skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum

> The Telemediengesetz (German meaning "Telemedia Act") requires that German websites disclose information about the publisher, including their name and address, telephone number or e-mail address, trade registry number, VAT number, and other information depending on the type of company.

The relevant German laws (§5 TMG and §55 RStV) are fairly vague, so lawyers recommend publishing an Impressum if your website contains any commercial content (for example, ad banners) or any journalistic content (for example, blog posts).
I stopped using -n X for head/tail in favor of just -X (eg -1 or -10 or whatever). Save a few keystrokes, plus certain unixes (eg Solaris) only work with -X and don’t the support -n switch.
It sounds like you've misunderstood the statement.

They're not saying the lab-leak is more likely than not given the CCP likes to hide things. They're saying the lab-leak becomes relatively more likely after conditioning on the information that the CCP likes to hide things.

That's completely reasonable if we think the tendency to hide info is going to asymmetrically impact the investigation into a leak more than an investigation into zoonotic origins. It's also reasonable even if we think they're going to hide things whether or not it really was a leak, since the impact can still be asymmetric.
Based on all the negative comments so far, and based on this website's aptitude at predicting the viability of a product, it really seems like Copilot is bound to be a success.
Wow, I guess I never really paid attention to the details behind all the Amazon headlines I see.

"In April, Amazon announced it would reduce the amount it paid for drivers from $17.25 to $16.00 an hour, according to the letter...Weeks later, Amazon announced a series of raises for its drivers around the country as part of a public relations push following a union drive at an Amazon warehouse"

"Currently, Amazon delivery drivers are expected to deliver upwards of 400 packages a day on 10-hour routes that often extend up to 12 hours."

400 seems crazy, I wondered about UPS. According to Google "At UPS, the average driver makes about 120 deliveries per day, says Jack Levis, the shipping giant's director of process management"
Labor is different from goods. People are absolutely getting different wages for the exact same work in different places.
Something like that needs to be the default tbough.

The existence of an alternative setting, and the fact that one family even used it, does not address the problem that now teenage boys probably say "Alexa suck my ..." to 12 year old girls.

What Amazon has done is created a part of everyones environment.

Many companies have done that by now. Have been ever since industrialization and mass prduction not just internet related things.

To me, that comes with some responsibility. We just have no formal system for recognizing and codifying that responsibility. Most of our capitalism rules are still based around a shop owner.

A local barber shop can name a new hair style anything they want, because even if it's somehow harmful, only a few people are ever exposed to it.

But ever since Ford and Kraft etc, private companies have created things which become part of the environment of everyone in a whole country or even the whole world.

We did codify some of that responsibility in the form of some basic safety standards and cencorship on the old pre-cable public tv and radio spectrum. Something like a name? It's hard to say how that should be handled, but I think we haven't even tried to consider it as a question yet, let alone answer it.
Here is another one also including a serverless SQL database in the free tier: https://cloudbackend.appdrag.com/
Spying is one thing, DDOSing government websites of a notionally allied country is another.
Shodan is great. I’ve used it quite a lot for my work.
This is a complex topic, mainly for two reasons: 1. it works on two layers (storage and code) 2. there is a context to take care of.

[Modern] programming languages have decimal/rational data types, which (within limits) are exact. Where this is not possible, and/or it's undesirable for any reason, just use an int and scale it manually (e.g. 1.05 dollars = int 105).

However, point 2 is very problematic and important to consider. How do account 3 items that cost 1/3$ each (e.g. if in a bundle)? What if they're sold separately? This really depends on the requirements.

My 20 cents: if you start a project, start storing currency in an exact form. Once a project grows, correcting the FP error problem is a big PITA (assuming it's realistically possible).
Author here. Yes the company is in France, and I'm currently writing those (called "CGV" and "Mention légales").
They may be scientists in their own fields, but in the relevant field they are not.
Are you suggesting that there isn't an unbroken chain of oral tradition? That for some generations in the middle every child didn't talk to their parents or other members of the older generation?

It's a game of broken telephone no doubt, but I don't see how that chain could not exist.
Actually, the internet hit 50% worldwide penetration right around 2015 : https://www.internetworldstats.com/emarketing.htm
> Don't like ads? Don't visit sites that run ads.

Lots of people, especially in the developing world, don't have that luxury, and they're also incidentally those with underpowered devices and less tech savvy to go get an ad blocker.
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2015? In the big picture there's hardly any difference in active internet users in the countries involved compared to today. In Scandinavia in 2015 it was already at around 96% and I'm guessing UK and US wasn't that far behind.

Edit: Looked it up. UK was close to those numbers in 2015 too. The US was far behind though. But that hasn't changed much since so it doesn't really matter in this context.
I have a common name first year/generation gmail account. The volume of mail I receive that I didn't solicit is mind-boggling. Not just spammers, but it's obvious that people have saved the wrong address in their browser suggestions, and that people give it out when asked for an email addresses at retail. Disney employees, California private school parents, iPhone receipts and apple IDs. Taxes, warrants, bail bonds, social security information. People are f'ing stupid when it comes to email.

Everything should require a confirmation before you assume it's valid. Not because it doesn't exist but because it might not be who you think it is.
Enrage and Engage yields too much profit for big social media to do anything real to curtail "harmful extremist content".
We had a famous case of this in the German federal election of 2005. The conservatives (CDU/CSU) wanted to increase sales tax by 1%, the social democrats (SPD) were opposed to increasing it at all. They ended up forming a coalition that raised the sales tax by 3%.
You have the same issue with MIT because it requires attribution
Interview with Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov who speaks at length about the strategy.

https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA
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The irony is that we're whinging about a tool that generates code that will be difficult to understand in the future...

... and the example is mathematically- and floating-point-spec obtuse enough that it was incomprehensible at the time it was written. (As evidenced by id comments)
While I strongly doubt they would use Wikipedia as a training set, has anyone done a search of GitHub code to see if other projects have copied-and-pasted that function from Wikipedia into their more-permissive codebases?
I’ve been using Yandex for probably the last 6-7 years. Never had any issues or problems with them.
exactly lol. They want google to be government controlled now, wtf
You're attempting a reductio ad absurdum but it's not valid because the meteorite has a tiny prior probability of being true, whereas the lab leak doesn't have such a tiny prior due to historical precedent of it happening a number of times, even if it is much less likely to be true as the zoonotic origin explanation in the case of COVID.
>-mid 2000s might just have been a fortuitous accident, not somethgin Apple ever courted.

yea, I think you are probably right.
I was a linux user from 95-05 then switched to mac from 05-13 now back to linux.
I'm well aware of the "this is the year of the linux desktop" joke, but honestly over past 4-5 years I think linux has reached the point that its fairly painless for 95% of common desktop usecases.
If someone asks how to handle money the best answer is integers or fixed precision decimals. There may be a valid case for using floats, but if someone asks they shouldn't be using floats.

Also I'm hard pressed to come up with a case where floats would work. Can you give an example?
Excel rounds doubles to 15 digits for display and comparison. The exact precision of doubles is something like 15.6 digits, those remaining 0.6 digits causing some of those examples floating (heh) around.
Right. The method has it’s own flaws, but it’s still another layer of insulation. Someone getting your email off a large user data breach is less likely to pick out your name and attempt to reverse engineer that pattern specifically for you, unless it is a targeted attack against you. For most people, that’s a highly unlikely scenario
“Your AI pair programmer” - auto-completes entire functions while you’re coding. https://copilot.github.com/
So what we are saying is that the dropping of socialism and adoption of capitalism lifted 800 million people out of poverty in a generation? I don't think that's a bad review of capitalism at all.
What we fear is probably a combination of nature and nurture. Our fear of orc-looking people could be a combination of 50K years of oral tradition AND us evolving to be scared of people who look like orcs.
Copilot is one of the worst ideas that have made it to production in recent years. I predict it will be quite successful considering Microsoft's track record.
In the back seats of the model S/X the mechanical release is a cable either hidden behind the carpet, or the speaker grill. Not exactly easy or intuitive to use in an emergency.

I don't really understand what was wrong with purely mechanical door handles, they are way safer in an emergency, and are probably faster to use in a non-emergency anyways.
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they are to me. Is there a problem with being "strange" to someone from a different culture?
That this was attempted is true. To what degree it succeeded is a matter of argument.

Directly from a KGB defector lecture on this topic.

Yuri Bezmenov - Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society Complete Lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwDdJsdYM3g
I mean, it's not incorrect. In the developed world the percentage was reaching around 75-80%, but worldwide it was still <50% in 2015.
Was the it's/its rule different back then?
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I like having newsletters in my inbox. It gives me something nice to read among all the spam, work and other junk.
These are the guys hooking up valves, fixing pipes, monitoring how chemicals are loaded from the trucks into the plant systems... doesn't much matter that's flowing through the pipes- the workers can read the data sheets and procedures and work on anything.

Again, these are blue collar jobs. High school education at best. Mostly a manual labor job. They're not designing the plant, just operating and repairing it according to plans designed by someone else.

EDIT: Here's a list of chemicals used in meat processing: https://www.osha.gov/meatpacking/hazards-solutions. Ammonia for refrigeration. Chlorine, hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid for disinfectant. The chemicals are delivered to the plant in concentrated forms and diluted for use.
I agree - for hosts I would make an app. for clients website. However I might think I could reuse code between client and host and then still make just a website thinking "the hosts need us so they will just have to lump it."
Or maybe they built a product that could apply filters and share photos and that only took 13 people to make.
I think La Noche Triste speaks to the superiority of infantry with melee weapons to cavalry with muskets in close quarters urban fighting. Tenochtitlan was an absolute maze, and the Aztec defenders knew it well because it was their home.

I do agree that the alliance with Tlaxcala is underplayed in the pop culture understanding of the conquest.
"ordered container" meaning that the container is ordered based on the objects it contains.
Insurance companies generally try to minimize their risks. One way to do it in this case is to set security standards, to which their customers must adhere. Customers who do not do so could face lower (or no) payouts after incidents.

There are already some standards, e.g. PCI for credit card handling.
You seem to be assuming “a lot of fake user signups” == “few real user signups.” OP only said the first. For all we know they also get plenty of real ones.
> [contract delivery companies] have to adhere to a strict set of rules from Amazon around hiring, pay, delivery times and routes, and more.

The only one of these that Amazon has any right to dictate is delivery times (and what they will pay for that delivery). The fact that Amazon has direct control over the contractor’s worker’s pay, and even the ability to fire those workers, is very shocking to me.

Remember, this isn’t a situation like Uber: these are not contractors to Amazon, but employees of independent delivery companies.
I like their pricing better than Migadu's, however, I don't want 50 mailboxes with 3GB each, I want 5 mailboxes with 30GB each. That would be perfect.
I use uberspace for solely email, they provide a shell and bit more. It has been working well for me: i can have full 10gb space for email(now you can even buy more space), aliases/mailboxes as i need. https://manual.uberspace.de/mail-access/
Yes, that was the point: we want them to be secure, but we don't offer that even though the SEC is a branch of government.
Exactly, there's a pressure/flow/salinity tradeoff triangle. Higher salinity needs higher pressure and/or waste bypass. This was running around 100-150 psi, was a few years back, don't quite remember.

But a few hundred bucks will still get you from either "potable but not great" to fairly pure, or brackish to potable. If you have effectively infinite seawater and power, you can still pump at lower pressure and get pure permeate, it's just less efficient per unit pump and filter lifetime. If you had a super reliable pressure system (low friction ceramic pumps for example, not cheap but last forever) and cheap first-pass filters, you can run it for quite some time. But you're spot on in that you get to a point of engineering-give-a-mouse-a-cookie and it just makes sense to optimize the whole stack.
Yes. It is a little bit old by now, but it is a great book.
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That’s on the order of 50¢ in wages per delivery. Drones & autonomous/semi-autonomous robots can’t compete against super low wage labor. That’s crazy cheap for a delivery driver! (Low wages hold back innovation and improvements in productivity.)
> 400 packages a day on 10-hour routes

40 packages per hour or 90s per package. No wonder the drivers pee in bottles and work unpaid overtime to keep their jobs.
The OP's statement makes the context clear though: It's not about knowing everything. It's about knowing a couple of abstraction layers under you (and, as I argued elsewhere, above you too).

It's useful to understand a few classic networking problems that a backend engineer might face — e.g. weird latency issues caused by Nagle's algorithm, or TCP CLOSE_WAIT leading to ephemeral port exhaustion between a proxy and an application node. It's useful to understand why we mostly moved to event loop-based servers instead of thread-per-connection servers as a way to handle c10k.

A backend engineer doesn't necessarily have to be an expert on any of these things, but they should be able to follow along if an expert explains that sort of problem.
Yes. I am projecting my own ideas on them. That's how brains work. Also the wonderful nature of travel is being exposed to other cultures and their strange ideas about the planet. This isn't negative.

Yeah, I gather that Germans intuit the gender of a new word - it just "feels" masculine or feminine (or neutral). Fascinating.
> So actually, doing stuff like maximising returns on capital is a sub-optimal goal.

Could you explain why this is sub-optimal? It's sub-optimal because of the added risk?

How does this work for very big companies that have to engage in multiple markets simultaneously (due to couplings between markets and other competitors - eg. FB bought Instagram, but FB's main market was not buying other social media companies, but it fit into their strategy to get more active users)?
Nothing to worry about. Its people alpha-testing the Copilot internet commenting plugin.
Same here with Inoreader. Big fan of their service.
I've started to shop directly with some retailers instead of buying through AMZN (ex: Thorne) and I've also noticed that AMZN has become increasingly expensive for many items, sometimes double the price than can be found locally (ex: Allouse). Being a Prime member doesn't really offer me anything that I can't live without. Sometimes I can get next day delivery but usually the item takes longer than 2 days. Recently I started some online shopping at Walmart and have been pleasantly surprised with the price and speed of service (sort of like AMZN use to be). I've decided to cancel my Prime Membership this Aug, mostly because AMZN just isn't competitive and offers less value these days.
> does it come with its own DB & all?

Also, there's no DB. Each verification is done in real-time.
> There are billions of people who are adept at using cell phones but have never owned a personal computer

Further, a big chunk of this not-so-young generation of kids whose primary interactions with computers has been through iOS, iPadOS or ChromeOS (remember, ChromeOS is dominant in education, while iOS dominates teen personal devices). These kids will soon be entering college, and a lot of them will be buying Macs.
I looked at your About, Security and Privacy pages. I see that you're using AWS, but which region/country/jurisdiction is that located in? Is it safe to presume that since the company is an LLC, the company as well as the AWS country are the U.S.?
Gusto. They automatically pay my taxes, employees, do all the HRIS functions, and file forms with government entities. This is my first year with them, but so far, I'm pretty happy.
It's bad enough that Google Drive/Docs notifications are treated as "external senders" so you have to open up your internal Google Groups to the world; then Google Groups flags them as spam anyway!

I'm guessing spammers may use Google Docs comments as a platform, but have never seen actual unsolicited Docs comments.
Important to note that this is a Tesla model S plaid, which was only released to the public a couple weeks ago in very limited quantities, and has some battery updates. Could be a coincidence or publicity stunt but this is definitely much more concerning than some random Tesla catching fire. Also the release was apparently delayed due to battery safety issues [0] although I couldn't find a direct quote.

[0] https://electrek.co/2021/05/29/tesla-delays-first-model-s-pl...
Commercial RO membranes (based on the poly(m-phenylenediamine trimesic acid), a.k.a. polyamide) chemistry have zero tolerance to free chlorine and will rapidly degrade under such conditions. The chlorine tolerance is listed as “nil” on many manufacturer’s spec sheets. Even using tap water on a polyamide membrane without some kind of prefilter (like GAC) will cause noticeable reduction in both the permeance and rejection of the membrane.

There was a big push towards developing chlorine-resistant chemistries a few years ago, but as far as I can tell, that has fallen into a “researchers don’t know what they’re doing, the plants are already designed around this problem” narrative. Of course, those plants are huge investments, and maybe it’s correct that one wouldn’t be able to take advantage of chlorine-resistant membranes until a new plant was built.

Cellulose triacetate RO membranes have chlorine tolerance, but have inferior chemical stability, productivity and selectivity to polyamide membranes, so it is sometimes used where chlorine tolerance is an issue. CTA membranes are also available in hollow fiber format, while polyamide membranes are essentially exclusively found in spiral wound configuration (some operators want fibers for higher fouling/solids feed). CTA is limited to a much smaller pH window (like 4-6 versus 2-12), and are not suitable for more aggressive cleaning methods, so I’m not sure if it overall provides a benefit versus polyamide RO with more aggressive cleaning cycles.
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