skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most analogies are imperfect.

The point: there's substantial risk to waiting for an indirect, non-imminent threat to become a direct, imminent one. Addressing it is frequently easier and cheaper in the early stages.

Isolationism was easier when adversaries took weeks/months/years to get to you.
His companies are marketing/branding companies. They lease the name Virgin and in exchange they handle the branding. Virgin Management doesn't actually own the hotels or planes.
They have Israel at 30% "feel religious" but also 51% "religion is important in daily life". I imagine "belief in God" would be higher still. It all depends on which question you ask. Perhaps a lot of Israelis are not the "religiously inspired" type but they do believe it to be the truth.
I had to "learn" R during my CS course, and I was really impressed by it.

We used RStudio and Shiny to build this:
https://henvic.shinyapps.io/accidents
https://github.com/henvic/accidents
Would you have opposed interfering in Europe during WW2?

Do you generally oppose any kind of alliance, like NATO?
I think they were just taking my general "strategic allies in the region" comment to refer to Israel specifically, when it was intended as a category of countries, like Israel, South Korea, and Ukraine.
> the US is an exception though

I would say people in the US just really like to profess to being Christian, even though they act the part in no way, shape, or form. Both country and people. It's more of a cultural 'thing' than actual belief or practice.

The dichotomy of word and action is striking. Like watching someone claim to be a firefighter, attend training and seminars, then commit arson and not do any, you know, firefighting.
That is weird because it doesn't offer salvation or answers for questions of existence or purpose or cosmology
No. Local time in Greenwich is currently 1657, that's 1657 BST (which has daylight saving). It's 1551 GMT. Solar noon today as 1205 GMT.

Just like in New York where it's 1157 Local, or 1157 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) - 1057 EST (Eastern Standard Time)
I self-hosted a writefreely instance for a while but I found many features were proprietary and only available in the paid managed hosting (write.as). All features that I didn’t need that much and could workaround however it just made me feel quite dissatisfied with the project.

People self hosting are not likely to be the same people who would pay for managed hosting so it makes no sense to lock features off for them.

I forked the codebase and added stuff myself for a while because even after funnelling users to their commercial option they still do hardly any development, see how long this one line PR I made took to be merged: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/429.

Now I just have a simple python script that makes everything I need in a blog [0] (markdown, resources, mathjax, atom feed and all completely static with no JS). There is no need to have complicated blog services, just compile static html.

[0]: https://github.com/x4e/Blog/blob/master/make.py
Steve Jobs had to follow a very narrow happy path in his first iPhone demo because the product was still very buggy. It still amazes me that the iPhone shipped so (relatively) soon after.

Failing to prepare for a business-critical demo was absolutely the CEO’s fault.
It is obvious that very shortly, and at their own pace, the Taliban will overtake the current government. They will even probably decide not to overtake Kabul, as it will be politically and strategically convenient for them.

Russian will use Pakistan as a proxy, and will fill the void. The way the pull off was decided and implemented will prove to be a decision as bad as the decision to go into Afghanistan.

They better have a good plan for a pull off in a hurry
of the current US Embassy. As soon as the wind changes
it is pretty clear to what allegiance the current Afghan Army
will go with.

"After troops exit, safety of US Embassy in Kabul top concern"

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-kabul-445f33e7bba08c382...

Lets open this haste will not make for
Taliban flying F-16's...
The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught
Your argument holds no water and is exposing you as indulging in binary thinking.

Educating women is one possible way to deal with the issue, that doesn't mean it is the _only_ way. Like someone else said, it will take at least a generation for effects to kick in. On the other hand, the policies that the article refers to can be effective immediately (and also applied together with other measures such as educating women).
You may be sure about that, but you're also completely wrong.
HOPL IV: History of Programming Languages – Videos/Track Listing
> If anyone came to the office five minutes late, he cut their pay to a half day’s salary.

Assuming this was true, it simply screams get out now. Perhaps someone can chime in on its legality too.
finance people who learn to program will outperform those who don't.
Thanks. But this was mostly useless. This was mostly two persons citing their reasons, and there was not enough picking apart of the other side's argument,

And to me, the lab leak scientist's arguments were a lot stronger where the other one looked a lot hand waving and speculation to me. Don't know, maybe I was hoping there would be really strong arguments from the proponent of natural origins.
I often write a script even if I only have to do something twice. In this case, the point is not to save time, it's to be secure in the knowledge that I did the thing in exactly the same way both times, because it was the same script that did it both times.

(And then it saves time anyway, because it turns out I had to do the thing 20 more times after all.)
Half of Eastern Europe plus Germany used Western and Russian airplanes at the same time after the cold war ended. Before the Eurofighter finally arrived, the best fighter jets the Luftwaffe had were MIG-29s.
And also developing a booming economy, we have seen the shift happens in East Asia in last three decades, they once was very interested in having childrens now are into a aging stable society where young people continue to put off their marriage.
But increasingly less:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/07/10/nothing-i...
I'd just be happy if Google didn't index paid content, and if sites like HN wouldn't link to it. Posting links to paid sites is, to me, silly, because chances are that link is effectively dead to the person that follows it.

The odds of a random reader (whether from Google SERPS or HN or similar) having a subscription are very low. I don't personally know anyone that has a subscription to the top 10 paid sites, and there's quite a few more than 10.

Google used to call the practice "cloaking", and would de-index you if you presented content to its crawler that didn't match what it provided to a visitor. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
Aren't we all so glad that a "billionaires" challenge was won.
Croatia is strange in that regard. On the one hand you have that mayoral election, on the other you have their national soccer team flying the nationalists version of Croatias flag. (if what our newspaper claimed was true. even if it is, they also printed a wrong flag of the opposite team on their jerseys once, so it could also just be a stupid mistake).

I love that country so, very nice people and a beautiful landscape!
I'm willing to see a doctor, just not at the hospital. Lucky for me my wife is a Nurse Practitioner, I get lots of free advice (though I still go to the office when I need drugs/labs/etc).
“The GED is a treatment of last resort ... ”

Sure it is. And if it is referred to in plain language as a treatment it sure sounds like it falls under the purview of the FDA to regulate it.
I usually save my command history to version control every time I git commit. It helps a lot for less frequently visited projects.
It's ironic reading this and then seeing the page track your progress reading it. Here's a screenshot of my browser dev tools: https://i.ibb.co/8Yt7FY0/trust-in-software-an-all-time-low-t.... It's a websocket connection to wss://wisps.underjord.io:8601/socket/websocket?vsn=2.0.0.
I remember we felt guilty that we sometimes sat our small children on their bouncy chair and let them watch the repeating intro from Super Mario Brothers or Mickeys Castle of adventure on the Nintendo or Megadrive console.
When they grew up they both went into games development.
The palette is so terrible that I wouldn’t rule out deliberate obfuscation; maybe not on the part of the authors, but perhaps on the part of someone else involved.
> Think people going into the doctor or urgent care because they have cold symptoms (for less than a week)

Uh...what else do you suggest that sick people should do? Be irresponsible and go to work or something?
There was a program in place to allow (some of) the Afghani helping the US to immigrate. It is just moving a lot slower than the troop withdrawal, leaving them to die.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1004991965/afghan-interpreter...
Harrison Bergeron involves the opposite of cyber augmentations

He definitely writes with enough cynicism towards technology to fit the genre
There is nothing sneaky about it. Excel imports things it thinks are dates as dates. It's not a silent modification. It's a loading issue. Properly loading data into R is not particularly easy either.
The point is it doesn't help, even if the person your replying to's company is doing it.
Kotlin Native serialization library for TOML
It does scale to zero CPU when your application isn’t serving requests. See the pricing model at https://aws.amazon.com/apprunner/pricing/ for more details. It does not scale to zero memory, however, because customers have told us that cold-start latency has been their biggest pain point with Lambda functions. App Runner containers can respond to requests in milliseconds as a result.
Can you share a more up-to-date analysis?
I don't disagree with these. However, I would add on compliance being necessary but not sufficient, I would say it is not necessary either. Compliance is a kind of virus that infects organizations. It's a tool to get people aligned certainly, and a set of principles you can use as a foundation for a program, but if the problem you are solving for is how to get people aligned, security is orthogonal to that.

On the skills crisis, it just means that security professionals are both expensive and not worth it. As if they (we) were creating value, nobody would say they were expensive, or say that they didn't have the skills to solve the problem. It's not unlike insurance, where you make sacrifices at the altar of compliance and hope the authorities are kind if calamity hits.

While I appreciate the creative cognitive tools for finding alternatives to percieved limits and principles, this dissolving of binary thinking is also a trend to destabilize concreteness and logical thinking and convert issues into an unstable managed consensus, which is effectively a political struggle. It is a cognitive style with a whole bunch of tactics wrapped up in it that are designed for managing groups and not for making things, fixing things, and getting people things they want. We would benefit from some of this in security, and in fact I have used it and seen it work. However, the entire approach resembles how a mother might tell her children to share something, which assumes the thing already exists and what needs resolution is the rights to it as governed by her, which is certainly appropriate in some organizational contexts and situations, but as a single note cognitive style that includes things like non-violent communication, narrative controls and some other tactics, the method sets off a bunch of alarms. The instinct to subvert and subordinate problems as a means to manage them instead of solving them concretely is a powerful tool, but one that we should acknowledge as critically as we do so-called binary thinking.
I think that what's most impressive is seeing a billionaire put his money where his mouth is. The rich can live a life with near zero risk and live in absolute luxury for a longer than average life span. Or you can do things like this.
It's a really clean design, exactly how I would like to read content!

I'm new to this federation idea, curious how blog pages work in this world. Is there something of an open protocol for publishing/consuming content so that I can use any provider or client I like, or how does it work?
Tito was impressive just by managing to be somewhat communist but never falling under the control of the USSR. Maybe being the first real pain for Nazi Germany in WW2, resistance wise, helps not being affraid of larger powers.
> The BSD sockets API doesn't give you timeouts.

Of course you can get timeouts (using select() or any other standard event notification mechanism), and most importantly you can easily get non-blocking socket reads/writes, I did just that.

> If you'd used Boost ASIO you'd have gotten Windows IOCP under the covers for free.

Well, I got Windows IOCP without the covers. Even better, since now I can integrate all IOCP parts in my application, and don't have to separate the ones that are covered (or might be? hard to see when covered, right?) by library A from those that are covered by library B.

But I'd like to see first whether IOCP is strictly needed anyway, synchronous non-blocking reads/writes might give you more than enough performance for most cases.

> Boost has HTTP, TLS and Websockets as well

I don't use Boost on principle. Maybe some of these libraries are usable, but boost is a community of architecture astronauts. Another reason is that I avoid C++ if possible.

> Defaulting to these low level primitive APIs is an act of hubris.

BSD sockets is not low level, if anything it is too high-level. As said, it allows you to send and receive packets. What more could you want? Anything else is snakeoil.

Update: Yep, this seems to be some overarchitected junk that leads to unmaintainable messes: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/boost_asio/ov...
The basic primitive, receiving new updates, is not readily available. Instead, you're encouraged to do callback handlers, leading to temporal coupling and ravioli code.

All in the name of optimizing for short syntax in toy examples. Look, how much you can do in just 5 lines with automatically inferred types, and pray the RAII! (Nevermind that anything moderately complex will require twice the normal amount of code just to unwrap all the insanity).
What does it mean for other countries to get involved in Afghanistan as the US withdraws? What will they gain, and how will it affect the US?
If you can get to the understanding that all of the outcomes in human thought and behavior are based on inputs of some level, be they genetic, or nurture, or through interaction with others or impacts from the natural environment, then it seem truly odd to believe in a concept like evil.
Why don't you just spell it out explicitly? What you are implying certainly isn't obvious.
As far as I'm aware, it's just Google Search underneath but with telly included. I doubt they'll charge for inclusion but do expect ads.
Thymulin is the universal cure for immunodepressed induced mortality sensitivity, which indeed is the case for e.g the Covid.
Basically the thymus progressively "deactivate itself" during ageing, thymalin a thymus hormone peptide reverse this degeneration/deactivation and increase lymphocite T production by 6.8X...
It has been shown to reduce mortality rate by a factor of 2X for all_cause_mortality and annectodally, quite obviously given the lymphocite T increase has been shown to be effective as a cure against covid mortality.
This drug and many other revolutionary old drugs that have seen previously longitudinal studies and multiple decent clinical trials with hundreds of patients will continue to be ignored by the world.

This is a good reminder of how futuristic is the technology that has been discovered and how much we lag behind what has been discovered because there is far too much funding for researchers and not enough funding for meta-researchers AKA people that research the research in order to give it usefulness and awareness.
Shameless plug: back in the day I put together an Emacs package to push org-files directly to an writefreely instance. Literally 0 friction to start a blog. https://github.com/dangom/writefreely.el
Of all places, HN was probably the last one where I would have expected to read such a disgusting defence of linguistic genocide.

I'm at a loss. Honestly cannot reply to such bullshit without strong words.

I hope some day you will understand that what you are saying is not alright, but I won't be able to help you in that. Have a good day.
I think the physical limitations of paper ended up causing a finite supply of ad space, allowing price of ads to settle. On the internet, there's basically infinite ad space. You can just make your readers keep scrolling, or chop the article into an arbitrary number of pages. With so much potential ad space, someone will budge a little and allow a few more ads to get a bit more revenue, and after everyone does that it snowballs into what we have today.
The Problem of Evil is not really about "evil" people doing "evil" things... or at least only tangentially so.

It's about why there is suffering (or imperfection even) in a world created by an ostensibly omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent god.

Terrorism would qualify as being one of the causes of suffering, as would completely impersonal forces such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and diseases.

If god exists and really is omnipotent (ie. of limitless power), omniscient (knows everything), and perfectly good, why does he/she/it allow suffering?

That's the problem of evil.
A much better way to spend that money than blackjack and hookers I say
Volumetric Fog in the Last of Us Part II
To instantly hop on the "anti-Semitic" train is asinine though.

I wonder if he knows the U.S. government turned away Jewish refugees by boat in WWII and that we didn't really land in Europe to go save the Jews or anything, but to stop Russia from marking territory all the way to where we landed...

Nothing is about religion... tis all about power.
“Auditable”. Just don’t look behind the Tether curtain.
> It's like the author started from the blog title and then came up with their own contextless, binary arguments.

Most of the arguments are actually quite common on Twitter’s Infosec communities. It’s common to read smug tweets dunking on certifications or security through obscurity or management similar to these strawman arguments in the article.

Not coincidentally, Twitter isn’t a great place to get good infosec advice. It’s too focused on calling out less-than-perfect solutions from a safe distance rather than actually examining practical security in the real world. This article makes a good point of showing the difference and would be useful for newcomers who might be confused.
In general, yes to both questions. There's a point where a large-scale conflict becomes a direct threat to the United States, and WWII might have been that by 1941, but I would at least initially have opposed interfering.
Both are at fault. The content owner wants to make money through Netflix and other distributors, without it they are limited by DVD sales which are dwindling. It would be very, very easy for all of the content distributors to band together into some sort of... 'union', that would help them strong-arm the owners and push back the incoherent decisions made by them.

Also, who is this post aimed at? Netflix isn't going to care if someone badmouths them on some random corner of the internet. And anyone who works there isn't going to give a shit just because someone on hacker news couldn't get SG-1 available internationally. I'm struggling to figure out why you felt that this post was at all necessary.
A company which only hires junior developers is not a company that values quality development practices and it cannot expect to get stuff done on time, let alone with high quality and industry's best practices... not that junior developers cannot be good (with proper guidance they can be awesome), but without experienced people around to guide them, and without them having experience of their own, they are bound to make every possible mistake in the book no matter how smart.

The people running the company were playing with fire and they must either be too junior themselves to understand that, or they were just knowingly doing so and hoping to get whatever product MVP they had planned as quickly as possible with the minimum amount of expenses possible.

Don't feel bad for being fired from such a company. It might have been the best thing to happen to you because now you get the opportunity of getting a proper job where you might actually have experienced people to mentor you and help you become a great developer and professional.

With that said: next time a CTO asks you to create something in a month for a demo, just go ahead and implement a mock (no DB, no error handling, just happy path code) that's just about enough for the demo, nothing else. Make it clear to the person who is going to run the demo that this is not the real deal, and arrange for only the happy path to be followed in the demo (add a few safeguards just in case so if the person does something unexpected you just ignore it, never crash!). You could have probably pulled that off in a couple of days :D but yeah, you probably thought you needed to have the real final product ready otherwise it wouldn't be demo-able... Trust me, that's almost certainly not the case.
The war in Afghanistan cost north of $800 bn. Free college would cost $80 bn a year. Ball park numbers.
>vaccines are generally safe

I am not sure how that can be correct. Because each vaccine is different, and can vary drastically in what the contain.

Now, if you say, all FDA approved vaccines are generally safe, then that might make a little more sense. Then you are at least qualifying something apart from just the name "vaccine".
>Did anyone here commenting actually read a copy of USA Today on paper before?

Yes, though because it was provided by a hotel for free. I can't imagine paying for one.
Yes, well, what exists is a lot of trash for free and a few publications that charge way more than the value they actually offer and in some cases partake in the sleaziest tactics to keep you paying once you signed up.

If Reason can send out a physical magazine for $20/yr some of these other news outlets can figure out how to trim some fat and offer a competitive rate.
Why would it be an entitled viewpoint? He/she wants to watch a series on a service he/she pays for. It is entirely reasonable to expect said service to continue to serve previously available content - it was of course a legal way of operation that the owner didn’t extend their license and that Netflix removed episodes. But gp has every right to be upset that netflix due to any reason didn’t live up to expectations.
Against sustainability: the case for ignoring GHG emissions
As though mistakes wouldn’t happen with non-programmers working in R.
The analogy is more like they are out on the public road giving away free loaves of bread along with ad flyers. I take the bread and refuse the flyer.

They can put themselves behind a fence, without letting anybody in who doesn't take their flyer. That's fine, I'll just skip their bread. They can charge for their bread. That's fine, I'll just skip their bread. No hard feelings on my end, it's all fair. But what they cannot reasonably do is give away free bread and then complain that I won't take their ad flyers.
"Air travel has evolved from the privilege of a few into a service for many."
- https://www.travelandleisure.com/airlines-airports/history-o...

Sure am.