skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh in my case it's an entry bridge I run, not an exit relay. That's the one you really need to worry about being. It's not recommended anyone does that (at least at home). What I'm recommending is very safe as it doesn't directly connect your computer or IP address to anything bad. I've run this node for about 2 years now. Tor project has excellent explainer pages about the risks and how it all works.

If however you mean not being involved with the Tor project in any capacity whatsoever, I really insist that that's the wrong, and a very dangerous anti-freedom philosophy to take.

At some point, we have to take a stand and defend the right to absolute encryption for anybody, no questions asked. Why? Because this is the normal human experience.

Privacy is normal and healthy. Having everything you do recorded and stored by others permanently, is not normal or healthy.

The more you use and promote the use of encryption, privacy and anti-censorship technologies in benign and good contexts like mine, the less it's dismissed as an automatic indicator of crime.

As far as I'm concerned, I consider myself lucky that I have legal freedom of association in my own country so that I can even safely run this Tor bridge. As to the court of public opinion on the social level in my community, all I need to do is explain this important humanitarian use case that I do it for.
There are less than 100 days to the election and they are only running the first human trials.
Imho there is no way a vaccine makes it to public in time for Trump.
I wish my freezer wuld have spare space for mug filled with water

I keep my freezer at least 90-95% (you may think 5-10% is enough for cup, but it's just small flat space available among drawers) full pretty much all the time, it keeps it running at highest efficiency and also you have always maximum available amount of food in case of lockdown for instance
Echo dots are from Amazon, this article is about the competing product from google. OR you wanna implicate that amazon is doing the same?
The Hippocratic Oath is not for assigning blame or providing accountability towards society's rules - at least not in the first place. It is a reminder of basic ethical and professional standards and contributes to the common understanding of a physician's role.

This may seem ridiculous considering the responsibilities of medical professionals but it works as a baseline independent of the legal and moral standards of the particular society they live in.

So to answer your question:

Yes, the software engineer could be held accountable - yet, that would arguably be up to him- or herself in many cases [1]. There were physicians in history who have done horrible things [2] and - if not by the legal system - they were at least judged by their peers for their actions.

From my perspective, the most valuable aspect of having an oath (and that I regard for professions in general) seems to be the opportunity it offers for reflection, identity and future aspirations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath#Violation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
> Well, the exhaust in reality is much more clean then presented in some media.

And yet they bought monkeys to prove their point, rather than breathing it in themselves.

You're right about the psychopath thing, though. They could simply be cold and cynical.
I tend to chuck in a handful of ice cubes into my gazpacho, it doesn't dilute the mass all that much and really helps with the blender warming up the soup.
And what does Apple get in return? Some lip service praise from media? Would US government compensate Apple with tax break? What about the jobs that might be lost?

Think of Google then. Google's exit from China achieves one thing, that is becoming irrelevant to the Chinese people, while giving its competitor a free run of the world biggest internet market.

Control through market is a trick that US has been playing since WWII. It is proven to be effective.
This talk was formative for my opinion of Oracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc (the good bit starts at 32 minutes)
That's true, and the reason why we need healthy oceans and rain forests. They are carbon dioxide sinks and store carbon for eons.
It says the Faradaic efficiency is 90%, which unfortunately is not the total energy efficiency. Total energy efficiency also includes thermodynamic and practical constraints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_efficiency#Faradaic_lo...

However that's still a great figure.

I'm in awe that a carbon-substrate catalyst converts CO2 so well without degrading itself.
I mean... my first reading of that is "what a dumb idea, the reason it isn't const is that there are legit reasons to switch userid".

But then I have used exactly this pattern, and it looks something like:

struct protected_stuff {
int userid;
...
};

void set_userid(const struct protected_stuff prot, int newuserid)
{
struct protected_stuff backdoor = (struct protected_stuff *)prot;
backdoor->userid = newuserid;
}

and then the compiler complains if you go fiddling with userid outside this function where you deliberately opened a backdoor to write to it. (and you can wrap pragmas around that function to turn off warnings).
> I have squatter's legs so the inner thigh grinds to a pulp on most brands but levi's lasts the longest.

My quads aren't even that big and yet I seem to have this problem. It only started after lifting for a few years and it drives me crazy. I seem to go through jeans every 3 years whereas before it felt like they would last a life time.
Kim Dotcom and Richard O'Dwyer were pretty ridiculous, but Julian Assange was trafficking in what he knew were stolen U.S. government secrets. I think there's a good first amendment defence for Assange, based on the public good and his role in whistleblowing, but I can understand why the UK would extradite someone allegedly knowingly handling stolen state secrets of an ally.
History of democracy in South Korea is short, and privacy is not recognized as an important virtue. Sacrificing your rights for the nation (or historically the kingdom) is an important duty, and failure to abide by such ‘selflessness’ is deemed as malicious and egocentric. It will take many more decades for South Korea to shed its cultural shadow of being subject to a ruler.

A case and point: Seoul is riddled with security cameras on every street. This makes Seoul an incredibly safe city, but also with decreased sense of privacy. Cameras are everywhere, and this is not recognized much as a potential problem in South Korea.

With Covid, there is a pending legislation to sign in your name and social security number whenever you visit designated crowded areas. I am worried for the increased loss of freedom and privacy in South Korea, but the culture worries less about that, and more about mutual subsistence.
Not only in the US, that is pretty typical for the whole American continent, even worse in Latin America as it's seen as a "gay" trait to be into fashion.

As a straight man who is into fashion for quite a few years now and who moved out of Brazil to Sweden: that culture is pretty stupid, I feel so much better and more myself when I'm able to express my personality with my clothes without the fear of being judged by someone's else prejudice... Even better that it's a common thing in Western Europe for people to be more fashionable.

I've bought some pieces that are pretty bold, I love some avant-garde male fashion pieces and being able to wear that without people batting an eye (and even getting random compliments) makes me feel pretty good, hope the Americas can get to this point because it's a very toxic masculinity trait for a whole continent to have and perpetuate.
Computer Operator is probably close to being extinct but that was actually my first IT job, in 2010! It was for a very old school credit union, and I basically managed all their AIX systems and ran the nightly batch jobs for all the daily financial transactions.

They changed the title to 'UNIX Administrator' while I was there so that should give you an idea.
I think you wanna correct your numbers. Is is 300 MB? 500 MB? Total or each? Or is this some kind of parody I don't understand?
> The technical term for what you're describing is "collective punishment".

Which is the same kind of thinking that justifies genocide and racism in general.
The consumer is harmed because there is no one incentivised to create new content, or at least the incentives are severely diminished.

In the story here the celebrity net worth data had to be created and this was worth doing due to the ad revenue. Making the existing data available to consumer is a benefit but the negative is the lack of new content. So now consumer have easier access to old, inaccurate data.
This is why Graal languages virtualise C extensions by interpreting them, allowing them to appear to meet a fixed C interface with quirks but really being implemented more efficiently.
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A typo is possible if it had been submitted to normal code review, but hacking into a server to secretly modify code all but rules out an accident.
Twitter has a couple of talks about it.

https://jaxenter.com/graalvm-chris-thalinger-interview-16307...
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You know people have limited capacity of hands and not everyone is cooking just for 1-2 people, right?

While this may be OK for single or couple without children, it's hard to imagine it for family with 4+ members.
I think there's a lost opportunity here to bring monk-type robes back into fashion.
The latent heat of alcohol is also only about 1/3 that of water per unit mass, so not a very dense way of storing energy, even if you were to freeze it.

Adding salt to water reduces the latent heat density too (pure water is hard to beat there), but not as much as adding alcohol does.
Personally I prefer vips[0]. The CLI interface makes more sense to me than ImageMagick's and vips is automatically multi-threaded, so it runs fast and uses little RAM especially on large images.

[0]: https://libvips.github.io/libvips/API/current/using-cli.html
that's funny. how did you find out?
I think the generally accepted fix here (despite Rachel’s aversion) is to submit a PR to the file writing library that fixes the corruption issue (likely using atomic rename), then get the tool to bump the version of their dep or vendor in the fixed version.

I’ll admit, though, that the balkanization of code adds overhead from the abstraction. I just don’t think it’s a bad thing, because it’s all very new and things are still shaking out.

Imagine if the fix lands in the config file writer library and all the downstreams regularly upgrade their deps; the fix is now a lot more widespread. This is better than every single end dev knowing about atomic renames, I think.
What? How?

>No more system that allows mistake debits or others to accidentally/maliciously deduct from my checking account, such that I have to be watching for errors

Sure, with bitcoin you can't get charged maliciously (if you don't get your keys stolen) or get hit by a chargeback but... i can't think of any financial system that's less error tolerant and that requires more attention to errors. What he describes has nothing to do with bitcoin, at all.
> How does harvesting peat release CO2 into the athmosphere?

Peat forms in bogs and the plant matter within is decomposing under specific anearobic conditions. When harvested the microorganisms contained within go from anaerobic to aerobic conditions. Under aerobic conditions the continued decomposition of the plant matter releases CO2.

Addressing the comment below, just exposing something to the air doesnt make it evaporate into CO2, but add bacteria and fungi and it will be metabolised by them, releasing CO2
So you agree it’s on-par with OpenJDK, and admit sometimes a lot better in practice, and it’s free... and you’re still not happy simply because there exists something even better which isn’t free?
My mother in law has a small freezer in the kitchen, and a bigger freezer in the basement.

That way she can load the cooking ingredients into the smaller kitchen freezer before cooking, can keep most of the stock in the basement.

Best of both world, assuming you're sufficiently organized to actually remember to move the stuff to the kitchen in advance, and not forget half of it :-)
Best feature of UPI for me is you can interact with UPI via USSD code (*99#) which is terrific for someone like me who don't use any proprietary apps on his Lineageos.
As much as I like Finns I will say that in the Nordics the stylish scale for me goes: Sweden - Denmark - Norway - Finland. Not sure where I would put Icelandic fashion sense in there as I had very little contact with Icelandics living here in Sweden.
So why didn't that happen with the germans and italians in the US?
Hippocratic Oath is the wrong thing. Software Engineers need to act like real Engineers, namely certifications, accepted practices and penalization (revocation of certifications) if accepted practices aren't followed. Software Engineering needs live up to it's actual name and stop being just "programmers".
Wow coming from Microsoft that is a bit rich.
I do understand the problem with developers being a law unto themselves but that was largely caused by the propriety mess caused by Microsoft and others.
So now they want to fix what they broke to their advantage.
No thank you.
Please note that "pin" transactions are not settled instantly. It's just that when you pay via pin, the vendor of the machine (most likely CCV or similar) guarantees the shop they get the money.

The actual money transfers (the €5 you paid at some shop from your account to the pin terminal vendor, and the hourly or daily total for that shop from the vendor to the shop's internal account) take place hours after the fact.

So for all parties involved it seems instant, but technology wise it's still more or less batched, but seems instant based on trust.

Of course in The Netherlands, we have SEPA Instant Payments now (based on but not entirely the same as the European IP scheme). These are actually instant; when you pay, account balances of you and the creditor (at the other bank) are updated within 5 seconds.
>. I can't understand how 2 nuclear bombs can be considered to be worse than the millions of deaths a land invasion of Japan would have led to.

>What's actually "rationalization" is to pretend the Americans didn't try everything to convince the Japanese to capitulate or to push for the disproven theory that Japan was about to surrender anyways

Those weren't the only two options. Many scientists working on the Manhattan Project submitted the Szilárd petition, urging the US to inform Japan of the terms of surrender before dropping an atomic bomb on them. The petition was ignored. They didn't even try something as basic as that.

Further, the bombs destructive power could have been demonstrated without dropping one on two cities. A non-inhabited area very possibly could have worked, but a military only target was also a possibility.

This isn't an example of the losers rewriting history, it's straightforward logic. The only situation I would consider launching a nuke today is retaliatory, and I don't see how being the sole owners of a nuclear bomb makes any other situation ethical.
regarding the flip side, at least in Germany that is partially due to your point 1: distrust in government. Where the USA wants guns to protect themselves, Germans want cash.
Fran Allen passes after a career of immense contributions to compilers
Show HN: Kiel – Minimalist Kotlin DSL for RecyclerView.Adapter
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at least half a day is usually safe.
All Appliances sold in EU have this in their data sheet:
‘power cut safe “X” h’ defined as ‘temperature rise time’

Me example from last year:
4h at about 20C Ambient temperture: 4 degree Celsius loss from -20C

Too bad smart home temperature logging is failing too while power is off:
https://twitter.com/mxfh/status/1194646175644897281/
When you consider that all you have to do to acquire (not master) a skill is get past the total beginner phase it actually makes quite a lot of sense to jump to something that catches your interest as soon as possible. You can use that newfound interest to break through the first few weeks which are generally the hardest. Basically catch the spark of curiosity and go start a fire instead of letting it vanish.

Okay long story short here is my advice: Just do it. Do it every day. If you find something more important and interesting then do that instead.

Of course it is even better if you have found something that is more important to you than everything else. There is no shame in doing the same thing for years.
The counterpoint to that is the fact we know about these issues and can talk about them freely.

In a country on the opposite side of the spectrum, doing that lands you in secret jail.
https://www.electricitymap.org/map illustrates this for the world, it offers estimates for types of electricity generation in each country and where a country or region offers real-ish time data on power generation it reflects that.

Countries/ regions that show dark brown are mostly relying heavily on coal. Getting on for 1 gram per watt-hour of CO2, which is ludicrous.

In a few cases they've managed to find something even less environmentally responsible to burn than coal, such as oil or the most pants-on-head crazy electrical generation method - peat†, which unless somebody starts a national project of shooting endangered animals and then burning the corpses as fuel ought to stand as the least responsible way to make power.

† In theory burning wood could be sustainable because you really could grow enough wood quickly enough to power a not insubstantial electricity plant forever. You probably shouldn't but you could. Peat does not form quickly enough for that to ever be practical.
Normal people don't care about walled gardes. They use facebook, instagram, youtube and discord to share their content. Writing blogs is mostly old-school for the strange dudes or those with real content.
Also, get a chest freezer. They are much more efficient.

Every time you open a standing freezer, the cold air "false out", since cold air is more dense than warm air. The chest freezer on the other hand will hold the cold air in place.
What exactly do you mean by chip tracking?
Nah, mate, the equivalent is found in the realm of high male fashion [0][1]. High fashion != gay.

[0] https://www.rickowens.eu/ as an example

[1] https://theshopyohjiyamamoto.com/shop/r/r10/?h1_text_prm=Yoh...
Some comments mention GraphicsMagick as an alternative so a fyi...

I made previous comment[0] explaining why I initially used GraphicsMagick but it didn't work for Photoshop PSD files so I had to switch to ImageMagick.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825536
How about a Hippocratic Oath for the pharmaceutical industry first?
I think what author said is explained in the article, as that such approach undermines small businesses which provide informational services. They won't be able to hire data analysts and researchers anymore, hence quality of information in info boxes will decline as information gets outdated. In other words Google is stealing data presenting as it's own taking all the benefits of embedding ads data
Similar stories in retro shmups: Gradius was obviously supposed to be Gladius, while R-TYPE was named with the intention of R standing for "Laser". Upon discovering laser is spelt with an L, the creators retconned the R to stand for "Round canopy", a trait of the ship in the game.
Waiting for ISPs to adopt and start charging for the faster route
What Is Database?
It's about definition and feature of Database.
You can also learn about RDBMS.
It’s even less nefarious than that.

To put it simply, humans are creatures of habit. In a vacuum devoid of propaganda, we will still continue to repeat the habits we have developed.

Facebook or google don’t need to do any advertising to keep their audience on the platform. That pesky “g-o” you impulsively type into the address bar will do it for them!

The only saving grace for humanity is that people die, and not all of their habits get passed to the next generation.
Source? Governments are quick to brag but the reality in many places is that capacity is overwhelmed and it still takes several days to get results. That might be better than weeks in the US, but it's not black and white.
Ask HN: What's the best virtual teambuilding you've participated in? Why?
We run virtual visits of Paris (https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/1657932) and we want to make it more virtual team building friendly.
If you liked that, you shoud also check out monogatari series, tatami galaxy.
> If total latency ~ 500 ms, phone-to-tower is maybe 50ms of that in 4G. Even if it's down to ~1ms, total latency is only down 10%.

How did you come up with 500ms for comparison? A fast-paced videogame with that sort of latency would be unplayable. 100ms is still considered bad and 50ms is considered acceptable.
Yes, it is. Just like you have a taste in music, doesn't music express your personality somehow? It's all a matter of notes, timing and timbre.

The same with clothes: the choice of textures say something about you, the choice of cuts say something, the choice of colour the same. The thing is: the clothes you wear need to resonate with you to become part of your expression.

It's not that your clothes = your personality, but the choices you've done consciously will tell someone else about you, the same as looking around your book shelves at home. The thing is: you need to care about you are wearing for it to become something expressive.

With my clothes I can signal a lot of stuff to others that are into the same things I am, I can signal hobbies, I can signal that I care about a particular type of material or cut, and so on.

If not then you are just being practical and wearing what is expected from you, nothing wrong with that but don't judge and put others down because they take this more into consideration than you do.
Media outlets claiming the guy would lose his lawsuit and then being proven wrong does not make their claims about him being a holocaust denier or not a thinly veiled hate speech proponent.

Propagating hate and inciting hostility in between any group of people is not freedom of speech. Contrary to entire rest of the sane world, US law may be yet allowing such dangerous sociopathy to happen, but that does not make it something legitimate. The last time it was let be Nazis took over Germany. The rest is history.

Today we have nuclear weapons. If this repeats one more time, regardless of who is the target of the sociopathy, there wont be a third time for human civilization.
Both have nuclear weapons.

If the war is going to happen it will happen somewhere close to China, because the reverse isn't possible.

But if you are talking about winning a war that is close to China, against China, you are not in the right mind.

Truth to be told, not even US can afford to total war against China on its own. You need a WW3 to drag everyone into the battle.
Is convenience the only axis that we care about now?
Yes, diversity is crucial for the survival of our species. The more I learn and think about all things, I'm seeing it's linked to genetic diversity, and many other physical health issues.

Diversity is hard to swallow, given our tribalistic nature, but we have no choice but to foster and protect it, now that we're hyper globalised.

China's action to standardise and promote monoculture is a big failure that will eventually collapse in the future. It's just a question of when.