skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still hides HTTP level metadata like the path, POST body, cookies, etc, no? All you’d have is the hostname
While I agree that we shouldn't be seeing bodies in rivers, I am not entirely convinced if Covid and Spanish flu in India are comparable.

The below links say bodies were found in many rivers, not just Ganga.

"A report released by the sanitary commissioner in 1918 later documented that it was not just Ganga that was clogged up with bodies, but all rivers across India."

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic_in_India

I don't think if scenarios such as below are happening in India, the leftist Indian media would stay silent.

“India perhaps never saw such hard times before. There is wailing on all sides. … There is neither village nor town throughout the length and breadth of the country which has not paid a heavy toll.

Elsewhere, the Sanitary Commissioner of the Punjab noted, “the streets and lanes of cities were littered with dead and dying people … nearly every household was lamenting a death, and everywhere terror and confusion reigned.”

https://theconversation.com/1918-flu-pandemic-killed-12-mill...
Yeah, they also raised $8M back in 2016: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/adding-a-youtube-integrati...

It seems that advertising didn’t work out, so they turned to in-app purchases in 2018 – roughly when the fake reviews also started.

On the subscription, it’s harder to cancel than it is to sign up for, like all App Store IAP subscriptions. It really should be possible to easily cancel from within the app itself rather than going to the Settings app – something a lot of people don’t know how to do, unfortunately.

“It used to be a legit app”: https://twitter.com/lap_felix/status/1480631686413041666?s=2...

On the founder’s previous company: “Wajam: From start‑up to massively‑spread adware” https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/05/wajam-startup-mass...
Can the NFT be cryptographically verified to be authentic? If so then it should be as good as any other proof of purchase
Is it possible to have users vote on whether a new version is "good"?

Maybe automatically via software that depends on the module successfully completing test suites?
Arguing that "it's okay to do it because the others do it as well" is kindergarten-level argumentation.

A key factor in a friendly relationship is to be able to tell your friend "no" without him/her getting angry. If one of the people in a relationship is forced to be subservient at all times we normally call it an abusive relationship.

And I think you kinda missed the point:
Danish politicians have done everything in their power to please the US since the 1960s and have done so increasingly since Bill Clinton was president. That's fine, if they told the populace that is what they're doing. Instead what they're doing is making hidden agreements with the US, that includes spying on our closest allies and neighbours (https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...) all the while they tell the Danish people that it is impossible to say if Americans are spying in Denmark.

If it is such a great benefit to Denmark to act as a lap dog for the US, you would think the Danish politicians was proud of it, wouldn't you?
But if there is an abundance of supply, the company has to use some kind of filter.

Testing for geekyness and ability to solve tricky coding math problems, seems like a rational way to do that.

If companies were starving for talent because 'nobody could pass the test' - it would be another thing.

But they have to set the bar on something, somewhere.

I can't speak to AI/ML but I would imagine it might be hard to hire there, given the very deep and broad concepts, alongside grungy engineering.

I've rarely had such fascination and interest in a field that I would never actually want to work in.
I found a chart once where someone measured efficiency of some EV or another. And the rule of thumb was that the cars hit peak energy/distance efficiency at 40-45mph and drop to about half that at 90mph.

Which would amusingly put your 600 mile guess just about dead on.
If you put a bomb in a box and attach a button with a note that the button is provided as-is and author disclaims any liability, then leave it in public place and someone presses it, do you think you will not be found liable?
It only wanted tree fiddy.
Exactly, in the last 2-3 years I closed more than a dozen of accounts, from Facebook to Google and more :-)

Something like Netflix, I'm OK with, even if they close my account for some arcane reason, I'll just make a new one.

The services I'm going to avoid are those where losing the account would mean losing important data (email, docs, etc.) and those where a data breach could mean sensitive data being exposed (e.g. non-encrypted messaging apps, doctor's online booking systems etc.).

And yes I actively advocate for this with other people too. I'm not a fundamentalist or anything but I want people I care about to understand the risks associated to using online services that you don't really own.
iPhones sold in the UAE have FaceTime removed.
Yup, sorry. Edited for precision.
Why can't you point that attitude in both directions?
Going to echo: Bash is bad. Bash is a feature-impoverished language and belongs in the dustbin. I don't understand why we script with one hand tied behind our back.

With Python I can install "click" and get great argument parsing and multi-command support with a simple install. Bash's argument parsing is much more verbose and arcane.

Sure, it has nice ways to combine tools and parse strings and such. However: You could also implement those nice abstractions in a higher quality language. So a good thing about bash does not cancel out all the bad.

I would LOVE a toolkit that is:

- A single binary

- That parses a single file like make ( but NOT a makefile )

- That uses a well known, powerful language.

- That lets me declare tasks, validations ( required arguments, etc ), and workflows as a first-class citizen

- With out of the box `--help` support

- That lets me import other makefile-like files to improve code re-use ( both remote and local )
> it would be a raucous for both legal and engineering, author could offer a non-gpl version for money and probably rake in more than a 6 figure salary… but I digress)

For these particular packages? Very unlikely.
> Imagine you have a wife

I feel like this comedian knows their audience
Didn’t they just revert it to a previous version? A version they are legally allowed to distribute? They are legally allowed to ban people and use whatever urls they want to host git repos. They are also legally allowed to give someone else permision to npm publishing under a specific package name.

Seems like they did things they are allowed to do.
"Legitimate" in the sense of "pre-existing policies," not "I personally believe this is morally acceptable."
Windy.com: See the wind, temperature, rain and air quality around you
I don't want to work more, I want to work less. The 4x32 would be a start, but I don't want to spend my life "working" when I could be "living".
It sounds like a sarcastic statement of the "profits not gained is profit lost" mindset and that shareholders would be upset, not literally a crime.
I know from firsthand experience that Verizon at least can and did do more circa 2016.
> These batteries have a lot of cobalt

Not according to the article:

"In practice, that means lithium iron-phosphate (LFP) chemistry, which historically has energy density 30 percent lower than cobalt- or nickel-based chemistries (and, unfortunately, reportedly cold-weather issues). Its first product, Aries, will go into production late this year. It's a battery using prismatic LFP cells in a structural cell-to-pack architecture without separate modules, packing more cells into the pack to lower the energy disadvantage against cobalt cells."
On the topic of "who wrote this shit", I'd really like to plug the idea that some of the most high-impact documentation you can write is a good commit message.

Say you track down a bug, find a line of code that makes no sense, and `git blame` it, to discover that you wrote it yourself, 2 years ago. If the commit message is "bugfix flaky builds", good luck figuring it out.

If the commit subject rather, is "bugfix flaky builds", followed by a message that explains what the flakiness was, why you think the change will fix it, what other bugs or limitations you were working around, and what upstream changes you might be waiting on that prevented further work, you're in a much better position. Suddenly you have a lot more context on what you were doing, why you were doing it, why you didn't do it better at the time, and in some cases it can even catch you from making an obvious but subtly-wrong mis-step.

Similarly, if someone's confused by your code during code review, that's a great opportunity for either in-line comments, or commit messages, as appropriate.

Unlike PR discussions, tickets, emails, slack threads, wiki pages, or photos of whiteboards, commit messages + git blame has an uncanny ability to be exactly the documentation you need exactly when you need it. Good git history practice can be one of the highest returning investments.
How long does it take to charge this thing?
I agree they should increase, but who would be paying for the increase?

The elderly who are already retied and likely have a fixed monthly expenditure?
A tall building, a mountain, a cloud ... so many options that don't risk lives.
Is there a good intermediate/undergraduate level write up of this inflammation link? There's a lot of quackery out there on this subject, so I don't trust search results.
It can, but if mask.icloud.com is where the relay connection needs to go that wouldn’t help.
I wonder why an artificial heart wasn't an option here.
I've used several Dell business laptops, most from the Latitude Exxx series, and they are great machines.

From what I can tell, they were made to compete directly with the IBM/Lenovo T-series Thinkpads. Similar form factor, ability to use docking stations, good keyboards, even the Trackpoint-like pointing device in addition to a traditional trackpad.

Although I haven't used a recent Lenovo T-series for any length of time, the Dells appear to compare very favorably. More metal construction, so they dent rather than cracking. Docking stations seem to be less expensive. Displays are on par. Similar battery life.

I wouldn't turn down a T-series if somebody handed me one, but many of the points the author makes in TFA about his T-series are true of the E-series Dells also.
The only reason Whatsapp was bidded up to an insane 19 Billion sale value was because Acton did not want to sell. Note that it's not insane in terms of value (in hindsight this was clearly a good buy for FB), but insane when considering that value for your small 30 person company.

That's a crazy sale price, I'd like to see you turn it down.

It can be true that he didn't want to sell and regrets it and just couldn't reject that offer, the opportunity costs available to you at the level are nuts. This is a risk with centralized services, it's why we need systems that don't require benevolence: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook...

Most people don't have principles valued at 19B.

I think Urbit is a potential way to get there, but a lot of the web3 ownership model points in this direction.
There is another critical difference: The person creating the NFT is, in theory, the artist who as a claim to authorship of the work.
Thanks, I missed they'd added E2E last summer. It looks like it's only for 1:1 chats and only on some phones depending on handset vendor and carrier, is that accurate? If so it still seems like adding RCS would have pretty limited usefulness vs interop with say WhatsApp.

I don't fault any one company on the messiness of the situation, it's kind of a tragedy of the commons situation. Apple isn't willing to compromise the UX complexity of adding more messaging types with different behavior, Google isn't willing to force carriers and handset manufacturers to make RCS really good, and carriers just don't care about anything other than ARPU and being "value added".

Oh, and WhatsApp interop will never happen even though that would probably actually be good because Facebook.
Weird. I'm a T-Mobile customer, and I just switched to cellular data and was able to enable Private Relay without any issue. whatismyip.com says my ISP is Akamai. Possible T-Mobile are still rolling the block out?
Yeah, it can be done easily using lockfiles, both yarn and npm allow that. You would seldom run npm update directly in production without testing the updated deps first
40 hospitals in NY state we’re just forced to halt elective surgeries:

https://abc7ny.com/new-york-hospitals-stop-elective-surgerie...

That’s overrun in my book.
That is incorrect, the decision making numbers used to test vaccine effectiveness having nothing to do with lab antigen numbers, they are based on how much symptomatic illness is avoided. All of the results such as as 95%-96% efficacy for Phizer and Moderna and 66% for J&J are based on the % reduction of symptomatic illness only. Not the reduction in actual illness or based on lab tests of antigen response.
Neither does SMS, but that doesn't preclude Apple from falling back to that.
With twice the energy density, what would its performance be like in a crash?

Did they actually do tests to validate that the battery would be safe in the event of a minor crash, before driving it on public roads?
In the same vein: https://github.com/william-fields/witless
On cell networks, video content is by far the largest consumer of bandwidth. And the default for video generally is to auto-adjust the resolution to the highest quality that the network supports. This kind of sucks, since bandwidth is a shared resource for all users of a given antenna on a cell tower.

Though Speedtest on your cell might show your connection speed as 100 megabits/sec down, cell networks special-case video by identifying it as video and rate-limiting it to something like 1 megabit/sec. This is considered "efficient network management". For T-Mobile, this based on the plan (https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans), they sell either "SD streaming" or "4k UHD streaming". "SD streaming" is a fancy way to express that they rate-limit identified video streams to 1 megabit/sec.

They identify video streams by watching the IP your phone is connecting to and/or the hostname mentioned in the TLS SNI header and checking if it is Youtube, Netflix, etc. Sending video content over a VPN removes their ability to understand what the content is.
Anymore when I find something stupid in the codebase, I close my eyes and say what’ve taken to calling the Engineer’s Serenity Prayer: “It was the right decision at the time.”
Maybe I misunderstand your point but intellectual property can only exist under a legal system, this seems like a shallow 'gotcha'
No, we won't take a pay cut to work less! It's time American employers realized that we don't want to be wage slaves anymore. Pay us a good wage, let us relax and enjoy life. A 4x32 work week is just a start to that...
Sounds to me like ISPs should be regulated or managed the same way as telephone and electricity providers

Along with healthcare

People don't seem to have issues getting electricity service or telephone service in those regions. In this case, the special treatment of those services means that people don't get left out

Rich people aren't the only ones who deserve healthcare or good internet
Have a look as these case rates by vaccination status, per 100,000. There is a higher case rate among the fully vaccinated since late December.

Would you have a meal with a vaccinated family member? Why is that safer than a non-vaccinated?

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread
(COVID-19 cases by vaccination status)
I doubt long term that it causes much havoc with three letter agencies. If anything, it simplifies it a small bit because now they can look at the records of only two intermediaries, Apple and the CDNs they use. That said, why go to the trouble? Depending on how it's configured, Apple would already likely be tracking your browser history in iCloud, backups, etc. Plus websites that track user activity (e.g. have logins) can be asked directly for data.
I'll have to give this a try. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing, but Doom feels "wrong" at higher resolutions and hardware-accelerated texture smoothing. In the past I usually set GZDoom to a 720p resolution with software rendering while disabling up/down mouselook. This to me is the best of maintaining a "classic" Doom feel while still supporting widescreen.
You've dismissed only one point that parent commenter made. And if the country held personal conviction to such a high esteem, 1798 Sedition Act as well as the other things parent commenter mentioned should have never happened. But we know they did.
> memmove() is about 100 gigabytes a second on my computer

Does DRAM even support speeds that high? I thought DDR4 goes to like 25 GB/s. Are you measuring cache speed?
I've 'quit' tea and coffee for long periods. It only takes a small daily quantity of caffeine to eliminate the withdrawal headaches. One 'Pro Plus' pill per day is probably sufficient (50mg anhydrous caffeine), reduced to half a pill per day after a week, then nothing after two weeks. Pills don't trigger the addictive yearning as much as the full coffee experience does. There's still sleepiness to contend with, however.
One of the things that always amuses me is when people complain about the underrepresentation of women in STEM majors. Why? It's actually 50/50. Women are only underrepresented in STEM majors in the sense that they aren't as overrepresented in them as they are in non-STEM areas of study.
does the weight impact anything consequential? I guess perhaps acceleration and handling? But I'm not sure the article went into that

I just want a car that does what is described, ideally without other tradeoffs. I would consider paying a premium for that, to an extent. I mean Tesla has been teasing Roadsters w/ 600 miles per charge at $250,000 for 5 years now. So someone just do the thing and make the option.
A good piece. The author has clearly read The Difference Engine :)
> I only see the drawing of a solid and a statement that it's impossible for such solid to exist.

> It's an interesting math problem, that exists on the contexts of its definitions (like any other). But given that the definitions aren't stated, it's not reasonable to expected people to come aware of them.

You know, we aren't supposed to accuse people of not reading the article.

But this is what the article says:

> The drawing appears to represent a polyhedron with two triangular faces and three quadrilateral faces. The triangular faces are ABC and DEF. The quadrilateral faces are ABED, BCFE, and CADF. It also appears that AD and BE intersect at I, AD and CF intersect at G, and BE and CF intersect at H. If we accept this interpretation of the drawing, then the shape that it represents is impossible.

It would be difficult to be more explicit about the definitions.
I have found that cutting all carbohydrates out of my diet (with the exception of Lactose, in milk) has caused my appetite to decrease when I have gotten tired late at night, which is the opposite of what I had experienced before.
Attack is hyperbole. This wasn't an attack. Nothing was attacked. This verbiage has got to stop being used around this. A maintainer of popular packages got fed up with being a maintainer - rightly or wrongly - and decided that they were going to alter their code - publicy no less (a far more dubious move would have been to make these changes in private and release that to npm, without pushing it to github also, in my mind) - and that means this code was working as intended by the project / package maintainer.

It was not injecting harmful code onto the machine, it was not an "attack" on anything, in any real sense. I feel all the media is doing so far is raking the maintainer over a fire, instead of asking the question of how did we get here in the first place? Why would a maintainer feel they need to take actions like this? What are they trying to achieve?

Instead of talking about the role of maintainers, consumers, and what to do about the state of open source software and its longevity, we are instead using this moment to go after the maintainer as if they were doing the equivalent of using their npm packages to inject actual malicious, harmful code on the consumer machines, like a cryptominer.

I know it inconveniences everyone, sure, and would I have done this if they were my packages? No, I'd go through a normal deprecation process of announcing its deprecation, archiving the repository, and plainly stating that the package is no longer maintained. With that said, consumers can always choose a different library.

This wasn't malicious, or an attack. It was an update to the package working as the maintainer of the project intended. If lodash issued a breaking change, would that be considered an "attack"? They even followed semver, by bumping the packages to their next major version.

I think this event also served to expose how little organizations have around testing for breaking changes in their dependencies, which may be adding fuel to the issue.

EDIT: this is a plea for more nuance in the conversation. I think there has been an unreasonable amount of haste in passing judgement in this situation, that, after doing even just a little bit of background research, seems to suggest there is more moving parts than meets the surface.
Yeah, JITs on top of Rosetta2 is one of it's weakest areas.
I would love to leave T-Mobile, but they are the only carrier in the US who offers such a core piece of functionality for me: International service included out-of-the-box.

I love to travel, and nothing beats being able to land in (pretty much) any country in the world, turn on your phone and have working service just like that. No SIM cards, no different numbers, no local pre-paid cards, and no crazy international fees.

As someone who enjoys work/travel for weeks to months at a time, every other major carrier is not feasible for this (think 10$/day, which becomes unreasonable when you're out of the country for 3+ weeks).

Unless somebody else could recommend another option it seems I'm stuck with T-Mobile for now.
Coffee has effects beyond just the caffeine, in a way that caffeine pills or even tea do not.
Haha, that's probably an electron app. Or they use a really buggy UI framework. Otherwise, I wouldn't know why updating a 4x8 pixel block would cause a significant amount of power usage. Especially if a 286 could do it no problemo.
> Whether you are on 2ms ping or 100ms ping, the bullet always goes where you aim at

However what you are aiming at may not actually be where you see it. If it's another player or something critical to multiplayer gameplay, then you are going to see what the server has told you you're going to see at that location. And latency means that will be delayed. So you may think you have a clear hit on a target, but with latency the target may have moved and you haven't gotten an update yet. Or by the time your fire command gets to the server, the target has already moved.

This can get pretty confusing especially if the game does client side hit effects (like bullet impacts). You shoot, you see immediate feedback of the bullet hitting, but due to latency your target moved and you missed - so the feedback is false. But if you don't do the client-side hit effect, there's a strange subtle delay that feels wrong. Client tells server they fired, server determines hit location, server sends back "hit here" message, client draws hit effect.

Valve has a writeup at https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_... which covers some of the issues with network latency.
CISA Adds 15 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
The founders would need to be able to build the product themselves. It will be challenging, for sure, but I know about a dozen founders that have done it with less.