skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> in the typical contemporary urban center, you're just as likely to end up on someone's "I don't owe you my attention" tiktok video as you are to have a mutually positive interaction.

I'm surprised to hear you describe those odds as undesirable. 50% chance of a positive interaction is an order of magnitude higher than I would have estimated. Even if there's only a 5% chance of a positive interaction, parent poster's advice is still worth it. If you are respectful other other people, those negative interactions will be short and not too bad for either party. The upshot of find love and a lifelong partner more than offsets those short negative interactions that you have to wade through.
I wonder if anyone is monitoring the apps you can get on pirate bay (windows, photoshop, etc.)
Sorry for not being able to keep a snapshot for verification because... IA is down.

EDIT: https://archive.ph/uABu0
FreeBSD VMs take a long time to spin up on LightSail.

If you're making a web server here's a simple install script:

https://cipherlog.blogspot.com/2021/02/being-bamf.html?m=1
Their point is the people currently working and sustains working such a terrible job will simply stop working, if they can secure the same income. The rest of the time maybe they learn to code (which they can fail), or not and they'll just fuck around.

People will definite do something for sure. It's just I'm not sure why something has to be some sort of job or anything beneficial to society. There are a lot of people whose jobs are damaging to society actually.
What exactly prevents the 'hardware designed specifically for that purpose' to include in its purpose the translation of your voice to text, with voice fingerprinting for good measure? Have you ran an electronic microscope atom layer slicing of the hardware to guarantee its complete set of functionalities?
Netflix is on AWS -- the website and app backends, not the video streams.

* Netflix.com resolves to ec2-52-3-144-142.compute-1.amazonaws.com from my computer at this moment.

Some more domains their apps reach out to include:

* nflxvideo.net: ec2-46-137-171-215.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.

* appboot.netflix.com: ec2-34-199-156-113.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

* uiboot.netflix.com: ec2-52-203-145-205.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
>, wasn't the issue for OnlyFans related to payment processing and banking? What's to stop a company like that from buying a bank and setting up its own credit card?

Because having an "OnlyFans Bank" to underwrite the "OnlyFans Mastercard" wouldn't accomplish anything because the credit-card _network_[1] was also getting more restrictive about the adult content rules.

The major separate entities in the chain of making credit cards work:

- processors, gateways: e.g. early PayPal, Stripe,

- payment networks: e.g. Mastercard, Visa

- merchant banks: e.g. Wells Fargo Merchant Services, Worldpay

Getting transactions rejected by any of those 3 middlemen would be a showstopper for many businesses. If heightened fears about child pornography and sex trafficking causes all 3 financial layers to crack down with stricter rules, it would be impossible for most businesses like OnlyFans to overcome it.

So being your own bank to get around Wells Fargo Merchant rules doesn't solve the issue for Mastercard's rules unless you're willing to create a new payment communications network and convince millions of consumers to apply for a new credit-card using that unfamiliar network. It's not impossible as Discover Card and American Express did it but even they don't have the wide acceptance of Mastercard/Visa.

[1] Mastercard _network_ cracking down on adult content:
https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/protecting...
The distinction sounds almost completely syntactic. I.e. foo(a, b) vs foo(a)(b). Is the former not just sugar for the latter?
I believe that Troy is quite clearly including the big picture, but his assumptions about it may be different than yours - in particular, he's effectively making a point that in the big picture defense from competent adversaries there is no major difference between passwords and biometrics (by providing examples where trying to rely on passwords doesn't help much) and thus discussing those attacks simply isn't relevant for a discussion on "biometrics vs passwords for the common person"; it would be worthwhile to discuss the weakness of biometrics to e.g. state-level actors if and only if the alternative (pin-codes/passwords) is meaningfully different in that regard, and IMHO it isn't as a resourced attacker can e.g. unlock phones without owner's cooperation no matter if you're using a fingerprint or a passcode.
I especially like the fact that it is based on Firefox.
No the time for that mechanism to activate is longer than a thief who has this app and checks immediately.
What do you mean by max(min)?
This line of thought supports my connection to postmodernism. Or at least, to today's culture of... I don't even know what to call it.

You're suggesting we put barriers in our minds as to what questions should be asked. No more open ended inquiry, no more search for truth. Truth should be a tool in the service of a goal, nothing more. Searching for it without a good reason is to be discouraged as a waste of effort.

This is not harmless. Beside being wrong, this kind of logic is one step away from the problem of who's deciding what are the worthy questions. Next step you have maufacturing consen... hey, wasn't a book with this name?

Yeah.
> There are ... many well-written books on how to program it effectively

Would anyone be able to recommend a good resource for quickly learning modern Java for experienced programmers that already know, let's say, one of {Python,Javascript} AND one of {Go,Rust,C,C++}, but have zero JVM experience?

(Ideally the resource would also teach some relevant things about the JVM itself rather than the Java language specifically.)
Just "C".

Ctrl is "C-", prefixed to another key without a space, so it's unambiguous.
Haven't you seen a modern action movie where there is a block of C4 with a big digital timer counting down to 00:00? Seems to be used to the exact same dramatic effect.
Instead of UBI the gov can subsidise salary for those businesses.
Two red flags:

- the exception philosophy seems wrong-headed to me — you want to build language features that encourage handling of routine runtime issues without the overhead of C++-style exceptions

- the claim that the runtime is faster than Apples’s runtime is very citation-needed
Thank you so much for your input! All good points and I'm taking notes:-).

There are a lot of UI/UX improvements could be made on MAL or anilist. Through my research, the main reasons why users prefer to stay with MAL are (1) largest and up-to-date database; (2) active forum. It's going to be hard to make a ten-year MAL user to switch anyway.

Chrome extension is one of the ideas for user acquisition. A website/app is needed to root users. But maybe there is a different angle from list-tracking...
Came here with https://archive.is/uABu0 - but your edit was too quick!
FreeBSD was selected at the outset of the Open Connect CDN (~2012 or so).

We did a bake off a few years ago, and FOR THIS WORKLOAD FreeBSD outperformed Linux. I don't want to get into an OS war, that's not productive.
>In Germany during the same period, publishers had plagiarizers -- who could reprint each new publication and sell it cheaply without fear of punishment -- breathing down their necks. Successful publishers were the ones who took a sophisticated approach in reaction to these copycats and devised a form of publication still common today, issuing fancy editions for their wealthy customers and low-priced paperbacks for the masses.

Not only that but there would be incentive for every printer to print everything they could get their hands on, in quantities enough to saturate the markets, with the quickest to act at scale gaining the market share advantage.

Knowing people, this could give an exponentially unfair disadvantage to cultures which restricted this type of activity beyond a certain extent.

>The prospect of a wide readership motivated scientists in particular to publish the results of their research. In Höffner's analysis, "a completely new form of imparting knowledge established itself. Essentially the only method for disseminating new knowledge that people of that period had known was verbal instruction from a master or scholar at a university. Now, suddenly, a multitude of high-level treatises circulated throughout the country.

It was like they got the "information superhighway" of the horse-and-buggy era exclusively without parallel, and new scientific data (always controversial in some way) was heavily involved consuming significant bandwidth, plus an ever-increasing multitude of users rapidly consuming information & new sources arising (so things could go viral) like never before. Maybe even allowing for some deeper kind of echo chamber to have more widespread resoundment.

It would also seem like any division between the well-informed and the badly-misinformed could be magnified.

What could go wrong?

Then when copyrights did become established, the flow of new scientific information was badly choked so people just had to make do with the old stuff. Still that might be a more informed (or misinformed as the case may be) position than others who had never had any period of information freedom at all.
I'm currently reading Cay Horstmann's "Core Java for the Impatient" and like it a lot.
3.5" floppy disks were made of iron oxide on a flexible plastic disc encased inside a rigid shell. Only the shell was rigid.
How Am I Doing? A Humorous Self-Test
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls-offloa...
https://docs.mellanox.com/display/OFEDv521040/Kernel+Transpo...
Starting with being one of Match's first profiles in my area in the mid 90s through a couple of years ago, I've given online dating a try several through various stages of life. The one constant I've found is that paid services, even if it's just a small amount, gets rid of the tire kickers and validation seekers. When everyone has something invested into the process, everything is primed for moving forward. Paid services unfortunately have their own incentives to keep you around even after finding mutually attraction and compatibility but the free (and freemium) sites are designed to suck up your time and attention, which are monetized, instead of you paying directly.

Two other random observations about the differences between using matching sites versus people I've met more organically: Those I've met online are at least twice as likely taking prescription medicine for social anxiety or other mental health conditions. That difference is quite stark but otherwise personality and lifestyle differences are minimal. The other is that tall women are vastly overrepresented on dating sites. My guess is that if you're a 6' tall woman who wants to not be taller than her significant other but still wants to be able to wear heels, the numbers don't work very well with more traditional dating. You have to be able to cast a wide net when 96% of men are already shorter than you are in two inch heels.

For myself, my best relationships have been those I've met in person rather than through online dating. In most of those cases, we wouldn't have been a match if we had been using an app and running in similar social circles itself was a good filter. The best relationship from someone I met online was a woman I met on LiveJournal in an alumni area, which was somewhat of a pseudo social circle filter itself.
Alumnus (of the CISE department) and staff (not of the department) here.

I interpreted that move as more internal politics. The EE and CISE programs for "doing computer stuff" compete with each other for dollars and mindshare. The squishyness of the CS tracks (there's an engineering and a liberal-arts track both) also complicates the picture.

My angle is, the reasons quoted to the press for any of these decisions is a deliberate fabrication. Don't make inferences about how the university functions from the press releases. It might be different at other multibillion-dollar businesses, but somehow I expect not.
Linux on the Desktop: Part Two
20 years of continuous growth in Australia, with economists predicting a bubble burst every year. I believe we've had 2 quarters over those 20 years that didn't see growth.
Yes, Linux has kTLS. When I tried to use it, it was horribly broken, so my fear is that its not well used/tested, but it exists. Mellanox, for example, developed their inline hardware kTLS offload on linux.
Yes I know about the structure of a film, dialog etc. But even with that kind of breakdown it still comes down to whether you like the film or not, which is completely subjective. Back in the day Ebert and Siskel - arguably the top film critics of their day - also knew about all the things you listed and could break down any film in the same way. Yet on the show they had vehement disagreements over certain movies that one liked and one didn’t. I’m not arguing over anything you said - all I’m saying, like the parent comment, is that this isn’t as objective as you’re trying to make it. Experiencing any art is subjective, whether movies, paintings, books, etc. Objectivity requires something that is true for everyone. Your opinions of the series certainly isn’t true for me and my friends, and other people on this thread who’ve said they liked it. So they’re your opinions, and only that.
NTSB: Tesla should address “basic safety issues” before expanding self-driving
Sure. If you want a SmallTalk that you can use to build real apps, ObjC is your best choice.
> If hundreds of millions of people are spending hours on social media each week, some number of them will see ads related to some conversation they had recently by pure random chance

Another, probably more common reason that people often don’t think about is that a participant of such conversation may have searched for said product, or be otherwise profiled for it, and you might get the ad because Big Ad knows you are related to them. For example FB doesn’t need to know the contents of your Whatsapp or FB messenger messages to know how close you are to someone: how often you message, how many messages, when etc
No worries at all, I hope this information was helpful!
Does it matter? The only thing that matters to the end user is that the changes they made to their document persist. And they should persist by default, not only when the user issues a Save command.
This is actually interesting because it was not that strict in Norway as it was in ČR.

On the other hand there is also different level of trust between citizens and the government. But there are probably more variables.
That exactly what I mean. AWS would represent single digit of the infrastructure and traffic.
Thank you for your input! I'm going to look into MAL-Sync:-)
Thank you for the lengthy reply. I’ve decided to choose my saas niche by choosing the audience I am most likely to connect with based on my current network, interests and background.
How would you characterize the economics of this vs. alternative solutions? Achieving 400Gb/s is certainly a remarkable achievement, but is it the lowest price-per-Gb/s solution compared to alternatives? (Even multiple servers.)
Woah! Now that is definitely a special attribute.
Interesting. So from Amazon's perspective, it is perfectly fine for a SKU to refer to two products from entirely different industries? I'll admit that I'm not an expert here, but to my mind, a SKU should be akin to a GUID.

For the case you are listing, I would absolutely say that there should be a new SKU, because it is a new product whose quality assurance is entirely disconnected with the original product. If it is only a component rather than the entire product that has changed, I could see there being variations listed with different sub-values, but any review should then be listed with the exact ID that was being reviewed.

I'm of the opinion that any change to the product must be clearly communicated, even if it doesn't change the listed features, because there is an implicit statement that two identically described products are identical. I ran into this a few years ago, after passing down an old desktop to a family member. They needed wifi access on it, and I recommended a USB dongle that I had previously used with that computer. However, the newly-purchased dongle didn't work, because the manufacturer had switched to a new chipset without changing the listing, and that new chipset wasn't supported by the OS version I had installed.

I know that "compatibility with Linux kernel x.y.z" wasn't an explicitly listed feature, and therefore it didn't fall under the strict interpretation of false advertising, but I still consider it to be fraudulent. It was marketed as being the same as a previous model, but didn't have the same functionality as a previous model.
"Recording and interpreting speech would require a lot of CPU (if done on device) or network bandwidth"

It was my understanding that typically phone voice audio quality is a few kilo bits per second - not much more than a kilobyte per second. This would get positively lost in the noise of modern smartphone constant background connectivity, no?

(largely agree with your other points, though my understanding of original post was question for specifics on who actually may be checking these things rather than "somebody surely would've caught it")
Main problem for gimp now is under-funding. Although slow, their approach may be sound: features will land once they are good enough to work and well written enough to be maintainable. This may be slow but keeps the mechanism working for decades even with a very small team.

Studios need features implemented immediately. That usually generates functional but unmaintainable solutions. Note that filmgimp/cinepaint was abandoned by studios as well as gimp developers.

What studios should have done: fund main gimp developers and hire other developers to help accelerate the development of GEGL or other multi bpp lib. What gimp developers should have done: try to merge enough of the studios changes to keep them interested.
2021-09-19. New Volcanic Eruption in Canary Islands, Spain
At 16:20 of today, a new volcanic eruption started in La Cumbre Vieja natural park near a pine forest in La Palma Island, (Canary Islands). Since the last week 25.000 earthquakes in swarms were registered in the area. The last time something like this happened was in 70's.

The lava flows by two of the five exit points and the fissure eruption is of strombolian type currently.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeQJiVPLTU
Doesn't have X Window System.
Oh, absolutely, I'm not contesting anything that you've said.

It's just that I'm fairly sure there will always be people willing to clean toilets for little extra money, especially if they're not abused and kept hostage of a minimum (but lifesaving for them) pay. And those conditions should be impossible in an UBI system.
I use Java every day, but we're stuck with Java 8 because of the confusing and frankly scary licensing around later JDKs. I would love to move to 17 but I need something to show to the C-levels that gives them warm and fuzzies around the license. Does such a thing exist?

EDIT: I find it quite depressing that so many want to attack people for being confused around Java licensing. I submit that it is confusing on its face, but moreover insiders seems to understand how confusing it is, too:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1194...

https://medium.com/@javachampions/java-is-still-free-2-0-0-6...
> I’ve lost enough work prior to auto-save being common

And you didn’t develop the habit of compulsive Ctrl-S every five seconds? ;)
It's not only a matter of "big numbers", but also of confirmation bias.

We're never paying any attention to irrelevant ads - we're ad blind to them. But the moment we see a very relevant ad to a recent conversation, that will inevitably pop up.

"See, this one ad is tied to this conversation I had yesterday: they must be listening", while in reality it's more like "See, this one ad out of 100s I've seen in the last day is tied to this one conversation out of 10s I had in the last day".
Are these are the same people who ruined Berkeley's open courseware?
I knew a guy who said he used CS mainly for hookups.

Is this really a thing?
It's a mixture of things. The first is "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon" / frequency bias. Your friends talk about X, all of a sudden you notice adverts about X.

Of course, you discount the thousands of adverts you see which aren't about X.

Why are you and your friends talking about X? Because it's a demographically popular topic. And advertisers have noticed that $gender people of $age_range in $city are searching for X. So you get an advert. You're not as unique as you think!

Or, while hanging out, you're attached to the same WiFi spot. One of you does a search for X before talking about it. So the retargetting continues.

The key thing is - why are you talking about what you're talking about?
If this is one server, I can't imagine how much bandwidth Netflix pushes out of a single PoP - does anyone have those numbers, or at least estimates?
Bangladesh, if rouge socialists on the loose are better than outright communists in your world outlook.
> Recording and interpreting speech would require a lot of CPU (if done on device) or network bandwidth

I'm skeptical regarding bandwidth.

Modern codecs can achieve spectacular compression, you don't necessarily need to record audio-cd-level quality audio, and Facebook has state of the art hardware and software in terms of ai/ml and a very well trained workforce in the field.

If anything, one should regard Facebook as "capable of pulling this off".
This, can someone add to this it's crucial.
... and I still don't understand why I'd want to use currying, except as a mental exercise in "look at the weird things I can do".
Things to do before and after you write code
How exactly 'Constrained to use 1 IP address
per host' helps eliminate cross-NUMA transfers?
The article dismisses the stringy fuse because spherical mortar bombs had a hollow wooden fuse, but 18th and early 19th century hand grenades were also spherical and had a stringy fuse.
I don't understand this comment, every single software project in existence is like that. The pacing and threshold of what they'll accept is just different between projects. If you had some patches that get rejected, that's unfortunate. But that's a risk you take with any project, and you're also asking the developers to take a risk by accepting your patch. Some may have higher risk tolerance than others.
Love the idea. Tested with Microsoft 365, Google Apps and iCloud account.

Only the Google account surfaced the saved mail in the inbox. MS365 put it to junk. On iCloud it does not surface at all.
Wondering the same thing..I'm having targeted ads based on my verbal conversations, way too many for coincidence.
App Annie Fined $10M in Case That Is the Future of Insider Trading
wait, aren't they running anything at all ??? I was 100% sure netflix had the most advanced use of aws ( inventing things like chaos monkey, etc)...

What are they running on ?
If there is a field of science that needs a paradigm shift, it's obesity research. I can't think of any other aspect of health that has continually worsened, worldwide, for decades on end.
Yes and what does that mean? That the system puts a disadvantge on people with difficult backgrounds.

I have non-academic parents and the system sure as hell made me understand that very well at a young age. The folks with attorneys and doctors as parents had it way easier...

It took a lot of additional energy to be able to go to "Gymnasium" in Bavaria. In the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, were I was born, this was much easier though.
I’m also curious about this. Would be nice to have some kind of general independent service (or wiki?) similar to consumer reports for cybersecurity.
This was posted yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584403
> and block you

You mean like Roskomnadzor has already tried to do to Telegram, and failed?