skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, all 17 intelligence agencies confirmed Russia meddled in the 2016 election.

The Republican minority report from the House intelligence committee also agrees Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
Here is the full changelog https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3...

It is a signal for many people to move to 3.8
I can't reconcile that with America's stated goal of promoting democracy in those same countries.
I've seen good things about this:

https://www.turingtumble.com/
Correlation is all we have to go on mostly.

If A causes B and B causes C then we can only say that A and C are correlated. If the average chain of causality is 4 long then the Bs outnumber the As and Cs.

Inductive (observation) evidence is more available than deductive (purely logical) evidence. Why limit yourself to only deductive evidence?

I don't have to resort to a chemistry lesson to convince you that drinking bleach would be very harmful, right? Can't I merely show you photos of bleach-bellied-corpses?
State Department employee used Embassy computer to sell counterfeit handbags
William Ebeltoft Obituary
They don't. Ultimately, it's Microsoft's fault for giving in
Error correction also adds some latency.
all the people shitting on Tesla suddenly very quiet now.
In all 25 years I've used computers, I can't recall having a PC that took more than a minute to POST. Ever. My current PC's fast boot is fast enough that it looks like the computer turns on and goes straight to Windows.

Maybe I've just gotten really lucky...
To me it seems like the winners of 2019 are:

- GraphQL

- Jest
multipass is virtualization (KVM, Hyper-V, etc) and not containers.
It's not clear that a computer storing input data and then modifying future computations based on that data and storing the results of that computation and using it to modify further computations is at all remarkable to start with.

If there is nothing inherently remarkable beyond scale then no hand waving needed.
No one ever got fired for choosing IBM... i mean AWS
>They'll fake an anonymous tip in order to get a real warrant for surveilling that conversation.

The reason this works is because of the Good-faith exception[0]. The police acting on the tip, must investigate first. The investigation can lead to a finding which gains a search warrant. The executed warrant finds above and beyond the tip so The state is notified.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-faith_exception
Yea what is generating the power for those motors?
I'm in a room right now that has an HDMI cable on a little pug infront the TV. Unfortunately I never remember to bring my USB-C to HDMI adapter when I stay here.
Redux is quickly being relegated to pile of don't use. I suspect 2020's survey result will show hooks to have completely destroyed redux.
And, at least where I live, the need for the locals to put lift kits on trucks without some downward adjustment of their headlamps.
Also, it stops the client from hammering at the server...but this is a very inelegant way do do it, and devs would rightfully complain of such crude measures, so it might be necessary to frame it differently ;)
I suppose I'm advocating for prevention instead of treatment and what the ideal conditions would be for good mental health so that treatment could be avoided in the first place.
I love FT8, but I think Cliff would probably find it a bit boring. It's too automated, it's basically computers talking to each other.

To an introvert like myself, it's cool. I love seeing how far I can get (with my 40m Z-dipole mounted in my single story attic -- i.e. too low, and hiding inside a building -- I've gone 5150 miles on 10 watts).

But it doesn't offer the challenges (and rewards) as CW, or even SSB phone.
There's https://riot.im/app/#/room/#hn:matrix.org, but it's sadly very dead and not bridged anywhere useful. Is there actually a good chat community for HN anywhere?
Related: I was bored last Sunday, so I decided to install Sublime Text. I'm normally a VS Code user, but VS Code is built on Electron and it felt a little sluggish for certain files, so I wanted to give something else a try.

I've been using Sublime all week and it feels like an engineering masterpiece. Everything is instantly responsive. It jumps between files without skipping a beat. My battery lasts longer. (I don't want to turn this into an editor debate, though. Just a personal example.)

If you would've asked me a month ago, I would've said that engineers cared too much about making things performant to the millisecond. Now, I would say that many of them don't care enough. I want every application to be this responsive.

I never realized how wasteful web tech was until I stopped using it. And I guess you could say the same for a lot of websites – we bloat everything with node_modules and unnecessary CSS and lose track of helping our users accomplish their goals.
>there was a huge exodous to reddit.

If I remember correctly it had to do with its UI redesign rather than favouring big publication?
> Standard Model particle names

Which names are you talking about? Nothing comes to my mind.
shopify is slow it doesnt matter how they manage their api...
>I don't think one can fake an entire community

I remember that was how plentyoffish started.
>If algorithms are gamed they'll have to be modified to be resistant to gaming

As far as I know, nobody in computer science has come up with a ranking algorithm that can't be gamed to render the algorithm useless. (Unless the so-called algorithm is a trivial case such as the runner with the fastest time across the finish line is the "winner" of the race.) For a multi-criteria algorithm that approximates a hazy idea like "video quality" that uses various signals as proxies for quality, the algorithm's exact source code must be kept a secret. Yes, you can publicize broad outlines of what the algorithm does but you can't reveal the actual code (or the actual machine learning weights, etc).

Yes, an algorithm like a SHA256 hash source code can be made transparently public and still can't be "abused" such that a bad actor can make the string "DEADBEEF" appear anywhere they want in the output hash. This class of algorithm behaves differently than ranking/recommendation algorithms.
ahh thanks for that, I misread the survey notes on that.
Mobile Services Turned Off in Delhi to Clamp Down on Anti-Muslim Law Protests
Just don't make breaking changes. It's really not that hard.
Glenn Greenwald is massively partisan. It’s evident by omission, in the things he /doesn’t/ cover. He’s a constitutional lawyer, FFS, and yet he is silent on the abuses of power of Trump and the GOP. Considering how many of his critical articles against the FBI and the Democrats are built on a supposed respect for the rule of law, one might expect the epic and overt corruption of the party in power to warrant some of his attention... but he is silent. I wouldn’t be surprised if he starts spewing Russian propaganda talking points.
I have heard this argument before. Personally i don't agree. If you are a content creator and your content is available for free online, is it not your goal to have the content shared as widely as possible?

A lot of tools/services we use today (eg: Google, Facebook, Reddit) were built without asking for permission. Reddit co-founder Alexis talked a lot about this in his book https://withouttheirpermission.com
Well, television can also be informative. Documentaries are a start, but how many of us were glued to the TV on Sept 11, 2001, attempting to glean truth from the rumors?

Not exactly an entertaining day on television.
There is a lot of bunk in that number considering the fact that only 4 of them are intelligence agencies and the context of the answer. That said, of course, Russia meddled in our election. The support Hillary and Trump not to get one elected but to promote a split in this country and we fell for it like morons!
What was missing from the original 3.8 release?
Yea the SR-71 has very poor lift at slow speeds because of its lack of wing hence why it needs the chines on the forward section of the fuselage.
I don't see the strategic value in denying it happened. It's pretty obvious. I think most people on the right who aren't in the hyper-partisan bandwagon would agree with that.

We should be concerned if it did happened regardless of political ideology.

It'd be much easier to focus efforts on simply discrediting how much it really mattered. Most reports said the Russians spent around $20M on ads which considering both sides campaigns had about a billion each, not to mention the invaluable endless free media coverage over two years most presidential elections take... you can draw your own conclusions.
This has gone full circle and LXD is starting to support virtual machines in addition to system containers.

I was expecting that the multipass project would be absorbed by LXD but it does not look like that would be the case.
Is gravitational lensing ruled out (i.e. the idea that when these sources were found, their images were abnormally brightened or displaced through lensing by an object relatively close to Earth (close enough that relative motion and parallax accounts for the disappearance.))
We disabled merge commits on all of our repositories on Github, and rebase is used seldom - meaning that when you do merge you are presented with an edit box for the squashed commit message. This incentivises one to actually write good prose inside that box. We are not perfect but getting there.
i know, i know, be constructive... but hey, shopify with +10k products is so slow they can version whatever they want...
> We'll see the same happen here. As "supremacy" becomes unacceptable, other words will rise to describe the same phenomenon, and then they'll become unacceptable, and we'll rotate gradually through ever-more-complex words and phrases to describe things.

Why it happens is important. Each new 'word rung' on the euphemism treadmill is a signaling device we use to separate the 'good people' from the 'bad people.' It's a way that people compete socially.

Don't look at the phenomenon, look at the forces behind the phenomenon. The velocity of the treadmill rises and falls with the amount of social competition in a culture.
They are using a hosted provider, run by the makers of Matrix themselves. This lets them get the benefits of federation while making the hosting someone else's problem.

Of course, we all want to see Mozilla bootstrap their own Matrix instance, but maybe the cost/benefit equation worked out differently for them than we would have expected. I can imagine this lets them replace IRC with a better solution faster while still supporting the development of an open standard by becoming a client of the company that's developing it.

Does this forebode something more sinister? I hope not...
It makes me sad that gaslighting your users/customers/the general public is par for course in building a business.

Absolutely disgusting.
Can you tell me more about the modular.im behaviour/policy towards federation? Is it explicitly turned off?

Also, IRC has federation too by having multiple servers in a network. IIRC Mozilla hadn't allowed you to do this for moznet did they? So how is this different?
This has been true of all media since the dawn of media. Youtube has nothing to do with it
> Why work part time your whole life when you can work full time and retire at 40?

How high is the percentage of people who work full time and are able to retire at 40?

My guess: Not very

I'm not sure what kind of biased view you have but that's absolutely not what's common.
Someone should go rot in jail. Maybe a lot of people. We're talking about many lives here. Eventually someone in the chain of command knew or should have know this.
If Mozilla will use their own domain name they will be free to move their federated Matrix instance wherever they want. Modular.im will only provide the hosting expertise. I expect that in the future self-hosting your own Matrix server instance will become much easier.
Pretty much this:

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/64/9f/29/649f29232b7d89e9aee662222...
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here, and assume you're asking this in good faith. The answer is a resounding "yes".

1. On social media, the IRA (Russia's Internet Research Agency) posed as Americans on Twitter and Facebook, and was ordered to amplify and provoke political and social discord in the United States. They organized political rallies (including "Blue Lives Matter") and fake Facebook groups, complete with convenient memes, unwittingly shared by people like Donald Trump Jr., Kellyanne Conway, Michael Flynn, etc.

2. The GRU hacked into email accounts owned by volunteers and employees of the Clinton campaign. They also hacked into the DNC and DCCC and released the stolen emails and documents to Wikileaks.

3. There were 140 contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials around the 2016 election.

I suggest you read the Mueller report if you're actually curious about this.
They just put up a blog post going over their progress https://www.ruma.io/news/these-weeks-in-ruma-2019-12-14/
> That's not post-hoc rationalization. That's the stated reason. That's also clearly the reason if you take an inventory of the facts on hand.

The stated reason can obviously be a post-hoc rationalization. It's entirely possible that she crossed a line her employer drew after the fact.

> That's not my position and I don't appreciate this distortion.

Well, if you could clarify, that would be great. It's clear to me that there's some moral component to your position, given your language:

>>> she's untrustworthy

>>> [she] betrayed the trust that her position entitled her to.

> She doesn't have the right to assert her interpretation of law and morality on the entire corporation.

(I should note that it's not her interpretation, it is the law.)

> I would argue her action is narcissim and attention-seeking

I does sound like you feel that her overriding moral obligation was to serve her employers to their satisfaction, and that it was a strong moral violation to take a fairly anodyne action that caused her employers some discomfort. No money was lost, no security systems breached, no confidential data exposed. The only thing that happened was a few people saw a required legal notice that her employers would rather have people forget about.
One nitpick on the transfer. DO offers 5TB which at $.12/GB on GCP would be $600 worth of transfer not $8. If you need lots of egress DO wins hands down.

Realistically few are going to need the full 1TB and most will be closer to 2-10% on average (my guess from hosting industry experience).
That doesn't really work. What is "yourself" in that statement, other than a conscious entity?

How would you write a computer program that "tells that story to itself," such that it actually has an experience of the world, as opposed to just being a machine executing a program without any conscious awareness?

Edit: also, whether we're in charge of our thoughts is a separate question from whether we possess consciousness. Even if we're not in charge of our thoughts, we still have a conscious experience of them.
Who takes offense at santa? Are you so afraid of Muslims that you have to completely changed your way of life?
History repeats itself. LBJ knew that Nixon and Kissinger had sabotaged the Vietnam peace talks, and almost certainly ensured LBJ would lose to Nixon at the voting booths, but couldn't do anything because he came to know about the sabotage by questionable FBI techniques.

We can both blame the FBI for domestic misbehavior, and simultaneously recognize that, as LBJ put it, "Dammit, it's treason!" when Nixon and Kissinger interfered in foreign policy in order to sway an election. Or when Trump and Giuliani do it.
Obviously one should try to avoid poverty, debts and early death. But if you are truly dedicated to your creative field, then sure, it's clearly the correct choice. Having a family, buying a house and other middle-class living standards are choices, not necessities. If someone isn't willing to make some sacrifices for their art, perhaps they aren't meant to be great at it in the first place.

Otherwise, when will you pursue your art? In the next life?
And it's just comparing virtual machines. I don't work at a big tech co -- I'm an enterprise dev working at smaller shops -- and I will try my best to never use virtual machines again.

I want serverless options, I want message queues that scale out of the box, I want stuff that lets me try different k8s configurations.

And I haven't done any research so I guess it's unfair for me to speculate, but will the small guys be guaranteed to be around in 5-10 years? I'm sure Azure, AWS and GCP aren't going anywhere any time soon.

So the comparison means nothing to me. Getting more hosting is way easier than getting new programmers. I'm going the lowest maintenance route I can, provided the costs are somewhat reasonable. I'm willing to pay a premium because stability and easy-to-use features is what I care about.
Yeah, a great loss to Cog Sci, I love his humour too
I've administered both XMPP and Matrix servers and I must say I don't see either as much of a hassle. Synapse had some growing pains but is pretty painless for me these days.
> Pinker also talks about the "Euphemism Treadmill", where words that were specific medical terms turned into general insults and became unusable because of it ("spastic" in my lifetime has gone from a medical description, to a playground insult, to being effectively unusable, a non-word).

Thanks for posting that. I've seen many occurrences of this pattern in American English, but I never hard a name for it.
I'm not saying that your particular software running on your machine would produce a subjective experience. Quake at 3 billion frames per second doesn't equal self awareness.

I'm saying that your hypothetical gaming rig because it can simulate any type of classical computation including running a simulation of your brain and thus would be sufficient given a programmer.
I made no implication that contemporary rural life is superior or in any way comparable to historical rural life.

Edit: I guess I'm being pedantic at this point. My personal position is industrial agriculture is failing rapidly and that the modern world will reconcile with the fact that either we will all starve, or learn how to farm again. I spend half the year working on an organic farm, and my life is immeasurably better than when I'm in the city (which is of course, only my personal subjective datum which and I realize how much HN hates anecdote as evidence)
In my experience, it is the overworked teams that are the ones hiring. They need more people to do work, and overworked teams have higher attrition. This is even if you don't have a bad persistent problem (bad manager/toxic environment). Functional, stable teams usually don't add people once they are full and people don't leave often.
You mean the DNC hack where they wouldn't let the FBI investigate and their own investigate company blamed it on the Russians but they wouldn't share the evidence? These were all leaks from inside.
Israeli spyware allegedly used to target Pakistani officials' phones
> 'write once run anywhere'

That's the biggest lie ever, with these newfangled "cross-platform" solutions.

I want to watch the guy who has to sit down and port electron to a platform it doesn't run on yet. It's just a few lines of code, right?

Java had the same problem, everyone who ran Linux in early 2000s remembers. It's still not something I would want to port, but at least it runs on more systems ootb than electron.
They were supposed to pay the Uzbeks for access to the base (an old Soviet base) for the Afghanistan war. In the mid-2000s, when it came time to pay the Uzbeks (about $500 million, if memory serves), the Americans decided the Uzbeks were terriss and opted not to pay. The Uzbeks hated the US after that. Absolutely loathed.

(I ended up living there for a year at the end of 2005, so my recollection of details around the finances might be spotty, but my recollection of having Uzbeks explain why it was so fucked up what we did, I will live with forever.)
Aren't you just describing a lower-priced cloud provider?
... His name is Christian.
Sure they aren't, but they don't want it to be a big hassle when it turns out a few years later, they actually need those features.

My employer is okay with paying an extra $10k/mo for stability and predictability.
How does one visit the Mozilla channel on it? No links anywhere in there or in Mozilla's post. Is the discussion channel publicly visible?

(excuse me if channel is not the correct terminology)
> "provide valuable feedback and commit to it"

I would add that it's important to remember TO WHOM the feedback should be valuable. Something you need to get off your chest? Worthless to the receiver. It should have undeniable value to the person receiving the feedback. Like "I care about you so you need to know that this is being done wrong and it will make your life better if it's correct"
It's not guessing poorly that is the problem.

The problem is guessing poorly, and making it cumbersome for the user to override your guess.
Yes? See the fracturing of what HTML browsers supported in the 90s, or what happened to XMPP, for example.
> ... contrasting work against life, which is silly. Work is merely a part of life

Work and life are contrasted for good reason: my time does not belong to me when I'm working -- it belongs to my employer. And, for good reason, the employer-employee relationship is asymmetrical. It's as simple as that.

Of course, if you run your own company or own a significant stake in the company you're at, then it's true that "work is part of life." But that's not a reasonable default position.
>This happens without it being public knowledge and is commonly referred to as SEO.

I'm not claiming that absolutely zero gaming is possible. For all the successes that the SEO industry achieves, it's still a version of the proverbial blind men (SEO experts) feeling different parts of a giant elephant (the opaque Google algorithm). That's why SEO practitioners still get blindsided by new search engine changes by Google.
A lot of the fuel efficiency of modern aircraft comes from having giant turbofans instead of turbojets. By attaching a giant fan the front of your compressor and redirecting most of the air around the engine you can get great efficiency at subsonic speeds. However, the nature of the fan has fundamental limitations when approaching the speed of sound and turbo/ram jets are basically just pouring gas in a tube of precompressed air.
I don't generally bother. I like to challenge my immune system once in a while to keep it in fighting condition.
Sorry, this is a bit late.

To build Ardour "correctly" requires patches to some of the libraries we use. These patches will never be upstreamed, for a variety of reasons (the most notable: GTK+2 is EOL at this point; next most notable: the patch actually changes the behavior of the library in ways that that we need, but are debatable from a general purpose perspective).

By building against the standard libraries, certainly (typically subtle) behaviors no longer work.

In addition, they get the packaging wrong - not including certain files, not building certain modules.
Indeed. I generally agree with Greenwald in who he targets for attack, but what he chooses to defend is too broad, to the point where I wonder if some self-deception is involved.

If I recall correctly he was also defending Wikileaks against the charge that it timed its releases to hurt Hillary Clinton. Even if you agree with Wikileaks' general agenda, it's obvious they were timing things for maximum impact.

It's the same with Russian interference. It's actually their job to interfere, and it would be easy for him to acknowledge that and still maintain his criticism of targets.
What's the point of bringing Russia here at all? Yes Russia interfered. So did Israel and China. What's your point?