skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing the way the Pakistani minister of science was tweeting about this, then the negative comments like the one in this very thread by an account created 6 minutes ago, I can't help but assume that the enemies of India must represent the majority of the negative sentiment about this attempt.

ISRO should be very proud of their accomplishments. The people saying that India should worry about their starving population first and foremost don't understand that:

a.) populations feed themselves, there is no government on Earth that has ever successfully fed its population

b.) ISRO has been able to recover a large part of its costs by launching foreign payloads

c.) ISRO provides non-bureaucratic pencil pushing jobs for Indians, in particular the sorts of jobs for some of the brightest Indians who would otherwise be very likely to leave the country for better prospects

d.) We all benefit from the sort of science being done here, today
Other than having “Google” on my resume there is nothing special or applicable outside of Google. Most tools are internal, isolated and the choices are restrictive. Management is shitty - micro-management is in full bloom, display lack of management knowledge, skills and there’s plenty of abuse of power. They don’t show their appreciation to what we do. All developers are very competitive. My entire time of over a year in 2 different teams is spent in isolation and self learning without much help or directions. I’m currently actively interviewing outside.
Risky line printer music on a vintage IBM mainframe
I don’t use a password manager myself… However, of all the ones I’ve looked at, Valt (Valt.io) seems the most interesting/unique...
I disagree. The point is to help you prioritize based on the threat model and mitigating controls in place.

If you have 20 medium vulns you need to know which one has higher complexity to exploit,remote exploitation,authentication required,etc...

Ideally a vuln management program will add other in house metrics based on the asset,data and security controls and threat exposure.

You have limited resources that can be allocated to testing patches,coordinating deployment,eploying them and making sure there are no adverse side effects and if there are to work with the product vendor or implement controls.

CVSS is extremely valuable but more so for proioritizing than for reporting.

Executive reports should beuch simpler and usually contain other details such as patch turn around time,exceptions and trends.

For the example you mentioned,yes, a false sense of security is worse than no security. You also take into account things like just "telnet,but telnet isn't always used for management or confidential access"(e.g.:lots if meter readers and BAC type devices have read only telnet) vs "self signed cert for a service that probably handles sensitive data which is why it supports encryption to begin with"
My digital camera does one thing very well, but cameras are becoming extinct. My old iPod did one thing well and it's gathering dust in a drawer, next to my old cell phone. The argument for single-purpose vs multi-purpose devices is not as simple as the article wants to believe.
It also gives them none of their sovereignty a national army does.

In fact it lets 27 others co-decide on their economy, social policy, foreign policy, and so on, with some top dogs like Germany getting undue influence, the very top dogs individual countries fought hard to push back in two worlds wars...
This is the biggest I issue I have with how the story has been reported.

The real story is that we have been burning the rain forests for so long that the ability for the forests to remove carbon has been dramatically depleted. We have been burning the forests for decades and now we are using them up.
The GDPR doesn’t care where the personal data is stored, I thought. It makes no distinction as far as I can tell between data stored on a web server and data stored on a device. You seem to be making a distinction. Is there a source you could reference?
The social network / ostracism obligation aspects of this are fascinating and personal for me.

Within the last couple of years I became aware of an extended family member who was intermittently violently abusing his wife. This is someone I see at most once a year, usually at funerals.

I spent a lot of time thinking about what I would do if I found myself in a social situation with this person. The best I could come up with was personal ostracism.

I decided that I would not call him out, due to fear of unintended consequences, but that I would treat him as a pariah. At a recent family reunion, I was set to avoid him, but all of a sudden he was next to me, asking after me, and jutting out his hand for a shake. I reflexively shook his hand (I fucking hated myself at that moment), but managed to turn away and put my back to him as he was talking.

I feel like I eventually held up to my principles, but was a disgusted by how the people around me just ignored the elephant in the room. And yet ... difficult situation to be in. I mean this as a bystander, not someone with something to gain from associating with him.

EDIT> The time of "open secrets" needs to be over. I dislike gag orders and secret settlements because they deprive the public of crucial information. How many people are victimized by someone who is anecdotally known to be dangerous, but still socially tolerated? Epstein was radioactive since 2008-2011, and we should be very critical of anyone who treated him normally after that period.

EDIT2> My family member had already been reported to the police and his wife went back to him. So, he's on record as being an abuser. I am not covering for him in that sense.
> The drop off comes very quickly!

Yep, power laws at work. Look at Twitch viewer numbers for another real time example. The distribution is always concentrated at the top, followed by a long tail. Also the case with the best selling apps, books, movies, etc.
I had a similar experience, but without the Windows element.

I paid for Wunderlist, but dropped it because it evolved into something more convoluted than I wanted. I went back to the stock iOS apps.

I didn't even know what Microsoft ate Wunderlist. I guess that's why I got an e-mail about Wunderlist out of the blue after I hadn't used it in what seemed like years.
He needs to release these agreements or take legal action based on the agreements if they have been broken.

I'm pointing out that the DRM chain is built on a very large set of very detailed promises between the parties involved. The existing promises are for the most part public and can be read by anyone. I'm not aware of ANY language requiring ANY type of meaningful pro-consumer behavior. The promises are all about SECURING content and control by content PRODUCERS.
For what it's worth I don't have strong feelings on all this. I'm just describing what folks say about environmentalism when it's safe to be frank.
You might enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0Aan4myoE
There’s more than one model for UBI. I’m hoping for automation and UBI payouts to increase hand-in-hand: ultimately I’m expecting automation to make all human labour[1] uneconomical, and if that happens UBI will need to be enough to live on — but starting UBI at such a high level might prevent the economic development that is necessary to reach that level of automation.

[1] with the sole exception of “celebrity”, a role that can’t scale
Why would you back up the server?

Because the rule number one of the programmers club, is backup everything, everywhere, all the time, if you don't remember do it again, and if you're sure you have enough backups do it again anyway. I even do backup of my backups everyday (in pendrives, in cds, in ancient scrolls, etc)
TL;DR: No. But there exist languages built on top of regular expressions (notably PCRE) that can. They can't validate themselves, though - turtles all the way down to Gödel.
I use 1pass like many here, but don't use the cloud service and am not happy doing so. My passwords are in a file which i share using a file share service, but i know it is all encrypted with my master password, which is my primary live off defense.

I would be interested in hearing how many passwords / accounts people have. I am well above 100, i think in the 200 range, so the idea that i could have different passwords, and remember them, is just silly. Password management has to happen, and the best way i can think is to store a majority in a very well encrypted file.

I do memorize a few key accounts.
Microsoft has a directly competing product, so I don't see why they would ever want to sell Wunderlust. They would essentially be creating their own competitor, in return for a fraction of the money they had paid to acquire Wunderlist earlier.
"can I stand outside the park and remote control it" - Yes, I believe that is what the article says.
I spent 9 years at Google, just left at the end of July.

The biggest thing I grew to appreciate was that for iterating large scale production systems, rollout plans are as important as anything else. A very large change may be cost or risk prohibitive to release at once, but with thought you can subdivide the release into easier to rollout and verify subcomponents, you can usually perform the same work as a series of lower risk well understood rollouts. That's critical enough where it's worth planning for this from the design phases: much as how you may write software differently to allow for good unit tests, you may want to develop systems differently to allow for good release strategies.

Google is a large company, and I think there are software engineers learning very different things from what I focused on. I worked on large scale machine learning in ads; someone working on chrome or Android likely learned very different things.
Companies focused on traditional aviation _could_ have jumped into the drone market, but somehow they haven't as much, so that it's now growing its own, specialized players, such as Kittyhawk, Skyward (which happens to be my employer) and many others.

By the way, "UAS" is an unnecessarily gendered, self-important term that often doesn't even cover the subject. "Drone" has none of these problems, and it's what people "get".
To me, all these problem and more seem to come straight out of our monetary and fiscal policies.

1. Fed pumping so much money drove up useless asset prices. Which means people are spending more and more of their income towards paying for expensive assets which are all owned by a fraction of the rich. This rent-seeking is drawing money away from small businesses and small scale production

2. Tax cut on the rich. Now that asset prices are beyond comprehension and people are spending so much money enriching the rich, the least we could've had was tax the rich and recycle into rural infrastructure projects. But no, we gave the rich a tax break, furthering the asset price rise. Even today,most people are just paying more and more towards rent.

The rich have completely bought this country.
I think there are a lot of knee-jerk answer because people see "XHTML" and "regex" in the same sentence and immediately think "not possible".

But the actual question is clearly not about matching start tags to end tags or building DOM or anything like that - which indeed would require a stack. The question is about recognizing start and end tags. You can do that perfectly fine with regular expressions - indeed many parsers uses regular expressions to tokenize the input before parsing.

Furthermore, the question specifically needs to recognize the difference between start-tags and self-closing tags. A differece which is not exposed by most XHTML parsers a far as I am aware
You're totally right that there's a massive environmental cost either way.

Digitally the price per song of is offset by the sheer number of albums you can have. I have 1,926 albums and I can overwrite them with new artists on the same storage and I can add 10x more to the same storage. Or I can reuse the storage for something else. This versatility is called "re-use" and it's a pillar of environmental sustainability.

If it wasn't a malleable plastic, and I've read of metals being used, then perhaps it would be different. But even then density and permanence and shipping still make it incredibly inefficient to distribute data in this fashion - an LP only holds about 200 - 300 megabytes of write-once data.
Want to see real anger, look into how many US food producers have gone halal/kosher over the years. Often the halal and non-halal versions come from exactly the same place. The same has happened with nut-free foods. The label only appears when selling to that particular market because they know that other customers will react badly.
The engineering culture among FAANG companies is pretty much the same because of the industry that they operating in and the location of the HQ. Expand that to military or automotive, aerospace, in non-US companies and you might start seeing different engineering cultures.
maybe it's just me but this article seems terribly written. the topic had so much potential...
Love Scott Manley's videos. Wonder how long 'till we get a re-enactment in KSP.
"The ancient university towns of Palo Alto and New Haven may lie in different countries."

This world is definitely possible, but I'd say as likely as one where the two Cambridges are part of the same union again.
Have you HEARD the pushback of the horseless carriage lately, at least specifically on HN? It's pretty immense. Also that argument is pretty bad. There is a huge utility in driving. I allow you to drive because I need to drive too.

I allow you to drone because I need to drone too (doesn't quite add up to the general population, no?)
> becoming too Aspergers

Why did you think it necessary to gauge GP's comment on a scale measuring how likely it could have come from someone with what is considered a mental disorder?

You could have easily omitted that phrase and the post would have conveyed the same meaning.

Here, you’ve either a) derided the non-malicious, involuntary behavior of a group of people, or b) tactlessly called out GP for being a member of this group. There’s nothing good that could have come from that. Please try to have more empathy in the future.
And that's the only reason that really matters.
On an Intel Celeron B820 @ 1.70Ghz laptop, it took more than 40 seconds to complete and consumed 1% of battery in the meantime. The "complex equations" you are doing will not work on low-horsepower devices like phones or low-to-medium level laptops.
There is still a sharp contrast with the alarmist headlines from a couple of weeks ago, or Macron ready to rupture diplomatic relations with Brazil over those fires. It is impossible these days to read a newspaper without a thick sentiment of skepticism.
Macron admitted in 2018 that the French would probably have voted to leave in a UK-style referendum.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/21/emmanuel-macro...
> entertaining offers for remote (Canada) work.

want to add an email or something to your HN profile :-)
>Complexity just isn't of value in software and I don't know if it is in music. One of my favourite pieces is Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, and that's extremely simple (ISTM. IANAMusician. YMMV. etc).

Which is neither here, nor there. Nobody said that music has to be complex to be good. But a good classical musician should be able to play the complex pieces too.

So, that's like saying every painting should be simple like Mondrian or Rothko or Lichtenstein. Well, we also have great masters who did much more complex, nuanced, and difficult to execute paintings...

Artist expressing themselves can do it with simple pieces like some of Bach's and tons of others, or with very difficult pieces, and a classical musician to have a career should be able to play a lot of that repertoire...

You don't get to be a concern pianist or violinist if you only play the simple pieces...
A Kid-Safe Search Engine
This. Just give me FLAC with vinyl artwork in PDF.

Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than CD - it's the equivalent of around 12 bit dithered PCM.
We see good examples of "the problem with StackOverflow" here.

The second highest-rated answer is "Evaluate it in a try..catch or whatever your language provides." and it's justified because "Surely the real question is 'how do I validate a regular expression'."

This is a fascinating computer science question and I'm pretty sure the questioner wasn't asking "how do I validate a regular expression" because he would have asked that.
Elon Musk wants a future in which we control computers with our minds
The food isn't truly free.
Sure. But I wouldn't say it's outside the realm of physics.
This looks so cool! The results are great.

The '@'-symbol derived Github logo and the paperclip pie are fantastic. This could easily be used to create high quality logos or t-shirt designs.

Kudos to the author(s).
During EE undergrad I learned about DSP, math and other theory involved in digital audio reproduction and it's clear to me that it's technically superior. There's some truly marvelous engineering behind digital audio. And the best part is that it enhances life: now playing an album isn't "a ritual", I can do it anytime without needing physical, wasteful storage for a degrading format.

I'm absolutely baffled how people (the same trendy hipsters who in my experience are disgusted by capitalism and luxury consumerism) shell out for vinyl when they'd be better off spending more money on something that's usually much more important and will make a significant, audible difference: nice speakers.
Airbnb for Music Studios
> It seems like the only solution will be for the FAA to flex it’s regulatory muscle on this, and become the sole authority on where you can fly a drone.

Or prohibit the FAA to make such many confusing rules, i.e. flex the regulatory muscle on what the FAA is allowed to do.
So cool! Congrats
CDs are a nearly-perfect format and it's sad to see them decline. Mainstream digital music stores don't even offer CD quality, and streaming services are antithetical to preservation and allow content to disappear overnight.
> A CD would be more practical

Actually most practical would be a streaming service where you can enjoy the entire work of art without interruptions.

Tongue in cheek so don't get riled up.
Does someone understand what's the strategy he's urging to develop?
I've read the article but it's still unclear to me.

The U.S. still has the edge in fundamental research, he said, but Chinese companies have easier access to the consumer market thanks to Beijing's national AI strategy, which promotes the spread of the technology.
I'm not really contradicting you here, but I'll point out how thoughts "rhyme".

That is, "They" and "Their" base instincts, ignorance, greed, and lies are also to blame when other belief systems are unpopular or misunderstood.

If the goal is to rile up believers, jeremiads tend to work well enough. But building a case to prosecute does not create repentance.
Okay... Now that's pretty spectacular.

The person has even written a ray tracer in excel!
It is unlikely the person you are responding to has such a model. https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...
This might provoke strong responses from hacker / programmer crowd, but...

Relatively speaking, building a small team of capable engineers is much easier than getting a business, especially in a competitive space like TODO lists, to 13+ million users (their numbers in 2015 at the time of Microsoft acquisition).
Well, the rules are simple:

Nothing besides talent should ensure you get better music schools, training opportunities, teachers, or more time to practice.
Post of the actual paper;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20908726

For those commenting that the discharge rate is too slow in the test, or the depth of discharge was fudged... the tests were run with a high discharge rate combined with 100% charge at storage.

> Figure 23 shows the projected fractional capacity of these NMC532/graphite cells as a function of time in years in a scenario where the cells are cycled once per day (100% DOD to 4.3 V) in a cycling event that takes 6 hours. It is also assumed that during the remaining time, cells are stored at full state of charge. It is clear from Figure 23 that these cells would provide an exceptionally long total driving range in an EV if the cells were maintained at an average tem- perature of 20°C. Even if the cells were continually at 40°C, 10 years of lifetime to 70% capacity and a total driven distance of 1,200,000 km is projected. It is worth noting that only 3650 cycles would be required for this total driven distance and 3700 cycles have been demonstrated in Figure 16.

> Most important to realize is that Figure 23 assumes 100% DOD cycling on every cycle and storage at full state of charge. If the reader reviews the literature data in Figures 1 and 2, the reader will realize that the lifetime will be much better in situations where the DOD is limited and in situations where cells are stored at lower states of charge. Admittedly, the projections in Figure 23 use the incredibly simple model described by equation 1. It is our opinion that more sophisticated models will lead to even longer lifetime projections.
that's a lot of ads!
I just thought about building something like this. Will give me some good input. Thank You!
What I remember, don't have the surface notebooks serious problems with both built quality and Linux power saving?

Personally, I've zoomed in on Thinkpads, old business models. They are sometimes a bit bulky, but rugged. They don't break and can be upgraded and repaired well. The old ones have really good keyboards which is important for me as a console user. And they have usually out-of-the box good driver support. And that's something I am expecting today. 20 Years ago, I tolerated a lot of driver problems, as I was a poor student and Linux driver support was often patchy. Today, I expect that it just works. And last, given Microsoft's history with Nokia, Maemo, and the N9, I would not expect any reliable Linux hardware support from Microsoft (Fool me twice, shame on me).
Least Privilege for AWS Lambda Security
Slatestarcodex did a well-sourced and highly entertaining job rebutting this goofy “the Dark Ages weren't” meme: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/15/were-there-dark-ages/

Also, life expectancy collapsed, Diocletian instituted what became near-universal serfdom, population density feel by a third (maybe nice if you were born afterwards, but can't have been super fun for the people watching their progeny diminish decade by decade), and the loss of learning inside the Empire was so complete that medieval Europeans called their standard text on astronomy the “Almagest”, its Arabic name, even though its author Ptolemy lived in the Roman Empire and presumably wrote in Greek; only Arabic translations survived. (Some other books only survived in Ireland, outside the former Empire.) The Romans were no scholars—think of the detestable Sulla or monstrous Marcellus—but what came after was far worse.

From the point of view of human rights, of economic prosperity, and of scholarship, the collapse of the Western Empire began a disaster that lasted nine centuries.
Union-Backed Ballot Proposal Takes Aim at Self-Service Grocery Store Checkouts
In other words, "if we build a state machine which is different from a regex, it will perform differently than a regex would." That's trivially true, but is it interesting beyond restating "there is no Silver Bullet"?
Really disheartened that it will hit during my lifetime. Had hoped to dodge it, really.

How do you, as an individual, prepare for this?
I'm also guessing a large population of drone owners first reaction to seeing someone else flying one was: They're going to lose that thing and it's going to junk up the forest.

After buying the done: Let's go fly this in the forest!