skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember loving the short stories on this stie! I used to binge read them way back when.

Another site with good sci-fi is http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html - stories by Andy Weir's (writer of The Martian).
You are actually right. Given how one can forge an md5 of any file, some malware authors could match a "signature" so to speak of a very popular useful file, leading to mass false detections, for example.
Ahh, fondly remember the days when I had to get a separate fpu for my Motorola 68lc040
Pinboard is like Newton's conception of the divine, if an active Creator were not constantly involved, the whole thing would grind to a halt instantly. So I would take whatever I said about taking years off with that grain of salt.

I don't understand the bit about not pre-fetching a title. Are you using the add URL page or something, rather than a bookmarklet or extension, which does exactly that?
Hind sight is 20-20. The BitKeeper business had a good run, we were around for 18 years. It made enough that I and my business guy are retired off of what we made.

On the other hand, we didn't make enough for everyone to retire if they wanted to. We had a github like offering and it's pretty clear that we should have put a bunch of money into that and open sourced BitKeeper.

All I can say is it is incredibly hard to make that choice when you have something that is paying the bills. I tried to get Sun to do it with the BSD based SunOS and they wouldn't. And even though I had that vision for Sun, when it was my livelihood, I couldn't see the path to doing so.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda, my biggest regret is not money, it is that Git is such an awful excuse for an SCM. It drives me nuts that the model is a tarball server. Even Linus has admitted to me that it's a crappy design. It does what he wants, but what he wants is not what the world should want.

It says a lot that we have a bk fast-export and we can incrementally run that and get idempotent results. As in go from BK to Git on an ongoing basis, have two people do it in parallel and they both get bit for bit identical results. If you try and go the other way, Git -> BK, if you do it in parallel you get different results because Git doesn't store enough information, so BK has to make up the missing bits.

Git has no file create|delete|rename history, it just guesses. That's my biggest regret, I wish Linus had copied that part.
It’s like XKCD, but without the lightness, humor, and general affection for humankind.
I agree with you.

But COVID is not unique: people have been dying unnecessary deaths in this country for a long time, and have accelerated in recent years. Go read up on deaths of despair. Look at the rise in healthcare costs, or how unhealthy our food is. It's no wonder that a society of unhealthy, isolated, and stressed people are succumbing to a disease that kills those with suppressed immune systems.
This really surprises me. I've used Firefox exclusively for years and have never not been able to complete an action because of it (unless it was my own fault - disabling required third party scripts, etc). Why can't you give examples - is it just memory, or something else?
First Case of H5N8 Avian Flu in Humans
In NYC you MUST register with USPS, UPS, and FedEx for delivery notifications. Delivery folks won't even bother ringing your bell and will often skip getting the signature even if it's required because they face constant pressure to deliver more in less time from the company. You need the electronic notification to know it's there and you need to get there immediately as thieves will follow delivery trucks/personnel around the neighborhood, stealing after each delivery.
Decentralization is not jet mentioned on the roadmap

https://roadmap.iota.org/
Nancy, the 40th and first woman POTUS. ;) By being celebrities in their own bubbles, archaically-simplistic, and close-minded, the Reagans couldn't grasp reality or have empathy for anyone else. HIV/AIDS, final destruction of mental healthcare systems, War on Drugs, CIA crack epidemic-Iran Contra, and many more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals
I actually know what I'm talking about. Some other people here actually know what they're talking about.

Considering there is a variety of opinions here on the subject (including many who would reject my impartial take and fervently take the opposing position to you and claim it was entirely her fault), I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that only those who agree with you know what they are talking about.

Anyway, in the absence of clarity on the event itself, I'm happy to agree to disagree with you on what has been established - which rather emphasises my original point about the title...
But causing people to lose money who already bought it and couldn't sell, presumably
It's alright to not read it but let the criticism to someone who knows if there is something wrong. Highschoolers can be extremely smart even before getting their diploma and formal education is not necessarily a good indicator of knowledge.
This is such a great read.

It’s fun to think about on a humankind scale how hard it is to destroy (as in obliterate entirely) the earth, while at the same time pretty trivial on a universal scale.

We’d have a pretty hard time blowing this entire rock up ourselves, but the universe sure wouldn’t.

Then again, maybe in 100ish years it becomes trivial for us too. I’d bet someone in the 1800s had a hard time imagining one bomb being able to wipe an entire city off the map.
Air travel might be allowed in that flights happen, but the second travelers land they are immediately sent into quarantine in some countries. Poland, for instance, requires 10-day quarantine for anyone flying into the country, even from other EU states. That quarantine is checked by requiring you to install a mandatory phone app and also by sending the police around to your address.

Also, because some EU countries are claiming that crossing their borders is only allowed for essential reasons proven by documentation, the airport in the country of origin will prevent many people from even being able to board the plane in the first place.
It wasn't just Twitch's platform: it was Twitch's own channel /twitchgaming. On YouTube, Blizzard just streamed it to their own channel, and they've surely cleared the rights (for now).
Chrome is going to hog less memory
Take a peek at https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I thought it was hilarious.

Opinions will vary, I suppose.
We’ve only been able to eradicate a single virus in the entire history of man. And it took 100 years.
> I've kind of given up on expecting an epiphany from this stuff that's applicable coding in a way that significantly changes my practice

Same. It makes me kind of sad that pure math is not more helpful here! I think its possible that coding standards today are really high quality, and that any improvements are going to require a revolutionary paradigm shift in how we think about programming at an extreme level of generality. That's where pure math comes in, its a good place to shop around for new ideas, since we are kind of at a local maximum now in terms of best practices, imo.

This is how I use math while coding: Instead of tinkering with numbers, just calculate the thing and get all the numbers right the first time. When trying to solve a problem, it's super helpful to have spent years proving theorems in pure math, it helped me compile programs in my head. When I am suuuuuuper stuck and need to figure out if what I am trying to do has already been done in math somewhere. When constructing an overall plan for a project, using abstract concepts in mathematics to properly anticipate the limits of what various implementations will be in order to pick the best one.
> Better training for teachers, higher barriers to entry, and much stronger incentives to be a teacher.

How do you achieve that? By privatizing schools?
Even if duckduckgo stored all searches and shared it with advertisers, it would still be better than giving all that data to Google.
A lot of your examples describe physically violent situations, or at least the threat of one. I also struggle with how to respond.
My parents raised me to never engage in physical violence at any cost. I was the scrawny nerd in school and was bullied a lot. My parents encouraged me to talk my way out of these types of things. As an adult, my instinct is to de-escalate verbally and if that fails to withdraw.
My wife on the other hand was raised in, how do I say this, a less nurturing environment. Her instinct is to respond to violence with violence. She doesn’t care if it’s a 6’5” club bouncer, she’s down to fight (she’s 5’2” and 110 lbs soaking wet) if she feels threatened physically.
We had a situation a while back where a drunken, crazed woman shoved my wife while she was holding our baby. It was completely unprovoked.
I got in the middle of them and tried to talk the aggressor down from the ledge. Of course, reasoning with a drunk person is basically useless. The drunken woman then shoved me.
My wife knew I wouldn’t restrain the person physically so she handed the baby to me and proceeded to beat this person to the ground. I’d never seen someone get beaten up this badly.
All I wanted to do was withdraw, but with this person’s emotional state there was no telling if they would follow us and try to engage physically again, potentially risking harm to our baby.
I still don’t know how to reconcile what happened. Like, instinctually, I still think withdrawing was the right choice. But, conversely, there were too many unknown variables in how that could’ve worked out.
The best I could do to rationalize what happened is that we all have different reactions to the fight or flight mechanism. I flee, my wife fights. Sometimes maybe there isn’t a “right” answer and it’s all on a spectrum of gray-ness.
In the moments after that situation, my wife berated me for failing to engage physically in a physical altercation that threatened our child. I felt an immense amount of shame. In the days that followed, she started to understand my position and reasoning and now says I shouldn’t feel shame.
Just wanted you to know that you’re not alone in struggling in how to deal with physically violent situations.
But capitalism has optimized those jobs away, and they're never coming back. So now what?
There is no null, only undef. It's not a value, there is no value that means undef. We implemented by stealing the high order bit from the reference counter that tcl uses for garbage collection. If it is set, the variable undefined, if it isn't, it's a normal variable.

I thought that was clever given that tcl's reference counter was signed and it only uses positive values. So we made it unsigned and got the bit for free.
>without really helping anyone else to get informed about the true state of the product.

I believe this is exactly what I am trying to do:
Helping anyone else to get informed about the true state of the product.
And I want it to be fixed and gladly report about it.
Additionally, you can compile Tcl to machine code with TclQuadCode for up to a 66x speed improvement
If this is the work of a nation state attacker, as sophisticated attacks often are these days, this is a very likely possibility.

We saw just recently the likely Russian backed attack on a wide net of US companies and even government agencies.

I doubt Macs are used often in US gov agencies but they are used in tech companies for example. That latest attack hit a lot of seemingly random US companies but if you want to destabilise and cause loss of trust it is a very effective strategy.

I happen to know someone who works high up in one of the affected companies where the malware had been sitting on the server for a few months passively gathering information before the attack. They struck in the middle of the night local time and erased all the backups before they begun running ransomware across the entire corporate network.

Thankfully the attack was caught within 10 minutes and they were able to recover fairly quickly once the dust settled, but they've got especially good security. Such an attack could have done far more damage to a company.

And if, like me, your first thought was "you're seriously saying they have good security but no off-site backups?" Yeah, I know. I'd bet they have regular off-site backups now though...
When I'm recommending it to friends I direct them to https://duck.com. Easy to remember.
>Fourth, there is no Bitcoin tracking security on public markets.

$MARA and $RIOT are publicly traded companies in the US that professionally mine for Bitcoin. Their stocks ride the same wave as that of Bitcoin.
It's incredible how dense people can be when their world view is so narrow.

The point isn't there should be a word for it, the point is Africa is not a damn country. Such obvious facetiousness but thick skulls can only fixate on "wHuT amErIcAnS Are thE US"

South Africa has as much in common Sudan as the US has with Haiti

There are plenty of countries on the continent than can (and have been) mapped by Google Maps.

Saying that Africa is somehow inhospitable to Google Maps is exactly like acting like North America is inhospitable to Google Maps because Haiti has bad roads.

Hell I'd take driving on the roads in that Haiti picture over some in places like "Chiraq", probably less chance of a bad outcome in a Google Maps car.
And I assume you mean all countries. Globally. Even those where the government is, ahh, less effective.

And the vaccination is for all residents, including everyone in slums, shanty-towns, or some other form of less-well recognized housing. And irrespective of immigration status or availability of government-sanctioned ID documents,...

Not sure how we plan on quarantining the slums, though... It is hard enough for the US homeless population.

I have a strong background in public health, and am in general sympathetic to your position. I'd like to see good healthcare universally available, we (the human race) certainly can afford it, and it is hard for me to understand how we think we cannot afford it when you consider the potential costs of say avian influenza crossing to humans in some Cairo slum.

My point is only, and as you said, to remind us that this is a global problem. If we don't solve it for society's dispossessed, we haven't solved it.
Afaik, highers numbers about rape are somewhat less then 20%. So the 50% or 90% is bonkers and does not represent general population.

However, rape (no matter what definition) is not evenly spread, some groups of women are more likely to become victims then others. Perpetrators pick their victims in a sort of rational way - some are more vulnerable.

So if you bias the group the right way, you can get large numbers.
I have been wondering about that. Hasn't all of the carbon now in fossil-fuels been in atmosphere at some point? Or has more of it been freed from earth's crust or arrived as meteors since formation of the fossil-fuels? So in the end wouldn't worst case scenario be of around time when they formed?
Solar cells Would not handle a rud. But Just fill the entire thing with solar cells.
If they want to produce methane and co2 on Mars they will need lots of power.
From my understanding Google Voice is still managed more like hacking SMS capabilities onto a "landline" number than being a true mobile operator.

I've also started experiencing issues with a certain bank no longer accepting it for SMS. Luckily they offered an RSA fob.

I get a minor anxiety spike every time I log into an infrequently used services with SMS based 2fa.
What do you hope to accomplish responding to a life-on-earth concern with an article exploring how to destroy the celestial body?
Beigeness, or How to Kill People with Bad Writing: The Scott Alexander Method
His public profiles say he's working on a degree right now. Not good enough for you though, probably.
the poster is returning the device because of moral issues with the manufacturer, the anecdote regarding battery life was meant to indicate product quality (although rhetorically structured as a complaint and therefore confusing)
Funny thing there is that the quality of Google Search results have absolutely dropped off a cliff for me in the last two years. I'm finding frequently that duckduckgo provides more relevant results with a better UI and faster loading times.
I’m running five-nines with my setup and I’m the only operator. Monitoring and automatic failover is not difficult but I think it requires a solid architecture from the ground up. When I first started in 2011 I was running DRBD in VMs and zebra to unicast my presence. Future upgrades were incremental steps to more resilience to where I am today with a fully redundant architecture in 2 data centers. In fact the only thing that made me miss my uptime target one year was failed generator maintenance by my provider.
Understood. DDG can be wonky at times. But just in case, you might want to give this interview/discussion a listen.

Moi? I start with DDG. If I feel I need a second opinion, I'll try Google.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/living-und...
Yepp, most western schools are more a social ladder creation apparatus than educational institutions. The scandinavian school system takes a very different approach. It's worth to have a look.
No. From the document you cited:

“ The Secure Enclave Processor runs an Apple-customized version of the L4 microkernel. It’s designed to operate efficiently at a lower clock speed that helps to protect it against clock and power attacks. The Secure Enclave Processor, starting with the A11 and S4, includes a memory-protected engine and encrypted memory with anti-replay capabilities, secure boot, a dedicated random number generator, and its own AES engine.”

iOS still has an XNU kernel. L4 is a different beast entirely and being used for a different role here.
Im pretty sure only paid janitors aka "anti evil operations" can shadowban. Mods with full permissions are still just mods.
Indeed, depreciation (inflation) and (hopefully) being able to control it is an important feature of fiat money: this is what motivates people to invest it as opposed to just keep it under the mattress, i.e. out of the system.

Economists may be wrong, of course (a lot of times it seems that their math models are pretty crude), but no theory seems to support that keeping your wealth locked away is good for the society. (I deliberately didn't say economy, because optimizing for economic growth alone can indeed hurt the society if we don't channel all the important aspects in somehow. Think global warming.)
I didn't get that; as far as I understood "fail" seemed to mean "fail to build an audience", "fail to build a community beyond a few early adopters", "fail to build an audience among the kind of people I want as audience for my tweets" or something like that. I wish it'd be a little more elaborate on what failure means and why mastodon will fail in that sense.
The article is a verbatim copy of https://semiengineering.com/breaking-the-2nm-barrier/ written by an executive editor for manufacturing at Semiconductor Engineering.
In my area, diocesan Catholic schools are very popular, but they don't really seem to solve the bullying issue.
IMF video clip with BIS director on CBDCs (at 24:00), https://meetings.imf.org/en/2020/Annual/Schedule/2020/10/19/...

> With cash, we don't know who is using the 100 dollar bill today ... a key difference with CBDC is that the central bank will have absolute control on the rules and regulations that determine the expression of that central bank liability .. also we will have the technology to enforce that ... if an advanced economy issues a CBDC, and someone in a 3rd country wants to use it, it will require the consent of the central bank of the residence of that person, therefore the degree of control will be far bigger.
Yes. Effectively socialize. The other issue is that humans are always going to be human, and seek will-to-power to advance their status to promote their genes and improve their lot in life. There's no undoing or wishing away human nature, only mild adjustments with nurture that we must keep trying to do with pragmatism.
I think torrent meta-crawlers might be more what you're looking for. Try the torrentz2 clones
Totally agree, which is why I think junior high is often the worst when it comes to bullying. In my school district elementary schools (up to 6th grade) had about 100 kids per class, and they all fed into one massive junior high that had about 1500 kids total in 7th and 8th grades. Plus, that is the time when kids are going through puberty (often at vastly different rates and times), trying to figure out their own bodies and hormones.

Your description of "The bullies feel vulnerable and are looking to prove themselves, and the bullied are vulnerable, having not yet had any chance to form social support groups." was spot on in my experience.

Frankly, I don't understand the purpose of junior high at all, seems like it would make much more sense to just have elementary schools go up to, say, 8th grade, then go to a high school (lots of private schools already do this).
The real number is debatable because of defective tallying practices where coronavirus is given as cause of death even if there was no specific reason for doing so; hospitals are incentivized to do so because it results in funding.

But aside from that, let's not be so naive, eh? The media runs on sensationalism. The pandemic has been grossly mismanaged and there is absolutely no reason for the draconian lock down we're under. There hasn't been for 10 months. It was justifiable in the beginning because we didn't know what we were dealing with, but we have a much better grasp now and we know who is at risk to permit a much more fine-grained approach. Furthermore, much of the media fear mongering is driven by an ignorance of immunology and epidemiology. We have to remind ourselves that what we often "know" about the world beyond our own local lives is what we glean from the media filter. We should always approach that kind of knowledge with a bit of humility and caution. Journalists are not, shall we say, the creme-de-la-creme.

There's also the political angle. As Rahm Emanuel once said, you shouldn't let a crisis go to waste. There is a great deal to be made during a pandemic like this, monetarily, socially, politically, and otherwise, the so-called Great Reset[0] functioning as perhaps the paradigmatic example, whatever you happen to know or think of it.

Put yourself in the shoes of an ambitious but morally unscrupulous politician or billionaire. Would you so easily end the pandemic given the opportunities it presents, given how rare of an opportunity it poses for doing things you could not do under the usual circumstances? Even if you weren't quite sure what to do with it, you would at least have the instinct to know that the rarity of the situation merits careful consideration, though in this case, you would have had plenty of time to consider them (and frankly, think tanks are in the business of anticipating things; there are no doubt papers that describe how, if a certain set of circumstances were to emerge, certain political goals could be realized).

So yeah, announcing variants of COVID is fine per se, as long as such things are contextualized. The media is often an instrument of decontextualization which leads to confusion and poor judgement (just think about how they report scientific articles, not as one exchange in the cacophony of scientific publications, but as some Definitive Judgement of The Science!). At this point, I have no problem acknowledging the merit in the OP's quip, namely, not that we be cynical, but that it's high time we started employing some common sense instead of just drinking the media Koolaid.

[0] https://www.weforum.org/great-reset/
It's not an all-or-nothing thing. For me, I watch YouTube in a dedicated Firefox Container (and everything else in either temporary containers or dedicated), so not much follows me around.

Figure out what you want, and then put together pieces that get you there.