skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is taking what the poster above you said, hammering it into your own world view and then accusing him of a misunderstanding of civilization.

> A civilization or civilisation is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification imposed by a cultural elite, symbolic systems of communication, and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment.

I tend to agree with this definition and as you can see, there is no asterisk (*) regarding ```Slavery, oppression by any means (taxation or force), fights to the death as entertainment, hideous punishments, genocide, immense inequity, tyrants killing at whim, women usually treated like crap, forced prostitution, rape with little or no recourse for the victim, minimal to no education for most```.

Now, going back to the poster's argument, it is possible that an artificial intelligence will start developing society in its own understanding of it and it might emulate some aspects of early civilizations (yes, even the ones containing rape, minimal education, genocide, immense inequity), and perhaps it is important to study those in order to understand a possible new one.

So try to retaliate his argument with another one in the context set by him rather than trying to hammer in your civilization not compatible with things you don't like world view...
If you need a popup to tell you how to use the most basic feature of your UI, that is a sign you need to rethink your UI.
SEPA direct debit (and the earlier non-SEPA versions) allow the bank to do just that: show a list of charges, set monthly limits and cancel the authorization.

Unfortunately, most foreign companies don't offer SEPA, but my bank also offers virtual CCs that are tied to a single biller, so not only I can revoke them at any time, they are also useless if leaked.

Regular CCs are a pain in comparison.
AI Takes on Popular Minecraft Game in Machine-Learning Contest
Most Useful Programming Languages for AI, Part I
AMD supports KVM redirection, too, via a standard called DASH. You can see examples at https://community.amd.com/community/devgurus/dmtf-dash/blog. From the standard body's description: "DASH provides support for the redirection of KVM (Keyboard, Video and Mouse) and text consoles, as well as USB and media, and supports the management of software updates, BIOS (Basic Input Output System), batteries, NIC (Network Interface Card), MAC and IP addresses, as well as DNS and DHCP configuration. DASH specifications also address operating system status, opaque data management, and more." https://www.dmtf.org/standards/dash

Intel's AMT is also an implementation of DASH.
Have you checked power consumption? Might be an excuse to switch!
As soon as one works on a non-trivial piece of software and has a team >2 SCM becomes important. There was one SCM system for PP Smalltalk if memory serves right called Envy but it was quite expensive. But even more important than SCM is a module/library eco system. We can’t trade without reproducibility. Without it we are destined to re-invent the wheel.

There is value in reinventing wheel - it is entertaining and stress free - as it does not matter for anyone but yourself.
What absolute bullshit. How the hell are investigators supposed to construct a full and accurate assessment of what went wrong and the correct way[s] to remedy it when a key testimony is nowhere to be found?

At best it was cowardice; at worst, a deliberate coverup.

ISTR that whenever the Lockheed Skunkworks lost a test plane and pilot, the engineers were responsible for explaining to the widow what had gone wrong and what they had done to fix it so that it wouldn’t happen again.

That’s what wearing big boy pants really looks like, kid.

If you aren’t willing to testify to the shortcomings of your own work and why it is the way it is, you have no business doing it in the first place. Least of all when lives are on the line.
no for development (and probably) it's amd all the way

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-linu...
It is worth mentioning a large portion of Israel talented IT youth is enlisted to intelligence technological units in IDF. So, every cyber company founded / hiring in Israel will almost always have people from those units. But, this is not such a big deal and definitely doesn't make them spies.
Did CrossRider have any other users than companies wishing to install adware, changing browser start pages and similar shady shit? Sure, it could theoretically be used for other things but had it any significant number of honest users?

When I google CrossRider I virtually only get hits from various anti-malware companies, including Microsoft.
I thought x86 Chinese license is only for internal government production and not for public?
What does "The company can now be decentrally owned by the people" even mean?
Thanks for the informative answer :)

There are "light field" cameras now that try to capture all the light coming from the subject, so that the photographer can make the creative decisions later. I assume you'd also be of the opinion that these should not be copyrightable?

And, from the article, the file published by the museum in the article also included a copyright notice on the bottom. Which means it wasn't just a point cloud of the original, but a cleaned and altered version (I don't know what format it is in, so I don't know if it had been converted to a set of instructions). It may also include supports and struts for the model to allow overhangs. Clearly this involved some creative input, and therefore should be copyrightable. Would you agree with that?
Dealing with Ads in 2020
They have basically one opportunity to set the expected price point and as it turns out, they prefer to get all the positivity and hype on their side, than perfectly optimize to marginal demand.

I am not sure it is a bad choice.
When talking history, civilization describes a form of human society. It is not some kind of moral value judgement.
That air around you, it's difficult for me to see how you've claimed it. I'm officially claiming it can be claimed, and it's mine now.
The purpose of the battery isn’t to power the entire state for 15 minutes.

It can respond to market demand within milliseconds, and after coming online was responsible for dropping the average wholesale price of electricity by 90%.
The inca is not a "stone-age" civilization. They arose in the 13th century. They have writing, metal working, amazing agriculture, bureaucracy, road systems, storage, planned cities. They effectively eradicated starvation in the empire with their public storage systems.

Calling things stone age is wrong. That period, if you're being gracious, ended roughly 2,000 BCE which is about 3300 thousand years before the Inca started their civilization.

If you want to learn a bit more about civilizations in this part of the world, I heartily recommend a book called 1491 by Charles Mann: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491
Need to make big accumulator. Problem solved. xD
An Early Look at Intel Tiger Lake
It depends, it is more complicated than having it as a metric in your contract and being paid to meet some demand. Generally what happens is you are expected to research outside all the other responsibilities that are not research which consume your contracted hours. So undergrad teaching, administration, grant applications etc take the majority of your day alongside managing the welfare of students you are responsible for. Don't forget meetings, committees, staff training days, postgraduate supervision and development of up to date course materials. I wouldn't even bother trying to fit in a personal life while trying to stay on top of the field.

When you're graded against whatever metric your institution uses they will decide whether or not to pile on more undergraduate teaching and administrative responsibilities (basically seen as the shit jobs) which in turn reduces your time available to research. That is problematic in and of itself as developing successful undergraduate systems requires people who know the field well and can teach relevant materials born from practice. What you end up seeing is young researchers who go into Lecturer positions end up deciding the next 30 years of their life on the first evaluation rather than being invested in as researchers who could contribute to their own projects or to teams. To compound the issue university administration has exploded in the last 10-20 years creating more middle management, more cost and more downward pressure on researchers to adhere to the demands of people less qualified than themselves. The same administrators are also the ones calling for mass casualisation of teaching roles to save money without seeing the long term downsides this has for building institutional knowledge and departments which can generate high quality research. Luckily I am in an institute that mandates at least 1 day per week is a research day and you are allowed to work from home and be uncontactable on that day if you wish but other people have it so much worse.
An equal number of people would be offended by this being injected onto their morning feed, probably more, than those that are offended by its rejection. Facebook is an algorithm after all.
Did CrossRider have any honest users? From the little I can find on the Internet it seems like a toolkit for building adware with little to no honest uses.
Navy infrastructure plan will cost ‘billions’ more than expected, report says
Ah, I would never in a million years been enough of a shitbag to build Uber so it's a moot point. But still.
The title reminds me a lot of all those fatuous articles about the difference between statistics and machine learning. This one is alright though - I wonder how we got to lumping CI and CD together as is commonplace now.
More people should use RISC OS with the Pi.
They don't, but nobody is really trying to enforce it yet. In a few years when these services face a lot more pressure to turn a profit (after the "wars") we will probably see a lot more of that.
Alibaba Cloud Released Alink ML Platform on GitHib
Oh yeah France our lovely neighbour with the rotting fleet of "should have been turned off" reactors underreporting accidents and an deficitary agency managing it all while the politicians chuckle it all off due to having slept on the renewable front. Yes, yes. It's great. If you don't blow half of the continent into a radioactive paradies one day, you'll end up being overthrown by some yellow vested nutjobs who will have to pay more taxes because the money for this ridiculously subsided energy project including the waste "management" (hello Russia) has to come from somewhere and decommissioning is not even priced in yet.

PS. Winter is coming. Time to buy some energy from Germany again...
OpenAPI Generator 4.2.2 (2019 last release): new TS redux-query generator
> why is your CISO a music major?

The implication of that question is nonsensical. Experian had/has many problems, but the fact that their chief security officer got a degree in music decades earlier wasn't one of them.

Some of the very best programmers I know were music majors - it's actually not uncommon at all. I mean, Steve Jobs only went to college for 1 semester, and afterwards he audited creative classes like calligraphy. Is the implication that he wasn't qualified to be CEO of Apple because he didn't have a degree in management?
These are made on the MQB platform. I'd wait for vehicles from MEB platform (ID3 etc)
This is amazing - I would have thought that any medical equipment would go through exhaustive testing and an order of magnitude more for systems involving radiation and a machine capable of lethal doses.

At my first job we even had a separate safety officer for our low powered sources used for tracing waterflow.
Horizon EDA was started by a guy who didn’t want to use a closed source EDA tool like Altium for his final university electronics project and wasn’t happy with KiCAD.

He planned it very carefully (so I wouldn’t call it a hack) and years after it is still going without any funding. This isn’t that uncommon in open source IMO.

Of course this is not a value judgement, there are quick hacks that work perfectly well and slower more planned out projects that never work at all — each aproach has it’s pros and cons.
Work notebooks: Against Hackerism, pt. 1
Governments Should Back Rebel Tech
Yes, that would be the downside of that.

On the other hand, suppose aliens land on Earth and quietly blorple all the fuzzbars between our atoms. We can’t possibly understand the blorpling but it doesn’t seem to be doing any harm so we leave it be.

A couple of centuries later we realise that if we’d blorple our own fuzzbars we’d be rich by now. But let’s face it, we were probably never going to develop blorpling technology on our own.
You’re right. It wasn’t fair.

It was heavily weighted in favor of the US which is why the US became the richest country in the world and benefited the most from international trade.

Classic example are the complaints about Apple products being manufactured in China. However, as study after study has shown, a $600 iphone probably leads to economic activity of about $40-$50 in China at most, with a further $50 or so in the rest of the world, and the remaining $500 being generated in the US.

The US had a massive problem which is that this tremendous wealth that was generated was thanks to a variety of reasons concentrated amongst a few people right at the top, and unlike in decades in the past the benefits stopped trickling down to the rest of the country. But the real problem was an internal distribution one, which the current administration only served to exacerbate.
Č, obviously. The keyboard's (1) letter c will be repurposed.

(1) I really hope this is a correct usage of the apostrophe.
I was curious if they had any viruses.. the following is from their FAQ

==
We never modify the game archives we provide, but not all of them are tested by an antivirus. However, old DOS programs won't be able to contaminate your system. Windows games may be provided with a NoCD program, these are well known to carry malware or worms. Always check with an antivirus, like VirusTotal. We do not take any responsibilities for system damage on your computer, use at your own risk.
==
https://www.myabandonware.com/faq/
Machine Ethics Podcast 36 Metrics for Wellbeing with John C. Havens
"Vested interest" doesn't have to be financial. They are not going to take away his Nobel price if it turns out that the expansion of the Universe is not accelerating, but nobody wants to spend the rest of their life saying "I got a Nobel price for X, but it turns out X was wrong." That's some pretty heavy psychological "vested interest", I think.
'World first' cell phone detection cameras rolled out in Australia
Not to sound presumptuous but what are you working as that this is a query that’s representative of your search engine use habits? I am using ddg for a few years now, I don’t revert to google (except google scholar) and I don’t feel like my life has gotten worse due to lesser quality search results.

Maybe it’s denial or weirdness on my side... after all I am also a vegan because I don’t want to hurt animals or other people just for a little bit of taste and convenience and most people seem to think that’s stupid on my side.
Ibuprofen always worked for my ordinary aches. I find it justified to require a visit to a doctor if the pain doesn't react to Ibuprofen.
> I think there already was, at least in Germany

Yup. Two years contracts, automatically renewed, with three months notice period for cancellation, cancellation by post (yes, by a papper letter), no early cancellations. Reverting the monthly direct debit transaction to "give a hint" to the predatory "service provider" triggers furious response from their accounting and customer service, and transaction cancellation fees. It's hard to imagine how the setup could be even more predatory for a customer. Fuck, even the memory of dealing with this raises my adrenaline level.
Gigabyte Announces World's First USB 3.2 Card
What makes you think those "entitled pseudo devs" as you call them charged the client for a premium version? You're making an assumption too many.
> It is totally redundant for people who can code themselves.

Not really, it saves time. I have my own website and I am a profesionnal developper, but I don't want to spend time learning wordpress programming. The few things I had to code for WP was very off putting.
Chernobyl has 30km exclusion zone. Even if we mismanaged the reactor issues as badly again, we wouldn't be able to cover "large areas of Earth".
Servers I'd imagine is where AMD excel, not Intel, considering their primary purpose is serving many users where multi threaded performance comes to the fore. Intels usecase, compiling?
In third world countries it used by locals to bypass the ban on many websites.
Raspberry Pi 4 heat issues fixed with Firmware
Coal kills far more people than nuke does - both from direct accidents - and secondary effects.
Backend devs do this as well. You could just as easily start a thread called "Why use MicroServices/Serverless/Kubernetes/NoSQL etc.". Just like SPAs, those things all have a time and a place but unfortunately devs often push for them to be used in order to practice resume-driven-development and so they can play with the shiny new toy that everybody is talking about.

Personally I think SPAs have a time and a place - highly interactive web apps like google docs, facebook, slack etc. should definitely be SPAs. But using React to create a blog site is just ridiculous. Indiehackers.com is a perfect example of a site which would be so much better if it was a plain old statically rendered site. I remember a podcast where the founder of indiehackers said that he used React to build the site because he wasn't happy that the indiehackers business is not technical enough - so using react was a way making it more "techy" even though it actually makes the site worse (he didn't admit that part though). And thats fine for him as he is a solo-entrepreneur, but when developers working on teams take on that mentality it be extremely frustrating for the developers who would rather produce value than produce overly-complicated solutions in order to gain bragging rights.
I highly recommend glide baits if you want to go fishing but there aren't any fish to catch.
Well I definitely don't want to see something like this in my feed, so thanks.
I freely admit that I don't know a whole lot about China, and even less about the government of China. But I do know a fair number of people who are or were Chinese citizens who either now work here or do a lot of business with the US.

That's what I mean by trade spreading ideas. These people clearly have learned a lot from American culture (and I have learned a lot from them) - I personally think that when trying to get things done, the more people you have from different backgrounds, the more different ideas you have, and the more likely you are to come up with a good solution.

(And further, this trade war, as I understand it, isn't about talking the CCP into treating it's citizens better, it's about tariffs and subsidies, matters with far less moral force.)
It is said that there are enough unread and uncategorized papyri in museums around the worlds to keep historians occupied for a century.
Linux is... a little alienating, isn't it? How many people can hold the whole thing in their head? Not many - and I don't think it's seamless enough to work as another layer of magic, either. People accept OS X because it's another layer of magic.

TempleOS was written by one guy, so I assume it can fit inside one head. Linux has been written by a lot of people over several decades.

Maybe I'm completely wrong about this, I don't know. But I'm getting old and lazy, so these days I'm on Windows.

I'm a little surprised there aren't more weird OSes going around these days, now that everything runs in the browser except text editors and fancy video games.
Woman I know cycles her subscriptions, consumes what she has on backlog and then just moves onto the next.

It seems to work for her, although I don't think I'd be comfortable doing that because I would miss out on pop-culture references.

(I mean, one only has to look at imgur.com for a few minutes to notice a lot of Mandalorian memes, the cynic in me even considers that this might be due to Disney shilling that content)
> As far as I know, Google isn't getting thousands of people killed per year,

At google's scale it doesn't take much bureaucratic indifference to have an outsized effect.

I would be surprised if google wasn't-- but it's spread out over thousands of distinct causes. Like maps effectively directing people to turn onto railroad tracks and google being unwilling to do anything about it (https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/12/20802036/google-apple-mic...), or maps and especially waze directing highway level flows of traffic through residential neighborhoods.
I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it seems dismissed [1].

It was a dismissable admin notice that looked like an ad and wasn't exactly a tracking link (in the wp.org classifications at least), but a generic marketing campaign link [2].

[1] https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69...
[2] https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/cla...
Bill Gates on AI, Climate, Carbon Tax, Nuclear Power, China
This is not the case elsewhere in the US nor is it in most of Europe.

Driving around Las Vegas for example, and you'd be hard pressed to find any electric vehicles.

With the exception of Norway (which is extremely rich), in Europe these cars are way too big. The rulers of the electric landscape are the BMW i3, Renault Zoe, and Hyndai Ioniqs and several others.
Were early hackings done by "fairly despicable a-social people"? Maybe I did not get this.
Maybe "old school hacking" is still present in the "maker" movement. For the pragmatic, practical hands on approach I mean.
The implication of that question is nonsensical. Experian had/has many problems, but the fact that their chief security officer got a degree in music decades earlier wasn't one of them

You’ve managed to completely miss my point about attempting to blame an individual engineer backfiring and hitting senior management. No one would have cared what her degree was in otherwise. But it became a stick to beat the organisation with.
Well it was hacked together from scratch which is inspiring...

But I mainly see it as a cautionary tale on mental health and how arrogance can destroy your reputation...
Testing Distributed Systems for Linearizability (2017)
The Complete Guide to Property Wrappers in Swift 5
This is the most disappointing news that affects me personally that I've received this week. It's getting harder and harder to find tech companies you can trust, it seems. Just when things seem good, there's always a surprise waiting eventually.
The poster isn’t saying they are simple. The poster is claiming they are complex enough that they are non trivial to create and maintain, and not expensive enough that it’s worth it for these companies to go through the effort to create an alternative. (50k per seat, which almost certainly is lower on an enterprise license, is about 20-25% of the cost of an employee, and probably lower when you consider the non salary costs of an employee such as benefits, payroll taxes, office seat rent, food, etc). The equation obviously changes when the lack of availability of the tool is an existential threat and therefore worth billions.
I am reading "
Burn Math Class: And Reinvent Mathematics for Yourself
from Jason Wilkes
". Its pretty good.
I used to work in the engineering centre that supported PRESTEL and TYMNET

Later on after PRESTEL was gone, BT security was visiting and freaked out when they bumped into a developer who they had caught as a teenager hacking Prestel.

Security wanted them fired senior management told them NO :-)

Oh I also had a copy of the hackers handbook