skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article suspiciously seems like saber rattling to me. Like it was placed in the Economist to send a message to someone.

It is good for global security that France has a strong military and is strengthening it. But it is only a small consideration. It is nonsense to talk about France embarking on a global "high-intensity, state-on-state conflict" and projecting land military power from Russia to Turkey, and "naval presence" in the Indo-Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Persian Gulf, without noting that this would mean far more powerful militaries than France being involved and would mean nukes flying and most human life on the planet being wiped out in short order.

In 2021, saying that France is preparing for a high-intensity war with Russia or Turkey is as absurd as saying that the State of Texas is preparing for a high-intensity war with North Korea or Mexico.

The only scenario where France would be engaged in a high-intensity war with Russia or Turkey is if World War III started. I believe that it is reasonable to say that a high-intensity war between the world powers would probably result in the end of human civilization within a few hours. The fact that 10,000 French soldiers are planning to do a 4 day military training exercise in 2023 is a tiny consideration in the larger scheme of any strategic plans that NATO and the EU have for a hypothetical WWIII.

What is most suspicious is that the article tries to equate such a world-ending event with on-going and hypothetical French military adventures in Africa. French military adventurism in Africa and the Middle East is not a high-intensity, state-on-state conflict.
Maybe WP will run an article stating that workers from Walmart should be allowed to vote in their election...
My earliest exposure to Unsplash was wallpaper apps, and that's certainly the case with many of my friends. I didn't even make the association between Unsplash and stock photography until very recently.

My fiance had Giphy installed on her phone when I first met her, which surprised me because I considered Giphy as little more than a Reddit gif host. She uses a lot of reaction gifs in her messages.

A search engine isn't the only route to your website. With Unsplash going down the drain, people are going to want wallpapers (on their phones, their browsers, and their desktops). You could also make an image search plugin for PowerPoint and GSlides. Making an aggregator is "easy," that stuff is hard.
Foreign governments don’t need to pay employees to install back doors. Highly-paid software engineers are perfectly capable of inserting security bugs into their own code without prompting. Writing secure code is insanely difficult and has only become harder now that vast swaths of the code that is written is directly exposed to the Internet, or just one small step away from it.
Or Slack everyone with "I'm a noob!"...
There's also https://github.com/alexmojaki/snoop

For comparison:

19:32:30.66 >>> Call to add_up in File "/home/joel/example.py", line 5
19:32:30.66 ...... numbers = [123, 456]
19:32:30.66 ...... len(numbers) = 2
19:32:30.66 5 | def add_up(numbers):
19:32:30.66 6 | total = 0
19:32:30.66 7 | for number in numbers:
19:32:30.66 .......... number = 123
19:32:30.66 8 | total += number
19:32:30.66 .............. total = 123
19:32:30.66 7 | for number in numbers:
19:32:30.66 .......... number = 456
19:32:30.66 8 | total += number
19:32:30.66 .............. total = 579
19:32:30.66 7 | for number in numbers:
19:32:30.66 9 | return total
19:32:30.66 <<< Return value from add_up: 579
"Make the rules,
then break them all 'cause you are the best" -- Prince, Cream
Paper Instructions Suck
Is it just me? Or do companies just deliberately print copious amounts of product instructions? Don't they know that 98% of consumers throw instructions away after one-time use?

What do you do with your paper instructions from IKEA, recipes from meal kits, product user manuals, etc?
I remember a New Agey book talking about California becoming an island, the Mississippi River flooding the Great Plains essentially splitting the US in two, and Florida being completely underwater... by like 1990.

That said, just because some people take hysteria to the extreme doesn’t mean the threats aren’t real. The nuclear annihilation one in particular came down to a handful of people steering the ship blind and somehow not running into the rocks while their first mates were screaming at them to turn the other way.
> There is no other language that places such an emphasis on programming directly with plain and naked data literals.

Counterexamples: Erlang and Elixir. Arguably also Prolog. Also Lua. Many Schemes, and Racket. Of course, REBOL and Red. TCL probably, too.

I can't help but think that people making claims of "no other language has X" are in most cases wrong, and should study a bit more before making them.

There's a lot of hype in the article, I don't want to diminish the value of REPL-based workflows or conciseness[1] of the language, but the overall message that any fresh graduate can become a 10x programmer in under a month... Well, there's at least nothing humble about it, despite the article touting "humility" as a virtue of prospective Clojurists.

[1] Why aren't we all writing in APL/K/J if it matters that much?
All the infos about cars are easily available. It chances nothing, most buyers of car simply dont care enough to get fundamental knowledge about cars. If you would value the time it takes for an average car buyer to get fundamental knowledge it would cost way more than what they overpay so unless you already have above average knowledge it makes no sense to dig into it. You are better off asking someone who has the knowledge and no incentive to fool you aka a friend not the sale person.
Ugh, I hate this kind of stuff.

At the same time, I’m a poor college student who finds the fact that the Kindle edition of books is often half the price of a physical copy, and everything is available through Amazon.

Can anyone recommend a good ereader/publisher stack? I’ve considered trying to find ePub versions and then converting them to work on my Kindle—is that possible?

Help free me from this prison!
Is open source synonymous with self hosted?

I can think of some open source projects are prohibitively difficult to host yourself.

I can also think of closed source projects that are easy to self host.

In any case I feel that your fervor is unjustified.
Now imagine it silently failed half the time, depending on whether or not the nil had crossed an otherwise innocuous function boundary. That's Go.
I am. Firestore is powerful but it’s still a non-relational database, compared to the power of Postgres on the Supabase side
I'm wondering if it would help to align incentives and motivations. I feel like right now it's possible your team members are not motivated to solve these problems. It seems like it might even be fine to be blocked for days or weeks. Not fine to you of course, but there doesn't seem to be a feedback loop right now. Note, I'm making assumptions here based on what you said.

What I like to do is to find the win-win for both me and my team members. If there's no reason for them to do better, why should they? Maybe you can get an understanding of what motivates them. Is it improving as an engineer? Better compensation? Getting promoted? I would imagine all of these are fairly easy to align with a goal of decreasing blocked time from weeks to hours. That's a huge difference in time!
So to be clear (some responses imply this, but I figured it's worth calling out) - "since 812" is not saying 812 it was this early. It wasn't. This is the earliest -we've ever recorded-. And the records go back to 812.
Oh nice. Or Ctrl-Command-Q on my last mac, a mini from 2012. (It does have an upgraded fast SSD, big HDD, and 16 GiB.)
Do they create high turn over because they’re selecting for the best people to exploit?

It’s a gestalt, you can see it two ways and I have no clue why someone would want to see it as a “good practice” unless that view was beneficial to their job and career advancement.
Sure, the counter would have to be set up so the order of the votes cast is not retrievable. Any display should be only the total of votes counted, not the tally for each item on the ballot.

This doesn't seem hard at all to do right.
A multi-polar world might not be appealing for those who fall within China's pole but who are not China. Ditto non-Russia within Russia's pole.

I mean, as you point out, it's not always all that great for those within the US's pole, either. But to me, China and Russia seem to be more aggressive in asserting themselves in dominance over others.
> the rights of creators to choose how and where their imagery is made available

I didn't know that there's any way to control where the images show up. Isn't it just a free-for-all on Unsplash?
No. It doesn't describe the viral vector vaccines (J&J/AstraZeneca). It doesn't describe the inactivated virus vaccines. It doesn't include the viral fragment (NovaVax) vaccines. And it wouldn't describe some possible mRNA vaccines because of differences in formulation or differences in targeting.

While this particular Moderna claim would likely affect BioNTech/Pfizer's mRNA vaccine, it's not clear whether it would survive in litigation, too.

As to a "specific string"-- if you could just pad a few codons onto the end and not be violating the patent, that's not too worthwhile.
I go mostly to conferences as a networking opportunity, to connect with and learn from people who have similar interests. Most of the sessions cover nothing ehat can't be found online.
Can anyone break down the economics of this? How can they afford this over and over again?
Is this an education problem though? Surely those crowds at the capitol had plenty of well educated, highly functioning adults. But when you incentivize divisiveness to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in ad revenue, companies like Facebook, grifting media personalities, and corrupted politicians will always collude to outwit them. We have a problem with a runaway hyper-capitalist economic system and decaying democratic institutions that reward manipulative sociopathic behavior.
Space junk isn't a problem at the altitude that Starlink operates at and they harmlessly fall back into the atmosphere after a given number of years. Please take the Musk-bashing astroturfing elsewhere.
A webcomic account of the controversial Elan School of Maine
Ask HN: OAuth or Session Management? Authentication between SPAs and back end
Is Authentication between a 1st party front end a 1st party back end a Task for (Cookie) Session Management?

Some articles like [1], [2] seam to share the opinion that OAuth should be used in its traditional use case: "Granting an applications the access to the resources of a user/resource owner or the do actions on behalf of the resource owner"

[1] https://dzone.com/articles/oauth-20-vs-session-management

[2]https://www.ory.sh/hydra/docs/concepts/before-oauth2

On the same time I know that SaaS like Okta, Auth0 etc. are often used to solve the problems of authentication or session managment. But those Services do use OAuth2.0.

On the same time there are Solutions like supertokens or Ory Kratos, that do not use OAuth2.0.

Honestly: I am very confused what solution is the best regarding security and ease of deployment.
That's fair, to be honest those docs were written a long time ago and haven't been updated. We're releasing our CLI tomorrow, which is part of the "self hosting" story, so I'll update these docs with some detailed instructions.

Thanks for the candid feedback.
Why would they not? This is effectively buying Bitcoin, slowly, at a discount (they'll surely slap hefty fees/unfavorable exchange rates on it, because there are many people who will happily pay extra for the privilege of paying with crypto, just like people will pay a lot more for anything slapped with an "organic" label).

Tesla, a publicly traded company, got away with buying $1.5 billion in Bitcoin just fine.

PayPal can also sell that Bitcoin to customers who want to buy Bitcoin.
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30 years ago we called this "critical thinking", something schools have always had a lot trouble with, in part because critical thinking is a weapon against illegitimate authority, which schools also have a lot of trouble with.
It? This is an actual person we are talking about. And most people are perfectly capable of handling a mildly stressful situation without acting like a complete jerk to someone.
I also bought a VW Golf GTD and ended up having to sell it right as the scandal was heating up.

Apart from the ~$10k I lost and the betrayal by VW executives, I was also upset that the car I bought to try and be a little bit eco-friendly was decidedly not.

I received a paltry payout from the class-action lawsuit, which helped. However I will never buy a VW-group car again. It has also forever jaded me about the lack of punishments for corporate malfeasance.
This is how I feel when using visual studio.
That seems to be true with Teslas. But at the end of the day it does not matter, since the number that you get with WLTP is useless.
30 years ago my mum said the same about the coming next 30 years. I am not saying that your hunch is wrong. I just want to caution that people were thinking similarly a while back. Don't underestimate the will and resourcefulness of men.
That's a brilliant way of adding and removing SSH security group rules for digital nomads
One of the contingencies driving the French planning is the potential waning or disengagement of some of those powers (one in particular), and the reason for it's preparation is to reduce the power gap with the others.
I think its a bit early to say its not viable. Header tanks are there precisely to solve this. The sloshing in the header tanks should manageable in a tank sized correctly, specially if you are willing add some extra baffling to the header tank.

We should realize that after the first failure SpaceX already had built a couple of prototypes that were 'wrong'. So they had to basically do hacks to figure out how to fly them at all.

I would assume with the next generation they have really thought about how to do the header tanks and redesigned them and how the pressurization of those work. They are seemingly learning about some interesting things about liquid methane and bubble formation in liquid methane. The baffles they had apparently caused a vacuum bubble in SN8.
Would they include accountants, IT people, managers, and insiders? If so -> D:
> perspective on voter fraud

What's their perspective exactly?
I think that depends on what he thinks the mistake was. To him, was the mistake cheating, getting caught, or being in position to be made an example of? He may no make the mistake again, but I'm not sure that means he won't cheat again in a similar way, given the chance.
VW confirms 'Voltswagen' rebrand for US market
It only needs one or two of its three engines to land.
interesting name rare to see here , Vanara = monkey in Sanskrit (refers to monkey soldiers in classic epic Ramayana)
Child unknowingly tweets from US nuclear command's account
Police bust 'biggest' video-game-cheat operation
Stainless steel is really cheap, and they adapted fabrication methods from the grain silo industry.
> In fact, it seems strange that the secure ballot box would be deliberately stored somewhere without security cameras.

I've been a voting official a couple of times in Germany. Here, the ballot boxes (which are literal trash cans, just in a different color) get loaded with everything (ballots, tabulation aids, even the pencils) at the end of the day and sealed off, then over night left behind in the room where the election and counting happens (usually a school classroom), and at the beginning of the next day we verify the seals haven't been tampered with, unload the cans and continue counting.
I do think that these things are all mostly emergent - a competitor sacrifices a principle a little bit to get ahead, everyone else follows suit, thus enshrining it as a new normal. Rinse, repeat

That said, I disagree with "the solution to that is simple, don't cheat in the first place", for the reasons I mentioned: if all your competitors suddenly start to cheat, telling on them only works if you can ensure they all get burned down to the ground as a result. If some survive, you'll now be competing with them as an actor nobody trusts, and nobody wants to deal with. If that's a realistic outcome, you may as well just quit.
It might seem misleading if you're using ssh as a SOCKS proxy, but there are many other SOCKS proxies for which the setting makes sense. For example, if you're using tor as a SOCKS proxy, then that setting is the only way to have the browser resolve .onion addresses.
TL;DR: Parent forgot to lock computer child typed gibberish.

But then it's just a twitter account, sure from the US nuclear-agency, but so what. Social media accounts get hacked all the time so this is IMHO not really that serious...

...if the computer isn't also used for more "high-security" applications, in which case I'm worried because of non appropriate screen locking setups might imply non appropriate security in other parts of the setup, too.
It is even easier with Caddy's `respond` directive[0], placeholders[1], and automatic HTTPS.

Caddyfile:

example.com {
respond "{remote_host}"
}

[0] https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/respond

[1] https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/concepts#placeholders
I'm running my own fairly successful self-funded business, largely thanks to Clojure and ClojureScript, which let me reduce incidental complexity and focus on what matters. So yes, a Clojure developer can do quite a bit alone :-)
Citation needed on that "educated, well functioning".
What about global cooling scare[1], which obviously turned out to be nothing but I'm sure was used to scaremonger people?

OP wasn't saying that they weren't real issues. In fact they were all serious! I think he was saying there's nothing good about falling into a nihilist hole. Living together on Earth is hard and takes cooperation. There's plenty of room for the innovators but no room for the defeatist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
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Right, and many customers would prefer the performance, thank you very much.
> French officers tend to be more sceptical than British or American ones that technology will transform the battlefield. “Technology is never 100% effective,” warns General Burkhard. “Soldiers must always be able to fight in a degraded way…when the technology does not work any more.”

I would be interested to hear more on that from General Burkhard. Because right now - and based on my very limited understanding of the topic - this feels like the kind of statement that could look rather misinformed when looked back at in the future. This actually reminds me of the French army and French generals preparing for WW2; stuck with their existing organizational structures and mental models (that led them to victory in WW1), they discounted new warfare theories/technologies and strategies (such as: combining planes and tanks, blitzkrieg) that led them to a quick and complete defeat.
It is not ‘scientific’ to base risk entirely on experienced probability, especially without taking into account the relative scale of the cost.

A 10% chance of something bad happening could be an acceptable risk or not, depending on how bad the bad outcome is. Is it death? In that case, 10% is way too high... eat that old pizza seven times, and you already have a greater than 50% chance of being dead from food poisoning.

This is the problem with using personal experience for low probability/high cost events. Drunk driving is like this; I know too many people who say “drunk driving isn’t dangerous! I’ve driven drunk dozens of times and have never had anything bad happen!”

Most of the time you are fine, but the extreme cost of what happens when you aren’t make it a risk that should not be taken.
> I am not using the REPL much, am I doing something wrong?

Applies to python, too. I am always surprised if developers and data scientists working with python don't know that ipython, and by extension the python Jupiter kernels, come with a repl that hotloads code changes from local installs:

%load_ext autoreload

%autoreload 2

Is usually my first cell in a notebook.

Repls are so powerful. The repl like behavior of flutter is also why our mobile dev likes it so much.
It’s a mistranslation of melon I think.
You mean the real Uber drivers who correctly understood that Prop 22 would allow them to voluntarily work in the way they want to work, despite the fact that well-meaning busybodies didn't like it?
Maybe you need to stop reading propaganda about Bezos.
I don't have any books to recommend, let alone 'neutral' sources, but two research 'areas' may help:

1) The USMC reading list. If you want an English language view of the current state of 'thought' from the leaders of any near-future conflicts, this list is it. It goes from poolee to the top brass. Maybe look for the more top level books and read from there. Though the underlying mindset is important and is from the lower rank books.

https://mca-marines.org/commandants-professional-reading-lis...

2) The wikipedia articles on the Nagorno-Karabakh war of October 2020 and their linked pages. Obviously there aren't any books out on this war yet, as it was so recent. But the underlying mechanics of the war are likely to be the ones we're seeing in the near future as both sides were somewhat evenly matched and had access to modern weaponry. "The war was marked by the deployment of drones, sensors, long-range heavy artillery[99] and missile strikes, as well as by state propaganda and the use of official social media accounts in online information warfare.[100]" I'd maybe put out a google alert for books about this conflict when they come out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict
Come back when it’s portable off of Top Shot. Seriously. If Top Shot disappeared, what do you have? A copy of a URL that 404s?
Didn't you hear? This is ELI5 from reddit now.
The real story is how delusional the world has become, to consider Tweets important
Right - those are the goals and they are crucial ones. I was thinking "best practices" in terms of, well, practice. The implementation of things to achieve those goals.

The most obvious thing one could do in Ruby land is to vendor one's gem dependencies with bundler, but I'm not sure how that works in conjunction with a typical git-based workflow.
> read, they think your incorrect

Nobody runs through a thread downvoting all your posts because they think you're wrong, they do it because they're mad which means they know you're right.
Which is fine if there is an option for me to turn it off. But from the settings I couldn't fine one (I might have missed it as I don't login that often and it doesn't bother me too much).
With an interesting ownership model, no less.
It'd be nice if government agencies moved to self-hosting their own official social media systems by way of interoperable web standards (ActivityPub for example).