skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mexico is the most obese nation in the world, surpassing the United States in both Adult and Child obesity.

That certainly does not mean that we don't have an obesity problem here. As a publication with a primarily US audience, you would expect Vice to focus primarily on America.
I agree information overload is a thing that can and will happen. I think this is more akin to moving towards a fully integrated helmet system, nods, thermal, and respirator.

I'm not sure when and where you were deployed but even in OEF / OIF we saw an increase in head cams and other things being bolted onto helmets. I would imagine again, this is all just to get a standard loadout.

That said, if I was back in those days, i'd be more excited about the armys new sig rifle, optic, and supressor than any bulky headset like this.
I feel like that’s the argument I made myself?

People are incredulous that people think that at some point you need to stop him, but they have the same limit in mind just at a different red line.

The current limit of these people has been shown repeatedly to be in the wrong place - appeasement has encouraged Putin to create more violence and suffering. Their limit is demonstrably in the wrong place isn’t it?
Because every other time it avoided worldwide apocalypse.
Totally agree, although I do tend to accumulate and block ssh attempts just to lower the noise on systems (all key-only) that have a fair number of actual ssh users.

I have never, ever received a return message from an abuse@ address, except the automated no-reply.

About half the probes and brute-force attacks I get are from commercial VPS companies (looking at you, Digital Ocean). Send an abuse report to DO, I dare you. It’s a comical array of “your response will be ignored unless you use our abuse API”, which... is also ignored.

Edit: vpn -> vps
It isn't nitpicking, it's really a different type: 15 oct 2022 at 19:01 CET with DST, i.e. an instant, vs. 15 oct 2022 at 19:01 in an unspecified time zone, i.e. a set of about 25 instants (one per possible timezone).

While a datetime without a timezone isn't terribly useful, distinguishing it from a datetime and timezone designation pair is the only correct type system.
This exactly.

The goal of the brexit referendum was to catch the voters that were leaving the conservative party for the ukip party, and give them a reason to vote conservative again.

It wasn't expected to pass, it wasn't expected to be remotely close. It was expected to shore up the conservative party so they wouldn't be dragged into another coalition.

The wording of the referendum needs to be seen in that light. It was intended to give ukip voters what they wanted to hear. "should we think about talking about thinking about maybe doing something" wouldn't have achieved that goal.
thankyou you're so nice :')
Headed to Amsterdam, Singapore, and Taipei
Reading the website gives me the same uneasy feeling as reading a scam email.

- An absurd value proposition ("Like Bloomberg, but just $10-25 per month!")

- English spelling/grammar errors littered throughout the copy

- Unlikely claims about institutional ties (e.g. using Harvard's official logo)
I've yet to see Tesla FSD Beta perform in any meaningful operational environment, no matter how restricted, within a factor of 100x of Waymo or Cruise, and Waymo and Cruise are still at least a factor of 10x off of "equal to human drivers". Superiority can not be claimed if a system is unacceptably bad in all circumstances (i.e. 1,000x worse than the minimum acceptable standard for real commercial usage) and worse in every case than a comparable alternative. It only makes sense if the system is better at something other than being allowed to create unacceptably bad results in a more diverse range of circumstances.
- more autonomy for disabled people / elderly

(although the risk is clearly that vehicles will transition into subscription services that cost many thousands of dollars a year and price them all out)
> Purists who refuse to load websites with JS are such a small percentage of visitors they can be safely ignored.

Except they are not[0]. Besides micro browsers there's screen readers that can't even use sites that customize a bunch of div elements with no accessibility tags.

[0] https://24ways.org/2019/microbrowsers-are-everywhere/
If your population is drinking Cyanide, then the issue is obviously systemic and studying their bodies may uncover a more exact cause.
End their capacity to "lobby" for a long time.
Yes, it has its own email account, which at this point is basically a spam honeypot. I don't think anyone has ever actually tried to unlock the phone. Every time I've been asked for it, it looked to me like they were checking it for explosive residue. But this way I don't have to worry about it, I just hand it over and smile.

It also has some apps installed, mainly games. I sometimes use it for casual internet browsing, especially if I want to visit a website with a bunch of Javascript of questionable provenance. But all my real stuff is on the other phone.
AI-driven 'thermal attack' reveals computer and smartphone passwords in seconds
It's just too convenient. You login to the Gmail website and before you even realize all your bookmarks and saved logins are instantly available. Last week I formatted my wife's PC and reinstalled Windows on it. The first thing she asked after I restarted the system was "ok, where's Chrome?". I convinced her to just use Edge, that it wouldn't make a huge difference. No complaints until now. But people just learned during the last 14 years that Chrome is the best, fastest browser, it's just where they access the internet from. They don't really think much about it. Want to do a search or access Facebook? Use Chrome.
I kind of feel like the controlling factor isn't "parents" or "kids" at all, really -- but "capitalist nanny state habits" that are weirdly re/distributed. Like, the radio is way "dirtier" than it used to be, you've got this odd flavor of "empowerment" that means female hypersexualization that's oddly not about the men at all, for better or worse.

Regardless, I don't feel like "active participation/commentary by this generation of older people" is a big factor?
Off-topic curiosity: Zeek was the name of one of the initial high quality (flash) animations [1] I produced before the dot com crash. Afterwards it appeared in the anime oriented TV channel Locomotion [2]. The name was obviously based in the meaning of geek.

[1] http://swain.webframe.org/zeek.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotion_%28TV_channel%29
Google's internal developer hazing and poor DX surely have something to do with this. I've talked with multiple ex coworker developers at Google about the 3 to 6 months it takes to actually figure out how to deploy something. Also the constant overhead of approvals and oddball systems (gerrit!) thereafter.

Eventually good DX seems unimportant and even associated with failure. Real programmers grovel to weird dependancies and find out stuff the hard way.

There's a better alternate universe where Firebase and 2010 era Google App Engine are the template for GCP.
Engineers are the worst.
It's tracked by Google even if you never visit a page operated by Google. Non-Google websites that include Google tracking are contributing here (which is most of the web).

The sentence you cite suggests that it's "just" such sites that see your activity, while it's a third party (Google) that does as well and that is the issue here.

Sure, technically you could argue that the tracking is "part" of the website that you visit, so it's technically still "only" the site that's tracking you. But let's be honest here, no reasonable non-hair-splitting non-geek would read it that way.
Author here- poor choice of words, thanks for pointing out. I was getting at the fact that SQL systems don't scale as well horizontally (it's difficult to distribute the same column across multiple machines), and inadvertently used a technical term connoting something else.
Airport security mainly. Also immigration, though that has never actually happened to me (yet). It's more of an insurance policy than a defense against an actual threat that I experience. But people do have their phones seized. This way I don't have to worry about it as much.
Thanks for the question!

For thinking about bursty arrivals, a good rule of thumb is to look at the variance of the inter-arrival times. The key number is the variance of interarrival times divided by the mean interarrival time squared. The waiting time in a system with bursty arrivals will roughly be larger than the M/M/c by this multiplicative factor. Kingman's formula is the equivalent for the single-server setting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingman%27s_formula

For seasonality, if the arrival rates fluctuate over a long time period relative to the typical waiting time, it makes sense to just do separate calculations for the different conditions you experience. If the fluctuation is very fast, just use the average arrival rate.

For constrained queue lengths, there are a lot of theoretical results in this area, such as the M/M/c/c model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/M/c_queue. The second "c" refers to the buffer size.
> With JavaScript frontend frameworks plus server-side rendering, the default is to be unaware of all of this stuff and you have to go at least a little out of your way to do it properly.

Too true. In 20 years of web dev, my job has largely gone from "writing inscrutable code" to "reverse engineering someone else's inscrutable code".

Heh, that's part of the joy though. Now it's no longer "production is down again, fix it!" it's "oh, AWS is down, wanna grab a coffee while we wait?". Or on the FE, "oh, I found the bug and submitted an issue on their Github, hopefully they'll fix it in the next version".
I agree. petrochemicals are very useful, so we should not be burning it all up. It takes millions of years to produce organically.
Test automation in the browser without use of third party libraries or frameworks. Just a test runner in Node sending tests to the browser in localhost that execute user events in the DOM
BuyVM: Example of refreshingly honest and transparent provider
I’m not a shill of BuyVM, just have always been impressed with their transparency and honesty within their operations.

=====

Hello REDACTED,

To start, for the sake of the support staff, if your VPS is now humming along, we ask that you close any open tickets you have about this issue.

Short version:

Networks' been crapping itself for the past day. After 2 - 3 hard failures today we did an emergency JunOS downgrade and are cautiously optimistic that it's resolved.

Longer/technical version:

For the past month or so we've been suffering a weird issue where random IP addresses would stop responding. The issue is that our router would lose/expire out the ARP entry for these IP addresses and wouldn't attempt to learn them again unless forced to.

No amount of traffic getting sent to the IP externally (pings, random connection attempts, etc) would make the router issue an ARP "who-has" message. The only fix was to either ping the IP on the LAN (through our speedtest page for instance), forcing the router to see the ARP message on the network, or to login to the router and ping from there.

No amount of limits, tweaks, process restarts, etc, has helped with this. The only way to date has been the above methods.

This morning we had an issue where all users on REDACTED.x.x dropped offline. These subnets had been moved down to our new Cisco core switch to help resolve the issue. Our Juniper router dropped the ARP entry for the Cisco switch, killing BGP. After some time it re-learned then entry reestablished connectivity, bringing those subnets back online.

This happened three times in the past 24 hours, each outage lasting anywhere from 5 minutes to 30 minutes.

Las Vegas is the only location suffering this issue. The key difference between all locations being that Vegas was running JunOS 20.4, where as everywhere else is 18.2~4. In JunOS 20.x they made changes to ARP to allow policing. While we did change this policy, it didn't help us any.

As of an hour ago we performed a downgrade to JunOS 18.4. It obviously went terribly. After some research we found the configuration entry causing issues (our 100G ports kept channelizing) and fixed it, bringing things back online.

As of now, ARP's are resolving near instantaneously, even for new IP addresses. We took this as a good time to change the rest of our ports to 100G, giving us a 400Gbit interlink between our router and core switch.

We're cautiously optimistic that this issue is now resolved.

We thank you for your patience.

BuyVM Team
How much of the world do you think we should let him subjugate?

When he comes for your family and home are you handing them over without any fuss?

Bizarre.
> TLDR it's not "damning" -- geeks inside Google are much the same as geeks outside. They're just taking a paycheck.

Without pretending to know enough about the circumstances of any individual person, I hope you can come to see how this description encompasses both "bad" and "good" (or at least "excusable") conduct.

There is some line, which is difficult to see and controversial, where one can no longer justify their work by saying they are just a cog in a machine. We can talk about that line and that line is clearly different for different people (do they need the money, do they support others, how easily could they leave, etc).

Asking people to account for the machine they are working for is a fair and normal social act and we should all be reflecting on it.
Traumazone – Adam Curtis, part 1
only if your country can offer these people jobs so they don't have to die this way. Let poor people migrate to developed country, why people are turned away in immigration because they come for economic reasons?
Microsoft bought Skype a long time ago
On the order of a few seconds, which is certainly slower than isolates, but fast enough to e.g. spin up a Jupyter backend in a reasonable amount of time. We're playing around with some ideas to make it even faster, like snapshotting.
I’m confused by that line and it made me wonder about their experience or PoV as well.

But as someone who doesn’t word smith good, could just be that.
If you are suggesting that your applications are allocating a bunch of memory which they literally never use in any way, then I don't think that is really a common issue in practice.

In practice I expect the typical scenario you're thinking of is applications are allocating a bunch of memory which they use only briefly or rarely and could easily fetch or recompute that data again later if needed. That's exactly the scenario which swap optimizes for. So why should every application individually implement logic to optimize for it? Fixing these kind of issues is not as simple as "just don't allocate the memory".
I would counter that I bet they have been having these discussions for some time and this is all being used to sway opinion against him. Like him or not, the cool thing now is to hate on musk and worry about what could happen with twitter and this helps build that negative sentiment. The state department doesn't benefit from that transaction either and the federal government poking at him over the deal has left as sour taste i'm sure.

From the outside the only fact we can ascertain is that we know his services are not net 0 in cost, so by that assumption any expense is one he can argue he deserves support on.
> You will have a hard time finding people more critical of many of the actions of Google (the company) than Googlers (the employees of said company.)

More critical than people who wouldn't even take a job at Google for ethical reasons? C'mon..
If people start drinking cyanide in mass, there are definitely a number of important things to study there, including (a) what led them to drink cyanide, (b) why didn’t they hear or accept counter-messaging advising them that drinking cyanide is a bad idea, (c) what are the effects on the body of drinking various amounts of cyanide, etc.

This seems like an invented absurdity, but consider that people in the past few years tried a wide variety of “snake oil” prophylactics/treatments for Covid, including drinking bleach, snorting cocaine, and taking oleandrin (a poison with no known health benefits promoted by officials in the Trump administration), chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine (a malaria treatment), ivermectin (an antiparasitic), etc., even when these had been shown ineffective and were being actively discouraged by health officials. Of even broader impact (hundreds of thousands of extra lives lost in the USA, possibly millions worldwide), many people refused Covid vaccines under a variety of crank theories, driven by a large and organized disinformation campaign. Studying what happened and figuring out how to do better next time should be a significant priority for health research.
Clogged nozzles are user error the majority of the time. I’ve had multiple printers being used regularly for the last 4-5 years and I can’t even remember the last time one actually clogged.

These things have a pretty steep learning curve to get good results.
It can be simpler than that even without banks. My own Chinese family “launders” money using similar mirror transactions, but a bit simpler. They often have cash coming from US restaurants and rentals, and they want to send that cash to their family in China, sometimes to invest into Chinese businesses. So first they find a Chinese person in Los Angeles (let’s call him Mr X Lee) who wants to receive cash from his family in China (let’s call them Lee family). My family gives Mr X the cash, at the same time asking his Lee family in China to give the same amount of cash to my relatives in China.
But it doesn’t control it - he keeps taking more every few years - and you think he should do it unchallenged which would make it faster and faster.

Controlling it is stopping him taking land, not allowing it.

And do you have any idea how to eradicate the cancer of Putin long term? If not then you’re delaying with no way to stop, so he’ll eventually get everything he wants.
When you visit the page, the title is "How mud boosts your immune system" -- but isn't all the evidence and discussion about children?

As far as I understand, this exposure to mud / bacteria is particularly beneficial during the first three years (maybe a few more years; probably not much consensus there) and there isn't evidence to think people over 18 would benefit from continued exposure (though gardening seems to benefit health; and perhaps those who have gone through antibiotic treatment might benefit - though I know of no such evidence, never looked).

Could anyone who has more familiarity with the topic comment? :)
Ah, the same tactics from Iraq II. Embed the journalists in order they develop empathy for the troops protecting them (and hope they slant the reporting enough).

This is in the least, a conflict of interest.
The head of AT&T Illinois is very much going to do time in federal prison and AT&T provided the evidence to the feds to send him there.
Nothing to do with Starlink though which is what OP is discussing.
Ah, you're right. I use the app versions on MacOS and iOS, which I what I was thinking about.
Lately I've been playing around with learning type theory and writing parsers and langauges.

But I seem to gravitate towards writing code to decode various file formats. Over the years I've reverse engineered Apple Notes database, written code to read the realm database backing Craft.app, code to read couchdb files, lucene files, git pack files, sqlite databases (I have js code that runs queries against raw database files), etc.

I'm also interested in compression and cryptography. (Implementing toy systems to learn how stuff works.)
Corporations are people in the US except when they commit crimes, then they're just corporations.
No. ZRAM is a compressed ramdisk. Darwin “compressed memory” is an intermediate state for pages as they age out of the working set, but before they are written out to a swapfile.

Incidentally, Darwin creates, defragments and reclaims swapfiles dynamically. All this complaining about swap partition / file sizes is kind of … silly. None of that code is rocket science.
Disassembling DOS malware. I also like 80s/90s game (engine) development as well :)
Where I come from the ability to cancel something is a bonus, getting ripped off by a subscription you cancel it.

Cancelling is just another word for "Accountability" so many childish-grownups, are so sad that they can't be racist and bigots online and have their feels hurt.

Look cupcake, freedom of speech is a given in America, but there's no such thing (and never has been) speech without consequences. You call someone a racial slur on tv, you deserve to have your career ended. You sexually harass someone, same thing.

The only thing that does worry me, is when we could go to far and make every little thing an issue, thought police, and china's social credit score come to mind, but then I'm pretty sure those in power already have a pretty good profile of just about everyone in America either through browser cookie tracking or more nefarious NSA programs we don't know about.

So, sure there's a line that crosses into the badlands, but so far I haven't seen a case of 'canceling' that wasn't really warranted and most of it is organic influencers doing the canceling not government 'shadow' agencies. Some people will just think everything is a conspiracy though no matter what you tell them.
Is there an article with more substance? Like what data is collected, stored, etc in Incognito?
Not saying it's the same but here it is: I lose small patches of beard during prolonged unhappiness/depression/anxiety/stress
> Whenever I see some regular Joe fired from his forklift job because he isn't totally up-to-date with elite social norms around discussing race or gender

How often have you seen this?
What is your point exactly?

I said the main issue was naming of products designed to confuse consumers, not my anecdotal preference for price point?

But additionally, we'll see if the market at large bears such price inflation.
They really need to change the wording. It's more like a 'Guest Mode' than anything else. I have a Chrome shortcut on my desktop with the `--incognito` flag added so it launches in incognito mode and it's for when other people are using my computer. I don't want their searches and browsing history contaminating my browsing history. This can be annoying when YouTube starts suggesting videos that are tied to other people's interests.
Non-sequitur, but I love that I get this sort of first-hand color on a niche industry on HN.
Polyominoes have been obsessing me. Not tiling but counting them. No formula has been yet found. Their free numbers (i.e up to rotations and flipping) go

1, 1, 2, 5, 12, 35, 108, 369, 1285, ...

Meaning for ex. there are 5 tetrominoes :

■
■
■
■

■
■
■ ■

■
■ ■
■

■
■ ■
■

■ ■
■ ■

The myterious sequence follows a ~4 growth rate.

I've been (nowhere as a mathematician) exploring this problem for years, generating them and trying in vain to find patterns in their properties.

I'd love readers with a high view in combinatorics telling what they think of this problem. Do you think a formula will one day be found or rather that there can't be a closed one for some necessary reason ?
But we know the exact cause... calories (food full of calories, ie. sugar and fat) tastes good, because historically when we found a calorie-rich source of nutrients, it was good for our survival to eat as much as we could (because who knows when will we get the next portion of food).

We've had enough (and too much) food for maybe a 100 years, even less in some places, and evolution cannot adapt so fast, especially since most fat people die old enough to create new babies before that.
Can they not find anything to improve, or do they just know that speaking out internally will not work out well?
You read it as envy, others may read as the opposite of envy. “Google’s engineering grunts” for many are surveillance capitalist lackeys. And that’s being polite.