skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pretty historically documented, and kind of something that still exists as a holdover in ex-Soviet countries. The lying became so pervasive that it was impossible to tell what the actual output of industry was
I used to work at a local ISP in the mid 90's. It was definitely more Rusty-n-Edie's style. I remember going into one of the POPs (point-of-presence, dialup locations.) It was a in a small rented office in an office park, not a data center or colo.

There were about 100 analog modems on metal shelving racks, each with its own phone line, serial cable, and power cable. These were regular, consumer-style modems. There was no power management, so we had power strips connected two or three layers deep. There was also no air conditioning, and it could be hot-as-hell in the summer. Some of the modem cases were warped, slightly melted and discolored due to the heat. Nothing special was done wth the phone lines, so there was also a river of RJ-11 cables coming out of the wall. It was a hazard to even go behind one of the racks, since both the power and phone line situation were incredibly chaotic.
It does help, it's just sad that a predatory company is doing it.
Object lock helps tick some regulatory boxes, but at least in the described scenario, enabling it isn't really going to protect you against many additional threat models.

Simply using object versioning, and an IAM role with no delete permission is sufficient.

The biggest risk with using AWS for backups, is being compromised via a high-privilege IAM role.

If a role has s3:* permission, it can just remove the locks and delete the file.
This is the difference between

"Log in by tapping Yes on my phone"

and

actually using a FIDO2 USB key.
With all the criticism I normally have for Rust, I must say that its type safe handling of UTF-8 and its unambiguous distinction between byte strings and UTF-8 strings are extremely helpful in handling situations mentioned in the article correctly (and also efficiently).

Yes it's a pain, but the way the standard library designed its types force you to handle conversions correctly, for example when byte arrays are converted to UTF-8 strings and may contain invalid UTF-8 sequences.
Sounds like the most insufferable place on earth.

But I love your username.
Part of the reason for this is that many languages don’t support these features. For example JavaScript supports neither extra white space or named capture groups in it’s regarded.
+1 for Moltex.

I presented at the first thorium energy conference put on by Kirk Sorenson and it has been breathtaking to watch the focus shift away from thermal to fast and fluoride to chloride and now static fuels.

Moltex really looks like the one and it will be wonderful if Canada develops a world-beating nuclear technology like what they attempted with CANDU.
You do not need objective truths to use deductive logic. That statement shows that you fundamentally misunderstand deductive logic.

You simply need premises (i.e. assumptions) to make use of deductive logic in a standard logical system. Those premises, when used with logic that has no fallacies, implies conclusions. Any real world conclusions are always based on premises, where those premises are based on experimental evidence. It's always the case that there could be problems with the experiments, and there always are limitations of those experiments. That doesn't mean you can't use logic to derive conclusions.
There absolutely is something optional about the need (as in food, water) for physical social interaction, and the people who disagree with me are, factually, incorrect, know they're incorrect, and are acting selfishly at the cost of human lives.

Is it entirely pleasant? No. Is it temporary? Yes. You will survive without physically being around your buddies for a few years while a global fucking pandemic is resolved...
"I wish Colombia would make the sloth trade illegal"

I think the article spelled out that it definitely is illegal. But that when there's no real punishment or rule of law, it simply doesn't get enforced.

"In January 2015, while Bedoya was awaiting trial, local police caught him selling sloths again. They let him go, according to Tovar, who says he doesn’t know why and had no jurisdiction to intervene."

When people are poor and desperate, they'll do what they have to to survive.

Amazing how important economic development + rule of law are.
There are many rationales already written in many places. https://https.cio.gov/everything/ for instance. Or https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/ .
Notice how they said "no reduced inflow", not "no increased effort".
China is forcing Olympics athletes to install spyware
Hi! I'm really curious about the wages. What are the average wages now with inflation? In USD terms per hour.

I had some people trying to hire they're, but most people request 15usd/hour for basic va skills. I'm impressed how high.

So I'm not sure what's the problem and I'm wondering if you could provide some insight.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894463 My reasons for using Firefox over Chrome, unrelated to any form of activism.

Also backspace and shift+backspace still work for back and forward.
I can forgive houseflies.
How are all these people that are unable to get an ID able to finance a car, pass an apartment background check, open a bank account, buy alcohol, obtain govt. assistance etc?

In order for me to add my family to my insurance I had to provide identification for each of them, including a marriage certificate and drivers licenses for myself and my wife. All that just to get health insurance.

In order to vote you should have to identify yourself and that you are eligible to vote in a US election. It's complete nonsense that getting an ID in the US is just too much of a burden.
And if you knew you were listening for 6 numeric digits, as someone who regularly completes these captchas would, its not too hard.
I've been out of this space for a while, but isn't WebDriver the only cross-browser spec for browser automation? The last I knew, the browser vendors were removing other automation hooks for security reasons and heavily influenced the WebDriver spec.
It's a commonly accepted fact that vaccines work. We were all vaccinated against multiple viruses as babies for a reason.

The fact that he added the word "Gosh" to his comment doesn't make it insulting or target any specific group of people. You're taking great offense over nothing and distracting from a meaningful discussion.
I still think it is amazing that the OK gesture being racist started as a prank, basically "these idiots on twitter see racism everywhere, lets make the some of them think the one of the most innocuous gestures imaginable is racist" and it spread so well now a lot of people think it genuinely is racist... including some actual racists by the seems of things.

It kind of scares me to think about how vulnerable culture is to this kind of thing. A small number of people say this is true, not enough people question it, so now it's true. It's inane
> Masks don’t help much

It depends what kind of mask. Proper respirator masks like N95 and FFP2 work very well. There are now very clear results that show that the main mode of transmission is respiratory aerosol.

As an example, this Lancet paper captures it well: ”Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2”, The Lancet, 2021. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Numerous results have come out since.

I can’t find fault with the data or the investigation or the conclusion – I act according to this: We’re dealing with an airborne pathogen. Aerosolized.

Closed masks – respirator masks – N95/FFP2. These do work. Almost unreasonably well.

“Surgical masks” that gape at the sides do not protect well against aerosolized particles.
Because they are super cute. People are likely just driving back from vacation on the coast and don't think it through.
How about Huxley is for 1st world rich countries like the US and Orwell for poor ones like the Soviet/Putin's Russia?
Without getting into the validity of the rephrasing, the terms refer to different size groups. There might be better ways of defining the groups, but I assume the goal is to better reflect the target populations. If you don't define the sets properly, you end up with a tonne of special cases.

"convicted felon" is a smaller subset than a "justice-involved person". Felon implies "felony", which isn't the only type of individual they want to talk about (probably involving things like misdemeanors, diversions).

Same with "drug addicts". The new wording states that the person is seen to be using multiple times, but doesn't make a statement about whether or not they are addicted. They could just like drugs, without meeting the definition of addiction.

"ex-con"... you can be incarcerated without conviction (pre-trial, contempt).

With "Juvenile Delinquent", it's the other direction. Delinquent is a larger set than the new wording, the previous term includes miscreants who aren't in contact with the justice system.
Tomos mopeds are similar. I'm surprised they are even street legal because you can easily bend the frame just by pushing on one side of the handlebars. Bicycles tend to be a lot stiffer and sturdier. If you ever wipe out on one, it's probably no longer safe to ride. They also vibrate all their plastic bits and even the pedals off unless you rescrew everything with locktite.

Annoyingly, as far as mopeds go, Tomos are pretty expensive. They're just trendy rubbish.
There is no way to succinctly describe all the myriad differences between the two countries that make this comparison unhelpful for understanding Argentinian inflation.
You seem to not be engaging with my criticisms of your claims. Someone said that the only countries with worse inflation than Argentina in the Americas are under sanction. This is just a fact. You can look at a chart.

You named a bunch of other countries implying they have inflation as bad as Argentina. They don’t.

You said their currencies aren’t stable. They are.

You told a story of an appreciating used car as an example of unstable currency. It’s not.

You told a story of annual prices changes as an example of unstable currency. It’s not.

Colombia, Chile and Mexico are not currently and have not recently experienced hyperinflation. Argentina is, Venezuela is. Pretty straightforward.

I mean if you want to make the case that Latam historically has had hyperinflation in different places and time, sure. That’s true.
Analysis and Impact of LockBit Ransomware’s First Linux and VMware ESXi Variant
The data that is showing 99+% with one or more shots is bad. Lots of second and third doses could not be linked to the original dose and got counted as "first" doses, then the percentage of people with first doses got capped at 99.9% (or something very high) because it would be obviously absurd if 115% of people had one or more doses.

Vaccination rates in liberal states for the elderly are pretty good. But not 99%.
Sure and while we’re at it, let’s not treat aids patients because they engaged in high risk activity and not treat heart attacks of the overweight either.
Four-prop. With two 12-lb batteries (which is the comfort level for my knees -- the whole unit with these batteries is around 42 lbs, so still competitive with even a low power gas unit) I can run for about 8 minutes, which gets me to about 3200 ft, and gives me ~12 minutes to find a thermal. (Worth noting I weigh significantly more than average, and fly with a moderately high wing loading.)

I spent some serious time designing a two-prop counter-rotating unit using low-inductance ironless motors and a GaN inverter, but never got around to building it. Maybe next life.
GNU Poke 2.0 Released
I've done part time for 3 years. Biggest selling point, you are much more productive per day because you have a much longer rest between work days.
Do a trial period. If you work as a contractor, your company will probably understand the benefit.
Main downside for me was when urgent matters appear on non working week days.
"...fairly bleeding edge best practices..."

By the time we implement any of these things, if ever, they certainly won't be. I work on military networks and applications, and it's hard for me to believe that I'll see any of this within my career at the pace we move. This is the land of web applications that only work with Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Siverlight, Flash, and Java Applets, plus servers running Linux 2.6 or Windows Server 2012.

The idea of "Just-in-Time" access control where "a user is granted access to a resource only while she needs it, and that access is revoked when she is done" is terrifying when it takes weeks or months to get action on support tickets that I submit (where the action is simple, and I tee it up with a detailed description of whatever I need done).
> React, Angular, Vue, all require you to set up a JavaScript environment -- npm, webpack, babel, etc.

This isn't true, all live examples in Vue's docs run in browser.

Lots of people share their Vue examples using codepen, jsfiddle, jsbin, etc that are just static .html,js,css file hosts.

Vue's also used a lot for progressive enhancement of SSR content which wont be using npm in non node server Apps.

There's also optimized variants like petite-vue & preact which are tiny subsets that's designed to be used directly in the browser without any build tools.
Moltex Clean Energy
>And yet, the average person does not feel violated enough to actually do something about anything. It's much easier to just go with the flow and not do what the state doesn't like.

The problem is it requires a lot of people to make a difference. A single person or a small group protesting gets thrown into a reeducation camp for 20 years (if they are lucky). That's one of the reasons mass surveillance is so nefarious; you can't start to plan a mass assembly/protest to address grievances without being noticed beforehand and thrown into a reeducation camp for 20 years (if you are lucky). You can't even talk about grievances with more than a few other people in a dark closet somewhere.
Release notes for GNU poke 2.0
"Value your time. It is all you have. It’s more important than your money. It’s more important than your friends. It is more important than anything. Your time is all you have. Do not waste your time.

This doesn’t mean you can’t relax. As long as you’re doing what you want, it’s not a waste of your time. But if you’re not spending your time doing what you want, and you’re not earning, and you’re not learning — what the heck are you doing?"

- The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
I don't know. Within my company I feel like Harry Tuttle a lot of the time.
BTW, we use Featherstone algos too (ABA, RNEA, CRBA etc) but use URDF to describe our robots.
> CO2 is already dissolving in the ocean.

Yes, and it's saturating the top levels of the ocean. GP suggested mixing the ocean to saturate more of it.

> CO2 does not turn into methane.

CO2 gets turned into many things, as part of the ocean carbon cycle [0]. Algae near the surface absorb CO2, incorporating it into their cells. Algae is the bottom of the ocean food chain. Increasing the algae increases the overall amount of life in the ocean, increasing the rate of organic detritus accumulating on the ocean floor [1], forming more mud. Bacteria in the mud consume the organic detritus and emit methane [2].

Methane ice is one of the few ways that carbon can exit the cycle. Therefore increasing the volume of carbon in the cycle will make methane ice accumulate faster. Over centuries, the world's CO2 pollution could get converted into methane ice on continental shelves. Then a minor warming event could trigger the release of all that carbon. But the carbon is methane now, which is 70x more warming than CO2. The warming effect could be catastrophic for our ecosystem. I think this is a risk of utilizing the ocean as a CO2 sink. People in the year 4,000 may curse us for our carbon pollution and the resources they must spend to clean it up and convert methane ice into something more stable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton#Carbon_cycle

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Seafloor_sediments
No - imperative systems can do that too. Take Chef (an imperative tool) for example - it can trivially examine a tracked file and mutate the state if the state is not correct. This satisfies the "diff" criteria you mentioned above. Isn't Chef looking sort of declarative?

The nuance is subtle but important.

Let's say you stop tracking that file. In Chef, the file will simply remain in its last known state, because Chef forgot about it. Likewise, if you do the same process on other systems, files will be left in various states - causing configuration drift. This is what a declarative tool is meant to solve.

A proper declarative tool would _delete_ the file, because it's no longer tracked, to ensure that the system is in the state the user expects.
The points for each option are visible to me in multiple browsers on my phone.

Do you not see them?
> A place only for white Christians sounds heavenly.

What would be better about it than where you currently live? How do non-White Christians harm your quality of life?
I don't think these folks are genuinely traumatized. I sense they are actually on a power-trip. They've realized that they can use sensitivity as a weapon for a righteous cause. The more emotional they act, the more they get what they want.
I misunderstood. I thought someone said Safari on Windows didn’t exist. I wasn’t aware it was discontinued; thanks for that info!
N95 masks are not at all difficult to breathe in in my experience. Not at all.
I’ve had the same gmail address since GMail was in beta. That address is on my web site and who knows how many other sites — I use it everywhere. GMail is very good at filtering spam. When something I don’t want gets through I mark it as spam and never see it again. I don’t spend more than a couple of minutes a month managing this. My spam folder is full but I don’t have to look at it. Pretty much all modern email clients can do this, GMail seems particularly good at it.

I never interpret spam as an invasion or take it personally because I know it gets sent by bots from harvested lists. I give it the same attention I give to advertising flyers that land in my physical mailbox, even less attention because it’s one button click.

You can add yourself to various “do not solicit” lists that may do some good.
In the case of Venezuela that's not correct.

Chavismo was definitely not a coalition of mostly upper middle class people. Quite the opposite + very very strong ties to the army.
> Nobody here is advocating for avoiding vaccinations so your entire point is moot.

I consistently see anti-vaccination rhetoric on HN.
Right, and that was the point of the Orwellian dystopia. Even if a single person sees the dystopia for what it is, they cannot get the masses to act.
He seemed to like it when I spoke with him. It draws 200ish watts, so you don’t want to leave it running over night.

I was able to pull down weather/email and surf the web a bit at the Dry Tortugas. The connection seemed solid even while swinging on anchor. It wasn’t too swelly, which would make for a more trying test.

I run an Iridium Go for weather now. It’s easier on energy and the wallet, but the trade off is a slow uplink.
Given the atypical license, I would recommend the author to get some sort of system in place in case he gets pull requests from the public, where they explicitly give them the rights to relicense. There are github plugins for this kind of thing.
I know this is a webdev project anyway, but I imagine embedding code would mean, in practice, embedding Javascript. Then the whole thing becomes 100% tied to the web and to modern browsers, which is a shame. Such blocks could be used from native applications, bots, or TUI programs, but that ship has probably sailed already.
Ironic, because getting "cloud-poached" would be one of my end goals.
What ideas would you take from something like home-barista? From a quick browse, it looked like a typical forum, plus sponsors and a donation option (which I can't imagine would be lucrative?).
Just in time for NeoCov which is clearly gain-of-function engineered:

"As expected, T510F substitutions in NeoCoV remarkably increased216its binding affinity with hACE2 (K D=16.9 nM) and a significant gain of infectivity in 293T-hACE2217cells (Fig. 4 j-k, Extended Data Fig.17-18)."
Yeah. I have to assume user ngngngng is exaggerating to make a statement.

I've flown in the past year and was annoyed that adult passengers in front of me weren't wearing their mask (or wearing it with their nose exposed). While the flight attendant told them a few times times to put their mask on correctly, the flight attendants were not going to "turn the plane around and ban [them] permanently".
Much, much more comfortable too.
OK, I'll concede that PK cryptography can be used to eliminate the online requirement given that you don't need a revocation mechanism. You're still going to need active measures to ensure restaurant compliance. And signing these without a centralized database at the signing authority? Theoretically possible, practically impossible.

Tell me, where is it that these systems are working for half a billion people?

I'm guessing this is somewhere with a vastly different cultural landscape than the US. Depraved or not, I still value what little anonymity I have left.
We seem to fall into this interesting (and obvious) comparison about every 18months - 3 years. They both exist to some extent in different places today, but IMO Huxley has aged more accurately, especially if you squint a bit.
My first thought was exactly this -- a re-invention of the original AngularJS, which aimed to combine elements of scripting with HTML. I was attracted to the original AngularJS, but not so much the later "Angular".
> Rather, if we tied masking mandates to thresholds of community spread and encouraged/provided high quality masks, the public would at least show medical professionals we're interested in keeping another body out of the morgue, aside from the obvious vaccination need.

At this point, mandates have convinced everyone who will ever be convinced. There is no more convincing in our future. A subset of people will always reject masks and vaccines.
That's true, neutron bombardment and nuclear fission probably produce a lot of short-lived isotopes, which are much hotter than the U235 or U238 that we mined out of the earth. But after the short-lived isotopes decay, we are left with less hot, but longer life isotopes. Would it be more safe to distribute those widely instead of concentrating them? Anyway, I don't have enough knowledge to make an informed judgement on that particular topic, so I will try to keep an open mind.

Though I seem to have a strong distrust for "experts" in certain fields, such as the petroleum industry, the chemical industry, and the nuclear industry. These are industries which tend to privatize the profits and socialize the costs, so I don't trust these "experts" to prioritize the welfare of the general public.
playwright html reporter kinda does that, no?
It wins over Winston, but not forever. The appendix on Newspeak is written in past tense, implying that at some time it came to an end.
How would you connect the CPUs together then? There's no mechanism for that. You need a bus, IRQ routing, cache coherency, and more. Those features are there in the Max with the d2d interconnect, for up to exactly 2 dies.
Understanding unicode would make the question more obvious

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
The spies lied too and, perhaps worse, the analysis back at the Center was motivated by politics and the usual careerism. The Mitrokhin archives provide an excellent look at how the played out in foreign intelligence, domestic spying was fairly similar.
Right and the think it’s very likely that Apple will remain a very big player in smartphones for a long time - even today IBM dominates mainframes even if no one really cares.