skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a stupid question at all. Assuming the story is false (which I don't assume, and actually think it's probably correct) it would likely depend on the care and process that went into the reporter. Were the editors and reporters reckless and ignore what Apple and Amazon told them? For a cover story of this magnitude, almost certainly not. But it also wouldn't be out of the question for Apple and Amazon to sue if the story was truly completely off.

When I've been sued or threatened with defamation lawsuits, the first thing we go over is how we're going to show we did due diligence, how we came to the conclusions, how we reached out for comment and incorporated that comment into the process.

If Apple and Amazon can figure out the sources, there's also potential for them to sue the background sources, though that's usually tough and messy (because then you have to prove they not only defamed you, but also that they were the ones who were the original source so doesn't happen much).
Sad that an adventure game studio could die off for this reason when "Call of Duty" is pretty much the same game every year and somehow manages to be one of the best selling franchises of all time.
Do you have your phone with you?
DNSSEC is much worse than the alternative, which is no zone signing at all. If you screw up your TLS certificate, your site does not vanish off the Internet.

DNSSEC is something I've studied and worked on (I'm one of [I assume] the few people on this site that has built a working implementation of it) for going on two decades right now. Sorry, I have opinions and a position on it, they're informed opinions, and you're going to have to suffer them.
Platitudes on platitudes. "Be efficient." "Do it right."
Even the best AI for spotting fake news is still terrible
The analysis in the papers as well as the article quite deceptively presents possible surface temperature effects in a 100% onshore windfarm scenario, as a factor of global warming.

I view this as a controversy motivated inversion of the fact that wind turbines extract energy/heat from the atmosphere in contrast with heat plants (fossil and nuclear) which necessarily release around twice the amount of useful energy they output, as heat to local air and water resources.

A global warming or cooling effect of atmospheric mixing is not established here or obvious to predict, being complicated by cloud cover, precipitation, natural vegetation and farming albedo changes... yet in the context of this "downside discussion" it is associated to wind as a technical risk.

This kind of modelling is of crucial importance to environmental stewardship, but this kind of analysis is at best a stimulating exercise and at worst an obstruction to long over due investment in the clear technological solutions that we are fortunate to have at our disposal. (Wind power wouldn't be much use if fated with a Martian type atmosphere)
Value is an expression of utility. "Overvalued" means it's not as useful as you thought.

Either you got a great deal, or you got robbed.
> Plus the usual for EU 25 paid days off

Sometimes I really hate living in the US. -_-
The advertising is ridiculous. It used to be that the ads were one or two listings at the top or the bottom of the search results. Now they are top, bottom, side, and mixed in some of my search results and look more similar to non-sponsored listings.

Over the summer I used Prime Video to watch Sneaky Pete, and every episode would start with a 30 second ad for a different Prime show. There was a skip button, but it was hidden, and I could only find it by long tapping.

So I cancelled Prime. I felt silly paying Amazon to display ads at me.
Agreed. I have heard of a couple of them but it seems like many of the younger generation is turning to video for their reviews and opinions and not text. I would much rather skim through an article than a video. I see tons of links to opinion videos on reddit but I rarely ever click on them because I don't want to sit through some ad, an opening credit, "Hi Guy! Welcome to my channel. Today I want to talk about..." and other garbage to see if I care about what this person has to say. Even if I skip ahead there is a good chance that I will have to back it up because it seems to skip ahead to the middle of an idea.

And I wish these kids would get off my lawn!
Hack the Marine Corps Nets 150 Computer Bugs and $150,000 in Rewards
Did you read the article? At the very minimum you can prove the “four denials” or “refutal” as being a lie. While it might seem minor to a lay person, a judge, let alone a Supreme Court justice should understand there’s a stark legal difference between “denying/refuting something happened” vs “I don’t recall that happening”. And that’s just one thing you can prove, the article goes at length with good sourcing to prove more.
Japan Set to Allow Gene Editing in Human Embryos
Some counter-anecdata, I was rather amused by the images.

Congrats with your fascinating article, really enjoyed it!
Once upon a time, a university friend of mine spent his summers working for the Australian public service. His response to the rumours about Eschalon, before the Australian spooks confirmed them [1], was: "They're capable of doing that. So of course they're bloody doing it." That stayed with me.

Maybe it doesn't matter if these chips were implanted in the particular boards that they're alleged to have been in. No one is suggesting that this would be technically infeasible, so you can bet the PLA has planted them somewhere. I would, if I was defending China against Trump.

[1] That drunken Christmas party excepted.
Not only are the online retailers eating their lunch, but Mattress Firm opened an insane amount of stores, super close to each other.

They opened probably close to 10-15 stores within a 25 mile radius of where I live, over the last couple years. As new stores opened, I joked with friends that the only way these stores could exist would be as a front for money laundering or something.
They gave you two weeks to become a data scientist and implement a working solution? That's nuts. I'm still pretty early career, but I have done data science work for about four years now and I wouldve quoted at least two months to figure out data, clean it, feature engineer, run models, compare results, and then deliver the best performing solution.
Doesn't some of the states have a "right to repair" law? If memory serves correctly, Tesla had a trouble with that. Will Apple not be affected?
I perceive them as an upstart in traditional-journalism terms, certainly compared to a newspaper that was founded in 1821.
It's more like Prolog with a maximum arity of 5 and about a thousand particles with complicated effects. The reference text says with some pride that it is "as simple as C++."
Huh, I hated it partially for not being very funny and the characters being generally unlikable (and also just unbelievable in a weird way). It's cool how people can have so different opinions on it, are there any scenes in it you find particularly funny so I can pay close attention when I rewatch it?
The part I don't understand is why Apple would take such a huge PR hit from the story. I way I read it is that they found out about the problem, diagnosed it and replaced all servers all within a very short time. A careful writeup about what happened, what kind of information that might have leaked, and what they do to avoid it in the future would to me be a net PR win at this point. The next question would be how all other customers has acted.
Held in "secret detention" and posting a full apology including praise for the government. It sounds like the Chinese government is in full tyranny mode.
Yup. LucasArts too obviously. It doesn't really matter if the gameplay is identical and the puzzles similar and formulaic if the story is interesting and the game is fun. Perhaps there's just no appetite for the adventure genre anymore?
What do you mean about "Feature phone"?
CoD games after COD4 are all similar enough that if you can play well on one of them, you can do the others quite good.

With the exception of BO3 perhaps, because it actually added some more fun gameplay elements. (The running along walls / double jumping).

But in general, the games are all quite similar.

Then again, the days the COD games were actually good games are long gone (in my opinion). CoD2 remains my favourite by far, and CoD4 is a close second. Both of which are over a decade old now.
Thank you.

Have you tried these tactics outside of programming?
SCMP says the Chinese government knows where he is: he's under investigation [0].

"The 64-year-old official, who is also a vice-minister at China’s Ministry of Public Security, was “taken away” for questioning by discipline authorities “as soon as he landed in China” last week, according to the source."

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2167213/fr...
Are you saying that Batman games in general don't sell well?
I think you can change a setting to get the Echo to reply to "Amazon", "Echo", or "Computer" instead.
Show HN: Programming Fonts Browser
http://app.programmingfonts.org

I've spent some time collecting monospace programming fonts, particularly those that are free to use. (Monospace because you can program with any font and you've got to draw the line somewhere). Usually I include some background info and basic stats in a blog post, and add it to a test drive "app". I've gone through some iterations here, and currently the backbone is a JSON data set (https://github.com/braver/programmingfonts/blob/gh-pages/fon...). I've been wondering what further to include here, e.g. glyph counts, of the zeroes are slashed or dotted, if there are OpenType alternatives, etc etc. And how to expose all that.

It has been linked here before, but never by me and I haven't been able to respond before. Also, it has seen a lot of work since then. So, here I'd like to show HN what I've made and ask you for feedback, questions, suggestions, etc.
Your map ignores the coastal zone, as shown in a comparable map (for the 50m height):

https://www.nrel.gov/gis/images/US-50m-wind-power-map.jpg

Most of that offshore zone is on the continental shelf.
Networked DOOM would like a word.
Haha, how many penguins for the title? What category would this classify? As I'm sure it's the author playing a joke
Because then you seem like a complainer or a troublemaker. You get an interview at another company (where there are dozens if not hundreds of other people applying) and they google you. Would they hire the person who complained about terrible work conditions or one of the other people who hasn't?
I think the planet would thank us for using far less power overall, rather than continuing to be profligate with cleaner power. That said I'd need to read the paper properly to understand it - I don't think this article explains the key points very well.

Interested to know if this applies to offshore wind? Here in the UK we are a great candidate for this and whilst the US isn't quite so fortunate, it still has a fair amount of coastline!
NodeRed - A cool UI on top of unreliable garbage. Plugins in quality equal to "leftpad".

Avoid at all costs.
Playing with stocks. I decided to try to win big in the market. Took my IRA money out of index funds, and started trying to play some stocks. Lost big on one, panicked, and got out. My timing was awful. That stock eventually recovered to my purchase point after six months, but I put my money into another sure thing based on my research. Lost more. At least this time I did not panic. Now I'm trying to make up for it by playing the long term on a stock that should bounce back, but I'm content if it doesn't. Maybe it'll take a year or two, but I should at least be back to where I was. Then I'll be moving back into index funds.
I'd love to be able to replace the storage in this Mid 2014 Macbook Pro, I'm pretty sure it's on its way out (about every 2 weeks the filesystem and finder completely hang). I can buy an SSD for a couple of hundred £, and I have replaced the disks in a fair number of older macs (mostly spinning rust -> SSD) for family members. The cost of getting it replaced by Apple would be a lot higher, and if it turns out that wasn't the issue then I don't have a spare SSD to use as external storage either.
As Netflix streaming phases out more and more actual movies, in favor of their original content, I'm finding it exceedingly difficult to watch anything of reasonable quality. To the point that I've reupped my DVD plan to 3 movies at a time, it's the ONLY way to actually find anything worth watching. Stranger Things? Don't get me started. Great nostalgia, but a boring and recycled story.
Exactly. Opportunity cost. No software organization can do everything at the same time. What GitHub is saying with this is "It's more important for us to integrate with this thing that your management wants, than to fix any of those bugs you filed".

I was afraid the acquisition by Microsoft was going to lead to it becoming more enterprise-oriented and less user-oriented, and it appears like that's exactly what's happening.
Batman series was also excellent and it surprised me how far it went away from canon Batman representations.

Not to mention Tales from the Borderlands being one of the funniest games I've ever played.

On the other hand, the new Walking Dead seasons and Game of Thrones were exceedingly dull.
The Internet Archive has been doing great work lately, between backing up arcade machines, to Winamp skins, and now this in addition to all the other cultural works they've backed up. I highly encourage donating if you have the extra cash.
If I'm not mistaken, here in Belgium first the assets of the company are sold off and from that money, first the employees are paid out their contracts.

After that the money goes to other instances (like the loan by the bank etc).

EDIT: They are paid out their outstanding wage for their performed work, not to the end of their contracts
Just because they make adventure games they aren't superior.

Also your argument is flawed. After all, all football matches are the same.
Ha ha it wasn't intended that way but I can't argue with you right now, I need to clean the mess one of my horses just made beside my new Porsche. Honestly, servants can't get anything right these days...
I think it would be odd then if no one else in the company is aware of the issue that those mid/junior level employees would then leak the information to Bloomberg during an active investigation.
In my view there is a certain amount of bragging that is warranted. And that amount depends on the person: his/her "utility" to the people that take the bragging, his/her "objective greatness", his/her willingness to take your own bragging with awe, etc.

Terms quoted as they shouldn't be taken in literal meaning.
After doing something similar, I get tons of calls because no one knows how to use anything with it and stuff they want just isn't compatible.

Plus, you're 100% tied into google. Everything google - so how can that be considered an alternative?
1. It probably helps if you don’t have to accommodate 30 years of legacy.

2. The mobile phone industry is fiercely competitive while the PC industry has Intel and their near-monopoly.
Pr-sneaking
Got any sources? Was thinking about buying one just for the tensor cores, but if this is the case I probably won't.
I don't understand why people are discounting the fact that the said companies wants to do business in China and you can't do that by accepting the Chinese state is trying to hack their companies.

IMHO, this is a very big aspect and companies lie all the time. Even if this came out to be false, they don't get as much heat as they would get now.
Ahhhh this makes more sense with your previous objections and I wasn't understanding it as well before. I always took little tidbits of the scenario that pointed to "lazy-eval" to be indicative of it being more likely to be a simulation because lazy eval is popular among programmers. Obviously when I write it out like that I can see where I lean on the same logic I argue against in other scenarios which is that we can't make any assumptions about intentions/motivations/etc. of the simulation creators, and the assertion that they would have similar programming paradigms is a pretty big assertion for sure.
I've managed it in the past, but only after emailing Tim Cook. Someone picked it up and sorted it.

Was an older Unibody MacBook Pro with a factory SSD, used to randomly decide to delete all the data on it every couple of months. In the end they replaced the entire machine with a newer model.
Very well put. 100% on board with this argument for gun law reform.
I find it somewhat curious that the 3rd party in Ontario, Canada that actually found was and remains unidentified.

Was that off-the-record for the story? Or delibrately omitted? It seems unlikely they are part of the intelligence community so protected in any way; they're in another country and they must be somewhat known in the DC industry if Amazon used them commercially.
> The gaming press is more press than gaming; they're often people with writing degrees who are disproportionately fond of "literary" games compared to the buying public.

How does that differ from movie and music press? It's pretty much the same situation - you have big blockbusters which are polished and ground down to be as widely appealing and as mildly offensive as possible. These blockbusters then get ridicoulous marketing spending which shoves them down the throat of as many average people as possible.

But studios like Telltale have no hope of even coming close to competing for that attention - they have nowhere near the marketing budget of Ubisoft, EA, Activision. They need to appeal to smaller niche audiences to not get just eaten by large publishers doing the same thing better and with more pomp.
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And in this we just disagree. I assert people independently develop where they can. If they have the means, they develop where they can make money.
> The only way to quickly do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us the result that we wanted.

Since no one of you had any experience with ML, how did you know that a ML algo (which one?), implemented "somehow" would give you the results you wanted? (Not a cynical comment; I am really interested in hearing about this).
We saw 120Mb/s from our office in Maryland - Annapolis.
Older iphones getting only 20Mb/s
No issues with Dell warranty/service here and I send Dells, Lenovos, & Macbooks out for repair a few times a week. Equally as good in my opinion.
> you must be able to provide notebook parts and repair as well for the products you sell

You’re proposing commanding companies to erect and maintain new and complex supply chains and packaging schemes. It’s a well-meaning proposal. But it will be costly. That will deter new entrants and increase prices in your market. Do this many times from different perspectives and you end up with a towering bureaucracy and sclerotic economy.
AWS pentest
Have you worked with any external companies that can do the test and provide a report?
I'm sorry but anecdotes do not prove that something is objectively better, and if the argument is built on anecdotes, then the argument should be rejected.

Also if you make a claim that something is objectively better than the alternative then the burden of proof is on you to show why it is, objectively, better.
Maker here...

I built hrnw to connect people who are in the same location at the same time. Think of it as an anonymous chatroom with everyone else who is also on the app at the same time, within a few hundred feet or so of you. I think it would be fun for bars, concerts, conferences, or really any other social gatherings.

Please let me know what you think, if you'd like to know about the stack, and if you see any big issues.
> It just takes practice. Lots of it. Lots of trial and error. Lots of screw ups. And just embracing/loving the process.

> ...

> So just go out there and fiddle with your instrument and play along to stuff you like!

yes. that.

what does it "feel like" ? doesn't "feel like" much of anything. For me it's just a _lack_ of hunting around for the right note.

it's like the difference between learning to ride a bicycle and _knowing_ how to ride a bicycle. Knowing doesn't "feel" like much. you just get on and ride. Learning requires effort and concentration. Once you know ... you just do it and don't think about it.
Maybe it's an instance of "when all you have is a hammer...", because I'm learning about it right now, but you could look into transfer learning - you train a ML model in a similar, easier task, and then you tweak it with your data.

That said, there's a good chance that your current algorithm is all you will ever need - many times a ML project is too much, and you already have good results.
ETFs may be associated with passive investing, but there is passive investing without ETFs, and active investing using ETFs.
I noticed author did fantastic job on bragging about his writing skills!
CrowdSupply funding for Retro-uC: open silicon microcontroller with Z80, MOS6502, and M68K cores ;)

https://www.crowdsupply.com/chips4makers/retro-uc
This is an interesting thought, but likely, millenials will shift right as they get older...as previous generations have done. I wouldn't make predictions about the future based on a static, unchanging population.
Don’t sign a CLA
Indeed. They also said a major hosting company got sabotaged gear. Surely someone at said hosting company took a picture of the board, kept a board, or something. People at hosting companies aren't paid very much, so they're not incredibly loyal. Still they must have said something to friends, family, facility workers (why are you throwing away all that supermicro gear?), etc.

It doesn't make sense that no one has produced at least a picture of one. Why the need for secrecy here? It's not like the US govt made the chip, right? Right? RIGHT?
> Overall the new A12 Vortex cores and the architectural improvements on the SoC’s memory subsystem give Apple’s new piece of silicon a much higher performance advantage than Apple’s marketing materials promote. The contrast to the best Android SoCs have to offer is extremely stark – both in terms of performance as well as in power efficiency. Apple’s SoCs have better energy efficiency than all recent Android SoCs while having a nearly 2x performance advantage. I wouldn’t be surprised that if we were to normalise for energy used, Apple would have a 3x performance efficiency lead.

Wow.
Hello, thank you for mentioning GitLab.

Speaking of >making programmer's job easier<, we could say that GitLab Auto DevOps eliminates the complexities of getting going with automated software delivery by automatically setting up the pipeline and necessary integrations, freeing up yourself to focus on the culture part. That means everyone can skip the manual work of configuration, and focus on the creative and human aspects of software creation.

Here's more about it https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/