skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can confirm. Just went to open days at Oxford and Cambridge with my son. We are Americans. Both my wife and I are double ivy grads.

Totally different than the US and much more meritocratic. Steps are:

1. Be qualified to apply. In UK this means at least AAA if not more. Varies by course. US equivalent is have at least three 5s on AP and above 1450 on SAT. This is roughly equivalent to top 10% of uk graduates.

2. Take the entrance exam. Huge weed out. This really separates the grinders vs the smart kids as the tests are based on what you intend to study, but most are more intelligence based and cannot necessarily be prepped for.

3. Assuming you make it past that, you get two sets of interviews. They are testing for the ability to go toe to toe in an intellectual conversation on your subject. This is obviously biased toward a certain "type", but given the small group tutorial teaching, it is really a responsibility of the student to engage this way to provide a good experience for all. No sitting in the back of the room taking notes!

4. There are some additional crazy things like applying to specific colleges, and wildly different admit rates based on the course you choose. But the overall impression I got was that for a well prepared and smart kid, it is much more straightforward than the so called elite US schools.
The simplest answer to this is Kirkland Signature. It's a very genius idea that Amazon is starting to copy now with AmazonBasics, but Costco has been doing it for years.

This article explains it better than I can: https://every.to/napkin-math/how-costco-convinces-brands-to-...

TL;DR: If you buy something like Grey Goose vodka, it's going to be the same product as the Kirkland Signature version on the shelf next to it. It is often literally from the same factory. Costco AND Grey Goose make more money by being able to sell to multiple market segments.

Read that article. It's genius and one of the many reasons I love shop at Costco.
Bitstamp cancels plans to charge Inactivity Fee
Lol, you should see how they hacked the watch's winding wheel!
Appear as witnesses in a FCPA lawsuit.

Granted, for that to happen, it would take a prosecutor to start a case.
A friend of mine who was once at Google mentioned that in a meeting once their SRE group was told by their senior manager roughly "you've broken stuff in $time_period far less than your outage budget, and that probably means you should've been rolling out features faster".

Risk -levels- are a choice and also a trade-off.
I don’t understand. All Kindles I had — from Kindle 2 to Voyage — mounted as external drives when connected via USB, and copying mobi files just works (but their email delivery works fine, so I usually use that). From a brief Google search, Libra is the same (with epub).

I feel like I’m missing something every time Calibre comes up. People seem to love it, but I just found it confusing and unnecessary when I dealt with it.
Have you tried Resilio Sync?[0] I'm using it on Android but seems to exist for iOS [1] too. I'm not syncing the library though, might want to make sure you only run the sync when Calibre isn't running to prevent data loss.

[0] https://www.resilio.com/individuals/

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1126282325
> This fits with my mental model of how I think unique constraints should work with null values.

Agree, this should be the default for unique indexes. Why would you ever want multiple NULLs in an unique index?
Even if I bought a subscription, why are they allowed to just cancel it?
Lowest seems to be Protectli (https://eu.protectli.com/vault-2-port/) or any of the chinese 4-port devices (Topton, Qotom, KingNovy, ...) in a barebones config where you add your own RAM & SSD.

ARM-based devices are not supported by pfSense / opnSense so you should stay with x86_64 based devices.
Plus you mitigate getting a bad batch of the same drive. See IBM Deathstars and the Seagate drives.

May have to go check my up hours on my drives now, I must have a few nearing that sort of write hours
> Why is this at all surprising?

That's exactly my reaction. It's like concluding that 1+1 is equal to 2.
> Uber propaganda

Propaganda is idealistic. It runs counter to its audience’s real-world experience. To the degree anyone is propagandising, it is those condemning Uber. Uber’s supporters, not of all of it, but certainly of its raison d’être, have practical, real-life experiences to sustain their arguments. The other side, condemning Uber, evokes moral outrage.

Not making a concluding argument for either side. But would hold back on the accusation that one side or the other is serving corporate or populist propaganda.
Thank you for saying this so that I didn’t have to use my own kilobit to do it.
That feels like a weak argument. OP is talking geopolitics, not domestic shenanigans. I think internationals news happily picks up Chinese international interventions.
No, this is false.

It was absolutely not 'doctrine' on either side, in any sense, either military or economic, that dependency on Russian Oil would bring war.

Nor was it 'doctrine' that Russia would ultimately invade Ukraine 'full on'. Even most Russian elite were surprised.

The only 'doctrine' we have to rely on is a) how Russia will use nuclear weapons, b) how they generally operate on the battlefield (aka heavy on Army, esp. Artillery), and how they basically 'lie about everything' in foreign policy.

It was in many ways rational to contemplate that economic ties would diminish hostility, it mostly worked for the rest of Europe.

Were Putin to have eventually retired, his replacement would not have had the power necessary to do, almost alone, what he and a very small cadre of people did.
The only thing holding me back from switching to OPNsense is the lack of pfblockerNG. To the best of my knowledge, there is no competing package available at the time.
It is not a movie about computers. The article explains it straightforwardly: It is a shaman traveling to the spirit world. It is a psychedelic adventure, using fictionalized computers and computer graphics as scenery. It was pretty groundbreaking in depicting a computer-generated magical world instead of the computer just being a voice coming out of a box.
Isn’t the author talking about procedural SQL? Regular SQL is just fine. Great even. But procedural SQL truly sucks and is highly inconsistent between DBs.
Something similar happened with Rayman Jungle Run on Android Play Store. The license server is no longer running and as such the game cannot be started anymore. I took Ubisoft at least a year before they removed the software from Android Play Store. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pastagames...
Perhaps it's for https://radar.cloudflare.com/ or maybe a new service where they'll warn you if services like SSH are configured badly or not firewall'd off?

Also, is it possible this traffic is actually coming from a worker, i.e. https://workers.cloudflare.com/ rather than Cloudflare themselves?
So, has anyone opened one of these SSDs and tried to get at the firmware and find out WTAF code was written?
Scroll down if you wonder where the content is...

I was confused and starting navigating away from the page as the start of the article was below my viewport on my macbook with default resolution.
Automated hate speech detection in underground hacking and extremist forums
1. The single player part of the game should be able to run forever.

2. Service level agreement for n years explicitly stated at release? -> Actually Yes, If we are buying subscriptions I would like to see the terms of that subscription.
I wish non-EU developers better knew what the GDPR offers (and requires): https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/privacy-by-design/
Sure, but not adding the option for two-factor authentication for Experian is much worse than just a basic human error.
+1. I also saw some wealthier students go part-time during particularly hard semesters (and/or to have extra time to study for gre) and just add an extra semester or two.
If you can't store backups offsite, then maybe you can create a disaster proof area onsite. Put the backups in a high quality fire proof safe inside a large enclosure built of firebrick, which is inside a steel shell, etc. It would cost a lot but if both no-offsite and backups-for-recovery are part of the requirements that might be one way to do it. The backup vault could even be a separate building, maybe buried in the ground away from the main building, but still within an enforced security perimeter. It won't be proof against some things (direct hit by a big missile/bomb for example unless you bury it very deep), but it would be better than nothing. Each time you move disks in/out of the vault you would be risking the vault integrity, so you might need two vaults.

Also do some web research on "data diode" as a way to prevent exfiltration if you must have network connectivity to the backup drives. If only one signed piece of software can write to the backup disks and the data can only flow one direction (to the disks) then if you can trust the security of that system your backups might be relatively safe, at least from being encrypted by ransomware. Corruption of the original data would still be a problem.

Which is a big flaw in using backups for protection. If the main system is corrupted and the corruption gets into the backups then you're compromised anyway. So a way to detect data corruption before you do a backup would be useful. If that's not possible then backups become essentially useless. You could keep very old backups forever and they might not be corrupted, but they would not be very useful because they would be so out of date. If you design all transactions to be reversible perhaps you can assume that after an attack you could figure out the nature of the corruption and reverse just those transactions, but I wouldn't count on that. An attacker does not have to actually encrypt your data, just copy it and then destroy your ability to use the data you have, and if they are sneaky about it you won't discover it until it is too late and all your current backups are also corrupted. I haven't seen this kind of attack yet, probably because simple ransomware is already so effective. If countermeasures against current ransomware become effective then ransomware may evolve.

In truth, if it is important, you need a detailed security analysis of the entire system to guide the backup strategy, not some quick hack.
This is the answer. A good review system will allow owner comments on each review, even ones without text. Google Maps is quite good in this - even if the place has lower rating, if the owner comments sensibly on each negative review, that's a huge plus.
Saying pete is renewable is like saying aquifers are renewable. You're not wrong, but how much can you extract renewably? Any amount extracted above that is like burning coal for CO2 purposes.

Also, pete is incredibly dirty in terms of air quality.
Thanks.

I don't know how long you've been in the business, but the change seems a relatively recent one, one that wasn't manifestly obvious to me, and one that has pretty much always seemed difficult to communicate to management.

Whether that's because business management is often about ignoring risks or treating it as inconvenient, or if I've just had a long string of bad bosses, I'm not sure.

I did make a point of looking through several of the books that were formative for me (mostly 1990s and 2000s publication dates), and there's little addressing the point. Limonchelli's book on time management for sysadmins was a notable departure from the standard when it came out, in 2008. I'd say that marked the shift toward structured and process-oriented practices.

That was about the time of the transition from "pets" to "cattle" (focus on individual servers vs. groups / farms), but pre-dates the cloud transition.
> Why would you ever want multiple NULLs in an unique index?

You would maybe want some value to be unique if it exists.
That's basically sysadmin scripture. Ignore it at your own peril.
People are not meant to alone. If the book is advising to do things alone, I advise not reading the book
STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build wafer fab in France
The onus on you to show is this supposed 'doctrine' in 'textbooks' or we should assume you're wrong.

I don't even agree in 'hindsight' this situation was obvious. It's a hugely risky and crazy manoeuvre by Putin that may very well be his undoing.

The Russian economy is starting to crack, vast elements of key industrial sectors are collapsing.

There are no good cars being made in Russia, and even their garbage Lada's, which nobody wants, might not get made due to sanctions.

Car sales have dropped 80%, there's a vicious black market for spare parts.

Most Russians drive foreign cars. What happens when the all need parts?

Russian airline fleets cannot get maintenance or parts. They are being grounded.

Nothing about this invasion is obvious or doctrinal.

Entirely a surprise? Maybe not - but certainly not expected by anyone, even those paying attention.
from my German perspective the numbers in this article look representative. The 45k you quoted were the lowest number for people without much experience (but still: German wages are not quite as great as one would maybe expect, I'll give you that. But that's across the board, not only IT.).
Some kind of secondary identifier, but only for records where it is applicable (e.g. loyalty card number).
Thanks, I took CCP claims at face value. I'll go read more on the topic. I was convinced that the Republic of China govt and army retreated to Taiwan, as in, it was already theirs. I didn't know it was conquest.

Edit:

> barely 2 centuries 400 years ago

Wiki says it was 1683–1895, so 2 centuries but just 130 years ago. It was then ceded to Japan after China defeat in a war, so it had to be Chinese before that (otherwise, how could China cede it?).

Edit:

> [Wiki says:] In September 1945 following Japan's surrender in WWII, ROC forces, assisted by small American teams, prepared an amphibious lift into Taiwan to accept the surrender of the Japanese military forces there

In 1945 the Chinese civil war was still ongoing, but WW2 has already finished, Japan lost, and ~300k Japanese residents of Taiwan were expelled from the island. There was no fighting during the takeover, so I don't think it can be called an invasion.

There are important differences between that situation and Ukraine, but... I don't believe they are enough to invalidate the whole analogy. My understanding is that both PRC and ROC see themselves as continuation of imperial China, which means both have equal claim to Taiwan (and mainland). Taiwan was colonized by Japan for some 50 years, but I don't think that's enough to claim it's inherently Japanese (especially after the deportation of Japanese citizens). If not, then it has to be Chinese.

So: there was a civil war in China, then because of unrelated happenings a part of China that was occupied by Japanese became Chinese again, and then an external power chose one of the warring sides in the civil war and unilaterally gave a part of Chinese territory to that side. Is this about right?

If so - I see enough parallels to current Ukraine situation to say that I don't believe my analogy breaks down, as you said. Following 2014, there was a civil war in Ukraine (honestly, saying it was a "special anti-terrorist action" is as valid as calling Russian invasion "special military operation"). The insurgents did not get a newly reclaimed land to retreat to, so they stayed where they were. Then an external power chose one side of the civil war, and propped it up so that they won't fail. There was next to no fighting during proclamation of secession. A few years later, separatists backed by the external power were recognized unilaterally by that power as independent entities. It was even similar timeline: ROC went to Taiwan in 1945, but the island was officially recognized as not-Japanese in 1952. That's 7 years; in Ukraine it was 8 years (2014-2022).

The more successful/bigger side of the civil war in both case never considered the other side anything other than rebels and terrorists. The less successful sides claim to be freedom-fighters trying to exercise their right to self determination.

The only real difference is that the powers backing ROC didn't, for one reason or other, try to help them retake more of the territory of the more successful side - but they were arming that side for 70 years now.

I really don't think the differences make the two situations incomparable.
On our site we implemented a step where you have to re-publish your post.
For that exact same reason.
The rows (1, NULL), (1, NULL), and (1, NULL) - each NULL signifies an absence of a value - these NULLs may actually be later filled into (1, 1), (1, 2), and (1, 3). That's why may not know if any two NULL values are equal to one another.

In some cases the above is actually important, whereas in others you may want to treat NULL as a "value" instead.
What a joke. Anything but compensation. For the right salary I would be happy with all this.
Edit: I think I misinterpreted your request... you CANNOT have offline storage? Then ignore the following lines :-)

Get a server with ECC RAM and storage

Get TrueNAS

Configure an ecrypted ZFS pool

Configure shares (NFS, Samba, etc.)

Configure periodic ZFS snapshots (hourly, daily, weekly, etc)

Connect your shares from clients

Use cloud providers /offsite that support zfs send and configure them

Test a disaster regularly and take notes on how to perform a restore as fast as possible

Do not ever login, store or input server credentials or unlock keys on your clients (otherwise ransomware may access your snapshots)

If ransomware attacks you, restore your latest snapshot

That should work
There's an argument that the role of school is not just to dispense knowledge, but to also act as a gym for the student's brain, teaching and training it how to process different kinds and structures of information, how to solve different kinds of problems. And I would add that one aspect of this training is the ability to deal with subjects student isn't particularly interested in.

With this in mind, I don't see what subject would be safe to sacrifice early in school without danger of crippling some aspect of development. And as for mid-high school, I would imagine specialization is already practiced. High school specialization got introduced in a number of schools in my city in the early 90s - pretty much immediately after the collapse of USSR.
I wrote the comment assuming buying CDs because that’s how I like to do it (I like having a physical device) and because that also gives you the used option which is often cheaper (although my 10-15 calculations are based entirely on new albums).

But if your needs are entirely digital, buying an online album is even easier than finding it on Spotify, and finding that it’s often not available (because the particular artist hasn’t licensed with Spotify) and/or if it’s even slightly not mainstream, Spotify will bury it under the mainstream options it would like to push.
When I connect the Kindle via USB to a MacBook Pro running macOS Monterey, I do not see a mounted drive with files in it, just the device itself. To email the files to Kindle, I first need to convert them anyway to mobi files.

For the Kobo Libre, I can indeed see a mounted volume, but copying a file into it does not consistently make that book available for reading.

Given I don't have these problems when I use Calibre, I'd definitely say it makes my life easier.
I am very close to the war - my country borders Ukraine, however - Ukraine is an independent entity and their war is none of my business. If I can get cheaper gas in Russia I will continue to do so. This is an open market and I don't see how self-sabotage (choosing to not buy the cheaper gas from Russia) benefits anyone, nor how it helps Ukraine. Russia can always choose to sell somewhere else (India, China) so less demand from the EU will not hurt them much.

> Do you consider Ukraine not Europe? What is it then?

What kind of argument is this? Just because this entity is geographically part of the same region as my country doesn't mean I need to choose anything less than the best deal I can get on any products from wherever I choose.
Pick a manufacturer and you'll be able to find plenty of horror stories.

Some may be worse than others but diversification is the right answer anyway.
RCE vuln found in Node.js, update released
The risk-tolerance of startups is illusory.

The risk is being managed at the VC/investor level, by diversifying investment bets over numerous early ventures.

The death of any one of those isn't a concern for the VC, if the portfolio performance is sufficient. Of course, for the individual venture and employees, that risk is disaggregated.

More rigorous systems practices are seen as an impediment to early growth with any potential problems either something that can be ironed out later, or simply a post-liquidation concern that doesn't factor into the investors' interests at all.
On certain platforms, the average is 4.9 stars. The platform used to be nice, now it's filled with counterfeits and low quality items that look nothing as promised.

This item has 4.7 stars: https://shopee.com.my/product/110830198/5438249668?smtt=0.0....

It's a Monopoly game by the "Paker Brothers". I see 5 star reviews that say "board has been ripped, street names are wrong, tokens are made of cheap plastic, delivery a week late. But I got what I paid for." There's several which praise it for good quality. Come on, I can see "Company of Distribution of Electricity" from your video.

It has a 100% authenticity guarantee by the platform too.
Multiple NULLs in a unique index are useful when an entity has 0 or 1 of a simple scalar value. For example, you might have a column with an external ID, such as a facebook login id in your users table. Not all users have a facebook id, but those who do should have a unique value in that column.
> The laws being broken were clearly unjust

We're talking about laws from foreign countries too here, some of which were clearly aimed at preventing civil servants from becoming corrupt.

> Uber committed civil disobedience (in the American tradition)

Comitting "civil disobedience" against a foreign country to force them to open to business? Sure, it may be a tradition if you refer to Matthew Perry or William Walker.
It's weird - F/OSS typically has no issue with some projects being "standards" as long as they're licensed appropriately, there are tons of "monopolies" in open source, no one cares. Yet when it comes to building a new browser, touching any Google code is verboten, even though there's little real way to "innovate" the rendering an HTML document - it should all look and act the same.
You are again confusing production with installations.

Europeans were never going to be the 'leaders' - and even without massive Chinese subsidies, it's unlikely that Europe would beat China in industry.

Europe has been rolling out renewables at a good clip.

The Greens of Europe and 'Greepeace' NA have been scaremongering about 'Nuclear' for decades. Fukishima was the last straw.

We should have been investing in Nuclear for the last 30 years.
Originally there were many predictions about how Ukraine would fall in 2-3 weeks at most (Putin even said a few years ago he could take Kiev in 14 days). With respect to that goal it has been a miserable failure, but I think most people expect Russia to still 'win' at least in some sense even if not 100% of Ukraine.
+1

I use en.mapy.cz for a couple of years now... Great topographic maps (with forrest trails, etc.) and offline download (so they are working fast even without good connection in outdoors)... Much, much more useful for me then Google or Apple Maps. And not so bloated as Google Maps.

City details (ATMs, restaurants, gas stations etc.) are also decent in my area... And car nav works quite well...
I would not put the hand in the fire that my ISP is not analyzing the traffic to detect movie downloads.
I will take a look for Replibyte. Thanks for sharing