have confidence that the proofs I write are correct (and more and more this is a requirement for publication in CS conferences). I want HoTT to succeed because it would turn some the axioms I must assume in the current Coq proof assistant into theorems, with significant implications for 'proof engineering' at scale (eg, verifying an OS kernel or compiler or database). When I read the math over flow post my emotional response is gladness that I can't accidentally conflate a topological space with an infinity groupoid. Many of the HoTT researchers are mathematicians (including the late Vladimir Voevodsky); presumably, the HoTT book (which I understand is available online) can give you a better answer than I can from the perspective of a working mathematician.
> Does David Icke have a following that isn't just laughing along with it?

I thought the same thing about flat earth a while ago.
The salaries for NYC and San Francisco seem way too low. Only using base salaries significantly deflates compensation.
Nice. Basically, the caller uses self-modifying code to set up the correct continuation ("self-modifying code" and "continuation" being somewhat closely-related concepts, after all), and then has the callee jump to it. Makes a lot of sense.
Safrr Arkstorm or Tsunami are also pretty cheap to take care of. But that's life.
What if the person was in the street? Should they be removed?
Experiences with Hasura After Four Months in Production
Well, camera phones, even really good ones, suck for filming anything more than 50+ yards away. Try to film a Jet with it that is clearly visible to your eye.

Secondly, meteors aren't rare. Go anywhere with a clear sky and you can see shooting stars many times pretty much every night of the week.

Thirdly, there are plenty of pictures and videos of flying saucers, balls, lights, etc. out there, but everyone's response is "that's fake". I mean, that's the correct response, but your argument is wrong in light of that.