skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently in Hong Kong and have been here since before the protests began. This saber-rattling has been ongoing. This is an escalation, certainly, but it is not a new message being sent to Hong Kong and it falls mostly on deaf ears. Over the past approximately two months:

- July 2019: With the pretense of preparation for the Chinese 70th anniversary celebrations, there were reportedly 190,000 police officers in Zhanjiang. [1]

- July 31, 2019: PLA releases a propaganda video showing military practicing riot drills. Notably it has English subtitles implying its target audience. [2]

- August 1, 2019: Approximately 12,000 police participated in anti-riot drills in Shenzhen. [3]

- August 13, 2019: Military hardware shown moving into Shenzhen. [4]

Everybody in Hong Kong already knows that their way of life is lost in the event that China gets involved. The Hongkonger's daily press conference said as much. [5] If either of the PLA or Shenzhen police become involved the outcome is predetermined, thus the relatively nihilistic mood. A local Hongkonger wrote this article for Dissent Magazine which also adds additional color. [6]

Responding to other comments, the fears of a Tiananmen Square type incident are likely unfounded given the prevalence of video from all of the ongoing protests. State Media Propaganda does not work when presented to a global audience. Any event of that nature would presumably be one economic gamble too far for the CCP.

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[1] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3020784/chi...
[2] https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3020985/chinese-armys-h...
[3] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3021597/chi...
[4] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3022479/chin...
[5] https://twitter.com/anti_elab/status/1161064639515389952
[6] https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/hong-kongs-f...
The microbes we're using as products come from the soil. The tech to identify them uses understanding the interaction between microbes, so that we can thoughtfully determine which microbes are best suited for a product - we can exclude candidates with any known toxicity issues or negative externalities.

Biological pesticides have a much lower threshold for regulatory approval specifically because they are deemed safer than chemical pesticides.

Customers like replacing their chemical pesticides with our product to lower residual levels of chemicals on their produce. Other countries have more restrictive MRLs (maximum residue levels) permitted on imports than the US does, so products like these are valuable.
(please google Talmudic questions before downvoting parent - they're asking for consistency in my example and that's fair)

The utility of the example I gave depends on your moral values [1], which admittedly was crafted for the perceived majority of the HN crowd.

The example for me is a sign of respect for the freedom to be who you want to be, in contrast of imposing your morals on others. It's a sign of advancement to me that individuals feel comfortable with themselves, instead of wasting energy hiding trying to conform to an arbitrary standard. I spend less energy calling people how they like to be called than they would spend by being uncomfortable with themselves their whole lives. I won't get into the accounting of energy wasted, take my argument or leave it.

I'm sorry you're being downvoted without explanation - cold shoulders divide people even further.

[1] Moral values change according to time and place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mores
Where can you find 128gb of ECC memory for that board for under 1k (w/ processor and board)?
I'm also wondering about golang http2
Downvoted b/c one must balance the ugly views of purported islamophobes with the ugly views of actual islamists.

Contrary to popular HN/Vox/Atlantic/NYT/BuzzFeed/WaPo consensus, the latter are quite real, and not a figment of the imagination of the former.

Part of the Tim Taylor's problem is that there isn't much work for guys with a physical disability.

The other part of the problem is that, despite being an otherwise amiable sort and unafraid of doing hard, poorly remunerated work, he's kind of dumb.

I don't just mean "not book smart". That's true, and I wonder if he had an IEP in middle or high school, based on the story and his mom's account of his dad's reading disability.

Despite being an intermittently-employed manual laborer with three children to support, he takes his total life savings and spends it on an unimproved piece of property that he's never seen, in a part of the country he's never been to, with nary a survey or warranty deed to be had.

Situated thus, past the edge of civilization (said civilization being where he gets his disability checks), he trespasses & commits petty larceny, attracting the negative attention of one of the local Road Warriors.

He is repeatedly told (not in so many words) that the authorities are not in a position to keep the peace in such a place. So, once he's been pushed to commit what a sympathetic observer would call manslaughter at the very least, with NO WITNESSES to speak of, where the only evidence is the slowly-cooling corpus delicti in his driveway and the security-cam recording in his trailer...he...

Dumps the corpse in a ravine away from his property, where the coyotes and vultures and bears can take care of the evidence?

Wipes the video of him shooting the man in the back?

Claims not to know anything about the whereabouts of his drunken violent neighbor should anyone happen to ask, which might be in a few days at the earliest, and a few decades at the latest?

No, he CALLS THE COPS AND CONFESSES TO SHOOTING THE GUY. After trying really hard to make this neighborhood Not Their Problem, Tim Taylor makes the Klamath County Sheriff's Office an offer they can't refuse. A body with multiple gunshot wounds in the driveway of the man with the murder weapon, who has thoughtfully recorded the whole proceeding for the benefit of the prosecutor.

Jesus Wept.

Tragedies shouldn't have a punchline, but this one does. This Taylor guy not only has three kids by two different women, he now has grandkids. The first fifteen minutes of 'Idiocracy' kept flashing through my head as I read this story.
vxworks ... have you ever tried to implement something with that ugly hack? -- and seen how nice it can be with other, proper operating systems?

as many already said: not at all surprised.
Qemu supports severel different kinds of emulation, eg on linux it can use KVM for fast virtualization. No clue what apple plans on using though
> Perhaps the pressure could have been applied privately. Like researcher gaining access to achieved milestones. As long as Microsoft's progress would have been reasonable, no release.

Perhaps you should read the thread describing the communication with Microsoft. It sounds to me like the issue was not just the complexity of the bug, but a failure of organization/communication on Microsoft's part.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=18...
Bedbugs are giving Airbnb users headaches and itchy bites
Japan Is Deploying Its First Marines Since World War II
This. Native python is very slow so almost any compute heavy python work will offload work to external native code. While the a RustPython would help on the python side, this wouldn't help the external native calls which end up doing most of the work.
$1700 seems like an awful lot to spend on this setup, even with 1yr warranty. I recently bought the following from eBay on a £500 budget:

Asrock Rack c602 mobo
2x Xeon e3-2650Lv2 (20c/40t)
8x8GB Samsung DDR3 ECC
generic EATX case with fans
2x CPU heatsinks
3x case fans
XFX fanless modular PSU

if the price and specs alone aren't compelling enough:
it runs idle at ~50w
it has a similar passmark of >15000
it has 4x GbE ports
it has 4x PCIE3 slots (!)

I'd never heard of iLO, which other commenters mention as a selling point, but a quick search leads me to believe this is HP's take on IPMI, which this mobo has.

originally built as an HTPC server, I had 2 main criteria for my build: cool and quiet. hence opting for low powered processor versions, 0db PSU and PWM case fans. if you don't require these criteria you can knock ~20% off the budget.

there was so much power being unused that I binned a few other devices (namely crappy ISP-provided router and tv box) and made this build the heart of my home network. it is now my family's router, firewall, adBlocker, movie and tv server, game server, free cloud storage manager (synced to every household device), OS updates cache, music streamer, torrent client/server, VM server, web server, database server, VPN client, proxy server, etc., the list is virtually endless. these are all run simultaneously with ample resources leftover for frequent workstation usage.

I should admit that I thoroughly researched every component's specifications and price, and as such it took me around 3 months of waiting to source them.

I also admit this use case and learning curve is not for everyone, but it was ultimately a rewarding experience for both my brain and wallet.
I love this. So easy to use and intuitive. Really creative. Great job!!!
> I was hoping to read that it might also help people like myself who suffer from tinnitus. Sadly, no.

It depends, I have tinnitus and high-frequency hearing loss. It's not at the point where I need hearing aids, but anecdotally a friend of mine who got hearing aids reported that his tinnitus goes away when using them.
As a french taxpayer, i wish my country would leave as well, it was the second worst decision from sarkozy (first one being Lybia invasion).
And with AMP, Google is trying to do the same with entire sites.

In the long run why will we continue to produce content for Google?

Google must stop trying to suck the hole world into itself. Google is becoming a big black hole.

And the "it is good for consumers" or "users like it" are just offensive. It's good for Google. It may be good for users today but it's bad for content producers and in the long run it's bad for everyone.
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Thanks, coldtea for your interest and help with the wording, I'll consider it absolutely.
Gender and religion are two of the issues that people have the most painful history with and the most passionate feelings about. If you make pejorative general statements about those topics, you're certain to provoke others into quick and hostile replies. That's flamebaiting.

It sounds as though you believe you're simply describing facts, but that is bewilderingly far from true. To most readers here, saying things like "women tend to behave more childlike and are less willing to take on responsibility" is an extreme provocation. It's also a strangely limited and limiting statement, since we all know many people who would sooner make such a statement about men than about women.

You mentioned empathizing; my guess is that with a bit more empathizing, you wouldn't want to say such things any more. There's too much opportunity to hurt other people and start highly reactive, zero-communication arguments with them—especially on the internet, where the lack of any mitigating information (like tone of voice, gesture, or pre-existing relationship) guarantees that people will project into your words the worst and most monstrous interpretation they can bear, whether you meant them that way or not.

Would you mind taking a look at the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? I think you'll find that several of them apply to threads like this, especially this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."
Bypassing IP Based Blocking with AWS API Gateway
Off topic:

Why are web developers constantly reimplementing native browser functionality? This site for instance has their own scroll implementation that's laggy, adds unwanted smoothing, and of course has less functionality (middle-click scrolling doesn't work, nor does autoscrolling). Fortunately I can get the native implementation by disabling scripts, but I've seen sites that are `overflow: hidden` so you're forced to use their scrolling logic.
Regrowing literal hair follicles is seemingly more difficult as they are each small, complex organ attached to a muscle (arrector pili) and they become damaged by fibrosis from the inflammatory process of hair loss.

It seems trivial but it is actually a monumentally complex problem to address
Google’s currently helping to perpetuate the myth that New York is a growing city and its population is at an all-time high of 8.623 million. In reality, it’s a dying city, and the current best estimate is 8,398,748; every bureau except Staten Island is losing population. People are fleeing New York (both the city and upstate) due to high taxes, crumbling infrastructure, bad weather, and a generally poor standard of living.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/planning-level/nyc-popula...
From email address to phone number. A new OSINT approach
These are soil isolates - no generic engineering of the strains. One of the lead product active ingredients includes both the bacterium and the yeast.
One example is "how to tie shoes". It scrapes the content from wikihow and displays it to you. There is no need to click through to the site to see the content. Something similar happens for recipe searches.
To what extent did people and institutions deserve our trust?

Speaking as a younger American, I was raised with a lot of bad science, corporate bullshit, and Government subsidized propaganda. The Internet just amplified contrarian voices and revealed certain truths for everybody to see. Today I feel wary, hopeful, and motivated to make it better.
There is a term for this: mobilization. It's a bit more dramatic, of course, in wars past, but the concept remains the same:

> Poland partly mobilized its troops on August 24, 1939, and fully mobilized on August 30, 1939, following the increased confrontations with Germany since March 1939. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, which prompted both France and Britain to declare war on Germany.

> On 30 August, the Polish Navy sent its destroyer flotilla to Britain, executing the Peking Plan. On the same day, Marshal of Poland Edward Rydz-Śmigły announced the mobilization of Polish troops. However, he was pressured into revoking the order by the French, who apparently still hoped for a diplomatic settlement, failing to realize that the Germans were fully mobilized and concentrated at the Polish border.
I didn't understand that sentence.
https://andre.cool

I'm trying to write about the Shitshow Sidekick that I'm working on (there's a post that describes what it is.)
Part of the problem is that experts in a particular field will get on social media, build a huge following based on their expertise, then spout really uninformed (but authoritative sounding) opinions about fields they are not experts in. Eventually people lose faith in anything they say.

Tech experts, celebrities... do not have more informed opinions about politics (for example) than the average person on the street, yet they’ll jump head first into divisive political arguments that then alienate half their audience who may have had something to learn from a field they actually know about.

I know I trust people who demonstrate the maturity to not do this more than people who let their emotions/desire for attention drive what they say publicly.
>If you go to any sites that provide these sorts of things they're typically "scummy". Lots of ads, lots of Javascript, lots of dark patterns to make you load more page views

Exactly why go to those sites when you can get the same experience without leaving Google? And its not like Google isn't serving the ads on both Google and those "scummy" websites anyway, and no one is going to out dark pattern Google.
Snap introduces Spectacles 3, with two HD cameras and 3D effects on Snapchat
> It also won’t have iLO, etc.

You could install the free version of VMWares ESXi and use that as a sort of iLO. In most case that would be a more pleasant experience.
Google many years ago made an explicit decision that their mission is to inform people, not just drive them away to terrible 3rd party sites.
I don't think it's anywhere near "meaningless". The fact that a team of software engineers who are led by someone extremely well experienced in HPC (since the early 90s, multiple awards won, etc.) can do this, does not mean it is easy for a typical university or engineering company to do the same.

Will HPC migrate towards the cloud? Maybe yes, but we need several major overhauls to tooling before that is anywhere close to happening.

Just think about how much work it would be today to configure a Packer image that has several MPI libraries, a scheduler like SLURM, various Python versions + required packages, C and Fortran compilers, BLAS/LAPACK/etc, VCS systems, integration with some sort of user authentication system including support for SSH login to each node as well as linked for each user to the accounting in the scheduling system, and to have confidence that it will be highly performant for the application you work with on the AWS allocation that you have requested. Not many people could pull that off in a reasonable amount of time, if at all.
Thank you, I think it is great idea and I love it. I need to play with it, but on the face of it, seems like solid idea and very useful tool. Thank you!

I personally like Bulma a lot and think it is useful, so either that or Material works for me.
It's a mix of Electron and native code (Swift). Focusing on perfecting the macOS version for the time being. Will release both for Linux and Windows very soon.
I deliberately opted out of snippets for TLD List [0], a price comparison site I made for domain names.

I don't know if it's made any difference. Organic search traffic from them has slowly but steadily increased over the years.

Google now sometimes displays a snippet from my competitor's website for searches like "cheapest .io domain" [1]. The snippet seems pretty useless as it doesn't include any registrars' names/links (and my competitor's price info is quite outdated).

In these cases, since the snippet is the 1st thing users see in SERP, and doesn't provide enough info to fully answer the question, I'd wager that my competitor is ultimately receiving the majority of clicks from these snippets.

[0] https://tld-list.com

[1] https://i.imgur.com/aFoZbFw.png
> You're seriously overestimating Americans, circa 1982.

Circa 1982? Some months ago, the NYTimes did a story on Coke/Pepse/Nestle sugar drink/food causing simultaneous systemic obesity and malnutrition in Central/South America. Company leadership was quoted as expressing surprise at this "unexpected" impact. TPP had ISDS provisions to permit companies to sue governments to recover profits lost to health policies. And so it goes. Today.
Well, that Armis labs is reprinting a statement from VxWorks is a possibility, but the statement is on Armis page, and sounds like they themselves wrote it, since it is an announcement on discovered (by Armis) vulnerabilities, there are as I see it two possibilities:

1) Armis tested those certified environments and couldn't replicate the bugs

2) Armis did not test those certified environments and reprinted the VxWorks statement

If #2 they should have written instead "we could not test the vulnerabilities on the "certified" versions but we believe in VxWorks' assurance that they are not vulnerable (because ... )"
Focusing on the macOS version for the time being, but will release for Linux & Windows very soon.
Sounds like RSS.
This is something that has actually been researched, so it's not accurate to say it's subjective. Higher release rates (i.e. an iterative approach) cause higher organisational performance. See Accelerate, by Forsgren et al.
GitHub – mrtkp9993/Bioinformatics.jl – Helper functions for bioinformatics
Would second that this should be optional ASAP. I understand your need and desire to collect feedback but I don't think it's a great idea to require users to create a profile for something that is a client.

There are other ways to collect feedback than a Discourse instance. Why not just stand up a contact form, Twitter account, or email address?
This. Academics who have already "proved themselves" should seriously consider dropping Elsevier et al. If your career depends on publishing in certain journals there is less freedom to do the "right" thing.
Shouldn't they be liable for mis-information? Wouldn't that solve the entire problem?
"But hardly any new cars have that"

Even a Tesla Model 3 still has a 12 Volt cigarette adapter port. New cars still include them because of all the accessories out there like inverters and tire inflaters people want to use.
> The 90 day deadline is meant for vendors who don't take security seriously, but Microsoft do.

Microsoft dropped the ball for the first 75 days.

> I hope you agree that I adequately communicated this attack to you, it seems like some wires got crossed at Microsoft and it didn't get clearly passed along to the engineering team. We're at day 75 now, I think the solutions I can think of for this attack would require a lot of compat testing with IMEs, so I'm hoping you can expedite this now that we're all on the same page.[1]

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=18...

edit: For clarity, the context of my quote is talking specifically about the session attack, not all issues raised.
Is there a giant swirling mass of paper bags in the Pacific Ocean?

Do paper bags hang from trees and phone lines for years?

Do paper bags cause enormous damage from clogging up sewers and sewage processing plants?

They don't.
View and increase AWS quota from command line using boto3
it's best when you're working on it :)
He was the CEO of Exxon. He had economic power. He used it.

Why would the government bother? The experts from the companies who helped get them elected told them it wasn't a problem.

> In 1981, he was appointed to President Ronald Reagan's National Productivity Advisory Committee and later served on the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control.[6] He served as Chairman of The Business Council in 1983 and 1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifton_C._Garvin
There's a lot going on here, so there are a lot of potential fixes. The obvious and straightforward ones are the memory safety issues. MS can start fuzzing this software, and fix that stack information leak to better leverage ASLR. This should at least mean that (for one of the described attacks) the attacker needs a new capability (write-what-where or a new infoleak).

I think ForceASLR should improve process randomization across restarts? Not sure. Assuming it does that makes the repeated exploit attempts for one of the attacks harder.

They can start authenticating the API calls to prevent lying about what process/thread you are.

I think these are probably not crazy difficult things for MS to take on. There's a lot more to the attacks here, but seems like those are the places to start. Or just rip this system out and replace it idk.
Android Auto bugs you every time you plug the phone into the car. I had a rental that had it and I was curious to try it since it seemed like something I may want in my next car. It was slow as fuck over bluetooth (a little faster over USB) and offered pretty much nothing more than what a magnetic mount and a bluetooth audio/phone connection would offer. It was 1000x quicker to just bring Waze up on my phone as I'm walking to the car, slap it on the magnet (up high on the dash, adjacent to the screen), and let the bluetooth connect automatically. I deleted the android auto profile and just stuck with regular bluetooth audio/phone.
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