skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligence agencies are a lot more likely to be using illegal malware than law enforcement. Criminals are actually pretty far down the list of people who should be concerned.

Think political dissidents and groups that support them like citizenlab.org, people working on classified projects - or with geopolitcally important trade secrets (which is actually a pretty broad range), members of the military in times of war - or when working with classified information/going to classified locations, people susceptible to being blackmailed with things like nudes of themselves, and so on and so forth.
don't underestimate the importance of convenience. I'm convinced one of the reasons MySQL had so much more mindshare than postgres back in the day was that it was far easier to get up and running, even if postgres might have been easier to use once everything was set up correctly.
The value of the spontaneity in this can't be overstated. The modern method feels so much more transactional because we've optimized it away.
Here's a non-TVTropes copy of the Evil Overlord's List: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
But it is my place to decide whether to go out for coffee.
Generally speaking, it is wise to assume that any entity under which trust is centralized is far easier for a government to persuade. At least DuckDuckGo is friendly to Tor.
I think it's a waste because that energy could've went to more productive on-demand energy-intensive uses like electrolysis, desalination, or carbon capture
I think you're reversing cause and effect there. The reason NSW and now Victoria in Australia are no longer aiming to eliminate Covid is because their efforts to do so simply did not work once the Delta variant hit and could not be made to work. Similarly, Vietnam couldn't do it either - they went so far as completely stopping people living in the most affected city from leaving their homes even to buy food, despite not being able to put in place any working way of delivering food to all 9 million people living there, because lesser measures hadn't worked, and that also didn't work.
I commented, committed, worked with contributors and Hashicorp employees early on in Terraform. It was so refreshing to see a project that did what I wanted, but better than the tooling I'd already written -- and that it was so actively working with the community.

Phinze was a large part of feeling like my contributions were welcomed, even just as a community member. A few months back I encountered something of Paul's, noticed his GitHub work had tapered off and found the blog posts entitled "diagnosis" and "treatment" on his blog.

I know nothing more about current events pertaining to Hashicorp or Terraform, but seeing some negativity here coupled with the experience of encountering that sad news led me to comment.

That team has made world class tooling, with the community. The people I know who work there are some of the sharpest and kindest people I've ever met. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and I hope you yourself will as well before presuming anything that leads to more negativity.

It's obviously not ideal, but perhaps there are legitimate reasons and at least they were transparent.
I don't know about anyone else, but I get "mission accomplished" vibes from that video.
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lol! it took a few tries but she got it down and luckily enjoys doing it so far... saving me $50/month!
Well that's what most open source does today. GitHub posted a blog post four days ago that the majority of SSH clients have moved away from aes to chacha. https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-securi... I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of https traffic uses x25519 these days instead of rsa or ℘256. djb is an influential guy.
Something like (x, y) => x + y can be verbalized as "lambda of x and y producing x plus y".
Honestly, as soon as I saw ProtonMail was all implemented in JS, I ran for the hills.
I thought Gmail was much worse, scanning email contents etc.
Sometimes, it takes days for some authors to reply. When you do research, it is a bit like going deeper and deeper in citations. Sci-hub fix this, specially to universities in developing countries.
Reminds me of all the trick advice on how to do well on the SATs. My advice is simple:

1. take all the math classes your school offers

2. read lots of sci fi books

That's what I did, and I got the SAT results I needed.

The other day I picked up a book on building vocabulary for the SAT. Flipping through it, I knew essentially all the words. I've never studied vocabulary in my life. I just read a lot.
>Australia’s NSW also did not aim to eliminate. Other australian states do, and have their borders closed to NSW. Complicated story down there. Victoria

Victoria has had 6 or 7 waves of Covid (depends how you count it) and failed only at the last one.

This came at the cost of human rights violations, police brutality, the largest non-wartime increase in government debt, a tripling of teen suicides, night time curfew and a cumulative 220 days of lockdown with no end in sight.

At this point euthanising everyone over 70 could be a viable policy with less long term harm than continuing with the current policies.
What you're describing sounds an awful lot like paid shills, unless I'm misinterpreting the thesis.
Perhaps our universe is the inside of a black hole and the energy for expansion is coming in from elsewhere, creating new spacetime in the center of our universe from mass/energy absorbed in the outer universe. So the cosmo constant would be proportional to mass absorbed times c^2 divided by the volume of our universe - like air inflating a balloon. Early inflation was caused by the initial absorption of mass, and it steadied down since then limited by the black hole’s singularity “throat” capacity and the available of mass/energy to absorb

The fun question is then: is the throat of the black hole that contains our universe also in our universe?
It can do flow-through error handling and code reuse. Exceptions and inheritance are just two particular ways to achieve those goals.
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"No government is so stupid to break commerce in their jurisdiction. " there are many stupid governments
Some might be interested to know about Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), a free African-American polymath who among many accomplishments (including surveying Washington D.C.) was an all wooden clock he built by borrowing a pocket watch, scaling up the individual pieces, and carving them out of wood. The clock reportedly kept near perfect time for decades.

https://youtu.be/hbQF-kt4B5M
> There are some in between solutions like eventual read consistency that are relying on traffic at some point easing enough so that the conductor can actually synchronize servers.

You can use CRDT's to give a formally correct semantics to these "inconsistent" scenarios. And they might well be something that's best explored in a not-purely-relational model, since the way they work is pretty unique and hard to square with ordinary relational db's.
You should blog this with a bit more detail somewhere; haven't seen any of this referenced in articles I've read prior on Burning man! Bonus points if you find the photo!
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Snowflake. The biggest feature here is no worries. It scales in every dimension, is quite stable, and has few knobs to turn. I’m on a Redshift project now, and the differences are significant. It’s not hard to overload the cluster with a complex query. With Snowflake I would just create my own cluster with the same data shared on the back end. While it’s possible to do something similar with redshift, in practice the configuration and DBA culture make it much more difficult.

Edit - reread the question and it mentions OLTP workloads. Snowflake and Redshift are specialized analytics DBs so they don’t meet that criteria.
The point it that they were hopeful. Piling on them, even if wrong, is distasteful.
Barbara Ehrenreich wrote an excellent book, "Nickel and Dimed," on how exhausting and precarious the lives of poor (= minimum wage-earning) people are, based on her experience trying to live off minimum wage.

In my life, I have been dirt-poor (homeless) and pretty well-off ($200k/yr), and my experience agrees with her reporting.
Financial predators seek out the poor because 1) there are lots of them; 2) they don't have a lot of effective defenses; and 3) society, and poor people themselves, tend to blame the poor for their poverty (as the parent comment mentions).

I have a running dad-joke with my kids that "I'm not smart enough to be poor." The truth is, I'm not hard-working enough either. Being poor sucks. The poor know it. Many of them are as smart and hard-working as the statistical "us" are. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a correlation between financial literacy and revolutionary attitudes about changes to the economic status quo.
I wonder if it can be broken down into logical components, like a computer can be broken down into logic gates. The structure of the thing shows a lot of repetition, so my guess would be yes.
Hell yeah downvote me for calling out despicable behavior. These are the best kinds of downvotes.
Agree. I have family living "day-to-day" and the causes are not lack of financial literacy. Rather their poverty flows from a more generalized lack of literacy. They have no marketable skills and no desire to gain them. In both cases college education was paid for. I think there's a dimension of cultural rot, especially for men, in the United States. They smoke pot and play video games and languish. I thought they would age out and get it together, but it hasn't happened by 50 and it isn't going to.
Yep, and we’re taking them back, cheers.
Well yes, that’s one of the criticisms in the final report. That the flight plans didn’t provide adequate additional runway length to handle this specific runway in the rain. I think there may have also been criticism of the airport runway maintenance with too much rubber build up on the runway.

All of which resulted in this plane having less margin for error than it should have done. But that’s what we have safety factors, to account human error and natural deviation in the environment. In this case that safety factor prevented this incident from being more serious, and post-mortem has identified areas for improvement, which will no doubt be instituted.

To me, all of this points to extremely robust safety procedures that have prevented the loss of life in an extreme and unusual scenario, and is capable of analysing the outcome to find ways of further improving safety so it’s capable of surviving even more extreme situations.

Expecting any safety system to cope perfectly with every scenario is unrealistic, but one that handles pretty much all of them without any serious injury or loss of life is clearly working very well.
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The reason why the horse dewormer, and indeed the malaria prophylactic before it, are so popular (in certain sections of society) is that they can be taken after infection.

Thus they require no forethought or preplanning for the possibility of catching Covid, instead they can be used to instantly gratify the consumer - a consumer who has been trained to solve all problems with some stuff bought with a credit card.

That is the problem we have with our society.
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I use them fairly frequently; I find them useful for establishing a causative relationship between clauses.
https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper...
No, they are just criminals who violently take over other people's property and vandalize it.
wait until you find out about the internet
Twitter’s new Safety Mode autoblocks abusive accounts
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> and all of this is before you get into the issues with the non trivial number of junk papers published in social science and psychology journals and the like that at best seem to say that even in cases of more difficult questions where more rigorous methods are valuable, this system of knowledge production fails a non trivial amount of the time.

As an aside, this hasn't been limited to just soft sciences like the humanities, social sciences, psychology, and the like. Going back several years, a few MIT students created a random paper generator and used it to create and submit papers that were accepted into computer science related conferences [1].

Some, many seemingly motivated by politics, have pulled similar stunts with fields related to social sciences [2]. But this ignores that the same issue is also prevalent in other areas that could be labeled as hard sciences [1]. (Of course, this is ignoring the humongous amount of papers that represent extremely niche incremental advancements that advance the state of the art in very specific but extremely limited areas.)

[1] https://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
What now? There is no plan. We have the vaccine, at least in the US and EU we have enough doses, and they are more effective than many expected them to be. We are many, many days into "three weeks to slow the spread".

In Manhattan numerous restaurants constructed "outdoor dining" areas, but since eating outside in 20F weather kind of sucks (I can attest from personal experience), many are fully enclosed and have heating and A/C. They are literally indoor dining except located on the street and not built to code, but we all pretend that this is making a difference.

Everyone knows that children in schools are a major vector for disease. Pre-covid it was always parents with school-aged kids bringing in colds and flu. Everyone knows that testing is largely performed only on people showing symptoms and children do not show severe COVID symptoms, but parents got tired of having their kids at home so we got a round of articles claiming children don't spread COVID and reopened schools while everything else was shut down.

I could go on with many more examples but we all know them. The response is a joke. The lockdown largely hasn't affected the elite and wherever it has we get COVID theater and special exceptions, but it's also become political and part of the identity for a certain highly influential strata of society so we keep moving the goalposts with no plan.
For that matter, until you bootstrap GC+heap, you could just use statically allocated memory, or even local arrays (via stackalloc). This would preclude using any reference types, but you can do plenty of things with just structs and unmanaged function pointers alone in C# (it's basically the expressive equivalent of C, but with generics thrown in).
we shouldn’t keep stores open because brain dead boomers can’t figure out how to use the internet
> it feels that is not designed to solve the CSAM problem but to look good on someone CV

It feels like it's designed to protect customers from being accused of having kiddie porn (by prosecutors who issue a dragnet warrant of everyone who had a single positive result)

Dragnet warrants on location data have become very common.

>Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/

The solution to resisting these warrants is to never have access to the scan results, until you are reasonably sure there is a real problem.

By setting a threshold of 30 positive results before you can see any of the scan results, customers are much more protected from the inevitable false positives.
To be fair, while I kind of agree the system should be able to handle it regardless, 10,000s of tables sounds outside the realm of 99.99% of all use cases.
Most building systems offer a way to cache build results (ex. gitlab), so the largest speedups usually come from there. Another way is to use an explicit “builder image” with packs your dependencies and an older version of the program into the starting point for the run.

Yet another way is to just use bigger machines if you’re CPU bound. Github and Gitlab generally offer 1/2 core 3-8GB RAM instances, but SurplusCI[0] (a project I recently launched) has no such restriction. Up to 8 vcore 32GB RAM machines available.

[0]: https://surplusci.com
It is in contrast to the immediately following paragraph, which discusses a user-controllable setting that does cause ip logs to be retained permanently.
Wild cockatoos observed making and using tools to eat sea mango pits
More than 200 health journals call for urgent action on climate crisis
metadata, metadata, metadata… things we all like to ignore, especially those selling privacy in a bottle…
Anyone that uses ANY electronic device to plan and arrange clandestine opetations - IS AN IDIOT.
Not sure where you’re getting your port numbers from, but you must be referring to something non-standard. Neither of those are top 10 and definitely not even remotely as important as the west coast ports or NJ. See [1].

[1] https://www.logisticsmgmt.com/article/top_30_u.s._ports_big_...
Yeah, but can that drive the display? My impression was that it doesn't have the bandwidth for that. Android Auto requires USB-C, although I'm not quite sure what the actual protocol on the wire is (but I wouldn't be surprised if it's the same as for USB-C displays in general, just with some extensions).

Most of the pieces are already there. The only problem is that they're proprietary.
The big difference is that measles vaccine has an efficacy of ~100%. [1]

From the start of the pandemic, health experts and the media did lots of what I can only call expectation management and said that any vaccine with over 50% efficacy would be good, more than 60% or 70% would be absolutely marvellous. I think because this was the first time people were tuning in to news about vaccine efficacy, it has skewed people's perception and many think all vaccines are 65-85% effective. In reality, while flu vaccine is like that, the vaccines commonly used for more serious diseases such as measles are close to 100% effective. And this efficacy is not just against death or serious disease, but against catching the disease at all or passing it on.

Vaccine efficacy against transmission greatly affects the percentage of the population that need to be vaccinated in order to achieve herd immunity. With low enough efficacy and high enough R value, herd immunity is impossible even if 100% of the population is vaccinated. And some variants of COVID may have high enough R value for this.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications...
What is the "endgame", quantitatively?
Who defines what is the "endgame"?
The first half of the letter outlines all of the COVID protection related hoops she is willing to jump through for a simple meetup. The unspoken part is that people are not willing to meet her for coffee anymore, regardless of who sends the invite.
Similar naming scheme, but actually its normal and alternate break systems. Powered by different hydraulic systems.

Not to be confused with flight control laws, normal, alternate and direct. One isn't necessarily related to the other.
> You have to drop the view(s) to get the ALTER TABLE to go through.

So? With Postgres you can use transactions in your DDL. So it's possible to seamlessly drop the view, alter the underlying table and recreate it, all in one step once the transaction is commited.
I'm mainly just depressed at how slow games are now.

There's an official steam version of the Risk boardgame and it spins my fans like crazy. I used to play versions of Risk in the 2000s that barely registered on my 600mhz, 64mb RAM machine.

I am shocked at how things got so slow. It must take a lot of hard work to make a simple game run slowly on modern hardware.
I'll add another one that I repeat often on HN but is profoundly unpopular:

Take responsibility for your situation in life. Stop blaming bad luck, other people, fate, your parents, etc.

The advantage stems from if your situation is your responsibility, that means you can better your situation. A common thread I've found with happy and successful people I've encountered is that all of them have this attitude.
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I thought Battlefield Earth held that title?

If you're masochistic, download it from somewhere. If you're sadistic, have people watch it with you.

I'm not engaging in hyperbole when I call it ridiculously bad.
I remember reading about this solar power beam concept when I was a kid in one children magazine. The article mentioned Peter Glaser as the author of the idea and it had these gorgeous illustrations. After some digging I managed to find it in the depths of the internet
https://imgur.com/a/1MPWd62 https://imgur.com/a/sF3MzSj
As a parent, I didn’t get tired of my kids being at home. Their grades were slipping to the point where we had no other option.
Thank you. As an non-american it is quite interesting to see those piles of emails are disclosed publicity. I have never heard such cases in Korea.
>Using the refund process as a trial/demo method is explicitly allowed by valve.

Where does it say that?

The best quote I could find from them:

>Refunds are designed to remove the risk from purchasing titles on Steam—not as a way to get free games. If it appears to us that you are abusing refunds, we may stop offering them to you. We do not consider it abuse to request a refund on a title that was purchased just before a sale and then immediately rebuying that title for the sale price.
I don't think hard scifi is considered its own genre because its adherents think that reflection is less important than realism, but rather because if an author doesn't intentionally prioritize realistic thinking it tends to not happen at all. A lack of realistic / scientific thinking isn't a sin for any given story, but it can turn into a collective sin if everybody's mirror has the same convenience-driven blind spot.
>a disk inside a cheap plastic box

The loss of everything but the disk really accelerated my acceptance of digital distribution, especially once the disk only contained yesterday's version of the launcher and you had to download everything once you got it home.

The brick and mortar store never had a chance; the publishers removing all impetus to step inside them was the killing blow.
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"the narrative" being "reality" in this case.
That one disease has almost been eradicated doesn't mean that Covid can be eradicated. Covid may be much more similar to the flu than to Measles.
I get letters and my internet turned off if I torrent on my ISP I don't using VPN. Simple as.