skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the only way to really understand why the Good Friday agreement is important is to visit Belfast. You need to walk through the neighborhoods in order to see the gates, the Peace Walls, the murales and the signs expressing the grief and pain of two communities who have hated each other up to the point of killing each other, and still live just a few meters apart.

The whole city felt to me like a wounded animal that has only just stopped bleeding, and not it's begging for some time for its scars to heal.
It's not resolve. It's experience. At a young age, you think through short timelines. Crises don't happen. At an old age, once you've been through a few crises, wars, pandemics, law suits, and whatnot, you start calculating expected outcomes a bit differently.

I use DuckDuckGo not out of resolve, but because I used the Internet in the nineties, and saw how data I put out then came back in some cases a decade or two later in counter-intuitive ways.
I'm nearly blind in one eye.

The 3DS XL was the first time I ever saw 3D.

In my life.

I don't just mean "the first time I saw a stereoscopic 3D effect in movies or a game console."

It was the first time I ever saw in three dimensions ever. As a human being.

It's a little bit hard to describe my typical experience with you, since I've never had "normal" version and I don't know what it's like. I would compare my life to playing a video game with a first-person perspective. You know how when you play one of those games, you're thinking in three dimensions, even though you're seeing the game on a flat two-dimensional television?

Well, that's my life. I see the world in two dimensions, even though I'm thinking about it in three dimensions.

But playing Zelda on a 3DS XL? Wow. I mean, it took my breath away. THAT'S HOW NORMAL PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD? You can just look at things and immediately know how far away they are? You don't have to move your head around to see a parallax effect to help your brain compute the distance? WOW. AMAZING.

I'm not a brainologist, so I'm not sure why the 3D system on the 3DS worked for me when nothing else had ever worked for me before, such as 1950s-style red/blue glasses. I'm still nearly blind in one eye, and the 3DS relies upon a lenticular stereoscopic effect that requires two eyes. It seems to me that it shouldn't work. But it did.

(Maybe modern VR headsets with stereo displays would work for me as well; I don't know -- I tried an early one in the 1990s and it didn't work for me, but obviously that was ancient tech)

Regardless, I had never ever experienced three-dimensional vision until the 3DS XL showed it to me. Thanks, little dude.
Cloudflare just gives more discovery, it doesn't give IA access to anything that was previously more secure...

"COVID tests: great, until you find a positive result"
Applications of GANs in Finance
I always try to imagine what the final production run looks like at a factory for one of these. Is there usually some sort of ceremony for the very last unit rolling off the line? Or does it just run towards the end of the shift as normal, everything gets boxed up and shipped to retailers as normal, there just....isn't another shift after that? What happens with all the manufacturing hardrware?
What's amazing about the Github web GUI?
- If it is a client you absolutely want to land, say to enter a sector, and if the certification is something you decide you really need because organizations in that sector require that too, could that client pay for the certification out of the amount you'd charge them for your software? Or you could you offer N months of premium support so you don't disturb your cash flow.

- Take a look at replicated.com, and enterpriseready.io and https://github.com/enterpriseready/enterpriseready).
It's funny... this idea really resonates with me, and has since I was a little kid. Why? Because my mom is both a voracious reader and has a huge book collection and she came to this same realization at some point when I was a kid. The way she put it was "I already own more books than I'll ever be able to read, so what's the point in buying more books? But yet I do." That struck me as very profound and somewhat troubling.

Fast forward 40 years or so and I have been having the same thought here and there lately. I definitely already own more books than I'll ever be able to finish, barring some radical breakthrough in life-extension technology or something. And yet I still feel compelled to buy more books. And the thought of not being able to read them all definitely depresses me. :-(

So, yeah... let's just say I'm rooting for the life-extension researchers.
I think maybe the quoted response should be ""If we wanted this, we WOULDN'T have hired an architect." That clarifies the meaning at least.
I left it updating overnight. The alarm went off as expected. I was surprised!
>the baseline expected rate of fires is higher due to climate change,

Yes. But we can't control the climate. Or rather climate change will require policies spanning decades or centuries.

>and is much higher due to PG&E negligence

Sure. PG&E should be held accountable for their part. But to mark them as a cause is not right. California was a tinderbox waiting for a spark to start the explosion. It could have been anything, and in fact, there were many 'sparks' that started a bunch of these fires. You make PG&E the scapegoat, you're going to miss the true culprit - bad vegetation management.
This is the main reason I'm installing - I can build this into my editor pretty easily.
My understanding was that the immune response was responsible for a lot of the harmful effects of covid in the first place. I thought the virus itself wasn't actually causing mass cell death?
Words can't hurt directly, in that exact moment, but the consequences of them sure can.

There has to be a line doesn't there? Is outright racism, or encouraging others to kill or do other bad things OK, because it's just words?
Crunchy Bridge: A modern Postgres as a service
Because Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc all have professional sounding names? Let me tweet about it.
Precisely, it’s not as if we don’t know from other pandemics that the second wave is almost always more severe... I’m not suggesting we go full Sweden and start coughing on each other in the sauna, but there are lots of factors we are struggling to account for in all this.
Let's oversimplify things and say there are two types of companies:

1. Those who care about security

2. Those who do not care about security

For the (1), SOC2 provides no value, because any structure it lends (it lends none, but you'll end up choosing some NIST thing or whatever) is something you could have implemented for much less money. Remember, you'll spend ~1 full security engineer worth of money/ time, so you could hire a FTE to just do these things. Except you won't be constrained in nearly the same ways.

2. Companies that don't care will just grift the grifters. It's simple - there are lots of easy checkboxes, and most of it is just documenting processes. Anyone who's gone through a SOC2 should see how easy it is to "game" it. It's tedious, but a large company will just hire their way out of it, and have a compliance team that's almost certainly isolated from security.

Because it's gameable SOC2 is far easier for large companies to push off. They can hire a compliance team, call it 'security', and move on. Small companies, and/ or companies that care about security, are left having to dedicate their much more limited resources to compliance over implementing meaningful controls. A small company isn't going to know the many 'tricks' for doing minimal work to pass, which is a really important quality of SOC2 - you want the least policy to pass, otherwise you're setting yourself up for either stagnation or an even longer report next year, since changes between reports have to be documented and go through the process. Large companies can just get away with way more.

As one simple example, let's say you have 1 FTE seceng. For compliance, they could spend N% of their time setting up logging, documenting that logging, writing docs on their IR policy, etc. Or, without SOC2, they could spend N% of their time setting up logging, writing good detections, understanding and exploring their infrastructure, documenting in a much more natural way at a lower cost, etc. And then that budget could go towards improving infra, tooling, training, new hires, etc, to do that work even more effectively.

How many breaches has SOC2 stopped? Because clearly it hasn't been the deterrent in many cases - how many companies get owned, while being compliant, due to unpatched vulns (something any auditor is guaranteed to ask about)? What if they'd spent the few hundred thousand a year on a few more seceng? The way companies scale security puts ~10-500 employees to every seceng, meaning that even cutting a few would be a massive increase in risk.

In short, the companies that are already ignoring security will have no problem doing so when they're large, and smaller companies, or companies that do care, will only be drained by SOC2.

edit: I will also say that,

* I won't state that SOC2 is universally useless.

* This is a very hard problem. It's a regulation on a quality that is a very fast moving target with weak consensus.
Then it's cronyism - the government gives free resources to one set of manufacturers and the rest are on their own. And do you think the government handed out that money based on merit? Or based on lobbying, political preferences, or name recognition?

As Friedman famously asked - who are the angels that are supposed to make these wise, unbiased decisions on our behalf?
Wow, zero coverage about their attempts to centralize key parts of the Internet under their control and how many people got outraged about that, but plenty on the trivial outrage of CF supplying services to customers they found offensive. I'm kind of tempted to update this section.
> Corporations that are in a place to be giving Snowflake a million dollar contract most likely already have a similar system already in place

100% correct. We're in the middle of migrating to SF right now, moving from some very old homegrown systems and a patchwork of systems from the past couple of years of M&A. The real selling point for us was the unified interface, and the ability to plug in systems (new and old) just by creating connectors. There is a view layer that can look across various backends and make it look, to the user, like it's all the same data set.
I have childhood friends whose personal life was literally changed (for the better) by theatre. For some of them, their "real job" is now basically a side activity to their theatre stuff. But it takes a certain type of personality, I think. Actors can be super-annoying to me.
I was initially thinking Clocky, but Clocky was an alarm on wheels.

I don't think the propeller one had any name beyond "flying alarm clock" or somesuch, and the failure mode seems way worse: if the propeller shoots out an open window or wedges itself behind furniture you're hosed.

Plus finding a small propeller in the dark corners of your room while just woken up seems way too stressful a task, frankly.
The way things are going lately they’re probably already leaked.
gitk comes with Git - it's not perfect but it beats ascii art.

I don't think the GH web interface is even tolerable. Even Bitbucket, which really sucks, has a better one...
Thanks for posting this. I follow Rust, but haven't used it. It seemed strange to me that tying all the lifetimes like that wasn't the default.
Yeah, in my case I did code.chars().filter_map(...), where it returns a Some() at the end of each complete token. But generators would definitely be a little cleaner!
Proof-of-work really is a nice system
I once wondered if it would be possible to have a nuclear power station which operated subcritically with extra neutrons injected from an outside source. The advantage I saw was that turning off the outside source would instantly stop the reaction, no worrying about articulating fuel rods and poison injectors. Unfortunately decay heat is still an issue.

Turns out it's potentially a thing but has some technical challenges.
I mean, I've been completing my GameBoy and GameBoy Color collection recently, and even the big titles that everyone wants(Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid) are not crazy, the most I've paid was £20 each for pokemon games. Not sure why 3DS games would go sky high in prices with time.
No. "Obesity" and "vitamin-d deficiency" can't explain what happened in Italy (a lot of sun), and also can't explain what happened in the Nordic countries (much less sun), including Germany and Sweden (the later having order of magnitude more deaths than the former, measured as the percentage of the population). Sweden is particularly bad, having the deaths per capita even worse than the U.S. the last time I've checked.

What we see is that countries that were lucky enough to do strong enough prevention actions early enough had order of magnitude less deaths than those who didn't do them (and Sweden is in the latter camp, even if they did have more response than most admit -- they did close all universities, for example). The scale of deaths seen in New York would have never happened, had the use of masks been common early enough.

Eidt: Regarding "vulnerable populations" Italy and Germany have similar number of "vulnerable" and it seems Sweden would be better than Germany then:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_o...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_o...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sweden_population_py...
1) I don't think its a zero sum game, nuclear doesn't preclude solar or wind. In-fact, thats how it's working now. Competition will drive improvements and optimization.

2) Accidents do happen with technology and the repercussions of nuclear accidents are serious. That doesn't mean we shouldn't re-think the technology and how it can be applied in a better or safer way, including cold fusion.
My solution in these cases:

ssh hostname tar cvjf - /path/to/folder | tar xjf -

Basically I ask ssh to execute tar on the remote host to create a compressed archive. ssh will output the archive contents on the local host; this data is then passed on to a local tar for extraction.
It's not utter garbage (at least not yet).
Ask HN: Best solution for a one-way high quality video stream
Problem: I'm building an app that needs to live-stream a high quality video to a single recipient. The video stream would be one-way, but audio chat should exist between both parties.

Possible solutions:
- Twilio programmable video.
- ??

Considerations:
- Since the video stream wouldn't be bi-directional, I'd like to have a solution that can take advantage of this. Specifically, I'd like to "turn-off" video for one of the participants.
I’m strongly opposed to just about everything the UK government has done or proposed involving the internet, but the ‘Free Speech Union’ is an awful source to have on HN.

The FSU is entirely a product of the “culture wars” of the outrage manufacturing twitterati, and offers to protect members from “feminist professors”.

The UK’s Open Rights Group is the closest thing to a UK EFF (founded by Doctorow), and is generally a better source for policy like this.

Here’s their wiki page on the Online Harms Bill[1], and opinion on its policy impact[2].

[1]: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Online_Harms_white_pap...

[2]: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/org-policy-resp...
> (solar, wind, etc) has such a strong tailwind.

Do they? I love renewables but for some reason the masses still just don't think you can get enough energy out of sky farts and hippy sun rays. The fact that ALL energy in our solar system comes from the sun is irrelevant the sun just doesn't feel very powerful. The public knows that nuclear is super powerful.

> how do you convince a public that has seen Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima to get on board?

The same way we convinced people to build them after Hiroshima. The same way we currently convince people to build coal plants when there are better alternatives. People want energy and they don't really care about the environmental / human cost.
Yeah, it doesn’t include it all the time. It’s an option, though, and one that the OP might have accidentally been using. (I think in relx there’s an explicit `include_src` flag you pass to enable it.) I was just justifying the presence of the option. It’s not always, or even usually necessary.
They do, they complain loudly.

Modern cars also have computers built in, and car companies try to lock them down. This then makes it very hard for 3rd parties to fix at times.

Here's an example of car enthusiasts not just sitting down and lamenting, but successfully pushing for changes in laws:

https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/service-repair/right-to...

That's just the first useful link I could find in 5 minutes; which means there's bound to be a lot more if you google around a bit. (try "right to repair" and "eu" in your search terms)
They mention that you can’t run commands without an interactive shell. I believe that knocks out your proposal because then rsync+ssh would work without all the complexity you have in your post with all the same benefits. Could be wrong though.
Book of Revelation
SOC2 is exclusively a forcing function, you could have adopted a NIST framework for risk assessment and controls and gotten that same value, and then had an extra 6 figures of budget to implement high value security work.
This seems like a CTF trick. If I were faced with this problem, I would do an SSH local port forward, and then just wget the file, hosted locally with python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Deaths per joule are the lowest out of any major fuel source except for maybe wind, which is debatable depending on your assumptions about the future.
>You're welcome to try and go against the client to recover "damages" and risk future contracts from said client.

The govt is welcome to pre-pay next time it needs something urgently.
Apparently it will, according to the ESA site:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-flyby/venus1flyby
Somehow factual information like that is always downvoted, but criminal and terrorist activity is important information when considering where you want to travel in the world, so you should take it very seriously.

Case in point, I travelled with my friends through Serbia during the early 2000's. Now, we'd spoken with our country's foreign ministry, and they told us that it was relatively safe to travel in the North of the country. At the time, we were adviced to avoid the South of Serbia because of small gang clashes still being ongoing. We avoided Romania as well, since a lot of car jackings had been reported at the time.

After driving for a very long time, we got tired, and parked at a forest road in the darkness. It was pitch black, so we figured no one would come there. But after a while, I heard a car stop down at the main road, and two guys moving closer to our car on the gravel. This prompted me to reach for a small screw driver I had laying around, just in case.

When they arrived at the car, they knocked on my window, and peering to the darkness I noticed that they were actually police officers. They wanted to know what we were doing there, so I explained to them that we were just trying to get some sleep for the night.

Then they asked me, "Did you see the boarded-up gas station further up the road?" I nodded, and he continued. "Yeah, well, last week a gang came by there and shot the whole family dead, mother, father and two kids. That's why the place is boarded up. Listen, guys, this place isn't safe. So please come with us, and we'll show you a lit parking lot in the nearest town. You can sleep safely there, under the lights."

Needless to say, we accepted their escort, although it was far more easy to sleep in the darkness rather than under a street light.

Then there's the story of my boss who ignored advice to not go to Egypt during some troubled times, and ended up in a firefight as the bus in front of him was lit up by a hail bullets. He thought he was going to die, and he very well could have if he'd gone with the front bus.
In that case, how does the caller know that the results will last as long as the input? Does it assume `'static` or is there some cleverness?
> Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

Honestly, that phrase is just a way adults explain bullying victims that they should shut up and that adults actually dont know what to do. Or dont care. I don't mean to say that this or that words should be illegal. But, ignoring verbal bullying never ever made it go away. You gotta respond, really and for that you need to acknowledge to yourself that harm is going on.

> Words are just words.

You can use words to destroy people. You can lie about people and harm their reputation. You can do it in their presence and still cause plenty of problems in their work or life or relationships. If you live in autocratic regime, you can "tell on them". Or, domestic violence victims do sometimes say that the insults and humiliations were worst then actual violent events.

> One may hear or read words that provoke them to violence or other negative behavior but blaming the speech in whole or in part removes agency from those who choose to react in a negative way.

Not saying speach should be illegal, but if you go out of way to convince people that they should be violent, yes you have moral responsibility and share quilt for their actions.

This expression feels good and sounds smart. But, it is not how real world works which is the reason many people are rejecting that argument.
The nice thing about the 3DS is that the emulator (Citra) is pretty good. I've used it to play "undubs" of games I own, where fans have taken the audio from the Japanese version of a game and put it into the US or EU version.

It's not perfect, but tons of games are fully playable and development is still very active.
I don't know very much about housing and construction, but this part set off a big red flag to me:

We should have been forewarned when we were able to purchase the house for $45,000 less than the cost to build it.

Yeah, that should have been a forewarning about everything. Someone else knew that the house was a lemon, and they managed to dump it off on this unfortunate buyer.
There is plenty more that could have been done by both Congress and the executive.

However the national response from the president and the executive branch has been an abject failure on almost every front from day 1 - including testing, data collection, supply coordination and proven public health policy like mask mandates.

The Defense Production Act could have been used to marshall supplies, which were known to face shortages, in January. Instead the virus was downplayed and the act wasn't invoked until late March. Money for supplies went to ineffective and politically connected middlemen like Blue Flame Medical, who could not actually deliver supplies.

The president refused to wear a mask in public until July and continues to muddy the water about their effectiveness, stoking anti-mask sentiment (admittedly only relevant to his base). Instead ineffective treatments like hydroxychloroquine were hawked and endlessly pushed into a nonsense debate for months.

A national testing strategy implemented by executive branch agenencies, such as CDC and HSH could have had a huge impact on the spread. Instead there was no guidance or coordination of testing supplies, states are still competing with each other to purchase testing supplies.

We found out this week that HHS has tampered scientific reports and COVID data with political motivations!

Funds for supplies have hardly been the only problem here.
If you can do that can’t you just use rsync?
I just read this and your comment history. You need to cut back on that Kool-aid.
Interesting! For some reason I thought I tried something like that and it was being forced into a static lifetime, whereas the explicit lifetime made it more flexible. Now I'm curious what it was I was trying originally that didn't work, if it wasn't this.