skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That trust is hugely misplaced. They frequently make terrible decisions that negatively affect others.

- Them being hugely defensive about the fan backlash over Tlou2 https://www.altchar.com/game-news/sony-contacts-website-over...
- They've removed early release credentials from reviewers who give sour reviews
- The shit return policy for the digital only games
- The way they are trying to push digital only

etc.
I realize Sony isn't the only one doing this but with every iteration it feels like they are trying to be as crap as possible.
I wasn't asserting that it was true, and it seems that you want to argue with someone who both thinks that "it" is true and has a different definition of it from what I was using, in context.

It's a morass I'm uninterested in getting into.
Ballard wrote a lot of solidly SF short stories. I think my favourite is Report on an Unidentified Space Station:

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~kite/doc/roauss.htm
Thanks for the note about cost and perf targets. If I went with something new rather than used, what do you think is a reasonable amount to budget for a mid range dev box. $500? $1000? I've only ever bought laptops, so I don't have great intuitions about cost here.
HACK is also very nice on iOS :)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...
The best verification would be recorded video of a person with sheet of paper with printed hash, pronouncing this hash. Of course this video is supposed to be served by https. So if you have any idea about that person (e.g. you saw him at conference), you can confirm its identity.

It might be possible to edit video to change picture, to fake audio. But that's as much as one could do without personal contact.
These articles never explore the types of remote work at a company. You can be a contractor working a specific contract for a deliverable. The company might be geo dispersed so that only small groups of people are located together and your meetings need to be via Zoom. Your company is fully remote which means all meetings are via Zoom. You are one of the few remote people in the org so have no idea about what's really going on. Most of these are workable except the last. Don't do that gig.
This is a new situation, and is going to stay with us for a while, if not forever. Instead of complaining about "good old days" of water cooler culture, wouldn't it be better to take this as an opportunity to adapt, learn new tricks and enjoy the advantages, of which there are many? We'll have to anyway. Or else...
I am not familiar with the numbers, but do they represent carbon trapped in the forest's plants or in the forest as a whole (that includes the soil as well).
The latter has an accumulative nature in regard to the soil trapped carbon being a derivative.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that calculating how much carbon a forest can store, should take the throughput into account, not just the current total capacity.
Doesn't the latest version of Mate 30 come on stock android since Google products cannot be factory installed due the export laws? In which case if you still don't feel safe you can wipe the device and install Lineage.
Please write those stories down.
Totally this.

Sure, you can set up billing alarms and all, but the point is, for personal hobby projects, it shouldn't be this easy to screw up.

I've used AWS extensively professionally at my current and previous 2 or 3 companies, and I've had a personal AWS account but recently decided to close it just to be safe. I actually wondered if I could just remove my billing credit card, so I contacted AWS support about it, and they said you have to have at least one primary card on there. So the only option was to close the account. I only use a mix of Digital Ocean and Netlify and Heroku for personal projects so I might as well shut down my personal AWS account just to be safe, and I did. It's just not worth keeping one open, the risk is too great.
I dunno, does Chrome implement tail call optimization? :)
Hippocratic Oath: "First, do no harm".
> No one prices to "encourage proper use."

Citation needed.

Network throughput is a finite resource. And spikes from noisy neighbors could absolutely degrade throughput performance for everyone else.

So it makes perfect sense for me that part of Amazon's pricing calculus would be based not just on the cost to deliver the feature but the amount of utilization of the overall network they expect for the use cases their pricing supports.
I think that we should cast the widest net for possible solutions, but there does come a point where they need to be winnowed down to which solutions will have the greatest effect (without bad side effects) with the least time and material resources. It'll still have to be multiple solutions on multiple fronts, though. Planting trees should be an easy win where the ecology currently supports growing them without too much maintenance work, but some areas would require massive effort to revitalize. Nuance like that is important, and so I encourage everyone to take things a step further mentally each time you engage with these topics. Do some napkin math, read some studies, etc. The more people that do that, the more we can create working knowledge and solutions instead of just taking pot shots at various proposals.
Quite a few on this list are sci-fi legends.

Indeed.

"The Machine Stops" is a must-read. It's over a century old and is not dated.

I've always liked "With the Night Mail". Kipling wrote two SF stories, and this is one of them.

"A Logic Named Joe" - the Internet and Google, from 1946.

"Ender's Game", the short story, was of course expanded into a series of books and a movie. The original short story is better.

That's also true of "Farewell to the Master", not on the list. That's the basis for "The Day the Earth Stood Still". The original short story is very rarely seen. Nor is the ending well known. It should be. Wikipedia summarizes it.
I’ve seen just as many sysadmins do this as developers. It’s not a question of job title as a psychological pitfall (people who are looking for things to succeed don’t ask when they should fail) and companies not specifically retaining people with security experience because they cost more.
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That's a good point I totally forgot about. It actually means that most of the infrastructure for this is already around and implemented, but of course fundamentally this is an information problem - the compositor gets told when applications "damaged" their output, but since there is no concept of presenting a frame in these legacy 2D APIs (GDI/+, X11 etc.), the compositor has no idea if the application will continuing "damaging" its output, or if it is "done for now".

I think the best a compositor might be able to do is something along the lines of keeping track of the latest possible time it has to start rendering such that the frame can be swapped to the front and sent to the screen. This should result in the lowest possible average latency while rendering at the vsync rate. DWM is clearly not doing this (since the delay is discretized to 16.7/33 ms), the Linux might be doing this, or it might be rendering on every damage event and use triple buffering, either would be plausibel given the 8 ms average delay.
Jeff Bezos explains “it will never be Day 2 at Amazon” (2017)
I find myself wishing for a CLI "design system". For example, given a script that calls some APIs (reads and writes) and does a couple of calculations, what is the best way to use color and space to produce understandable and useful console output?
What views?
If you can't look after people's sensitive data you don't deserve to have it.
The comment you replied to linked to a WebAssembly build of the PHP interpreter.

But to answer your question, there's no fundamental difference between interpreted and compiled languages. If the program you want to compile doesn't use `eval`, and you can statically determine all the files it would include, why couldn't you compile it without including an interpreter?
How about a carbon tax which once collected is redistributed evenly amongst everyone. This way people who use the most carbon will be paying the people who use the least carbon for the priviledge. It also prices in the externality through the entire market so every individual doesnt need to keep track of the co2 use of every product and service they purchase which is extremely difficult.
TravisCI: Deploying to Server Using SSH
The move to no-jack phones really only exacerbates this problem.

It's difficult for manufacturers to justify an app for wired headphones, but, now that bluetooth is becoming the new norm, there's suddenly a justification for instrusive, data-collecting apps.

This whole story is a really good reason for keeping headphone jacks on phones.
I actually wasn't sure I had picked my favorite Ballard entry. I've been reading through his main collection. Wyndham is also fantastic in somewhat the same vein (although with narrower focus) but I don't love any of his short stories as opposed to novels.
You fat-fingered the URL.

Should be quakewatch.net

NOTE: I am not affiliated in any way, shape, form or fashion with that website and have no idea what they are peddling. I simply tried to visit the site and found the error in the URL.

I am a geophysicist though who watches the USGS mapview of recent quakes every day.

Going in now...

If I'm not back in a couple of days tell my family they're some of my favorite people.
Databases can be public and secure. If a database can be deleted, it is not secure.
Yeah, this just isn't true. Plenty of fun to be had, plenty of candid perspective sharing, plenty of drinking with coworkers. If your coastal corp doesn't have these things, get out of there.

And if you find yourself getting "cancelled" everywhere you go? Probably a personal problem.
We have more than enough to go around and we have for a long time.
I think they just expect a higher return than smaller start-ups. I mean, if Google tries to make a new service and it's 'only' generating a few million in revenue, that's not very exciting and they'll either i. directly kill the service, or ii. gamble with aggressive methods of growth that likely kill the service.

Meanwhile, give a start-up with 5 people a few million in revenue, and they'll be jumping with joy at their success. Plus they'll have a lot more passion, and more carefully manage risk while growing the business.
"...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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The cost assumptions in that report don't extend high enough for nuclear. The "mid-range" cost for nuclear is given as $4700/kW. The "conservative" cost for nuclear is $7000/kW.

But Flamanville 3 is going to finish at over $8800/kW even if there are no further delays or overruns. Hinkley Point C is also over $8800/kW. Vogtle 3 and 4, if they complete without any further budget overruns, are going to be over $11000/kW.

Nuclear projects have such terrible track records on cost and schedule that they are going to be a last resort in any foreseeable cost-conscious decarbonization plan for the US. Which is too bad, because they really do crank out clean energy after they are completely built and operating.
That sounds overly binary to me. (said with conscious irony)

You are saying that the informational inputs and outputs for walking robots have exactly the same amount of relevance to biological limbs and biological control of walking as the engineering of steam locomotives?

Obviously they have aspects that are nothing like walking creatures. But the more they solve the same problems, the more they have to be similar, either intentionally or accidentally.
>if it's wild-caught, chances are high that it was not done sustainably, which is opposite of how farmed variants are procured.

AFAIK farmed variants aren't exactly sustainable either. They require enormous amount of smaller fish to feed the bigger fish they're farming, and those smaller fish are still wild caught. In addition, fish farms pollute the areas around them, in the form of disease/parasites or waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_salmonids#Issue...
Stories! :^)
You drive a car?
To be fair, how do you prove that you graduated if you lose your diploma otherwise?
If you use Android you have to install a custom rom though to guarantee your privacy.
If you wanted discussion and explaining, you should have thought twice before writing a comment so out of the line. You can't start insulting people and then pretend you wanted a civil conversation. Your "points" are completely ignorant. I've lived the whole transition from dictator's death in 1975 and I know first hand that what you say is a bunch of nonsense. Recklessness is a more charitable assumption than bad faith, but still unacceptable. Better inspect more closely what kind of racist Hitler apologists (not joking) you're getting your "information" from.
Much like regulation does not outright prevent the above crimes, it does reduce them.

Same would go for something like this, I would think.
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I thought about that one. Yes, different from the film. And in the original The Science Fiction Hall of Fame chosen by the SFWA. There were just other stories I preferred to include so it wasn't all "classics."
I wonder how much customer info they were leaking before then.
I have the WH-1000XM2 and the location permission is optional if you want the app to change noise cancelling profiles according to what you are doing (walking, running, on the bus). The ear scanner is another optional thing you can do to improve the 360 audio which only works on a few apps.
> derived from the persian word "kharbuz"

Interesting! I note the Turkish word "karpuz" (en: watermelon) is similar. And considering watermelons are loosely related to squash, that makes sense.
Here's an approach that I'm using with small VPS providers. I'm using web remote access to install Linux (from pristine distribution ISO). That web remote access uses HTTPS, so I can be sure that all input/output is E2E protected from provider to my computer. After I install Linux, I boot it first time and access it using that HTTPS remove console. Then I'm running something like ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed2519.pub -E md5 (I might be wrong about this command, check mans before use, also it does not require root, so login under ordinary user) and I can see md5 hash of server ssh public key. I write it down (or rather print-screen), connect with Putty and verify it. I believe that this method provides as much chain of trust as possible.
Singapore Army trials titanium exoskeleton designed to reduce load on soldiers
Not only are they not hidden, they should really be common sense. That he seems surprised that Cloudflare doesn't cache 14GB files is surprising. There is some common belief that every service has infinite capacity in every dimension.
Anatomy of a 'Mega-Blaze'
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> They will also require devs to give a copy of their signing key to Google for them to sign applications.

What.
For now. Once the hydrogen economy gains scale I would expect that to improve
Any investment can be argued to be not worth it before the return is received. If you constrain the timeframe to exclude the timeframe of the expected return, then of course it won't be worth it. Point taken if you're talking about a sufficiently long timeframe, though.

Second, there's the behavior of the thing you're trying to fix. If you're accelerating towards a wall, you don't analyze the cost of switching to your current velocity. You're still going to get smashed apart by the wall. With Covid, people wondered if a lockdown is worth the economic cost compared to not locking down, without stopping to consider if no-lockdown's economic cost exceeds the cost of the lockdown, which is the bleedingly obvious reality. Comparing the cost of mitigating climate change over not mitigating climate change sometimes ignores we aren't in a static reality - the status quo is that we are accelerating in a direction that leads to higher and higher costs.

Finally, the return on an investment can change over time. For many people, planting one tree is obviously worth the cost of planting one tree. I've got space in my backyard, and I have seeds. It's a few square feet and it sequesters about a ton of CO2 over 40 years. I mean, that's a hell of a return on an investment, compared to not planting the tree. Now, that return will go down over time, as it becomes harder and more expensive for society to plant trees, several billion trees from now. But right now it's easy money. A US Citizen can currently offset their own carbon footprint by paying tree-planting services somewhere between $120 and $200 per year. That's cheap. It'll get more expensive over time until the point it's not "worth it" by some argument, and that can also mean that "the effort of offsetting the worlds carbon footprint through world reforestation isn't worth it", but that doesn't mean it's not worth it at first.
For everyone one of the apple / google huge privacy breach headlines / comments some quick thoughts.

Google and Apple can at least plausibly infrastructure an anonymized data collection service and control access to it reasonably.

- You probably should worry more about the per user per connection logs your "loggless" VPN provider keeps in crappy open to the world datastores.

- The data sniffing and tracking your own ISP is doing.

- The uninstallable malware / bloatware etc that comes on huge number of phones built by third parties (ie, not google or apple).

Whenever I sign up for a "free" service (like google analytics or its equivalent for android) I am under almost no illusion that google isn't also using that data to help track users access the web target them, figure out what ads to show on my site (if I let them) etc etc.

And yes, we will find out that facebook tracks the URLs of sites people share on their platform and "snoopes" on that to figure out popularity trends. And twitter will watch tweet metrics related to their competitors. I wonder if we will get some headlines over those issues.

Finally, some folks come up with weird threat models - google is out to get me and now they can. Heads up, google could get you before this as well if they cared to. Can you imagine a govt having google's power. That would be a near dictatorship!
It is sorta getting out there. Eg our corporate booking portal told you price and carbon emission so it was at least sorta in your face every time you fly
I use mailcow and it does both a) and b) very well. You can either selfhost or pay the developer to host it for you: https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
All very good but we got to hope us all sitting at home popping out now and then. Provides enough of an economy to employ us all.
A lot of the people who consume and therefore pay for the work we do. Work in those facilities management, building security, shop worker, cafe and restaurant workers, public transportation etc.

If there is no demand or it dramatically reduces possibly a lot of us remote workers will find we also are no longer needed or far worse compensated.

We all need to look at the chain that feeds us.

What is going to replace the busy cities, airports, offices and all the infrastructure and it's supply chain?

A lot of IT roles will disappear also.
I hear this a lot, but does every bit of that really just go up into the air? Don’t trees often break down and become soil, and new trees grow on top of them?
>And if you find yourself getting "cancelled" everywhere you go? Probably a personal problem.

I'm not sure where you got the impression that the parent was constantly being canceled. The actual problem is that nobody wants to be canceled even once, so they're forced to be perpetually on their tippy toes. The recent cancellations[1] for (arguably) non-hateful behavior creates a chilling effect.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635384
This is a great list. Given my limited attention span, I've always been drawn to short fiction. I'm familiar with a number of the stories mentioned and some of the "runners up". And now I've got a list of new stories to hunt down.

One typo: "Speaker of the Dead" should be "Speaker for the Dead".
Research Based on the .NET Runtime (2019)
What is Dreamwidth?
A totally cool looking camera.
Doing aggregate queries is free - only if you want to download actual data do we start charging money. You could just do the following via the CLI using a free account:

$ shodan count product:Elastic org:Azure

This entire website is powered by a free API key: https://exposure.shodan.io
You probably could have gone with FDR.
Skimmed the paper so couldn't possibly give it a fair review but I always feel there's something off when people make comparisons of ANNs to actual biological brains. Even more so when it's the other way about.
> if you were willing to only use dependencies from people you trusted that closely

No that's what makes it a network. There's a transitive closure, so you can also use dependencies from someone trusted by someone you trust, or by someone trusted by someone trusted by someone you trust, and so on.
Typically at the expense of latency, unfortunately. High enough to dramatically worsen the experience of rhythm games.
Why Is Free Pascal Better Than PHP?
Why do you feel it is important to characterize the nature of the data? The unauthorized deletion is wrong regardless of the nature of the data.
Atlassian is not on Google Cloud, they are an AWS shop. I suspect this is an unrelated personal project.
So basically remote work leads to meritocracy. Maybe society would be better off if businesses actually worked like that.
They certainly make sure taxes get paid. I'm not claiming that they set tax rates.

(But they do have a lot of influence on how big of a budget the city government gives them, using that tax revenue.)
I just meant despite the nice features, Nim is deeply impractical to use in situations with business problems, because the cost to adopt a new ecosystem without mature libraries is too high.

In other words I meant: if you like Nim’s features but find you need to do more than toy coding, checkout Cython. While your mere preferences may favor Nim, Cython can be used to solve problems without requiring companies to make a seismic change.
Wiping won't help if the hardware itself is compromised. Which is not totally implausible.
I love True Names, it is an absolute gem. I got Vinge to sign my copy of "True Names and Other Dangers", a collection of his short stories.
You're lucky if you only get 2 spams a day. My parents are getting more like 20-50 a day on the email provided by a national ISP.

It's getting impossible to read emails, too many. If it were not for them being used to their email address and me being lazy, I would move them off to gmail.
Oops no welfare for you!

I understand that some people won't learn without encouragement but it's not a good thing for all.
Ask HN: How to contact a writer of a book without LinkedIn/Twitter?
Hello, I was just trying to message an author of this [0] book to get a discount( due to currency rates -1$=6.85 my currenxy- so %50 is fine with me)

He does not respond on Linkedin. Also his twitter cannot be reached from his site. What to do?
Btw, I finished first 200 pages (of 400 pages free preview) and loved it. Thank you in advance.

[0]https://alvinalexander.com/scala/learning-functional-programming-in-scala-book
Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb's vibrations
Thanks. Fixed. I admit a lot of these stories tend towards novelette or novella length. But it's still easier for me than a novel these days in general.
There are many more people who want to drive a car, than people who want to learn the minutiae of how it works.

If it breaks, then you get someone else to fix it / get a better product is all they need to know.
This is more relevant now than ever.