skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just anecdotally, we went out to eat at a place we hadn't been to since before the pandemic. Their prices have doubled. We spent $50 on lunch.
True but I believe Skype P2P mechanism is dead end on current computing environment. Few companies like Microsoft can host servers for such free services.
That something can be used for X does not mean that it is used for X.
Sound propagates by compression-expansion longitudinal waves in air.

Know what else 'propagates by compression-expansion longitudinal waves in air'? The shock waves from explosives. So, in effect, the blast shock-wave from a nuclear bomb is just another way of explaining how loud sound can physically get.

Of course, whether we can detect it as sound in our ears, or otherwise by being smashed whole through a brick wall is merely being pedantic.
Thanks! Working on chapter 4 now.
Europe Agrees to Landmark Digital Markets Act: What's Next?
The case against American nuclear disarmament (2013)
Highlight from the article:

qualitative evidence from the past 70 years shows that leaders pay close attention to the nuclear balance of power, that they believe superiority enhances their position, and that a nuclear advantage often translates into a geopolitical advantage. During the Cuban missile crisis, American nuclear superiority helped compel Moscow to withdraw its missiles from the island. As Gen. Maxwell Taylor, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote in a memo to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, “We have the strategic advantage in our general war capabilities.… This is no time to run scared.” Similarly, Secretary of State Dean Rusk argued, “One thing Mr. Khrushchev may have in mind is that he knows that we have a substantial nuclear superiority, but he also knows that we don’t really live under fear of his nuclear weapons to the extent that he has to live under fear of ours.”

We see similar patterns in South Asia. When asked years later why Pakistan ultimately withdrew its forces from Indian Kashmir during the 1999 Kargil crisis, former Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes cited his country’s nuclear superiority. In the event of a nuclear exchange, he said, “We may have lost a part of our population … [but] Pakistan may have been completely wiped out.”
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Competition between nuclear powers is like a game of chicken, and in a game of chicken, we should expect the smaller car to swerve first, even if a crash would be disastrous for both. The United States has always driven a Hummer, but it is trading it in for a Prius, even though games of chicken are likely for decades to come. Rather than cutting its forces, the United States should, as President John F. Kennedy promised, maintain a nuclear arsenal “second to none.”
Others have mentioned https://elan.school -- it's a horrific eye-opener. I'd recommend against binging the story; it's heartwrenching. There's a few methods they use: (a) they do shit so horrific that folks don't believe their own children (b) they brainwash, gaslight the kids so they're conditioned to not talk about it, even teach them lies to tell their parents with dire consequences (c) police and politicians are actually in on it.

Shorter answer, lots of americans are hard-core authoritarians and this is what "law & order" actually means.
5g home internet probably isn't as good as fiber, but so far with T-Mo‘s $50/mo plan I average 250/30mbit with around 30ms latency. In a relatively dense newer suburb, Att only offers 50/10 "advertised speed" DSL and the cable company's 100/15 is over $70 plus rental fees. The biggest drawback of 5g is CG-NAT which requires tunneling if you want to host web services.
I believe the IRS facility in Holtsville existed first. Then, due to mail volume, a ZIP Code was created to facilitate routing of letters.
Took me about 40 min lol

I have followed this writer for some time, always pretty good and VERY detailed.

If you don't know about bitcoin / historic currency, it's a great read. Covers the basis.
Pick any 2xx series ZIP & First-Class Letters & Flats.

Why is there a tiny portion of the center of Wyoming that is 3 day service when the surrounding area for hundreds of miles has 4 day service?
Thanks for correcting! https://italianwatchspotter.com/brands-podium-2020/?lang=en
>RT, the propaganda organ of a totalitarian state which has currently banned the entire YouTube site.

In all honesty though - RT banned YouTube, and YouTube banned RT. Why would one be ok and the other not?
People like to talk about housing prices as if it's just a simple supply issue which can be fixed by building more houses, but it doesn't seem that simple to me.

Sure, there might be a lack of supply... for speculative investment. But in terms of there just being enough houses for the population to /live/ in, aren't we already there?

There's no cap on "need" for housing investment, if it continues to be profitable, people will keep investing in more property - you'll never reach a point where you've built "enough" for prices to get under control.
My advice stands: you've got objections, don't phrase them as an overly-propagandized Fox viewer might, and you've got a better chance of getting everyone else to read them.
"there is no question they would be familiar with what that term specifically refers to - the dirty war in Argentina"

The only way you could justify a statement like this is by ignoring at least two events that both hit closer to home to Americans - the kidnappings done by the Gestapo in the 30s and the Mafia in the 20s. I stand by my statement that the Dirty War in Argentina is not something that comes to mind for most Westerners when someone uses the phrasing of being "disappeared"
Pepsiman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsiman_(video_game)
Limitless energy? Doesn’t that violate the first law?

Is this clickbait? Or, is there actual basis to the claim?

Kindly, someone who knows about this space elaborate?
> I've got tired of quoting, but if this was true, just imagine the mountain of evidence we'd have, we'd have hours of video and audio. These employees could even bait the alleged abusers by being rebellious and then filming their reactions. ...

This is not a good argument. Video and audio evidence is the exception, not the rule. Why would we be hearing this "pure propaganda" only about this one firm and industry? My own bet is that the claims about a fucked-up environment in that auto factory are mostly real. It's the simplest explanation.
You may have been ignorant of the history and term, but the author deliberately selected that title.

The protagonist here chose to be a useful idiot to help the Russian state attract self-described dissident voices to a Russian propaganda outlet. If you chose to make your living that way and care about your work, embracing backups is a good idea.

Unlike his kremlin patrons, western society doesn’t generally “disappear” people like him, we just ignore.
It's simply too expensive to do any sort of renovations at the moment. Lumber prices are just a part of it
If you do the same in a public space, a cop will stop you immediately without waiting for a court order. Or even a security guard. Judges are definitely not the starting point of all security actions.
No offense but you seem to have a superiority complex around all this.
>do people think it's OK to curtail reasoned discussion

Yes, this has become the norm, and pretty quickly.
It hasn’t started cooling yet here in AZ, still seeing properties going for over list and prices are still climbing.

That said I see interest rates are now approaching 5% so have to imagine it might pull back some soon, really depends on the supply though.
What are some limitations of OpenCASCADE that are holding back CAD tools built on it?
Yes!

Basically, I find the distinction between 'computer' and 'device' (using the common parlance) troublesome. The control that manufacturers have in phones and consoles would be appalling if done in a general computer, but I find the distinction meaningless.
The Road was pretty good. Watch that too.
The quote above was taken from the wikipedia article on "Feudalism". That article also describes it more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

Taking a quick skim at that, and the associated "English feudalism" infobox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:English_feudalism, makes me think that there's more to "Feudalism" than just "you pay rent to a landlord".
For CVEs? No. CVEs are awarded for things as (relatively) little as static keys being packaged with APKs.

What is unusual is that NK used a sophisticated attack chain to successfully pwn a hardened industry (notably, fintech).

At this point I think it’s safe to say that NK is a significant competitor to FVEY in terms of cyber warfare capabilities.
You'll note that in countries like Russia and China, you can end up in prison for contradicting the state or publishing information that doesn't comport with its narrative. I don't think there's any meaningful sense in which a nastygram from Facebook telling you that you've been banned can compare to the material threats that such countries hold over the heads of their citizens. Our worry (which often feels performative) is largely rooted in that.

If you want to fight against "current trends," then you need to stop delivering undue power to private corporations and expecting the government to haphazardly legislate you out of your problems (the basis for that legislation is left as a continued exercise, given that there is absolutely no 1A basis for compelling companies to distribute speech.)
It's so sad to look at. 5 days for first-class mail? Remember when we were a first-world country where you could get first-class mail delivered from coast to coast in 3 days or less? That was 6 months ago.
>Nazi Russia

The Azov Battalion is Russian?
The MLB World Series (and the MLB in general) has the best baseball talent in the world. It is not only made up of American players. The best from the Caribbean, South America, Europe and even many from Korea/Japan come to play in the MLB. In my memory the MLB has never released players to play in the Olympics.

There have been several World Baseball Classics which have pitted national teams against each other and the competitive teams are mostly made up of MLB players playing for their native country.

Just because all of the games are played in USA and Canada doesn’t mean the players don’t come from all around the world.
A ‘$200mn gamble’: UAE Space Agency chair on its mission to Mars
Cough, cough, .. Hawaii ... cough.
One day I hope PHP will come up with a more user friendly template literal system. I love the javascript template literal system since single quotes and double quotes are all fine, and you can add variables, ternaries, and even functions inside of your template literal.

With PHP there's no one great way to write templates, there's all just kinda clunky ways (e.g. heredoc or using double quote strings with variables inside).
Would like to know your 2cents :)
No, there are simply not enough houses relative to demand. Just having enough space to house everyone not enough.
A few highlights from the privacy policy:

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Again, I know it’s possible and I’m writing this to express my wish that it wasn’t necessary. Installing kernel extensions and keeping “Soundflower 8ch, Soundflower 16ch” permanently in my audio output lists is a compromise and a hack.
> Whatever happened to the marketplace of ideas, plurality of voices, and other liberal ideas?

Nothing happened to it. You're perfectly within your rights to go stand in a public marketplace and yell until you're blue in the face about whatever you please. "Free speech" does not and has never meant that any company or individual of your choosing is compelled to amplify what you have to say.
What are use cases for a code first cad tool?
Yeah ... I think I have 3 choices for gigabit internet in my building, and it's probably one of the smallest unit count buildings in the loop.
I watched one of the recent speeches of Putin and it sounded as if he was jealous that US had the ability to use nukes once when he spoke about Japan. That was certainly a carefully written to give this sort of suspicion but the amount of resentment had to be genuine.
In this case, this is the exact reason why Google charges for the creation of a developer account. Having them put the money towards manual review before termination sounds extremely sensible. Especially in this case, where it sounds like the apps were selling, and Google took a cut of that the entire time; it's not like they refunded it when they decided they didn't like that business anymore.
In SCF 770 and others, there's a small section of Wyoming that gets 3 days. The same section (single Zip code?) in SCF 810 gets 4 days, despite being right next to the 2 day sections.

I mean, it could be some sort of data entry thing, but now I wonder what's going on with that section.
I would read the article, it is easy to read and accessible.

Here's the meat though.

"Thibado’s team found that at room temperature the thermal motion of graphene does in fact induce an alternating current (AC) in a circuit, an achievement thought to be impossible.

According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.

That’s an important distinction, said Thibado, because a temperature difference between the graphene and circuit, in a circuit producing power, would contradict the second law of thermodynamics."
I was very fortunate that my parents believed me and withdrew me after ~5 months.

My parents sent me there with the best intentions. But elan tricked them. And they realized that. They have both apologized numerous times and explained how they regret the decision. Last year, so over 20 years later, out of the blue my dad just blurted out “I’m so sorry we sent you to elan. We truly didn’t know…”. It took me by surprise.
Clubhouse filled in for going out and talking to people.

I don’t think their decline is any great mystery. Concern about the pandemic declined, people started going out again, and stopped listening in on audio chats on the Internet.

Twitter Spaces is not doing great either, but it doesn’t really matter because it’s just a feature, not a whole business.
The Nature of Money, Geoffrey Ingham, predates Bitcoin and the financial crisis, but it is still the most incisive theoretical discussion of money I've read. If Debt: The First 5000 Years is undergrad, The Nature of Money is grad.
When I was labeled a troubled kid, they stuck me in the portable classrooms for the next 10 years and forgot to give me an education. They did however give me PTSD, anxiety, and sexually abused a few kids without ever being caught
Seeing the same things here, lunch is $25+ a person at casual sit down places. Some have even done away with lunch menus so you’re left with lunch portions for dinner prices.
Arizona tried to do that around ’02 or so with a bill that made new developments have to show where their water was going to be sourced from.

Didn’t pass and then the building frenzy leading up to the economic crash was a sight to see.
Bluntly put - this is "the Atlantic is big, wet, and kinda salty"-type news. The Prime Minister of Hungary for the past 12 years is quite outspokenly against diversity, "liberal" values, and pretty much anyone who isn't a white Christian heterosexual. And his government re-wrote Hungary's constitution in 2011, to dial up the nationalism, Christianity, and "traditional values"...
That’s not true. There aren’t houses in places people wish they could live on their salary/savings. Plenty of affordable houses in many places if people were willing to live there.
> Almost nobody wants to advertise over ISIS beheadings

I sure wouldn’t.

I’m also pretty sure many people don’t want to see it.

It’s really hard to get around a lot of aspects of an anything goes forums.
Not a big surprise that freemium games are a lot more profitable. A single whale provides more revenue than thousands of casual paying members and a smaller target audience is a lot easier to optimize for
> Freemium exists because of piracy.

what horse-shit, let's see the numbers.

my personal take : freemium exists because the video game industry figured out to exploit the gambling bugs in the human psyche to leverage them to gain even further profit.

If piracy killed gaming so badly, how are the market numbers represented from now (when piracy is rampant and distribution is easy) from then (let's say the 80s or early 90s when distribution was near impossible and DRM wasn't needed as physical copying was prohibitive enough?)

Gee, a quick search shows me that the video game industry is bigger than it ever has been, and the growth hasn't ever plateau'd. In fact, if the industry was in danger from piracy destroying all revenue it'd be easy to show me the dip where freemium tactics began to help the recovery -- can you point that dip out to me?

I haven't been able to find that dip.

Hypothesis : the adoption of freemium tactics had nothing to do with loss-of-sales revenue and everything to do with increasing profits.
Can you provide a pointer showing how this is supposed to work?
Clipmesh: Text to Mesh Without 3D Supervision Using Limit Subdivision
What would set this apart from something like Networking a Top-Down Approach? I read most of it and thought it went into great detail explaining the basics to the general audience. It also doesn't require any programming, well mostly!
Big ups for Bernstein, Against The Gods was a fantastic read and I can’t wait to read Power of Gold.

Another book I’d like to throw into the mix here: Central Banking 101 [0]

Fantastic overview of how the current central banking system works, written post-Covid so it has some context for the extensive QE that’s been happening over the last 2 years. Author worked on the Fed’s trading desk for over a decade in various capacities so he has a deep experiential knowledge of the plumbing in action.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Central-Banking-101-Joseph-Wang/dp/09...
A big part of the problem is distribution, a home in Akron isn’t as valuable to society as a home in SF/NYC. People are locked out of opportunity (which doesn’t just enrich the individual but broader society though taxes and more efficient labor) through lack of housing.
Intel CET Indirect Branch Tracking Submitted for Linux 5.18
As weird as it may seem, Paris Hilton was actually sent to one of these places and has spoken out about them and shed some light on them.
SharpContour: Contour-Based Boundary Refinement for Instance Segmentation
Come to the northeast where choice properties are easily going 40% over list. Homes that sold for 800k in 2017 are going for 1.9M right now.
Presumably if they have the number to text to, they already roughly know the geolocation for most people, through the area code.
Imagine trying to comment on an academic research paper with a very clear abstract, just to be locked for 5 hours because of the 50 pages of the actual paper.
I'd personally prohibit all PHP websites that require directories which are writeable + executable. This means basically every app which can be updated from web interface, or has plugins which can be installed from web interface -- Wordpress being a primary example.

I understand that it is convenient to deploy, but a single exploited vulnerability can turn a web server into a part of botnet, forever. And this has happened, numerous times.

I don't have a specific suggestion for alternate system, but it should have a very clean separation between "code" and "data", and have a very easy way to completely replace "code" part. This can be done with Docker, or deb-style installation, or just a sane design which keeps things separately.

And of course you can do it with modern PHP.. it's just that language makes it so easy to do the insecure thing. "I'll just make an uploads/ right next to my index.php, so users don't have to mess with server config too much" - and bam, you have a vuln. Compare it with Golang, or Java -- you'd have to work real hard to make this kind of vulnerability there.
by the simple fact that nobody will think more of Omega with this collaboration, some people will think less of it. Net-of-net, it'll be a decrease in general opinions, which leads to a general decline in market value.
At the bottom there’s only exchange for labor.
3D GAN Inversion for Controllable Portrait Image Animation
Exactly. Additional this is not a free platform like YouTube or Gmail: creating a Google Play account costs money, and Google took a cut of every app sale. Saying that Google has too many free users to provide support doesn't make sense here...
I have an old Speedmaster which I love but rarely wear (since having kids, I’m always picking them up and don’t want to scratch them with the band) and I think these are super cool. It will increase the exposure of the original brand to a new generation, and I can sell mine before they find out you have to wind it every day ;)
If you're using the standard RS(223,32) code you actually can get much more data than just half! Only 32 bytes in a 255 byte block are used for parity. We used it extensively when designing a comms protocol for LEO usage!
> The only way you could justify a statement like this is by ignoring at least two events that both hit closer to home to Americans - the kidnappings done by the Gestapo in the 30s and the Mafia in the 20s.

Both of those predate the invention of the particular use of “disappear”, a passive voice construction implying an active voice transitive use with an animate direct object (the active voice form of which was not actually in use yet, but is sometimes seen since), which was invented in the late 1970s specifically in reference to the Dirty War in Argentina. It has been used since somewhat more broadly, but only because it invokes the intense coverage (including in the American media) of the Dirty War.

While certainly for a large number of young and/or particularly historically ignorant Westerners the specific referent may not be immediately recognized, the upthread comment that “
To anyone as allegedly historically literate as the author, especially one who's focused on the crimes of US imperialism and foreign interference, there is no question they would be familiar with what that term specifically refers to - the dirty war in Argentina” is absolutely correct.
Let’s Block It