skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nukes means a conventional strike by Israel with the option for further nuclear preemptive strikes.

If the US could somehow talk them down, the US ally (Saudi Arabia) would be disadvantaged against the Russian one. This necessitates either removing the nukes or arranging for the Saudis to get some.

Iran’s pursuit of nukes is easily one of the most destabilizing power projection attempts in the region.
If citing a couple boneheaded moves like that mean they're not a competent actor, then who is? Consider: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nuclear-missile-code-00000000...
The reason I trust them is that I can monitor what info is sent from my pc from the brave app. So that’s a good thing. They aren’t tracking and reporting all my browsing so that’s good.

I’ve never done anything with the crypto part. I just use them as a clean, ad-free browsing experience. There’s ad blockers for other browsers but brave is the easiest for me to use.
> Practically every nation on Earth except Iran

Including citizens of Iran.
Having competency in red team scenarios doesn't translate to having a cyber-proof national infrastructure, as is evident.

They are actually two wildly different problem sets. And the latter is boring & unsexy.
On paper or in reality?
linux on dex? I seriously dont know why they pulled it off? I mean if they had put some effort into the whole thing, laptops would be a thing of the past. Plug your (13gb ram, 512 gb storage & powerful arm cpu) mobile to just about any display device with a keyboard and boom! You have a laptop. It was on Samsung Galaxy Note.

I mean the first versions are of course not of the best quality. But in maybe 5 years, it would have be an universal feature.

Alas. They discontinued the project.
Thank you! Appreciate it! Glad you noticed some of the details.

I didn't intentionally model the Mongo query language. Some requirements were:

- JSON-based: so I did not have to parse the query

- Easy to extend: so I could add new operators later

- DB independent: so I could swap out SQLite with postgres, mongo, cockroach, duckdb, etc. IF I ever wanted to

- Expressive: so I could do aggregations / group-bys / etc

I considered using more popular standards like the ElasticSearch API but they weren't quite what I wanted. I liked how jsonlogic was basically just an AST. Its primitive structure makes code generation to other DB query languages straightforward.

I started this project with my own "JSON lisp" variant, but then found jsonlogic & used that since mine was _pretty_ close (only lists, no objects).

The top-level fields of my queries look like SQL (select, where, group_by, order_by) - I really like the Honeycomb query UI (https://www.honeycomb.io/query/) - so wanted to be able to support user experiences like that ... but also go further via arbitrary jsonlogic expressions.
In that case I would say either are stable enough for you to use. If you want something sooner than later I would get a Pinephone.

If you go with a pinephone get the 3 GB version, as anbox takes up a fair bit of RAM.
SARS-CoV-2 RNA reverse-transcribed and integrated into the human genome
If that is true then there is no need to force apple to do work anyone can do.
> who work hard

You have no idea how hard people work. Ad browsing pays the same no matter how hard people are working.
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> The memes took a great step forward when they invented writing – and then printing, and then other forms of communication, from railways and ships to fax machines. The important concepts of copy-the-product versus copy-the-instruction are explained. We can now understand how and why the internet has evolved and guess at the direction the memes will push it in.

From the synopsis. Oh boy was that prescient.

I'm also glad we don't have to wait for our memes to arrive by railway, as was seemingly done in the past.
There are hybrids all over the place. Preferred stock is a classic example.

But there’s still a basic framework before you get into the messy middle. Taxonomies are a useful technology, calling everything a loan obscures more than it clarifies.
Almost ready with FSD Beta v9.0. Improvement for bad weather. Vision, no radar
Human hacking in a police state with no diplomatic mission for cover and where nearly every foreigner is surveilled from the moment they enter makes this even more remarkable.

The fact that western intelligence agencies and especially the Israelis managed to develop a network of assets in Iran is marvel of tradecraft.
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I don't see the point. We know that zoonotic transmission and natural origin is possible. The question is about how likely it is to be the origin of COV. No-one who has been to Wuhan would expect zoonotic transfer. And certainly not of aersolized bat coronaviruses.

afaict the strongest evidence against lab-origin is the claim that COV was circulating in Italy in early autumn 2019, although I've read lately that the tests claiming this are now apparently suspect. go figure.
I have to say that I'm not seeing a ton of evidence that the US really wants to go forward with the JCPOA. The "adhere to the old agreement and then we'll come to the table" position seems designed to be unacceptable to Iran.
Vatican City is not a near-island like the US, tho. It’s a micro state with massive travel to/from the rest of Italy (which was hit early).

Taiwan had high mask usage early on. That would’ve helped a lot in the US.

Testing was very successful, actually, in places like Singapore. Didn’t help that there was official discouragement of wearing masks followed by culture-war mask avoidance in the US.
JCPOA failing means no IAEA inspections. I don’t understand Israel’s rational around stopping the IAEA inspections if they don’t want Iran as a nuclear power.
The dream ticket: sleeper trains could soon run from London to Europe's cities
Incorporating in Delaware is the exact opposite of trying "to skirt rules and regulations". It is based on the desire for well defined, stable rules and relatively efficient enforcement.
You're absolutely right. The JCPOA is the only show in town.

What do you think Israel's good Strategic measure would be?
> the US will find a much hoped for excuse not to re-enter the nuclear deal.

Can you elaborate? All the indications I've seen clearly point to the US wanting to reenter the deal. Biden denounced Trumps withdrawal numerous times during the campaign and vowed to bring the US back into the agreement. It was part of his presidential platform that he ran on, and he lifted several sanctions put in place by the Trump Administration on Iran when he initially got in office (first 2 weeks). If the US really wanted an excuse to stay out, this seems an odd way of going about it vs not saying anything at all and silently continuing Trump's policies.
I'm not convinced VR is set to grow a whole lot. I think that the VR that we were looking forward to back in the The Lawn Mower Man / Matrix days is a long way off. All we have today is just TVs that you glue to your eyes which aren't really close to what we've been fantasizing about in sci-fi for decades.

* Most headsets probably aren't good enough to not cause headaches after about 2 hours. I also think they could lead to eye problems.

* Right now we only have a very limited subset of senses available. (Touch, Taste and Smell are still a long ways away from being available.)

* The way to interface with VR is still very crude. Still uses a traditional controller or at best some Kinect like interface. Which would have the problem of needing a expensive treadmill like device to prevent you from bumping into walls.

* The headsets are still expensive. The hardware it takes to run games capable of taking advantage of the headsets is expensive. The cost of developing those games is also crazy expensive.
It refers to when the same company both owns the site/content and operates the advertising for it.

Google has search, maps, gmail, youtube. Facebook has its social media sites, Amazon has amazon.com, Yahoo has its own sites. Bigger publishers with enough scale also run their own ad infrastructure, for example Washington Post has some of the most advanced in-house adtech.
You sound like an ideal colleague.
distributed systems are complex, and most likely you were bound to an overloaded webserver. My knowledge of S3 is six years old now, but the copy operation is single threaded with a tremendous amount of hashing to ensure durability.

At scale, the performance cost is worth it given the number of checks done internally to ensure the copy is perfect. If you download and upload, then you could make it faster however getting all the details right such that corruption didn't happen is tricky.
Timezones don't account for seasonal changes in sunrise times, and DST is a poor hack that tries and fails. Using local solar time would be an improvement in that regard. On short days you just do less.
There are lots of hard working drug addicts as well as lazy sober people. Quality of life is complicated.
SpaceX has an automated system, that can be overridden to coordinate with others, which is exactly what they did in this case. I don't see why that's bad? If they refused to override and coordinate maneuvers, that's one thing, but they didn't.

Having a system that can maneuver itself in the absence of outside intervention seems like a good thing when time to respond is measured in milliseconds under certain circumstances.

This seems like collision avoidance systems in cars, easily overridden but functioning when the driver isn't paying attention.
Sure. I use Jump Desktop for RDP/VNC over SSH (with a Citrix X1 mouse) and Blink/Prompt for tmux sessions. A typical setup of mine has a remote container with Xrdp, Firefox, VS Code and barely enough window management to do full-screen windows and workspaces (typically blackbox).

Remotes can be anything: I have a KVM host at home (that I remote to from my Mac for Docker dev) and plenty of Azure VMs.
> The sum of your complaints are because you know how to do it in PS.

Or PS is just more intuitive than GIMP.

> I am a professional graphics designer

Once you are using a tool professionally, I guess that intuitiveness is no longer a selling point. It is though for someone that only use it from time to time...
There's something that's been bothering me for a long time about interest rate policy.

In general, I have the impression that people take for granted that lower rates are "easier" even when they go negative.

However, it vaguely seemed to me that either side of zero should be considered "tightening". The sign determines which way money is going, but the absolute magnitude constitutes the friction.

So I've wondered if negative rate policy was counterproductive.

Does that make any sense at all?
Of course, you can pretty easily see it traded on exchanges. [0]

There’s over a million web creators accepting bat just from brave [1] and while that’s not everyone or even a big percentage it’s not “few web creators.” If you don’t want to give to web creators you’re free to cash out and donate cash to charities. So that’s a plus that’s not possible with other browsers.

Note, I don’t use the crypto feature in brave, I’m just annoyed by people spreading FUD about stuff.

[0] https://www.coinbase.com/price/basic-attention-token
[1] https://batgrowth.com/
Andrew Carnegie noted that the richest men in 1850's America were barely rich by the standards of the 1890, because of the technological changes and industries created, which minted huge fortunes.

Similar huge fortunes are made any time more technology breaks out and scales better. That's what he means.
My full understanding of Git, I have dumped it here in my site.

https://bobbydreamer.com/44-git-theory-1

Git Internals are really fascinating. Simple concept, wonderfully done. Git is a gem.
What's more, no one else can tell you're vaccinated. It's polite to be visibly making every attempt to prevent transmission to other people.

There's also an argument that it's safer to have an easy, blanket rule, rather than permit everyone to editorialize on why they are super special and should be given a pass. There's a solidarity angle as well. Just wear the mask, darn it!
> Nation-states using cyber capabilities in this way

Strictly speaking, Iran is not a nation-state. It is a multiethnic state.

The way to avoid this confusion is to write ‘state’ (problem here is that this word also refers to American states) or ‘country’ (I think people might feel like this word is not sufficiently sophisticated?).

However the error is understandable as it is particularly common in discussions about cybersecurity (or national security, where ‘national’ means the USA). It’s especially silly in those cases as some typical US adversaries (Iran, Russia) are states which are not nation states.
I'm one of the authors of this article -- happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
You are happy with a phone that won't run an authorized Signal app, takes 5–10 seconds just to open the screen to turn wi-fi on/off on Mobian, and whose map apps are all barebones tech demos compared to OSMAnd on Android? I have a PinePhone too and occasionally hack on it, but I wouldn’t call it a "reasonable" smartphone yet when the software is still so half-baked and, unfortunately, it hasn’t succeeded in attracting very much of a dev community (as the existing devs sometimes complain).

Maybe I’m so disappointed because I remember the Nokia N900. Now that was a reasonable Linux smartphone, except for the blobs.
Currently orders from the original 2017 campaign are still being fulfilled - they're all expected to be shipped by May and those people already got their shipping estimates long time ago. More recent orders should come in next few months, but there's no accurate shipping estimate for them just yet since there's a SoC shortage on the market that makes lead times fluctuate a lot at the moment. I think it's relatively safe to say that the goal is to handle the whole queue and have stock available at least by the end of the year, and if all goes well it should happen much sooner (but you can't really be sure about anything in this pandemic)
Thank you for listing these. I teach a PL course and try to expose students to as many paradigms as possible. To some degree I have to teach python because the students do t get it elsewhere, but I could do without it for the reasons you state.

I think your list is great, but if I were to add two of my own I would include Lucid, an early data flow language; and Smalltalk. I think they fit the criteria for languages that teach you something new about the way to approach programming and language design.

Thanks again.
Remember the time the same job could be done with a simple cron, rrd and cacti for the storage and apache.

Now you need "complicated" things: prometheus, grafana, docker, etc.

I am a bit puzzled. Is it because sysadmin tutorials from 2000's are not showing up anymore in Google ?
Why these tools failed to stay popular ?
The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at fifty: a midlife crisis
VOS: An effort to write a modern, fast, and interesting operating system in V
Well, I have an iPad mini :)

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2016/11/06/1930
How cotton is made in Xinjiang
Surely you concede that, even if 5-6 hours is not enough for you, it might still be enough for them.
It launches a decent series with each book having different premises, as well.
AWS Fargate vs. Google Cloud Run
You could also use the other methods lots of people suggested.

Sorry your bank is so feature poor but glad you like it. USAA is an awesome bank so would love to learn more about a bank that’s 10x better. Also, my local credit unions offer this common feature.

But it seems like you’re blaming your the ice cream store for your own and your bank’s shortcomings.
Got any good book/story/fiction blog suggestions? I like the way your description made me immediately want to experience these influences.
>> Is there a Linux phone that's polished enough for the non-savvy user?

No.
Don’t hold your breath on the next PinePhone iteration. On the forums, people expect a new hardware generation to come in only 3–5 years from now. Pine64 seems to assume that the hardware is fine for now, it is only the software that hasn’t been developed and optimized enough.

You mention Anbox in another post here. Don’t expect that to allow you to run banking apps on Librem/PinePhone, as banking apps increasingly require the Android phone to pass Safety Net, and Anbox doesn’t.
> By the Way, All Your Subordinates Are Lying to You (Because You Don't Listen)

> One very interesting thing I had found, when I came into an office as an outside objective evaluator and you had left me to do my job, was that approximately 2 nanoseconds later your employees were already telling me everything that was wrong about you, your company, and your development methodologies. It was not a matter of having a trusting face, or even promising them to make things better, it was about your employees who cared about the growth of the company, and more importantly about their own growth within a company despite feeling unheard and ignored. I just happened to be a new face that wouldn’t judge them for what they would say, and even if I did, often they are so tired of the problem being present that they would even just stop caring about any potential consequences of speaking out against their employer.

Whenever I read something like this I wonder if I've just been extremely lucky with my employers, because I see it so often it sometimes feels like it's the norm (despite obviously not benefiting anyone). It should be noted that I don't work in the games industry though
Also convertibles.

And I don't disagree even though I had a long ago finance professor who hammered on the point that a lot of financial instruments weren't necessarily that distinct from each other just because they have different names. But, yes, we can generalize about the distinct characteristics of normal debt and normal equity.
I think the title is misleading. I do not see anything in the article confirming it was a cyber attack. Only media organizations claiming that it could be.
Iran very much need the money. Iran will show patience as long as it's needed to unblock the money they have in foreign banks.

Once that's done, they'll use that money to make more missiles and arm the militia in middle east.
You're talking about the PinePhone. The Librem 5 uses i.MX 8M Quad, which is a significantly more powerful SoC than A64.
Reinventing the wheel is the new mantra.
Pledge was created as a response to low `seccomp` (Linux) and `capsicum` (FreeBSD) usage in the wild. Pledge trades off granularity for ease-of-use, and has seen quite a bit of adoption despite OpenBSD being a small ecosystem.

As a Linux-based programmer who hasn't quite delved into the UNIX internals world, knowing that I have to write my own BPF filter or do some crazy stuff with file descriptors (in the case of capsicum) is enough to scare me. But on OpenBSD, I added `pledge` and `unveil` calls to all my silly Python chat bots in 15 mintes
here is full pre-print study
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.12.422516v1....
What you see them doing isn't all that impressive. For the most part when you see these types of retaliatory attacks they look complicated but the reality is that they're fairly low tech.

For the casino hacks they brute forced some passwords and then wrote malware with Visual Basic to steal more credentials. The technical barriers there are fairly low. For the attacks on the water infrastructure they probably just scanned looking for open systems and ran off the shelf exploits on the ones that looked the most interesting.

Attacking in this way is a lot easier than attacking a specific target. If I just wanted to "hurt" a country from a PR perspective then there's a lot of attack surface, and you only need to get one or two things through to make the news. Targeting something like a secure nuclear facility is orders of magnitude more difficult.
Facebook Has Removed over 16,000 Accounts That Were Selling Fake Reviews
Knowing the history of railroads, this comment is truly spit-take worthy. Railroads are my go-to example for what the "model" capitalistic industry looks like. Historically, the investment boom/bust cycles were driven in large part by railroad mania--most railroads in the 19th century were funded by public stock offerings to raise the capital to build them, producing and popping investment bubbles with almost decadal frequency.

At least in the US, there was surprisingly little public subsidy of railroads. The big exception is in the west, where many lines were financed in part by land grants, but this is not true all of lines (the Great Northern Railroad, for example, had no land grants)--and most of the railroads in the east has no land that could be granted to them at all. Antitrust laws in the US specifically originate from regulating the anticompetitive practice and local monopolies that railroads had. Indeed, many of those practices that motivated the law are now being repeated by airlines without a corresponding modern push to regulate those practices away.

Actual state ownership of the US is rare, both now and historically. The big exceptions are the temporary nationalization of the railroads during WWI and the assumption of the bankrupt Penn Central assets into Conrail (which was divvied up between CSX and NS in 1999). Of course, the US may be unusually competitive on the world scene for modern railroads, with US/Canada essentially three geographic duopolies (BNSF/UP, CP/CN, and CSX/NS).
The original Nest could be disabled by waving at it.

By design.

It was a differentiation feature used for its marketing.

There are exactly zero good ideas for user configuration of a smoke alarm.
> The only philanthropy stories I am interested in are the ones where dedicated people of character start from the ground, consider the needs of actual human beings, and work with their representative governments to bring change.

And asses the impact! So many projects that meet even this excellent definition of philanthropy still fail to have a tangible positive and verifiable output.

The play pump comes to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_PlayPump
Timezones are a reasonable compromise between the desire for people to be up during the day, on one hand, and the need for a modern economy to be able to coordinate people over long distances, on the other. Turning up the dial all the way to the left here is going to cause a lot of problems.
While that is true to some degree, the primary motivation of advertising is to close the information gap, to make sure customers know about your product.
The absence of evidence that 6 is much worse than 8 hours is not evidence that 6 is not much worse than 8 hours.

If sleep studies show that 6-hour sleepers do better than 8-hour sleepers on a variety of metrics... that definitely counts as evidence.

It doesn't matter that much in this case because we already agree that it's worse

The parent comment literally cites a study that suggests 8 is worse than 6.