skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah Intel 660p (QLC, but with some SLC cache and a decent controller) is going for under $100 per TB. In my (limited) experience it makes a solid non-24/7 workstation drive (e.g., I use it for local object storage for large builds).
But what is the motivation? What do they get by showing it a small group, other than to just make the group question their sanity?
As a former student I do not.
Certainly they do. And the book admits as much. In my opinion, it is still a valuable read as it gives a generalized lens through which a large org’s structure, and activities at each layer, can be understood.
They collect it and store it indefinitely, though, which we now know thanks to Edward Snowden.

I think you are moving the goalposts with terms like “looking into”. They are in possession of it and have permanent access to it. For emails and SMS, this involves full content, too.

It even includes US-US communication if the stored communications provider replicates it out of the country, which is so common as to be expected in almost all cases.
The suggested mitigation (editing `gpg.conf` and `dirmngr.conf`) doesn't seem to work for me. In particular I created `~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf` with a line for the `keys.openpg.org` keyserver (and don't have a `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`), but `gpg --refresh-keys` still uses `hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net` which the gnupg Info (section 3.2 Dirmngr options) says is the default.
It also has a user interface. Are you saying it's possible to formally quantify human behaviour as well?
Just add a site exception to turn off Javascript.

Doesn't get around all tracking, but it lets you view the article.
- Labelbox (labelbox.com) is pioneering how teams can actually build real-world computer vision products and bring them to market. They are making great labeling tools and workflows available to everyone.

- Figma (figma.com) is making design tools accessible to everyone. It's super easy for anyone on earth to participate in digital design.

- Loom (loom.com) is tapping into video medium and making high bandwidth asynchronous communication super easy.
FWIW Robert Hansen is a nice guy and a total gentleman. Met him at a number of internet freedom and privacy conferences.
Reason (the frontend framework/language by Facebook) is OCaml.
In the late 80's, context switching was so slow and local area networking was fast enough that it was sometimes actually snappier to run your xterm or emacs on another system over the local network, than both on the same workstation.

That's because running over the network didn't require ping-pong context switching back and forth between the X11 server and the client at every keystroke, so both client and server could run smoothly without getting switched out.

The X protocol is so chatty and ping-pongy that it could require several context switches per keystroke to handle the event and update the screen, when running both server and client locally!
There's another comment or two saying the scrolling is acting weird when they have javascript turned off. Perhaps that's it?
As an aside, I’m so glad that Jon Stewart has found something he can be proud of.

It was rough watching the last few years if the Daily Show and see him visibly struggle with his belief that he was merely an entertainer, and entertainment solves nothing.

As I’m sure he would tell you, he shouldn’t have to do this, but I’m glad someone with a sharp tongue and some name recognition is.
Thanks for sharing this. I didn’t know about ‘reduce()’. Only thing I’d add is to use TypeScript.
That's very interesting, thanks, I didn't realise that was the case with the taxes. I assumed that some percentage of each person's personal income tax would end up being spent on infrastructure - I actually find it hard to believe it's not, i.e. that it all comes from tax on businesses, but if what you say is the case that does make it feel a little less unfair.
How do you know so much and can you talk more about the intelligence trade?
Side note here, the Atari 800 was my first computer, and I absolutely loved every minute of it. Thanks for all your work and ingenuity, they gave me a good start on a career in technology.

One question: why didn’t the Atari 800 ever take advantage of the double cartridge ports?
Really sad, they don’t receive the treatment they deserve (of course everybody deserves healthcare).
I’m sure they’d risk and give their life anyway but that’s just not fair.
With great power comes great responsibility, I guess. I agree it would have been nice for Linux to come with a few more sanity checks by default, like maybe a warning flag for rm -rf /* and dd commands...
This is how I write it:

def contains_3(xs):
"""Returns True if the given list contains a 3."""
found = false
for x in xs && !found:
found = x == 3
return found

Not a valid python code but who cares. Using proper python, you could write the whole thing in one line using list comprehension.

In terms of expressiveness (as much as this short example needs expressiveness), note how found is x == 3 which is what you want right. Note how the loop condition is now full. One could also note how every line is about found so you can instantly tell what lines is about found, which one is about foo or bar, if you'd picture a bigger function. Note how there is now only one condition (the loop) and not two (loop and if) (in many situations you would end up with less lines of code, surprisingly). Finally, note how DRY this is: you return x == 3, not True if x == 3 is True (there is many cases where this DRY property is more clearly visible).

This code reads like a list comprehension.

In addition to be more expressive (although, again, this is more striking on a bigger function) and movable, you can also actually write bigger functions like that which you can't with early returns (everybody agrees this is a mess).

If I'd tell you not to use jumps, you would have found that solution. Simply ban jumps from your code (find the alternative way of writing things) and you will obtain a code that will surprises you, especially in bigger functions.
Hmm, you know what, I've been researching this a bit more and it seems like I was wrong. Apparently many cultures did boil seeds to produce oils for cooking or other purposes. I expect that they probably didn't eat as much oil as we do, given that this would have been more labor intensive than what we can do with modern farming and factories. But it makes sense to try to get your calories any way you can.
"Looks like you are offline" - the Atlantic. HTTP response code : 200 . Interesting way of framing.
These planes run over $50 million each, and even a misprogrammed galley oven could potentially bring down a plane in flight. Given that, would you be happy that they outsourced any engineering in this way?
Now the old Powerbook 5300's actually did catch fire. My 1st tech job was a hardware technician at an Apple production facility mostly building and refurbishing Powerbooks, can confirm.
This is pure scapegoating. The "9$/hour" engineers wrote code exactly like Boeing asked them to. In other words, it's a mistake in the requirements given by Boeing designers and not the cheap engineers who wrote the code.
Did you `killall dirmngr`? :)
The schools that I went to had around 300 students. It did not stop the abuse by teachers nor did it stop the bullying that the teachers ignored.
Very little AFAIK. See, openworm for instance.
> the computer who goes first won more than 56 percent of games, suggesting that there is a notable advantage to playing the first hand [...] There’s no way to know for sure what specifically causes this advantage, but perhaps giving one player initial control of the board has some beneficial effect.

"What specifically causes this advantage" is, to put it briefly, playing first. The first player will have about 0.5 more opportunities to score. In fact, since it's legal to pass, it's a trivial game theory result that any advantage in Scrabble belongs to the first player.
Why is it so hard to ask for what we want?
Adolescents require a sense of privacy in order to properly grow into functional and successful adults. I was under constant surveillance as a child and wasn't able to start "being me" until I'd left home. My development was straight up stunted by constant surveillance. There are too many abusive / helicopter parents out there for this to possibly be a good thing.

I can only imagine what life would be like if my control-freak step-grandmother had access to tapes of me learning how to interact with my classmates and participating in cognitive rebellion against their draconian, hyper-religious control over my personality. Instead of being punished 75% of the time it would have been 100% of the time. I would not have been allowed to contact any of my friends because they all grew up in more sensible households and represented threats to my guardians' control over me.

And this doesn't even touch the fact that normalizing children to surveillance is objectively a bad thing if you give a rat's ass about the future of this planet and peoples' ability to be individual.

Maybe it sounds like a good idea at face value but you should resist espousing such views without thinking about every last detail.
> As a PhD in physics, this just sounds like nonsense to me. Energy isn't a field and to polarize it doesn't mean anything.

Not true, they did exactly that on several episodes of “Star Trek: Voyager.” /s
Interesting.

I'm curious though, considering bacteria, fungal spores and viruses are always floating in the air around us to some extent, and almost all food similarily has bacteria, fungi and viruses in it (to some extent), how do you keep germfree mice, rats and pigs germfree? What are you feeding them? And what about them just being exposed to normal air?

I can't help but think of a GI tract completely devoid of bacterial and fungal cells as being a massive power vacuum essentially. And even if germfree mice, rate and pigs are born that way, wouldn't it be incredibly difficult to prevent these free-floating bacteria or fungal spores from inoculating their GI tracts? whether just through air or food?

I would love to see a study analyzing a germfree mouse, rat or pig that was kept germfree to full life as best as possible and then do an analysis on their microbiome to see if, in fact, they are germfree at the end of their life too. I'm not confident they would be.
App using AI to generate nude photos of women shut down
It took billions of years for atmospheric oxygen to accumulate on Earth.
IMHO, health care in the United States is used as a job project, to provide jobs for all the people who used to build stuff.

When I was a taxi driver, one of my jobs was to take poor people to their medical appointments. The taxi company I used to drive for has reformed itself around its contracts with the various insurance companies. I never got a number for how much the government paid to get people to their appointments, but I imagine it was on the order of $2/mile (the driver got $1.50/mile, iirc).

Some of the people I took to their appointments certainly had transportation charges that were higher than the fee paid to the service providers -- say $100/round trip for transportation, vs. $30 for the counseling session or doctor's appointment...
Yes, I've addressed that in my comment. I was wondering if there was some third aspect I wasn't considering.
To the commenters blaming OCaml - it is being used in the Project Everest[1] (along with F#) for creating a proven network security stack. Basically, they created ML-like language called F*[2], which fits the task perfectly. There is also a pure OCaml implementation[3] of TLS stack, along with x509[4].

[1] https://project-everest.github.io/

[2] https://www.fstar-lang.org/

[3] https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls

[4] https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-x509
I’m an old school strong, static typing proponent (strong typing shall rise again!) but I laugh at the notion that it protects you from crypto attacks.

Are you a maintainer or an armchair critic? I hope the latter, because if you think type safety is anything more than necessary but insufficient, then that’s number three.
The idea expressed in that quote is utter nonsense. If it's so easy to "entirely replace (the key bits of) the standard with something much better and modern", then go build it! Talk is cheap.

If people aren't adopting an objectively superior solution that currently exists and addresses all of the current use cases, that's an entirely different issue. I doubt that's the case here though.

I think (one of) the issues is that no one has yet managed to clearly define a set of goals that satisfy all current use cases while also addressing concerns about centralization, interoperability, and ease of implementation.
Interesting, so she must have led him to the camera bugged sex motel and particular room, where he was then accused of rape

exasperated by prostitution being illegal in Russia and just fighting that alone would have torpedoed his military career in Estonia

fascinating.

so many tweaks to personal choices as well as that society which could have prevented all of this.
*Everywhere. My own school experience in Europe was pretty much the same as he described. And it is not only my school experience either, there were many cases of unpunished power abuse that the teachers engaged in in nearby schools.
It's not personnel, they have to stop the queues from moving through security in order to prevent over crowding in the gate rooms which, are always over packed full of people.

Berlin's awful setup results in delays across the region, it's no wonder other airports are reluctant to link there and divert to Frankfurt instead.
I've done various bits of training over the years. My company provides security for NGOs, journalists and activists all over the world. It's an unfortunate part of the job that this sort of stuff happens to a lot of the people we work with.
All this stuff was on those alternative science and energy sites (below) I looked at ages ago. The ones with lifters, ZPE, gravitational wave weapons, and so on. One I thought was interesting was Townsend Brown with the claim he and others did antigravity research with practical applications. The B2 was most likely source of funding at one point given (a) it was enormously expensive and (b) some of its traits matched the ones in Brown's antigravity designs.

Most of the stuff on those sites looked like BS, though. I don't know about Brown and this recent guy, though. This could also be disinformation to get Chinese to waste time on it. It has plus side that they can patent sue them if they do find anything.

EDIT: This was one of the sites. Just came back to me.

https://www.americanantigravity.com/tim-ventura-on-antigravi...
> I can live without oil, but, for example, that means I cannot make fried eggs, scrambled eggs, or omelettes. I can only think of making hard-boiled eggs, or poached eggs. Not using oil really seems to limit options.

You don't need oil, you just need a better non-stick pan.
Examples and procedures to take a convincing photo of the moon - you need google and some money for the equipment.

Examples and procedures to take a convincing photo of an erratically moving UFO - I don't claim I have the know-how. All I know is the evidence has to be high quality and irrefutable to make such a claim.
My point is, people should not be talking about phenomena they don't understand as if they are true, if they have no skills to gather required evidence.
When drowning save yourself first

and then when you have enough oxygen you don't have to think about it and can serve others
Is there a good way to fix it? I mean, if you were building bridges, certainly another engineer could show you data about material properties and successful builds, and you could reasonably extrapolate to your new (unique) design fairly well, but that's because you're building with the same physical materials and operating under the same laws. With software, it is a bit harder to find that common ground, because the 'laws' change if you are on a different architecture or handling different kinds of 'traffic', etc. For a bridge, you can just make a bigger beam because you would never try to build close to the scale which would make the material properties irrelevant, but with a computer, you can do this, and you might start to invalidate prior evidence. A large amount of software development dogma is built around scaling up, but that's also a huge problem in every engineering & scientific discipline.

Though, to counter my own counter-point, it would be nice to have better analytical tools; more informative & accurate ways to understand & visualize how resources are actually being used when a program runs.
> Based on comments on the site, it appears that even a very short power disruption can mess up semiconductor manufacturing.

> If that is true, then a backup power system that involved detecting an outage and starting up generators might be too slow.

I expect them to have anticipated this.
I expect them to have applied a system that would have worked for them, had it worked as designed.

I would suspect the failure to have happened somewhere behind the redundant power supply (but then again why aren't the individual production steps not independently redundantly powered?).
No, but crackpot inventors do. The charlatan tells people that he has invented a magic airplane technology. He the points to the US navy patent as 'proof' that such tech is possible. If his name is on the patent, all the better.

The US navy is a very large organization. I doubt this is a core program. This is some crazy think-tank operating way way outside oversight. Or it is an elaborate joke. Or an attempt to pad a resume before retirement. Or a "patent something or you're out" box ticking.
Whether you are able to put it on your phone in a working state is then the question though. You would need drivers for all parts which might be closed source and not compatible with your build.
UK cyber survey exposes gaps in online security
Also a Mirage OS/unikernel, BAP and BinCat binary analysis frameworks, Facebook Infer source-level static analyzer, etc.
They are usually slower but they can still be pretty fast. Also, with integration tests, you can choose the granularity of your test. You don't need to test end-to-end (of course this is the slowest), you can just test a single module with all its dependencies. If you don't mock out dependencies, then it's still technically called an integration test.
Sorry it was not a typhoon, but flooding due to policy failures. Each Tambom (sub-district) control's it's dikes and levies, plus 3 or 4 "top level" water related ministries unable to cooperate, and general bureaucracy combined with nobody willing to sacrifice (get flooded to lessen the impact upstream) caused the flooding of these industrial parks.

As a result of this and SSD, Thailand's HDD industry is mostly gone now. (among other losses techies don't hear about.)
Or a small army on mturk
Why was the government paying a contract between an insurance company and a taxi company?
Cinerama, MoPOP, Living Computer Museum. They're all love letters to geek culture. If you're in Seattle they are absolutely worth a visit.

Old Microsoft guys tend not to be recognized as being "one of us"... maybe it was Microsoft's culture, and the systematic undermining of open source software and startups through the 90s, but Paul definitely was more like us than we probably care to admit.
That's his perception and what (if this story is fully true) led him to take that particular option.

The alternative and smarter choice would have been to walk straight into his commander, tell them what happened, pass it up the chain to Estonian Counter Intelligence, deal with the short/medium term repurcussions and live a normal life. This stuff happens all the time in business and government. Though it seems like it, it's actually not a massive deal to report this stuff, it's why counter intelligence exists (or corporate security in the business context).

I would guess and say there have probably been dozens of times in Estonia alone when people took the smart option and reported things.
How climate change and disease helped the fall of Rome
Unless a plane is delayed or cancelled at the last minute, which in TXL's case is frequent. This results in a gate full of too many people and a slow down moving anyone anywhere.
It isn't all that much of a game changer. Mid-air refueling means that bombers can stay airborne a long time. Four or five bombers rotating back and forth can maintain one "on station" continuously. So the capability is already there. This tech would just make it more scifi.
Actually, Electron (and most other web browsers) on the Mac OS/X and iOS use IOSurface to share zero-copy textures in GPU memory between the render and browser processes. Android and Windows (I presume, but don't know name of the API, probably part of DirectX) have similar techniques.

It's like shared memory, but for texture memory in the GPU between separate heavy weight processes. Since simply sharing main memory between processes wouldn't be nearly as efficient, requiring frequent uploading and downloading textures to and from the GPU.

Mac OS/X and iOS IOSurface:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iosurface?language...

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/08/mac-acc...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/IOSur...

Android SurfaceTexture and GL_TEXTURE_EXTERNAL_OES:

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Sur...

https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenGL/extensions/OES/OES_E...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J0fkaGS9Gseczw3wJNXvo_r-...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/ZeroC...

https://github.com/SimHacker/UnityJS/blob/master/notes/Surfa...
Simple Natural Language Processing Tools for Danish
I don't understand how the two are related, can you clarify? What does corporate spending on political campaigns have to do with encryption?
If you're on desktop you can use eww (emacs)
Anyone knows how well the strategies would translate to Guangdong mahjong?
I tried it on Linux though.
This point comes up somewhat periodically on HN - the point you made. And yes, it is "dope" :)

More people should check prior art before making new stuff. Reuse / stand on the shoulders of giants / don't reinvent the wheel, etc. But NIH is alive and well ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Not only Nutella, the company Ferrero Overall uses this amount of hazelnuts, but it's also other products. Nutella is just the flagship product.
Here's a regex implementation that is polynomial in time and space:

https://github.com/travisdowns/polyregex

If you want to use extender regex that includes backreferences, it is still polynomial as long as the number of backreferences is fixed: since many regex syntaxes only support \1 through \9, the count is fixed by construction.
It's a moral hazard to hold out hope for a "home away from home". Terraforming Mars is a moonshot.

If we ever find ourselves in a situation where we cannot survive on a planet where food literally grows out of the ground, with abundant liquid water and atmospheric oxygen at 1 atm, how on Earth would we survive on a planet that is devoid of life, has no liquid water, an atmosphere that's 1% the pressure of Earth's with no atmospheric oxygen, and little to no sources of energy?

Again, the bottom of the ocean is far more habitable than Mars, even if we experienced a similar extinction event similar to the one we experienced 65 million years ago.
‘Billionaire Bunkers’ for the wealthy during the apocalypse
Europe has had five 500-year summers in 15 years
That’s a good question, but a bit pointless. Usually when people say “crypto fascist” it’s just shorthand for “people whose opinions I find inconvenient or with whom I don’t agree”.
> It doesn't matter how strong or fast the individual horses are, it's much more important that they run together without friction or distraction and support each other.

This.
Why can't we sandbox apps from accessing our device/data?

Check this sandbox app out, does it work?: https://island.oasisfeng.com/
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