skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Think Will Smith/I am a Legend.

Certainly there was great cause for concern and need for prudence in the early days of the pandemic, but COVID-19 was never an end-of-the-world scenario. Your appeal to I am Legend reinforces the parent's argument.

>So far we know that vaccines did very little harm and very much saved lives. And they saved lives because many people believed what NIH was saying. In other words they made a good effort in good faith.

You are begging the question: did the benefits outweigh the cost?

To answer this, we need good data, unencumbered scientific debate, and time. There is reason to suspect at least some of the data and processes used to authorize vaccines were of poor quality, or perhaps even subverted; it is hopefully clear that scientific debate is more restricted than usual; and, we have not had time to observe any long-term effects of vaccines, especially on populations for which the risk of COVID-19 is extremely small (e.g. children).

There is a vast middle-ground between anti-vaxxer and vax-maximalist that a reasonable and prudent person can occupy.

>Of course if they go too inaccurate they will lose their credibility which is not good. So why would they do so, I think they didn't.

You are presupposing that our institutions are rational actors, and that they are acting deliberately. Institutions can fail to perform their essential functions without malice. A conspiracy is not required for a more-dangerous-than-COVID vaccine policy to have taken place.

Whether or not this actually happened is a matter of nuanced debate.
I think him being damaged by being called a cheater is incredibly obvious, it has materially impacted his future earnings directly, and it has also had a significantly impacted his reputation beyond what the prior cheating allegations did. Magnus and Hikaru are two of the biggest chess celebrities on the planet, and Chess.com (According to Hans himself) has the best anti-cheat team in the chess world. Being accused of cheating by these individuals publicly, as well as being accused to cheating RECENTLY, both have severely impacted his reputation.

I don't think the legal question is going to be establishing that Hans has faced harm. I think that's self-evident. The interesting question is more did Magnus Carlsen's/Chess.com's/Hikaru Nakamura's statements amount to Libel/Slander?

My money is against Hans. Libel/Slander is hard to prove in the US.
This would be more like _if_ she had admitted to doping during Junior Worlds, then wondered why nobody had confidence in her performance in the Olympics.
Yep, looting the country for private gain as much as possible before they get kicked out seems a more logical course of action.

Some would suggest that has already happened and they would have got away with it if it wasnt for those pesky international financial markets trying to limit their exposure to the impacts.
Every group, business, person, and country has lied at some point in their existence. Trustworthiness is not a binary value.
In the U.S. you don't have to prove everything you say. It's pretty hard to demonstrate defamation, UK is much looser about what classifies as defamation.

Hans would pretty much have to demonstrate someone else knowingly lied or was extremely negligent with regard to the truth . Which will be very difficult.
The US takes MAD very seriously. Russia started this mess in its own, and we have made clear we will respond with force to any nuclear attack
The School Bell
Chess.com has yearly revenue of 50 to 100 million. So I think actually the 100 million is quite low looking at that number.
> ...and this contributes to why they're a dying brand.

I can't argue with you about the bikes, I've no interest in one either.

But [citation needed] on "dying brand." They're still the number one seller in the US and seem to be doing just fine.
Oh but the butt heat license server will cost them money!

So after 15 years they will deprecate the service. Probably in the middle of the winter.
I grew up there and live there currently. Everyone I know either says "DC", "the district" or "the city" depending on the context. Never heard anyone say "from Washington" who didn't mean the state.
One is not entitled to a good reputation. Your reputation arises from your actions, and Hans has cheated in the past and apparently has very few allies who would defend him for some reason.
A cadaver dog could be useful for finding a carcass, human or otherwise. Once a carcass is found, can't more qualified experts testify about it? Are we talking about cases in which a carcass wasn't found, but was theorized to have been present at some point?! How do we know the carcass was human? How do we know how long ago it was present? If we could be certain of either of those things, how do we know it was the particular human whose murder is being prosecuted?

We can't blame dog enthusiasts for testifying, but it's a judge's job to keep fantasists out. Judges who allow such testimony aren't stupid; they are evil.
Yeah seriously. AFAIK all Carlsen said was "I believe he cheated more - and more recently - than he admitted"
Truth. Although I have been knocked unconscious once and have one 10 year old elbow injury that still occasionally causes me trouble that begs otherwise, in practice. In big cities the practical rule is USUALLY the car will turn if it thinks you can reasonably stop in time, and occasionally they'll turn whether or not they think you'll stop in time. A couple times a year the car will just smash you to turn, because fuck cyclists they shouldn't have been on the road.

I would never advise cyclists to consider what you've stated as the actual rules. In practice the rule you should follow is the person turning will turn if they reasonably believe you have time to stop, and prey they do not alter the deal further. De facto vs De jure.
Wasn't being sarcastic, just lamenting the fact that it's not supported in today's social media apps.
It always seems that the tech companies that make major OSS contribs turn into fiestas.

1. LinkedIn gave us Kafka

2. Netflix gave us Hystrix

3. Greatest of all, Facebook, who gave us everything: React, PyTorch, Jest
I prefer to be able to choose which payment mode I want (by using a credit card or line of credit) instead of being railroaded into monthly payments. Subscriptions also never end. You never "pay off" your heated seat subscription.
DAM?
Who could have seen this coming?

I think it's pretty clear though that Magnus made his statements under legal guidance so this was probably expected.
It's a very impressive rise, but in part because it started later in life than other young GMs. In absolute terms, he's still on par with about a dozen young 2700s who are about the same age. It's just that he caught up really fast.
The lack of a datetime data type is a significant burden on applications.
You're overestimating this point. Flase racist research papers come out all the time. There is a known "scientist" who shows up in google scholar all the time. Nobody pays attention to him because he has been debunked by multiple people multiple times. (Not by snopes but by the scientific community.) No major news site would publish his claims. Even if they did, it wouldn't measurably change anything, as there would be appropriate backlash. We see already preemptive inappropriate backlash — imagine how hard justified backlash will be..
First time I see this piece of software and I'm both intrigued and scared of what it's capable of. My fear (as a k8s administrator) comes from not yet understanding the details of how it works. Yes, I've read the linked article and project's readme on github and they didn't contain the important details.

Does this tool work with any k8s cluster? or does one at first need to install an operator into their cluster?

Does this tool talk to kubernetes API? If yes - then does it rely on kubectl's config or what?

https://mirrord.dev/docs/overview/faq/ - Here I've found an answer to "how exactly does it do it's magic?":

> Does mirrord install anything on the cluster?

> No, mirrord doesn’t install anything on the cluster, nor does it have any persistent state. It does spawn a short-living pod/container to run the proxy, which is automatically removed when mirrord exits.

> If you have any restrictions for pulling external images inside your cluster, you have to allow pulling of ghcr.io/metalbear-co/mirrord image.

and also another important detail:

> Since mirrord uses the dynamic linker to load into the application’s process, it cannot load if the binary is statically linked.
Or just go full double entry and allow multiple accounts per transaction, which is what anyone with an accounting degree would tell you to do.

The bonus of doing it this way, everyone with an accounting degree won't gasp in horror when they understand what it is you did.

The events table in your example is basically the same as a transaction table and dump the transaction_id into the ledger table. The bonus of doing it with a 'transaction_id' is accountants, auditors and the rest won't be confused.
Just some anecdotes around VCS use…

At uni back in ~2000 was the first time I ever heard of version control. It was a bit of a curiosity, nobody seemed to be using it.

In 2004, engineering at the place I worked (you've heard of it) were developing PL/SQL in production with no VCS.

In 2007, I worked in IT at the same place. They were developing in SharePoint without VCS. When I asked if I could use VCS, I was told to use a 1996 or so Visual SourceSafe which was more temperamental than Subversion.

The first place I worked that used VCS was in 2008, and only because the devs had started using it against the wishes of the principal developer.

The world moves fast and slow at the same time.
You've really got to follow the money on this whole "let's all get back into the office" nonsense. Commercial real estate is extremely overpriced and a market correction might affect some people (including the FED's lobbyists). Not to mention higher commercial real estate prices contribute to inflated housing prices near urban centers.

Honestly, I'm tired of it. Let's move on a society, let people who want to work from home do it, and downsize / revamp offices for the people who do. Saving on the commute alone is worth it.
100% I think my original photo is a bit oversaturated. The real issues I see are where it makes blue things brown and red things green.
Having the profits owned by another person adds risk from an insider trading scheme. Both risk in terms of information leaking and the "friend or family" simply having control of the money/goods.

This is as good a start at curbing this behavior, as is practical right now.
The pattern E seems to resemble a human figure.
I don’t disagree but that won’t change the fact that snap completely broke my Firefox workflow, and doesn’t gracefully allow me to restart Firefox (rather inconsistently have tabs crash unexpectedly).

Snap is immature, and not ready for production deployment. The way Ubuntu/parent company have pushed snap has been damaging to its image.
the only releases I see are the amd64 (desktop and server)

https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.10/

is the raspberry pi version available or going to be?
> In the scenario where he did not cheat, is he really on a Bobby Fischer-like ascendance?

From what I understand, if he's innocent then he's beyond Bobby Fischer.
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Say you live in a building in front of a car-free street. How are you going to move in/out, given that many buildings in New York have only one entrance? What about garbage trucks? What will happen to all the existing traffic and how will the "clean up" affect the surrounding areas?

This is a nice "I wish" project, but each transformation lacks strategy, which is the key component of any kind of transformation.
Licenses are tied to individuals, so that does something to address the serial offender issue.

If individuals are operating with fake names, proxy workers, ect, there is very little that can be done besides track down and arrest the individuals.
> I doubt iPads themselves will be a part of Apple's XR plans.

iPads are serving as a proxy for the Reality headset today. Meaning, you can go to https://www.apple.com/augmented-reality/ right now to get a preview of how Apple will be selling Reality to customers.

We don't yet know how Reality will work with iPads/iPhones, but one can read the tea leaves by thinking about how Apple will leverage technologies like Handoff, Continuity, AirPlay, etc. It's not crazy to think that Reality will leverage nearby devices for storage, connectivity, and even compute and GPU.

In other words: Rather than wondering if iPads will be part of Apple's MR plans, I recommend thinking about how iPads will increasingly be part of Apple's MR plans.
An in-house cloud will just be a bunch of commodity servers running a hypervisor that gives you an API that allows you to automate the provisioning of infrastructure.

I am guessing that in the 80s you weren't writing Infrastructure as Code to define exactly what resources you needed for your software, having it all set up automatically, and so on.
I'm a huge Hans fan. (F him for cheating, but setting that aside.) His play is objectively insane. Either he's somehow been cheating this whole time via shoefish, or he's the real deal.

GothamChess has had excellent coverage of his games.

Like seriously, look at this one: https://youtu.be/ainUWFboMLs?t=1490

Hans threw a masterful knockout punch at the end, one which his opponent completely overlooked, and was solely a single move. There wasn't cheating-like high level strategy involved -- it was a one-move fatality.

Whatever else the kid has done, he is one hell of a chess player. I find it hard not to root for him, even knowing his history.
So if NJ residents now need to pay a lump sum to get the same features, this means more sales tax money going to the state. I can see why legislators want to get behind this.

Not a fan of subscriptions, but it's good to be aware what politicians are getting out of the deal.
Which doesn't say anything about "Samsung's decline in many established markets":

https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/02/iphone-us-market-share/

The only mention of Samsung is:

> The 50 per cent landmark the iPhone’s highest share since it launched in 2007 was first passed in the quarter ending in June, according to data from Counterpoint Research. Some 150 devices using Google’s Android operating system, led by Samsung and Lenovo, accounted for the rest […]

The best takeaway we can get is that in some US states, the Android marketshare is slightly decreasing, but is still lead by Samsung.

If anything, Android's and Samsung's marketshare is _rising_ worldwide.
Tracking calls that are over 60 seconds.

Everything is electronic now. There are audit trails. It may take a while to figure out where you were, but they will. So the only advantage of getting off the phone early is to not be there when the cops show up. And the fact of where you were and what phone you used might help them identify you anyway.
Based on my own experiences, one of the most disappointing elements of devops is their lack of understanding how things work. They run to GitHub and pull other peoples recipes to build out certain environments. Even when they build automation from scratch, they miss tons of core OS level tunables and rather than adjusting those, they'll just add more servers to the mix.

I worked at a place that had an elastic search cluster with 30 nodes, because they kept hitting open file limits, when 8 servers could easily handle the traffic with basic tuning.
> They make 355/113 seem mysterious, or that it might point to a new series. In fact, it comes from a boring/inevitable series.

It might! Just because it's in the boring series, doesn't mean there might not be a new series that it's in.

... unless it does?
ridiculous that anyone would subject themselves to the torture of programming on a mobile phone
The headline is making ominous a phenomenon that English already has a word for.

Mistrust. It’s not about the evidence, it’s about loss of trust. Many people have lost trust in institutions, not evidence.
I do, for JSON columns. I store UTF8 strings in SQLite, so that it is easy to see JSON values with a plain `SELECT *`). And I load blobs, because I code in Swift and the standard JSON decoder eats raw UTF8 memory buffers, not strings.

This avoids two useless conversions:

- first from a C string loaded from SQLite to a Swift Unicode string (with UTF8 validation).

- next from this Swift Unicode string to a UTF8 memory buffer (so that JSONDecoder can do its job).

SQLite is smart enough to strip the trailing \0 when you load a blob from a string stored in the database :-)
what about lichess though? that's independent and quite popular.
If you say so, but I don't see why it should be forced on Ubuntu users by Canonical until then.
That seems entirely unreasonable to me.

> the term “good moral character” means a personal history of honesty, fairness

A roofing contractor cheats on her husband, can her license be denied/revoked for dishonesty? It may be unlikely in normal circumstances but corruption is a real thing.

A guy down on his luck gets busted for drugs and goes to jail. He gets out and can't get a job because of his felony. He decides to start a roofing business. Can the government deny him a license too?
I don't have a link handy, but there was a huge FBI scandle where their experts were essentially calling things a match to a specific person, etc.

But yes, the science is fine if interpreted correctly. The correct phrasing would be exclude or not exclude a suspect. Or for your example, it could be consistent with someone having been in a vehicle. The problem is when the experts say they must have been in a vehicle, or especially a specific individual vehicle.
Very much not legal advice here, but… believing that you’re telling the truth doesn’t automatically make it not slander.
It’s not sophistry to point out that someone has unrealistic expectations.

Furthermore, you can’t ask yourself a bunch of questions and then ignorantly answer them all with “no” when vaccine efficacy studies set a clear definition of “effective”.
UNAUTHORIZED VOLTAGE DISCHARGE DETECTED

SYSTEM SAFETY MECHANISMS ENGAGED

car is now inoperable
Polite FYI:

When a statement has many examples it is correct to use "e.g.," which is an abbreviation of _exempli gratia_, which in turn is Latin for "for example." For example: There are many emotions a person may feel, e.g., happiness.

When a statement has only one logical conclusion it is correct to use "i.e.," which is the abbreviation of _id est_ which in turn is Latin for "that is." For example: It was the same colour as a clear summer's day sky, i.e., blue.
You're assuming that the default is harmless. If you are seeing a doctor to seek treatment for a condition and you do nothing you still have the condition and whatever it brings.

If you are deciding whether to get a vaccine for a deadly disease but 10% of the people who get it die you need to weigh that against probability you could get the disease and die. It's not 10% death vs nothing

Doing nothing is still an action.
Even if he's not innocent, proving that he cheated in a way that will hold up in court might be very difficult...
Anti-vaccine groups avoid Facebook bans by using emojis
DevOps came about because of developers who "just wanted to write code". They would write something, then throw the dead cat over the wall and say "you figure out how to run it". That... doesn't really work. Somebody needs to explain to the Ops people how to run the code. Hence: DevOps... a way to get Dev and Ops to avoid throwing dead cats over walls.

If you don't want to think about AWS S3, GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Terraform, etc, .... then we need to work together. All those tools and services exist because all the software developers are sitting in their sandbox, and don't want to come out and play. The systems and tools that we run your code with... suck. A lot. We need programmers to make the systems better. We (in Ops) are a little busy with trying to just figure out how to run your apps without them falling down. We don't have a lot of time to reinvent the state of the art of computer systems.

For example, we need a distributed operating system. Not some fucked-up kludge of a monolith of microservices overseen by a company that has more engineers than brains... but an honest to god, stable-ABI, simple, composeable, stable, general operating system. We need Linux to come out of the box, ready to run distributed applications, in a way that doesn't require a PhD. Once we have that, then you - yes, you, the developer! - will be able to make applications that automatically scale so easily that we will never need to utter the phrase "container" ever again. You will rarely ever need us again, because the system will just be so simple, so general, that anybody who can use the terminal can build and deploy applications without ever learning anything outside of your programming framework.

But we need you to make that distributed operating system. Until you do, we will just have more stupid kludges, more bizarre unnecessary complexity, in the futile attempt to constrain all the crazy shit we want to do with technology, while trying to run your apps for you. Please, I'm begging you - put me out of a job.
That's not really what's implied in this article though. The term "insider trading" means something specific which is being inside a company. For Congress or executive branch employees that would accessing data that would typically be in an SEC filing before it's public. This is also not "self-dealing" which means appropriating official funds for your own purposes.

Reading intelligence reports and selling mutual funds isn't the same thing. Not just on technicality but because there's no room for corruption. Insider corporate information can be exploited against people or even engineered to create opportunities. COVID was going to happen no matter what. And really COVID data wasn't really secret. Congress was having it shoved in their faces but the WHO and CDC were ringing bells in public disclosures for anyone savvy enough to understand.

It's unsavory but it's not really a threat. At least not most of the examples listed in this article. There is likely some genuine corruption going on too. The SC just gave Ted Cruz (and everyone else) a pass to self-deal from his campaign fund.
A performant solution to get a similar look, not a single breakpoint or media query is used.

fully responsive and it can scale up to 4K and beyond.

Will generate random sizes (with nice ratios if possible) that are pleasing to the eye and are guaranteed to fit in the available free space.

https://github.com/cipherlogs/uhugrid
Ok, fine. We can hang out, but no one else.
When they find a body, it's easy.

It's the cases you'll read about when it says the dog "activated" or "altered" five times on the property, even though nothing was found, and that's somehow used as evidence of something.
Would you consider that this could be the goal of ongoing hostile intelligence operations?
Probably was due to this line:

> Snaps mostly work great, and are a great improvement for keepign up to date sw available for people using LTS releases. This and the security improvements brought by the sandboxing greatly overshadow the sometime teething problems of the system.

That being said, I do currently use Ubuntu 20.04 at work (with snap disabled) and it's been pretty great.

E to Add: I don't think snap/flatpak are _inherently_ bad. Snap's implementation however does however cause lots of problems for me. While maybe these are just teething issues, flatpak is right there and works now, with acceptable sandboxing for my usecase.

E2: spelling
> (yes, I occasionally indulge in true crime, sue me!)

Sounds like civil court rather than criminal.