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There's a really fancy new -R feature that I love (added in 2017 I think).

ssh <target> -R <just a port number>

This opens up a localhost port on the target that acts as a socks server which tunnels all your traffic through the source machine.

This is great for machines that you can SSH into, but are otherwise completely isolated from the network, or are monitored heavily. You can jump on, and pull down everything you need from the existing SSH connection, rather than using the machine to make requests out to the internet directly.

This is also good if the source machine is a web server or something on a secured network which can SSH out, but not much else, and the destination is your command and control server on the internet. Then it opens up a socks port on the C&C machine that gives full access to the internal network, impersonating the source machine.

Every other -R is a point to point TCP connection, but setting up a SOCKS proxy with -R is magic. More analogous to a reverse -D than a reverse -L. Super useful.
Turns out it wasn't easy to google what the name stands for.

>The meaning of the three letters in CIM Group’s name is one of real estate’s best-kept secrets. But it might as well stand for Condos In Manhattan

https://therealdeal.com/2016/12/13/manhattans-new-skyline-ci...
loceng nails my point on the head.

> Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

That’s the article title, and it’s very easy to argue that they are looking to misappropriate the “wood = natural (and renewable) resource” properties. The current HN title from the paper even goes a step further by pairing it with “Solar-assisted fabrication“.
For personal machines I use fiction locations from media I enjoy. My laptop is Hyrule, my desktop is Konoha, and my Pi is MotherBase, but I spell mine all lowercase.

For servers I use for my roommates and I (Jellyfin and the like), we name them after the quirky students that go to our university that we appreciate.
My old isp used to inject ads and other warnings into plain http traffic.

I think it’s generally considered a good posture to be defensive and have privacy as default. Time has shown that information is power no matter how boring you think it is.
This may be (slowly?) changing:

* https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/living-the-high-life-...
That's not how this works. The only way to show an actual reduction in all cause mortality as the result of an intervention, treatment, or screening process is through a randomized controlled clinical trial. If none have been performed, you don't have evidence that lives have been saved. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/02/19/why-are-the-micros...
Focus and consistency appear to be synonyms here?
From what I’ve read [0], the economic effects of the pandemic will mostly be gone in a few years, but the economic effects of Brexit will last for multiple decades.

[0] newspaper articles, so the Michael Crichton [1] amnesia effect applies

[1] Michael Crichton came up with it and called it the “Gell-Mann Amnesia effect” because “by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have”.
Yes, but Britian is losing more so we win!

- brexiteer position
Well, I can understand (+ a b c d)

Its the next level where it gets hard.
Subscribed. Thanks for putting together this quality content. I was checking out your merge dataframes video the other day, that I was led to from a Stack Overflow post. I'm not a novice w/Pandas but I find that things stick better after repeated exposure, from different sources at that. The various ways of using merge/join/concat can be tricky to keep straight at first. I will be sure to dig deeper into your content in the near future, including the series of videos on Numpy.
Just went to Marks&Spencer in Paris today.

The store was 90% empty. No more fresh products, and mostly just leftovers of other products since Brexit. Feels so weird.
The article literately answers this...
Because it's hidden in one of the captions:

The volume fraction of wood in the resulting product appears to be around 33%. So by volume it's two-thirds resin and one-third wood.

I was hoping the wood fraction would be slightly higher to justify calling it "transparent wood".
That's a great scheme. I hope that one day amongst the university computer labs named for Greek/Roman mythology or rock artists, we have a lab of anime characters. At least at my uni, I think a lot of people would get a kick out of that.
Two fundamental flaws of Y Combinator
Preface: I have a lot of respect for YC. It's created a lot of successful companies. As an outsider, here's why I think it will be difficult for YC to create substantial value in the future. Feel free to disagree with me in the comments.

The first problem: In tech, too many people want to start companies, and too few people want to solve problems.

YC, in its effort to build an institution of prestige, caused the glorification of starting and running a company. This creates noise by attracting the wrong type of people to apply. Their application prevents basic gamification, but in reality, it's created a strange pocket of companies that have little real impact on people.

We've seen that it's entirely possible to build a convincing image of a company that pretends to solve a problem. Their application unfortunately focuses very little on explaining what the problem is. Having users, growth, and profit does not always suggest that a problem is being solved.

This leads into the second problem, maybe a more fundamental one: YC's motto of "Make something people want" is misguided.

This is dangerously misleading for a few reasons. People often "want" something that's harmful to them in the long term. A lot of tech products offer people a shiny object, reap the rewards of selling that product, only to leave people worse off than they started.

I could build a business of selling heroin to users, and I've built something that people want. This seems like an extreme example, but the digital equivalent of heroin is social media.

A much better framing would be "Solve a big problem that people have". I think this change would go a long ways to solving both problems I've outlined. If they stick to this principle, they'll continue to be an institution that creates value for society in the long run.

YC has created pieces of "true" value here and there, but I hate seeing it go down this path of creating a system for the purpose of moving money around.
More like “wood-strengthened epoxy”.

Thankfully we have had similar naming laws around the “wood” you mention. They are not perfect, but they are enough if you know what you’re looking for.
It's an irrelevant side show. At best it's used to gain some PR on the side I happen to support. But no one seriously expects a conviction, and even if it were to happen it would be irrelevant at this point.
If they use an epoxy with the same refractive index as celllose and manage to totally eliminate any gaps/air they will get closer to glass, but I feel it will stilll be a little foggy. They have been playing at this for decades because cellulose is the cheapest fiber. You can use a solution of cellulose(Viscose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon) that you spin into fine monofilaments to immerse in a similar epoxy pane for the same effect,
> One thing I’ve learned is that spending time building, benchmarking and profiling basic blocks may seem like it can delay the overall plan; however, in this case, exploring different designs for the basic parts made it clear which features of the basic blocks were varying, and which were necessary, yielding a more modular design in the end, which was key to the performance improvements I got.

This. I try point this out so often and am challenged with the 'premature optimisation...' mantra but in my view this is in no way a premature optimisation but an essential part of the design process.

Thanks to the author for an enlightening article.
> It may be true that dumping energy into bitcoin can fund the adoption of a proof-of-stake coin, but that is no longer a new technology, it is simply adoption.

I'm not sure that's true. Proof-of-stake is established as a concept but there is still lots of room for technological improvements in the implementation and user experience. New proof-of-stake coins can compete more effectively because of the trust which Bitcoin established.
Of course it's largely UK's own making. But EU surely didn't make it any easier. The VAT rules alone make it really difficult for small business to export to EU. Each country has its own rules, thresholds and agencies. Compared to how easy is it for us in the EU to do business within EU it's crazy. That's why UK's own government recommends opening a subsidiary in the EU.
That was with the old recipe. This is new.
>I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue.

What an odd framing. Are technologies only impactful if they result in a shiny new toy? Machine learning is a functional part of at least 50% of the tech I use daily. I typed this on my phone, so I unintentionally used machine learning (key-tap recognition) to reply to your comment about machine learning impact.

Machine learning is a technology whose benefit is mostly in facilitating other technologies. In that way it’s more like the invention of plastic than the invention of the personal computer. Plastic has made other inventions lighter, more affordable, and cheaper. So too will ML, but I see where you’re coming from.
This has various names: double-double, quad-double (etc.) arithmetic; floating-point expansions. It's definitely the best way to do arithmetic at precision up to a couple of hundred digits on modern hardware, though traditional arbitrary-precision arithmetic wins at higher precision (and in any case becomes necessary, due to the exponent range).

It's unfortunate that this isn't something that was standardized and more widely available a long time ago. By contrast, IEEE binary128 and binary256 are practically useless due to lack of hardware support.
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The population of Texas is 12.8% black, slightly lower than the US average of 13.4%. For the stands to be mostly black people at a public event (in most areas where they represent a small share of population) would mean that the event was overwhelming of interest to black people and not so much to others. A crowd that looks like the demographics of the region surrounding it is healthy, not a sign of racism.

As for college football, while black athletes are “over represented” for their share of the population, according to the NCAA they are still a bit less than half the number of players. There is no shortage of white people who want to play football and are willing to risk injury to do so.

The over representation of black people in high-level athletics is meritocratic: they get there by being the best.
There is a legitimate question as to why many in the black community pursue sports so seriously, when the odds of a successful career are terribly low compared to more mundane things like accounting or whatever. I am not an expert, but my understanding is this is more a factor of black people disproportionately living with poor performing schools and structural poverty, such that children have see fewer role models that “look like them” outside of sports, which in turn facilitates the perception they have a better chance of success in sports than in other fields, even though that’s generally not true.
I would love the origin person of that phrase because it is almost universal with YouTubers.
At the moment it's kinda hard to tell which part is Brexit and which part is COVID-19 (and especially the new variants).
> Thus my point: I can't think of ways it's seriously impacted my life, other than being an interesting challenge to pursue.

Benefitted? Perhaps not. But you, me, we're all being impacted. The fact that it's not easily recognizable - intentionally, I might add - doesn't mean it isn't there.

Truth be told, I'm approx half way through Zuboff's "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." As for your hopes, she specifically makes mention of the fact that these tools are _not_ being used to solve big problems (e.g., poverty) but instead to harvest more and more data and exploit that as much as possible. Rest assured this imperative is by no means limited.

https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/th...

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
Location within the club. In and around DJ booth / dancefloor can cost almost 10x the cheapest table. See and be seen = $$$$$

At these venues you aren't paying for the table per se... these are generally minimum spend amounts for drink/food (pre gratuity).

For ticketed events, table reso also usually includes admission & line bypass for x guests.
Machine Learning has literally partially solved protein folding. I used to be a denier too but there's no getting past this now.
It took me a minute too to figure out what was up since I knew nothing about any of this either.

Normally when someone does that type of thing I just close the tab and move on. The writer though kept me interested until I finally figured it out.

Something about the style of how it was written?
Wood has fantastic mechanical properties. It's also renewable to produce. I would gladly take a piece of half renewable transparent sheet vs a 100% petroleum acrylic sheet.

The normal bleaching process is quite energy intensive, so that is also a win.

No. If it's not 100% all natural it's green-washing.
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What a disaster.
I taught an OS class (for the first time) in my career with this book (I taught many other classes before). It was a breeze, compared to the books used by faculty who taught earlier versions of the class. Students much enjoyed this book as well. The fact that it is freely available was a great plus.
Exynos cannot sustain high performance for long. 20% slower than Snapdragon
I am working on building out a custom platform so excuse the dust. but the basic features work.
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We get easily used to it because presumably the fundamental parameters of our lives will not change: we will still have to work for a living and so far advances in AI seem to simply help to increase inequality, the concentration of capital, and to tighten surveillance over workers' lives.
The film's well worth watching. I got interested in that period of British history a few years back. It's sort of amazing how little we know about that era, compared to say Roman history, and how much is essentially based on a few manuscripts like Bede's and various pieces of rusted metal and coins.
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"Fuck Business"

- the official position of the man who went on to be elected PM on the basis he'd deliver a harder brexit than the other guy.
I know this is weird, but maybe have a look into Fossil ( https://fossil-scm.org/ ). Not exactly a static site, but the whole repository (all posts, comments, etc.) is a single SQLite database file. And, fossil is a single binary that can be run as a standalone server, as CGI or FastCGI as well.
Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities
Might want to look at https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/
That always makes me laugh. The full thing: http://xeny.net/The%20Gell-Mann%20Amnesia%20Effect
While I agree with much of the article, I think the following points were not sufficiently explored:

1. I got the impression that he felt this "fauxtomation" was the final iteration of any service practicing it.

To me, "fauxtomation" follows a fairly established startup methodology of doing things manually before automating. It allows sufficient time for engineers to observe the full scope before attempting to automate. In addition, it is provided as a sort of API to the end user while true automation efficiencies can be implemented incrementally with the in-house team.

The end goal of these services is almost certainly full automation. To a greater extent, I suspect this is the intended future of entire gig economies ("fauxtomation" at scale) created by the likes of Uber and DoorDash who are pushing for further advancements in technology to replace the comparatively high cost of human labor.

2. Where was the "partial automation" alternative to "full automation" in this article?

It seems that most of the described technologies fall short because the scope is too big. They do not allowing enough flexibility for fixing (and learning from) errors or accommodating unplanned use-cases. If a product (like self-service checkout) typically requires training for an employee to use properly, it is not ready for the average consumer.

I have heard the following quote used frequently:

> What can be automated, should be automated.

What is not given enough airtime is the inverse:

> What cannot be automated, should not be automated.

The immediate future is more cyborg than robot. A modern website is an assortment of modular APIs glued together. Some have referred to smartphones as a human appendage, and I think this is the proper analogy to view technology as a whole over the next decade: upgrades rather than replacements to our biological limitations.

Instead of replacing an entire industry with an industry-sized vending machine, large amounts of untrained workers will slowly be replaced by a smaller amount of trained practitioners who know how to use better tools. What this will mean for society as a whole, though, is anyone's guess.
Perhaps ML is just a necessary building block to the traditional science fiction future.
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So do many boys, so what's your point?
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I think the main problem is that people call it a neural network. They are nothing like neurons. Neurons are lifeforms in their own right and are as advanced as this guy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFuckingLit/comments/jed2vd/...

Now, what about neural networks? Well, you replace that guy with a one liner math function and call it a day. Now consider that you have billions of guys like that in your head, way more than any of our simplified neural networks, and it becomes very clear how far we are from getting anywhere. They are really important, they decide who to connect to, where and when to send signals etc. Neural networks doesn't model neurons, just the network hoping that the neuron wasn't important.
Speaking of empathy, try having some for people who have to live in households where real conflict occurs despite their own best efforts.
COVID will come and go... Hopeful nothing similar happens within our lifetimes.

BREXIT will unfortunately have an impact for much longer. The UK was a place I dreamed about living in. English-speaking, great quality of life, weather is pretty mild compared to where I currently am, and, most importantly, open borders with the EU.

Now the UK does not even register as an option.

This is just me, but I’m sure there are others in the same boat, and as a young Brit you just had a door shut in your face. Not to mention the impact on business that’s going to affect British workers within the UK.

It seems unlikely that we’re going to see a larger case of shooting oneself in the foot anytime soon.
Meh you have a short memory... it is just as shitty and dangerous as football. Or can be lets say.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/opinion/106203965/french...
It would seem not too difficult to reuse, though. I reuse a fair bit of regular lumber, as for example when I disassembled the old falling-down back porch and made several indoor benches out of it. I would think epoxy-infused wood might be less prone to rot, and so even more reusable.
OPNsense is based on HardenedBSD which is based on FreeBSD 12-STABLE ATM:

https://hardenedbsd.org/

But OPNsense is based on HBSD 11.2 ATM

>The latest release is based upon HardenedBSD 11.2

https://opnsense.org/about/about-opnsense/
I agree. From the original post:

> The decision is up to you, whether you want to run such a community, or, shut it down, at least temporarily, fix these problems and run it again.

This will never be well received.

Some of the ideas are good, but they are not so harmful like disclosing all the private information of the users to deserve closing the site until solved.
And many boys experience hormonal changes that make them physically aggressive at that age.
Next thing: run FreeBSD 13 natively on M1. It would be really nice, because even on this X230 this OS is really damn fast and snappy. Wayland and sway are super nice.
So, yes, this is a comparison againt January last year, pre-pandemic. I'm in no way a brexiteer, but I do wish people wouldn't do lead articles with such easily refutable arguments.

But of course, this is the Guardian - they know their audience, they know who they're talking to and aren't too interested in persuading someone from outside their half of the bubbleverse.
I'm probably too late to provide more information but - https://www.raspberrypi.org/education/support-learn-at-home/
Sure but that’s not a software issue, that’s poor material selection
Sure, but that’s not a surprise to the EU. They warned they’d be the result from the start.
(plastics not generally being recycled aside since that’s a much heavier topic) I’d honestly disagree that it’s better to embed plant material in plastics or other non-degradable material.

At least a fully plastic cup made of a single plastic could theoretically be recycled easily. When you embed it now has to have specific processes to deal with that before being recycled, and those processes might have to be specific to that one product (or at worst: the process becomes “burn out all the impurities, throw the smoke in the air”)
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The iPhone 12 contains an arrangment of neodymium magnets that are used to align and grab the "MagSafe" charger.

These magnets aren't present in earlier iPhones. As far as I know, no Android phone have these magnets either, but it's something that could easily catch on in future models.
Thanks! I pinned your page on my evernote.. I always get confuse everytime I need to make a ssh port forward. After a while I get it but I spend time (and some bad words :P)
Exporters don't pay VAT, importers do.
I agree about the world "milk", for example in Greece we call fig sap "fig milk". But calling nut paste or beans "meat" grates.

Anyway my ocncern is that most consumers are at the point where they don't understand the difference between animal milk and plant milk, or even animal meat and plant-based meat substitutes, because they're used to so much over-processed food that they don't recognise the tastes of ordinary foodstfufs anymore.
> train your immune system to self destruct

Might be a nitpick, but the immune system destroying itself would be a different, still possibly dangerous outcome of probably losing your defenses.

An over-sensitized response would be a hyper-sensitive trigger-happy paranoid all-hand-on-deck general-mobilization fight-or-die this-is-the-end immune response, of various scale, possibly similar to but not exactly the same as a bad case of covid.
This is addressed about halfway into the article.

> Trade experts said part of the reason for the sharp fall in exports was the coincidence of Brexit and the pandemic. But several heads of trade bodies fear worse is to come.

...with more information to follow.
Wait, wasn't it Churchill?
Yes, if you carry some weight in the field then the most useful contribution would be to push for better automated gathering of quality clinical data. This is the most limiting factor currently.

Of course policy activism is far less sexy than building new shiny things, so there's little interest in that.