skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being born in 1991 I didn't realize this until recently but apparently we used to be better about this before these institutions shut down in the 80s-90s. I still don't really understand why this happened or how the resulting issues haven't been addressed.
I wonder if this rule should apply to corporations. Should HN autokill comments calling Microsoft a convicted monopolist? They paid their fine, so all is good, right?

Or what about bad yelp reviews? If you exterminate the cockroaches, can you delete all the bad reviews?
IANA neuroscientist, but it also seems that the brain has favored pathways and will follow alternates and recall alternate information sometimes if a primary skill or memory is unavailable. This woman was already fluent in both languages and fell back to German. Other cases have had people show greater skill with a foreign language than they had realized they possessed before the injury, and as they healed their primary language came back and their conscious skills with the other faded.
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It’s a 9 year old company (that’s raised close to a half billion dollars), and this is just a PR article.

Why is an account that hasn’t posted in 7 years posting this?
Is the following a possible explanation?

* Random Apple engineer finds the implant.

* Goes directly to FBI without telling boss at Apple.

* FBI gags the engineer, says "Do not even tell your boss about this, it's national security and we're handling it".

* Bloomberg catches wind of this (maybe the same engineer leaks to them?), publishes their story.

* Engineer is now freaked, goes back to FBI and says "Are you really sure I shouldn't tell by boss?" and they say "Yes, we're sure, you are legally bound to secrecy".

I don't know how security teams, the FBI, or national security work. But that's the only scenario that comes to my mind which would explain both sides being completely sure of their version of the story.
> When Intel’s own i5-9600K is under half the cost with only two fewer cores,

> or AMD’s R7 2700X is very competitive in almost every test, while they might not be the best, they’re more cost-effective.
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Or buy a ThinkPad X1 Extreme, it comes with a functioning keyboard including a dedicated escape key! Upgradeable RAM to 64GB and plenty of ports are a bonus.
The general responses to suggest getting off of voice modes either HF or VHF, and into digital or contesting has problems for people not living in a large city with multiple clubs to choose from. I’ve been an active ham for more than half of my life now and been finding the toxic culture in local ham club is frustrating, and real problem to recruiting younger people to the hobby.

I used to participate in the local club but quit after a few too many times hearing racist comments from the (not-octogenarian) club president with no reaction by other members, I decided to call it quits. That also means the tools and instruments I used to be able to borrow, or having a few extra sets of hands to help put up an antenna has gone away. And I won’t recommend the club to other people who have asked about getting into the hobby, at least not without telling them what to expect.

I still have a fellow ham I talk with who is a non-club member in the area, but he’s been in and out of the hobby as well for the last few years.

Sure this is one datapoint, but the value of having a local club with available knowledge, and tool and junk boxes to raid makes it a lot easier to stay active in the hobby.
Italy generally pays ~3-4 billion euros more into the EU budget than it receives from the EU. Ireland is much more of a mooch than Italy

https://english.eu.dk/en/faq/net-contribution
That's a fair point. The comment should have been more carefully phrased as aspirational. Recognizing that's not the current state of affairs, it does seem that not "forgetting" is akin to not "forgiving" in modern society. Consider trying to vote, let alone get a job after being released from prison if your name is plastered all over the internet in connection with a crime. That seems to be a second, extra-judicial sentence in fact if the law has in function "forgiven" you.
Bloomberg says they have THREE senior sources at Apple. Why would they retract? My guess is Cook is fishing for the leaker.
Except, that doesn't happen like you described it. A process can "prevent sleep", at which point closing the lid will still leave the laptop running (you can view apps/processes that do this in Activity Monitor - there is a separate column titled "Preventing sleep").

http://www.chriswrites.com/mac-refusing-sleep-figure-whats-k...
I believe this sort of thing is known as aphasia; it was fascinating to read about what it can be like in someone multilingual.

Theres an episode [1] of Helen Zaltzman’s fantastic podcast The Allusionist that deals with a similar story: a woman who has to essentially re-learn how to speak and understand English after a brain aneurysm.

I highly recommend giving it a listen if you’re interested; it’s only half an hour or so and really deepened my appreciation of how plastic and resilient our brains can be.

[1]: https://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/eclipse
Some of the ideas in Asimov are compelling. But he's not a great prose stylist.
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STRATFOR Files
Some forests would have access to evolution via natural selection, but this forest does not. One possible result of selection would be to favor variants that had more bitter compounds in new leaves, to discourage browsing.
I'm not parent/GP...

I bought a ADALM-PLUTO from Arrow. $98 shipped. It's a SDR that goes from 325MHz-3.8GHz, and with a "hack" will go from 70 MHz to 6GHz. 7dBm (or 5 mW Tx).

You'll need amplifiers to go from 5mW to QRP (~1W). I did find one on Banggood for 1MHz-1GHz with up to 35dBm gain. I'll still need one for 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz, but that's a small price to pay for having nearly 6GHz of spectrum to read. ( https://www.banggood.com/1MHz-1000MHZ-35DB-3W-HF-VHF-UHF-FM-... )
The old 'peach vs. coconut' cultural modes: https://x-culture.org/peach-vs-coconut-cultures/
It's not irresponsible at all if the story is true. Bloomberg has no responsibility to Supermicro's stock (or anyone else's). They also aren't responsible for protecting classified information.

But the story probably isn't true.
> Why is it not possible that (whatever three letter agency) grabbed a few engineers, told them to do X without talking to anyone else...

Even if that were possible it wouldn't account for all the discrepancies here. Bloomberg claimed that Apple worked with the FBI on an investigation and returned thousands of servers. Apple has strongly denied that which casts doubt on the rest of it as well.
And Bloomberg is standing by the story.

All of the people who think that Apple is being misled coerced by the government into denying factual reports, I want to know how that belief is squared with the _lack_ of a retraction. If the government is powerful enough to get Apple to go to these lengths in defense of a falsehood, why can't they convince Bloomberg to retract?
hardware implants are why people do chip decapping and hardware assurance. this practice is more old than cybersecurity itself. even IF this story is false, the fact is that some actors implant chips into many many devices. these come from china, but ofcourse the contractors who make these chips aren't neccesarily only serving their own masters - that is an assumption. And lets not start about how hypocritical it is to put everything on china all the time while western governments just implement the same backdoors and data harvesting techniques in software. lawful intercept is a documented way to do it, but there's plenty undocumented. (as that once also was.)

if you doubt this information, look on youtube for 'chip decapping defcon' and see how 2 british persons show how they do this kind of assurance work and show how people have already found these kind of implants many many many times before.!
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Excellent report, thanks for the link. It is quite readable and easy to understand. Can also see recent 3-year trends on most graphs.

I found the section on primary cause of homelessness interesting:

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22% of respondents reported job loss as the primary cause of their homelessness.

15% reported drugs or alcohol.

13% reported an argument with a friend or family member who asked them to leave

12% reported eviction

10% reported divorce or separation

7% reported an illness or medical problem.

---

I suspect mental health is something that is very pertinent. I used to volunteer with the homeless and drug addiction seemed like was used for self-medication. Quite a few people were suffering from anxiety, schizophrenia and other issues that prevented them to forming meaningful relationships, holding a job, staying in touch with their family (who often have disowned them).

Further under the section of "Health" I found:

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41% drug or alcohol abuse

39% psychiatric or emotional condition

31% chronic health problem

Then

29% reported Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

23% a physical disability

12% a traumatic brain injury

11% reported having an AIDS or HIV related illness

---
people of public interest are exempt

Sounds like a new badge of honor for minor "celebrities" and people who are self-important.

Are there codified specifications for "people of public interest?"
I take it you're not a parent.
I’m working on Tiny Thor:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrNjyV5PhE

It’s cool because it’s the game I always wanted to make since I was a teenager. What’s even cooler is that two heroes of my youth are doing it together with me: Henk Nieborg (Pixel Artist) and Chris Hülsbeck (Music).
“Whole Earth” origin (1976)
Whoever wrote ISPC "gets it", that SIMD lanes can be treated as if they were threads. You almost have to program in OpenCL or CUDA before you realize that SIMD code can be like normal serial code (with just a few, really really weird performance quirks).

I haven't really been able to use ISPC myself yet, but its on my to-do list. I've found that a lot of code fails to run well on a GPU and still needs a normal CPU for computation... but some SIMD bits here and there can really benefit from a higher-level language (rather that writing in intrinsics or relying on auto-vectorizers).

GPUs are still very far away from the CPU. You gotta push your data to RAM, then over a PCIe lanes... and spend many microseconds to miliseconds pushing the data to-and-from the GPU. While SIMD on a CPU benefits from L1 cache locality.

Intrinsics definitely work, but are hard to program. Auto-vectorizers don't really structure the program correctly... and require a ton of study to use correctly.

ISPC seems like the real way to get well-"threaded" SIMD code written productively for CPUs. It hides things behind relatively easy to understand abstractions and is the best 'CUDA / OpenCL for the CPU' I've found so far.

---------

Why not use CUDA? Well, CUDA doesn't share L1 cache with my CPU cores. That's why. You can't beat AVX in terms of latency. CUDA / NVidia GPUs are way faster, but you have to spend a LOT of time transferring data before CUDA code even begins to compute.

In contrast, ispc compiles to a .o that links into your standard C or C++ code you've been writing.
High-performance != Real-Time
Is it precedented for a news organization to double down like this in the case where a reporter just makes stuff up Stephen Glass style?

Because barring a Stephen Glass scenario, what's fascinating here is that no matter which side is right, this is evidence of some sort of mysterious power play.

Either Apple was hacked, they know, and are denying, which is evidence of them being under the thumb of U.S. national security.

Or, they were hacked and an internal team knows and Cook doesn't, which is evidence of U.S. national security having powerful influence inside of Apple.

Or, they weren't hacked, and Bloomberg is doubling down, which at this point would mean that someone has successfully hacked their journalistic verification processes to an extreme level.

In all three of those cases, it points to a level of attacker competence that I'm not normally inclined to believe in.
Noted and agreed. See the comment below. The original response should have been phrased as aspirational. Clearly there's no right to be forgotten in the law today. However, query whether it's possible for the law to truly "forgive" a crime after a sentence is served without some efforts being taken to "forget".
I'm working on a tiling window manager for Windows:

https://workspacer.org/

In another life I worked in a mostly linux environment, and developed on linux, where I used xmonad as a window manager. Switching to windows for a new job several years ago made that super painful. I use workspacer every day at work, and sometimes at home, and it mostly works! It crashes sometimes, and super DOES NOT LIKE IT if you reattach monitors (think laptop), but a restart of the application usually solves it.

The cool part: the configuration file is actually just C#, so you can configure it with a similar level of power that you would configure xmonad (or dwm) with (like implementing custom layouts, etc). I have not solidified the configuration API yet though, and have some plans to switch some major things up, so the road is a bit rocky for the time being.
This isn't about dispensing justice. This is about my personal right to own my experience of my life and those I interact with. Saying that my anger over having been abused by someone is no longer justified just because the courts have seen fit to expunge their records of the crime is deeply intrusive. The criminal court's job is to rectify the individual's relationship with the government. It does nothing to rectify the relationship between criminal and victim.
> The government doesn't get to decide how long I can hold that grudge.

No, they don't and they shouldn't. But for your own mental health, YOU should forgive it at some point. Holding grudges and never forgiving is not healthy for you. That doesn't mean you forget, but that it stops defining who you are.
Oooh that's a tough one. I haven't been in the market for a while, but even used gear like the Kenwood TS2000 which is now about 18 years old is still pricey. And a Yaesu FT817ND which is a low power HF radio comes in at around 800 bucks.

I really would like to hear from others, but I would look at getting an SDR that can handle HF frequencies down to at least 7Mhz if you want to have some serious DX fun.

I have a HackRF One, but it retails still at around $300 bucks. I have a feeling if you use the google and shop around, you may find a SDR and converter combo that'll get you down to 7Mhz with low power.

Then building your own antenna is trivial. Because you're using very low power, you can actually build a dipole antenna that doesn't even need a balun. I've used stealth antenna wire which is super slinky and nice to work with to create a low power antenna (in ham speak, we call low power 'QRP'). It's basically just coax that splits the core and shield into left and right branches. You use the stealth wire for the branches and you calculate the length based on frequency. So it's locked to a specific frequency like the 7Mhz band. But they're super effective as long as you string them in a tree. The whole kit can be bundled up into a backpack, taken for a hike and when you get to your destination, have a picnic, string up the antenna in a tree and make a few DX (long distance) QRP (low power) contacts on your laptop. Yeah, it's a geeky hobby. [insert joke about preparing for the end times]

But again, I'd love to hear from other hams on here re developments in low power low cost HF SDRs.
One issue is that we generally notice the loud obnoxious stereotype, and there are enough Americans that fit that mould.

And perhaps you are discounting that many people make their own judgement call based on the interactions they have had with Americans.

I am not sure it has much to do with tourists per se. On the gripping hand, I am in Palma de Mallorca at the moment, which many Europeans travel to for the beach and party life: there are some definite stereotypes for the Poms and the Germans!

Every visitor faces bigotry, some fair, some unfair.

American's can get plenty of positive reaction too. At least most people have some idea about your country and customs from watching movies: try coming from a third world nation...
I’m working on a new training to help people have better social interactions, aka charisma.

Whether they use it to get ahead at work, enhance their relationship with a partner, relate to their kids, gain new friendships, sell something important, or just be able to be in their own company, that’s something that enhances everything they do.

I think it’s cool because it’s my small way of connecting a world that has been slowly drifting apart and is in need of coming together to solve huge divides and problems that are to come.
Not so fast. You're right that the general operations of the USPS are no longer directly appropriated by Congress. However, the US government and its citizens do give the USPS significant economic benefits, including a 100% tax exemption from state and local taxes, and the ability to "pay" federal taxes back to itself[1]. USPS need not comply with local zoning, parking, toll road, etc. laws.

According to a 2015 report[2] cited by Fortune, that included $2.1B in waived taxes, the benefit of a federal monopoly on deliveries worth $14.9B, and as much as $490M/yr in subsidized lower interest rates due to not having to have a credit rating and borrow on the open market, but instead getting preferential treatment from the Treasury. Not included in the report is the fact that USPS OIG and USPIS are federally funded through appropriations[3]--whereas UPS or FedEx would have to hire their own off duty police offers at significant expense to receive the same level of protection.

[1] https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/taxing-postal-service
[2] http://www.sonecon.com/docs/studies/Study_of_USPS_Subsidies-...
[3] https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library...
I'm just thankful those old cyanobacteria weren't environmentally conscious. None of these modern Eukaryotic species would be around if they hadn't happily 'polluted' the entire planet with oxygen.
I'm flabbergasted that you are being downvoted. I have the same opinion as you, but to the point where i think it's almost fact... executives at a company that size (# of employees) don't know anything.

It's up to Bloomberg to prove their hypothesis is true, but don't see how Apple can say it's without a doubt untrue.
I agree, I'm afraid we'd end up with the government spending equivalent of a poorly planned college potluck. Everyone brings chips and paper plates and there is no actual food.
Are there any games nowadays that are CPU bound to the extent that you'd see a big performance improvement by using a high-end processor?
In Canada, the server generally just brings a terminal to my table with the bill. They put in the amount owed, and I use the terminal to add tip and complete the transaction.
Thanks for the links! I meant the actual proof or model they use to verify the protocol. Is the FaunaDB team using TLA+, Coq, Lean?
That's true. And I see the other example answers they have written do assume the pointer can be null, although the original class makes no indication of this.

To make the question clearer they should have added a function on the original class that checks (or doesn't check) the pointer before dereferencing it, thereby clarifying whether query being null is valid or not.
I think the recent tax cut is an example of a process with a predetermined outcome where politicians were seeking political cover to make a vote the majority of Americans disagreed with. It’s certainly possible that bots on twitter, Facebook, Instagram and reddit could be employed to amplify a particular message and provide that cover.
Yeah, but even then I assume they would want a deeper translation that made the scene more natural to Finns -- where the Moff wouldn't say something that looks like small talk, nor have Vader recognize something as being "pleasantries". Like, have the Moff immediately get to giving status reports, and then have Vader respond with disbelief and say he's behind schedule.
In the UK the 2700X is half the price of the i9-9900K and trades blows with it on the stuff I mostly care about.

I'm truly loving the 2700X I built last week, it's a nice bump over the 1700 at work.
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?" https://youtu.be/6yN2H3--1aw
Hold on. If a reporter is uncovers hostile, state-sponsored corporate espionage in extant, US hardware, it's "shockingly irresponsible" to report that? The putative fact that our supply chain is so totally compromised is immediately relevant to everyone. I'm sorry-not-sorry if that's inconvenient for the FBI and Tim Cook.

In a context where the geopolitical and commercial forces would all strongly prefer that such things never come to light, I'm on the side of more sunlight, not less.
> The OP seems to be discussing the problem of solving it in a global sense, so that people do not become homeless. IMO, more housing is the solution to that problem.

IMO, it's not, because people don't become homeless (for the most part) because there are no existing vacant housing units, they become homeless because of joblessness, poor credit, drug addiction, mental illness, and criminal issues (often involving drugs), or a combination thereof, which make them unable (financially or otherwise) to either rent housing in the open market or take advantage of publicly operated or subsidized housing.
Bing and DuckDuckGo both have vastly better search products (for different reasons). DDG obviously has a strong privacy push, and allows you to grab results from different search engines in a private way, Bing pays for your searching there with rewards.

Results quality is incredibly similar, and in fact, several times I've read hyped up announcement articles about new Google Knowledge Graph features or tools like the metronome when you search "metronome", only to notice that Bing already had that functionality already. Google isn't really the innovator in search and hasn't been for a long time. But given that they pay billions to both Apple and Mozilla to be the default search on iOS and Firefox, and also control the largest mobile OS, Android, Google remains mostly uncontested for the 90% or higher market share it has in a lot of countries.

Defaults win, we've seen time and time again. Google didn't explode in popularity because people set it as their search engine. Sure, nerds like us did back then, but what happened was Adobe Flash Player and similar apps started installing the Google Toolbar, which changed your default search engine to Google. And this is why the EU has finally taken a move to prevent Google from making Android manufacturers default to Google Search, though it's likely most will still be paid to provide that default going forward.
The woman who founded Right To Dream Too (http://right2dreamtoo.blogspot.com/) gave a presentation at my work. I mentioned that I thought it looked like many homeless were dealing with drug addictions and if they had services to support them. My perception is that people look much more stressed out than the homeless people I used to see in Portland twenty years ago. She remarked that people who are dealing with chronic sleeplessness often look like what you would see someone who is withdrawing from drug use, and that made me think.

It makes you wonder if more/less policing has an impact on the ability of people to find safe places to sleep, and if not, how that leads to an interminable cycle of destruction to their bodies which is maybe worse than drug use. I wish I knew the facts on that speculation.