skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were widespread reports and NYT articles when the NYC mansion and Little Saint James island were raided. The last word on the New Mexico ranch was a CBS report in August that it still had not been raided, and there's been zero word since. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-news-ranch-new-...
That’s what happened with feral hogs:

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/gimletmedia.com/amp/shows/re...
> What would happen if the only programming language left is C? Wouldn't we become better programmers and raise the bar so high that the bug count drops to 0?

Is this a rhetorical question? Clearly the answer is no.
They treated them well when they were liberating them why would they harm them if they were retreating? Did you mean scorched earth policy?
For context: 50 microwatts * 20 years = 9 watt-hours, comparable to an 18650 cell.
Secrecy of Correspondence
I worked for a 500 people Swiss company that had this big,fat,custom built thing based on Lotus Notes.It was ERP of sorts. We hated it. change backlog was 2-3 years.It took us a year to get a single button added. Then I moved on and ended up in a position where I was no longer the end user but rather the one behind the system.5 years later and I still keep "borrowing" design ideas from that system we all hated. Shortly after I quit, a 5000 people US company acquired it and decided to migrate all the data to their own,more modern system. 6 month later and the project was still in Excel only with no hopes of completing it at all. Don't underestimate what SAP can do.
Linux namespaces, and then you forward it to a higher port range on the host. (or you can disable that check too)
A nice article, but it would have been good to hear more about the specific justifications for shutting the telescope down in advance of JWST's launch. $14 million/year doesn't seem like that much, in the grand scheme of things.

Heck, why shut it down at all? Document the communication protocols and orbital elements, and turn it over to amateurs.[1]

We seem to have put an awful lot of our eggs in the JWST basket.

[1] https://uhf-satcom.com/dsn/dsnstart
> > They must be unpredictable

> I am wondering if that is necessary,

Yes, it is necessary. The IND security of Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) depends entirely on the IV being from a cryptographically secure random generator.

CBC mode requires unique and random IVs. CTR mode requires unique IVs (but can be predictable).

That's why we call the CTR input a nonce (number to be used once) and the CBC input an IV (initialization vector). Since they have different security requirements, we refer to them differently. Unfortunately, some cryptography libraries just name the parameter IV.
or you can just work on some project that really interests you, and maybe it could turn to a company
Wait till you find out about Drop Bears!
>Proprietary drivers on Linux are often crap, if they even exist at all.

Not so with Nvidia GPUs. The open drivers are awful; the proprietary drivers are good.

(But IS the case with AMD GPUs, to the point where the proprietary driver seems to perform worse[0] and everyone pretends it doesn't even exist, which is upside down unintuitive coming from A.) Windows and B.) Nvidia.)

0: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-a...
LOL apparently there's a long history of those edits, reverting + protecting the page, un-protecting it, and it happening again.

Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emu_War&oldid=477...
Looks interesting, but would really require some velocity. There's the social problem of requesting others to install the app by an individual. I'm not gonna ask my friends to install bail just in case they'd like to cancel, because I might want to cancel.
Resonances and Chladni Patterns (2012)
We are talking about a conversation(a dialog) not freedom of speech or god given rights.
Saudi Arabia's wealth fund sold nearly all its Tesla shares before the 112% rise
I mean, you can't prove that anyone you meet face-to-face isn't a p-zombie or a projection of your own mind either, but I doubt you're an actual solipsist. And I don't think you honestly have much trouble telling the difference between me and a bot. Yes, for all you know any given person could be a troll or sockpuppet, but you also know with very high confidence that there are many real and sincere people at the other end of the internet.

But maybe we disagree less than it seems:

> I can control my intent, and I have to be satisfied with that.

If this includes modifying what you say when you learn unexpected things about the effect of your words, that makes perfect sense to me.

But if it means refusing to take that information into account, I don't think you can really claim good intentions.
IANAL, but I think tritium distributers must be specially licensed by the NRC in the US.
Feature Interaction Bugs
Awesome, good for her.

The "transphobia" purity spiral is absolutely maddening, it just hasn't eaten itself completely yet. The current orthodox view inside of it is that anyone who claims to be trans is trans, regardless of their biological gender, psychological gender, gender expression, name, pronouns, or gender dysphoria. So a person who was born female, is female, presents female, uses a female name and female pronouns can still be trans simply by virtue of her saying that she is. Anything else is "gatekeeping", and expressing this view is "transphobic", and sentenced with immediate purity spiral mob justice.

I'm hoping this spiral dies out quickly, so that the LGBT movement can go back to sanity, it's not in a good place right now.
On your own metal it looks like it does in this post.

With managed services it looks a world different.
Show HN: Open-sourcing our large Clojure(Script) Re-frame/Hasura web app
It's known as the Cobra effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
Qovery: Superpowers for Developer
Apple could nip this in the bud: don’t allow apps to read a full contact list at all. Use a contact picker when needed.
Funny when you are on paternity leave and the with your baby 24seven you develop a similar bond. Oh and babies love bottles nearly as much as breasts. (I think breastfeeding is really important in the first few months important and mine was 100% breastfed until 5 months but towards the end of the first year the benefits in a country with clean drinking water are minimal.)
> No word on what their encoding toolset is.

They're using ST-AV1[1], the encoder they've collaborated with Intel on.[2][3]

[1] https://github.com/OpenVisualCloud/SVT-AV1

[2] https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-netflix-deliver-av1-sc...

[3] https://netflixtechblog.com/introducing-svt-av1-a-scalable-o...
The good old cobra effect at work!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
For a bunch of reasons -- I've seen a lot of shenanigans, and have no way to sort out who in the industry is trustworthy and who isn't. So I have to consider the entire industry untrustworthy.

Also, if something does go wrong, there's no technical or legal recourse (that I'm aware of). I'm just out of luck.

Also also, there isn't any regulation that I'm aware of. In the absence of regulation, there isn't legal recourse and anybody in the industry can do anything they like.
Several things can cause paranoid delusions that aren’t schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder, including even sufficiently sustained sleep deprivation.

Let’s not try to diagnose anyone here and just get them pointed in the right direction for answers.
I am new engineering manager and the exec has been talking to me about management and what to expect and handling general issues in the new role.
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/sym-enc.pdf

See the section about "CBC with Counters".

The consequence of the security proof by Rogaway, et al. for CBC mode is that IVs must be unique AND unpredictable for CBC mode to be secure*.

SHA256 is a deterministic pseudorandom function if you know all of the inputs. By studying the source code, we can see what gets fed into the SHA256 inputs. The cost to brute force all possible inputs is definitely much lower than 2^128, therefore it weakens the IND security of the AES-CBC scheme.

CBC security only provides indistinguishability. It isn't secure against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks.
Your friends/family probably won’t do this, so your phone number is going to be shared with Twitter anyways.
Is a session cookie with datetime of access (and last visit somehow), so probably fine.

not up on cookies and Gdpr tbh, I deal with other types of data normally.
The Problem with Encryption Backdoors
The source is that you've never heard of this ranch being raided.
I mean I wouldn't eat bananas and would never fly commercial airlines if you're concerned about that.
You keep local copy of database and cloud copy of database. When cloud copy changes, you detect difference and apply it to your local copy, resolving conflicts if necessary, then copy your local copy back to cloud. It might be more difficult to implement, but it allows user to use any sync option.
Be careful taking his words as a correction, he is being toxic about elm all over the place.
The purpose of the ad is to motivate the user to check out the website.

This is a commodity product that has numerous alternative vendors with brick and mortar stores. So not only will customers choose partially on price, but I'd think they'd prefer to buy something they can actually test out first. Giving customers a 100-day return policy isn't a solution, as it requires the customer to make the purchase and then deal with the hassle of a return.

It's not unreasonable for a little-known startup to display a "starting at $X" to at least give some idea of what price point they're competing in.
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Any reason why? I tried to do a bit on our C64 as a kid but . . . well, it's amazing I wound up as a developer after that experience.
Exactly. I am thinking if this is going to be some sort of play against VVC.

Or will Youtube and Netflix force AV1 upon everyone where if you want high quality HDR or 4K Content you will require AV1.
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extre...
This all the way.

I mean, I also think it's significant for the baby & dad. But even ignoring that.. holy shit does the mother need support.

Maybe some moms don't, maybe they happen to have an easy baby.. have parents closeby to easily help.

But other mothers have a terribly difficult time, post-natal depression.. you name it. Having the dad around for support means everything during that time- I can speak from experience.
When they have that much freedom, can you really call it "perpetuating the issue" instead of "doing what they want"? It's not an issue for the women who prefer to do it, or they wouldn't be doing it.
yes, I see it now too. Though it doesn’t say “funded by British government”, it says “BBC is a British public broadcaster”
This concept is begging for integrations into existing calendar apps, not being an app itself.
Hasn’t Time Parity been shown to be violated? There are a number of quantum effects which behave differently when going forwards vs backwards in time.
Lots of IOT stuff has low power requirements and VERY low duty cycles. You may not be able to do a lot with a continuous 50μA•, but if you have a sensor that sleeps for an hour, takes a reading, reports it (over BTLE or wifi or even an epaper screen), and then goes back to sleep, this chip would allegedly be enough to keep your device running continuously for decades.

• I think some of the lower power BTLE chips can actually advertise continuously for less than 50μA on average
As a developer however, nvidia's closed source drivers are buggy as hell. The amount of issues and times they break the spec is astounding and a constant annoyance. AMD and Intel via the open Mesa drivers are blissful in comparison, plus the amazing debuggability.
I've been using Twitter daily pretty much continuously since 2008 and I don't remember ever being prompted to upload contacts. I can believe it has happened at some point, but it certainly doesn't repeatedly ask me. I use the web interface and the first-party iOS app (though over the years I have also used various third-party apps on both iOS and macOS).
It's less worrying if you view systemd as a mono-repo containing a collection of related projects maintained in one place, one of which is PID 1 - which really should have been renamed to systemd-initd.

The fact that Debian is able to isolate the nspawn-related bits into systemd-container without breaking everything speaks to the modular arrangement. Though the project may be a mono-repo under the systemd umbrella, it's not a monolithic beast antithetical to unix tradition as many like to claim.

It's odd how *bsd people don't get all up in arms about their core system pieces being in one repo, but the linux world loses their minds when sprawling messes get a little more consolidated even though it's for the better.
Why HTML Beats Markdown, LaTeX, and XML for Book Production
It ran out of coolant for its primary instruments, and the battery can only manage a short period each day for data transmission.
Tyrannical dictatorships are an emergent property of Marxism. When you stop allocating resources based on competence, and instead based on other factors, whoever gets to decide these factors ends up with all the wealth and power, since they use the factors they have. For instance in intersectionality, minorities want to take from whites under various guises of white privilege and equity, with the anticipated result being they hold all the wealth and power. If you keep narrowing the criteria, you end up with a tyrannical dictatorship. This is opposite of a constitutional democracy where power is decentralized among voters and limited by a Constitution.
So SVT-AV1 now does 20% better than VP9?

Edit: They did mention the 20% is from AV1-libaom compression efficiency as measured against VP9-libvpx. So not SVT-AV1.
"Everything in Docker is regular Linux" is a bit of a misleading statement IMO. You aren't required to pull an entire big distro like Ubuntu and install deps from a package manager. Are you familiar with scratch builds? You can create an image that is basically just a single executable binary with a few mounts handled for you behind the scenes so that chroot works.

https://www.mgasch.com/post/scratch/

Typically a minimal Alpine distro image will allow you to pull in deps however you want (either via package manager, manual download, or copy), run a build, and then copy only the artifact over to a scratch image for a final image that's only a few MB in size.

https://medium.com/@chemidy/create-the-smallest-and-secured-...
Wouldn't you say there's a difference between "effective" and "getting away with it"?

I used to think that but now I’m not so sure. :(
Might be absolutely right about this - thanks for the feedback. Will probably start with a google integration in the first instance. As you can probably tell, this concept is still in its infancy
Which is why they launched it behind an opt-in checkbox.

New codecs are always chicken-and-egg -- you need to have content available before the hardware encoders/decoder silicon gets produced and then trickles down to the phones.
I went to the apple store to buy a router. It took me involving the manager before the guy let me pay without leaving my name and address.
Tell that to the people on the ship that it happens to!

Granted, it's usually survivable. Decades ago a friend of mine on a containership experienced a rogue wave with no more harm than being terrified by "either the last thing I was ever going to see or the most majestic thing I'd ever see" but it doesn't always end that way.
The process to get a driver signed doesn't seem too hard for an open source project to do. Biggest hurdle is the certificate costing around $300/year as far as I can tell, so it would need to be a project with a reliable stream of donations or an author/s willing to pay it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/in...
Do 2+ plus year old phones count as recent?
A friend of mine had the idea of combining a text editor with a calculator. Turns out that being able to annotate your calculations makes them much more valuable and reusable. Whilst the idea itself isn't completely new I was curious if and how it could work out on mobile.
I'm not an electronics person, but as I understand it this amount of energy is typically harvestable from ambient rf in populated areas.

See the first few paragraphs of this paper for a bunch of references: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/nprivault/papers/ambient_harvest...
For Netflix this likely doesn't matter. While Youtube deals with 300+ hours of content uploaded every minute that it has to encode, Netflix only has to encode ~100 titles per month. Even if it takes a month to encode 1 of these, it's still easily doable for Netflix.
> My app with a couple of hundred thousand users

per year? per month? per day? simultaneously? doing what?

it matters.

i ask this as someone who runs a $40/mo Linode with a debian/nginx/node/mysql stack that's definitely 20x over-provisioned for an e-commerce site with 10k daily visitors, 15 simultaneous backend users (reporting, order-entry, CRM, analytics) and 0 caching tricks. i could easily run the site on any 5 year old laptop with an SSD and 8GB RAM.

normalize/de-normalize when needed, understand and hand-write efficient SQL queries (ditch ORMs), choose small/fast libs carefully (or write your own), and you can easily serve 100k users per day on a single cheap VPS with no orchestration/replication/hz-scaling bullshit. definitely can't say the same about 200k simultaneous users - that would need proper hardware, but can still be a single server.

Monoliths Are the Future: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22193383
Implicit variables all came from UNIX shells which are in use to this day. What was the exit code of the last program? "$?".

C works similarly. What was the error from the last system call? "errno".

Certainly there are problems with this; we've all seen the programs that output "Error doing something: Success". But it isn't Perl that invented this. It's a UNIX tradition.
Systemd didn't take this over, nspawn is a pretty small wrapper around functionality that already existed. It turns out containers are not really that special compared to services, and most of the plumbing was already there in the service manager anyway.
I've played two games like that: the arcade game Gravitar, and Gravity Crash on the PlayStation 3.
Go 1.14 Release Candidate 1 is released
hooke's law correlates spring length with force, but doesnt prescribe an order of events. You can increase the weight or move the spring to a higher gravitational field or something else we dont' know yet. However, as humans we can't reason of a way to increase the length of the spring without changing the force, therefore we establish a causation model that "if increase-weight then extends". However if by some empirical process we could confirm that "if extends then increase-weight", hookes law would still be the same (we can do by e.g. putting it in a moving frame of reference)
What kind of battery/capacitor could you make with lithography/chip making techniques? Genuine question. I know there was an announcement about this recently. I know it would be far more expensive than the roll of tape that current lithium batteries use, but I have to imagine that Apple is working on this for the iPhone/etc
Hi, I created a quick landing page to validate an idea for an app.

I'll be honest, the idea isn't mine. I saw it suggested in a Twitter post which had huge traction, and decided to run with it.

At the moment I'm just trying to refine the concept and get an idea of whether there really is space for something like this out there
"In politics no service, company, initiative, or team lasts long enough to complete the cycle."

This is systemic corruption. A billionaire can dump as much money into a for-profit company to build a platform for a specific campaign and then when the campaign is over then can claim that there isn't enough business to keep the platform solvent for the next 2 to 4 years and do it all again with the benefit of the previous code base. It's better than a Super PAC because the for-profit company can work directly with the campaign and no one will bat an eye. The company can even have foreign financing. All the while, their losses amount to a huge tax write-off and the public pays the bill.

In the case of The Groundwork, it likely cost upwards of $10 million for the people, building lease, AWS costs, etc. But where did all of the money come from? Certainly Hillary didn't pay for this. I'd love to see Eric Schmidt's 2016 Tax Returns.
Likely the issue is cost. We can make liquid H2 pretty cheaply these days. We don't know if synfuel can get close to that price.
macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated
Just don't let it loose
Nature will publish peer review reports as a trial
The title of the submission seems very much like a clickbait: the context makes it sound like it refers to government surveillance, not sending data to private American companies to serve ads.
And her father died by apparently "falling overboard off his yacht" (which was named "The Lady Ghislaine" after her!). Not at all suspicious.

Even more fun? You know who owns that yacht now? DJT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell#Death
To me the comfortable medium is 100% privacy. 0% feedback. There is no middle ground because feedback and privacy should not be conflated. Users already own the device and owe no data to their vendor.
The tax burden is high. They could certainly do with reducing it in my personal opinion.

A leaflet comes through the door every year or so telling me how much they spend in the local council. Usually the highest amount is not on schools, not on libraries, not on health, not on sweeping the streets or maintaining parks and playgrounds etc, but on "adult social care" (1) which as far as I know is a euphemism for benefits handouts for the baby-boomer generation.

It feels to me like an unrealistic burden is being placed on the current working generation to gold-plate the retirements of the current pensioners (because they tend to vote a lot), who frankly have got it pretty fucking good (not just free university education, but they got grants (i.e. free money), were able to purchase cheap and decent quality housing at relatively low salary multiples (e.g. detached 4 bed in nice areas for 3x average salary in the 60s & 70s), excellent pensions (often from the public sector), free travel, free tv licenses, jumping to the front of the queue in the NHS, free money for heating their homes etc etc, the pension triple-lock of a guaranteed 2.5% increase at a minimum etc, when working age people are lucky to get anything in their gig/zero-hours contract etc).

There has been talk of inter-generationalfairness a bit (at least before brexit took over). I hope something is done. </bitter>

1 - https://engage.barnet.gov.uk/1730/documents/1919
This is a little bit sad and a little bit scary. Have we reached the point where we now prefer to avoid actual communications with our "friends" that this exists? It's up there with people who won't answer phone calls and only want to text.