skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on a second there. We really have to go back to the history of Nortel, because the claim that Chinese hacking brought down Nortel really does not hold up.

Nortel expanded massively during the dot-com bubble, and went on a nearly $20 billion acquisition spree that caused it to lose money every quarter for years, even while its stock price was driven up by unrealistic expectations. Then the dot-com bubble burst, at which point these expectations were tempered and people began worrying about Nortel's unprofitability. The stock crashed, raising capital became difficult, demand for Nortel's products (and all telecommunications hardware) plummeted, and the company had to lay off 20% of its workers. At this time, Huawei was a tiny player outside of China. Nortel's major competitor was Cisco.

In 2003, for the first time in years, Nortel finally posted a quarterly profit, but then came under investigation from the SEC over suspicions that it was fudging its numbers (specifically, the accusation was that executives shifted revenue in time in order to meet targets that earned them bonuses). The SEC charged top Nortel executives with fraud, and the case was eventually settled, but Nortel had to change out its top management. Nortel was also sued by shareholders, to whom it had to pay billions of dollars in a settlement. There were layoffs and downsizing throughout this entire period.

To look at that history, and then to claim that hacking that might have helped one of Nortel's several competitors (and not even the largest, by a long shot) is the reason for Nortel's demise just seems completely out of left field to me. To be honest, it sounds like a batter yelling at the ump about being distracted by a fan after he strikes out 0-3.
>OP specifically contrasts this experience to buying from publishers who sell DRM-free ebooks as a counterpoint to the awful experience buying her/his book.

Or maybe he just likes them because they're easier to pirate from? In a prior paragraph he admits that it was the first time he bought an ebook.
IU Study Suggests Fabric Could Help Fight Coronavirus
I'm not sure I agree that it's the responsibility of the people doing research to protect against foreign nation state attacks (whether cyber or legacy intelligence).

1st: most people outside of government don't know how much they are expected/"required" to do to protect their work against foreign nation states. Except for heavily regulated sectors (government, military, heavy industry, banking, core telecom, and more recently elections) very few companies will actually get help from 3-letter-agencies to actively protect against foreign nation state attacks.

2nd: many people expect that the {NSA, Cyber Command, et al} are actively defending all US organizations. I don't see evidence of this (although if there was evidence, I probably wouldn't see it anyway).

3rd: In a national emergency (which the COVID response was declared), there are limits to the liabilities which would otherwise be enforceable in court. There are frequently/always legal escape clauses like force majeure and act of god which would likely alleviate liabilities due to fallout from acts of war or a severe pandemic, so it's not clear that those "nasty liabilities" could be enforced. There are currently 2 important cyberinsurance cases[1] which are winding their way through courts right now which may effectively decide if cyberinsurance is a viable product (depending on whether). Violations of HIPAA are possible, but similarly may not amount to much in terms of prosecution because of the pandemic.

In reality, it's damn near impossible to protect against a motivated+targeted nation state attack (especially with the resources of PRC). If the liabilities incentives require all projects (large and small) be able to withstand nation-state attacks, then all of the project resources go to cybersecurity and none into research -- your productivity is now zero.

It's important to remember that it's the FBI's job to do counter-intel. If a medical research group is defrauded by PRC spies and you blame the researchers for not being able to spot a non-trivial espionage attempt, you are just victim blaming. I work as a product developer in cybersecurity and I doubt I could identify most spy craft if it were to happen right in front of me.

[1] https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/aig-case-highligh...
You're quite right. It's amazing what one can accomplish if one lets oneself be satisfied what incremental progress, no matter how small.

For example, I dislike doing pullups. Many times over the decades, I embarked on a program of daily doing as many pullups as I could. I failed because it just took too much willpower.

I finally hit on a solution. I started with doing 3 pullups a day. 3 pullups are easy. It didn't take much willpower at all. After a few months, I "graduated" to 4, which then was just as easy. After several years, I am now up to 10, which is easy, and something I had kept failing at before.

You might think "why wait several years", but my goal with this is long term, so that doesn't bother me.
I don't think he did miss that, rather it simply wasn't on-topic for the article he was writing. Anybody who has used the C preprocessor knows it works at the level of text/tokens and no further. The fact that it knows nothing of types would hardly be "scandalous"

But you can go ahead and use this thread to promote D anyways.
Just trying to be cool and edgy for attention by using immature, inflammatory language.
The only problem I have with that page is that the meta description contains too much content. Otherwise, the source is very clear.
The precaution for control seems the custodial operations, where currency cummulates under the operators' trust, ie. in FB&col.
The little step for keeping what you obtain in the platform inside it for further use within it is what agregates significant risk.
I didn't write false or fake news. I wrote we cannot rely on media, left or right, to convey a large percentage of truth. My comment is more one of bias, and if you think bias is mainly a right thing, and very little bias on the left well,...to paraphrase David Foster Wallace's short parable: "Water? What's water?" - a fish.
I saw this and thought of those old style bug zappers ;)
"CORRTEX" is the magic word for finding details; thank you for that reply. (CORRTEX = COntinuous Reflectometry for Radius vs Time EXperiment.)

I found an article explaining CORRTEX at https://permalink.lanl.gov/object/tr?what=info:lanl-repo/lar...
It's based on a portable Motorola 6800 microprocessor, so the PDP-11 connection is unclear. A coaxial cable is placed up to the detonation point, and as the shock front progresses the cable is crushed, reflecting the TDR pulse back from that point. They call it "Radar on a wire". The interval between pulses is between 20 and 90 microseconds, so this is much faster than the alleged PDP-11 network card. The original system was developed in 1975 and evolved to the 6800-based system. More information in the paper http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1136283
Notably, storage vendors and many operating system vendors use different units to describe capacity, so hard disks will always seem small as a result of this.

[edit: add qualifying "many"]
From the source:

# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people!
# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
#
# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/e6c1f0e7daa0b6c5131b2976c6...
This is great. Is there a way to export your data? This would be the only thing stopping me from using the service.
Should do a virtual one and call it "Don't you guys have phones?"
Next you'll be telling me that PHP isn't a programming language.
I’m narrowly challenging the implicit argument that doing so is an effective way to reduce the number of homeless people on the streets in a defined area.

And you are more or less cherry picking which comments of mine can be misinterpreted to mean "just build more housing in LA in specific and this solves homelessness in LA in specific." I stated elsewhere that we have been under building housing nationwide for decades. Obviously, we need more housing generally to make headway here.

It won't solve the problem entirely. But it is a crucial step that needs to happen to have any hope of solving the problem. We need more housing generally so we can stop having insane housing prices and stop pushing people out into the streets to begin with because homeless prevention is vastly more effective, cheaper and better in most cases than "helping the homeless."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23304857
Turla hacker group steals antivirus logs to see if its malware was detected
they don't want the narrative changing from extreme left to center.
Because when you own an epithet, it loses all its power over you.
That's still AI, it's just older-generation AI.
How does your postulation map to say, anti-vax?
Thinking is free, as is blogging. The line should be drawn at what is pushed into the HN newsfeed and up upvoted, which we have a shared responsibility to maintain for each other.
The people at Marpi Studio did some interesting interactive demos for the Looking Glass display:

https://www.marpi.studio/artwork/ocean/algae-lux

https://www.marpi.studio/artwork/ocean/algae-aux
Unsurprising but still sad to see it be officially cancelled. Having gone the last few years and growing up on Blizzard's games it does feel slowly like Blizzard is losing their way and this kind of throws salt in the wound, not that anyone is to blame for this particular situation.
Stop Watching the News (2019)
Assuming you're looking for the WSJ article "Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive", give this a try:

curl -H "Host: archive.md" http://188.143.233.210/FyTDB > index.html

(You can get archive.md's IP using:

dig archive.md @8.8.8.8

This should work on practically any Linux box.)
You've got a valid point, you need to have an interest, to be productive. But there is nothing bad imho, in making life easier, ride more pleasant in the process, and if better home or work office setup makes it so, then why not.

If you are working from home already, I guess you already have some kind of setup, that you have developed over the years, I am genuinely interested in that (maybe i can find something interesting for me)
Tencent to invest US$70B in new digital infrastructure
Really cool! I like the idea to use a note taking/writing tool as a headless CMS and thought of this for Emvi [1] too. We provide access to everything through our API already... You can see usage of that here [2] and on GitHub [3].

The loading times of on Bear Blog seem a bit too high? Where does Medium for example take 16s to load?

[1] https://emvi.com/

[2] https://wiki.sts.wtf/

[3] https://github.com/Special-Tactical-Service/wiki
I think quality is almost the only thing that matters.

Personal anecdotes aside, we're mostly terrible at dealing with new ideas when they conflict with stuff we already know or is close to our identity. Remove the human element of the connection and we're even more likely to dismiss said conflicting ideas outright as stupid (I'll try link to that research). It's not hard to imagine how that might lead to strong yet poorly justified social division.
See my other comment for how I think about/tackle abortion specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23315552
> You will need to encrypt the subject and attachment names.

That's why I specified that the DATA session should consist solely of a PGP encrypted block of text. This means that the headers and body are included and there's no unencrypted text in that phase other than the CRLF.CRLF that terminates it. This means that it wouldn't be possible for the MTA to determine what the subject or attachment names are.

> If you need everyone to run their own mail servers and a specific client then why bother with email at all?

TBF, the article has the following statement:

>> Delta Chat doesn’t have their own servers but uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing e-mail server network.

It can't be considered open if everyone is just using the big mail providers.
Congrats on the job!
Ok, fair, I think I have seen those. Personally I would prefer noting the special case even when using the fairly standard degenerate case of 0^0=1, but I agree that a lot of people don't.
It looks like everyone is missing the point--he's talking about adding such a link for people using screen readers, not for the average person.
> This is a pretty weak article with a smarmy attitude and mostly just a hit piece on Buckley (who I certainly have no love for) and a lionization of Baldwin.

Additionally, it does a poor job of actually connecting Buckley and Baldwin. I was hoping for some sort of entwined drama between the two, but the connection narrated was barely there.
Tableplus is so much better.
I was thinking more about encryption at rest as opposed to in transit, but you do make a good point.
That's awesome! If you're interested, there's a group working on machine learning in Rust, including some working on doing GPU pipelines for it at https://github.com/rust-ml/wg . I'm not sure if any of the work being done right now is directly applicable to any of the projects that you're reproducing, but it might be worth a look!
I'm just a fan of SpaceX and have no skin in the game whatsoever, and I get butterflies whenever I think about this launch. I still remember the sinking feeling I had watching the CRS-7 livestream like it was yesterday, but having human lives at stake is a whole different ballgame. All the best to SpaceX tomorrow (or whenever the launch actually happens).
When I think about companies I've encountered over the past few years, it seems to me like the AI problem has been two-fold:
1) They didn't need AI.
2) They would have been better off listening to the human experts they already employed.

That is to say - when you look at business case studies of the kinds of problems that businesses perceive they are going to solve, it's things like supply-chain "We figured out when it's going to snow, we should have snow shovels in stock!" Well, of course, and there are a whole lot of humans in your company that already know this, but they aren't being heard.

A lot of the places where AI has worked out, like spell checkers, various in-app automations - as the article and people in this thread indicate, are exactly the kind of problems more companies should probably instead focus their energy. For example, I think about various gyrations I've watched people do in order to format their data the way they needed for presentations. Not AI in the theoretical sense, but definitely time consuming tasks that exist in every business that would save gobs of time and money if they could be automated away. But, so long as their isn't clear profit motive good luck getting your project green-lighted.
Or it internalizes the negativity into low self-esteem.
Bad idea!

They tried exactly that in France in the 60s and 70s. It was called Maths modernes (New maths). I think it was the same in most of the western world. It was a disaster and they abandoned it in the 80s. The problem was that while it may have helped the best students understand advanced concepts later on, it produced a generation of people who lacked practical counting skills.

EDIT: By "bad", I don't mean "stupid". The people who came up with new maths were experts in their field, with the goal of having a more scientifically literate population. No doubt very smart people, but maybe a little too smart for their own good. Turned out these concepts were too much for most young kids, and too remote from the way math is used on a day to day basis.
That was pretty cruel if it's a reference to the Diablo mobile game ruckus a couple years back.
Agreed completely. RSS is an example of what content–presentation separation could be if we made it more prevalent across the web.

There seems to be a steady thread of this sentiment here on HN, yet over the years no one has quite cracked this nut. Solutions welcome!
This seems like a bug on Cloudflare's end, to be honest. Archive.md is free to return bogus responses, but that shouldn't break Cloudflare.
If you had to use Cisco WebEx you wouldn't complain about slack. I've had messages take three minutes to reach the recipient. In order wrong the.

Very confusing and frustrating.
My personal favourite

alias -g NF='./*(oc[1])'

This points to the newest file/dir in my current dir, and it is very easy for me to untar a downloaded file and then cd into it without caring about the name of the file/dir.

tar xf NF; cd NF
If the language barrier is the only reason keeping you from applying to the Technion, or any other university in Israel, graduate courses in Israel will generally be given in English if a non-Hebrew speaker is present. It's standard practice, just email the instructor in advance.
Besides, Haifa is a very nice city.

You should also check out professors at Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University who might have similar interests, IIRC.
Feel free to hit me up if there's some page in Hebrew that doesn't translate well.
I learned to program years ago in high school. Git was one of the things that I just never got. I remember used git as a "staging" platform and struggling so hard to resolve all the problems that kept coming up (I'm sure they were actually relatively simple to anyone who knows git, like a merge conflict or detached head or something) so much I eventually wrote a script to use rsync to copy and paste files that had changed since I last "pushed" to prod. Now that I understand how it works inside and out, I can appreciate how amazing git is, but I don't think it's the kind of thing that should (or even could) be taught to teenagers. I hope github keeps this mainly focused on web IDE with automatic grading and turn-in instead of trying to get kids to learn Git
Corruption is a terrible mechanic!
Sure, but diverting the question from the topic where your point is weakest is just misdirection and isn't very persuasive.

There are a lot of good reasons other than this one to support pro-choice, but those reasons will be irrelevant to someone who views 'abortion as murder'. You have to put yourself in their position and reason about it like they would, then think about what is the best argument from their position.

Basically steel-manning their side and then tackling the best argument head on.

I think this is where really interesting discussions happen and where minds can change, otherwise you end up just discussing the same tired points without making any progress.
We're a small team working in stealth on this exact challenge. Shoot me a note if you're interested in hearing more or getting involved. itshelikos@gmail.com
Who is paying using fake money?
There's been a ton of talk around virtual convention start-ups and software, but part of me worries what's going to happen to traditional "cons" like BlizzCon.

Much of the innovation is around business/networking, with the exception of organized Discord activities (which dont scale well), its tough for me to imagine an alternative to attending a BlizzCon or PAX in person.
I simply cannot understand the motivation of people who seemingly want to be made angry.

I’ve had friends tell me I’m just buying my head in the sand, but I don’t think I am. I’m trying my best not to be manipulated into a worse emotional state. I don’t go on Facebook anymore because I realize that objectively time spent on Facebook made me less happy.
I really don't like the "it can't be helped" attitude about what Facebook has become.

They made a choice to throw gasoline on the flames of these aspects of human behavior. Few people seem to realize that Facebook could have been a force for good, if they had made different choices or had more integrity when it comes to the design and vision of their platform.

The way that things happened is not they only possible way they could have happened, and resigning to the current state as "inevitable", to me, reeks of an incredible lack of imagination.
It is, and it’s pretty funny
It's not really the same tech. More like a super sandwitch of 43 perspective layers. the 3DS uses parallax effect, which requires your head to be in a set location for it to work (I believe?) versus this monitor that actually works via you looking around at it from different perspectives (43 is the number I kept hearing)
Cowboy 2.8 is out with some performance improvements
Yes, and the book progressed very logically, and with little fluff or handholding. I struggled to work each exercise. I am not a fan of programming books that try and tell a story, or some other gimmick to involve you in learning. I think 6502 is cleaner than 8088 or later assembly, but that may be bias due to my early years! And you needed to know octal!
30pi is a fraction of pi.
Star Wars still seem to be the greatest source of inspiration for backend engineers when comes the time to find a name for a new microservice.
Modern oscilloscopes still are largely driven by buttons and knobs.
I started by copying a COBOL helloworld program and working through the concepts on https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol
It's very lightweight but that's what I was after.
What I wish I had done from the start was compile with all warnings (-Wall) because it would have caught a few things like me assigning constants to variables (pictures in COBOL) that were not the right size so they were silently truncated at runtime
Okay, I won't stop you. Go ahead and bring up examples from Hippocrates's time then. Human nature hasn't changed much on these timescales so you will be making a very strong point about modern medicine with such examples.
> why implicitly promote objectification of women by explicitly being ok with (crazy in my opinion) the personal choice of objectifying onseself?

A woman choosing to own the term "bitch" doesn't promote objectification of women any more than me owning the term "queer" promotes homophobia/transphobia. Bigots will always find an excuse to be bigots; they don't need a woman to give them that excuse.

Additionally, your use of "crazy" and "sane" in this context is exactly the type of tone policing that hurts women (not to mention very directly propping up the stigma against those suffering from mental illness). You're not helping.
Research Scientist (Machine Learning / Remote Sensing Data Assimilation)
Are you actively looking for employment elsewhere so that you can transition away from supporting harmful causes? Or are you using the excuse that you have to eat as a reason not to do hard things in your life?

I have used that excuse myself. I'm trying to get better at not using it.
A year to the day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012687

Making this a perfect snee-less dupe!
Is anyone going to mention how it says Medium takes 16s to load on average? That can't be right?
Ironically, that was founded by a Mr. Baer.

https://write.as/about
I would like to point out that cyberattack attribution is notoriously difficult.
An approach for people who are marginalized to feel stronger is to reclaim language that was previously used against them, and to repurpose it to mean something positive when applied to themselves.

See: "queer" to the LGBTQ+ community, "bitch" for women, and the "n-word" for the black community. In this specific case, my understanding - I'm not a woman, but am an ally to them - is that "bitch" means a strong woman who does what she wants, regardless of societal expectations.
With the Repl.it integration kids need very minimal knowledge of git, if any. Try it.