skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a book is written with a politician's name in the title,

The politician would need to argue that his/her own name is problematic.

> If I type your name in a comment that I own,

If you write a long comment about how I am a terrible person because of action I took 10 years ago and are no longer relevant, yes. As far as I understand the right does not apply to you human to be forgotten, but to specific information about you that are no longer relevant.
We can't destroy humanity. We can, however, destroy any hope that human or human-descended life makes it off this planet.
FYI: Android 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 will soon get no more updates to Chrome[1]. Android 4.0 is stuck on an old version of Chrome.

For WebView, Android 4.4 is stuck on Chrome 30/33 and anything older still uses AOSP.

Samsung users often use the Samsung browser, which is often a very obsolete version that came with the phone.

1. https://www.xda-developers.com/google-chrome-android-droppin...
Announcing Dotty 0.15.0-RC1 – the fully bootstrapped compiler
Because a lack of empathy for other human beings is problematic, because it means that as soon as your self interest does not perfectly align with their well being you will think nothing of harming them.
Bonds can also fluctuate in value over the short term. If you hold a bond to maturity, you're guaranteed to get your principal (original investment) and interest back (unless the bond issuer goes bankrupt). But if you need to use that money in the meantime, you'll need to sell your bonds at whatever the current market price is, which may be higher or lower than what you paid to buy them. If you buy very short-term bonds, like 4-week Treasury bills, this risk is minimized.

I think that investments that have a stable value, such as bank accounts and money market funds, are the safest choice for cash reserves. They're also convenient, since you can transfer money easily between these accounts and your business checking account.
Annoying pedantry.

Everyone knows "destroy the planet" means something like "decrease Earth's ability to sustain life, especially human society" as is clear from every context it's used. Of course there are edge cases, which amount to rounding errors.

Yes, people would communicate more effectively by speaking more precisely, but this post doesn't merit meaningful discussion.
Andrei Frumusanu is also great in the mobile space. The only tech reviewer to run SPEC on phones. Great overviews on the arch of new cores too.
Thank you for this very interesting example! However applying this regulation to industrial sensors then is still the only right thing to do. Technical progress must be constrained by the speed with which society can adapt to it and by all the related concerns: if there’s lack of understanding on how to make the technology compliant or there are complications, it’s just that the cost of the technology appeared to be higher than anticipated. Business has to deal with it, just like in all similar situations - see hardware vulnerabilities in Intel chips for instance.
As a tautology that might be true. We can’t destroy the planet, we “just” change its appearance and its composition. Will it be a great place to live on? Not so sure about many parts of it.
That is a reasonable argument to make, but it is made better by leaving him out of it.

Simply state, "The problem with moderation is that it can be used as a hammer to ban dissent, &c. &c."

Put like that, there is no ad hominem, and it can be debated on its merits. By the way, the most amusing thing about that argument is that we would be debating it on a moderated platform, that we both use precisely because it is moderated.

If HN was unmoderated, it would cease to be valuable to the people currently using HN.
To destroy the Earth:

https://qntm.org/destro
From my experience as an undergrad and grad student in the 1990s, you can learn a lot about a subject by just going to the relevant section of the library and browsing.
It makes all the difference in the world who's making this argument. He relies heavily on the idea that there's some universal category of "assholes" that websites should ban, and that if any website doesn't it's their fault and everyone should pressure them to fall in line. There is no such universal category that everyone agrees on. So what he's really arguing is that people who he considers assholes should be banned by every decent website that wants to receive advertising money, and it's impossible to seperate that argument from his specific moral values and actions.
Standard reminder for younger devs when this stuff is posted that almost no one needs to know these numbers let alone 'everyone'.
What does that spell for regular 9900K then?
This is a 'full on brag' (not some humble-brag) - I'm really proud of the site.

Every f'in part of it I built from scratch. It's me, for better or for worse.

More pragmatically, it helped shape what I like doing for my job (I'm currently a Product Owner - a job I think fits me)
For a quick overview, I found the Github page to be more useful: https://speech2face.github.io
Although rare earths aren't rare, they are rarely found in high enough concentrations to be mined profitably.

It also isn't a simple supply-demand story-- it takes over a decade to set up rare earth mines and refineries [1]. As the article mentions:

"China so completely dominates one key stage of the manufacturing process — converting the oxides to metals"

If China cut off U.S. access to rare earth magnets (as suggested by the article) or rare earth metals at other stages in the refining process, other countries could try to pick up the slack, but it would likely be devastating for a lot of companies for many years. Even much of the knowledge about how to refine the metals has been lost in the U.S. [2], which is partly why MP Materials (the RE mine in California) needed to have a partner in China.

[1]
"Rare metal mines (and supply chains) can take up to fifteen years from investment to production according to the U.S. government"

Abraham, David S.. The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age . Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.

[2]
"The lack of a knowledgeable workforce, even in countries with strong mining histories like Australia and Canada, will mean a slow development of local mines in Western countries and a growing reliance on mines developed in China, Russia, or Brazil, by Chinese, Russian, or Brazilian engineers. It also means that new young Western workers will have increasingly fewer mentors, crucial to these young scientists in developing their skills and providing them critical information."

Abraham, David S.. The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age . Yale University Press. Kindle Edition.
*Programmers/developers should know.
> Astronomers think that this blueshift is likely caused by the cluster's colossal mass accelerating its members to high velocities on bizarre and peculiar orbits, sending them whirling around on odd paths that take them both towards and away from us over time. While the cluster itself is moving away from us, some of its constituent galaxies, such as Messier 90, are moving faster than the cluster as a whole, making it so that, from Earth, we see the galaxy heading towards us. However, some are also moving in the opposite direction within the cluster, and thus seem to be streaking away from us at very high velocity.

I don't think this quite amounts to "the cluster is rotating"–it only seems to imply that certain galaxies are orbiting at high velocity rather than the cluster as a whole.
That is called bias. Again, this matter is simple when objective. People often give into appeals of authority and other fallacies because they lack the critical nature to make original decisions and instead defer to name recognition.
Eh. I'd say "industrial engineer" has more bullshit in it than "business analyst" by a long shot. The twenty or early thirty something spending all day in powerpoint and excel to make presentations and handouts for a fifty or sixty something to present to other fifty and sixty somethings is more likely to have majored in economics, business, and/or have an MBA than to have spent any time anywhere near an engineering department.
We cannot destroy life either.
Apple and AMD just have to ask TSMC to do their magic to make 7nm chips - they haven't had to do anything spectacular, just use TSMCs design libraries.

Intel is struggling because of their struggles with 10nm. Apple and AMD are not because TSMC has pulled off 7nm. Architecture matters, but process node matters a lot too.
I have to admit that when I first commented it was just on my gut telling me "this is awful and I know Dash's history and this bugs me". Through this discussion I actually narrowed in on why it was bothering me, so I probably should have made this point up front (but it wasn't cogent then).

> that we both use precisely because it is moderated.

That's not true, I'd prefer if HN was unmoderated.
He isn't so much making an argument as stating a simple and fairly trivial observation. It's rather sad that hysterical alarmism has grown to such proportions as to even necessitate such observations.

My only objection to his thesis is that, if I was being pedantic, I could note that with a highly organized research and engineering effort, we could technically construct sufficient supplies of cobalt salted nuclear weapons to theoretically wipe out all organized human life on this planet if they were all launched at once. That's a purely academic counterpoint, of course, as no such supplies are likely to ever be constructed, let alone used.
Each and every lives matter, don’t be inhumane when it comes to human lives.
That's not what he said.

He stated that people contact the company via many different methods: email, twitter, Instagram, etc... GDPR mandates that when the user demands it the company must delete all associated records. This small company doesn't have the resources (or doesn't want to waste time) to go through all emails, all twitter exchanges, etc... and expunge them all every time someone demands it.

As far as WordPress plugins go - I get that too. The place where I work has 100s of 3rd party packages. To go through them all would require Y2K level of effort to make sure they comply and/or upgrade ones that don't.

So I am not at all surprised that Brent Ozar didn't think EU was worth the effort.
I deleted my Reddit account long ago. Opinion based downvoting is so toxic on small subreddits, and cannot be disabled in any meaningful way.
Social policies are usually not as rigorously-defined as things like programming rules.

Thus, it is important to consider the motives of people who may end up enforcing them, because there's potentially a large difference between the law-as-intended and the law-as-enforced.

If the difference is large enough, it's worthwhile to examine how the personality of the enforcer may bias the outcome.

I think your argument might be valid in extremely rigorous fields like quantum mechanics - who cares who submitted the proof? But when we're talking about enforcing free speech, the person who is enforcing it has a big effect on the outcome.
That's because Anand Lal Shimpi is not doing the writing anymore...
ugly rant
It's not quite that simple either, and going through the advertisers can cause other negative side effects.

This just happened recently on YouTube: there was a big uproar about sexual-ish comments being posted on videos of children, such as linking to timestamps with upskirt glimpses or similar. Advertisers got contacted about it, and some of them said they would stop doing any advertising on YouTube until it was addressed somehow.

In response, YouTube completely disabled all comments on videos featuring children, and deleted all existing comments. Now there are legitimate channels related to children that had completely reasonable comments (which they moderated) that no longer have any ability to have discussions on their videos. Their ability to interact with their viewers/communities was destroyed because YouTube decided to go scorched-earth to make sure they'd satisfy the advertisers.
A google search on 100$ android phones returned a "best cheap android phones" list. The first entry is the Nokia 2 (never tried one but I heard good things).

For 85$ it ships with Oreo.

That's kind of amazing : for a relatively modest sum, you get a lot of technology.

It makes me wonder why anybody would recommend a costlier device shipping with 4.4
I'm guessing what could be considered low-hanging fruit would be that the original 4&4 encoding was later surpassed by much more efficient 6&2 encoding a few years later. And even then, the 6&2 encoding scheme chosen wasn't ideal as it took too long to decode. Later intrepid programmers were able to decode an alternate scheme of 6&2 in time to read an entire track within the revolution of the disk and get closer to ideal performance and data density.
In my opinion, your comment is stronger if you simply state:

[This argument] relies heavily on the idea that there's some universal category of "assholes" that websites should ban, and that if any website doesn't it's their fault and everyone should pressure them to fall in line. [However,] there is no such universal category that everyone agrees on.

That is simple, direct, and leaves him out of it. And I believe it is better without dragging his character and motives into it.
> Every time I enter android studio, it wants to update

Xcode is always bumping versions too.

> The second thing is recent requirement to provide 64-bit version of each app.

iOS had this issue too.
The whole world is developing an anti-meat bias, and it's going to come at the cost of our collective health. About 60% of Western diet is plant-based already, in the form of sugar, flour, seed-oils and processed foods. Continuing to push plant-based food means that the obesity/T2 diabetes epidmic is going to explode even further over the next 15-20 years. If the meat industry hadn't f*ed up so royally with factory farming and mad cow disease, I wonder if meat would be less demonized today.
Android was written for 32 bit. It couldn't run 64-bit before Lollipop. Currently there's about 2% of 64-bit Android devices (https://web.archive.org/web/20170808222202/http://hwstats.un...). I agree with performance argument, especially on battery-powered devices. But in this case there's nothing to be gained because LuaJIT is written for 32-bit CPU. Compiling for 64 bits won't do anything. Besides, hardly anything can squeeze more performance out of CPU than LuaJIT.

I'm complaining different issue, though. I researched the platform requirements before investing time into android development. I shared my work for free because Google doesn't allow developers in my country to charge money for their work. I kept updating the app following the user feedback. I will lose the product because of this. This feels like rug being swept under my feet :(
If you lack the ability to craft a persuasive argument then provide strong evidence. To an objective outsider giving into logical fallacies would make your argument weaker, not stronger.
well-said & hear hear!

..excuse my not knowing where better to ask:

when i see a submission as what i would classify as "clickbait"-ish at hackernews, what is the right thing to do? is that what flagging is for?

a cursory search hasn't returned me a FAQ or anything & i'm relatively new to commenting. thank y'all in advance if there's such a document available to link to.
There has been a shift in public awareness of surveillance, within the last decade.

The adoption of Signal (whose messaging protocol has influenced Whatsapp) shows that some users, including high-value targets, have moved to 3rd-party open-source clients.

If the goal is mass surveillance, then it would be enough to backdoor Whatsapp. But if the goal is to target a semi-competent adversary who can use a search engine, such a law would be entirely non-effective.

There are existing laws for targeting of data from specific endpoints, e.g. via iCloud, Google. Some of these laws span multiple countries. They cover data from many apps, not just messaging.
The floppy interface was indeed an incredible piece of work, but the big forehead-slapper is the ~5x speed increase that you get from reading sectors in descending order, e.g. from 15-0 instead of 0-15. This makes the difference between having to wait for an extra spindle rotation and being correctly positioned to take advantage of the next one.

How he managed to overlook that is one of life's great mysteries, at least to me.
Yeah, Ive made a note not the bother reading any of his books. He does not seem to do any research into his ideas.
Disgusting animal abuse... There is place for everybody in our cities.

Meanwhile in more civilized places:

> Fat rat stuck in manhole rescued by firefighters in Germany

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/27/fat-rat-stuck-...
Although I'm sure Howey is technically correct, I don't think what amounts to semantic quibbling is actually adding anything to the discussion.

Okay, so humanity won't be eliminated. But there will be a dramatic increase in death and suffering and overall quality of life will be drastically diminished except for those already in the top 1% of wealth. How does that distinction change the overall discussion or the importance of fighting climate change?
Yes, every concious goal/action is self interest.
These are $10/month subs which are akin to channel packages. Just because some will also sub to the Disney chan package doesn't mean they'll drop Netflix. Would surprise no one if the author were shorting Netflix.
There's a link to the FAQ on the bottom of the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Did they ever truly stop?
To prepare for the FAA instrument written and oral exam component of the checkride, I built an Anki deck (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272) with the following principles in mind, all of which favored cloze cards.

* Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/20rules

* Anki Guide for Medical Students https://drwillbe.blogspot.com/2011/08/anki-guide-for-medical...

* How to make high quality Anki cards quickly https://managingmedicine.org/2013/05/14/how-to-make-high-qua...

* Anki Tips: What I Learned Making 10,000 Flashcards http://rs.io/anki-tips/

By default, Anki will show you only a few cards per day. Following suggestions from med students who have to absorb a lot of information quickly, I made the following settings changes:

* Options > New Cards

* Steps (in minutes): 1 360
* Order: Show new cards in random order
* New cards/day: 9999
* Graduating interval: 1 day
* Easy interval: 2 days
* Starting ease: 250%
* Bury related new cards until the next day: UNCHECKED

* Options > Reviews

* Maximum reviews/day: 9999
* Easy bonus: 130
* Interval modifier: 100
* Maximum interval: 36500
* Bury related new cards until the next day: CHECKED
I don't think China deserves the benefit of the doubt on this topic.

"From the Korean and Japanese data, we used our models to show that emissions of CFC-11 from north eastern China had increased by around 7,000 tons per year after 2013, particularly in or around the provinces of Shandong and Hebei," said Luke Western, a University of Bristol atmospheric modeler. "We didn't find evidence of increasing emissions from Japan, the Korean peninsula or any other country to which our networks are sensitive."

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/health/china-cfc-pollution-en...
But what does that really mean?

They still seem to be producing the fastest processors available for desktop and server.

It doesnt matter if someone else is making even a 3nm chip if the chip still can't outperform the current offerings.
This article has incredible annoying spacing (one sentence per paragraph). Is this meant to read like an unrolled Twitter thread?

Content wise: I recently cancelled my Netflix again because despite a flood of new shows, all feel incredibly generic and formulaic. I like shows across genres, from teenage romance to sitcom to thriller, and I am looking forward to watching e.g. Narcos new season when it hits, there are also great one-offs like Maniac.

I just don't believe in the strategy of flooding their platform with their own content at this volume. Or rather, the type of content. If I remember correctly, plots and artistic decisions are made by committee, and it just shows very hard how plots are made to be subtly educational, not offend, just a lowest common denominator of what the data says.

Not sure it works. After finding myself browsing through too many evenings in a row, I always cancel until something I know I want returns for a new season, then resubscribe for a month.
Active shooter drills don't protect students or help stressed teachers
On ADB Podcast about Bluetooth, they referred that certain models would just crash if someone tries to talk with specific protocol versions.
In the time before the hydrogen bomb there was discussion that such a device may ignite the atmosphere. If we managed to somehow do that, it may do the trick.
I have seen that chance here on HN, which is honestly one of my biggest gribes with the site, everything that is positive is destroyed completely. You can see that with the commentors who used to be found here often (patio11 especially) who are now only around for a few specific threads (but somehow magically there when the threads call for it).

However I am sure it wasn't 9/11 that did it, because I wasn't really on the internet then, and HN didn't exist.
Earth should not be destroy, and, I am not worried about wiping out humanity either; currently, it is instead too much humanity, but if later it is too not enough compared to another species then we can worry about it.

I decide to don't have any children. Therefore, we can try to reduce the future human population, in this way.
That’s such a great way to communicate the current state of the field. Do you have a reference for that? And so you know what the largest number factored for algorithms that don scale into the cryptographic levels is?
Eehh - who clings to a single provider? In my family we jump around among iTunes, HBO Nordic, Viaplay and Netflix. I assume we will add Disney+ as well. Where exactly is the disruption?
You don't have to worry about wiping out all of humanity to worry about climate change. Impending human suffering is reason enough to worry. "Climate is an existential threat" is obviously a hyperbole. If somebody doesn't understand it, too bad.

> What I don’t like is when we exaggerate and undermine our good intentions.

I don't see how that undermines anything.
Please note that this is a fork. The original project is here (fluxion by FluxionNetwork).

At this point, the only difference of the fork is that it allows to deauthenticate (by "Handshake Snooper" or "Captive Portal" attack) specifiс client of Access Point, not all in a row.

Sometimes it's necessary to not disconnecting all clients from the AP, but only one (the most vulnerable from the point of view of Social Engineering).

===

Plans for the future:

- Add 'deauth specific client' option to deauth-ng.py (5GHz networks)

- Add pmkid support as alternative to 'Handshake Snooper'

- Add more phishing pretexts

===

P.S.

Sorry guys (& fluxion devs) that I didn't try to push these changes to the upstream.

I'm a sociopath and have no patience. Hope this shit will be useful. :)
So as I understand it, this isn't new silicon, it's just binning the existing 9900K and if you wanted an overclock 9900K you would have just gone to Ciara who obviously bin and overclock and verify their systems anyway. So now you go to Ciara and Ciara go to Intel and buy a 9900KS instead of previously where you would go to Ciara they would go to Intel and buy a 5 9900K's and find the one that would've been as fast as the 9900KS anyway.
Climate change will benefit some countries according to Stanford:

https://web.stanford.edu/~mburke/climate/map.php

Russia: +419% to GDP. Hmmm....