skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very naive perspective, in my opinion.

I wouldn't put it past tech giants in democratic nations not to tweak their algorithms to push their own political agenda, much less tech giants in non democratic nations.

It's too powerful a tool not to abuse, I know it, and you know it too.
Abstract

> The generalizability of empirical findings to new environments, settings or populations, often called “external validity,” is essential in most scientific explorations. This paper treats a particular problem of generalizability, called “transportability,” defined as a license to transfer causal effects learned in experimental studies to a new population, in which only observational studies can be conducted. We introduce a formal representation called “selection diagrams” for expressing knowledge about differences and commonalities between populations of interest and, using this representation, we reduce questions of transportability to symbolic derivations in the do-calculus. This reduction yields graph-based procedures for deciding, prior to observing any data, whether causal effects in the target population can be inferred from experimental findings in the study population. When the answer is affirmative, the procedures identify what experimental and observational findings need be obtained from the two populations, and how they can be combined to ensure bias-free transport.
That’s a just-so narrative. Scientists can’t make political overtures and require evidence to draw conclusions, yet simultaneously are able to discount the weapons program hypothesis? It’s one or the other.

Anyway, one of the problems with media consolidation is that people don’t hear competing narratives, so whatever narrative a small group of people decide on is what ends up feeling true to people.
Yes, and you need about 12 digits to write the net worth of Bill Gates, which is to say this does not matter as much as you think.
One example on the benefit of being returned to the family is that they can take you and plant a tree in you and then you grow into a tree, likely near the family, so that you can still be with them in a physical way!
Trick question: the transport for post-1986 TV shows is almost always anamorphic D-1, 704x480 pillarboxed to 720x480 :)
I don't see any discussion of typical entry points. How do these guys get into the system? Is it by having someone download a malicious file? If so what type of file? PDF? MS Office? If so Adobe and Microsoft should be held accountable for their security holes, only then will they have enough motivation to maybe consider rewriting some of their code in a safer language such as Rust.
We the Screamers
Exhaust gas contributes to global warming and pollution kills people.

Every time a red light is blown without directly harming someone net negative externalities are reduced.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/o2a0kp/there_are...
Unless the attackers revealed their exploit, it probably wasn't fixed and they just got in again the same way.
Brave is the false sensation of privacy, _compared to Firefox._ For people who use Chromium, Brave is the best there is.
Windows 3.1 had something like 5 built-in widgets. CTL3D.DLL (dating myself here!) IIRC added a bunch more. IMHO somewhere between CTL3D and XP was when design topped out.

I still love elements of 7 and 10, but honestly would have been totally fine if 2K or XP were the final themes. Imagine if after all this time, the only way to date a Windows installation was by subtle design variations of the window title bar. Such bliss! Although of course, I am glad for many of the changes made during the mobile/touch revolution.

I wonder if the tide will ever turn on UX ideologists. Chased out of the industry like the witches and warlocks they are :)
I hate the inconsistencies, but this is a bit of an extreme breakdown.

The ones marked as 95, NT, and XP are all fit with each other. Vista and 7 also go together fine, and with the UI theming still don't look inconsistent with the previous set.

The one marked as 8 looks right at home with 11 (which was really just a matter of giving it blurred transparency and rounded corners).

Splitting 10 RTM and the Store is weird. They very much go together.

That leaves 10 19H1 which is the biggest oddball to me and hopefully gets fixed to be consistent with 11.

But anyway, isn't it better that they haven't fucked with some of the older (95-7) UIs that your normal user is never going to see? (I'm counting add/remove programs in that set since there is a non-.cpl replacement that is modernized) Power users tend to hate it when things get changed for no reason other than aesthetics, especially since they often lose functionality.
Scientists are teaching drones to hunt down human screams
There is also the threat of leaking private data. Companies which collect PII could be liable if it's proven they were negligent.
Relevant quote from one of ZFS's primary designers, Matt Ahrens: “There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. ... I would simply say: if you love your data, use ECC RAM. Additionally, use a filesystem that checksums your data, such as ZFS."
You do so by tapping the heart to like the video. If you want to jump-start it use the discover tab and search for something you like.
Cost to LEO has dropped a lot recently. At 951$/kg to LEO wood is probably good enough it’s not an issue for most satellites.

Overall strength is probably close enough to be irrelevant in many cases and construction costs could drop quite a bit. It’s not the cost of the carbon fiber that’s at issue it’s how difficult the stuff is to work with.
Senator, we run ads!
I know, but Linux will not be forever, someone will start a new kernel that will replace it. All this giant tech companies could afford to pay some experienced people to start working on it. The initial scope would be limited but if the architecture and the language combo would give it a performance and security boost then for sure it will be adopted and new contributors would appear. If the performance/security would be similar to Linux/BSD then for sure the progress would be very slow.
I'd agree with them that the portal is terrible. Multiple times a day I get blank page errors, where the page is completely blank except for a single non-sensical error message in black text.

However their actual services are also pretty terrible. Pretty much everything takes significantly longer to deploy than the AWS couterpart. There are so many preview and deprecated features that it is often hard to judge exactly what feature set you are getting, this is often compounded by the fact that almost everything has multiple SKUs which also change available features. Azure AD RBAC is a bit of a mess, although its conceptually simpler than AWS IAM policies its just a pain to use in practice, and its often slow for changes in permissions to actually reflect. Azure VM disks are annoying to use too, you can't set the size of the OS drive at creation and extra data disks come unformatted. "Grossly incompetent" is probably an overstep though, Azure is very impressive, just not as impressive as its competitors right now.

Having said all that their are a couple places where Azure really shines in my opinion:

* Resource groups (GCP has a similar feature) allow you to more easily keep track of related resources across services.
* Price transparency. Many (not all) services tell you up front hourly/monthly costs as you are deploying them through the portal. You don't have to track down a pricing page or calculator yourself.
* Azure functions are amazing when using C#/.Net. A huge amount of the regular boilerplate is abstracted away into simple C# annotations so you can get a large % of business logic.
OK, what about a helicopter? I think that better conveys parent's point...
It makes relying on meaningful options passed to `echo` non-portable. You can always rely on `echo` being on the system (thanks to POSIX), which is what makes it portable. Relying on the behavior of -e/-n/etc is not.
It didn't really need establishing, since Sinclair themselves acknowledged it. The debate was over whether that was normal, which it is not: http://www.mediafiledc.com/sinclair-says-must-runs-normal-in...

Lots of people like to point to AP or Reuters as examples of copy-paste news programming, but that ignores the primary difference: affiliates select which AP or Reuters stories they want to air and/or publish.

Others compare TV networks like ABC or CBS requiring shows to be aired at certain times, but none of the networks mandate local news coverage like Sinclair does.
Mars helicopter employs advanced control techniques to survive in-flight anomaly
After five successful flights, the Mars Helicopter had a minor incident during its sixth voyage that was fixed using advanced control systems.
My guess is evolutionary selection. One above average male with two or three females would be a more fit reproductive group than a male female pair, and with not much more in the way conflicts of interest.

Whereas one female and a couple of males seems unstable from the start.

EDIT: typos
> 99.9% of commerce is conducted between people that don’t know each other.

By volume I'm guessing. As in a person buying something from Lidl/Walmart. In any case do you have a source on this claim ?
The article seems to be about those tiny PC speakers which beep out BIOS codes, not those types of speakers used to output actual OS sounds and music
UFOs and Alien Beings
Licenses alone do not govern behavior in open source
@dang can we update the link, on mobile you can’t even view the thread (Reddit pop up)
What does the outcome distribution look like if you don't pay the ransom?

What percent of orgs that did not pay the ransom get hit again?
This is correct. Any filesystem using the kernel's filesystem cache will do this, too.

For a long running, non-idle system, a good rule of thumb is that all RAM not being actively used is being used by evictable caching.
Seems like some progress has been made because the oldest style here is as recent as Win95.

For a long time, the "Install Font" dialog was unchanged from Windows 3.0, with a tiny little folder tree view meant for 8.3 character file names and a drive picker button...

Some googling reveals they cleaned these up around 2015:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/windo...
When they hit a hospital, what is the hospital supposed to do? Not negotiate, for some "greater good" and let patients die?

https://threatpost.com/ransomware-hits-hospitals-hardest/162...
You're right. Most of the points I called decent are old stuff that has been addressed multiple times.
Memory safety hasn't been a problem with mod_tls because mod_tls is the module written in Rust.

But likely you were thinking of mod_ssl. Except, mod_ssl is how Apache ends up using OpenSSL, where the famous Heartbleed bug is literally exactly the sort of memory unsafety that you'd never do in Rust.
> For instance, I have a link bookmarked around here that takes me to a heatmap produced using the phones of people who have a particular biking app installed and have enabled public logging

Could you post this link, please?

> Does anyone have any non-Android OSM map editor recommendations?

JOSM. It's no beautiful and the UX is clunky, but it's java based and therefor works on a lot of operating systems.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editors
If only managers would perceive the money spent to pay such organizations as a necessity rather than burned cash
Now hold on, I think you're on to something. We still haven't solved how to communicate the dangers of nuclear waste to our descendants several millenia from now. What better warning than thousands and thousands of skulls piled around the hazmat?
Yeah as a non-expert I can only vouch so far. I can say that the time I did my deepest dive (about the various Latin words that look like 'pila' if you ignore vowel length, and their etymology - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pila#Latin), using wiktionary as a starting point for trawling 'real' scholarly references I presented the work to my Latin teacher, a university professor of Ancient Greek, who said it checked out (though, he's a classicist and not a general linguist, so maybe that doesn't count. And maybe he was just humouring me).

What we need is a linguist to get on here and give their take, and tell us how it fares compared to the professional resources.
My statement was not that abstract. Those who have the power to inflict punitive damage on others should be really careful about when they apply that power. The premise of my argument is that tech org management is sometimes so careless with the way that they hire and fire that sometimes it is cruel.
So ransomware already means they got into the system, they could open a new secret backdoor or completely tear down your security if they wanted to. Plus it takes time to identify the ransomware to undo/remove it, so in that time they could attack again. paying ransomware ransoms is just saying "pretty please don't do this again".
I would leave a backdoor too if I was them (maybe not what they did)... I wonder how many paid for a 2nd and 3rd time...
It also leaves out the Windows 3.1

https://i.redd.it/5xo6c8xmst571.png
kyc laws only applies to exchanges that allow cashing out. I don't understand why kyc would be required here. The browser user should be the miner getting a reward as a private key. They should be able to move it to any exchange (this is where kyc is required) or trade privately.

Why they chose to implement the design in this way is not what I would expect.
Beware of articles like these. They are PR pieces profiling the services of a company. And making it seem like everyone is doing it. and how it is all the rage.
Can you check my understanding here? So all this money builds up, they have no one to lend it to (except the Fed), which they have to because of the SLR.

The Fed raises rates in two years, and banks can lend out, but people a) can't afford the monthly payments for current prices at higher interest rates or b) have extra money from QE and don't need debt. Prices fall for things that require debt (cars, houses, college), but go up for things that people can pay for in cash? Less total is lended out due to the falling prices of things and increased interest rates? The whole volume of money moving around the economy decreases.

The Fed can inject more money, but there will already be too much (at large banks and corporations) on the market that is already not allocated effectively.

I guess... I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what happens next?
https://github.com/jasonpugsley/installer/wiki/.Net-Core-3.0...
Same, made a similar rating jump. Chess is challenging, fun, and at times really frustrating. I lost 12 games in a row yesterday and rage canceled my chess.com membership and decided to take a hiatus. It’s not so much losing 50/50 for me it’s losing 8+ games in a row that sucks. I always say I’ll take a break after losing 3 in a row but then I’m paired with someone 200 points lower and figure it should be an easy match… not always the case. You gotta be at the top of your game to even keep your rating which isn’t always fun. At least I usually improve after a rating dip and a break.
To preempt criticism.
> Oh, and every single person who has hair on their neck looks unkempt, without exception, am I hearing that right?

Yes, shave it. Especially if you have long neck hair and short or no facial hair.

There are some exceptions, if you have a long beard, maybe.

Hair in other places is considered equally distasteful (long nose hair, ear hair, whatever).
I haven't personally seen any cases rule in that direction, and I haven't seen any strong movement from Congress or the Supreme Court to suggest that the interpretation is incorrect. But maybe there's a movement that I'm not aware of, I'm not always in the loop on this stuff.

Regardless, Section 230 as it is applied today protects distributors like Twitter from liability for hosting illegal content in a way that the DMCA as it is applied does not. Reworking the DMCA to work more like the common interpretation of Section 230 by companies and the courts would be a large improvement over the current DMCA.

Whatever the law's intent, in practice platforms like Twitter, Youtube, and Redbubble are strongly incentivized to remove any content they think might be infringing without considering fair use or the validity of the takedown requests they get. This incentive and its effects are much more noticeable with the DMCA then they are with most other liability laws online, including Section 230. And that incentive is harmful for creativity, industry, and speech.
If only organizations would backup their own data. Then they could just restore and avoid paying.

This is commonly suggested, and entirely useless.

What the ransomware groups do is put a time bomb on the computer, then leave it to trigger on a future condition. Your backup will backup the time bomb, and the second you restore it, it also goes boom. And therefore your backup is a perfect copy of your data but entirely useless.
> Because if you put comma-delimited phone numbers into a field, you lose the ability to relate and join those phone numbers individually to another table. Which is bad

It's bad if you expect that ability in the first place! If the data you're storing (e.g. a list of phone numbers) will only ever be treated as a unified blob without any finer senantics, storing it as a single attribute is not a 1NF violation.
Modding is a totally underrated thing right now, but I feel it might become big in the future. Someone just needs to come up with a solution to both keep mods free and incentivize mod authors.

The way I see it, the big boys create games that acts as platforms and users freely create content of their own using these platforms. Bethesda/Microsoft might be in a good position to achieve this, they have good modding communities around their other games, really interested what their next title brings to the table, hope they don't blow it up like the last time they tried to monetize mods.

You also have something like Roblox, where the concepts of game development and modding kinda blend together, so it's definitely a trend to keep an eye on in the future.
I second this. I don’t have the reddit app and will not install it to view this link. Might as well remove it from HN altogether.
This is exactly the business model for some VPNs, particularly the free or very-cheap variety.
Yeah, I remember reading that a few years ago.

If I were running a server farm or something, then yeah, I'd probably use ECC memory, but I think if you're running a home server, then the argument that ZFS necessitates ECC more than Ext4 or Btrfs or XFS or whatever doesn't really seem to be accurate.
Why don't you just sell ads?
Not sure why the downvotes. Thor appeared in various Marvel comic book properties starting in the early 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(Marvel_Comics) I'm sure this contributed to public knowledge of Thor at least among a certain demographic.
I mean it's mostly a kids dancing app, so that's mostly what you get by default.

Follow Tom Silva, Mr Barricade, Soft Pourn, Woodshopdiaries, Scott Hanselman. This will get you a bunch of interesting content. It might not be what you want, but it's definitely not makeup tutorials.
Hmm cute but I think off the mark. Batman's niche above the cops in the dark knight trilogy seems to be hand to hand combat, cleverness, stealth, and mobility. He doesn't really identify as a detective in those films at all. I don't think anyone would believe that the a legally unrestrained gordon could have defeated any of the trilogy's antagonists.

Superheroes acting above the law is a fairly generic problem outside of that
I think this is a grey area depending on your setup and listening preferences.

I have ~2kW of RMS amplification available to my floorstanding loudspeakers and subwoofer. There is a lot of DSP/EQ protection in between my HTPC and the mechanical drivers in the speakers.

Despite all of this, I have had incidents where the software glitches out and plays the un-decoded DTS/DD stream. If you have your volume set at or near reference when something like this happens, it can cause physical damage (to both your speakers and your ears).

(Audio) Engineering is all about balancing many complex factors. Mistakes happen and you can't address all of the edge cases without ruining the overall user experience. To say its the fault of the speaker is a little bit accusatory in my opinion. Can you ruin your car by taking certain actions? Certainly. Is this the car's fault? No.
Synthetic primary keys like a unique integer ID assigned to a row are worse in theory - the id column isn't real data. They exist as a very common practical compromise for good reasons, but you should be aware you're compromising theory for practice.
Yeah I usually cross-reference etymonline and wiktionary, and I can't recall anything too suspicious.
The sites in those results (at least the 10 I checked) are all low quality blog spam. I suspect this is a politically motivated spam network created for the purpose of then using it as an example of media bias. Similar to what's happened in the parent story actually!
Using a program which is advertised as non-proprietary as such. Not trusting Microsoft to be nice.

Pretty important in case they fall back into old Microsoft‘s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish hab... oh, look ...
Modern .NET is legally owned by the .NET Foundation. It is MIT/Apache licensed with the exception of some debuggers in VS Code (which propably conflict with VS itself).

Granted, the .NET Foundation is not the Apache, Eclipse, Linux or CNCF Foundation and it is dominantly financed by Microsoft, but there are relative important peers like AWS or RedHat involved.
Juggling Between Product Manager Realities
Only Off By $4bn, or Roughly 100%
As always, it depends on your use-case.

I have several file-servers all use ZFS exclusively. and 10x that number of servers using ZFS as the system FS.

Rule of thumb that I like: 1GB RAM/TB of storage. This seems to give me the best bang-for-our-buck.

For a small (under 20) number of office users, doing general 'office' stuff, using Samba, it's overkill.

For large media shares with heavy editor access, and heavy strains on the network, it's a minimum.

Depends on what the server is serving.

DeDUP is a different story. The RAM is used to store the frequently accessed data. If you are using DeDUP you fill the motherboard with as much RAM as will fit. NO EXCEPTIONS! This may have been the line of thinking that scared you away from it.

I have a 100TB server that is just used for writing data to and is never read from (sequential file back-ups before it's moved to "long term storage"). It has 8GB of RAM, and is barely touched.

I also have a 20TB server with 2TB of RAM, that keeps the RAM maxed out with DeDUP usage.

ECC: It's insurance, and it's worth it.
Yeah, totally absurd. Would you sacrifice your life for the strangers on this forum? Let me guess, no? Huh, wild.
Those numbers are completely meaningless without comparison to how long it takes to get approval for other power plants. I could not find definite answers but this report [1] for Australia says it can take up to 15 years between original prospecting and operation of a windfarm. I found another source that said it takes on average 3.1 years for approval in Sweden (it was not clear if that applied to windfarm only). Several other sources talk about multi year time frames as well. Considering the comparable impact of nuclear vs e.g. wind 4 years is quite short. Also this also disproves that nuclear is 3xpensive because of regulation, other energy sources face similar regulation delays.

[1] https://www.nwfc.gov.au/observations-and-recommendations/cha...
Researchers identify new gene that may increase risk of ALS
Source? Everything I've seen says 1 foot rollout is industry standard.