skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my father's relatives commanded Gurkhas a while ago, but no stories to pass on other than how almost unbelievably tough they are.

It's a genuine disgrace how long it took to treat them as anything other than cannon fodder. We give them VCs but they couldn't actually guarantee residence in Britain until not long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha_Justice_Campaign
Corollary: do not let multiple applications to access the same database objects.
Appears to have been removed...
You realize that robots.txt is an "on your honor" system and that any one can write a script that doesn't look at robots.txt and post anything they find to the internet and that therefore other sites could find your site via 3rd party data.

Chrome does not do what you claim it does
This came up on the forum and someone raised a good point - would direct connections require the sender and receiver to be online at the same time? I feel like the architecture has to be more clever than just a WebRTC connection between clients.
consumer / prosumer / workstations is what I had in mind
Why is this being downvoted? Am I wrong about something? If so, please tell me, I'm still learning.

Ah. Maybe it's because I explained stuff that's basically newtypes using language that might make it seem they're different? Ugh. HN comments always make me so neurotic. But the content is usually more interesting than dev.to. I just wish they'd get rid of the downvote feature.
> > The lack of E2E encryption and sender authentication makes it completely useless these days.

>Both SPF and DMARC provide sender authentication.

And TLS encryption via required encryption via STARTTLS[0][1] plus s/mime or gpg can provide E2EE.

Not sure if mnm/tmtp supports endpoint data encryption though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_encryption

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8314
Ah, because CSS. Fixed.
Although Mars is probably the ultimate "because it's there", nature cannot be fooled - Everest has effectively been commercialised now, but the other 8kms like K2 regularly eat extremely experienced mountaineers for breakfast.
On man. Your list of pillars is spot on.
Google may be a monopoly, but this quote has nothing to do with monopoly status. It has to do with power.

As a local businessman I can ruin someone’s life by applying the right legal pressure. Likewise, if one of my customers is reliant on my product to run their own business, and I drop them suddenly (akin to what google sometimes does), that could ruin them. But it’s not because I’m a monopoly, only because people rely on me. Monopoly implies there’s no choice, and while that IS true with google and search. It is not implied by “arbitrary, impossible to appeal, and may ruin you”. The two are distinct (though often related) problems that are both exemplified in Google.
Isn't opting in how almost everything got on the list?
Thanks! Looking for a free version of [2], do you know where else one could find it?
Scala / SBT is so much worse
They are just saying within enterprises it is of the enterprises best interest to control all aspects of dns so all traffic can be monitored. Which you seriously need to do if you aren't doing it already.

Dns needs to be monitored holistically it is a great place to catch IOCs.
I feel it wouldn't be completely unjustified to trust NSA recommendations simply because America isn't the only country in the world with intelligence agencies. The NSA is commonly assumed to be offensive, but part of their job is to aid in defence as well. Ensuring (malicious) foreign actors have trouble gaining information is a National interest just as much as the NSA themselves gaining access.
As if Eternal September wasn’t eternal enough.
US Navy – Tic Tac UFO – High frequency gravitational wave generator
Check out these patents currently assigned to US Secretary of Navy and invented by "Salvatore Cezar Pais"

https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Salvatore+Cezar+Pais

Then think about the tic tac ufo UFO reports from US Navy fighter pilots [1]

What's going on here? Disinformation campaign from US Navy? Actual patents? Maybe the downloadbal PDFs are malware vectors for espionage?

Seems highly unlikely that this tech actually exists AND is publicly available information, right?

[1] https://youtu.be/Eco2s3-0zsQ
This isn't as strange conceptually as you make it sound. Power companies can't legally cut off electricity to consumers that they deem "malicious", even if they're violent actual neo-nazis or tankies, let alone the infinitely lower bar you're using.

What's under discussion is whether "the new public square" of Twitter/Facebook/et al constitute the same manner of oligopolistically-provided service that everyone has a right to.
Agreed. It was a (shitty) mistake and they apologized immediately. This was not part of the court case, and Getty has never argued they should have been able to do this.

I imagine they automate copyright takedown notices, and there was a bug somewhere. It's not great, but I don't believe it was malice.
Even if there can be parallel computation a flash loan can still occur. The concept is borrowing a huge sum of money for a split second to take instant advantage of an opportunity. This can happen outside of a single threaded VM model.
It also completely overlooks the difficulty of getting an appropriate visa (and a lot of countries have no suitable visa category at all for remote workers).
That 1/6 scale VT100 is sweet!
$300? You can buy one off Aliexpress for under $5.
Genuinely curious, are disk writes a big part of booting? I'd imagine it to be mostly large sequential reads. Especially since operating systems have a long history of booting from HDD and still need reasonable support for that, I wouldn't expect the boot process has a whole lot of disk thrashing. I also can't think of a reason why it would need to.
Along these lines, it's worth reading The Culture Map by Erin Meyer. It gives some interesting insight into how different cultures approach management and decision making. I think it also applies when thinking about people from within the same culture to some extent.
The first time I really heard of it was about a year ago, and there has been an explosion in tools and articles about it. No new innovation will reach mass market adoption in that time, but Zettelkasten is well on its way.
> I wonder: Is it an exaggeration to say that composers after Beethoven, the vast majority of them hearing, were forever changed by a deaf aesthetic?

I’ve heard it expressed that when a user interface is designed with accessibility needs in mind, it tends to serve all users better.

A contemporary analogue might be: are design choices that were originally made for accessibility reasons becoming broadly popular with users who don’t have those needs? Personally, I think the answer is yes.

Is it because I’ve become familiar with those patterns? Or is it because those patterns appeal to my senses more easily (hence, more accessible) and therefore it’s easy to come to like them?

Were these more accessible compositions more popular because Beethoven was already an esteemed composer, or because they resonated better with audience members, or perhaps some of both?
In 60 years, moon sports leagues will have created the first sustainable extraterrestrial economy. Mostly below-ground moonball, of course, but the lowgrav dirtbiking also draws a fair share of advertising dollars.
PC gaming market is about the size of the console market.
Anyone who understands the inverse square law and the amount of energies in cellphone / wifi EMF cannot seriously consider normal EMF a health risk
A Dutch Youtuber gives some of this history in a pretty good video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o

Another awesome urban design channel focused on the Netherlands is https://www.youtube.com/c/NotJustBikes/ -- it covers the safe bike/pedestrian infrastructure but lots of other cool things
No: Mozilla wrote the initial list based on their understanding of TLDs, and they maintain it based on a combination of opt-in and people noticing that domains should be on the list.

Have a look: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat
Those who are technologically illiterate, like Levine is, must look elsewhere if they want's to make sense of it. If you read the article it has no substance.

Levine just writes out of his ass as usual. His writing style uses insinuating. If you read this piece uncritically you feel that Marlinespike is shady character for no reason whatever.
Defi is an unfortunate name. I thought this article was referring to the Defi Solutions loan software.

https://defisolutions.com/
You're not really a "competitor" if you are using Google's sync backend, for one Google has no obligation to provide that to you for free, for two, if Google is storing and controlling the users data you aren't getting any value from it and the backend also won't be compatible with any feature changes you make.
I don't think it's poor to test http handling either, as a coarse grained integration test.

The problem I've seen is over-dependence on writing unit tests with mocks instead of biting the bullet and properly testing all the boundaries. I have seen folk end up with 1000+ tests, of which most are useless because the mocks make far too many assumptions, but are necessary because of the layer coupling.

This was mostly in Node though, where mocking the request/response gets done inconsistently, per framework. Go might have better tooling in that regard, and maybe that sways the equation a bit. IMO there's still merit to decoupling if there's any feasibility of e.g. migrating to GraphQL or another protocol without having to undergo an entire re-write.
The oldest human figure (nsfw) was dated to about 40k bce. It was found in Germany about 70cm from a bone flute (same date).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels
Rubbish, it was the well thought out explanations I come here for.

You should have contributed something to the conversation other than saying steelman.

I picked a randomish name (English based since there will be more English articles) from the signatures and found this

Dr. Kevin P. Corbett

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/who-were-the-so-calle...
That underscores something about languages. They don't actually map 1:1 to each other. Whatever "I go first" means to speakers of Mandarin, we might only be able to approximate what that means in English.

An example that comes to mind is the oversimplification that happens when people say that the word "aloha" means "hello" and "goodbye". It only sort of does because that's how it is sometimes used. Really it's a whole concept that is unique to Hawaiian culture that would more accurately translate to "beloved" or "cherished".
It’s not clear to me that Gradle provides any benefit worth the pain it incurs. Every single Gradle file within $COMPANY seems to be completely distinct, with there being god knows how many ways to do something as simple as compiling a Spring application into a jar. I have no idea why each file is different, and which style is the “right” way, or even what the trade offs are.

It’s when I found myself attaching a debugger to my Gradle session to debug it that I threw up my hands in disgust and said “you know what, give me XML back” and went back to Maven.
I thought you said, the curse is worse than the disease... which also would've made sense.
I’d ask why they used Erlang to build WhatsApp in the first place instead of Java. I suspect it’s what’s that had at the time
Is Tesla a car company, or a casino?
Gradle manages to hit the same note that AWS does; lots of docs, but never the one you need.

The fact that the style and language Gradle is written in has changed doesn’t help one iota.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/explaining-sigint-annex
Zenimax got bought by Microsoft.
This looks very interesting. What are (or could be) some prerequisites to taking this course?
So if you had something like free GCP credits and other free perks it could help with this issue?
Because if they want to censor, I want to make them liable for their editorializing.
em-in-em, like the rapper :-)
I don’t know. I’m sure the masters can hear music in their heads extremely well, but from what I have read it seems that Beethoven was distressed about his deafness specifically as it related to his profession. I haven’t done my research on how legit these supposed quotes are, but they give that impression:

> Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than in others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection

> If I belonged to any other profession it would be easier, but in my profession it is a frightful state
It would be nice if apple would bother to publish one for their chips.
This is great! Any resource you'd recommend for someone who learned to play the guitar but has no idea what he's doing?

I'd love to learn more about music theory and stop relying so much on memorization. I know there are a ton of resources out there but most of them seem to fall on the extremes – either too big a commitment or too superficial.
Rockstar Ate My Hamster. Please somebody remake it!
The point isn't to lower your expectations, the point is acknowledge that the way you feel is under your control and it's up to you to do something about it. So if your coworkers let you down, they don't make you feel let down, your own expectations make you feel let down. How you fix that is your responsibility.

You can try and help your colleagues, you can rely on them less, or you can quit your job. Blaming your colleagues and making them responsible for your feelings means feeling shitty and feeling powerless to feel better.
lol, sounds like you and I had similar experiences except I was in morocco. I rented a stickshift suv and they insisted I get automatic since I was american. lol. Drove several days pooping my brains out from the bad food all the way from marrakesh to chefchauen to tangiers. Great people and beautiful country though!
When I was a kid, I read somewhere that if you smile all the time it will make you feel happier. I decided to try it. I smiled all the time whether I was feeling happy or not. It worked. It made me feel better.

Say what you want, but I enjoy feeling happy, and if I have to engage in a bit of mental convolution to achieve it I'm all for it whether it is a lie or not.
Open systems design has lost the messaging wars.

Federated/decentralized, secure, non-real-time messaging is the problem space. If it can make some overwhelmingly common use cases of current e-mail that much easier, then so be it.
> If a historian cites Mein Kampf, they're using it as a primary source - they might not agree with the opinions expressed within but they do believe Hitler expressed those opinions.

Yes... same as a scientist uses citations.

Citing someone doesn't mean 'I fully believe and support this person', it means 'I'm referring to what this person said' and they believe that's what the paper said. That's all. The text using the citation adds the context of what the author thinks.
Ah! Just a few days ago I wrote an article about what it would be like to climb on Mars!

https://jerseyfonseca.com/blogs/climbingmars
Excellent roadmap! \o/

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25804869#25807379

(I'm the author.)
Do I need to check for NULL pointers?
I am really confused right now, I have read this :

https://medium.com/pvs-studio/why-it-is-important-to-check-what-the-malloc-function-returned-ba39f3d13a83

Although I don't like the weird tone, it gives a good enough reason to check for NULL pointers but I also read that :

https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2020/11/08/stop-checking-for-null-pointers/

Hard to make up my mind. Help.
They want to target their ads in general, but they don't actually want to sell military gear to insurrectionists. It was just the AI working too well. Once they noticed, they have now blanket banned such ads until after the inauguration:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-facebo...
The main problem with andotp is the excessive amount of padding that they add to each entry, even with the "compact" option. The group/tag selection is better (only two steps), but not nearly as convenient as the app I'm using where you can view a group/tag directly from the home screen.
Scientific Computing in Rust
I'd imagine that would leak your IP address to your chat partner, which is undesirable in many cases
>Meanwhile since 2016 I have been wondering why in the world Assange would have so obviously been in the bag for Donald Trump.

I somehow missed the confusion around Assange. His M.O. has been so consistent.

When the cables came out, it was what I expected from the organization I read about years prior on slashdot back in highschool - back when it was new and only a curiously to the tech press. I remember very well listening to NPR in 2010 and struggling to understand why NPR struggled to understand who this Assange guy was. And how they took the scraps of his personal history they managed to find, and were so bewildered that they weren't able to create a more romantic story about his motivations than the plainly expressed ones.

When the emails came out in 2016, I had smartened up to the way the media could only ever understand him as a power broker, and wasn't surprised by the confused coverage. But wikileaks actions were still within my expectations from the organization I read about on slashdot back in highschool.

I like to think I know better than to be suckered in by an official line, but the quality of unprovable explanations can be judged by their predictive accuracy.

Wired Magazine, 2016: Want to Know Julian Assange's Endgame? He Told You a Decade Ago

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/want-know-julian-assanges-endg...

>I get wanting change and there are a lot of bad things you can say about the current powers that be, but if you want revolution you have to offer something better than the status quo.

Part of the idea of democracy as we understand it today is that speaking truth to power is itself helping make the world a better place. Even if Team Edward has worse policy than Team Jacob, that doesn't mean choosing not to expose Team Jacobs's flaws when the opportunity presents itself.
Pakistani living in Canada, here. I would hesitate before doing that, the cheap plastic ones might sprout a leak which isn't a problem in Pakistan because we design the bathrooms to be washed with of water buckets that goes down the drain in the corner easily. Find one at your local Home Depot. I found one for ~$80 CAD in Ontario but with a sturdier metal pipe and build.
I'm not the author of this post, but I thought it was cool.
Americans are "colder" in the among-peers relationships, but they are extra-sweet-hyper-annoying "warm" when they need to treat you as a client. We latinos are closer to they way southern-Europeans are.
I mean Beethoven probably encoded a lot of stuff in his music, the man was in the Freemasons. And yesterday I was reading some Mystical Initiation Rituals and realized that they ended with three of the participants humming "VVVV V V VVVVVV" in unison, and thought about a certain symphony he wrote, and

for a moment, perhaps, I was Enlightened
Well, when you edit with and require a code formatting tool as a part of your development lifecycle, you're basically there.
Thanks, I was wondering what in the world was up with that.
With such a wide diversity in radical patents, Occam’s Razor should be applied. He is either a magnitude more brilliant than Einstein or he’s a crackpot.

“There is no relationship whatsoever between my assigned duties and the invention. The invention was made independently of any job performance or assigned tasks by the Branch or Section.”

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navy...
'legit downside of needing to use one language and one framework for all actors' - which is why a lot of Erlang users use it for coordination of messages, and delegate their handling to other services as needed.

That said, most work places I've been at, leadership has -wanted- to use one language. Even with containers and other decoupling technologies. So I don't know how much of a negative effect that downside has.
Ah! Just a few days ago I wrote an article about what it would be like to climb on Mars! I learned about Olympus Mons in the process. It turns out that the surface area is equal to that of Italy's. There are a few interesting features like cliffs and craters, but you can probably just get around it.

https://jerseyfonseca.com/blogs/climbingmars
If I'm not mistaken, signal is specifically hosted on AWS to so that governments can't just blacklist their IPs without blacklisting all of AWS. So moving to bare metal isn't really an option.
Melatonin and turmeric. The melatonin is actually more to help me wake up than fall asleep. I used to have a horrible time waking up. Now I usually wake up right before my alarm goes off.
I sometimes write code for micro controllers, and I tend to wrap all system calls so that I can run the same code on my PC just to get access to better tools. On small hardware platforms its common that you are forced to use C because of the limited resources, so the options are limited.
Completely agree. Also very proud of my home state Premier, Dan Andrews, for showing backbone when people needed it. Don’t agree with everything he did without qualification, but I’d vote for him again.

All in all Aus put in a solid performance with this pandemic - one of the best, I reckon, and markedly better than that of Japan, where I currently reside.
Settlements in Antarctica are not practical because of the Antarctic Treaty System.
Static typing buys you correctness now. Go isn't really a poster child of language design, to be blunt - but it's better to find out now rather than in production.

Compiled code is also significantly faster in many cases.
Care to share what you think would constitute a “good” lingua franca for the web?
> would direct connections require the sender and receiver to be online at the same time?

Could always use 'indirect' connections to store-and-forward, and only relying on the central server when absolutely necessary.

You do risk some lost messages when you underestimate failures, but the same thing applies to any central store-and-forward facility.

Early Kazaa depended on some nodes becoming supernodes. Supposedly initial Skype was decentralized like this (particular to get around NATs), until it became exclusively client-server.
It doesn’t replace Kubernetes, it is the ultimate companion.

Kubernetes deals with the OS/node level failures, the actor system deals with the application level failures.

It’s actually amazing how complementary they are.
Dr. Hewitt often pops up to discuss Erlang and the actor model here, so you might have the opportunity to ask him for more details.
Arx Libertatis – source port of Arx Fatalis
This is a solved space. Nomadlist.
The lack of development-in-the-open on Signal-Server is a little concerning, in terms of not giving visibility on what's at least theoretically running serverside.

If you compare it with Matrix, the last commits to Synapse were ~32 hours ago, Dendrite was ~31 hours ago, and Conduit was 3 hours ago - so you can keep up with where development is at, and of course see what is meant to be running in production (and run it yourself if you're able to).

My assumption is that what's happening is that Signal-Server is going through contortions to switch everything to UUIDs, in order to avoid hardcoding phone numbers everywhere as identifiers, and this work is being done on a private branch. Meanwhile, there's presumably a private branch for the current live production deployment too. (For Matrix, we maintain a separate branch for the live matrix.org homeserver instance, to allow for hotfixes etc - although it's public, at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/tree/matrix-org-hotfix...)
Rob Graham called this out as the off-the-rails conspiracy theory that it is: https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1350328882050711553