skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks a misleading title. The person mentioned in detail is not affected by online classes removal, they are affected because their visa was denied and they can’t come back to Canada to attend the physical classes.
There are all sorts of reasons immigration can deny visa, but this has nothing to do with removing online classes.

I for one am glad provinces are mandating in person classes again.
Discarding with explanation can sometimes be used to effect too.

For example, suppose a character sends a spy to accomplish an objective. Meanwhile, another group of people are also trying to do this, which will benefit the main character, although the main character is unaware of this. The second group gets there first, and even though there was considerable buildup to the spy's mission, in the end, his presence doesn't matter (much).

If you want as lean a story as possible, you would cut out the spy's mission altogether, but its presence gives a sense of realism, because the character in the story doesn't know ahead of time that sending the spy would be redundant.
Think of parents buying "Gameboys" for their children for example ;)
It depends on jurisdiction. For example the UK has the infamous gag orders that are even harder to fight in court (successfully) than their US counterparts.

Sure, ProtonMail and its current operators could opt to stop operating in such jurisdictions, but usually it's too late for that when you get the [secret] court order, because if you refuse the operators personally are quickly found in contempt of court (or whatever other bad legal circumstance), and eventually that can lead to similar InterPol/EuroPol (other MLAT) warrants.
I do this. I wish I didn't.

First of all, building a provider isn't straightforward. The best way I've found to do this is to wrap `terraform init`, and have it `docker run` a build process for a plugin version that never existed - then dumping the built provider into the `.terraform` directory for the project. It's prone to failure; new users of the Terraform project complain that the build eats 8GB of RAM and takes many minutes.

Second, providers are constantly changing, and it's not always possible to cleanly rebase a set of community changes on top of master. Part of the trouble with letting PRs wither on the vine is that they themselves become stale - in one case, the code still compiles, but the end result is completely wrong.

For what it's worth: my use case was needing to use Terraform with some more "unusual" features of CloudFront and ALBs. The 80% use case for support is great. There's a remaining 15% that's well implemented by unmerged PRs, and another 5% entirely that's completely unsuppored. I've kept it IaC by using the `null_resource` provisioner to shell out to the AWS CLI where absolutely necessary.
See also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832989 (four years ago)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012880 (five years ago)
But that page does not mention direct law. Wouldn't anti-skid protection depend on the switch shown on the landing gear panel shown in 6.9?
Kid wants the new XYZ game, mother doesn't know what to get him. Clerk helps deduce the game name, console, etc. Or they recommend games.
They clearly spell out in their privacy policy that they respond to warrants....

> We will only disclose the limited user data we possess if we are instructed to do so by a fully binding request coming from the competent Swiss authorities (legal obligation). While we may comply with electronically delivered notices (see exceptions below), the disclosed data can only be used in court after we have received an original copy of the court order by registered post or in person, and provide a formal response.

It would also be nice if they were allowed to notify the customer but I'm not familiar enough with Swiss laws to know if they can.
Another Ghandi quote:

> You yourself are completely protected against the delta variant, and you should go and enjoy your summer. It’s been a hard time, and people should have their summer. Delta variant, delta shmariant.

From May. This proved completely false. Efficacy is a relative risk reduction, not an absolute. 95% efficacy against severe disease means 1/20 will still have severe results.

“Completely protected” was patently false. The vaccines are great but that doesn’t warrant lying to boost them.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/delta-variant-covid-vac...
That's not the claim. The claim is that we don't know if X is possible under Swiss law. You seem to be the one claiming that because they said it's not possible, then it's not possible. If not, I don't know what you're claiming.

The GP says that it's possible under German law. Is it "FUD" to say that it could end up being possible under Swiss law?

Shouldn't there be fear, uncertainty, and doubt about any channel that activists use to communicate with each other?
> The optimum query plan depends on a lot of dynamically changing factors

Except … I’m part of a large organization with a very thorough incident post-mortem process and I’ve read a lot of analyses that end up blamed on the dreaded “query plan flip.” This ends up being an unplanned change that has an unexpected perf cost (and no real “rollback”) and causes an outage. The lesson I’ve seen learned over and over is to have very good understanding (and constant re-evaluation) of your hot queries’ perf , and to lock the query plan so it can only change when you intend it to.
A few years ago, there used to be community reviewers of pull requests to the AWS provider - indeed I reviewed dozens after leaving HashiCorp. My own access for this got removed in (IIRC) late 2018, and I’d assume this was across the board.

I don’t think it’s conceivable that any reasonable number of employees could satisfy the demand of maintaining the first-party provider set in the current form, without leveraging the community. However, I for one will not sign a CLA that allows proprietary relicensing, and I’d guess most people who could give meaningful reviews are in a similar boat, or already work on the provider teams.

However, I’m also not sure that there is a “priority problem” as such - most providers don’t make HashiCorp money from consumers or contributors, and employee time is better spent on products which contribute to a positive bottom line.

The Terraform Provider Registry has made it much more palatable to run a fork of any given provider than it was previously - I’d recommend doing so if you have functionality you need that hasn’t been integrated.
I don't understand why people think that just doing unsolicitied work and pressing a button means the people on the other side are obligated to spend time reviewing and integrating it. GitHub has weirdly unbalanced open source contributions with a heavier burden and burnout on maintainers.

Contributing to a project doesn't mean just slinging code and calling it good. Communicate--talk to the people maintaining the code. Ask them, hey I have an idea and want to add this feature/fix this bug/etc.--do you have bandwidth for that change? Mailing lists, discussion forums, chat rooms, e-mails, etc. are the place to sort this out, not snarky or even angrier and angrier replies to an unsolicited pull request that goes unreviewed.
Demos became obsoleted somewhat by refunds and youtube gameplay. You can buy any game on steam, play it for less than two hours, and if you don't like it, you can refund it. Using the refund process as a trial/demo method is explicitly allowed by valve.

Having a retail person give game recommendations has kind of been obsoleted by youtube and the wider internet. "top 10" lists do a good job of showing you what the hottest stuff in each category is.
Write-expensive, read-cheap[1]: the exact opposite of the mentioned.

Once your developers have completed an iteration, your DB will see the same queries over and over again (if it doesn't, then it should be an OLAP aggregate). These databases optimize for writes, and defer complexity to reads and, considering that you could see millions more reads than writes, makes no sense whatsoever.

[1]: https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria
Apple removed Carbon and made Catalyst generally available in the same version. So they weren't ever viable at the same time. And can you point to even 1 developer considering a brand new app that doesn't support the last 2 OS versions?

Why stop at Carbon if you count removed frameworks? They had Classic and X11 too! And HyperCard!

Catalyst is expressly for porting iPad apps. So it's just SwiftUI and Cocoa if you compare macOS to Windows.
"Also, our VPNs are useless"
Thanks for the reply & info. (I'm not good at shell scripting :-))

I wonder if there's a way to get notified when it's closer to stable, .. maybe following you on Twitter? I barely ever check Twitter though
> independence mismatch

you probably mean impedance mismatch, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational_impe...
https://archive.is/s19yZ
One of these days Hashicorp is going to cash in and one of the major cloud operators will own the lingua franca of cloud provisioning. Oracle, for instance, directs the cloud users to Terraform as its de facto first class provisioning tool. It works rather well BTW.
I would argue that everyone wants this for the wrong reasons.

Then I would argue that most production environments don't need it.

Unfortunately I do not have numbers but my rough estimation is that average application is maybe 10k users. Where my mobile phone would be overkill to host such application.

My estimation is based on that most of the web-apps are not even close to Alexa top 500 - where top 50 is insane and they need scalability and availability - where I expect amount of people visiting sites is governed by "power law" so those top 50 get 80% of traffic and the rest gets 20%. Don't even start on all those intranet applications that are having maybe 100 to 500 users at all and I would expect there are much more of that kind of applications in the world than there is google search engines :)
$5k total, or $5k in addition to their salary? If you dug into it, I'm guessing it would be the latter.
In 2021 the kid shows mum the steam store page and asks for permission to buy the game right there and then. Or the child is given a steam gift card and allowed to get whatever they want.

Your method has caused a lot of upset when the parent comes back with the wrong game or for the wrong console.
Why not? It would just mean that the NSA needs to own more routers than it would to break TOR->Public internet routing.

From what I understand, connecting to an onion address 'just' involves 6 routers, not the typical 3. (Of course an oversimplification.)

Or am I misunderstanding your threat model here?
I spun up a Streisand server on a Digital Ocean VM years ago, it worked pretty well. I eventually replaced it with Algo[1] which has also worked nicely.

1: https://trailofbits.github.io/algo/
The problem comes when you change to a new CAD system and don't bother to convert all of the existing designs. Eventually there is no one left in the company who remembers where the old stuff is, assuming it still exists, and you have no way of reading it anyway. Not a big problem if you are just making throwaway toys but a serious problem if you are expected to maintain machines over a fifty year lifetime. In the past a big engineering company would have a drawing office archive and even have a librarian. Now disk space is so cheap we can store everything but we can't make use of it because file formats become obsolete in a way that drawings on paper never do.
I've always said never trust PM. See Cryptome for more info.

Also, their VPN...
This was analogue radio not television.
Except I am literally responding to your very specific claim:

> It does mean "fear of being perceived as homosexual".

It doesn’t mean that. It can refer to that, but that is not what homophobia means.
Because of the dirty little secret of protonmail; it's actually just privacy cosplay. If they told people what's actually involved in having a truly private email account, most of their customers would say screw it and go back to Gmail.
The worse thing is that they’re trying to do both. They should just go 100% into something like netflix that’s not related to youtube.
Every restaurant could raise every price on the menu by a dollar tomorrow and I wouldn't notice unless it was a soda or something. I'm highly skeptical a small increase in prices would drive people away. Like with minimum wage increases, every time it's allegedly going to be the end of small businesses in the area and then it never is.
If we take out the pandemic impact, does that still hold true for Utah and Idaho?
What exactly does it mean that investors are driving up prices? As far as I know an investor gets two things by owning a house: a stream of future rent payments, and an appreciating asset. We can easily calculate the present value of the future rent payments. It would be a weird and obviously temporary condition if homes were selling for less than this. A market in disequilibrium. Is that the theory here? The healthier housing market we had in the past was homes priced at less than the NPV of their rents?

Maybe the investors are simply irrational and are overpaying for these properties? Hoping for greater fools? This seems like great news. Everyone who owns a property should sell it to one of these exuberant investors, enjoy the hefty profit, and rent (perhaps from the same person, without even moving house) while waiting for the crash. If this is our contention then rents are reasonable and people who simply want to be housed should just pay them.

Or maybe the market has always been in equilibrium and the investors have always been rational, but now the NPV is rising. It could do this for two reasons: the rents going up, or the discount rates going down. It seems plausible that both of those things are happening. The unstoppable force of urbanization meets the immovable object of NIMBYism; urban rents rise. Low interest rates reduce the discount rate. Although stock market returns have been incredible, so I'm less sure about this part. In any case, maybe what we're looking at is new, higher NPVs and we're hoping to keep the housing market in disequilibrium to prevent prices from catching up to that NPV?

I guess the final paragraph seems the most likely. And, well, good luck. When there's a systematically under-priced asset, people are going to find a way, rules or not. It would seem a lot more effective and sustainable to address the drivers of the rising fundamental value.
A one ton roadster will burn up before it does anything, a large factory will not:

>About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface.

>Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football field hits Earth and causes significant damage to the area.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/overview/fastfa...
The car would obviously be a poor choice as a weapon. A big tungsten rod on the other hand...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
That is a surprising thing to note. Though it does help set up two of the most important scenes in the movie: Lightsabers are used in the dramatic battle between Vader and Obi-Wan; It's good to have them in a few scenes if the first time they're in a battle, the mentor is killed. Furthermore, at the end when Luke is doing the trench run, he's relying on his targeting computer until force ghost Obi-Wan tells him to use the force. This relaxing and trusting in the force was directly set up in the Falcon training scene.

I think overall this is the best way to use Chekhov's Gun: Introduce several things, but don't make it obvious how they're going to fit together.
Naïve question: You mention "Apple and Zoom"—I see Zoom on your list, not Apple. Is one of those things you list (made by) Apple? Or..uh..what did you mean? I'm confused.
Such decisions involving comparing benefits and costs do not belong to scientists.
It feels you think I have an answer, just that I'm not willing to share it with you. I don't have an answer, but that doesn't mean I must accept or like yours.

The approach I described (home quarantine & testing regime for people arriving from overseas) is tenable and not too controversial - certainly much more palatable, and probably more effective, than the current (enforced hotel quarantine). Would need to be combined with proper deterrents for idiots wilfully subverting that process (we have been objectively atrocious at implementing or enforcing legal deterrents for anti-social behaviour on the COVID front).

Over the 24-48 month period you're demanding an answer for - my naive expectation is twofold. Many populations will have delta sweep through well within that period, resulting in large demographics of delta-immune people. (Note - this doesn't mean I want to live in such a place, just that it will happen.)

Second, we'll have booster & variant-specific vaccinations developed within that time, possibly with nasal delivery - meaning very fast, less contentious (higher uptake), and probably cheap.
Does every email provider but Gmail make the same misleading claim as ProtonMail? Fastmail for example?
MetaMask now has over 8M users
I think you mean Western Germany, assuming you’re talking about the floods that happened in July. Or were there more recent ones in the East too?
Not sure about that. The benefits are better and more structured and there are multitudes of articles about how they are much much harder to access, leaving most workers partially dependent on state benefits
International study carries such risks. Unis should do what is best for their primary student population first.
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Update: There are comments suggesting that these measurements may not be accurate. We'll provide further updates as more information comes out.
This is only partly accurate, because it conflates ARM the CRUD API with ARM Templates. ARM’s CRUD API is used by Terraform’s AzureRM provider (I bootstrapped that provider in 2016).

I’m not sure exactly what you’re looking for with regards to referencing by name rather than ID - names must be qualified with a resource group and so forth, and to actually unambiguously identify things, you’d need all components of the ID.

Bicep looks like a solution in search of a problem to me, though fortunately I haven’t had to spent more than about 5 minutes looking at it.
> If we take out the pandemic impact

How do you reliably isolate the effect of the pandemic from other effects occurring at the same time?
Nuclear war (especially during the cold war, when we had much more warheads than now) would absolutely be a big deal and a horrible mass death, but it would not have ended humanity.

Like, if there's a scale of catastrophic events that goes from 0 to 10 where 0 is no big deal and 10 is human extinction, then the worst events humanity has ever seen are somewhere below 1 on that scale and absolutely horrific mass death is something like 2/10 - because the gap between the damage required for that and damage required for extinction is so much larger than the gap between no big deal and worse mass death than we have ever seen. Arguably the worst damage that life on Earth has seen is the dinosaur-ending asteroid, and IMHO a fraction homo sapiens (though perhaps not our civilization) could survive even that. A full scale USSR-USA exchange in 1960s might perhaps kill most people in the northern hemisphere and perhaps cause a nuclear winter decreasing crop yields with an associated famine - but if just a fraction of people in South Asia and Africa and South America survive the famine while the North nukes themselves to radioactive glasslands, that's very, very far from extinction.

Killing half of humanity would literally be an unprecedented level of horror, but it would not end our civilization; killing 90% of humanity would likely end our civilization-as-we-know it but would not end our species, that would bring us to the population level that Earth had in 1700s; and killing 99.99% of humanity would definitely destroy our civilization but it would "just" push back our population growth to the numbers we had ~70 000 years ago - horrific for every individual, but still not an extinction event.
These differences are mostly superficial. We all need to decide if we're going to avoid a language because its punctuation choices aren't "good enough" for us or if we're going to choose the best tools for building useful systems.

"orReturnErr()" seems quite against the Rust philosophy though — refusing the method call syntax for early return means folks can easily miss something important. Rust uses ? for error handling, ! for macros, and keywords (with no parenthesis) for other control flow. I prefer it that way.
To anyone downvoting this person, are you sure you've read and completely understood every single law that could technically have you regarded as a criminal?
This was known to be compromised, though. People using it anyway weren't being fooled because they couldn't audit the code. They were forced by federal standards or they'd lose the ability to sell to the government and go out of business.

Your best bet is multiple layers of defense. It may sound ridiculous, but don't use just one VPN/firewall. Make your adversaries compromise multiple vendors. Encrypt several times. That's what the actual DoD does and why the NSA probably doesn't even care. And, of course, the really important information is classified and never hits a publicly reachable network at all, so compromising the supply chain doesn't even help. As a private organization, you probably don't have the option to build an entirely separate network that doesn't touch the Internet and then protect the ingress/egress nodes with your own private military, so I don't know what to tell you there.
Aren't they in Switzerland though? A UK gag order can only have teeth within the UK, right?
Individually there are of course benefits to being able to go to richer countries. On the whole though it is obvious that a free market within the EU is vastly better for the large established industries of the west.

An underdeveloped country can hardly compete with the likes of already huge corporations without some serious backing from the state. And even then it may be unfeasible.

Of course you can blame Germany and other developed nations with established industries that while benefiting from educated immigrants and the free market within the EU don't care to give anything back, or even view this as problematic in any way.
This video of Monica should be saved

https://twitter.com/ibrake4ants/status/1415701882178314248
The FBI can seize Bitcoin if the private keys are insecure by way of being physically available and unencrypted on servers/devices domiciled in the United States, or by cooperation of a party with access to said private key.

The FBI, or any government entity, cannot seize Bitcoin from an address otherwise. To do so would demonstrate the ability to break the encryption underpinning Bitcoin's opensource key creation protocol.

Put another way: there's a billion dollars sitting at addresses right now for you to steal. If you can crack the keys, go steal that money and make it public. That would destroy Bitcoin quickly. The open market bet is that you (or anyone else) can't.
$5k total. That’s his salary. They make maybe $40k before tax on a good year, over the two of them, him and his wife who works as a preschool teacher. They’re both almost at retirement age at this point and are going to work until they die.
Feels like just another expression of a wider anti-social tendency that is spreading in Western societies in general. To tie it in with another symptom: Lots of people use their telephones as anything but telephones -- they seem to be willing to go to great lengths not to conduct any voice calls on them. This is just another facet of that phenomenon.
Some people saved their houses with soil berms 3-4 feet high, fronted by plastic and a pump inside to remove infiltration.

https://www.google.com/search?q=save+home+from+flood&rlz=1C1...