skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is fundamentally wrong. I doubt the NGA is actually lying to these writers and more likely just not saying anything and leaving people to guess, but we have long had the ability to see the entire earth and commercial imagery is still a tiny, insignificant part of the national geointelligence enterprise with capabilities dwarfed by the state-sponsored tech this writer doesn't know about. Private companies gaining the ability to track vessels that turned off their transponders is cute and all, but this is not a new capability by any stretch.
Personally I was surprised to see that Thoughtbot (a top web/mobile app consultancy and creator of factorybot and other well known open source libs) starting publishing blog posts detailing use of Crystal for some of its client projects. To me this was a sign that it should be taken seriously as an option for web development.
Text obviously, because if you want a history you need to store that on the server.
Some more information by the same author with a few more links:
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1374348774378762248
Late correction: sorry, that should be "if your browser spells it 'Referrer', webservers can correct you...".
hardware was never the main selling point of nintendo consoles, it's not even the main selling point of portable consoles

i'd rather have a less powerfull system and a much bigger battery, and better joystick/buttons

4k, who got a 4k screen other than power users?

i wish sony would still make a PSP, they need some competition
Imagine what happened if black people were as angry about what happened in the past as white people about a name change
> it's better to think of these arguments in more immediate terms

Absolutely! That's why I said it has to include:

> "how many people die if we pause vaccinations for several weeks and it turns out not to have been an issue"

as a consideration.
I would actually say that beauty is more scientifically clear.

The various quantum numbers of the quarks are real physical quantities, but not ones for which we have a good way of conceptualizing in classical, macroscopic life. The up and down quarks aren't actually spinning, but they do kind of behave as if they were spinning, so their names make sense, but for the others there isn't even an analogue. Luckily no one expects to be able to visualize strangeness, and likewise charm and beauty convey quite well that the naming is arbitrary. Top and bottom on the other hand sound like they could refer to a "real" property, or perhaps represent two ends of a spectrum. While I've seen no evidence that confusion is rampant, it would be easy to see how confusion could arise. If anything, the Top quark should be renamed to something more whimsical, or both should be renamed to something more clearly arbitrary like heads and tails.
On the contrary, the dubious secrecy is worrisome. The pandemic of the century and all this is done in the secret?

Why isn't the data entirely public with every stats student giving it a go?
> Nonetheless, his defense of Minsky is still problematic. Why? Because in the hypothetical situation he described, Minsky had sex with Guiffre even though he should have seen red flags. [...] By defending Minsky, he was indicating to all future sexual predators, "I will try to find excuses to defend your bad behavior"; and to all future sexual victims, "There is no point in coming forward; I will try to excuse the person who did this to you."

Yes, exactly.

Pointing out extenuating circumstances of someone's (alleged) bad behavior is necessary and useful. But it should always come second to determining what the person should have done instead, and holding them accountable to push society towards a place where everybody has the responsible behavior by default.

The attitude of "if there's any plausible reason person X might have thought they weren't doing anything wrong, we shouldn't punish them" gives the exact wrong incentives.
Another reason I personally would not like to get vaccinated. Nature and evolution solve all problems sooner or later.
Please scientists, investigate and stop laughing at UFOs cos one day history is going to laugh at you.
I’m not familiar with go, but why on Earth can an import have side-effects? That’s ridiculous..

I was never a fan of Go, but this just takes the cake..
In common practice RSA keys/certificates are used for TLS and similar protocols where it does not allow to decrypt past recorded communications, as those are encrypted with an ephemeral session keys that can not be determined from observing the handshake even if you have the keys. Obtaining a private key would allow you to MITM future sessions and decrypt them, but it would not break confidentiality of past messages. Things like PGP-encrypted email files would be vulnerable, but that niche is extremely rare in comparison to other uses of RSA and similar encryption.
Thank you. That looks like it may be exactly what I need to do.
App developer who explained what it's like being rich. AMA
This was very cringey. A super contrived demo and bashing Heroku through a Twitter reference. Reads like someone is drunk/high and wanted to shitpost about a competitor. I would be appalled by this if I were GitLab's PR department!
My biggest fear is to get all those office365 integrations teams runs slow and is quite the memory hog whereas discord has a nice a svelte memory and cpu footprint. If they were to buy it and give it the traditional microsoft features bloat then that would not encourage many gamers to stay on the platform
Some folks don’t take kindly to lofty claims and name-dropping just to rile up interest.

I’ve run production apps on Heroku in the past, best possible service for small teams. Gitlab? Given how expensive it is - I’m not so sure.
What are the limitations of regular expressions compiled in this way, compared to things like Python’s `re` module? Is it just that they can’t support backreferences?
It's done with AI.
That sounds very risky, since untrusted code shown in any webview can then exploit long fixed chrome bugs.
I wish they would focus on other things. Things like GitLab CI's cache are unusable with most workloads, we even had builds which were faster without the cache than with it.
Probably this

https://www.engadget.com/android-gmail-stop-running-webview-...
Answer to the second part of my message instead of ad homineming my health, attack the ideas not the human being, which is something that evidently should not need to be stated.
They choose A 100% of the time. No landlord has the ability to affect the market by purely limiting their own development. The market vacancy rate, which is the strongest, almost singular factor in housing prices, doesn't give a shit if you build 400 apartments or 20, it won't budge an inch. Only collective growth by the entire housing industry has the capability of budging vacancy rates.

For an example, Greystar properties, the largest multifamily housing provider in the Seattle market, controls less than 1% of the multifamily housing stock. If they wanted to decrease the vacancy rate of Seattle enough to push prices up by 10%, they would have to exit the market completely.

If you can't affect the market, because it is too competitive, your only recourse to increase profits is to build more. The force propping prices up is government and government alone. Nobody is voluntarily limiting their own development in order to push prices up.
On top of that: It's very easy to create an open-source project and put a "Deploy on Heroku" button right on the Github page.
Do you often recite paragraph length quotes without knowing the source? Am I being gullible?

What a fascinating reply.
Europe is a whole continent. Things at this scale simply work different.
And gladly so: pan-European Democracy should - but is clearly failing to - protect Citizens from the non-Humanitarian interests of "the market".

There always will be companies willing to serve the commercial opportunities in a space as massive as a continent. EU bureaucrats just need to start to behave like adults.
(or the Adults in the Room need to assert themselves).
Once again reinforcing that while their science may be solid, their management of the regulatory process is awful. If this was a disagreement they had with their DSMB and the results are basically the same including the new data (as they claim in that press release) then surely they should have just included that in the press release originally?

Instead they've now caused another round of noise.
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Yeah. My point is this "There's a 1 in 1024 chance of this measurement being a statistical coincidence." I understand this as "There is a 1:1024 chance that a statistical coincidence is the cause of this result".

But that's wrong, the statement must be: If it is a statistical coincidence, it had a probability of 1:1024 of occurring. But then the probability that it was cause by a statistical fluctuation is 100% -- It's assumed to be true.
There's a really good book written by Chade-Meng Tan who was a software engineer at Google called "Search Inside Yourself". It includes quite a lot of content on empathy - e.g. that apparently the same "hardware" is used in the brain for both empathy & self-awareness, so developing self-awareness through exercises like mindfulness is likely to boost empathy as well.
When it gets good I do think this will decimate the industry that cranks out generic electronic music for YouTube videos. (Does that count as an industry?) That aspect is not so bad perhaps.

THE FUTURE:
Your phone will have an exploratory music feature. You dial in all sorts of weights... genre, tempo, density, melody, etc. You'll crank out a custom instrumental playlist at the tap of a button. This will probably make for great study/work music.

When it eventually overshadows normal instrumental music it's going to be a giant bummer for anyone hoping to make money doing it. Artists are going to have a lot of soul searching to do.
Exactly ! And this applies in other 'ever-controversial' issues
I just pasted it into my futureculture novel I'm going to not finish in a decade or so.
Five tips for choosing an Ansible collection
Across dozens of apps installed on millions of devices, some with year’s old OS and application versions that can’t or won’t update, and includes both foreground and background crashes, yes.

The rate of crashes per application session is (exclusive of this event) very low.
Yes, that's how pqcrypto is done today. Run two key exchanges, one we're pretty sure is solid, and one that might be post-quantum-secure but has some risk of actually not being secure at all, and use a robust combiner on their outputs.
The "later" part is the problem so.
I’ll ignore the last word.

The article doesn’t do a great job of showing it, but the 5 minute production app makes it easier to setup stateful services on the hyper clouds.

And it does spin up a new environment for every merge request.
While Kotlin native is likely more mature than crystal I would say that graal native is much better as it allow you to reuse Java libraries and therefore spring native.
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Crystal does a better job with making portable binaries. For example I have written an app that's a 20MB alpine docker container. A comparable app written in Elixir used an 800MB alpine docker container.

I think Elixir is one of crystal's top competitors, but only for servers. Probably you'd never leave Elixir to write a webserver in Crystal. That's just Erlang's specialty. You would leave golang, Ruby, python, PHP, etc. for crystal though, because of the type system, performance, threads, binary, etc..

I've actually started using crystal to write the kinds of scripts people would normally use python for, despite it not being a scripting language.
> FWIW the developer of the game has also tried to fix this over the years, devising ways to get more resources to the 4th and 5th players. For example, there is a system similar to UBI where all members of the team benefit equally from "bounty runes". But till date, the bots have achieved a level of egalitarianism yet to be matched by human players.

this kinda makes sense. I'm more of a cs player, so hopefully my observations aren't totally off base. generally, a group of five humans will have some sense of who their best player is, who their worst player is, and who's good at specific roles. for instance, you might deliberately send your worst player into a bombsite first to gain info about the opponent's defense (and save your best player to react to that info). or you might send the person who's best at "entry fragging".

an egalitarian playstyle doesn't make sense when you have human players with different capabilities. you want to play to each person's strengths. if you have an algorithm controlling five heroes (or five instances of the same algorithm, idk how it works), there's no "best player" to send more resources to or dedicate to a specific role. I don't know enough about moba to say whether this is even an advantage.

none of this stuff is particularly interesting in counterstrike. a circa 1999 aimbot with a good ping will beat any human player.
Don't cut yourself on that edge!
Or they are real and nobody including 'the governement' (pls be aware the US is just a small part of the world) has a rational explanation (for now).

The U in UFO is for 'Unidentified'. It does not mean 'Alien'.
A thread from 2020 (v2 RC 1): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22030928

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9315152

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7381877

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2784515
Indeed. It's hard to imagine people who could work basically anywhere in the world chooses to work for the company that has demonstrated they only care about money, don't care about its users and actively do more harm than good.

I could understand people who started working for Facebook 10 years ago, before we knew the beast. But now, just a year ago start working for Facebook? I really wish we (engineers working in the software industry) could be more ethical inclined and stop caring about money so much.
Alternatively, I tried using DigitalOcean app platform (side note: super hard to Google for help due to the generic name) and it was way harder than setting up Heroku, I invested multiple hours in a few days and when I finally got the app running I was not confident enough to proceed with the migration yet.

Things I've noticed:
* Segmentation Fault when deploying a Rails app, Heroku just works.
* Ability to add Postgres but no ability to add Redis in the same ecosystem, you have to step out of the app platform, Heroku just one click and you have Redis associated with your app and many other add-ons.

There is a lot of potential on Digital Ocean, it in its infancy, the thing I like the most about it is $ for spec, with a $50 Heroku dyno I get 1GB RAM at DO the specs are way superior.

The blogpost mentions CLI usage and the global naming issues, those are annoying sure, but not the breaking point for Heroku.

The biggest competitor to Heroku IMO it's themselves. The fact their price remain the same even though specs and computational power has became way cheaper.

I would happily keep stuff in Heroku if they revisited their pricing policy.
Well, I prefer to prove my fitness by having the sense to be vaccinated rather than trying to fight against drowning in mucus.
I've been seeing a lot of 90's style clothing coming back into style. I guess everything old is eventually new again.

Around 2005 we purchased Marratech [1], which was comparable to this, always on video for multiple people, chat, whiteboards, etc. Back then, it cost about $10,000 for a license. It was eventually acquired by Google and became their video product.

The only problem wasn't the technology, it was the social aspect of always on video. We did it for the same reasons they are pitching, virtual office. In our case, it didn't work. We do have a functional virtual office now using Slack, Zoom, etc. On-demand and async communication seems to work far better than this general concept did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marratech
Please get vaccinated, it's good for society and yourself.
Its hard know, but reused boosters have the highest DoD and NASA certification a 100% perfect flight record and the same insurance premium.
I can't understand why they had this assumption that it will create a monopoly? At very least they could create a new state body in charge of the network and then lease parts to different companies. Kind of similar fashion how National Rail works, but being able to enable true competition as multiple companies could lease the same routes to customers.
Not a tobacco person, but curious why it won't exist? Quick research suggests that the Syrian version is gone because of unrest and government restrictions, so might be back if things settle down there. Cyprus (for all its own issues) has been fairly stable of late.
My favorite example of this is Fast Ethernet—a max speed of 100 Mbps.
Unfortunately for us, nature and evolution "solving problems" frequently involves us all just dying and/or Earth spending a long period of time as a magma ocean and then several aeons as a hot rock.
I believe clinical trials are the gold-standard mechanism by which specific questions about interventions may be answered. I’m not pointing out a “scary gotcha.” I’m pointing out an omission identified in the linked work.
Mypyc compiles Python modules to C extensions
> Python is usually fast enough when not using python

Agreed.
It would be insane to hold this necessary vaccine back from the world just to serve egoistic purposes. Just because the EU has good production infrastructure should not make them the “winner“ in some world wide “vaxing race“
Definitely, if the file was corrupted before entering ZFS's checksum regime—it won't help at all. However there are a few scenarios where making a logical copy, regardless of archive format, helps.

(1) By reading the files you are "tickling" the file system to re-validate the checksums of the blocks retrieved. Note that ZFS doesn't by default do this for data in memory, and with modern memory sizes, buffer pages can stay around for a very long time. Of course if your memory pool is large enough and your data set small enough, your backup might not actually force disk access. You can be really paranoid and flush the page cache before the backup starts. (This used to be "echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" for Linux, but kernel code changes quickly, so don't take my word on it.) This will make the backup job preen your original data and flush out any disk corruption which occurred between reads—quite useful if a lot of your data is cold. However it's typically a big performance hit and might be a little too paranoid even for me.

(2) The act of reading the files' metadata and translating it into kernel data structures exercises quite a bit more code than copying a list of blocks onto a wire. I don't know ZFS's replication protocol[a], and the developers aren't dummies, so I'm sure they've thought of a lot of corner cases. But I have definitely seen filesystem-level replication copy some subtle underlying metadata issues which weren't detected until the files were read logically. Typically this is caused by code errors rather than hardware failure. The problem with these kinds of bugs is they've often rampaged behind the scenes for a few days by the time the first error shows up; logical reads will flush them out a lot faster.

(3) The act of reading and translating the data to a new format will get your hands on it, and a lot of subtle systemic problems (e.g. application failures) can reveal themselves in the process. Filesystem replication is very seamless and quiet when it's working, and it's easy to lose track of what's actually going on. E.g. I once noticed my backups were broken because the nightly spike of bandwidth on our network graphs got a lot skinnier. There were notifications and alarms everywhere, none of which triggered. It turned out the database servers were writing to the wrong drive (shadow mounts). Replication of null data is, of course, not an error.

[a] I would love to read a non-Oracle study of ZFS replication, if somebody has one—Google does not provide at the moment.
Did this sort of read like a writing-prompt? By day 4 he could have unraveled a larger ploy involving lizard people.

Putting the ‘Code’ into DaVinci Code.
I mean it is natural selection if I'm weak I will die if I'm not I will pass my genes to my kids. That's how we evolved to the level of biological machine that human body is.
He did explicitly condemn white supremacy.

> As I said on -- remember this -- Saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence.

> And you had people, and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-charlottesv...

If NYT claimed that he didn't, it's anything but "best possible info". You're not immune to propaganda or misinformation just because you happen to be against Trump.
Luminosity is the number of particles (in the LHC's case, protons) flowing per unit area and unit time.

Additionally, integrated luminosity is luminosity integrated over time, and is just the number of events produced per unit area. It is the main metric used when CERN releases data and shares just how many events are in a given data set; this is done such that you can take the cross section of a given event (like Higgs production), multiply it by this value, and get how many events of that type happen (how many Higgs were produced).
>However, Covid would be able to cause an infection again once the cold had passed and the immune response calmed down.

>Dr Murcia said: "Vaccination, plus hygiene measures, plus the interactions between viruses could lower the incidence of Sars-CoV-2 heavily, but the maximum effect will come from vaccination."

Vaccines are an end product of nature and evolution, too, and are much more reliable than hoping you always happen to get infected with rhinovirus near the same time you're exposed to SARS-CoV-2.
Tell that to the dinosaurs.
I agree Heroku has the perfect dev environment, not much to improve there.

We’re trying to make the perfect production environment. Most people end up hosting at a hyper cloud (edit: like AWS). We’re trying to make the app on a hyper cloud in production as easy as Heroku is in development.

We’re still building that, it is t done by any means. And the article doesn’t do a good job of showing what we are trying to make easier. Setting up managed services on AWS is time consuming and that is what we want to solve. See https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/5-minute-production-app/deploy...

The contents of the blog post doesn’t warrant the title. We regret it.
This is what you said: I have been hiring IIT graduates and building a team in India for several years now. They are all really smart people with a strong work ethic, but their approach to work tends to be the same as the approach they needed to succeed in a test-based education system. ... nobody will stop to ask why things are being done a particular way, or offer up some alternative.

Which is of course nonsense. The same test-based education system also produced leaders such as the CEO of Google, CEO of IBM and the CEO of Albertsons. If you have been able to hire some to close "JIRA tickets" you scraped the bottom of the barrel and maybe you shouldn't be making generalized conclusions based on your observations!
I suggest glancing at the Citizen Lab report[0], I've read Citizen Lab research before and I generally find it high quality.

I think the takeaway here isn't that TikTok is good for privacy but that it's unlikely to be wielded in a manner similar to malware. Yes, it collects data. No, it isn't going to randomly activate your phone's microphone and spy on personal conversations without your knowledge.

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/03/tiktok-vs-douyin-security-priv...
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