skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right - any well-equipped state could have synthesized the nerve agent used on the Skripals. But that's not the only evidence: two suspects were identified, who traveled from Russia and stayed at a local hotel. The nerve agent was found in their hotel room.

Of course, you could argue that British intelligence framed those Russians during the investigation, and poisoned the Skripals themselves as some sort of ruse for expelling diplomats. But if you deny the evidence and proceed down that path, you've made the decision not to alter your beliefs and no discussion will change your mind.
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Governance and lack of a dictator with sane "technical debt to income" ratio. Unless you're NASA, you're not going to get there with a smart committee. You need a single person that can make the right technical decision 80% of the time and business decision 120% of the time.
What was it like setting up CI in the 80s or 90s "without too much hassle?"
Are there any hosting providers offering VMs?
Here's a link showing how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr828Yfhrqc
My experience matches this. I was there when all the “move fast and break things, we’ll fix it later” became bugs and bad situations that suck all the energy from adding anything. Several years later, nothing can get fixed, it’s all fighting the fires. And it was all done following fashion, there was no real need.
Very possibly not. Brush builds up because we suppress fires, the ecosystem is in a fundamentally different state than it has been for most of the last millennium.
That's true of the ones that have only one hose to the outside. Those with two hoses are much better, especially if you insulate the hoses:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24023979
> This is also a great reminder for photographers that you should always back up your images, in multiple places, so you’re never subject to a single point of failure. Mistakes like this happen, even at some of the world’s largest companies

For a long time, I’ve been thinking that for all the value that Adobe provides in some of its products, it’s still quite a bad deal for the users. The single point of failure for people who use Adobe is Adobe. Those who have realized this sooner (around the time it went full-on into subscriptions) and made changes to take more control over their workflow would be better off without being controlled and swayed in every which direction because the company just wants to make more money.

While I feel pained at the loss that the Lightroom app users are going through (any kind of data loss is quite painful), I hope that for their own sake, many more users start looking at alternatives that aren’t premised on holding them hostage.
I would argue that 90 days is 90 days too long. It should be 7 days at most.
I think it's laughable they still charge extra for color pictures.
Makes me wonder if you live in one of the bigger cities? There're fewer mosquitos in the cities?

Whilst if living in a village on the country side, and one uses the malaria nets, maybe that's different? (malaria bigger problem?)

Edit: now I just noticed in a recent comment you wrote that you have "lost count of the number of times [you] have contracted malaria". Ok so that's a very different reason, than what I would have thought. Makes me even more curious about if you live in one of the big cities, or on the countryside /edit

> antipoverty infrastructure

What'd be the most important such things from your perspective?
I saw vim in the article so apparently the answer is yes, one of the highlights.

But honestly I feel like this maybe more useful in tutoring/interviews vs. working. My team of about 10 people is stretched over 1000s of files in about 100 packages and we also have planning to make sure we're not stepping on someone else's toes.
thanks. They provide the torrent themselves.
Maybe if you're comparing flats (most expensive wing) with bone-in skinned chicken breasts (cheapest breast). At least where I live, whole wings (or drumettes) are always cheaper than skinless/boneless chicken breasts.
Just because they are possible in an employee relationship, setting your own hours is typically not representative of an employee relationship. Doing the same job for multiple customers is typical of an independent contractor relationship. I see no evidence of misclassification where this person was employed by multiple employers. Which of the leagues do you believe was his employer?
This reminds me of the Failed Aspirations in Database Systems workshop at VLDB back in 2017. I don't think it turned out to be quite what I was personally hoping it to be, but the idea is great.

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They don’t really explain it. Did users buy a standalone version of these software and adobe now claims they can’t legally use something they bought?
The most important layer in dependency management, I've found, is always in the systems code and what resources it consumes. If you get a handle on that, the rest is addressed with a well-targeted interface to the systems code, which the application uses uniformly. This interface can even take the form of a transpiled language.

And to the degree that Rust is effective, it lets a greater portion of the systems code be managed by a common interface. It remains as painful as most when it comes to binding external C code.

(I do think Zig is really promising in this regard by aiming to absorb C more comprehensively.)
Not the OP, but the ADA only requires that existing businesses/services accommodate disabilities, not provide them where they don’t exist. There’s no mandate to provide transportation for the disabled in the US.

Unsurprisingly, Uber and Lyft have also been violating the ADA for pretty much their entire existence, arguing that they don’t have to comply and settling with states and cities when they lose cases:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90343921/lyft-claims-its-not-a-t...
they mention a vim plugin, but tmux would be even more useful!
Generally the idea is that historically there were frequent fires which kept the available fuel to a lower level.

Humans started fighting wildfires, and for decades we were pretty successful. That resulted in more fuel buildup then happened historically.

When those fire finally burn, they often burn hot enough to destroy trees that used to survive the fires.

I don’t know what the fuel levels were in this area specifically, but yes, it seems plausible that the brush might not have built up to today’s levels before.
I used to live just down the road in Boulder Creek and hiked in Big Basin routinely for years, including hundreds of hours training for the PCT. I really love that place, and hope the damage isn't as apocalyptic as the headline suggests. There have always been big burn areas at least since I started visiting in the nineties. It's an ecosystem built to survive and thrive with fire, if it's not too much of a good thing. I still have family there, I'll be calling for an update soon.

My last visit was a few thanksgivings ago. I took an early morning hike before the feast, and on my way out passed a flock of wild turkeys. They were lucky I didn't have a flintlock blunderbuss with me. I hope they made it through the fire ok.
Those are a different kind of structural concrete cantilever. Look at the pictures of the various houses this group has built. What they all have in common is that: 1) they sit atop tall concrete or block columns on 2) uneven terrain and 3) otherwise use straight-forward, typical wooden beams and joists for the flooring (yes, they might cantilever some, but that's neither new nor uncommon).

I'm no architect, but I think the cost savings as compared to modern techniques (but very much, if not exactly, like older techniques) is the avoidance of 1) clearing and leveling the land and 2) pouring a huge reinforced concrete slab.

Before the advent of hydraulic bulldozers it was just too cost prohibitive to clear land and pour big slabs for mass-scale housing. Instead, you would pour (or build) some small footings, and then lay some beams on the footings, possibly elevated by some short columns (or simply stones or concrete blocks). But unlike what would be common for cheap housing 50-100 years ago, building codes won't allow you to build a whole house on simple footings like that because of the potential for ground instability exacerbated by uneven weight distribution and uneven weight-bearing capacity of the soil under each footing.

But what you can do, apparently, is use "cantilevered" footings tied to a small number of deep, robust, secure pads. Those pads are what guarantee the house won't move, and all you need are some shovels and a pick-up truck, and you don't even need to level any land. You then "cantilever" some simple concrete footings off those pads using reinforced concrete beams (which I bet are probably flush with the ground and look like a gratuitous use of concrete). I'd bet money that such cantilevered footings are what are underneath many or most of those columns you see under those houses, the rest of the columns sitting directly atop the pads.
The Meaning of Progress (1994) [pdf]
There are apps that let you backup other apps installed on your device.
"UL standards for satellites" sounds like a pretty presumable scenario. Extrapolating how the UL standards are currently used in the industry, private space corporations may even refuse to launch the satellite, provide or accept services if it's not certified.
Still, OP is not freelancing
Yes. Efforts to prevent and extinguish wildfires create the conditions for exceptionally severe wildfires. Invasive species, monoculture and climate change have all increased the potential severity of fires.
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Have you ever seen the torrent of garbage that is new posts on e.g. Reddit or Imgur? You only see decent posts on the ‘front page’ because some people sift through that and filter out teenagers' low-effort attempts.

YouTube has hours of video uploaded every minute. A non-centralized, context-less recommendation system would mean that you are offered those crap videos together with ones that are the standard for ‘good’ now. Just get into the long tail on any search results and see if you want those.

A non-monopolized video discovery would be splendid, only who knows how to achieve that. Perhaps it would be more realistic to do the recommendations based on the numbers of ‘retweets’ in federated networks—in a more ‘social’ style instead of views (dunno if PeerTube already offers that). Also, an open system will be incessantly gamed.
Definitely, darktable is fantastic. Haven't used Lightroom in years now, but at the time darktable was ahead in what it could do, editing-wise (Lightroom seemed better at organization to me then though). I posted this in the recent darktable thread, but here is a list of other FOSS photography software [1]. And I'd love any notes on new software or things to update, since this is from a few years ago now.

[1] https://9bladed.com/post/foss_photography/
Just read the federal complaint, my highlights and summary:

- Hackers downloaded a bunch of PII from Uber

- Uber CISO paid them a 100k bounty with bitcoin to sign an NDA with their hacking handles, but they wouldn't give real names

- Uber staff traced them down, found their real names, then met them in person and got them to sign NDAs with real names

- FTC is mad because CISO tried to make it seem like it wasn't a data breach vs bug report through the bounty program.

- Their 2014 breach was from "an AWS access ID and secret key in software code posted to GitHub"

- In 2016 to FTC "SULLIVAN elaborated that it was common at the time to write access IDs and other secrets directly into code when that code needed to call for information from another service." - oof

- SULLIVAN received an email from “johndoughs@protonmail.com” claiming to have found a “major vulnerability in uber,” and that “I was able to dump uber database and many other things.”

- in 2016 breach, the hackers used to stolen credentials to... get the AWS keys that were still in their github code, but was now private

-"Similarly, Uber argued that the industry at large had become more adept since 2014
at protecting private data in the cloud, and that Uber should not be judged for “what a company
did then (back when the company was much smaller and the technology at issue was evolving)
according to the standards that the agency thinks are appropriate now (given the current
sophistication of the company and current industry best practices).” Uber made these arguments
via letter in April 2017, approximately five months after the 2016 Breach."

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7041237/Joseph-Su...
I won't deny that this is a systemic issue and we shouldn't place all the blame on individuals. But it's an absolutely ridiculous claim that it's our only choice.

Don't waste you're money buying local because it really means nothing with respect to welfare of the animal. Instead try to reduce your consumption.
Ok, I agree about that, and thanks for having explained :-)
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> Push QA to users.

“We need to increase our margins and we know our users aren’t going to abandon us. Where will they even go to since we have them held hostage all these years?“ evil snide laughter
> Fortnite isn't a platform, it's only a game

I doubt that the accountants and marketing see it that way.
As someone who's most used editor by far is vim (can't escape IDE when writing java), I'm happy that you're doing this.

However I feel like your market may be more geared towards interviewing/learning, I don't see how in my work environment that we'll ever need this.
>[...] tastes 100x times better

I hate use of hyperbole like this. It conveys no more information than "tastes better, trust me ;)", but is dressed up like it's some sort of objective rigorous measurement.
Is there anyone that doesn’t immediately scroll past the elevator pitch to the code examples when looking at a new language?
there must be some reasonable level of keeping track of what goes on on your website. I think you could for example reasonably keep track of the last time a feature worked and the amount of resouces used by a thing over tine. An effort to streamline the process also seems beneficial to the user.

just random thoughts of course
No, but there are people who would rather keep more of their paycheck than spend it on premiums or taxes for socialized medicine and take on that risk. Those folks are usually younger people who are more likely to work at these entry level jobs. On the flipside there are people who will risk life and limb doing something unnecessary (skiing, rock climbing, parachuting, etc.) and maybe some of them even feel safer because they know they are insured. Why should we outlaw one form of risk and not another?

People take risks. Life is all about risk and choices. I will never believe it is moral to take those choices from anyone.
I actually found the Coprocessor more interesting.

Yeah, NVidia CUDA makes a better coprocessor for deep learning and matrix multiplication. But a CPU-based coprocessor for adding extra cores to a system seems like it'd be better for some class of problems.

SIMD compute is great and all, but I kind of prefer to see different solutions in the computer world. I guess that the classic 8-way socket with Xeon 8180 is more straightforward (though expensive).

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A Xeon Phi on its own motherboard is just competing with regular ol' Xeons. Granted, at a cheaper price... but its too similar to normal CPUs.

Xeon Phi was probably trying to do too many unique things. It used HMC memory instead of GDDR5x or HBM (or DDR4). It was a CPU in a GPU form factor. It was a GPU (ish) running its own OS. It was just really weird. I keep looking at the thing in theory, and wondering what problem it'd be best at solving. All sorts of weird decisions, nothing else was ever really built like it.
How are you verifying they're real N95s if you're buying from eBay? And where can you buy them cheaply with the 60 day wait?

All verifiable sources I've seen have them reserved for medical personnel, although I haven't looked too hard.
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who gets to decide what's best?
I mean, one conclusion is that Lyft and Uber are not charging enough to continue to operate.
Wait, really?

BRB, just checking some code…
I think you'll find that most, if not all, human conversations are embedded in a context, which carries assumptions, so that participants can understand each other without iterating all of their definitions. That's why, for example, I don't have to start every conversation in my life by clarifying that I will not be explaining everything in terms of Xenu and thetans.

And if I did want to explain things in those terms, I should first explain why that's a valuable frame to adopt.
“Observed locally” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting if I read things right.

If the observable universe is say 1/300th of the total, wouldn’t this actually represent an increase?
This sounds fascinating. Why didn't we have Google much earlier to teach us all how to replace a 3-4 year degree with 6 months of online course work.

Oh and they accept it for their own hiring. That's really good, except that Google, like many other big companies never gave a damn about education anyways. And that's a good thing, to be sure. But they still care about technical skill. So unless they are aiming the shotgun at their feet and teach people how to game their own interview process (which at least in case of Google is doubtful, since their process was quite elaborate a few years back), I just hope they offer these courses for free, because you ain't gonna get hired at Google with this. Seems more like a marketing stunt.
> I believe the teeth of unions lie in the collective bargaining that comes from making them mandatory

I don't believe that at all, mandatory unions are illegal in Europe yet unions are stronger here. It wouldn't surprise me if making them mandatory actually makes them weaker since workers are so afraid of creating unions that could potentially harm them, while I can always ignore an optional union so they aren't a problem.
Sales tax (VAT) in most European countries is around 20%. The top rate of income tax is typically 50% or more. That's just what it costs to have decent public services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax...
That's extremely sad; I moved away towards the end of last year so I haven't been keeping up with it sadly :(
> we should have a solution for independent contractors being put out of work.

We have one age old solution for this problem. It's called savings.
It seems the language (at least in implementation) is closely coupled with Visual Studio and Windows?
> If your contract can be terminated at any time without cause, that supports the notion that you're an employee, not a contractor.

How interesting. That inverts expectations: you need a reason to fire a contractor but no reason to fire an employee.

Ah, I see it:

> Whether the employer has a right to fire at will or whether a termination gives rise to an action for breach of contract; and...

You can't fire a contractor when you haven't written in end-of-contract terms in there. i.e. when you contract with someone and you say "I hire this person from time X to time Y for money Z for delivery of A" you can't just abort sometime in the middle and be like "welp! off you go then".

However, it is perfectly reasonable for you to have exit clauses in your contracts to say that you pay per ride and that either party can exit the contract at any time.

i.e. it determines whether the 'firing' is a breach-of-contract situation

Okay, that makes sense, but it's not a factor in this case. Only a naïve reading makes it work that way but that won't work if you have the exit stipulations.
I'm curious why this is getting downvoted.
Plausible theory as to how Incas built stone walls
Many jobs do require Slack open all the time. At my job that's the entire point, if it can wait send an email, if it needs attention now, slack. People get upset if you don't respond within 5 minutes, even if it's just to say I'll get back to you.
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About for how long do you stay ill each time? How does it feel? I'd suppose you're away from work the?

I you compare with having the flu? (usually takes one or two weeks before I'm ok again)

50 times sounds like a lot to me. The illness seems to come back again and again more often than what I could have guessed.
More likely because of your condescending, rude, and hysterical tone. If today’s performance is any indication. I’m sure it feels good to be so strident, but you’re not going to change anyone’s mind. Generally one needs to choose between being vituperative, or persuasive.
Copyright is a strict liability tort. That means considerations of intent or knowledge don't matter. The legal arguments for taking down a sophisticated BitTorrent piracy operation map one-to-one with suing individual PeerTube users.

There is a legal defense called "innocent infringement", but it's very limited. You have to be in a situation where it wouldn't be possible or reasonable to know about the copyright status of a work, not just be ignorant of the law. As an example of how fragile this is, merely putting the words "All Rights Reserved" on a work will generally prohibit defendants from using this defense. It also only disclaims statutory damages down to about $200, if the judge is okay with that. If the plaintiff can convince a court that you caused more than that in actual damages, then this defense won't do much, if at all.
If not you -- who?
While working at Uber, Joe Sullivan's head of Global Threat Intelligence hired Ergo to carry out surveillance against Uber's legal foes. https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/10/12127638/uber-ergo-invest...
I guarantee that a chicken from Haiti does not taste better than a chicken from the US.
Point 5, "What is the Borello test?"
After you send an email as Sundar to jeff@amazon.com with an invite for a coffee and donuts at a Google office of his choice.
If you can't sell it, it isn't worth $50 million.
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> If that's the case, then Uber has no right to avoid working with contractors simply because they continually refuse work.

Why? Uber has a right to do whatever they want for whatever reason or without any reason. Just like the other party in the contract, the driver, can stop accepting any rides and drive for lyft if he so wants. No reason required.
Whoops, managed to update just moments before you posted. Sorry!
TL;DR: Conway’s Knot[0] is not a “slice knot” (a kind of mathematical knot)

Here’s a better news article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decad...

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_knot
I get why you’re saying “Zoom for...”, but I see Zoom as a poorly designed, user hostile and anti-privacy platform. It’s good to see that your description also mentions security. But it doesn’t mention anything about the word “privacy” explicitly, and that’s a huge missed opportunity for any solution that claims to be a Zoom replacement or alternative.
It's not the first time Adobe would have deleted stuff. I remember the Backblaze fiasco from a few years ago.

Also, App Store Review didn't protect users from this.
Just gonna leave this here :)

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