skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I’ve got a power strip so I’m not running separate power cords for my computer, a powered USB hub, a lamp, an external hard drive, etc. since that would need a whole bunch of wall outlets that I definitely don’t have.

Having more than two things plugged in at a desk is pretty common situation and literally everyone solves it with a surge protector / power strip. So the laptop cord isn’t dangling across the room, it just runs from the power strip under the desk up the wall to the laptop on the desk. Not a situation where MagSafe would do anything for it.
Azure DevOps Pull Request Extension for vs Code
I use this after having used Google Authenticator, what made me switch is easy backups and restores, not to the cloud but locally to a file. Also you don't need a Google Account if you wish to transfer your data to a new device.
Radiation, temperature and the lack of oxygen and gravity, for example?

Tell me how many underwater and arctic settlements we have today. They should be unclaimed territories just teeming with possibility, in our own backyard.

Yet they’re... not? You’d think that after space flight we’d have 8 metro lines in the Arctic by now, if it was all just a matter of waiting around.

And you want to fly how far for something that supposedly is full of some untapped potential?
Lots of reasonable metrics become bad once you make them a target.
How do you do this in practice though? Let's say my marketing site is at turtlepics.com and then the pics, captions, feeds, etc are served off of turtlepicscontent.com.

So I can serve my app off of turtlepics.com, that's fine. But it can't load any content directly. I'd have to have a separate <script src="https://turtlepicscontent.com/feeds/erik"> or whatever that loads a user's feed. But that needs to be authenticated too, so I have to then authenticate the user on that domain (https://turtlepicscontent.com/feeds/erik?onetimekey=a9e79c58...) as well, at which point the credentials are present in the unsafe domain's cookies as well, and the jig is up.

Or do you continually generate fresh one time keys in the safe app, so that you don't need cookies on the content domain?

Even then, someone can still bring down the entire turtlepicscontent.com domain with malicious content. Which... well, at least your marketing site and your login still works. But the site is still fully down at that point. I guess that's better than nothing, but still pretty annoying.

Or is the idea just to wall off uploads specifically, but continue serving text off the main domain, presuming you're sanitizing text correctly?

I guess you could have some fallback to a safe-ish domain with an older read-only backup of the content database? Still not ideal. I guess sharding your users onto multiple domains based on account age might help a bit too.
everyone responds to intrinsic motivation (which in part is what you're describing). very few people can last very long on extrinsic motivation only (like fake praise). there's not two classes of people who divide neatly into one camp or the other.
There are two types - restructuring where they halt debt payments and get time to fix the business and going out of business bankruptcy. The first is a farce for whomever to exact all the value that’s left and almost always what companies do today.
And piracy.

edit: in the sense of a moral panic
Vintage Apple Mac: How God Makes God
"A unique piece of software, developed over several years by Peter Small. Presented as an interactive book, How God Makes God 'looks at life in terms of game theory and computer analogies', across hundreds of animated slides and dozens of topics."
Isn't that a little patronising?
Really appreciate this post. Means a lot personally, thanks for putting in the time to write it out man!
just saw this was flagged. it's worth revisiting my point, @dang
Signal outage is keeping messages from sending
Around two weeks ago some completely unsolicited shit showed up in my mail from the NRA. I'm located in bumfuck Appalachia. Have never been slightly affiliated w/the NRA - but I purchased some ammunition online a few months back. Maybe that's how they got a hold of my info.

Anyways - I'd highly advise anybody who isn't aware of the absolute horse shit they peddle to look at these three images. The highlighted bright red was the only thing readable through the transparent portion of the envelope.

http://prntscr.com/wweheo

http://prntscr.com/wwexix

http://prntscr.com/wwf2eg

The most hilariously sad thing about NRA supporters is that they're either completely unaware of the Mulford Act, or completely deny how things actually went down, acting as if what was literally written into law was actually not written into law and that any document of the Mulford Act you can find online is actually a democratic hoax being propped by big tech. I've legitimately had these conversations with people. It's deeply saddening and outright fucked. They simply deny what was written into law.

Anyways, fuck the NRA. Whether you are a fan of the 2nd amendment or not - the current state of gun affairs in California, a point that conservatives/gun lovers love to bring up and shit on everything about it, is literally only a thing because Republicans and the NRA didn't want black people to have the ability to open carry. When trying to simply explain what the Mulford Act actually was to some people - I was met with b-b-but bipartisanship is good! Why are you angry about it lib hahaha? - But completely lost their shit when bringing up the simple point that one party had tried to enact gun laws for many years and was met with an opposing "hurr durr don't fuck with our 2A" - an argument that was quite conveniently forgotten about something like the literal day after black people marched on the Capitol. Definitely not racism though - don't let anybody tell you that. Pure bipartisan agreementship. Also, don't forget to send the NRA money for this special membership that is oh-so specially at a discount, just for you, right now! Won't last so please send your money now so we can continue to be grifting pandering shitbags.

But yeah. Final thoughts - if you've ever wondered about one of many thousands of reasons these people end up batshit fucking conspiracy crazy - here is one of them, peddled right to your doorstep unsolicited.
"C arrays are zero-based, so the indexes have to run from 0 to n-1. One might want to allocate one more element instead to simplify converting legacy code."

From https://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html

I am not a Lua programmer, but if most of the languages you will interface with are 0 based such as C, it seems like an unnecessary worry to use 1 based
Probably some copyright issues.
> The more hysterical people become advocating their point of view

All the examples I provided have been very calmly, very thoroughly promulgated in popular, mainstream media. They're not a matter of my opinion (and my opinion on them was not stated). According to their own standards, the experts have been spreading misinformation this year. The same people saying one thing and then retracting a few months later.
Thanks for the story recommendation!
A Scientometric Overview of Cord-19
Mac Mini, 16GB RAM.

Managed to compile FreePascal and Lazarus for M1 (aarch64); was fairly straight forward.

I’ve been playing / prototyping with FPC/Lazarus over the holidays so it’s nice to run without Rosetta.

Compiles are super fast, but of course fpc/Lazarus is pretty quick already. ;-)
Nice, I consider that a good sign! Means it's unlikely to ever go proprietary like Google Authenticator did.
They do kinds of have an Expert mode though; all of the original menus and options that they hide behind frustratingly glib, to the point of being useless, "modern" menus, with plenty of whitespace.

A recent Windows update even went so far as to proudly boast about how they were adding back menu items that had disappeared in this drive for stupidification of the menus. Hardly progress.
I had the same problem with and older Netgear router. It turned out to be a bug in the scheduling settings. It had the ability to disable network access between specific times on a daily schedule. The feature was enabled by default, but no times were set to disconnect. You'd think that would mean the connection would never go down, but a firmware update changed that. Every morning at ~3:00am the network would go down for 1 minute. Disabling the feature entirely resolved the problem.
I think it's due to the style of climbing he is doing. Typically people become much more familiar with more 'alpine' style climbing (fast and lightweight). If he were climbing these peaks without fixed lines I'm sure he'd be much bigger. Not to take away from the accomplishments.
The Crunch Culture Conundrum /Software Engineering
I'm a senior leader and I try to go against the grain on this. I can't stand pile-on emails where every leader has to reply all with "great job" for minor things. I work to provide positive feedback for specific and great work because people see-through false positivity and in the long run you can see that the folks doing the work are very clear with thinking these "ra ra" displays show a disconnect from reality rather then a positive reinforcement. They remind me of the (pardon the language) "shit sandwich" way of providing feedback that some people feel they have to do: give a (many times false and vague) positive not then say your true feelings and end with a positive note. If they aren't specific, it just feels fake and people are just waiting for the true feedback in the middle.
I sold my top of the line 16” MBP and replaced it while making a “profit” with a $900 M1 mini, since I am working solely from home. The mini is faster in almost all tasks.
I wonder if we all have just become too cynical. I don't need praise, and simply prefer more money. But, if someone in charge is trying to keep the team attitude right with some positive thoughts, letting it get to me is really my problem and not theirs.
Our company recently did this and our best developer left. I now have no one to talk to about best coding practices, new technologies, or other fun concepts. Just a bunch of overseas ticket jockeys trying to avoid lashings.
Some web hosts use Safe Browsing to automatically perm-ban any sites on the list. I've been banned from Heroku for a couple years at this point because one of my sites got added to Safe Browsing as malware and Heroku's systems just automatically perm-banned me (and to make things worse, in the ban email they tell you to send ban appeals to just bounces).
If Google flagging its own e-mails is your idea of a perfectly reliable phishing detection system, I don't think we are going to find much common ground.

For what it's worth, it's all true :) Good luck to you.
Because of myopia we want to go backwards in our liberal democracies. All this because you're worried that your neighbor will believe Alex Jones or not get a vaccine?

I have bad news: History shows this will not go away despite all the censorship in the world.

Why wouldn't deplatforming and muting these sources wouldn't work? The only reason why they spread as well as they did was because the like of youtube and other social media decided to give these people megaphone.

What if we stop giving them these megaphones and give it to someone else instead?

It is wrong to think of these platforms as neutral. They are not. They are always choosing what to show to the public based on selection criteria.
This reminds me of email blacklisting. When I was "young" I operated an email server for 6000 users. Keeping that server and our domain away from blacklisting was a full-time job.

It wasn't enough to secure your server: Any spam or virus coming from the internal network through that email server could potentially blacklist us. Basically, you had to treat your users as untrusted, and run anti-spam and anti-virus filtering that was as good as whatever the rest of the Internet was running.

IIRC, although blacklisting was done by non-profits, it was still rather opaque: Blacklisting should be traumatizing, so that you (and your higher ups) are forced to do a proper risk assessment and actually implement it. It was also opaque to make it harder for the bad guys to move quickly.

I hate the increasing influence that big tech has on small tech. But keeping web and email safe and clean is a cat-and-mouse game, which, unfortunately, also adds burden to the good folks.
Cool to see someone else is as interested in the story as I am!

I think you're right, and there are many within the BLM movement who are doing exactly what you describe.

Much like any large social movement there's a bunch of different ppl doing a bunch of different things, and with various levels of engagement and seriousness.
The problem is even worse for the Democrats on abortion, there are no pro-life Democrats allowed at the national level. The GOP is tolerant on guns in comparison.
Wholeheartedly agreed...
Letter to New Science Advisor Eric Lander from President-Elect Biden [pdf]
C has unions

What more do you need?
I thought you were being silly with “Foam,” but it really is a thing...
When I googled I found these claims:

"There are no major comprehensive, longitudinal studies on Americans’ attitudes toward conspiracy theories, mostly because it was not rigorously measured until about 10 to 20 years ago."

"...reviewed over 120 years of letters to the editor, from 1890 to 2010, for both The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. In over 100,000 letters, this review showed absolutely no change in the amount of conspiracy theory belief over time. In fact, the percent of letters about conspiracy theories actually declined from the late 1800s to the 1960s and has remained steady since then."

They cite: American Conspiracy Theories - Joseph Uscinski & Joseph Parent.

Quotes from here:

https://theconversation.com/are-conspiracy-theories-on-the-r...
Regulators Are Fed Up with Food-Delivery Fees
I don't know about you but does anyone else screenshot (and even print physical copies of, to keep safe) their authenticator barcodes given by websites, in case some day your chosen app dies or your phone(s)/tablets/everything gets lost?
Just one more step missing for a fully remote docker setup: have you ever tried combining this with a sshfs mount so you can also develop an app running in a remote container?
Mithril is really special among JS frameworks. It has a very tiny API and thus the resulting components are powerful and highly reusable. I think of them as Lego bricks to build worlds inside browsers. Whenever the architects or product owners come up with an idea never seen before I prototype using Mithril, because all other tend to fail involving of unexpected amount of complexity. Mithril gives you all degrees of freedom and surprisingly often that's considered a disadvantage.

Did I mention it's fast?
That’s not been my experience working with microservices for the past 5+ years. It’s in a team’s own interest to document their APIs and design them well, because if they don’t then it’s their own time sink when other teams integrate.

Microservices have problems but the way they’re often portrayed doesn’t match my experience.

I agree with the sibling commenter who said that a microservices architecture exchanges an organizational expense for a technical expense. For certain organizations, it can be the right call.
You’re going to have to back that up with some evidence, especially considering the specious claims you’ve been making over the last few weeks during the capitol terror attack etc.
You know what’s more toxic than toxic positivity? Diagnosing your coworkers with a writer invented, empathy devoid term because they annoy you. Is this opinion piece helpful?
Anyone knows if and how to use this instead of Microsoft authenticator?
To add to this. Aegis supports any cloud provider that implements Android's "Storage Access Framework".[1]

https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis/issues/258#issuecom...
It was .NET MicroFramework / Netduino that got me into playing with embedded programming and microcontrollers. Whilst I found it useful at the time (being a C# coder) the fact that it's interpreted and has a huge runtime means it's not really suited for embedded work. It sounds like this is the same so I'm not going near it.
This is incorrect. You can use APIs like java.time on any version by using desugaring: https://developer.android.com/studio/write/java8-support#lib...
We are falling on our face because we are jumping high
I love this letter. This is exactly the type of direction and freedom to come up with solutions that I would expect from a strong CEO or leader. Not prescriptive, but clear on which problems are critical to solve.
The current information hygiene and media literacy curriculum as I understand it leans heavily on using 'reputable sources'. This is well and good until those sources start to lose their reputability by publishing stories that stretch credulity (WaPo and the NYT with their 'anonymous intelligence sources familiar with the thinking of people near the matter'), become increasingly partisan, or simply appear too selective in their coverages with the benefit of hindsight. Noticing these things invalidates the majority of the curriculum in a student's mind, and leaves them unequipped to deal with the beasts wandering the information wilderness.

If I were to reform this, I'd place greater emphasis on information composition, and source/author auditing. Acknowledge that mainstream publications often miss things that less reputable outlets will cover (albeit poorly), and teach students to think in degrees of certainty.
Physicist thinks there's a possibility that 'Oumuamua was an alien spacecraft
> However anti-trust in US has eroded significantly.

Perhaps compared to the 40s-70s, but certainly not compared to the Reagan era. Starting with the Obama administration, there's been a strong rebirth of the anti-trust movement and it's only gaining momentum (see many recent examples of blocked mergers)[1].

[1] https://hbr.org/2017/12/the-rise-fall-and-rebirth-of-the-u-s...
Mnm – an open source project to replace email and SMTP
That's really what scratch codes are for.
I remember a problem like this I ran into with a website where a short outage occured, then an avalanche of demand as end users reloaded or retried the page.

We settled on throttling demand based on the incoming IP at the firewall...dropping incoming http packets for 3/4 of the addr space, then later 1/2, then 1/4, etc.

That was long ago, though, long enough that it was an NetScape webserver.
I don't think this is the right forum to ask this question.
To add on to this. Following these steps will often avoid the problem described by GP. If you can't find specific actions to praise, then there is a good chance the recipient will feel the praise is hollow.
Stonebraker often amusingly describes the NoSQL meaning changing over time as adopters come to realization that SQL is not going away.

- NoSQL as No SQL at all

- NoSQL as Not Only SQL

- NoSQL as Not Yet SQL
What did the plaque say? This is amazing.
I have noticed bluetooth lag apparent with first party keyboard, mouse, trackpad on an M1 Mini.

But that was also happening in different ways on my non-M1 MBP.
Actually, I see a custom window decoration in that image.
I thought that was about Russians, not Europeans in general. In Russia it's considered a mental illness to smile without a good reason.
I second the suggestion that every software engineer should at least be able to imagine how they would go about building computer from discrete logic.

When commercial computers were built from discrete logic in this manner, there was distinction between "horizontal" and "vertical" microcode. With horizontal being what most people would today call microcode, ie. implementing most of the control logic as one somewhat wide memory array with datapath being mostly directly controlled by bits coming form such memory. The vertical approach essentially involved designing simplistic RISC-like CPU with fixed width instructions which then ran interpreter for the actual instruction stream of the machine (ie. what the author's CPU does). And obviously there are various middle-ground approaches. The reason for this is that control-stores for purely horizontal microcode are not that dense and involve memory with weird and large word lengths (which is somewhat inconvenient for implementation from commercially available (P)ROM chips)
The filing is posted here: https://www.creditslips.org/files/show_temp.pl-37.pdf

Their assets and liabilities are both between $100m and $500m.

What I found interesting is:

Are any bankruptcy cases
pending or being filed by a
business partner or an
affiliate of the debtor?
 No
X Yes.
List all cases. If more than 1,
Debtor: Sea Girt LLC Relationship: Affiliate

More is described about this <60d old affiliate here: https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2021/01/nra-bankrupt...
If you install fDroid via the APK on their site you can install DAVx for free, which is likely the for-pay app you talked about for bringing your calendars in from a CalDAV server. Still not as easy or native as installing a Google Calendar account, but it does work and generally works quite well.
Maybe this is a dumb question but I thought gradle kts was released a while ago. Why does everyone in this thread still complains about groovy? Could they not just use kotlin?
Are you on a xDSL service of fibre?

On xDSL services, some monitored alarms may cause line problems when they "check in". In these cases an in-line DSL filter should do the trick.

Another possibility is that some modem/routers have a "self healing feature" that is just really a restart. See if there's anything like this in the admin/system part of the configuration settings.
Not "steal", but "use". (Facebook does not have to "steal", people give their information to the Facebook middleman willingly.)

Why are WhatsApp communications encrypted. What can they be used for. Who can use them. Note also that "use" and "disclose" may be two different things. Something like scanning peoples' Gmail might be an example of "use" without "disclosure".

There are only two other states that have a law similar to the one in Illinois.
Axolotl, Ambystoma Mexicanum
Especially negative human handprints. They’re all over the place and doesn’t seem intuitive at all to me. Holding a mix of red ochre + water in your mouth and blowing it against your hand held on a wall. Incredible!
If you're living in the U.S. - perhaps check the pictures I posted in another comment.

If that doesn't make you slightly curious about what some heavily funded groups are doing in your own backyard... I guess I'm slightly envious.
Maybe I'll try that
To me I find the hand outlines strange. Personally I wouldn't do them. And it is interesting they show up in multiple pictures.
A clever element of this is the cross-cultural nature: the Harvard name internationally known, yet someone not in that milieu would not be able to detect a number of "red flag" anomalies. In fact if the author was phished by someone in India (a likely case) then the perpetrator could make a cultural error that would be undetectable by the victim as they might share the same set of assumptions.

I say "cross cultural" but by that I also mean "cross domain" which is how financial scams can entrap victims who aren't familiar with the details of financial jargon.

It's also why people can believe conspiracy theories which are absurd to someone familiar with the domain.
Speaking as someone with mental health issues and as someone who has been the shoulder for others who are the same, no, saying it'll get better doesn't help because almost nothing that could be said will.

But being lead in circles of doom talk and complaining by someone who is inconsolable naturally leads to vacuous sayings like it is what it is, it's not as bad as it seems, or count your blessings, only because I have to say something in reply despite not having any answers.
Well said. I think a microservices architecture exchanges an organizational expense for a technical expense. For certain organizations, it can be the right call.