skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I luckily only had PayPal connected to my account. I was able to unlink it on the Uber side before the attacker blocked access to my account. I also blocked it on the PayPal side too. So all that work, and all they really got is my ride history and reputation.
I much prefer the Piaget Altiplano Ultimate Concept design (even if slightly thicker, at 2 mm): https://www.piaget.com/ww-en/lp/altiplano-ultimate-concept
No, it has 5 star problem. It is way too common and misleading to give average service or products 5 stars... This ruins the entire point of rating system and makes it nigh unusable...
Cargo-vet: supply-chain security for Rust
Making your own miniature carrying case (2009)
> attempted to mitigate the phenomenon of hereditary nepotism via the policy of enforced celibacy among the elite class

That just tells us nepotism is bad.
We have much better ways of dealing with it -- strong independent institutions, transparent rules, free education, social programs for the poor and so on.
What more could a manufacturer do to be "disastrous for the brand" than literally build an ssd that stops working after 40kh? Because this does not seem to qualify for you
> On sites like here or Reddit, I’ve noticed users do a pretty consistent job of policing through karma.

They do a decent job at downvoting/flagging spam and obvious harassment.

However, if you post something that is just ever so slightly unpopular or polarizing, you will receive the same torrent of downvotes. This makes it very hard to discuss things where you don't agree with the majority.

I would assume reviews have the same problem. Even if you had a wonderful time at a ressort, it's unlikely that this is true for evrery guest. Some guests will have a poor experience, and if they post about it they will be called a liar.
It doesn't work like that because you need to include the rates of people who have a degree and whos parent's don't.

CD = Child has a degree
PD = Parent has a degree

Your rates would be calculated with P(CD|PD)/P(CD|notPD) = [4x20/(4x80+96A)]/[4x80/(4x80+96(100-A))]
where A = Probability of parent having a degree and child not having degree
Idiocracy is basically the new 1984
The trap design weighs the critter. Eagles and hawks in the UK are both unlikely to match the weight profile and nom on hazelnut paste.

Deployment of any device targeting wild animals like this needs approval. Processes are stringent, programs for sterilisation and release of cats took ages to get approved. Rewilding is held up for years on assessment.

This is the least likely problem with this approach. Much more likely is that it isn't sufficiently effective and surprising things happen when the grey squirrel population is suppressed, which are counter productive.

I hope it works.
Good luck with that invasion! Say goodbye to anything resembling a Chinese state if that happens.
Commitment specific to language/vendor and debugging clunkiness are valid points. However, if having code outside the db is even an alternative for you, you are already far more deeply committed to some language/framework, or your app is trivial.

Debugging databases has slightly different aims than debugging code, and it's much easier since you have the whole relational db available as a debugging tool. It's effortless to store states in temporary tables.
The biggest difference I noticed at University was not that wealthier students would pay for private lessons, but rather that wealthier students didn't need to do part-time work to get by. This gave them much more time to study.
Why do people like calibre?
I think they were stated as opinions, not citable facts
"Awesome" is a serious stretch.

It's incredibly cumbersome to set up for even the most basic, common tasks that everyone wants to do. He's forced to release constant updates because he refuses to separate the news processing code from the main application code (the processing "recipes" should be separately distributed) and worse, there's no auto-updater, so keeping the application up to date is a pain in the ass. The UI is outdated, hostile to users in general, and not low/impaired-vision friendly (six icons in the standard main toolbar all look virtually identical save for very minor differences, and Goval loves different shades of grey, reducing contrast.)

Last but not least: it's almost exclusively developed by one person (a problem by itself for such a large and widely used project) who is infamous for being at best abrasive and at worst an asshole - and not a particularly good programmer. The commit history is an absolute mess to try and navigate because he seems to have "save" and "commit" confused.

Edit: the very link itself is a perfect example of how Goyal seems to have zero awareness or care for others. Why do I have to click to expand text items in release notes? And he says that some plugins are no longer compatible because of the switch to Qt6. Which ones?
It's also worth knowing that you don't have to spend the "Cashback" voucher in the store, you can go to customer services and they'll give you actual cash instead! I just learned this after being a member for 14 years...
Why can't we just write `#!sh` I never understood.

It's because #! is handled by the kernel, but the process environment is not parsed by the kernel.
I wonder how many use stars as bookmarks instead of "thumbs up".
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I like how this is getting downvoted despite being provably correct.
Author here, this post was a fun little write up of some of the work we've been doing here over the last month, it felt like a really nice self contained recipe that others could play with easily, so wanted to share!

It's worth saying that this setup is double handy when you add in our local environment tracing setup we talked about here: https://incident.io/blog/tracing
> Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks.

Its “job” is not well-defined. I read electronic books almost exclusively (for prose fiction; art and equations are a different bag) since 2008 or so, and never saw any point in it beyond format conversion.

It does format conversion very well. The command-line converter requires a running graphical session for some reason, though.
Perl is not going away because almost every Linux dstro comes with Perl pre-installed. And Perl is pre-installed because it's a dependency of many old tools. autoconf, automake, ad-hoc build scripts and test suites of many old (established) packages require Perl.
I suspect some affiliation with https://longnow.org/, they're notorious for 5-digit years.
Interesting that this person would write a post about how much is supposedly not in POSIX, but at the same time saying "I haven't checked POSIX".

Rings of "did you know that 'gullible' is not in the dictionary? It's true, look for yourself!".
Actually I was just trolling with the "Russia must be split".
Giving parts of a country to another country is a bad idea. Greater autonomy and less central power was what I actually meant.
It's just scaffolding.

You write scripts to deploy your stored procedures, DDL, and functions and you store them in version control. You run those scripts from a remote connection with the appropriate database client installed using DB credentials with the appropriate privileges. Alternately, you run the updates directly on the database server as part of an Ansible/Puppet/Chef script.

My point is that you make the database deployment part of your pipeline just like everything else.

I think that the underlying problem here is that most developers, and some DBAs, aren't keeping DDL under version control. Instead, they are just using GUI tools to alter tables and, on very special occasions, create procedures.

They don't treat the database with the same reverence as their app code and then blame the database for being out of sync.
I thought we all disabled access time (mounting with noatime) to avoid trashing SSDs so quickly.
I've been using it for years and I begrudge/resent it every time I have to use it; I only use it as little as possible. I'm baffled by all the people who heap praise on it.
Per disc. As I said in my comment games also often ship with multiple discs.
That’s a great link, thank you for that! Their support page linked from the “email changed” message, under “if you didn’t make this change”, was less than helpful. It just said to log in and change your password, which isn’t really helpful if the attacker changed the password. The link for “if you can’t login” took me to a 404 page.
> as long as you're willing to float them the difference for a year

...and remember to ask for a refund.
It's a matter of taste but I consider their rendering of OSM data the best I've seen.

Their apps are also just overall very good, esp. for hiking.
It managed to avoid the same fate as Digg.
I worked for 6 years at Ubisoft.

Valve has enormous power and uses it often, even at one point de-listing our entire catalog without warning because we had an additional asset in a game which was granted based on region. (and we got blamed in the media for it).

Ubisoft games are still on Steam despite this, though the big publishers despise this amount of power, and sometimes valve does come across as bullying when you’re on the receiving end.
They aren’t sporadic, they are systemic. You’re assuming it’s different because you’ve been conditioned to believe the “land of the free” myth.
Well it's not bad faith if I'm accidentally somewhat unclear. Like, I could say something completely objective like "100 for watches" if that's better, and it would be impossible to argue about whether 150 is more or less than 100.

If I'm wrong about the production of 150 watches having some quality, argue about that quality, no need to argue about broader categories in a completely abstract way while introducing no other examples.

For your analogy, if I say a temperature is cold so we shouldn't do some activity, let's talk about that activity and how the temperature affects it, not how we categorize temperatures.
Despite the godawful UI, feature-wise it's a one of a kind software, so some people are forced to use it.
I think the personal tier is now free to everyone, not just beta testers. I think the slowness issues got fixed a while back - there was a point where they were releasing new features weekly, and then basically nothing happened for 6 months, and then the next few releases fixed a lot of 'under the hood' stuff with performance and search and so on.

Still a great tool, I moved away from it for personal reasons, but I very much like it still.
The Amiga (and the Atari ST to a lesser extent) really marked the end of the 8-bit era.

Maybe once the 386 came along then PC stepped into the picture
> it was bad enough not to justify one.

Hollywood doesn't greenlight sequels based on how good or bad a film actually is. It's all about the numbers.

The budget for Tron Legacy was $170 million, and it made $400 million at the box office.

That sounds quite good - it doubled its money! - except film budgets don't include marketing costs, which for a blockbuster can be as much as the budget itself. I doubt that Tron Legacy broke even. If a blockbuster isn't making at least three times its budget it's going to be seen as something of a disappointment at the studio.
Because French is a polysynthetic language. Agglutinative and polysynthetic languages have difficulty with contemporary language models.
Bethesda could fix this for the new game by putting in the license of the Creation Kit and tools the clause that your creation can't have restrictions, anyone can remix it if they provide credits and respect the Bethesda ToS.
When the first dotcom crash hit, I paused working in tech and welded at a shipyard for a while. Enjoyed the work, and was very, very thankful I had a fallback skill!
> It explicitly declines specifying that /bin/sh exists.

Huh. TIL. I've worked with POSIX for a couple of decades now, and I was sure that it required `/bin/sh` to be a valid path to the shell.

Thanks!
Then you could as well argue peer review should not look at methodology, but only for fraud, plagiarism and ethics violations. A retraction can in some cases be seem as a delayed failed (broader) peer review.
I’ve changed iphones many times and the issue still persists for me. The only reliable way to get photos synced or iphone deteced in finder is to turn on airplane mode for some reason. Must be a bug with wifi syncing.

You actually bring up another issue. There is no obvious way to backup iPhone locally to an external hard drive. So either pay the mac SSD storage tax or the icloud tax.
Except in China there is no “single guy” like this. China is “democratic” same way US is - they vote for something similar to electors.
Cheaters often have the mindset that "everyone else is cheating, so it's only fair that I do too".
" supports dictatorship in Syria"

Far better that compared to Obama's "moderate", rapist rebels who evolved into ISIS. All the scenes of jubilation and crying when women were unchained from basements in Aleppo never made it to the US media and were taken down in 15/20 mins on youtube. The mind-boggling thing is that Aleppo was liberated from Al-Nusra by the Syrian Army - the US were providing weapons to folks on their own terrorist list!

"China: embargoes anyone that dares to have a relationship with Taiwan or talks bad about the CCP, provokes Taiwan like crazy, likely will invade it in the next 10 years"

Regarding China and Taiwan, the amount of American ignorance here truly astonishes me. When the United States moved to recognise the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and de-recognise the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, the United States stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China was “the sole legal Government of China.”

The recent statements by the US president seem to reverse that acknowledgement severely enflaming tensions. Washington is playing with true fire here - China has no interest in invading Taiwan as long as they can moderate Taiwanese policy and as long as Beijing is recognised as the real Chinese government. But Biden is regularly being used as a play-the-dotard puppet by the War-Hawks to inflame tensions, with a nod-and-a-wink later: oh my dear, he didn't really mean it. Until the next inflaming statement comes out of his mouth.

If the US attempts to worsen the state of affairs and keep escalating tensions with statements of support for Taiwanese independence, then YES, there will indeed be an invasion. It will be utterly brutal and Taiwan will be annexed in the end - unless the US is willing to suffer heavy casualties in the hundreds of thousands and transition to a war-economy (which they will not as that would make the donors un-happy. They need to be paid more not less for arms)

Tens of thousands of Taiwanese lives will be lost to American egos and the American military industry who are always looking for the next war to keep their billionaire shareholders fat and happy. More Transfer of Wealth from the American taxpayer to the American elite.
Do note that at least that first source is just people theorizing it should work, not people checking if it actually does work.
A great example of Streisand effect.

I would have never heard about this paper if the wife of the editor didn't censor it.

Interesting hypothesis and nothing too far fetched, unless you're hellbent on proving men and women are the exact same.
It hijacks the back button.
Similar to batteries, millions of minor process improvements are the real story but make poor headlines compared with radical new tech.

Having said that, once/if they crack this, it opens up whole new frontiers for solar, which is already on track to utterly dominate electricity production without this factored in.

The three main new areas are low cost, low weight, and as a layer on existing cells to improve efficiency. They'll expand the frontiers of where solar makes sense in several directions.

Another interesting battery (and software dev) parallel. They're not just excited about the current record, but excited that they have a way to evaluate long term performance of new methods.

This is very similar to the work done by Jeff Dahn at Dalhousie (in partnership with Tesla). Once they had the method to measure results they could throw things at the wall and see what would still stick after a full service life without waiting 30 years.

His latest work is about how you build batteries to last 100 years.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/26/jeff-dahn-the-100-year-...
Onebox deployment typically deploys the new revision of the application code to a single host/box and leaves the rest of the fleet in the older revision and then you run your tests against the new revision running in that single box. You also might monitor the metrics from that single box and attempt to find regressions from the rest of the fleet.

If the code is deployed to the database (version controlled or not) all application servers will start using the new code immediately which is not what we would want from a onebox deployment first strategy. Usually all the servers will share the same database and thus the code in the code in database model. What am I missing.
Possibly the supplier was talking of hardware failures.

The issue here (as it was several years ago with the re-known Seagate 7200.11 issue [0]) is not about the odds of multiple (hardware) failures together (which may actually be a very rare case), in these case it is essentially a software failure, a counter that crashes the on-disk operating system (if we can call it so) be it an overflow of the counter or hitting a certain value.

The chances of having almost simultaneous failures is near to certainty for drives that are booted the same number of times and have been powered for the same number of hours, if the affected counters are related to these events.

[0] Some reference:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate...

>Root Cause

This condition was introduced by a firmware issue that sets the drive event log to an invalid location causing the drive to become inaccessible.

The firmware issue is that the end boundary of the event log circular buffer (320) was set incorrectly. During Event Log initialization, the boundary condition that defines the end of the Event Log is off by one. During power up, if the Event Log counter is at entry 320, or a multiple of (320 + x*256), and if a particular data pattern (dependent on the type of tester used during the drive manufacturing test process) had been present in the reserved-area system tracks when the drive's reserved-area file system was created during manufacturing, firmware will increment the Event Log pointer past the end of the event log data structure. This error is detected and results in an "Assert Failure", which causes the drive to hang as a failsafe measure. When the drive enters failsafe further update s to the counter become impossible and the condition will remain through subsequent power cycles. The problem only arises if a power cycle initialization occurs when the Event Log is at 320 or some multiple of 256 thereafter. Once a drive is in this state, there is no path to resolve/recover existing failed drives without Seagate technical intervention. For a drive to be susceptible to this issue, it must have both the firmware that contains the issue and have been tested through the specific manufacturing process.
If you mean nuclear with clean energy, yes, but you can't run a power grid with renewables you always need a backup gas is out so what is left?
They both matter, but cost is king, and is a function of lots of things including efficiency.

The cost for obtaining 1 kWh from a 90% efficient panel that lasts 1 year will be much greater than the /kWh cost of a 40% panel that lasts 10 years.
Not really - they differ in rhetorics, but not in things that matter. Democrats hadn’t denounced any part of religious fundamentalism, for example.
This is what Putin just tried to do. Failed spectacularly. I'm honestly of better opinion of the CCP. Last time when they fucked up things that badly, was the Great Leap Forward and that was 65 years ago.
Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre, is a very responsive, very gentle person. Whenever I needed help, I have gotten help from him. [1] - Calibre is an indispensable tool for me to manage my digital library with close to 800 books.

I support him regularly. Consinder doing it as well if you appreciate the app. Go to https://calibre-ebook.com/ , there’s a support link on the top right.

[1] This is the forum dedicated to Calibre
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
We're using RDS mostly, though for some older services we have Postgres running on EC2 instances. I'd not recommend it unless you have some good infra people though, since all our EC2 ones are running old distros and old versions of Postgres because... nobody owned the upgrading of that.
I understand where these questions are coming from, but many Western countries have decent legal systems where data unrelated to a case cannot be used by law enforcement and this will be tested by both prosecutors and judges.

I'm currently working in LE and I would not be allowed to look at customer data if that was seized during a search related to an investigation of Uber. I would not be able to just grab the ride data of a subject of another investigation because that would be illegal. If I did do that, that evidence would be thrown out and I would be reprimanded.

I understand there are countries where this isn't true though, or where people are worried about the state of legal proceedings in their countries. But that doesn't mean Uber or any other company can just destroy evidence on the premise of securing customer data.

Also, I highly doubt that Uber hosts their customer data on workstations in their offices. At least I hope they don't.
Ironicaly if the Greater Male Variability Hypothesis is true this also means that many more men are more dumber than women since women are more centered towards the gauss average.

Ironicaly this is never mentioned, they just see this is a "many more men can have a higher iq distrubution wise due to the male gauss tail stretching out further than womens, so this is sexist to say that men are smarter".

This shows you how biased all of these critics are, zero scientific discussion, pure emotional and egoistic outbursts.

They see this paper as "men are better", while in reality it says only "men are more in the extremes, both higher AND lower extremes than women."

Also if you read this:
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-p...

This is a good example of how NOT to handle a situation like this.
The authors tried to convience the people that they were just doing science in good faith, but those feminist zaelots just saw it as "men are better".

You cannot argue with such people. Those people in charge are the opposite of intellectual academic scientists.

Sad so to see what academia has devolved to.

Sad that people in such high places have such beliefs.

The correct response in this situation is to tell them to go f** themselves and expose them for the immature brats that they are.

Growling like a dog before them IS ALWAYS THE WRONG COURSE OF ACTION.

If you growel before them you give them authority, this is the worst thing that you can do and will perpetuate this anti-scientific cycle.
Yes, but they didn’t destroy data. They merely shut off access to it.
You said:

>There are no secrets “you cannot publish” in the USA.

As evidenced above there sure are. The “constitutionality” doesn’t matter.
They were cheap toys. That's all. They were usefully educational if you wanted to understand the internals, but 95% of the time they were for entertainment.

Modern computing uses the same hardware principles, expanded and speeded up by many orders of magnitude. But a hugely bigger set of affordances.

Mass storage just works without floppy swapping or cassette saving, data and applications are distributed, there's pocket as well as desktop access, and cameras, sound, and video are a given. And that's just the hardware.

It's like comparing a high speed rail network to a skateboard.