skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chinese investor cash is effectively Chinese government investment.

Agreed. I've said this before and say it again - if a Chinese acquirer is willing to buy your company for a much higher multiplier than their Western counterparts then there is an obvious reason.
I just wanted to greet you from Niš :-) .

On topic, we would really like to have later sunrises and later sunsets. This is with DST. During winter when it is much colder it gets dark around 16:00, and subsequently colder. I personally believe we are one time zone behind and should probably align with Bulgaria and Greece, but the industry is Western oriented and it would just cause mismatch with Central and Western Europe and even greater difference with US. Maybe even more important with ex-SFRY republics between which communication and travel is very lively.
cannot open the link.
Perhaps the answer isn't looking towards recyclable, reusable, or biodegradable plastics, but digestible plastics? This is coming from a complete layman on the topic, but something that randomly popped into my head.
> Edit: The strategy in the paper requires allocating a bunch of physical memory from all the small blocks so that memory allocation requests from a new process are allocated deterministically to a desired physical row.

Honest question, because I'm not a security expert: can you do this without having already pwned your target to such a degree that this would be unnecessary?
But hey, he got a $60k exit and landed back in an "executive" role at the company. Now that I think about it, that episode was prophetic of the startup scene
Apple’s all-new iCloud for Windows app, now available in the Microsoft Store
Just got mine last week (Solo, Solo Tap, and the DigiPass SecureClick). All work great for their respective uses.
>Take an iMac Pro, break it down, put its screen in a box (that’ll revive the Cinema Display we miss), add slots to the motherboard, put it in a vintage Mac Pro cheese grater case...

I think a lot of Mac faithful talked around this line like it would be an acceptable minimum, but they really wanted more than that, like "Oh, it'd be fine if they just made a tower, but what we really want is that trademark Apple Innovation!" But what they really wanted was just white-box parts in a PC case that they could swap out, not this insanely powerful, beautiful, kick-ass machine on wheels that costs more than your car. They just wanted a blessed hackintosh.

(edit - just speaking from personal experience and the people I've talked to. I don't know anyone who actually needs this new Mac Pro, but I know a few who want it.)
It's nice to see there is still hope for America.
I think this is a good example of how bad wording in an opening paragraph can turn readers off. Here's what I took from that paragraph:

* destop computer interfaces haven't changed much in 30 years -- that is bad

* people use smartphones and tablets more than desktop computers -- because they are better

* desktop computers should work more like phones/tablets

I don't have a problem with conceptual designs, and I would encourage exploration of different types of user interfaces (both on desktop and mobile). However, after reading that first paragraph on the web site (and watching the video), it was my perception that the author seems to believe the above three points are absolute, and they show nothing that convinces me that any of them are true (and in fact, some of what was shown had the opposite effect).

IMHO a better approach would be to be less dismissive of "older" technology, and rather simply state that you are exploring an alternative interface, and explain specifically why you think it is better.

In other words, make your case for why your interface is better, then let the reader decide whether they are convinced (rather than just stating that a particular kind of interface is better as a matter of fact).
"Can anyone elaborate on what this means "that when the cells become stressed and die"? Is this something we have control over? Is it related to stress? Does diet & exercise reduce the incidence of this? Is it inevitable?"

I don't think you're going to find a straightforward answer because "cells becoming stressed and then dying" is typically a good and normal thing. Cells that refuse the cues to self destruct are roughly synonymous with "cancer cells".

When you undergo vigorous exercise, muscle cells (for instance) that cannot keep up with their energy demands undergo apoptosis and make way for other cells that have more efficient energy production. You can enforce natural selection of efficient mitochondria within your own body with vigorous, stressful exercise.

I encourage you to read the excellent book _Power, Sex, Suicide_ by Nick Lane which covers the topics of energy production in the cells and natural selection of mitochondria, etc. A fascinating book.

I would further encourage you to get as much vigorous exercise as you possibly can. There is no reason to pay any attention at all to trivial dietary and supplement optimizations if you aren't undertaking the intervention that covers the first 99% ...
I whole-heartedly agree with your broader point about having sensible names and descriptions that draw necessary attention to critical flaws. (And "+1" to the excellent related article from patio11.)

But sometimes it seems to be stretched to the point of making you feel nauseated and cause extreme distraction (which can be the point in some cases, though). Still, I wish some of the less egregious issues were described with a little less hysteria, while still conveying their seriousness. (Maybe it's my weariness of dealing with them is speaking here.)
Ummm...NYT is not bi-partisan?

Would you consider New York to be left wing? I would.
The whole idea of "reference monitors" seems incredibly fishy to me. I've never heard of this and I highly doubt that studios are paying $42000 for monitors as was claimed at WWDC. Can anyone confirm that this is real and not just a framing tactic?
>"To be blunt, there's a lot of it and it's not actually that valuable. We've had CDs for 30+ years. If there's an album UMG thought it'd be worth digitizing, remastering, and reselling, they'd have done it by now."

This is not even remotely true. Albums are re-issued and re-released all the time. Often times there will a renewed interest in an artist or their work from a death, some current artist sighting them as an influence or an artist making a comeback. Master tapes are the most valuable asset a record label has. It is also not uncommon for albums to go out of print for a period and then be released again many years later. And albums go out of print for all kinds of reasons. David Bowie's classic RCA catalog(Heroes, Low, Lodger etc.) were all out of print in the 80s and 90s. They weren't available until Bowie got the rights to his masters back - something called a "reversion"in recording contracts. So a record label could have ownership of the masters for 30 or 40 years before they revert back to an artist. After which an artist will likely reissue them since they generate income.
Fair point :) For my own stuff, I don't really care too much about SEO so I'm not sure what the full implications are.
A reddit user from Hong Kong was recently banned from the /r/pics/ subreddit for posting about their support for the Hong Kong protests against

https://www.reddit.com/r/chinareddits/comments/bz177v/got_ba...

Tencent recently invested in Reddit.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-11/reddit-users-revolt-o...
World's first 108-key concert grand piano built by Australia's only piano maker
There's already a program for this:

https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
Reading that felt surprisingly familiar! I pottered about for 2 years trying to build a GUI for a Globe-based world and gave up.
Well, yes, that is exactly what I'm talking about. The biggest advantage of a physical second factor is that I can see if it has been stolen: I either have it with me, or I don't.

By using multiple keys, you are effectively removing that advantage: someone could have one of your devices (e.g. your laptop while you're out for lunch) and would be able to make use of your second factor without you knowing.
Hey, Chinese money is bad. But Saudi money is more than welcome. 50% of Softbank's vision fund is from Middle East sovereign funds, who have even more brutal censorship laws and commits more brazen human rights policies. US policy is completely incoherent and probably explained by who pays the bribes to Whitehouse vs. any legitimate principles.
Economics is basically numerology. A true science of economics could be described as "ecology + psychology", and would be based in physics.

The closest thing I've ever seen to a proper economics is the "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars" document. (It's chapter one of Bill Cooper's infamous book "Behold a Pale Horse". I want to make it clear, FWIW, that I never read the rest of the book. I have less-than-zero to say about the content of the rest of the book.)

Oh look, it's online and with diagrams now: https://lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml Bitchin'.

It's pretty creepy: it's a combination of an exposition on a simple electrical model of economics with a nightmarish gloss of crypto-fascism (or something, I'm not sure what you'd call it.)

Anyhow, the "electro-economics" is what I want to call HN readers' attentions to: something like that is what I would expect economics to look like. (Without the creep Dr. Evil vibe.)
Apple called "Pro Users" bluff. The "pro user" that used to be served by the old Mac Pro was the same dope who gets the M-Sport BMW 3 Series, or the DSLR with the Kit Lens, etc. It's the rich dad "I want the best of X, but not the actual professional product, because I don't need it."

Other examples include Arc'Teryx clothing that is worn by VC's in Silicon Valley for wealth projection that will never see the austere environments that the clothing was designed for.

Apple made a true pro machine, and now the pro-poseurs are pissed.

BTW I am a pro-poseur, concerned with pro-image vs actual pro features. I desperately want an Apple monitor with speakers that docks to my MBP for around $1799.
They are real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrbWKSFN88
It's still important to criticize them for doing this.
This one's a novel iteration of Rowhammer, and people find Rowhammer interesting.
Hi guys! So I wrote about this algorithm maybe a year ago, but I just finished developing and documenting the Python implementation and it is now available on PyPi.

What is this? Margin Elo is a new machine learning estimator which can be used to predict the outcome of pairwise comparisons. For example, given the time, team names and point spreads of sports games you can use the model to predict the distribution of future point spreads for an arbitrary match-up.

This is of course just one example, and the model has numerous applications in ranking, estimation, and time series prediction.
Totally second that. Saudi arabia has been pumping money in India to radicalize muslims with active encouragement from USA. Attempts to stop this fund has always invoked American ire.

India's strategic efforts to buy Oil from Iran instead of Barbaria have been hurt by United States.

Without american help Saudi Barbaria would be a wasteland. America not just tolerate Barbaria but every actively helps them on international stage.
Is Wolfram trying to build a quasi-GitHub or what?
I find that places that harp on their "flat" organization tend to be places where the people in charge are just trying to defer the hard work of putting structure in place or just afraid of it for whatever reason.

In my experience flat organizations just try to keep everyone happy by making them think they have decisive input on things that they honestly shouldn't, past a certain point.

I find (completely anecdotally of course) that they don't scale, and I think what the writer (who ironically is a lead engineer at this supposedly flat organisation) is running into are the limitations of this flatness once it gets to a certain point ... I bet the next post will be something along the lines of

"Managers: a necessary evil"
I am so torn about the whole vulnerability branding thing. On the one hand, it gives a great amount of visibility and motivation for brass to actually provide for getting prod patched when IT might not have had the political capital to do so otherwise. But on the other hand, I think about things like:

-- What happens when the cure is worse than the disease (some variants of Spectre), and we "have to" patch because otherwise we're "not secure against this scary sounding thing." It takes a lot of agency away from the IT department to make an informed decision about the appropriate mitigation and threat model, and turns it into a business requirement regardless of the trade-off - because brass "understands" Spectre, they don't understand CVE-1234

-- Or, theoretical exploits that aren't practical in the real world, but we spend a lot of effort or make tradeoffs to fix just because someone needs some material for their PhD.

-- What do you call it when we find another way to read RAM next year - RAMBleed2? I guess.
But giving the control of the traffic to some third party website is okay? Not really. Especially not really with signed exchanges.
HSBC Advises Clients to Get Out of Fossil Fuels
Gotta be an onion site somewhere, right? Wish I knew.
>unlike Rowhammer, RAMBleed does not require persistent bit flips, and is thus effective against ECC memory commonly used by server computers.

Seems like mitigations for Rowhammer is not enough for RAMBleed.
Is HN suddenly blocking Tor nodes?
I've had issues viewing comments sections over the last few days. The page returned is simply blank. Creating a new circuit, and thus changing the exit node repeatedly, eventually allows me to view the comments. Does anybody know anything about this or have the same issue?
The Hot Mess of Hawai‘I’s Renewable Power Push
WeWork, at least in my area, has also picked office spaces right next to metro stations. This real estate is hard to find and several of the companies working out of WeWork advertise how they're located right next to the metro exit.

I'm just saying that this entire community feels very bearish on WeWork, but there is some method to their madness
The products you mention are not meant to be money-makers. They all contribute to making internet users safe, which is part of Mozilla's mission.

- Firefox Monitor reaches more people to minimise the adverse effects of data leaks, and helps internet users to prevent them in the future. Potential further integration with Firefox will help make this usable by more people.

- Firefox Lockwise likewise can help getting the benefits of password managers to more people.

- Firefox Send offers a quick and private way to send some files.

They all also get people into the "Firefox ecosystem", reinforcing each other and giving Mozilla more leverage to help people be part of an open and accessible internet.

In the end, all they need to do is remain solvent while doing so - not make money. So far, their search engine deal is sufficient for that. Hopefully they'll find more ways to diversify their income streams, but that should never be the the sole criterium of whether or not to run a service or produce a product.
Tell us more! I'm planning for a longyearbien/svalbard trip towards the end of this year or summer next year.
TF.text: Text Processing in Tensorflow
Don’t forget some AI, machine learning and microservices!
It’s hard not to see this as purely a response to an article title. It bears no relation to the actual article content, which was thoughtful and interesting and really deserved a more on-topic critique.
Obviously. Radical Christians in India are far left. Hindus are far right. In USA hindus are far left and not on right. White folks are on right.

Omar Ilhan is far left in USA she would be far right in Pakistan.

It is just boggles me how stupid western media is about rest of the world.
It's real, and it's an awful workflow editing via "proxy" - imagine cleaning your apartment through grease-smeared glasses and you're only able to take them off and see your work when your guests are already knocking at your front door.
Ironically, the common attitude among some people is that "racism doesn't apply" to the male gender, because they're "toxic" and "hold all the power" anyway. Which sure does strike me as a fallacy of begging the question, but meh, whatever. Some people will never try to seriously change their mind; I don't view this as something that could be "fixed" in any way, and I respect free speech even when it doesn't provide me with an immediate advantage; so why should I even be expected to complain? What's there to complain about?
Signed exchanges are a thing, I don't see how Google intervenes there more than just providing the AMP standard.
Come on if human right were really an issue for the US, Saudi Arabia which oppress half of its population, which is an absolute monarchy (you know the medieval version), which has absolutely no respect of basic human rights would not be one of the best US allies.
Upvoted you to help with the downvotes you got for asking a question.

I had this opinion too, before visiting the bay area for an interview in 2011. I was stunned at how every single person (or so it seemed) had a mac out on the caltrain. And to answer your question, two out of the three companies I've worked at have been almost all macs (some devs like linux/windows laptops).
Switched from lastpass to gnu pass and storing my private subkeys on a couple of yubikeys has actually worked really well for me (took a few days to get my head around gpg and smartcard setup, but that was worth doing even if I didn't setup pass). That said, I am running android, windows/WSL and ubuntu; other platforms may not be so painless.
> -- What do you call it when we find another way to read RAM next year - RAMBleed2? I guess.

or RAMBleed-NG, probably.
For non-tech people I'm not really sure that Firefox has a stronger brand than Mozilla.

"do you use google or mozilla?" (and it is not very surprising, desktop shortcuts are labeled 'Google Chrome', 'Mozilla Firefox' and they are just looking at first part)
Which apps support it? Can you use it for any of the online services?
Addendum - I'm a marketer so I always see things through the lens of the expression of self.

I totally sympathize with wanting a pro-lite Mac tower... but it won't happen. Try a Mac mini with an eGPU.
South Africa is not in Europe. It would be stupid to use European connotations for non-European countries. At this rate western media might call Hindu temples in India "churches".
Past 10 years, Europe is increasing burning waste for generating electricity, and heat for district heating. Especially Sweden is burning 50% of the waste they generate. Waste plastic makes pretty good fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration#Incineration_in_E...
Yeah, that's what the engineers claimed but then it was only happening in our small office and it would alternate between "very frequent" and "gone for days" which makes their explanation somewhat unbelievable.
I generally agree that that's a risk, but not a certainty. For example, I don't think many people have problems discerning Google Docs from Google Search - or at least, not many more than were it still called Writely.
Don't car manufactures use different brand names for luxury and mainstream to indicate who the product is for? Customers would be confused if Toyota took a new mid-range Lexus, kept the pricing, but branded it as a Toyota Avalon (the highest end Toyota sedan model in US).
Yes! No sources, it's just an observation.

One reason is that representation by definition focuses on people and trust in them (you are selecting "your man"), as opposed to issues. Some politicians try to incite inter-group hatred, because it is a strategy that pays off in this game. This brings out human ingroup/outgroup biases and that then causes issues for the minorities. (We have some evidence that people in Switzerland do not see "losing" in particular referendum as a big deal, they understand that the minority is adhoc.)

The other reason is that representatives are typically given authority over bunch of issues bundled together. So majority might vote in a representative because they agree with their economic policy, but they don't neccessarily agree with his, say, immigration policy. In fact, for less important issues, the elected representative can have completely minority opinions!

That means that unless the majority has horrible opinions (which it rarely has in actuality, and then it's questionable how any form of government arising from that culture could deal with this case anyway), there is always a risk of voting in a representative with a horrible opinion (and authority in that matter). While in direct voting, this issue would have to break the majority boundary, which it often never will. (Direct democracies are quite conservative in the real world.)

An example is Donald Trump's treatment of problem with ICE. Even if large majority of Americans disagree with how ICE treats immigrants, lot of people approved Trump (for other reasons), and he pushed (because what a person he is) for bad policies in that matter.

Furthermore, if you actually use utilitarian morality (which is disputable), and calculate the mean value of the bad policy effect on the minority over all possible distributions of minority and agreement with a horrible policy towards said minority, then you will even get the result that the representation is objectively worse (in the probabilistic sense) than direct vote on the policy. It is because "tyranny of the minority" (selecting a wrong person as a representative) is, it turns out, overall a bigger issue than "tyranny of the majority" (the former can work against both minority and majority, the latter only against a minority).

As I said, I can't give references, but the above would certainly be a worth pursuit. There are some people in direct democracies (Switzerland) studying it, but it is rather small number of people.
FWIW, the target audience for the Apple monitor will absolutely know what reference monitors are: https://www.newsshooter.com/2018/09/15/sony-bvm-hx310-refere...
To put this in another way, Valve likely has spent millions developing the next Half Life game, and they will spent millions more. They are paying employee salaries, after all.

I wouldn't be too surprised if Valve will have spent $50 million on Half Life 3 at the point of release.
> Users can mitigate their risk by upgrading their memory to DDR4 with targeted row refresh (TRR) enabled.

How does one enable this feature? Is it in the BIOS?
For decades I have meticulously washed and sorted my blue bin recyclables. Now they are banning plastics because people on the other side of the world treat their rivers as garbage dumps.

I don’t litter. Don’t punish me.

I see this as a cynical re-election strategy. The election is in four months and the polls are not looking good for Trudeau. Awash in scandal and forseeing a strong Conservative turnout, he’s trying to grab votes from the Greens and NDP.
On the landfill topic, I found this Slate Star Codex post very interesting:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...

I'd been idly wondering about the topic for years—specifically, WTF happened to all those environmental things schools & kids' nature magazines & cartoons had all the students worked up about back in the 90s? Are they fine now? Did it all go poorly so they gave up? You know, save the rainforest, we're running out of places to put trash, and so on.

The TL;DR on "ZOMG we're gonna drown in trash if we don't do something!" is that it was always basically bullshit—we didn't fix it, it was just a made-up problem to begin with. Other things the post covers are less rosy. The rainforest issue... yep, still going on, still very bad, we're just not talking about it as much.