skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - Nic never held a clearance, and as a result was never actually involved or aware of most of the programs that he intended to impact

I honestly don't know how he'd ever expect to succeed in a job like this without a clearance. Without it, he'd have little practical knowledge of how the actual air gapped networks (SIPR, JWICS, etc.) are designed and implemented.

Even if he didn't know the classified technical details, there's a lot of differences between deploying software in these environments vs the wide open public internet.

From experience, the type of exploits that would be devastating to a big company just aren't a big risk for most apps on these networks. OTOH, classified apps have all sorts of bureaucratic rules that the unclassified world doesn't have to consider.

For example, if this guy is coming from Silicon Valley, he might spend 80% of his time worrying about exploits that cost corporate American billions / year and which are due to unpatched systems which become targets for script-kiddies pounding every IP on the internet again and again, looking to take advantage of dozens of known vulnerabilities.

On the classified networks, these types of exploits just aren't as likely. There aren't fleets of bots in China and Russia trying known root passwords on every machine with port 22 open or trying to access open Mongo or Elastic Search systems on whole IP ranges.

On the other hand, a private sector SecOps guy isn't even considering that they absolutely cannot store multiple big program's databases in the same data center, staffed by the same contracting company. Because there's a huge risk that some rogue IT contractor with general root access in some small signals intelligence "datacenter" in Hawaii or Germany will end up having access to way too much sensitive data that is shared by multiple intel agencies and military branches, and it'd be disastrous if he decided to start taking raw disks home with him each night a la Snowden. The Air Force and other DOD agencies certainly must ensure that a single contractor doesn't have access to too many data sources.

And with everyone moving as fast as they can to AWS, Azure, etc, I'm guessing these type of procedure are far more important to the Air Force than worrying about some development team deploying an app on an older docker image based on some old version of Java or Python with a few known exploits, which could cost a private sector company a lot of pain and money the minute it was deployed on the open internet.
Oh, this might explain the rare[1] local-only[2] "m=+0.00blah" test fails on deep `time.Time` comparisons we sometimes get talking to Firebase.

(We don't actually use `time.Local` anywhere but I'm guessing one of the support libraries does.)

[1] Once a month, maybe
[2] But never on the CI - only when running the tests on developer machines
There’s often a significant difference between someone own perception/admission and reality. The fact that her parents have to call her and not vice versa in the context of Asian culture speaks volume. Also the typical content of the conversations she cited doesn’t suggest a rich communication.
Anyway, if you speak a language regularly - in any language - you can’t lose it, not to mention your first language.
Slightly off-topic answer: back in the day these used to be Java Applets so the original mathlets name is probably a pun on them.
How underappreciated can these Antilles get anyway?

If you like internet radio check out their soundtrack for some Caribbean sounds.

Edit: actually this was an earlier storm, not the current one.
Yo (kind of:)

There's the usual finance / banking guys. But also a lot of ERPs - the corporate bread and butter hr, Financials, crm, erm, scm, etc applications (I'm in this space, historically as sysadmin / light developer, then perf testing, infra architect, tech team lead, now as kind of a ops manager).

Over my 25 years and few dozen projects, mainframe was a significant portion of implementations and almost always at least on the table as potential platform.

Fwiw, What I always find fascinating though is that after many an implementation on "distributed platform", I. E. Unix Linux or Windows, as soon as any performance issue arises, there's a lot of calls to "move it back to mainframe" . I don't agree with that myself necessarily, but A lot of big enterprise shops feel that mainframe is an expensive pain, but reliable predictable well-performing expensive pain.
This should be recognized more. I can think of a lot of applications that have like-wise succumbed to the darkness. uTorrent off the top of my head.

VLC should get a special award for not sucking after gaining popularity.
G) Turns out they can't know if they're scanning for other forms of content, since they delegate computing the hash lists of banned content to government organizations like NCMEC anyway.
Theranos Science and Technology: The Miniaturization of Laboratory Testing
Not usually the entire situation - usually just lamenting
greedy corporate fatcats rather than the literal inability to maintain a business based on the margins, volume, and shrinkage.
> Please don't jump to these baseless conclusions based on a misinterpretation of one twitter post. The issue here is with libadwaita, not with GTK, and if you actually read the gitlab issue chain by that person then you will see that progress is being made: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/issues/259

Please don't dismiss my statements as baseless. The presence of an issue does not imply progress. Jeremy is asking for a theming API or a method to let apps use a different theme besides Adwaita.

> Jeremy: I'm curious if you think there is a best way to have GNOME core apps continue to use our own theme.

> Clasen: If you ask me, the answer is no. To the best of my understanding, linking to libadwaita is an explicit decision to use the Adwaita theme.

I don't think there's any confusion or baseless assumption on my end.

> You're getting this wrong -- GNOME is very much a community project

Doesn't look like a community project to me, not in the least. It's as much a community project as Android (AOSP) is.

> This is not about making someone conform to anyone's way, this is about distros working with app developers to provide the best possible experience for users.

And GNOME/GTK devs get to decide what's the best possible experience for the user — removing any customization possibilities for the sake of consistency. If anyone doesn't like that, they can piss off. This is pretty much what "making someone conform to someone's way" looks like.
I think just a lens swap is enough, no?
I’ve never used pihole, but I’m assuming you could whitelist the Roku’s local ip?
How's that working for the folks of Detroit?
I hope I don't see any whiners here complaining about "free speech" being violated. This is a great example of the exclusivity paradox. The bottom barrel members of society should absolutely be censored, slippery-slope fallacy aside.

That being said, every time I hear news about a private company effectively silencing a group of people based on ideology, I feel like there's a landmark supreme court case on the forefront. And it'll come sometime this decade. Especially with the courts packed with minority-rule federalists.
Indeed. I should have emphasized above my second point better (instead of the proud parent digression I wrote) - my son is the only one I speak Hungarian with every day (and vice versa). I’m certain that without this I would’ve lost a very big part of my Hungarian language skills over the past 6+ years.
We've had cows, chickens, and water a lot longer than we've had mRNA vaccines. If milk, beef, eggs, or water caused long-term side effects, we'd know about them by now.
The Loving Trap
Did your Google Clock app alarm not go off? You are not alone
In the US, we generally have "Shopkeeper's privilege", which lets shopkeepers detain a person reasonably suspected of shoplifting while an investigation happens. Usually that involves just calling the police, or taking their picture and telling them they're banned for life, and then letting them go.
In turn, I think GitHub won because of Git.

Centralized version control systems like Subversion are oriented around "committer permissions". Giving someone commit access incurs friction (waiting for a human to respond) and risk (potentially unwanted changes).

None of the old platforms like SourceForge implemented the concept of cloning a whole repository. Even if you made your own clone (manually or otherwise), what good would that do? Your copy would diverge from the upstream and can never be automatically reconciled. You would be forever doomed to sending patches to upstream, and calculating diffs from upstream to apply to your repo. Or just replacing your clone with the upstream's history after your patch gets accepted.

Git natively supports multiple asynchronous repos representing the same "project" because its history is designed around a directed acyclic graph (DAG) structure. You don't need the upstream repo's permission to make your own clone and commit some changes. After you diverge from the upstream, if you solicit them with your branch and they accept, then both of you can converge once again - whereas this is impossible in a linear history model like SVN.
That same hand symbol has been super offensive in Germany for decades, but for scatological reasons, not white power ones.

The swastika was a symbol of good luck, the infinity of creation and the unconquered, revolving sun for millennia. Now it's the symbol of the Nazi party and their atrocities. It's not fair, but that's how symbols work. Their meanings can change when new meanings are ascribed to them.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white...

If a bunch of far-right dipshits want to rally around a cartoon frog and what used to be an innocuous hand gesture, then the meaning of those symbols is going to shift. You're the one playing into their hand. You're the one letting the cryptos remain crypto, instead of illuminating and naming their behavior, for shame.
Do you have any advice to more novice developers on how to be less “dependent” on dependencies? Where can we learn the lost art of writing code?

It feels that unless you want to reinvent the wheel, you need a bunch of third party libraries to get anywhere near results clients want within ecosystems like JS/Python.
Specifically I meant specifying your own preferred gender pronouns in certain contexts. When enough of your peers do it, it feels downright strange to not do it even if you don't imagine anyone would have any problem deducing your gender and you wouldn't feel offended if they did happen to use the wrong gender for you. Of course it is completely fine for people to share preferred prounouns. But as pg has said the problem is with the things you not allowed to say, or alternately the things you are required to say and/or do.

Being required to, say, share drinking fountains or pools with people of another race should not be compared to this. One is about allowing people to co-exist with you, the other is about complying with a strongly encouraged communal display of ideology. There are obvious comparisons to make but you can use your imagination about what those are.
Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
Sure, but a lot of features in Vivaldi run separately from Chromium (like sideloading extensions). I don't see how they would be accepting this change into their fork.
AFAIU, yes, but the benefits just weren't as well understood at the time of the original debate, which as I recall revolved entirely around the ethics of vaccinating boys for the benefit of girls. It probably also helped that by the time recommendations were more generally extended to boys there was greater confidence in safety, as HPV-associated cancer in men isn't as prevalent[1] as in women. The cost-benefit tradeoffs were different.

[1] This CDC page, https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/index.htm, says the ratio is ~3/4 (19900/25400), which is surprising. But that might be a modern figure. I suspect this wasn't as well known or as appreciated 15 years ago. Also, it seems that throat cancer incidence has been increasing rapidly recently (see https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-q-...), so actual ratio may have been much smaller 15 years ago.
That works if you're browsing from a fixed location.

By contrast, browser extensions work wherever you are -- at work, in a bus/train, in a hotel, etc.
2. JSON.stringify(object)
Is that how it works? Deep enough conversations, periodically, prevent language attrition? I don't know anything about this phenomenon, so that could be how it works. But the fact that she seems to have love and gratitude for her parents and the fact that her brothers are in the same boat makes me not jump to blame it on a bad relationship.
I’ll add an anecdote here that I’ve been really looking forward to playing with codespaces, and after seeing this post earlier today I spent a bit of time playing with gitpod, and reading up on comparisons. The clear pricing, prebuilds, and simple configuration has me leaning towards trialing gitpod for our team, I doubt I would have even been aware of it without the hype around codespaces.
The author never really learned Cantonese, her only "teachers" were parents and other immediate contacts. No school, no media, no books, articles, current events. After starting school there was less time and need to speak Cantonese so it is clear that her vocabulary and ability will be extremely limited. Its not forgetting, in this case it was never really learned like a first language.
According to the author:

>I’m not saying Microsoft needs to remove its account, cloud gaming, entertainment, software delivery, and other cloud services.

No need.

Millions of people have been saying it for a while.
Most of Android extremely shoddily built. This is not surprising.
I think GP knows shopkeeper's privilege exists and is asking why stores often don't let their employees use it.
But I did ask. Here is the quote:

==I am simply asking for an explanation of why that wouldn't happen on a larger level if we invest more heavily in nuclear as a country.==

In response, I got lots of insults (anger, one-sidedness, dismissive, not respectful, defeatist attitude, arrogant, etc.), but nothing approaching an answer. You haven’t presented a single article or study or source that defends anything you’ve claimed. Maybe next time you could give people who you “feel sorry for” the same grace you expect them to show you?

==I didn't say it hit me personally. I was saying that hit you personally. you keep thinking it's the other way around.==

A bold comment from the person posting a 1,300 word rebuttal on Friday night.
That's not an accident. uBlock Origin used to be called just "uBlock". The author of uBlock Origin gave up control of uBlock because he was frustrated with requests to the project.[0] He immediately regretted this decision, forked the original project and this event cemented his view that uBlock Origin would never be out of his control.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin
MIT CSAIL network design principles
> Mask wearing increased 218% while distancing increased by 21%.

You can't just compare "percentage change" of two wildly different things, and leap to the conclusion that the magnitude of change is causal. It begs the entire question: if physical distancing works well, and mask wearing does not work, you could increase mask wearing by whatever percentage you like, and a smaller change in physical distancing would still overwhelm it. We don't know.

But aside from that, you skipped over an important part of what I said: distancing was higher in the surgical mask group. See Table 2.
Total ignorant newb question, but the inconsistency the article talks about in measuring time in quantum systems, if that gap were related to the lack of gravitational effects at the quantum scale, and quantum weirdness is precisely about simultenaeity and problems with reconciling states with time measurements, is it because gravity and time are really just effectively the same thing?

Logically, both time and gravity are essentially inferred substrates to how we observe space and mass/energy.

Regarding the explanation in the article about how they're using thermodynamic entropy and information entropy together as a defining gauge for clocks at all scales, I would wonder if time relates to mass and gravity the way width relates to height, in that one is conceptually "perpendicular" to the other, and what it might mean for time to be perpendicular to gravity (if they weren't just the same thing).

Last I read, there wasn't a full quantum theory of gravity that is consistent with experimental observations of macro gravity via relativity because of quantum "weirdness," because at that quantum scale there is almost no physical "time" effect other than entropy that we use as a reference.

What we call quantum weirdness could literally just be the lack of time effects preventing things from happening all at once, and it's absent because gravity at that scale is effectively absent.

No gravity, no time (quantum weirdness). Less gravity from being far from a well, faster time (aging effects). Total singluarity gravity, stretched time over its horizon (black hole time). When you never see them together, I'm just saying it starts to looks suspicious.

I only mention it because I was literally just on a crazy bit that started with the joke where someone said, "faster than light travel is impossible," and ever the optimist I said, "helicopters, also impossible," which is funny to anyone who knows about helicopters. It turned into whether instead of super massive objects distorting space, there could be lower energy pulses and oscillations with effects like a resonant frequency, where instead of causing big distortions, could cause whorls and ripples of equivalent "space-turbulence" around them - not unlike the conceptual effect of helicopter blades, but using EM, and likely from an element or crystaline structure that facilitated an amplification feedback loop. You could detect the distortions because they would become "cold," as the space around them "spread." If gravity and time were the same thing, you could create a wave in space using turbulence and travel the substrate (time/gravity) directly. Faster than light travel is impossible only in space, where in a time/gravity substrate it's moot.

Totally sci-fi speculation, but as a result I have since put a sticker on my eurorack synth that says, "danger: time machine"

But seriously, how much confidence do we have that time and gravity are NOT the same thing?
Windows apps also bundle all dependencies, go check out any dotnet app(all crypto stuff is in some dotnet library..). Windows docs also encourage you to do this.

The difference is there is a set of base windows libraries that you can expect, so if you just use those with your win32 program then it's good. But most dotnet apps don't do this. It's just like using Appimage.
Every once in a while I open this commit [1] and read it, just to remind myself to try and avoid making stupid decisions within my power, hopefully preventing my APIs from becoming a standardized mess that C locales are.

[1]: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/1e70e82baa9193f6f02...
I know that when we got the tour of the data center at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, they had an IBM mainframe in the room.

It's worth noting that with modern computing systems, you could be deploying to a Z/OS system without even necessarily being aware of it.
Next is nice and all but FactorJS V3 is looking awesome. Check it out if you haven't seen and don't mind Vue
Nowadays you don't even need a physical visit to get your shield down. Your friend (or their coworker) can share a story on Twitter/blog and piqued your interest. You crosscheck to your trusted friend and it sounds much better than where you are right now. And the story continues the same.
POWER hardware is pretty insane, I wish it were more popular for "normal" workloads.
Though decreasing now, German was kept alive across generations in various places in the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_...
Our site went from largest content display of several seconds to <1s. Also we don't need to use Prerender anymore to give real HTML to dumb crawlers that don't run JS.
That's a much shorter wavelength part of the spectrum than thermal imagers operate in, even though it's also infrared. CCDs pick up the kind of infrared that IR remote controls use.
Is el Salvador making technical recommendations on how this rollout should happen?

Like are they suggesting the use of the lightning overlay network?
Free demos can fill this gap. Though IME it can feel overwhelming trying many at once so you don't have to pay before being fully informed. Professional reviews can help too, assuming ones needs aren't too niche.

All that said I can imagine some folks feel justified pirating them to reduce that trial expiration anxiety. Just beware that pirated copies or cracks can also contain Trojans.
There are some things I don't love about Next - its TypeScript declarations aren't great, it has a fair share of "magic behavior", and it truly is a "framework" where some features won't work until Next adds explicit support for them.

But it is insanely productive if you want to do a mixture of static rendering/server rendering/client rendering. The abstraction leaks here and there, but mostly it holds up, and more importantly almost all of your code can be shared. If you want to do just one of the three, there are better options. But if you're doing client-side + one or both of the other two then it's amazing, and I don't know of anything better.
Type-Dispatch Design: Post Object-Oriented Programming for Julia (2017)
I only had one offer of working at a company with a pension program. The recruiter highlighted that the pension "existed" but was unlikely to pay out for a new employee.

I knew someone who was close to hitting their 20 year pension in the private sector, but the company instead decided they had a performance problem in year 19.

While the federal government has less incentive to play such games, betting on illiquid financial offerings that are contingent on a single entity liking you for N decades and still being around after Y decades is pretty suspect.
He did one and a half things
???

Disturbing nature with these remote controlled flying contraptions and these idiots are surprised that they provoked an alligator to eat the drone as if it is food?

> “We were trying to get a close up of the gator with its mouth open and thought the obstacle avoidance would make the drone fly away,”

Did these idiots really think that the drone can distinguish between a human and a hungry alligator? Let alone get very close to it with its mouth open and NOT eat the drone?

Fucking stupid idiots.
The diamond princess people also ate their meals in a shared space, IIRC. I think they changed that eventually, but by the time they did, the conclusion was hopelessly confounded.
Was worried about running all my web history through this extension for privacy reasons, has anyone gone through the source code to verify uBlock Origin’s privacy policy?
Have you considered doing this for yourself? If this is your only complaint and the solution exists surely you could benefit from it. I highly doubt it's the package managers holding you back.