skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://keybase.io/ had a pretty neat thing goin' where you basically claim your online identity to the world at large through publicly available cryptographic signing proofs that anyone can easily verify through their website or desktop app. If sources of news or science or other important public information would cryptographically prove their information came from them in a way that was easily understood by the general public then it'd hella harder to spread disinformation without it bein' tied right back to it's source or instantly dismissable due to lack of provable origin details.
Those are really valuable resources, thank you!

Although France's electricity mix is exceptionally low, I'm surprised to see that the EU average (438gCO₂eq/kWh) is even higher than in Germany ([2], page 74).

In the US, it's over 600gCO₂eq/kWh, in China even 1,000gCO₂eq/kWh (1.3 million EVs were sold in China in 2020).
Amazon battles regulators in bid to stay dominant in India's e-comm market
A flat skateboard design, which is Tesla's current approach, VW's approach, and virtually everyone else making dedicated EV platforms, should enable ramps just fine I would think.

EVs because of this skateboard and the lack of need of an engine compartment and numerous other ICE systems will offer MORE interior room and body design possibilities.

I'm really chomping at the bit for a EV Minivan, which should just offer a ridiculous amount of storage and flexibility. Certainly such a platform will be able to accommodate wheelchairs.

Finally, SOME kind of self-driving is coming. Even if last-mile local street self-driving is delayed for quite a while, the ability to have a "remote driver service" is certainly possible, so even if the wheelchair can't go in the driver's seat, the wheelchair person can drive from a glorified game console, supervise the self-driving program, or have a remote person navigate for them via cameras.

The notion that we'll be unable to make some way for wheelchairs to use skateboard design EVs is really stretching reality.
What do you mean? We're hackers. We're masters of the universe. We run the economy and solve problems. Of course something as trivial as health care can't be too hard. After all, they don't even Kaggle.
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Do you also agree that "A human being driving around and crossing a red light with some basic looking both ways is not a danger to anyone."?

Cars are driven by people, so it's humans in cars vs humans on foot. Both can create danger to each other. Just because you can safely do something doesn't override the reason and spirit of the law.

Jaywalking is a tiny niche of a massive amount of rules that govern how we interact with each other safely. You're really not going to have a problem jaywalking unless you do it unsafely in the first place, and if you do then there's liability and enforcement ready to apply.
One of the core problems with "social media" in 2021 is the default assumption that it should be monetised and a business.

There is a difference between providing infrastructure for social connection and farming/harvestings/leveraging the information gathered from what is constructed on that infrastructure.

The current situation is akin to if AT&T had listened in on all phone conversations (assuming no technical barriers) and sold ads based on what you said to friends and family. Before you made a call you would need to listen to a personalised ad on your reciever.

Before facebook or myspace or twitter there were blogs/personal websites, forums, email and instant messaging. All these options worked for expressing one's self online and none of them were under a centralised, for-profit entity.

Wikipedia is a good example of a decentralised social network although it appears to be increasingly infected with the reddit/twitter virus.
Define "work".
Aren’t some of the reports along the lines of: sea level to upper range of radar, maybe some 10s of thousands of ft in seconds? Also there’s been the reports that things submerge in water too (so-called trans-medium phenomenon).
small and medium businesses
>> All government has to do is raise retirement age and the system will remain solvent.

So the difference between a Ponzi scheme and SSI is that in a Ponzi scheme, the person who sets up the scheme is required to keep his promises to investors, but SSI is not?

To the young people out there in their 20s, what ivalm is saying is that for people like me who are nearing retirement age, the money is going to start coming out of your pocket and going into my pocket, but when you get to be my age, the government will just raise the retirement age and keep taking the money out of your pocket. But it is totally, totally, totally not a Ponzi scheme.

Part of my income will soon depend on you believing that. Godspeed, ivalm!
Sorry it was ambiguous. By “users”, we mean the business buyers of the CDN service. Eg: As a developer, I don’t know where exactly my users are, if thus I was spending the same, then I would rationally prefer a CDN which has more POPs than one which has fewer.
You’re comparing it with the wrong thing. When people speak of the GPL as infectious or viral, they’re comparing it with permissive licenses like MIT/Apache2, not closed-source licenses.
IMO capitalism and communism would meet with big data driven AI, it would benefit both: for capitalism algorithms would eliminate wastes, and drive cost down, so that the supply need not to far exceed demand; for communism central planning would actually work, you don't need market to adjust supply and demand. In the end these two system would work in a very similar way.
As someone with some experience in the area, can you explain why these as-you-type systems don’t simply wait until the user pauses to do their thing? Even better, allow users to set that threshold themselves?
Absolutely incorrect. With the GPL the distribution of software contrary to the terms of the license remains illegal just as with any software under any license.

As with any other software you must either stop distribution or come to an agreement with the party owns the copyright to the code. The GPL merely provides you a get out of infringement free card whereby you may release all of the code under the GPL. This is different only insofar as it is more permissive not less compared to proprietary software.

The idea that the GPL infects your code is a fantasy.
>There is no connection between biology and politics

Connections between biology and politics:

- Municipal water systems have to provide water instead of inert gasses or iron ingots.

- Limited human lifespans are directly related to the successor problem of monarchies or dictatorships and are a major reason why democracies are more stable.

- Whether or not the public believes what propagandists are saying is determined by what goes on in their brains, which are inscrutable, but undeniably biological.

- Minor phenotypical differences are used by troublemakers to start fights, in behaviors ranging from playground mocking, to racism and beyond.
Thanks, that’s a good point I didn’t consider.
In my younger days I worked in customer support for a storage company. A customer had one of our products crash (kernel panic) at a sensitive time. We had a couple of crack engineers I used to hover around to try to pick up gdb tricks so I followed this case with interest—it was a new and unexpected panic.

Turns out the crash was caused by the processor taking the wrong branch. Something like this (it wasn’t Intel but you get the picture):

test edx, edx
jnz $something_that_expects_nonzero_edx

Well, edx was 0, but the CPU jumped anyway.

So yeah, sometimes ECC isn’t enough. If you’re really paranoid (crypto, milsec) you should execute multiple times and sanity-test.
> Do people actually do code reviews per commit?

This is sort of a meaningless question without an understanding of how often people commit. Some people keep a single commit for a single PR (and just constantly update that one commit), others make tiny little commits for every individual change.

The only real question is: what is the granularity you should review code changes at? The number of git commits that that maps to doesn't really matter.

IMO: the ideal is to try to keep pull requests as small as possible while still having each PR be a coherent, justifiable change on its own. I don't know if it's realistic to treat that as a hard rule, but I think it's the right thing to aim for.
I think you are right. As a “platform” these designs might end up with a lot to offer.
OP here. Unless you work for a certificate authority or a web browser, this event will have zero impact on you. While this particular CT log has failed, there are many other CT logs, and certificates are required to be logged to 2-3 different logs (depending on certificate lifetime) so that if a log fails web browsers can rely on one of the other logs to ensure the certificate is publicly logged.

This is the 8th log to fail (although the first caused by a bit flip), and log failure has never caused a user-facing certificate error. The overall CT ecosystem has proven very resilient, even if a bit flip can take out an individual log.

(P.S. No one knows if it was really a cosmic ray or not. But it's almost certainly a random hardware error rather than a software bug, and cosmic ray is just the informal term people like to use for unexplained hardware bit flips.)
Primes – A Software Drag Race
You’d expect the military to have found this considering they’ve got all sorts of sensors specifically for RF. They’d have been able to positively explain much of the reported stuff in the recent congressional release relatively easy in that case.
Frankly, I think consumerism is largely to blame.

Consumerism is an ethos. Life is understood to be about consuming things, and in this case, literally consuming food. If you want to eat it, then eat it. Watch how overweight people eat and live. Except for a small percentage of people with metabolic disorders, you'll find your answer there. Consumerism turns traditional virtue on its head. Whereas once a man was a slave to his passions if he couldn't refuse himself their satisfaction, now satisfaction of them is the highest law. We even have the chutzpah to claim that this is the essence of freedom. Oh, how our ancestors weep! Yes, the man who can't control himself is now "free".

Now, because we live in a consumerist society, the market is more than happy to indulge and enable what would have been previously considered a bad gluttonous habit. Junk food on every turn. Even foods that are supposedly healthy have less nutrition than they used to or contain various additives and sugar and all sorts of crap that I suppose people don't understand should be avoided. In turns, these additives can throw your metabolism out of whack. Libertarians will tell you that this is freedom and anything else is socialism, but that's bullshit. If industry is exploiting people's vices for profit, then this isn't freedom and it is the government's role to regulate and criminalize such things to protect people. That government can use protection as an excuse to push nefarious laws and regulation does not mean that it is always the case.

(Mind you, the consumerist citizen is also easier to manipulate by the government, not just industry. If you are unable to refuse yourself things, then the government can better predict how to manipulate you. The same enslavement to one's passions also darkens the mind and makes you less capable of discerning the political control being used against you. It's the same with sexual liberation. Porn is a tool for social engineering and MeToo is the result of consumerism entering the sphere of sexual relations.)
The current situation is like if 90% of bar or restaurant patrons went to one of three multinational chains all of which secretly recorded patron conversations in order to sell ads while giving away cheap food.
“In Kubernetes, secrets are base64 encoded, so they are quite secure”

What
1: i can't imagine anyone trying harder at this than facebook is?

2: marking content as sarcasm completely undermines it's impact. 'sarcasm tags' are unutilized due to lack of purpose, not lack of visibility. how does facebook's 'react emoji' functionality not cover this usecase better?

3: you don't want the human-readable age, you want the exact absolute date, but also the age, which you want to be exposed as color..? absolute date is generally easily grabbed with js, but hidden to reduce clutter.

4: a product to put cross-culture communication up front would be an interesting prospect, but i've not seen anything like that, and i'd expect a full team, many revisions, and a patient and involved community to get functionality and ui approaching helpful...

5: you don't want the exact views and like, you want a human-readable measure for quality that you just came up with and can easily do in your head? (vs how you feel about predigested data re #3)
It's worth distinguishing "clickbait" that takes you to brain-rotting junk versus taking you to an informative essay. Is the latter really a problem?
What do you mean that Wikipedia is infected?
As Lebanon nears collapse, EU debates sanctions
> to say this isn’t working and needs radical correction to enforce some social norms and define acceptable behavior under penalty of imprisonment, labor, or some undesirable consequence for the offender

We should really be focusing on the underlying mental health issues rather than resorting to a base desire to crack skulls. One such example is opening up (humane) mental health institutions. For people who are out of their gourd but aren't your typical criminal case, these mental health institutions would exist for these people to go if they consistently prove to be a danger to themselves and/or others.
Statistically, humans are chimpanzees as p < 5%.

Of course, accepting such a thing requires valuing science over theology.
What do they learn, about what?
Most comments on the article are for the 7 June of 2016, so it probably needs a "2016".
“There’s always been this division between your right to speak and your right to have a megaphone that reaches hundreds of millions of people,” she said.

One is the freedom of speech, the other is freedom of the press, we as humans have the right to both. Yet never before in history we have had access to the press power of the social media revolution. For a time, the gatekeepers took a hands-off approach, but that time is over.

End Internet censorship now. We need platforms where the battle of ideas can be fought and won on a level playing field without the creeping hand of censorship in the name of "combating disinformation" getting in the way.

Fact check all you want, may you win the battle of ideas. But talk of censorship, even from MIT, stinks of totalitarianism.
Abolishing copyright will remove copyleft as well. Careful what you wish for; it might just become a pre free software world with all source carefully locked away from the public eye.
All of these efforts are being pushed under the guise of making sure people hear "the truth." The Real Truth. As long as that is their emphasis, it makes it very difficult to argue against any draconian measures people want to put in place. Because, why would you be against any measures that help people hear The Real Truth? That means you would be Anti-Truth, and nobody wants someone who is Anti-Truth.

Are enough people big enough suckers to allow this to happen under these false promises? We will find out. If you do support measures around controlling what people see and say, at least do the rest of us the courtesy and don't pretend that it will bring about a utopia of free exchange.
Sure, but knowing the species and origins of the animals gives us a good overview of what's there. It's weird, but not impossible, that we haven't found it given that. If China had been more forthcoming--and had kept samples from the culls--we would likely have more answers.

Regarding the researchers, there were videos by some people in China who later vanished. I know that China is usually China, but that doesn't exactly make me trust them more.
Social media as it is now ("connect everyone together") is definitely a bad idea. Communities of people only work when they're close knit or share an identity, not when you have mash-ups of different people in different communities all randomly tied together and forced to address each other's opinions. You might as well have a barbeque where Hell's Angels, an LGBTQ support group, and a Catholic church study group all sit in a circle for no reason.

Online groups only work when they have a uniform identity, an ingroup, a particular set of shared values. They can have other ideas or values, but it needs to be clear to them that they should only bring up that group's values. Communities can also be toxic and stupid, but they do keep cohesion when they're all aligned on a core theme.
It’s not “totally reasonable” to send CI stack traces to Sentry. It’s nonsensical for a number of reasons.
Not sure what you mean by the bible?
>I'm pretty sure he means "just use integration tests".

Really he means e2e testing. You can drive yourself mad writing integrations that break constantly or provide false positives. Better to unit test what is truly unit testable, and then rely on e2e to ensure your integrations are fine. Ultimately all that matters is the system running as expected at the user level.
If your compiler doesn't do this for divisors known at compile time, get your money back.
> But then you would need 'unbreak' or just 'goto' to the next case. No duffs device no cigar.

From Algol's linage point of view, a very good outcome.
Disability ramps can’t be overly steep which means the higher the point they need to reach the longer the ramp needs to be. It quickly gets to the point where the only practical solution is a char lift which is expensive and less reliable. Extending the ramp into the vehicle is therefore critical from a practicality standpoint.

It’s likely there will eventually be a viable EV alternative, but for now nothing from Tesla for example is viable.
Qualcomm plans M1 chip killer – thanks to ex-Apple employees
> CQRS doesn’t obviate race conditions.

I think you may be talking at cross purposes with me here. I’m saying that command–query separation¹ causes race conditions. Having the mutating API return state is the only way to obtain the value of the resource at the time of mutation.

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¹ CQS; CQRS, where you use different representations for command and query, is not necessarily applicable here.
there's so many ways round it on Linux they're essentially useless

e.g. call python, call netcat, call perl, call wget, ...
I’ve been playing with this repo since i stumbled across it. Some highlights -

C# solution 1

Python solution 2 (you’ll need to run it to find out the surprise, the code is just vanilla Python)

C solution 1
I can't stand when I ask someone "why?" and they answer "it's a best practice". Yeah, I'm asking _why_ you think this is a best practice.
It gets better further on

"A data field is used to store arbitrary data, which is encoded with base64 so that no one can view the values of secrets."
I paid for livejournal.com social media for a few years, then Russians bought the company and I cancelled.
Gas stations have signs posted saying that if you need ADA assistance and more than two people are working the station to tap your horn or call the number to get full service at normal pump prices.

Something similar for “manned” charging stations would likely suffice (though many are unmanned).
While I think the documentation is pretty good, something like Blender is really hard to find your way around initially as a layman.

I’ve found YouTube tutorials to be the best way so far but, My God, they’re slow going. Don’t get me wrong BlenderGuru has done incredible work. I just really struggle with video as a long form learning medium.

Does anyone have a good (non video) resource for getting into Blender? I know my way around a bit, but would love to get deeper into it. I recall an article on HN in the past that walked through the controls from a coders perspective (vim like control). Something along those lines.
Stanford geophysics was the first university to run a optical fiber for studying ambient sound. Now there are dozens of these for research.
That's because you're talking about value, whereas I was talking about money. You can also benefit timewise but lose monetarily and vice versa...hence 'time is money'.

Money is meant to represent equivalence of value but it doesn't do this very precisely or well - which is why using it to 'measure' things causes so many problems.

I get where you're coming from, but that's Econ 101 idealism where you assume both parties are fully knowledgable about everything regarding the transaction - the real world is not like this. People also naively transact simply because they've been taught to do so.
LeetCode – Sort Colors
"He got nothing out of his wealth for himself" writes the sociologist Max Weber, "except the irrational sense of having done his job well" :)
In Kubernetes, secrets are base64 encoded, so they are quite secure.

I’m sorry, but what the actual f&$/… I‘s expect better from RedHat. In what world does storing a secret as base64 warrant calling it “quite secure”?

The only protection I can think of is:

* The occasional glance at your screen.

* Injection attack (to some degree)
If the prices here[0] are correct, then the inflation adjusted price of a Model T would be around $7000-$23000, according to this[1].

[0] https://www.fordmodelt.net/m/facts.htm

[1] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
> Nobody ever told me to work late, but nobody ever told me to _stop_ working. If my boss/bosses boss/<etc> came up to me a once or twice and told me "hey, you shouldn't work past <x> PM", particularly in my first few days, _and most importantly_ they left too, that would have set an excellent example on how to have a work-life balance.

When I moved to Sweden my first manager did exactly that. I was on my 3rd day and working until 18:00, he came to me and asked why I was still at my desk, I should've left an hour ago. He always enjoyed his time off and allowed us to be flexible whenever needed, it was an amazing example to set right at the beginning.
I remember running Java applications on a powerpc g4. It was incredibly slow and ugly, no wonder why developers still preferred objective-c over Java on Mac.
Because, admittedly, non-default switch breaks are on par with Hitler