skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your sarcasm is as obnoxious as it is irrelevant. Of course the KGB no longer exists - it's the FSB now - I was referring to Putin's work experience. They need not be behind very specific instances to be responsible for sowing discontent in general and fostering division.

These are exactly the kinds of operations the KGB carried out during the cold war, and is a core part of Russian military doctrine to this day. [1] The fact is, if you refuse to accept that it's a possibility (even as I accept it may not have been) then the system works doesn't it.

The thing is, when it works, people don't realize they have been influenced and they flat out refuse to believe it could have been by a state actor. The only politicians people complain about at work are bad politicians - the good ones already convinced you their idea was right. Ditto here.

> And yet it’s the same tactics and media spin across the borders. "but this time it really is the Russians! Just trust us..."

What do you mean "this time?" The Russians have never come up in the context of Canadian politics in my recent memory. Not as far as I can recall. Can you, or are you projecting American politics again?

You know for all the pictures of bouncy castles, they also built a shack downtown and filled it with diesel and propane [2], were arrested with significant quantities of weapons [3] and also the leadership has ties with white supremacist organizations and white nationalists [4]. They pissed all over national monuments. [5] They stole food from homeless shelters. [6] And they fought people inside the Rideau Centre mall forcing it to close to protect workers. [7] All while blocking international commerce. This is just a choice few selections. Good riddance I say.

For the record, 2/3 of Canadians support the Trudeau government's use of the Act, and only 1/3 voted for him - so I'd say that's a heck of a broad base of support.

But go on. Tell me more about my people. You're not Canadian, are you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation#Russian_disinfo...

[2] https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/protesters-build-wooden-structure-...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/canadian-police-arrest-11-batch-wea...

[4] https://globalnews.ca/news/8543281/covid-trucker-convoy-orga...

[5] https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/01/trucker-convoy-protest-u...

[6] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/convoy-tru...

[7] https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/egan-trucker-right...
There absolutely is fuzziness in incompatibility.

I can change one part of an API and leave another untouched - that's part compatible, part incompatible. It's only an issue if you used the changed part.

(If you think that first one always counts... what if the changed part is literally called YouMustNotUseThisFunctionOrYourCodeWillAlwaysBreak() ? It's clearly implied to not be part of your intended API, despite technically being part of it.)

I can add something to a type, in a way that's backwards compatible at compile time... but common reflection patterns might cause everyone's code to explode.

I can make a change that solves a bug that someone was accidentally relying on by doing the wrong thing, but doesn't affect compile-time behavior, nor runtime for anyone using the library the way they should. But that bug-user's code is now broken, is this an incompatible change?
Washington Post lets you cancel through their website without talking to anyone. It's also significantly cheaper than NYT last I checked. I'm a subscriber, and I think it's a pretty solid paper especially for national politics coverage.
The hackers grew up and now they are what they once hated.

Seems to happen to every generation.
UNIX was created for ATT to sell more telephone service

From where did you get this idea? Citation needed.
At the end of the day most people still have some sense of justice and morality (misguided or not.) In the interview, he could have acknowledged that these values still exist and influence the decisions of individuals and countries, without at all compromising his (many good) points about the politics of the region.

The people of Ukraine have overturned a fraudulent election, overthrown a president who betrayed his commitment to his people, and are now fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. But it's all 'just' power politics?
Zooming also fires the Window's `resize` event, which will also catch a user rotating their smartphone/tablet, or, erh, resizing the window on desktop.
Interesting, for larger contracts the way you bid at Matasano is how mine come out. Scoping engagement, then costs broken down as a guide.

My reading though is what you were doing was still time and materials. Sure you're billing in units of days or weeks, but as I understand it the underlying principle is the same as hourly billing: track time and charge for it. It's not linked to the value of outcomes, it's not eating up unknowns that come out and each has to be negotiated with the client ("We didn't expect $EvilCorp we're integrating with would take 2 weeks to answer every query").

In another comment you say "Time and materials billing does the opposite of keeping everyone on the same side". Can you expand on how you kept people on the same side at Matasano?

> and a clause in the proposal and the SOW that said overages were billed pro-rata additional days.

Did you have an approach that stopped each one becoming a lengthening negotiation with the client over what were true overages and which you should eat? I have had plenty of brusing conversations doing this and in my experience the client's expectation of what's "My fault" can be unreasonably wide, which is one reason for looking to other ways to price.
I don't want to pay a subscription, I want to pay for content I actually consume. I hate that paywalls incentivize to write clickbait even more than ads do. I hate opinion pieces pretending to be something else. I hate paying for copy-pasted texts from news agencies or press releases. But as with TV, you have to pay in bulk and if the good content is sold separately it's extremely expensive.
Sowork | Work from anywhere (Metaverse) | Full-time | http://www.sowork.com; https://sophya.notion.site/sophya/Working-at-SoWork-855ad44d...

We're on a mission to build the best f*cking work environment of all time. And it's in the cloud, obv. Teammates across the world (New Zealand -> Hawaii) so you can be sure nobody will ever force you back to the office. If you worked here, you'd never (want to) leave.

Engineering team (13+) includes:

-Game Engineers (who work on video game like environments, in our home grown Rust Game Engine, without the insane torment many in the gaming industry deal with),

-Full stack engineers, who do feature development for our metaverse for work, or scale our cloud infrastructure,

-DevOps / QA engineers, who are obsessed with code cleanliness and developer empathy

Well funded (https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/12/sowork-just-convinced-inve...), still early stage opportunity in a very fast moving space.

Looking to add Engineering Managers, Data Engineer, QA Engineer & Full stack & Rust (Game Engine) devs always.

And if you want a 1 min distraction: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwfghEPKr1WZ9NbT79_dqtA\*
I don't think this is all that useful of a quote outside of operating systems (and even there I still find it of questionable value). You really need to define how people can use your software (at least at a high level) and receive backwards compatibility guarantees.

Even in the Linux example, kernel modules do not receive compatibility guarantees because it is difficult to keep. You may need to rewrite your module depending on how it is written when upgrading the kernel. It also doesn't apply in case of security vulnerabilities and certain classes of bugs. Technically viruses can be user programs which rely on those vulnerabilities and even excluding those, there are cases where some API seems benign but later turns out to be flawed (like precise timers in the context of browsers).
>That’s not a valid lifestyle choice.

> that point is reached “no thanks” is no longer an acceptable response to offers for help.

On this path lies a terrifying dystopia. For example, I find smoking and eating ultra-processed food an incredibly invalid lifestyle choice; doctors agree with me. Should we also mandate forced smoking addiction treatment and diet watching?
The potential returns motivate the investment needed to achieve them.
I don't think it's a good idea to simply criminalize homelessness. That's not really the right way to get them help, and it gives them a criminal record that employers will see.
Question: how do you unsubscribe on Substack?

Answer: <click>
I would pay for NYT but their unsubscription process has traditionally been notoriously and unnecessarily difficult. I have a personal moral objection to giving money to any company that makes it more difficult to stop giving them money than to start.

Yes, there have also been major factual blunders, but for the vast majority of information they seem to genuinely try and deliver vetted facts.
Last year, I sat by a construction zone along a popular self-driving circuit and watched. At least a few times the car made it through without the safety driver taking over, but most of the time the safety driver took over.

This was in the summer, but it was a poorly marked lane shift situation.
Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.
Does this mean that if I am a one-man-freelancing-shop I need a commercial license rather than a developer license?

As a follow up: If I work for SuperMegaCorp as a W-2 employee, I obviously qualify for a developer license, but as a 1099 contractor? And if I send a PDF invoice that uses this font - is that professional or commercial usage? Clearly, I am not a lawyer ;)

Very nice font, BTW.
Information Processing – Mijndert Stuij
How strongly has he denounced various folks who called for the assassination of Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi?
Take a look at https://www.inkl.com/
How to create a database of academic knowledge for the purpose of competition?
Being a student, collecting information is a huge for academic and exams. I bought an ipad for longevity of digital notes. Handwritten notes are easy but I cannot find good software or proper method of collecting the required information. Can anyone share any idea for maintaining a database for all my notes. The stream is Engineering.
I highly recommend The Skeptics Guide To The Universe:
How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
https://www.theskepticsguide.org/our-book

Its somewhat of a reference book and very accessible
Since the chip is meant for inference but not for training, in theory you only write to the Flash once or twice. In this case data retention is a more limiting factor than wear.

For digital storage the data can change quite a bit before a 1 becomes 0 or vice-versa, but for analog even a small change can be a problem. So I don't know if we can extrapolate the typical Flash memory data retention number to the expected aging for this device.
Fair enough, but I often wonder if this new arrangement in the availability of quality information will cause any problems for the lower class. A lot of political rhetoric does gear itself towards the poor, after all.
Super interesting.

I wonder what the baseline is btwn the two ;

How dependent on heat is the "fruitful" nature of the plant vs the subsitance livability of the plant?

i.e.

Min temp for survival vs min temp to fruit and the balance between... What is the coldest one can keep a plant while maintaining max fruiting output?
Was that Russia more consistent with Western values than now? https://time.com/5564207/russia-nato-relationship/ Here's a Dutch ex-NATO Secretary General saying Russia would have to change quite a bit.
I don’t think that’s true of desert climates though. Here’s Phoenix’s highest temp by year. You can see it barely budges at all.

https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/AZ/Phoenix...
Fair enough I suppose, but just because I am saying things that disagree with you, doesn't not necessarily mean we are arguing. I am just stating my opinion on the matter, and being resolute about it. Just because you believe it is an argument, does not make it so.

And again, just because you think you are correct Klyrs, doesn't mean you are. Even if the admins/moderators agree with you, because their own logic may well be flawed too.

Of course this applies equally to me, but again... making inference of ones actions resembling the distasteful actions of others, should never be 'not allowed'. Such thinking enables terrible people to be terrible, and shouldn't be tolerated.

Finally, I know that nobody owes me a fight. This is why I say I am not arguing with you. I am merely making my opinion clear. If you see this as a fight, that's entirely on you.

You have a good day now.
I've tried Blendle in the past: https://blendle.com/

As I recall it was a pay-per-article model (around 25 cents per article looks like) and it had a number of publications to choose from. Though I haven't used it lately, I like the idea.
Plenty of news channels exist fine on YouTube without paywalling all of their content. Also people will just report what's going on because they are interested in it. It doesn't require someone to be a "reporter" to talk about what's going on.
That is beyond their remit, if applied to individuals.

They could do a much better job predicting and preventing their own crimes. They have no constitutional limits on that, yet are extraordinarily bad at it.
Ah ha! I should have realized. Thank you for your hard work, this kind of thing is never easy.
I like the aesthetics
Would you go into a store, pick up the newspaper, and walk out without paying?
It's different in many degrees. Canada has been warmer and colder to the US at various times but since NAFTA has been very friendly. If a less-US-friendly politics started winning out, Canada could back away from the US orbit in a lot of ways and the US probably would not push for regime change.

A future of a pro-Putin Canada is just absurd in its own right. Why not North Korea or Iran? It only really makes sense to talk about realistic possibilities. However, if they wanted to align closer to European powers, such as UK and France, again, I don't think the US would be invading Ontario.
> Putin asked Bill Clinton about this in 2000; was rebuffed.

This is misleading. Russia was admitted to the NATO Partnership for Peace, an onramp to membership, before Putin came to power. What Putin asked for, and was rebuffed on, was to skip the political, military compatibility, etc. readiness process then being required of aspiring members and be directly admitted.
Then why are we even talking about who Mearsheimer blames?
This is a great link, and I really would like to include this in my Teams status message that shows up Whenever someone tries to message me, but that just feels a little too passive-aggressive
This part jumped out at me:

> L1 is slower; 0.5 ns -> 1.5 ns

Why did that happen?
M1 Mac Mini with iPad Mini display combined is one heck of a MacBook alternative
It's funny because unless someone follows up I will very likely never respond to a message that just says, "Hi"

I tend to just ask questions immediately. I've heard some people like a little more pretext so I say, "Hey Hey. Insert question or reason I messaged" now.

I wonder where we pick up these defaults.
(65,997,978 BC)
I completely agree with your "grain of salt" advice. That said, to lean towards well-informed and away from rage and propaganda, I suggest subscribing to long-form periodicals, and avoiding "here's today's list of horrible things that happened in the world" style publications.
I'm with you 100% on this. I actually cultivate gourmet mushrooms as a hobby (started about 15 years ago when I took a course in university) and am a big fan of mycology and the importance of fungi ecologically, nutritionally, and medicinally.

However, there are, IMO, currently significant environmental downsides to indoor mushroom cultivation. Mushrooms are having a "moment" and there is a gold rush to throw them at everything under the sun.
Why would a package released as v1 need to be supported indefinitely?
I can't say if the NYT are villains or not, but if they are, you might have better luck convincing people if your only data point wasn't from literally decades ago
Why go by what is current? They are talking about the year 2030.
this guy is trying to go straight from http/1.1 to http/3 in real life.
True, but if a newspaper is open for bots to help promote it through SEO, I won't have many qualms about bypassing the flimsy paywall.
This sort of braindead mindset is exactly why learning dialectical materialism is so important. You're essentially denying causality.

A bobcat is cornered by a man with a stick, the bobcat lashes out, you blame the bobcat.

You walk around a corner to see a kid hit another kid. You blame the one who did the hitting because you don't care to investigate what was happening before you rounded the corner.

There are decades of history that influence and have led up to this moment. The fact that you didn't mention NATO or the US/EU at tall is telling.
I would. I've never owned a car in my life.

Public transit is clearly the best kind of theft! /s
I am not accusing linux of having a real capability system, so nope I'm not confusing them at all. I'm honestly not sure where you got me saying that it does, my tweet is a criticism of linux (or really POSIX) and its lack of true capabilities.

Also, I used plan9 as an example for a reason. The kernel is quite hands off about capabilities in general in plan9, and is definitely not the primary source of trust in the system beyond the fact that a kernel is always a central trust node (some userspace processes like factotum and the authentication server do the real work and hold secure information).

There are systems out there that "just make it impossible to privesc", so it is possible. It's just not really possible within POSIX, because POSIX is built around it.
We need solid Level 3 self driving, at least on freeways. The commercial products are stuck at level 2. None of those systems have achieved "does not run into stuff". That's not good enough. People just don't pay close enough attention when the system has control.

Waymo and Cruise have level 4, since they already have driverless taxis in use. Only in some conditions, true, but in actual use. Waymo just got approval to start charging fares, so they're out of experimental mode.
We kinda solved this for other media with reviews but Rotten Tomato for news would be a dumpster fire.
I wasn’t referring to this product specifically, but electronics in general.
Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
Agreed, I think Chotiner was simply not being politely deferential, as has become the custom for interviews in many US media outlets. It reads to me much more like the modern custom in UK/EU media where interviewers are expected to challenge, at least to some extent, the interviewee's salient arguments. This can come across as somewhat rude, but I much prefer it to the alternative, which is that interviews become carte blanche opportunities for influential people to push unfounded assertions directly into the news stream.
Hearing is easy enough, if you can be bothered at all.

That would be legitimate prevention.
I think the problem is more that the costs feel exorbitant with respect to both the perceived effort and utility. 75$ is half a year of Netflix - a product clearly born of extensive multi-disciplinary effort - which can't but feel excessive given that the marginal utility of a font is just so low.

I guess I could summarize as saying that an expensive[0] font just isn't, or more strongly, can't be interesting.[1]

[0]More than a cup of coffee, or so.
[1]For personal use, marginal benefits scale differently on e.g. a billboard
If a company falsely claims level 5 they can be disproved pretty easily by some posts on twitter. If the stoppages are too rare to even show up there, then it might as well be level 5.
You're right. If it goes too far in that direction, it'll be disrupted again. Nobody is happy with this.
Maybe I was not 100% clear on that.

People who look for remote work need it to stay somewhere _outside_ of Russia and work remotely from there. Relocation is no easy feat, at least to do it quickly. Especially with half of the flights out of Russia being shut down.
> massive improvement in care and containment practices between March and May 2020.

This was 100% attributable to Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell's rebellion video to youtube, where he called out the academic doctors for giving doctors like him the terrible advice to ventilate SARS-CoV-2 patients as the best treatment.

Dr. Kyle-Sidell's journal letter discussed his observation of hypocapnic hypoxia. This would've been easy to treat, if Medicine hadn't forgotten about #OxygenToxicity.
It absolutely was T&M, but that's not how it's sold. If you read the proposal the way ordinary humans read a proposal, skimming to the price tag, what you'd see is a price breakdown for the whole project, complete with a "total cost" as the bottom row. This isn't some magical thing Matasano came up with; my Matasano partners were from @stake, and the @stake people were previously Cambridge Technology Partners people, and those people were taught how to structure proposals by their forebears before them. Presumably Paul Revere was involved at some point.

We never had any negotiations about overages. If we were going to bill an overage, we'd tell the client, and if they told us "no", the project would presumably have stopped there. It didn't come up.
I’m not sure it works like that in every jurisdiction.
I have studied this situation nonstop for the last week and I pretty much have the same opinion as you. If you ask a simple question, Cui bono? (Who benefits?) it becomes clear that it’s ultimately another military industrial complex project. The sad part is that the only real victims here are the Ukrainian people, who were led along with false promises.

Had NATO been wiser, none of this would be happening.
The target audience for the doorstop Prius (and also the Nissan Leaf) was that overlap of super eco friendly people and attention seekers. Like the old joke, how do know someone is vegan||into-crossfit? They'll tell you.

The latest models of the Prius and Leaf aren't that visually striking, though some of that might come down to being desensitized.

What sets the Prius and Leaf apart from the Aptera, and other weird cars, is that they're actually practical and functional. They're hatchbacks that you can cram a boggling amount of stuff into, and as commuter cars they just work. The Aptera looks completely impractical for anything other than transporting 2 people and a purse from point A to point B. Where would you fit a suitcase in that thing?
I'm with Newsom on this one. There's nothing compassionate about leaving the mentally ill in a pile of their own feces. If someone is competent enough to argue their rights to a court then that's one thing but the vast majority of homeless people in California are in desperate need of rehabilitation or care.
It's not a technical problem but a business and social one.

For example, getting your users to give their money to a third party that then might come back to you isn't better than getting paid directly—it's even more friction and you're giving all the power away to a third party.

The user experience isn't necessarily better either. I still have to open my wallet and start a recurring billing subscription, but with this weird Coil site instead of just this one service that I want.

And then there's a chicken-egg problem of no sites using Coil, so no money in Coil, so no value for the user, thus no value for the content creator. Just like every micropayment attempt before Coil.

As engineers we like to think that everything is a technical problem. But the technical implementation of a micropayment solution is 0.0001% of the work.