skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This amazing bit from the wikipedia article about the fly:

"The first, and to-date largest, documented infestation of C. hominivorax myiasis outside of the Americas occurred in North Africa from 1989 to 1991. The outbreak was traced to a herd of sheep in Libya's Tripoli region, which began suffering screwworm attacks in July 1989; over the following months, the myiasis spread rapidly, infecting numerous herds across a 25,000 km2 area. Eventually, the infested region spanned from the Mediterranean coast to the Sahara Desert, threatening the more than 2.7 million animals susceptible to C. hominvorax that inhabited the area. More than 14,000 cases of large-scale myiasis due to the C. hominivorax species were documented. Traditional control methods using veterinary assessment and treatment of individual animals were insufficient to contain the widely dispersed outbreak, so the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization launched a program based on the sterile insect technique.[10] About 1.26 billion sterile flies were produced in Mexico, shipped to the infested area, and released to mate with their wild counterparts. Within months, the C. hominvorax population collapsed; by April 1991, the program had succeeded in eradicating C. hominivorax in the Eastern Hemisphere. This effort, which cost under US$100 million, was among the most efficient and successful international animal health programs in UN history."

Incredible!

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia
I assume you believe it to be left orchestrated. My guess? The overwhelming majority of young people (and people overall, though not by nearly the same margin) are left leaning or very left. It's probably just a demographics thing.
Note the article is about a different and older definition of hacker than you seem to be using.

From the ESR article linked:
“The basic difference is this: hackers build things, crackers break them.”
The best approach would to extract the package out into a separate repository and using that as a regular package in your monorepo. This would solve all your problems
Twitter has been profitable or neutral for over a year now. It's a public company, you can Google their finances.
I tell all my younger friends to go to varsity and to take as many theory heavy courses as possible.

Obviously, YMMV, but I find absorbing any theory-heavy knowledge alongside my day job extremely hard, whereas I can very easily more practical skills as a I work.
False argument. News organisations exercise editorial, budgetary and managerial control over the reporters they hire to investigate and write the news they report. There is a tradition/expectation (sadly in very poor condition in these times, better/worse for some media organisations) of fact-checking before publication, with editor oversight of that investigative process.

This is not, and can not be the case for social-media platforms.

Drawing any equivalency between the two is simply bogus.
Zynga to buy Peak Games for $1.8B
Democrats in Congress specifically grilled social network execs in the wake of the perceived “fake news” crisis in 2016 and pushed the social networks to adopt these fact-checking measures. Now the White House wants to strip their immunity for it. So, which is it? Rock and hard place?
To be fair, that doesn't appear to be a quote and the last few words of the sentence you quoted is important:

> ... offering a comparable energy capacity and cycling ability to some lithium-ion batteries already on the market.

Having said that, it seems they do claim in the paper that the performance of their "battery" (really, they only tested a single cathode composition) is "competitive to the commercial LiFePO4-graphite" base on extrapolation of their lab results "to practical large format cells".

I feel funny about that sort of extrapolation in an engineering context, but I'm not an electrochemist and also not a chemical engineer, and I have only skimmed through the abstract, introductions, and conclusions of the paper; so take this comment with a grain of salt.

Edit: typo. Also, I'm not out to trash the work in case my comment comes across as being harsh—marketing aside (which is, sadly, pretty common in high-impact journals), it does seem like a step forward.
> But then again, the practices you mention in your last paragraph have literally nothing to do with the subject of this article

That's the point of my comment. The article asks if Facebook has become unsafe because of hackers. I was arguing that Facebook has been unsafe for a long time because of Facebook, rendering the article somewhat beside the point.

Asking if Facebook is unsafe because of hackers is like asking if a vial of arsenic might be contaminated with cyanide. Yes, it may be contaminated, but it was already guaranteed to kill you.
I was commenting to the argument that college teaches nothing useful.

Law and medicine are the poster child for credentialism, you are forced by law to complete the degree to work, even if most law and medical professionals will tell you, work has nothing to do with college.

They suffer the “driving license problem”, having the title says nothing about your competence.

For instance, pretty much everyone has to study trigonometry, but very little people actually need to know trigonometry to do their job. In that sense technical fields are an outlier, because knowing trigonometry actually matters to your career.
I mostly agree. And it's certainly way overblown in the context of self-driving.

On the other hand, we can imagine at some point, there may be some broad principles that engineers will have to consider when programming responses to an impending accident. Perhaps slamming on the brakes is essentially always the optimum solution from the point of driver safety if several people unexpectedly appear in front of the car even though braking will be insufficient to avoid hitting them albeit at a reduced speed. On the other hand, there's an unquantifiable but known risk (to the driver) to swerving in order to avoid the otherwise certain collision.

That a human would pick one or the other approach in a split second without really having time to think about it doesn't really inform what the programmed response of a vehicle that does have time to deliberately pick from several options should be.

Added: It is, of course, pretty much an academic exercise today in that cars can't reliably even be prevented from running into highway dividers. But, in a few decades or whenever, one can imagine being at a point where the technology is good enough that some framework is needed for making rules. Maximizing driver safety at all costs vs. trying to do the least harm overall may well not result in the same rules being programmed.
I honestly think it's well behind some of the most popular mainstream languages in that combination, and that that's why we haven't seen a proliferation of Haskell even at companies where it is already actively used for some years alongside other languages.
Dude it was a joke. Read the thread: I didn't bring him up in the first place. You might find the world more agreeable if you were less intent on your impressions of other people's "personal issues". If you think I'm in a "hate cult" you have no idea what is going on.
If you do rotation then translation, you're either going to waste fuel or time. Just aim for the target and get within 20 meters before doing any of that, and the amount of translation you'll have to do is minimal. It's like traveling on the hypotenuse instead of the other two sides of a right triangle.
I feel like it's really easy for these sites to have their cake and eat it too. Anything the company writes is considered publishing and anything someone not affiliated with the company says falls under platform.

If a forum's owner/admin participates in the forum, does that mean it's no longer a platform?
Chrome 81.0, Android.
An outlier in terms of the people who go to college
I think this very much depends on where you're going. I did not have a stellar GPA in school, but I did take the most challenging courses available to me and it's paid dividends for years. I still work on projects where my college exposure allows me to have a deeper understanding. Working with customers operating at scale, my (in retrospect, amazing) exposure to HPC and distributed computing has been so valuable.

But these were the most challenging courses at a top 5 CS school, with some of the brightest researchers alive teaching course material. At another school that calculus is probably closer to what you're saying.
some comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914610
Is that your final answer?
SOLID was a set of principles for OO design introduced in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID

In 1983, a database was named SolidDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolidDB

etc. etc.
I'll let Dan Walsh explain it https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/rootless-podman-nfs

In short, you don't remap when running as root in the container, thus no uid/gid remapping.
The problem is more in the huge number of renders react does if you don’t do everything perfectly. In a large application it gets steadily slower.
> any moderation makes them liable as a publisher

Quite a lot of moderation is required either by law or other forms of liability. And then you have the international jurisdiction question: if a social media platform removes posts to comply with French or German anti-Nazi law, or UK defamation law, does that make them liable under s230?
Mate, I don't know what's up with the "If this is true" and "Unless you are lying". What possible incentive could I have for making up such a thing?

> you absolutely have a civic duty to report

Real-life is just a tad more complicated than that.

As much as I abhor what they've said, they are family, and I'd liklely be ostracised by other close family members. In any case, effectively the evidence is my word against theirs from something they said a few years ago. Something they could simply claim didn't happen, or that they were just kidding around. If I was going to report it, the time to do so would have been then. Should I have done so? I battled with decision at that at the time, but ultimately didn't for the reasons I already mentioned.

As I said, it's complicated.
This would be almost impossible as the cost is pretty high to get into this vertical.
That's assuming the author can be trusted. The link is not pinned to a specific commit so their is no way to know if the code is updated later without auditing it every time the tool is used.
That’s a fair point. I guess my point is that even with direction, if I’m not surrounded by a great team, I’m probably not going to be enjoying my job. Both of these things for me are more important than the specific problem I’m solving or whatever tech I’m using to solve it.
It seems like 90% of the comments here didn't read the article and think it has to do with section 230, which Twitter is also in the news for right now.

Regardless of how you feel about their moderation policies, if you care about free speech you should at least be on their side with this one. Requesting social media handles from visa applicants does chill speech. As a visa holder, I've thought long and hard over whether I should post political comments or photos from protests on social media. If you truly care about free speech, be consistent and care about that too.
The only reason PHP edged out Perl is that one could mix-match HTML and PHP in the same page. Which is ironic when professional PHP tries so hard today to look like JEE.
>I doubt that this ruling is going to kill small internet communities. They generally have people of similar interests are more closely knit, so there is less spam or mindless conflicts.

Let's say you like kittens and are in a kitten forum. I'm an unscrupulous lawyer looking for a pay day. I go to your forum specifically to troll and say kittens should be eaten as snacks. You ban me. I file a lawsuit against you.

It's not the members that you have to worry about, it's third parties with an ax to grind against the whole community or financial gains for doing so.
I have a hard time imagining how a host can let multiple customers exercise their freedom to modify the shared host software, each customer thereby wrecking the service for the other customers, or at least destroying the service level guarantees that presumably are being paid for.

With regard to the individual software each customer uses, often small/niche hosts do allow each customer to inspect and modify the software. That's kind of the point of cloud VM hosting, that you "have root" and can even modify your kernel if you wish.
Surprising not to see a PGP public key here for secure submissions... unless that’s no longer advised?
Not to mention that reddit basically pushed the_donald to its own website by removing all the mods and only allowing new ones they help handpick. Which has been zero to the best of my knowledge.

I’m actually surprised with how good the software powering theDonald dot win has become. I stalk them to see what kind of bananas they are throwing around and it’s a more pleasant experience than reddit is these days.
If "browser history" is already off your radar when responding to a claim like this, you're beyond saving.

What is it with this absurd need to defend how poorly your country is doing by essentially saying "hey at least we're not North Korea!"?

Get your head out of the clouds here: Your country elected an atrocious president, who, with both some poor timing and some atrociously bad decision-making got handed a platter of crises that are completely beyond the capabilities of his administration.

Now, as a direct result, your country is more divided than it has ever been in recent history. People are rioting while a pandemic is happening. Civilians are being shot, journalists are being arrested, and you're here, pretending everything is fine because you're not literally starving in a prison right now.

Like, what? You want to wait&see even longer until this fully develops or you want to start fixing?

Let that sink in: The people who say "it could be worse" are part of the problem.
And my point is that's basically impossible to "set them appropriately", and one shouldn't throw around strong words such as "idiots or impotents" for those failing to do so. Did the board fail in its mission? Obviously. But do only the idiots fail?
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Lethal violence is rarer, because UK police tend not to carry guns and are trained in de-escalation and to only use guns as a last resort.

It does happen though, and it disproportionately happens to black people. https://twitter.com/korrinesky/status/1267085008210210816?s=...

Moving away from law enforcement to mental health treatment we see black people are more likely to be detained under the mental health act, spend longer in detention, are more likely to be on CTOs, are more likely to be on forensic sections. In hospital they're more likely to be subjected to seclusion, restraint, and rapid tranquillisation.
I came here to say this. Mods on most major subreddits exercise their own politics and force their views on everyone.
What makes matters even worse is that there is a very narrow group of users being mods on the most influential subs.

These are perfect conditions for creating world view bubbles and what always baffled me is that reddit admins don't seem to care.

It looks like Reddit wants their platform to be like this.
I think I see where you're coming from, at some point it becomes a question of semantics.

> the Affero GPL only differs in that I would have to give you source code (edit: previously typed "software") if I supply a binary for you to use over a network

That doesn't sound right. You don't have to distribute a binary for the Affero GPL to require you to release your source. From the FSF:

> The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html
Today I Learned: How to Enable SSH with Keypair Login on Windows Server 2019
In your link to t=6085, I can't make out what the Russian voice is saying until he's counting. Can someone transcribe?
That doesn't mean they will let it go when some rando foreigner dares criticize their beloved country.

It is their sole privilege.
Ask HN: Alternative to VS Code with vi Bindings
I've recently found VS Code very slow - hangs for about 10 seconds - when using the vi bindings on OS X. I'm not sure if this is VS Code itself, vi plugin or some OS X hiccup.

I'm tempted to use vim again. But there are various niceties in VS Code which are hard to achieve in vim without a day or two of vim plugin sumo and another day learning the keyboard shortcuts.

What are people using apart from VS Code? I may try sublime text again.
Show HN: Airsupport – Customer Support SaaS
Nuclear Fuel Patent in Eurasia
Sounds like he doesn't trust his NTP provider and doesn't want his IP address being sent to the NTP provider, because he wasnt to pretend his IP address is not online.

But he does trust cloudflare for his DNS requests.

Cloudflare run NTP, so just use their server.

The only threat I can see is if someone intercepts his NTP traffic, but they could intercept the DNS traffic too and see his SYNs (and indeed pass them on with you not even noticing)

His concern seems to be more about the IP leaking rather than the NTP result being incorrect, however in the latter case then yes, NTP isn't signed, so it's possible for someone to skew your clock by a few seconds if they were to intercept your traffic to all your NTP servers.
> perhaps that planning would have cost some extra time and money that would have been 'wasted', if the pandemic hadn't happened.

Same with insurance, which is why there are many cases where insurance is a requirement (usually cases where people dismiss the risk).
Google Tez/Pay designed a payment for users on old and new mobile devices
I went to university. I did not receive any job training at university. It is not design for job training and I did not expect to receive job training.

I am not a job. I am not a career.

I learned two important things at university that I doubt I could have picked up otherwise.

1. I learned how broad knowledge is. I learned about things I did not even know I did not know about. Some of these things I learned in classrooms. Most I learned outside of classrooms, either through interaction with my peers or by accident while researching something unrelated in the library. Sometimes by hacking on the school computers. In high school I learned that being smart is bad. In university I learned there are people who value thinking.

2. I learned how to organize my time to complete tasks I had no personal interest in, how to force myself to work despite my dislike of team mates or organizers, and to finish by deadlines. I only wish I had learned these things before my 6th and 7th years in university, but alas.

You don't need to go to university. We will always need garbage collectors and street sweepers, and remember, anyone can write bad software. Vendors continue to try to make it easier to do so.
> The company also found that Dollar Thrifty had let the tires on its cars get thinner than Hertz allowed, and many had to be replaced at a cost of $30 million

I always wonder if its worth going cheaper or more expensive when renting cars. Stuff like this is interesting, I wonder how many other corners are cut at the cheaper places.
I inherently believe that this is a U.S.-centric thing as a few commenters mentioned. Specifically a degree in the U.S. is held as a way to advance your career prospects first and it's value is often marketed as a trade off of get X dollars in debt but make Y dollars more in your career on average. So a lot of that attitude becomes I am taking this class to check boxes to get a piece of paper which says I'm worth more in the job market. I am a graduate student but understand the jadedness, especially because I had to retake virtually the same class multiple times because it wasn't "as rigorous" for this specific major as I changed majors a few times (and had to get one of those approved for a different major). But because a lot of people see it as a way for getting a better monetary outcome college in the U.S. is often treated more like a vocational school I feel so the extra "B.S." one has to go through feels like a particular waste of resources.

I enjoyed college but, I very quickly understood that its only purpose wasn't to enhance my education as I sat through multiple classes that were nearly identical to previous all because I had to check a box. And generally I felt classes moved to slow and would have been much happier studying on my own, but courses often forced my attendance. Though I am a bit unique in my ability on that admittedly.
Learn a New Word Whenever You Open Your Terminal
My friends and I became obsessed with Blender when I was around 13 or 14. This was around 10 years ago and the interface was definitely idiosyncratic back then, but we didn't find any difficulties learning it, and we were able to make some amazing things. Blender made up a lot of my GCSE* in art and gave me some great times working on Blender projects with my friends on Google Hangouts way past our bedtimes.

I'd fully recommend it to your nephew.

*a qualification taken at 16 in the UK
> many people pronounce giga as "jigga".

Do they? I do, because it is the correct pronunciation (the hard G only became prevalent after hard drives grew to GB sizes and Americans unfamiliar with the French system of units mispronounced the prefix), but I am literally the only one I have ever heard use it in person, and the only other instance I have heard it pronounced correctly is by Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown in Back to the Future.

Why do I persist when everyone around me pronounces it incorrectly? Indeed, if everyone else pronounces a word a different way, are they right and am I wrong? I guess I just like tilting at windmills, I guess!

Also GIF has a soft g …
> What is going on with the pictures of girls in this linuxreviews.org website ?

Worth mentioning that is KDE 3 in the screenshot. KDE 4 was released over ten years ago and we are on 5 now.
There are landlords in my area who put in the lease that you can be evicted for just being arrested
Good. The entire visa system is unconstitutional and a violation of human rights. Anything that curtails it is a victory for freedom.
Very true. I had several bosses who really fought for me, both for promotions to positions that a non-degreed person never held, and for approval of educational reimbursement. Although regarding the latter, it was a defense contractor and they get reimbursed by the government for those costs. So there were really no cases where someone pursuing a relevant degree would be turned down for reimbursement.
Consider looking at the CNN reporting team that was arrested live on television without reason? It's not a good sign if media is being censored like that.
I find gatekeeping in the hacker world to be some of the worst in tech.

There's a strong "if you can't figure it out on your own you're too stupid to help" vibe to it, while the rest of the dev world has actually made some decent strides toward valuing inclusion and education.
nginx unit (https://unit.nginx.org/configuration/#process-management) does something very similar. with `spare = 0` config option it will start app process lazily and shutdown when idle.

There is support for Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, Node, Go runtimes.
How do you kneel on a neck for nine minutes?
People of all colors are having their rights violated. Black people dont have separate rights, so when you see a white person getting their rights abused that's also a black person's rights being abused. Injustice to any is injustice to all. Any person being denied their rights needs our help. Once we get that back inline skin color wont matter because we universally reject any violation of bill of rights.