skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised the CEO of Cloudflare would say something like this. It's bad PR and bad for hiring, I agree.

There are some cultures where lying and cheating is seen as being "cunning" rather than immoral. I don't know if Portugal counts among these.

Even in those countries, where lying/cheating is normalized, being caught lying/cheating is still considered shameful.

There's no version of a major IT company CEO calling a country "a nation of liars" that ends well.
I don't know. I recently sold my second startup. So I'd say that was not a failure.

But that doesn't guarantee all the future ventures will be a success.
I used a hacky way to chunk the photos into 50parts and save them in the tables.
I've known a lot of farmers over the years and they always struck me as some of the most hard nosed and astute businessmen I've ever met.

Edit: Having done a bit of both (and a lot of family in both areas) I'd rather be a fisherman than a farmer and I really don't want to be a fisherman!
It's chlorine triflouride. Things that can light asbestos on fire doesn't mess around.

Another bit of discussion on the stuff here[0], including the John Clarke "Ignition" quote you refer to.

[0]: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/sa...
Can't agree more. As engineers we tend to work on interesting things instead of important things.

Glad it helped! :)
I guess it is called a double standard.
While gene drives are scary powerful tech (note, the featured article is not a gene drive), I don't think it would really be a problem humanity wise. We breed a lot slower, so we'd have decades to notice and deal with a problem. And we can apply all sorts of solutions that mosquitos are not capable of.
How envious could one be if one can't easily liquidate the said funds?
Covid-19 Individual Risk Calculator with Dalex Model Explanation
GP didn't ask about liability for reading it but rather the legality of intentionally retaining a local copy. Intentionally making a copy of content which you know you don't have a license for is against copyright law in all western jurisdictions that I'm aware of.

Reading something isn't inherently illegal itself, true. I'm fairly certain that intentionally navigating to a website that you know contains pirated content is a violation of copyright law though. (Of course no one is going to bother prosecuting you for it, but still.)

The laws surrounding classified information in the US are quite different from copyright law. They aren't relevant here at all. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_...)
Why Learning Chinese for English Speakers Is Insanely Hard
I do this for years with my phone, nowaday I mostly use it for OTP, photo sharing, and browsing reddit in between shifts. It's a dumb smartphone tbh.
If the non-racist Republicans would actively foster better race relations and reforming an inherently racist system, as well as denouncing and ostracizing the actually-racist Republicans, maybe they wouldn't all get painted with the same brush.

But that would start costing them elections, so instead they coddle and abet the worst of them.

What do you call 9 people staying quiet when a tenth is being blatantly racist? Ten racists. Take it from me, I saw it in action growing up white in Mississippi.
I love the experience but hate feeling chained to my garden when I want to take a weeks long trip into the wilderness. I primarily want to automate looking after my garden in my absence.
Don't you think that the plural nominatives without an apostrophe are less ambiguous? I mean RNNs or FSTMs.

It's the OED's and CMoS's recommendation: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/56010/15831
Or the gap goes unfilled. We live in an age where small diskless devices are uncommon and another type of small device now called "phone" is common. A small device nowadays doesn't boot from PXE+TFTP, it has its own SSD and doesn't even trust the network.
Will Visa kill Square? This benchmarking says no
Maybe I misunderstand the term, but why would 'homesteading' necessarily be much if anything it a revenue stream? Doesn't it mean roughly 'doing things that shift the scale towards self-sufficiency'?
I am sympathetic to the libertarian argument, I agree that alcohol is also a dangerous drug and is the cause of a considerable amount of crime so why is it different?

On the one hand there is a considerable culture around alcohol that is difficult or impossible to expunge. Banning it simply isn't practical in a democracy where alcohol is popular across all sections of society. Hard drugs like cocaine and heroine simply don't have the cultural and social context that alcohol has, there isn't a consensus that it's acceptable.

Arguing that, well alcohol is dangerous too is a bad argument. We do this bad thing so therefore we should also be allowed to do this other bad thing doesn't follow at all. Ideally we shouldn't do either bad thing. Both alcohol and hard drug use impose considerable costs on society. If society has chosen to accept those costs in one case but not the other (while fighting to limit them) well, making such decisions is what democracy is for.

Ultimately I think the libertarian argument works for decriminalising uses, but fails at decriminalising the trade. There's no inherent right to make a profit whatever the cost to others or society.
Yeah getting kicked out of the country was at best a second or third order effect of the code being bad
I think @reedf1 is talking about the long term damage to a population.

With the gene drive technology, the modified gene is always inherited.

the 750 million number is there to speed up the process.

(This my understanding from reading the first few paragraphs from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive)
As an old girlfriend told me: “Size matters”.

Closing Guerrilla Mail will upset us a lot but the rest of the world will ignore it. Close Whatsapp and the world will be a chaos.
> the machine-readable descriptions don't capture information like "this field could contain a string or an integer", or "the length of this array is dependent on the value in another field"

So the auto-generated code can implement correctness checks on the data, presumably at runtime? Sounds neat. Reminds me of Ada's discriminated types.

https://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/...
My estimation:

Germany - Former GDR (East) : 2%

Germany - Protestants (North) : 10%

Germany - Catholic (South and West): 20%

optimistic values, added lots of slack. Based on gut feeling.
I've heard this put an alternative way: it's not that posh people have unwarranted self-confidence, it's that everyone else has excess self-doubt. We've been broken in by our schooling.

Don't know if there's any truth to that, but it's an interesting way of looking at it.
Firefox media developer here.

It's a bit hard to understand what the problem is, sorry.

You can block video and sound auto-play altogether, or just audio, or none, in `about:preferences#privacy`, and choose or check exceptions you've granted, but if I read the grand-parent comment correctly, an appropriate setting has already been put in place.

Additionally, if the website really wants to play audio against a visitor's will, it can try to hijack clicks and touch events. There are some plans to tighten this, the spec was designed to allow implementing various policies. It should also be possible to write a content blocker for this as a Web Extension (maybe it already exists).

Does this happen on all websites? On some websites, that you could possibly share with us, so we can have a look and understand what's up ?

Can anybody that is not satisfied about this open a ticket at https://mzl.la/363s8KN, and put in `:padenot` in the box `Request information from` (log in with github or a bugzilla account) with some info about the websites ? An alternative would be to send me an email, username at mozilla.com.
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which The Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—‘child hero’ was the phrase generally used -- had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Police.
The headline is missing 'What could go wrong'.
> With NPt, you cannot do this, you’d have to have an additional device like a layer 7 proxy (like HAProxy) to take in everything and send it to the correct destination

This is mostly incorrect. Yes, NPT can't do this. No, you don't need an additional proxy. All the usual methods work, they're just not called NPT. On linux MASQ and REDIRECT targets work on ipv6. You can change addresses and ports exactly the same way you'd do it for ipv4.

There are other wrong things in this rant too. I'm curious if the author ran into many issues while implementing ipv6 or just doesn't like the idea in general. The problems and some solutions seem very contrived and there are better ways to solve them.
I've been using mailinator.com for years - they have an almost identical service (they don't allow you to send mail, though)

Another helpful use case: Some annoying sites ask you to create an account before you can browse them, but there's a faster way: Click on a 'lost password' link, and enter <website name>@mailinator.com as your email - chances are, someone else has already used mailinator to create an account, and you can re-use theirs :-)
This iron originally took considerable energy to turn it from rust into iron, when it's burned it becomes rust again.

Presumably, this will be useful on a small scale to absorb certain types of scrap iron and steel that is contaminated with other elements that would make it unsuitable for normal recycling.

High quality iron would be better off being recycled, as the huge amount of energy originally expended in its reduction from oxide to iron doesn't have to be expended on the production of new iron.
Get the old Google icons back with this Chrome extension
On the humourous side, if this tech ever get added to cars, then calling the older ones "rust buckets" might be appropriate in a whole new way. :)
What's the Deal with SvelteKit?
Do people really manage to do anything useful with these icon sets, or do you end up having to craft your own to mimic these? I find that I can do the generic add/zoom in/copy/settings/blah and then when I need buttons for "Show wiring" and "Set milking schedule" or "View restaurants" then it's tricky to use an icon, but too time consuming to try to create a new one. The usual antipattern is "OK I'll use this lightning one as a placeholder to mean do-thing, and I'll create a better one later". That never happens, so you have these monochrome overly generic icons around.
Has anyone not been called GPT-3 yet? If you post anything remotely controversial then it's inevitable sooner or later. It's the current go-to for discrediting opinions you don't share.
i had a vps with ovh before and i am building a new service to launch soon and ovh was on top of my list...so i guess they can fuck the right off. vote with your wallet, as always.
But was it a "fault" of the switch itself or lack of meaningful feedback that the switch was engaged? It seems like they have not implemented it properly and then say it wasn't a good idea, without really giving it a chance.
> Your experience would've been much different if your farm was in Bidar or Anantpur.

I'm from the latter, own some ancestral land there. Here, we're always on the lookout for ways to counter the extreme aridity of the region. We know it's not easy and like asking the impossible.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Mail
Can you add a gif to let us know what webring you are in please?
Actually, it's a homage to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks" which is a homage to "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".
The analogy that really drove home how many IPv6 addresses there are is this:

Take every known star in the sky today, give each of them a full IPv4-sized /32 address space, and you'd still have IPv6 space left over.

No need to scrimp, indeed!
HN will forget this tomorrow when the Github CEO does something again.
The theory was that such systems should exist, but I haven't heard of any at the moment and Google doesn't seem to find any either. And this is several years after the system was implemented.
Your other comments reveal you're living in The Netherlands. The farming sector there is massively subsidized both via EU and local funds. Now during COVID-19 the state is bankrolling up to 70% of the revenue of the horticulture industry[1].

And that's before you get into all the indirect subsidies like zoning, fuel subsidies for industrial use etc. that are largely aimed at subsidizing farmers.

1. https://www.arc2020.eu/flower-power-commission-somehow-appro...
Thank you! Great answer
"You also gets up to 80% of your former salary provided by the government until you do."

Also when you were self-employed, and/or if you quit your job? In Norway can you quit your job for no reason and get 80% of your salary while you look for another (or not)?
The problem being solved is the bursty nature of green energy, we are trying to store solar energy generated during the day for usage at night or store excess wind energy for still days.

We are not trying to transfer green energy to less windy/less sunny places, the grid can take care of that.
Yeah... and I'm unsure if he only did it for dramatic effect or if he really feels responsible for the problems this student got into?
I sort of wonder if this approach to JITing is worth it over just writing a faster interpreter. This is basically like what V8's baseline JIT used to be and they switched to an interpreter without that much of a performance hit (and there's still a lot of potential optimizations for their interpreter). LuaJIT 1's compiler was similar, although somewhat more elaborate, and yet still routinely beaten by LuaJIT 2's interpreter (to be fair LuaJIT 2's interpreter is an insane feat of engineering).
A question to GitHub about racism
As other commentators have stated, OVH have datacenters in multiple jurisdictions. For example the US and European services are distinct entities and while product offerings are similar there are some specific differences. Also worth noting that while they use support teams across continents, the teams rarely have much context of what's happening in the other continents (has been as issue in the past for my teams).

It is unclear which entity was providing the service to Guerrilla Mail.
It’s a bad thing - whenever you cannot make a choice you become a slave to tyranny. Infra lock-in means you’re a slave to their whims (financial, legal, competitivenes, whatever)

This is justified by “less maintenance, and easier deployment” but the reality of the situation is, it’s not worth giving your freedom up for, and to a lesser degree - if your platform becomes popular, you end up spending the same amount of time tweaking and optimising to match the idiosyncrasies of their implementation anyway.

But the most important part is vendor lock-in, it’s bad.
Except when it doesn't.

Take the current elections in the US as an example. Yes, the system's working and it has proven to be quite resilient but those shenanigans involving mail-in ballots and the uncertainty that came with that for example could've been avoided with a properly designed digital system.

Most of those problems could of course be solved with a properly designed non-digital system, too.
"The change program will have a random impact"

The book Rip-Off: The Scandalous Inside Story of the Management Consulting Money Machine by David Craig mentions one firm of management consultants (called The Butchers - he doesn't give names of consultancies for obvious reasons) who apparently only ever make one recommendation: lay off a quarter of your staff. Regardless of what the problems of the client are or even if they have any problems.

This makes the job of the management consultants easier - they know what the answer is, they just need to gather some plausible sounding data to support it (or make it up).

The amazing thing is that this, from the viewpoint of an executive, will actually work for a few years - numbers will look great and the company will survive long enough for the executives to move on based on their track record of being "turn around" experts at their last company.
There's a really strange phenomenon that I experience on the internet where I think news is much older than it really. This is quite a striking example of that. I read this title today and immediately thought "that's old news". But it turns out that I read this only yesterday and in comment, not even an article. It's strange how my brain seems to store this information quickly, but doesn't have enough time to timestamp it.
Certain ant species can eat ticks, but as far as I'm aware there's no species feeding only off ticks, and Lyme and Encephalitis are really nasty. But it's an interesting question: suppose we can somehow erradicate all ticks, what effect would that have? How much do they matter for the food chain or on ecosystems in general?
Perhaps I am being naive (I’m certainly ignorant enough to be), but I don’t see why we should be worried about gene drives in humans — surely we can, in principle, genetically modify ourselves to fix the problem gene drives would cause?

For example, there was a story in the UK press (it may be fictional, but I think it will still serve the argument) that there is a gene which causes extremely strong male-directed sexual attraction in both men and women [0] — all men with it are gay, all women with it are hyperfertile, and the hyperfertility is strong enough that positive evolutionary pressure from the women counterbalances the negative pressure from the men.

I think that this sort of thing could count as a toy model of gene-drive, but do correct me if I’m misusing terms or generally failing to understand.

But, even in this toy example probably based on a journalist failing to understand the science, we can not only genetically modify ourselves, but also we have in-vitro fertilisation so we don’t even need to GM ourselves.

[0] don’t worry, I’m bi, this isn’t a hopeless pearl-clutching story about gay genes
Sure, but it's the most famous bottle, also among people that never use bottles
It behaves exactly the same as Dropbox, so no possibility to sync outside that folder.
California passes privacy rights act
i am no fan of gulag and i do not like the ties of go to gulag but i think it is not as bad as gulag monopolizing the web browser industry. also i think that people running the project are way smarter than any of us and the community argument is not a good one, for me. because if someone does not do the gatekeeping the language would become yet another bloated "modern" monstrostity with all the batteries included. also i think a programming language should not even have a community when it comes to development. it should all scientifics papers and top brains working on it and not anyone with github account. since this is the most basic brick in the entire software chain, there is no place for politics, feelings, quick fixes and cleverness. the language should be a "perfect" too that does only one thing but it does it incredibly well.
> Does anyone have a suggestion of an email provider I can use with custom domain?

I’ve set it up the other way around. All mail gets sent to a cheap VPS that has qmail rules to accept all aliases from a text file. This way, whenever I sign up for a new service, I just add the service’s name to the text file and suddenly have “servicename@mydomain” as an email address. Same for compromised mail - just remove the entry from the file and add another one, change email address with the compromised service (or cancel the account) and you won’t be bothered by spam anymore. All addresses not in that text file go to some local CatchAll folder I only check occasionally.

All mail that’s passing this filter is getting a DKIM and/or DMARC signature and forwarded to my GMail account. But I can easily have it sent to a completely different account in a matter of minutes. And the email provider doesn’t have to support custom domains.
> they'd be in for a costly legal battle.

Microsoft might find itself in a costly legal battle? Oh no, software freedom must be curtailed lest poor Microsoft ever find itself in a costly legal battle for doing the right thing.
Similar but with a pretty UI: https://amplication.com
https://github.com/Amplication/amplication
Sounds like academia needs to insist on better coding standards. Publishing your code isn't worth much if the code is an unmanageable mess. Still better than not publishing your code I guess, but how reliable are scientific results when they've been processed by code of which nobody knows how it works?
Peter Norvig, Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years - https://norvig.com/21-days.html
Not sure what they've been doing, but in my experience the handling of law enforcement requests by OVH is hit and miss.

So far they have always forwarded requests to us, but in some cases they shut down some of our servers if we didn't respond within a few hours.

This looks like the request was directly addressed to them and they may be legally prohibited from talking about it.
Biden Will Win Nevada by 1%
'tis but a simple book. To some a lark, an escape, a bit of amusement, or a farcical warning not to be taken that seriously.

To others? A manual.
Well, 99.9% of Cloudfare customers will never hear of this, and out of the 0.01% that do, maybe 3 will look to move their business elsewhere. It’s the sad nature of business these days, either we don’t care or we don’t have good alternatives.

But his statement is shameful.
Gravity storage IS subject to the same law, why do you believe it isn’t?

Burning hydrocarbons is problematic for a host of reasons besides CO2 release: fracking, oil spills, release of other pollutants, political issues with the supplier countries, pipelines, ...
Echo/printf to write images in 5 LoC with zero libraries or headersnetpbm
They do, but those are mostly intended in case somehow all the lift cables snap/detach/disappear. In that case the elevator would drop, the brakes would engage and slow the elevator down to a stop. In the story told you can easily imagine the elevator dropping and getting caught by the cables in a time frame shorter than what you'd need for the brakes to stop the elevator. A drop of just a foot could easily cause plenty of injuries.

EDIT: I should also mention that the mechanism I described above should not be confused with the overspeed governor which is located in the penthouse and wouldn't notice anything at all if the lift cage gets stuck.
Looks promising, I am giving it a try.
Or, even more specifically, "Anatomy of a Linux Binary Executable Generated by the Rust Compiler"
What poor souls use a low-power laptop GPU for content creation? This product falls squarely in the gap between inexpensive mainstream laptops and high-performance "workstation" or gaming laptops.
You're not going to pay anywhere near a cent per GB if you're running a major video hosting site.

Those kinds of fees would only happen if you were a tiny site and using an overpriced option like AWS.
Nice article. Inspired me a little also.

Aside: Caught the typo "step sis" towards the end of the article. Little Freudian slip. ;)
That's bold, a usual recommendation is 10%.
I use GuerrillaMail regularly. This is a security tool. There is an absolute need for easy anonymous throwaway email addresses. Hopefully, this will be resolved quickly. Tell us how to help!
> you don't win legal battles by committing crimes

Quite possibly one of the most incorrect things I've ever read.