skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one can really be surprised that there's a certain amount of voter fraud in Russia.

And the Russian leadership is not unsophisticated: of course they have access to mathematicians who could advise on how to avoid leaving these artifacts in the manipulated data.

I'd conclude from this that they don't mind others knowing they manipulate the results. Perhaps they even want them to know, as a little fuck-you show of power.

So why have elections at all? Because it gives Russia's international allies something to point to: they can claim to support democracy and human rights, etc, and pretend not to be convinced by this kind of circumstantial evidence, to an extent they would feel uncomfortable with if Putin were to decree "right, no more elections, no more constitution, I'll just rule for life". If you're really pressed and have to admit you find the evidence convincing, it only really demonstrates vote totals being manipulated by up to 1%. A tiny amount of the margin of victory and comparable to the levels of election fraud in large democracies like India or the US.

This kind of plausible deniability is what international relations is built on, and the bigger a power you are, the less plausible your stories have to be. Russian troops fight in the Ukraine while on vacation. China needs airfields in the Spratly Islands to support local fishermen. Guantanamo Bay is run in accordance with the Geneva Convention and definitely no one gets tortured there.
It is a central part of my personal philosophy, so, for me it's pretty much an axiom.

That being said, sure, sometimes you have to explain why you consider something to be an axiom.

But at the same time, if you where to explain your axioms all the time you wouldn't get very far. So, I guess the question here is: Is it reasonable to assume this axiom in this context?

And I would argue that it is reasonable, otherwise it would be an entierly different text, about a very different subject, and for me personally, it would be a less interesting article.
According to QS only Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and Amherst do need blind admissions for international students (surprised to not see Stanford on that list). So while in this instance I do not think it is driven by any direct financial motivation, the majority of even "top" US schools do appear to select international students in part on their ability to pay.
Exactly. Even with modern first/business seating, subsonic trans-Pacific is still a long flight even from the West Coast even if the seating is comfortable and the food is good. But as I recall you need something like 2x the range of the Concorde even to fly a route like SFO-NRT. And, as you say, if you need to fuel up in Anchorage say, you lose a lot of the time advantage.
>non white students

I didn't see the exemption for white students in this. Because there isn't one?
Something can be both a not normal thing to do and a wonderful or useful thing to do.
One of the other things I like about KeePass in regards to non-mobile devices is that you can autotype your credentials into things that are not web browsers and even make custom sequences per application.

I've got a sequence that gets me logged into to a mainframe and navigates all the way to the main menu and given how often I hit it I bet it has saved me from an RSI by now.
The problem is with international students already in the country risking traveling during a pandemic. Or the alternative: risking in-person classes.
It's going to be a lot easier for Google to do that to get blogspot.in back versus if I were to do it.
Is there aggregate data (over the country ?) on this ? I was pretty convinced there was a significant difference between the two, and I still believe that’s the case at my own institution, but could be wrong.
Laws are meant to serve the people. However I feel there is more to this story. We can’t just tell ICE to ignore the law. The law should be updated if necessary but as of now it’s the law.

Pandemic is a good reason for exceptions they can bring this up in immigration court. That’s what it’s for.

They should have changed the law way before ICE came don’t you think? Why is it a concern now? I feel like something isn’t being presented.
When my dev team started at a company that was basically run by biochemists (we were all hired to start up a specific product), they gave us all really nice lab notebooks, I guess out of habit.

Ten years later, I had used about 5 pages of mine. My two teammates wrote more, but none of us went past page 50 or so. OTOH, the scientists we worked with had gone through multiple books by that time.

It's not an easy habit to get into.
It's good to see someone mention they use it and they're happy with it. The aggressive marketing they do kind of puts me off, coupled with the fact that they just released the ReMarkable recently and are already taking pre-orders for the version 2 later this year?

I've been thinking about getting an iPad to take notes on, but I see the ReMarkable tablet pop up all the time (thanks to their marketing, I guess it's working), have you tried taking notes on something else?

I'm mainly just thinking that if I'm getting a tablet for notes, should I get one that's practically _only_ for taking notes (ReMarkable) or one that has much more functionality (iPad). I guess that also depends a little bit on the "syncability", does the ReMarkable have integrations to sync notes and documents to third party services or do they roll their own thing?
Steve Hsu “Preposterously Flimsy” on Twitter Mob and MSU Moral Panic
Care to share resources/lessons learned for training tesseract with custom data? I'm using it for a side project and would love to hear about your insights.
On the eastward leg, I guess it’s a difference of sleeping on a lie-flat seat vs. sleeping at home (unless you get one of the few daytime flights).

But if you arrive in the morning in London, isn’t that rush-hour too?
Is admission for internationals in general need blind as well at MIT/Harvard ?
What about income level of people attending ?
An Interview with Mashhood Rastgar, CTO, Sastaticket.pk
> Microsoft doesn't even use them anymore in many of their apps, they often use "free form UI", they also seem to use HTML/Javascript a lot.

Yeah, and I and many other users fucking hate it. It's awful to work with, it's inconsistent, it looks like shit... I don't think it was a decision based on better UX, but rather that it is easier and cheaper to hire kids with no experience with anything but webshit.
Will it be the passengers or the employees that get referred to as ‘Boomers’?
Shared workspaces and offices like WeWork seem to pose the biggest threats to "common infosec" but mostly in the form of digital dumpster diving.

Although, the WeWork office the startup I work for occupied in NYC pre-covid had multiple bottles of hand sanitizer stolen before our lease expired this month. That being said, even with a private key-card secured office these spaces are laughably insecure.
It does? I remember it being a fiddly thing but it is also possible that I messed up somewhere else.
I'm always sad when I think about the Concorde. It was such a great plane ahead of its time when it came out. I wish I had the chance to fly on it once.
Might be arrogant, but after rewriting the same stuff over Sun RPC, CORBA, DCOM, DCE, XML-RPC, SOAP, WebServices, BPEL, RMI, Remoting, REST, gRPC,.... eventually it gets tiring.

Or deploying stuff over HP-UX Vaults, J2EE/JEE containers, mainframe language environments, VMs, Docker, k8s, lambdas (CGIs just got rediscovered),....
They would be great except the problem is once you're done with school, it can be incredibly hard to stay in the US. So we end up losing the people we help train. Fixing it by reducing these students entirely is going in the wrong direction.
Is there a way to drag the input waveform to change it? That would be how I'd like to play with it. Similarly, can the PID parameters be changed by dragging?

Note that these are general UI suggestions and I may not be your target audience.

Looks great BTW, wish I had a PID controller in need of tuning.
Skimming the help of a git command once in a while (or when you have that feeling that there must be a way to achieve a specific thing) is rather quick and, thanks the pager's built in search feature, very accessible.

Having an alias for help (and for git) makes this quite convenient:

$ g h commit

Then search for something in there, e.g. `/stdin<ENTER>`.
But at most of these schools (<10 in the US are exceptions) ability to pay can still affect who they choose to admit in the first place internationally. Whereas >100 schools practice need blind admissions for domestic students. That said Harvard/MIT should be no different between the two.
SUSE already has a container offering, CaaS Platform:

https://www.suse.com/products/caas-platform/

(Source: I worked on the documentation for v3.)

The partly-SUSE-sponsored openSUSE Project also has a container-centric distro, Kubic MicroOS:

https://kubic.opensuse.org/

So it is already active in this area, and yes, I agree, there's a good chance that RancherOS will end up merging or even replacing this.
Boarding closes somewhere between 30-15mins before the flight, if you travel without luggage I’m pretty sure it should be possible to be at the airport around 45 mins before the flight and still make it, especially in an all business class configuration with fast track.

On my last flight between New York and Paris passport control and security didn’t take more than 5 minutes on a European passport (both in Paris and New York).

I think the bigger problem is the time you lose and uncertainty (immigration and traffic) door to door in these big cities, which limits the use-cases and might make an overnight flight or a direct connection from a general aviation airports preferable.
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I agree it’s very scary but as of now they have to debate their case in immigration court. MIT and Harvard should have made a case for this a long time ago. I also want to know if they are grabbing all student or those they suspect of things like working on their visa. If your like me you understand some people just really game the system.
I'm not sure when you looked at Bitwarden but the official server and clients are open source under the AGPL, including the API for other people to make their own servers and clients with. So I would say that Bitwarden fills the FOSS all the way requirement.

https://github.com/bitwarden
They were/are committed enough to put out a second version, and I guess these things are still pretty much a niche market, I mean they specifically target embedded applications.

I think the next thing, which is already happening, is embedded “AI” processors on SOCs. Apple is doing it with their A12 processors, and it’s probably only a question of time before you can purchase “general purpose” ARM chips with “AI” capabilities.
What's wrong with the existing solutions:

https://sheetsu.com

https://sheety.co

https://www.sheet2site.com

https://steinhq.com

https://www.glideapps.com
In the Technical Museum Sinsheim (Germany) you have the Concorde A next to the Tupolev Tu-144 on display. This is quite a spectacular view, and you can enter both and take a look at the inside.

https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/assets/uploads/images/27/...
They also banned all ads for cigarettes & vapes. I think that's great.
>This policy change affects hundreds of thousands students and must generate a massive loss in economic terms.

It certainly does. But it's worth keeping in mind that you only have to drive about an hour north or west of either campus for "MIT/Hardvard, Boston area landlords and businesses lose out on billions of dollars from foreign students" to flip from bad news to good news.

Look at the politics of this and where ICEs actions stand on the spectrum of immigration, foreign relations and COVID (and probably a couple other issues that I'm not thinking of) and it all makes sense.

The administration will win brownie points among those people who already support it with this policy from the get go. This policy also pits the landlords and business owners in the college towns (who have a big interest in the school's opening, but don't have any love for the administration) against the colleges.
Covid-19 Treatment – Analysis of global studies
Something like the Boeing 2707 might have had a better chance of success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707

Part of the pitch for Concorde was that an SST would have greatly reduced capital costs since it could fly at least twice the number of flights in the same unit of time. It wasn't really fast enough to do this on the routes that it flew, so this benefit wasn't realized.

A Mach 3 airliner (SR-71 class!) is fast enough to realize better capital efficiency, and can do better on fuel consumption than a Mach 2 airliner. Some fuel is spent fighting air resistance, but some is fighting "induced drag" which produces lift. If you spend less time in the air you need less lift, and fuel efficiency improves.

The only problem is that aluminum would melt in a Mach 3 airliner so you need some revolution in materials to make it practical.
At least for international travel, luggage is supposed to be checked in one hour prior. I've actually had someone turn me away at 59 minutes because well frankly I think because he could and I wasn't flying business class, so my business or the loss thereof didn't matter. As we both know business and first class travelers have different rules applied or at least the rules relaxed to retain their revenue.
This is not meant to be offensive in any way, as I'm not judging your entire being just by the way you approach employment, but developers that do "resume driven development" are by far the worst to work with, and are so obvious to spot.

Resume driven development often involves not giving a damn about what you're actually trying to solve, and trying to make what you're doing sound as impressive as possible to onlookers who have no clue what you actually did. Complicated architectures, hip technologies, fancy percentage based "improvements", it's all bollocks.

I agree largely that Western society has created a work culture where working for "the man" is not a desirable thing to do; employment, by and large, should not be the purpose of our lives. There are so many other things, like social life, family, sports, playing the guitar, and so on, that humans can do so well, but because of the capitalist structures that have been put in place where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, it's not hard to understand why this kind of approach to employment exists.
I'd say it's been replaced by scouring for S3 buckets with bad permissions.
> also a browser to Google the commands

man man # :-P
They're not public services, they're security theater with no real effectiveness. The skip programs are effectively official acknowledgement of that.
It's not about "protest against promotion of paid-for editions", it's about an attack on the normal edition. The phrase "intended for individual use" or "intended for personal use" is highly damaging for everyone, it's like just straight up saying that the thing is inferior. Completely outrageous.
So, you are anti-immigration, as long as it doesn't affect you personally?
>> This was the aircraft the airlines really needed and the aircraft the manufacturers wanted to build.

This is largely revisionist history. The reality was that logistics of flying the Concorde (routing, timing, airport services) combined with the experience (speed over comfort) made it expensive and just not that desirable. The plane was conceived in the era of big government bankrolled air travel and doesn't have a role in the reality of flying buses we see today.
Lower-power CPU's rising to the occasion to crowd out high end chips is a recurring theme in the industry, but especially for Apple! 620 never got anywhere because the 604 variants were better and then the 603-based 750 (G3) was a lot better. G5 never got anywhere because not the Pentium4, but the Celeron-derived CoreDuo was a lot better! Now abandoning Intel because iPad ARM CPUs are a lot better!
I'm sure this will be super unpopular, but I think universities are on the wrong side here.

First: If the classes are online anyway, then there's no reason students need to be on U.S. soil to take them. If the schools have policies requiring the students to be on U.S. soil, the schools should waive those policies.

Second: It's subjective whether COVID is still an "emergency". We've been locked down for many months now, there is nothing "emergent" about the situation any more. When your car crashes, that's an emergency. Three months later when you're having trouble getting to work because of your car being wrecked, that is no longer an emergency. It still sucks, but it isn't an emergency any more at that point.

Granted, though, it would have been better if ICE had given the schools more advance notice.
I tried searching for an interview where Ken Cuccinelli says this on CNN but couldn't find it.

However here is Ken Cuccinelli on Fox News Lou Dobbs just half a day ago where he lays out the thinking behind the policy change. Basically hire unemployed americans or let them study instead of the foreigners:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3WQAP0m8qc
I'm excited to try this out. Just to mention two interesting projects:

On MacOS I use: https://macpassapp.org/ (Open Source)

I always wanted to try: https://www.passbolt.com/ (Self-hostable)
I think you're cherry picking here. There were:

16-20 cases handled by the NSF IG's office "regarding the disclosure of foreign ties" since 2018. "They were considered rule violations, but not criminal activity."

Separately, an undisclosed number of criminal cases were referred to the FBI.

Additionally, in the past two months, "seven universities have also contacted the NSF directly with information on faculty who may have violated rules." This represents another number of undisclosed potential cases. All this comes from "the agency’s first chief of research security strategy and policy," who started the job in March. So this clearly a new problem they're still working to fully grasp.

The NIH, which is a separate entity, stated they'd learned of "150 cases in the past 12 months,” according to their head of extramural research. The NIH has been conducting "an ongoing probe that has swept up 399 scientists since NIH received the first allegation in June 2016." [1]

That 93% mentioned in the original article includes 189 scientists investigated by the NIH, at least 54 of whom have been fired or resigned. The 189 scientists represent "285 active grants" totaling "$164 million." It was also reported that "cases involving the alleged theft of intellectual property or economic espionage, he says, are referred to either the inspector general for NIH’s parent body, the Department of Health and Human Services, or to the Department of Justice (DOJ)." So those cases are likely not included in these stats. Additionally, "Of the 189 scientists flagged in its letters to institutions, 133 of them (70%) failed to disclose a grant from a foreign entity, and 102 failed to disclose their participation in a foreign talent recruitment program, such as China’s Thousand Talents Program. "[2]

It also seems like you're discounting the value, purpose, nature, and impact of the research at play within these incidents, much of which is likely considered critical to the U.S. government. Murder is probably the least likely form of crime to occur where you live, but that doesn't make it a trivial issue. The driver across all of this is the continued perceived power of the US government in its technological supremacy in science and defense. China is fast on our heels, and any opportunity they have to "leap frog" research and development, as was seen with the J-31 Fighter Jet made by China [3], gives a perceived "frenemy" a significant edge that U.S leadership would consider a significant and detrimental risk to American power, politics, and foreign policy.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/has-it-peaked-i-don-...

[2] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/fifty-four-scientist...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fighter-hacking/theft-of...
Oh, awesome! I don't know if they added this after I created the function or if I just didn't notice it.

EDIT: I just realised that "they" is actually you!
Weird article. After reading it I agree more with the points it's trying to refute.

You can't use the existence of a 1995 law to prove the GDPR doesn't have problems. The whole reason the GDPR got written was because the 1995 law was ineffective.

The GDPR adds new requirements on top of the 1995 law. Privacy advocates don't think these requirements help privacy much. Businesses claim that it makes it harder to do business (but they say that about any legislation). You can argue about who is right but neither side particularly likes the regulation.

The biggest group of people who do like the regulation seem to be EU citizens who want a reason to feel superior to Americans. It's unfortunate nationalism. We're all on the same side against the large corporations.
LA to Tokyo would allow for more supersonic flight too. They avoided that over landmass to avoid sonic booms over inhabited areas. Which covers a good chunk of territory if they take the shortest route:

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=lhr-jfk
There's an alternative implementation of the bitwarden server in Rust:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs
One more good experience.
I created an cluster of dedicated servers ( 64 cores, 6TB of SSD storage and 256 GB of RAM, 1 GPU) using Rancher, for about 250 Euros/Month. This would cost at least 2k in a cloud such as AWS. There is a post about how I did with persistent storage here (https://medium.com/@bratao/state-of-persistent-storage-in-k8...)

It really transformed my company DevOps. I´m VERY happy. If you can, use Rancher. It is just perfect!
I see your point but Minecraft didn't get usurped in popularity by a game that ripped off it's core gameplay loop. As another commenter mentioned, I did forget about DayZ, so maybe Battle Royale wasn't an entirely original concept from the PUBG developers, but I think it's fair to say Epic Games saw the popularity of the genre, pivoted their lackluster game into the genre, and then undercut PUBG on price to rise in popularity. I guess that's just business, but I do hold sympathy for the PUBG devs.
Kubernetes Rolling Update and Termination Grace Periods at Brex
I mean based on the comment, presumably “making a positive change to the world”
I've seen LOTS of beautiful code that doesn't work... in the real world, usually because it doesn't check the assumptions it makes. Is the data what is expected? Do the code's parameters span the space they should? Does the code inform the user of errors usefully and gracefully? Is it well documented, intuitive?

In my experience, when it comes to code, beauty and durability are natural enemies.
There are two phases to cultural change: talk and action.

The discussion about whether change is needed has been going on for something between 20 and 40 years, depending on who you ask.

This is an action phase, and action phases demand a certain amount of "with us or against us" structure, because one has to quickly decide which allies can be relied upon, which will flake under pressure, and which are actually in favor of the opposing opinion and trying to lure a group into a trap.

It is scary in that it is not an "anything goes, throw spaghetti at the walls and see what sticks" open forum time, but that's because while one side is throwing spaghetti at the walls, another side is chanting "Jews will not replace us" and "blood and soil" in the streets and driving cars into counter-protests. And, it appears, possibly using their dominance in America's law enforcement structure to kill without consequence, which is the matchpoint for the latest demonstrations and fighting.