skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This represents the absolute worst kind of science journalism, completely devoid of context and domain knowledge. Virtually every definitive statement in here is wrong. Their explanation of spiking alone is a complete disaster.

Out of all the modalities, vision is easily the one we know the most about. And we do so at a fairly deep level. The discussed work seems fine but it's not the groundbreaking insight it's made out to be. Great PR work from the involved scientists (or their enterprising university marketing department).
I just tap the 'h' with my index finger and the 'u' with my middle finger. To me, this is not really a reach, I just kind of slap it then observe how cljs figwheel updates my browser :)
I would assume the same applies to the right to remain silent.
so the flying spaghetti monster?
Downvote all you want but this is not good. Mozilla is not above the law. A government has sovreign (!!) rights which lets me spy on their users if they so choose.

You can disagree with it. You can refuse to do business in that country. But to actively work in hostility ti a foreign government is criminal.

I am surprised there are no US laws that would adversley affect Mozilla.

Your views and opinions,however well intended ,they do not supersede a government's legitimate right to govern its citizens.

The only exceptions are human rights violations or crimes against humanity. TLS intetception hardly counts as such. If it does,please prosecute US corporations that intercept TLS before you meddle with a foreign country's practices.

I think people forget that the internet does not supersede geographic boundaries and legitimate (as in accepted as such by other nations) governments.
Could you not generate any random private certificate and force your users to install it?
Already done! AOS was written in 2002, well before Android, and included a multithreaded ZUI by default (along with FAST native module compilation and dynamic linking).

Shame google didn't use it instead of Android, they had to invent Go to get back some of the AOS advantages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebottle_OS
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/...
I'm unsure if the name is a serious liability or merely tolerable.
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This goes well with yesterday's Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20737023
The most curious responses on Twitter to the article were those that went something like, "You have to read this article about Joe Rogan. Proves it."

This article seems to have been embraced by both pro- and con- Roganites alike.
The amount of successful systems based on it is a valid criterion.
Why did they have ties to Epstein?

If they never severed those connections even after all the information about him surfaced and even up to the point of his death, should they not be called out for it?

Marvin Minsky was literally called out by one of the victims as someone partaking in pederasty with Epstein's sex trafficking victims.

Is Epstein someone YOU would want to associate with, and if so, why?
> Apple gets credit for being aligned with users and developers?

Yeah I can see where this wasn't very well put into words. I meant Safari core browser development is financed via Apple sales, as opposed to FF being in the position where Mozilla wouldn't want to bite the hands that feed them. Though Apple is also taking Google money for listing them as default search provider on Safari and has ambitions to push their service business.
You said, with zero evidence to back it up. Unsubstantiated anti-Musk astroturfing is really tired and boring
> I am wondering if having allowed emergency wide-spectrum antibiotics freely for such cases would help?

The problem is you also need emergency physicians available equally freely and ubiquitously to identify the need. Unnecessary use of powerful, broad spectrum antibiotics has significant potential adverse personal and public health consequences, and the general public is not qualified to appropriately assess need for use.
Interesting history in your [1]:

The thinking at the time was that disk drives would become obsolete, and would be replaced entirely with some form of solid state memory.

What were they smoking? Bubble Memory?
> It's the fact that slices can be dynamically scheduled across all four slices which makes it "not bulldozer" in my mind, and I don't think the presence of a mode that does statically partition superslices should make it "like bulldozer", even if that is the most common mode. It's just an optimisation.

Well, its certainly a Bulldozer-like mode of operation :-)

Power9 is obviously a very different chip than Bulldozer. So I guess it all comes down to opinion, whether or not the chip is similar enough to warrant a comparison.
Google pays Apple $12 billion a year to be the default search in Safari unfortunately, so Apple are making a lot of money from keeping Google happy.
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> That combination of results, Williamson and the other researchers wrote, suggested many students from mainland China were using significant chunks of pre-memorized shell text.

Well, that's one heck of a way to game an AI!

It reminds me of the confucian exam system [0] where you had to just straight up memorize a huge book of Master Kong's scripts and hope the person that re-copied your work did so too.

> ... they found that the machine boosted students from China by an average of 1.3 points on the grading scale and under-scored African Americans by .81 points.

Note that this is on a 0-5 point scale. So that says that the mean for the Chinese students was ~26% higher than the human grade and for African American students it was ~16.2% lower. The Chinese students could be considered (very roughly) to be boosted from a C- to an A+, and the African American Students from an A+ to a B-, for comparison.

What a mess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination#Details_o...
> The Nvidia drivers are getting there, but they're nowhere close to Windows...have to restart to use a dual monitor setup

I have a desktop with a discrete Nvidia card, and on Linux I'm easily able to turn on my second monitor after the system is already booted and have it be recognized. I'm super curious to hear what issues you ran into with this sort of thing, because it all works without hassle for me.
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"Appropriately warns people" is nearly impossible and shouldn't be brushed away as a non issue.
Are Apple and Microsoft taking any actions?

I remember being disappointed in both Apple and Microsoft when it came to some fraudulent certificates from China [0]. IIRC the situation was worse for Iphone users who have no way of manually revoking CAs on their phones/tablets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Internet_Network_Informa...
I have befriended and helped (provided housing and other support) convicted felons who have done their time. Where do you draw the line?

Edit: I agree with those who have replied, and appreciate that my question was answered with genuine effort.
These should be available in Hot Topic soon.
I don't think my browser should meddle in my relationship with the state.

Neither do I, but in practice the browsers already do meddle in your relationship with the state: they decided to include that certificate in the first place!
I have strong doubts about your claims of innovation in the military and academia.

Edit, vs Industry.
Checking this app out I was immediately frustrated. Just switching between the tabs of a pot always takes like 500ms.
The FAB immediately glitches because it's not sticking to the bottom of the screen immediately.

Also, clicking on the same tab again also causes annoying friction.
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Mozilla is not bound by Kazakhstan's sovereignty. It does not have to answer to anyone's laws but the laws of the state it is incorporated in.
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If we truly care about nature then Brazil should be made one of the most politically and economically stable countries in the world by the powers of the world.

If that seems like too much effort to give up our own resources to protect the environment then leading world powers should re-evaluate whether its in humanities best interest to have few stable places of living that don't come at the cost of the environment to deal with poverty and suffering.

If you or your country is not stable, the last thing you will be concerned about is the environmental impact on the world.
Ryan Marsh @ryan_marsh · Jul 19

Prediction: Linux kernel will be replaced in the Data Center, but its replacement will be developed by the cloud providers. Eventually they’ll need something custom fit to running isolated Node, JVM, and other runtimes as efficiently as possible for Serverless

https://twitter.com/ryan_marsh/status/1152236961660362753
Kazakhstan's government is free to exercise their sovereignty and ban people from downloading Firefox there, if they want. Sovereignty does not entail being able to force foreign software developers to help you be totalitarian.
Recent related discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20660689

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20721789
We were inspired by Slack, it is somewhat negative as well. Also something that is associated with startups.
Pale Moon is my go-to browser because it keeps the old Firefox interface. It has problems with some websites, but I dislike the chromification of the web interface more than I care about having to run another browser for certain things.
It’s on a native American reservation. Has there ever been a time in the history of North Dakota that the state has held any sort of priority for its natives? Even without the oil industry being involved?

The state of North Dakota has direct financial incentive from the oil industry. The profit margin is great enough that they can afford to lose millions of gallons of oil over a few year period and still have resources to cover it all up.

I don’t foresee the state changing its priorities anytime soon. I believe fixing this will take federal oversight or intervention of some kind.

Edit: This particular spill was not on a reservation, but the article talks to people on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation who have been affected by spills on many occasions. Many of my sentiments remain.
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Brave, guys. Switch to Brave. Brave is everything.
In communication, it is better to default to being straightforward. Irony relies on some amount of shared understanding, but you are trying to communicate with strangers.
Maybe it's the relatively low number of comments? (22 as of this post)
Epstein sitting in the backseats of his conferences with a minor in each arm should cause raise eyebrows with every halfway decent human being. Some explanations are necessary now, even if the explanation is that they desperately needed the money.

Until then I will feel free to assume that involved scientific celebrities like Minsky padded Epsteins shoulders for his great taste in teenage women, or even took advantage of this other interest.
Apple has: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-internet-surve...

I can't find any indication Microsoft has yet.
Cool! My first negative post. Maybe more context is valuable.

We know HKers are getting more and more tracking from the mainland government and are switching to applications not typically used for communication and organization. https://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-youth-using-tinder...

We also know that Apple has accommodated Chinese government requests to increase their ability to monitor communications: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/21/apple-bends-to-chinese-gov...

And as one of the most valuable companies in the world that ships software, it is surprising to see regressions in their software.

The article said that right now legitimate applications on the App Store could contain jailbreak code.

Of course these things are entirely possible to be unrelated, which is why I mentioned the tongue in cheek “tinfoil hat”.

The timeliness of the response from Apple in patching this reintroduced vulnerability should be swift. If so, I’m happy to step away from this position entirely.
And what if the bad ideas suddenly aren't judged by you and "most people"?

Of course, challenge the terrible ideas. But challenge them in public, don't hush them in secret. If you can't win in front of a crowd, you've already lost.

Here's a little thought experiment for you. My great-grandparents were killed by communism. I think liberal economic policies lead towards communism, even though universal healthcare could save lives. According to you, if you and your invisible cohort don't like that idea, you should just shut me up, instead of debating me on the pros and cons.

You're in a bubble, where you're simply right, and obviously any sane person would agree with you.
That's not how it works. We can look at the same facts and derive different, valid, and sane positions.
The thread I see is companies with wild cultures dominating the early years of games development. Nolan, for instance, once went on the record describing one of his employees as 'stacked'. By the time the 90s rolled around, there's a glut of advertising that targets nearly exclusively young men, using sex to sell games (often when the themes are totally unrelated.) There are countless reference pieces for this, even Nintendo who today has a family friendly vibe put out a gameboy ad that featured a bound woman in lingerie.

In the 90s, we saw an explosion of gaming, mostly picked up by young men. It became perceived as a boy's hobby, something girls didn't/shouldn't want to do. Jump ahead 10 years and games are taking off professionally. We've segmented our markets into 'core' and 'casual' gamers, and we're starting to see esports become a thing. Demographically, the professional gamers are still overwhelmingly men.

Around this time, marketing became more broad and moved away from 'sex sells' and more towards 'good games sell'. Ubisoft attempts to inspire change by sponsoring the 'Frag Dolls', a cyberathlete team of women. Sure, there's still plenty of sex splashing across ads in the industry, but many of the big players are trying to reach a wider audience.

Jump ahead to today and you'll see women on Twitch participating in basically every game out there. From Starcraft to Rainbow Six, Planet Coaster to Stellaris. The competitive scene is starting to see women rise in the ranks, with top8 positions on stages like EVO and IEM.

When I look at art, I look at who made it and who it is for. What stories and backgrounds led to the construction of the piece. What informed it's creation.

Look at "This War of Mine" or "Papers Please" or "VA-11 HALL-A" or "Dream Daddy" or "Life is Strange". For games like that to be made, you need creators who come from different backgrounds. My belief is that we're only recently starting to see works like this emerge because many of the people who made them may have felt like outsiders a decade or two ago, and are only now starting to be welcomed in.
Well then, how is materialism falsifiable? If it isn't, how is it a scientific hypothesis?
Good points but it's not true that Epstein didn't have women involved. His #2 was Ghislaine Maxwell, she recruited girls and participated in the abuse. He also had Heidi Klum, Naomi Campbell, Barbra Walters and numerous other high profile women in his orbit, on his planes and at his houses.
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Does anybody know why the story is dropping down so quickly on HN? It's currently 194 points & posted 57 minutes ago, one of the most viral on the front page by far, yet it's gone from #1 to #22 in around 30 minutes.

Edit: Down to #23 since I wrote the comment. It's gotten 200 votes in an hour, should be at least top 5. The #1 and #2 posts have only gotten 49 and 23 votes respectively in the past hour.

Edit 2: Now it's up to #21 & 209 points...

Edit 3: Down to #24 & 228 points...

Edit 4: Up to #20 & 239 points...

Edit 5: Up to #14 & 278 points...

Edit 6: Dropped way down to #40 with 312 points, only 2 hours old...
Is slack negative? Generally a system with some amount of slack is resilient and responsive. (counterexample: a computer running at 100% cpu has no slack and consequently feels sluggish to use.) An organisation could reasonably aspire to have more internal responsiveness and relaxedness about communication.

What do your users aspire to?

Not burnout.
DAP is already improving the debugging experience in other editors. Check out DAP-mode for Emacs

https://github.com/emacs-lsp/dap-mode
> Binary protocols ARE easier than JSON. I'm counting everything involved in handling JSON, and you may not be; Lexing, parsing, and so on. Those things simply don't exist in binary. they add weight to code that simply doesn't need to be there if you're using a binary protocol.

You're describing easier for a computer, which isn't really relevant. For a developer, parsing JSON is clearly easier than parsing a binary format. For effectively every major language nowadays, it's a single function call, and you're done, it's hard to beat that.

In practice, sending & parsing JSON instead of a binary format is not going to make your debugging experience here any _noticeably_ slower (if you have a DAP case where it does, I'd love to see it) and it is going to make development quicker & easier, and make the traffic inflight easier to debug too.

It's a tradeoff of course, but for most cases it's worthwhile.
Firefox lacks the credibility to sell (charge for) privacy products or services when they at the same time make money off aggregated browser analytics.

That would be no better than that AdBlock company whose income comes from advertisers. It's that Mozilla can't do it right, but rather than they wouldn't be on my list of top 5 privacy service vendors to check out.
In total, how many people have been on his show and what are the stats? Do you happen to have that data?
This sentence: "Binary protocols ARE easier than JSON."

Does not mean anything.

Who defines the "difficulty" of a protocol based on serialization?!

What is that even supposed to mean?

The protocol can be hard to understand, it can make unreasonable demands of users, it can have a ton of bloat or complex backwards compatibility rules.

But the serialization method literally orthogonal to complexity of the protocol itself

Implementing a protobuf serializer or implementing a JSON serializer would be completely 100% outside of the scope of a protocol that uses either.

Doubly so when you're talking about JSON, which has serializers just about everywhere, so you can't even say "oh well the protocol is easy to understand but the serialization method is hard to implement".

If anything using a custom binary serialization implementation would be the worst of both worlds, now consumers have to implement custom serialization AND you have to solve all the issues other solutions did like endianness, backwards compatibility... not having gaping security vulnerabilities...

This is like saying a protocol is "difficult" because you used it over HTTP so now somehow it inherited the entire complexity of HTTP.

Their protocol's complexity isn't defined by it's serialization any more than it is by the transport they're using.

I won't even bother replying to the rest of that, just very vague handwavy rhetoric that's not saying anything much.
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That's right, except that 'api' is probably a resource also. Your app provides a root resource with a __getitem__ method. Pyramid tries `context = root['api']`, then `context = context['cars']`, then `context = context['ford']`, and so on, until it uses up all the path segments or a __getitem__ raises KeyError. Then it looks up the view for the final context and calls it if all the conditions are met for the view configuration.

That's traversal in a nutshell. Resources can be database objects or any object with a __getitem__ method. Everything about traversal is customizable, but it's rare to need much customization.

Also, if your resources have __parent__ and __name__ attributes, you can ask Pyramid to generate the URL of any resource and view using `request.resource_url(resource, view_name)`, which is really handy for ensuring URLs don't break.
Might not be required, but vendors in the U. S. still ask for a signature. Hell, the local pet supply store asks for a signature when I use Apple Pay on my watch. Kinnndda missing the point of NFC there.
Does indie game development have an ageism problem?
Cancer research organizations are now the focus of Chinese hacking groups
Uhm... Since when is it bad for an entity in one country to stop working in another country because of ethical worries? Mozilla's ethics do not approve of how a given CA entity uses their power and so they are saying they will not trust their certificates. I certainly applaud them for that.
I know you like to play up the privacy angle in your marketing… that wouldn't work on me. I mostly work on public/FOSS stuff, about the only really private data on my PC is my access credentials. I don't want them stolen, but someone targeting me with a low-level exploit for them is a ridiculous moonshot scenario, they're a million times more likely to leak from the actual service itself.

> local machine which sits idle overnight

um, I thought we're talking about workstations here. I power mine off when unused.

> use of Linux etc. is just being done to avoid Microsoft licensing fees, not because of security or owner control concerns

This is based on two rather odd assumptions:

- Microsoft as the default: No, I grew up with Unix, Unix is my default choice just because I know it and I'm used to it;

- owner control on all levels being equally important: meh, there's a lot more that you'd want to tweak in the kernel and up the stack. I wouldn't know what to change in firmware. I have changed many little things in the FreeBSD kernel (and contributed them). The only thing I ever changed in the UEFI firmware on my ARM box is some ACPI tables to fix compatibility.

> That's the price of making them blob-free and still retaining high performance

That sounds vague ;)

Also, what's "high performance" about the board anyway? PCIe Gen 4? On a typical developer workstation that's kind of a waste, Gen 3 is plenty.
I think the article hits the nail on the head. The problem with climate change and the threat to humankind is not about technology, nor politics.

It's about values. It's about consciousness. It's about understanding that we humans are still a part of nature, not apart from nature.
Maybe pseudo-monopoly was the wrong term… I'm basically saying that if a company has enough market or lobbying power, it can distort the market by blocking entrants who might make better/cheaper products or services. For example, ISPs lobbying to ban municipal competitors.
What's your point? Mozilla and Google here are preventing the government bogus CA from being used to bypass encryption. You can talk to whoever you want, and in full safety (as opposed to doing so while being spied by a tyrannical government like Kazakhstan).
I have a food processor that won't run unless fully assembled and locked. Is that anti consumer?

My coffee grinder won't turn on without the lid locked in place. Is that anti consumer?
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