skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't called a retro museum for nothing!

(also, this is very symbolic. every former soviet union citizen knows that Lenin foresaw the advent of thinking machines, calling this as inevitable as an apple falling down from a tree - from Lenin Collected Works, letter to Julius Martov, 1903)
Well then I guess you would have to start your own business or live off the land. The government can't prevent you from doing either of those activities and you're on a site full of people who do these sorts of things, so it's not impossible, just really, really, hard.
If I were Tim Cook I'd be real worried about being shut out of my own supply chain right about now.

Didn't Apple start ramping up iPhone production in India recently? I agree that China is likely to retaliate but I imagine whatever decision making process there was for approving this HK app involved plenty of lawyers and analysis of potential fallout.
There is a big difference.

US is not gonna ban Google or Waze.

China might actually ban Apple tomorrow. There are no courts to appeal. There is no retort. Just the decision of one man.
Yes, we have proofs (which probably can be proven formally!) that there are things which cannot be proven. That is essentially the incompleteness theorem [0]

The smallest 'practical' example I know, is a finite state machine with a proof that we cannot proof (within a specific set of axioms) whether it will stop or not.[1]
It's not even very big: 1919 states.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16988612
What Saul Bellow Saw
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children."

https://stallman.org/archives/2006-mar-jun.html#05%20June%20...
But they may say something illegal, and there are enough people who want to make that impossible that they are willing to sacrifice their rights to ensure the laws on illegal information are enforced.

Some people are fundamentally willing to sacrifice rights they don't view as necessary for some temporary gain, and trying to oppose this in any more direct way can result in having one's own moral standing challenged.
That is untrue, and you're saying that in a thread with references refuting your claim.

Fuck your alternative facts.
Because the scale of the operation and public awareness have both increased after a president got elected on a platform of curbing immigration and increasing deportations. More and more people have become aware. It was bad when the Obama administration did it, and it is worse now.
Can you share the source for the 4.8M?
I guess we're talking past each other, but 9/11 is a singularly bad example. It was an attack, on the US soil, by a foreign force. It was the one thing that made Americans united against "the enemy", whether real or perceived, and of course it was co-opted by American politicians to fuel nationalism.

If some foreign terrorist blows up a building in Beijing, do you think China would want other nations to stop talking about it?
No one cares about a purist stance on creepiness. Being creepy is enough to justify removal from any social or professional situation. If you lack the social skills to avoid being perceived as creepy, that's a you problem. It doesn't really matter what your rationalization is. People aren't going to want you around.
They may be lower cost than the status quo, but $3199 to $3699 is out of my reach as a (non professional) hobbyist. I hope maybe one day though!

https://sites.google.com/view/roboicsbenchmarks/getting-star...

https://www.trossenrobotics.com/d-kitty.aspx

https://www.trossenrobotics.com/d-claw.aspx

Not quite in the realm like the $50 to $90 'Google Voice / Google Vision AI' kits

https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/
Or you can stop spreading the FUD and point people to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
To be specific, Riot Games sold the full 100% to Tencent. Tencent owns partial shares in a lot of companies; when it comes to Riot Games / League of Legends, that percentage is the full 100.
Morhaime stepped down as CEO last year, and his advisory role with the company ended back in April.
I Quit My Job to Pursue a Polymath MBA – Here's the Plan
> The questionable behavior in this case is getting a guy fired for selecting a politically-incorrect secret passphrase.

I think you're being disingenuous. The guy got fired for sexual harassment. The password merely tipped people off as to what was going on. Don't use a weasel word like "politically incorrect" to re-frame the discussion in a way that's both incorrect and more favorable to an emotional reaction in your favor.
Websites will a/b test different headlines to drive visitors to the articles and revise them during the course of the day to play off subsequent developments.

The reason they inject emotion into the headlines is because that's what people want.
"Just following orders (to "kidnap" and indefinitely contain people in prison camps)" is not a valid defense
>It's not a myth, it's the default state of humanoids to invent new tools all the time. What is the article suggesting, that we sit on our chair doing nothing?

Sometimes yes, why not? As a great mathematician said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone".

>Everything humans do is progress forward so that thinking doesnt even make sense.

Well, nuclear warheads, and bio-warfare are not "progress forward". Many things non-war related aren't either.

People should stop being naive and confuse mere technological innovation with societal advancement. Or to think that just because some technology is created and gets widespread it's necessarily more good than bad (nukes got widespread too).

Technological progress could be the very opposite of societal progress, even help bring a regression in certain aspects (e.g. make it easier for governments to be despotic, and eventually kill democracy).

That's not just something for luddites to say either - consider how people like Kurzweil, Hawking, or Musk warned about an "AI Singularity" that could enslave us all. Whether you consider that concern overblown, or not, in principle it shows that not all technological innovation is good.
Well glad they had the capacity to recover.

Even accounting for hindsight being 20/20...every customer gets their own VM is a rather ambitious approach to scaling.

Would love to know what made them shift to Azure. Especially while embracing linux at same time.
I was intrigued by your comment, so I went looking around:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_...

It looks like their debt is only 15% of their GDP? I've heard the China <> Debt thing before and I don't understand it. Could you explain what you mean?
Yes, that would make it easier. However, they still would have to be triggered by a cronjob or something like that.
Some people say growth can't happen forever, and all growth comes at environmental cost, but that simply isn't true. I can create digital goods and services which people buy, and this increases GDP, and it doesn't hurt the environment and is indeed economic growth in the realest sense. I can even give massages all day, and this also doesn't destroy the environment.
yeah worked with a win3.1 box for a long time that was never shutdown on purpose (on a ups and we had back up generators). we ran midi tests of our hw with it. it was shutdown permanently in some time in 2010.
Europe’s top court sets new line on policing illegal speech online
From their about page
"Vox explains the news."

So they tell you how you are supposed to think.
Smells like propaganda to me.
Precision Agriculture[1] is the term for anyone looking to learn more. Even small farms now track all inputs/outputs on every acre they farm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_agriculture
I've been struggling with this, too. I was particularly frustrated by it last night and knew I needed to change the hamburger menu but hadn't really decided how so I put a grey placeholder button that said "START" a la Windows 95. Super ugly so I wouldn't forget to fix it. Except I totally forgot to fix it and pushed it to production. First comment I got this morning was how great it was.

I'm hoping I can find a better solution because I really hate it but at least it's "obvious" now.
Polled "congress approval" has no applicability, since we have direct popular election of both senators and House representatives (and, here, of state senators and representatives in Florida). The Constitution includes no direct provisions allowing disapproving citizens in California to disempower representatives in Maine (or, presumably, though I've never read the Florida Constitution, of residents of Tallahassee to disempower representatives of Miami).
Yep, you need both the input and hash to be strong.

A weak hash reveals information about its input, narrowing the search space. In the example case of md5 or rot13, you can use this to compute collisions for a given hash.

Also, a hash that is lightning-quick to compute is faster to brute force. That's why bcrypt has a tunable "cost" factor - to make the hashing take longer and make guessing the password slower.
RMS is too black and white. It was probably a good thing to get the project started but I believe that it's counter-productive now. It's a bit like some people are good founders, but then you need a proper CEO to run the company. Having the project switch leader might actually be a good thing for the GNU project.

But like you said, we'll see where it goes, it might not be all bad.
I've used it on servers, its handy but the install process is pretty weak compared to some other OSes. A lot of the drivers were pretty behind so custom builds had to be made.

Nix on Ubuntu was pretty useful, I tried Nix on FreeBSD but was disappointed.
That the protesters are engaging in violence is an established fact.
Do you think they will give you some money back? Do you think the token sale or SAFT are going to materialize into anything at all on the exchanges? In your opinion, are the SAFT deals just locked away forever with the invested funds slowly bleeding out?
I've applied this to hiring as an interviewee.

Some places I've interviewed at ... would not have worked out. Sometimes you are happy for a "no".
Look at the github repository.

He's practically turned the hash code calculations inside out to do memoization, and one of the things he's doing is precalculating the hashes and merging them.

He's making the observation that ((n * 31 + x) * 31 + y) * 31 + z = 31^3 * n + 31^2 * x + 31 * y + z

His code calculates (31^3 * n) + (31^2 * x + 31 * y + z ), memoizing the first and second terms and combining them for each pairing of n, x, y, and z.

That's algebra, and of course it holds for all real numbers... if you have infinite precision arithmetic. We do not. We have 32 bit integers, and overflow behaves oddly in some cases. My question is does the overflow behave uniformly for all combinations of those two terms. I thought the answer was 'no', so I'm wondering if he's missing some matches.
Maybe the Taiwan team can throw the match by rushing worker units at the Chinese team's tank units
They look at full email bodies. For many years, they treated email older than 180 days as "Abandonded". They could collect and read these full emails (not just metadata) because they weren't private data but "abandoned". Every sends emails and they stay in their Sent Items for 180+ days, so that means every email everyone sent.

This was true for many years, until recently that was disallowed.

There are a ton of exceptions where they can see your full data. They just use an exception, like the abandonded email exception.
while we're at it - might as well boycott apple, google, microsoft, any ISP, any car manufacturer, any food establishment that might serve food to a ICE employee, I bet an ICE employee has bought something on Amazon so add it to the list. Im willing to bet an ICE employee has visited a doctor lets boycott them - also probably used a condom - banish those - one probably has had an abortion - NO MORE
Thanks for explaining why corporate responsibility and the notion of voting with your wallet in capitalism are bullshit.

Corporations care about being consistent with the status quo. Nothing more, nothing less. Now get these PR clowns out of my pride marches.
all of these are up to the list. various policies

spam: some run filters on the list, some let it through

banning: some lists are moderated where posts go through moderators, some are not, ban tendency is up to the list administrator

archives: some listserve software has built in archives, other people run add-on web applications, others dont archive at all.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mailing_list_software , etc.
Please just stop with the libel. Either present evidence or stop defaming people.
I can give some credence to the claim. I work for TeeJet a subset of Spray Systems and we design and manufacture application technology for the AG industry:

"At TeeJet Technologies our single focus is on application technology. Our company and our products have been part of agricultural applications since the first crop protection products came onto the market in the 1940's. Our control systems date back to some of the earliest in-field uses of electronics in agriculture. This experience in the fields of spraying, fertilizing, and seeding means nobody is better suited to provide quality products and technical solutions for your business."
Actually, yes. (Hopefully you were asking rather than woke-scolding).

Presumption of innocence traces back to roman law (hence "occidental" from the latin, meaning the going down/setting of the sun, or "western", referring to European countries) . It has propagated at various rates through various cultures. Other cultures (including germanic, which could also be classified as "western") did not have the presumption of innocence centuries ago. China (latin "oriental", rising sun, or eastern) has been moving toward it in the last 50 years.

This doesn't say that no other culture has independently developed the presumption of innocence principle, but that the idea of it in modern judicial systems around the world traces back to the roman culture, and is generally associated with a body of ideas collectively called "western culture".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326070104_Understan...
Relevant: In the words of master data visualist Edward Tufte, “Correlation isn’t causation, but sure is a hint.”
Lack of big news doesn't mean anything. We know they had teams working on Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and the next World of Warcraft expansion. But Blizzard has historically preferred to have extended internal development periods and not announce anything until they're close to release.

Heck, Titan was under development for years before getting cancelled without any sort of big announcement.
And on what scale is this actually happening?
We've already apparently decided that it is OK to rest our security on the idea that careful organizations can keep secret keys secret.

I'm not sure that's true. We might tolerate that situation in specific circumstances where we haven't identified any better choice, but that isn't the same as thinking everything is OK.

For example, in the case of certificates used for things like downloading web content over HTTPS, the centralised nature of the CAs and the track record where not all CAs have proved to be trustworthy is a significant concern in the industry. This remains the case even though browsers can revoke the root for any CA that is compromised and despite the increasing use of mitigations like perfect forward secrecy.

The rise of Let's Encrypt in particular has been a boon for moving smaller sites to serving over HTTPS by default, but given how many sites now rely on it, it also creates a huge single point of failure in the security infrastructure of the web. Notwithstanding the precautions taken by the operators to keep the most important secrets secret, if anyone hostile did ever manage to compromise that infrastructure covertly, that would be catastrophic for security on the web.
Eh, it'd be better if you didn't have to use the store with an account to download apps that came with the PC. That's my real issue here; it's required for things that probably shouldn't require it. Shouldn't need to enter payment details to update Pages or Keynote.

Same with free apps. If it's free, you shouldn't need to have working payment details to download it.

If that wasn't a thing, your issue would be fixed too.
OK, I look forward to your surveillance photographs of enemy territory taken on a train. Bombing runs and overnight trips over the ocean in a train will also be amusing. Shooting down enemy planes in a train will also be a neat trick. So will taking the train from remote regions to the hospital. Crop dusting using a train: ditto. Just because your jetblue trips to Baltimore can be replaced with Amtrak doesn't mean the aircraft hasn't radically changed the human condition in ways something like the nerd dildo can't compare to.
There an upper bound created by the limits of possible human time spent. You can raise them with technology or population growth, but there again, you're bumping up against ecological constraints.
That's just the same thing as a password, though. Even a short password is still just ensuring that specific characters are in specific positions. The only situation where this would be useful is against people with physical or viewable access to the password being typed.
What I posted was bog-standard HN moderation, a routine thing where we try to limit the tendency of threads to go into outright flamewar and keep the discussion more substantive. That's the idea of this site and it's what the bulk of the community wants.

Would you mind familiarizing yourself a bit more with how HN works? The links I posted upthread are a good place to start.
Beyond the existing answers, also look at how existing records are stored. You can use FOIA to get the keys needed to unlock access to government weapon stores (Defcon had presenters who talked about this). How many times have governments been hacked and had financial data stolen; that could have just as easily been some of those keys.
25-Year-Old Couple Save £137K by Building Home with Scavenged Materials
Inherited a system at current (for a few more weeks) employer (recently written so no excuse) that had used a weak hash for the password, I pointed out to my boss how bad it was and that it shouldn't have happened, he didn't pay a great deal of attention.

So I threw the OpenMP variant of John the Ripper at it (I'd just built a 8C/16T Ryzen machine and was curious) it broke ~80% of the passwords in under an hour and all of them over an afternoon of not been in use.

Went to see the boss and gave him the list of passwords including his (which was one of the weaker ones) - he gave me the time to fix it and some other glaring security issues.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

I know enough about security to know that I really don't know about security.
The term "African American" is complicated. But I think when someone self-identifies as a [country]-American, it's generally fair to call them an export of that country. You would want to be clear in certain circumstances that they weren't born there, but it's not a terrible way to phrase things.

Note that this is different from just having heritage in a country. There's immigration only a couple generations back in my family, but it's already mixed to the point that I wouldn't call myself any specific country-American.
Bitcoin. All bitcoin binary releases going forward are compiled with Guix for reproducibility. (The Bitcoin Core team previously used an in-house guix-like thing that they developed themselves. They switched to guix this year.)
Only a company run by white man can have such a position and support ICE which puts kids in cages.

This is why we need more diversity at the top of tech companies. To fight structural racism.
That may be true in many cases, but this article really resonated with me. I spent more years than I want to admit working on a large machine learning and analytics platform that was originally built with Python. It was, frankly, a nightmare. The dependency problems, the performance issues, the problems with typing and use of data structures were all huge headaches to manage. I have a blog in the engineering organization I work in where I'm basically publishing a series of articles that reflect a similar path the Salesforce article describes, for basically the same reasons. (My group is using Java, not Go, though.)
It was sinister.

Bain, KKR, and Vornado borrowed money to "buy" the company then saddled the debt with the purchased company. So in a way, they did force them.

The shareholders and board members prior to the buyout made out like bandits, which is all they wanted.

Toys R Us couldn't keep up with the interest payments on loans from Bain and KKR. Not to mention "advisory fees" and whatever bullshit they charged Toys R Us with. That's what put them under. Not lagging sales. Not bad business. Being "bought" by sinister people.
Thanks for making iTerm2! I've used it daily for work (and hobby coding) for longer than I can remember now.
We need to let the USA PATRIOT act expire. They renew it every year. It should be a top political theme in 2020. This would at least be a good start. The fact that Kamala Harris is tanking after Tulsi described her as a prosecutor is heartening. Historically, prosecutors benefited from perverting the justice system because they were "tough on crime."

GenX (my generation) is too small to do much politically, but the Millennials will be the next big power in US politics, handed over from the Boomers. Millennials, make sure you not only fight to preserve every freedom, but fight to regain ones we've lost since the Cold War. It's getting pretty dark in the US.
These two excerpts probably explain what 'Eternal Return' is referring to.

> To the opponents of democracy, Nietzsche says, in essence: Just wait. Liberal democracy will devour itself, creating conditions for authoritarian rule. Disorder and instability will sow distrust in politics itself. “Step by step, private companies will absorb the functions of the state,” Nietzsche writes. “Even the most tenacious remnants of the old work of governing (the activity, for example, that is supposed to protect private persons from one another) will finally be taken care of by private entrepreneurs.” The distinction between public and private spheres will disappear. The state will give way to the “liberation of the private person (I take care not to say: of the individual).”

> The entrepreneur Peter Thiel, an avid reader of Nietzsche, says things like “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” ... For tech billionaires, national and racial hatreds are inconveniences; their authoritarianism wears a cosmopolitan face, promising frictionless commerce for all.
There is a very great difference between a top-tier celebrity "palling around" with a former president, and someone in an asymmetrical, basically broadcast and image-setting position of power spreading messages that the majority of participants don't support. It is at the very least a huge and unnecessary distraction from the goals of the organization.
ICE employees probably use PCs and/or Macs - no more computers. What about roads - they use those to get to their jobs and transport ppl - lets block those can't have that. I bet they get electricity to - lets shutdown the electric generation across the nation. OOOO I bet they are on instagram too - kill it they might spread gestapo propaganda there too. Shit I just realized ICE employees probably drink water - lets bottle it up and sell all of our water so ICE can't have it
Show HN: WebMaestro v1.2.0 – HTTP Rest client and API testing tool
I had to wonder about the fascination with a fairly innocuous decades-old opinion of Pres. Carter's. Talk about beating a dead horse...