skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never used antivirus (other than defender). AFAICT, I wasn't ever affected by a virus with one exception, the Blaster (or Sasser) worm. This was before Defender existed.

On the other hand, whenever I use a machine with an antivirus, I want to quit my job. Those things are slow. Very slow.

My work machine has a multitude of security software that I can't disable, heck, I can't even touch. Doing a pip install on a common program takes 10, 15 minutes. The same installation on my personal machine takes about one minute. The culprit? The 3 different agents that spins out of control scanning my disk.
That depends whose clock you're using.
You're damn right its shit.

Hinkley was bollocks because the strike price was that high. If we don't agree to stupid strike prices (ie £60 per mwh) then its not a disaster. Even at £60 profitability is inside 12 years.

Unless we start building generation capacity, then the wholesale price will go up as time goes on. Or as new renewable come on line, we'll get even more price fluctuations.

it doesn't take many of these to even out pricing.
This felt like it was written by a physicist or engineer.

Too much emphasis on differential equations and not enough on things like topology, functional analysis and/or non-introductory parts of algebra like say representation theory.
Just wanted to note that your replies come off as quite confrontational/aggressive. I think you have valid points, and it's clear that this topic is important to you, but you're heating up the atmosphere of the thread more than necessary.
A rowing machine employs a wider range of muscles and so will enable more power to be produced. Here's a DIY rowing generator that one guy built:

https://www.lybrary.com/a-rowing-machine-which-generates-ele...

He claims 100W steady output but I'm sure more is possible.

One advantage of the bike over a rower is you can be doing other things at the same time, like reading a book, or tapping on a phone or keyboard. On a rower ,only passive activities like listening to music or watching a screen are realistically possible.
I'm talking big N Nationalism. The belief that all "Great" nations historically have embodied.

I'm talking about the sentiment that inspired the great territorial expansions of Macedon under alex III, Rome under Hadrian, france under nepolian, germany under hitler, & United States under Nixon. That you can take, unify and direct great resources under force. Forge a monopoly on violence and create prosperity for your people at the cost of others.
The tiny radio station broadcasting Russian propaganda in D.C
Even if the SMR itself were to have a 60 year lifespan, you'll find that the steam turbines attached to it are not really better than the wind turbines. Comparing an SMR with a complete wind turbine is like comparing apples and apple trees.
> special skills

I find it interesting that you've used the exact word that they use, "special skills draft".

I was on the draft board in my county during the Iraq war. To be clear-- the draft board was never activated, but I had found out that you could apply to be on it, and I was selected because basically nobody knew about it or wanted to do it.

The reason I wanted to be on it, was there was lots of talk about a "special skills" draft for nurses and technical people. The idea was they could slip this one under the radar because the bulk of Americans wouldn't be concerned. Then it becomes much easier to expand the draft.

I reasoned that if I was ON the draft board I couldn't get drafted, and that I could try to treat people compassionately.
> it fails to explain why youtube-dl is the garbage bag in this instance

No it doesn't.

The buffet lets me eat as much as I want while I'm in their restaurant following their house rules. The garbage bag lets me take food out of the restaurant and consume a much larger amount of food however/whenever/wherever I choose – something the restaurant has forbid me to do according to their rules.

This feels very much like what Youtube DL allows me to do.
This is exceptionally cool. It feels like what would happen if one were to fastidiously reimagine the HP 48 user experience for the desktop (in terms of usage patterns, mental model, etc.).

I will 100% use this. However, you can take my HP 48GX when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. :-)
Generally probably true.

They find new ways though. My friends in the US needed H1B stamping appointments that are near impossible to find. Apparently there are “agents” who you give your username and password to and they can get you an appointment as they know when new appointments are released. They jump on the appointments knowing when they will be released and get you one.

Security wise this is a clusterfuck. But the fact that this is even happening is crazy. Of course my friend didn’t use this given the Giant security issue but it seems people do use it successfully.
The epigraph reminded me of this, from Alice Through the Looking Glass [1]:

--- start quote ---

The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".'

'Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested.

'No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little vexed. 'That's what the name is called. The name really is "The Aged Aged Man".'

'Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called"?' Alice corrected herself.

'No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called "Ways and Means": but that's only what it's called, you know!'

'Well, what is the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

'I was coming to that,' the Knight said. 'The song really is "A-sitting On a Gate": and the tune's my own invention.'

--- end quote ---

[1] https://sabian.org/looking_glass8.php
What Is you alternative to stop Ukrainian civilians from fleeing into Russia?

I guess NATO could bomb them so Russia doesn't get the leverage, but if we were to bomb the civilians, we might as well be bombing the Russians themselves.
None of the above. Smaller nuclear reactor projects are an effort to reduce the capital requirements to get started. There are inherent economies of scale in the physics which promote building larger reactors. Military propulsion reactors are < 1/10 the size of commercial power reactors today, and they are safe enough that we operate them with enlistees. But they are far too expensive for commercial operation.
Murica is pretty fucked up country if you can get sued for linking to a public resource on the web.
About 60-70%. Possibly it could be improved with better electrolysis techniques or large-scale facilities. Some Swedish companies are pushing for that solution: https://www.hybritdevelopment.se/en/a-fossil-free-future/ For now it's only for the steel industry but could in theory be used for other parts of the grid too.
Trust me, most of former eastern block hasn’t been much better. Mine country certainly lacked it. There were no laws against most of the stuff that happened. You took a loan and had no collateral? Perfectly fine.

90s was the second biggest theft of last century(after commie nationalization/theft). All wealth concentrated in hands of few who then use the economic power as a leverage over politics.

I am pretty sure we got saved by EU, otherwise whole eastern block would be similar to Ukraine/Russia/Moldavia. EU forced a lot of laws and reforms that really helped and were needed.
>I am not pro-Putin nor pro-US regarding this conflict

I wasn't aware that the US was a party to this conflict where Russia invaded a neighbor without cause. Weird thing to hear from an enlightened centrist.
I don't mean streaming the sound output via the home app (it fails too, more than 50%), but streaming over bluetooth, with A2DP. It is supposedly supported, except that I cannot enable pairing mode (also in the home app) in order for pairing with bt sources.

The difference is, that it doesn't have to go via access point, both ways, but directly. Especially handy if both of the devices are near each other and the access point is not.
> It's because I don't like what YouTube as a whole is doing with incentivising clickbait and maximising revenue above just being an unobtrusive platform.

If you really didn't like that, you'd stop watching YouTube.
>Memory bandwidth is saved by employing the splice() system call to feed data directly from the hard disk into the HTTP connection, without passing the kernel/userspace boundary (“zero-copy”).

What are the memory savings of this splicing approach as compared to streaming [through userspace]?
Software isnt taken, it's replicated like photographs.
I've investigated network equipment before, my findings were that you shouldn't trust any of it and use a standard Linux box whenever possible. The worst was consumer-grade modems/routers with low-hanging fruits such as backdoors, "forgotten" telnet servers left enabled, shell command injection in the web UI, etc but even enterprise stuff had its problems (thankfully, at least on enterprise stuff you can disable the web UI and any services you don't use, considerably shrinking the attack surface to pretty much just the kernel). And don't get me started on mobile network equipment where untrusted data is parsed at the kernel level and the motto is still security by obscurity (and the impossibility to obtain said equipment for the average Joe).

What I think happened is that they breached the control infrastructure which gives them access to an "internal" VLAN that the satellite terminals use to communicate with the mothership for firmware updates, configuration changes, etc, and from there were able to attack these as if they were locally connected (or worse - since that network segment is presumed "internal" and may expose services not normally available - think whatever is the TR-069 equivalent for BGAN terminals), either just pushing an incorrect configuration that prevents the terminal from connecting (essentially bricking it until you can get out-of-band access and reconfigure it properly) or obtaining root (via exploit or pushing a specially-crafted firmware update) and overwriting /dev/mtd* to completely kill the terminal.

"Cyberattack on satellite network" sounds so serious but I very much doubt it's got anything to do with the satellite part of it. They've done the equivalent of breaching into the management network at a terrestrial, wired ISP and sent garbage configuration over TR-069 to brick the modems. Attacking the satellite layer would require much more effort for essentially the same gain (and if your objective was to get into the satellite layer, why waste that access on breaking everything in a highly-visible way when you're better off silently sitting there and using the access to eavesdrop on everything, especially when it's used for SCADA traffic of critical systems that's itself unencrypted and vulnerable to tampering?).
thatcs not what this chip is for/does. from the second paragraph:

> If you have a USB 2.0 device and a host with only USB 3.0 signals available, this chip is for you.
The CAPEX vs. OPEX argument does really not hold water. Scalable clouds are 100s to 1000s of times more expensive than using your own hardware. That's a pretty absurd ROI to get from a loan, even on high-interest economies.

Also renting non-scalable hardware is a perfectly viable option with costs more similar to owning it. Renting non-scalable hardware makes the same change from CAPEX into OPEX.
That’s not even midi in my book.
"Freshmeat, Slashdot, Everything2, Advogato, and more."

kuro5hin was another site that I wish I had an accessible archive of.

That's where I first heard of bitcoin... long before it was worth even a penny.

I've since wondered who made that first article talking about bitcoin on that site.. but there's no way to check, since I only have my own memories to go on.
I had trouble loading it, too, but managed to get an archive.is capture: https://archive.ph/YEzR5
Generally speaking, I dislike "lifetime" offers and there is some bad history with those being badly abused

Back when Sirius Satellite Radio started, it offered "lifetime" subscriptions. People eventually learned that Sirius meant the lifetime of the radio as long as it tied to the purchaser's account, not the human being.

Many people got Sirius with their new cars. When they started trading them in three or four years later, they learned that their "lifetime" subscription not only didn't go with them to their new car, but the buyer of their old car also didn't get the old subscription.

Today, it wouldn't be as big a deal because you can stream Sirius ($10/month), or some other radio service over the internet. But this was back before even RealPlayer, and the mass adoption of cell phones.
Thanks! Didn't know that was an option and it helps a ton.
Running my own business, I have fallen into this trap time and time again. What I’ve come to realize is that just because you care, doesn’t mean someone else cares. I’ve spent hours optimizing features, updating my website, etc, all for little to no return. If I took a step back and asked myself a few questions, I could avoid wasting time.

Does doing x save you time later?

Does doing x make you significantly more happy?

Will you regret spending time on x?

Does doing x help others?

Are there things more important than x that need to be done now?
So does the paper conclude that: 'It is not very likely that the Pandemic started in Wuhan Seafood Market'?
The durations are expressed in ‘ship time’, ie the perceived duration from the pov of the ship. This is explicited further in the document.
Laws of war refer to the patch on the shoulder, nothing else. Otherwise it would be completely up to interpretation if somebody is part of a nation state's armed forces.

> Isn't this style of beard typically worn more by Ukrainians than Russians?

> Does this guys have a "Z" meaning he's a Russian soldier? Or is it civilian fan of World War Z?

etc
> wondering how I can benchmark myself on your platform to see how I perform with a sample?

Reading this comment, it occurs to me that if just anyone can sign up for a trial, then candidates may be able to game the system and prepare for the specific work sample tests that this product provides. If so, then that's unfortunate, because I like the idea behind this product.
At the time Flash player was deprecated, it was full of vulnerabilities. Adobe had every chance to improve its proprietary plugin, but never did in a timely fashion.
The issue that would concern me is more that once these technologies are developed by private companies, the companies will want to recoup the R&D costs by selling the technology oversees.

At that point, the "small reactor" industry will become entrenched enough to have a lobbying arm - who will make sure the license to export include all short term prospects - including ones in less than savory geopolitical issues.
It's really fun. Please store state in localstorage if at all possible. I accidentally killed a tab and lost my city :(

The other issue I had was dragging with the road tool occasionally glitched and skipped squares. It'd be nice if you could allow users to drag fairly quickly and give them a nice straight road as an outcome.
Even mild Covid is linked to brain damage
I am never going to get this out of my head

https://typemoon.fandom.com/wiki/Tamamo-no-Mae
Simply don't inflict actions on others so severe the global community cuts you off?
It's be interesting to have this wired to an electric car charger.
Dumb Question here but my thoughts were - why not push the corrupted update to the sats? AKA hack the sat firmware? I'm fairly certain that they aren't wide open doors but still - I would guess that it would be a lot easier doing it that way. Perhaps it was both, or someting else entirely. It will make for an interesting read one day.
it's still sluggish at the time of writing, FWIW.
This (superficially) reminds me of the stone idol "Ungit", in C.S. Lewis' "Till we have Faces" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_We_Have_Faces
Taking a country's infrastructure through a cyberattack is considered an act of war. Same as if you bombed the power generation infrastructure.
A way I heard it explained that made it make sense to me is this:

FP is basically making all of your inputs and outputs explicit. In OOP if you have some bool on a class that affects what a method does, that private bool is technically an extra parameter for that method, even if it doesn't get passed in. Similarly if a method changes some integer on its parent class, in a sense that integer is technically part of what gets returned by the method.

Functional programming forces you to actively think about all of the extra inputs and outputs of your code. In turn, this helps you avoid unintended side effects from the internal workings of a method etc. and the bugs that they can cause.

While the ideas behind FP are useful and can help you think about your coding in a cleaner way, I also think they can be overdone and taken to almost religious extremes. And it can come with a cost of worse performance, more difficult to write/maintain code, etc. , though done right it can have the opposite effect. Done right, it can also make certain aspects of asynchronous and parallel programming easier to work with.

FP, OOP, and all of the other programming paradigms have useful concepts, but purism for any paradigm can lead to all kinds of problems. The obsession with "state" that you see from some FP evangelists is especially annoying, because it ignores that in almost any useful program there will be an irreducible amount of state that has to be tracked and dealt with.
Few realizations that helped me:

* Consistency is more important than perfectionism

* Perfectionism doesn't matter in most of the fields. Just being close to perfect is enough.
Your point is unclear. You named just a few non-democratic US allies. There are hundreds of countries on the planet and pretty much all democratic ones are US allies. So it is clear that being democratic is a strong major factor. And exceptions just show that there are other factors though seemingly less important, and that the democracy is not a 100% requirement.

> if a country is not democratic, that doesn't give US right to invade it and you don't get to justify it

You made up something here, that nobody disputes, attributed to an unnamed set of opponents, and denied it. This is messed up. You should not be doing that in a reasonable discussion.
Yeah, I am aware that a significant part or majority of comp at FAANGs is in equity grants. I agree that options in private companies are realistically meaningless, especially if you’re trying to pay a mortgage, somy question here is specific to cash/bonus comp for senior roles.
America is a great country because we respect people's intent, even if they make inadvertent mistakes.
I can't get archive.ph to load but rsync.net loads fine...
Confirmation bias, religion was the dominant thinking for a long time, therefore people built things in its name. Now we build cathedrals of engineering every day simply to explore the universe. Constructs far more complex and diverse in people.
Add letterbox bars to the front glass then, job done.
> It's much easier than trying to get people to return money they've already assumed was theirs.

Yeah, I read that as well and came to a similar conclusion.

My next thought was that I seriously doubt they'd be _able_ to get that money back. What are they going to do, take the recruiting party to court over it? I suppose they could, but I also strongly suspect that between attorney fees and court costs, they'd not be getting much back. They'd be risking fairly significant negative publicity if they attempted it, too.
If it's not oligarchs and despotic dictators that drive us into a apocalypse, it'll be these idealists. They have no real grasp of the topic (in this case agriculture) and forced a whole country to use organic farming. The resulting collapse in productivity and export bankrupted the country.

What did they expect? Well, they expected their aura of moral superiority to magically save them I guess. Instead, the cruel math of output vs input (rice and tea vs fertilizer) ground their idealism to dust.

We need to start keeping a scoreboard of countries ruined by clueless idealism. Chile, Venezuela, Sri Lanka. What others?
At every company I've been part of the interview design process, I always insist on having practical tasks with real tools because how quickly someone can parse documentation and code context are not trivial aspects of the job. It does take a lot of time to set up sandbox projects however which a platform like this does away with. Looking forward to the day when no candidate sees Leetcode or HackerRank as part of a tech interview again.
If your developer actually has to touch prod to do operations work then there is a whole lot more that needs to be fixed than just developers not understanding operations.
My university course in linear algebra taught me how to manipulate matrices. It was super uninteresting, and easy. I aced every test, but got a B in the course, because the professor assigned an asinine amount of homework (that I either aced or didn't do), perhaps holding the article author's view that:

> solving problems is the only way to understand mathematics. There's no way around it.

...without also understanding that doing problems is not a substitute for understanding.

(I'm still salty about that course. I've been doing linear algebra based puzzles nearly every day of my life and this professor somehow made the topic a boring chore.)

I complained about this to a friend who had also taken the course and he turned me on to Axler. I read through the first chapter, nodding along as I went. I got to the problem questions and couldn't believe what Axler was asking was even related to the material I had read through. I really struggled at first to understand. Axler was heavily juxtaposed to my previous experience. However, when I did understand, I didn't just understand, I grokked.

It was just such an awesome experience, and I credit that book in particular with breaking me out of a mathematics plateau and with liberating my mathematics education from a strict reliance on academia. The text is almost magical.
> your users don't have the perspective that you have in terms of (a) what is possible, and (b) the knock-on effects of the feature on other aspects of the software value proposition

"Hey Jack, we've been asking for an edit button for years! It's not that difficult."
Can they block YT ads? It’s the only place I’m getting ads on my phone.
visegrad group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegr%C3%A1d_Group
I don’t mind tech rounds that involve some algo questions, but yeah, I would rather they be applicable to the job and not a matter of how much leetcode I can regurgitate in four hours.
Instead of big tech giants like FB and Google controlling big centralized databases, you should use a decentralized (but defacto centralized) database that is less efficient.
If you're interested in both mathematics and physics, does it make sense to learn both concurrently? If yes, what areas complement each other? Or is there no overlap to warrant concurrent study of the essentials? By essentials I mean what a college student must know, or really anyone who pursues self-education without a background in these areas.
Beautiful website, by the way!
I guess the more sensible option would just be to use a bicycle to get around. Simply because with the car you require most power just to get the car moving, not so much the person inside.
If you can borrow token A at X% interest, but there is an opportunity to use that borrowed token and earn Y% interest, if Y is greater than X, you can make profit. This is a super simplified explanation but that's the gist of it. Basically defi is a gigantic game of rehypothecation.
It's hilarious to get super technical about the way you cut your bagel, and also use a bamboo cutting board, which is sure to dull your knife much faster than other kinds of cutting boards.
I'm fairly sure it's just the audio stream. When I have a limited connection the audio stream will work but the video will fail to load.
oh, you know this guy?