skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you want to protect against? If it's ISPs injecting ads into your webpages, or blackhats on the same coffee shop Wifi stealing your credit card data, then HTTPS is enough.

The one thing that a VPN can really help with is hiding your website history (as in: which domains you visit) from your ISP. However, the VPN provider then gets this full insight, so it comes down to whether you trust any particular VPN provider more with your data than your ISP.

Since HTTPS has gained wide adoption, 90% of what VPNs are advertising is bullshit. All these scare ads on YouTube along the lines of "your internet browsing is unsafe unless you go through NordVPN/SurfShark/whatever" are there because they need the subscription fees from casual browsers to offset the bandwidth costs from those customers that actually need a consumer VPN to stream Netflix from $FOREIGN_COUNTRY or do illegal filesharing.
Turning a Barbie Doll into an Astronaut
Having been through grad school I can assure you it’s tough no matter your gender. In fact, women stand a higher chance of getting more financial assistance for their studies because of the structural support for women that continues at the graduate level. Also, in my experience, men tended to have much more conflicts with their advisors and left the graduate program in larger numbers than women (perhaps even proportionally, men walked out more). Ironically, my women colleagues in grad school complained much more about interpersonal conflict with their female professors and research group members than the men. On the personal front, it seems to me that it’s neither here nor there: it’s so subjective that it’s practically impossible to see any pattern whatsoever.
Russia registers first case of human infection from new H5N8 bird flu
Not everyone at JPL knows about every single space mission anyone has ever launched. Not everyone at Apple has the OSX syscall table memorized. Not everyone at Exxon knows about every single oil field.
"First, there is the problem of who is this authoritative voice that tells people "X works, Y does not""

Isn't that a problem with your solution?

"So at the end, either fraud is legal, or illegal"

(In my scenario common doctors tell people of the treatments.)

Also, people offering alternative treatment are often very convinced that they are offering indeed the superior solution and the others are commiting fraud.
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So let's just allow people to lie and promote violence or even committing crimes 'cuz there's an ammendment that protects that.

BTW does anyone in Amerikka even understand what the heck "ammending" even means...?

If it's not working, change it. Not that I expect people who think Texas' electricity bills aren't fucked up to understand that "maaaaybe you're not actually right"...

But yeah. To be plain, maybe you're wrong. Probably. Most likely.
What happens if you call a Tcl function with an undef argument? Is this running Tcl code on a slightly different runtime, or do they interop in some other way?
The three comments preceding mine are brilliant at cutting through the pump and dump hype around Coinbase.
> By that definition literally all investments are ponzis. You buy something hoping that someone else will be willing to buy it from you at a higher price. Oops the cryptocurrency bubble popped. Oops the company went bankrupt and your stocks are worthless.

Stocks aren't ponzis. Companies pay out dividends all the time and sometimes (very rare nowadays) they pay for stock buybacks out of their own pockets from the profit they have accumulated. There is no need for a greater fool because the investment itself is paying out to investors.

>Realize that there is always a bubble and take advantage of the bubble while it lasts.

That's how you get bubbles. People see a chart with unsustainable 300%+ gains and think, if I were to act rationally and sell now, I would lose out on future irrational gains when the bubble goes up to 600%.

If you thought. Hey, I see a bubble with X gains, if I take Y < X gains then I will get very safe money. Say 10% gains on 300% actual gains on Bitcoin. It would be very safe money and it would be rational and you weakened the bubble, but you also just lost out on big gains, so you stop doing the rational thing.
U.N. To Probe Whether Iconic Secretary-General Was Assassinated (2016)
Best-Performing Cities 2021: Foundations for Growth and Recovery
Nice, thank you! I actually decided to get one of these after reading some of the other comments in this thread -- it's close to the Kindle Oasis in price, but the notetaking features, ability to sideload apps, and support for file types other than proprietary amazon, mobi, and PDF convinced me. I really wanted to get a Kobo a while back, but all of their devices seem slightly worse in build quality than the equivalent Kindle, and for a device I'm going to hold in my hand for hours a day that is important to me.
I think that assertion is disproven by thinking about what junkyards are full of: cars. It doesn't matter that they can't drive anymore, or even that they may be totally missing significant parts. People still generally think of them as cars.
I wasn't laughing before but I'm laughing now, because you skipped the part where you pull something from the article and dispute the claim, instead giving supreme weight to the title of the article. Where have you been for the last two decades to think that the title of the article is relevant, even in Finland people know the titles of the article have little to do with the content, which can have more depth or none at all. And then, not even noticing that, you then think I'm supposed to give the counterarguments.

hard pass.

let me know when you disagree with a part of the actual article, or actual study, that has nothing to do with how the title doesn't fit with your life experience. then I, or maybe someone else, will be willing to entertain the discussion about your valid experience with bullying.

man, that was harsh, I don't even know if I'm invested enough in this conversation to deal with this.
They were warned about basically everything that happened this time around in.. 2011. Ten years. There was plenty of time for the market to fix this, and nothing was changed.
Fans of the Xeelee Sequence are probably thinking, Meh, just go find a Starbreaker, and take out all of the system!
They also have an entire corpus of regulation surrounding them and coordination overhead that allows sovereign states to compare apples to apples, and ensure that these respective sovereign State's financial systems are not utilized to facilitate patterns of behavior those respective State's citizens define as criminal.

Oh wait.. You don't want that functionality, and you're still using up the energy footprint in the event you are correct. One of these delivers significantly less versatility than the other for the same energy investment.
It sounds like you're frustrated, and it sucks being in that spot. I'm not going to spend my day verifying your bug.

You've got an issue with bootability, with screenshots, and with audio all in the same system. Send it back. Get a replacement Mac, or get a PC for all anyone cares.

Whatever you decide to do, your experience so far has been anamolous compared with lots and lots of other folks.
Progressive used to mean you were concerned with the freedom and liberty of individuals and with transparency in government. That seems closest to "Libertarian" in American terms, and Switzerland, as a neutral country along with other European style politics, seems to fit that bill
I have a master reboot script that I can access from Google Console (iOS app). I open it, run the script, and things are ok.
Is US, and Texas in particular a free market?

I was always saying that US is an extensively regulated, yet chaotic market.

There is no free capitalism in America.

US financial regulations are by far most Byzantine in the word, precluding the whole notion of US as a nation of free capitalism.

US construction industry is a caricature of regulatory capture.
For example, even door knobs are legally regulated by some states with zero rationality given.

US laws governing infrastructure, and things like utility companies, and procurement of infrastructure engineering services are also very exemplary of regulatory capture becoming bordering on absurdity.
Sadly the full text is not freely available.
ScienceMag demands $15.

Is Sci-Hub down? Some of the presumably mirrors redirect to ScienceMag instead.
That hasn't been my experience. Everyone rings the bell except the USPS, who has a key to let themselves in. Many years ago, something being shipped by Lasership means you'd never get it, but they seem to have improved on that front.

Anecdotal but I don't think packages get stolen in my neighborhood. I occasionally read Nextdoor and it never comes up. And my neighbors complain about everything.
Leningrad NPP close to Saint Petersburg is inside same Russia. same with Kursk. Russia can do whatever they want inside their country. biggest issue I see here is that NPP is built close to other countries' border, very close to capital of other country despite all neighbor's objections.

that is main issue.
I think most of their models haven't been updated since 2018-2019. That might not be a huge deal for an ereader that I'd keep offline all the time anyway, but I would definitely be a bit sad if I paid $300 for the top-tier big-screen ereader with 32GB of memory only to have a better model come out in a couple of months, or to have them stop supporting that model soon after.
Does anyone else find this research kind of creepy? It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ-vBhGk9F4
> I call bullshit. Teenagers aren't complete in their development yet. That's why you can, and should, train and teach them.

You are absolutely right.

- If you were an anti-bullying organization, what methodologies exactly would you device for parents and educators to intervene so as to train and teach teenagers to the point that bullying is minimized?

- What made the past and current anti-bullying organizations fail in their efforts?

- Do we adults understand what works and what doesn't in preventing bullying? What about bullying among adults?
AP was clearly making the link between apples "on the fly" transition and software rewrites by newcomers to a system that will often make the same mistakes that the old system had already figured out solutions to.

Nobody claimed apple doesn't understand computers, thats your mischaracterization of the AP.
Payload is 'help I'm being held captive in a mac manufacturing plant against my will'
Lately I’m starting to miss the utility of MP3’s because reasons. So haven’t tried it yet, but it seems pretty trivial to pirate from Spotify, just a bit of a time suck to play an album/playlist, chop up the tracks, look up the metadata. There are tools to make all of this easier, virtual audio patch cables, audacity, metadata downloaders. No?
>Yes, the analogy between school and prison is spot on.

Well, only in the sense that the analogy between prison and society is "spot on".

>In everyday life, if an environment/person bothers you, you can simply CHOOSE to deal with it if it's worth it or avoid it if it's not

There are myriads of ways you can't just "chose" (from not wanting to make a fuss, from them being powerful and that would turn against you, from you needing a job, and tons of other things besides).
Apple wrote one: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...
Oh I dunno, seems like it’s an honest platform versus the euphemism and platitudes industrialists use.
Human destruction of nature is 'senseless and suicidal', warns UN chief
Wait, don't (immediately) send that email
I get it, but maybe politicians in Germany are a little less short sighted than those in the US (where I am).
Nano had one of the fairest and most well thought-through early distribution systems of any coin.
I signed up for Pipe, it's really easy, but it's unclear if it's the "best deal" without having to apply to 10 other places.
Calling works fine for me. And you can't search any E2E encrypted rooms on any platform. But at least Matrix can store history, that you can then search on your client. Or if you really want search, you can just not encrypt your room, which isn't an option at all with Signal.

But I do agree that Signal is easier, a better WhatsApp replacement for most people, and a wonderful service in general. The more people use it, the better.
Seems to me over the last couple decades most laptops have been designed to last only two years.
Try looking up how Nano was distributed in it's early days. It's a very different story - miles more egalitarian - than BTC or ETH, or the vast, vast majority of other assets.
What indicates these residents are part of the monolithic "they" that you lay out?
Indeed! I just don’t know anyone who is this hyped all the time.
Notarizing is not strict by any definition of the term, unless you consider "scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues" to be strict?

It's an automated system.

Also, if you tell me your app is only installable via Home-brew, I'm not installing it. Comparing Homebrew to Apt, is like comparing a playdough and crayon sandwich, with an actual sandwich.

Sure, they both look kind of similar at a distance, and technically you can eat both of them, but one is really not well thought out, and if you say you don't like how it tastes, the child who made it will get upset with you.
> Actually how do miners make money once there are no more coins to mine?

With BTC (and I would assume most other cryptocurrencies), by transaction fees.
Here’s another great quote along the same lines:

“No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.”

GH Hardy 1941
I love that in this thread we have one fanboi defending apple about this by saying that bugs happen and that they're often found in the least tested software parts (fucking reinstall? Not tested?)

And then we also have someone complaining they just did this on a whim and that they did it because they're basically gods and how dare you question them.
this is so frigging cool! thanks for sharing! what a story!

it's stunning to me that we're only just now seeing professional vehicles get decent generators/inverters. still waiting for vans to get anything. Ford trucks just got a Pro Power generator rated for either 2.4 or 7.2kW[1] on the hybrid.

given the high voltage battery packs in hybrids, building an inverter should be nearly trivial: a couple SiC mosfets & some passives & away one goes. it's pretty embarrassing how little innovation & exploration of this (voltage) potential there's been.

especially for all the #vanlife / rv folk, this would make such a night & day difference.

[1] https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/what-is-ford-pr...
HTTPS anywhere by now, how ISP doing hijack, I didn’t see anything that can stop privacy leak except source ip.
Twitter India blocked many Pakistani and indian accounts because they were anti Modi and talked about Farmers protests and Blockage in IOK.
New Indian Strains of Covid-19 Could Be More Infectious
This is what happens when it's easier to pick on people than to pay higher corporate tax such that there is a robust social safety net for all. It's much harder to bring real social justice than to make a show of picking on one group versus another. Social justice costs money whole picking on people costs almost nothing.
A Forth VM’s Performance on Apple Silicon
Both can be true. ie. wanting to build something cool and potentially good for society while also enjoying the fruits.
There's also https://ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmdpah7j4mLswRLsv55qX4R9RzK3RtCWKfYNt4A...
Heck I'd argue you'll get more science from trying to build something that survives on Venus than from Venus itself.

Faint recollection, but I think at some point there were SiC semiconductors mentioned to try and survive longer.
Beautiful design. Want to read inside.
You are looking for Monero.
As a Python dev this code is extremely difficult to follow. If I take off my Python glasses it kinda makes sense reading the examples.

Take a look at ‘toggle_1()’ function, which is called by a lambda, and takes no arguments. On top of that, it refers to ‘toggle_state()’ which also doesn’t take any arguments. That function calls ‘set_state()’ and is fed a lambda which toggles a Boolean input and somehow all that switches the value of ‘input_1‘.

That boggles my Python mind.

Wouldn’t everything be a lot less magical if it was oop? Then you’d go ‘input_1.toggle_state’ and it is pretty clear to everyone which variable is being toggled.

I know this library is mirroring another framework in another language, but this is the first time I’ve read a piece of code and thought “maybe oop is the better option”.

My point is not to try and argue that this is a poor framework. I have no right to such an opinion and I get that this code generates a JavaScript/html application which will eventually get executed and therefore everything happens one extra step detached from the Python code.
Curb your enthusiasm. German politicians are currently busy reopening schools and hairdressers as the third wave is starting to hit. The vaccine rollout is going frustratingly slow as well, with vaccination rates at 3-4% first dose and 2% second dose, because our politicians were more concerned with saving a few euros on the price per dose than on ramping up production capacity quickly.
The online world is controlled almost entirely by buggy algorithms that have been given a lot of impactful decision making power. This sort of thing happens so often. Usually, it’s a permaban of an individual user for undisclosed reasons and without the possibility of reaching support
I think they need to do something like
auto tmp = _d.release; prior to the rest of the code. then the lifetime is extended to the current scope and after the event thing is done.
Coinbase moved 400+ BTC in 15 minutes this morning at 7 am ish central time.

I know because I had to move my sell orders higher.

Y’all are crazy. This is not accurate.
Insulation helps keep heat out just as much as it keeps it in.

Summer design elements use air flows that can be blocked off for winter, or things like awnings that don't block the lower winter sun.

So it's more that many houses aren't particularly well insulated or sealed in the US, which costs energy in summer too. Plenty of new houses are built with a tight envelope and require active ventilation for air exchange. Most older houses are not like that.
Author doesn't speak of lasers. Author says to use mirrors. The sun takes up about 1/2 degree width as seen from Earth. This limits the focus you can get using mirrors. (see 2nd law of thermodynamics) You could put solar panels on every surface of a Dyson swarm, convert to laser light, and aim it all at Earth, but that is not what author proposes.
Again, a very Apple thing to do. ;-) You just need another device from their ecosystem.
> Google pays Apple something like $9 billion a year to be the default search engine.

Except in the EU, I guess.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/google-to-let-eu-users-choos...
Not sure why are you downvoted. It's hard to find a similarly popular band sharing more stuff online for free these days than Metallica. Besides, the entire Napster thing was about a song "I Disappear" being available through Napster BEFORE it was even finished and sent to CD manufacturing, and, don't forget, it all happened in 2000. It has not been on their radar for about 20 years now. Hating based on skimming headlines of inaccurate articles is surely easier than trying to understand the band's motives.
Maybe "practical" is more appropriate than "modern" :)

Among other things, the book discusses topics such rate limiting, testing, monitoring, and observability. Those are important topics that I found to be mostly mentioned in passing in traditional textbooks.

The intent is to give the reader an idea of the breadth of the field so that they can go read and learn more about specific topics they find interesting.
Yes, it can be done at various levels of subtlety as well as at group levels. Why else would we have such words describing adult behavior as "workplace bullying", "online harassment", "domestic violence", "culture wars", "race hustling", etc.?
Lol, so Apple would notify Amazon of some kind of advanced malware, and Amazon’s first step would be to notify the malware authors?
What “cruft” exactly that Apple removed do you think would have prevented this bug? Clearly it couldn’t have been too big a deal as this bug was quickly fixed.

Do you genuinely think “bugs might happen” is a legitimate reason for a computer manufacturer to leave on the table the absolutely massive perf and perf per watt gains Apple has demonstrated with the M1?
On the other hand, downloading 3 gb to wipe doesn't really sound that bad concidering the way to do that used to be to download the entire OS and format the disk
I remember being relentlessly bullied during a specific period as a kid. Only when I decided to decisively fight back did it end and it ended immediately. It’s a lesson I won’t be forgetting.
> That they haven't is one reason I'm bullish on cryptocurrency, and specifically Ethereum and Stellar

I'm curious why you are bullish on those 2 specifically?
I'm actually a little bit shocked that people are this naive. You should try to ship virtually everything to either an Amazon locker or a workplace or somewhere with a concierge. This theft of packages is absolutely rampant throughout every major metropolitan in the U.S. If your package is going to be dropped off casually somewhere, it had better have inexpensive contents.
‘Kill Your Darlings’ – Know When You Need to Pull the Proverbial Plug
A long long long time after the petrochemical industry and the MIC do.
At the same time it reminds me of tacit programming/point-free style[1] in general and dataflow[2] programming.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming
Latency Observations of DigitalOcean Spaces vs. AWS S3
Is it? I've been unsuccessful so far with the obvious exception of ripping the output stream and reencoding that. If you find a way to rip music from spoitfy, i'd be interested
> Virtually every stable system humanity has ever devised is stable precisely because that stability is adversarial.

Where's your argument here?

> Your argument against people becoming hostage negotiators relies, as far as I can tell, on this being an extreme state for humans, and therefore totally unsustainable, but like... why?

No, my argument against people becoming hostage negotiators is that it sounds very stressful, unpleasant, and dangerous. I simply don't want to do it. Kudos to professional hostage negotiators, to be sure, but it's not a job most people want. At least professional negotiators get paid, I assume.

> It's like arguing that bridges can't stand up because they are subject to extreme forces from all sides.

Why are you comparing people to inanimate objects? I'd rather not be walked on, thank you.

> Sustained human existence is work, your proposed sanity preserving option is just nihilism, and it is unsustainable

This is a weird attitude. Humans have existed for thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of years. All without online social networks. We could ditch them all and be fine. Arguably better than now.