skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody claims that NordVPN customer connections are being used for this; the claim is that they are probably using Oxylab, which is probably using Oxylab customer’s connections, which they are probably using via malware of some unspecified type, so the Oxylab users probably don’t know how their connection is being used.

While some of those leaps of logic are plausible, it’s a lot of guessing.
They explicitly deny this in the linked blog post.
Vim highlights those by default too. I had no idea that was a default in vscode as well
Information Highway to Hell
I personally like the idea of allowing others to make use of these useful organs, especially since the original owner can't use them anymore and they'll decay within days (if not hours).

That said I don't agree with forcing people to something they don't want to and I know that there are at least a couple of religions out there that forbid cutting up the body after death.

The 'forced choice' option (in one of the other comments) is a really good one, IMHO
> Most STEM degrees require vector calculus, but few require matrix calculus

Gradients, Jacobians, etc are typically covered in a multivariable calculus class along with vector calculus (line integrals, Green's theorem, Stoke's theorem, etc).
This is required for engineering and physics degrees.
When your internet points on HN exceed some threshold you may be able to downvote. I’ve heard there’s also a thing called a supervote. (I have neither of these privileges)
Unsoundness in Pin aside, I think the conversation between Boats and Ralph is more interesting - are soundness issues going to be so strange and edgecasey that they can be addressed as one-offs, or does rust need a more formal model to ensure edge cases are covered?

I have no answer, it's just the only interesting part of that discussion imo. Everything else is just details of an issue that's too weird to really fully understand for me, and not novel or interesting enough to invest into understanding, anyway.
Sharon Gal, Voice Sound Art Performance
When God asks for your organs that you donated at heaven's gate just tell Him its coming back after another 40 or so years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM_lsoooW3I
One could say it’s PoA (Proof of Authority) which is basically saying there are specific authorities that choose to validate it. In github, for example, it would be whoever controls the master branch. Of course, this is needlessly complicating things since 99% of software today is this authority model except its implicit.
It's not HN-specific, it's the general culture stigma against Marx bleeding through. And it's not entirely unjustified, because you definitely want to filter out low-effort, thoughtless Marxism.
I’d say our 5 basic senses that have a very limited reach would claim the earth is flat. Of course it is not flat though (just to be clear).
ISOC CEO does not consider the public reaction or petition significant. He stated that a mere 10,000 signatures when there are millions of .orgs indicates lack of public concern or any serious opposition to the deal.

Ethos Capital paid $1.135 billion for total, unconditional, purchase of the PIR from ISOC.

ISOC just "grabbed the opportunity when Ethos presented it,"

ISOC have reviewed Ethos’s governance plans and approved them, but will have no means to enforce compliance with those plans.

The deal must be approved by the end of the 1st Quarter 2021 or it fails. The exact date is still confidential.

It must be approved by two bodies – ICANN and the Pennsylvania Orphans Court, which is a specialist court for estates and trusts.

The PIR is incorporated in Pennsylvania and this court must approve changes in the PIR charter in order for Ethos Capital to take ownership.

This is because “the Orphans’ Court judge is the ultimate defender and protector of the fund in question, and the Orphans’ Court will protect that fund and ensure that the fund is distributed to the correct beneficiary”

There is a good introduction to this court at https://www.skhlaw.com/pennsylvania-orphans-court-101-all-th...

This means that if the Pennsylvania Orphans Court has not reached a determination by 1st April next year, or if that decision is being challenged in a manner which delays implementation, the deal fails.
I have this color scheme for Vim with keywords greyed, in favor of other parts of the program syntax that look brighter in comparison:

https://github.com/a-nikolaev/vim-boltzmann

- keywords are grey
- comments are red
- constant and literals are green and blue
- main text is off-white

Keywords often can be guessed from the overall structure of the program block and its indentation, especially in languages like OCaml. So making them bright only adds noise, distracting from what's important.
malloc() is a C (and C++) Standard Library function that you could write user-level code for yourself (in fact, there's an extended exercise in TCPL to do just that). It doesn't do the low-level handling of pages - that's down to the Linux kernel.
I know this book gets posted anytime something sleep related comes up... but I still find it underrated.

'Why We Sleep'[0] has changed my sleeping habits for the better and I wish everyone had the chance to read it. It's like a manual explaining how your body works 1/3 of the time you're alive.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501...
Yep, everybody's got one.
Resource usage per capita has never been higher, because the goal is not to do the same work with less, the goal is always to achieve more with more (or at least the same).

Achieving “the same with less” at a macroeconomic level is actually impossible. Because if you reduce your inputs, you are by definition reducing demand for someone else’s outputs, leading to ultimately less demand for your outputs, i.e. a recession.

The “way out” is for the increasing output to be more ecological harvested, less polluting, and more recyclable than before.
That’s a super interesting essay, but I think the point is more that depression is not a psychiatric disorder.
It's a Python service license under Apache 2.0. If you write tooling around it to perform updates/rollbacks (and whatever else you need) then yes.
Initial observation is the AI ones are much raunchier than the human ones
Higher, as long as the airship for not have to go fast and can use air currents mostly like any old balloon. It can go almost arbitrarily slow, as long as the weather is good and there is no time pressure.

The main efficiency losses in airplanes are wind resistance and takeoff/landing... An airplane cannot go arbitrarily slow or it loses lift.
According to industry sources, airships are about 80% more efficient.
Plus as fuel space efficiency and weight is less of a problem, they can use different fuel sources for the engines, including methane or hydrogen, and electric engines too.
Ask HN: What’s the top idea in your mind? Is it the wrong one?
Based on PG’s essay http://paulgraham.com/top.html

Most people only have one top idea in their mind that they drift towards when they have free cycles. What is yours? Is it the wrong one to be top of mind?
I learned here on HN that Eskimos don't have access to a lot of drugs or alcohol, so they used to just starve themselves in order to get to this hallucinogenic state!

People really have a deep seeded desire to alter their consciousness.
A public blockchain (one where consensus is derived from the masses, or rather an abstraction of the masses like PoW) would have “virtue”, but obviously this has yet to be executed perfectly.
Drawing attention to language constructs like if and return helps you visually identify patterns. When you need to know details you look into the specific code.

Highlighting the noisiest and least uniform parts of code is probably not what I really want. I don't want to draw references from an entire book in title case, with tiny section and chapter titles for example.

Highlighting helps me identify code from a distance, it doesn't help me read it. It's about visual cues that eventually form into heuristics that save me time as I roam around a codebase. "Oh this is one of those" "that's not the kind of function that I'm looking for"
(I was the primary designer of the Pin API.)

Since (to a first approximation) every individual who has the expertise and contextual knowledge to really evaluate this issue is a poster on internals.rust-lang.org, its pretty surprising to find this thread on the front page of Hacker News. I imagine some Hacker News users who upvoted this link did so out of technical interest, but I suspect a large portion of the attention comes from some combination of these misconceptions:

- The misconception that this could have a practical impact on users (the code being discussed on the thread is all obviously pathological & contrived).

- The misconception that Rust's type system and standard library never contain soundness issues and that this is an exceptional event (in fact we have a number of longstanding soundness issues).

We have a policy of fixing all soundness issues, so this issue will be fixed. In the meantime, while we decide the best solution, it will have no practical impact on Rust users. And none of the solutions we are considering would involve significant breakage to users, or invalidate any real code.

At a high level: the soundness issue occurs because the Pin API was designed based on certain reasoning about the behavior of pointers. This reasoning would be sound but for the fact that we have allowed certain exceptions in relationship to pointers to what are called the "orphan rules" (which usually enable local reasoning like this). These exceptions allow users to introduce code which, while contrived, allows them to violate the guarantees of the Pin API. Such is life.
thx :-) i get the impression event sourcing for the uninitiated is too abstract a concept and is often confused with event-driven architectures.
VR is only part of the focus, we're still working towards a general purpose browser, it's just a slow and long process.

Webrender is being actively worked on and is in the final stages of integration into Firefox (I believe it's enabled by default for some combinations of GPU and OS already). Servo's experimenting with a new layout system written from-scratch to be modular as well, and that's making good progress.

(We're rewriting the layout system because the original one, while it proved that parallel layout was doable, wasn't very maintainable/extensible given that it was written through experimentation while the language itself was changing a lot. We now know how to do parallel layout, and writing a clean, modular, maintainable system will enable us to fill in all the missing features)
How to setup a Docker Swarm Cluster on AWS with Ansible?
I don't get why we don't just use the same magic that `?Sized` uses, to make it opt-out in terms of mental overhead for the developer, but opt-in in terms of what's going on under the hood:

#[derive(!Move)]
Apple is worse now, Cook is not even a marketing guy. He's financials.
He will milk apple customers for every last drop without caring for products and innovation anymore, and will do so until Apple and it's brand have been so hollowed out that they will collapse under their own weight.

And nobody will stop him because shareholders only care about short term returns.
Wired, but not directly. We don't have an explicit urge to have as many kids as possible, we just like having sex. It kinda leads to the same outcome. Or it did, before we invented contraceptives.

Writing posts on HN is not expressing your genes, it is an entirely accidental effect of intelligence, which is another mechanism we have solely to better propagate our genes, but it kinda runaway.
These things are actually pretty related: JS isn't particularly slow as a language; it only gets slow on the web because every time JS code touches the DOM/CSS a part of layout and style needs to be recomputed.
Is this why it's such an effective interrogation technique? Like if you deprive a subject of sleep, giving up information sounds like a better and better idea.
They are asking a US company to censor the words of an Australian because its about them. There are 190 something depending on who you count nations in the world. Anyone who connects a server to the internet is instantly "operating" in every one of them to some degree.

A company should expect to be subject to risk whatever assets it has in a nation and ought to ensure they don't HAVE assets to lose anywhere that is likely to make unreasonable demands or confiscate these assets.

This is because the alternative is only allowing speech that would pass muster in all.
The data comes from the open rail data project

https://wiki.openraildata.com//index.php?title=Main_Page

Some crossings in the uk are directly available as a state within the data, mine is not so I have to track the trains into and out of a region. When the train enters the region, I assume the crossing must be down and when it leaves, I assume it must be up.

Its about 30 seconds to a minute off, but for my purpose that's OK.
I wrote a SciFi novel for fun which everyone that has read it loves it
For fun my side project was writing a SciFi novel. I've gotten a dozen or so people to read and and respond and it seems to be universally loved.

I've done the submitting to agents and getting the mountains of rejection letters.

Has anyone on HN gone through this, how do I get my book into the hands of an agent?
Even on a cloudy winter day the sun's luminocity is about 20 times higher than a very bright phone display.

My point is that it is not reasonable to assume a strong physical reaction if the artifical light is so much weaker.

Note I'm not denying that there isn't a small effect! But it is probably dwarved in comparison to a change in eating habits, anti stress methods like meditation, sports and so on.

> It's 100% a fact that blue light is the light which impact the production of melatonin the most, and that melatonin directly regulate your circadian rhythm.

Then why don't most studies study effects on the actual circadian rhythm? My guess is because the results there are less clear with actual sleep (i.e. they actually studied both but only published the "good" results - a sad side effect of publication bias).

BTW the same is true for light therapy for prevention of winter depression: There probably is an effect, but it is so weak that rigorous meta analysises don't show real evidence.

My overall point is: There seldom are strong effects with most treatments of this kind. If there were, we already would have found out in pre science times. People are doing artifical lighting for thousands of years (think campfires, not LED lights).
Protip: an EWMA is a smoothing convolution whose deconvolution can be computed in closed form with a little algebra. To reduce the effects of noise, apply the EWMA, then use a forecasting method of your choice to predict the smoothed series, and finally apply the deconvolution to recover the original series. This technique can be useful for series with strong seasonality, where some of what may appear to be noise is actually useful signal, but signal which arrived slightly ahead or behind schedule within the season.
and that's how so many orcs were able to march all at once, they are eating as they march.
If I want something simple that either passes power through or triggers a switch in response to a configurable/trainable voice command that isn’t net connected, what’s my best bet?
If you've identified that you have bad sleep habits and it's severely affecting your cognitive abolities why don't you work to rectify this?
That’s one use case, it’s not the only one. And it’s not always “put it on the heap”, so you can’t solve the issue that way.
JavaScript Grid Component: Look for Investors
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It is JavaScript Grid library for Enterprise.
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It has clients in 25 countries.
It is used by Fortune 500, banks, government orgs, medical companies, retail, tech, fintech startups, manufactures and others.
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I spent a long time without syntax highlighting, or very minor highlighting (parenthesis/brackets/braces) but at a conference somebody told me that looking at monochrome text all day was depressing and that adding color with syntax highlighting made things less gloomy.

Since then I've liked adding a little color.
I started saving links and notes like this too. I type a subject that consists of any relevant tag words that come to mind
From my own viewpoint: yes.

This despite several different eras of life involving quite different standards of living and careers.

I am still that 7 year old, just older and grayer.
For that Ubuntu Core seems more appropriate.

It's the kind of tooling that is a lot of work even though it might not seem like it at first sight.
Ha! :) Nice...
Mycroft?
I was working in my bedroom on the second evening of a sleepless marathon. I kept hearing distant chatter, like two people whispering together.

I thought my roommate had brought someone home and they were whispering in the living room. I put some clothes on and exited my bedroom to find the house completely dark and empty.

On my way back to the bedroom, confused, I realized the faucet was running slightly in the bathroom across the hall and my brain was interpreting it as human whispers and English-like words.

I notice this sort of aural hallucination always happens to me after 24 hours of staying awake.
A counter response to Beazley's quote might be, "syntax highlighting helps the syntax get out of the way so that I can focus on the logic".

I suppose that's exactly what's happening in your "rainbow parentheses" case when you have way better things to do than squinting to count those little bleeders.
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These people literally put their life into the modernization of the nation. Some of them died young, mostly from poor safety measures in their work environment. A lot of them suffer chronicle diseases that make their life a living torture. Yet even more of them wait to see the grim prospect of a miserable senior life. We are not even starting mentioning the tragic life of these events on their offsprings!*

Worker fates were the same or worse when the Western nations came from the industrial age into the 20th century...

It took until the 1930s with New Deal and unionising to get acceptable working conditions for factory and most service sector workers...
I can't see any reason to downvote this, I don't think it's at all wrong.
It depends what you consider to be non-repudiation!

With key substitution, you have a signature that can verify under multiple public keys. However, each key was either honestly generated and used to sign the message, or was maliciously generated and intended to appear to have signed the message.

In this sense, the party associated with each public is indisputably associated with the corresponding signature.

However, this gets a bit more confusing with message key substitution (two public keys, two messages, one signature) or colliding signature (one public key, any number of messages, one signature). For example, a malicious party might produce a signature which is valid for any message. Does the fact that they've "signed everything" mean they can repudiate having signed anything? (The connection between intent to sign and the signature has arguably been lost).

We do discuss these other properties in the paper, but we don't really delve into non-repudiation in the informal sense.
If you read the link that you yourself posted carefully, you would have noticed "A typical human behavioral trait is associated with". Associated with != determined by. Of course, genetics influence our behavior. Which is a completely different claim from "genetics determine our behavior".
> old x10

According to wiki they filed for bankrupcy in 2013. Their www.x10.com website is still going - flogging the same stuff as 20 years ago.

I still have a few boxes of x10 hardware that I spent a small fortune on back in the 90's. I like that signals went through mains (vs. radio signals) but the reliability is poor.
Last I checked, I had 150+ unique weekly active with successful sessions.

Most use it to connect to their ec2-like machines and not for teamviewer-like usecase.

My main problem is that user’s login creds have to go through our server unencrypted as we essentially provide a translation proxy for VNC/RDP to websockets.
This possibly can help people understand themselves and their trajectory in life, and also be better parents if they have children.
(This part of) Akamaiks value prop rests on two things: they have servers all over the world, and they can figure out which of those are both functioning well and (network-wise) close to you. The former comes from infrastructure investment and management. The latter comes from collecting and processing data from all over the (network-wise) world, quickly. That last part involves building and updating a map of actual and potential internet traffic — not quite all of it, but for everywhere that your (prospective Akamai customer ‘you’) customers might be. Doing _that_ without owning ~all of the BGP routers in the world plus ~all of the local ISPs in the world involves a fair bit of probing, data gathering, and a bunch of math.

It’s likely that those headers don’t all get added all the time, for all the Akamai traffic, but instead are added selectively for key parts of the mapping process.

(Disclosure: I worked for Akamai Way Back When, but left the company many years ago.)
It's a really good thread, it reminds me so much memories with my brother playing old video games.
Ask HN: Concise sources of evidence making the case for climate change?
My father is a climate denier, but one that's willing to hear out an argument. He thinks observed climate change is just a natural part of the earth's cycle and that the crisis has been manufactured to win votes.

What are some accessible yet substantial sources that lay out the evidence for the core mechanisms of climate change? I know that more-specific time scales and effects are less certain, so I'm really just focused on the "climate change is caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases and is going to be a really big problem" side of things.
>The companies that do exhibit social and environmental responsibility rarely make it into the news,

That's because they're either insignificantly small, or environmental theater (a la Apple).
I want to switch over to Mycroft, does anyone here have a good experience with it? What kind of hardware are you running?
I was replying to someone saying that webasm will bring flash style webpages.
There will come a day in the not to distant future when average Americans will have to choose between the spirit of the Constitution and "Rule of Law" as defined by the current authorities and enforce that choice at risk to their lives. The great crisis is not far off.
Sleep could also just be a low-energy mode for times that are (used to be) unproductive, i. e. darkness.
>Do yourself a favor and go down the list of every major industrial process and compare its waste stream and environmental impact, its pretty evident that the majority these process are more efficient and less wasteful.

Compared to what?

Surely not with not doing them at all...
Snips was recently acquired by Sonos, so it's one less independent solution in that space.
How to not stress out your team when you use chat-first communication
I'm not aware of a single "official" name for it that everyone uses, like the Hypermodern style of chess in the early 20th century. In English, people say things "AI-inspired" or "AlphaGo style" (although a lot of the ideas come not from AlphaGo directly but from the public engines that followed in its wake).
Tracing European Arms Used in Oppression and Human Rights Violations