skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
White Australia ties itself in knots about this stuff.

There's an ongoing Intervention in the Northern Territories where the rural Indigenous communities are basically being nannied. They can't buy alcohol, they have state-issued debit cards that will only buy "good" things like healty groceries and clothes.

If the state treats them as responsible adults who can make their own decisions, then a large proportion of them choose, as adults, to get drunk most of the time. Then the state gets shouted at for allowing the Indigenous communities to become cesspits that no-one can live in.

If the state treats them as "chldren" - people who cant make sensible decisions - then the state gets a reputation for racism and colonialism.

It's the exact same problem we have with addicts: the only person who can stop the problem is the addict, but they have to get to the point where they want to stop first. And that means a lot of self-harm and the risk of death to get to that point.

Using that analogy, this is your junkie nephew stealing family heirlooms from your grandma's house to sell so that they can buy more junk.

note: obviously not all Indigenous folks are junkies/alcoholics or bad people. There are good people out there struggling to cope with a terrible situation, and I wish we could help them more.
> Yes, I know surgeons actually change into sterile scrubs before going into surgery

No, they put clean ones on, then put something sterile over the top. The racks of scrubs are used by everyone. You just grab a pair. You check the crotch doesn't have a hole in it, and that the elastic is still stretchy.
Even Dyson's overpriced fans aren't THAT expensive nowadays.

That said, I do think there is a market for quality products in a 10-20x price range, products built to last instead of built to be cheap and good enough for a couple years.
Teams is better
I like my front end team to not write queries.

I have seen too many front end developers write queries equivalent to "select * from users, t1, t2, ... tn, left outer join on users.id = t1.user_id... etc etc etc".

I think that is just bullshit.

I prefer to tell the frontend people - these are the endpoints that backend team provides, go live with it. If you really have issues, talk to them, and they might just add a new endpoint for you.

If you let frontend developers dictate backend queries, all you will get is a big master cluster fuck. I am talking average joe developers that we usually find to work on startups.
You make it sound like this is the tech version of "too big too fail".
Absolutely, you are of course correct. The uppercase letters and digits - together with the special characters like "!._-,...".

I kept it to 26 letters to keep the math simpler (or rather - the numbers smaller, for myself, really).

Number of days to brute-force if 10k requests/sec (26 letters still...):

4-length password = 45 seconds

10-length password = 453 years

Please give me a heads up if my math is off.
> We're not affiliated with Ultralytics or the other

> researchers.

Unfortunately I am now unable to edit to reflect this better.
No, I was a heavy LiteStep user during its prime Windows XP days, but even then it was a brittle, badly developed and hard to set up thing. Development has stalled once Vista and 7 came along.
I am listening to an old Philips valve radio from 1952 which has FM and a wonderful rich sound. I am still using an HP-25 LED calculator I bought back in 1977. My oldest piece of software is Microsoft Money from 2002 which now has transaction and investment histories dating back nearly 20 years.
Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss, a former FBI hostage negotiator. Not a textbook exactly, but its the book on negotiation I think everybody should read. His interviews and lectures on youtube are pretty good too.
One thing for Linux is that it happily caches large numbers of inodes, as long as there's enough memory for it. MacOS has a (configurable) maximum, and the default value is low enough that it makes things really bad for large repositories. It used to be a few thousands, it's now around 263K, apparently. Check it out on your machines:

sysctl kern.maxvnodes
You're seriously saying that a "short burst of mass deaths" is a better option than getting your shit together and doing proper social distancing followed by proper contact tracing?

It's great that we've got rid of the virus for now in NZ, but yes, there are many questions, including whether there will still be an incentive to even try for a vaccine once major countries reach herd immunity (if and when that happens).

But it truly astonishes and depresses me that the US - the country that went to the moon, that invented the internet, that built a military capability that literally saved the world in ww2 - seems to have given up.

How hard would it really be to do proper contact tracing in a population of 300 million? Yes it's a big job, a very hard job, but the big jobs, the tough jobs, that's what Americans do!
Had. Unfortunately Professor MacKay passed away from cancer in 2016. We lost a great soul.

I concur that his textbook and sense of humor were fantastic. It was very enjoyable for me to learn the material from his lectures. They are a great supplement to the textbook (or maybe vice versa?) and you can find them here: https://youtu.be/BCiZc0n6COY
A lot of big company initiatives are acquisitions in non-obvious ways. For example even Google Maps started off as an acquisition of Keyhole Corp - a small startup focused on mapping technology.

Android was an acquisition.

YouTube was an acquisition.

Google Docs was an acquisition.
Must-see presentation (~1hour) for anyone interested in this topic is "Programming With Hand Tools" by Tim Ewald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw
Objects in S3 can have custom metadata associated with them. Look at the returned data for the HeadObject call.[0]

It's not advertised in the documentation, but HeadObject(Bucket, Key)['Metadata'] is a neat dictionary of custom values.

0: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_HeadObje...
As the author suggests, please support anti-DRM [0] and right-to-repair [1] movements!

[0] https://www.defectivebydesign.org/

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Intro
Why not a Raspi Zero W with a USB ready monitor? The price point is almost similar and the build will be more modular. Or even just a buncha USB/HDMI based screencasting devices, synced to a cast-server which casts content based on recipient nodes?

Had seen a simple conf room notification system on those lines (which just mentioned who has blocked the room, when is the next blocked meeting by whom, calendar etc)
I have come to just accept the firmware will be read out in most microcontrollers unless they are specifically built to hold secrets. Maybe you can keep someone from copying your code for a little while, but eventually it will happen and you should have some other value that protects your business.

NRF, STM32, PSoC, ESP32, Xilinx. All of them have silicon or ROM errata that leak the firmware or the encryption around it.
I bet the cages nowadays were the result from a lawsuit. A lot of safety precautions (and warnings) are from that. I'm not knocking it, people do need to be protected from themselves (and accidents), I'm objecting to the massive damages lawsuits.
Could you make money by producing a cheap "dumb" flash memory where you have raw access and leave all the wear leveling to software by using one of the many available log structured file systems?

Some people would rather have full transparent overview and control over the state and health of their storage and make their own decisions about handling problems in software instead of talking to a black box.
"Major Walter Reed, an Army surgeon, proved that mosquitos transmitted the virus that caused yellow fever"

If anyone else also asked himself how do you actually prove that - not surprisingly, you infect volunteers with a mosquito that has bitten an infected person.
Multiple tests were needed to establish the exact timeframe when the person is contagious.
Hopefully not. In an ideal world, this would be the responsibility of the browser given the widespread web apps.
S3 supports metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/user-guide/add-o...).

Perhaps I don't understand what you're saying fully though--as I don't fully understand your comment.
A good response thread: https://twitter.com/carter_andrewj/status/127078794127576268...
I recently got promoted to be the manager of a guy who has literally been my best friend since we were 10. Anyone got advice about how to not be doomed to be a bad boss or bad friend?
"would be a tragedy of bigger magnitude than the destruction of the Library of Alexandria."

No, it would not even be close to that scale.
I personally like having the front end templates separated from the server code as much as possible. I think Blade accomplishes this while also providing you with a syntax that is much more readable than Smarty. On top of that I feel like Blade isn't necessarily trying to do as much as Smarty.

EDIT: I certainly prefer using Blade to doing the old '<a href="' . $url . '">... and other similar variants.
In the video the narration spells out "GIF", which offends my space alien cat sensibilities tremendously. However I forgive him this, the analysis is sound and informative.
> the US - the country that went to the moon, that invented the internet, that built a military capability that literally saved the world in ww2

two of those are in part result of propaganda
That doesn't really make their calls to diversity in any way believable.
Those are good points.

Your first point regarding differentiating between volunteers who manage content and skilled experts maintaining expert expresses my sentiment as well.

I've been a board member of several non profits and my (anecdotal) experience is that finding a small team of hackers who would do the work pro bono is a hard challenge.

Your comment on the 'snackable entertainment' is a take on the increased competition and pressure between hobbies and activities. In a world with so many fast changing options and rapidly changing expectations, it's hard to keep people's attention for a prolonged time.

So, more often then not, if an organisation or a community doesn't have the resources, access to expertise or the time to focus on setting up infrastructure, things rather quickly get relegated to centralised platforms because of their non-existent entry bar.

Your last comment is also on point: outsourcing and leveraging existing infrastructure at marginal costs is an engrained strategy in younger generations: don't waste time building technology, if you could readily use tools that are available to you.

Maybe the big differentiator that makes captivating communities a success or a bust is just plain old day-to-day governance. Rather then pushing a particular business model that's often at odds with the interests of the communities present on a platform.
By unique data, that excluding generated data? Can you please estimate the space for just the wayback machine? It's the actual target.

What's the wayback machine with and without images? Is it possible that we could distribute the ASCII/Unicode content now?
I’m a big fan of all of these. Clayden is very gentle (or maybe that’s just Org being easy...). But Atkins gets hard quite fast—-the chat from first years is that beginners will find it a bit tough. I’d generally recommend the cut down Atkins to start (Elements of...) or if you prefer pop Sci The Second Law was great as an UG trying to wrap my head around this. Creation Revisited also rocks.
If you don't like REST, don't use it.

Whatever you do, don't even think that GraphQL will solve your problems. You were on the right track staying away from it till now.

I can't also advise enough to stay away from a typed language (Go in this case) serving data in a different typed language (gql). You will eventually be pulling your hair out jumping through hoops matching types.

After my last web project that require gql and go, I did some digging around, thinking, there has to be a better alternative to this. I have worked with jQuery, React, GraphQL.

My conclusion was that next time I will stick to turbolinks (https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks) and try stimulus (https://stimulusjs.org/).
Just you? If it's a team effort, places like Dropbox have hundreds, if not thousands of engineers, all with an Opinion.
> watching a monitoring machine for a drugged, intubated patient isn't harder than anything else in an ICU

You have a very incomplete view of what it is to be an ICU nurse...
It’s actually the other way around. There are no up-to-date and complete proofs of tls, but there are several proofs for noise.
It's a fact that people have feelings.

Journalism reports on feelings all the time.

A DDG search for "classic journalism feelings" easily found https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalism_and_the_power_of_emo... - "Journalism and the power of emotions"

> “Invisible Child” is an example of the power of storytelling. It’s also an example of what motivates many journalists, what we believe is possible through our narratives: to extend empathy for the individual to the group, to correct injustice and inspire change, or at least awareness. ...

> From stories about living conditions in New York’s slum tenements of the 1880s to the plight of children in contemporary homeless shelters, empathy is an integral part of journalism.
:) but i don't want to tear down a device before power off.
I opened the link, expecting to become infuriated. Based on nothing but the accounts of others.

But I found that essay to be quite sensible. Now, it is time for me to see how others have responded.
The issue with reddit is that your experience on it is completely dependent on your own curation of what subreddits you want to take part in. For hobbies I don't think there is any other single website on the internet that can help you get through most beginner to intermediate information, it's curated by a community, usually with the best free resources available being shared, and if it's a small community with decent moderation they usually thrive quite well.

The problem is with the large subreddits, they will always devolve into memefests or the same old rehearsed jokes in the comments where if you've been on reddit for 10 years you learned to just... Skip through.

I believe it'd be really hard to have a /r/AskHistorians on 4chan, the same for the hobby communities I'm part of.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted because what you say is true.
This isn't actually as bad as it sounds.

Almost all general purpose microcontrollers with "readout protection" are vulnerable to glitching attacks like this one. It may be a stretch to claim that most embedded engineers understand this, but successful attacks like this one are published at least a few times a year, and eventually one of them targets a part that you've used before.

All it does is force you to think about your threat model. You shouldn't keep sensitive or long-term secrets on a microcontroller and expect them to remain safe. Transient things like BLE session keys? Sure, whatever.

It's why you don't see (responsible) people designing HSMs using parts like these, and why extreme skepticism is warranted when people try to build things like cryptocurrency hardware wallets out of Arduino-caliber parts.

There are special classes of parts with more robust security features that you should consider using if you need anything resembling an HSM. Even those parts get broken from time to time, and those breaks are rarely fixable without new hardware.
It's apples and oranges.

SEV is useful for defense in depth and absolutely not comparable a secure enclave like SGX or TrustZone.

However, it results in significant security gains with almost no extra effort.

Secure enclaves like SGX are designed with much stronger security guarantees and are therefore hard and expensive to use, and they're regularly broken due to design issues that may be impossible to fix, making it a bad investment.
No, and there are some very good reasons to not do that.
Stonehenge is just a couple of turned rocks too. Its not a great rationalisation to downplay the significance of the meaning of the sites for future generations to see. You can't exactly have a taj mahal 15k years ago..
Well said! Couldn't agree more.

The GraphQL confusion is one more bullshit in the world of web dev.
I suspect so too, but please; if you know more please elaborate.
Yes the discourse and content quality is quite poor, so much so that I quit using the site completely in the last few months. To be honest I don't miss it at all, so...
Is this still true during Coronavirus? I know my company at least has raised our interview standard
Definitely r/homelab links and posts.
"The board of directors sets the strategy for the firm."

Not really.

The Board is there to oversee the company on behalf of the shareholders. Their primary job is oversight, they hire and fire the CEO, will be involved in recruitment for C-Level. They may or may not be involved with any kind of strategy. They will definitely be involved in financial governance issues such as fundraising, IPOs, major debt issuances.

They can be involved strategically by helping to form relationships, introductions, and in some cases providing guidance.

But the board doesn't make plans, do strategies etc. They're not very involved. Most board members don't do much at all.
Woodworking is very flexible in how much you spend. Most of the expensive tools are time optimizations, you can get by just fine without them but it will be a bit slower.

Also, in woodworking you always want that one more tool.
> This is a really poor analogy. The position of captain of on a warship

Trying to show viewpoints in the clearest and most concise way, is the height of discourse.

Making a backdoor point by claiming "poor analogy" is basically noise on noise. It muddles both the original point and fails to make a coherent followup. Defining a different set of criteria for what to compare on, does not change the initial comparison in a meaningful way.

Define an interpretation (which may get clarified) to focus in on an objection, then form a second viewpoint.
Apple is rejecting coronavirus apps that aren’t from health organizations
eBooks and paper books share very little in common legally. e-ownership is generally a best efforts service to which you have a license.

In some jurisdictions they are even taxed differently. Just to highlight to morose creeping evil that is VAT. Paper book is a necessity. eBook is a luxury. Apparently
Shameless plug: https://github.com/havfo/multiparty-meeting
If you want to establish a legal precedent, you can't just go to a court and ask them to. Courts only hear "cases and controversies" -- to establish what the law is, you have to get somebody to sue you.

The reason this could bankrupt them is mostly because they don't have a lot of money. Their net assets are only a couple million dollars. They have to raise more than that every year just to keep operating.

But it's also because the plaintiffs are vindictive. They know this is about setting a precedent. They don't like the precedent, so they're out for blood. They could have been civilized and only asked for an injunction.
> I haven’t hugged my family in over two months — anything to keep them from contracting a virus that could kill them.

It could but they look fairly young and as long as they’ve no comorbidities they’ll be fine.
The problem is in how the specs are deeply mixed with TLS. We advocated for the specs to be more flexible so that we could extend QUIC to be specified with noise as well but I don’t believe that has happened.

Also TLS was selected because of regulations. Which is damning to say the least.
Seems like a direct competitor for Artifactory and Nexus. I wonder if it is profitable for them to create an inferior alternative to fully flagged artifact managers. Or if they are doing this for product-completeness of AWS.
Unlikely.

The cost savings probably wouldn't be as dramatic as you hope. You'd still need some sort of controller for serdes -- NAND flash chips tend to use big parallel busses which aren't suited for off-board connectors -- and, at that point, it's not that much of a jump to make that controller handle wear leveling and error correction.

(Having the storage device handle those tasks is pretty convenient, anyways. It means you don't have to perform error correction on the main CPU -- which is a nontrivial ask -- and it means the SSD can behave as a bootable device.)
Well yes, the library was smaller.
GPUs are underutilized because most workloads simply are not suitable for GPUs. It has nothing to do with the instruction set.
"The problem is with the large subreddits, they will always devolve into memefests or the same old rehearsed jokes in the comments where if you've been on reddit for 10 years you learned to just... Skip through."

But why? I mean who posts this garbage and furthermore who upvotes it?
That's just basic fishing. Some agencies are notorious for it.

For those that drive to Mammoth, they'll know there's the town of Bishop. After cruising freeway speeds for hours on end, the speed limits drop dramatically fast. They're easy to miss. At night that tiny town will have cops hidden and ready for speeders, but also cars that look suspicious. A car filled with young guys is a prime target.

I've been pulled over multiple times there, and after finding nothing they let you go.
Chill out Geoffrey, it's not that big a deal.
I don't follow, how do you mean?
If I did the math right, it actually only costs about 72k per year to archive 6PB on Google cloud. Thats well within the range of one Googler's annual discretionary income.
X509/DER parsing has been known as the most dangerous code in the world (https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/ssl-client-...)

Sure support is good but so is PGP’s
Our SaaS app got 1000 private beta Signups in just 6 days
Well the point is: it looks like we can go freely but only when we are not in closed spaces without good ventilation (and low humidity).

Studies [1] have shown that "20 percent of Covid-19 cases accounted for 80 percent of transmissions"

And those 20 percent were mostly 'Superspreading events'. We now know almost all those events were inside in bad ventilated areas.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opinion/coronavirus-super...
I’m getting a 404 error.

A link that works:

https://medium.com/@harishsg99/how-our-saas-app-got-1000-pri...
It would be great if conservative and progressive right wing could help to not let those communities devolve into prejudice, racism and eugenics. It is a problem when an ideology attracts the worst in human kind, as much as I hate the authoritarian left.
This list is missing diagrams.net (draw.io).
I came across a neat infographic the other day comparing source code repositires, had to google for a while but here it is: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/the-biggest-codebases-in-h...

TL;DR, the Linux codebase there (version 3.1) is about 15M LOC, versus e.g. Windows Vista at 50M, MacOS at 85M, and Google at 2B. Not sure where Dropbox fits in that, but it's probably a similar order of magnitude to Linux and co.
It's the solution mentioned in the article, lifting the RFID from the bypass cartridge to install it directly on the receiver circuit board. It allows you to keep using an "expired" filter rather than no filter at all.
> unless they are specifically built to hold secrets.

Even that is not warranted, there are companies who lift contents of hardened microcontrollers for things like smartcards, credit cards, id cards, pos terminals etc no questions asked