skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm only speculating, it could be quite possible that whoever may have wished to damage or destroy the AT&T building, seriously underestimated what these kind of buildings can take (essentially being disguised bunkers).

This certainly wasn't a small explosion, from the looks of it. But taking out a bunker .. unless you have access to weapons specially build for that purpose, good luck.

That AT&T still went down, may just demonstrated an apparent oversight in their emergency procedures for this site. I don't know the details, but having backup generators that rely any public infrastructure sounds like a pretty bad choice. That said, maybe those generators first burned through a decent supply of diesel fuel, only to later rely on (in this case absent) gas.

I have no idea how much diesel would be required to keep that site running for a prolonged period of time. Maybe such an amount could pose regulatory/safety issues on its own. Nonetheless, the sole purpose of emergency generators is to provide power that does not depend on any external factors (maybe aside from air/oxygen). So to me this story does sound at least a bit weird.

But somebody targeting that building and totally underestimating their chances, even if they may have still succeeded partially (if only by "luck") .. nah, that can not surprise me at all.
Doesn’t the LLVM API go through breaking changes fairly often? How do you track all that and keep your sanity?
Speculation at this point will get us nowhere

You follow this, immediately with speculation into the bomber's methodology and tactics?
Honestly, if the choice is removing the dams and moving to more polluting energy forms, or letting the fish go extinct, I think letting the fish go extinct is the best choice at this time. Maybe we freeze their fertilized eggs and reintroduce them at some point in the future when climate change has been reversed.
The difference is strong typed vs. loosely typed languages. In an IDE you see a popup with a "quick fix" for missing includes.
It doesn't matter if it were to drop to 2% (and it's highly unlikely it would) because the end does not justify there means.

But I'm curious what part of my own sweat and labor I'm not entitled to?
Or final cut works too. Both are great. Since you were talking about the casual market, I figured this was basically the type of software you'd have to look at as a competitor if you're targeting windows systems.
I really want to use nixos on my RPis, but its not yet out of the "really painful" stage. There's no official arm package cache so you have to cross compile everything. Unfortunately, with nix this means running an ARM compiler inside an emulator, so it is very slow.

When I finally got an image built the performance was much worse than rasbian or ubuntu. Kodi was basically unusable.

I hope these issues eventually get fixed. Being able to build an sdcard image from a nix config would be a great way to manage a bunch of Raspberry Pis.
> I don't think there's ever been a Mac made for embedded use

Actually...

The trashcan, which often power mac virtualization farms: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2019/05/07/the-definitive-ma...

The rack-mounted xserve, which is old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

Maybe not "embedded," but not end user devices.
False, false, all false.

Some of Assange's activity could be described as journalism, but a lot of it was not and clearly ran afoul of laws on the books. It is also a generationally-unique case and far from any kind of norm.

Detentions of journalists in the context of protests etc needs to be carefully monitored but also has legitimate safety impacts in some cases. The trend in the US was not good this year, but it was an unusual year in multiple ways and the trend was not that bad either. The part that matters more is that very few are being tried for anything. A short detention is not "jailing journalists" in the traditional dictatorial sense.
Crime and Puzzlement (1990)
Often for eInk screens the problem with speed is the driver (either code or chip), not the paper itself. For example, many drivers don’t support partial refreshes.

I just bought the B/W version of this screen and read the data sheet.
Internally, it is four different screens. So I think (haven’t yet received it) each quadrant takes about 2 seconds to refresh (2 seconds is a pretty common refresh time for eInk). A better driver could do all quadrants at once for a ~2 second refresh.
Dev-C++ Is a Low Memory Windows Native C++ IDE Built in Delphi
I would try this but my Everdrive 64 broke. Sad Christmas for me, I suppose.
The comment was obviously written in jest, so I was playing along.
In general, an Actor receiving a message enters its region of

mutual exclusion (which can have holes), which is explained

here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3459566

Is there a rigorous formalization of Erlang message passing?
They can feel cavities with their scaling tools. That's like half the reason why they train in school. They don't need a damn x-ray to do that. And they all say "We will not continue unless we do an x-ray" which just floors me. How is shooting x-rays in my skull even remotely healthy for my brain? I get we can tolerate x-rays, but jesus every damn time I switch dental practices or minimum once per year?
The point is to persuade yourself. Or rather, to satisfy the collection of niggling doubts[1] we call the "inner critic". That voice constantly questioning us in our own heads, poking holes in our logic, and ensuring we're actually thinking and not pretending to think.

The problem with fallacies, as I see it, is they're often employed to fool that inner critic. They can dress up any emotional, thoughtless reaction in the guise of reason.

"I thought that person was rude" becomes "I believe this person is engaging in an ad-hominen attack." Or "they have a belief I don't like" becomes "Clearly, the other person has a case of confirmation bias."

I think our inner critic will detect us taking such mental shortcuts; it won't be quieted so easily. I also think that's why fallacy-first thinkers will spam their views across threads. Unable to persuade themselves, let alone others, they resort to rhetoric to silence their own creeping doubts.

[1] http://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html
Is it possible that they are all effectively islands? For example, it appears that Vietnam has miles of jungle between its major cities and neighboring countries. The same cannot be said for the US and Europe.
it being impossible to get 100% right doesn't mean we must be afraid to try to assess merit.

perhaps a fair value assessment might include some % of revenue or profit, to self adjust?
https://www.slow-journalism.com/

I can't speak on their printed work but my first issue is arriving any day.
"Conversational" implies dialogue.

We're by no means the same, but the Venn has substanital overlap.

By the time we speak to people, we often find them far less monstrous than we imagine, even if their traditions differ.
The most brutal thing I saw was when someone compromised a customer ISDN router (the small Ascend boxes with the curses UI) and changed the creds to login to their ISP and disconnected it and forced it to redial repeatedly. The local telco charged you for every ISDN call if it was a business line and since ISDN call initiaton/setup are instant - they had a several thousand dollar phone bill. I recall seeing the RADIUS server getting slammed with auth failure for days when that happened.
Just wait until it mutates and starts killing kids. Kids are currently the last to be vaccinated. I know this is morbid but this does not bode well but there is precedent. Spanish flu first only killed the elderly and then on its return killed young adults and kids disproportionately. Now the Spanish flu was influenza and this is coronavirus but this specific coronavirus should not be underestimated. I’ve said this from the beginning and I hope I’m wrong.
The advance described in the paper in question could turn out to have a fairly significant impact on the economics of an air-to-fuels process that includes it.

For context: the paper describes an air-to-fuels system requires carbon dioxide as a carbon source as well as some source of hydrogen gas. Given these two feedstocks there are then two main routes to fuel production: reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol or ethanol, which can then be "upgraded" to heavier fuels, or reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which is used along with the hydrogen to feed a Fischer-Tropsch reaction producing a variety of fuels directly. My understanding is that in either case production costs are dominated by the cost of acquiring the feedstocks, which are in turn mainly driven by the cost of energy.

What the article describes is a technique that modifies the Fischer-Tropsch step of the process that uses it, which would perhaps bring costs down somewhat for that step. Additionally, and more importantly, carbon monoxide is not needed as a separate feedstock as CO2 is apparently directly reduced by this new catalyst - this is where significant cost savings could potentially realized.

I'm no expert in any of this but for what it's worth I did go through a process of estimating what "air-to-fuels" fuel might cost to produce and came up with a cost of about $1300 per metric ton. If the technique described in the paper were applied to the process I investigated, the $1300/mt price could potentially decrease to around $1000/mt. For comparison, Brent crude oil is currently about $380/mt and aviation fuel is about $430/mt.

[EDIT] Forgot to include a link to my analysis: https://bit.ly/34JTCFm
Yes it's still working fine, no docker change did break it yet.

The main repo is an image base for examples and base for developers to create their own images.

It has been updated in june 20, the main base file is debian buster.

All other image files are based on this one and a simple update does actually upgrade your tools from the older base image to the newer one -

It's like symlinked Dockerfiles.
The prevailing theory is that there were no gun shots, but gun shots were played over the speakers to wake people up so they would evacuate.
>Can you elaborate on this further? I do not know what this means. I was not part of any local assemblies as I am not German, nor do I speak German, and many of the assemblies at 35c3 seemed to be treating me very coldly as they are just local clubs from all over Germany. (Understandable, I do not fault them).

You don't need to be german. International hackerspaces also get vouchers for CCC and travel in groups. Check with your local hackerspace.

Think of assemblies as "interest groups" and several are quite approachable over IRC/Matrix.

A list from previous years: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2018/wiki/index.php/Static:As...

Feel free to also poke me next time you travel if you need people to chat with or hang around.

>yes. I was looking into this, Do you have a recommendation for a good website to explore train timetables and routes? What I have to be careful about is timing because if I need to stay overnight in Berlin then it may increase the cost such that if it wastes a lot of time, then it may not be worth saving the additional plane money(as many flights have stops in some other city on the way to Leipzig anyway).

Google maps covers most of the train transits in Europe. But the leipzig train went almost every hour except for in the middle of the night if i recall correctly. This isn't a transit that goes twice a day and should be easy to jump onto if you don't arrive in veryvery odd hours.
Can you elaborate about the "can even appear in public" and "worry about their personal safety" parts of your comment? I'm curious and not sure I understand if I'm taking them correctly.

Are you saying that a sufficiently unpopular public figure would have a high likelihood of being physically attacked on the street?
This is an excellent game, I think what's most interesting is how the media seems to affect the public opinion about it.
Sorry, it was a reference to the science fiction tv show Babylon 5. The Vorlons and Shadows were two "elder" races who took it upon themselves to shepherd the evolution of less advanced species (whether they wanted it or not,) with one having the philosophy of authoritarianism, and the other a sort of brutal, chaos-driven Darwinism.
weird juxtaposition of arguments. you start by arguing that one system's rules aren't relevant when there are many jurisdictions.

then you talk about each jurisdiction having very unique flavors & characters to them.

the favt that the uspto governs such a vast share of products-sold carries a lot of weight. I tend to think increasing the cost of patents is a silly idea, because right now they cost nearly nothing if you file & do the reject/re-apply dance yourself (and know how to). unless we the people are going to start charging billions for good ideas being monopolized, I tend towards a fair reasonable & non-discriminatory access model for all ideas, with a depreciating over time scale. i'd rather open the closed system than try to find the right price for it. but either way, I think the uspto & Congress has a lot of power to fix this practically free hand out that ongoingly locks down this world & obstructs progress time & time again.
Linux is not based on Minix. What Linux does do is that it supports most everything required for POSIX compatibility.
Reports that most of Tennessee is without 9-1-1 service right now:

https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32982150-AT-T-Suffers-outa...

And AT&T mobile is down across Kentucky: https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32981927-Services-Suspicio...

Also reports above that calls into Tennessee aren't working.
There is 0 doubt that they were targeting the hub, they parked right beside that building, not on the side of the street with restaurants. There is a gaping hole in the side of the building, though how much damage was done isn't known. Some services were affected before they had to cut the generators, per some reports. Internet and cellular is still down, and our DirecTV local channels went black right when they cut the power. I suspect they redirected that because it came back an hour later well before cellular and internet.
Pilot's footage shows jetpack flying off SoCal coast
If you're using Pi 3 and 4s, then there is an official aarch64 package cache. But yeah, older Pis (and the 0) are a PITA.

Also, cross-compiling almost works now - I have a Pi 4 cross-compiling NixOS to armv6l for a Pi 0. But I'm using a clone of nixpkgs with several PRs merged, and I've taken care to avoid packages where cross doesn't work yet - definitely not plug-and-play.

I imagine things will be a lot better in a year or so.
It could be interesting for regulators to see if anyone "miraculously" managed to make a lot of money from/during this incident, because some people do have the resources to pull something like this off and make a profit from it. But I think it's rather unlikely.

Aside from that, I seriously doubt that just disruption of AT&T services was the objective here. Considering that this appears to have been a rather serious explosion, I guess the intent was more likely destruction rather than disruption.

With the amount of 5G nut jobs running around these days, I suspect that it is far more likely that somebody just seriously underestimated what it takes to bring down a building like this one.

But I guess that time will tell (more). I'm just speculating of course.
Disabled snap store in Linux Mint 20
Disclosure: I know nothing about the science of vaccines.

Perhaps the new mRNA technique could lead to better flu vaccines as well.
This is what sold me on Elixir. I promptly purchased his book which was also amazing.
The Wikipedia clones gamed it and they were deranked. Why does Pinterest get special treatment?
this is an anti argument to me. you should be able to, over bluetooth. or maybe mdns, in some slightly better fantasy world. but this question distracts, picks foibled with airdrop, when a far greater scope question of why no one anywhere has low-intermediation direct device-to-device discovery. I don't care that Apple's implementation isnt perfect, doesn't work for xyz use case. no one else has any airdrop like basis at all. and there are no protocols or standards out there that begin to address this fault. everyone else is on square 0. terrible.
> You fixed something from the immediately-buildable tarball that you'd rebuilt and tested

That entirely depends on whether the necessary libraries and headers are installed on the system you're using.

> even something that didn't need a rebuild (config, doc, interpreted source), and sent the change, perhaps using M-x diff-backup

Unless someone uses emacs and gnus or something similar, email clients could end up mangling the diff unless it was sent as an attachment (which would make reviewing the code and posting an inline response more difficult).
@Mods, please edit the title - it's quite misleading.
>but a lot of it was not and clearly ran afoul of laws on the books

Though I find this claim to be ridiculous in general, even the US argument boils down to him claiming he'll help crack a password that provided no additional data and him saying "curious eyes never run dry." And a "generationally unique case" is the kind used to build precedent, like how locking up foreign journalists critical of the US is OK.

Beyond that, you just have a baseless statement that US detention is justified and acceptable while Chinese detention is not.
It's not too surprising to anyone following the events. Retroactive blood testing of donated blood should the original strain (the phrase original variant sounds like an oxymoron) having reached places like France and NY months earlier than we realized, certainly November if not September of 2018. The magic of the virus is its ability to travel and spread undetected due to asymptomatic carriers.

At least now widespread testing is available and we're able to track new variants in geography and time. Looks like the mutated one mentioned just hit France a couple of days ago.
Yeah but have you written one? Give it a shot sometime. It's fun, I promise. You'd be surprised at how far an imperfect actor system can go and how easy actors (or in this case accidental-almost-actors) makes things!
Again, this is an unfair comparison, since in the US many detained journalists will not be charged, and if they are charged, they will almost certainly not be imprisoned. That doesn't mean that the Trump administration hasn't overseen an alarming increase in violence against journalists. But Trump is out, so let's see whether that trend holds up.

The Xi administration - like all previous CCP administrations - can and does hold journalists without a charge, and once charged there is a 99% conviction rate.

In the US right now there are 0 journalists in prison. In China there are at least 50 (per CPJ[0]), and possibly more if you include citizen journalists (per RSF[1]). In China, the government sends memos to the editorial boards indicating how they should report on topics. China Media Project[2] has some good insights there.

Anecdotally, there are a lot of Chinese people who have experienced first-hand both the mainstream media and social media "deleting" events from history. In the west we often think about June 4 incident (Tiananmen), but there are far more cases that never made waves overseas. In particular reporting around natural disasters in rural areas can quickly get scrubbed from the internet and written out of history, or retold to pin the blame for a poor response on a politically useful scapegoat. I can't personally speak to the accuracy of those stories, but this is what I heard from several different colleagues and friends in China.

Even just living in China through coronavirus, I was there when they literally went back and rewrote history to rename what had originally been called the Wuhan coronavirus to instead call it the novel coronavirus, a silent edit designed to quietly lend credence to growing social media rumors that suggested the virus originated overseas. This kind of manipulation of the truth is standard practice in the Chinese media, on many topics.

Countries that have a free press, where anyone can publish whatever they like, whether on Substack or WikiLeaks or wherever, where the majority of arrests are happening because reporters were tangled up in the middle of a protest (and not because the police came to their door to punish them for something they already published), it's really not the same thing.

[0] https://cpj.org/

[1] https://rsf.org/en

[2] https://chinamediaproject.org/
“a boogyman, the idea of someone who wants to take your data for exploitative gain”

Are you seriously claiming this isn’t a real threat?
I am overcome with curiosity about who did this and why. The fact that nobody has claimed responsibility makes no sense. If this were a politically motivated attack, domestic or otherwise, it would almost defeat the point to have the name of your cause omitted from those initial headlines. And sparing the lives of the bystanders also doesn’t make sense for a political attack. I heard the NRA gave warnings but the reason why it’s basically unheard of is because it defeats the point of terrorism. The reason why Muslim extremists, the bonafide experts, make a point of killing lots of people is because it’s effective. What political organization has it in for att?

It can’t be political. Every day that goes by without someone claiming responsibility, the probability of it being political decreases exponentially.

But at the same time, this doesn’t seem like the work of a lone wolf. Lone wolfs usually try to kill people. And almost invariably they fail miserably, killing practically no people at all compared to the number of people that would have been killed at the hands of someone smart or competent with a weapon. And bombs stand out as being difficult for lone wolves to get right. For a lone wolf to build a working bomb and detonation system and have everything work perfectly the first time would be the exception, although not the only one.

This was done by one person. Not a typical lone wolf but someone who was smart and methodical. And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded. He was either insane ala templeOS, had no motive ala Mandalay bay, or a disgruntled employee.
https://twitter.com/eosterlund_fisk/status/13425126361524387...:

> JVM GC engineer here. We have not yet implemented large page support on macOS (yet) because fragmentarion was so bad you had to reboot all the time in order to use them.
The bomb squad was called because the RV literally had an intercom saying there was a bomb inside and to evacuate the area, the police apparently also briefly inspected it.
Yeah, I fully expect more incidences like this to happen all over the world. The incentives, socioeconomic backdrop, technical feasibility, and widely accessible tech are all enablers.
I found this to be very Microsoft specific, more of an ad for products. Not sure there was enough general ideas and advice about being effective in teaching remotely. It wasn't awful, but for the whole 2020 I think I saw more interesting suggestions in the comments here.
Picking apart someone's belief through explaining their logical fallacies presupposes that they got to their belief through a logical process.

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired." -- Jonathan Swift, 1721.

To rephrase in a more modern way: You can't use reason or logic to get to someone to stop believing something they didn't use reason or logic to start believing.
It depends on your comparison point. If the comparison point is "we're going to fly all these airplanes; with what shall we fuel them?" it makes a lot more sense than if you start with "we have a lot of excess energy and want to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; where shall we put it?"
Agreed, I find it quite manageable to make time for a heavy workload, but any time management ability goes out the window when I only have a few small things to do.