skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I already wrote, if things like FB, Google, WhatsApp etc. are all blocked and most Western news sites are blocked/censored...will you suddenly know they exist because you crossed the border and go scour them for news about these protests...?

You cross the border and, to your surprise, see 250k+ people protesting about freedom. You search Baidu for HK protests as that's your go-to search engine and all you know. What do you think you'll find...?
For one, because they allow people from New York to transact with them.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docInde...
Disney's acquisition of Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and the better parts of 21st Century Fox will go down as the stuff of legend.

I don't even understand how other media giants allowed this to happen.

Disney controls essentially all the most profitable global entertainment franchises into the foreseeable future.

They are the Thanos of entertainment. Gathering the entertainment world's infinity stones.

It will be interesting to see if this translates into streaming platform success...
We love microchips – That's why we boil them in acid
On a crypto only exchange, if you want to have some of your holdings fixed to the dollar then you hold it as tether. Usually because you are getting out of crypto or waiting to get in. Taxable events are on you to report and pay regardless.
Do you mean they should pay off the hackers or ignore that a data breach ever happened? If it's the former then there's some obvious risks there and it's an expensive gamble. If it's the later then it's likely discoverable without their involvement, one of their millions of customers will enter user+mariot@gmail.com as their address and registering that with https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ?

The lack of discovery/disclosure also covered an acquisition, companies not disclosing breaches during acquisitions is something I bet the SEC would be interested in.
Anger is certainly justified, but it should give way to reconciliation once the offending party truly repents.

Do we want a world of people who change their ways, even if for somewhat impure reasons, or a world in which no one ever does because it's pointless?
I had the exact same thought.

The R&D landscape is littered with antibiotics that kill bacteria but can’t be used in humans.
Instead its going to be more crazy rich executives and large investors.
Eh. I'm not sure what the point of Twitter is if not politics
Superb really love the platform
Pick a school that uses a low-level language. C is great. Java, Python, Javascript, and Scheme are all bad.

Take the courses that involve writing compilers and operating systems.

Do a project that involves writing an emulator, perhaps for one of the things DD-WRT runs on. You could start from MAME or Qemu, or do the whole thing from nothing.

Write a boot sector for the demo scene. For example, recently somebody wrote a PAC-MAN clone to run in 512 bytes.

Solve a DEFCON CTF problem. They are difficult puzzles, so try several. Learn to use Ghidra (free) or a similar tool. Freeware and demo versions are available for IDA Pro, Hopper Disassembler, and Binary Ninja.
Wait, Berlin to Brussels for €9? Good lord, that is far too cheap. For example, the distance is roughly equivalent to Denver-Albuquerque. Kayak's cheapest quote is $119 one way, scheduled 1 month in advance. I knew flights in Europe were cheaper, but how is it possible to operate profitably at that price? Kayak shows $23 for Ryanair Berlin-Brussels.

For comparison, I had a vehicle breakdown and needed to take an (awful) bus that distance in the US, and it cost far more than $23 (IIRC, it was ~$75 and took 18 hours).
That's not useful if you are trying to arbitrage Bitcoin between 2 exchanges.
Seems like most of their 4K selection are titles from Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=uhd&i=instant-video
Not when you're trying to hedge with cash
> you obviously have to use a self signed cert because local IP

Not true at all, SSL certs have nothing to do with IP of the servers that use them, the servers just have to have the correct private key for that cert.

You can make any domain point to local IPs by using the hosts file or even editing DNS directly.
Ha! I remember a meeting at Intel, Scottsdale, I think, with their old x386+DRM/crypto-coprocessor chip, where one of the directors (VPs?) got up and stood on the conference table, and urinated on the stupid proposal.

It was very rude but pretty declarative!

In any case - I would never have the moral rectitude to make that kind of statement.
Look, if you really wanted to understand this, you'd be honest in your arguments and present a better understanding than just repeating that it costs pennies to print 100$ (and therefore USD is superior)

If it was so easy and cheap to print a 100$, why isn't everyone doing it?
Obviously, it's not easy or cheap to do, and it's also illegal.

The US govt enforces the legality. So, you should factor in the cost of running the US govt and the cost of enforcing the law through the judicial system.

Suppose the US military disappeared overnight, what do you think will happen to the value of the dollar? you most certainly should factor in the cost of running the US army as well.

And then the banking ecosystem itself in the US, which is well over 10 trillion $ as of now.

The bitcoin ecosystem rolls all of these features into a single concise, self-policed network. I'd much rather have a permission-less SoV that is not controlled/backed by a nation state or a set of corporations (like Libra).

'perl4ever' should've tipped me off, I never learn :(. I don't think I have anymore time to argue with you.
Love it, Really easier and faster to create prototype apps. I only focus to create apps frontend. Thanks for useful API Service.
Companies outside the tech industry are spinning off internal software
> Given this has happened time and time again

I wasn’t aware there were different specs until a few weeks ago. I’m sure the rpi4 was in development since last year. They should have tested more cables, maybe they can fix it somehow.
GitHub Removed Open Source Versions of DeepNude
Unfortunately, we cannot be certain life on other planets in our solar system did not originate on our own. It has been determined that meteor that killed the dinosaurs possibly seeded planets and mas far out as Saturn with microbes.
Pardon my ignorance, but the Earth is 1/3 the age of the Universe?
There isn’t that much overlap between the antibiotics used to treat human disease and those used in livestock to promote growth.

The use of human antibiotics in livestock has already been banned in the US by the FDA.

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-12-19/ant...
Unfortunately, Firefox for Android _beta_ is dead (it makes no sense to do ESR for beta), and the profiles are not shared, so I'll be stuck with an old Firefox.

My bad for trying to help I guess.
And this is why anyone who trusts that organization in any way moving forward is a fool.
And in the mean time the value has droped tenfolds.
It helps understand why NaNs or close to zero training speed happens. For example - say you have an LSTM. The more you unroll it the more matrices get multiplied on the way back, and the backprop signal can get amplified/muted in an exponential fashion (as a function of the number of unrolled cells).
SEO fake crap.
OSX/MacOS and iOS are the same operating system.

They look different because they have different gui layers, but are otherwise the same.
They haven’t repented yet, though. Read their response.
Look at the marketcap of tether. There's obviously a use case.
"vaguely sketchy"

What does that mean?

That doesn't sound like a positive thing.
From Apocalypse of Nature:

"Truth is dangerous to be displayed.

This is the detestable axiom whose exposed falsehood will produce the solution of the problem, and the consolation of human sorrows."

Love it.
Definitely recommend his personal blog as well: https://idlewords.com/2016/05/shuffleboard_at_mcmurdo.htm
Cryptography for Software Engineers
They cant even get firefox to properly load (let alone let me pick) all 10 of my webcams.

How about making that work, first?
Discussion of original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383561
Starting with penicillin is standard practice for some infections - it’s called empiric treatment - you start with the weakest antibiotic and work your way up, you reserve the strongest antibiotics for those cases where the infection isn’t getting better.

In some cases resistance is so widespread that they skip the weakest and just right to the stronger antibiotics.
What are your thoughts on Gemini?
None. It is all politics.
“Can say”? Did you mean to write “cannot say”?
His autobiography?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWoz
You can't make being a first-rate anything-recordable-or-broadcastable worth less than it is without getting rid of the tech that enables recording and/or broadcasting. First-rate ate all the value of the second-rates and down, and then some. Doesn't mean the talent has to get as much money as they do, I guess, but the money'll still be there.

Sadder part's probably the loss of social capital for being a third-rate whatever. Lot fewer folk-song sing-alongs around the living room upright these days. Lot fewer cousin-bands playing at family gatherings. Ya know?
Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for harassing employees
Can Hypnosis Help You Lose Weight?

During a hypnosis session you are provided with a number of compelling suggestions. Whenever you return to wakefulness, these suggestions stay with you and can provide you with additional resistance to over eating. But realize that they will start to lose their impact over time.

This is precisely why it is quite normal to have several sessions to strengthen the desirable effects. Having just a sole session, the success rate is quite low. Having repeat sessions, roughly half of people that get hypnotherapy should expect some type of weight loss accomplishment through it.

Furthermore, the skill of the hypnotist provides a sizable bearing on how profitable it can be. More effective ones are going to tailor their sessions precisely to you and not just repeat the very same approaches that they employ for their other clients. It is because the issues for the unwanted weight dilemma may well be special to you and consequently only tailor-made suggestions will succeed properly with you.

Documented facts on how successful hypnosis is are rather sparse and clearly the hypnotherapists very own records can not be relied on to be unprejudiced. At this point we have to rely on the enthusiastic reports of clients that have been happy with their results.
https://healthreviewfactory.com/slimtone-keto-review/
The author made a very good case overall.

More sensors means more measurement, which means more control of time and space, and the further enabling of an outward-looking stance. All of which is going to be of benefit as humanity leans harder on the science of the natural world and begins reaching for new ways to prevent catastrophic wars and disasters and explores space travel options. The more sensors, and the smarter they can operate, the better.

The 20th century was in many ways a huge list of reasons why we shouldn't cocoon ourselves and "not explore" things that are what I call NO-NOs: Next order natural occurrences. Think we know it all, have seen it all, and can predict it all? Nope! And sensors are going to help us navigate and push through to new levels of understanding.

It sounds crazy but there are still influential people in the military affairs community who don't believe we should look into UFOs. Not because they claim they don't exist, but because they claim the tech is too far beyond us, and there's nothing we can do about it! So why try? This is literally their reasoning. For a good example, listen to Lt. Col. Halt USAF (RET) recap his experience at Rendlesham in recent interviews.

This psychology is exactly what will keep us from moving forward and exploring whatever else is really out there. No cover-up conspiracies needed, just plain old heads-down psychology. Keep the world the way it is. You can't argue with the psychology and expect to get anywhere; it is too self-protective. So arguing for more and better sensors is probably the best stance we have right now.
Light-sensing system could show distant galaxies in unprecedented detail
Between silos and submarines, thousands of nuclear warheads out there ready to go right now at a moments notice. The entire complex system antiquated and built/maintained by the lowest bidder to boot. So far we are very very lucky.
OpenAPI Generator v4.0.3
Since the description says each color cycle represents 4.8 inches, I would say if you trace a line from one red pixel across the blue pixels to another red pixel, you've traversed a cycle, and you've increased or decreased displacement from the reference by 4.8 inches.
Would be awesome to query a DB, like `ls /db/america/ny/cities` using tags or something in files to automatically and predictably sort data into folders/files.
This comment is based on the peculiar notions that 1) it is possible to intimately understand the thoughts of over a billion people and 2) this understanding is necessary for propaganda to achieve its effect.

More importantly, it quietly dismisses the vast moral chasm between the CCP's propaganda and that of the protesters. One aims to restrict information (and spread misinformation) to advance the control of a state over its people, while the other aims to expose that restricted information to protect civil liberties.
I'll give it a try.

Do they have a free personal version?
“[became friends with] radical pamphleteer Thomas Paine”

There’s an understated life summary.
That struck me as well. How can they ever use that as evidence in a court case when there is no chain of custody whatsoever?

Who cares I guess, they have the power to modify any data they want anyway. It's crazy.
Yes back in my day they were called drug dealers. Cries regulatory capture by the rich to me.
So companies moved jobs away from the US to the detriment of American workers? How is he wrong then? That's exactly what he said would happen.

The US would have been much better off with Perot as president. Both Bush and Clinton supported NAFTA, and Clinton ushered China into the WTO.
Tether is technologically superior and has 90% of marketshare compared to any other stable coin.

If FUD scares you then crypto trading is not for you
> In the US trading crypto to crypto has tax liabilities.

Or, more accurately, just because you record the ownership of an asset on a blockchain doesn't mean you're allowed to violate the law.
Thank you for taking the time to reply; I appreciate all of the advice you have provided.
2 Months of Meditation and Yoga Practice in the Himalayas Changed My Lifesytle
If they cared that much about helping people they would focus on open sourcing their OS and making progress to benefit society as a whole, not backroom deals for government contracts.
Thank you (and the other Mozillians) for trying to engage the feedback! Please remember when planning that extensions need time to be fixed, which means there must be significant overlap between when extension support in Fenix shows up and when Fennec actually goes EOL.
Silicon Photonics Begins to Make Inroads
While I think Woz sets a good example, they're human - and I'm sure they've done and/or said things that are less than one might expect and which one probably wouldn't approve of or condone - or perhaps which one might even condemn. I'd caution against canonising people - it sets too high a standard; which no one real can meet.
Stream Heat
Making Resistive Magnets (2009)
I was talking about the property that gradients are linearly proportional to loss value. I don't see whether this property helps or hurts vanishing gradients problem (e.g. if it was not linear, maybe it would be worse).
Thanks for linking, this is really cool. Also nice to see AMD64 support, I never figured out how it can be done. (Is there an absolute jmp without destroying registers in x64?)
That is a very cool finding. Though I must say that visualizing the data with a jet colormap and no legend is a little disrespectful to anyone who is sober.
Ok, I see now that this isn't the four legged furry big eared kind...
Yes, Rory Stewart's book "The Places In Between" is a great read. His recounting, for example, of visiting the impossibly remote Minaret of Jam (built in the 12th century!) is fascinating.
And I only use hub issue to sync my issues locally. Just updated hub two days ago, because the old version failed. It's still very unreliable though.
I'm fully up to date but at work in Australia, so there could be a number of blockers to me getting this feature.
On UNIX this sort of thing is typically done with a virtual file system.
Here's another recent report of a bad experience with a reply from the Principal Product Manager for Aurora PostgreSQL:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/bv70k8/aurora_postgres...
exactly. In large fruit packing lines if the plant came to a stop, it would cost a lot of $s per minute of downtime (some lines involved 100s of people, incoming trucks, out going trucks etc that all get frozen). Some crops are very time sensitive and delays in the whole supply chain are problematic. Though the good thing with free form robots like that is you can buy a certain amount of redundancy. Some problems though are disastrous, like if the robot starts automatically destroying the lettuces for some reason (unforeseen mechanical failure which is undetected). I have watched this happen a number of times with the automated machines I worked on..... nothing quite like debugging problems with that kind of pressure :)
Fishing is not a good way to catch good employees, only a good way to catch fish. If a hiring manager can't ask the questions they want the answers to, then I walk out the door.
From a pure product perspective:
1. Tagging
2. Archiving
3. Not Google

From a human perspective:
1. Supporting a one-person SaaS (i.e. "the dream")
This would explain the mini Bitcoin rally
Don't prematurely optimize.

ML these days has all sorts of scale and scope. For instance, what used to take a few days baking on a GPU server can now be run in a few lines of codes on a CPU. The ecosystem moves very quickly, so it's better to be adaptable than to consign yourself to a specific paradigm of computation.

That being said: Yeah, a lot of stuff is in CUDA or nvidia world. AMD and OpenCL support is usually late and usually lackluster.

These days you can do a lot free to get started. Get started with Kaggle kernels and Colab for free. They give you access to nice GPUs. Learn a little bit of how to do things on AWS/GCP, because almost always people are just trying to burn their free credits as part of their investment package or something.

If you're utterly concerned with performance, most workstations I know of usually run Ubuntu. Performance is far superior. Owning or building a GPU workstation is still remarkably cheaper than renting to some degree. A key idea I'd like to highlight here is that with ML/AI, regardless if your data is small or your batch processes "doable", you should be automating your pipeline so you don't have to worry about it. In the same sense that a GROUP-BY SQL statement is also machine learning speaking roughly. Being able to get your data into workable shape is more important than having nice hardware. Get the data to work for you first before you think about performance or speed.
In my experience 20s is good sadly - quite often the cold start is longer than the max timeout for a lambda function, so my app always shows an error when woken up.
Red Hat culture hasn't been anything to brag about. They basically maintain an outdated version of Linux that companies only pay for to get support and shift liability, but there is nothing innovative about Red Hat Linux.
Responsible disclosure doesn’t mean anything. It’s an obsolete term. You’re referring to coordinated disclosure.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ecostrat/2010/07/22/coor...
Ask HN: Gaining a deep understanding of operating systems
I really want to have deep understanding of operating systems and I found a course which I hope will help me gain that. It’s https://www.ops-class.org. There doesn’t seem to be a active community around it like with some moocs so I’m searching for people who would be interested in participating. You can reach me via email: haasis_noah@yahoo.de
Is anyone here who already completed the course? Or can you recommend alternative resources?
So if I am blind...
people are real, genius.
Thanks.

I see that the ALOS-2 SAR uses L band, which seems to mean 1-2 GHz (30-15 cm). So maybe the ALOS-2 actually uses 12 cm?

So does that mean that the pattern shows something like contour lines?
Localtunnel? https://localtunnel.me/
I wonder what people here think of Bob Lazar. On one hand I have a very hard time believing the physics he describes without hard proof, on the other his story has been remarkably consistent, there's bits of tangential evidence and as a whole it AFAIK wasn't falsified for 30 years now. It's certain to me at least that he worked at Los Alamos. I have only two explanations:

1) he was a Los Alamos employee that came up with a scheme to sell books and such, and has a remarkable gift for acting and telling that story consistently for decades. But then why the FBI raids and such, is that invented too?

2) pretty much his entire story is true. But could such a huge project be kept secret?
Thanks a lot! Please let me know whenever you face any issues integrating Apisentris
For those unaware, RingCentral white-labels the zoom.us product as their meeting solution.
After taking over they are now slow to ship new releases. It doesn't really make sense to use CentOS unless you may need to pay for RHEL support.
Also Poland is the European country with the largest number of young people. Heavily catholic. Could be a significant move.
I wonder if instead of the usual 90-day notice a slightly better approach would be an initial partial public disclosure of the issue, without divulging the actual exploit, and the fact that it had been communicated to the company so that a public countdown of the 90-day window can happen.

The exploit can then be divulged to the public, automatically, on the expiration of the 90-day window, regardless of whether it's fixed or not, as that may also be educational.

For example, after this Zoom issue other companies will hesitate to use a localhost webserver, but if the issue had quietly been fixed by Zoom other companies may still have been tempted to use similar approach.
Paul Rand
Point (2) is no longer true as of 2017 (in the US, 2006 in the EU) [1]. I'm happy to see the FDA getting on top of this regulation. Now let's end careless spraying of antibiotics on crops. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock#Un...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/health/antibiotics-orange...
Very high current power supply (2012)
why "unfortunate"? maybe it is about time the fourth pillar finally gets what it deserves.
> I wish it was mandatory for every student to visit two or three very different countries during their studies.

That was common in the 80s & 90s but we did it wearing a backpack and hopping on buses and coaches and sleeper trains; air travel was much too expensive back then.

That's in contrast to modern Ryanair-style stag-party 'tourism' where students descend on a city for a few days and then zip back home.
More often than not announcing the existence of a vulnerability is enough to motivate people to find it. It’s much easier to find something that you know is there than to just experiment blindly.
seems like this article should be flagged....
Wasn't Venus at one time more Earth like than Mars? Why is Mars the only chance?
From what I understand, records show he worked at Los Alamos, but not his role, so he could have been a janitor for all we know.

We also know he didn't actually go to MIT like he claims, and the way he explains the "alien tech" are not the way a real engineer would talk about these things. So I'd say definitely a crackpot...