skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern infrastructure routers have the ability to replicate traffic on any network interface to a second network interface, and to do this without affecting throughput or latency through the node. I have long suspected that the story of "beam splitters" on optic fibers was a red herring to distract from how it is really done.

If you are surveilling a foreign adversary's submarine cable, OK, you need to actually tap-in to a fiber cable. But for a fraction of the price of one sigint satellite, you could provision "twin" NICs and build/buy backhaul from every backbone node in the US.
He has an interview with Lex Fridman here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but he seems to think that aliens visiting our solar system is likely enough that it makes sense to look for. He falls short of the confident certainty I usually expect from cranks though, he's talking about investigating possibilities. I think he's eccentric, but I wouldn't call him a crank.
Always 'Look at Your Fish'
The great historian and a personal hero David McCullough. "Look at the Fish" was the motto over his desk in his tiny shack in Martha's Vineyard. One day he explained it to a Paris Review interviewer (Fall 1999):

“Look at your fish.” It’s the test that Louis Agassiz, the nineteenth-century Harvard naturalist, gave every new student. He would take an odorous old fish out of a jar, set it in a tin pan in front of the student and say, Look at your fish. Then Agassiz would leave. When he came back, he would ask the student what he’d seen. Not very much, they would most often say, and Agassiz would say it again: Look at your fish.

This could go on for days. The student would be encouraged to draw the fish but could use no tools for the examination, just hands and eyes. Samuel Scudder, who later became a famous entomologist and expert on grasshoppers, left us the best account of the “ordeal with the fish.” After several days, he still could not see whatever it was Agassiz wanted him to see. But, he said, I see how little I saw before.

Then Scudder had a brainstorm and he announced it to Agassiz the next morning: Paired organs, the same on both sides. Of course! Of course! Agassiz said, very pleased. So Scudder naturally asked what he should do next, and Agassiz said, Look at your fish.

I love that story and have used it often when teaching classes on writing, because seeing is so important in this work. Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new. Seeing is as much the job of an historian as it is of a poet or a painter, it seems to me. That’s Dickens’s great admonition to all writers, “Make me see.”

Rest in Peace, Mr. McCullough
These links have already been shared in this thread, but I'd still like to share what I did recently.

For the vast majority of debloating I use Sophia[1] and just use the defaults so it's basically fire-and-forget, which I very much like. For any additional de-bloating, like removing OneDrive integration, I use individual scripts from [2].

I've recently switched my development laptop to a Macbook Pro and it's hilarious to note the difference in installation process between the two. The MacOS experience is embracing the "it just works"-concept, no configuration required and everything is taken care off. Whereas the Windows experience is basically you get a thin shell and you need to install these 20(!) updates in order to start configuring your drivers, installing packages and "debloating".

In the end I've accepted that Windows and MacOS both have a place in this world and neither have the perfect approach to an operating system. OS's are such a personal experience.

[1] https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

[2] https://privacy.sexy/
The headline is wrong. You should have said “Unpaid… are not ok for ME.”

Maybe someone else is more hungry, more ambitious, more game than you. They deserve their shot.

When I have given assignments like this, I said “the result of this work belongs to you. You can show it to any prospective employer. In fact, if you can show me a portfolio of your work, then you do not need to do this assignment.”

(I hire testers, and they rarely have examples of their testing work to show off.)
Or like how Turkey periodically freaks out when some european or north american sources publish something about the Armenian genocide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
Using video formats for animated icons (think emojis) is an especially bad idea. Have fun loading a page of 50 different h264 instances!
Can you elaborate ? What's wrong with cans ? If they're aren't just aliminum what are they coated with on the inside ? How would tetrapak fare better ?
Sure,

I've even heard speculation that the leak of the various money-laundering documents involve an effort to monopolize laundering to a even small group.

That's as maybe but no kind of money laundering should have our sympathy. Most money laundering does damage - the kind that isn't for directly illegal activities often involves local corrupt exploiting their control of local resources (Iran, a major oil producer, burning 4% it's oil for bitcoins to escape sanctions, for example).
We've been working on many of these suggestions at you.com

Giving users control over their search results is a big part of fighting SEO spam.
The word GIF has actually expanded its meaning. It now (in chatting apps) just means animated picture even though it's not using that file format.
If reincarnation exists, I hope that such people who are busy restricting others freedoms get all assembled together on a big island where they all get to live a very long life restricting each other to the ground, and when their nation makes Orwell blush, they get to live another 1500 years, enjoying each others company in a zero-freedom society, until they finally learn that it's not their f-ing business messing with others freedoms.

Edit. In this type of society, your freedoms are being gutted constantly for arbitrary reasons: one of your neighbors complains he's feeling unsafe around firearms so police comes and takes them all; another neighbor complains about cars making him feel uneasy, so you have to ride a bicycle; then a random passer-by complains about you using harsh words, so a court puts a non-removable collar on your neck monitoring your speech; then some worried activist complains about food and from now on you can get only approved food from the food-police. But you aren't wasting time: you complain about your neighbor's green lawn, then force him to live in a tent, restrict his water consumption for climate-concerns, make him reduce the size of his pets and so on. I'd argue the downward path of restrictions has no bottom.
The Jewish sages knew all about it a long time ago. Question: who is a young person? Answer: someone who can put his shoe on while standing on one leg.
Should be possible to DoS your area in the footprint, so everyone within a few hundred kilometers around you?

A phased array helps but you could also have a heliostat-type setup that tracks the satellite.
The actual article's title was "Harvard Professor Believes Alien Tech Could Have Crashed Into Pacific Ocean" which is more clear.

Although to make it less woo-woo flying saucer-ish, I might have said:

"Harvard Professor Believes Meteor That Crashed Into Ocean Was Alien Metal"
True, that's where Make shines. Though given the popularity of so many Make alternatives (the strictly subset of command runner variety, like just[1]) who keep its syntax but not this mechanism, I wonder if for command runner unnecessarily re-running dependencies is really a big deal. Because quite often the tasks are simple and idempotent anyway, and then it's a bit of a hassle to artificially back the target by a dummy file in Make (which your example doesn't do here e.g.).

[1] https://github.com/casey/just
We've indexed billions of pages already at you.com to avoid this situation.
The majority of our apps like Stackoverflow and Medium etc, we've indexed ourselves.
We hired four people shortly after raising our seed round (in addition to the two cofounders). Two of those early employees are still at the company 4.5 years later. One is the CTO and one is the Head of Product.

The other two left within 2 years of joining. One early employee quit before the one year vest cliff. The other left after about 18 months to start his own company (which ended up not working out).
Slightly OT, there is an npm package also called asdf, it allows you to start a static dev server at the current directory. All you need to do is just `npx asdf`. I have no idea how I discovered this package, but it is really convenient as I have used it multiple times. (I know there is a python equivalent command, but `npx asdf` is probably shorter.)
Hm the topology-aware provisioning should be fixed since at least 1.12/13 and is working well on our self-managed regional clusters. I'd bug GKE support for this...

Just curious - how does GKE control plane upgrade break DNS?
> teams pick and choose what works for them.

Is this practical though. An engineering team has a product team, a sales team that needs a feature. If those 3 teams don't align on the fact that the dev team is practicing "agile" and can expect potential drastic changes to customer promises, then they'll be issues.
Yea autocorrect
Scalpers do not decrease supply.

Scalpers do not increase demand.

Scalpers offer a service to users to buy hard-to-find-products now without waiting or searching.
Tornado is absolutely money laundering. You’re moving the coins from a dirty wallet that is being watched by the government to a clean one that has plausible deniability. It’s not the end of the process though, you still need to sell something to the wallet to make it look like you earned the coins legitimately. That’s where NFTs come in.

If you just go dirty wallet -> clean wallet -> exchange it’s trivial to see that the exchange coins came from the dirty wallet. If you mix the coins from the dirty wallet to the clean one there’s no way for the exchange to say the coins came from the dirty wallet, all they know is the coins came from the mixer.
Saw this comment late, like tl_donson says, yes but it's fairly consistent. So if your open rate drops 20% to 10% in one month, it's probably your fault and not the mail client hiding it.

In my experience most people do not block images in emails, and that's the easiest way to tell if someone opened your mail. Even most people who use an adblocker do not block email images.
??? I'm not saying you can use it on its own as "no" -- indeed that was the whole point of this discussion. But gramatically mh is absolutely a word. Similarly you can't just say "not" on its own except if you're a cast member of Wayne's World. "Not!" But "not" is certainly a word. Also: since when did the presence of a vowel dicate wordness? Next you'll tell me that "ng" (five) isn't a word.
Look into Oeufs Brouillés (French Scrambled Eggs) for cooking on stainless steel. Low heat and constant whisking - the eggs are so fluffy and delicious! And cleanup is easy.
You need a layer 4 load balancer instead of a layer 7 balancer in that case.
It won't be ready in three months but it will be better next year and the subsequent summer and so on. Better every year. Unlike with building new reactors where the only subsequent events are news about rising costs and later completion dates.

I mean seriously. This is not the first time issues with the nuclear fleet cause problems. We'd have a normal summer without those "special repairs". A normal summer in France means: "Rivers too hot. Need to shut down."

Punishing those people who voted a guy who promised to REDUCE nuclear and EXPAND renewables and who just didn't, doesn't make any sense.
Yes but you can always avoid them unlike "forever" chemicals leaked by your non-sticky pan. They're called forever chemicals because they never break down. I don't think charred food can contaminate your food and drinking water.
Interesting, maybe there is something different about the builds being provided by Mint and Arch?
Completely logical that you missed it. Like what appears customary in financial writing, the article has attempted to botch normal writing and has gone completely north on clarity by squeezing massive amounts of important sounding words in sentences which cause a shortfall of meaning. This is exacerbated by a scorching need of readers according to people familiar with the matter.
Context -- You can build a "ufo" (ion wind lifter) yourself, many have[1]. The power to weight ratio is roughly equal to that of a helicopter, so it's not trivial, but it could in theory be scaled up to large enough to move battle tanks around on. You'd end up with a large dark craft that glows a bit around the edges.

That's old physics, who knows what's been done since then.

1 - http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/liftbldr.htm
Also, I think if we normalized what we both mean by "is completely bought in" we'd be closer to agreeing ;) Perhaps what I meant by this is an understanding that team x is following methodology y and can expect i, j, k because of it.
I use Kitty because it’s incredibly quick (especially with the -1 flag). I use a tiling window manager and can flood my screen with dozens of terminal windows in under a second.

Probably not a big deal for most, but I mostly live in the shell.

Kitty isn’t the best feature wise though. Even config changes are tedious.
Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough California Team Achieved Ignition
If he meant that, a "knock off OS" would have sufficed. It looked like to me he was referencing the mass surveillance in China. In either case, unnecessary racist in my opinion.
That's how I understood the title.
It's funny because the calling products "One" pattern is pretty old now. Xbox One, Google One, Android One, Motorola One, HTC One, it's been years since that was the convention. The current industry vogue is to append "+" to the end of the brand, as with Apple TV+. (I guess Google Plus failed because it was too early to this trend.)
DEF CON goon here. Sometimes our presenters provide the link to a private GitHub repo to the press in advance of their presentation. After the presentation they make the repo public.
I can't wait until the Indian government tries to ban debian.org

https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/vlc
As a college student with no idea what I was doing, I tried to stir-fry everything at maximum heat and would quickly burn food to a regular pan.

After I learned to be a halfway competent cook, I discovered most cooking methods don't stick at all! Caramelizing, braising, roux, simmering, on and on- mankind learned to cook with ordinary cookware, and all the classic recipes and techniques reflect it.

It's not a matter of being a great cook - you simply don't need nonstick to braise or simmer, for example. So I'd phrase the exercise of learning to cook with steel pans as simply "learning to cook".
Finding an interstellar object is spectacular enough. Why overhype it?
Any1savr the repo b4 it got taken down and have a copy ro share? orionkanat@pm.me
Page 26:
> The study concludes, without any ambiguity, that a sustained development of electrical renewable energies is essential in France to respect its climate commitments.

Which defacto exclude a 100% nuclear mix.

I am not proning anything. To be honest, I would have been happy if the report said that 100% nuclear is the best way to go. I have no problem with the tech.

Are you talking about the risk table p43? That table shows that n2 and n03 are probably more achievable than the other scenarios but nowhere that table proves that more nuclear than n03 would be achievable in the timeframe allocated. I would love an exact quote or reference on that.
Making Hydropower More Sustainable
I tentatively agree with that take, but am trying to be charitable. The reason I tend to think this is right is that his podcast arguments for why umamua? was probably alien tech were either disingenuous or displayed incredible ignorance. i.e.: pretending that nobody had any explanation for how it accelerated without any visible tail.
Well, good: Then it works kind of like a warning, too. Tells that this shit is kind of icky.
- Suckless' st for its launching speed and simplicity

- Alacritty for better keycode support
> 20 years ago we were told there was 20 years of petrol remaining. It's sadly false.

No, we weren't. At least not by anyone credible.
I’ve worked in places like this. You have to be careful what you push back on and how you do it. It requires a certain amount of political awareness and social skills.

Now that I have over ten years of experience and forced myself to learn how to handle conflict instead of avoiding it, this isn’t difficult for me.

Younger me didn’t know what to do.
These Are the Tools Open Source Researchers Say They Need
If you're on android, honestly relay for reddit pro is the best thing I've bought. So glad it was a one time purchase and not a subscription. It's actually a good experience to use too.
Now that their friends are the ones in power, the two agree on who the enemy is, and so naturally they get back together.

It will last until the next time there's a change of power, at which point defense work will be "evil" again
Does an app staying resident in memory but suspended use battery tho?

Also, I'd wonder if restarting an app wouldn't be more cpu (and thus battery) intensive than just unsuspending it.
Sure, but the revelations about PRISM are pretty damning.
Editors refusing to publish your work in their journal is censorship?

Nature and Science have censored me a few times then (got one through though!)
This is very old hat. A friend battled the old British Telecom, after Deutsche Telekom (the rest crumbled after that) to publish Telex businesses directories a whole couple of generations ago.

Copyright laws protect the structure and occasionally(via trade dress usually) formatting of your data. But common sense informs this entire oeuvre of issues that if the utility of the information that you are working with is inherently extant ion openness then the judiciary will politely post you a clue and the check. Utility forms a considerable amount of legal doctrine in so called intellectual property(which is a fallacious misnomer introduced into the lexicon purely for purely self serving reasons only very recently). Infringing a unused order poorly exploited patent and the registration owner sues? No fear because you're going to have to pay fair royalties and be allowed to carry on unless you been some kinda jerk. This is all about the appropriation of the basic infrastructure for human life. Yet the amount of misunderstood and very elementary (Googleable) law passing debate without comprehension is much more frightening than this moot threat, it indicates nearly complete cooption of principal values of human development.
> Satellite TV providers definitely solved it by now after learning from their mistakes.

I don't know if they really "solved" it. I think the appetite for new hacks dwindled with broadband internet everywhere and streaming services.

Cat doesn't care for the mouse so much when there's kibble everywhere.
This is the most extreme piece of partisan speculation I’ve seen so far on this news story.

There might be something of value here is you can get through the tired “orange man bad” nonsense.
Unless you count relay nodes, but they were run by more than just the developers.
This isn't comparable to evolution theory where we have mountains of evidence of other species that were predecessors of the current ones. Or where we even have evidence of evolution happening during our lifetimes (e.g. Covid).
The Big Bang theory is extremely speculative.

Empirical Science is about building theories based on observations. We have no observations that provide any kind of evidence that there was a big bang.
Yes, we now that the universe is expanding, and has been for quite a while. So reasoning backwards, there must have been a time that the universe was a lot smaller than now. But that's it. We don't know how small it was before it started expanding. Maybe our universe started from a single point or even from nothing. Or maybe it bounced back after having contracted to a small but definite size.
We just don't know. And actually, with the recent JWST observations, hints that support a big bounce or something similar are building up.
> but we would never consider building a natural mountain to improve turbine efficiency

Maybe we could? Mining operations already produce huge volume of material from tailings and overburden. Not an outrageous idea to be more strategic in how and where that material is placed. Could create some artificial ranges with better wind properties.
The sticker doesn’t matter.
The phone maintains an open “transaction until you swipe it at your destination. It’s not clear what happens if you leave the the station without swiping, and return a few hours/days later. I suspect they still charge you for the excursion fare, or a higher amount.
> The product name comes from the second syllable of the Japanese word pronounced as Gojira, which is Japanese for Godzilla.

Interesting, I would have thought "jira" was two syllables, but I know absolutely nothing about Japanese, so I assume this is correct and the pronunciation rules are just not what I'm used to from English.
+1 for Bar Keeper's Friend. It really is the best.
If AI Ethics can get as much funding as it does to philosophy departments, let this guy study cool asteroids in case it's sent by aliens!
This gave me a moment of panic: did I miss some big story?

But no: I already knew about the pieces of debris.
The ability to create a recurring Focus Time event has been game changing!
Considering how they host papers "refuting" Cantor and Gödel... seems like a weird time to get standards. https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4433
I really don't get this. It does nothing when I press Ctrl+Shift+V. If they can't even implement that, what's cool about it? The resulting formatting mess certainly isn't
Additionally, xterm starts quickly, has an incredibly responsive feel (the latency from keyboard press to a character appearing is lower than any other terminal emulator I've used) and looks absolutely stunning with a nice bitmap font.
Props for your correct spelling of colour.
Tomatoes+Onions+Eggs, anything watery or sour = stainless with some drops of olive oil

Meat, Potatoes = cast iron with sunflower oil

anything else (crepes, pan cakes) = carbon steel with either canola or sunflower oil

To prevent eggs to stick putting some onion rings or slices of ginger helps.

The most difficult is to get good non-oily crepes.
I can't attest for its speed, but this seems like the polar opposite of lightweight.
https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/
Does someone have a reasonably impartial source on what the hell is actually going on with the JWST findings?
100 Life without parole inmates provide interviews
I am surprised this still qualifies as news. It been happening a long time.
xfce4-terminal, because I switched to Xfce when GNOME went on their "reinvent the UI" trek. I was happy with the UI I already had, thanks very much.
"One of the core rules of kernel development is that good things rarely result from breaking Linus Torvalds's machine..." sums up this post beautifully.
> Financial privacy is definitely a right.

Unless you prove it is, it's not. It's not encoded in the UN's human rights charter, nor in pretty much any legal system out there.

Governments should protect you from other individuals accessing your financials except the government itself, but that's it.

> Cryptography allows individuals to use the force of mathematical law, superior to all other law, to enforce their privacy rights.

I am absolutely against the use of "cryptography" (which by the way any transaction system uses) and cryptocurrencies as there is one and only one purpose for such a thing: tax evasion and money laundering. There's literally no other purpose except far fetched arguments.
Gonna drop this off and skedaddle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Fragility
That homepage could use some work. I have no idea why I might choose that over asdf.