skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely false.

Dec. 2: https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2019/12/drunk-driver-who-ki...

Nov 14: https://www.inquirer.com/news/david-strowhouer-sentence-dui-...

Nov 8: https://eccalifornian.com/drunk-driver-given-second-degree-m...

Nov 15: https://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/public-safety/2019/...

first-degree manslaughter, third-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree vehicular manslaughter

"Involuntary" isn't in any of these. And these are just the first few search results.
Look closer at the news, it’s not uncommon to see 10M+ rounds for companies that haven’t put out a single ounce of product.
Speed Reading. Brain Games. Memory Training
This is true sportsmanship. Thanks for sharing.
>> a bomb dropped on an Italian border in WWII might accidentally kill ally French citizens

"On an Italian border." Where else could the blast possibly go, except on both sides of the border?
Ken Liu bridges the gap between Chinese science fiction and American readers
Embrace and analytics
Even poorly designed business rules create huge number of security issues. The whole stack could be perfectly bug-free and you’d still get those.
Instagram Now Requires Users to Provide Their Age
This sounds kind of like Wonderful Machine -- connecting clients to high-quality photographers.
From https://cooperpress.com/publications/ I'm following DB and Serverless.

Also Data Eng weekly: https://dataengweekly.com/
Does Nassim Nicholas Taleb have a HN account because I’d love to hear what he has to say about this paper.
Some are specialized, but e.g. https://dotronix.com/ looks like they offer CRT monitors to businesses and would presumably not be insanely expensive.
What would be required for pose-estimating ability?
Sounds like a good way to destroy our roads.
If you put the sarcasm aside (it does make a good joke), a laundry pickup app has in fact orders of magnitude more potential to scale and make money, as dumb as it sounds.
There is no physical phenomenon that causes the log-linear trend, its just a model that happens to fit for a small select period of history. Moore's law isn't an actual law I hope you understand that..

Rising prosperity comes with rising energy consumption. If China didn't export so much it wouldn't be able to import the fuel that it used. Its dramatic rise was definitely not a given.
Trust, but verify.

Usually I’ve used timesheets with an assigned supervisor signing off on the time worked within a week. If there are performance problems, you can audit the timesheets. The biggest problem that I’ve run into in 20 years travel expenses, and as a result I always push to incorporate those expenses in the rate.

I’ve known people who have required contractors to track time in 6 minute increments.

If I were king, I would prefer day rates to avoid silly conflicts. Alas, I am not.
Why birth year is not enough? Or birth year and month :)
I have a friend who had his out and is in that roughly one-in-ten group of people who have to stick pretty close to a restroom, even years later. Due to that, when I landed in the hospital due to an infected and unhappy gallbladder, I decided against removal for myself and spent some time digging up actual studies on how to dissolve the gallstones. After all, I could always have it cut out later. Brought a treatment regimen and highlights of the primary sources to my physician, who gave me the green light for a course of treatment.

About a year after, I had to see a different physician for insurance purposes. He mentioned that he had, in twenty-eight years of practice, never seen anyone who had gone ahead and spent the time trying to dissolve the stones. I suspect, because removal is the "tonsillectomy of abdominal surgeries," they just all default to yanking it out.
I am left split between choosing between gog which support drm free games but seemingly don't give a shit about linux and valve which allow drm but literally have multiple people dedicated to making linux gaming better. Recently a valve developer submitted a patch to linux which fixed a regression in a logitech gaming device driver. None of that has anything to do with valve and yet they pay people to do it anyway.

For now at least I will be sticking with valve and if for some reason my access ever gets cut off I will pirate a copy of every game I owned.
In all of these cases, I do what I laid out above, I start googling and reading multiple sources about whatever ails me. I may spend a week or so doing research to determine whether my condition is serious or not, I read all of the literature, making sure to understand when possible ailments could be really bad, but also to ground myself and understand the probability distributions of ailments taking a massive turn for the worse. Once I determine that I probably need someone to run some kind of test, or write some kind of medication, I call the doctor.

You arent some kind of high priest, I am allowed to question and understand medicine. I am also not afraid of academic publications, and attempts at belittling me for doing so come from a place of insecurity on your part.

All of that knowledge in your head is on the internet.
given that Total Commander is shareware and only requires you to click a button to acknowledge this, while still being developed, that tool is my advanced file manager on Win and 1st thing I install on a new Android device.
A version from 2019 is at:

http://www.globalnerdy.com/2019/08/22/robert-c-uncle-bob-mar...
There's a pretty vast difference between an N64 being less widely useful because it's hard to source an RCA display (hint: you can buy an RCA to HDMI adaptor cheaply) and N64s including a remote "kill switch" that one day gets flipped, destroying all N64s immediately.

Disney has sabotaged people's property by using (allowing a third party to use) a kill switch, and that shouldn't be acceptable.

If a washing machine called home and checked that it's okay to run each time it was connected to power anew, and one day all of a particular model of washing machine was remotely told to stop working, I'm sure that would make the news.
I don't keep playing lost games, I just resign. Maybe I should because I play mostly bullet, but as you say, you don't really learn anything interesting in those situations.

I do improve playing against better players than me. Like 200 or 300 this year. Maybe it's because I'm more focused when the opponent has a better rating.
Sure, some kind of software might be better, but they didn't even bother to write things down.

This was a deliberate decision to not track and software won't help.
I'm sure you've got a list of 50 or 100 examples handy?
> EDIT: interesting, never thought such a comment would get a downvote... Google brigade?

It breaks more than one of the site guidelines to post like this. Would you mind reviewing them and following them when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"As long as your product is perfectly scalable..." I agree. Usually it's not, and more difficult to get there than people think.
I code, and probably get paid less than I output in value; but what I output would not be nearly as valuable if not for the others that contribute to the company. My boss, having created the initial value, and other investors and shareholders take the overage.
In US terms. What if we look at the same numbers in global terms? Suddenly many of the people complaining about the 1% are the 1% themselves. According to the global rich list website if you earn above $33k a year you're in the top 1% globally by income.
Shouldn't that cover the duration of copyright, at the very least?
Your comment is delightful.
The World Bank Was Warned About Funding Repression in Xinjiang
Quorum clock: leaderless distributed clock
>I don't see the downside here

The downside for Apple is that they want people to be forced to buy new phones from them, not one on the secondhand market from someone else.
Yet people win the lottery every day.

The EFF exists for a reason. Hopefully not a reason that you'll ever personally need, but if that day comes and the hammer comes down on you, you'll be thankful people prepared for that situation.
No shit. Twitter user complaining about his data being subpoena by a court of law with due process in an active investigation.

In most dictatorships you would be dragged out of your house and shot because you didn’t like the same toothpaste as your “dear leader”. The author needs to get a clue. Go live in North Korea.
AWS has AMD offerings. That's plenty foot in the door.
"Income inequality is an enormous problem. What do you use it for?"

Some of this stuff is gold
Remote (or distributed) worker at a company mostly in a single building. I wish I was worried about the stuff in this article. I’m just lucky when I don’t have to beg for a call in number.

After a bunch of terrible calls with antiquated desk phones on speaker, I asked to have some of the conference phones in the main building upgraded just to the poly on conference phones (couple hundred dollars each). Was told no. So instead we waste way more money with expensive engineers trying to make out what is being said.

All video cameras on company equipment are disabled. By corporate policy, they previously only worked on skype, which is only internal to the company. When I asked why they were disabled, I was told that it was to protect proprietary information. Everyone carries around a personal cell phone capable of transmitting video to anywhere in the world and that is okay, but locked down company hardware that can only transmit in company is too much of a risk.

I asked for a few small surface hubs to do video conferencing on, and was told no. Then they spent more money to buy one big one and put it by the executives, with restrictions on who can use it, so it is never used.

I could keep going.
That makes sense conceptually, but it’s effectively flat rate billing for a deliverable. The problem with that is that contracting isn’t high margin, and the contractor is absorbing a lot of risk, and doesn’t give the customer an incentive to deliver their obligations. If the contractor is smart, that risk is built into the rate.

Hourly billing isn’t an issue, poor governance is. Few contractors will actively try to feather their beds, as their reputation will suffer.
By default you can only set two service settings: Enabling sshd, or not.

And sshd is, by default:

- not exploitable by this bug

- PF rules are not set for incoming connections

The X issue. By default:

- PF doesn't accept any connection to X ports to

anything not coming from lo0, localhost interface

Smtpd. By default:

- it just listens on localhost

- there is no forwarding

- PF rules aren't enabled
The kernel patchset I was referring to is https://github.com/google/capsicum-linux - it's a Linux version of Capsicum. Though now that I look at it more closely, it appears to no longer be maintained. :(

That said, the Bytecode Alliance stuff appears to be multi-language, so that's neat! I could see that making WASM runtimes pretty useful even outside the web.
CVE-2019-14899 - Inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections
Only after having lost in an Australian court relatively recently?
> I don't even understand why people use antivirus software.

I don't understand how you can be even the littlest bit technically literate and not know several answers to this question

1) legitimate software you normally use gets compromised. See ccleaner

2) in the IoT era, there are multiple ingress and lateral move pivot points in networks, like smart tvs

3) aside from malware, there are lots of PUPs that get bundled and eventually end up on computers

4) phishing is still a thing. Legitimate email accounts get compromised (database breaches, eg) and _people you know_ can send you viruses that look barely out of the ordinary. It happened to my users today

Even if you have gateway/hardware antivirus, defense in depth is still a thing. Dont ever tell people not to have anti-virus, thats terrible advice
Anyone in the medical profession who denies the existence of biofilms, and their capacity to harbor antibiotic resistant infections is an idiot.

There's plenty of research to explain how late stage Lyme disease can evade antibiotics, and cause a longterm chronic infection.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6287027/

https://rawlsmd.com/health-articles/understanding-biofilm

The science is clear that the spirochetes that cause Lyme disease can and do hide within biofilms and evade antibiotics.

As someone who has Lyme disease, and who has undergone multiple therapies to overcome it I can tell you that biofilms and persister cells are the reason for chronic Lyme disease. It is very real, perfectly logical, and the science on how Lyme disease becomes chronic is overwhelming and supported by medical research.
JavaScript has been polluting the server side for quite some time now. Blowback was inevitable.
Tires are the dominant factor in my experience. (In deep snow ground clearance is also a significant factor.) Many videos [1], [2] on youtube corrobrate this.

For the non-professional drivers on public roads, AWD is not a safety feature. It's arguably dangerous as it gives false confidence as you exceed the limits of your equipment.

It does provide a convenience at low speeds (e.g. parking lots and driveways) as it makes it more difficult to get stuck but even there tires and ground clearance are the dominant factors.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC1E2eDt1JY
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXjzYbpt9Ow
Another way to think of it is the value you get paid as an employee, should reflect how much the labour market values you. I don't think it's fair to say it's unavoidably exploitative.

For every Ryan (OP) who started their own project and succeeded, there are many more who failed (or gave up too early) and lost money they would have earned if they worked for an employer.

Risk always have a premium, so taking risk (starting your own thing) will have a higher expected payoff; at the cost of more variance (risk).
Those ideas are well refuted in the research I mentioned. You’re assuming the researchers spending their life careers on this haven’t considered a point you came up with in five minutes?

> the research suggests that almost 70 per cent of all the carbon stored in trees is accumulated in the last half of their lives

https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080910/full/news.2008.1092....

http://www.flanderstoday.eu/current-affairs/old-diverse-fore...
U.S. kids want to be famous on YouTube; Chinese kids want to go to space: survey
Folding smartphone to be sold by Pablo Escobar
Only in the sense that predictive global economic theories are equally as un-testable as predictive global climate theories, at least in the traditional sense of comparing experimental results against a control group.

And demanding relatively drastic policy changes based on said theories, in comparison to policies influenced by other areas of science.

I could see that logic carrying over.
AppKit is pretty deeply MVC. I generally prefer to just work with the underlying APIs than try to invent a new paradigm on top of them. With VC containment I feel like I have enough abstraction power already.
The other possibility is one side of the border.
Security is the study of control. LangSec and PL have their role to play, but, as others have noted, cannot be expected to guarantee security.
"I have nothing to do with startups but everything to do with my original statement."

Source:
https://www.parrot.vc/-LumCfM7z4sQiNiXMJIU
But then a German court ruled otherwise, so the jurisprudence doesn't seem to be clear yet?
I've used this with .NET and it works well.
Amazon's stock has fluctuated with political focus on the company. It dropped for a whole month this year I believe -- I don't have the figures on hand. You are right that many Americans have a greedy consumer mindset, but also many Americans don't feel like they have a choice. With 70% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, that doesn't leave room for wallet activism. While what you are saying is principled, I think the full circumstances of the economy and consumer conditions prevent them from expressing their sentiment in the market as you suggest.
QBASIC also had two addictive games - nibble (the snake game) and gorilla. I progressed from these to Prince of Persia and later Doom.
Peter Norton’s books introduced me to the secrets of the PC. IIRC, he also had a book that explained how to do TSR (terminate, but stay resident) DOS programs.
I don't see a solution other than every application being launched in a separate container, exposing only what the user explicitly gives access to, similar to how mobiles applications require permissions. We have the technology, eg. cgroups & unshare on Linux; what's missing is something that plumbs all these brittle pieces into a secure application launcher made for desktop (rather than server/cloud) usage.
Indeed, have they given any refunds for (the few) Windows XP-only games when Steam dropped support for that OS ?
I also meant the apparent distance to all my troubles was significantly greater.
There’s a good chance some of them are. Or Drupal, which is very similar.
> it leaves me questioning what the value of doing really hard technology is as a startup.

OK socialist boomer.
I have to ask, how does it feel investing so much time into something that just evaporated overnight?

Do you think your skills can translate to other games?

FWIW, I'm a big fan of the speedrunning community: Karl Jobst, Calebhart, kosmic, etc. I can't imagine what it would be like if, say, FF7 stopped working due to DRM and Caleb had to switch games. He'd be alright, but most of his audience comes to see FF7.

EDIT: It sounds like people have patched the game to work without SecuROM. Do you think that might coax new players into the scene? One positive way to look at this is that it's free advertising for this particular game.
Please don't break the site guidelines like that regardless of how strongly you feel about enterprise software and programmers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Apple is actually one of the early investors in ARM

This is such an understatement. From Wikipedia: The company was founded in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd and structured as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and VLSI Technology.

Apple is a cofounder of ARM.
tkhtml.tcl.tk: an experimental modern web browser written in Tcl/tk
Qualcomm builds a bigger, better in-screen fingerprint reader
Ask HN: FAANG vs. Future Unicorn Startup
Thoughts? I don't have experience at startups or FAANGs, but have an offer at a startup that's likely to be big. At the same time, I have a job offer making more money than I've ever made in my entire life at a FAANG.

I'm ancient, hit my 30s. Would love a big exit in several years with a startup, but would appreciate the stability of being with a FAANG. Need to decide in the next few days I think. If I were 25, I would do startup all the way. Maybe.

What would you do: 30% chance of a big startup exit with good salary (200k+) vs 100% chance of 400-500ish per year with FAANG in total package? No kids, if that helps.
I still don't understand how making a purchased company responsible for the debt of its own purchase is legal:

> Getty’s private-equity owners had financed the purchase of Getty with massive debt — $2.6 billion in the case of Carlyle — which became Getty’s debt.
An early Google employee filmed inside the company’s garage office in 1998
Artificial Intelligence by Lex Fridman
> AVX-512 debuted on Xeon because datacenter operators asked for it.

It deputed on workstation accelerator cards.

> It does not “downclock a whole chip”, it gates the core where it is active and there’s not even that penalty on the current generation parts.

It very much could thermally throttle more than the one core.

> “10nm” is marketing fluff which has little or nothing to do with actual semiconductor construction.

"10nm", even as a proper noun, is a very important component of Intel's woes right now. They aren't getting the yields they were expecting, a major competitor surpassed the for the first time ever (TSMC) and that's how AMD is killing them right now.

> “Chiplet” is also marketing-speak for “wow this memory topology is hard to program around “. Not sure they should feel too bad about missing that boat.

No, it's marketing-speak for "near EUV process nodes have terrible yields compared to previous nodes, and need smaller dies combined on a multi chip module to get anything worthwhile for an acceptable cost". Current EPYC chips are a single NUMA node again, but still chiplets. They are absolutely kicking themselves for not bucking the trend and going chiplet, because then they would have been competitive with TSMC for yield/area. Single chips is putting all your eggs in one basket, but splitting the dies means you throw away way less chips. (Another way out is FPGAs and GPUs that practically can bin off way more of the chip).

> And the bets they made didn’t pan out: FPGAs aren’t popular because the people sophisticated enough to use them are also smart enough to tape out ASICs.

FPGAs are very interesting in a post Moore's law world. Their ability to dynamically reconfigure makes them interesting in cases where ASICs don't make sense. High level logic can be treated like code from a continuous delivery perspective (like Alibaba does with their memcache like FPGAs sitting on RDMA fabric). Data can be encoded in combinatorial logic and treated like any other infrastructure deployments (like Azure does with their routing CAMesque logic in their SDN FPGAs). ASICs don't give you anywhere near that flexibility, even in a world where they're a commodity. Don't confuse their tooling immaturity for a lack of usefulness.

> IoT is not a thing.

It's very much a thing; once again just an extremely immature ecosystem. Once high end CPUs are commidities that can been shopped around from each of the fabs, IoT external customer designs will almost certainly be a very important revenue stream for Intel. A modern fab is nothing to sneeze at, basically only countries with $20B to spend will have one, so we'll be seeing one or two per continent. It won't make sense for anyone else in the US to compete. As for how that affects IoT, tiny nodes will be amazing for little smart dust chips once the capital investment of these end nodes has been paid off.
Cipher Machines
The Mind of a Productivity Master (Tiago Forte)
Iran Targets Mideast Oil with ZeroCleare Wiper Malware
/me waves at the nsa
"they have loads of sponsors knocking at their door that are all offering similar (large) amounts of money, so they're free to pick the one they honestly like."

I profoundly doubt this. It is a tiny set of sponsors who keep the entire podcast industry afloat, and remarkably every podcaster is just a great fan of that tiny set. It's transparent and profoundly disingenuous. It's an old school friend now bothering you to buy their MLM bullshit candles or knick knacks.

But again, I have absolutely no doubt that each and every one of those podcasters have convinced themselves that they thoroughly considered every option and this foam bed (indistinguishable from any other) at a huge premium, this fear-mongering VPN, this insurance option, this piece of luggage, etc, are all simply the best for their listeners. One would have to be profoundly gullible to actually believe that.

From an ethical perspective, if a podcast is doing this tactic they deserve every skip they get.

On the scale of scumbaggery, tracking ads that pitch to my profile are a world less vile than the current podcast pitch.
> Failing open would make the DRM useless if you could trick the client into thinking the contract was expired.

Depends on the kind of failure.

You could have failure-to-reach-SecuROM fail closed, but you could have publisher-no-longer-has-a-license-with-SecuROM fail open (serverside at SecuROM).

The latter is probably better from SecuROM's standpoint: it makes end-users less likely to avoid SecuROM protected content.

On the other hand, it doesn't make end-users scream at their customers that have failed to renew.