skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, poisoning was on my mind too. It reminded me of a dark & clever short story I read a long time ago, but cannot remember the author or title.

Setting: America circa early/mid 19th century (maybe late 18th?)

Plot (warning, spoilers): A timid shopkeeper is regularly bullied by the town drunk. The shopkeeper hires the drunk, who continues to abuse him, and now starts stealing from him too.

The shopkeeper sends him on an errand to pick up some goods from another town. The next day the bully is found dead, some distance down the road, still in the carriage he was driving.

The twist: Among the goods being shipped was a large quantity of wood alcohol (isopropyl for you nerds). In those days, wood alcohol was sold in small barrels, but for this large amount, the barrel is the same size used for grain alcohol. The bully had started drinking on his way back and, being illiterate, drank the wood alcohol thinking it was booze and killed himself.

Does anyone remember the author or title of this story?
I like the idea of using harmonics to kill a person. Finding the harmonic frequency of the person's bones and using a sound wave to shatter them.

Does anyone know if this is plausible method?
Which is again impossible when you use someone else’s web frontend for code search. Plus if you’re editing .rgignore on the filesystem for every search, what’s the point of using a web frontend?
This is a pretty damn decent post mortem so soon after the outage. Also gives an architectural analysis of how Kinesis works which is something they had not have to do at all.
> Given that the first market for AI-driven vehicles seems to be western nations, specifically the US, it is no surprise that google gears its captcha program to objects from that area.

This is a roundabout way of just saying the most obvious explanation (sites with US-centric captchas are presumably mostly interested in US users anyway) but wrapped up in an unnecessary conspiracy layer to add creepiness.
> Is the ISS somehow better protected near earth than in deep space?

yes but it's incredibly complicated, radiation comes from multiple sources. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Atlantic_Anomaly and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
There would have been no Intel on IBM compatible PCs without x86 cross licensing, so you could make the point that AMD allowed Intel to thrive.
There are more ignore files that ripgrep honors then gitignore.
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Sounds interesting. Do you have newsletter I can sign up for to get notified when it's released?
That's probably not the best way to frame it, but it's important to make people aware that they can't work 60 hours at the same quality of the first 30.

Even if they could, they'll either burnout, get promoted or leave within 24 months and then you'll need to backfill with multiple people.

Even as an evil manager, you're still better off stopping people from overworking, as you'll get more work overall from them at a sustainable pace.
If you think a company would swear life long loyalty in return to you just because you happen to have some skills, wait till you see what happens when they no longer have use for your “skills”. Never swear loyalty, it’s business, not the military.
That’s 800 Megaflops not flops.

First an i7 920 is up to 54,000 megaflops vs a cray X-MP at 800 MFlops X minutes on a first gen i7 is ~1.1 hours in terms of pure flops. However, that i7’s architecture has many compromises that tend to make it significantly less efficient.

Newer i7’s have significantly more power, but it’s still few minutes > Y hours not days or anything.
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Not sure why ignore files are not the solution here. You can check on an ignore file into your repo then whoever uses ripgrep through whatever fronend gets that logic applied. I’m using this and i don’t quite see the downsides of that.
Indeed. It was a very much different situation for, say, C or C++. Back then it was multiple proprietary implementations, and customers (if not vendors) had an interest in a specification.

For Rust, so far there is one (main) implementation, which is open source. Very different scenario.
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I was expecting some kind of fancy seats, like business class but more packed. It's simply about sleeping sideway on 3 or 4 normal seats because these flights are far from being full.
As a sysadmin, this sounds like a mess. Some tools support them, and some don't? Does the alternate stream/fork data show up in `df` and `du`? Can I cat the alternate streams? How many alternate streams are there?

Why not just leave files as a sequence of bytes and let the applications handle this in their file formats? It's not like we don't have standards and libraries there already.
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> Do you have proof that the opposite is true?

Why would this be necessary with the big gaping hole in the assertion?

> except for addressing security and abuse.

I expect Google and I have very different conceptions of what qualifies as "abuse" and how to "address" it.
A formal, machine-readable specification could be useful. I wonder whether a specification in prose form is worth the effort.
I experienced how many good tech people don’t understand DNS and how this just solidifies control over DNS by the big players.

What a ton of people don’t understand is that you don’t need a DNS forwarder (google/cloud flare/ISP).

If you setup your DNS right it just goes to the ROOT servers and you cut out those parties spying on DNS traffic.

Initial requests are a bit slower because you don’t benefit from the forwarder’s cache, but after a while, most stuff is coached and it’s not a big deal.

Maybe I’m totally wrong here, but this is how I understand it.
This is sad and unexpected, condolences to his loved ones, he will be missed.
Even if it isn’t happening now, which I find no evidence either way (privacy policies are historically less followed than laws, and companies break laws willingly- and even then? What constitutes “abuse”?)- can you make the case that this data will never be correlated or used? In perpetuity?

Seems like _not_ giving away data is the only way to be sure if that. Everything else is subject to change.
Was a big fan of using LoadImpact for years and started testing with K6 as LoadImpact deprecates. (I use them to benchmark WordPress Hosting company performance: https://reviewsignal.com/blog/2020/06/01/wordpress-hosting-p...) I have to say overall the experience was pretty good. I was able to write near identical scripts easily. The documentation was good. Overall pretty happy with K6 as a successor and stand alone. I've used a lot of load testing tools and it's definitely one of the best out there.
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Interesting. How did you collect metrics for reports when running that many VUS? In a recent attempt, influxdb quickly became the bottleneck for us when testing with around 5000 VUS. Is there some best practices outlined somewhere, or which you could outline here, on how to collect metrics for large runs?
A ICU nurse I know says that every time a new brand/type of mask appears the whole hospital is fitted to ensure that they know who can wear which masks safely. If the mask does not seal, then it was probably a waste of time to have an N95 specification. Facial hair is not allowed; even stubble can interfere with the fit.
Thank you for sharing!! I'm totally going to be using this all the time now!
Yeadon has published, and has kept published, a known lie https://twitter.com/MichaelYeadon3/status/131845056763154432...

Why would someone who deals in facts do such a thing? Surely the correct position would be to correct and remove.

Personally anyone who refers to his material is tarnished.

On a general point, there are many people now growing in fame (and monetising that) due to the pandemic. Are their interests aligned with a pandemic ending, what do they pivot to?
One of the people who extensively documented the features of the managerial revolution was a communist completely familiar with the writings of Lenin, James Burnham. See the book by that name.

> The fact that they let their managers take a cut doesn’t change the power dynamic.

The managers are not simply taking a cut, they are exerting power over capitalists and winning.
It is not clear to me, why 'we' want or should end death. Could you elaborate on that?
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It is even worse.

This article is (yet another) attemp to romanticize and put to pedestal 'startup with a novel idea'. It is worth to mention that trying to trick/persuade/convince (choose freely) thousands (literaly) of people to go this path, benefits tremendously ycombinator - not the persuaded founders. Because for YC if only few are (hugely) successfull they win. Not so for the other thousands. The fact that few means 200 here, does not change that 'other' means around dozens of thousands.

Startups with 'right but not novel' are also GOOD. But they are muuuuch worse for YC. YC is not seeking all investments to end with modest returns. YC is seeking few, but with HUGE returns.

Pay attention also, that ycombinator itself is in the 'right, but not inventive' camp. It's like 'selling investing advices', while in the same time, author makes money on sth completly different (advices :). BAD ADVICES, to be exact.

p.s. I'm also tired on romanticizing airbnb in literally 3 paragraph (search for airbeds if you missed it). This is a pattern.
- I can’t control what someone else checks into their repo. I use web frontends for code search almost exclusively on other people’s repos, because my own repos are already on my machine, so what’s the point.

- Most of the time I don’t want to see search results in tests, but occasionally I actually want to find things in tests and not anywhere else. Different people have different filtering needs at different times, you can’t have a ignore file that satisfies every need. Search is about filtering to begin with.
There is still software on the shelves? The last two I saw were Windows Vista and Norton. Admittedly I haven't looked in that section recently! (And to be fair, there are plenty of PC games to this day :)
You posted it yourself. Only Google knows what "abuse" and "security" means. So you need to assume that the opposite is indeed true.
Would you care to elaborate how one would start implementing a DNS that goes directly to the ROOT?

Honestly interested here.
Sobering. If you died at his age, would you be satisfied with your life? I wonder if he was. Entrepreneurs can be hard on themselves.
They aren't all over the place, in fact they are far more advanced than whatever you're referring to. Containers on Linux have also existed for a long time:

https://blog.aquasec.com/a-brief-history-of-containers-from-...

The containerization solutions you're referring to didn't gain widespread adoption like Docker and Kubernetes because they weren't as polished and lacked features and functionality that is available today. Windows containers have a big image requirement, and most server-side software is already optimized for Linux so they aren't in high demand. Just take a look at Docker Hub and tell me how many Windows containers you find compared to Linux, especially the official images of the most common software.
My father passed away from a rare small cell prostate cancer last year. I didn't know at the time, but the median survival rate was 9 months -- and the rate hadn't changed since the 70s.

So, he had a little less than a year to get his things in order -- and then passed swiftly from complete liver failure. I look back and feel very blessed -- he had a really beautiful passing, which i didn't even know was possible.
... while retaining old school power generating equipment...

Completely meaningless anyway - how are they better off? Is electricity in Tasmania now cheaper? If it is then that is the news, not how they made it happen.
For Google Photos and Google Drive I'm using filestash (https://www.filestash.app/) pointing to my SFTP server: I can browse my files like any cloud provider, and it generates thumbnails and smaller-size photos and videos for an "album-like" experience. It also contains a very important feature to me, which is sharing. The one thing I like the most is that everything is driven by the filesystem, there is no secondary database that organizes things differently and needs to be kept in sync with the filesystem

It's 80% there for me, I just think for photos there is a little bit more work to do, so I'm going to investigate static gallery tools
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Perhaps “safe spaces” are a lofty goal to allow students to focus on intellectual exploration rather than devoting a lot of mental energy to the slow drip of “microaggressions”.

It sounds like you might be in one of the “niche conformists” pg describes.
+1 also, I too came through that period, and it was a tricky time, but it was an exciting time as there were many different kinds of computers, and every advance was exciting, knowledge was hard to come by and we heavily relied on books and magazines and other people to find out things. If you went from one computer system to another, was only a slim chance you could do anything unless you had a manual or something to refer to.
Funnily enough, they are never mentioned in all ancient texts on medicinal herbs. Almost like they were kept a secret!
If you don't specify a forwarder in the bind9 configuration it should query the root DNS servers directly, iirc.
I'm not aware of any left-leaning attempts to recuperate his image, but sure, if someone really claims that they're lying. But any adoption of his ideology into the modern alt-right, IDW, or nationalist populist movements currently in vogue are also firmly recuperation. Mishima was absolutely right-wing, but also would find no common ground with e.g. Quilette (at least nominally an extremely pro-Enlightenment, pro-capitalist, pro-West line), the materialist and populist aspects of Trumpism, or the crassness of the alt-right.

A quote from Spring Snow comes to mind:

"Your slow-witted friends—with their sentimentality, their vicious narrow-mindedness that condemns as effeminate anyone who is not like themselves, their harassment of the underclassmen, their fanatical worship of General Nogi... you with all your sensitivity will be seen cheek-by-jowl with these people when they stop to think about our times in years to come. You see, this is the easiest way to establish the essence of our era — to take the lowest common denominator. Once the churning water has settled to a calm surface, you can see the rainbow oil slick floating there. And that’s the way it will be. After we’re all dead, it will be easy to analyze us and isolate our basic elements for everyone to see. And of course this essence, the thought that is the foundation of our era, will be considered quite benighted a hundred years from now. And you and I have no way of escaping the verdict, no way to prove that we didn’t share the discredited views of our contemporaries. And what standard will history apply to that outlook? What do you think? The thoughts of the geniuses of our age? Of great men? Not at all. Those who come after us and decide what was in our minds will adopt the criterion of the uncritical thought patterns of your friends on the kendo team. In other words, they’ll seize upon the most primitive and popular credos of our day. You see every era has always been characterized solely in terms of such idiocies."
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Yes restic is great! No python no dependencies (like borg), just one GO exe and that's it.
They could use energy storage just fine. However, by on net exporting electricity they reduce the amount of fossil fuels Victoria uses so it’s a net win environmentally.

Nuclear has similar issues where baseload generation is inefficient when trying to cover shifting power demand. Thus small cities next to nuclear will import power even if they are a net exporter. In the end larger electricity grids are simply more efficient.
Still says that in the copyright footer.
You may be right on the first point, I won't speculate. I just wanted to point out that it's unlikely to be something endemic to the space.

> What's the real material racism that crypto stops that other forms of payment or speculative trading fall victim to?

Access to financial services like loans for instance. No human or even AI model to judge you based on external factors.
HK is a cannot afford in the sense that the HK polity needs an immediate cultural reset for One Country Two System to work. This leaves 20-30 year for another attempt at 1C2S. IMO The hope is to integrate HK into greater pearl delta, make future HK a compliant Singapore, which is maybe an appealing enough prospect for peaceful reunification if China successfully turns Taiwan into a rustbelt. The opportunity cost is letting HK go rogue for 30 years, which is hard 1C2S fail, and will ensure hot war across the strait.

For rest of China, it's more like CCP can afford not to have unrest than cannot afford unrest. The interesting figure in the article is ~200B on domestic security, comparable to US. Past analysis of Chinese domestic security spending (by lol Zenz) tried to paint Chinese spending as excessive, twice US spending when converted to PPP, but per capita, it's 1/2 US. Control is cheap, and I surmise will only get cheaper.
I don't think it's extensive because of the very low sample size, the fact we don't know about each instance and none of it has been corroborated.

I'm also uneasy about letting black people speak for other POCs on this issue. In my experience, racists tend to be racist towards multiple or all other races rather than a single one -- hence why you dismissing other POCs views on it doesn't make sense to me.

Less than 1% is not "extensive" by anyone's metric, either.
The privacy policy starts with "We take your privacy very seriously", which coming from Google, is kind of funny. A bit like sitting on the phone in a queue for 2 hours and hearing an automated voice saying "We care about customer service!" repeatedly.

The "Google does not use any personal information collected through the Public DNS service to target ads" sentence is oddly specific as well. Why is it only mentioning "targeted ads" and not "for any sort of purposed"? Why is it collected if you're not using it? What does "abuse" really mean in this context, and what does "addressing" it entail? Only the big guys at Google knows.

Finally, the holy privacy policy of Google can change at any time. "We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent." it says, which makes sense if you're a Google user. What about me, who don't have a Google account? How do I, tell this public DNS service that I don't agree to the new privacy policy? Right, I can't, you assume I'm fine with it.

I think we're long past the point of having to prove that various tech companies don't care about people's privacy. The burden of proof that you're actively taking steps to preserve it is on you, as you've already burned all the goodwill you had from the internet crowd.
Are the circumstances suspicious or is there nothing to worry about here? So sad and sorry for your loss.
I would also be interested if there's any specific reasoning there, especially because there's an effort to get rust supported as way of writing kernel modules in linux, a pretty dogmatically C (though not standard C) codebase. I am personally very exciting for rust's potential in low-level embedded applications.
All those things invalidate any attempt to prove Koko had language. Which seems obvious from context.
All energy production produces some waste and pollution. That's just something we have to live with. And yes, energy efficiency is very good (though things like thicker insulation ALSO causes more waste, so, as everything else, it's a trade-off).

But the degrees to different ways of producing energy cause waste are really vastly different. Compared to spewing out greenhouse gasses and particulates into the atmosphere when burning fossil fuels, waste from wind, solar, and yes even spent nuclear fuel, are really trifling issues. We should do it well, and work on improving recycling etc., but current ways of handling them are vastly better than using fossil fuels.
I'd recommend you to use Unbound and specify the named.root or (root.hints) file:

https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root

This Ansible role takes care of configuring it all (CentOS):

https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-centos/tree/master/u...

I have it for FreeBSD and OpenBSD too:

https://github.com/liv-io/ansible-roles-bsd/tree/master/unbo...
Makes me so sad, he was as much (if not more) a humanitarian as an entrepreneur. Thankful for his impact.
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I think the post is suggesting running your own local resolver instead of using a public resolver or an ISP resolver.
If you look it from a different angle, the culture allowed Edmunds access to talent who were motivated enough to reach these bigger companies.
Thank you for sharing. 5 hours ago all news reports were unable to share the cause behind his death.

Very sad news. Downtown Las Vegas is the place it is today thanks to him. Rest in peace.
Yes, the ISS has some protection from being in low Earth orbit. But the rate of cosmic ray strikes is still high enough to pose a health risk, so the areas on ISS where astronauts spend most of their time have additional shielding. The material most often used for shielding is polyethylene because it performs better in terms of secondary emissions - heavy elements like lead emit showers of secondary particles when struck by cosmic rays and have to be very thick to contain the secondaries, which is far too heavy to put into space.

Once away from low Earth orbit the shielding on a spacecraft becomes very expensive in terms of size and weight, even when it is the lighter weight polyethylene material.
What? Are you volunteering? No? Why not? There you find your answer.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-security-captchas-crowdsour...
(Not the best source perhaps, but I just picked one among dozens)
It's not a conspiracy theory, it's actually true that captchas are used as data for self-driving car algorithms, and that the data would be useless unless it was relevant to things those cars are likely to encounter. The reason they're so common is they are distributed for free, for the same reason: more data.
I often feel like I ought to get paid when presented with an annoyingly long queue of them.
No problem. Just opt out.
As an Iranian, I did not have problems with CAPTCHAs being “American.” Perhaps rural people might have trouble with them, but I don’t think it’s a bottleneck. Adding an example picture of what is desired will help everyone though (Cloudflare does this.).
Locking down does have a large economic cost, but the alternative is a large number of preventable deaths. I know which course of action I prefer to be taken.