skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a chance. While the "revolution" in Romania 31 years ago started as spontaneous protests was quickly hijacked by an organised clique so it became a coup in a matter of days. The book "Coup d'Etat" [1] lists this "revolution" as a coup in one Appendix. If you ask people in the know in Romania, they'll all agree, they'll even tell you who the key people were.

This thing in Belarus here is no coup, it has no chance to succeed.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Coup-d%C3%89tat-Practical-Handbook-Re...
Your anecdote rings true according to my experience. Did people in many of them end up complaining a lot about Mongo too, but "hey, it is what it is, and it's what we use now"?

A consequence of this is later, junior devs have their experience shaped by this kind of places, and end up choosing Mongo for their next piece of software, perpetuating the cycle of... life?
Interestingly, I've seen the equivalent of this on the low end - workers in third-world machine shops or electronics recycling places with an opaque block between them and the workpiece, with a cell phone and its camera slotted into a cutout. Just look at the phone screen, not the workpiece.
Next you're going to tell me Fire didnt collapse the 3rd WTC building 7?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/university-study-fi...
Indeed in general you’ll have better luck detonating C4 by hitting it with a hammer hard enough than with heat.

There are two main types of common explosives those which can be detonated using fire (e.g. gunpowder) and those which are shock detonated (e.g. cemtex).

The blasting cap is just that an explosive that generates the sock needed to trigger the primary explosive, the blasting cap can usually be triggered with heat with an electric or flammable fuse.
Splitting up your plan into discrete parts that seem relatively inert on their own isn't a new thing. ANFO is a good example.

And it's pretty easy to do this in a way that front line and low level MGMT Googlers wouldn't know.

The AMP lead, for example, has posted here, and seems credible and very competent for his own intentions. I'm not convinced he's totally aware of the intentions of his leadership chain.
Yes, it seems to be more on the line of (not necessarily super factual correct representation):

Workers: We need a workers council.

N24: Let make a international workers council with representatives of every country but we don't give any but the German ones the legal protections which means if the non German representatives act out of place we can fire them and with this we can control the council.

Workers: Uhm, no we are not stupid. A international council is ok but you must legally binding commit to give non German representatives the same protection they would have in Germany.

N26: Nope, our way or no council.

Workers: Sure, but you know German law.

N26: Let's try to abuse COVID-19 hygiene regulations to hinder them.

Me: Facepalm, you are making it worse.
lol, you brought it up.
I think it’s worth noting that no engineer at Mozilla owes anything to us as the public, especially not this week.
> the GIL get released for many computing intensive or IO bound tasks in Python

I/O bound, yes, since that requires system calls, and system calls (reading from a socket is an example of a system call) release the GIL.

Computing intensive, no. Code that is doing a CPU intensive computation but makes no system calls will never release the GIL.
This is really sad for me personally.

I unexpected met Russell at a coffee shop in Portland. He was incredibly generous with his time and his comments left a mark on me.

I wrote about it here - https://impossiblehq.com/an-unexpected-ass-kicking/
Zachtronics aren't even hiding it---just write some microcontroller code!
The real number is vastly higher than 1000.
Why is Google even interested in Firefox users?

Presumably many/most of those users are not happy with Google/Chrome/advertising/tracking.

If there is some sort of "threat" to Google from Mozilla, this is like Google funding antitrust think tanks. It is difficult to take Mozilla, the organisation not necessarily the work product, seriously.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/technology/global-antitru...

Neither the (NetBSD) OS nor the GCC compiler I am using, not to mention myriad other programs, needs to be supported by advertising. What makes the "web browser" different?

As the comments on the Register article point out, it seems $400 million/year is how much money it takes to develop/maintain a web browser.

https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/08/14/mozilla_...
> In 2014, Incitec Pivot won approval for a storage facility on Kooragang Island, three kilometres from the centre of Newcastle. It has not yet built the facility, which would have the capacity for 30,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate.

In the name of all that's holy: what the FUCK? Who even thinks of such a thing? And who dares to approve it?

> IIRC Orica is the same company that made that stuff that was stored on docks of Beirut.

To be fair the company is not responsible for the (iirc) Russian ship owner simply disavow and dump ship, sailors and cargo, or for the incompetence of the Lebanese government.
I wonder to what extent it's actually true though, to what extent are higher prices not simply driven by higher costs, rather than some kind of tacit collusion to drive excess profit?

Population density in Canada is about 4 per square km, in the US about 36, and in the UK (pretty typical for western-europe) about 270.

I know that much of Canada is mostly uninhabited and typical population density is a lot higher, still, to hook up Canadian telecom infrastructure seems to be inherently to be a much more expensive endeavour.

I compared quickly (not very thorough) the profit margins and some ratios of US/Canadian telecoms, and they're really not much different.
The kind that was sent in to ignite the fireworks and detonate the “bomb”?
Move one more island over to New Zealand. The animal kingdom is much more friendly.
I was able to dynamically issue a key file from GCP IAM with stackdriver access (a JSON file), base64 decode it and pass part of it into an env variable of an AWS Fargate task--- all with Pulumi and all at deploy time. I don't know how I might have done that otherwise, but I can't imagine the alternative would have been as elegant by any other means.

Terraform has been making great strides, but at this point Pulumi really leads in policy, modularity, extensibility via Dynamic providers etc.

I think what they are doing with a K8s provisioner is really interesting. I know that the Kubernetes ecosystem has a dizzying amount of ways to build yaml (and json) config, but Pulumi can reach many other places, all with great type hints.
Yes, that's true, although most lenders only require 15% down for owner-occupied two-families.
I just want to do a double check: Is this satire?
> Imagine we farmed cattle by flying about in Zepplins, lowering giant nylon nets and dragging across the ground.

That would be more fishing in a submarine.

Lots of farms use planes and drones and helicopters for hunting and droving.

An ok equilivent to fishing is just when you eat game bird. They are even caught in nets.

One problem with fish farms is they feed them with small fish caught at sea for this purpose. If the environmental movement wasn't so toxic you could stop this quite easily though.

But hunting from a zeppelin would be amazing. On my bucket list.
Great article.

I guess the next question is, how does one create a way to reliably generate these kinds of "itch scratching" type queries on a regular basis?

My immediate guess would be to just be building something within your niche that you find interesting. And the ideas would come as a by-product of that.

So this definitely works best for builders. Those who are just focused on content creation and not building may have a pretty tough time using this strategy, due to lack of ideas.
My naïve guess is that it's used to assist in triangulating where incoming rockets / mortars are fired from.

Edit: I read the article and it has nothing to do with the Iron Dome (unless it's military equipment posing as science equipment).
You are missing the point it’s not that you physically can’t do that but you can’t do that while supporting (as indirectly financially) Firefox, it also ensures that Firefox doesn’t go out of their way to push people to de-google.
Yeah, Arabs in general are super into fireworks - mostly on the personal-size firecrackers scale, but put enough of those together in a pile and you'll get a good ignition source.
> International relations is an actual subject area. It's true that we don't need that many diplomats

In my experience "International Relations" classes teach very little that's actually valuable. I think there's a common in mistake in thinking at because X is important, then university classes about X are useful. There are a lot of subjects that are important but where the study of it in academia (at least at the undergraduate level, but I suspect higher up as well) isn't handled well at all.

I think the mistake that a lot of people make, however, is thinking that this is merely a humanities vs. STEM issue. There also seems to be a lot (though perhaps not quite as much) useless classes in the STEM fields as well.

Worst of all, I've seen very little interest in academia (both STEM and the humanities) in whether or not their way of teaching is effective - its simply assumed to be, and that's the end of the discussion much of the time. It's claimed that academia fosters critical thinking, but there often seems to be a dearth of critical thinking from those who are within it.
In a vacuum. See Cherenkov radiation[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
> The same way Chrome advertises on Google.com, Microsoft can provide the default fucking browser that is HUGE

And they already do, with a Chromium based browser.

> They have a huge opportunity here to complete

With what? Maintaining the other browser engine is not that monetizable.
Sounds like a win-win to me. Actually, win-win-win, because I think this sounds like a pretty cool excursion.
I could speculate that an array of seismic or comparable detectors would be able to pick up direction and with filtering and processing, identify the type of source.

Somewhat relevant link:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28700-earthquake-dete...
> You simply do not store that much fertilizer in a single place.

If it doesn't make sense, it's not true.

This doesn't make sense.
Ah, apologies.

Key management is indeed just another - hopefully simpler - version of the same problem. The reason why it simplifies things is because a single key can invalidate a lot of data stored in places that are out of reach such as cold backups.

But you still have the same essential problem.
>I wonder how they filter out meaningless noise

If the meaningless noise is local, I would try employing multiple detectors separated widely.
I don’t think Gozilla is anything to do with Mozilla is it?
Sure. I'm curious if they have some ML or other tech to weed out false positives.
> I am almost positive it is being done with some form of non blocking sockets.

Database libraries in Python that support this (as opposed to blocking, synchronous sockets, which are of course common) are pretty thin on the ground. That's why I would have liked to see more details in the article about exactly how the benchmark was doing the database queries.

> There is no "direct library calls" as the database server exists as a separate process to the server process.

Yes, you're right, I wasn't being very clear. The key question is, as above, whether nonblocking sockets are being used or not.
Wow, I hadn't thought about that wall at toys'r'us in ~25 years, and that excitement just flooded into my brain reading this. But also, it made remember Funcoland, damn, even the smells came back to my brain. Thank you!
It's $10 on my steam page.
Elon Musk blasts SpaceX competitor ULA as 'a complete waste of taxpayer money
Original source, without the anti-adblocker stuff on tomshardware.com: https://metalbabble.wordpress.com/2020/02/08/the-final-front...

As per HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

This looks an interesting article, so please do it justice by posting the original source.
Also tunnels - https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-lebanon/israel-to-b...
It's mostly the same since 3.x though. The filmic rgb code got a pretty spicy color science update though. I'd even wager it's better than Lightroom in that aspect.
NTFS read-write driver GPL implementation by Paragon Software
but is that reason good enough to take away everyone's right to go to college?

here is where personal responsibility comes into play. If you are concerned stay home. The university and laws should support you.

But the solution is not to punish everyone else, that won't work long term. The sooner people realize that the better. Limiting and collectively taking away people's rights will cause far more trouble long term.
Note that this is specifically in a form factor made for mining explosives (i.e. to be mixed with oil at the worksite to make ANFO) - not necessarily very convenient for military use.
I mean meaningless noise like mining, road building, seismic tests, fireworks displays, etc, versus actionable stuff.
Just FYI, you caused me to spend about 45 mins learning about the Ceausescus, so thanks.
GPT-3 generated blog post reach #1 on Hacker News
> “I do not believe that they are associated with the large explosion in Beirut,” Jerry Carter, director of IRIS data services, told Reuters.

> “They could be from a seismic survey,” he added, referring to geologists carrying out airgun bursts for underwater mapping.
I find it very interesting that given a chance to hover up a billion records we see no technical challenge at all but when asked to get rid of them suddenly you're demanding unobtanium.

If you can't reliably get rid of the data you administer, don't collect it in the first place.
Can't wait for a sleepover, which implies several people, in a closed room. Just them, me and covid. What a great idea.
I would prefer if businesses didn’t sell products at a loss. It just leads to dumb situations all over the place.
And in fact, the judge ordered the government to either sell it off or put it in safe storage... about 6 years ago.
I accidentally burned my dinning room table after leaving a magnifying work lamp on the table the night before that caught the sunlight through a window in just the right way to focus it onto the wood.
I can see the value of letting people pay with time if they are less inclined to pay with money, but I wish we could let them pay by actually doing something useful with that time, rather than by having them waste it (and I don't think entertainment is a total waste of time).

I don't know of a good way to actually make that happen, and I'm not suggesting we should ban sales or anything like that, just that the current system wastes people's time and it would be better if it didn't.
The Walkie Talkie building in London has already achieved this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_Fenchurch_Street#Solar_gl...
You're arguing for my point, not against it. (Though your basis for it isn't even true; HTM could avoid mutexes.)
> if you want to change the goalposts and talk about "close to worst", fine

I didn't say deaths though, I said "handled", so if there's any goalpost motion it seems to be on your part. Some cities just had bad initial outbreaks. Madrid didn't make better policy decisions than Berlin in February/March, they were just unlucky.

But in April/May, we knew how this virus worked, mostly. And, mostly, nations around the industrialized world made policy decisions designed to contain it. And it worked.

With one very notable exception. I'll say it again, and stand by it: No one handled this as badly as we did, objectively.

> It can only mean that you are trying to count total deaths, I think, which is a meaningless statistic unless you scale it to the population size.

Clearly I was talking per capita and extrapolating the current curve out. Here, check for yourself: https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=countr...

See how the total deaths per capita are quite flat now across all industrialized nations? See also how the USA is... not?
Good-quality dev tools seems to be one of the things they're abandoning in the recent layoffs: "In order to refocus the Firefox organization on core browser growth through differentiated user experiences, we are reducing investment in some areas such as developer tools, internal tooling, and platform feature development, and transitioning adjacent security/privacy products to our New Products and Operations team"
"I cannot say that I agree that it is appropriate to take corporate action against somebody for the opinions they hold as a private citizen."

This is definitely valid! I thiiink I'd still disagree- in a public-facing leadership role, it's just not that easy to separate personal actions from business-related ones- but it's definitely a view I have some sympathy for. I do get where you're coming from.

That said- Eich resigned. He wasn't fired. And so far I've seen no real evidence that this wasn't just his decision- that he realized he wasn't the best candidate for CEO because of his past actions. Perhaps he really was just pushed out... If you have anything backing that up, I'd like to see it.

Because from what I've read- and that's not too much, so if there's any info I'm missing please fill me in- if I say "I don't like the CEO, I won't donate anymore while he's in charge, and you shouldn't either"...am I in the wrong?
It has actually happened and they did come clean about it. Some data was discovered in log files that shouldn't have been there. They owed up and fixed it pronto even if the chances that the data was leaked outside of Google were nil. There is plenty wrong with Google, but that isn't one of those.
> The Republicans normally make this a truism by sabotaging government programs

Yes, but you have to contend with the reality that you are participating in the same government as they are. It's like constantly insisting on sharing a pool with a kid that constantly insists on peeing in it, with no real way to kick that kid out. It's a byproduct of the polity in which we are participating, and as long as a democratically elected government consists of people who don't agree with you (read: polarized / corrupt), the services they run will have problems, as we are seeing.

> The USPS has been a reliable actor for 245 years. Its infrastructure, like electricity, or roads, and should not be subject to "we should run this like a for profit business" concerns.

Just because the USPS has been reliable in the past, doesn't mean that it's structurally set up to be reliable forever. It could also just mean that we weren't as polarized about how the USPS should function in the past, and we are now. As long as that continues to be the case, the USPS will be a sub-optimal agency. In contrast, how many goods & services provided by the private sector have this problem? If a corporation is self-sabotaging, it will die, and be replaced by another corporation. That doesn't appear to be the case with a polarized government.

Also, the allergic reaction to privatization / profits strikes me as just as (if not more) reactionary than the right-wing allergic reaction to public services. The private sector is involved in reliably providing us with critical goods & services like food, clothing, furniture, housing (in markets without onerous zoning), transportation, information technology, e-mail, cloud computing, electronics, etc etc etc. All of those things gotten cheaper over time (even relative to inflation), have seen an increase in investment over time, and an increase in quality over time. The profit motive is just the incentive for people to provide goods & services for others, as efficiently as possible. It's not a silver bullet, as monopolies can lead to rent seeking, but to suggest that the private sector is always and unquestionably "bad" is not a serious opinion worth engaging with. Importantly, the public sector is also not a silver bullet, as we are seeing.

Also, privatized postal services aren't novel either. Singapore's postal service, SingPost, is a publicly traded company. The UK's postal service, Royal Mail, is a publicly traded limited company. Germany's postal service, Deutsche Post AG, is a publicly traded company. Japan's postal service, Japan Post, is a publicly traded company.

Your issue is that you participate in a government where your fellow citizens are voting to sabotage the public services. From where I sit, the private sector strikes me as strictly better than a self-sabotaging public sector that's governed by Republican politicians every 4-8 years. Either we continue to swim in a pee-filled pool, or we figure out another swimming arrangement.
Hell for some 'holler down in West Virginia or Kentucky a reliable 3mbps would be amazing. Many of those sorts of places have 384kbps-768kbps DSL or even dialup... in 2020. They just don't have the infrastructure and it costs way too much to build out last mile over vast stretches of land with few customers, and it's compounded in some areas by a lack of even stable right-of-way where you can easily run cable.

The market for this is huge. It's probably not going to displace high-end broadband in medium sized to larger metro areas, but it can clean up when it comes to anything outside of that. The only possible competitor is fixed wireless using next-generation modulations that provide incredible range, but that's hard to deploy over a wide area if the land is not really really flat. I guess 4G could compete too if they radically cut their prices, but I'm not sure the backhaul networks out in them 'thar hills would even be up to the traffic.
Maybe it's better if beginners treat Rust the same way they would when learning a new music instrument. For most people it's better to take lessons early to avoid bad habits, and assume you know very little even if you know another instrument very well.
Only if you treat it like one.

Arguably a well designed system should be built to handle having certain user data deleted without interrupting or breaking anything.
The dynamic range for the types of sensors needed would be immense, even with Neutral Density filters...sounds like a fun project!
That the HN audience in aggregate has a hypocritically lower appetite and interest in Apple's web shenanigans, given that a moderator never identified anything actually wrong with the submission and given that Google would be crucified for a similar action in Chrome for Android.
I’m sure you could find a way to do GAs on a GPU. If you could have generations measured in billions of individuals and compute all of their fitness, mutation, crossover in parallel it should drastically speed up the algorithm.
>But Apple — just as Sweeney seemed to expect — fell right into Epic's trap. It now has to find its own way out.

Weird framing. Like Apple doesn't have sources on the periphery of Epic or Cravath? People talk.
I remember dreams. I don't remember seeing things in them, per se. Just like I remember yesterday, but couldn't visualize anything.

Easiest way to relate it is I will recognize people well. But if you asked me cold to tell you what someone's hair color was, I'm unlikely to be able to. (Now, if someone is notable for having a color hair, I can remember that as a fact. But I have to specifically remember it as one.)
Why would you expect companies to take a risk on a new grad when they could instead hire someone who has already proven themselves at a different company? Especially during a pandemic where there's so much uncertainty. I'm not saying it's right but it makes sense.
Next you're gonna tell me "News provided by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth" on a paid PR site about an author who apparently hasn't published anything since 2002 (http://cem.uaf.edu/cee/people/leroy-hulsey.aspx) is legit.