skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is perhaps a better wording of my ultimate concern about the article: The NSA's relationship to AT&T, even in the context of the article, is not dissimilar to the FBI's. A variety of federal agencies have extremely close relationships with AT&T (and generally all other major telecoms) including colocated staff and equipment---equipment being somewhat required by the lawful intercept protocol design. The American public should be made aware that this is now a broad, nationwide concern that's rooted in the everyday policy of telcos and the federal government... tangling it up so much in _this specific building_ with borderline conspiratorial implications mystifies the issue and makes it actually seem smaller than it is.

What the NSA does at 33 Thomas is not special, it is mundane. And that is much more frightening. If anything I suspect the NSA's intercept infrastructure is inferior to that of the FBI, because it's more likely to be legacy and because the NSA likely insists on transitioning the data to one of their own networks (which AT&T almost certainly has a hand in operating). There's talk in the documents of an NSA engineer having to work on an intercept project... rather surprising as law enforcement agencies just fill out the form and get the data! I suspect the NSA wanted to set up its own crypto equipment in an AT&T facility.

The possibility that the NSA was somehow involved in the design of the building is a theory with little evidence, and seems unlikely: AT&T had fairly detailed design standards for telephone offices, drawn from a variety of papers in e.g. BSTJ exploring the different practical factors. Even more elaborate design requirements were imposed by Cold War research on nuclear survivability by the military and AEC, and military concerns of sabotage (which had been a design consideration in telecom networks since WWII when it was feared the Japanese would come ashore sneakily and destroy West Coast telephone infrastructure, although this never occurred). It's difficult to imagine an NSA desire that the building would not have met: they could obtain space for equipment/technicians, cross-connections, and access to their own secure networks in any major exchange. The facilities were highly secure by virtue of being major exchanges. The NSA does apparently have a SCIF there but "SCIFing" existing spaces, i.e. in leased buildings, is a well understood process that doesn't require any special involvement (and couldn't have anyway as the modern SCIF concept is newer than the building).

Indeed, if the NSA has been so deeply involved in 33 Thomas, perhaps because of it being a critical exchange in the international network, one would wonder if they are similarly involved in other such exchanges like Mojave, or SCPs such as those of the competitive long distance carriers? I'm sure they are, no speculation about the architect's loyalties required.
I visited Flinders Island in South Australia a few months ago. It's fairly isolated but they have a mouse/rat/cat population they are working to eradicate at great expense. Mice supposedly last arrived in the tent bags of visiting campers. Which of course made me wonder if that could happen again quite easily with mice stowed aboard an another visiting boat, etc.
Why? I do this stuff all the time as a manager. It really goes exactly that way. Notice that the reddit commenter started with getting buy-in from the higher-up in their org. He didn't unilaterally start changing process.

This is honestly basic management technique. It is called the "Auntie/Uncle" problem.
But for me that's a lot like "a car going faster than a person running."

Machines are good at well defined tasks, but not good at determining what those tasks should be, or even how to do them, etc.
New approach to predicting battery failure could help maintain electricity
Interesting. I adore God Emperor, but I feel as if it's lightest on plot of all six books. In any case, I love the plot device of Leto's Stolen Journals as a way for Leto/Frank to expound philosophically on themes of religion, government, and nature. That book is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to stimulating observations.

As far as the Villeneuve films go, my sincerest wish is that we can somehow make it to a God Emperor film. I have no idea what this would look like, or if it would be any good, but I'll keep dreaming.
You don't need an FFL to manufacture, even NFA, but all that aside...f the ATF! Unelected bureaucrats who write laws are a curse upon us all.

"Braces," like the sig pcb are workarounds to these arbitrary rules and evidence of that fact.
I don't like the Oxford comma, because I see a, b, c <-> a and b and c, i.e. the comma is a stand-in for the word "and". Thus "a, b, and c" has a double separator between b and c.
Right, you can't even think about culture in terms of the company. Working for a company in an office job is wildly different than 1997.
- Search for unique-looking strings from whatever view you're trying to modify to find the associated html/js file.

- Pull up the commit history for the file to see what other files were modified along with it the last few times. This will give you dependencies and linkages.

- Make your change and then ask your ide/command line to find all typing/lint errors in your project which will help you find other dependencies you may have missed.

- If you get stuck, reach out to the authors or reviewers of previous PRs. (Hint: you may want to include them as reviewers. They'll give good feedback and you'll engender good will by keeping them in the loop when you touch their corner of the codebase)

- Write a few solid unit tests. Maybe even clean up the testing code a little bit while you're there.

- Write a concise but informative description of your changes in your PR. If you made two or more logical changes, split your PR and stack them. Your teammates will appreciate the shorter PRs and you will get feedback more quickly.

- Land the PR in a timely manner and keep an eye on it until it hits prod.

- Once in prod, test it yourself and keep an eye on the logs for a day or three.

- Bonus: put all changes behind feature flags to do slow rollouts and so you can quickly revert without waiting for a deploy. Make a task to remind yourself to remove the dead code behind the flag in month or so when you're pretty sure it's stable.
The Metro UI that debuted in Windows 8 was an abomination, it violated many of the design principles of the original Metro.

It was born out of Microsoft's fears that Tablets were going to take over everything, but at the same time Microsoft didn't want to invest 100% in a pure tablet experience, viewing the escape hatch to traditional Windows land as being a necessity. Win32 apps were going to be the advantage Windows tablets had over iPad!

So anyway that OS release was terrible.

To this day, Apple being the only company that was willing to go all in on tablets, is the only company with a successful tablet product and tablet software ecosystem.
Just ran into a great example today. Was using typescript/javascript to hit an api that has a limit of 5 requests per second. One of these fails saying that it's making more than 5 requests per second, the other doesn't, is it obvious why? It took me several hours to figure it out, wouldn't have had this problem in go.

choices.forEach(async (ce) => {
let ce = choices[index]
Deno.sleepSync(220);
let cf = await getChoice(ce); // this makes the API call
Deno.sleepSync(220);
});

for (index = 0; index < choices.length; index++) {
Deno.sleepSync(220);
let cf = await getChoice(ce); // this makes the API call
Deno.sleepSync(220);
}
Night trains world (with network plans)
What does that have to do with Finland?
> Insofar as NeXT's tech has helped Apple it's just that they've had a portable operating system that they could move between ISAs and form factors. That isn't unique to NeXT/OpenStep

NeXTStep was not just a portable operating system.

The Smalltalk-based runtime environment, that programming API was far more effective than anything Apple had at the time. And the WinTel PC still had some work of its own, before Microsoft client-server corporate apps could deliver.

The other big thing that NeXT brought back to Apple was a culture of very effective, small engineering teams. Clearly there are limits to that, but this management style was well-placed to make virtue of necessity, desperation.
> In practice though they just use new debt from new investors to payoff the old one to old investors.

One particularly interesting idea I've heard bandied about is to eliminate the rollover risk this represents by allowing the issue of perpetuities. Obviously repayment risk remains, as Evergrande currently reminds us.
The spirit of the comment was to demonstrate usability among absolute beginners. It is well established that people connect with visuals which are descriptive of inanimate objects in the real world. Some people find it comfortable, while some - simply don't and want futuristic interface. There are people who swear by Metro UI till today. This was not an argument for the sake of an argument.

I grew up with a 386 which was locally available. Then Windows 95 & 98. I shifted to Mac OSX around 10.4. I still feel the skeumorphic iconography was simply beautiful. And by saying that I am saying it as a subjective opinion. And an aggregate opinion which I observe, specially among elderly, is that the icons and UI layout is hard to navigate.
The sandtrout were overrunning the place they came to Arrakis from as well, IIRC from Children of Dune.

The real answer to the GP’s question is that if you squeeze a sandtrout you get basically a concentrated dose of the spice.
It's easily an impressive enough leap to get hundreds of upvotes. It's about that fact that it takes two clicks (including waiting for arxiv's absurdly slow PDF download speeds), and then some scrolling to get the results.

As someone else said, the blog post that they'll likely release will hit front page.
At least Slack has an API where you could potentialy build one yourself. I wish that were true for Teams…
Thank you for sharing your experience. I do live with my partner as well, but we never 'seriously' tried something like this, where we keep each other accountable. This looks like it might help. Whenever I start something new, I should make it so that others know it so that I'm accontable. Thank you!
Interesting, I'll remember this the next time someone tells me to just use GNOME Tweak Tool to use Emacs keybindings or change the theme or keyboard shortcuts because they're unsupported features and maybe disabled anytime without notice, despite the apparent impression most people seem to be under when they use GNOME Tweak Tool.
If it's C, cflow (example usage: cflow .c .h) and doxygen (needs some config, but there's a GUI) could come in handy. Doxygen is capable of generating call graphs if you install some external dependencies.

If it's a different language, you could try looking around in the docs if anyone's generated callgraphs, or you could look up ways to do so.

To trace the code you could use a debugger -- e.g. if it's gdb just issue the command 'start' and then step through from the main function to see how things go. Or (assuming it's something like a C program) you could get an strace (example usage: strace -vvvttf -o strace.log ./program) and maybe get a feeling for the config/etc. files read or written to, network services accessed, etc.

It would help if you could tell us what kind of program it is, or what kind of programming language it's written in.
Assuming sourcemap pipelines work, open your browser and put debuggers on anything you don't understand tracing requests / invocations. Start with something conceptual like a particular page / component and work your way out beginning at the request entrypoint. Along the way you will likely figure out things like authentication management, routing, view hierarchy and design patterns leveraged, etc. Allow a particular issue you need to resolve guide you if needed, but don't sweat the learning curve, as it is required and should be expected.
I thought it was well understood where spice comes from: The worms. The issue is that they would not survive off Arrakis and that people are unable to synthesize a replacement.
That’s why most of these have an archive.md link, there’s a top level comment here with one.
This sounds like some very good suggestions.
One, there's no good reason that you can't have both. None at all. Lots of times in Steve Job's history where he arbitrarily (or at least, not for reasons of his expertise in UI) shut down greater user configurability -- not for the sake of design, but for the sake of market control.

But also, two, I think "various Linux desktops" would be far preferable to what we have now. Again, I appreciate Steve Jobs' accelerating things in many ways, but also, he made interfaces perhaps too simple, to the point of frequently being just dumb.
A quick Google suggests that exclusive breastfeeding on cue has a 98% effectiveness (typical use) at preventing pregnancy. The pill has only a 92% chance (again, typical use; if used correctly 100% of the time it is near-perfect).

Partial breastfeeding (supplemented with formula) is much less effective, though!
I suspect just a flight to social conformity.
Find out how to run unit tests in your project and then find interesting unit tests to run. Set break points preferably at some launch points of your code and debug through unit tests. The process will take you through relevant parts of the code, the decisions being made etc.

This method has also worked for me when building features in a large codebase. Write a unit test first and then keep checking where the code breaks and fix those until your test succeeds. This is effectively TDD. Note that you might have to refactor the code for better design but it gets you started towards understanding the flow.
It's actually fascinating to me that any individual with a grudge against England could singlehandedly make termites endemic, spreading them to a few hundred sites with basically 0 chance of being caught, but nobody ever bothers.

(same with zebra mussels, asian carp, etc etc in the US)
F.LLI Pietta Long Colt 45 Revolver

It’s a 1960s replica of an 1880 Colt SAA (the Peacemaker).

Aside from what Baldwin is ridiculously claiming, that the gun went off without him pulling the trigger, Pietta built these in the 1960s with trigger bars. You very much can not get that gun to fire without pressing the trigger. So unless the gun was modified or somehow broken, he had to pull the trigger.

FWIW, I didn’t blame actor Alec Baldwin until he started lying about the incident, but still blame Producer Alec Baldwin who is ultimately responsible.
What was the SAAAIIITTOOOOO HAND OVER THAT WEAPON! ?

Well, that was probably some fantastical hand held railgun.
Thank you saruken, your comment really hits close to home. I'm glad to know that, at least, I'm not the only one living this problem.

I especially liked the part about trusting your old self, I think you managed to vocalize something I've been thinking for a while but that I could never form into words. I need to trust my old self, and trust that they chose that project for a reason. Now that I look back at it, whenever I find an excuse to stop the project, it's because I grow mistrustful of my old self.

Thank you again and best of luck to you as well!
Like the article mentions, Gleangen handles the "proximity" issue by letting a predictor choose their confidence (which maps to the volume of the underlying trade). As long as people are self-aware enough to judge how confident/unconfident they are about their predictions I think this tends to work itself out in the end.

WRT to QAnonization, I managed to make decent returns on prediction markets for the 2020 election after it was over. It's like the old saying about how the lottery is a tax on people who aren't good at statistics. Prediction markets are a tax on people who have irrational beliefs and/or incomplete information.
You might like https://cancel.fm/ripcord/ . I haven't tried it, but it's a QT client for Slack/Discord
To a certain extent it's supposed to be a a little bit teen superhero-y, so you get dragged along with the myth of Paul Adreides too i.e. he wants you too like Paul, so you get dragged along by/with him.

For what it's worth I see Dune as much more of a space opera than a avant-garde sci-fi book. For me I basically view it as star wars but as if George Lucas wasn't a hack. When I saw the new movie open with "dreams are just messages from the deep", I was just totally in love with the iconography of dune and was genuinely kind of miffed we don't get this kind of film more often versus whatever star wars is.

The thing with Dune's world building isn't that it's realistic, it's not very realistic, but rather that it's still blindingly original, to my western eyes at least - the way Herbert approaches religion and culture is a really good balance between wow-factor, critique, and avoiding pretense.

All in all I guess it's in the eye of the beholder so my comment contains no insight ;)
browsers are the new operating systems
Human newborns can’t autonomously do shit either.
I’ll match you and one up. Starting the transfer on a machine gun next week. I hope I still want it in like two years!
Basically it allows demonstrability of ownership.
Yes, it's called a pandemic (at the risk of stating the obvious).
I think some people's definition of an "anti-vaxer" is getting too enlarged. If Paul Offit (member of VRBPAC, and the author of a book titled "Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All"), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP, the advisory group to the CDC), the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC, the advisory group for the FDA) are all anti-vaxers because they share similar views to the author, there might be a problem.
In order to determine that you have to determine
1: How much harm the vaccine is causing 16-17 yo
2: How much harm the virus is causing 16-17 yo

Regarding 1, we know that mRNA vaccines can cause heart inflammation. As for, how much for 16-17 yo, I don't know if that has been tested.
Regarding 2, I am unaware of a test that has been preformed on 16-17 yo. But the test on under 11 yo was unsuccessful, because even those getting the placebo did not develop serious symptoms of the virus.

If you believe that the burden of proof should be on whoever wants someone to take the vaccine, then they would have to preform a trial that determines 1 and 2. Until that is done, the philosophical default is not to claim that boosters should be given to 17-18 yo.
I'm not drawing conclusions from this, but I did some poking around..

I ran `git clone` on the repos of both rsync[0] and the official Dropbox SDK for Python[1]. I then ran sloccount on both of them.

---

rsync came in at a total of 51,410 physical source lines of code.

The Dropbox SDK came in at a total of 74,140 physical source lines of code.

---

(This data generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'.)

[0] https://git.samba.org/rsync.git

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python
Board members get equity compensation that can equal that of a pretty good high-level engineer, oftentimes way more. But they are responsible for the financial performance of the company and are also legally responsible for the company. They can also be named in lawsuits personally for breaches of fiduciary responsibility. Although corporations explicitly exist to shelter these people from liability, it is not 100% and there is some degree of risk involved.

But it's a nice job if you can get it. You get to put in 3-4 hours of work a month for some pretty nice dough.
I have now gotten both books and I will read them. I appreciate the recommendations.

I definitely agree getting an evaluation can't hurt, and the sooner the better. It could save me years of blaming myself for just the way my brain is wired. Thank you for sharing your experiences with me.
Also the glass was more brittle.
Neither of those articles contained a shred of evidence to suggest that CPS will take your kids away from you on a whim.
Neat idea, though as I was playing around with it I noticed right away that the following seems to be impossible (or else very non-obvious) via Aftertext:

"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

I tried

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
italics wood
italics wood

which only seemed to italicize the first "wood", and

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
italics wood wood

which obviously failed because it can't find the substring "wood wood". And of course neither of these would match the "wood" in either of the "woodchuck" instances, so no italicization there, either.
That doesn’t mean the Dutch and Irish culture of the time hasn’t helped shape who you are though
It’s called self-government, which is not merely electing some mooks to send to some distant capital to professionally practice legislation (which is all they will ever do in their time there, and so will always be seeking to innovate in this space for good or for ill). It’s also taking an interest in you and yours and cooperating with your neighbors to resolve common issues, and where and when you have conflicting interests, resolving those disputes, privately, or in a court of Law if that is not possible, only taking to legislatures as a last resort.
WiFi cards for PC will probably always make crappy access points, not least because the antenna they come with can't compete with those on consumer WiFi routers.

They could totally work if you only need to cover something like a small apartment and don't need top speed.

But separate WiFi access point is probably the way to go, I'd made sure to get ones that could run OpenWRT.
Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29486607

(This is a different blogpost, but does not seem to add over the original)

Edit: following derac's comment see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29646112 for RETRO
Is it actually encrypted? or is it just 802.1x like it used to be (I moved away from the service area when they were still doing separate ONT and crappy 'internet gateway' that turned ethernet into ethernet.
Amazing! Thank you for sharing. I have to admit that I lack a lot in security related stuff. Reading your post is inspiring. I am thinking about experimenting with proxmox to run a similar setup.
Currently I isolate each customer in its own vm. This works well but comes with the overhead to run a remote session for each customer. Using your method I could have a much more streamlined work flow while maintaining a high level of isolation.
Which is also a distinctly American experience.
Welcome to Google!
While not entirely the case, white as an ethnic group is mostly a new world thing that has seeped back to the old world. White also is a large group with individuals a lot wouldn’t think of as white

E.g. most ethnicity questionnaires label white as the descendants of the original Europeans and North Africans.
> Got rejected

Your “get right back on the horse attitude” is good. I’ve been on both sides of interviews so many times. There’s a huge component of random crap and if you’re rusty it might take a bit to get back into it.
I like to trace down things in order.

For example, let say I'm working on an ecommerce system and I try to understand what happens when a buyer adds an item to its cart. I'm going to put logs / debugger's prompts on the important steps of that operation. Next to those, add a comment that describes why this step is important. The important thing is to label the comment with incrementing numbers. Those numbers allow me to keep track of the order of execution.

Finally, commit this to a dummy branch and share it with your co-workers if both of you are new to this code base.

That's one of the first thing I do when I jump in a new codebase. Pick something that interests you, and log the whole operation.
It's such a lazy and useless conclusion, that overrides all the other cool comparisons the rest of the article provided. But I guess it drives engagement, QED...