skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either they are planning to kill him and frame it as a suicide, or his life has been made so miserable that suicide appears to be an escape. Both are awful to consider.

I'm not informed enough to know whether any of the leaks he facilitated lead to the unnecessary harm of innocent people, but I deeply respect his dedication to the truth. As far as I know he has not outed his sources. We should aspire to be as brave as the likes of Assange and Snowden.
> the reader, are going to have to pay one way or another.

Many blogs don’t exist as a way to produce an income and absolutely don’t have enough traffic to do so.
Always amazing to hear people sing praise of Windows XP when you remember how everyone was praising Windows 2000 when they were calling out Windows XPs insanely ugly themes and designs.
Still doesn't solve the housing part. Which is the biggest part of living cost.
School children in the 1970s (so, people who are about 50+ today) might have come across teachers who wanted to "correct" the left-handedness.

https://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/history_recent.html

> It was only in the Post-War years, under the influence of John Dewy’s progressive education movement, that a certain amount of tolerance for individual differences and non-conformity developed. But, even then, indeed as late as the 1960s and 1970s, Catholic school teachers in particular routinely inflicted corporal punishment and psychological pressure on left-handed students, ranging from accusations of being in cahoots with the Devil to, bizarrely, being Communist.

> Soviet bloc countries continued to maintain strict policies against left-handedness that persisted well into the 1970s. Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia and the Iron Curtain countries all made right-handed writing compulsory in school. In Albania, left-handedness was actually declared illegal and was punishable as a crime.

> Even in the relatively open-minded and informed society of today, parents and teachers may encourage a left-handed child to switch out of the best of motives, such as a genuine desire to make their lives easier in a largely right-handed world. The children themselves may impose their own peer pressure to conform to majority norms, and a good percentage of natural left-handers tell of their own self-inflicted attempts to switch hands during childhood.
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I do not understand the UK's constant need for racism and exclusion, what a nasty, venial nation it has become. Roma are just trying to live their lives.
I thought execution beats idea? In which case, there's nothing wrong (morally or otherwise) with taking someone else's idea and executing on it.
Unless someone shows up who'll defend BenOp, I'm not looking further into it. As far as cursory surfing reveals (I have only been able to find a table of contents online whose chapter headings are not helpful) not only does Dreher not bother with the separatism of plain religions in the US, nor the experiences of other more heavily persecuted, more melaninly enabled, christian churches in the US, his doctrine doesn't accord with any of his[1] religions, nor does it, according to secondary criticism, seem to have been informed much by actual Benedictines[2]. Indeed, he's even been accused of rooting the whole project in reaction to Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)[3].

[1] protestant, catholic, and orthodox, in that order. One is reminded of the person who is constantly looking for the New Shiny Library/Language instead of writing their app with the ecosystem they have at hand. (cue GKC quote on difficulties untried, Benedict on Sarabaites)

For more similarities to open source schisms, consider https://blog.ayjay.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/BenOp-788x... and replace the christian references with geeky projects such as "building a modern operating system", "immanentising the crypto eschaton", "welcoming our new GPT-N overlords", etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BpfwazhUA

[2] who are still around to ask. There's a non-benedictine abbey near me which celebrated its 1'500th birthday a while ago, and at least a handful of benedictine which are probably not many centuries younger.

TIL Benedictines are more Marxist than Marx.

From each according to their ability: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...

To each according to their need:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/50040/50040-h/50040-h.html#c...
(no private property, nor personal property, nor even personal volition)

[3] as I'm not charitable, I'll suggest that being afraid of Obergefell then writing phrases such as "L.G.B.T. activism is the tip of the spear at our throats in the culture war" reminds me of Poe's law. Then again, I'm not sure if he fears swallowing "liquid modernity" as much as being swallowed by it. (a complaint which I believe Dreher shares with another movement I doubt he covered: the Taliban)
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I never thought I'd see the day when a judge is so obviously guilty of perjury.
A technology like this could be very useful for password management. You store the passwords in your phone, and transmit them to the computer you are at through sound. No passwords to sync, no need to have an encrypted cloud location. If using a 3.5 mm male-to-male audio cable rather than speakers, no one in the vicinity can overhear either.
Things Elixir's Phoenix Framework Does Right
> We generally don't have 6-month old branches. We don't shy away from assigning big projects to devs, though. They iteratively collaborate with our Product team to carve out a v1, and then get to work. We throw out reliability on delivery dates of any one feature, believing that we achieve higher throughput with less coordination (we avoid dependencies between features as much as possible).

If your product priorities are stable for 6 months at a time, you're in a rare position. And I'd worry about knowledge sharing and maintainability if whole functional areas were being implemented by one person on their own. I agree with avoiding having two people working on the same area in parallel if at all possible, and there's certainly an overhead to not having the same person do a series of related tasks, but if we're planning to share maintenance responsibility for that area of the code (which is what being on the same team means) then I think spreading out the development work is worth the overhead. And fundamentally if no-one else on the team can understand Bob's architecture then better to find that out sooner rather than later.

> The critical difference, I think, is that none of that breaking up is super planned out, and it's certainly not formalized prior to development. The changes often trickle out over several releases. Collaborators may help advise on where to break things up, but ultimately it's up to the dev to use good judgement.

Scrum doesn't favour large amounts of up-front planning - ideally you don't plan beyond the end of the sprint - but you define the user-facing change you're trying to make, at least in enough detail to a) tell whether it's actually done or not b) estimate enough to let you prioritize. Even if your priorities are stable enough that you don't need to do the latter, I think I'd always want to define what I'm aiming for in each release ahead of time - otherwise it's just too easy to scope creep and end up with those 6 months of unmerged changes. And if that goal isn't something user-facing then you're kidding yourself, IME - it's just too easy to overengineer or overarchitect and produce a bunch of churn that doesn't actually achieve anything, unless you're constantly keeping in mind what this change is actually supposed to achieve.
The Guardian has been very hostile toward Assange. I helped compile a list of its coverage a while ago:

https://theguardian.fivefilters.org/assange/

As for its coverage of the case, the most important aspect, which Jonathan Cook refers to, is that two of its journalists (David Leigh and Luke Harding) are implicated in releasing the password that led to everyone being able to access the unredacted cables that Assange is being blamed for publishing.

Cook writes:

> The two authors used the book not only to vent their personal animosity towards Assange – in part because he refused to let them write his official biography – but also to divulge a complex password entrusted to Leigh by Assange that provided access to an online cache of encrypted documents. That egregious mistake by the Guardian opened the door for every security service in the world to break into the file, as well as other files once they could crack Assange’s sophisticated formula for devising passwords.

> Much of the furore about Assange's supposed failure to protect names in the leaked documents published by Assange – now at the heart of the extradition case – stems from Leigh's much-obscured role in sabotaging Wikileaks' work.

I'm sure you'll agree that's a hugely significate aspect of the case. Can you find anything in the Guardian accepting responsibility for this? The Guardian journalists responsible have stayed silent and have not appeared in court. Yet the prosecution quotes from their book repeatedly.
I think you missed the fact that Foodpanda and Delivery Hero were both Rocket companies. It was that Foodpanda was doing soo poorly they gave it to Delivery Hero which was for Europe. Overall, Delivery Hero/Foodpanda are pulling out of markets repeatedly. And not small markets either.

Also, Foodpanda's plan when I was there was IPO.
I was thinking the same. Minimodem[1] turns devices into FSK communication devices. Analogous to transferring information via dial-up.

[1] https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem
Microsoft made a big security pivot during XP. Gates put his foot down and forced the company to reprioritize secure engineering over everything else during the SP(2?) timeframe. https://pcheckup.com/strikethrough-google-docs
https://pcheckup.com/
We (finally) analysed our product usage. This is what we learnt
you likely want -O3 -march=native if building for your own machine, this way you get more than the SSE2 baseline if available
Probably not the most practical way to transfer data though.
Did handwashing stop being effective for washing anything off your hands? Sure you could be pedantic and mention some caustic material that reacts with water but that misses the point.
Would love to see the actual compile/build process for this. I don't think we'll see bootable ISOs (from this).
I don't use Windows day to day anymore but, my family has Windows 10 and I manage it.

When I sit in the front of the computer, I feel like I'm inside the big space ship in the Wall-e. All the advertisements, forced consumerism and everything.
I haven't tried it, but the linked announcement says: "Additionally, the E-book viewer now supports both vertical and right-to-left text."
Hard reality is that intelligence agencies conspired against the current president of the US with a story of Russian collusion and tried to frame innocents. These agencies have issues, because that was a clear conspiracy.

Journalists can be wrong, but we have seen direct propaganda that mirrors the talking points of some of these institutions. The Atlantic council for example is broad, doesn't mean anything to attend their parties, but it certainly is an influential network that should be put under scrutiny.

Bellingcat did some good investigative work, but is also connected to the Atlantic Council and I think they just look into a certain direction for recognition purposes. In contrast to Wikileaks for example.
I feel the same way. The amount of times I slide into the dumb side of YouTube after a day's worth of work is a bit embarrassing. Some reading is sometimes possible, but I feel finished at the end of a day.
I think the main point against analogies is when they are used as proof for the situation they are being compared to.

I'm not versed in formal logic, but I believe it would be:

"A -> B", and I want to prove that "C -> D"

So I make the analogy that "A is similar to C, and B to D in some ways" thus then C -> D"

A lot of people will take this as a valid proof. But it has yet to be proven that A and C, and B and D are actually interchangeable.

Edit: To refer this back to the original argument, saying that the AppStore is like a brick and mortar store, and Cheerios is like Epic games is a nice analogy, but it can't possibly prove anything because they are just not the same thing.

What they may do though, is potentially align the reader's point of view with the writer's, but not necessarily towards the _right_ point of view, assuming there is one.
The Guardian is actually involved in the case: the "Guardian’s 2011 WikiLeaks book" contained the full password of the encrypted file containing the unredacted documents and that encrypted file was already (it is argued, not per the instructions of Wikileaks) mirrored to different locations.

The Guardian of course denies its own responsibility, because if they wouldn't, it would mean that it was the Guardian who de facto "published" the files by publishing the password to the file, and not Assange, and it would be them fighting the extradition now.
It wasn't really air-gapped if someone plugged an USB in it, was it ;)

I'm aware of the "over the air" methods to _read_ data from air-gapped systems (The blinking hard-drive light!), however I was referring to doing damage to industrial systems running legacy software, where you usually find this (think a big machine with a "terminal" attached to it that just controls the hardware and has no inputs).
I don’t think less stimulation is correct without some qualifier.

eg Reading a good book is a good type of stimulation. That seems qualitatively different than twitter

Overall a good point though
Two observations where I thought that crows are really quite smart (both related to adapting to city life):

(1) Crows picking up chestnuts from under trees, and throwing them on the road under traffic lights. Traffic light goes green, cars drive over chestnuts munching them into a yummy (for crows I guess) little porridge blobs. Wait till traffic light goes red and enjoy the meal.

(2) I was wondering why some areas near trashcans are so extremely littered and thought "pfft humans", until I watched teams of two or three crows making that mess: one jumps into the trashcan and throws out everything it finds in there, the other team mates sort through the trash to pick out the goodies.

Also crows ganging up on kestrels is very interesting to watch. The crows are employing deception and ambush tactics (although kestrels aren't dumb either).
We judge others based solely on their actions, but when judging ourselves we have an internal dialogue that justifies our mistakes and bad decisions.

This is called Fundamental Attribution Error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
Thank goodness it's decentralized then
Probably more. The phone network had a bandwidth of 300-3300 Hz I think. Audible spectrum is larger
That kind of telemetry was in Windows 95 already with dr Watson. If people want the benefit of having the problems they run into fixed and they believe telemetry helps with that, they can just turn it on. No need to force things.
Thank you so much Jack! Please reach out once you've something to demo: corentin [at] bearer.sh
They run as root per default.

Simply using the "USER <uid/uname>" directory means you run as non-root user with a specified UID. Kubernetes recommends doing that as a baseline security measure. You can also drop caps from a container so even if you are root inside, you can't do a lot of things root can.
I can't link with fftw3 since it's GPL. The other libraries that were permissive licensed had confusing APIs and the output binaries were almost as large as my entire project. CPU usage is high but because of one poorly designed part of the GUI (eqhover.cpp)
Tools are starting to show up that scrape teammates’ calendars and try to defrag everyone’s focus time by rescheduling meetings consecutively.
Judith Butler --

> Interviewer: You weren't a signatory to the open letter on “cancel culture” in Harper’s this summer, but did its arguments resonate with you?

> JB: I have mixed feelings about that letter. On the one hand, I am an educator and writer and believe in slow and thoughtful debate. I learn from being confronted and challenged, and I accept that I have made some significant errors in my public life. If someone then said I should not be read or listened to as a result of those errors, well, I would object internally, since I don't think any mistake a person made can, or should, summarise that person. We live in time; we err, sometimes seriously; and if we are lucky, we change precisely because of interactions that let us see things differently.

> JB: On the other hand, some of those signatories were taking aim at Black Lives Matter as if the loud and public opposition to racism were itself uncivilised behaviour. Some of them have opposed legal rights for Palestine. Others have [allegedly] committed sexual harassment. And yet others do not wish to be challenged on their racism. Democracy requires a good challenge, and it does not always arrive in soft tones. So I am not in favour of neutralising the strong political demands for justice on the part of subjugated people. When one has not been heard for decades, the cry for justice is bound to be loud.
Yeah we have something similar in Australia. Pretty much every school when I was growing up had these exact same portable classrooms with the distinctive shitty-looking rectangular roof. Every single school I walked past or played sports against had them too.

https://aaportablebuildings.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...

I would have thought they'd have something more modern looking these days. But when I Googled around this article from 3 years ago came up with some newish looking ones in the exact same style.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/record-one-milli...

So I guess some things never change. At least they come in that nice blue now instead of the awful brown and green they used to use.
From what I recall it's illegal to buy without a prescription in the UK as well because it's a hormone and all hormones need prescriptions.

But it's not illegal to possess without a prescription, so you can just order it from abroad and essentially nobody cares, the same is true incidentally for steroids in the uk as well.
Please provide links to others who are at the hearing who are providing a very different picture.
Jobson transforms command-line applications into a web-ready job service
Me to.

I worked at a big telco (BT) and they had a super flat structure and a yearly/18 month promotion round that might have 20-25 slots for MPG1 to MPG2 in a division of 40-50k.

MPG1 and MPG2 where the IC grades after that that it was management grades.

You normally had around 18-100 pass the paper shift who then got a board interview.

I played the game and passed the paper shift several times but in the end left the company.
NASA wants a big budget increase for its Moon plans. Is Congress biting?
For some strange reason I always know when a Qt application was written in Python instead of QML/C++.
>and co2 released from the coals imo

The co (mono) is the problem and the fine coal particles which are NOT filtered by water, the water just cools down the smoke and that lets you breath the smoke even faster and deeper into your lungs.
What's the licensing situation for GraalVM? Do they throw lawyers at you if you are making enough money like with other Oracle products[0]?

[0]: Please note that was the impression I got from reading anything Oracle related in HN, not personal experience. I don't otherwise know what I'm talking about.

Signed: .NET developer very interested in the new developments in the Java World but heard too many scare stories.
Can you provide a source? I love to read that kind of stuff.
For those curious:

DAG = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
Same here, unless Python gets more serious with a similar JIT adoption story.

As for the ML stuff, I get the same libraries (written in C++ anyway) from other languages bindings.
Maintenance-focused hackathon stickers (Hacktoberfest for all seasons)
I believe that's the joke. I wish latency was getting better but every new thing that comes along moves the acceptance further away. Many don't even notice 500 ms delay from click to something actually happening. On my Atari I often had the feeling something started happening before the mouse button was all the way down.
http://wtarreau.blogspot.com/2019/01/build-farm-version-3-20...

This is not new, this famous linux kernel developper Willy Tarreau has built severals compile farm based on arm soc to increase his patch testing workflow.
You can find very good presentation https://fr.slideshare.net/ennael/kernel-recipes-2017-build-f... from kernel-recipes conference about this topic.
That theme was wonderful in gray/olive variant if you ask me. It looked polished.
At some point most of us (from engineers to CTO) fall for a "silver bullet". Then after a while, reality speaks up loudly and we decide things like, "not everything should be an object", or "not every function should be a microservice", or now "containers aren't the only solution".
Life = Technology?
Intersting
I still heard about
I considered Windows 2000 Pro the best version and switched to Linux after that - never looked back.
Give a try to Wine/Proton; often they have better compatibility with older games than Windows itself.
It's always really cool to see alternate language implementations with new features or advantages !A similar project for PHP is Peachpie [0]. It runs PHP on the CLR and also claims rather massive performance improvements in some areas [1]. To my understanding it does support some more language features than this.

[0] https://www.peachpie.io/
[1] https://www.peachpie.io/benchmarks
A good build system and caching. By "a good build system" I mean a hermetic one like Bazel that can be confident of knowing the inputs to each build step so that they can be run or not as appropriate. Sometimes you'll touch a core header file and a lot of things will rebuild, but it should still be a lot better.
And to use most of these you need a Oracle consultant for 120 per hour and a 30k per cpu upgrade license.

These guys are professional robbers. They bribed Toronto city hall policitians for a 30 million dollar thing including a well known hockey player.

If you are abstracting the SQL into an ORM you can't take advantage of many of the features anyway.

Was involved in a 10,000 tps payment solution that used Postgresql to grow a 400 million company. And worked at banks where they would pay for oracle and never use half of the features. Relying on hardware based solutions for fail over and replication.
Kids between 2 and 11 years old spend an average of 5/6 hours per day in front of a screen. And kids between 2 and 3 see an average of 25,600 ads a year.

This article is not about restricting the use of mobile devices or parenting, it's about regulating the software industry. Parents don't want their kids to be exposed constantly to advertising on their day-to-day lives, or pressured into buying things all the time.

The European Union is doing a good job regulating businesses, however, Apple is doing a lousy job regulating their own ads and payment systems. And this is because the AppStore makes $60 billion a year thanks to ads and subscriptions.

In my opinion, Apple and the AppStore should be regulated more by the European Union.
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An interesting question here is how did Microsoft's systems get compromised such that their source code was leaked?
I don't have a problem with forced security fixes.
I DO have a problem with forced updates which are completely unrelated to security, install thinly veiled ads disguised as apps, break existing functionality, change my browser/PDF reader preferences, occasionally brick the whole machine.

Also I have a huge problem with so much of this crap needing a reboot. Reengineer the damn thing so it doesn't in 99% of cases.