skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short answer is that they probably wanted to be identified. After all, it's an intelligence operation, so it serves several disinfo/doublecross-related purposes simultaneously.

The -bear APTs (fancy, fuzzy, etc.) had already been associated with russian military intelligence for years, by the civillian cybersecurity community, posting evidence of that on the public internet, before the election.

(There's always the possibility that some other organization is posing as russian military intelligence & using a well-known APT to spoof their own work. But, supporting multiple sides of a conflict in a way that leaves clear evidence is standard MO for russian intelligence since the 90s -- though typically, russian intelligence will publically take credit for the ops later on.)

It's important to understand that the primary purpose was probably not to get a particular candidate elected, but instead to undermine public trust in the election apparatus. (The easiest way to do that is to take advantage of the fact -- generally known among security people but not among normies -- that the election apparatus actually is pretty insecure.) Actually influencing election results is secondary to making sure american citizens argue over whether or not they were influenced by a foreign power.
In my experience, the Intel drivers are always the most stable and the closest to their Windows performance. Although I haven't tried the new AMDGPU yet.
What would be a better way, do you think?
We do? We might pretend we would like to. But we can't even distinguish whether a decision was made with free will or not and we don't even attempt to try and find out.
Back when I was a cashier we all passively resisted asking if they had the store credit card for exactly this reason. Corporate never could get the compliance rates up.
Is there a way to do nonlinearity (ReLU) in the Winograd domain?
They made $265MM dollars last quarter, up from $178MM same time last year. That’s on $711MM of revenue.
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> We use less than 3% cobalt in our batteries & will use none in next gen - Elon Musk

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1006968985760366592
Ah, makes sense, thanks.

I obviously don't know your situation, but if it offers anything my dad was 44 when he had me and 47 when he had my brother. He's been a great dad. Sure, I wish he was younger so that I'd have more time with him, but I also think we kept him younger (both mentally and more physically active).
It's also nice sitting in silence with only my thoughts, watching the world go by.
Pedantry: I think you can transliterate from Cyrillic. But you can't transcribe from Cyrillic.

There are situations in which you have to transliterate, rather than transcribe, because you don't know what language it is. For example, it's a name in a list of names of people from different places.
Disclosure: I work with Flock, a messaging product.

I think even though the industry is fairly nascent, a lot of team messaging products seem to occupy unique sweetspots. It's probably just a case of which product suits an individual's/ team's working style more. In fact, I have seen different people rate the same set of features in contrasting ways.

That said, a lot of stuff which you mentioned resonates with features we feel are critical as well (integrated group video chat with screen sharing, seamless integrations, better pricing, among others). We have had a bunch of Hipchat users migrate to Flock over the past few months using our migration tool. Per the reviews we got, they found the transition pretty seamless. If you want to give us a try, reach out to us at support at flock dot com. We do have some offers for Hipchat/ Stride users :)
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I like it, and that solves an interesting use case. I'd say there's a use case of assumed-private email and assumed-public email, and you're trying to solve both at the same time. What I'd want is basically this combined with a mailing list system where mailing lists could be made and ended quickly - like a slack channel, that ties to this.

I hope you all do well with this!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617210
I suspect that jnurmine meant that they are not that unlikely.
Yeah... but that's kinda missing something. Can't we put it into a vacuum tube instead, preferably underground?
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Can't beat the US for gently used high-end suspenders/braces on eBay.
What I don't understand is the discrepancy between the size of their engineering workforce and the lousy quality of their web client on mobile.
it is to make employees have lunch in the office without letting them leave.
Makes me wonder what exactly are they spending $2B on per year?
PetroChina was in 2007.
you make this sound like a big painful process. i have lots of alts on fediverse on servers running difference AP and OStatus implementations and i've moved my main many times over the years. it really doesn't take that long for people to realize that you moved and what your new main is. hell, i used to update my avatar and display name daily while bouncing between different alts and people could still recognize me.

based on my experience on fedi, i think you are exaggerating the fragility of the connections you make on social media. clicking "follow" isn't a lot of effort and people will do it when they recognize your voice coming from a new source.
Reminds me of the Eternal September...
Not related to React/React Native, but I was wondering if there was a way to show a users online/idle/offline status through an API call or if there are plans too.

I've been using Discord's OAuth and that's been nice, but I what I'd really like is to display that status on my site.
Don't put your money on that.
That's how I know that a town like Ogdensburg, NY exists. Used to have a UPS mailbox there when I lived in Ottawa, about 70 km driving distance.

Crossing the border however is a drag.
I did some further research here. We've had these commercial duck trip services since 1946 (that company is still in business!). According to the NTSB [1] more than go on tours with more than a million passengers per year as well. That number is probably up since that report was from 1999.

And the only two major incidents at sea have been caused by extreme human error. The 1999 issue was a mechanic leaving a 4.5" access hole to the hull unplugged. And the most recent involved the captain taking the passengers out into a serious storm with 70+ mph winds and 4-6 foot waves. Like most things in the media today this just seems like absurd sensationalism over an event that people can be emotionally exploited to click on lots of stuff about.

[1] - https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/MA...
For others like me: No Linux app.
There are dozens of languages using Cyrillic and many of them have their own unique letters. That would be very hard.
Where the feeds are bidirectional, no?
Asic tools are very similar to fpga tools. You always simulate on fpga first before sending off the RTL for an asic.
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I absolutely love writing programs in Go and at my current startup we're basing all our core backend infrastructure on it.

One thing that I find extremely troubling about Go's dependency handling though (and which at least partly contributes to people's frustration I think) is the mixing of the concepts of a namespace and a resource identifier in Go's package names. It's absolutely reasonable that package names should be unique, making the package name double as a storage location is not always a good idea though (IMHO): For example, we recently switched from using gitlab.com to our own private Gitlab instance, which runs under a custom (non-publicly resolvable) domain. Since all our packages were named like "gitlab.com/.../..." (to make them "go get"-table) we would have to rename all of them to make them "go get"-table from the new location. In the end we solved it by defining a git URL rewriting rule that rewrites the old to the new URL when fetching the repository. This ensured that we could work primarily on our new Gitlab server while maintaining the possiblity to build packages on the gitlab.com server. While that works I think it would have been a better idea to keep package names and storage locations separate, or at least give users a way to override/modify the resolution of packages into locations using a more standardized approach: Such a mechanism could then allow for different name resolution strategies (like a package file, a list of standard repositories) while falling back to the standard way of resolving packages into URLs for "go get". Granted, this would add another layer of complexity, but as we already need a separate file for proper vendoring (to e.g. specify versions) it wouldn't hurt too much to also put (optional) information about storage locations into that file.

Just my 2 cents, apart from this minor inconvenience I'm absolutely happy with Go and its ecosystem!
In my opinion, yes saving is always a great step to take! I'd also examine any risky stocks/bets you may have and put 10-20% into bonds. I was burned by the 2000's recession right out of high school.
I think the assumption is incorrect. The Microsoft Office suite is used a lot, IIUC
I feel like there are two models for desktop computing—one that is very hard to accommodate for a traditional enterprise, and another where Linux is very well suited.

If one is looking for a managed solution with heavyweight apps including an office suite, email / calendar, etc., then anything other than Windows is going to be unsatisfactory to people who expect Windows. I even include macOS with Linux in that assessment. Let's call this model of centralized control of fat clients the culmination of the 1990s enterprise desktop.

On the other hand, if a company has gone down the road of Google / web apps for everything, then Linux starts to be a very effective bootloader for a web browser.

Personally, I like the fat-client model of the 1990s, and feel that Linux best satisfies my desires. But it's hard to deny the comprehensiveness of Windows & Active Directory for those enterprises that also want to stick to this model.

The web-only model feels a little too lean to me. In any enterprise, there are bound to be instances where web apps aren't going to cut it.

This is where I have hopes for Chrome OS once it begins to support native Linux apps. At that point, it's not a thin client, and it's not a fat client. I wonder then if we may see some of these enterprises walk back from Windows.
"Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up; Sooner or later the market mirrors the business" --Buffet
If only they could charge users for using their platform rather than relying on surveillance advertising.
What works well is to strike a balance between insight and rationality. Be logical, non-emotional, but have something interesting to say.

Moreover, personal experience seems to score well, in particular when it underscores your insight into the subject.

Take a look at the top comment on several current comment leaders:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17620543

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617825

Don't force it. Comment on topics you have genuine experience, interest or insight into. If you hit the right tone, your comment should naturally do well.

PS: With the number of HN users growing year-by-year, it gets easier to score those little dopamine hits...
FTA: "The social program was just as successful as the rest of the workshop. Instead of the usual boring conference banquet, Schank organized a game of touch football (Home v. Visitors), which the Yale team won 14-9."
I've had a great time with Rocksmith for learning guitar
It is, and when I see that, I almost always move one. First, because if I can't know what the price is, its probably expensive. Second, it usually means one company is getting charged much more than another, and since there is no price, I have no idea if that'll be us.
Shoring up the balance sheet with additional equity capital to protect against a short-term drop in revenue isn't a bubbly strategy. It's just good corporate finance.

I think you answered your own question in 2 consecutive sentences:

> Without a plan, or even a good reason, for that money how does it contribute to making your business more profitable or resilient to the vagaries of your market? In the short term it'll keep you afloat but that isn't going to be a big consolation when the money does run out.

Emphasis added.
To the point, the prices are so damn low that only by the worst production methods is extraction even economically feasible. Higher prices will lead to production in less reckless environments, which is a good thing.
> it wouldn't be possible for anyone else to put words into his mouth.

You can copy normal voices, you can copy his voice and you can fully impersonate people and even create fake videos.
If security was his intent, he should have used cryptographic signatures for his texts or voice recordings, but even that can be compromised.

I think he just liked his voice and wanted it to be unique. It's understandable and most people would do the same.
Absolutely. I meant to make that point when I said “In the US...” since the parent poster said they didn’t understand why Americans favor CC over debit cards. I thus gave the reasoning. Had we in America been given the same given circumstances as in Germany I’m sure we would be using debit.
You might not be a Luddite, but you are being very dismissive. The convenience and opportunity aspects of having an always connected computer in your pocket might not appeal to you, but I can assure you that it's a huge deal for the rest of us.

You counterpoints all seem to distill down to some variation of being opposed to people having options or embracing convenience.
This may be an intentional dark pattern / effort to drive users away from the web client and to the official app. Facebook and reddit do the same thing. More permissions = more juicy data to harvest.
Just sit and think. Watch other people. Read the old Vogue magazines. Listen to the conversations between employees. A lot of the time there will be a TV on or some music playing.

It's really not that bad if you're not used to the constant stimulation that smartphones (and to a lesser extent, all internet connected computers) provide.
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Disclaimer: I'm the CEO of that company.

I have worked at so many different companies as a sysdamin and was always wondering, when can I actually benefit or make an impact on sysadmin day.

Even if no-one was actually using that discount, it is pretty nice to be able to make a statement and remind sysadmins that there is still an easy to maintain Linux out there.

So enjoy your sysadmin day and remind me again: why you are using a Linux distro that aborts fsck, renames network interfaces pseudo-randomly or does not shutdown?
I think they lost the initiative the moment they decided to focus on censorship instead of combating spam/bots. Other things that didn't help include killing third-party clients a few years back, and screwing with the chronological timeline. Twitter was frickin amazing from like 2009-maybe 2013ish (though the whole TweetDeck aquisition in 2011 was a serious blow) and has been in steady decline ever since from a quality and usefulness perspective.
You can use a third party (or self hosted, but still separate) server for that.

For Webmentions on static sites, people use https://webmention.io

You can actually probably combine that with https://fed.brid.gy to interact with ActivityPub sites as well!
It's worth recalling the distinction between "reserves" and "resources": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_resource_classificatio...

In a very real sense, we don't know how many undiscovered resources are out there, we can only estimate them. And the estimates move over time with technological improvement.
They even maintain a premade fork of LineageOS with microG preinstalled, which I recommend if you ever need to use Android: https://lineage.microg.org/
I have high hopes for this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/

Not a flip phone, but also not a smart phone.
Yeah. I mean if you started digging oil 100 years ago - you would probably be rich enough for another century today. Even if you don’t dig it anymore.
Yes, but being that most people have very little choice in their choice of ISP, so much hate has already been directed at them with little change in outcome, directing hate at any other group is more effective.
It may not have a fully supported docker container, but it should work just fine in an LXD container. I think their installation instructions ask a dedicated machine only because their installer installs packages at the system-level.
To a large extent, Amazon got lucky by raising a ton of money right before the market crashed, giving the company the cushion it needed to ride out the turmoil of the early 2000s.

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/5/15190650/amazon-jeff-...
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amd, amzn, team had a good run yesterday. Seems like mixed bag. 12% fall for twtr considering it had more than 100% rise this year.
The current 3% battery cobalt level already confirmed by 3rd party tear down analysis. "Next gen" could be years away, sure. But there are PLENTY of existing lithium battery chemistries which use no cobalt whatsoever.
So it's a bar phone with a hotspot? I was hoping for something like that. I have a tablet with wifi only but I'd like to be able to listen to Spotify or audio books, use maps, etc when I'm driving. But then again, I also like to walk the dog and listen to books/music so I'd have to carry 2 phones unless it supports all Android apps.
Ask HN: Which books are “must-read” for anyone trying to learn about your field?
Books that are easy to read and beginner friendly.
Here in Argentina a man from Salta changed his gender to retire early.
Indeed: "Finally, chips implementing other widespread protocols (e.g., 4G/LTE, RFID) need to be inspected to determine whether they are vulnerable to screaming channel attacks."
Few things are as exciting for a programmer as dabbling with electronics is. Especially if you have no experience with it. I knew some maths and physics and I knew basics of electronics, but never dabbled with a soldering iron, let alone other stuff.

AND THEN, I had a need for a simple motor-driven CNC-like machine that would drive my film camera around the set, like a small-ish, motion repeatable, crane. Motion Control system, basically, but DIY-I-have-no-idea-if-electricity-will-kill-me stuff. My dudes, let me tell you, the whole process was extremely laborious and extremely fun. Reminiscent of ye olde days of poking around Commodore 64 memory addresses to see what will happen. With microcontroler abundance today and a whole gallery of crap for them, like sensors and drivers and whatnots, you owe yourself to try it out.

Just a friendly reminder, it's a bug that once you catch will fill your house with random electronics junk, oscilloscopes, PSUs and other stuff. Like photography, buying equipment never stops.
Concur. The office suite and surrounding ecosystem (Exchange, Sharepoint) are king in enterprise environments. The latest versions run poorly or not at all on anything other than Windows.
This is also exactly what is holding back synthetic fuels from becoming profitable.

Fossil fuels will eventually lose out over synthetic fuels, but not until prices rise substantially.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618431
That is what I thought. But SSLLabs and HTbridge SSL are little bit different. That is why I asked.

Thank you for opinion
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ActivityPub-logo-sym...

From: https://activitypub.rocks/
And: https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/activitypub.rocks/blob/master/st...
There are quite a few of these:

https://keepass.fr/
https://7zip.fr
https://audacity.fr
https://gparted.fr
https://keepass.fr
https://nc3354.nexylan.net
https://paintnet.fr
What if I don’t want your comments on my site?

And will all of your followers’ comments show up too?

Is this essentially just the same as the trackbacks I already get from other Wordpress posts that link to my page, but with every single tweet (or rather, “toot” (oh, pardon me, how rude. Can you please tell me where the bathroom is?)) generating a trackback?
I dunno, we were also promised flying cars.
I was responding to your original claim, which appeared to rest on the assumption that problems which are difficult to solve are likely to be psuedoproblems. I deliberately chose a difficult problem based on a concept that has a clear definition (prime number) in order to show how silly this line of argument is.

If you are just saying that it's difficult to come up with a generally agreed upon definition of "free will", then that's of course true. But that doesn't mean that there aren't any genuine philosophical problems relating to free will. By way of analogy, it's also difficult to define terms like "property", "freedom" and "constitution", but that doesn't mean that all of political philosophy is sophistry.
> nuclear warfare is going to be extremely limited due to lack of available weapons

There's 15,000, which is easily enough to destroy a lot of cities and kill maybe half the world's population?

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohasw...

I'll admit that we don't know what total warfare looks like in the 21st century when jets take a decade to build. I suspect it would look a lot more like Syria.
> Just don‘t twitter, instagram, facebook, snapchat or whatever you do 24/7

The point is that choosing to not do these things is hard for a lot of us. Getting rid of a smartphone is a decision you have to make once. Not using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Hacker News, and Reddit is a decision that you have to make tens to hundreds of times a day, every day.
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Not just the client's quality, but the amount of obvious spam that could be automatically deleted by simple string comparisons, should they ever think about hiring competent developers.
>There are objectively bad NATs

Eh, pretty much all of them.

If you require any type of IP Helper/NAT_* module you are going to have problems with it at some point, and those problems will be very opaque to the end user, and even possibly the administrator.

For example, all VOIP and online gaming would be in a better place if IPv4 was taken out and shot years ago. The lost of 1:1 mapping between the server and client ports makes everything worse.
I remember trying to explain basic Econ 101 to a classmate while in third year engineering. Peak Oil was a religion back then.

The same isn't true for the environment. Unlike Peak Oil where economic incentives simultaneously would encourage smaller cars with more efficient engines while also directing research into more advanced oil retrieval (or at the very worst biofuels) the environment is not something the market will automatically solve. Quite the opposite. It will push up against it until there is sufficient political resistance to overcome market resources attempting to maintain the status quo. We have a real problem, but it isn't oil or cobalt.