skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fundamental argument isn't that the power (indiscriminate & pervasive one-way invasion of privacy) wielded by the NSA is actively being abused (which isn't to say it's never abused, but that's besides the point), rather, the argument is that, as a democratic and free people, we should be staunchly opposed to freely granting the right for such power to exist.

If one of our primary objectives as a liberal, democratic society is to avoid that kind of oppressive totalitarianism (as would be expected of a liberal democracy), then we have a duty to seek and employ the most effective strategy possible in avoiding that outcome.

Two things are required for the type of totalitarian surveillance described in 1984: the technological means and the will of the state to demand such evil acts be committed.

I'd argue that the best strategy to prevent an outcome that requires both means and will is to target the means. If the means exist, the state lacks only the will to utilize those means for evil ends (putting people in Room 101).

If the state lacks the means, then even once the will to do evil does inevitably come along, the state will be rightfully shackled and lack the requisite tools to enforce such tyranny.
Why would you need a mixer? If you want to hide it from your friends just send it to a new address and then buy with that address. Who can prove that new address is yours?

Also if your friends then regularly snoop and trace every single one of your transactions so they can laugh at you for your purchases, I wouldn't consider those to be your friends.

I mean fair enough, you have contrived a legal example. Yes, I admit it does have valid use cases, I just don't think they're very common at all.
> My ISP doesn't block half the stuff the Indian government has banned, while my mobile data provider has - it's genuinely very weird

That's quite normal. Your ISP is probably much smaller than a telco and so drives much less scrutiny from law enforcement.
One wouldn’t use desalination water to water crops, it wouldn’t be economically viable.

I believe the Beckton Desalination plant has been in the process of being commissioned for 12 years or so for some reason:

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

However it does seem to use a lot of electricity, which currently isn’t cheap. Something to do with the price of gas, and indeed reduced water levels for many power stations impinging on their running.
Depends on the technological advancement rate of our guests. Maybe they already figured out proper cloaking?
Since I'm fully on wayland, so foot terminal is my choice. Sometimes I use vbeterm (gtk and vte based terminal), it works for both wayland and X11.
Should take about the same time as LOADALL (195 clocks).

All they needed it to do was reset the CPU. But instead the instruction simulates something like an ICE breakpoint and all the state gets written to memory! And then you have to run LOADALL as well just to clear the "ICE mode" bit again.
"legal" != "legitimate". the Iraq war was legal. banks turning a profit off the 08 crash was legal. slavery was legal. The constitution was written in the dark ages by folks that thought slavery was A-OK and it's a dead document. your government (ours,I guess, if you wanted to get pedantic) sucks, dude.
Marwel ;)
The difference is lawmakers have regulated money service businesses and have not regulated cryptography. If they had regulated cryptography, then yes making RSA available to the public could be a crime.
In that case would you please explain this apparent bafflegab?

What we currently call general purpose languages are actually domain specific languages for the domain of algorithms.
The most important thing I learned about cast iron is that the idea that you have to baby it is a hold over from the days when soap had lye in it. Today’s dish detergent is fine and won’t damage your seasoning, neither will basic green nylon scrubbing sponges. I was almost despondent about my carefully seasoned pans not delivering until I really went to town on them and removed the dull layer of burned on material and got them back to a shine. Now the eggs slide off.
And he points out how China could have easily been "first" if it weren't for the whim of an emperor. He argues somewhat successfully that the geography of Europe made empires less successful, and therefore executive decisions had smaller "blast radii".
I don't think it's really appropriate to help folks reach subscriber only content without a subscription, especially on such a niche, subscriber supported site.
Thorium can make a thermal breed work, that is its main advantage. If you are doing a fast burner or a fast breeder uranium is generally better.

I think proliferation concerns are overhyped as a practical issue. The idea is not for everybody to have a breeder reactor in your house. Reactors scale well, its is far better to simple put a reactor next to every current coal plant and reuse the same grid.
It is not "shalln't", it is "shan't" -- https://www.dictionary.com/browse/shant

Also, you can abbreviate "it is" as "it's" and "is not" as "isn't", but what do you abbreviate "it is not" as?
I know it's somewhat unlikely, but I was replying to someone who couldn't even see the potential value of a hacked terminal as the entry point to an attack chain.
It says

> The reason behind blocking these apps is that the government feared these platforms were sending user data to China

Maybe they have some CDN or some service in China?
Around 1990, I used to program Excel as the UI to connect to the IBM DB2 database on a VAX. People in the company just used the excel files like they used to, but no the data was all in a central db and the excel file with reports was always up to date.

And you could extend it by creating graphs not in “dashboard” etc, because it was just excel. In some ways it was better than today’s fancy dashboards, where you can do what the devs thought of but no more.
> Swift on the other had is a language where wonks decided to throw every silly feature they thought off to the point that is becoming more complex than even Scala.

What features in particular do you think represent unjustified complexity?

Swift is not my favorite, but I wouldn’t consider it to be a “kitchen-sink” language, and it’s certainly less complicated than Scala.
With two major caveat that make it way less practical:

- those tests aren’t against ageing pans. To be the safest, you’d need to buy pans on a short cycle

- chipping is still dangerous (physical degradation, including regular wear)

Basically, there is a specific case (new, perfectly intact, low-regular temperatures only) where it’s probably safe, and everything else is potentially harmful.
The Pixel: From Cave Paintings to “Toy Story”
I believe the argument is that this language has special syntax for these various "architectures", instead of other languages where you express those ideas with the syntax of calling/returning functions.
I am not sure if they are terrible for all the people but for me the noise is a huge deal: always had been sleep-deprived when I lived in apartments. On top of that there are tons of tiny things that combine together into miserable conditions: the bare minimum appliances (many apartments don't have even a washer/dryer and ones that have usually come with an electric dryer), pest infestations, mold, tobacco/weed smoke and other smells from neighbors in shared ventilation/windows, slow maintenance, elevated crime activity (an apartment complex parking is a big juicy target for any enterprising thief, as is its mailroom), your deliveries going to your neighbors and their deliveries to you (at any time of night too) etc. etc.
Wouldn't that attract more readers?
tl;dr; DRM significantly reduces the value of a product like a Blu-ray disc.

For a long time I never bought a single Blu-ray. Then MakeMKV made it super easy to rip Blu-rays. Now I've bought dozens of Blu-rays. I haven't 'played' a single disc, but my home server has optimally compressed versions of all of them. The discs are in a box in the attic in case I ever need them in the future.
Material is technology.
Found typo, in first Paragraph of “Objective-C without the C” section: “It dose not require a VM.”
Listening to the empire builders among engineering management, they'll happily tell you that a few more hires will get the current baby back on schedule plus future babies can be done in 8, maybe even 7, months.
Sunflower oil & canola oil (rapeseed oil) = PUFAs. Avoid seed oils!
Search and Seizure Warrant, Receipt for Property from Mar-a-Lago Search on Aug 8 [pdf]
I've looked at a tiny number of laws by country and it blew my mind how different the approaches were. A Japanese version seemed to expect various degrees. I have no idea about the culture but I can imagine a Japannees official carefully keeping his mouth shut if he has no relevant degree. Belgium and Iceland were deeply involved with public opinion. Dutch is about boiling the frog slowly.

It was facinating
So you can catch errors (wrongthink) at compile time rather than runtime.
You picked a different tool for each of the different entry, while the author is arguing their programming language is general purpose, because it allow to do each entry you listed, in a single language.
"I don't need likes on Twitter"

I sincerely hope this becomes a trend.
Nice (but long) discussion with Alvy Ray Smith, cofounder of Pixar, about his latest book "Pixel"
Those would not be travelling at extra-solar speeds.
He plays in sandbox mode, so he gets to control when and how the enemies attack
Maybe cheese or a piece of chorizo
How much of this is tied to Apple frameworks? I noticed that the Linux support requires GNUStep, so I'm assuming quite a bit? The impression I'm getting is that this requires a non-trivial, Apple-flavored runtime to be useful. GNUStep apps are pretty awful experiences today due to being based on outdated Nextstep UI concepts that do no adapt well to anything other than MacOS.

Is this meant to be used for creating GUI apps? Because if it is, relying on the ancient GNUStep for multiplatform support seems suspect. And if it's primarily intended for Mac/iOS development, then why should someone use this over Objective-C/Swift?

(btw no hate for GNUStep here, I've played with it in the past and think it's awesome, just not very relevant nowadays)
Please don't contribute worthless and irrelevant comments like this. As you doubtless well know, piping from curl into bash is something that a large subset of respected programmers think is reasonable, and another rather tedious subset do not. For example, the entire Rust community clearly has a consensus that it's reasonable: https://rustup.rs/ As does homebrew https://brew.sh/ and pyenv https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer#install to name whatever came to my mind in 30s thought.

Since the debate has such large numbers on both sides, your individual opinion on it is neither interesting nor germane.
Do you disagree with those comments?

I ask because Dang often links to a collection of threads where people make this type claim[1]. If we’re to believe him, the bias you’re perceiving may not actually exist, and may actually be a reflection of your own personal biases.

Not sure whether you relate to that, but I definitely could. Since learning of this, I actually view Hacker News as roughly politically neutral.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922311
> STOREALL, on the other hand, is used for a surprising purpose: as part of the sequence to exit from ICE mode! The reason is that it is the only instruction capable of exiting protected mode, acting very much like a reset.

Ah so that's why Intel didn't want anyone to know about ICE. Could STOREALL be used to write a real exploit? It's interesting since I imagine that in order to know your security works, you have to violate it. I would just hope Intel's been practicing this in a way which doesn't let the bad guys do it too.
> Does anything even fully implement level 2, I wonder?

Not sure about backtrackers, but I know ICgrep attempted quite a bit of level 2: http://international-characters.com/icgrep

But I'm not sure how far they got. And most of the links on that page are dead. :-(

And yeah, UTS#18 actually used to have a level 3 (custom tailoring), but they removed it.

I'm content with level 1 support. The regex crate is just about there and that actually makes it have better Unicode support than the vast majority of regex engines. :-)

Level 2 is indeed hard.
they are alienated from society
That is why I said "without the F1 prefix".
Signal is anti-federation, so it's limited to the quality that moxie can enforce so long as he can enforce it.

Realistically, if he steps down for any reason and someone decides they need to layer in ads to support it...that'll be the end.

I would desperately like Signal to have a commercial service offering you can pay for which would of offer the possibility of sustainment.
There may be ways around the speed of light though, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

Please don't psychoanalyze me for telling you this :)
That was my first thought as well (island and reflection) and was looking through the comments to see if any others posted. The plane could just be a shadow itself
> to be insulting to another colleague during an online talk.

When did this happen? In the podcasts and interviews I heard, Loeb was often provocative towards the establishment, but I never saw him make negative comments about an individual.
Starlink: the final bullet that killed astronomy from earth and soon probably also space travel.
Uploading the photograph to dalle and masking a bunch of it creates some pretty cool dogfights :)
不要 is a single word/lexeme in the linguistic sense, even if it is two syllables.
Suckless.org – software that sucks less
Are younger hackers trending libertarian as well? Maybe there was something about society back then which caused hackers to lean libertarian, but it seems like there is nothing intrinsic that correlates hackers with libertarians, at least from my (extremely limited) observations.
I get the "from outside our solar system" part, and it seems believable that sensors designed for missile tracking would get enough telemetry info to establish that.

But the "tougher than iron" part? Based just on how much material was lost during atmospheric entry, as reported by sensors not really designed for that purpose? That's a tough pill to swallow. It would be really interesting to hear more about how much this asteroid differed from others measured by the same equipment.
<soapbox>

Sorry, but I have to tear into this.

The sales team does not need a feature. The sales team needs to convince a customer to sign -- and then to stay a happy customer and refer others.

The product-management team also does not need a "feature"; they need to identify which of the customer's problems the org can solve to get the customer to sign, stay, and refer.

It's the job of engineering to write clean, maintainable code that gets the customer to do those things in an ethical way. That's it. By this metric, they should write as little code as possible -- preferably none at all.

The whole point of agile (without the scare-quotes, without the branding) is that human beings have conversations about the business' needs (both the customer's and the seller's), continuously uncovering more and more information -- and working together to transform that information into a solution.

If the customer's org -- or the seller's org -- managed to make it for 3 months without needing to change a planned feature, that's equivalent to saying that they failed to learn anything for 3 months. That would be pretty worrying.

The issue happens, as you rightfully note, when everyone in the company suddenly decides they're qualified to be engineers -- and they start deciding what features need to be built to solve business problems. That then turns the actual engineers into assembly-line workers who are simply there to blindly build those features.

In a healthy org, we recognize that the job of sales is to build relationships and gather information; the job of product-management is to translate that raw information into clearly-articulated problem statements and get buy-in across stakeholders and customers; and the job of engineering is to decide how to solve those business problems.

And, yes, as part of that, the questions that engineers ask may well ripple all the way back to changing the problem statement itself. That is why engineering, product-management, marketing, and sales all need to work together to build a great product.

</soapbox>
What I find odd is usually our bodies are extremely good at warning us of a lot of dangers. Things that are bitter don’t eat. Things that smell very fowl maybe don’t want to eat. But barbecued food smell and taste so good with a slight char on the outside. Our senses let us down if they truly are bad for you.
Nah if you are rich enough to afford the robot some percentage of the time it’s just going to get jacked by the drug addicts. Thats just going to be something you accept like having your windows broken or being yelled at by a drugged deranged person in the city.
I disagree. I've had many issues with MPV over the years, ranging from lack of hardware decoding support on some hardware to plain crashes for files that VLC and even web browsers played flawlessly.

I see people claim that VLC somehow produces inferior output but I've never experienced this. The only way mpv seems superior is that it can deal with Syncplay better than VLC, in all other cases it's just a more crashy, less intuitive media player in my experience.
CEO Shadow Program
Cool that we are still discovering new things about old hardware. My only fear is that new hardware is too locked down to extends its life for either practical or hobby use. For example, modern Intel management engine could be used to have an always on webserver that consumes very little power when idle by turning off the main processor and only monitoring a network port in low power management microcontroller. But I am sure it's all DRMed and unaccessible.
My guess of what would have happened is this:

Some movie producer tried to find places in which their movies were pirated, and did google search and made a list and did a court case. Now some random judge who doesn't understand/like internet asked the sites to be blocked. And videolan.org was middle in that list and it got overlooked. Then they handed that list to ISP. Few ISP found the issue and decided not to block it, but many blocked it without looking.
May I ask your nationality, party preference, any controversial political positions you hold and any mental health conditions you have? I'd like to validate my stereotypes.
I don't. I avoid Go like the plague. My point was that you don't get to unilaterally decide for everybody whether fast compile times or runtime performance is more important.
Until it happens...

These possibilities are not at the behest of your logic but at the will of a small number of people far away.
A decision that increases revenue X dollars is not rational if it also increases costs 10X to deal with customer complaints and bad publicity.
I did this for a while but make isn't well suited for this use case. What I ended up doing is have a shell script with a bunch of functions in it. Functions can automatically become a callable command (with a way to make private functions if you want) with pretty much no boilerplate code or arg parsing. You can even auto-generate a help menu using compgen.

The benefit of this is it's just shell scripting so you can use shell features like $@ to pass args to another command and everything else the shell has to offer.

I've written about this process at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/replacing-make-with-a-shell-s... and an example file is here https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example/blob/main/run.
I seem to remember reading about one or two companies that had a focus time or a no meeting time part of the day or week for the whole company - or at least the departments where it made the most sense (engineering, but not sales perhaps).

I can really see the advantages of having focus time synchronised across your colleagues. If we all did focus times across different parts of the day, you would _never_ be able to schedule a meeting. (Hmmm, that may actually be a good thing...)
Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions
I can't imagine how he must have felt, giving up everything he had (which was considerable), risking his life to let the US population know their rights were being abused and their freedom endangered, but even after all of that we've done nothing to change the situation and a sizable percentage of the population see Snowden himself as the problem.

To our credit, we elected a man who promised to end spying on American citizens, but he ended up going back on is word and making it worse and no other presidential candidate since has spoken out against the NSA like he did.
Why would you need a mixer? If you want to hide it from your friends just send it to a new address and then buy with that address.

Let’s continue the example. Imagine you use your shiny new NFT as your twitter avatar. Now anyone can see the wallet holding that NFT received funds from wallet x. Wallet x is your main wallet.

Privacy is not bad.
"Europe was a backwater"

This sort-of goes too far. The Roman empire at its height was very much not a backwater. What is pretty unique about Europe is the subsequent enormous loss of civilizational complexity in the Early Middle Ages combined with the fact that it could, albeit 1000 years later, drag itself out of the hole again.
How so? And under all circumstances, or only for some cases?

We already have mail delivery systems, which scale pretty well AND can be augmented by bots and other technological advances. I have a hard time seeing how your claim holds besides some corner cases like "need fresh tomatoes for cooking in this evening".
I think this is the missing piece. Excel is great at user input.

Getting the same level of copy-paste, drag-drop, drag-auto-complete, "tweak until it looks right before I move on" data-entry experience is non-trivial.
Say what you will, but I have been using Linux as my desktop machine very happily for over 20 years, and I'm no wizard. VLC is a big part of that!
"general downward trend" is light years away from "gun grab". they did the latter in Australia and I hear it was pretty great.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/australi...
Fargo is in southern North Dakota. Look at the temperatures of the northern cities (e.g. Devils Lake, Duluth). The -30F days befor wind chill sucked.
IR thermometer is a good thing to have and it takes a lot of guessing out from heating the pan correctly and heat control. I haven't burned oil in ages. Works best with the cast iron pans, due to the black non-reflective finish.
But what if it is not a Doomsday machine. What if it is something that can give you first strike capability while also destroying any enemy attempt at retaliation. In that case, it might make sense to keep it close to the vest, lest you destabilize MAD.
I don't have access to GKE support, unfortunately, so the best I can do is submit product feedback.

The cluster's DNS server refuses connections briefly during control plane upgrades or updates. I haven't tried their node local DNS yet (enabling it will cause downtime, natch), maybe it'd help.
Liquid oils contain cis double bonds that will isomerize to trans when heated (no H required). Short cooking times will minimise this, or you can use a saturated fat like butter.
Janice Li on the BART Board at least is down for removing the fee. Though it might have to wait for 2023 for Clipper 2.0? No idea why.

https://twitter.com/JaniceForBART/status/1555034168962138112

Rebecca Saltzman (another BART board member) says it's technical execution that prevents the change more so than the board.
A rather reductive condemnation of clustering.
What a country where you can buy as many guns as you could possibly afford but when you try and put up a clothesline or solar panels the HOA will come and foreclose on you.