skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... however there are certain caveats to the method. The attacker would need to know the material type of the table that the victim is typing on, as metal and wood surfaces produce different sound wave patterns.

So I will be Kickstartering “secure desktops” with random layers of disparate materials, plywood, p-lam, and so forth, plus “secure laptops”, basically trousers with random patches of corduroy, burlap, spandex and whatever sewn onto the thighs.
Last time I read about KSP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16581913), there was lots of criticism about the developers, or their working conditions. It sounded so bad that this was one of the reasons for me to not buy it. Has this improved?
This is nonsense. Rust hasn't changed much since 1.0, but has matured a lot, and numerous small usability fixes add up, making it much nicer and productive than it was.

Rust is simpler to use, and simpler to learn than it ever was.

It has removed need for common pointless annotations (like ref in patterns, extern crate). Ambiguity of static vs dynamic dispatch in traits has been clarified with `dyn` and `impl` keywords.

The const generics feature is going to obsolete the worst-of-the-worst abuses of the type system trying to emulate that feature, and remove gotchas around arrays.

Async/await enables use of borrowed types in async code (freeing users from having to know about the `Pin`/`Unpin` implementation detail). Allows use of regular error handling, instead of requiring users to keep track of error types at each step in the chain of futures. It allows normal control flow instead of arcane wrangling with `Either` and boxing.

You listed a bunch of problems, and at the same complained that Rust has been solving them!
Yes. And if you’re not sure what to do next, the next thing to do is figure out that next step. Sounds circular and silly, but helps tremendously to realize, hey, I got stuck, let me take a step back and figure out what I’m really trying to do and what tasks I need to complete to get it done.
Great question. I've been dealing with APTs from Russia (and to a lesser extent China) for two years now, and there is nobody out there to help independent sites.

GDPR recently drove us to build our own application level firewall from scratch, which turned up behavior that is never reported by CloudFront or Google Analytics - those services are only hiding the severity of the problem.
> Would it be too cynical to suggest the only reason they're doing this is because they don't operate in mainland China? Do you think they would write a report like this if they found the US government trying to push a pro-democracy narrative into China instead?

Excellent point. Snowden's revelations show that US tech companies have been threatened to comply with the three-letter agencies' demands. The US govenrment already has a lot of leverage over these companies, so they don't need to use these more primitive methods.
That is not actually true. The loud ones are always the ones with the bullhorn, allowed to them by the powerful.

I would be for censorship as well, if successful libel suits against publications meant they would be removed from the internet for fake news. Sadly egregious errors in editorial judgment are to be protected over someone saying an incomplete set of truths that result in an erroneous conclusion.
Encarta was part of my first job out of university. I worked in Microsoft's Multimedia Division, tasked with creating the first video and audio drivers for Windows. IIRC the BMP, WAV, and AVI file formats all came from this team at about this time.

In the summer of '91, I was tasked with assembling a 386 PC with an early CD-ROM drive to demo an early build of Encarta at a trade show. It was a lot of effort to find a combination of hardware and drivers that would work reliably together.

Encarta itself (at least at that time) was written as a Word document. Hyperlinks were defined using footnotes, and animation and audio placeholders were defined with custom OLE objects. The whole thing got exported as RTF and fed to a compiler, which created the runtime data structures optimized for CD-ROM access and that also built a full-text search index. The compilation was very slow and required huge amounts of RAM.

Around this time, the team had some awareness of HTML as one of many emerging hypertext markup languages, but the internet was still a few years away and no one knew what format would "win" for hypertext. In any case, there were no tools or browsers at all, so we had to build everything -- including our own search engine for the CD-ROM.
Good point. I think it's a safe bet to focus on dense dot product in hardware for the foreseeable future. However, to their defense:

1. It's not clear that supporting sparse operands in hw would result in significant overhead.

2. DL models are still pretty sparse (I bet even those models with GELU still have lots of very small values that could be safely rounded to zero).

3. Sparsity might have some benefits (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11257).
Indeed. If a hacker knows the exact material makeup of the table I'm typing on, I think I night have some physical security issues I should address first.
Protective Efficacy of Nucleic Acid Vaccines Against Zika Virus During Pregnancy
It can help us recognize parallels (and differences) in our own industry.
I strongly encourage Facebook and Instagram to follow suit!
Unfortunately, many companies are very square when it comes to part-time work :-/
Then let's run 1000 of them in parallel, right?

You're on to the exact point I'm trying to make. The whole idea that 'just' complexity or 'just' speed is enough to make something intelligent that is not yet intelligent is off-base to a degree that resorting to metaphors to try to explain why also breaks down.

I liken intelligence to life: once it exists it is obvious and self-perpetrating but before it exists it is non-obvious and no amount of fantasizing about what it would take to make it will get you incrementally closer until one day you've got it. But that day will start out just like the thousands of days before it. It's a quantum leap, a difference in quality, not an incremental one. Yes, enough order of magnitude change can make a quantitative change into a qualitative one. But so far the proof that this holds for intelligence is eluding us. Maybe we're just not intelligent enough, in the same way that you can't 100% describe a system from within the system.
Brazil’s budget cuts threaten more than 80k science scholarships
Which part of what I said isn't true?
It's not about one particular law. It's about China's steady erosion of Hong Kong values.

So these protests will likely continue off and on for years.
They haven't really figured out the technical challenge of regular video playback yet - hopefully they've outsourced the streaming technology instead of building it in-house.
China is a nuclear power plus any open US-China/Russia war would immediately extend to South Korea and Taiwan (in case of China) or Eastern Europe (in case of Russia). I highly doubt that even the hardest falcons in the DoD would advocate for war...
The MindMaze[1] music takes me back. I spent three-digits hours on that game as a little kid.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT-VbFcck6A
Yesterday I was out biking in the area (German small town) with my daughter. I was so happy to see a bunch of kids sitting on the road side with their bikes lying on the ground. All bent over some interesting thing on the ground. You know, like we used to do when we found a dead bird or a lizard crossing the road.

When we turned around and came by them again I realised they were watching YouTube on a phone. But at least they were outside, sitting on a not unused car road on the edge of the village.
>The Internet cannot remain free

Uhh have you not been paying attention for the last 20 years? We went from ownign our software and devices to not owning them as the tech illiterate masses got internet and smartphones. Google apps, app stores, steam, mmo's... those are all NOT FREE internet.

They are not there for your benefit when you have to login and your software is controlled by a remote party, you are monitored and controlled.

People in the west seem blind to the fact that they are basically corporate slaves, when a cursory examination of the facts is that they are amongst the most enslaved indoctrinated people in history.

The US is a lawless empire and has been it's founding, if you don't think western governments aren't interested in clamping down on the internet further, just view this by former national security advisor of the United states, Zbigniew Brezinski:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
No, it's not because a Chinese actor acting in some Chinese films is about as irrelevant as you could get unless you are claiming that anybody with any connection to China now cannot be trusted because they 'might' be 'compromised.' And in such case you would effectively disqualify 100% of the people with a direct interest in this, unless they happen to agree with you.

It's logic akin to:

- only pious individuals can be trusted

- it would be impious to argue against the 'fact' that everything revolves around the Earth

- since no pious person would ever make such an argument, only impious individuals would and impious individuals cannot be trusted.

- only untrustworthy individuals would claim Earth is not the center of the universe and all within it

- since no trustworthy individuals are among the heliocentric claimants, it must be the case that they're lying.

- QED: the earth is the center of the universe according to any and all who can be trusted
And the line is very blurred, how do you know there isn't Chinese government affiliated person acting on either government or their own behalf within the Li Yi Bar? The US government employs about 20% of US workers, the Chinese government employs slightly more, and when you say this individual is affiliated with Chinese government, that's not a small likelihood if you just picked up a random working Chinese person.
Most of the chip is already SRAM, I'm not really sure what else you would expect?

18 GiB × 6 transistors/bit ≈ .93 trillion transistors
What matters is whether or not Facebook or Twitter can make this distinction successfully 100% of the time, and whether or not they are perceived as doing so just as successfully.
Literal cargo culting!
> Additionally, new "safe" C++ APIs aren't: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34729

std::string_view is a borrow interface, not a safe owner. It is a sharp knife, to be sure, but it's not billed as being safe, either, and it's not broken.
You know whats going to be an interesting dev in the next ten years:

Musk's Skynet!

How will that be regulated. What device signals and routing can be blocked from that.

Imagine a GoPro which is perm-linked up to that constellation and a cloud storage platform that it streams its blobs to. And a not youtube corrupt POS viewing platform.

Get these devices that talk to the constellation and stream continuously and cant be censored or blocked.

We will then realize true information freedom....

C'mon Musk. Don't fuck it up.
Chinese people don't even have the most basic human rights. That's insane.
I remember reading about the hysteria of this 4 years ago and wondering if me, a non-foodie, could actually taste the difference in chocolate quality. I finally had my first mast brothers bar recently and...

...yeah. It taste like a slightly better quality hershey's bar, definitely not a $10 bar of chocolate. I was kind of floored, it was actually pretty bad.
I didn't have Encarta, I had the lite version, Microsoft Bookshelf. I recall it being a major help on many junior high and maybe even high school homework assignments. It had a dictionary, thesaurus and a mini encyclopedia! It was decidedly less than Encarta, but it still inspired a sense of wonder and amazement in at least one young person.
Is KSP1 any fun for casual gamers with only an hour or two and a joystick? Will I have to read up on lots of math and orbital mechanics to get anywhere in it?
Right, and in addition free markets != anything seen in reality. There's no such thing as perfect competition or a real life free market since the textbook definition of a free market requires both no monopoly power and no government intervention. Basically none of your nice econ 101 graphs of perfect competition and everything apply in any sort of meaningful way because of all the absurd assumptions necessary to make them work. If there are two bakers that are producing identical bread in every way, they still wont be in perfect competition since one of them will be physically closer to you which makes for decreased travel time.
When audophile marketing gets into every industry
It's a radio box; I've never selected it so I'm unsure if they ask for clarification when you select other
Devils advocate. Perhaps it's less they get directions and more they actually hold those views.

Which, we could say is because brainwashing since youth and perhaps there is some truth to that.

But I think likely the biggest thing is the same thing that motivates everyone else. Self interest. They want to see an expanded China with greater say in world events and greater share of the economic pie. Because it would benefit them. They see disruption or anything anti CCP as contrary to that goal.
Let's talk for a minute about why all the Apple things aren't open. There is zero about iMessage or AirDrop that should be proprietary. The only reason I know of is vendor lock-in, and that stinks for users. It would be way more helpful to way more people if these features were ubiquitous, open, and standards-based like SMTP or IMAP is for email. We wouldn't except an Apple-only iMail, why do we accept iChat and iPhotoShare?
Yes, it is. There's so many different rights that a union could argue for. SAG or professional athletes unions are some great examples. There's still large ranges of contract options available, tailored to an individual. But there's also a ton of hard fought guaranteed working conditions that might not exist otherwise.

It's weird that people have this idea that all unions always look/work a certain way when they're so varied from field to field (never mind country to country).

Off the top of my head, you could very easily have a union that says "These are the specific job requirements and expectations for this job. Here are the tiers of skill in this job type. Here are the floors for compensation at each tier. Here are the guaranteed rights and working conditions that the owners must maintain (PTO, Health coverage, overtime, etc). Any grievances will first go through mediation with a Union Rep/Lawyer available." and call it a day. That covers about 90% of what most pro-union supporters actually want to happen.
I was living in HK for 30 years. What I want to say is that we all need to prepare for a new form of propaganda, which is partially based on partial fact but with twisted explanation. They are getting more logical, therefore more persuasive to middle-classes. If we do not have freedom or human rights in our minds, it will be very hard to deny those propaganda.
> Sometimes making art has boring parts, too.

Right but productivity hacks culture is not usually talking about this specific type of work.
It was purchased by Take-Two so the developers are probably only treated as badly as normal game devs now.

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/161355...
Can definitely just pick it up and go, no need for a joystick. Just slap some boosters together and have fun blowing stuff up.
How to Take Notes on Everything
Right, because they both posted detailed run-downs of their moderating activities against state actors on the same day.

Edit for clarity: Twitter tipping off Facebook in and of itself isn't evidence of a coordinated response, but both parties posting detailed rundowns of their responses against the same actor on the same day is more likely to suggest a coordinated effort.

One particularly good reason to publicize acting against state-sponsored agents is if you're trying to build goodwill among the targets of said state effort, which conspicuously are the people of Hong Kong and which, more inconspicuously, are probably people within certain demographics and locales in the United States and Europe.

Edit 2: wordsalad
It's a nice idea, but I think it's wrong.

The nice part is that Fluorine and Iodine are in the same column of the periodic table, so they are somewhat similar.

The problems is that between Fluorine and Iodine there is Chlorine and Bromine. Let's ignore Bromine for simplicity.

The recommended intake of Fluorine and Iodine is approximately .001 or .002 g/day, and the recommended intake of Chlorine is 1 or 2 g/day. (With a lot of simplifications. For a serious number ask your medical doctor.)

So the intake of Chlorine is almost 1000 bigger than the intake of Fluorine and Iodine. So my guess is that the problem in whatever part of the body that need to recognizes Iodine is that there is too much Chlorine. Also Chlorine is more similar to Iodine.
This article is a reminder that many luxury goods don't have enough intrinsic value to account for their price. In those cases, marketing needs to actually add value to a product, not just inform people of the intrinsic value of a product. This practice is used in almost all end-consumer products on the market.

Seeing an Apple ad of a shiny image of a new iPhone imprints that image into the customers mind, even after they purchase and use the product. Their perceived value of their iPhone one year after purchase is greater than if they have not seen any advertisements, because they keep associating the product in their hands with the very high quality image on TV.

This is what's happening here with Mast Brothers chocolate. The high price itself can increase perceived value ("If it's expensive, then it must make me happy!"), appeal to values held by the consumer ("I support small businesses so I value the purchase more!"), and the packaging or storefront proximity ("Imagine how much value the product is since the packaging is such high quality, or the presentation on the shelf is high quality").
None of these have anything to do with the edible substance they're buying (the "end product").

In fact, I would argue that the end product matters the least for this particular product. Beyond some point, the quality of product does not affect its intrinsic value. Mast Brothers is beyond that point. The marketer therefore must use the above methods to further increase perceived value.

If you are a business owner yourself, you can choose to increase perceived value of your product in ethical or unethical ways. Some customers will detect unethical practices, some won't notice (such as people who don't read this article), and some won't care.
I also bundled in "sick" with "personal" and "vacation" because I've seen US companies do away with all of the distinctions and just say "here's 20 days a year, do what you want with them. You'll get more next year."
It also suggests that ugly theories are more likely to be overlooked. Since the profession selects for people who gravitate to a certain type of theory (what they call beautiful), there might be ugly-but-true theories waiting to be discovered.
If you actively use w3m/lynx. It's actually surprising to me how many websites can still be visited by non-js enabled browser. But I guess I have my bar way too low as I expected pretty much every website that I visit behave like an npm blackhole.
Case law is on the side of corporations having no generalized duty to maximize profit on a day-to-day basis, for what it's worth. Corporations can exist for any number of reasons and the fiduciary duty is much more limited than people generally expect.

My wife wrote a law journal article on this but it isn't digitized unfortunately.
Same here, on Safari 11.1.2
In-Memory Processing on DRAM
> acting in some Chinese films is about as irrelevant as you could get

He has current and future income from, as well as assets in, China. That's all jeapordised by deviating from the pro-Xi line. His views are fundamentally conflicted.
That’s the kind of short sighted thinking that’s going to kill most of us. I say most, because, while I expect humanity will adapt, civilization as we know it may not.
Google login services are down for some users
Like a fairy tale:" Once upon a time..."
> but dressing it up as “lots of ordinary folks agree with them” is pretty disingenuous

I wouldn't say it's disingenuous... given that there's nothing legally preventing mainland-Chinese from choosing to live in HK, and then being quoted as people who want "their" city back.

Odd to think, but HK is now experiencing a real Red Scare, the likes of which the US only ever imagined in the depths of paranoid delusion. There are real (CCP) Communists, living amongst the HK citizenry, nudging HK's democracy (such as it is) toward their agenda by appearing to stand for "public sentiment"!
I've sunk a ton of hours in the original Kerbal Space Program, its pre-launch state is one of my favourite games ever.

The only thing there that excites me here is interstellar travel. I'm worried about this being a soul-less cashing in, with a "less, but pretty" situation - much like every versions of the Sims.
Maybe it’s the conspiracy theorist in me, but I see the exact opposite: there are a lot of people who believe that “coordinated, inauthentic behavior” on social media platforms allowed Trump to win the 2016 election, and that a crackdown on anything perceived to be “coordinated and inauthentic” will prevent him from doing so again in 2020. To me, this just feels like a cynically convenient excuse to get ready to remove content arbitrarily in advance of next year’s election cycle.
I wonder if this will give another push for "work anywhere" (eg: IT) firms to open an office in Ireland?
A ‘near constant’ lightning show lit up central Maryland on Sunday night
Then you get news sources that maximize their bias as a competitive differentiation.
This is how we got MSNBC and fox news etc.
I think the issue is that the zero-cost abstraction terminology is used in two ways often. First, to mean a feature you can use and costs nothing because the compiler will change it into a more common form for you (such as functional programming approaches where it will take multiple filters and map passes and turn it into a single loop), and second, to mean that features added that do add overhead, only do so when you use them (as in, there's no runtime to manage M:N threading unless you include a crate that does so, because developers not using that feature shouldn't have to pay for it).

I think the terminology here is looser than it should be, and these are not really the same thing, even though I've seen zero-cost abstractions used to describe them both. It causes confusion sometimes, as I believe it is doing here.
It is something I have considered. The Fantasy console I'm making is currently uses an 8-bit AVR instruction set, but I have wondered about making the same virtual hardware interface accessible from WASM.
Europe is closer to Moscow than ever in history, since Russia breaks in pieces that want more democracy.

All of them have a pretty harsh stand against Russia.

Crimea ( Ukraine) almost made Russia's entire naval fleet useless.

Russia is still getting punished for it economically and Putin has never seen these low approval rates. There are also a lot of protests there.

China thinks they can possess the world, but they are even having severe problems in their own country. We just need to wait, China's plan was smart, but they forgot the will for freedom in every execution/plan they had and are doomed to fail. Sooner or later.

Depends on how you look at things :)
overlooks the value of const qualification for the caller - if the argument is marked as const, the caller might reasonably assume the data won’t be changed.