skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it odd that PCs are getting bigger and have Windows on the side, and lots of LEDs lighting up various things like fans...
How is the price not crashing? It's down 10%, which is pretty much like the rest of the market.
It is generally a Soviet trait to conflate followers of Mussolini with nazis.

Arguably, communists are a greater problem than fringe nazi groups exactly because while being a nazi is not acceptable in a decent company, being a communist unfortunately is despite all historical evidence of their dangerousness.

But you are still avoiding the key question -- are you taking it upon yourself to determine who is a "fascist" to suffer consequences, and who is not?
Optimistically - relying on "single source" stories is something we're already learning on other media to avoid. There's regular good advice shared about not reacting to tragedy reported on Twitter if there's not independent sources of confirmation. We're getting closer to the point of human existence where there are enough people with cameras in their pocket to be able to expect multiple images/video from different angles of any newsworthy event. Deepfake isn't (probably? yet?) capable of modifying multiple video streams from different angles in a consistent fashion...
Don't forget grep!
GDPR applies to "natural persons", which I think mostly excludes animals (I base this on us killing animals all the time and it doesn't count as murder).
Someone has already asked that, and the response was, such systems are still theoretical without a working proof of concept.
Google used to highlight all of their ads in a separately colored box. Now, ads are marked by the word "Ad" in fairly tiny print, and the ad is formatted to look as identical as a real search result as possible.

Google's entire search engine design is based around deceiving users into clicking on ads they thought were search results.
> I see Bitcoin moving toward an intermediary system where you have a "Bitcoin balance" with a "Bitcoin bank" that allows you to make immediate transactions and takes on the risk and time delay of settling these transactions on the blockchain over the course of the next day or two.

How would this system differ from an ordinary bank in the system we have now?
Unless I misread this deal seems to only cover shuttling for their employees. I think Apple has realized how far behind they are in this area and I'm not sure what they can do at this point to keep up with Waymo and others.
So there's a theoretical problem, and a solution available.

Why should VirtualBox take the pain now rather than waiting and seeing if the theoretical issue every materializes? I mean, if someone does the work and tests it, then sure, VirtualBox should adopt it. But why is this their problem to solve now?
Ask HN: What tools, apps, and processes do you use to stay productive?
And what are the pros and cons of each?
> Pretty weak line of reasoning.

Hardly. What, exactly, does bitcoin add to our world? Near as I can tell it's only use case is Making Money Fast (for the folks at the top of the pyramid, anyway) and scamming the bejesus out of all the rubes who fall for the con.

> How much energy do you and everyone else waste doing things that don't add value to my life or society?

Bitcoin is estimated to consume more than 0.5% of all the worlds energy. Many nations use less power than bitcoin consumes. Bitcoin can process a mere 4 transactions per second. Please go on and explain to me why this is even a remotely acceptable thing.

The whole space is a deplorable shame and people like you should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. You are a drain on the planet's limited resources.
Do you have any evidence to support that statement?
No, you have to ask and receive consent explicitly for the processing you want to do, not as part of some larger package.
That's a stunningly bad idea; it amounts to rating how well articles feed into public (or, rather, the sites users) preestablished biases, which is the only basis most users will have to rate the “core truth” of most news stories.

At best, it's useless, at worst it contributes to further suppressing any news story that challenges widely accepted narratives.
sure, and they didn't reach everyone either.
A counterexample: Resident Evil was actually harder in the US because they removed the auto aim feature, specifically so US game renters would have a hard time beating it. I'm sure there are more examples of both kinds of modifications for the US market.
> They simply see a massive inflow of money and get to hobble foreign competitors of local companies.

That appears to be a baseless comment.

> It's a protectionist law

Or another way to look at it the US tech sector is no longer going to pick and choose which of our laws apply to it.
Shame that that article puts "cross-dressing" on par with "wire-tapping, Constitution-stomping, blackmailing, bully". We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go.
For certain ways of writing the BIOS - you can have the BIOS immediately enter 32/64-bit flat addressing mode (as if you were a 32/64-bit kernel) and then drop back to 16-bit mode when you're done if you need to do a legacy MBR boot. I think this is how coreboot/libreboot/linuxboot/etc. and Tianocore/EDK2 work.

Can you use Tianocore as your BIOS for VirtualBox the way that you can use it (in the form of OVMF) for qemu?

How is SeaBIOS built?
It's still trustless, decentralized, yadda yadda.
A 51% attack, like you're saying, only needs more than half of the hashing power and that's it, and the whole thing is blown. But then again, all you need is 51% more weapons than your enemy and you can probably beat them too.
There are some working solutions now, like NEO, Dash, and NXT. Ethereum is sure to adopt it as well; a lot of details are TBD but there's little question that the community will adopt some form of PoS.

I'm not saying it's perfect -- there are some downsides like needing a cap on fork distance in order to prevent stake bleeding attacks [1] -- but it's certainly viable.

[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/248.pdf
There is a practical problem that VirtualBox is in Debian contrib and not main because it cannot be built with tools in Debian main. (Whether this is a practical problem that matters to anyone is a different question, but it's more than theoretical.)
Nobody was counting time spent outside the home as time spent ignoring your kids.

Of course people were counting that!

I recall a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin phones up his dad at work and asks him what he's doing. "Don't you think a game of Calvinball would be more fun?" (It would be, of course, so Calvin's dad heads home to play.) Or just think about the cliche of a politician retiring "to spend more time with his/her family."

Your examples sound great and noble but not really very realistic. Realistic is parents checking Facebook and Instagram at otherwise idle moments -- "idle" when they could be paying attention to their kids.

You are probably right that historically, many fathers were absent a lot of the time. That has definitely changed a lot but I don't think smartphones are the cause.

Even if everything you said is correct, there could still be a significant difference between "my dad isn't here a lot of the time" and "my dad ignores me a lot of the time" (smartphones greatly enabling the latter). Neither is great, but the latter in particular risks setting a dangerous example to kids when it comes to them learning how to socialize with others.
And even writing some 16-bit code using gcc is not impossible too. The problem is that it lacks support for things like near and far pointers.
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Searching for Privacy in the Internet of Bodies
The exchange can have thresholds for total volume per given time interval then. Once the total amount of pending transactions breaches a given volume, the transaction period for more transactions within the window goes up.
"master a few commands"

"awk"

brb 15 years
I dunno. Seems like it would be trivial for the US to figure out that the phenomenon corresponded to whatever change in their gear caused it.
I had a similar first thought: it is going to drive us even deeper into an echo chamber.
However, you still can get a virus from an exploit one without a patch deployed or a zero day. This require no action of your own. Although keeping your system up to date lessens the risk. It's not zero though.

Moreover, if your running anything that is not very niche or custom system people are probably targeting it. I am not sure I would call BSD niche enough. Also, even if you are using a niche system that does protect you against a targeted attack. If you were a government a target attack is much more likely. Honestly, unless you have 100% bug free software and hardware, and its designed with security in mind. The possibility of malware taking advantage of bugs exists.

Moreover, that excludes social engineering and getting someone to do something stupid. Even if the system normally is extremely secure.

If we are getting super serious considering all the firmware that exists in a computer. If a system ever ran code you did not audit you can never be sure that system is secure. Even if you have an AV. You would have to re-flash any firmware that could be written to by the CPU, and reinstall the OS as soon you ran code that you did not audit. I doubt there really is any system except small embedded systems that you can audit all the code that closely. Modern systems just have too many layers.
Don't have anything near this bad, but anecdotally I've felt alot better/cleaner less 'clogged' stomach wise after drinking lemon water (like 1oz lemon juice+water, no sugar) regularly and eating pickles - I had a similar 'cleaning the gut' theory.
Real-time decoding of Voyager audio images
It's indeed sad. My only consolations are (i) like you said, indie games are still an oasis of bubbling creativity in a desert of insipid money-makers, and (ii) there are more brilliant old games I'm still yet to play than I could complete in many many years.
To eliminate single points of failure, siloing and centralized control. Right now a small group of massive incumbent institutions collect quite significant rents in exchange for providing market access and maintaining custody of funds. This involves tons of transaction costs, slowness, brittleness, mistakes, and of course, severely restricts who by and how these markets can be accessed.

Tokenizing securities can open that up, make it more transparent, safer, and less friendly to incumbent interests.
So it's ok if your currency becomes unreliable for many hours? It would immediately negate the trust of what happened during that period of time, affecting the trust of any balance in participating addresses.
In our current system, we have centralized, government bank run clearing houses that you cannot use (which Bitcoin could hypothetically replace). For a Bitcoin-based financial system, you can opt to pay higher fees and clear transactions on your own, or store your wealth in your own wallets and take on the management effort and fees in exchange for autonomy.
It's a terrible article, more like. LinkedIn says his job before Snap was for Facebook, title "Lead Technical PM, Applied Machine Learning".
Many people use exchanges for arbitrage. Exchanges benefit from arbitrage since they take a fee out of every trade and because they want their prices to be close to the international price of the asset.

This trade would look exactly the same as an arbitrage move.
If the President (doesn't matter who) showed up at your house, in your living room, would you still claim the right to deny entry to anyone you chose?

The judgement governs the President's use of Twitter, not the interaction between Twitter and other people. Twitter does not magically become a Public Forum, just because the President uses it.

Now, I'm not sure that is Right and Just, but I'm also not going to worry about it too much. I don't use it enough to get completely wound up about it.
I want to live in a world where the individual has control over their data, but I don't think GDPR will help create that world.

Imagine you are a company that makes $500k+/year off of user data. You are not just going to stop doing it because of GDPR, you are going to spend up to $500k on lawyers figuring out how to get around it.
all it takes is a celebrity tweet to tell them to click "decline" and it becomes a meme.
I'd much rather Apple just buy Divvy and integrate that. It's more flexible and much less prone to error.
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I made a window snapping script for macOS using the open source utility hammerspoon.

It supports keyboard and mouse snapping for windows with fullscreen, half screen, quarter screen and center presets.

I'll leave my old comment about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12097859

And a link to the script here: https://gist.github.com/spartanatreyu/850788a0441e1c5565668a...
This is very neat, and I think it's probably the future of law, where legalese is more of a compile target than something humans actually write.

What kinds of guarantees do you offer? Would you still need a lawyer to look over any documents this thing generates, and is that a part of your premium plan?
Philip Roth Wasn't Judgmental Enough for His Critics
It could be argued that the trust could still be misplaced, but the idea that we can't trust governments for currency is barking up the wrong tree.

The fundamental problems of inequality don't stem from Treasury, but rather from the game theory concept of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_ruin making barriers to entry for new players always higher than the incumbents. You can take this all the way down to the bottom, in the example of having no car to be a delivery driver, and to get a loan for a car is a tremendous risk.
I spent so many hours on that. I remember a later version of Encarta absolutely nerfing it though, and I have no idea why.
Prioritize workloads with FaunaDB's quality-of-service API
> have you seen parents at the bus stop, say, playing on their phones and not paying attention to their kids? (I say "their" but this is almost every parent, some time or other.) That's new behavior that didn't exist before smartphones, because it couldn't.

I saw plenty of people at bus stops or similar places with kids ignoring them long before smartphones. Sure, the use of a smartphone while doing so is new, but it doesn't fundamentally transform anything.
If the injuries are indeed real than what I wrote is eliminated as a possible logical option of what’s going on.
> A ground-up rewrite for... window snapping? :-)

No, but it does need to be brought on par with the state of the art in UNIX world — things like process sandboxing, container support, process limits (like cgroups), a modern development environment (like .net is for Windows), better package management (App Store is a bad joke), cross platform development between for iOS and macOS, stability, performance enhancements etc. In fact, I am OK with the UI — it could do with some modernisation and new features, but for the most part, it is very usable.

And the tooling could definitely do with an upgrade. They are still using an ancient version of bash, for example. If they can’t use newer bash because of GPL, they could write their own shell, for example. The fact that something like Homebrew is the go to package manager tells the story of a major gap.
I should have mentioned that in both cases, it is a bit of a pipe dream to think you can envision what the compiler will churn out.

Especially with one that is constantly evolving like kotlinc.

Some of the bad practices of 5 years ago have devolved into cargo cults and the compiler can actually handle these cases fine now.

So I guess that this is not that great of a reason to choose either Java or Kotlin.

In both cases, if performances are critical and lacking, you will have to whip out systrace and look at the bytecode.
Do you have a written plan on how you will make money with this - like a business plan? If not, take a day off and work out a complete outline on what you want to achieve and how you will get there.

I totally get what you are saying and have been there myself - the development stage is fun, and you avoid / defer marketing tasks because, let's face it most of us HATE that stuff. But if you want to make money, you need to do it, and having a plan helps because you have the 'big tasks' broken up into little chunks.

Once you have broken down the steps you can plan your time - start by spending an hour a day on one of the marketing tasks, just to get into the mindset and work from there. You might find some marketing tasks are fun, just as doing a blog / video demo of the product, or putting together a collection of cool screenshots showing what it can do.

Your very first marketing task is to post here with a screenshot or something showing what your product looks like, or even the name - marketing is part getting the name out and I haven't seen that in this post anywhere yet.

So, yes it is hard but take it in small steps - one at a time and be persistent.
What a nightmarish reality to live in. You can’t trust your own parents, friends, neighbors, etc.
DNA contamination is already turning out to be very widespread, we shed it everywhere, it lasts, and can get on victims' clothing, fingernails, etc.. Also contamination in labs.

Read recently about a case with apparently solid DNA evidence under victim's fingernails, supposed perp no real memory, but it turns out the police had him in custody at the time of the crime. He'd eaten in the same restaurant days earlier. I can't find the article quickly, but it was recent.

Some others:
https://newrepublic.com/article/123177/how-dna-evidence-incr...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/a-reaso...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Not really. The problem is that people grow and change and even a few years so it's highly unlikely you'll have a single person who you can even constantly learn from, unless you're on a very long and well-defined career path and know somebody else who has been on or studied it well.

Most people just need a good group of people to talk to. It obviously helps if they have more senior experience and have seen the problems already, but sometimes exact peers can also help via adding a new perspective.
Even then we still have the issue of binary blobs of firmware. Also hardware it's self may be exploitable. For a truly secure system everything would have to be audit-able. Also as soon as you run or insert anything into system you did not audit that whole system might as be treated as un-audited as well. Since what ever that was may have modified firmware or software.

That also exclude any subtle bugs that people may miss.
Leasing services opposed to mail order retail? Seems like a very different business to me.
U.S. Government Can’t Get Controversial Kaspersky Lab Software Off Its Networks
While your points on the economy are valid, I disagree with your take on Duplex.

Duplex isn't about scheduling or calendars, it's about robots conversing with humans. It's proof of concept, a stepping stone on the path to general artificial intelligence.
How is Fuchsia pronounced? Is it like "f*ck+sia"? Or more like "fushia"?

Edit: looking up in dictionay, it's actually /fjuːʃə/.
I was curious about the cost as well, so I ran some rough numbers.

417.5 BTC/GH/day for equihash if you're renting from nicehash [1].
Block interval 10 minutes [2]. 144 blocks per day target yields 0.0869 BTC/block, so cost of the 22 block reversal was ~1.91 BTC, or roughly $15k.

I'm curious if this was done as one large deposit, or many smaller deposits. I've imagined a system where block confirmations required are based on a computed cost of attack done like I did above, which would be pretty effective for very large single transaction double spends. A bit trickier to handle multiple deposits spread across multiple user accounts.

[1]: https://api.nicehash.com/api?method=simplemultialgo.info

[2]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2284289.0;all
It doesn't.

But if the new system is better than the old one, why would comparing it to the old one imply that anyone using the new one should be ashamed of doing so?
I attribute the loss of confidence and the old "get up and go" attitude of our ancestor Americans to the complete failure of the culture and the K-12 education system in most rural counties around the country.

This trait is now more commonly found in immigrants coming into the United States.
Perhaps us Europeans should demand that US law is drafted in a way that is more familiar to us? In fact I find the hierarchy of state and federal law really complicated compared to UK law, so you should change that too.

Sarbanes-Oxley in particular is much more draconian than any UK corporate law, and this is a barrier to me coming and breaking the law in the US, so you should change that too.

I didn't vote for your overseas faceless bureaucrat either, so I can I treat US law as optional?

Sorry Team America, you don't get to choose our laws
Was Hirata Atsutane Japan’s First Science Fiction Writer?
If Visa or SEPA got hacked over 12 hours and then fixed the root cause, would you stop using credit cards or bank transfers altogether? I would not.
If Darpa Wants to Stop Deepfakes, They Should Talk to Facebook and Google
I was objecting to the phrase "only americans in US consulates", when clearly it's not. Kind of pedantic, I know.

That said, asserting that it's not "beyond the realm of possibility" that this phenomena might affect US allies because of shared equipment is pure conjecture. Many things about this are not beyond the realm of possibility.
Bugger off! I am an IPv6 evangelist by the way but feel sold short and here's why:

IPv6 out of the box is not able to safely cope with multiple links to the rest of the internet. For example, you have a 100MB leased line and four FTTC connections to your site - which I happen to have. Each of those links has a IPv6 prefix and for me those are all /56. So far so good - I've got a lot of IPv6 addresses.

So, I use SLAAC to dole out five lots of addresses to my systems. There is no way for my systems to know which links are up or even to decide which ones would be favourite unless I turn everyone into a "router lite" via say OSPF. So I have to use my router to do that and use NPT to do NAT by another name.

IPv6 out of the box does not work properly with multiple links to the internet.

I really do feel quite ashamed when I say that I think IPv6 is badly broken. I deploy the bloody thing because its all we have. I remember that back in the seventies that this internet thing was touted as being able to route around problems due to nuclear attack. That was IPv4. Which is shit.

We have been sold out big style, several times. IPv6 can't cope with multi link without NAT via a different name and telephony has no useful ENUM.

Your internet is not run by genial Engineers. It's fucked up by entrenched monopolies, worldwide.
Humans are humans, regardless of what country they live in. If I have a larger dataset than you, and I can do more things with it, then I can predict human behavior in a given situation better than you can. That gives me a competitive advantage over you. I may be able to then go compete with you in the EU without ever having to violate the ML provisions of GDPR, because I know what humans - whether in the EU or US - will do.

Granted, there are some country-specific behaviors that this will not apply to, but then nobody will be finding out what those are in the EU because it's now illegal to do there.
I feel like this quote[0] from David Foster Wallace is relevant here:

"perfectionism is very dangerous because, of course, if your fidelity to perfection is too high you never do anything, because doing anything results in... it's actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is, and umm, there were a couple years where I really struggled with that."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5R8gduPZw4