skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally the ship’s captain isn’t in-charge in the canal. The Suez Port Authority has pilots you have to hire for that.
Not sure if that’s true. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4064/how-fair-is-t...
Didier Raoult fraud: “Je ne regrette rien”
> Everyone knows in their hearts that temp check is bullshit but that’s something everyone does even today.

All our local visitor attractions (and I suspect it's the same UK wide) do temp checks on condition of entry. Pointing out the flaws with it is futile as it's the covid equivalent of security theatre. It ticks a box and makes it look like they are taking precautions.

It reminds me of those snake oil bomb detectors that are still used in some parts of the world despite the fact that the 'inventors' have been jailed for selling the fraudulent devices: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896
Try to address why are people pirating the content. Is it too expensive? Is it too difficult to buy? Is there geo-blocking? Etc.
What a hot garbage. What does race of people have to do with every point? Just because "most of them are hispanic and black" it suddenly invalidates "white non-hispanic" woman's point?
37 comments and no links to the source. Here it is: https://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2014/0612/647669-document...

Listen to it.
I have this idea of a MOOP - Maasively Open Online Psychology.

Basically it's - we have these constantly on monitoring devices, phones, watches, alexa, video - we can collect constant human behavioural data - and given the right
regulatory framework (ie this is medical data treat it like that) we should see enormous commonalities (correlations) between millions of people.

Psychology should then become a field of epidemiology- as opposed to limited behavioural studies in lab conditions.

Maybe psychology just has not had enough in the field data?
It's slightly more complicated than that. "Tolerant" means you support the advancement of marginalized groups in word and deed. "Marginalized groups" roughly means BIPOC, LGBTQ, and (depending on circumstances) sometimes women. "Intolerant" means you effectively support the continued oppression of these groups in word and deed, irrespective of what your actual opinions and motivations truly are. You cannot be neutral or indecisive; per Desmond Tutu, to do so is to choose the side of the oppressor.

But again, it all boils down to membership in these specific identity groups and their perceived need for protection.
So I gave this a whirl tonight and it was better than I expected. I'm actually impressed at how well it plays.

I started on Easy since people were saying that the AI is brutal, but on the next game I went Normal. It seems like the AI prefers to build up and launch a big attack roughly around the time you upgrade your town to level 2. If you survive that you're pretty much golden. I lost a couple of times and won three times against the AI on Normal. The deciding factor is if I managed to build a Defense Tower in time. Those are basically impossible for regular troops to hurt at that point and the AI will fixate on it and let itself get cut down. Actually, garrisoned buildings are really deadly. I don't see a way to zerg rush your way to victory except possibly as an economic victory where you kill all of the workers and then keep them from spawning new ones until you've built your siege engines. Your troops just can't hurt the town square, even when they have it fully surrounded.

I found controlling the troops to be difficult at times. The healers love to run away at the first sign of danger and other troops will rush at towers and fortresses no matter how many times you tell them to stay away. You can also bait the AI into sending a steady stream of lone troops into a meatgrinder (massed archers are murder) while you casually build up your army.

I only ran into one bug. On one map I wiped out the enemy base but it didn't declare me a winner. I searched high and low for a lone troop or something but there was none to be found. I even filled the map with blue just to make sure it wasn't some building thing.

Performance was not an issue for me, even when I was moving maximum size armies around. There were a handful of pathfinding quirks but nothing too major. Mostly units getting stuck on other units and being left behind. It was pretty rare, but when it happened it tended to happen to big expensive units which makes it a little more annoying. I'd have to carefully separate them to get them moving again. I couldn't get the AI to build any boats so naval combat went untested.

One UI thing I couldn't find that I'd like is a way to select all combat troops currently harvesting and tell them to switch to combat mode and rally somewhere. It can be kind of hard to pick them out, especially when you're under attack. Even better if after combat I could tell them to go back to their previous job.
You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin
> renting is extraction of wealth rather than a one-time transfer.

why is that? Renting is merely paying for shelter. The purchase price of a property would match rentals when adjusted for the cost of the capital to purchase (aka, interest payments, lost opportunity cost of capital etc).

The only thing rentals lack is certainty - you cannot get kicked out of your owned home, but could for a rental (even with enough notice - it's still getting kicked out).
Which hardware were you trying to bring back to life?
It would be interesting to see some numbers on this, but I have the impression that (neo)vim users are growing in numbers. I'm just a HTML+CSS guy building small websites, and learning vim has been huge boost not only to my speed/efficiency, but to the amount of fun I'm having! I ditched VScode aprox 4 months ago an basically live in the terminal now with tmux, nvim and fzf. It's such a powerfull combination!
Someone send this to HashiCorp please.
Video RAM Transplant Doubles RTX3070 Memory to 16GB
Thanks for "about:serviceworkers", found around 30.
But at the time she pulled the trigger, he was neither a dictator or genocidal.

Perhaps violence is the right way to address all people who have politics we don’t agree with?

Thomas Mair agrees with you.
> Well, the law will be two years old soon. There's one local news article about it where the county's PIO clarified the county's intention [1]. Aside from that, alllllll of these homeowners innocently working on their cars in their own garages and yards around the county and getting hit with hundreds and hundreds of dollars in fines have resulted in... exactly zero other local news coverage that I can find.

Big cities with traffic problem enact this kind of laws to discourage personal car ownership. Sure, just because now it's not actively reported as enforced doesn't mean it won't be in the future, and it wouldn't be the first time where the enactment and the enforcement of a low separated in time to make the pill easier to swallow.
As if Prop 13 has prevented tent cities in California? California has the 3rd highest homeless rate in the country, behind only Hawaii and New York: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/12/09/california-homele...
Lol what.

I haven't been able to buy government bonds/gilts with an coupon rate hire than inflation for years.

At least my equities return when everyone deflates the value of money.
I solved that by buying a passively cooled baytrail nano-ITX motherboard 5 or so years ago, and running Arch linux on it. At the time, pis were way slower at disk IO and encryption/hashing. Maybe the pi 4 is fast enough now, but I suspect the baytrail is still holding up favorably.
Correct; I believe the canal's authority has liability here as they provide the mandatory pilot for the duration of the transit.
This is scary. Two major vulnerabilities have been found in the General Electric Universal Relay.[1] This is a programmable control unit for substation and power plant switchgear.

GE couldn't resist. They put a web server in the thing. It's configured over HTTP. “By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions,” according to IBM. According to GE, the flaw is remotely exploitable and requires a “low skill level to exploit.”

There's also a mention of "hard-coded credentials".

If someone can get into one of these, they can take over control of all the circuit breakers in a substation. This thing not only does HTTP, it also supports GOOSE, a special protocol use only within power systems for directly opening and closing large circuit breakers. If an attacker can get in, they can potentially send GOOSE messages.

[1] https://www.gegridsolutions.com/multilin/catalog/urfamily.ht...
The idea that giving the authorities the ability to enforce selectively on whom they like is a good thing is honestly bizarre to read. It's the classic preserve of biased prosecution.

EDIT for response since I'm rate-limited. I interpreted the following section:

> Again, I'm expressly not defending the law as it's written, but if the letter of every bad law was to be applied equally to everyone in the same instant, there would not be a single free person anywhere in the country. Like all the others, this one is being applied selectively.

as something akin to "I think the law isn't great, but if any law were applied fairly, we would all be in jail. Fortunately most laws aren't applied fairly"

But I can understand if that was a misinterpretation.
Will this support devs who want to use Svelte to add specific widgets to a dynamically generated Rails page? I want to explore SSR but was/is daunting with installing JS stuff along with existing web app infra.
Isn’t Sisi trying to build another one?
I’ve thought this could be a likely explanation especially considering the crazy patents that the US Navy has filed.
Wayback machine if the site is still down for anyone:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210324071034/http://dan.bodar....
No.

For one, Earth is much further away.

But most importantly, we have no clue if our current carbon levels are any sort of maxima in regards to what the planet can handle. We just have our own little recent industrialized history, and some charts about the past that are, at best, educated guesses.

As George Carlin would say, "The planet will shake us off like a bad cold"

Climate change is more important for our species survival much more so than the planet. The planet will be fine. The planet will recover after we're gone.
The level of technology required to react to the words or perhaps thoughts of any animals observing you as you fly past; is more interesting than whatever propulsion technology they use.
Also this kind of interaction suggests they have a personality.
For others that want to get more information:

“ In one given scenario, if an attacker is able to obtain the private key used to sign a particular website for Signed Exchanges, that attacker can then deliver false websites that appear in almost every way to be legitimate. Considering this false page in no way connects to the valid server, it would be difficult for admins to even detect.

Additionally, Mozilla has publicly shared its stance that Signed Exchanges are “harmful” and will not be implemented in Firefox as currently specified. In particular, they take issue with a browser serving a particular website without connecting to its original source (or “authoritative server”).

Mozilla has concerns about the shift in the web security model required for handling web-packaged information. Specifically, the ability for an origin to act on behalf of another without a client ever contacting the authoritative server is worrisome, as is the removal of a guarantee of confidentiality from the web security model (the host serving the web package has access to plain text). We recognise that the use cases satisfied by web packaging are useful, and would be likely to support an approach that enabled such use cases so long as the foregoing concerns could be addressed.

A leader of Apple’s Safari development team, Maciej Stachowiak, recently backed Mozilla’s stance, adding an almost humorously phrased explanation of what Signed Exchanges for AMP really is.

But even so, I’d say we are pretty uncomfortable with this approach, for similar reasons to Mozilla. We can see some advantages to Google re-serving the whole web from their own servers and getting browsers to present it as if it comes from the origin, but it also seems like a worrisome change to the web security model.
”

https://9to5google.com/2019/04/18/apple-mozilla-google-amp-s...

for those of you who want to your support the middleman:
http://www.google.com/amp/s/9to5google.com/2019/04/18/apple-...
Also, the drones DJI releases to the public are nothing short of incredible.

With this much drone engineering talent in China, you have to wonder what they are keeping under wraps, developing for the military and intelligence instead...
Well here I wish to offer a modern update of cargo cult science.

Today we suffer more from cargo cult enthusiasm -- the collective delusion that all we need is someone very passionate about something to lead us, and we will get there. Force of personality and personal passion must mean correct thinking.

Maybe just building coconut headphones would do less harm.
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> I'm not sure how this is supposed to be transphobic.

Trans, genderqueer, or nonbinary people often express their preferred pronouns. If you do not use these pronouns to address or refer to that particular person, it is considered transphobic.

By far the most common gender-neutral pronouns are "they/them". It does not matter what Strunk & White says -- you are considered a transphobe if you do not use "they" for someone who has an expressed preference for "they". Period. By choosing deliberately not to respect their preferences, you are thought to deny or "erase" their gender identity.

You may think this doesn't matter. Ultimately, even in the grand scheme of terrible things that have been done to trans people, it's quite a small issue (the buzzterm is "microaggression" after all), and it certainly doesn't matter in a technical discussion. But securing compliance in small things like this is a dry run in pressure tactics: if people, especially if held in high esteem, buckle under and adopt and enforce the orthodox practice with regard to gender pronouns or other detail, the tactics worked. Ultimately the goal is to use those tactics to sway decisions on issues that matter, like who gets an authoritative say in what constitutes open source and which overarching goals should the movement serve.
The overlap is because they’re both human, not both forms of women.

Sexism is “prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked to stereotypes and gender roles, and may include the belief that one sex or gender is intrinsically superior to another”.

GCs reject sexism. Rejecting sexism doesn’t mean rejecting the reality of men and women being genetically distinct and having different body plans for the purposes of reproduction. Rejecting sexism doesn’t mean refusing to discriminate when discrimination is necessary for the socially just goal of sexual and gender equality.

Sex is recognised at birth, not assigned at birth - it’s determined at fertilisation: XX or XY.

Assuming you’re a transwoman. Your sex is male, and your gender is feminine. Women and transwomen substantially share a gender, given most women choose to be feminine and most transwomen feel compelled to present and be seen as feminine.

This is fine, every GC person I know accepts the right of individuals to choose their expressed gender and be free from unreasonable discrimination. What we don’t accept is the refusal to acknowledge that women also have a sex-based component of identity that transwomen don’t share.

I appreciate that this causes psychological stress to people with a dysphoria that is only calmed by affirmation of successfully changed sex - but - the physical reality of the situation can not be changed or rationally denied.
See 'Reflections on Rusting Trust' by Manish Goregaokar (In Pursuit of Laziness).

https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on...

He modifies rustc with a predicate that replaces the string 'hello world' with something else. The method used to replicate the change is basically a self-modifying quine.
But they still advertise aws and azure a bit right. Isnt there a risk of driving google customers to aws or azure ?
have you seen https://www.nothingprivate.ml tech and internet are more hostile now days. company like google/fb will do anything to get user info legally or illegally, as the fine for bad behavior is usually slap on wrist.
Headius is the creator of jruby, he knows what he's talking about. That reminds me, I hope his jruby collaborator back in the day, Ola Bini, will be freed (1).

(1) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/4/swedish-friend-of-as...
, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/slow-motion-tragedy-tr...
As a summary, switched from scala → java, ant → make, removed GWT, Lucene, Hibernate, Velocity, Tomcat etc.

This needs a (2012) on it, but it looks like that got hugged to death already [1].

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20210324055256/http://dan.bodar....
There seems to be a contradiction in this article - they’re complaining about the property values staying low for a long time and are simultaneously complaining about property values increasing in recent times. Also, the article criticises the creation of multi storey homes, but isn’t high density housing better compared to single home lots?
I am curious if floating microbes in our atmosphere can just randomly leave the planet - like are particles small enough to undergo Brownian motion subject to the same escape velocity ?
Hah if only someone set up issuezcanalstillblocked.com and you could enter Unix epoch
This is a wonderful comment. An upvote will not suffice. I need to tell you.
The captain may still be liable if the ship ended up like that due to mechanical failure.
> while the auto pilot makes a slight adjustment every few hours?

Ah, that explains it.

> I'm not sure how exciting it would be.

Right now it would be pretty exciting.
Yeah, I disagree completely with whoever wrote that this was "a good thing". Who was that, anyway?
Hmm, that's an interesting project! You'd still have to bootstrap a cpp compiler first, though
> to do so is to choose the side of the oppressor

In other words, the old "if you're not with us, you're against us".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are_either_with_us,_or_aga...

I see Tutu cited there.
This reminded me of Julius Wagner-Jauregg using malaria-induced fever to cure syphilis, though the mechanism appears to be different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria#Malariother...
But those guys won, right? They got to shut down most activities there.
They would pull it down as well as sideways.
Some funny anecdotes / tricks I have heard about to defeat or detect cargo cult copying or cargo cult approaches:

1. Before our age of GPS maps and precision surveying, some map makers used to purposely put in little artificial defects into their roads or neighborhoods (non functional little things). This was so that someone who couldn't be bothered to do their own survey and copied the map exactly would not know the difference and reveal themselves by the defect (and be sued for copyright, etc). Such as little hooks on ends of roads, or even fake small villages in the middle of nowhere.

In fact, I recall one story where a village actually became real after enough companies had copied a certain map issued by someone who had put in one such fake village to defeat copying, and a general store named itself after the place, thinking it must be real.

2. When people plagiarize code without understanding it, leaving in non-functional variables or loops that the original author either didn't delete or put in as a trap.
That was an interesting read for someone like me who just started splitting builds into frontend/backend to get build times down. That they would switch languages just to get faster builds sounds extreme to me. But in the end I already noticed how much better it feels when the CI-cycle is minutes and not tens of minutes.

The suggestion to split off code with long-running tests into separate libraries is easy pickings. So I think I'll do that next time I wait for those tests to complete.
Ever given run aground and divert you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
Right, if I apply 1 pound of force to your head 520 times, you’ll be really annoyed with me. If I apply 520 pounds of force to your head once, I’ve just crushed your skull.
Development on Windows Is Painful, but Tolerable
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/why-do-bats-have-so-m...
Although I agree with you in principle, in practice most of js devs never worry about such things. It's mostly library authors and such.
And there are cases where a != a, I think for NaN (not a number).
There usually isn't a good argument for entirely excluding foods, and in part for that reason, I haven't really done so. There does seem to be mounting evidence that sugar causes quite a few health issues though. If that's a concern, it might be worth flipping the question around and asking why you should eat honey at all, or other sources of sugar, besides its delightful flavour. I looked, and didn't find much other than hearsay that there was a compelling difference between adding honey or other sugars to other food.
Back when I compiled on a cray I had problems with make because files could compile within a second so make would want to recompile them.

I use a lot of C++ templating so these days fast builds are just a fantasy no matter what I do. Unlike the author I rely on incremental builds for development but do a full build before pushing
It seems like we have the answer to "should you use a time machine to kill Hitler": no, HN will definitely quibble with you if you do that.

I'm also reminded of the term "premature anti-fascist", used against people who were against Fascism too early before WW2.
i think you'll find that venus is the place with the runaway greenhouse effect, not mars!
This is going to take a while. And it puts the other boats in the canal in a pickle as well, they can't exactly back out (easily, or even at all).
Don’t signed pointers in ARMv8.3 kill RoP chains or have we found ways around that?