skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thousands of artifacts have already been looted from the Titanic wreck. Another commenter brings up the excavation/looting of ancient Egyptian tombs, which seems oddly fitting since the Luxor casino in Las Vegas (the ancient Egypt themed one) has hundreds of artifacts from the Titanic, and there are many more elsewhere as well. How much is enough? Will the looting continue until nothing is left? What is wrong with letting the rest of it rust away in dignity, rather than being gawked at by bored gamblers?

With respect to the excavation/looting of Egyptian tombs, I consider this somewhat distasteful too, but at least in that case it provides unique opportunities to learn about a distant largely forgotten culture. The rediscovery of the Rosetta stone facilitated the decipherment of hieroglyphics, and it's my impression that King Tutankhamun's tomb revealed much about ancient Egyptian society and technology (I'm not sure what exactly, it's not something I've read up on.) The people involved in those cases may have been cynical profit-seekers too, but at least the artifacts they removed actually taught us things about the past. I don't think there is much to learn from the telegraph from the Titanic though; I expect there are probably extant examples of contemporary radio technology in better condition in museums already.
There were a lot of devs working on that at the time, don’t feel bad.
I once spent an hour trying to solve a sudoku puzzle on a whiteboard in college. It turned out that the person who left it there made a mistake when they started to solve it, so given the state it was in when I started (no way to tell what was original and what was their deduction) it was impossible to solve.

I'm not bitter, of course not.
But wasn't this cultural shift borne out of the Department of Defense itself under Donald Rumsfeld and the 20K private contractors they hired to conduct operations in Iraq? There was a PBS Frontline documentary about this called "Private Warrior" from around that time that's worth a watch:

https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/private-warriors/
Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
Port scanning from a web page, combined with DNS rebinding, can present a really nasty attack, and can effect an entire private network, not just localhost.

Some more info here: https://medium.com/@brannondorsey/attacking-private-networks...

Example code: https://github.com/brannondorsey/dns-rebind-toolkit

A malicious DNS rebind server: https://github.com/brannondorsey/whonow

Disclaimer: I performed some of this research a few years ago. So those resource suggestions are my own, but they feel very relevant here.
I totally agree with you.

I also think we might want to compare. I suspect 150 years ago most people stared a shovel 34 years of their life or a clothes washing bowl etc..
Yes, I definitely remember Slashdot doing it, but it was more often than just on registration. Here's an article from 2014 about it, which says that it happens on every login and posting a comment: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/09/1925245

At the bottom of that post it says the code was added on 2008-04-16 19:07:46 +0000.
How about educate people to make that filtering by themselves?

Nobody owns the truth. It's the last thing I want is an horde of elves making that filtering for me.
I'm not sure what managers have to do with scrum here. A manager is a person that insulates business from the execution on a non-functional level.

Perhaps this is a difference in where you work (the company, the culture, the country), but here a manager is just someone who has the job of making sure there are no obstructions and people have what they need and don't get shifted around too much.

Priorities are made based in input from owners, users and developers, and cross-functional teams are something that you do in a SIG, not in a development team.

Maybe SCRUM (R) as a commercial idea has a lot of things it wants you do to, but that's not really why you'd even consider something; you consider something because it might help you or clarify something for others, and for novices it can be great if you don't have the experience, skills, insight or level of thinking to come up with a self-improving process by yourself.
You dont ever even need to see SharePoint. People create groups, save files to groups. Opening & Editing can all be done directly from Excel or PowerPoint. If they can use Excel and PowerPoint, they can use SharePoint the same way they save files to a network drive or local folder.

Document organization will be a problem wherever you settle. What are your abstractions, what are your folders, who can create what at what level.
The test bed for this review uses a "Thermalright TRUE Copper" cooler which looks to be an air cooler from the mid-to-late 2000's. Needless to say Anandtech probably didn't run their benchmarks with insufficient cooling.
>you’re accountable to print the truth

Whatever portion of government handles that in your country, is quite literally analogous to the "Ministry of Truth" in 1984.

>Do you really think you can have a functioning democracy when people live in completely different bubbles of subjective truth?

Nobody knows, its always been an experiment. The experiment is done with the basis that other ways of going about it (some system of enforcing a consistent "truth" among all citizens) would be totalitarian and tend towards tyranny every single time.
The tech firms getting their hands on NHS patient data to fight coronavirus
I’m not coding but launched a challenge myself to create a side-project out of iPad only https://www.indiehackers.com/post/challenge-building-and-mak...

At the moment, writing a newsletter and Tweeting some contents with insights from pre-internet companies using GSuite + substack
Shopify Email, a built-in Mailchimp alternative
My grad school advisor wrote a couple papers in 1970 and 1971 where they proposed a 3D structure for polywater, and then "disproved" its existence. The second one has a wonderfully scientific statement: "It is important to distinguish clearly between the essentially empirical interrelation of experiments achieved by the original model and the current attack on it, because it is obvious from ref. 1 that we have placed ourselves in the unusual and all too easy to discredit position of being authors both of the original model and of the new results against it."
Laura Marling Sells Out First-Ever Geo-Blocked Remote Concert
At that level you are going to start with agencies that have an existing K&R team, potentially from your insurance underwriter (because if you are the sort of person who needs to consider or plan for this threat then you also have insurance for it.) The steps past that point are beyond me but probably involve both political contacts as well as consultants/contractors with specialized skills -- I would expect that one of your various law firms is probably going to be your primary interface.
If you are really sure put __builtin_unreachable()
>Given the creation of the new Space Force, it's hard to justify NASA on defense related stuff

NASA is a civilian agency. It isn't and never has been justified by anything related to military defense.
The original qMail author, Dan Berstein (DJB) was so convinced of the infallibility of his code that he put up a monetary reward for any exploits. This context came about because DJB, as a professor of Computer Science, maintained that it is completely within the realm of reality to write unbuggy, yet complicated and highly functional code.

DJB welched on every claim at that bounty, and refused to pay out. He is an egotistical over-selfconfident person. He wrote good code back in the day, but he lost the forest for the trees.
Sure, sure, that may well be. My point is that it does not work in Germany, even with a much more homogeneous and stable population that leans collectivist. I don't see a compelling reason why it would work in the US with a population that leans individualist, with much more pronounced social classes, much larger differences in education between those classes and stronger income inequality.

Basically: if you can't get the well-behaved children to do what you ask of them, what makes you think the rowdy kids will do when you ask them?
Amusingly PBS kids is the only streaming app I've seen that doesn't ask "are you still there". We've left that one running overnight by accident and it just keeps going and going.
Well, I agree that the issue needs careful examination. Not all screen time is created equal. That said, to an average person, screen time does not really equal educational applications, writing code or even reading. Instead, to most, it tends to mean Facebook, Netflix, Youtube, and increasingly creepier games designed to suck you in and bleed you( or your parents ) dry.

I am saying this as an expecting parent. My parents were raised without TV and there is a clear difference on how they processed the information presented to them. Heavens know I do not process it the same way what with being basically raised on internet and tv.

In short, I do not think we should move on. I think it is worthwhile to ask more nuanced questions than 'is screen time bad-discuss'.
Wuhan bans eating wild animals as coronavirus drives a crackdown in China
> If there is competition MS seems to be playing a fair game. I hope it stays that way.

The structure of US corporations is such that they are fundamentally misaligned with playing a fair game. Corporations have two types of cycles: growth, and profit taking.

Regardless of who is in charge of Microsoft today, when Microsoft reaches a position of dominance, the leadership will be shifted by the board and shareholders to focus on exploiting that dominance, rather than continuing to play fair. We are only seeing fair play because Microsoft's position in the open source world is not yet entrenched.
Because the ring bus architecture doesn’t support avx512 but ring bus has better latency which is why many prefer it for gaming or audio production work.
Why speculate? If we take i9s to be considered par equivalents to high-end CPUs we find in MacBook Pros, and the market distribution of cheap to expensive CPUs is similar in both desktop and notebook segments, then we can simply look at earnings reports.

https://s21.q4cdn.com/600692695/files/doc_financials/2019/20...

From page 34:

6% of Intel's Desktop platform volume is $705Mn, so total volume is $11.75Bn.
5% of Intel's Notebook platform volume is $1080Mn, so total volume is $21.6Bn.

So the desktop market is slightly larger than half the size of the notebook market, but $12Bn is a lot of money to leave on the table then turn your back to. Especially since an aged microarchitecture threatens all CPU-related revenue streams.
> Yeah that's why there are mass protests against lock-down that are overwhelmingly attended by hardcore conspiracy theorists (go watch some interviews of these people).

It may be the case that people willing to participate in a mass gathering are not concerned about the virus, but the majority of ordinary Americans are not for sustaining the full force of lockdown measures.

Also the incentives are a total mess, when it comes to selecting people to interview at a protest; especially when most news outlets seem, at the moment, to have an editorial interest in justifying the lockdowns in their full extent (meanwhile journalists, unlike most Americans, are not themselves subject to the lockdown orders anyway).

P.S. there's a distinction between the subset of people who don't think the “non essential” economy should be locked down indefinitely, and the subset of people who will go out without masks to attend a mass gathering in protest. The latter is necessarily a fringe minority.
This man right here understands things.
Thanks for the reply, didn't know about Xanadu. Didn't come to think about Flattr.

> If any of them were successful, you wouldn't be asking this question

If you change from to: "successful" to "hugely successful in all English speaking countries" then I agree ... almost,

But there're also different continents and countries and different languages

... Which prompted me to now search for "Chinese micropayments" — and:

> "[the company's] growing profit margins are riding the wave of China's exploding media micropayment economy"

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/tencent-music-uses-ti...

Reading a bit more on different sites: Apparently this started 5 years ago and has been working well, in China. Micropayments. A little bit I got the impression it's currently being used primarily for tipping.
> If you are not using Tor Browser and want to fix the security hole without disabling WebSocket completely, running the web browser in a separate network namespace is a workaround - you get a loopback interface which is independent from the main namespace, and you create a NAT interface within the network namespace to allow outgoing traffic. It's also a possibility for a website to probe other machines, such as the setting page on your router. For better protection, you should block all the local addresses defined by RFC1918 via netfilter/iptables as well.

As someone less tech savvy but still concerned, are there any guides available on how to do this?
Ah I missed that part. I assumed that these folks were "overflow" from the available spaces without thinking about it. I've heard although I don't know if it's true that we're sheltering people in Moscone Center.

The good thing is letting people have a safe stable place to live even if it's just a tent in Civic Center. Instead we typically send police to roust folks and take all their stuff.
Never heard it put so plainly, that’s awesome.
How does the answer to this add to or subtract from the substance of the ancestors' posts points?
That leads to lack of accountability. So, no.
>It's funny/surprising that you'd say that, given that Linux is the single most dominant OS in the embedded device space. What toolchains are you referring to? Here are some well known ones.

No, and no.

The parent was referring to embedded development toolchains - compilers, IDEs, endless small utilities, debuggers, analyzers, etc. etc. Commercial tooling is almost all Windows-exclusive, even if it's using a smattering of open-source bits underneath.

Also no. The "embedded device space" is v a s t. New projects for phones and similar hardware profiles might choose an Android or other flavor of embedded linux, for sure. Even within sexytech consumer products you're more likely targeting something like VxWorks or QNX as not. The physical world, the domain of embedded devices, is not smartphones and SaaS. Unless you're talking about a very specific product category it's laughable to call Linux dominant here.
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature, and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
...quasi-religious belief that sending people into space is inherently good. Once you take away that belief...

Why would you want to do that?

Not sure about the religious part, but sending people into space is inherently good, indeed. Exactly the same as traveling the world instead of sending a drone to photograph the pyramids. But not everybody can appreciate the difference.

Personal preferences aside, it's difficult to argue against your position unless you define what you think are the goals of space exploration, human or not. Maybe there's also different goals for different persons.
The list of reasons are pretty short when they are not adding support for any new interconnects or changing the microarchitecture.
Apple, Google: exposure notification API enabling public health authority apps
Original title was too long. It was:

Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps
Yes, something like that. As I mentioned elsewhere, I wonder if the result might be affected by the acoustics of the room as well as the physical proximity of the sound sources
I'd love to read up more on that! Any links to literature on the topic?
Fear is a good motivator you only get one chance at life so.
This is true -- and it may also be the same for miscellaneous permissions. But that doesn't mean it won't be used as an excuse by the feature developers.

Honestly though, this is just me being bitter at web developers.
Top Technology-Inspired Art Projects of the Year (2019)
Yeah, this. :-)
Who would have thought in 2010 that 10 years from now Google would be a front runner for "most evil and controlling company on the planet" and that Microsoft would be the leading / dominant corporation in open source.

I'm not sure if I would have had a harder time believing that, or a harder time believing that Donald Trump of The Apprentice would become president of the United States in 2016.
That's awesome. I've always wanted to set up my own hardware button to order pizza for fun haha.
Oh yeah, for the subset of content that is "watch an expert do a thing" the Web has become extremely good. Nothing before touches it. In part I think it's remained so because almost all the content is on one site—there's no web search involved in finding it at all, you just search Youtube (which is owned by the main company that might help you find videos on other sites). If Google'd found a way to reward putting academic & deep cultural-knowledge material on a platform they owned such that they had a near-monopoly, perhaps that site would be good. The web at-large might remain basically useless for it (or, probably, even worse, as everyone went to that single platform) such that it depends on one's perspective whether it's the Web delivering value or just Google's platform that could be served just about any damn way at this point (if they decided to transition over to a new non-Web protocol just for Youtube and put it in Chrome they might well succeed in forcing everyone else to adopt it)
I grew up poor and on the scale of 'things that bothered me as a child' it doesn't even rate compared to my mom being abusive. If you're treated with love and respect by your family, having clothes with holes on them are a speedbump at worst.
It’s the presumption that there is some uniform high standard for justice in the first world that I object to. Economic development and justice are not synonymous, and the US is an excellent example of the fact that a country can be considered first-world by definition, but not garner plaudits for its justice system.

I could also have raised some questions about Canada’s record for justice, especially with respect to our indigenous peoples. Our system may look good on paper, and be reasonable for most citizens, but Canadian justice is also distributed unevenly.

If someone says that Japan’s justice system is worthy of criticism on its own merits, I have no objection and have no reason to mention the US.

It is only the presumption that “first-world == justice” that prompts me to provide a counter-example. And I have just given another, so it is not just the US.
That's what they're doing. They don't have any power to filter anything. I recommend reading the article, it's pretty short.
Online-Only Currency Bitcoin Reaches Dollar Parity (2011)
Sound isolation in older or cheaply designed apartments really sucks.

Plus, therapeutic levels for singing probably require something louder than mezzo piano.
Shopify unveils Balance debit card, opens AI fulfillment network to merchants
Original title was too long. It was:

Shopify unveils Balance debit card, opens AI-powered fulfillment network to merchants
Your points are all valid, my concern is mostly that it’s a multi phase plan. We will get closer to something like that as we are shepherded.

Did you think Typescript would be the native language in Deno? No, you thought it was something that you might or might not use depending on the situation. Well guess what, that choice is gone for you in Deno’s case. These things compound.

It’s one of the reasons you will see people make a simple blog site with create-react-app, they are so inoculated with the hammer that everything is a nail. Did we think we’d be using React like that and forgo style sheets? Just inline all styles? That’s what we all do now. I had no idea we’d become that nuts, but it happened.

It’s not particularly bad in all cases, but for the web it is because we’ll stop using standard technologies that are supported across all types of scenarios.
Stories like this is why I love the HN community
"Do unto others what gets you paid."

Come up with something concrete -- numbers / stats, or documented vulnerabilities, or well known failures, etc. -- and costs related to those. No one cares about issue [X] until you explain it to them that it'll cost [Y] to fix it later.

Then document their answers, make it clear you advised them for/against something, and then do whatever they're paying you for. If they tell you to put a toilet in the kitchen, and they're adamant about it, they can have their kitchen-toilet.
> The blog post and the thread on the kernel mailing list seem quite clear in that this is explicitly designed with the goal of exposing the Windows driver API and associated client APIs like DirectX.

Are we reading the same blog post?[1]

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/wp-content/uploads/si...
The test bed in this review uses a decade old air cooler and the "real world" power draw was measured to be 125-150W peaking at 200W.
180-mile test road for autonomous vehicle trials unveiled in Birmingham area
Huh, that's interesting. I even tried a private browsing window without any form of blocking, but I don't get a popup at all.
I dunno why we can't just hand select any video from youtube for youtube kids? I don't need youtube algos to recommend bullshit to my kids and I don't need youtube to control what i show to my kids.
I think the WHO preferring a consistent message above a nuanced and factually more correct one is exactly the problem many people have with them as an organisation.

They've chosen the easy path at every step, and it's come back to bite them in the ass.
Out of curiosity, besides owls and crows, have you been attacked by any other taloned birds?
Is it reasonable to ask the public to believe absolute messages that contradict themselves?

Maybe what the boy who cried wolf meant was “I am not sure whether a wolf is in the forest. But the potential damage from a wolf a attack, combined with the increased likelihood of a wolf presence due to the observation of fresh wolf droppings, exceeds the damage from sheltering in place.”

But the like the epidemiologists, simply said “There’s a wolf in the forest! Run away!”