skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever lived in Tornado Alley? These warnings are ubiquitous several months out of the year, year after year. I must've received at least a hundred of those. In the entire time I lived in that part of the world, I saw a single tornado, and that is because I was lucky -- most people that live there decades don't see them. The false positive rate for the average person is extremely high, so it is no wonder people stop paying attention. Honestly, we had worse problems with severe lightning; your house might get hit once a year.

A "very high likelihood of tornadoes" is their Tuesday. That likelihood manifesting as an actual tornado that is a material risk to them is a once in a lifetime situation. You get used to it, like earthquakes on the West Coast. Nobody on the West Coast spends their days obsessing over the big earthquake that will inevitably hit them sometime in the next several decades.

Warnings like you are talking about are effectively useless because they virtually never materialize as a real threat to most of the people they are sent to.
Other package managers also store hashes, just separately in lock files. The main issue is a takedown for legal or administrative reasons. If you have a hash that might possibly be helpful in searching for an alternative source after a takedown, but it's not that much protection
cd arrived in the v7 Bourne shell, v6's shell was by Ken Thompson (it's just the name of the system call that cd calls)
> 他不在這裏 is a phrase that I could imagine being used in official written text in past dynastie

In informal correspondence, imperial officials may have written things like this, because modern Standard Mandarin is based in part on 官话, the "court dialect" [1]. But any official text would almost certainly have been written in Classical Chinese.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_(late_imperial_lingua...
It's pretty shocking. I found this paper which mentions the following, most of which I don't understand:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209471...

"Recent work has determined that peak, or maximum, tornado activity in the Great Plains has shifted earlier in the year by an average of 7 days (Long and Stoy, 2014) and 12–13 days (Lu et al., 2015) relative to the 1950s. Observed shifts in the seasonality in the Great Plains are accompanied by corresponding trends in convective available potential energy (CAPE) and the fourth power of storm relative helicity (SRH4), as well as their interaction, CAPE × SRH4 (Lu et al., 2015)."

The CAPE measurement above, which seems to be a measure of fuel availability for thunderstorms, is apparently predicted to rise with global heating:

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020JCli...33.2025C/abstra...
That's a good question! However I am not sure what that has to do with what I am saying? People pay for over priced luxury goods all the time. There are psychological reasons for that (signaling wealth among other things).
Is there a name for being arbitrarily biased against a counterclaim? The simple fact that this is posed as a counterclaim itself seems to invoke skepticism, even when the original belief itself isn't even presented or has a poor basis itself.

A weak counterclaim does not imply the claim to be truth.
> This will mean more ...

One thing particularly strange about climate change alarmists is that they are just so damn sure of all these horrible outcomes that are absolutely sure to happen.

You're forecasting, dude. You don't have a crystal ball. Yet your statements, and those of all the alarmists, are those of the totally cocksure.

I live near Glacier National Park. In the early 2000s, some climate change model predicted the glaciers would be gone by 2020. All the entrance signs were modified to state this to every single visitor: Enjoy 'em while they last, friends, but climate change will render these glaciers puddles by just 2020!

Well, come 2020, the glaciers are still right there. A bit smaller. But also nowhere near gone.

Failed predictions and shrill screeching forecasting failures stack up over and over from all the alarmists and yet still they, as you do here, fail to have any humility, any sense that, hey, maybe you don't know it's the end of the world for sure.
>usually at the very top you find trivial technologies that are not difficult to replicate

Maybe in other markets, anything related with semiconductors has a HUGE capital barrier to entry. Exhibit A: ASML's EUV machines.
(2020)

I don't see it having been discussed here before,
so be sure to check out the followup or contemporaneous reddit discussion:

https://old.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/ffhimn/a_fix_for_...
How long has it been since the incident? How do friends tactfully tell you your IQ has dropped, and would you rather they hadn't?
> after so many times of dropping what you are doing and rushing to the basement, only to have nothing happen, it becomes an annoyance and is not taken seriously.

Is that feeling widespread? In my area we have sirens for different a type of threat, but everybody that I know drops what they are doing and rushes to the shelter, even if it happens two dozen times day and night.

To what would you attribute the lack of compliance? Attrition? How often is "so many times"? I'm seriously interested because it seems to different - and indifferent.
Please do explain your insights into this psychological effect you speak of.
I agree with most of what you are saying. Groups cooperate internally and go to war with other groups externally. However that has nothing to do with my point. I am basically making an economic statement about how modern companies work.
Running a proxy for dependencies, whether it be NPM or maven, is pretty common.

This way you can build if those services go down. Also, performance.
Nobody can downvote articles on HN. However, if an article is off-topic or otherwise violates site guidelines, you can flag it. I don't think this article should be flagged however, since it's a rare glimpse into how the Chinese Communist Party tries to influence world opinion (although I doubt many could be convinced that China is a democracy).
SOE profits are used as slush fund.
Yep-- you get to choose your specialty in the sense that you get to choose which residency programs you apply to. There are limited spots and in reality people have to choose from what's available
I think you are confusing "marketplace value" (what they are willing to pay for it) and "intrinsic value" (your perception of what the "real" value is). Intrinsic value is in the eye of the beholder. Marketplace value is decided in the market place. I am only talking about marketplace value. Which is also what FOSS developers are complaining about. How the market doesn't put market $ value on their work.
Rethinking Best Practices – Will Gallego
It's often the words we use that shape the culture we build. Very much like "postmortem" (we use BetterNext), you should consider your language and using the term "best practice" in your team. I love this framing: "We should regard best practices as provisional, not optimal, as a floor rather than a ceiling."
Unless they spell out how they proactively support the one man hobbyist maintainer I don't believe them.
https://xkcd.com/2347
Often, you'll find that taboos or prohibitions in one society often correlate with prevalence of the practice among neighboring states. "They do that, we do not" is not uncommon even today, and during antiquity was important enough to codify into law.
> It was unclear how many workers were still missing, as Amazon did not have an exact count of people working in the sorting and delivery center at the time the tornadoes hit, Whiteford said.

I find this hard to accept. They keep track of workers' productivity by the second, but they don't know how many were working there at that time??
German drivers are generally well-trained, and the mandatory car inspections means that cars are in good driving condition. The Autobahn is also in excellent condition compared to the Canadian highways I know.

I'd say that most cars drive at around 130-140 km/h in the center lane, and 170 km/h isn't unusual. This requires people to keep the left lane free, something I yet have to witness in North America.

But beyond that, the Autobahn is really boring to drive on. It's just like any other highway: almost straight, and completely isolated from the world around it.
IANAL. But, your use of the domain in commerce constitutes prior art. 100% get an attorney.
Your view of the "nativity of open source developers" is itself naïve.

To my understanding, most people who want to get paid a reasonable amount to develop FOSS go one of two routes.

1) Service-oriented, à la the Cygnus Solutions (now Red Hat) approach. FOSS developers get paid to fix bugs, add features, answer questions, and provide training. This has been my approach.

2) Employer cost savings. Work as an employee for a company which saves money by developing software, but where the employer is not interested in bringing it to market.

See the section "Professionalizing the role of maintainer" of the linked-to essay for other examples of what a company might get through funding a FOSS project. ("security practices, like two-factor authentication and mandatory code review", etc.)

None of this is "work with a price tag of $0", and the very essay we're talking about gives counter-examples to your interpretation.

Furthermore, I tried selling FOSS software for a fee ($30K, not $0), and simple commercial licensing doesn't work either. Commercial proprietary licensing addressed certain economic problems that commercial FOSS licensing didn't resolve.
Rice is the third-largest grain crop in the country. The US is the fifth-largest exporter of rice on Earth. "Negligible" is a ridiculous descriptor.
> Another limitation of nuclear power is that it is not a long-term solution, in one crucial respect: it depends on fissile materials that are nonrenewable, namely uranium-233, uranium-235, and plutonium.

This does not make sense. Uranium-233 and Plutonium do not exist in nature. They are created anew each time we use them, the first from Thorium, the second from Uranium.

Separately, it is incorrect that nuclear power depends on fissile materials. It can be (and is) done with fertile materials, like U-238. It can also be done with Thorium (another fertile material), and China just started such a Thorium plant [1]. The total reserves of Uranium and Thorium together could be enough for thousands of years.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02459-w
> His character was probably an amalgam of Myrddin Wyllt, a bard and wild man of the Caledonian forest in Welsh tradition

TIL this has a different etymology than the species of bird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(bird)#Nomenclature

I'll still choose to believe that the town in Oregon is named after the magician because that's more fun :)
I feel like their language has always been desperate. Maybe they are trying new approaches because the old ones have grown tired. Personally, after a long history of donating to them, I stopped simply because the quality of the content has sunk so far due to all the political warfare on the Talk pages. Given even the founder thinks Wikipedia has become badly biased, maybe it isn’t so bad for them to come under hard times and for other competitors to pop up:
https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
> I think the written Chinese language is way more flexible than what most people think it can be.

I wish I had enough time to properly learn a couple of CJK languages.

I find the characters cool, and while I only know a few of them it is really fun to accidentally figure out the meanings of written words without being able to read or speak them.

Like how fire and mountain when written together becomes volcano: 火山
I wasn't aware of this one, but it looks pretty dark, which is how an Arthur tale should be. Thanks for the recommendation -- going to watch this tonight.
I just thought that this whitepaper from the Chinese government was interesting to share. I do recognise that the whitepaper is propaganda but not all my submissions have to reflect my thoughts and opinions.

Given that Hacker News occasionally has discussions on politics I believe that it is fitting to share, propaganda or not.
What kind of shop are you working in which requires you to solve algorithms puzzles to resolve outages?

Even if we think we see a way to solve an outage with something like this, we generally consider it inappropriate for an outage mitigation scenario, always preferring to rollback / flip feature flags / add capacity / other simple and minimally invasive interventions.

Implementing a better or more scalable or more resilient system is important, yes, but is done after the issue is mitigated... not at gunpoint.
By definition if the hands free self driving is in operation it’s a road with slow moving traffic.
Many big companies have a “technical career path”. This is a lie. Reality is that this is a path of slow regular promotion up to your “level of education”. BS ends at technical staff. MS ends at principal. PhD ends at fellow, and those are all management roles anyway. Doesn’t matter how good you are. Nobody is really that good anyway; success or failure will largely be assigned to you.

My advice is to either go into sales for the best management ladder-climbing potential, or stop working and buy a cheap house somewhere nice after about 5 years.
Hey it's me, 10-15yrs in the future guy. Pass me a stack of punch cards and let me babble a little bit about legacy code. I found some dusty bourbon in rockstar guy's old desk.

Don't let it get to you, I'll happily cash checks to work on whatever legacy spaghetti tech is in play. Hours are hours, dollars are dollars, and as long as I'm maintaining a happy ratio of those two, I don't mind what code I'm working on. I'll sharpen pencils and sweep floors for 30 hours a week, I'll even listen to your life's struggles if that's what you want me to do for that money.

Don't let me give the impression that this is because all I think about is money or that I don't care, it's quite the contrary.

I think of myself as a developer, I like to think I do a good job, when I get the opportunity to straighten the edges of a sagging beam or create a structure from scratch I take pride in that, as it is my purpose. There's no point in getting worked up about the practices of my peers because that does not serve me. This is my craft, and the person who's creations I am now steward of was also a craftsman, who had different experiences, motives, and contexts that led them to expressing their intent through the code now entrusted to me.

Imagine a television show, or movie franchise; it may have different writers over time commanding the dialogue of the main character, developing their mannerisms, polishing their pearl. These businesses and legacy products we work on are just like those characters who get passed on to new writers. Think of yourself as one of that team, carrying on a legacy, adding your flair and support. Never stop working on your pearl and use every project as an opportunity to fulfill your own desires and express yourself, while honing your skill.
Spherical-against-spherical and flat-against-flat grinding can be self-truing, so in effect centuries-old clever results required clever testing to verify.

High tech in those days? Rumor I heard in the mid-1980s was that LLNL had [vertical?] lathes which could mechanically cut mirrors to optical-profile accuracy. Supposedly 100gpm liquid flows were required to keep the part temperatures uniform.
In the Bay Area, what you have said in the second sentence is thankfully not the case at all. A few varieties that I have tasted in the Bay Area (most of them quite regularly):

1. Red Delicious
2. Gala
3. Fuji
4. Pippin
5. Macintosh
6. Granny Smith
7. Golden Yellow
8. Mutsu
9. Pink Lady
10. Arkansas Black
11. Jonagold
12. Golden Ambrosia
13. Honeycrisp
14. Braeburn
15. Empire
16. Enterprise
How to DoS and Take Down Your GPON Fiber Modem/ONT with Small Packets
>he wished he the suspect hadn’t said something (a victimless crime done for a good reason)

This also cuts to the issue that many have with policing in the US: Is the purpose "law enforcement" or "public safety"? This is a deep philosophical difference at the heart of many issues in contemporary American politics. It's equally interesting to ask what are the motivations and incentives in these two perspectives.

Personally, I'd argue that if it were in fact a "victimless crime" then the situation has been made far worse by enforcement. There now is a victim - the "criminal," who now has no incentive to correct their behavior or cooperate in the future. It's an opportunity for education, not penalization. And, if the police truly are in a position of enforcing a law they find unpalatable, IE: that actually harms the public good, I'd love more than anything to see them made a partner in pushing back against it, rather than the cutting edge of public discontent.
More details here: https://www.greynoise.io/viz/query/?gnql=tags%3A%22Apache%20...

Tor exit nodes are under attack.
>I am embarrassed that as a computer scientist I make more than her working from home in a comfy chair in front of a screen

Compensation isn't correlated with how rigorous a job is, or we might pay laborers more. It's simply what the market is willing to pay for that skillset. Why is that? There are a lot of reasons but I'll agree they aren't great. But I'm not sure how one could change that
I think you and parent(s) kept exchanging messages which conflated major and minor Java versions.

Java 11 as a major is not old, it’s probably the best GA version right now, 17 is at a very early adoption stage.

Openjdk 11.0.0 would be too old, though.
OMG dude. Your doorbell is already operated by a pushbutton switch. This is the cheapest and most reliable input device you will ever find
yahoo. trusted news source for uncle daddies everywhere.
Physicists Discover a Remarkable New Type of Sound Wave
I think it should be upvoted, actually - for showcasing just how bonkers the CPC really is.
Tornadoes are especially bad when hot. It's not the cheese on that pizza that's burning your mouth!
You don't even need to go that far. Starting from Germany, driving becomes more and more chaotic as you approach Turkey, and only get worse from there. Same as you head towards Sicily. I wouldn't trust a self-driving car in those environments.
I just dimly remember being sharper and faster previously. It’s hard to pin down the precise changes more than that. Work is harder. Focusing is harder.
Thinking the Way Animals Do: Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding.

By Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Department of Animal Science
Colorado State University

https://grandin.com/references/thinking.animals.html
72% of all human deaths each year are due to abortion...approx 30 million. Our governments subsidize (pay for) most of them. We are a cruel and unusual society. Spartans had nothing on us.
I like the benefits but our node_modules is 1.9GB, def not checking that in.

A Git bot that parses changes to yarn lock and comments with size/loc/files of all the deps etc, kinda like how coverage bots work. get all the observability benefits without the checkin cost, also wouldn’t have to split npm changed and code changes..
Sony Files Patent for Betting Service That Could Accept Bitcoin or In-Game Items
I think you are slightly misunderstanding my point. I love OSS. I am a big fan. What I am not a fan of is maintainers giving their work away for $0 and then complaining that nobody pays them $ for their work. That is what I call naive. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how humans and markets work. If you want to be paid $ for your OSS work then make it part of the license and sue companies that doesn't pay. Or (as you say yourself) sell it as a service. Or perhaps an entrepreneur will start a business that specialize in enforcing OSS payments as a service to OSS developers (taking a % fee in return).
The game was handed off to a porting shop who’s job was to get it running on PC for the lowest bid.

The issue was the original studio didn’t stipulate good enough performance targets or were already over-committed to this contractor for the timeframe.
You're not making any clear arguments why foundries in the US would be better (outside the strategic reasons). Firms can already get chips done overseas.
But I would have to listen to its crap all the time waiting for the rare signal I actually want from it.

Edit: having continued reading more comments and googling what the fuck a “weather radio” is… I’m now deeply annoyed at the fact I have no equivalent living in Australia. I could look at a global weather service like Navtex but I’m actually not interested in the weather, i just want a way to get emergency broadcast warnings without relying on my phone. The system in Australia doesn’t use cell broadcast it uses a shitty alternative, they are tendering for a replacement that does use cell broadcast but who knows when that will actually be running. Since I have zero trust in the current system I’d like a way to get critical emergency notices without having to develop a habit of paranoid checking emergency websites or building my own fragile alert system using their RSS feeds or something like that.
It depends on where you live. If you are in a place where this is true, then enjoy the bounty and count your blessings.
I just noticed that my Ubiquti Dream Machine Pro's IPS feature (which is just suricata) was just updated to block this attack.
Programming: Exact Instructions for PB&J Sandwich – Josh Darnit (2017) [video]
Internet uptake has accelerated during the pandemic
If you had the extended support contract, you could get that version of Java 6. I could have sworn 6u212 was the last release before it hit OEL. (been a while) Java 7u321, 8u311, and 11.0.13 are current. 7, 8, 11, and 17 are all LTS releases that get quarterly patches - so the minor upgrades are pretty painless if you happen to be stuck with something older.
Probably around 2-300k
Looks like GP is drawing a distinction between deliberate application of good management skill, and reliance on the initiative of others. Unless you’re implying that good management is minimal (potentially zero) management?
Less about collapse and more about progress. Having common language/culture facilitates rapid development which PRC did relative to India. Also facilitates common market and conditions for supporting national champions which EU struggles with relative to PRC. India/EU embrace multiculturalism because it has no choice, system is too weak / politics to fraught to meaningfully unify, even if they wanted to. They're not going to collapse or even stagnate, but they're also not going anywhere fast.
I'll agree to this, but it's still a lot better than trying to implement it yourself.
I'm not sure you understand. Cyberpunk is a single player game.
Not a graphics guy so I have nothing beyond that Tracy is cool, but I think this is a good argument for open sourcing games when they've reached a certain age.

I'm 20, so not that old, and I do load up and old game just to be a bit nostalgic sometimes, will I be able to do that when I'm 40 or 50? It's easy to think that the answer is yes because you can get emulators for games from the past, but games now have so many moving parts (and DRM unfortunately).
Java has remote code execution as a feature built in, which is possible in other languages but not widely used.
I think CycloneDX [1] is the go-to SBOM specification these days.

[1] https://cyclonedx.org/
I came to mention this exact issue.

I've seen this trip up people in the past, in one case a CI/CD system running Linux was used to produce a project deployed to a mostly windows environment this didn't cause any issues until the day a developer added a binary module. Honestly, I'm surprised it worked as long as it did, it took a little over a year before anyone hit that issue.
Sometimes at home I end up with "non matching" ingredients from different cousines.

Like once I cooked Arabic Maftoul/Marmahon seasoned like Korean Dangmyeon. Another day BBQ Ribs with Korean Mirim.