skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A "civilian weapon" should be something more like their fists, or a stick they've picked...

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/onpu1m/conc...
> Is it your assertion that the poor did not consume tea in late 1700's America?

The Tea Act was (among other things) intended to, and probably did, lower the price of tea in America. It hurt smugglers and tea importers.

> I always assumed the Sons of Liberty had both wealthy and more middle class members.

Any non-landowners who participated (were there many?) got had, then, since they couldn't vote under the original constitution and state laws at the time. They also didn't get a say in the drafting of the constitution or in ratifying it (I mean, obviously, who wants them stinking up the place?)

"But they got representation—just not the right to vote, or to run for many offices" Sure, but that's awfully close to an argument from the other side of the Atlantic, that rich British citizens in America didn't find convincing when it was applied to them:

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

[EDIT] All I'm saying is, we're a country the founding principle of which is basically "it's not who your parents are that make you worthwhile—it's having money". That was the fundamental disagreement between the Colonies (that is: the people who drove us to war, and who formed the government afterward) and Britain. Given our veneration of that founding, it's unsurprising that a country still operating under a constitution drafted by slavers and drug smugglers would tend, perhaps even more than other places, to be run by particularly scummy rich people with little shame about the shady ways they make their money.
Honestly, most of the outrage would be prevented if they just limited each government to just attacking their own civilians. Who would outlaw them then, those same governments?

Their real blunder is allowing cross-country hacking, and now they have to answer for the fact the morocan government abused their tool against Macron.

As for countries with no human rights abusing their citizens, any outraged American should start right at home with how their own government deals with peaceful protesters of 1/6. Human rights are practically an illusion, and governments abusing citizens is nothing new, NSO is literally a drop in the ocean, the only real difference between countries are whether the press is free enough to even report what's happening.

(Hint to Americans: your is not free, either).
I drove for uber briefly. Wasn't impressed with their integrity (the promo I signed up on said get X if you drive for us, then it was after you do Y, then Y and Z).

I drove purely for fun but that rubbed me the wrong way so I wrapped it up.
> but on internet scale joins have miserable performance.

Please define internet scale. Joining 10s of billions of rows using clickhouse here.
I work at AWS, but I wasn't involved in this feature, so this isn't anything more than speculation on my part. I've certainly talked to customers who would time their reserved instances and savings plan purchases based on the USD exchange rate for their local currency. This could make sense for those customers too, who often don't have USD denominated bank accounts.
> once you set up a decently tricked out Helm chart

I don't disagree but this condition is doing a hell of a lot of work.

To be fair, you don't need to do much to run a service on a toy k8s project. It just gets complicated when you layer on all production grade stuff like load balancers, service meshes, access control, CI pipelines, o11y, etc. etc.
Type 1 definitely still exists as a standard. In NA, every EV other than Tesla has a J1772 (a.k.a. "Type 1") charge port.

https://evcharging.enelx.com/resources/blog/552-ev-charging-...
> really sucks when you have a bunch of interdependent services owned by different teams.

That's true. The strictness of SQL lets you use SQL as the integration point. Without it you'd have to write a service on top as the integration layer.
Most of those crops aren't directly subsidized. The problem is water rights which are legally tied to real estate. So there's no way to force farmers to pay market rates for water.
There are lots of highly relevant people in the Lisp and Scheme communities.

https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
If you're in Windows, and the off-screen window has focus: Alt-Space -> M -> Any arrow key, and move the mouse.
Suppose I had an extra PC lying around that I could donate (6th/7th gen Intel, can run Ubuntu 20.04, no monitor) -- (a) would that hypothetically be useful to you, and (b) how would I get it to you without spending on international shipping?
> A Substack publication used location data from Grindr to out a priest without their consent.

Well, that's a very 2021 headline.

> The news starkly demonstrates not only the inherent power of location data, but how the chance to wield that power has trickled down from corporations and intelligence agencies to essentially any sort of disgruntled, unscrupulous, or dangerous individual.

I guess the problem with David Brin's sousveillance concept is that the average person is more likely to use these technologies to prey upon their fellows instead of pushing back against greater powers.

Doubtless that this is far from the first instance of "app data weaponization", just the first publicly disclosed one.
But they all seem to want code screens, so that seems to make "a" moot. And for "b", the whole point of employing someone is to have them do the work you don't want to do, or can't do yourself.
Clickhouse is OLAP. We are talking OLTP.
Truthiness redux.

Only my church is the one true religion. Everyone else is a heretic.

Only my fact checkers can access objective truth. Dissenters are enemy propagandists.

Misinformation is killing people. Think of the children. We need to ban them and burn their books. This time is different. This time is like that other time. Our intolerance is justified because we need to prevent this time from being like that other time when intolerance took over. Would I lie?

>the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, speaking about misinformation about Covid vaccines, says in an off-hand way: “Dismiss anything else. We will continue to be your single source of truth.”

https://www.aier.org/article/is-the-state-your-single-source...
Apple is known to hand off whole China iCloud to CCP.

Also they refuse to zero-knowledge (e2e) encrypt US iCloud backups[1].

In San Bernandino shooter’s case, they refused FBI’s request to develop new tools to hack an already locked iPhone.

However I have little doubt they will refuse to sign&push OTA update of a Signal.app or “improved” iOS developed and provided by NSA.

Mercenary who helped Carlos Ghosn, recalled that in the middle of operation, while riding a train, his iPhone suddenly rebooted and started an iOS update[2]:

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On the train, Taylor’s phone began an unexpected automatic software update. “The first thing I thought was, I wonder if the NSA knows,” he recalls. “I wouldn’t put anything past them.”

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[1] - https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/01/apple-scraps-end-to-end-e...

[2] - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-carlos-ghosn-esc...
> Removing barriers to meritocracy would do just as well.

Meritocracy is not an objective, defined term, even in rote, technical jobs.

Further, people are very, very bad at hiring based on merit. There have been tons of studies showing that people tend to hire people who are like them (culturally, racially, gender, etc.)

Quotas are not harmful unless there are too few qualified people to meet the quota, resulting in a less-qualified person getting a job.

GitLab has hundreds of millions of people to choose from. They're not going to run out of qualified women.
Kubernetes uses all those underlying AWS technologies anyway (or at least an equivalently complex thing). You still have to be prepared to diagnose issues with them to effectively administrate Kubernetes.
I use it as my main visual plain text editor, but use vi on the CLI and JetBrains stuff for coding. The use cases I like it for:

- copy/paste ANYTHING, every tried to copy something from the browser and paste it to the CLI and nothing happens? Anytime I have difficulty pasting text, I paste into BBEdit first and then copy it again to paste into its destination. BBEdit eats any kind of text, it's amazing.

- Large files, I've found nothing is faster for opening and editing large file >1G

- Note taking - Has a few advantages over other options (Bear, Notes, Evernote) here that I don't miss the rich text features of those others. 1) No automatic autocorrect for spelling but the manual autocorrect is still there which means I can write tech jargon without getting frustrated 2) Autosave without having to think of a title or folder 3) Immediate start up time, no waiting for the doc to load even if I have >100 open docs

- batch text processing - if I need to do find/replace I tend to go with BBEdit over CLI, I can build up the regex pattern and have undo capability. Use it a lot for making SQL statements from lists of ids and the like.
The threat-model there is that the attacker controls the text that is parsed.
So we're going to make concrete in space?
Most helicopters use jet engines. I think that is where a large part of the maintenance cost comes in. The rotor assembly is fairly complicated mechanically, but I don't know how often it needs to be serviced.

I think the pro-electric people are underestimating the maintenance requirements though, especially since anything flying has very conservative requirements put on it, so just saying "these electric motors will run fine for 10,000 hours" or something like that isn't going to cut it.
Even if it could "only" safely carry 20kg, that's still around €100,000-€150,000 at the street. I could see how this method could be very profitable.
Louisiana's problem is more land erosion than sea level rise and it's mostly due to dams all the way up in the Dakotas.

Water rights are a huge mess and I see it being the thing that eventually breaks up pacts between most nations. The US and EU will cease to be and nations will go to war over it.

The legislation around these rights is a time bomb.
Two amazing quotes that really resonate with me:

> The industry is full of engineers who are experts in weirdly named "technologies" (which are really just products and libraries) but have no idea how the actual technologies (e.g. TCP/IP, file systems, memory hierarchy etc.) work. I don't know what to think when I meet engineers who know how to setup an ELB on AWS but don't quite understand what a socket is...

> Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up only on Windows XP.
That's called scabbing.
> I won’t be mad about a long estimate

So... my experience with this mindset is that you won't be mad, but you'll just say "that's too long/expensive" and cancel the project entirely. Then the same project will come up again in two months with different wording, again and again, until I give you the estimate you think you can afford. And then the thing will end up taking longer than the original "too expensive" estimate (in part because too many things were rushed in the beginning to try to meet "the date"), but nobody will ever compare the final outcome against the original estimate anyway... because estimates are never meaningful.
I Just Launched Aifee a Machine Learning Courses Platform
I've been working as a Machine Learning engineer for a few years now. There is a serious lack of resources for many ML topics. So I created AIFEE to address this problem.
Shouldn't your window manager give you a way to handle this?
Inside TikTok’s Highly Secretive Algorithm
I am not a particularly financially savvy person, but I can learn. I found this thread about shorting Uber in 2019 that seems more compelling today:

Is Uber the perfect short?
https://old.reddit.com/r/stocks/comments/br6hl1/is_uber_the_...
They wouldn't pay $300 for it because the price is too high or because they don't need it? If their specialty makes them need the document, why would they not pay $300? I'm curious.
This is what I was expecting the article to be about at first. Very interesting podcast episode lol
If we're talking from the employers perspective, likely until it doesn't hit the bottom line.

To make this discussion easier, lets consider just the comments in isloation, and assume they're all verified (like most would as an employer, to do otherwise would bring extra risk on yourself)

If you're employing Muslims, then in this case, she's probably unemployable by you until she can demonstrate reform of some kind to an extent where both she and others in the workplace can collaborate effectively.

However, as a journalist it depends on your outlet.

Some may look at her conspiracism, and decide that to get to that point alone she's probably not a very good journalist and would again need to demonstrate some sort of pivot in her decision making that lead her to that point.

On the other hand, there are probably some right wing outlets that would look at her and decide she's a great journalist based on those comments, and that her decision making is on point.

Whether this is good or ideal is another matter.

It comes down to how much you want the government involved in businesses ability to freely associate.
More recently they wanted to monetize C#, but found it best to make the language itself free and open source while monetizing through complementary products.
The Moessner Miracle evaded discovery for over 2000 years
Walmart.com is an extension of their retail services. There's some overlap with Amazon.com but both offer services and features the others don't and neither fully supplant one another.

Walmart's affiliate program allows them to cater to the long tail market that Amazon has long dominated but that alone isn't going to convince people to switch to Walmart.com. Why not go to Ebay or Newegg instead?

Walmart+ costs 2/3 of Amazon Prime but doesn't offer any of the digital services available like Audiobooks, ebooks, Videos, Music, Gaming, and photo storage/backup. For many those services are more valuable than free shipping or pharmacy discounts.

What does Walmart.com offer that's going to convince people to shop their over Amazon, Newegg, Ebay or other online retailers?
I mean people over complicated software engineering in their head. Write a bunch of files of code, write some other files: the end. /s
We know what you did during lockdown
I feel like we've already seen some alternatives and the industry, thus far, is still orienting towards k8s.

Hashicorp's stack, using Nomad as an orchestrator, is much simpler and more composable.

I've long been a fan of Mesos' architecture, which I also think is more composable than the k8s stack.

I just find it surprising an article that is calling for an evolution of the cluster management architecture fails to investigate the existing alternatives and why they haven't caught on.
Developers don’t pay for languages.

Most don’t pay for tooling.

Sometimes they do, and they get bitten by it. So never again.
It's a lot bigger of an issue than merely the climate crisis. Regarding trying to prevent it (and related issues), we would not only needed to have started 50+ years ago (when it was already clear what was happening), but the incentives in our economic system just do not work in such a way to allow for all the capitalist decision makers to all collectively stop turning a profit. The system is somewhat like rolling a boulder up a hill, it must continuously push it up, or the boulder will roll back down, a little, or all the way. Once growth becomes imposssible/infeasible due to resource limitations, this will happen eventually anyway. But if the machine stops churning, it will simply happen sooner.

Regarding the various aspects of the unsustainability of our society and how it is reaching its limits, this wiki subsection is a very good read (and the rest of the wiki page as well, separated into concrete sections, and links to lots of source materials):

https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/wiki/index#wiki_what_would...
I just got back from a 10 day Vipassana course a week and a half ago. So this whole thread is timely.

I went with no expectations except wanting to give the technique an honest try. On Day 5 I experienced anxiety and a panic attack. Never had one before - ever. I didn't know what I was feeling. On Day 6 it got worse. On Day 7 I almost quit but after talking to the teacher and course manager decided to persist. On day 7 I cried thru all the meditation sessions. I also felt some incredible highs which many people compare those achieved thru drugs - which I've never used myself. On that day I experienced feelings of extreme compassion and gratitude. On Day 8, my anxiety and panic attack got worse. It culminated in me passing out in the meditation hall. I passed out briefly but at that point I decided I had had enough and asked to leave immediately.

I've spent the last week+ trying to recover and hoping I didn't do any permanent damage to myself. In the past week I have experienced much minor feelings of anxiety but have been able to deal with them. I believe I will be ok but this has been an illuminating experience. Before this, I too never ever thought that meditation and/or mindfulness could have any negative or adverse reactions. So this is all new. I just wanted to pass on my experience objectively.

The one thing I really would say is that I wish these courses did a much better job of screening/counseling folks before they embark on the course and also have a better plan for how to address those people who experience something like I did. In that moment, I wanted to know that I was ok and felt like I wasn't getting the answers I needed. All I was told was to continue to work thru it. I am not sure that is the best thing for everyone. My body clearly was telling me otherwise.
> Programming the AVR-8 Arduino it's hard to miss the conclusion that "C sucks" but anything really better (say Supercharged Pascal or a Miracle Macro Assembler)

I did see an Ada compiler for the AVR recently (I'm not an Ada programmer). It seemed unpolished, and not really an advancement on C.

I think one problem with embedded work is that you either stick to the low-level, in which case you have no advantage over C, or you go for high-level, in which case you have convenience but lose flexibility.

In terms of meta programming, Val Schorre has an interesting idea with META-II. Both Alan Kay and Joe Armstrong spoke highly of it.The compiler has its own assembly language. I had this goofy idea of writing a Basic-like language that replaced the assembly. So you'd have a language that was both high-level Basic and a compiler. It would embrace the GOTO, because META-II also generates GOTOs, and GOTOs are a natural fit for CPS (Continuation Passing Style) used by many compilers.
I love my PinePhone but I can't run WhatsApp on it. I suppose I could use an emulator, but it's slow enough already.
I'm going to also say Bose QC series. I'd say the Bose QC 35 II is perfect for you. It was the king for a long time and it's probably gone down considerably in price now since the newer version came out.
‘Infilling historic bridges is unnecessary’: An alternative for Highways England
The Israeli's have two allies of note, the US and Saudi Arabia. Everyone else dislikes to hates them.

The geopolitical clout of the US and Saudi Arabia are in decline.
Personally I am finding all these services increasingly useless. Netflix has second-tier content mostly, and I now look at Netflix original content as a sign that something is not worth watching. As for Disney+ - a lot of it just feels like the same content rehashed over and over, particularly with Marvel. I feel like YouTube is just as fine a way to spend time. I've already cancelled some subscriptions, and am likely to get rid of others. We need better alternatives to the few big players. Hopefully this is the beginning of a broader reckoning and decentralization of where users spend time.
You can't trust anyone, but... The Pegasus Project did change their statement from "thousands of numbers that were selected as targets by NSO’s Group clients" to "a list of phone numbers concentrated in countries known to surveil their citizens and also known to have been clients of NSO Group", and they specifically say: "The list does not identify who put the numbers on it, or why, and it is unknown how many of the phones were targeted or surveilled".

It sounds like the "list" is from HLR lookups, which get done all the time without NSO being involved.

If you think about it, none of NSO's clients would want NSO (or anyone else) to know who they are spying on in the first place, so it stands to reason that there'd not be a centralized list anywhere of targets for their software. I'm sure the list is real and all, but there's a distinct lack of clarity about how that list links to NSO and Pegasus specifically.

Now the other bit that the Pegasus Project did was look at phones they suspected of being compromised. I think that's telling in the sense of, "journalists, activists and business people are being targeted". That seems pretty credible, but NSO doesn't seem to be denying that aspect of the story.
Interesting post, I wonder how much more efficient using this algorithm is. It seems like for reasonably sized boxes it wouldn’t be too hard to get an optimal arrangement by hand.

Have you looked at past pallets to see how many of them would be considered non-optimal by the new algorithm?
But somehow they are fifth in DB Ranking [1]. So despite all the hate on HN, they are quite widely deployed. The same goes to MySQL as well.

[1] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking
Nor the first GC to take such an approach.
There are arguably two major phases here, and its only the second one that most folks here find controversial.

* Steps 0-2: determining "what" the project "is" (design, architecture, ontology)

* Steps 3-6: procuring and allocating resources to complete it (economics, management, politics)

It is tempting to decouple the two phases, and as a technologist focusing solely on architecture while leaving the economics up to leadership. However, social factors (the real people involved with the project) are an integral part of actually getting anything done, so I agree with the author's premise that the whole process should be viewed holistically (and ideally run by one technologist).
It deserves cynicism. If he wasn’t a jerk he’d just pay his employees more and maybe pay some taxes. When everyone is fair upfront they don’t need to give us free turkeys on thanksgiving we can buy our own.
The Great Lakes Compact has a giant loophole you could drive a train full of water right through.

You can export water out of the watershed in containers no larger than 5.7 gallons (~21.5 liters)

Build a short loop of rail, half in the watershed and half out of it. Drive a train in a circle continuously. When you are inside the watershed, fill up the 5.7 gallon containers (just make it a continuous waterfall that you drive through or something). When you are outside the watershed, dump them into a reservoir/pumping facility. There's nothing anybody could do about it.
GA aircraft used to be way cheaper than they are now. Regulatory changes in the 80s (I think) shifted liability to the manufacturer in the event of an accident and everything got more expensive. It's not really fair to compare an uncertified UAV to a certified GA aircraft, because the electric aircraft is going to get a lot more expensive once you certify it for passengers.
Radio Shack Color Computer III - they had a multi-tasking OS, OS-9, that worked via memory bank switching. It had a windowing system that worked via in-band signalling, which is quite different than any windowing system today.