skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's exactly how my friends are reacting here in The Netherlands. The haphazard rules just don't seem to make much sense, everyone is tired of it, and nobody we/they know has died from COVID.

Just last Friday, our PM announced that we're clearly dealing with a 'second wave', and to fix that we will close bars at 00:00 in particular regions. Why? Because apparently people in bars will behave properly until 00:00 and after that they start shouting into each other's mouths.

I think to anyone with half a brain it's obvious that these measures don't really make sense, so contrary to the intention more and more people will just say fuck it and go back to doing what they did pre-pandemic.

And our PM will wait for a huge surge to implement more serious lock-downs, because at least /then/ he'll have a reason to do so that doesn't make people dislike him. Fucking politicians.
A lot of people don’t seem to remember (or weren’t around) when this phrase was coined. Security by/through obscurity very much referred to doing things like starting a bash shell on an obscure port so you could telnet to it and just have a shell (no login at all, and each host didn’t have a firewall either). Or naming a directory something like ‘...’ and people would overlook it in the ls listing. Or leaving a shell running on a serial/modem line assuming that no one would know the phone number to dial in to.

Even a standard ssh install that allows password login on a regular port is already miles ahead of where we were a few decades ago.
I'm reminded of a vaguely relevant 'pro-purity' quote from Simon Peyton Jones et al, discussing Haskell, on the virtue of its purity as a functional language:

> In retrospect, therefore, perhaps the biggest single benefit of laziness is not laziness per se, but rather that laziness kept us pure, and thereby motivated a great deal of productive work on monads and encapsulated state.

[PDF] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/31478674/
The $5B Apple Headquarters
Bill Gates Sr. answered the question this way: I can relate to the answer the late Bruce Bliven, a former editor of the New Republic, was reported to have given when someone asked him what it felt like to be an old man.
He said, “I don't feel like an old man. I feel like a young man with something the matter with him.”

How do you avoid, prevent or postpone getting "something the matter" with you? I second what others in this thread have said: attend to diet and exercise, take care not to injure your eyes, ears, back or knees. Diet might be the most important place to start - have a look at https://gamechangersmovie.com/
Can you explain? I thought they were compressed pay “bands” still limited ton the GS pay scale? E.g., DB pay band still tops out at the equivalent of GS15
It’s actually defense in depth.
Do you know if he ran the honey pots on the same server? if so that's why it received 0. the bots hit 22 and stopped.
You can create a Range of nearly anything but that doesn't mean any of the methods/traits useful for a Range are implemented on it.

E.g. Iterator is only implemented for things implementing the currently unstable Step trait which for now are mainly integers and char.

E.g. only Range<usize> can be used to index/slice things.
That requires Nikola to either have a valuable brand, or valuable technology.

It's not clear that the former is true, and it's pretty clear that the latter is not.
I believe you mean “deny box”?
Steam does not control Windows, does it?
Tsiolkovsky's equation, Newton's laws of motion, the second law of thermodynamics, and special relativity just about answer Fermi's question ("where is everybody?") by themselves.

Newton 1: to accelerate in space, you have to (continually) eject mass in the opposite direction.

Tsiolkovsky: In space, you have to carry the mass you eject with you, so you need to eject more mass to accelerate the mass you're going to eject later. So you need to carry that too. And don't forget the mass you'll eject slowing down at your destination!

Newton again: Perhaps you could cut down the mass you need to eject by accelerating it to really high speeds.

Newton 2: The power required to accelerate the ejected mass goes up with the square of its final velocity. But your acceleration only goes up linearly with exhaust velocity. Tough.

Special Relativity: Ahem, actually sub-linearly. And there's a hard limit, which is pretty low.

Thermodynamics: your mass ejection system has to generate power to accelerate the ejected mass. Some of that power will be lost to the rest of your spacecraft because nothing can be 100% efficient. Your spacecraft will melt if you try to go too fast.

Interjection by Cosmology: hey, don't forget everything is a really long way apart (Special Relativity is really limiting that way), and there's invisible nasty stuff in between the places you want to go.

Wannabe interstellar travelers: Hmm. We'll just build big telescopes.
> How is distributed identity solved in the long term?

Same way email handles it -- through the use of the domain name system. You'd expect that an a federated server with the address "https://mastodon.mit.edu/" would consist of those with a tie to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (faculty or students). Your identity is provided by the system you are a member of and handled by your specific system administrator.
According to everything i read about chargebacks on Google services, they indeed don’t pay attention, they just automatically block access to any of your Google accounts and services shortly after you do a chargeback. And given the horror stories I’ve heard about trying to resolve or reverse any automated account bans by Google, I do not recommend following that route.
Author here. In my idea, x..y would be like x+y: not fallible, but may panic. There would be a separate fallible function for creating ranges, analogous to checked_add.

(Of course unlike x+y, x..y would require checks in release builds too.)
I was posting a reply to a comment complaining about the lack of support for Assange on this list. here is a link to the comment I replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24543604

"I am baffled to see that the majority of the comments here are at best showing no support for what Assange did ..."
On the other hand, the fact that no one is thinking about "optimizing KPIs" is a major reason why people like the up and coming federated systems.
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I assume the CIA leaks mkultra and related stuff to keep the crazies busy and troll other countries.

There's also patents for seemingly impossible technology filed by the Navy.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30645682...
I just recently bought the anarchist's design book and toolbox book! I'm just just getting into though - haven't built anything yet. Need to get tools and set up a shop.
honeypots are obvious.
> I think you leave the decision up to Boeing with the caveat being that if the plane crashes again due to a design flaw, it will never fly again which would be devastating to Boeing.

What is the downside for Boeing to just say "let's put the plane back in the sky"?
Do you seriously believe that or that it matters?

Or are you just giving an example of ridiculous statement one might use against his opponent to vilify him in attempted character assassination?
"materially sized business"?
Read the Mueller report.
What's up with all the tarsnap posts recently?
Email is one to one mostly. So reputation should really also be based on individual entities. The normal way to make that possible is to have email clients sign messages by default with the senders identity of choice.

The technology exists in the current system. We just need to activate it. This isn't a technical problem.
Non-standard ports greatly reduce the incidence of drive-by shooting attacks. That alone is worth the minimal effort involved.
A good dermatologist will take photos, measure, and track your moles. You should visit them every year.
Yes, although I worked on open source while employed for 6-10 years too (sometimes it was my job, but usually not).

I'm not saying that it's the way to spend the least time at the computer :) I'm saying it is a way to avoid being burnt out.

If you are building something for yourself, and others incidentally get some use out of it, you'll be less likely to burnt out than killing yourself for a deadline made-up by a VP. And then the whole project gets through away, and no customer ever cared about it. I've seen that a lot.

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Related story: Many years ago I got burnt out by my job, and I took a woodworking class at night (lol, definitely a programmer thing). It was great, and I'm typing on top of a desk I made in that class right now.

However I bought a bunch of magazines about woodworking, and I noticed that everyone had 8 or 9 fingers, so I didn't go further with it :) The thing that the OP pointed out is real!
You are not alone friend, there are many others that see what is going on with a great deal of concern; the silence tends to come from the dearth of new information, and inability to influence the outcome.

The fact is, there has been at work in society an implicit assumption that given limited resources to delegate, those resources get delegated toward actions that communicate the most in terms of message to the greatest number of people be it positive or negative in nature.

This message to my sensibilities is unambiguously clear. Poke the dragon, get the fire. No semblance of law and order will really save you, because everything is always open to interpretation to get things done and the cost of mistakes having been made in the past are very easy to brush off for the institution, but life destroying for the victim.

Dig 2 graves before ye set off on your crusade, for ye journey as much to your own end as that of your enemy. Whether or not you believe personally that's a tenable arrangement matters not a lick until such time as you can marshal enough collective social/political capital to change it.

Even that though is no guarantee. "The Constitution is not a suicide pact."--Every imperiled government ever

The geopolitical system is as much an organism as we are it's cells. The task of a Statesman is to try to direct this behemoth without undue cost in human lives through wise and fruitful policy, diplomatic, and strategic decisions to keep the collective organism alive and in good standing amongst it's neighbors/rivals.

I cannot say I've ever seen good Statesmanship in my life. I hazard few left alive have, but I can only hope the low point we seem to have collectively hit is a local maxima, and keep on trucking.

I'm still hoping that Assange may surprise us with a sudden reversal as one of these beasts comes to it's senses and remembers the values it purportedly stands for, but I'm not holding my breath.
I see comments just demonstrating Cleese's points. He talks about being kind to people and in return gets nastiness in defamatory statements, apparently people choosing to accept things written by the press he complains about, which he directly contradicts.

He has a story about an episode in a German bar showing how the clientele actually understood The Germans episode, when Brits widely didn't, I'm sorry to say.

"I went to the US and I forgot to pack my irony, but you know, I just didn't need it." -- Mark Radcliffe, broadcaster
The articles are absolutely saying they are spreading disinformation.

> The messages — some of them false and some simply partisan — were parceled out in precise increments as directed by the effort’s leaders, according to the people with knowledge of the highly coordinated activity, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the privacy of minors carrying out the work.
Oh look, HN's weekly UFO post.

If anybody asks how HN has changed over the years, just tell them, "Now there's a weekly UFO post."

Then judge them on their response.
Sure. But to solve those idiosyncrasies, you need to abandon backwards compatibility or introduce conflicting syntax.
Wrong.

Anything that reduces the likelihood of success of any attack is security. Non-standard ports essentially remove you from the radar for a lot of dumb IP block scanners. That alone is worth the minimal effort involved.
There's compelling evidence that you can't prove supernatural beings exist. However, it similarly impossible to prove they don't exist.

In our experience, everything that exists comes from something else that exists. There is nothing that comes into existence from nothing. The Universe exists, therefore it must have come from something. It's a dodge to suggest that progression goes on forever. Something created everything, which was not itself created. We can't prove it is God Who did this, but there is no more reason to believe it "just happened" either.

Atheism is as much an act of faith as is belief in the supernatural. You can no more give me physical proof that God does not exist than I can give you proof that He does. If you do not have faith and want to claim true objectivity and empiricism on your side, you admit that agnosticism is the only acceptable position.
Maybe we disagree about how to pronounce the word "value". I pronounce it roughly "val-ee-oo" but maybe you pronounce it simply as "val-oo"?
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I still don't get why Yang is not a "mainstream" candidate. He was by far the sanest (and smartest) candidate in the lineup, and the DNC instead chose two of the least likable people to ever run, one of whom can't remember what office he's running for from time to time.
Can you name a templating library that would be able to do this? I am looking for some good ones to test out.
In the WP article the first line states "One tweet claimed coronavirus numbers were intentionally inflated, adding, “It’s hard to know what to believe.” Another warned, “Don’t trust Dr. Fauci.”"

I'd say with strong confidence that this would classify as disinformation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/turning-point-teens-...
Are you able to query what they were paying? e.g. google.payments.inapp.getPurchases
I agree about your UX notes, but I disagree with the success criteria. I've wholly quit social media apart from the mastodon instance I'm on. There are enough quality people I'm connected with now that it's a success for me.

Am I missing out on content from Facebook/Twitter/Instagram because I'm not connected indirectly to everyone in their gardens? Sure, but I'd argue it's low quality content that was only a drain on my mental health.

I guess I'm trying to say, I think it's about the individual success and not the % of market share.
What would you say the main advantage of Jax is over Pytorch?
In retrospect NNTP and IRC, where every message is replicated to every server, are not a good style of federation.
When you update a row in a SQL database, you need to keep the old row around until the transaction is committed.

In Postgres, a new row is written, and both the new and old coexist in the table. Even after the transaction is committed, the old row stays in the table. VACUUM scans the table, finds rows that are no longer needed, and marks them as okay to overwrite.

In MySQL, the row is overwritten in the table immediately, and then the old row is temporarily written to a separate area (the UNDO Segment), so the old record is available if needed. Since old rows don't accumulate in the main table, there's no need for VACUUM.
That may not be the case when the first amendment is applied. Consider Heller vs DC, in which the Supreme Court ruled that firearms in common use for lawful purposes couldn't be banned under the second amendment. Standard practice can be a factor when constitutional protections are at issue.
It's not a range of an vector but a range which start/end are defined by vectors.

The best thing I can come up with is that such a range defines a path from one tip of a (geomotric) vector to another vector and because vec in rust can have (theoretically) usize elements it's in a usize::MAX dimensional space ;=)
>Furries started as a sexual fantasy like The Colbert Report started as a serious news show. It didn't. The Colbert Report was intended to satirize news outlets like Fox, but art imitates life and you gotta talk about the real world at one point or another. Furries started as panels and room parties at science fiction cons and guess what, humans do this thing where art imitates life and is a reflection of of humanity at large.

I don't think many care. It's a pop-culture, one of the random interests people adopt to feel "different" in the 20th/21st century (I guess kind of like "occult circles" in the 19th century or similar).

How would one feel about a 30-40 year old "goth"? Exactly.

In the juvenile 21st century culture it might be considered an acceptable passtime for someone over 20-22, but in the end it's no better than being a "goth", a "biker", a "raver", a "b-boy", a "trekie", a "new ager" or similar cringe-worthy identities people cling on to find a community in the absense of a real community of people.

Real community being the variety that focuses on the actual character, personality, work, and behavior -- not on people having some niche affiliation/interest in order to be included.
I know...

But for mine usage it increase memory usage. I'm using it on OrangePi Zero with 256MB RAM.

Port 22 is opened for world so anyone can join. Device have 2 users - root and jacob. I make a change and disable root login from WAN. Now can login from root from LAN.
Since noone knows that "jacob" exists i'm saved.
I would even say that it is optimized for the following

slice[start.end]

particularly because `[]` indexing is already a panicky operation.
You can set up your own Mastodon or Matrix server and send messages, I am not sure which federation you're thinking of that requires "registration".

The way the impersonation problem is dealt with in ActivityPub is very similar to DKIM in the SMTP world: the sender uses a cryptographic signature (HTTP signature) to prove that he is allowed to send messages from that actor. Of course this doesn't prevent someone from sending spam from their domain, in either case.
Almost - intrinsic to offering modern webmail, (and not simply selling SMTP as a service) is fighting spam. Empowered users aren't going to put up with receiving spam and can and will go elsewhere.
He later did an entire album called "Has Been" in this style, so I suspect so. Here's a taste:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

I know this because Ben Folds had a hand in it, and I'm a long-time Ben Folds fan.
It is an interesting, awkward edge case. But the utility of a u64 length might be rarer than you think. `Range<usize>` will be more common for wrangling memory sizes, and will handle 64-bit sizes on 64-bit targets - so the utility of Range<u64> would mainly be for larger-than-address-space sizes, which probably means falliable I/O calls.

I've been considering upstreaming a trait into the read_write_at crate to provide std::io::Result<u64> lengths for Mutex<impl std::io::Seek> / std::fs::File (on platforms where length is available without mutating seek position - such as on windows via file.metadata().map(|m| m.file_size()) per:)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/struct.File.html#method.met...

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/os/windows/fs/trait.MetadataEx...

Context: multithreaded reads of zip archives & https://github.com/vi/read_write_at/issues/1 & https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/vfs-zip

There's a whole slew of u64 offsets and sizes... the occasional subtraction to calculate a maybe-larger-than-memory size doesn't seem like that big a deal. Occasionally there are methods implemented for it - typically named "file_size()" instead of "len()" though.
Semi-Thue System
>Almost every expert who has seriously studied the furry community has come to the same consensus: The public imagination is wrong, often hilariously so.

Almost any expert who dared say otherwise would expect a backslash, being called fascist or whatever, and probably cancellation. So there's that.
> Rather than breaking up the US companies, a more realistic approach would be to require that users on US social networks be able to friend/follow people on competing social networks, using open standards (i.e. the Fediverse).

I think this attacks the problem from the wrong perspective. I think a more realistic approach would be to require institutions which use public funds (government entities, community groups, schools, libraries, et cetera) to adopt these open standards themselves and to bootstrap their necessary infrastructure to broadcast messages into this new platform.

Everyone in the public sector has a Twitter account, a Facebook account, an Instagram account, ad infinitum, these public organizations need to be mandated to build out their own social infra (or to buy from a competent provider exposing these services in the same way they'd buy email and web hosting).
I'll be a single counter-point. I straight up reinstalled Windows to play Valorant and all it's done is made me play a lot more CSGO. I'm legitimately having more fun with CSGO now than I have in a very long time! The game feels like it's in a super good place. It's got a ton of cool skins, the competitive scene feels really competitive at the moment, playing it competitively feels great. The DM mode scratches a very good itch, gun game is still a lot of fun, etc...
https://imo-grand-challenge.github.io/

For the challenge, they give the AI a formal representation of the problem in Lean. To remove ambiguity about the scoring rules, we propose the formal-to-formal (F2F) variant of the IMO: the AI receives a formal representation of the problem (in the Lean Theorem Prover), and is required to emit a formal (i.e. machine-checkable) proof. We are working on a proposal for encoding IMO problems in Lean and will seek broad consensus on the protocol.
No, that's the norm.
100x revenues in 6 years: Sam Heidari on Quantenna, 5G and Edge Computing
That’s a very astute observation. I honestly never quite looked at it that way. I love my kids and am so grateful to be able to provide for them. I can’t imagine trying to do it on my own, or if my wife had a full time job. It would be impossible, or nearly.
Exactly why I was wow’d by it: my recent research into p2p systems that could replace BGP and falling upon Yggdrasil.

Thanks for the anecdotes!
> People need to grow the fuck up and stop getting so butt hurt over stupid little words

And yet here you are, emotionally reacting to the words people choose to use!

OK, you don’t see the offence. Fair enough. Are you the descendent of a slave? Have you spoken to others who are to gauge their thoughts? I’m not personally offended by it either but I’m willing to believe others are. And what the hell difference does it actually make to me if I’m merging to “main” instead of “master”? It’s fewer characters for one, and probably easier to explain to beginners.

What I saw in the V8 post was a simple, straightforward statement about a small change they made. And then I saw your comment.

> stop being a little bitch cry baby

Quite.
but it still appears in the "window" menu and you can focus on it

Of my complaints I might have with Teams, this is the one that raises the temperature of my blood a bit every time I see it. The fact that you can focus on it particularly pisses me off because when I Cmd-Tab to the Teams main window there is nothing in that window that appears to have focus. You have to click on the main window before ti becomes useful. ::eye_roll::
I didn't clarify Ventile was created to increase their chances of surviving if shot down in the North Sea.
Natural Artistic Eye
Amazon Polly is pretty nice
VR is also not just about recreating irl situations so you can sit at home. There is something deeply satisfying about shit talking with friends in Pavlov and then blowing their brains out with a shotgun only for them to come back 10 seconds later.