skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not going to target one link. They're going to target the whole kill chain. Satellites, sure, and the satellite ground stations, and the missile launch sites, and the update path from the satellite ground stations to the missile launch sites, and jamming radio reception for the missiles in flight, and optical chaff or some other kind of confusion, and radar chaff, and probably some I haven't thought of.
If the Gideons can put a bible in every hotel room in the United States, you'd hope the biggest country in the world could ship a couple books. You don't charge people to view advertisements!
Float? That’s extreme. If you are concerned about children and pets (i.e. moving objects) then you just need it to not put down its foot where something is - it can just pause until the object has moved out of its way.
When people talk about “rootless” in this context, they’re not talking about “launching containers whose process runs as non-root”. The innovation of podman is that a non-root user can “safely” be given permission to launch containers whose maximum permissions are “the perms that user has”.

Docker doesn’t have this functionality: the daemon runs as root, and anybody who is granted access to launch containers by invoking Docker commands can inherently access root-level privileges. The most mundane way to do this is to launch a container with the host’s namespaces instead of generating new ones.
No, I meant national police from several countries will investigate you.
I'm immediately reminded of NetHack [1] (which you can play online here [2])! Real-life phase of the moon has a small but important effect on gameplay in NetHack. The public game server on alt.org even tracks the phase of the moon to provide a handy reference.

A little bit disappointing to discover that the code from the article does not actually depend on the phase of the moon. I'm really interested to see the other stories here where it actually is the case that the phase of the moon is affecting people's code.

[1] https://www.nethack.org

[2] https://alt.org/nethack/
Which, I'm reading your comment from a device which is capable of connecting to all four carriers represented, and it's connected to the Internet through wifi and one of those four carriers. Why doesn't this map have any user submitted data, eg from the FCC speed test app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fcc-speed-test/id794322383
This wasn't a couple of weeks though. From the timelines in the story it was more than a year. Would you expect to keep getting paid on paternity leave for 2 years?
But the vulnerability without usernamespaces is much more severe, because the process then has UID 0 on the host.

Frankly if you are that concerned about security (e.g. you have multitenant workloads or are dealing with sensitive data), you should be using KVM or gvisor.
It's pretty much what happened to merchant shipping in the 1970s when container ships came in.

Happened before, will happen again.
Getting pictures deleted from the internet is not a thing. Doesn't matter if you are the president or Zuck.
Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth
If There's Something Satanic in Your Neighborhood, Who You Gonna Call?
I would have fun optimizing this. The performance discussion toward the end of the readme was pretty basic, no assembly language or multi threading optimizations, etc.

But I have told myself to stop spending time optimizing things for no reason..
> and it's a really impressive, feature-packed piece of software that feels like it shouldn't be free.

Nobody should ever think like that.
The Powder Toy 96.2
would a MARV-tipped ICBM be able to reach a target faster than flying straight at it at Mach 5?

I was looking for MARV reentry velocities, couldn't find any numbers. A regular ballistic missile hits mach 20+ on reentry but I don't know if it maintains that speed all the way to the target.
Rocket engines require onboard oxidizer (or equivalent), so you have to carry a substantial additional amount of mass along with you.

Air-breathing engines are able to save all that mass by using atmospheric oxygen.

This matters, because it's the rocket equation in reverse: no onboard oxidizer = lighter vehicle = less fuel needed = even lighter vehicle = longer range / more payload
Thank you for making this!
The War Zone over at the Drive published this about a week ago.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/42480/mysterious-steal...

It's got some videos from the RCS testing and possible ideas on what it could be.
No that was the result of the lack of profit motive in state industries and the geopolitical failure of the invasion of Afghanistan. Neither mistake is made by China.
great point, could be some strategic misinformation by the US military creating some bogus video / hoax.
Ha, of course it's Mother Jones. I don't even know what to say.

1. You had stable employment, with an employer that you knew would be understanding. By your own admission, you knew the Amazon horror stories. But your greed won anyway.

2. "I remember talking to my wife about it and saying, I can’t believe these are my options." What kind of a dirtbag unloads the side effects (all of which he's responsible for) of his dying wife's situation directly onto her? Hey honey I know you're dying, but let me make you feel guilty about it, too.

Incredible. Is Amazon a terrible place to work? Yeah. But this isn't about that. This is about casting being a greedy, terrible person in a sympathetic light.
Doesn't sound like you're advocating this, but anyway it always puzzles me why anybody would actually WANT "long-term employee care." I don't want that. I just want money, and I'll take care of the rest. I don't want to get married to a job or a company. I want to quit and possible start a new job as and when I like, without losing out on long-term promises of "care."
This is great, thanks for posting an alternative
https://web.archive.org/web/20210927014950/https://www.econo... - link to internet archive
There were investigations showing that they add delay timers in order for you to accept.
I think the issue is the time factor.

I think everyone agrees that if an employee is struggling for a short time then there should be some understanding, sympathy and accommodation. But I don't think anyone would argue that companies should do that forever.

The question is how long is reasonable. In this case it looks like it was almost 2 years (mid - end 2018 to Aug 2020). Granted performance issues probably didn't come up right away but from the article it sounded like it came up pretty soon after joining. 2 years is a long time.
Sensing Your Way to Better Choices
Why should I trust the Arch wiki? People like Christian Brauner think the value of not running as UID 0 outweighs the increased attack surface from the user namespace.

https://people.kernel.org/brauner/runtimes-and-the-curse-of-...
It takes me out of my big-picture wheelhouse, so I personally find it harder (because less energy-yielding/interesting) to follow this kind of thing.

I definitely noticed how much the US right began to project a mighty image in the last couple decades, the imagery and storytelling of which took on a rather fantastic, near-pornographic character. In off-the-cuff analyses of its storytellers' psychology, I found that they were uniformly less depth-oriented than impact-oriented. To me this is almost never good news in terms of actual might.

I could also see a massive return to centrism as the human-group organism feels around for equilibrium.

Really spitballin' here though. Sorry I can't really speculate in more precise terms on that issue.
Turning? This has been happening for awhile.

Regardless of where you are on the US political spectrum. Universities have been held strongly on one side of that spectrum for awhile now.

If that’s good news or bad depends on where you stand on said political spectrum.
The US will never have a high speed train, or any mass transit. This country is run by corps and nothing that helps people will get approved. Whatever rail corridors exist are being cut and the big corps are trying to get rich off of the next big thing - EV regulations.
Docker in Pants 2.7: Automatically and incrementally build inputs and images
Medical bankruptcy is still an issue in places with universal healthcare like Canada. Why? Even if all your bills are paid you still have a mortgage, food, etc.

And even if you have long-term disability payments, it’s often some fraction of your existing salary requiring you to keep working to pay all the bills.
Any clue how it got there? seems super rare, planted by Native Americans?
It was a trip up the West Fork of the Dosewallips to Mt Anderson (via Eel Glacier). Class three scrambling and glacier travel. Olympic routes are bushwhacks more than anything else.

For real alpinism you want the North Cascades, e.g., Boston Basin/T-Bone Ridge or Mount Washington. Nowadays I mostly do randonee skiing, in which case Rainier, Baker, and Adams are fine destinations with world class descents.
Is there anyone on here for which the headline holds true? Most of us are likely degree-holders here.

Major-specific classes (at least for engineering) didn’t have time for any sort of indoctrination and non-major classes were jokes that you put as little effort into as possible in order to focus on the major courses.
> And probably the robot will be reporting the details of what I ate and what stayed on my plate back to the company to sell on to

Life insurance companies and your employer.
Be Rational (Steven Pinker)
Use of TikTok should be punishable, of course, but for reasons of good taste, not OPSEC reasons. ;)
I am generally conservative about these things, but recently the consensus appears to be that unprivileged user namespaces are stable enough for GA. If you work in a targeted environment (e.g., you are a reporter covering civil liberties), maybe you should wait a bit longer, but for average people the advantages of rootless containers probably exceed the advantages of keeping the unprivileged_userns_clone code out of your attack surface.

I would encourage most security-conscious users to enable it and migrate to recent podman over using Docker, assuming a sufficiently recent kernel. The latest batch of major Linux OS releases have all enabled kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone, so Red Hat, Canonical et al seem to agree.

For those interested, though, you can read the anatomy of a userns clone() vulnerability here:

https://lwn.net/Articles/543273/
We also have a black walnut that drops lots of fruit. The previous owner generously left the nut gatherer they used to pick it all up and it made the job super easy. I share this with you now in the spirit of stinky walnut hands.

https://www.gardenweasel.com/garden-weasel-products/garden-w...
All the lady squirrels gonna be coming over to his crib for Squirrelflix + walnuts.
I would assume that once a photo hits any social media, the Chinese and other adversaries (and allies) have already scraped it.
I have been wondering how governments and corporations will adapt to a world where it becomes simply impossible to keep secrets.
OBS is great software that needs more recognition as a powerful open source alternative.

My user story is: I’m a hobbyist user that likes to record game matches for personal review (analysis of my strategy/mistakes for self improvement). I know that OBS is much more powerful that what I need. However, the design of the software allows me to focus on features I need without the distractions of the features I’m not concerned with. I’m able to complete the tasks I need from the software with amazing ease.

It really allows me to enjoy the games I’m playing so much more.
You're always free to invest directly in your parent company. Shareholders hold tremendous power over company management, and that power increases the more you invest in the company. This gives large or organized shareholders at least as much democratic power as union members have over their entrenched leaders. Your question made it seem as though you didn't understand that.
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'For the same reason there can be no tradeoff between rationality and social justice or any other moral or political cause. The quest for social justice begins with the belief that certain groups are oppressed and others privileged. These are factual claims and may be mistaken (as advocates of social justice themselves insist in response to the claim that it’s straight white men who are oppressed). We affirm these beliefs because reason and evidence suggest they are true. And the quest in turn is guided by the belief that certain measures are necessary to rectify those injustices. Is leveling the playing field enough? Or have past injustices left some groups at a disadvantage that can only be set right by compensatory policies? Would particular measures merely be feel-good signaling that leaves the oppressed groups no better off? Would they make matters worse? Advocates of social justice need to know the answers to these questions, and reason is the only way we can know anything about anything.

Admittedly, the peculiar nature of the argument for reason always leaves open a loophole. In introducing the case for reason, I wrote, “As long as people are arguing and persuading…,” but that’s a big “as long as.” Rationality rejecters can refuse to play the game. They can say, “I don’t have to justify my beliefs to you. Your demands for arguments and evidence show that you are part of the problem.” Instead of feeling any need to persuade, people who are certain they are correct can impose their beliefs by force. In theocracies and autocracies, authorities censor, imprison, exile, or burn those with the wrong opinions. In democracies the force is less brutish, but people still find means to impose a belief rather than argue for it. Modern universities—oddly enough, given that their mission is to evaluate ideas—have been at the forefront of finding ways to suppress opinions, including disinviting and drowning out speakers, removing controversial teachers from the classroom, revoking offers of jobs and support, expunging contentious articles from archives, and classifying differences of opinion as punishable harassment and discrimination. They respond as Ring Lardner recalled his father doing when the writer was a boy: “‘Shut up,’ he explained.”'
What a waste of electricity
> I am someone who used to type in code from a magazine

I did this, too, but after being burned again and again with software that didn’t work after hours of typing, I gave up. Disheartening for a child. Of course, I could have been responsible for the problems.
Usually, the `interface{}` is named something like `Xer` to denote an interface which satisfies `X`. So - `Dialer` would be the interface and any struct is free to implement the `Dialer` methods to qualify as one (for example). Presumably requiring some way to `Dial` something.

What I like most about `go` is how standard a lot of the "good practices" are, with a focus on getting stuff implemented. There is no time to argue about spacing and bracing, just run `go fmt`.
520-Mile Lucid Air EV Production Begins, Customer Deliveries in October
As noted, there are a lot of robot engineers out-there. Maybe tossing them all together would help but massive engineering projects tend work when the outline of what to do is known and the many teams can fill-in the details. It doesn't seem like we're there now. Notably, every single entrant in Darpa's two legged robot failed to complete the course.

Also, if someone was throwing that many resources at a given problem and it was to sell pretty cheap robots, how would they get their money back? Lots of expensive tools sport expensive software.
The UCAV from Stealth
Oddly, this area seems to have had a black walnut industry here a couple hundred years ago! My 10 acre homestead was once a black walnut farm.
Not a hack, but there is the golden hour. It's roughly an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hour_%28photography%29
Haven't universities been like this for ages? I seem to remember stuff about the hippies and vietnam protests and so on. To my understanding, social progress has been the province of the young for decades if not longer, as it has been the province of the not so young to wring their hands about it.
Years ago a roommate was away on vacation and when he came back his room was ransacked: two jars of almonds were chewed through and almonds were all over the floor. It turns out squirrels entered through the AC exhaust pipe and did their thing. About 3/4 of the almonds were taken by the squirrels, it’s impossible that they ate them in the room, they must have stashed them somewhere else..
Tucson resident here. I see acre after acre of alfalfa being grown, with most of that water then being exported to Saudi Arabia for cattle consumption. There is a geopolitical aspect to this, but I will gladly choose Arizona fabs over exporting cattle feed.

Tucson has been doing a very good job recharging our local aquifers and we also had a good monsoon. I was able to harvest 15,000 gallons of rainwater for irrigation on my land.

I view the construction of the fabs as critical infrastructure . Saudi cattle, not so much.
Just want to note up-front they're my employer, so I am obviously biased, but onesignal.com offers simple push notifications that are easy to get going!
You will get dominated by bot-generated spam at the very least. The bots don’t care that their content will be seen by one person, they just hammer every form they find, and the recipients will be overwhelmed having to delete this, and they will criticise your platform.

As well as bots, you will get people manually hitting it. They’ll often use software customised to spam you.

There is zero chance this model survives without any sort of moderation.

(I’ve run a web forum for 18 or so years.)
Family leave typically means you stop working while on leave and there will be a job waiting for you when your leave ends. Like with parental leave, you are typically expected to rely on government programs like disability insurance and such if you need to do so for a long time.
It definitely has some interesting bulges and the flap at the bottom looks like an odd shape for a landing gear. My guess would be scram jet. What’s more interesting to me is the propulsion. Nuclear salt water rocket seems totally within the realm of current or near current technology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
I’m in Europe and after I hit “no” on everything, it spent like 30s “processing”.

Then I get this headscratcher:

> This page transmits information using https protocol. Some vendors cannot receive opt-out requests via https protocols so the processing of your opt-out request is incomplete. To complete the opt-out process, please click here to resubmit your preferences.

???
Yes, they are additive. The blur happened when I uploaded to Wordpress and I couldn't find a way to fix it.
They did get sold around then to McGraw Hill. Probably not a coincidence.
Don't forget politics. Depending on the team, rework can be demanded by some alpha male positioning for power, just so he can assert his dominance.
Moreover, the Matrix spec process requires that you have proven that a proposal actually works in the wild before it’s merged into the spec. This is a feature, not a bug. Just like browser vendors demonstrate a feature behind a prefix before it makes it into HTML, so do we with Matrix… to avoid a situation where the spec contains vaporware or spec for the sake of spec.
A DIY Calorie Counter More Accurate Than a Smartphone
Fantastic point. This is a work in progress so I can address it. Many thanks for your thoughts.
My Plan to Take Back My Life from the Algorithms That Control Our Every Move
No. Koalas nor Kangaroos are not considered pests. That's absurd. One is conserved due to their slow reproduction patterns, the other is hunted due to their thriving reproduction patterns.
I heard on reddit that some thought it could potentially be the fuselage for the new B-21 Raider, the replacement for the B-2 bomber that already kinda looks like a pretty futuristic aircraft.
Yes, I'm aware of the psychological perspective you are communicating. It's been behind the tech push. People who take this position will increasingly need to seek out direct market access during these volatile times; you may be well advised to steer clear of employee positions in large organizations. There is often a very fine line between "I don't want to be cared for" and "I don't want to care for others." It's hard to work in a place where you can't communicate A without also communicating B. The closer you are to pure-currency zones of employ, the less problematic this will be.

Keep in mind it's a very strong subjective position you're communicating as well. If you want to anticipate markets, try to watch what others are actually doing & ask what they are thinking, vs. what you personally think and do. This will help you to avoid traps in mental efforts requiring prediction or speculation. Especially looking at the way your expressed position could overlap with e.g. privateer mentality. This is, and will continue to be, a rare position within organized employee ranks.
I really liked the vision of “Sally” where if we made AI smart enough to drive a vehicle, it would not be humane to turn it off without consent and they got retired, though a repurposing/recombination ala “the Culture” would be less wasteful.
>contracting someone to kill six people.

A claim made by the government that was never proven, nor was he convicted, yet used to determine sentencing for an entirely different crime. A massive miscarriage of justice.
Are you completely oblivious to China's provocations in the South China sea? I know how things are being spun back in China, but I assume you occasionally read non-CCP-approved news, right?
“Subtraction [as defined from pairs of natural numbers to natural numbers] sometimes produces undefined quantities” is wrong (or at best phrased in a sloppy way which you in one part interpret in a way that would make it wrong).

Instead, for some inputs, there is no defined/prescribed output.

Anyone who thinks that example you gave is a true contradiction in-the-ordinary-sense is simply confused about about what they mean by those things. (Though, again, if you are using “contradiction” in a way other than the ordinary sense, this doesn’t apply to you)

This confusion would presumably come from being sloppy with phrasing.

If one simultaneously interprets “produces an undefined quantity” as synonymous with “does not have a defined quantity” (which is a true statement) and synonymous with “produces a quantity which doesn’t exist, [thereby establishing the existence of something that doesn’t exist]” (which is a false statement), it is no wonder that one would conclude that there is a true contradiction, and this is precisely the mistake.

Thinking that two things (e.g. statements) are the same thing (and therefore have the same properties, e.g. if they are statements, that if one is true so is the other) simply because one has given them the same name, is a mistake, and is a somewhat common source of confusion.

Now, in some cases, everyone (or nearly everyone) considering a topic will be confused about something in a way that is at least kind of similar to that way of being confused (or perhaps even in exactly that way). In these cases, one way that people might come to realize that they are confused is if they seem to be able to derive a contradiction. But this doesn’t mean that the contradiction is true, but that either (perhaps due to being confused) at least one of their assumptions was wrong, or one or more of their inference steps were invalid (e.g. unintentionally conflating two distinct things/ideas).

There are no true contradictions, only people (such as myself) who are wrong ( and/or confused ) about something.
Those lists tend to compute how long has the current employee worked here, instead of how many years of work do leaving employees have?

The list shows that older companies have significantly longer tenure numbers.