skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the entire system is a scam to transmit federal subsidies to education employees.
Agreed. The only issue is university education is priced like an investment in future earnings that simply isn't justified.
> this looks like any other terror attack.

In what way? It sounds more like something the Joker or unabomber would pull off
Nanog thread: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-December/2109...

Indicates closest ATT building was an ILEC CO, oddly, a voice exchange / telco meet-me point, or what we would call a peering point on the internet.

Risk/reward on the bombing, we're clearly missing incentives information, as of the options available and conceivable purposes for going to that much effort, it doesn't add up yet. Everything about it so far is so dumb the only thing I could see it being is a test run for a real one.
Terrorism is the use of violence to promote an ideology. Full stop. Nothing precludes a terrorist act from helping people. Even Pablo Escobar set up schools and other institutions in his neighborhood.
100 percent true. No shortage of blame to go around and this is certainly not new either. We've just accelerated very fast during a year of deep suffering and this kind of thing is inevitable, sadly. I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector.
Sure, then copy Vietnam or Australia.
From a more informative article that was posted earlier:

"Boeing and operators are bracing for heightened scrutiny as the MAX returns from a 20 month safety grounding, but safety experts say such glitches are common and usually go unnoticed.

The ‘MAX was grounded following two crashes linked in part to flawed cockpit software. The engines were not implicated."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25539284

Thus, this article is pure clickbait, trying to turn a non-event into clicks by mentioning the 737 MAX.
One difference is war has rules, terrorism doesn't. Deliberately targeting civilians in war is usually considered a war crime, while deliberately targeting civilians in a terrorist attack is considered ... a standard terrorist attack.
There is truth to this, particularly the sorts of war that target civilian populations to demoralize the enemy. Another term for 'strategic bombing' is 'terror bombing'.

> One of the strategies of war is to demoralize the enemy so that peace or surrender becomes preferable to continuing the conflict. Strategic bombing has been used to this end. The phrase "terror bombing" entered the English lexicon towards the end of World War II and many strategic bombing campaigns and individual raids have been described as terror bombing by commentators and historians. Because the term has pejorative connotations, some, including the Allies of World War II, have preferred to use euphemisms such as "will to resist" and "morale bombings".[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing
The 2017 game Night In The Woods features this poem:

"There's No Reception in Possum Springs"

No reception here.

I wave my black phone
In the air like a flare
like a prayer,
but no reception.

I read on the Internet
baby face boy billionaire.
Phone app sold made more money in one day
than my family over 100 generations.

More than my whole world ever has.
World where house-buying jobs
became rent-paying jobs
became living with family jobs.

Boy billionaires.
Money is access;
access to politicians
waiting for us to die
lead in our water
alcohol and painkillers.

Replace my job with an app
replace my dreams of a house and a yard
with a couch in the basement.
"The future is yours!"
Forced 24-7 entrepreneurs.

I just want a paycheck and my own life.
I'm on the couch in the basement
they're in the house and the yard.

Some night I will catch a bus out to the west coast
And burn their silicon city to the ground.
Why do you think war is not terrorizing/terrorism?
Reusable compiler components are really helpful. I made this example for parsing with ANTLR:

https://github.com/empirical-soft/calculANTLR

It uses a C++ port of CPython's ASDL to define the AST.
If an public figure is considered responsible for things that harm public or people in general, then they might be target of prank or minor assault. See Baidu's Robin Li was poured water on stage [1]. Because, Baidu allowed advertisers to buy out their social groups TieBa. They then can operate the group as if that they are ordinary netizens, and publish ADs literally as normal posts.

Chinese netizens routinely make threats to public figures who make statements that are contradicting to common Orthodox. Mrs. Zhao Wei, the one I already mentioned above, and elsewhere in other posts, was once attacked by poops, because she wore clothes that has the imperial Japanese flag [3].

Then take a look at this [4], a teen used Ant's personal loan, and cannot repay, so she runs away, then her mom committed suicide.

Similar incidents happened a lot...

I am fairly sure that, some young Chinese vigilante, after reading this, had the conviction that Mr. Jack Ma probably is a bad man, and they are compelled to do something about it.

[1] https://amp.scmp.com/tech/tech-leaders-and-founders/article/...

[2] https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/90762149

[3] https://www.scmp.com/article/365213/pop-star-under-fire-posi...

[4] https://www.zhihu.com/question/265454740
There’s always the option of disgruntled/fired employee out to destroy the company.
Speculation about why there shouldn't be speculation: there's not a public message, so they're not pushing any conspiracy theories like OP suggests.
As an ethical vegetarian for the past five years, I've very interested in cultured (lab-grown) meat technology[1]. FWIW, I'm very happy with my diet and probably wouldn't switch back even if this does become affordable, but I'm 100% supportive of the concept of cruelty-free meat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultured_meat
> “effective altruism”

It’s funny because it’s really a justification to be selfish, the carbon offset of bad ethics.
If they considered the (mostly negative) externalities I described, a valve could've been a good idea. But getting people water a few degrees warmer in winter saves somebody else money, not them.

Maybe collecting deeper water improved water quality in some other way. Dunno.
In the past, ivory was used to make:

- pool and billiard balls.

- piano keys.

- handles.
Maybe because it's behind a paywall .. jk
> One difference is war has rules, terrorism doesn't.

Citation needed? Unless every party to a war ever signed the Geneva Convention or something (and even then, war crimes exist which are arguably acts of terrorism). See: the use of agent orange, the bombing of Dresden, etc.
Okay, then replace the Enigma reference with the Manhattan Project, an operation so secret the military built a city isolated from the world for it.
Mismatching color balance gives me a headache. Anecdotally it affects everyone most people just don't notice what it is that's bugging them.
SixtyFPS is a new GUI toolkit. It's on my watch list. https://sixtyfps.io/
For some definition of "is available." If these 17yos are already capable of conducting research based on primary sources and not provided to them in a structured learning environment, why do they need to go to college?

The implicit blame-placing in "students aren't using it" is unhelpful. We're mostly talking about people who, by definition, haven't even graduated high school.# If DoE wants students armed with this information, it should do a better job of setting policy for guidance counselors.

# Yes, there are non-traditional students but they are in the minority. Yes, people can switch majors, but there's enormous cost to doing so for the populations we're talking about.
Big fan of CLion myself but I think that serves a different niche.
It’s as though someone watched an action movie and thought, what if we get rid of the need to cut the comms in the building itself, and if we chose a time and day when nobody would show up:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xLcHPsWK5xg

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrA-1cG_wq4

This is a scenario that is in like pretty much every action heist movie ever. Except the movies have super-dramatic bad guys who blow their own cover to take credit for irrational reasons.

Based on what we are seeing about comms and 911, the “true crime” might have happened far from the scene of this blast.
Funnily enough, someone tells am after a minute he should "slow down and breath a little bit".
600 mil not bil
Middle Class of the Creator Economy
Ah, that makes sense. I can see why that would be useful.
Well, the simplest reason I can imagine is that not all good things can be measured in dollars.
My first thought was arson for insurance money. However, the bomb placement makes no sense for that case.

It really does seem like this was targeted at the ATT building.
Yeah, the results should definitely contain a HEAVY waiting for accessibility by the general user and most people don't have a pinterest account nor do they want one.
I always thought that one of the big purposes of "sudo" is to prevent operator errors. For example, if I want to inspect the .deb file and accidentally type "dpkg -i" instead of "dpkg -I". Or if I am examining logs on a server, and mistype ">" and "<". Or if I typed "make install" and failed to set PREFIX to a local directory.

It also helps a lot as a voluntary "logging" solution -- if you collect syslog on your servers, this can record which commands got run and why things got worse. It is not security solution, you'll have to make a "social convention" to never do "sudo su" or invoke ! in your editor, but it helps to detect accidental mistakes.

As for secure console, you can do this today! Make sure "k" is enabled in magic sysrq flags, and then you can switch to VT1 (alt-ctrl-f1) and invoke SAK with alt-sysrq-k. This'll kill everything on the current VT, and give you a clean login prompt which you can safely log into.

Finally, even with a single user, the privilege separation can help a lot with data protection. Just set up a backup process to run as root, into local directory where only root can write to. Then at least your data won't get deleted.
> I’ve said this from the beginning

Is that relevant and who are you?
The same difficulty of anonymity arises with the RV itself, a very ostentatious vehicle that not only can be traced with ease, it can be tracked retroactively on virtually every street, every highway, etc.

Regardless, for all we know the person isn't concerned with being caught (and may currently be deceased given that possible human remains have been found).
the last page of Wikipedia
Not sure why you're getting downvoted.

If China was so great the Children of the US rich would go there to study. Instead they either stay in the US, or go to Europe/the Anglosphere if they want to be more cosmopolitan.

The reverse however is very true.
Considering how many countries the US threatens with its infrastructure, I can't imagine with what rationale you justify Operation Opera but know already that this attack was unjustified without knowing who did it and why
No, by definition the invasion of Iraq was a state on state attack, pursuant to geneva accords and conventional warfare roe's.
I think it is necessary though. Other search engine operators have cited this as one of the reasons their search engines fail or struggle to provide as good results. As far as the engagement data goes, it’s something that the Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has looked at as part of their investigation into google. See here for a very interesting analysis of Google’s and Bings click and query data: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5efb1db6e90e0...
The human remains might be that of someone who threatened to blow the cover and ended up strapped to a chair just a few feet away from the explosives.
For many years there was an unholy union between the timber lobby and the lineman’s union that required all power lines in Tennessee to be above ground. Middle Tennessee regularly has serious wind storms that knock out those power lines, so gas is attractive.

Also gas is just an efficient way to produce heat.
Yep. Google removed it.

https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/issues/674
This is probably a fairly hot take but I believe that researchers shoudn't normanize providing this level of detail unless they have been explicitly hired to do so.

The industry is pretty messed up and it sometimes feels like researchers/pen testers/bug hunters are effectively subsidizing and protecting shitty security practises.
>>>Could you please post some examples of search queries (text or image) that are dominated by Pinterest?

These are all image searches
"sci-fi combat exoskeleton" -> 7 of 24 top images are Pinterest
"zen minimalist clothing" -> 8 of 24
"grav tank concept art" -> 9 of 19

Like many other users in this topic, I run most of my G-Image searches with "-pinterest". I use DDG as my primary non-technical search engine, typically only switching to Google for images, trying to solve error messages, or researching frameworks/APIs/etc.
There are many strategies that don't necessarily involve large human collateral damage but are still politically motivated.

The Provisonsal IRA in N. Ireland during the Troubles was often times either targeting security forces, collaborators or commerical activity. Ostensibly the goal was to make the UKs continued involvement in N. Ireland untenable from an economic and political stand point. The IRA was quite aware
that too many indiscriminate killing of N.Ireland civilians would be detrimental to their cause.
By that standard the monarch butterfly is stupid too. That said they are smart enough to follow only a portion of their full migratory route which takes 4 generations to complete.

Squirrels remember where they bury their nuts. Octopuses can solve puzzles.

So what about fish? Salmon remember where they were spawned before they head out to the ocean, and come back to the exact same pool to spawn before dying.

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/02/13/mystery-solve...

So sure, they're not "SMART" but there is a lot of "intelligence" they have acquired over many generations of evolutionary cycles.
yeah - as I commented elsewhere - mcveigh did a whole lot more damage with presumably less explosive (van vs. rv)

This really sounds like people playing with stuff they have no understanding of.
>given the attention those logs will certainly get maybe I won't

Siri, detonate this bomb in incognito mode
Probably a car bomb. The IRA were infamous for those.
A lot of cities in Florida have natural gas including mine. My cook top, hot water, dryer and pool heater run off it. Not used for heating the house as a heat pump is plenty for the mild winter.
Dev-cpp, mingw, and allegro where my gateway drug back in 2000 or so, nice to hear it’s still around.
> the evil mediocrities that enforce COCs

Most "people who actually create things" like communities with an explicit, reasonable code of conduct. This is of course not to say that mistakes haven't ever been made in enforcement, or that some COCs are poorly designed.

People under-appreciate the difficulty of building a community that people want to participate in. The problem is a close analogue to maintaining a desired company culture as it scales.

The reason all these communities have "woke" guidelines for behavior is because the ones that didn't have reasonable guidelines no longer exist, or have remained at a size where a COC isn't necessary.

Again, there's a fine line to be walked, so mistakes will sometimes be made, but if you think the "free for all" approach works, then you should try it. It won't scale once your community gets past a certain size. A few bad apples will spoil the barrel.
... for some definitions of functional... was it really so useful for one prof I had to read the pages from the book to us and not take questions? He did nothing else.
I agree that's the coherent prescribed definition of terrorism. In practice, whether somebody admits something was terrorism depends largely on which side they agree with. When they agree with the terrorist, euphemisms like 'freedom fighter' are often used instead.

There are probably some Columbians who were on the receiving side of Escobar's gifting and called him a humanitarian for it.
> In fact I recall a post

I also saw something but couldn't find it again :)

Is "reflective" always orderly? I mean, can there be a 100% matte reflection?
I'd venture to say that the overwhelming majority of people on HN can and do use Windows at home, with a minority using Mac, and a rounding error using *nix as their primary home OS of choice.
Mandatory quarantines of those with a positive test result seems perfectly reasonable. Mandatory quarantines and/or continuous location monitoring of what should be free citizens does not strike me as in any way reasonable.
This is a question the courts are working through with LinkedIn and HiQ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/victory-ruling-hiq-v-l... as well as the Van Buren case https://themarkup.org/news/2020/12/03/why-web-scraping-is-vi...

It’s a different world where there are no laws or prices or contracts really.
I really like roam research and its open source alternative obsidian for note taking and research.

But I feel there is still something lacking and there is definitely scope for a lot of improvement to make these type of software more useful. Still love the direction in which this is headed and it feels more in-sync than keeping a folder full of text files.
I don't use google for images anymore because of this.

Bing is terrible, but it's better than google.

Which means that google is worse than terrible.
Exactly what I was thinking! I've used this computable-valye-but-overridable-with-explicit-value pattern a couple of times, and so long as you stick to a good naming convention it works great.
Or MirageOS on a TI-83
You can find public examples where the opposite has been done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

> In 2016, Matt Cutts, Google's head of webspam at the time of the Panda update, commented that "with Panda, Google took a big enough revenue hit via some partners that Google actually needed to disclose Panda as a material impact on an earnings call. But I believe it was the right decision to launch Panda, both for the long-term trust of our users and for a better ecosystem for publishers."

Disclosure I work at Google.
Sure but you're mixing apples and oranges here.

Can we think about how funny it would be if someone was doing social justice rhetoric with that level of energy?

"well, uhh, you see this is, uhh, problematic i guess, they weren't being an ally. cough. you see, there are a lot of, uh, intersectional and marginalized angles here, it's really complicated. lots of microaggressions. anyways, do the odd questions on page 38, see you wednesday."
> Dev-cpp, mingw, and allegro where my gateway drug back in 2000 or so, nice to here it’s still around.

Same, when I saw Dev-cpp, my first thought was "bloodshed.net"; I'm glad to see a fork alive and well. This IDE in particular was a stepping stone/turning point in my career.
If I understand correctly LNG is 20MJ/L so not a 4x difference (but much colder, with all that implies...)

I would agree there’s a likely range reduction, but I don’t have any stats on current normal fueling as a percent of max capacity (iow: are there many routes that are running more than half full today?)
Because taxpayers are guaranteeing it. It’s how you get elected by both “helping” students and keeping taxes low.

Long term, you’re harming students and taxpayers, but short term the optics look like you helped and you don’t have a cash outlay for helping anyone so it doesn’t affect the budget.
>This isn't a "good deed". It's a presumably rational person playing the situation.

Why not both? A deed can be both good and rational.
There isn't one at the moment.

The closest would be to create a pack manually that contains a diff against the previous version but that'd require manual work.

It would be possible, for example, to modify git-fast-import to a) allow to take diffs as input b) allow to store those diffs (these are different things to deal with).
The downside is that the more packs there are, the slower object lookup is, which can make everything much slower. Newer versions of git have cross-pack indexes to deal with that, though, but I don't think that's enabled by default.

Another option would be to add a new format for loose objects that allows to store diffs, but that has backwards compatibility implications.
Desire Bends Time
The weirdest one for me was learning that their git repository has more than one root commit.
This may also explain how the Dogon people in Africa knew that Sirus was actually a binary star system even though science only discovered that recently. There's been a scientific development that this star system may also have another star which is also mentioned in Dogon legends. Most intriguing.
Technology - Multilevel Security, which if widely deployed would solve almost all pedestrian IT security issues

There are systems that work on mainframes, but the only realistic (in my opinion) option coming down the pike for the rest of us is from

http://genode.org
I think Adam Segal's 2016 "The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age" often didn't go far enough to describe the role individuals could play in this…
Passion was the only guidance I had it that age. Hard to become fascinated by hings you haven't really touched before; Or just in school, which might actually actively discourage you.

Hobbies are the experience outside of school you have when making the decision what to study.
What do you mean by C++ adapter? All the c++ in this post is building the LL files in memory, which can them be persisted to disk or wherever.
I didn't get that impression at all.

I'm purely an engineer who 100% prefers being hands on; now that I accidentally have to manage teams, I fully appreciate the article's perspective. I've been on both sides of that argument as well.

It's not about a manager expecting an underling to get his paperwork done. I think that is an unfair assessment of the argument being made. It's that there's more involved to the job of engineering than simply pushing code one thinks is clever.

Sometimes that means knowing which problem to focus (not just the fun ones), sometimes that means dealing with other responsibilities like mentoring or interviewing or filling up timesheets or getting to work on time or attending meetings or what have you. None of those are unreasonable requests (as much as we hate them). If it's part of the job description, it's part of the job, and, for example, making a piece of code conform to one's own subjective preferences so they can feel clever doesn't make up for missing a deadline on a separate, boring, high priority task.

I've frequently seen engineers who think otherwise. Who think their work is so brilliant, they don't need to care about the boring stuff. Some of them have indeed been brilliant. But guess what; they still need to get their shit together, because their brilliance is still objectively not making up for being unreliable.
One common source of eye strain is likely due to our eyes having to adjust to the inconsistent brightness of our workspaces.

Another solution you can use instead of or in addition to this is installing backlights and more area lighting. Provide more even lighting coverage throughout the room, and don't compute or watch TV in completely dark rooms. Anecdotally this works for me at least.