skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are “leaks” on 4chan every day. I would take it with a grain of salt.
> just trigger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox as more people take advantage of the lower cost?

I'm guessing that's exactly what will happen.
It only blocks IPv4 traffic, so on an IPv6 enabled host it can easily be bypassed without even involving DNS. But assuming an IPv4-only host, on a system using nscd, DNS lookup is performed over a Unix socket:

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
23 1445 DROP all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 owner UID match 1007

# setuidgid outtest ping -n 1 -4 google.com
PING google.com (142.250.102.100) 56(124) bytes of data.
As far as I can tell, there is no such insight here - in the middle of page 13 they admit that in their solution, the weak energy condition is violated, and even that:

"No amount of modification to the configuration could get rid of these WEC-violating regions."

If I'm reading this correctly, all they have done is found a solution that has positive Eulerian energy density according to one particular reference frame, but not according to other reference frames. (I'm not a physicist, so please correct me if I'm wrong.)
Yeah, when I had Covid my wife was doing everything she could for me... hydrating, vitamins C and D, so on, but I think the treatment with the biggest effect was resting face-down. The fact that that is now pretty common knowledge has probably saved many thousands of lives.
The comic Planetary (DC) is a pretty good send up of this phenomenon. It indirectly pays homage to the old varied styles of comics while showing how the popularity of super hero comics, namely The Fantastic Four, destroyed those other genres.
Not sure where you are going with this... Controlled burns have been known to prevent wide scale fires for centuries. And climate change IS out of control, quite literally to the word. I'm not sure where you are pulling from regarding the orchestrated fire conspiracy, but I'm confident enormous fields of exceedingly dry brush don't need our help bursting into flame.
One of my favorites is Alexander at the Battle of Granicus

Here is the relevant passage from Plutarch:

Many rushed upon Alexander, for he was conspicuous by his buckler and by his helmet's crest, on either side of which was fixed a plume of wonderful size and p267 whiteness. But although a javelin pierced the joint of his breastplate, he was not wounded; 6738 and when Rhoesaces and Spithridates, two Persian commanders, made at him together, he avoided the one, and smote Rhoesaces, who wore a breastplate, with his spear; and when this weapon snapped in two with the blow, he took to his sword. 9 Then, while he was thus engaged with Rhoesaces, Spithridates rode up from one side, raised himself up on his horse, and with all his might came down with a barbarian battle-axe upon Alexander's head. 10 Alexander's crest was broken off, together with one of its plumes, and his helmet could barely and with difficulty resist the blow, so that the edge of the battle-axe touched the topmost hair of his head. 11 But while Spithridates was raising his arm again for another stroke, Cleitus, "Black Cleitus," got the start of him and ran him through the body with his spear. At the same time Rhoesaces also fell, smitten by Alexander's sword.

Alexander almost was killed by a battle axe. This was at the Battle of Granicus when he was facing a provincial Persian army. If Alexander had died that day, he would not have conquered the Persian Empire. Greek culture would not have spread nearly as wide as it did. It would have profoundly affected both the development of the East and West.
Have you changed your shoes?? That worked for me.
I recently helped somebody get Nix set up on an M1 Macbook and it seemed to work fine overall. We just used the standard installer, then mostly reused a home-manager-based config that I use on my x86-64 Macbook. Core stuff like Git and Emacs worked with no fiddling, and the few problems we did encounter seemed to be from issues in my personal config, not Nix on aarch64 in general.

That said, we didn't try to build or use anything particularly tricky—just Git, Emacs, Python and a simple Haskell project so far.
Ok, equations can get much trickier, but I don't think this is example too bad, you didn't even write a single multiline nested fraction.

On the other hand, you don't write complicated mathematical equations quickly if you've got any sense anyway.
You wouldn't pay the market price. Its costs money to extract oil, less than $10 per barrel in Saudi Arabia, in the $20s in the US.

http://graphics.wsj.com/oil-barrel-breakdown/
A solar powered still mounted to the back that dumps methanol and ethanol into a tank would be interesting depending on where you live. If you live in an area with a lot of fruit (California Central Valley) you could ride around for little cost.
> roi

ROI and it's cousin TCO should be useful terms, but it's been so twisted and bastardised that it's basically a useless metric. Everyone has some bullshit story that shows that if you give them millions now they'll deliver a lower ROI or TCO.
I don't think OP's logic requires side effects of vaccines to be anywhere close to COVID19 causalities. It's a personal decision.

Without vaccines, at present, my risk of COVID19 would be marginal at best:

- I live in an area with a high vaccination rate, and a low incidence rate

- I take pretty strong precautions, including proper masks (which are probably more effective than vaccines), and pretty strong social distancing, which I can do working from home.

I'm vaccinated, but if I wasn't, my odds of catching COVID19 would be nominal at best.

That's different than, for example, a retail worker.

If I didn't believe vaccines were perfectly safe, OP's decision wouldn't be crazy. I am a general-purpose nerd, and I know enough biology to make an informed decision without relying on political authority figures. If that wasn't the case, I might make the same decision as OP.

Now, I can do the math on why, if many people make the same decision as OP, we'll have a serious problem, but again, most people (not OP specifically) can't do math.

You can have empathy without agreement.
This is a key point often ignored. Throughout the last six months or so of the pandemic they’re have been a huge number of headlines about the telecoms expanding coverage to rural areas in partnership with the government. The pandemic has shown the gap in service and the government is now paying to close that gap, and the telecoms are reaping the rewards.
I think if I learned Greenpeace was single-handedly funded by Exxon, my reaction wouldn't be to say 'that doesnt mean anything'
If you're somewhat poor like me (living in Eastern Europe, current net salary around 1500 euros a month; provides decent quality of life here but not in a globalized economy), then the first step of saving money would be not to bother with the expensive cloud vendors: AWS, Azure and GCP.*

* this advice does not apply if you're a cog in an enterprise, then use whatever the company mandates

Here's a few alternatives, from the most expensive to the least expensive:

DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ A pretty popular VPS provider that i'd say is cheaper than the above to start us out. They also offer a whole bunch of different managed services, if you're into that sort of stuff.

Vultr: https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/#pricing Much like DigitalOcean, sans some of the managed services. On the upside, they also sell smaller instances, though those tend to be sold out in my experience.

Scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/ Have a look at their Development or Starburst instances (the latter are smaller ones like Vultr), also they rival DigitalOcean in their managed offerings. Pretty good CPU performance as well, in my experience.

Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/cloud I'd say that they're cheaper than all of the above, but also have a reasonably modern control panel, as well as block storage services if you need more space. ID verification might be necessary if you're from an undesireable country, though, so YMMV.

Time4VPS: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 I have used them for almost all of my servers in the last 4 years or so (hence affiliate link in case you check them out) - the control panel is somewhat more dated and the managed offerings are limited, but they're one of the cheapest legitimate hosts, since they're owned by a Lithuanian telco. They also offer noticeable discounts if you reserve instances for a year and i'd say they're a good choice for most purposes, provided that you have backups (i have a few backup servers in my home for that purpose).

Contabo: https://contabo.com/en/vps/ Perhaps the best specs that you can get on the cheap, especially if you're after a decent amount of storage, which is larger than most of the other hosts provide you with (in lieu of block storage services). They do have a setup fee for the instances, the process seems at least partially manual on their part, the web UI is the most antiquated i've seen of the bunch, the performance of the instances is mediocre (they probably overprovision), but it all seems to work regardless.

There are also other hosts out there, but the shadier they are, the more likely data loss and/or theft is. But hey, balance your needs with your capabilities to find what works the best for you! Perhaps i'll even write a blog post and include some automated benchmarks in the future on my blog.

Edit: if you feel like spending some of your time looking for bargains (yaay for low alternative costs), then feel free to have a look at LowEndBox, where interesting deals are sometimes advertised: https://lowendbox.com/

Personally, however, i'd only pick companies that have been around for $SOME years.
Elevated 413 or 413 errors could mean that a bug was introduced to the client/frontend that sends large payloads or cookies.

Elevated 400, 401, or 403 errors could mean that a bug was introduced in session or cookie handling middleware, client, or server code.

Elevated 200s means it could be a DDOS attack or issues with client-side polling.

Etc..

Alert on status code anomalies, not on volume/percentage of certain status code.
Like forgetting that respiratory viruses are airborne?
> I see a massive amount of spam from SES

Okay.

> and pretty much all email service providers.

Uh, how do you handle email then? Which provider do you use / can you recommend?
This is an interesting topic and I haven't considered it fully.

I have a standing desk and a really good ergonomic chair and every time I need to do extended work away from home (like in a vacation rental) it reminds me how important a good setup is.

What I'm now wondering about with all this talk about gravity and blood circulation - is anyone here using those 0 gravity setups where the screen is hanging above you and you are practically lying down ?

It seems like it would fix all the issues, have massive health benefits in the long run - if it actually works I could justify 5k$ but I don't have a chance to try it and I haven't heard about anyone using them. I suspect HN crowd is a good place to ask - anyone has info on how effective they actually are ? What are the downsides ? Is it just the cost ?

We spend 8+ hours 5+ days a week at the computer - I'm sure over a decade or two the investment would pay off if it prevents back pain, removes strain from your heart and keeps you more rested while working.
Does Canada offer universal sick leave? Can young people afford to miss two days of work if they have fatigue after dose 2?
Yeah, if the events can be handled idempotently and this handling properly accounts for time, you don’t have to stop processing webhooks while filling in the gaps.
Yes. And also make business metrics somehow traceable to machine metrics.
Brandson’s flights, once available to the public, will cost ~$200k, not $20m like flights to the ISS have costed in the past. A 100x decrease in cost is a pretty meaningful change.

What is your basis for claiming that these developments will have no useful secondary or tertiary spillover effects for society? Many space developments have created new technologies that are useful back on the surface.
He says this is common to pre-SaaS companies. So he's mostly describing companies started at least a decade ago, perhaps two or three.

However, the problems he describes can easily affect enterprise SaaS companies in a niche. If your market literally has a few thousand potential customers, you could end up in a situation where onboarding a big new customer is a double-digit percentage of your current revenue. At that point, it doesn't matter if you're a SaaS or not, you're gonna feel the pressure to do things for the sake of them.
A Man Who Saves You from Yourself
The discussions I have had today sor far (this one included) have felt very "two sided".

Whereas I'm a tad ambivalent about the situation.

I suspect the decision will have a good (from the authorities point of view) effect on vaccine procrastinators, a bad but manageable effect on die hard antivaxxers, and a terrible, unpredicable and underestimated effect on the people who where hesitant, but will have to get their jab to keep their job.

Time will tell if it was worth it. That's what I hate - having to pick a side on what's the best outcome based on a relatively short span of data (every days gets us farther from the vaccine "bad surprise", but 6+ months of hindsight stills leaves me freightenned, sorry ! Not gonna lie.)

I'm not going to protest and ask for anyone's head yet. I wrote my Mom to express reasonable doubt and practical concerns, but beyond that I will of course bow to the decision of the democratically elected body.

That does not make conversation will concerned loved friends and loved ones any simpler.
Minor on the surface, yes.

Under the hood changing calling conventions is seriously large rework of the compiler and runtime.
There are great Flash emulators available, so nothing is stopping you from making more swf games. You might have to fall back to an older machine if they haven't maintained the creation tools I guess, but it's more likely noone wants to make them anymore.
Those are not the numbers requested, given mRNA vaccines was specifically asked for.
Mh, this seems useful for our internal discussions of kafka vs rabbitmq, and might make some of the stuff we do with rabbitmq easier or more effective. Neat.

So, I'm taking bets how many days it takes until some teams decide that any further development is impossible without this feature. Yes, it's been a long day.
For tab search in firefox do Ctrl-l (to go to the URL bar) then type %xyz will list tabs with xyz in it, select the tab you want and done. Eg to list your HN tabs and go quicky to one of them:

ctrl-l %new.y (use arrows then enter)
I spent a few weeks living with religious family and I was very much envious of their social life and community engagement.
Right, `merge_at()`. But that in turn calls small mountains of other C code. It is, alas, a complicated approach. Folding it in would be substantially more work than you've already done.

The point: for inputs like your:

a = list(range(-100, 1700))
b = list(range(1400, 1800))

it would first use a variant of binary search to find where b[0] belongs in a. "Almost all of a" is consumed by that via a relatively tiny number of compares. It would similarly do a binary-ish search to find where a[-1] belongs in b. The tail end of b, from 1700 through 1799, then also never needs to be looked at again.

In the lucky case that two input lists don't overlap at all, and a[-1] <= b[0], that's enough so that a "one-pair-at-a-time" compare _never_ needs to be done. In context (the two lists are contiguous slices of an array), no pointers at all need to be copied in that case either - it deduces that the combined array slices are already in sorted order in total time O(log(len(a)) + log(len(b))), and it's done.
I would highlight that both Microsoft and Apple (to a lesser extent, mind you) also operate their own ad platforms. Don't get me wrong, I'd be happy to see a blanket ban on web browsers and ad companies being related, and have it apply to all three. I'm an equally opportunity antitrust breakup advocate. ;)

Regarding risk-based authentication, I see a lot of value in it, but I think the cost may be too high, and often less robust methods it uses are a poor metric anyways. I gave an example elsewhere that someone might be using a wired PC and a wireless phone on two different carriers with vastly different user agents at the same time, for instance.

I think there's some merit in some very rough Geo-IP based RBA, but I'm not sure how many other strategies for that I find effective. The fact that Outlook and Gmail seem equally happy to let someone who's never signed in from outside the United States get logged into in Nigeria seems like low-lying fruit in the risk-based authentication space. ;)
> This lets it detect when sites try to open the popup-based authenticaion flow, unload the stand-in script, load the real one, and continue the login flow.

I guess how it detects the "when sites try to open the popup-based authenticaion flow" is the attack vector. If it's Javascript, it's likely to be easily exploitable. If it's in the browser's chrome I suppose it would take a malicious add-on or similar device.
IBM released a 65 qubit last year which this article omits

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2020/09/ibm-quantum-roadm...
It depends on whether the topic is divisive or not.

Protecting privacy, holding big tech accountable, etc are not divisive topics. Any internet user wants that.

Yet if you tread in more divisive topics, you may lose part of your audience. Examples: women in tech, trans rights, advancing the black community with special projects.

Each of these are politically divisive. It doesn't matter where you stand on these issues, I'm just commenting on how they are divisive topics in an extremely polarized political landscape.

If these issues are central to your belief and mission, one should go for it. Yet you then need to accept the risk of abandoning part of the potential user base.

Which for a browser maker is dumb. But I wonder what Mozilla really is these days.
Does Darling work for anything serious these days? What apps are you running on it?
Surely you understand that you are surrounded by millions of others acting the same as you are, so you remain at high risk of catching COVID.
Feel free to agree or disagree with Mozilla, obviously.

However, I suggest skipping the extra and disingenous step of pretending there's some objective universal standard of "neutrality."

Your "neutral" may be somebody else's idea of "left" or "right."

What you're doing here makes as much sense as inventing some arbitrary personal definition of "rock and roll music" and then criticizing some performer for not hewing closely enough to it.
What language exactly you use that can't do web sockets, which is a thin layer over plain TCP sockets?
So, anyone got any good ideas for accounting tricks that lets you credit coal power emissions into a year the rules don't check and win by making coal power carbon neutral on (biodegradable) paper?
That's private browsing currently. Why not use a private window?
I’m skeptical. When I lay down and not think I fall asleep. If I have to think hard and work I’m pretty sure something is keeping me awake but I’m not sure if it’s good for my health.

I think similar thing happens to a degree when sitting.
I mean, I got more than two condolences from my team when I mentioned that my cat was sick, and I think my team is smaller than the Harvard Divinity School.

Spiritually bankrupt? Not sure. It’s not great though.
How the Kaseya VSA Zero Day Exploit Worked
Totally agreed! Flink is way underrated.
Introduction of generics would need a major version number change. It would involve not just a complier rework, but also a large stdlib rework.
https://code.org/teach

git and HTML and Linked Data (and Reproducible Containers) should be requisite:
https://learngitbranching.js.org/

Pedagogy#Modern_pedagogy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy#Modern_pedagogy

Evidence-based_education:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence-based_education

Computational_thinking#Characteristics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking#Charact... (Abstraction, Automation, Analysis)

Learning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning

Autodidacticism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodidacticism

Design of Experiments; Hypotheses, troubleshooting, debugging, automated testing, Formal Methods, actual Root Cause Analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments

Critical Thinking; definitions, Logic and Rationality, Logical Reasoning: Deduction, Abduction and Induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking#Logic_and_ra...

Doesn't this all derive from [Quantum] Information Theory? It's actually fascinating to start at Information Theory; who knows what that curriculum would look like without reinforcement and [3D] videos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

Stone, James V. "Information theory: a tutorial introduction." (2015).
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Information+Theory:+...

It used to be that we had to start engines with a turn of a crank: that initial energy to overcome inertia was enough for the system to feed-forward without additional reinforcement. Effective CS instruction may motivate the unmotivated to care about learning the way folks who are receiving reinforcement do: intrinsically.
I understand your point but I think that emotional suppression is a much greater crime than failing to be polite. After all, politeness has quite a storied history in being used to suppress and control people that are used to being 'othered', many of which feel things that are much stronger than I am expressing here
Apple just launched an official $99 MagSafe battery pack for iPhone 12 lineup
In fact, they can play ping pong and keep each other going forever :)
Please fix SSL system cert verification on Windows!

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16736
Some people are less interested in money and status than they are in discovering something original about the Universe. If not original, a new take on it. Dr West strikes me as such a person. I focused on the part of the letter that says he wanted to explore philosophy but they miscategorized his endeavors as Afro-Studies. I'd get frustrated and quit too.
I know that very well from VR, I can walk for hours in real life but VR turns my legs to noodles in 1-2 hours tops.
Currently “high yield” savings accounts have negative interest rates. So not much help compared to putting everything in the market and hoping there isn’t a major crash.
Socket/port activation in the init system tries to be a piece of this puzzle too, though obviously it's far from the whole story.
You can be as sarcastic as you want but the traditional fire practice of the native people has been ignored until very recently.
I partly agree - yes, individual people spending money is not a long-term solution. But we aren’t even in the stage of needing stable, long-term solutions - we need immediate, drastic, dramatic actions. And there are already strong incentives for carbon capture technology - it’s a big and growing market. The bigger bottleneck is not in capture innovations, but in emissions-reduction action, now, here, this decade. So, yeah, I mean, I get why he wouldn’t personally choose to do it that way, and I guess I’m excited about the prize? But man do I wish he would do more.