skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for engaging. You raise a number of interesting points worth exploring, but the end of of the day, I think it all boils down to two of them.

3a. Do drone strikes exacerbate or mitigate the problem violent actors and actions in the long run.

5. if decision makers are capable of assessing 3a and acting in accordance with public interest.

Regarding 3a, I can see the obvious logic of how drone strikes(or any bombing/killing) could militarize more people and think it is plausible. It is worth considering that there are other factors which can militarize people as well, such systemic injustice, domestic violence, poverty, and cults of personality. These can continue independent of strikes and still increase the number of militarized people in it's absence. It is also worth noting that the capacity for harm for those already militarized increases with organization, which strikes purportedly disrupt.

It would absolutely be worth the cost to collect solid data on the drivers of militarization. I would love to see it and admit that I have not looked deeply into the subject. Most discussions on the subject I have seen take 3a or its opposite as a foundational assumption.

Regarding 5, I wholeheartedly agree that in reality there are additional motivations at play. However, I am generally skeptical of traditional military-industrial complex profiteering motive and think it is over complex. I do not think that defense companies lobbying for war and has a significant impact on it, although companies provide the means and certainly profit off of it. Similarly, I dont think military decision makers seek war for personal gain. There are a sufficient number of other motivations political decision makers to engage in warfare without such elaborate and clandestine explanations. I suspect personal political benefit, national economic benefit, and propagating social ideals at the global level are at the top of this list. You are right in that minimizing the long term loss at the global scale is not the main objective.
Author's name looks Romanian. Indeed "vuiet" is Romanian noun for roar!
> Without guns, all other methods I know of are painful and non-instant:

Suffocation with inert gas (e.g. N_2) using mask with exhalation valve is safe, painless and leads to very fast loss of consciousness. Distress associated with suffocation is not caused by missing oxygen, but by excess CO_2, so it does not happen if a person can exhale freely. It sometimes happen in industrial accidents, people lose consciousness without noticing anything.
I'm surprised no one has commented. Personally I think this is very troubling. Have you ever heard of "parasocial relationships"?
MIX/MMIX are close to how CPUs work physically. scheme is close to how computation works theoretically.

The pedagogical approach that appeals to individuals tends to align with how they are most comfortable thinking about it.
> anyone knows how to manufacture secure components

I know how to manufacture components that cannot have their firmware updated by malicious code. Put a hardware switch on the "write enable" line for the ROMs. Like people used to do.

Then malware won't survive the "reboot" switch.

The next step is to add a hardware timer that does a hard reboot once a day (or more often for critical stuff).

I don't know why security professionals with clout don't demand this. I would.
I've started a brain dump prizes at night on a remarkable tablet. It lets me let go of things until three next day.
Pride is fine, as long as you aren't white.
I hate to be one of those guys ("well actually, your question is wrong, because ...") but I spent a lot of time trying to find "C++ pushups" before deciding that I may as well work on interesting projects and try to consciously improve my C++ while doing them.

I mean, sure, you can do Project Euler (or many other things), but you can also work on cool projects. I'm writing a superoptimizer (and I have C++ coding stuff at work). For both, I make a conscious effort to try to figure out better ways of doing that stuff (rather than just banging out ancient idiomatic C++ that isn't modern or good) - it's easy to slip into "doing things a dumb but quick way" that doesn't teach you much about the language or coding.

I have a similar attitude to push-ups, honestly. I'd rather bench press once a week and do a sport than be constantly banging out push-ups. In both things, you quickly get to the point where you're hitting diminishing returns from the "push-up" type of operation, unless your goal is "to be the best at exercising".

If we're comparing someone who couldn't complete 10 pushups or do a basic Project Euler problem with someone who can, I'd say "sure, that first person needs pushups (or programming equivalent)". I'm not sure once you're well beyond that point whether it makes sense to do that many more "pushups", unless you are going to a push-up competition in a month's time.
I've had better health care on private plans and promises of pensions in 30 years are worth less than startup stock options. Which is really saying something when I consider stock options from startups to be worthless.
Little typography nitpicking: the content inside the French quotes is supposed to be separated from the quote symbols by a (non-breaking) space, « like this ».
My undergrad intro class used this. At the time I found it patronizing and silly and artificially limiting, having coded before (the design recipe, the different "levels" of scheme).

But I saw some of the wisdom in the approach when I later tutored the class. People would try to rush into coding problems without doing real analysis of what the cases would be, and had a foggy notion of different parts of program having a "contract". HTDP and the design recipe makes that muscle memory for beginners which is pretty nifty.
Let me give some examples from Belgium, to show what sort of difficult scenarios emerge once countries start moving along this slippery slope.

As the parent comment says, the law applies to children, and has even applied to a nine year old.[0] I don't think anyone believes that a child that young can meaningfully consent to a decision as significant as ending their own life, so obviously in practice the decision will be made by the parents, who will be influenced by the difficulty of potentially having to support a disabled child, financially and emotionally.

Then there are questions of the judgement of medical professionals. A research paper found that "Almost nine out of ten [medical professionals] (89.1%) agreed that in the event of a serious (non‐lethal) neonatal condition, administering drugs with the explicit intention to end neonatal life was acceptable."[1] This suggests that doctors would approve the killing of newborns even without a terminal illness.

Beyond the issue of the law applying to children, there are several controversial cases involving adults without terminal illnesses. For example, a man serving a life sentence was allowed to end his life due to his feeling of "anguish"[2], despite the country not allowing the death penalty for criminals.

Another adult was given euthanasia due to their opinion about themselves after a sex change operation[3] (which was presumably also approved by medical professionals).

Finally, a man requested euthanasia (which has been initially accepted) as a result of his dissatisfaction with his sexuality.[4]

[0] https://allthatsinteresting.com/euthanasia-in-belgium

[1] https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aogs.1...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29209459

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/10...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36489090
Joint All-Domain Command and Control
Like xoa says below, I'm probably going opnsense. There are other options (untangled, straight OpenBSD, VyOS), but for the switch I'd make I think it would be the easiest.
Cofounders of bankrupt poop-testing startup uBiome have been charged with fraud
1. Subjective standards should be decided based upon the current fashionable politics.

2. The age of majority in the US is 18, she was 17. If you aren't going to try a 17 year old robber as an adult then why would you try a minor in the court of public opinion as an adult. Oh yeah and basic math doesn't matter if it harms your narrative.

3. Im glad we agree.

4. The principle of forgiveness which you jump over in 5. So yeah kids willful ignorance is cool now.

5. The 'entire' staff did nothing in this case. A minority of the staff voiced a concern. The number mentioned in the article was 20. So its ok to make exaggerations to fit your narrative kids and those that scream the loudest are right. As for experience, she has experience in journalism and Anna Wintour who has plenty experience in fashion thought she was a great fit. So remember kids experience and expertise don't matter only political correctiness.

6. Remember kids only your first offense matters. Apologies nor actions demonstrating maturity, growth, or tolerance don't. Once a sinner always an unclean sinner.
> Humans can barely colonize Antartica.

I feel like there'd be a lot more colonization of Antarctica if international law didn't effectively prohibit it.
Out of interest, how did they manage to keep the determination to apply, after the 5th or 6th setback? When I was fresh out of university, I had a run of jobs where my skills where over-estimated by small local development firms who'd hadn't hired many/any grads before. After 5 setbacks in a row, I couldn't face applying to tech roles. The only way I could bring myself to carry on towards my career dream at that low point, was self-teaching - working on my own projects and focusing in on the techs I was best at. Then after a bit, doing basic Web design projects for small businesses and gradually working up from there - but still to this day (~6 years on from that run) only projects where I'm in complete control of the tech stack and coding practices. It took a tonne of effort (and some counselling) to get my self-confidence back
Why is this posted again today?
Also of the flag-raising army computer in 'The Dark Forest' by 'Liu Cixin'.
Thanks! I appreciate the support.
please tell us. I'm listening
So if they had an algorithm that would ask for a unique fingerprint (say by sampling random parts of the track), then they would have been in the clear? Or, more accurately, would the record labels have been more likely to strike a deal if that was the case?
You have a very negative way of looking at things. Spartacus was born a few miles from you and he was just an ordinary guy. Would he have needed to be a rebel had he been born today, in a time when the system gives each individual the tools they need to make the world a better place? I say why not use them.
Is that relevant?

Neither of those systems have an energy usage that is directly proportional to transaction count, _especially_ Bitcoin.
I do the same with my Boox Note 2, sometimes followed by reading a book on it (with the blue coloured backlight off and only the warm orange one on, it doesn’t annoy my partner with the lights off)
Fug. This kind of thing is why I keep waffling on making FF my primary browser.
There are 2^160 possible ethereum addresses so duplication is effectively impossible.

Like any kind of asymmetric cryptography if you loose your private key that's game over.
Related discussions previously on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25120476

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24186289

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16465781
Those are both valid in bash. If you were using posix sh it would error.
Perfect timing given the xkcd from yesterday:

https://xkcd.com/2438/
Making the source publicly available is one thing and licensing it is another. It would help to keep the two aspects separate.
First article on Google News.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/02/01/tai...

“ Taiwan's economy grew 2.98% in 2020 compared to a year ago, advance estimates by the island's statistics office showed on Friday — the growth outpaced China's 2.3% expansion”
cgi-bin for the win
And this news article is enough to put her in stressful years-long proceedings to revoke her green card and citizenship, if the government wants to.
Well then I'm glad to hear that I won't have much competition from fellow members of the "select few" category when booking a spot on a colony ship :)
The hologram film is laminated onto the glass for stability. The film itself is photosensitive and records the peaks and valleys of the interference pattern of the laser light.
Of the tear-jerker episodes, I really like "The Late Phillip J Fry". Most people tend to take it into account in the series continuity.
Yes, people make mistakes. That doesn’t mean you need a firewall.

In order for someone to accidentally delete a production database like in the linked article, many people have to make mistakes.

> The firewall is still helpful in case they hire a new person who opens a port and forgets to close it one day

Let’s talk about this scenario a bit.

What does it mean for someone to “open a port”? Really, what it means is that someone is running a program on the machine which listens to a port. But, why should anybody be running services on production machines manually, except in an emergency?

Normally, any changes you make to production machines go through some kind of configuration management system. You can’t just SSH into one of the prod servers. It doesn’t matter if you are an intern or if you’re the CTO. You don’t have the credentials. Nobody does.

Instead, if you want to run a service on a production machine, you have to make that change in source control, send the change to somebody else for review and approval, and once it is approved, submit it. Your configuration management system then pushes this change out to production systems according to the script.

Of course, not everyone works this way. Not everyone can work that way. But many companies do have tight controls over the production environment and the decision to forego a firewall isn’t unreasonable.
I generally agree with the sentiment, but it's not strictly right.

For example you have your main machines set up securely, and requests go through the firewall. Of course a compromised firewall doesn't make it easier to compromise the main machines. But because your users are going through the firewall, _they_ might now become vulnerable to some classes of redirection attacks.

Even in a scenario where you're using the firewall as a passthrough, you're still looking at a scenario where (For example) your DNS entries are now pointing to a machine you have less control after. It might not mean that now HTTPS doesn't work anymore, but that (combined with some other mistake) might be enough.

One potential class of vulnerability might be related to recent git client issues: the software your client is using might have an issue that would be a security issue when connecting to an untrusted source. You wouldn't try to get a keylogger on your clients' machines, and the software is always pointing at your own domain etc etc. But the firewall vulnerabilities have opened up that angle of attack!

It's definitely a balancing act, and dependent on how much you trust each layer of your stack.
How about "copyfree"?

https://copyfree.org

https://copyfree.org/standard

(I also consider anything that fits the Open Source Definition to be "open source" and differentiate things actually approved by the OSI as "OSI certified", which should in principle be a subset of "open source".)
That's an end user experience on a platform. A library is something I can import into my own code to implement auth, without having to adopt a given stack. I wrote one, it's not simple (https://www.npmjs.com/package/graphql-autharoo)

Looking at the SQL and metadata, does not look all that simple for such a simple case. The complex part is behind all that, written by Hasura.

Imaging what that would look like with Orgs, Groups, and User permissions all existing on a single object, or even resource type, and how a single email (user) could have permissions at all of these levels on any object. Then consider that GraphQL allows nested query objects, so am I listing the objects as a top-level query, or is the list from a 1 to many relation nested under another query, where the query parsing system now batches these subqueries and presents them to the resolver in a big log. You have to understand the context of the incoming queries in each resolver, and then make auth decisions about it.

Think about using Hasure vs writing the auth systems in Hasura. Or how complex things get when you want to implement auth for multi-tenant SaaS.
I guess they will burn it on the stand a few times before they send it up once and then jettison it into the ocean.

Here's hoping it all gets cancelled first, instead. What an appalling waste. Meanwhile, an actually practical fusion torch drive ("FRC") is scratching for funds, and sort of hopes to fly in maybe 2035.
It doesn't, but that also not what's valuable here.

Take the recent grumpy cat NFT as an example, what's being sold is just an the original grumpy cat image except the NFT creator is verified to be the cat's owner.

It doesn't give the purchaser any rights but it still sold for a decent amount. What's valuable is that it was created by the owner, not any rights or control.
Could you expand on the distinction between "efficient" and "performant"? Sounds interesting.
simple, moderation. If there are fakes, they can be caught because of new user accounts and community down voting. Users will be banned that are not honest. As long as the moderator is not gaming the system, up voting and down voting and finding fakes due to karma should work
Very interesting story, thanks for sharing. Perhaps in a few decades we won't be able to convince ourselves that our digital agents aren't real people either.
Have you seen $100 million dollars? It can fit in the average closet. How macro are we talking? Any small town with a few banks could hold billions in physical cash. It’s not a problem.
Potential model for a real physical warp drive
With international travel becoming so accessible I'm kind of surprised that suicide tourism (akin to medical tourism) isn't more of a thing. I wonder if there's a tacit understanding that opening that door would have diplomatic consequences.
That doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
Original post https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=200812&curpost...

He also talks about x86 ring model, microkernel on child post.
Not sarcasm, though in retrospect I can certainly see how my choice of sentence structure would indicate that. Seems like there's a lot of value here.
FYI there seems to be no way to sign up.
WTF is an NFT? Here's a rundown of the basics
It's called separate processes or unshare after new thread.
I think the sentiment is good. Who wants to waste time on “exercises” for programming? It’s much more fun to make stuff. The field is so vast and deep that you can pursue anything that interests you and learn a lot.
Okay, so let's look at fib(5).

It starts two tasks, fib(4) and fib(3). It waits for them to complete. There are now 3 tasks, but 2 are running.

fib(4) starts two tasks, fib(3) (second edition) and fib(2). It waits for them to complete. There are now 5 tasks (fib(5), fib(4), fib(3), fib(3), and fib(2)), and 3 are running (fib(3), fib(3), and fib(2)).

fib(3) (the first one) starts two tasks, fib(2) and fib(1). It waits for them to complete. 7 tasks, 4 are running.

fib(3) (the other one) starts fib(2) and fib(1). It waits for them to complete. 9 tasks, 5 are running.

We keep going like this. Notice how many tasks are not running at any given time because they depend upon other tasks to complete. This is nowhere near an embarrassingly parallel problem.

For an actual embarrassingly parallel problem, consider something like "this 1GB slice of memory contains a continuous sequence of 64-bit floating point numbers. Please square each number in place."

This can be divided among any number of processes trivially, with actually zero coordination.

There's also "nearly embarassingly parallel," where a minor amount of coordination is required in a final step. You can parallelize "compute the max of an array of integers", for example, by splitting it into N chunks, having each one compute their own max, and then taking the max of the maxes.

But Fibonacci is nowhere close to those.
If an asteroid of sufficient size were to strike Greenland, I think sea levels rising would be pretty far down the “this is definitely going to kill us all” list.
FYI: when I talk to wealthy, young South American legal immigrants to the US, we generally talk about which jet airplane they're planning to have their father buy them. Just saying.
I think you're spot on here. It turns out that a lot of software development is made easier with static types - but also that some of it is _not_. And having access to both without fighting the language can be very powerful.

I use static Python types a lot at the application layer, where things have no need to be particularly extensible and having strict definitions for how things are put together brings clarity. But at lower levels of the system, Python's duck typing really shines because I can solve ten slight variations on the same problem with the same code.

The same could be said of Typescript, or Clojure+spec, or really any other language where dynamic types are given to you for free (unlike, say, reflection in Java) but types can be added wherever you find them useful.
It doesn’t seem all that purist? It describes the situation, but in the end it says to decide for yourself what you want to do.

There is some mild caution about knowing the differences between these licenses, and mild support for open source projects that aren’t controlled by a single vendor.
Do you share a room/bed with a partner? I find if I wake up early it disturbs my wife's sleep.
That's why your security solution should include a mix of every known technology, hackers need to know everything from COBOL to rust
Nyxt Browser
Norway, Sweden, Denmark wait before restarting AstraZeneca vaccinations
Pro White , pro Nationalists and ACTUAL "right wing" have no power

All Poltics is controlled by :-

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Zionists + UN/Agenda 21/WEF + Corporations + World Central Banks

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Unless your
* Anti White
* Anti Merit
* Anti White Straight Male
* Anti Nationalism + Anti Protectism

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Along with supporting Global Authorianism, pro dictorship or pro zionist
you wont get anywhere in poltics

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Both Biden and Trump are Israel First Zionist Kikes
which are banker bought, big business buddy
and both gun grabber and anti free speech

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Most of the "right wing" is controlled opposition
by the Kikes and Zionist shills funded by Israel lobbies, corporations and banks

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Any pro freedom/pro western nations/white person
is better off getting a trade job or job away from poltics
till 2030 kicks off

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170 nations goverments all signed into Agenda 21 in 1991
We havent been free since at LEAST then

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Progressive = Global Commie
karma and minimum posting requirements will remove fakes. Also banning users. It's new so this is not enforced yet but eventually if there is enough traffic, there will be strong moderation to keep it going.