skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This fits in with many of the grand old conspiracy theories. What the conspiracy theorists miss is there doesn't need to be a unified agenda behind this process, simple banal human tribalism suffices.

Mr Hanson's "elites" here are just as simple, emotional, and irrational critters as any of the rest of us, and their kindergarten politics are no more (or less) noble than our "who stole my lunch?" bullshit. By being big fish in a smaller pond the waves of silliness they slop go further, that's all.
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There is a historical reason for this. The strategy is to enable extensions via JS that rely on lower level, general APIs.

JS frameworks aren’t cruft, or a mess, they are artifacts of the intended path to enable highly flexible extensibility.
IPv4 and IPv6 can both use kTLS. We offer service via V6, but most clients connect via IPv4. It differs by region, and even time of day, but IPv4 is still the vast majority of traffic.
… and yet hiv doesn’t spread by simple being close to somebody. How can you say it’s as much as contagious as covid?
That’s a Lot of Dead People and Crime
Or a movie where the villian spends half the movie asking "where are my detonators?" If they are using detonators, rarely are there bright red oversized LEDs counters, or the loosely attached, spiraly wound wires just begging someone to ask "blue or red?"
Right now a lot of alternatives: Couchers.org, BeWelcome.org, Trustroots.org
"A couple more misfires like the ones we've seen from Rolling Stone and the New York Times and people might start to think the misreporting is by design."

The "misreporting" is indeed by design.
>Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s [pdf]

Why not 50GB/s?

We don't say 50000 m/h instead of 50km/h
I haven't said anything multiple times.
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haha, by his attitude, I'm assuming that people have abuse this policy before. I'm thinking if you return the empty bottle, they'll still take it, albeit a bit gruntled.

Mine was about 2/3 gone. Definitely beyond of the point of "hm..this wine taste funny"

Over the years I've had so many little moments like this with Costco, whether it is a friendly exchange with a gas station attendee, a door person stopping me and pointing out that I was over-charged, a service rep who couldn't find an off-brand pedialyte I purchased so they gave me a pedialyte and told me "eh yeah just don't tell anyone", it really started to make sense to me why when you mention Costco - some people would light up and say "man I LOVE Costco", when it's just a store.
MAL does cover manga (comic books) and anime TV shows.
Do you mean a list-tracking website for non-anime/everything content? This could a big topic for an all-in-one giant like Amazon to tackle.
At some point the presentations will come up here https://www.youtube.com/c/EuroBSDcon
Which makes me wonder... how is it any different?

Firefox itself already has some features to protect your privacy. Why go through the trouble of creating a whole new browser where a combination of tweaks in settings and maybe a plugin for FF would yield similar results?
You’re absolutely right. My partner works in VFX and this is precisely his beef with Marvel movies and a lot of the other box-office-optimized schlock that’s out there these days: zero respect for the physical rules of reality. You can give scenes, objects, people and motion a weight and physicality that feels real, but the current style is to inexplicably ignore all that and make this unrealistic stuff we see today.

Given current technology it’s more a problem of how VFX is being used than anything.
> Those I've met online are at least twice as likely taking prescription medicine for social anxiety or other mental health conditions.

This is interesting. Can you provide a little information on the context:

- what is the number of people you've encountered to form this opinion?

- Is this all in one region/sub-population or do you suspect socio-economic differences to play into this?
That effectively means they are banned from having notifications on iOS.
I find disabling Javascript to be quicker. It's a single click if you install a browser extension, or a menu option in Safari's develop menu.
Today's Toyota isn't a money-loser, but it's more of a finance company than a automaker.
Your point of opposition to OP is noted, but your analogy misses on almost every point of comparison but that they are two things among many that contribute to untimely deaths. Live fire isn't exactly contagious, and people who interact with live fire with any frequency do wear vests. You might do better comparing firearms (begun with gunpowder in China a thousand years ago) to measles which also began[1] a thousand years ago.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history.html
One of the biggest issues with a web browser is how to keep it updated with security updates. It's not mentioned how they are planning to accomplish this?

Also how are they performing ad blocking? Are they just shipping it with u-block origin or their own technology?

Not to put anyone down, but I don't think people realise how hard it is to deliver a secure and working web browser. They are basically OS scale.
From the discussion here, it appears that no one is monitoring broadly. The big apps (fb, insta) potentially are being checked as they have bug bounties and warrant research time. But for less popular apps, or pirated apps, it sounds like no one is checking.
The comments about Scala resonated. I've been working in a a large Scala codebase for the past few months. I've become a partial fan of the language, however: there have been multiple conversations like : (in screen share with colleague) "See that double right arrow there? What's that mean? (after attempts to find answer in books, SO, etc, and trying to guess based on the three/four other uses the language makes of double right arrow that I've already grokked). Colleague: "Uhh, dunno, beats me".

On reflection, I think if the Scala creators had been a bit less obsessed with symbology and had either a) used keywords rather than symbols more often or b) consistently only ever used a symbol for the same one purpose; the outcome would have been significantly better.

There are just too many symbols to cover them all in a short book or cheat sheet, and symbols are very SEO-unfriendly. And even if you do find the relevant medium article, it's not necessarily clear that you're looking at the same use case for that particular symbol.
They did not end up killing the CS program.

In fact in recent years, CISE has really helped to propel UF. See: [https://news.ufl.edu/2021/06/top500-rankings/].
Extreme outliers. You have a better shot at winning the lottery or being struck by lightning than ever having a company that resembles Facebook or Amazon in any way, including founder compensation and ownership.

To answer the question though it’s all about leverage. You can’t go into a situation like VC funding without it. Leverage can almost be anything, but is commonly:

- revenue

- traction with customers

- traction with users (if d2c)

- a previous exit

- nepotism

It’s in a VCs best interest to take as much of the company as possible without causing disruption. That means making you feel like you didn’t get shafted in the deal. This dynamic shifts when you have leverage. So instead of you taking a term sheet and just eating whatever they give you, with leverage you set the terms. But again, you’ll need a lot of leverage, likely almost every point above, in order to get a deal that isn’t complete garbage (save for nepotism).
Ah yes, the Goiânia accident, when legal bureaucracy created an entirely preventable nuclear incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
> lack of enterprise support.

You don't get that with Java 8 either, unless you are willing to pay for it. In that case, what's the difference between paying Oracle for support for Java 8 and newer releases?
>Unfortunately the pandemic is distorting this conversation

That's one of the reasons I hesitated to even comment with concern on this topic and why I had to make it clear I'm not a conspiracy theorist.

Unfortunately everybody's kneejerk reaction to any kind of skepticism or concern on this topic is to label them as a 5G sterilisation nutcase.
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They run EVERYTHING but last mile file serving on aws. Encoding, storage, catalog, recommendations, accounts, etc. all of it in AWS.
Dangling parens? This is terrible.
In my experience of +15 years of hosting my own email server, being successful at delivering and receiving mail is a matter of luck rather than knowledge or correctness of execution. Obviously you have to configure DMARC and such or there will be nothing but trouble, but even if you do every little thing by the book, or alternatively use one of these kitchen-sink solutions, there's still a good chance you will have problems sooner or later. Bad IP, bad IP range, changing IP, bad domain/registrar (!?!?!) or some kind of weird automated flagging system can and often will get in your way, and gmail/outlook will not reply to your support ticket or investigate the matter at all whatsoever. Look forward to changing VPS providers and domains until it works, and then stick to that setup like your life depended on it.
> if you want to observe neutrinos after they have travelled only a few dozen meters

Genuinely curious here, why is the travelled distance important?
Banks do two things:

1. Help you spend money you have

2. Help you spend money you don’t have

The second is profitable the first is almost money-losing.

But the second attracts undesirables that can be hard to get rid of.
A degree of collaboration is unsurprising. Pharma companies are THE entities that develop, manufacture, and market drugs. How are you going to develop, manufacture, and market medicines without them?

The idea being pushed here is someone’s opinion and a pretty big jump to conclusions from the data in Vinay’s article.

My experience, pharma companies play in later stages of development and marketing. The bulk of early stage R&D is done at academic institutions and funded by the NIH. When pharma companies fund academic research they are usually paying for information and ideas.

Edit: I should specify that I am talking about preclinical research. For clinical trials they are paying for access to a particular patient population and the ability of the PI / study site to execute.

Edit 2: Also device companies are definitely B players compared to pharmaceuticals. Something like 80% of device companies have less than 50 employees, and their market caps are a joke compared to the drug companies with the exception of the very few (Abbott, Medtronic, etc)
I've never seen my bank take my deposits and tell me, "sorry, they have been lent out".

They might use them for funding but that doesn't mean they actually need them.
>GE sells a lot more than lightbulbs and financial products

They designed the GAU 8 Avenger that's used on the A-10 "Warthog" along with a bunch of other modern Gatling guns.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
I'm currently finishing off my Bachelor at one of those universities with amazing programmes. However, I really don't see how you can claim that Germany has destroyed its system when really all they have done is kept it and instead give you a Bsc after the 3rd year and a Msc after the 5th year. Courses are still 100% exam based, with those exams often having 50%+ failure rates. In fact, at least for my subject, the bachelor is universally considered harder because of the challenging 'Grundstudium'.
You took the words out of my mouth.

They're using git with Gitea or Github, or Gitlab, there is a defacto centralized master.
Photo manipulation is explicitly one of the problems we are not trying to solve with Krita.
Any insight into how this was uncovered? A sports league secretly used their Android app's microphone to uncover illegal broadcasts.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/laliga-facing-eur250k-f...

Edit: I was wrong, they were upfront with people about the purpose of recording (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-one-spanish-soccer-...)
…why? You mean the context doesn’t matter at all?
Are there good patterns here? Last I looked, it seemed more that there were nations that just hadn't been hit, yet.

Especially as more of the heavy hit nations get it under control with vaccines, unless full isolation is the plan for the other nations, I'm not seeing an end game.
I think when Project Loom comes out that Kotlin on top of the JVM will be a tough combo to beat.

Kotlin is basically the language Java should be after 20 years of lessons learned, e.g. language-supported Optionals. The JVM is a battle tested platform. Once Project Loom comes out, you'll get the "best of both worlds" - the easier (i.e. "no functions 'colors'") programming model of multiple threads like in Java, but the scalability and performance of things like async in NodeJS.
There is a EuroBSDCon youtube channel. The last time I presented, it was a few weeks before the recordings were processed and posted to the channel. I'm not sure how soon they will be available this year.

I have to say that a lot of this may be overkill for plex. Do you know if plex even uses sendfile?
You have started with a conclusion and filled in the blanks with your personal opinions.

And you have not actually answered the question. Which is, "have you actually VERIFIED that popular apps are not recording your conversations?"
Why would I call you a nazi? Do you get called a nazi a lot?

Your link proves what exactly? That there are politically left people involved at all? Yeah, no shit.

Here from the left wing propaganda Verfassungsschutz:

https://m.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/deutsche-wohnen-und-co-ente...
And by rejecting patches that don't match up with "your way" you risk of alienating talent and resources that could have improved your project.
They don't care because they don't set the prices except when it's an amazon branded product.
I doubt they'd mind improving it even if I tell them.
I think you are grossly mistaken. Banks make way more money helping you buy things you can't afford. Just look at how much more they make off of credit than they do traditional banking services.
Money influencing the health information available to the public? Shocking.

Just as shocking should be politics influencing it. The myth of disinterested scientists bravely reporting only what the facts tell them is just that - a myth. This is for several reasons, and Propublica is only reporting one of them.
Do you know what the legal relationship is between Red Hat and Oracle is? I think Oracle v Google has sent shivers of fear through anyone wanting to rely on Java, including through an intermediate, because the strength of the relationship is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. In other words, what is the risk that Red Hat will be sued by Oracle someday over their use and support of Java?
My first job was in an office which got quite regular bomb threats. We would be cleared out and the police would do a sweep. Some of the guys were inspired to make mock-up spherical black bombs as desk ornaments. Next bomb scare the police were very very unamused!

Also just remembering one day we were told to go home at 4:30. After some digging we found that the bomb was due to go off at 5:00. Showed a lot of faith in the bomb builders!
Yes and they should get paid that much. When I went to school at University of California we would look up the salaries of our teachers. Most of the highest paid people were football coaches. But a few doctors making around 1.5 million. Looked the person up they invented a way to do liver transplants. They have done over 800 transplants over there career at the school. They also taught how to do the surgery. That is money well spent.
That's not much money at all for a large institution. This statement seems a bit ... tripe in light of real world complexities.
> What's to stop a company like that from buying a bank and setting up its own credit card?

They can set up their own credit card network, sure. If they want to issue their own credit card with existing network like visa or mastercard, they need permission from visa or mastercard.

These payment networks have huge network effects. I can't imagine anyone really entering that market.
I don't have an answer to your question, but I would suggest the following:

skim over Java 5 syntax. It should be very easy to understand for anyone with programming experience.

Explore Java 8, 11, 17 features, but try to map all the syntax to Java 5, because those features usually are just a syntax sugar and I think that it's easier to understand those features this way.

Do not dive into standard library too much. It's vast and you can spend a lot of time studying it, but that's not necessary to start.

It should take few days of learning and experimenting.

After that you have to choose a framework, because Java applications are very framework-heavy ones. And that's where most of complexity comes from. People usually use Spring these days, so that's probably would be the most reasonable choice. There's no easy path, you'll struggle a lot and that's unavoidable. Modern Java Frameworks are full of hard to grasp concepts, tricky magic code and 20-year old roots buried in the depths of stacktraces.

Stackoverflow a lot, and you'll eventually naturally learn most things you need to know.

At some point I'd recommend to prepare for Oracle Java Certification (Oracle Certified Professional). It's a very good exam with lots of core Java topics and with some gained experience you'll structurize everything in your brain and you'll learn few things that avoided your attention before. I don't suggest to actually pass the exam, as that would cost some money and effort, so it's up for you to decide, but preparing to exam is very worthwhile time investment.
working out and eating plant based.
there wasn't anything to "discover", the app literally was telling users that was what it was doing.
what does enterprise support mean in context of a programming language?
The 3rd edition of Effective Java was published in 2017, it's been updated to java 9.
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Well, but on the bright side "it got electrolytes!"
It's also strange they made the paywall for hosts and travelers the same. Who wants to pay to host other people?
Haha, not large at all! I've just built a couple of servers and their main responsibility is content storage and then content serving (transcoding). My main bottleneck right now is that I don't have 10Gbps switches (both servers have dual 10Gbps intel NICs ready to go). I have to do some throttling so that users don't experience any buffering issues.
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It doesn't have the arguably sketchy crypto, it doesn't inject affiliate links into URLs, it doesn't use an engine built by Google, and it supports the open Web.

The reason it supports the open Web is that Brave uses the Chromium engine used in Chrome, Edge, Opera, and basically everything but Firefox.

Firefox doesn't, and is the only thing stopping Google being the sole arbitrator of Web standards (and they do not have your best interests at heart.) Google is already abusing their near-monopoly; keeping Firefox market share high is helping stop it, though.

This browser is Firefox based, so it has all of those advantages.
Thanks. Interesting read, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/lancet-retra...
> I'm not sure I fully appreciate the distinction you're trying to make here: "currying != partial application". Can you clarify?

Currying is the conversion of an n-ary function into a chain of 1-ary function e.g. `fn(a, b, c) -> d` becomes `fn(a) -> fn(b) -> fn(c) -> d`.

Partial application is what it says on the tin, it only applies k parameters to the function returning an (n-k) parameters function, without actually running the function.

Currying is one method allowing partial application, but not necessarily the only one, or usually the best fit as it tends to not interact well with features like overloading, default parameters, keyword parameters, …

> In particular I don't know what's meant by "curried" and "uncurried" languages

Languages like Haskell, OCaml, or Elm are "curried" by default: when you define an n-ary function it's really just sugar for a chain of 1-ary functions; and the application of multiple arguments is similarly the implicit application of single arguments multiple times e.g.

map : (a -> b) -> List a -> List b
map f l =
case l of
[] -> []
(h::t) -> (f h) :: (map f t)

can be called as

map fn [1, 2, 3]

or

(map fn) [1, 2, 3]

the semantics are identical, which is not the case in an uncurried language like Javascript or Python:

map(fn, [1, 2, 3])

and

map(fn)([1, 2, 3])

will behave very differently unless the implementer has taken special steps to handle this case e.g. dynamic behaviour based on an optional second parameter, overloading, etc…
A per capita chart? Our World In Data is great for that.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths?country=USA~GBR~CAN~...
Or red barrels, like in every video game ever.
If you want to measure neutrinos transforming, then knowing the distance to source lets to calculate rate of transformation.
I occasionally read the Brave Blog:

https://brave.com/blog/

The technical requirements and research that needs to go into a web browser to ensure it's secure & private makes me skeptical that Dot Browser or any open source browser is going to be able to achieve those things without serious financial backing.

Happy to be proven wrong though
edit: I was wrong, they were pretty up front with users about the purpose of recording (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-one-spanish-soccer-...)

From the article: "Despite this, users were not explicitly informed of the intended use of the microphone and geolocation permissions, which is central to the decision by AEPD to levy fines against LaLiga."

Sounds like they were spying while using microphone permissions, which is what the discussion is about.
Big fan of Subgraph. Haven't seen any activity in the last few years, aligning with grsecurity going private after 4.4. Would love to know what happened?
Yes. We use the Rest Api Provider extensively to provision ElasticSearch and Kibana.
If only we had some kind of "credit score" but for social things..
I always figured the main reason people used VPNs was to be able to pirate movies and music without getting those letters from their ISP and that all the other reasons were just plausible deniability points.
An university sponsored by Blando(tm). This is so America!
hey, aren't you the "kids without comorbid conditions are not at serious risk from covid" guy? how's it going with that? And sheesh, to think you were the one calling others ignorant…

still giving out medical advice I see! ;)
That's IMHO one of the fundamental ideas behind a UBI: have market forces work this out by disarming the currently skewed employer/employee power relation through a UBI where no one would be forced to take on the most-demeaning jobs just to survive.

Right now a lot of the costs of such jobs are simply externalized to exploited employees - a UBI would cause the wages in those to rise to more fair levels.
I don't think you're getting more hosts this way though.

I was trying to set up my new place for hosting when I ran into the paywall. Didn't want that. Now I'm hosting on Couchers.org instead.
> So the article isn't currying either. It's a hybrid between currying and partial application.

Sure.

> TBH I can't think of a practical case where you'd prefer currying over partial application. Theory/philosophy aside.

For eager-evaluation uncurried language (like javascript) I would also struggle to think of one.

For curried languages, it can sometimes be useful to uncurry functions in order to make types match, after which you might have to curry them back into the "normal" form to use them.