skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strangely there is no current books for the state of the art Linux networking.

Here are a few and far between books on Linux networking but they are seriously outdated [1][2]. I think it's about time someone write an authoritative book on Linux networking in the light of the recent changes on Netfilter, bpfilter, eBPF and LXC container.

[1] Linux Kernel Networking: Implementation and Theory, 2013

[2] Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators, 2nd Edition, 2002
Ola Cabs: six-day work week and mandatory FaceTime hours
Check out this year's ThinkPad line-up for a surprise.
Some years ago I applied at a "data analytics" startup founded by a locally famous founder. Their official purpose was something something search something social media. Not in the US, but he was featured on our local version of Shark Tank at some point.

During interview it became clear that their "product" was actually bundled malware that replaced google's and other ads in the browser. Evidently hot founder guy was using this startup as cash cow for his other ventures.

There was some noise in the press about it a couple years later and founder guy defended himself saying he sold the company and wasn't responsible, except it was already malware when I interviewed and he was still owner so I know it's bullshit.
Dictator chic.
not sure how well they work but I've seen that rubbing them with dryer sheets have been posed as a solution for fogging.
Designed and tested in Sunnyday Perfect Weather California :)

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/airpods-max-condensation-affe...

The fact that they didn’t catch high thermal conductivity induced water condensation during testing makes me pause.

They could use some cool composites typically used for the military from 3M if they wanted to fix it though. Curious to see if gen 2 is plastic or not...
I think he's saying that most apple products are not worth the money and that he sees the Max as another example of it.
SpaceX Launches 17th Starlink Mission
There’s a nice analysis of the Fermi paradox out there somewhere that takes into account uncertainties in each of the parameters. As you multiply them together, the uncertainties compound each other. The end result is a big old who knows, rather than a paradox. Our observations are compatible with a really wide variety of realities, many of which include lots of aliens and many of which don’t.
Is there any difference between the BTR3 and the BTR5?
Ella Plays Dice (2018)
They can just use a word processor then. I am not really seeing the target audience for this.
is the N configurable by the user? ( different paid tier)
> the left, especially neoliberals

It seems kind of funny to see these two lumped together ... I don’t think neoliberalism would be considered left by left people ...

I think the confusion arises from the different interpretation of liberalism on either side of the Atlantic.

Neoliberalism is an economic movement rather than a social one (unlike neoconservatism, the political ideology that funnily enough advocates neoliberalism) and it’s an iteration of classical economics aka “economic liberalism”.

Liberal economics is actually more like libertarianism which is paradoxically more closely aligned with the “right wing” mindset.

Neoliberalism does incorporate some notes about redistribution of wealth for reasons of economic expedience but this is rarely seen in practice.

This all goes to show that words are slippery and labels are bullshit and you’re far better off trying to understand where the people you’re disagreeing with are coming from than be lazily painting them as this or that.
Heavy, pricey, the case is bad, overpriced. "Headphones for people with more money than sense." "Should you buy it? NO."

7/10

I guess I'm still not used to review inflation.
Because Trump doesn't give a shit or care about anyone but himself so theoretically he could be persuaded to do something if he thought it might piss people off
Can you imagine having someone harassing an elderly person to get in house without a warrant here in America?

And that person to be paid and hired as a civil servant, in a completely unionized job with a pension fund?

If that's not the definition of a job program and how the welfare state has gone wrong I don't know what is.
It has something to do with the 1990's dot-com culture, like the original Netscape was somehow more pure than what came after, and this causes him to view modern inheritors like YC with a jaundiced eye.

You can watch this if you have an hour.

https://youtu.be/4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
It's baffling to me how you could possibly trust the government to do the right thing and combat corruption.

> I don’t think he would’ve been ignored.

He told the intelligence committees the same time he told _the entire country_ and he was still ignored.
The filter should get allergens too.
Don't people in Star Trek have our culture? But our culture is that of a primitive civilization, which means they are primitive too.
And it would certainly be an improved platform for us to build upon and advance even more.
The above is correct. The CDM is very heavily sandboxed, a signature is used, and therefore it can't really do anything apart from what it's supposed to do (which is very little, taking encoded data, a key, decode media).

Source: I'm on that team, but I don't work directly on this.
Here is a Radiolab episode about an early version of it deployed to Dayton, Ohio.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/eye-s...

Additional coverage:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1022-kee...

https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/community/surveill...
> How about “the guy burning the person they are currently in a business relationship with without getting all the facts is wrong”. Or “a wrong by party A against party B does not justify a wrong by B against C.”

I don't even know what you think are the actions people have been taking, to make you interpret things in a way to make you say that.

> Er, nothing in Google’s story, even taken as gospel truth, indicates that either Gebru’s fact claims in this case were lies or that her speculations were unreasonable or inconsitent in her position given the observable facts.

It's very damning that she chose to call out Jeff Dean as being the person who fired her.

Her manager was not a man. Her manager's manager (who actually delivered the news) is not a man. The CEO is not white. She chose probably the ONLY person in her entire reporting chain who happens to be a white man (and in engineering circles famous), and she points to him and says "He! He did this!".

And that's just a start.

Face it, you don't even have to read Google's official account, much less believe it, without seeing that her story absolutely does not add up.

Even the headline does not match the content in any article about her.
Exactly what I had in mind. The ability to eavesdrop + the ability to see who is open to chatting and taking a break.
A possible chink is that civilizations just don't do that -- carpet colonize the whole galaxy, or fill it with their probes to the extent that we seem them all over the place. The Fermi paradox relies on material (probes, colonies) and light (signals).

With the material explained away, the lack signals is much easier to explain in that we haven't listened long and we can only hear very loud signals. (Or maybe advanced civs don't use light and use gravity waves or tachyon beams or whatever, but you don't even need to go that far.) The only way we hear a signal is if it's:

1. loud (high energy) and aimed directly at us, like a tight beam

2. EXTREMELY LOUD and aimed everywhere, isotropically

1 is unlikely since they'd have to know where we are; 2 is unlikely since you're talking about an insane level of energy. If it's the case that civs don't seem to be making Dyson spheres or harvesting whole galaxies for energy, being able to throw around that kind of power is prohibitively expensive. In both these cases, the inverse square law applies (for every unit x of distance, the light's x² less bright). Ironically, that means we're more likely to detect signals from an improbably close civilization (like 4 light years next door, in Alpha Centuari), than from farther away -- and even then, by a chance sweep of an umodulated asteroid scanning beam[0] or something, if we happened to be paying attention at the time.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLC1
I'm quite happy they didn't lobby such a corrupt president for favors. I think I'll increase my donations.
It'd be great if someone invented a method of working with bookmarks that worked as easily and seamlessly as tabs.

Back in the days of social bookmarks (like del.icio.us) pretty much everyone had a "toread" folder. The main problem is that you have to remember to delete them after reading them. That's not really a problem for good articles you remember reading, but the crap articles you don't remember, or quit reading are easy to forget to delete from the bookmarks. So, you end up reading the same crap articles several times. With a tab, you close the window and you're done. With bookmarks, you have to close the window, go through your bookmarks, find the one that was crap that you have already forgotten and delete it.

There's several other advantages to tabs too:

Like the fact that they're naturally organized by window based on the task you're doing.

You'll see them more often, and thus be reminded more often.

They save context, like forwards and back history, and information you may have typed in, or a UI you may have manipulated.
$10 monthly for a chat service is a bit steep for users from Asia and other places..
Their best future course is to stop sniping at one another.

It is possible that it's aliens. It is possible that it's not. We don't have enough evidence even to estimate probabilities, so anything further is pure speculation. Speculation is a look that wears no better on conservatives than on radicals.

There is hardly a field to be found where young radicals are not promoting evidence for what the tenured consider anathema, waiting for the latter to retire or die and get the hell out of the way. As Max Planck said, "Science advances one funeral at a time."

It is common to insist that the right idea wins in the end, but there is no reason to believe it: every case you can cite in its favor amounts to confirmation bias. The frequency of such examples that first languished for decades, with the original proposer driven from the field, would properly make us suspect that the majority of their also-correct peers remain unvindicated, however many false leads have been exposed. (Hypotheses promoted by women driven from a field make a rich vein of ideas to vindicate.)

Loeb is right about one thing: the notion of "extraordinary evidence" is very destructive. Evidence is evidence. It is always easy to make greater demands on evidence you don't like than on evidence you do, and always easy find excuses to discount evidence incompatible with the consensus of the moment. Every field, to be considered legitimate, should maintain an officially taught compendium of "damned facts", evidence that seems to be incompatible with one or more leading theories. Even when a consensus theory is largely correct, the damned evidence will be the basis of any progress.

Nature doesn't play favorites: it is possible for a consensus theory and all its challengers to be wrong. Evidence against one of the latter is not evidence in favor of the former.
I don't know if one is somehow 'essentially' better, but 0 based indexing have clearly won as a convention.
If you can make thousands a month on tens of thousands of users, that’s (very much ballpark) $0.10 per user per month.

Paying $0.20 per user to buy that seems extremely low.

Also, on the sandboxing/app review of extensions, does anybody know how well Apple vets Safari extensions? (I guess that could be hard if the evil parts are time-triggered, certainly if the code also is obfuscated (possibly in the name of minification)
The most underappreciated AWS service
He's accused because it's pretty clear he colluded with Russia then tried to drop sanctions on them
Quantum internet signals beamed between drones a kilometer apart
The only extensions I have are privacy extensions. Do people on here really install a bunch of random 3rd party extensions?
To be fair, people found plenty of other things to be mad at Notch about.
Interesting! I looked at a few different sites for examples of arrays in Ada and saw them all starting at 1. But that's a neat feature that it lets you pick the start and end.
For the individual, yes, but for society? Death is nature's term limit. Without it we'd be under a Pharaoh with bronze-age ethics.
Mandatory fanboi mention: https://luna-lang.org/ - now Enso: https://medium.com/@enso_org/enso-dev-blog-18th-december-202...
Most IDEs have a vim extension that gives you the basic vim editing behavior. It’s great to get into it without having to dive into plugins, buffers, windows etc.
... because divided you are conquered.
Also analyzing your moves that got you to that point. Don't like where things are now? Well, what did you do to get here?

Levandowski may wind up convicted of something else if he doesn't learn from history... his history. So maybe he really ought to look at it a bit.

On the other hand, when you've messed up, and you understand that you've messed up, and you've learned what you can from it, then throwing away the past and moving on is perhaps a psychologically healthy thing.
> So will AirPods Max significantly cut into the market share of other high-end noise-cancelling over-ears from the likes of Sony and Bose? I doubt it.

LOL, statistically speaking Apple is more likely to prove this statement wrong than right.

> Will they bother the genuinely high-end market? No.

Really? To me if seems that this is _exactly_ the market which will see their shares being eaten up by AirPod Maxes.

> With AirPods Max, Apple also isn’t cannibalising its own AirPods and AirPods Pro models.

Duh. Yes of course not lol. These are different devices for different purposes. It's like saying "I don't think Apple will cannibalise the tablet market, because iPads are also not cannibalising the iPhone models"
> 502 Bad Gateway

https://web.archive.org/web/20210102052512/https://fediverse...
"Shady" take-over of plugins/apps is just a big a suspicious fail as allowing apps to gain access to all contacts on mobile phones.

Google never really cared about user privacy at all.
Right, but the point gp made was that large scale blanket pardons make a single individual the arbiter of law. That's true. (if you want a less charged example, instead imagine the president pardons everyone convicted on fraud charges).

That power can then be used justly or unjustly. The constitutional balance for this is impeachment, but it's not clear that would work in practice or theory.
On the M1? I could only get it to work with some patches I found on some forums from < 1 month ago. The issue seems to be hardware wx protection, among other things.
Some people simply can’t be reformed; keeping them in prison for life is the only option.

In other cases, most violent criminals seem to be young men, so there’s some value in running out the clock so they aren’t young men anymore by the time they’re released.
What wiped out most of the Indians was plague and genocide while seizing territory and resources.

I don't think plague would be an issue - viruses require proteins to be similar to attach and reproduce, and bacteria require nutrients to be the same. And as for resources? Asteroid mining will get you more water, minerals and metals.

But territory - terraforming might be really difficult or take too long. If aliens need an oxygen/CO2/nitrogen atmosphere and liquid water, Earth could be tempting, even if the plant/animal life is useless to them.

If territory isn't an issue, maybe we'd just be friends or anthropological curios.
I think the term is just fine.
For me it doesn't mean that there is no server involved to run the app, it means I'm not involved to run the server.
> But there is an opposition that wants it dismantled and moved from government funding at all costs.

I'm still not sure why entertainment needs public money. I mean just look at Marvel, Netflix, Disney... they are all insanely profitable. Billion dollars profitable.

When you make content that people want to watch, it just works.
Your response shows the effect of the mainstream media which intentionally denied all the positive things Trump and his administration has done to the country.
I suspect in this case that you are getting downvoted /because/ you didn't provide specifics. It's certainly possible that some Obama pardons were self serving, I didn't hear much about his pardons at the time, but I'm open to the idea that some are morally dubious, but I would need names and why it is dubious, rather than innuendo. Many people on both sides felt Clinton's pardon of Mark Rich was pretty iffy.
Then someone else would say "I really hate people" and add <blink>
Struggle with the inauguration? Most are struggling with reality in general.
Agreed, I've run into the same issue. I had hoped that the numbers row they show above the keyboard (on mobile) meant they were "special numbers" that would scale but alas it only scales the first number AFAICT.
That was more a nod to the whole CentOS debacle and the way RH is doing business the last few years, plus this article relating to the free part. Not really related to opensource as i doubt they'll be able to escape that aspect, if they could they would have probably done that already as well.
And they are careerist...

My Post-doc colleague during my PhD@MIT was explaining this trick he does to get his system working that he never publishes (one very small step of 100 steps). He was concerned that if he published the step, it would hurt his chances at getting a professorship.

It’s exactly the same logic behind why code is not published.

Because ethically you can ‘hand wave it away’ as obvious to other experts and not worth publishing.
The Blue Light Debate – According to Science
I don't find the argument that distances are too great for intelligence to meet particularly convincing. At its core lies unjustified extrapolation that the ratio of average lifespan to typical interstellar distance - a pure accident of Earthly biology - somehow extends to the whole universe.

The key quantity on which the argument hinges is

T * c / D

where T is the average lifespan of the intelligent being in question, c is the speed of light and D is a typical separation between stars in a region of interest.

In our stellar neighborhood there are about 0.004 stars per cubic light year [1], so if we choose to measure D as the reciprocal of the cubic root of stellar density then D is about 6.3 light years which is of the same order of magnitude as the distance to Proxima Centauri (~4.2 ly). This quantity varies somewhat, e.g. global clusters have about 0.4 stars per cubic parsec [2] which is more than 0.01 stars per cubic light year for D of 4.4 ly.

In case of humans, T is about 79 years. We don't know anything about any alien lifeforms, but even among lifeforms on Earth T varies significantly. For example, Bowhead whales can live more than 200 years [3]. Traveling 4 ly at 5% of the speed of light is a possibility for such creatures. Moreover, entities with artificial intelligence could live (function?) significantly longer. Possibly forever.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_density

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowhead_whale
So network effects. And the other engineers already bought the marketing term and are implicitly pressuring you into using it. Ouch.
Quibble: One is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for an entire body of work, not just a single novel; Oe wrote many other highly regarded novels in the thirty years between publishing A Personal Matter in 1964 and winning the Nobel Prize in 1994.
So not a phone tree…?
Fuji X100f.

Love it, mostly because I learned photography on manual film cameras and this camera gives me that nostalgic feelings. Besides it looks cool and it is a good conversation starter with strangers.

Image quality may not be the best though.
Do I understand it correct when I think that clojure’s core.async is an example implementation?
Apparently Trump screwed up many of the pardons [1]

> The pardon for Paul Manafort (on Dec. 23, 2020), is illustrative. By its own terms, the pardon covers only the crimes “for his conviction” on specific charges and not any other crimes (charged or uncharged). [...] Manafort pleaded to a superseding information containing two conspiracy charges, while the entire underlying indictment — containing numerous crimes from money laundering, to witness tampering, to violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act — now remains open to prosecution as there was no conviction for those charges.

Not sure if this applies to Levandowski - I haven't seen the text of his pardon.

Update: Levandowski's pardon [2] covers "those offenses against the United States individually enumerated and set before me for my consideration." Manafort's pardon [3] lists specific convictions with docket numbers. IANAL so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.justsecurity.org/74241/the-gaps-in-trumps-pardon...

[2] https://www.justice.gov/file/1357121/download

[3] https://www.justice.gov/file/1349071/download
Is that not what their Photo app is? I guess it seems a bit more photoshop-flavored, but it looks like it has various lightroom-like features.
So we have had the tyrant, we have had the plague, I guess it is time for the locusts.