skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They'd rather spend $2b to get a 97% likelihood of a positive outcome, than $1b with an 80% likelihood.

I don't know if you picked your numbers out of a hat, but napkin statistical analysis (if I'm not mistaken) is that two attempts with an 80% likelihood would have a 96% likelihood of at least one success. That's not quite exactly 97%, but if your numbers are not their actual assessment, it's worth wondering if their bets are the good ones.

The thing that skews their monetary needs towards the expensive option with a better likelihood, as I understand it, is that they can't afford the bad PR that comes from failure.

But in pure, statistical terms, they might, actually be better off betting less money on projects with less likelihood of success. They would fail more often, but overall, would spend less money for the same amount of success.
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While I agree, there are probably a handful of people who could actually make that happen. Most others would be told "I'm sorry, the position has been filled." It's a product of the vast power disparity between companies and individuals.
Μια γεμάτη Τρίτη με κύπελλα και πρωταθλήματα στο παμε στοιχημα
Apollo 11 and Other Screw-Ups
> According to Google Chrome privacy policy “signed-in Chrome mode” works differently than the basic (non-signed) mode. Accordingly “your personal browsing data is saved on Google's servers and synced with your account. This type of information can include: Browsing history, Bookmarks, Tabs, Passwords and Autofill information, Other browser settings, like installed extensions”

> In line with privacy policy, this could be the case. However, data synchronisation appears not to happen by default in practice (as also confirmed here). It seems this behavior is not accounted by the privacy policy, which means either the policy is obsolete (and needs to be updated, which suggests potential issues in the internal privacy program, and possibly the priorities), or the mechanic may be subject to change in future.

It may have been updated in the last few hours, but right now, the privacy policy clearly specifies that that section is for the "Signed-in, Synced Chrome mode", and that "Sync is only enabled if you choose". Just signing in does not automatically enable sync.
US is not perfect too (but nowhere near China). For example, it is incredibly difficult to become an independent president candidate: you need to get ballot access in all states, and every state has its own rules.
"It works" means if you have the money you can buy it. If you've don't have 6 months of expenses saved you're already in trouble, add the $650-1200 a month for COBRA and most people would be on the street.

The only good thing is since they hard laid you off you can immediately apply for obamacare/medicare and pay nothing out of pocket because you have 0 income other than unemployment.
Yet...</cynical mode>
So who pays for this insurance? Is it usually the company, or the employee?
According to Wikipedia[1], there are 2 separate sampling phases - one where it fires a bullet into the asteroid and collects the ejecta, and another where it will use 4.5kg of plastic explosives to blow a 2m crater in the asteroid, into which it will descend. As a laymen, the level of complexity in this mission is really astounding, both with respect to the sampling protocols and the 4(!) other rovers it has.

It makes me nervous to think about how many things could potentially go catastrophically wrong, especially after what happened with Rosetta & Philae. I'd be curious to read an informed comparison of Hayabusa2 vs. Rosetta/Philae and understand the rationale for Japan attempting a seemingly hugely more complicated and risky mission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2#Sampling
They do document how the chip is laid out and exactly what HW resources the chip has. If you want to make your own backend you can. Use the get_ set_ property of physical constraints, extract and redo placement on the entire design via TCL, or save to your own intermediate file and work off that. I don’t think one needs access to Xilinx’s binary formats.
I got a severance package from a part time bank teller job after they closed the branch I worked at. I also got a severance package when a small business I worked at went under. I'd say severance packages are a lot more common than you think they are.
Why would they repeat the Google+ linked accounts nightmare though? I never wanted a fucking chrome account, and linking my business and private accounts is the stupidest thing you idiots could have done.

I never wanted my youtube account tied to my business email.
FF with Multi Account Containers is heaven
Sounds like Nvidia understood what Microsoft understood. An operating system is really only useful in that it allows you to run the software that you use. Because of this Microsoft went to extreme efforts to make sure when you upgraded your OS, your programs ran.

Nvidia understands that you gamers buy graphics cards to run games on them. They just want their game to run and look good on the graphics card. They don't really care about how bad the game developers are and want efforts Nvidia had to take to get the game to run. At the end of the day, games running good means happy customers.
seems like that statement would be enough to get her banned from the project.
Ask HN: Nigerian entrepreneurs : How do you deal with PayPal restrictions?
Do you have a workaround ? Or you just use another service ?
Other nationalities with similar issues please feel free to chime in.
So where do Smalltalkers and Lispers go?
I'm pretty sure that's just the perspective messing with us and it's just the black of space. Keep in mind too that when the exposure is set to capture the surface of the astroid stars won't be visible
liked it very much.

talos principle was nice too
A coworker stared at my boobs for a little too long and I felt immediately uncomfortable and put a jacket on. If he ever expressed interest in a romantic relationship, I would feel really uncomfortable, and probably quit.
https://www.digitalgamemuseum.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-adven...

I had forgotten about Sierra, probably because I was more into their Impressions city-builder and strategy games.
Ask HN: Where to post your product on launch day?
I have been using IndieHackers, Reddit, and HackerNews to ask for feedback about my landing page.

I feel like I am getting close to launch day, so I would like to know in which places you recommend to post a newborn product?
That study was essentially retracted by the lead author[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/stephenzoepf/status/970754550968676352?l...
> As a result, primarily in the U.S., the topic became prematurely known as "computer science"---which actually is like referring to surgery as "knife science"---and it was firmly implanted in people's minds that computing science is about machines and their peripheral equipment.

Edsger W Dijkstra. Mathematicians and computing scientists: The cultural gap. Abacus, 4(4):
26–31, June 1987. ISSN 0724-6722. URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=25596.25598.

Which is similar in spirit to the contested quote, and predates by a few years any of the references on Wikiquote.
Which is better than absolutely nothing, but now you have to pay the full company rate, which is usually much higher than someone who now doesn't have a job can afford.
I'm pretty sure you're over inferring stuff from that post. It's not credible that 20+ years old company serving email for millions of users wouldn't know the most basic stuff about running an email server, don't you think?
It's ambiguous, but I think "prehistoric" modifies the animal, like "pancake-shaped".

If the title were "prehistoric-ocean dweller" then it modifies "ocean".

The correct order[1] would be "prehistoric [age] pancake-shaped [shape] ocean dweller [proper?]".

[1] https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/grammar-rules/adjecti...
While Google cannot put you in jail, Google can give your data to government (that can put you in jail). There is no big difference between large private company having the data or the government.

Of course Western surveillance on the Internet cannot be even remotely compared to what happens in China.
I'm not an expert in AI, but as you can imagine I have to interact with a lot of people who are. What I do know is what it means to be able to do end-to-end verification and it seems fairly antithetical to the basis of machine learning which has an open-ended failure domain. If you could write an AI as a total program, it would cease to be probabilistic. It would become propositional, but would also seem to cease to be writable and computationally tractable. As it would need to encode all possible states of all possible features of all relevant domains and all possible things that can interact with each of those things and what their effects would be.

Though, I'm happy to be proven wrong here as it would make me a lot less nervous about the future were there a way to legitimately assure the artificial driver in an AV won't fail in emergent ways, or at all.
It's not the case though. Google's privacy policy has two different "modes" for Chrome, one for being logged in and one for being logged out. By tricking people into logging in without their consent they are also tricking people into allowing that extra data to be collected.

Their current argument is that they aren't actually collecting that data- just getting permission to- but that's kind of sketchy and still leaves them open to other changes that do start collecting things.

The other big issue people have with this is that the use case they're talking about- accidentally logging into a site and not logging out- is an issue with all websites, not just Google. Adding a UI for Google services explicitly is something only Google could do, which makes their browser less "neutral". This is why people keep bringing up antitrust. By taking advantage of their monopoly to further entrench that monopoly they are breaking the trust of their users.
> Smartphones are getting increasingly well-integrated into the car's stereo, though - especially in the Appleverse.

My personal threshold for usability is that I need functionality while wearing thick winter mittens.
I'm optimistic about binaries providing completions, I think we'll see more of that as tools adopt frameworks like https://github.com/clap-rs/clap or https://pypi.org/project/argcomplete/ which can provide completions for your favorite shell.

But I do think many important/useful binaries will never provide completions, or provide sub-par completion that people will want to improve, so we can't ever count on completions from binaries.

Recently I've been thinking some about how the LSP (https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/) might be useful for a CLI. A readline implementation could use something like a LSP for syntax coloring and completion.

Imagine having a consistent editing in your favorite shell, repl, and editor.
There are ongoing efforts to fix this.
My product, https://autenti.ca/smile is a tool to boost your mood that uses facial recognition to detect whether you are smiling or not.
I was surprised to learn that Roland's JP-08 synthesizer uses an FPGA to simulate an analog synth.

https://youtu.be/zIFLdka9kTM?t=7m34s
Mirai Botnet Authors: From Criminals to FBI Agents
The implication being what, that returning the “Censorship” article is pro-censorship? That people who choose to type in “free speech” are so stupid as to flip their position because Google responded with an article on the exact same topic, which is no more pro-censorship than the free speech article is pro-free-speech?

You’re being silly.
Then why is it the hams from whom we hear about such feats as "ionosphere skipping", and not any makers of 2.4GHz equipment?
Are you just guessing or do you know for sure? I know it for sure because we want NRA to speak up, but they don't.
I find the first item in the README a bit misleading:

Security: plash containers run completely unprivileged.

What this actually means is that plash containers run as the current user, so not as root. But they provide no isolation whatsoever, which I would expect from containers (and which Docker provides, to a certain extent). The README does mention this, but only much later:

- Plash processes have the same operating system access rights than the process
that started it. There is no security relevant isolation feature. Exactly as
with running programs "normally", don't run programs you do not trust with
plash and try to avoid using plash with the root user.

rootless containers are still a little ways off it seems...
We don’t need Elon Musk for an innovative tech industry
This is the most complete guide to finding anyone’s email
I was fortunate (or unfortunate) in my career that the first company I work for was acquired and a massive company wide layoff followed, which woke me up from the Koolaid on dedicating my life to the companies I work for, and I would never let any company determine my fate.
I'd be interested in hearing from vendors who are tied to Chrome. Authy springs to mind, only because their product is literally the only reason I still have Chrome installed anywhere.
>I'm not sure what the actual risk is

Sorry, I tried to make it clear that I'm not actually up-to-date on the science and that I was arguing against the attitude, not the position.
> but that would mean that all browser vendors did it wrong. (including mozilla)

I think that's the case, and Mozilla is one of all your friends who are jumping off the proverbial bridge. (Posted from FF, not signed-in.)
You would hope so but these things are generally enforced very selectively.
The set of possible configurations would split in an even and an odd set, so there would be configurations that can’t be solved in God’s number of moves.

(AFAIK, we don’t know God’s number if we count moves that way. I would guess it’s larger than 20)
If you are into masochism, sure, use Java without an IDE ;)
Do checkout Xilinx's Zynq series or Altera's Cyclone series, I think that may be what you're inferring ?
I'm terrified to think this person may be conscious enough to be experiencing the equivalent of 15 years of sleep paralysis.

Fuck. That.
Wouldn't they need to significantly decrease the transmission power in order to use the ISM bands, making that application more LAN than WAN? And if the result is both legal and technologically superior to existing WiFi hardware then why hasn't the IEEE picked up on it?
your shirt was probably made by a chinese consortium too. why not touch opera because of that? americans.
I tried witness, but, just have up after a while. Too much running around and if you miss the hidden paths etc it can be totally frustrating. Just like that darn door in riven that started open and you had to close it once inside to find the hidden passage. I dunno, I just find that frustrating. Shadow puzzles when not really that clear, also frustrating, even when you know what you're supposed to be looking for. Myst on the other hand, loved it all.
"as I understand it, is that they can't afford the bad PR that comes from failure."

I think that's the real problem.
I don’t know where you work, but I can count on one finger the places where I actually knew the companies financial situation.

You can try to guess based on sales and nr of employees, but it’s hardly an exact science.
Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time
I guess I am a dynamic writer but a strongly typed programmer :-)
i dont know why your comment is being downvoted instead of being replied to. its a valid comment. sadly im seeing this all the time now -- comments being downvoted just because other users disagree. if you disagree and have a valid argument, make the argument... i digress. i pine for when hn was more intelligent
Nice work! Thanks for the mention in one of your code blocks. :)
PowerShell does this.
Switching distros seems a little drastic given the problem. Why not just fix the AUR package? That'd probably take less time than reconfiguring everything.
But taxes!
You're entirely correct that it isn't even comparable. However, I was responding to the specific surveillance practices linked in the OP, and the comment I replied to was discussing the "presence on the Internet", not as broad a topic as the entirety of China's regime.
This doesn't seem like a problem with a technical solution. If he slips up and gets caught, that alone might be enough to send him into a Xinjiang concentration camp.

Some of my libertarian tech friends like the idea of more encryption and decentralisation to resist what they perceive as increasingly oppressive governments, but I'm confident that this tech-first approach can never work. A truly oppressive government can easily outlaw these things and identify the users, and they'll be the first to disappear.
Unless they are in the business of selling advertisements or life insurance, there is probably very little incentive for them to de-anonymize the data. The bigger risk with that data is that they don't secure it properly.
This is the very inspiring, I'm glad you found a way to deal with this terrible affliction. I have a close friend who suffers from schizophrenia, and the medication they put him on turned him into a zombie. I hope the methods you used become more widely known and adopted.
Employers. See https://workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/unemploy/uifactsheet.as... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits#United_S... for more information about it.

Note that the caps are per state, but is sufficiently low that it doesn't replace a professional level income. Therefore if your lifestyle is based on an income of $50K+, you are strongly advised to acquire personal savings for emergencies in case you lose your job. And C-level executives frequently have contracts which specify severance packages that guarantee their income for an extended time if they are fired. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_parachute for more on that.

This can lead to weirdly misaligned incentives, like C-level executives on a failing company trying to get fired because their severance package will leave them better off than staying with the sinking ship.
> I don't know what mail I'll switch to

Hop on https://www.gandi.net/, choose a domain name that looks professional (such as mylastname.me or some other clever variation) and never have to ask that question again.

If you ever want to go back to gmail, bring in your domain with gsuite (https://gsuite.google.com/).

As for an alternative UI&host recommendation, go for fastmail: https://www.fastmail.com/
Because the price of rent in major city centres is ludicrous, I assume.
It's cool ROP attacks are being mitigated from two directions in OpenBSD. The amount of useful gadgets are being reduced by efforts detailed here AND gadget rich libraries are being relinked at boot or upgrade time. So even if a ROP attack can be found after the reduction in gadgets each machine will need a unique ROP chain.
> don't have high confidence Apple got this right

I'd love to know why. The transition to APFS for all other devices has been utterly seamless. Apple probably has a whole filesystem team. I wonder if you have any special qualifications to justify why you think you know better?
lol. you propose using an alternative then immediately ask, "btw what's an alternate..."
> "staff at the Pinellas Park hospice facility disconnected the feeding tube on March 18, 2005, and Schiavo died on March 31, 2005."

So, they starved her to death over 13 days? How do they know she wasn't experiencing this as torture?
i read it. tldr: there isnt one.
This seems to reinforce my statement? Chrome may be easier to develop on but that means sites break on Firefox or other browsers when Google differs from those other vendors. Google abuses this market position and developer preference.
as they say - there are many reasons a company can succeed, but they all fail for the same reason. (they run out of money).

So cash is king - follow the signs of cash flow.

#1 - watch the sales staff. Their comp is a direct reflection of the company's cash flow. They will leave if the source is running dry and they don't need inside information to figure it out.

#2 - hiring freeze. Classic bad sign. This is a little different than reaching hiring targets - if there is no backfill for attrition though, its a flashing red light.

#3 - travel freeze. Often the first lever pulled by the operations team - its a tell there are cash problems.

C level shakeups are not great indicators. Could be a real problem, but it could also just be powerplay fallout.
Careful. x86 interrupt handling is slow. System calls use an accelerated mechanism that is much faster.
How true are the reports about treatment of Falun Gong?
A new way to make steel could cut 5% of CO2 emissions at a stroke
> Developing for the browser is so much leaner

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Web apps are the most bloated thing I can imagine. Don't know what you are talking about
The company that man-in-the-middles much of the net, boasts it is reducing the risks of others being able to man-in-the-middle some metadata.
Cost of what, exactly? An (free) TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt?
This is my worry too.
I'm baffled that disconnection of a feeding tube seems like a reasonable way to interrupt life-sustaining processes
> Honestly I think it might be time to phase out teaching imperative and object-oriented programming. Most of the grief in my career has come from them. I don't care if they're where the jobs are. The mental cost of tracing through highly-imperative code, especially the new implicit style of languages and frameworks like Ruby and AngularJS (which have logic flows having no obvious connection to one another, or transition through async handlers connected by a convention which isn't immediately obvious to the developer) is so high that the underlying business logic is effectively obfuscated.

I don't think this is a fault of functional programming as much as it is a fault of implicit language constructs. There are common conventions where being able to chuck functions and closures around is actually useful (e.g. sorting). These language constructs/conventions are useful because they can be extremely expressive, but unfamiliar implicit behaviors cost me much more "working memory" to understand when I'm reading the code.

There's a version of object-oriented programming that mostly sticks to declarative behaviors and uses inheritance, unions, mix-ins, etc. to actually hide behavioral abstractions. The problem is that it often takes 5-10 years of experience before the programmer (myself included) begins to appreciate how important future readability of the code is, and to understand that the more exotic language features should be used sparingly.
Weirdly, the games that felt to me the most like Myst were not of the same genre (instead, they were D2-ish), graphical detail (they were glorified board games with a few frames of animation) or mechanic (they were RPGs).

They were called the "Avernum" games. They started their life as flash games. They had bottomless writing and story behind the franchise, to compensate for their near-total lack of visual splendour (unless you're into map reveals) and graphics. I don't know why they felt like Myst to me, given their procedural and eminently surmountable nature, but still . . . they held, and still hold, that same sense of wonder and exploration.

I think there are a few other games from "humbler" (intra-WWW-revolution, drowned out by the Flash revolution noise) beginnings that are similarly excellent.
Collecting $ from member orgs, and not from hobbyists who just want to tinker? How else do you propose to raise the next generation of hackers? By charging them $6000 to simply see a spec they have a minute interest in tinkering with?