skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of charging of specific foreign military or intelligence personnel for hacking US institutions is somewhat controversial in the US intelligence community [1].

Their worry is that foreign countries will eventually retaliate by charging people who are involved in US government programs to hack those foreign countries.

Another worry is that indicting people might give away information information about your sources and methods.

[1] https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/natio...
This is just mild espionage.

The USA engages in actual military campaigns in jurisdictions with whom it is not formally at war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unit...
Here’s a question: when my old tv dies, where can I even get a new non-smart tv? I haven’t seen a new one sold in years now
>orthogonal

ergonomic?
I will have to disagree. FluxML is indeed great, but it changes often and it does not support many of the advanced features of TensorFlow (neither is there a package that seamlessly works with Flux in order to support these features). It is getting there, but Tensorflow v2 is pretty great itself, and frequently faster. But FluxML might soon be as good or better.

Also, to be fair, FluxML is backed by a couple of people while Tensorflow is backed by megacorps, so it is already impressive how much they have done.
Normal people buy Cable. Paid+ads is a valid business model used by many firms. It doesn't surprise me at all that _consumers_ are willing to purchase an OS product with ads - it does surprise me that no ad-free version is available for enterprises at additional cost.
I assume it could be done by having a "library" of such trivial statements. It's like in programming: we wouldn't want to deal with trivialities like how to decode utf8 or deal with files in a high level app, so we use libraries/APIs. You have to memorize them to some extent, but there can be autocomplete, documentation etc, just like in programming. Surely it needs a different mentality compared to old fashioned idealist type math people who may dislike such mechanization as taking the "soul and art" out of pencil and paper math, but I think the new generation of math people do have more overlap with CS-like thinking and they would be onboard.
No mention of the role of Noah Webster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Blue-backed_spell... in standardizing American grammar and spelling, and probably trickling down to bringing pronunciations closer together across the states and regions. Sure spelling is after the pronunciation fact, but his work must have had an influence on standardizing pronunciation.
Minor plug for a vendor I've used with great success for a long time: Rock Auto, don't even try to deal with Amazon for specific parts. Their website is a nice throw back to actual usability too.
How were they identified exactly?

If they made it public, they could never do it again.

You don't see foreign governments identifying individual NSA employees when the NSA hacks into something...

I suspect that it does happen, but most people don't know about it because that requires knowing another language, and then regularly keeping up with the media of another country in that language.
Moving towards new processes can fix old problems. technology only helps if it slots into a process bottleneck and 10x it.

But changing processes is way more about the human capital than it is about any technology solution. People have vested interests to do what they're doing, or to keep doing what they've always done, or to angle for this position or another.

Frankly, if they're already at the staging of planning to make the investment, I wouldn't bother. People are telling a story, about who they are and who they will be, and they're buying out of that story. If they're already bought into that story, they don't want education.

Sorry, I know it sounds defeatist, but it'll save you aggro by just shrugging and accepting that's where they're at.
“I made an operating system UI within Unity”
Maybe some non-device inventions: the staff system; the germ theory of disease; currency without a gold standard; public health; public education
Zen CPUs are notoriously broken on Linux and AMD doesn't seem to care. If you ever try to install Linux on a first-get Ryzen box and want an uptime longer than 3 days, you'll want to keep this handy:

https://github.com/qrwteyrutiyoup/ryzen-stabilizator
You forgot Palm!

Palm screwed up by failing to replace their ageing OS in time. IIRC they bought the remains of BeOS, built a next-gen PalmOS on top, then panicked in the face of short term cash-flow, sold the development group, tried something else -- failed -- tried to buy it back again, and had to pulled out from under them. At which point the only way out was to buy someone else's OS. They gambled on Windows Mobile (in whatever incarnation it was at the time) then hit the buffers when a frankly rubbish OS running on the Treo phones (which were nice, for thumb-keyboard devices) ran headfirst into the iPhone.

(PalmOS 4+ was a moderately mac-like -- classic original MacOS, not OSX -- handheld operating system. Mac-like and crashed like a 68K Mac too, alas. But if they'd been able to build on their GUI/user interface chops with a modern OS they might have been able to get on board with the touchscreen trend.)
When discovered. Its like a spy being arrested - always an embarrassment, usually leveraged to get some concession.
I believe it is actually the TOML format which was obviously inspired by .ini files.

TOML has a formal standard while ini files have no formal standard being the big difference.
Was part of an ASP->ASP.net conversion project whose project plan amounted to: “load it up in Visual Studio, switch from ASP VB to VB.net, edit until all red underlines are removed from the codebase. Should take 6-12 weeks.”

3 years later, we were almost done.
That's exactly the kind of thing I would expect of Taika Waititi.

He sounds like such a bloke. Like you could go drinking with him. (But then again people said that about Bush, and how did that turn out)
Reasons to start working for free as a designer
Searching for OMSCS on ddg, the second link, gives me a guys perspective on why he had to quit after joining OMSCS -

https://www.jameskerti.com/omscs-georgia-tech/

Any comment on this from your perspective?
Yeaaah, it’s not like the US doesn’t do this https://github.com/649/EQGRP-TrickOrTreat/tree/master/pitchi...

It’s ridiculous how many people here seem to think China is somehow special as far as this sort of hacking goes.

Shadowbrokers leaks even make it easy to identify specific NSA operators, for example Michael A Pecoraro, Nathan S. Heidbreder, Gennadiy Sidelnikov and a Brian C Fong

Going after specific Chinese individuals means throwing these US operators under the bus.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proton-spin-myste...
https://phys.org/news/2017-03-proton.html
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-proton-puzzle.html
RLM model by Vagenas solves the spin problem easily, some are still trying...that theory of everything based on the standard model is just for hackers... lol
Driverless Nissan LEAF completes 230 mile-journey across UK
South Korea's government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop
I moved to void for similar reasons. Eventually I'll move to openbsd, but void is a nice stepping stone.
Taika Waititi says that MacBook Keyboards should be fixed by Apple
I think there's a far simpler explanation. It's fashionable and writers are not technical people who are aware of the differences.
I'd be very surprised if the US isn't performing similar hacks on China. They're probably just better at covering their tracks.
Part of the calculation of taking these types of jobs should be the consideration that there's a strong chance you'll never be able to visit a foreign country ever again.
I agree that you won't end up with a compatible data structure in every language, but you can read it in and write out a semantically-identical document, which is nice.
I always find my history not complete when using tmux. I started using these functions in my profile to collect everything. I don't remember the source of the functions.

log_bash_persistent_history()
{
[[
$(history 1) =~ ^\ *[0-9]+\ +([^\ ]+\ [^\ ]+)\ +(.*)$
]]
local date_part="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
local command_part="${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
if [ "$command_part" != "$PERSISTENT_HISTORY_LAST" ]
then
echo $date_part "|" "$command_part" >> ~/.persistent_history
export PERSISTENT_HISTORY_LAST="$command_part"
fi
}

run_on_prompt_command()
{
log_bash_persistent_history
}

alias phgrep='cat ~/.persistent_history|grep --color'

I like the idea of a hub, as I do a lot of work inside docker containers and vms -- so this could be tailored to help me collect all my history.
That's right, my memory failed me. Google's anti-competition behavior was limited to preventing companies from distributing both devices with and without their proprietary Play Services at the same time, thus making it almost impossible for hardware manufacturers to support non-Google's AOSP full open-source distributions of Android; which is bad enough as it is.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
If someone reuses one of these boxes to sell their items back to Amazon, Amazon will now have two Amazon barcodes on the box. We're back to square one here.
That sounds like your laptop has a defected battery.
*Chinese government
> we want to be Windows

You mean, we want to be nice Windows, before the Registry?
For what it's worth, I've had a decent career as a self-taught programmer. Over the years, I've absorbed most of a Cs education in the following way:

Whenever I approach a new problem that I don't understand, I take the time to read up on the principles and original work that led to the standard approach to that problem. If the papers reference something I don't understand, I look that up, and so on.

I was doing this before the internet became a useful resource (lots of Library time). it's become much easier now.

It also helps to have a mentor or two who understand the area you're interested in, and who don't mind you taking their time with endless questions.
Researchers Steal Data from Computer Using Monitor Brightness
I still to this day haven't used LinkedIn and refuse to use it, simply because of the dark-patterns they employed years ago with abusive, intrusive, and unsolicited email invites.
Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they're all on this hard drive)
Yeah, the usual size for a minimal Qt with either QWidgets or Qt Quick / QML is about 15 MB.
I'm guessing part of the reason they're willing to ID them is because the DOJ knows this will never actually get to court where they'd have to explain how they found them.
I want to see Windows 11. I would rater pay for a new product update than just have Win 10 forever with ads and tracking. Microsoft stop this bullshit. In my world, your OS is good for one thing: gaming. Even then I have to install an outbound Firewall controller (currently Windows 10 Firewall Control) and spend an hour trying to disable all your shitty adds and phone-home and Cortana rubbish! My Linux box is what I use for anything important.

Microsoft could probably charge an extra $60 for an ad-free, privacy-aware consumer version of Windows 11 and make a considerable amount off that audience. But right now, there is no choice.
Earlier discussion (12 hours ago, over 30 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22286351
The pie chart in [2] implies streaming is << 60% of CO2 from IT. Networks generate ~16% of the CO2 of IT, and only 60% of that is streaming video. TV manufacturing is another 11%.

All device electricity usage is another 20% (there’s no breakdown there, but most of the streaming device electricity goes to the screen, which you’d pay for with broadcast or dvd playback).

Video streaming servers should be relatively low energy vs. the other servers running in the data center.
- Retrieve relevant article text + metadata from a list of URLs

- Just upload a txt file with newline-separated URLs

- Download results in JSON or CSV format

- Your finished jobs persist on any device

- All new accounts get 500 unique URLs to scrape
"switching" give the impression of let go the web. I say "adding".

I work freelance for more than 20+years and have done almost all: Windows Apps, Web Apps, Mobile (iOS, Android), Cloud, nosql, sql, utilities, etc.

Adding an extra to what you have make you stronger. Is a big plus for me to say "I know this and that and that...".

Of course, I have my preferences and strengths, but I can fit in almost any project.
In a free market, yes. Again, "free market" is not the same as "capitalism". The robber barons who got the US government to grant them monopolies of railroad routes in the late 19th century were capitalists; but their revenue was not "dictated by the various consumer demands of mainly individuals and families".
They are guessing.

The case will never go to court. The DOJ knows it so they don't have to have actual evidence.

The indicment is being publicised for political reasons.
I’ve been learning React and have been avoiding Redux out of fear of complexity. However, as my app grows more complex, the need for a global state manager becomes more apparent. Time to start learning Redux today :)
Once you have established a cult - which Apple has undoubtedly succeeded in doing - you can count on irrational following and willingness to suffer from your believers. In a prominent religious community this has worked for two thousand years.
This is actually a huge source of potential litigation. Lawsuits that easily end in settlement given CCPA, GDPR etc. He’s likely not just doing this for his blog.

It’s akin to “Injured at work?” billboards.
AI in Retail
Thanks for clarifying on this. This was not the message I inferred by browsing through the README and the examples.

The wording in the README says that Alpine "offers you the reactive and declarative nature of big frameworks like Vue or React at a much lower cost" which seemed to indicate that it was targeting a similar audience as those libraries.

The intro also didn't really mention anything about it being suited primarily for applications without needing complex composition of logic or any indication of what the authors feel about how big is too big to be suitable for alpine.
All of the major screenwriting programs have been cross-platform for some time.

Honestly I would chalk it up to the cultural cache of Macbook ownership. It's hard to even get a job interview in Hollywood unless your phone number is in the 818 area code. Appearances go a long way in that town as you can imagine.
Not all of us are web developers.
$ man systemd
NAME
systemd, init — systemd **system** and service manager

managing your whole Linux system in an unified way, with a single configuration language to learn, a single syntax for commands, and a shared framework allowing to refer to systemd domain objects (units) from everywhere where they can be relevant (journal, network, fstab, etc) is the raison d'être of systemd. It's why it has been created.
> Is domain distribution patently unbalanced for society as a whole?

Not entirely yet, or it would have already entered the political debate. However, in many ways the proliferation (and success) of alternative TLDs indicates that there is an issue. You shouldn't have to use an Indian Ocean domain because .com is squatted to the wazoo.

We have lived through the land-grab era, sooner or later the redistribution era will come.

> Should everyone be able to get a short dictionary word .com domain?

Considering there are less than a million 4-ascii-letter combinations, obviously not. But there could be more stringent criteria for assignment and revocation, like limits per-company and per-individual, escalating costs in a way that hoarding becomes uneconomical, banning parking (which is absolutely doable, you just need an actual human judge), and so on.
You use to always be able to buy aftermarket parts for a car. Now try buying parts for a Tesla to repair it yourself. It's literally impossible. It's just as bad as trying to get replacements for Apple parts. It's bullshit.
The issue is that "requiring best practice" doesn't really help a lot when people/companies/institutions are simply breaking the law. If I understand correctly from the article: Political parties in Israel receive the information of Israeli voters before the elections and have to protect their privacy and cannot copy, erase or transfer the registry.

But they did, because reasons. It would be nice if they committed their extralegal activities with more care so they create less collateral damage, sure, but the issue is that people/companies/institutions who don't care about law ... don't care about the law.

> At a minimum it would guarantee legal consequences for those companies that are not protecting PII

I understand the sentiment, and I wish that was true. Alas, my experience is that it is not.
Why is indicting foreign nationals for hacking American citizens' data "silly"?
Hello!

I've just started a worker coop last year with some colleagues. We serve for-profit traditional businesses in the cannabis industry, helping them build data and analytics capabilities.

I've wanted to do something like your "second degree" approach, with the goal of creating closer relationships to help guarantee a sustainable long-term lifestyle business.

Do you think you could have gone the "second degree" route if you had served for-profit clients? How did early conversations about this ownership model unfold?

Do you have any advice for others who want to follow your model?

Can new customer-owners join? How does that work with existing customer-owners?

Thank you! Much respect.
Behold my enterprisey Java solution

public static void main2(String[] args) {

final List<String> rooms = new ArrayList<>(Collections.nCopies(MAX_ROOM, "CLOSED"));
int employee = 1;

do {
int roomIndex = employee - 1;
do {
final String roomState = rooms.get(roomIndex);

if (roomState.equals(OPEN)) {
rooms.set(roomIndex, CLOSED);
} else if (roomState.equals(CLOSED)) {
rooms.set(roomIndex, OPEN);
}
roomIndex = roomIndex + employee;
} while (roomIndex < MAX_ROOM);
employee++;
} while (employee <= MAX_ROOM);

for (int i = 0; i < rooms.size(); i++) {
if (rooms.get(i).equals(OPEN)) {
System.out.println("Room " + (i + 1) + " is OPEN");
}
}
}
Ear WAVE EVENT music review website generated by AI
Show HN: Discover the World of Mathematics
I know Chomsky. I went to meet him in MIT several years ago, when I was looking for advisors to Qbix. (Also met Tim Berners-Lee and his team at what was then known as Solid - a similar project to Qbix). The guy responds to email at 2am btw, quite cool for an 85 year old.

As I see it, open source technology IS the great decentralized of power. We just need people to build Good open source software.

My personal passion (which I poured a lot of money into) was qbix.com and intercoin.org . That’s also why I reached out to Andrew Yang back in early 2018 when he announced running and met him in May 2018. We agreed my company would build https://yang2020.app to support his campaign, and he would help introduce us to mayors of cities that want UBI locally (he knew a few dozen, like Michael Tubbs of Stockton, although since then Michael has not been a fan of Yang’s approach for various reasons).

I believe in UBI + Gift Economies / Collaboration as the best system, better than socialism or capitalism. But we have a while to get there.

Yang is trying to boil the ocean by going for UBI on a national level. I believe the future is in decentralization, and I talk about it extensively. I think UBI can be done via cryptocurrency on a local level. We can also do voting this way. I’m writing a piece about this at the moment, very apropos of the recent fiascos.

Printers, Email, Blogs, the Internet have replaced large corporate and state gatekeepers we used to have (newspapers, cable channels, telephone companies, printing presses etc) and costs went down to near zero. Technology decentralizes power.

We can have towns and cities run decentralized:

Solar power networks (resilient to EMPs and carrington events)

Mesh networks (better than cellphone networks)

Social networks (chat, events, appointments, everything that fb does but w local servers)

I’m trying to build the software to run on these networks (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1O_gmPneI)

PS: sorry for all the links but honestly I am passionate about this stuff and need to illustrate it instead of talking. A video is worth a thousand words. To mitigate the shilling I will say that TimBL’s solid and MaidSAFE *
IPFS and others are also working on decentralizing power
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From what I've seen, the Unicode blocks are left with space for suspected additions, though big change groups are usually added as extensions. Any erroneous additions could be marked as deprecated.
Apple fined $41M for secretly slowing old iPhones
My first thought was that American spies must have infiltrated the PLA's 54th Research Institute, or infiltrated some branch of the chinese government that was privy to that information at least.
I'm not sure why you think domains are property. When you "buy" a domain you're really leasing the right to use it for a fixed length of time. And anyway, the system of assigning names is not fixed upon stones sent to us from the heavens. Our goal should be to have a system that is as useful and fair as possible.
Checkr Has Faced ~80 Lawsuits over Erroneous Background Checks
I think the most illuminating thing about Ballmer here is the way he speaks about features of Microsoft devices, and it shows why the company lost a decade of innovation under him: "it will 'do' Web, or will 'do' email".

These are feature check boxes to him. It's not a question of whether the feature is GOOD, whether browsing the web is a delightful experience that the users actually want to do on the device. Nope - it'll do web. That's it. No more questions.
As a physical keyboard fan the Dream was awesome. Sure, the trackball was wonky, the multitouch sensor was limited and the screen resolution and RAM was very low by today's standards but it was a great start. And given that it was hackable (in more than one way, remember the hilarious telnetd thing?) and had a keyboard it was 100x better than the iphone. Connectbot was the absolute killer app for me. I also fondly remember the nice tactile navigation buttons, it's been all downhill since then on that front.

I always thought that the BB-like prototype looked pretty neat too, if the keyboard and button bar could have been made more compact to make more space for the screen.

Now all the phones are exactly the same, there is very little experimentation or innovation except for small players like the fxtec pro (waiting for mine to ship)
The current structures we allow today are "top down bureaucratic". How do you think the C-corp and S-corp got defined? The LLC, the partnership, the sole-proprietorship are all organizational forms defined and allowed by the government. The government defines the shape of the market, and then actors are free to operate with in that shape.

This is the same thing, just a different shape.
I know that. In reality it doesn't matter who hosts it if you only give out a link to one source and I don't use that source then I am less likely to find out other ways to get your content.
They are less likely but that does not mean it hasn't happened. The first air strike on united states ground was the national guard striking miners at the behest of the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain#Battl...

If you're in another country working for a U.S. corp you're in much worse shape. Coca-Cola can murder you for forming a union in another country and get away with it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinaltrainal_v._Coca-Cola_Co.