skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I imagine authorities will start making images of devices before demanding login, so they can check that the act of logging in hasn't substantially changed the system.

I think that’s standard procedure already.

Also, note that destructing or concealing evidence that is relevant to a court case or legal investigation is a criminal offense in many jurisdictions. For sure you will face charges just for trying even if you are not successful (e.g. because they’ve imaged the system).
My god this is pretentious.. Most of the actual nuts and bolts stuff they are ultimately talking about is all relatively simple known stuff (as far as I can tell from skimming)
But their choice of words, use of language, and also all the new terms and acronyms they are making up..
The authors intent certainly seems to be to confuse people and come across as intelligent to those who dont actually do any probing into the meaning of text.

Before programming, I was an architect. This has all the hallmarks of the many bullshit, unnecessarily wordy, borderline meaningless, architectural tracts one comes across in that field.
Thanks! I enjoyed that evening in the museum. My spherical camera is still working as well.
OSX as well.
It's better than JPEG and PNG for most uses, with smaller image sizes. Even 4:2:0 is better than the sRGB usually used in PNG. I'd rather have this now than wait another few years for a few niche usecases (where TIFF can still be used)
Meanwhile other countries have constitutional courts that must check if a new bill is constitutional before it becomes a law. I tend to prefer this solution most, considering that Congress have passed unconstitutional or borderline unconstitutional laws that haven't yet been verified by the supreme court much more often than the court system has passed undemocratic and anti-people rulings.
You'd think a battery like that lasting decades could be quite handy for internet of things devices. You could maybe use a capacitor to accumulate power as the output seems to be in nano amps and low current processors seem to need about 1 uA upwards. Not sure if anyone is working on that stuff?
> I have a bunch of really smart friends who do really interesting things and when we meet up its like what are you up to? Nothing much. Nothing interesting. Later you find out that they just visited Mongolia, another is learning Russian and the other built renewable power system for a holiday house they just bought, but they're too worried about bragging to bring it up.

I love it how you used "Reflected Glory Bragging" (point 9) right here! It's great, I'm upvoting your comment :)
It is, but still doesn't meet WCAG's AAA requirements [1,2]. And then there's the blinding white background.

Though those issues are common, and one can mitigate them with color overriding (supported by some web browsers) or a global CSS theme (Midnight Surfing [3], for instance).

Edit: perhaps worth mentioning that contrary to what the grandparent comment says, I don't think one has to be familiar with how colors affect legibility if they are going to write about colors looking good on drawings.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

[2] https://contrastchecker.com/

[3] https://userstyles.org/styles/23516/midnight-surfing-global-...
Warrant canaries have reasonable precedent in the US because of the First Amendment. See New York Times Co. v. United States.

This isn't true and they probably don't work in any other country in the world. They're explicitly illegal in Australia, apparently.
> A chip like this story talks about would standout.

Sure, you could see it, but to know it was wrong you'd have to have a non-compromised board to compare against. Or knowledge of every design and supplier decision, which Supermicro/Apple do not have.
The legal system doesn't appreciate cleverness and you get negative points for trying. Either everything would work or nothing will.
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We'll probably end up with both like we've had jpg and PNG, at least if more people/organizations call for it.
Text files or Excel for the game data?

Pardon my ignorance, but why aren't they using some sort of database for the data? Or at least storing the data in some sort of master database and exporting it to text files for the game to read? It would be lovely to hear the techniques and reasons from anyone in the know.
This.

Win32 lives because there are millenia of man-hours invested into Win32 applications. If one day Win32 would disaapear, they would be not ported to UWP or other framework of the day.

Whey would be ported to the Web. But while Win32 lives, the cheapest path is to maintain them as Win32.
The largest(?) FPGA brand Xilinx is owned by Intel now, so maybe it'll get better.
This is a well orchestrated publicity stunt. A reputed auction house like Sotheby's would never put an item up before thoroughly checking and documenting it.

Post this stunt, the artwork will now be valued much higher than what it sold for at this auction. Banksy has been known for such ingenious and clever marketing stunts.
> That is a great observation.

I couldn't agree more.

> It reminds me of when I was recording my latest DVD special, also available on download and floppy disk. http://festivalofthespokennerd.com/dvd

Looks like I'm going to finish my christmas shopping early boys. Are the floppy disks 3 1/2 or 5 1/4?
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“And the river will run red with blood”. Seems pretty biblical to me
Exactly - they (paleo) don’t really have a business model. They are just a computerized way of documenting employees use of their cash allowances.
To be fair, no matter the OS updating on the latest and greatest immediately after release is always risky and should not be done unless you have clean backups and are ready to reinstall it all if needed. Linux testing, iOS, OSX, Windows 10, ... All of them.

If you want stability and safe update, you either use safe release version (Debian stable, Win10 LTSB, ...); you wait the service pack, or you give it a month or two to have issues found.
Sure, but that's a different topic from how anonymous sources work in articles like this.
All I could venture to offer to explain that feedback would be: did you use proper http codes? Post vs get vs put vs delete? Headers? Auth methods? Did you sign the requests? Maybe something else I'm forgetting.
And now for wild speculation: What if the NSA or other US TLA was behind the hardware hack? While it would obviously require a coverup, I have no idea what leverage the government could have to keep it quiet - that would be a massive 1st amendment violation.
It's consistently returned a 503 since I started checking it a few hours ago.
The ratio is probably far worse than that.
One of the reasons I got out of architecture was that is was fully permeated with bullshit, and no-one questions it.

My experience with programmers in general is for them to be much more pragmatic, direct and clear in their communication, and evidence driven.

Its sad to see that this sort of intellectually dishonest, architectural journal crap also exists in the software field.
Lets please try and keep it down.
That would be a very dangerous precedent.

If Microsoft could do that to Google, can we do that to other companies? Can we write custom Netflix clients for unsupported platforms too? Or for another services? That a deep rabbit hole to follow.
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Mocks? Stubs? Or Shims?
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No, it would be a waste of drugs.
I don’t buy this. It is 100% guaranteed that these GMO tomatoes are safer than alcohol and tobacco. Yet the ‘old and boring’ approach has deemed these clearly poisonous substances safe, and allows billion dollar industries to exist selling them. This is totally illogical.
They are legally obligated to their shareholders (you), so you could sue them for being untruthful, and the First Amendment says the government can't "tell you not to".
Absolutely. When I was at school the only grammar I learnt was in Latin, French or German - wasn't taught in English. But as native speaker you read or listen and absorb the "rules".

Had a French girl friend for a time who was studying English and linguistics at Agrégation level (masters) - she would sometimes ask me was it better to say X or Y in English. I would usually prefer one because "it sounded right" but often couldn't come up with a reason as to why. Then she might tell me the rule according to her professor - and I almost always found them very convincing!
It’s an interesting concept for sure. But one thing that seemed confusing was how exactly do they handle underwriting? Do they credit check the applicants? Employees? Check the business bank accounts?

Granting credit is a sophisticated market, is this just a case where they look for founders that have perfect credit and assume they’re probably OK? Do they even use standard CRA’s at all?

Like what’s the basic underwriting premise?
You haven’t read the article properly. Just specific batches for targeted Supermicro customers were infected.
The Gmail concepts do not really map very well to IMAP and traditional mail clients. They do provide a custom API that does mirror their semantic for that.
Well, you see, when you fire a whole lot of your OS group's QA department [1] [2] [3] ...

[1] - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140806183208-12100070-why-d...

[2] - https://www.computerworld.com/article/2878026/microsoft-to-b...

[3] - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...
Nnnh, only in the really straightforward case. It's often not the case that you can just `new` what you want with no parameters, and _that_'s what the factory pattern covers.

To take the archetypical example, let's consider our database. We just want something that implements the `Database` interface, but we can't just `new MySqlDb()` because it needs a whole bunch of data to connect - so we end up needing something more complicated which can build and configure something implementing the interface we want without requiring us to know anything about the implementation.

What people mean when they say better languages have this behaviour as just something obvious within the language semantics is like, when you simplify it down you don't get `new $className()`, you get a function of `() => Database`. Any language with higher order functions that can properly represent function types can, instead of building all this cruft to construct factories, just accept that the concept of "something you don't need to give any data to but which returns you a configured X` _is_ a function from nothing to X- and so all the behaviour is "built in".

The code which deals with databases just needs `() => Database` as a parameter, and then your composition root simply provides the right function. Exactly the same expressive power as an abstract factory, but it's so straightforward it doesn't need a fancy name.
You can use AV1 or HEIF right now, and they're actually modern formats.

> Even 4:2:0 is better than the sRGB usually used in PNG.

Better for what? Not for wide-color photographs or any kind of colored text, that's for sure.
There are no good multi-master solution with a HA focus available for Postgres, at least no open source ones.

The patroni project checks most of your other requirements: docker/containerized design with leader election/continuing operation via etcd or another external DCS. Not sure how easy upgrades are but I think the procedure is at least documented.
This place is a "family style" italian restaurant, so lunch shift will average like 25-60 depending on if its 2-4 people and depending on if they are ordering alcohol and seafood

And then at dinner most of my tabs were 75-120, with $30 being the largest tip I made because I got the manager to refund their clams which came late and overly breaded :)

Real talk though, sales and SDR can make much more than $300 a day (so like 100k a year) if management doesn't get in their way, gives them excellent leads, if commission structure is 10% or higher...

but typically management finds a way to ruin it
Microsoft introduced privacy-disrespecting "features" into their products long after they were established on the market and their users couldn't switch.

Google did that with a newly introduced products, which you could simply not start using.

So yes, Microsoft are still the bad guys.
I've been using Windows 10 since the beginning and I believe it's the best desktop OS out there (I use Ubuntu at work and I have a Macbook Air too, I can compare).

However, I'm getting a bit tired of the overall poor quality of the biyearly updates. There's always one machine (either my main workstation or one belonging to my close relatives) where it'll miserably fail. The error messages and logs are completely unhelpful and so is whatever you'll find on the Microsoft Community website. In the end, I'm sure I'm going to have to reinstall at least one Windows cleanly, every six months.
Not today, I agree. It was just an ordinary email up until a few years ago though.
This is why auto-sliding sliders with text are always a terrible idea. You can never sync them to all users read speed, so some always think they are too fast, and some always think they are too slow.
> alcohol and tobacco. Yet the ‘old and boring’ approach has deemed these clearly poisonous substances safe

It has not deemed them safe - They are "grandfathered" in. There is absolutely no way that you could introduce tobacco as a new product today.
Yep, it's a custom field, purely Agile's feature.
People point out that WebP isn't ideal, that there are better alternatives etc.

All that may be true, but the most relevant factor here is Google and Microsoft backing WebP. Google has the power to push through its own inventions due to Chrome's market share. If you want less of that, use Firefox.

Meanwhile, Mozilla hasn't given up on better formats, as the article points out.
First time I heard about this thing. I don’t get it either. It just seems to be somewhat witty but ultimately trite artistic “punnery” - somewhat akin to those Reddit meme gifs with the witty but stupid captions.. just done more artistically.
No, docker toolbox is broken. The best option right now is to upgrade to pro or dual boot.
You ain't gonna need it. The idea is that developers tend to think, "what if they need $x too? I'll just add it." Or, worse, they over gerneralize their solution. "I needed to rank 3 cart items by price, so I developed a way to rate an unbounded iterable of any type."
Where would I start? I know next to nothing about that guy besides the headlines about the drug price raise. Wikipedia doesn't paint a brighter picture either tbh.
Notably, that feature got written by somebody from Salesforce (I assume on their work time, but not sure), and finished up by a Postgres major contributor. It might be the first major contribution from Salesforce outside of all the stuff Tom Lane did when he was working there.
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Or just send the payload exported as JSON/CSV. We keep all kinds of project-relevant information in Word-/Excel-documents even checked into source control - plus these documents are used as a means to poll data from the customer. I'm actively fighting this terrible practice by writing some simple CRUD UIs (currently with React, but .NET would be a good choice too), to be able to transform project parameters influencing application configuration on our and on the customer side.
Careful what you wish for. Many languages are much more specific than English, but you don't think that English has a problem there, do you?

For example, why not introduce gendered nouns - they often help to clarify references? "The door and the window are open." - "Well, close es (=das window)" vs "Well, close sie (=die door)".

Other languages indicate evidentiality (that is, how a speaker learned about something) by a verb suffix, eg Eastern Pomo:

* -ink’e (nonvisual sensory),
* -ine (inferential),
* -·le (hearsay),
* -ya (direct knowledge)

Now, I might say, in English that is clear from context, or expressed in some other way, but according to you, "we should avoid it if we can". Thus, better learn Eastern Pomo?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidentiality
I completely support GMOs. As long as they're labeled. Let the consumers decide (also, food labelling is terrible in general - in many countries, you can say "no trans fats" for food that actually has trans fats).
This is so cool! I recently just started tinkering with a fractal expressor that results in voxel world in libgdx to roam around in. But secretly in the back of my mind, I think you are building what I really want! Love it. I’ll be following your project. :)
"simple" is not synonymous with "easy to learn".

There is some research that suggests that it is easier for adults to learn isolating languages, like English and Mandarin, than it is for adults to learn synthetic languages like German, Russian, or Arabic.

In other words, adults are better at learning lists of words than systems for constructing words. The fewer grammatical morphemes they need to learn, the faster they can reach functional fluency.
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Of course. But nobody knows which one you have. So you have time to change it.

I shipped firmware for an IoT device, had the initial password == the serial number. The client said "Nah, just make it open, our installers don't want to fool with passwords". Sigh.
His point seems to be 'don't go near the scary end of colour and you're all good: stick to pastels and use a million shades of nearly the same colour.

I don't think it explains good colour use, vision differences (e.g. Tetrachromacy) or why artists can sometimes seem to make horrible colours work really well.

Better gradients does not necessarily equal better colour.
Afaik there is no av1 or heif browser implementations. Theres far less efficient polyfills for heif that are poor on large images.
Please check out my Fatou.jl julia package, which allows you to share and reproduce 2D fractals with short one-liners written in Julia

https://github.com/chakravala/Fatou.jl
What's the proof?

The article says:

> a cupboard full of genes with known effects, that can each be adjusted to turn an unruly wild plant into a valuable domesticated one

which I don't believe at all - if we really knew exactly what genes do, we could construct new life-forms artificially. But we don't biology is far too complicated for us (for the time being). We don't even understand climate (even the best models consistently overstated the predicted temperature rise).
Vultr also offers this, and has for years. https://www.vultr.com/features/uploadiso/
Good to see Firefox join the party, even tough it's 4 years late.
Serving multiple content types based on the http accept header sent by the browser is easy to setup. [1]
So Chrome and Firefox users can benefit from the better webp compression while Safari and IE can stick to jpeg.
[1] https://wooptoo.com/blog/serving-webp-today/
There are definitely languages which are a lot easier to learn than English or German, like Malay. It has a simple grammar and no intonations, so you should be able to speak properly after 2 months full time study. I'm pretty sure you can learn most of the language within a year, faster if you are exposed to other native speakers.
A financial company is going to extend 10x as much credit as established institutions (without collateral) to random startup execs? And two other selling points being that they're writing a financial platform from scratch and you'll get your card more quickly so your business doesn't fail from waiting on the mailman to deliver a normal business credit card?

The APR would have to be sky-high and would start accruing the day after. There's a reason banks don't give a shitload of money to just anyone who can pay ~$1,000 form a corporation.

Are they going to write fraud detection from the ground-up too? Same with all of the customer support apps that allow reps to deal with issues?

This makes no sense to me. The risk here seems stratospheric unless "Visa Commercial" is already offering all of these, and Brex is just re-branding it.

Edit: Pagar.me would count as financial experience. I missed that sentence in the article.
Not only that, but it's also MUCH faster than PNG in both decoding and encoding. I use it for all images I store as lossless.
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Coffee. If I need to slog through something tedious I'll drink a beer or two.
It an effect if individual freedom. Unfortunately, that includes the freedom to assign value to things that may be objectively valueless. People spend billions on junky movies, tv shows and apps. But what are you going to do, ban entertainment? It’s been tried.
How would you allow CRISPR just for gene suppression? It's a slippery slope, that's a problem. Soon, you get Roundup.
But I think this is the way languages have to work if they're supposed to be spoken by non-native speakers or just spoken by a large number of geographically dispersed people. Even German is losing a lot of its initial complexity because of the last decades of immigration. This is mostly just in spoken German for now, but the written word will eventually follow.

And all languages with wide geographic dispersion have a disconnect between the spoken word and the written spelling, the most extreme example being Chinese.
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Your 0 link doesn't actually support your claim.

Dropbox abandoned their incompatible python 2 jit compiler. Pypy remains available and there was really no point in having another around.

And Guido had nothing to do with that decision afaict.

Finally, the reason why they dropped it is absolutely correct. Python isn't meant to be used for performance critical work. Python is however fast enough for most usecases - especially with pypy, but definitely not all.
In what way is windows 10 then the best OS? An OS that keeps breaking by updates is pretty much the worst OS by my standards. At work about 30% of computers have been reinstalled due to windows update failures over a year or so. Pretty awful if you ask me. Oh, and no problems with our ubuntu machines.
I always say, English is easy with the basics, yet, hard to master while German exposes all the complexity from the very beginning.
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> The 'p' in 'span' is not as forceful as the 'p' in 'pan', and they're actually different consonants.

Yes, they're phonetically different, but in English the difference is not phonemic; they're allophones of the same consonant.
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I imagine the primary usecase will be disabling your anime wallpaper.
How does having an image of the encrypted drive allow them to determine whether the system has 'significantly' changed? Just generating a login in the event log should make the image completely different.
That x86 support isn't free. Intel's SIMD implementations and new instructions only ever seem to target the high end; I don't think you could use AVX512 at low power. They also guarantee various things about memory ordering that ARM doesn't, and of course the page table, 16-bit boot modes, and everything are super complicated.