skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can run an IRC client in really limited machines. You can have a client even with Netcat and SH.
You might enjoy this analysis of Skyfall, which talks a bit about the choice of the poem:

http://filmreadings.com/2015/12/23/skyfall/

"The authoritarian tendencies of the agency are also underlined by the film’s portrayal of MI6 as a monarchical structure, where M rules as the flesh-eating “king rat” from Silva’s parable. Through such small touches as her flag-draped coffins or the recurring tune of “God Save the Queen” which plays to her grim skull-visage, M is repeatedly surrounded by iconography suggestive of her role as a murderous Queen. The connection is also reinforced by her lengthy quote from Tennyson’s Ulysses midway through the film. For although the poem in question is often read as commenting on Bond or the aging 007 franchise, it is on a deeper level the interior monologue of an aging monarch, and serves both as a comment on M’s weakening grasp on power, as well as her outright rejection of the principle of democratic oversight:"
If companies which send copyright notices had to pay a hefty fine for each mistake they make, online world would be a bit of better place.

Also the victim should receive a reasonable indemnization, as a way to encourage sharing of content.
> declare it unconstitutional or something?

It's not obviously so - which articles/amendments do you think it violates? In any case, it's insufficient for us to declare it unconstitutional, that's for a judge to decide. In the absence of such a ruling, we can elect legislators to repeal it. But that seems terribly unlikely unless you can pose new legislation to take its place.
It's not rational. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288630
Both Iran and Guatemala were operations undertaken by the CIA with absolutely no knowledge by the American public.

You do understand this right? At no point were the American public consulted by the intelligence agencies when they did these operations.

It's rather childish to retcon history by implying that declassified operations that were deeply unethical were endorsed by the American public at the time. These operations were ultra-classified in the American public had no idea about them for decades. Do you think that's fair to make the assertion that the American public do not promote freedom as a cultural aspiration based on this?

Meanwhile millions of people have lost their freedom in the last year when the CCP officially retook Hong Kong and violated the treaty with the British. They are literally being deprived of their democratic rights. Less than 10% of the Chinese public have any form of voice in their government (via CCP membership). Hong Kong is vastly less free than it was a year ago. But sure attack the US for crimes committed 70 years ago, while ignoring what's happening as we speak.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of Using Metrics to Measure Human Performance
was inspired to write this article after reading the books The Delicate Art of Bureaucracy by Mark Schwartz and The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Muller. While I draw from these and many other sources, I do think I have a novel mental model for thinking about the pitfalls of metrics and avoiding them. The intended audience for this article is the business or technology leader who is considering using quantitative metrics to measure and improve the performance of individuals or groups. Quantitative metrics are powerful tools but, when applied to human work, can easily cause lasting and deep damage. This article’s purpose is to help the reader use metrics usefully, and be able to identify and avoid their pitfalls.
Some people love gatekeeping, on both left and right spectrum. Power is a drug and this gives them a kick.
To switch from Discord to Slack (or between any two protocols), you need to learn how to use the new app, set-up new integrations, rewrite your bots, and hope you did not depend on a feature Slack is missing.
> What HATEOAS ostensibly gives you is not the ability to painlessly switch domains, but rather to change your entire URL path structure and even the entire schema represented by your REST endpoints.

Which would be utterly pointless, because the fact this schema is opaque to the clients means that it's meaningless to the clients.

So you have no reason to change it.

> I've always worked all my API up to level 2 (HTTP Verbs) of the Richardson Maturity model, but I've never felt convinced that HATEOAS is worth the effort. It seems like the majority of HTTP API designers out there have the same opinion.

The "maturity model" is honestly non-sense and Fielding also thinks that.

It's kinda like first level to being a bird is flapping your hands, second step is whistling with your mouth... No, you're not any closer to being a bird, you need to be the entire thing for the benefits of being a bird to come about.

Trying to stick to the CRUD concept of HTTP verbs is rather harmful. CRUD is a common starting point for a domain's verb structure, but being restricted to it is crippling and results in bizarre obscure semantics or underdeveloped business constraints.

I'd say to hell with all of it. I stick to HTTP as-is, and that's it. Also it's telling I think that to this day HTML forms only support GET and POST. Even HTML isn't RESTful I guess. /s
The difference is one motion requires users to install and learn a completely new application that likely has a different feature set.

The other requires them to simply update their server list.

If someone has been using IRC for a decade they likely have some automated workflows built out. If they had put in that effort with slack bots or whatever - being forced to abandon or start over from scratch is a PITA.
I also had read this verse as capping human lifespan to 120 years, but someone pointed out to me that what may be referred to here is a duration of time before destruction of the earth, that might have been the countdown to the flood.
One of the things that Freenode (and other networks) allowed that I haven't seen from Libera.chat (yet) is the ability for others to host servers as well. I wonder if that will show up in time, or if the plan is for only Libera.chat servers to be part of the network.
> is itself systemically racist.

Agreed on that, although I don't like the term itself. I think many people confound the terms systematically and systemically. I know the term systemic from medicine, I don't know if it is a loanword as well. But here it describes conditions affecting the whole organism.

I don't like it because some people like to pretend there is such a condition of prejudice within us. Not helpful in my opinion and I detest people that carelessly diagnose it in others.

English isn't my native tongue, so I might overthink this.
I was reading about this and then... What isn't canonical? I don't understand your question.
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None of these applications seem to benefit significantly from cryptocurrency, and the technical/security issues are orthogonal to it.
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Ugh, you are literally putting words in my mouth. Don't do that to anyone, it's just horrible. I haven't said anything remotely like "if you die of COVID, I guess you were going to die anyway".

Re-read my comment. I said that people with comorbidities are more likely to die of Covid. Hence, it follows, eliminating comorbidities will reduce the Covid death risk. And that, in the context of fighting _against_ Covid.

I re-read my own comment, and I just don't see how you could misunderstand it so badly. Either you just glanced it and drew poor conclusions, or you are intentionally attempting to misdirect people who first read your comment (since you probably also made sure to downvote my own).

Edit:

Here's data from CDC to support the claims. Some of these are clearly things that can be improved.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precaut...
Not sheer evil. They don't see people, just assets. If you have poor performing assets, you get rid of them. If you find a use for assets that is potentially more productive, why wouldn't you use them that way even if it destroys the asset in the process. It's all about profit/loss.

Read more history and you'll see this is pretty much SOP for humans.
On most of those channels, the previous state was that it is an official, supported channel of a given organization (especially if it's a non-grandfathered single-# channel).

The mass bans and such are the only way to mass-notify in reliable way that an official channel moved elsewhere. In all cases I've seen so far, the channel hijacked by new ircops was not a random community channel, and in fact freenode had policy even before that about prioritizing official org ownership.
As a counterpoint, it does not seem to a foreigner that their government is worse than average
Your subjective statement pushes a narrative that racism from white Americans is the cause of the problem. It's reductive and unproductive, which is why it received comments so quickly. Pushback doesn't imply you're right, it implies a divisive comment or subject.
I'm seeing plenty of Nix/OS/pkgs IRC regulars and seniors in matrix rooms, and lots of active discussion going on.

There is demand and mourning for IRC bridges, and I'm sure that will be taken care of sometime soon, but to me it seems Matrix is the new home.
When rates were higher total interest payments tended to dominate over the life of the mortgage. In most cases the interest payments would exceed the entire value of the principal over the life of the loan.

Over the life of a loan the interest portion is negotiable while the principal payments are not. A buyer in improving financial circumstances can accelerate payment on the principal and avoid future interest payments. The buyer could also refinance if interest rates came down.

Interest payments in the US were also tax deductible while principal payments were not. This preserved some purchasing power early in the mortgage when interest dominated the payment. Renters can deduct both interest, depreciation and upkeep while homeowners can only deduct interest. Lower interest rates skew the market more towards renting versus buying.

The result of lower interest rates is that today’s buyers are making a very different financial bet then buyers over the last 50 years. The only option buyers have to avoid payments on principal is to default. They won’t be able to accelerate repayment and reclaim future purchasing power like previous generations did.
Something that I haven't seen mentioned in discussions about NFTs (not that I've followed many) is their potential for facilitating money laundering.

It looks like they would provide a value similar to that of certain auction houses where large amounts of suspicious money are regularly transferred in the name of subjectively perceived value [1]. Is there something that I am missing, or could this be a tacitly sought-after (if illegal) potential use of NFTs?

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/c7883919-26e5-49f5-816b-de1747232...
To offer a different point of view: If I were to create my own chat protocol, I would actively try to make it next to impossible to implement it on mobile and consider this a feature. Nothing is gained by mobile users. From the features/interfaces they expect, the kind of communication people are accustomed to on mobile, and to them just being idlers 24/7 anyways.

Let people who want smileys, gifs, fancy UI, backlogs upon reconnect, reply features, friend lists, voice features use discord and whatever, and please let IRC be a stream of text messages and old school and a haven from this modern shiny crappy world.
You don't need to register a nickname (I didn't when I used freenode)

In the clients I mentioned listing and joining rooms works the same way it does on discord and slack: you open the list and click the ones you want to join.
How much do you like your hair-dryer?
Maybe that was the wrong way to phrase it, maybe we shouldn't assume Freenode is under the control of a malicious actor as there's no need to question rasengan's intentions. What it boils down to is that his actions now are indistinguishable from malice, intentions aside, and so we should react accordingly.
Some untrustworthy entrepreneur bought Freenode. Network staff quit in response and started Libera. The new Freenode staff then proceeded to give users every reason to migrate to Libera.
Isn't it against the principle of innocent unless proven guilty?

Also this law circumvents the court of law, which sounds like it could be in violation of some more foundational laws such as the constitution.

Finally the law puts control over free speech in the hands of corporations.
I don't have a source I can cite, but I'm hearing indirectly that freenode's current policy is that a bot doing something like that is not allowed :/
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there are a few ways this could not be true.

the mortgage could have been locked in a long time ago at a much lower valuation. the rent would still be above the underlying mortgage, but that doesn't mean I would have bought the house when I was a child.

the landlord might own the building outright, or the valuation might be increasing so fast that the rent only needs to offset the rent. either way, the rent could be pushed below the mortgage (or what the mortgage would be).

there are some us cities with extremely high price-to-rent ratios. some of those properties must be renting for below the underlying mortgage.
So is going to acknowledge him singlehandedly torpedoing the clear and responsible effort, by violating the rules himself, and making up the worst BS lies about "I needed to drive because driving is how I check if my eyesight works"?

No? He didn't do that? He didn't acknowledge that his personal choices that were completely bananas, with lies stacked on top, in violation of government orders, undermined the response and likely cost lives?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that this asshole is the hero of his own story.

> He added that "in a well-run entity", the prime minister could have appointed a "sort of dictator" to run the Covid response, with the power to "fire anybody or move anybody".

Oh, and I bet that would be you, wouldn't it? You incompetent narcisistic muppet.
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Ah, 055. The beginning of a whole arc on the Antimemetics Division, which has been formed from scratch over and over again every time someone realized there ought to be an antimemetics division.
To counter your devils advocate, universities within the UK which perform the most cutting edge research in this specific field are already closely linked to specialist hospitals, and can obtain the kind of data they need on a targeted and explicitly consensual basis. The fallacy that more data inherently leads to better ML affords poorer quality research, and explainability often lags behind in these cases.

Its hard to compare NLP (such as pretrained transformer models) to medical ML because there are real and potentially fatal implications to misdiagnosis. The focus should be on small scale and explainable ML, not brute forcing patterns across large populations (which is more effective for insurance companies than clinicians). FWIW, I'm a massive fan of the potential of CV in diagnosis, and in aiding spotting abnormalities early, but I think the proposed opening up of data is absolutely the wrong way to see innovation in this field.
Japanese occupation was before the two wars cited though. It went French colony -> Japanese occupation -> War against the French -> War between North and South (with US siding with te South)
Also The Quiet American
> even though lobsters is a directly competing message board

lobste.rs is invite only, so not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
I think it is often better if you explain why and how the argument is fallacious without actually bringing any named fallacies into it. If you’ve done a good job of explaining the why and the how, you don’t need the name. But sometimes people think if they use the name they can skip the explaining why and how
> yet they are failing in what I believe is crucial for these devices: price.

IMO Before coming to price, none of the Switch-likes are good products for the broader market. They lack the UX, polish, brand, games, and pretty much everything that makes Nintendo consoles such a big success.

I wouldn't compare the experience of playing Super Mario Odyssey on Switch and some old game on a janky emulator or some AA game on 20fps and broken UI.

Even if they had the same price tag, I wouldn't expect something like Aya Neo to eat into Nintendo's market share. Only a fully developed platform can do that.
It's the # channels that are affected. If I understand correctly, ending up on the ## counterpart when you try to go to # is Freenode's doing, not the projects themselves. I guess that makes ## channels official now.
Absolutely. Totally up for an IRC-like system with some or all of the feature gap closed compared to systems like Slack or Discord, but this Freenode stuff has nothing to do with that.

And anyway, isn't Matrix trying to be that next-gen IRC?
So your argument is: if Finland is a nice place to live, then it has the moral right to invade any country where standards of living are lower?

Also before US involvement all countries were colonies, do you think being repeatedly invaded and bombed has any negative effects?
No Sympathy for Redmond.
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
More than the Protestants?
> Curious to see sql-jobber here. I'm the author, if you have any questions.

Well it's good software! I was thoroughly impressed with a lot of the stuff you all have put out -- Listmonk was an immediate thought of something that could be better for my mailing list solution (I currently use Mailtrain). Listmonk is so good it feels like I could run a aaS off of it alone.

> Yep. The model makes sense when you have large databases (for us, it's hundreds of billions of rows in multi-DB Postgres instances) that have to directly serve complex read queries to millions of users pulling reports.

Yeah this was interesting to read about! Have you all seen the Incremental View Maintenance[0] feature that's currently being worked on? I'm not sure that it's actually better than what you have now, as it feels like it would increase load more and if what's working for you is working well there's no reason to change.

> 2) Easy traffic control and queuing when you have large volumes of read requests coming through. This can be beneficial to large DBs serving reports to users irrespective of the kind of reports. In addition, when there is big, unexpected surge in user traffic, the reads just get queued and users just have to wait for longer to see the results, but the big databases never get overloaded.

This is a huge benefit, and what I picked up on that I hadn't seen much before -- having people running reports wait is so much better than having the DB go down, and I don't think I'd seen what you all figured out suggested as much. People are kind of doing what you're doing with the general idea of a data warehouse or a data lake, but this seems like a step before that level of complication and is pretty accessible to administrators/users (no one has to spend a few days figuring out what a data warehouse is, etc).

[0]: https://github.com/sraoss/pgsql-ivm
I’m pretty sure USSR published a photo book “Vietnamskiy Reportazh”
> I think their point is that REST means nothing beyond “uses HTTP verbs”

Funny thing is that this means HTML pages also aren't restful, because they stick to GET and POST.
Sunburns are bad, therefore block the sun.

When you make too broad arguments like this you risk losing all the benefits associated with the technology you want to ban.

Bitcoin mining is in the process of becoming greener, but it has a long way to go. Some other cryptocurrencies are moving to proof of stake or algorithms instead of proof of work, but these moves are still early stage. The environmental reason is a matter of time - given enough time and public push, all of the cryptocurrencies will be forced to be green.

Any technology will be used by criminals if it's beneficial. I do not subscribe to the 'if you are not guilty then you have nothing to hide, so give me access to all your data' policy. One of the biggest benefits of Bitcoin in my mind is that it is a currency not tied to any given world power.

Cryptocurrency is almost, but not quite, at the alcohol level. Prohibition made alcohol go underground and secret, and not much of a secret. Criminalizing Bitcoin will do the same. Also, what about legitimate people who have invested in what was a legal thing, do you tell them 'Sorry, you are now out all that money?'. That seems a great way to ensure you lose the next election, if there are enough people who have invested (and in my surroundings there are more and more traditional middle-class families investing in cryptocurrency).

Disclaimer: I own a fair bit of cryptocurrency.
Those are all important points, though I wonder: with registration required, tied to email accounts, and if we were all running thousands of small irc/xmpp/matrix servers instead of one big system that is indeed simple to attack, would the dangers still be that serious?
Powering 90% of the things in your house via DC power should be the future, no more switching from DC solar/battery back to AC and then back to DC again for no reason.
If it's running SteamOS (and it will be, even if there's Windows compatibility Valve probably doesn't want to pay for licenses), it might as well be locked to Steam for 90% of people. Epic's launcher doesn't have a Linux version (since they've claimed as have many other developers that the Linux community is 1% of users and 90% of complaints due to distro differences), nor does EA, Ubisoft, etc. They could port it, but by time they had something user friendly and working (which may be difficult since you probably won't get more than Steam Big Picture which doesn't have support for installing non-Steam applications at the moment) Valve would've sold a boatload of these and a bunch of Steam games.

Edit: not to mention anti-cheat, which is a whole other kettle of fish when you have to integrate into a entirely other kernel with different plumbing. Valve's anti-cheat doesn't rely on kernel modules or a ton of client side software at all, so they have a cross-platform advantage there too.
Ban cars to stop hit and runs.
I have a Lelit espresso machine with a PID and there are many forum discussions where people share their P, I, D values and argue which ones produce the best resuls. I haven't really fiddled with those yet but maybe I should give the article a try.
What kind of idiocy is this? Apparently you can already buy cables for the BADUSB exploit:

https://sneaktechnology.com/pentest-engagement-scenario/badu...

Better carry your original cable and device with you at all times.
It's on the [0] link, with the line

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Caution is the superfood of institutional racism
> For anyone out of the loop, "Liberia Chat" has nothing to do with Liberia (the country).

Please note: The new chat system is Libera Chat, not Liberia Chat.
The thing is, they don't mine asteroids with pickaxes. They aren't up there brecause mining requires it, they are mining because existing up there requires the trade from mining and they aren't allowed to exists anywhere else. Perhaps the numbers are a little exaggerated, but you don't need many to make a space habitat appear hopelessly crowded. Take the inhabitants of Wyoming, coop them up on the existing fleet of cruise ships and see how crowded it will get. (a quick glance at Wikipedia numbers suggests that they will fit, but it won't be nice)
79% want a work space that isn’t the office or home