skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are missing an important link here, peertube does P2P ON DEMAND. You "CAN" disable it and you are out of the p2p scene. Dont know why people here seem to equate peertube=p2p=insecure.
I personally would find this much more straightforward:

val - (sign(val - max) + 1) / 2 * (val - max) + (sign(min - val) + 1) / 2 * (min - val)
Jonathan Blow had a talk about this that was related to software complexity and losing institutional knowledge over time.

Because technology is essentially knowledge, it has a tendency to deteriorate over time as we build abstractions and people with foundational knowledge move on and people with abstracted knowledge move in.

As a contrived example, China made templates for these bridges, which are an abstraction of the underlying knowledge. In say 50 years time, all the engineers capable of designing the templates have died and no one was needed to make new templates for another 20 years, so no one learned howto design them. So you have lost your ability to design bridge templates and likely no longer understand what makes the current templates work.

That probably wouldn't happen with construction but just an example.
So you never used Microsoft AutoUpdate on a Mac, right? Because that‘s the only thing this tool does apparrently. Full 100% CPU while downloading, no matter how slow your network is...
Quick correction[1], elementary OS is the name of the distribution, while Pantheon is the name of the desktop environment developed which was developed for it — it can be installed in other distros, though.

[1] I am not anelementary OS user, but since you mentioned desktop environments, I think the correction might be worth it.
That's a valid criticism though. They gave it to Obama, who then turned around and carried the Drone Assassinations Program to new heights. Kissinger or Arafat aren't obvious agents of peace either, so it's certainly not a mandatory requirement.
Yep. We migrated from IBM Z13 running COBOL + DB2 to HP machines hosting RHEL VM's running TIBCO, JAVA and Cassandra. Similar load as you mention.

Performance is really not an issue, especially when you factor in the price (we could easily double our servers and still be cheaper than a pretty baseline Z13).

Main pro of the mainframe is: you can basically not touch your code for decades and it'll still run fine, every technology on it and the hardware itself is rock solid.

Main pro of leaving the mainframe is: you don't need to worry as much about expensive/hard technical debt (i.e. EBCDIC text encoding, special hardware for everything), pricing/billing is much simpler and cheaper, way easier to switch technologies.
> the antibodies might not last for more than three or four months

He says a few seconds into your timestamp. Thank you for trying to soothe my thoughts. But now I'm even more concerned. Wouldn't that render a vaccine pretty useless if it's gone after 4 months?
how do you intend to fix and cracks and similar things coming up over the sustainable lifetime of such a recreational article (probably spanning several decades)?
> The notary service maintains an audit trail of the software distributed using your signing key. If you discover unauthorized versions of your software, you can work with Apple to revoke the tickets associated with those versions.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...
Probably because it's quite a personal thing, which can be used for port scanning, ddos, geolocation and other stuff. Also anyone can monitor p2p activity: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

Not that big of a problem if it's dynamic.
The Wubi Effect
With $16bn in cryptocurrency, Ripple attempts a reset
This story hints that huge entities aren't just predatory scumbags with consumers but also with each other. I believe this shows how corp execs are surrounded by unethical, profit-driven behavior. That helps shape & reinforce their eat/be eaten world-view, that they then impose on masses of individuals who neither live in their world nor live by their principles.

My above view is formed by a couple of things. One is years of providing IT support for a car dealership conglomerate. Every vendor relationship existed to extract cash from the auto-group; that goal shaped and drove the relationship. The services provided were tokens to facilitate that goal.

Based on the car dealership world, the lifting-all-boats, capitalist ideals, where profit drives us to better each other is a facade. The reality is that everyone is meat. That non-predators walk into this grinder to buy their transportation feels like cruel, dark humor.

The other thing that shapes my view is time I spent integrating new energy tech into mansions. The projects could take months and that led to sometimes candid conversations with the owners. One guy made his billion by baiting VC capital into his company then shuttering his biz after funneling the capital into his family's pockets. The VC firm also went under, with all jobs lost at both businesses. He was especially proud of how he framed one guy on federal charges who thought to bring attention to this. That seemed to be enough to keep regulators at a distance.

I don't think capitalism is evil. However, experience is teaching me that insufficiently regulated capitalism is driven by actions that are indistinguishable from evil. Those actions typically leave enormous damage in their wake.
Every marriage is a universe, mundane interactions creating supernovae, spectacular histories eroded into dust, a state of existence with billions of nodes.

-Leo Tolstoy
The Little Prover might be a good choice: it’s about ACL2, which was used to prove various floating point implementations were correct. It’s a fairly accessible guide to proving theorems in this system.
Arguably they decided to let that be determined by the courts instead of their own good will. Sounds like something a lawyer would recommend doing...

It's like a natural process to these companies. Most likely CITI is getting it back. But it's probably a worthy gamble on the lawyering fees.
I also had a weird issue where minimizing the Flight Simulator window during the download/installation procedure bumped GPU usage to 55 % on a GTX 1070 until unminimizing the window again. GPU usage was hovering around 5-10% when the window was not minimized.
How much has to be shared before it's a copyright infringement, ie three sequential bytes, three non-sequential bytes?
The huge header image led me to expect some commentary on COVID-19 coverage in the media, which indeed would have been interesting to read. But the article doesnt really talk about that issue in particular. Are we supposed to make some inference as readers? It's confusing.

edit: after looking at the headlines more closely, it seems that it's commentary on early media reports of coronavirus being no more deadly than the flu. Not sure if that is clear-cut bullshit, rather than just uninformed reporting... or maybe they're the same thing :)
> You're minimizing the risk of Peertube from _anyone in the world_ seeing my IP address to "a neighbor" in order to make your argument.

Use a VPN with Peertube if that is your concern. Problem solved.

> Anyway, using Peertube, there is no TOS, no recourse, no privacy.

Just the mere fact that most of your traffic goes thru Google for search, videos, Google Analytics everywhere on 99% of websites out of the Google realm, makes my privacy a lot less meaningful when I know a single company has access to all of that info and that precise company can leak that data to every government out there asking for it without letting me know.

By the way, has any individual sued Google for anything and won when it came to anything related to breach of privacy? Just the fact that it's extremely hard to prove that Google and nobody else leaked your information makes the possibility of legal action very remote to say the least.
YT Premium money going towards Google is part of the service contract - they provide the website, storage, bandwidth[0], recommendations, etc. I don't think Google sees adblock as the end of the world, given they don't ban or even try to curtail blockers (really because mobile ad viewership is rising over desktop), but in general they expect you to either pay them or watch ads for access to the website.

To be clear, I don't think using adblock is immortal - just that I personally like it when services offer a subscription that remove ads.

0: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
There already is a cure: Alka-Seltzer
They where real...

Sure, the attention they got where overblown.

But let's not act like assange wasn't acting like an asshole... Or that the charges where dropped because of reasons related to if he's guilty or not.
I don't think so. Antibodies are pretty specific. However it's possible and there is some data to suggest that some people have T-Cell level immunity to SARS-Cov-2 that was likely induced by exposure to an earlier coronavirus.
The interesting side effect if they actually prevailed over Citi would be general improvement in wire transfer rooms across US. Right now they are mostly sweat shops with focus on speed ( and pleasing big customers ).

All of a sudden, we may see some consideration given to proper verification ( not just quick rubber stamp ).
With Obama's absurd win at the very beginning of his presidency, before he could even do anything, the whole thing is pretty meaningless.
I’m guessing you haven’t seen Trump’s executive order targeting WeChat ‘transactions’?

Tencent and Chinese companies would benefit from being allowed to operate their own app stores or side load apps, which would allow them to significantly reduce the impact of Trump’s current and future actions.
Oracle’s Ellison steps out of character with approach for TikTok
People take existential threats seriously, but the alternative here of being beholden to Google's browser engine is just not one I want to take.

I'm sticking with Firefox until I see concretely that things are going downhill. It's unlikely that there will be an alternative at that point that's not strongly Google influenced. That's a pity.
Wild Weather in Silicon Valley: Reflecting on the Limitations of Technology
List of Alternatives to Google Analytics
Software Maker Asana Picks NYSE for Direct Listing
That will give you the median value. What OP wants is the value `a` clamped within `min` and `max`.
It's mostly code quality / style / archtectural objections. Some of which are understandable since I'm new to the codebase and it's a prototype to show the feature, but taken together all the feedback basically rewrote the entire feature. I've pretty consistently had better experiences contributing to large open source codebases than getting a feature into this codebase so I don't necessarily think it's that I'm bad at receiving feedback?
A court in Florida disagreed, finding that Americans “don’t have a constitutional right to infect others.”

Here is the full text of the decision - it’s a very interesting read on both sides of the argument:

https://cdn.theconversation.com/static_files/files/1142/5020...
Yes but "ad-hoc" code signing is almost useless on its own on macOS, it almost always goes with notarization, which does require a revokable certificate with a chain of trust attached to a Developer ID for the initial code sign.

> You can only notarize apps that you sign with a Developer ID certificate. If you use any other certificate — like a Mac App Distribution certificate, or a self-signed certificate — notarization fails with the following message: "The binary is not signed with a valid Developer ID certificate."

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_m...

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2206...
(1) I did add a disclaimer regarding the source

(2) There are undoubtedly links between Marsalek and Russia

(3) It is plausible (no extradition, reasonably close by so family can still visit)

(4) There is circumstantial evidence

(5) Many places where he could go to would actually be far more dangerous to him than Belarus

So obviously, this is not hard proof but it is a lot better than nothing at all, if you can dispute any of the bits they list as facts rather than speculation (which they were surprisingly candid about) then that would change matters.

For now, it is the best that I could find, the list of countries where he could go, live in relative luxury and safety while on the lam for German justice isn't all that long and Belarus features near the top of that list.
Ok how about "the Milwaukee police covering up for a sex traffic ring"
Yes you are right! Puting the number in the first parameter is even more idiomatic Elixir.
No, you aren't. Unless he was on contract for the year, the salary for the rest of the year won't be paid in full if the employee leaves or is fired, for example.

A loan is the opposite.
Why use PeerTube at all if you can just stream directly from server? In theory, more viewers = more bandwidth, but it doesn't seem to work that well in practice.
Not as elegant, but way more readable:

if num > max: num = max

if num < min: num = min
> If you have a complete billing system outside of the app and the user can never get to a page with signup or billing information from inside the app, then you can still avoid having to pay 30%.

I'm quoting [1], but from my expirience that's true, the problem comes when you link to your website without giving the option to pay with Apple system.
Slack doesn't have any direct link to add seats, I think that's how they avoid the 30%.

Why Spotify wouldn't do the same then ?
I think maybe because they target a more mainstream public that will not understand that they have to go to website to pay and then go back to the app?
Maybe they reckon that would be losing more than 30% without that flow, or I'm missing something.

[1]https://www.quora.com/How-does-Apple-determine-whether-a-ser...
The assumption is that developers need free reign. One would hope a developer is a technical and savvy user.

Not for nothing, Gatekeeper once did not exist. Myriads of Mac OS X users were not p0wned. But your point is not lost on me.
A Misanthropic Reinterpretation of the Chinese Room Problem (2013)
Malaria No More
Pro tip: only get on airplanes that have painted on the side the name of one of the 2 US states that are not part of the continental US.
Show HN: Favinizer – fingerprints web servers using favicons
>Zen koan where the students cannot tell whether the flag is moving in the wind or the wind is moving around the flag. The master tells them that the mind, neither the flag nor the wind, is what is moving.

This is so dumb because the flag and the wind are both moving, there isn't an inertial frame where either one is stationary. (The wind, maybe in the far-field, but not near the flag.)
Yes, and also, sometimes made as a joke, even hitler got nominated.

Besides that, it's somewhat insulting to group assange with snowden and manning.
Continuous delivery, continuous payments ^.^
I thought they deleted his account last summer.

Personally that seems so weird. The amateur chem videos where what got me to start subscribing to YouTube channels.
Actually a lot of things get proved first for narrower domains (because it can be easier to prove,) and then get generalized to larger sets and maybe get really general! eventually. This was a great insight one of my college profs gave me.
As a former IT auditor I can only confirm your statement. After I did my master in business administration with a touch of CS (it was called Master of Information, Media and Technology Management - and I really just learned basic Java, SAP, and one course about IT architecture) I got a job at a big four auditing company as an IT auditor. I was literally just going through some checklists and at that time I had no idea about the systems or technology I was auditing. After two years I got so frustrated with my job I decided to get a second degree in CS. The more I studied, the more obvious it became to me that someone with a CS degree never would do such boring work if there are other job opportunities in IT.
10ft per floor would make it 2120ft or 646m tall. The Burj Khalifa is 829m tall.
Management getting swaggy laptops and engineers having to work on the cheapest and shittiest windows laptops is a thing in every German company where the software isn't the core product(embedded, IoT, hardware, automotive, mechanical, chemical, finance etc.) because Macs are expensive and since beancounters are valued more than SW engineers they can make themselves look like heroes in front of management by showing them how much money they saved the company by leasing a fleet of cheap machines for everyone, regardless of their job, from the local HP/Dell/Lenovo dealer vs the productivity loss of their developers that they won't bother considering.

I only saw good machines in companies where only software was their business(mostly web shops) so management there knew the value of providing good laptops and monitors.
People literally believe Trump is worse than Hitler. How is that not just as bad?
They are members of parliament (legislative), but not of the government (executive). Their party is the merged & renamed descendant of the SED, East Germany's One-Party-State ruling party. For a variety of reasons, they look to be cast as opposition for the foreseeable future on the federal level, but are part of state governments in Germany's eastern states.
The perfect time to be malevolent is never. As for other crimes, stick to one at a time if you must.

Heavier crimes demand heavier evidence. Suspects if major crime are frequently locked up on smaller sometimes entirely unrelated charges.
This is a nice article with some good guidelines but I have to point out a bit of irony, just for fun:

> Filter #1: Are they free to speak their minds?

> If they are in an institution – who funds it?

> If they are in a company - what are the incentives of the company?

> As an individual, what are their incentives?

This is great advice. In the case of this article, according to the "About" info, one of the authors works for a VC-funded tech company who's making an online game platform. Would they be incentivized to write about a BS filter that denigrated venture capital, tech, or online gaming specifically?

> Filter #2: Does their livelihood depend on being right?

From the "About" info, that doesn't appear to be the case here. But still, I tend to agree.

> Filter #3: Do they take cyberspace seriously?

This is where working for a VC-backed online gaming startup may activate filter #1, given the author lists examples that neatly support the industry they're in. I'm not convinced this filter belongs with #1 and #2, and because of #1 and #2, I'm skeptical of #3.

But I liked the article, thanks for sharing!
Perhaps this is naïveté on my part, but I imagine that if I worked for an organisation whose explicit purpose is to look for things which need fixing or certify that no known issues are present, I would be surprised if “shoot the messenger” was — even metaphorically — a real policy.

I would also ask myself how far the rot went, because if (for example) this organisation was also supposed to audit the government and yet promoted those who “slept in a cupboard” over those who worked diligently, then I would expect the country to suffer a very large and very surprising economic disaster.
If I didn't want to be roundly embarrassed by Russian intelligence services, I'd simply stop illegally spying on my citizens while claiming to be a liberal democratic republic.
Years ago (and I think this was actually Google Video, and not YouTube) I was helping a customer who had trouble playing videos on the internet. I think it was one of those "it sometimes stops after a minute or so" problems. I fixed the problem with flash player and to test it I went video.google.com and clicked on a random video on the frontpage without paying much attention to what it was, and continued working on the next laptop while keeping half an eye on the video.

This is how I learned about R. Budd Dwyer killing himself on live TV in 1987, as the video was the recording of him shooting himself in the head.

I think a lot of people underestimate the kind of challenges YouTube faces at their scale.
People will start voting for laws that are applied inconsistently on outsiders or minorities in order to enrich themselves.

Imagine a town where the police always ticket passing cars for 1000 dollars per violation, except when the car belongs to a town member in good standing in which case they just give a warning.
It gets a bit confusing when the order of arguments is different depending on the library. For instance, with std it's std::clamp(val, min, max), but with Qt it's qBound(min, val, max) (for some reason I think the order of arguments in qBound is more logical).
So this is a good point. I was just talking with a colleague about this. Some of the herd immunity models take factors like how mobile people are into account. It seems like masks could be a factor in the models of herd immunity. This might be a semantic argument. If population characteristics such as age are part of herd immunity (which is a moving target depending on population), then mask wearing could be considered a population characteristic and included in the model. This would net "drop" herd immunity levels.
That would be true for rubberstamping-as-a-service, a weaker version of running a rogue CA. But project maintainers getting themselves an Apple ID and recouping that cost + x (hopefully) via non-gratis signed binaries wouldn't have that problem at all. Or of they did (malware sneaking into their artifacts), a lost Apple ID should be the least of their concerns.

There'd even be a conceivable but unlikely scenario where some automated scan deep inside the Apple publishing pipeline would detect an otherwise undetected malware intrusion in some upstream dependency or badly vetted commit and thereby indirectly protecting the users of the unsigned copy, by acting as a canary.
> flight simulation software was the target of a moral panic in 2001 after the September 11 attacks were conducted by crashing real jets into buildings. Some people began to think of flight sims as "terrorist training tools" and call for them to be banned.

I've been wondering if this is why there was so little flight simulation software out there in the last ~15 years or so. I remember visiting a retail store with software in the 2010's and wondering why there is a simulator for everything except an airplane.
I don't think it's good to abandon up-front planning entirely. It's important to know what you're aiming for and to have a plan for getting there. The key thing about an agile approach is to regularly review the plan and be open to changing it as and when new information comes in.
Per the article you're over-simplifying what is going on, to the point of making it seem clearer cut than it actually is.

Citibank actually has a business relationship with Brigade Capital, they're Brigade's contractor essentially, and they essentially COULD owe Brigade money themselves via this arrangement:

> As the administrator of the gargantuan arrangement, it was incumbent on Citibank to collect payments from Revlon and transfer it to the lenders, including Brigade Capital. The company was expected to transfer $1.5 million in interest payments to the hedge fund a few days back.

Brigade are claiming that his is Citibank paying money they owe, and has nothing to do with Revlon.

PS - I think Brigade will ultimately lose the court case. I think their arguments are easily unwound, but I suspect the court case will take a while because the argument isn't as black/white as it may first appear, there's actually a three-way relationship here.
How much of my premium subscription money would go to creators? That's an honest question. Google doesn't give even a vague hint as to what proportion of the fee is rev-shared. I suspect it is rather less than what I would like, especially since Youtube Premium includes their music service which I have zero interest in.

Due to this uncertainty I prefer to support creators I watch via Patreon.