skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much not. They be better at acting as insulation.

A heat sink needs high thermal conductivity. Hence why most heat sinks you see are metal.
By that logic we should be calling all vulnerabilities "backdoors" just in case.
I just randomly googled one of the cases -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Munich_shooting
and perpetrator "was the son of Shiite Muslims from Iran who came to Germany as asylum seekers in the 1990s."
Immediately closed the article
Victory for Users: WhatsApp Fixes Privacy Problem in Group Messaging
OCaml doesn't care about white space, and I don't think SML does either, although F# does. Maybe you are thinking of Haskell?
Yeah, electrolysis of aluminum is a huge user of power. You've got the heating to several hundred degrees Celsius and electrolysis combined.
It's a reasonable accusation though, assuming the number of poaching that come from us and europe is comparably low.
Another case of “this is why we can’t have nice things”.
Check out a population density map. Almost the entire country is in the EV range blob in the bottom.
Re: Grammarly privacy concerns

I had no idea it was that bad. Thanks for alerting me — uninstalling it first thing in the morning.
You do have to pass an extra "--ssh default" argument to "docker build", so it's not totally automagical or anything.
What English dictionary are you using? Using LibreOffice (US English) with no custom words, 10 of the words on your list appear as correctly spelled (amongst, another's, conception, depersonalization, else’s, experientially, pathologies, tangly, unimpassioned, and unmoving).

But in general I do have problems with this, and I've added hundreds of words to my custom dictionary.
You are getting a cut of it, in the form of the voluntary usage of a free service. That's voluntary barter, you're trading your data for usage of a service and is perfectly fine.

If your point is "I want my cut in money", then you need to find someone who's willing to give you a cut in money.

> If I deny the use of my data (opt-out, right to be forgotten), I need a way to enforce that.

But that's easy to do: don't provide your data.

Your argument seems to be more like "bartering access for data should be illegal" or "it should be illegal to offer a free, ad-funded online service without offering the same service without any ads or tracking by the price that I want, a shrubbery, a nice one, not too expensive".

It isn't wrong, but it is a different argument.

PS: Sorry for the shrubbery joke, wasn't meant to ridicule anyone but myself :)
There are certain scientific topics that have become politically charged for one reason or another, where arguing on the stance backed by science is considered heresy. You can be downvoted, banned, and even doxxed or harassed depending on how polarized the online group you're posting to is. Even if the proof you provide would be sufficient for any other topic, it will be meticulously picked apart and dismissed for any reason at all that they could scrounge up. People have already decided their conclusion and think any evidence that conflicts with it must be faulty.
wtf. plan9 is still alive?

There's a name I haven't seen since 1995.

(Vale dhog)
> The deconstruction of an American identity into fragmented identitarian politics by socialists

American identity has been broken down into “fragmented identitarian politics” on sectarian, ethnic, regional, and other bases longer than there has been a philosophy called “socialism”.

Pretty much as long as there's been an “America”, in fact.
With some personal interest and research I've judged for two decades, (before the IPCC managed to reach consensus) that the potential economic performance of wind and solar is constantly under-estimated and this belief, (admittedly partly intuitive) has year after year been proven true. Even while lacking investment programs of trillions of dollars into R&D which would have been entirely sensible and affordable, proven by greater amounts spent on conflict in the name of security.

I find it beyond justification or excuse how major official forecasters can year after year be so vision-less and pessimistic. We can make floating deep-sea wind farms - and floating solar. We can make better and better batteries and storage facilities as soon as dispatchability and curtailment are close to being a significant cost in a handful of places. Cost of renewable energy has cruised downward with tepid incentives provided by governments. It can plummet within years of serious international public investment in R&D.

There's really no excuse for persistently pessimistic predictions like this [1], from major and professional industry forecasters -

[1] http://www.mining.com/web/charts-energy-experts-hilariously-...
Yandex email is free, even if you want to bring your own domain. https://connect.yandex.com/pdd/
Keep in mind that Europeans have hunted species to extinction simply for hats. People are people. Where I live in Japan, the Japanese worlf is extinct (less than 100 years ago). The Japanese river otter is extinct (only about 15 years ago). The river eel (unagi) is going extinct and so the price at the restaurant has gone up like crazy (like about $60 for a single eel). Let me emphasize: everybody knows it is going extinct and yet they are still eating it. You've got blue fin tuna being sold at auction for $3 million for a single tuna -- because it is going extinct.

And before you say, "Oh those pesky Japanese people don't care about the environment", these are the things I know about because I happen to live here. Before I moved the US removed quotas from Pacific salmon in retaliation for Canadian softwood lumber prices! The idea was to destroy the fish stocks so that the Canadian fishing industry would be hurt and they would agree to increase prices for softwood lumber. It took something like 10 years for the returning salmon counts on Vancouver island to recover.

We (collectively) suck at this stuff. The more we point our fingers at those pesky Chinese or those pesky Japanese or those pesky Portuguese (don't get me started about the Grand Banks) or those pesky Americans, the more we abandon the idea that we need to work together.
SymbiFlow, a FOSS FPGA Toolchain, Accepting Google Summer of Code Applications
i am sorry. you are right. i misremembered about sml (haven't written in it much and in a while) and incorrectly lumped in ocaml. i should have been more careful. f# was what was really on my mind.
We cant ban intolerant thoughts whether we want to or not since we cannot read peoples minds. Besides people cant just change their believes at will.

The question is what we do about intolerant speech.
A summary of key differences from Rust: A richer collection of build-in memory management strategies (e.g., tracing GC), Pony-inspired permissions (esp. safe shared, mutable), structural subtyping (as well as nominal), and a bunch of features intended to improve ease-of-use and productivity. At some point, I will write up a page on my web site to explain Cone better for someone coming from Rust (or C++ or ..).
I always wondered what is the reason Kofola didn't gain market share all over the world. It is noticeably less sweet and much more refreshing than Coke. Maybe marketing a new soft drink worldwide is a hill too steep for whoever owns the brand now. Or maybe it is not as good and we are all just used to it.
> Censuses should know much about population without knowing anything about a specific citizen. X% of population are yews, but is Jon Smith a jew?

That's one of the reasons many countries are abolishing traditional censuses in favor of rolling surveys.
From scanning the page it sounds like Huawei used a hack to make their MateBookService unkillable, unremovable, by unhooking in to services.exe. That in the process of that they left the possibility that the device they were using HwOs.*\.sys was only protected from being used by checking the program had the right path, thus leaving it open to crackers (it being basically g+rw) to use to get the ring-0 permissions needed to run the "stay resident"-type hack Huawei were using. And that in turn meant a process could overwrite MateBookService and gain it's own privelege escalation??

Am I close, if so: is there evidence that Huawei were using that access maliciously or was it just "to make sure their 'management software' retained it's place in the OS"??

We're talking about computers manufactured by Huawei here? Surely they can run code at a far lower level, is this MS and Huawei fighting over which of them "owns" the users computer?

[Slight aside: The MS page reads a lot like an advert. Nice link through to a page that itself has "start trial or buy" up top above the hero shot. Name drops some big vulns, Wannacry, DoublePulsar. Devalues the piece IMO because it seems the reason for them doing the work is solely to create an advert.]
Nice flavour. Way too sweet.
First problem is storage. We simply don't know how to do it and there is nothing even remotely resembling a solution in the work.

Second renewables are not going to produce enough energy, currently, they only produce around 1% of the worlds energy needs and that's with a heavily subsidized and politically motivated backing.

Third, the cost of these super grids is going to be astronomical.

Nuclear is the only optionon of the clean energies that are both:

Green (no CO2), cheap and plentiful, scaleable and reliable.

The capacity factor of nuclear is handsdown unbeatbale compared to wind

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=14611

The idea of wind and solar being effective is based on the in my opinion faulty idea that energy density isn't the most important factor.
Any chance you could you share some references on this kind of type inference? It sounds very interesting!
I really don't like the idea of PassivHaus. I don't want to live in a hermetically sealed pod. I like a house with a very high rate of fresh air exchange with the outdoors. There are so many sources of odor in a house that need to be cleared out, not to mention CO2.

Yeah, you could have some sophisticated ventilation with a heat exchanger but that's one more piece of equipment to maintain and if it fails without you noticing it then the air quality could decline very rapidly.
Perhaps you should because the end result is the same, shit code sinks ships. Somebody could have written it intentionally or somebody could have been a dumbshit. Doesn't matter to me because now my computer is compromised.
I mean, buying a bunch of miners in order to 51% attack a network is significantly more difficult than making a phone call to a Visa or MasterCard executive.

It is also not enough to censor a singular Blockchain. You'd have to get the hardware to attack all the chains, because then people would just move to the other ones.

This is still not impossible. That's why I used the words "censorship resistant". But it is certainly much more difficult than a phone call to 2 or 3 executives who control the major financial companies.

This is proven by the fact that censorship just isn't happening on most Blockchains. The actual state of the network proves that it is difficult, because it isn't happening.

You can talk all you want about theoretical attacks, but those attacks aren't happening, so it works. Whereas there are many examples of the "phone call to Visa" that are happening right now.
It's not that hard to image it will be illegal to wipe your phone when going through the border. It's suspicious today. This is the thing that really bugs me about border security. There's no appeal, they lie, you are just supposed to suck it up.
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Two things jumped out to me:

1) The extent to which how Spotify organized as teams completely affected the technical architecture and user experience. This is a situation where being deliberate about culture really matters!

2) Spotify feels very lead by engineering with design taking a back seat. You see this in the post by addressing the experience as more of a collection/list of features vs. a holistic experience.
Oh, if LT is also advertised as a 'scriptable/extensible' editor that can accomplish 80% of GNU Emacs with eye-candy, that is actually a pretty good advantage...
One of the biggest complaint of GNU Emacs (at least for me) is the super bad defaults and esoteric GUI that doesn't mix with other apps because of it's tty-inspired nature...
If LT can become a GUI-first Emacs-competent editor, it will be big! :-)
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Federal agency frets about terrorism threats at Burning Man
I agree with your general perspective. I'd guess that the further back in time you go, the stronger filter bubbles were. One hundred thousand years ago when we all lived in tribes and clans was arguably peak filter bubble. These relatively small groups had their own histories, languages, religions, traditions, etc., and often lived in isolation from everyone else. The diversity was probably staggering. Impossible to imagine. Just look at how alien and unique a place like Japan can get after a bit of isolation.

Today we're quite homogenous by comparison. People on both sides of the aisle believe more-or-less the same things, but we zoom in on the tiny differences and exaggerate them. The media does its best to facilitate this, because its business model depends on eyeballs, and eyeballs are driven by novelty and controversy.
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There's a community fork named `9front' [1]. Most of the development happens in its community (IRC, mailing list). Expect some hermetic memes.

[1] http://9front.org/
Maybe what they're trying to say is that it's the established big companies that are inflating the numbers. I'm not surprised by the numbers because I'm pretty sure big companies dominate the statistics. (And they pay similarly as to SF)
Actually you could have shook it again and pressed Redo :-( Anyway, thanks for taking your time!
You just did it again. Used specifics from one application to pessimistically (and wrongly) apply to the technology generally. Also, you keep assuming the 4 3000kW locomotives will be running flat out, which is a terrible assumption (and would cause a conventional locomotive to quickly deplete its fuel, if not destroy its engine).

Here, I'll do it for you. Good Panasonic cells get about 250Wh/kg, or 0.9MJ/kg. Assume an electric-optimized locomotive would be able to achieve about half its weight in cells, with a useful energy density of 0.45MJ/kg. Assume about 1 locomotive for every 9 cars, and with each car weighing the same as each locomotive. So the whole train's effective energy density is 0.045MJ/kg.

The "rolling resistance" of a typical train is about 0.002, conservatively. That is a weight of 1 kgf has a resistance of 0.002kgf. (EDIT: This is a good assumption that works up to 60mph, the speed limit of freight trains, but at the typical low average speed of freight trains, it's actually about half that value: https://slideplayer.com/slide/4696076/15/images/12/Freight+T... )

The range is thus just: (specific energy)/((rolling resistance) * gravity) or: 0.045MJ/kg/(.002 * 9.8m/s^2) = ~2300km. https://www.google.com/search?q=0.045MJ%2Fkg%2F.002/(9.8m%2F...

That's enough to go from the center of the continental US to the coast on a single charge. (and from what I understand, 1 engine for every 9 cars is not uncommon)

If we have one engine for every 4 cars, you can now cross the continental US on a single charge. But remember, the discussion was about multiple recharges per trip, so there's WAY more battery here than you actually need.

And to just give an idea of the power available, 130 tons is a typical car laden weight. 65 tons of Panasonic cells gives you 16.25MWh of storage. Cells like that can discharge their cells about 12 minutes. Lets make it 30 minutes, conservatively. That gives a power at the cell level of 32500 kilowatts, ten times your 3000kW locomotive. Batteries are plenty powerful.

(And the cost is offset easily in fuel costs, as long as the battery is given the usage of about one full cycle at least once a week.)

You might point out energy requirements for braking and climbing hills. But remember that one of the greatest advantages of battery-electrics is regenerative braking. Most of the energy consumed in increasing elevation can be recovered on the way back down.

(As far as costs go, the battery pack should--including the price of industrial electricity and typical costs for automotive batteries at scale--pay for itself in fuel cost savings in about 500 cycle-equivalents while the cells should last at least 1000... meaning the overall added cost is potentially negative... meaning it's a market opportunity.)
> Problem is you need enough "on standby" to run full-output indefinitely ... at a cost high enough that you may as well just use them instead of unreliable renewables.

There are two components to the cost of a generator: fixed costs and variable costs, the later being mostly fuel. Even if you have enough standby generators and could run them all the time, if the "unreliable renewables" allow you to reduce their power (using less fuel) or even power some of them down completely, it can be a huge cost advantage.

It's even better if you add a bit of storage to the mix: since most generators can't power up instantly, with enough storage they could all be completely powered off instead of idling, saving even more fuel and wear.
"Practicing: Working on your own projects"

Yeah that's a load of crap. I have my own set of personal projects, but I know plenty of great programmers who don't. This is pretentious.

On a semi-related note, my blog uses computer science to analyze and generate music: http://jsat.io
I see this everyday as well. You would think they would have addressed this by now given how glaring the error message is.
- Communism and its central planning of the production

- Iron curtain - Inability of Czechoslovakian business to access Western markets

- Consequence of 30 years of communism in the Czechoslovakia

- Trademark issues

- Foreign competition (Kofola vs Coke vs Pepsi)
Based on a quick test of the web player in Safari with the user agent set to Chrome, something with promises is broken in Safari (relative to Chrome, that is).
Have you actually looked at what cog does? I don't see how you would manually use Emacs commands to do the same more than once.
IIRC blockchains are for anonymized trust, not efficient archiving, right? I'm not sure if blockchains are going to become super useful when it comes to preserving the internet... :-(
The point I was trying to make with the Brainfuck comparison is that Brainfuck is about as simple as they come, and as such actually very easy to read as such (replace the actual symbols with whatever you like).

It's just very difficult to comprehend what the code actually does. Writing complex programs in Brainfuck means you need to piece together constructs, and due to the simplicity of Brainfuck, these constructs can be large. As such it's actually very difficult for non-expert Brainfuck coders to recognize say a for-loop.

In higher order languages that have explicit for-loops in them, you still need to know what they are and what they do, but I argue they're easier to remember, read and reason about. As such the extra feature (a for-loop language construct) can make the language easier to read.
Rather language-specific, but this is exactly the use case of Lisp's homoiconicity. The language's code and data are structured identically, so you can write code that takes other code as input.
I'll add my vote for the drduh guide. Been using it for some time with no problems.
They don’t cost double. In many cases petrol cars are still cheaper than their electric counterparts in Norway. Hyundai Kona petrol, for example, is slightly cheaper than Hyundai Kona electric.

But because of their tax exempt status, the price premium for electrics is much smaller in Norway than in most other countries.
And I want to be 35 again. Both of those things are not going to happen.

The technology, funding, and skills required no longer exist. The US would have to move the whole defense budget to NASA to secure enough funding, and there is not the reservoir of skills in manufacturing or piloting that once existed.

As proof, I give you the fact that the US has not been able to send astronauts to the ISS without Russian assistance in the last 8 years since the space-shuttle was discarded. (Plenty of time to build a new, temporary space-shuttle if the ability still existed.)

As well, there is not enough time available between now and 2033 to build the entire space-technology industries from scratch to full production.
Product development is a very creative process. I share many of the challenges that artists of all kinds experience, from novelists to musicians or painters. There are highs and lows, doubts and fears. I am never satisfied with my work yet move on because I must.
A Snap engineer could theoretically see this post and steal the idea. It’s usually useless to go around trying to guard an idea. However, if you develop the service enough so that it would be inefficient to rebuild it completely from scratch, then they might pay you for the concept and the technology, which is real IP and can’t be ripped off quite so easily.
> What if I see a cute girl at a coffee store, we hit it off, but I don't have her email address - or even her name? What then?

Something like Berkanan, a physical proximity-based messaging app that uses Bluetooth, may help.

https://berkanan.chat/
Pretty sure it's not anti-Chinese government.

It's the anti-"current Chinese policy" and the way it treat dissidents, minorities, journalists etc.
If we only had a meta search engine for taxi rides that enabled you to get the quickest ride from any service! Somehow that's a thing in the airline sector but (for now) not in the on-demand ride business.

Or at least not on the client side. Cab drivers appear to have no problem using several apps at the same time and picking the best option.
I love to code and create new things yet the more I learn and grow the more I agree with this article.

For personal projects and hobbies it might make sense to code more and do random stuff, that is how we learn and sometimes how new libraries emerge. Yet for enterprise applications just use other tools that are ready and whatever gets the job done, even if it is a paid SaaS, because most of the times it will be cheaper than developing in house anyways.
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Not commenting any way on the particular issue at hand, but to respond to your general question:

> why should any PC management software go out of their way to ensure that it never gets shut down?

The Windows 10 kernel itself goes out of its way to make sure the Windows update service isn't permanently shut down.
What is not malicious about a driver whose pure function (this thing literally has no other value or purpose) is maintaining an invincible NT_AUTHORITY process of their pre-installed management software? And achieving that by allocating a RWX page in services.exe? What are we even doing W^X for?

Maybe we have different expectations of what a driver is. Take a look for yourself, even the updated PC Manager Software on their website still has the driver with the goofy shellcode in its installer (no idea if it's just not loaded now):

https://consumer.huawei.com/us/support/pc/matebook-x-pro/
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Singling out the worst offenders helps concentrate effort.
> High risk applicants should pay more.

I disagree because I believe that everyone should have health insurance. Forcing people to pay different amounts for insurance isn't much of 'insurance' at all, then, in my view. At the very least, there should be some limit on the difference in amounts that people pay; in the hypothetical I gave, that difference would grow as predictions become more and more accurate.

I think this is a pretty common position (at least the weaker construction), but if you disagree, I understand how the argument wouldn't work for you.