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pathseeker commented on FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood' reason.com/2022/04/08/the... · Posted by u/fortran77

DoctorOW · 3 years ago

> We should start over, get rid of those parasites, move the capital to the center of the USA like Lebanon, KS out of the swamp.

The physical location of the capitol has been irrelevant since airplanes, cell phones, and the internet. The swamp is a metaphor, not a physical place.

pathseeker · 3 years ago

That's not true. Significant amounts of lobbying and palm greasing happen in person, explicitly off of cell phones. It's not a coincidence that all of the companies that receive massive amounts of federal government money have headquarters around DC.

pathseeker commented on FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood' reason.com/2022/04/08/the... · Posted by u/fortran77

DaiPlusPlus · 3 years ago

> people in the neighbourhood are politically influent, that's why they are treated that way, not because they are rich

When (and where) is there a difference?

What neighborhoods are there where rich people reside who have no more social or political influence than people living in The Projects?

pathseeker · 3 years ago

>What neighborhoods are there where rich people reside who have no more social or political influence than people living in The Projects?

Compared to this one? Nearly all of them. The neighborhoods in Mountain View are filled with affluent people that have no connection to federal politicians and no influence over the FBI at all.

pathseeker commented on 6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden? 19fortyfive.com/2021/09/6... · Posted by u/graderjs

pathseeker · 4 years ago

The navy was in a conflict with illiterate goat herders?

pathseeker commented on Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016) probablydance.com/2016/02... · Posted by u/l5870uoo9y

iammisc · 4 years ago

Functional programming is the most popular current paradigm. What is everyone on about? Javascript, a functional language, is one of the most popular languages ever. Rust and go, two other popular languages, also eschew object-oriented programming, the former dominant paradigm, for a truly functional one.

C++ is gaining more and more functional features, and this is quickly becoming the predominant style.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

Rust and Go pull in some stuff from functional programming (first class functions) but are not really designed around functional programming as the way to get things done.

Most go programming I've seen is like python where you are slinging around maps that are getting modified all over the place. Very antithetical to functional programming.

pathseeker commented on Show HN: Weather API for non-commercial use open-meteo.com/en/docs... · Posted by u/meteo-jeff

kqr · 4 years ago

One thing I'm missing from virtually every weather service is access to ensemble forecasts. Meteorologists internally deal in ensemble forecasts, but never, as far as I know, publish them. All public data has been condensed down to a single forecast.

The ensemble forecast would -- I imagine -- give me an idea of the internal variability of the forecast for a single hour/day, which I could feed into my personal loss function and determine more accurately how to prepare to minimise discomfort.

As a concrete example, a single forecast of 17 °C can correspond to many ensemble forecasts, including

- 90 % range 11--20 °C

- 90 % range 18--22 °C

and these two mean very different things for how I'd dress and what extra clothes I'd bring.

It's even more important e.g. when planning a long drive. If the 90 % range includes heavy downpour, it might be worth rescheduling or adding buffer time to the trip, even if the most likely single forecast only predicts drizzle.

What would it take to get access to this data?

pathseeker · 4 years ago

didn't dark sky used to show these uncertainty ranges?

pathseeker commented on September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time 911realtime.org/... · Posted by u/smohnot

bradknowles · 4 years ago

When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747 — on accident, presumably. So, that issue was taken into consideration.

At the time of the attack, more modern aircraft were used, which had much thinner skins and were much more lightly constructed. Which means that they got much more shredded by the building construction as they passed through, and which also helped take off a lot more of the fire insulation from the trusses in the building.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

>When the towers were first built, one of the design questions was whether or not they could survive being hit by a 747

no, it was a 707 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eE8d94qGPo&t=232s

pathseeker commented on Cross-Account Container Takeover in Azure Container Instances unit42.paloaltonetworks.c... · Posted by u/arkadiyt

dlor · 4 years ago

The root cause was a chain of known exploits due to very out of date software:

* RunC v1.0.0-rc2 was released on Oct. 1, 2016, and was vulnerable to at least two container breakout CVEs.

* ACI was hosted on clusters running either Kubernetes v1.8.4, v1.9.10 or v1.10.9. These versions were released between November 2017 and October 2018 and are vulnerable to multiple publicly known vulnerabilities.

Running multitenant workloads in Kubernetes is notoriously difficult, and staying on top of patches is simply table-stakes.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

It's not difficult, it's reckless bordering on incompetence. The shared kernel is just way to much attack space and shared resources to make it tenable in the face of adversaries.

pathseeker commented on Ask HN: Graduating CS soon, how do I find a job? · Posted by u/throwawayjobs

jjav · 4 years ago

> They're literally trying to turn thousands of resumes from hundreds of schools into curated packets of dozens of candidates.

This would indicate that there is a severe oversupply of candidates eager to work in this industry.

Which may well be true, but conflicts with the narrative that there is a severe shortage of people.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

candidates != qualified candidates

A shit ton of people apply to FAANG companies because of the money on the table despite having no professional experience as a software engineer nor writing any code.

pathseeker commented on Honk: An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs humungus.tedunangst.com/r... · Posted by u/perihelions

platz · 4 years ago

> The honk mission is to work well if it's what you want.

> This does not imply the goal is to be what you want.

Unless this is an art project or considers obfuscation a virtue, you may need some help with marketing your idea (in the most charitable interpretation of the word marketing).

Writing with intent to provide clarity and understanding to the reader would be a first step.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

Not everyone is selling a product nor do they care about catering to the lowest common denominator.

pathseeker commented on AlphaGo documentary (2020) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6... · Posted by u/rdli

duttaditya18 · 4 years ago

That is a good thing.

pathseeker · 4 years ago

no it's not

"identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."