skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At no point were the American public consulted by the intelligence agencies when they did these operations.

That's exactly the problem! Once the federal government started conducting secret projects during the world wars, it stopped being accountable to the public. And it used that latitude to commit war crimes, assassinate foreign leaders, and experiment on American citizens. All in the name of lower commodity prices and fat profit margins for well connected companies.

The CIA should have been disbanded after what came out in federal hearings in the 70s. We have known since the 90s that the joint chiefs of staff endorsed killing Americans in a terrorist attack to justify invading Cuba.

Americans as a whole are good people, or at least no worse than anyone else. But our government is a bloodthirsty imperial machine whose claims of any sort of moral high ground are laughable.
Notice that in some cases, channels were banned for merely advertising that they also run a channel on libera.chat. Not that they are moving to libera.chat, that they ALSO run a channel there. It's a very basic attempt at suppressing people wanting to leave and trying to convince others.

And you're correct, there is no point to freenode existing.
From article:

Lucas Lombriser hypothesised that the Earth is located in an under-dense region within the Universe when compared to the average.
You are speaking as if the people dying by lack of treatments / surgery would have been avoided if COVID had been left uncontrolled, which is the total opposite.

All the beds would have been occupied by COVID patients!

That's what happened with the 3rd wave in Canada, most 80+ already had their vaccine so the death count wasn't high but everyone who got covid in lower age brackets spent weeks (and are still there), which forced some hospitals to move their ICU ward to parking lots in army Baracks.
In the two languages mentioned, semicolons play a different role: statement terminator vs. statements separator .
Wrap it in a module, then you can change it without any problems. It's not ideal, but it works very well in practice.
Ugh. This is an outdated article. Modern day displays are crisp enough to render sophisticated serif typefaces.

For example, this book [1] on the web uses EB Garamond [2] to present the content:

[1] https://bubblin.io/book/a-108-verses-of-the-gita-by-swami-bi...

[2] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/EB+Garamond

[3] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cormorant+Garamond
So what we're seeing is a repeat of the film industry from 1930's-1950's. You want to see a Paramount movie, you must go to a Paramount theater. Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD.

We could really use laws that force, once again, some sort of separation between production and distribution. Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.
Adorable Lizards Figured Out a Genius Way to Breathe Underwater
Tell me more about the communist contributions to human history without omission on its costs.
The flip side to this jealousy, like many things in life, is the unsexy realities: even an investment in an index fund this past year would’ve outperformed the average year’s ROI several times over. The upside is right there, available just by following the same common sense, safe investing advice being preached for decades.

Definitely not as fun as making millions on meme’d speculation.
> But it is no surprise that George Hotz, working alone as team tomcr00se, would rise to the top of the CTF.

So then this has to be fake then, obviously. Apparently George Hotz (geohot/tomcr00se) won a few CTFs single handedly [0][1].

I'm sure that marcan is also genius as well, unfortunately though Hotz is somehow still able to stay relevant, continuously.

[0] https://www.koscom.co.kr/eng/bbs/B0000043/view.do?nttId=1040...

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nyu-poly-cyber-secu...
It is a scandal in the eyes of people that want to be offended in my opinion. He called Epstein a rapist. The witch hunting did cost much more reputation and I fear that isn't recoverable.
20 years after Atlantis lands in San Francisco the camera flys over the now moon-based city. We see puddle jumpers zooming to and fro. A Daedalus class ship exits hyperspace from some mission far away.

The camera fades to the control room. A ragged Dr Jackson with a headset is arguing with someone. The room is abuzz with many others doing the same.

This is the moment the audience first can see the logo on his shirt. "Amazon Galactic"

Atlantis has become the Amazon headquarters for the Milky Way. Daniel Jackson is just one of many customer service representatives. The Jaffa were retrained to do deliveries across the Galaxy.

The Goa'uld are long gone.

OR ARE THEY?

Camera pans to Jeff Bezos. His eyes glow just as the camera fades to black.
I agree. I read the books after watching the first four seasons, and I felt disappointed how Ashford is described and handled in the books.

Also, the books set a very high bar for Naomi's "solo adventure" (let's call it that to prevent spoilers), and the series did such a great job, and stayed very true to the source. It was satisfying seeing this unravel almost exactly as I had imagined it.
I have two titles on Switch and Steam. What you are saying is incorrect. The process to get approved and launch on Switch is substantially more difficult than Steam, and the quality of titles is as a result much higher.

Because of the lack of curation and quality control, I make a lot more revenue for the same product on Switch than on Steam.
>lol, online monopoly isn't enough for the tech companies?

That raises an interesting question - how would non-tech companies compete online? Shouldn't tech companies be an effective monopoly in tech?

Do mining companies have a monopoly on the mining industry?
I started watching SG1 again (I saw it incomplete as a kid). It’s incredibly good. It pushes rationalism and feminism in a sane way that I’m not sure would happen in today’s environment. It’s incredibly rich in historical references and concepts. It’s rarely dumb and often preempts cliches. It’s still worth watching imho (and is much less known that Star Trek in US).
If you're transmitting two streams you use two streams to transmit. I don't see the problem?
One of the points Andrew Ng repeatedly makes, especially recently, is that we do not focus a lot on the data.
ML is a field of models, not data. That's fine, it's an academic discipline. However, a data scientist should probably focus on something else.

Nevertheless, we currently want to be ML people, more or less.
It's sexy to download __some__ dataset and develop a new model architecture.
It's not really sexy to collect good data - not just any data, but good data.

Now, coming from academia, I think this is just a normal thing. It happens in every discipline in some way.
In academic fields that are driven by observational data, data collection is usually a difficult and tedious task. Developing theories, methods and, of course, new results is much more interesting. And rewarding!

Look at economics and Piketty's work: His main contribution was to collect data on wealth. Nobody really cares about his models much. However, for some reason, that data simply did not exist before. And it's now valuable for hundreds of different projects.

As a data scientist, one needs to think about data, first and foremost. One needs to spend most time on collection, on measurement errors, on selection effects, on identification, censoring and all that stuff that nobody likes to think about.

Fitting the next best function approximator to the data is the most fun, but probably not the most valuable thing a data scientist can do.

From that standpoint, I think data scientist is a proper job that is probably needed in every company in the future.
However, no coursera course on the latest ML package will make you a valuable data scientists.

I think data scientists who are expert statisticians, survey and experiment designers, causal inference gurus and combine that with proper CS techniques will be valuable.
Wait. Does this mean that you are against the use of any tech product made by a company? From the description and the author comment it looks like they are not transmitting the keystrokes to their server (and it does not seem to have any need for it anyways). How is this different from using say, a compiler made by a company (they have access to all your code), or an image editor (they have access to all your photos).
Just picked up the new macbook air m1 and I am staggered to find that I can play starcraft 2 and bioshock decently on a laptop that draws 30watts and is capacitivily cooled... Really just unbelievable.

So if valve could someone get ahold of some cutting edge arm processors in the next few years then this could be very viable(though I doubt they will get it out before the next version of the nintendo switch).
Lee ows PIA? That explains a bit. I have an interent distrust of big VPNs whose ads are so prolific all over the place. Same reason I won't use Nord.
lol cooley-tukey FFT is anything but simple when you actually have to implement it.
Online-Measurement of the Mains Frequency
> Not only was the UK considered to have some of the best pandemic planning in the world prior to Covid hitting

While that is true, the UK "was considered" as such, both of those little words are key, especially _was_. This misperception has been overtaken by reality.
The real question here is where players like SKY in the UK eventually go for content, I pay €40 a month for Skys satellite service and I am on the edge of cancelling it, I have Netflix/Disney/Prime for a combined approx €30 a month, recently when watching live TV I spent 40 minutes channel hopping and watched nothing, most channels are now reality show filler junk, the occasional gem in there is looking less and less worth the cost and its only a matter of time before they get squeezed out of the live sports market as well.
> The Matrix ecosystem is the only thing I can think of, that could eventually replace IRC. (There might be others, I am just not familiar with them)

There is no ecosystem, despite public documentation of the "protocol," Synapse is the actual standard when it comes to Matrix, so it's your only homeserver choice. Element is the only client. These are both produced by a for profit company. They're no different than Rocket Chat or Mattermost but with way less honest marketing towards hackers. Also, the federation is fake (stops working when matrix.org goes down) and the identity to Matrix ID mapping is centralized at vector.im -- if you want a silo you can host your own identity mapping server, but then you can't be found on the wider network.

Matrix is a joke. It's a series of grant deliverables flying in formation and pretending to be a protocol.

Oh and the CEO is wildly unprofessional, he's on here all the time as Arathorn in any thread about Matrix, spreading FUD about other networks and selling lies about his to gullible nerds

Matrix sucks. Modern XMPP is literally better in every way, and also still sucks. But at least federation is real, in XMPP.
yep, but the comment I replied to said they searched for the hash and found [2] (I presume they searched on google from context).

When I search for the hash I don't find [2] coming up in my search results, and when I click through to [2] I don't see the hash in the page.
The first step is to represent the data source (eg database) in the code, so you can ask: what is the schema here? This goes beyond just the database schema, but also intent. Is this a soft delete table? How is it audited? Child/Parent relationships.

So when you pass around data, it isn't "just in a map[string]interface{}", but a data buffer that knows about itself. Then you can tell it to do operations on itself, and pipe data from one system (ui) to another system (database or api).

This is what Go is REALLY about. You make machines to handle your work. You don't loose meta-data; but you don't loose sleep about typing (Go is typed but not rich typing like Rust). Go is all about the tooling.

When you make a line of business application, write the tool first.
Did they though? Right now UK is sitting at a total of 4.5 million cases, and Germany has 3.6 million. By per capita case count, UK is at #50 globally, and Germany is at #73. That's certainly better, but it isn't _significantly_ better. It's not an order of magnitude better. It's middle of the pack better. And that's you picking and choosing a country. Plenty of European nations did worse as well. So if you were to take a random sample of EU nations, UK is pretty much in the middle.
> Expecting otherwise is just acting entitled.

As is the idea that you can just buy users.
Remember - the communities were the ones that managed the channels, not Freenode. Especially single-# channels that weren't grandfathered were subject to a policy that ruled that official project had priority for names reflecting it.

And now "freenode" effectively hijacked established community centers, changed the locks, sometimes for the very "crime" of discussing whether to move... or stay. A lot took a wait&see approach, some were more decisive and used channel flags to prevent people getting lost, thinking they got official org channel while arriving in a dead one full of lurkers that forgot to kill a ZNC somewhere.
The recent resignation letters indicate they have become aware of how much technical control the owner has and intends to exercise.

Edit: that said, I was unaware of the statements from Lee that are linked to by an arstechnica article linked elsewhere in the comments. Honestly really not sure who to believe. For all I know (which is nothing first hand) this could be another group sabotaging things to boost their own new network over personal disagreement. Which I'm not suggesting is the case, but as someone not personally involved, all I see is conflicting hearsay.
Here's hoping they pick up Stargate along with some of the SG-1 writers and producers. With the Expanse ending next season, there's definitely an opening for an exclusive sci-fi show in Prime's catalog.
Also:

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Well you need some kind of formal structure which owns critical assets (such as domain names, brands) and allows for your desired model of governance. Individual people owning things largely increase the risk of a hostile takeover.

A non-profit where members elect the "leadership" (which can have very few actual responsibilities) seem to work fine. Of course that means you need to find someone willing to take that position (usually on a volunteer basis)
While i don't agree with the whole US Bad sentiment, shooting down a civil airliner isn't something that never happened to the US military.
And i don't think anyone went to jail for it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
It also really doesn't seem like they have anyone with the skills in their wheelhouse to do good by this.

A big part of differentiating a console from a PC is building an operating system that prioritizes the game process uber alles. It's not just a fancy window manager slapped onto a commodity PC. Even the original Xbox had a lot of custom OS work done to it, stuff that would eventually serve as the test bed for developments in DirectX.

Does Valve even have any operating system developers? I thought their core dev body was mainly focused on screwing modders and getting kids addicted to slot machines.
Day 3 – IAM Role, MFA and User Audit Security
Every time Amazon enters an industry, they wipe away a competitor wallowing it total mediocrity.

Is the appetite really there for anyone other then perhaps Facebook?
No, that was done by the #rsync admin, because they opted to do a "hard" move. What the freenode guys are doing is using this fact as an excuse to subsequently and indiscriminately hijack every channel which mentions Libera in the topic, in any way.

I myself did a hard move of my project's channels to OFTC (#asahi and friends) - I didn't kick everyone out but I did leave the channels +m and with an explanatory topic, as I figured going cold turkey would be the best option, especially given the relative youth of my project (it started in JJanuary). We were spared the takeovers because we moved to OFTC, so our topic didn't include the "Libera" trigger word.

In retrospect, this hard move was evidently the right choice, given subsequent actions by freenode admins, and after this latest action I decided that even the moderated state was too unstable, and did what #rsync did (kick everyone out), except I changed the topic to something that doesn't mention any moves and locked it with +l 1. I hope perhaps this will allow the channels to fly under the radar of freenode staff, so they don't take them over - especially since they've been redirecting project channels to identically-named topic channels with no regard to who owns them, and ##asahi is some older channel owned by an unrelated person.

It is ridiculous for freenode to claim authority to override project owners' choice to migrate to another network. The entire point of (old) freenode, and what set it apart from other networks, is that its official namespace was verified. That means it is officially controlled by a given project's leaders. For example, our project owns #asahi and the #asahi-* namespace on freenode. That also means that we project leaders should be free to choose not to use freenode for our project, and direct users elsewhere.
Thanks for your reply and your recommendations. This helps a lot.

With regards to CS books: Any you can recommend in particular having the hobby web dev context in mind? Not a book, but a few weeks ago a friend recommended the CS50 course on edX. So this is definitely on my list.
A DevSecOps Controversy? Failing the Build with Jenkins in SAST
> US looked like a force of good after WW2

Watching some of the US WW2 propaganda is really eye opening. We're the lesser of 2 evils, but that's not saying much.
I doubt that they are stupid, so one must conclude that the purpose was to silence speach, not profit from it.
No, most Taiwanese have made up their mind and would like Taiwan to be recognized as an independent country, and do not consider themselves Chinese (as in mainland China). The issue is that as soon as the Taiwanese government said that they don’t claim China, it’s akin to claiming independence and China would possibly go to war.
What's interesting is that the government had to step in and break the movie theaters from the movie studio in a famous anti-trust case. I wonder how it'll play out in this case. Presumably Amazon may still license Bond movies (for example) to Netflix. In fact Netflix is included in my Prime bundle I believe...
Show HN: Typos, a source code spell checker
Wait until you hear his revelations about the wetness of water...
The Streisand effect is in full force now. The Google results if you search for "freenode" are now almost all about the drama. As is the freenode Wikipedia page.
What you're saying is technically true, but it's incredibly misleading.

COVID redefined what "running out of hospital beds" in western Europe means. So you can go on looking for articles before 2020, if you ask any professional in a hard hit area if Covid is "the same thing" as a bad season of Influenza they will tell you no.

Here's an example: in 2019 Portugal had around 500 ICU beds in the public hospital network. In February 2021 there were 900 people in ICU in Portugal just for COVID.
You will be powerless if you explicitly ELECT a few people to assume power over you on your behalf. Which is what electoral democracies are. Add in the real power of wealth and influence mixed with corruption, it is laughable to think we're free societies. We're sold little trinkets of make-believe "freedoms" while nothing of real importance is ever left to the hands of commoners.
After only reading the headlines promising the bright future of USB-C, I am very disappointed now that I carry three USB-C in my backpack for different use-cases.
"... Garamond is considered one of the best fonts in existence." Best? But not good enough? I'm confused. Maybe those surveyed designers meant "important." In which case, why do we need it on our devices now, 520-odd years later?
OT: That entry says it's the name of a deity. Are names "words"? And are Italian names English words?

This is meant to be an honest question, I just don't know. Intuitively, I was surprised.
He didn't say it was. He was talking about "in general" and at the end even wishes them good luck.
UX isn't really a function of the protocol though.

With email, you see a lot more diversity in UX experiences between clients.

IRC chat has historically been a CLI interaction, with limits what you can do, UX-wise. And even the GUI clients tend to emulate much of what you'd have in a CLI or TUI. There is a lot that could be done to make it more friendly to a new user.

But, that extra amount of complexity that's involved with a protocol approach (which program should I use? which server do I connect to?) is definitely a UX issue. But, I think these are issues that could be solved w/in the community. For example, Libera. Chat has a nice set of pages that start with "Which client should I use?". I could completely see a set of "How to use IRC" pages to help new users get started.
6 most common pitfalls of AWS Lambda with Kinesis trigger
A Man Escaped

SPOILER

- is that the one where the pow makes it to the front lines and gets shot by his own side who assume he's German, since he was disguised?
Analysis of Two Dozen Databases
These pictures are stunning. Each one of them is so powerful. We've really only been shown our side of history.
Le Minh Truong is an astounding photographer, and one that should be as celebrate as Robert Capa, or many other Western photoreporters. Impressive.
The picture with the two women and the fishnet is one of the most beautifully composed pictures I've ever seen, period. And I've seen a lot.
Insane that I never got to see these pictures before today.
back to sailing the seas :shrug:
Let's assume the SteamOS would make this device 100% locked to Valve's ecosystem, which would give Valve the ability to sell these devices at cost (by charging fee's on games sold). Let's set the price on the same ballpark of the current consoles prices.

What would make people choose this platform over Windows, PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo?

This is where IP comes to play, and why Valve shouldn't have dropped the ball with their game development investments, and they would have exclusive games to get the ball rolling.
DMCA strictly reduces your liability.

If you follow the DMCA takedown process, then you are shielded from liability for the copyright violation.

If you don't follow the process, then you are back to exactly where you would be if the DMCA didn't exist. You have to be taken to court to actually face any penalties.
When you try to return some products, the only choice is to speak to an agent via live chat.

Also relatedly, I made a complaint via feedback-form about Amazon Prime issues a couple years ago on a Friday. An Amazon support agent called me on a Sunday* to help me work through my issues. It was the middle of Summer and I was out adventuring, so I didn't have time to get into the issues, but it sure surprised me.

*Here in Austria almost everything is closed on Sunday, except public transport, care homes/hospitals and restaurants/bars, so it was doubly-shocking to receive a phone call.
This is just Freenode applying Apple App Store policy regarding mentioning competitors. Freenode is creating a walled garden where they can control the user experience, and the new owners need to protect the value of their financial investment in the platform.

It's also a hostile takeover.

Hooray for capitalism.
> None of these places ran out of hospital capacity.

You would know this to be nonsense if you knew almost anyone who works in healthcare.

I know retired health workers who were temporarily re-commissioned to deal with the total lack of staffing capacity.