skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> hat about if we change this to "Have sex with your boss or be fired?"

Definite coercion as stated.

But if the boss is already set on firing everyone in the department, but lets one or two people stay on if they have sex with him, I consider that to be a roundabout method of quid-pro-quo prostitution. Plus embezzlement. There's no retaliation if they say no, they go home like everyone else.

And the military example is similar, there's no retaliation, most men are doing the service. The offer of an alternate option, one that very few take, is not the problem here.
That's why we regulate insurance companies in a way not particularly comparable with other businesses.
not if the birth rate has been below replacement and the death rate is at record levels
> Jesus was a jew, and while he wasn't a big fan of death penalties, he certainly believed that all 613 of the minutia-governing rules of judaism were important to obey.

The tradition of there being 613 mitzvot likely dates a century or two after the death of Jesus.
Would Mullvad count? You can even pay anonymously by mailing cash.
And yet afaik no Linux is certified higher than eal4+ and no-one buys them anyway.

Efforts are better placed at isolation and hardening of a standard distro.
You seem to be forgetting that this avoidance can work at two times:

1. pre-emptively dropping or refusing coverage

2. claim inspectors concluding the company has no liability for a particular incident.

It doesn't all need to be #2 (and probably should not be), but it also doesn't all need to be #1 either.
They're not. Unless you've invented a new term "Layer3 Proxy", in which case : fine.
Highly recommend Whatbox.ca - i run a “pirate netflix” for all my family and friends off one cheap VPS. It also provides me with a more censorship-resistant VPN than most usual VPN providers. Many VPN services were blocked in GCC countries but not my private whatbox server VPN.
sounds like an optimization on a workflow I already have to do manually all the time: who called me from phone number X?

related: its frustrating/farsical that phone number search is still not a SolvedProblem in 2024
I have the now-discontinued Sony DPT-RP1, which I use with Jan-Gerd Tenberge’s software (https://github.com/janten/dpt-rp1-py). It works well for reading PDF documents without the need for frequent zooming or scaling.

If I had to replace it today, I’d buy a Fujitsu Quaderno A4 (FMVDP41), which I understand has a design very similar to that of the Sony product.
The violence was already there. It's not a threat to say and honestly mean "otherwise nothing changes (99% of people pick this option)".

The consent issues are all in the forced service itself, and apply to every man equally, whether or not they take the gay proof exemption.
Those are other people's papers about other methods.
> See also Quibble, an experimental bootloader allowing Windows to boot from Btrfs, and Ntfs2btrfs, a tool which allows in-place conversion of NTFS filesystems.

The chocolatey package for WinBtrfs: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/winbtrfs
Yes! For images that are large and you know the user will wait.

But why not use webp too?
Some insurance companies will allow trampolines -- at a cost. We had to get rid of ours because the cost and liability just wasnt worth it.
if taxes have to be raised, it's dead in the water.
Writing anything well is hard.

Writing a good documentation for a function is as hard as writing that function and the skillsets are orthogonal, so the programmer, who for some reason also writes the documentation for the program, does not appreciate the difficulty.

We are left with good documentation as a fortuitous product of coincidence where programming ability and writing ability intersect.
> I'm still getting spam text notifications on my Android because Google isn't confident and I think that's the same reason they haven't already solved unknown callers.

I just checked my messages on my phone running Android 14 and it seems like there is a "spam and blocked" section, of messages that never made it to me and didn't come up as notifications.

Would be nice if they gave me the ability to make spam-likely calls not ring or appear.
The situation is that school want to teach people to write, a difficult skill. But the problem is being a bureaucracy schools actually operate by "turn in two shitty half-assed essays every semester and eventually we hope you'll learn".

And now chatGpt can duplicate that and there's no real skill involved in getting it to do that and neither do they "explore and hone their own thoughts" in this process, mostly you can just an assignment to ChatGpt.
But how many bots on wayland though? I'll stick with X until a Fedi-Display Server comes out.
They call RAID0/1/10 "basic" RAID and RAID5/6 "advanced" RAID. I have no idea why. Maybe because the former doesn't require "advanced" parity calculations or something.
Why don't we use another protocol that isn't so unsafe? Why are we still on SMS.

Actually once you start travelling outside the USA you realize that everyone uses whatsapp for texting friends and businesses. No one uses SMS. At least with whatsapp you get the profile picture and a bio - which is a little more trustworthy.

Such a protocol should allow people to report whether this number is trustworthy or a scam.
But your attack is limp. You're complaining about a project on the basis of cost when it is basically a financial rounding error. The US government is 34 trillion in debt [0], led mainly by the largest welfare state (by absolute size, not by generosity) in the history of the globe. The annual interest on that debt alone is about the size of the total 50 year history of spend on NASA [1]. If, in that context, if you're going to attack a productive project as a waste of money:

1) You aren't seriously looking at the political situation. There are actual budget problems without going to find imaginary ones.

2) You're representing a perspective that clearly has no political power, and you're representing it by attacking one of the easiest programs to justify. If you've got no political power, it makes more sense to attack weak opposing positions.

Finding wasteful US government spending is like shooting fish in a barrel; the forever wars alone are enough to harp on for decades. But you're going to try and launch an attack on the space program, which did at least advance the state of humanity? You're setting yourself up to look silly.

[0] It is already closer to 35 trillion, I wish my salary grew that quickly.

[1] _trampeltier's link
I think this is a unique circumstance. Market at 15th is not really a good area IMO - while it is close to Duboce Triangle (which is very nice), the road noise from Market combined with proximity to the sketch part of SOMA[1] make it fairly undesirable. But in 2014 when the building was brand new, there were many new developments going up in that area (Whole Foods opened around that time), so my guess is buyers were betting that the area would improve rapidly, and that was priced in. 10 years later, it seems pretty clear that that optimism was misplaced, so that premium evaporated.

[1] For example, that Safeway a block away is quite rough: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/safeway-2020-market-s...
> What they are saying is that you can't make a non-arbitrary identification of each dimension. You can call them 1,2,3, and I can call them 2,3,1, and that changes nothing except your arbitrary labels.

I don't understand the point. What is the supposed consequence of that? As far as I can tell, it's an empty statement.

And as I said, there are only two orientations in three dimensions. For an orientation, which is an equivalence class of ordered bases, the order actually does matter. You can call them whatever you want, but once you've called them something, their order matters, which was my original retort.
It increases the chance of a claim against the homeowner insurance if a neighbor's kid gets injured on your property. Even if it ultimately will be on you, the insurance company will likely get sued and may settle which increases costs. They'd rather go the cheaper, drone surveillance route to find offenders early and warn them or else.
How much does a Twitter account cost?
Imagine your last name being Null.

Or Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
Can LLMs read the genome? This one decoded mRNA to make better vaccines
Thanks for the reference. I have heard of Graeber before for his other book Dept, but haven't looked into this book before.
Given that my insurer has never once stepped foot in any property of mine they've ever insured, the idea that I have to tell them when I replace the tiles in the bathroom seems a little ... crazy.

Obviously, if I add rooms or extend vertically, they need to know. But "remodel" covers a lot.
You support the open web by stealing from the closed one!
Wouldn't it have been easier to just have someone drive-by comment on the changes in the source tree in the comment? Like "what's up with this?"

Though I guess you end up with some other questions if it's totally anonymous. But I often will do a quick look over commits of things that I upgrade (more for backwards compat questions than anything but)
Sponsorblock for YouTube has been down for 12 hours
Dune: Part Two Leaks Early on Pirate Sites 'In Memory of EVO'
It is an American thing and the WSJ is generally American articles so you are going to get a lot of American-related responses.
It's generally good for append-only workloads.

Where C* databases seems to fall down are point updates and in this case, requirement to implement your own aggregations.

For these workloads you are much better off (unless you are already running C* somewhere and are super familiar with it) with something like Clickhouse or if you need good slice and dice then Druid or Pinot.
Pools are 'attractive nuisances'
When coming up with a name for something, the significance of the name should be the first thing that comes to mind, not the opposite thing or a thing that requires explanation. When people say the name of your tool, you won’t always be there to explain it.
This forum is an example of our progress in this area since 1949. It is read widely by the rich and poor globally, with impressively little filtering by its owners. Every comment we make here evades control by the rich on a scale that would have been science fiction to Einstein. The control of the means of communication by the rich has cracked in detail, and we seem to be witnessing the not very slow crumbling of traditional media.

And a growing demand to replace it with state control.
Maybe it’s rose tinted glasses but WW holds up much better today as well, in my opinion. The combat in that game is just absolutely wonderful.
Everything I've read about btrfs's RAID5/6 deficiencies is that it can't tolerate sudden losses of power (aka write hole problem), which I think is fine so long as you are aware of it and implement appropriate safety measures such as a UPS or APU.

And besides, if you are doing RAID you are probably concerned with the system's uptime which probably means you will have implemented such measures anyway.

Note that, yes, I'm aware most home users either aren't aware (nobody RTFM) or are too lazy/cheap to buy a UPS from Office Depot. So perhaps btrfs is warning people to save them from themselves.
> That said this case seems cut and dry, their employment contract explicitly prohibited them from trading in stock of any company if they had non public information that could impact price, and they made the trades 7 minutes after learning the information[1]. It’s hard to see how they could plausibly argue they did not at minimum breach their employment contract, if nothing else.

It does seem cut and dried that he breached the employment contract. That is very different from being found guilty of a crime though (this was a criminal case).

I'll be interested to see how this and other cases on the edge of insider trading turn out. Things get murky when someone relies on correlations between stock prices (and this fellow lost money on some of the options he sold just a few weeks later, which indicates how imperfect the correlations can be).
I doubt it, based on what some MS employees have commented here in the past.
Every time I get depressed about being at Tulane I think about Jim Clark.
It's a resource constraint issue . First step of any new administration should be to do an inventory and assess whether the population trajectory is sustainable.
Ordinary Russians willingly pay taxes that fund that war.
"A 5′ UTR language model for decoding untranslated regions of mRNA and function predictions" https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00823-9
There is very little acceptable roofing slate available in the USA. PA has a few quarries that provide it, but according to roofers (in PA) that I talked to, it is still nowhere close in quality to, say, Welsh slate. Too many voids which when coupled with much more severe freeze/thaw cycling in much of the USA leads to early failures.

I think you may be overestimating the extent to which UK houses are held for "generations.
Auralia: Aphantasia for Audio
They don’t build many skyscrapers in Tokyo compared to its population: Tokyo has 173 skyscrapers at 14 million people, Chicago has 137 skyscrapers at less than 3 million. Most of the housing is 10-15 stories, under 150 meters. Tokyo has made huge investments in transportation, but a lot of that is private. They also have a multi billion dollar drainage system needed to keep the city from flooding.

HK is the gold standard for skyscraper living, if that’s what you are into. It is still very expensive though.
Should have been ZFS. :*^(
How about swarms of autonomous agents, such as AutoGPT, maybe thousands per human eventually, amassing karma points on all forums, including this one?

I can see in a few years each human being surrounded by a ton of LLM agents, "shepherding" their views, downvoting their messages or distracting them with argumentative conversations if they don't conform, and facilitating reputational attacks on scale on all the people whose speech is recognized as being contrary to what's desired.

Of course, there wouldn't be just one group deploying these swarms. It would be lots of different groups, akin to slaughterbots video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

The difference is that there wouldn't be physical violence, it would just gradually turn the entire Internet into a dark forest.
SNI header from TLS handshake is unencrypted so service providers (and Government's packet inspection engines) absolutely do see what website you are visiting

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

Server Name Indication payload is not encrypted, thus the hostname of the server the client tries to connect to is visible to a passive eavesdropper. This protocol weakness was exploited by security software for network filtering and monitoring[4][5][6] and governments to implement censorship.[7] Presently, there are multiple technologies attempting to hide Server Name Indication.

Also some countries may mandate users to install and trust government's CA certificate which is then used to MITM HTTPS traffic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a...
Without having a Twitter account I have a really hard time following these threads. Is there some write up?

Edit : Check comments.

Yes, the backdoor hasn't been decompiled/reverse engineered yet. But it feels like clickbait to say : "It goes deeper"... Obviously. Nobody knows what it fully does yet. There was no assumption of knowing what it did.
A wogembibobble is definitely going to look blobby, because the word is firmly on the bouba side of the kiki/bouba distinction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
This is good insight.

I've been experimenting with the newer features to get concurrent writes working but I don't like that I have to have more than one database file, means I end up having to move lots of files around - might as well use MySQL and.. move files around.

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...
How did you sleep last night? Your cynicism is slowing.

Just this year, the IRS started a direct file pilot program that flies in the face of "it absolutely would not work". It's not everything, but it's a start.
ReFS is terrible. We have seen so many customers lose data on ReFS that I started strongly advising everyone against using it.

One example: If you (accidentally or on purpose) attach a ReFS disk or LUN to a newer Windows version, it will be silently upgraded to a new ReFS version without any feedback (or chance to prevent it) for the user. No way of attaching the disk on an older Windows version afterwards. But that is not the real problem. The real problem is that the upgrade runs as a separate (user-space) process. If this process crashes or your PC crashes or reboots while it runs, your data is gone. There is no feedback how long it still has to run (we've seen multiple days on large volumes)

So yeah, maybe avoid ReFS for a few more years...
3 to 13 Earth diameters.
Probably a bit of mental health.
I thought nitter was officially dead. Nice to see some instances are still working
there’s nothing “rough” about that area

i live right over there. you can pick a dozen other condos in SF outside of downtown being listed today and doubt any of them are selling for much more than a decade ago if at all. this is not an uncommon situation right now.
In fact Google Podcasts is shutting down; the podcasts will be served via Youtube Music.
> And note that Jpegli is actually worse than MozJPEG and libjpeg-turbo at medium-low qualities. Something like libjpeg-turbo q75 is the crossover point I believe.

May I ask how you came to this conclusion?

The Cloudinary article appears to show jpegli beating mozjpeg and turbojpeg even at the "Medium" setting (less bits per pixel).
Except for the mandated ones, like car insurance.
i don't see how it needs to be any different from pen and paper.
> sound does not travel through space

They’re not in space. They’re in the Sun. There is presumably some acoustic transmission in that medium.
> "There's a million ways to get caught for murder, and if you can think of half of them, you're a genius."

Does "think of half" apply to the folks trying to solve murders?
Remarkable 2 is good enough for technical PDFs but is definitely not as good as the scribe head-to-head as a book reading device. But if a person insists on something “hackable” (god knows why) then the Remarkable is the better choice.
US has a lot of different weather patterns than the UK. UK sits at a latitude similar to that of states like Washington, Montana, and North Dakota. The choice of roofing materials is also influenced by building regulations and codes, which can vary between countries and even within regions, dictating the use of certain materials for fire resistance, insulation, and other safety and performance standards. Cost-effectiveness is a factor. Like Florida with crazy hurricanes, no reason to be spending money on something besides asphalt architectural style shingles. Some people do get metal roofs. But if its going to get blown off, then why?
> You might think it’s obvious what an acronym means, but a new reader may not.

The other scenario is when the reader is not new, but it is too late to ask.
Eh, Kafka isn't easy to fuck up. If anything it's stupidly hard to fuck up assuming you aren't completely incompetent and didn't read up on how it works or the main caveats. I say that because there really isn't much to Kafka in the first place (as long as you aren't including things like Kafka Streams or Kafka Connect etc).

Operationally there are some annoying things in OSS Kafka (hot partitions, controller failover slowness pre-KRaft, etc) but it's overall bog simple and easy to work with if you can accept the things it doesn't do (queue-like behavior).

I don't love Kafka these days but the fear mongering is a bit much.

Sidenote: If you think you want Kafka you should probably check Pulsar first, in most cases you probably want Pulsar or due to changing requirements you would have been better off going Pulsar from the start.
Ignoring the closed web is not the same as supporting the open web. I support whatever mirrors and tools get closed knowledge into the open.

(Edited to remove snark.)
> Based on your tone and profile you probably aren't interested in better information here, but I'll offer anyway.

You might be surprised :) I come across as emotional online because I'm genuinely invested in things, not because I'm looking to flame, which means I'm actually far more likely than the average person to change my mind if given good arguments, because I'm actually putting my views on the line. I reacted as harshly as I did to the GP mostly because they didn't actually substantiate anything, just made a broad unsubstantiated claim and followed it up with annoying dismissive rhetoric.

On the other hand, this is useful information, and I appreciate you providing something to make this discussion more interesting. Your input certainly does make the tradeoff picture more complex, and I'm certainly a fan of letting each team decide what moves are best for it, and agree that moving to memory safe languages is a long term thing (or a thing for greenfield projects), not an imminant emergency.

Nevertheless, I still think it's more important than to deserve a dismissive "one percent of one percent, we should keep starting new projects in C." For one thing, CVEs might be more important than you let on, since while yes, most breaches are the result of social engineering and such, not bad code per se, we as tech people can only really control what our tech does, do we should focus on breaches that result from technical faults — and wouldn't that usually be CVEs? And if we're looking at CVEs, it seems like we're just looking at things from different perspectives: I'm looking at how to decrease the volume of critical CVEs, and seeing a handy majority of them are caused by memory safety violations that can be fixed with essentially a tooling change, which seems like a big win to me, whereas you're looking at what CVEs end up being exploited, and saying that since it's about 50/50 logic bugs, memory safety doesn't matter. To me, it seems like the ratio of which ones actually get exploited is probably a bit arbitrary, because which ones get used and which don't probably is, so we should focus on just minimizing how many we produce at all, though. Moreover even at 50/50 or so, it seems worthwhile to deal with memory safety, especially since again dealing with it just requires using tools that stop you from creating those bugs, whereas trying to "solve" programmers creating logic bugs is like cold fusion unless you wanna program in Coq (and even then...). As for there being a bunch of other issues memory safe languages can't fix... sure, but why not deal with what we can deal with? It sort of seems like whataboutism.
In the US, a lavish lifestyle can be funded on credit, so it's only an approximation. You don't know how much in debt the person driving the Benz is or isn't.
Oh. Nitter didn't stop working a few weeks ago after all?

Oops, now that's giving:

Instance has been rate limited.
Use another instance or try again later.

So maybe "kind of working" is the better description. :)