skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t buy into the notion that speech and beliefs are an attack on your “safety.” That’s just a tactic to elevate a certain class of political beliefs above the usual debate. It’s a poisonous notion.

Of course, ideas that lead to policy matter in the aggregate. But I don’t think it’s productive to “lose friends” because their policy preferences, if adopted, through some long and attenuated causal chain might be contrary to your personal interests. Over the last year, I’ve become deeply concerned about the ideas espoused by many of my friends. I’m an immigrant to this country and for the most part love it for what it is. I think many of the notions my Facebook friends subscribe to will in the long term change the country for the worse, and lead to a worse future for my children. Indeed, it wouldn’t be historically unprecedented for these ideas, if taken too far, to lead to real suffering and physical harm to many people. But I know these people and I’m convinced they hold all of their beliefs in good faith. I’m not going to hold it against them that I think that the policies they support may be wrong or even harmful in the long run.
Linux has a lot more features than Haiku, for sure, but a lot of these are oriented towards servers, which we probably will never implement because we are not targeting servers. Obviously there are others which we will eventually implement, sooner or later (like virtualization).

However, I have no idea what you mean when you say that Haiku's kernel and filesystem has "several design problems."
Thanks for the reply, Manfredo.

Apologies for not clearly stating that what I wanted to know was not how you did your math, but your source/the modelling behind the '3 days of storage' number which I didn't see in your source.

The points in my previous reply were all in questioning the need for everywhere to have '3 days of energy storage' in order for us to significantly decarbonize. While it might represent a theoretical metric based on the state of the world today, I am doubtful it includes the points I mentioned, particularly demand response and continent wide grids connected with HVDC transmission lines (both of which are under discussions in various parts of the world).

Additionally, the same principle applies with a server/service uptime reaching 100%. Realistically, we talk about 'how many 9s'. 99% uptime is much easier than 99.999%. Pushing the last 10% of fossil fuels off our grid will be hard, and the last 1% even harder, 0.1% etc as you start covering all the edge cases until we get to 100%. Probably will not get to 100% in our lifetimes. But I'd bet that we will get to 80% and maybe even 90% much faster than what status quo projects.

Using Germany and California as an example, where many of my points above do not apply (and they are still able to get to 50% renewable generation) I view as a good sign. Neither grid has a particularly large amount of installed storage, connectedness to other grids or integrated demand response either. Getting the world to even 80% renewables will require no-where near the '3 days of storage', particularly as other tech (like storing energy as heat in blocks when there is excess energy) becomes viable in this decade. Many parts of the world have less than single digit penetration of renewables today - we have lots of room to go.

Additionally, solar's cost is declining quickly (disclaimer & note: I am in the solar industry and see these cost declines continuing apace) and have seen first hand people starting to 'overbuild' their solar sites. Factor overbuilt solar, and that it has a unique property of 'predictability' (you KNOW for sure the sun will rise tomorrow, you don't know if it will be windy at all in the next 2 weeks). Given that even a very cloudy day can still generate a large fraction of the peak energy capacity - any excess can be curtailed until that capacity can find somewhere valuable to go as the grids and other energy storage tech beyond li-ion evolves.
Wearing Face Masks During Sex Encouraged to Help Reduce Coronavirus Transmission
The first generation Surface Go works very well, except for the cameras, which are not supported.
> And btw. the "second wave" will come for certain in the fall

Are there any hard data on this, or just predictions? Or are you talking about influenza, as you mention later?
Libgen, personally. I've used it so much, may as well pay it forward.
I generally share a smattering of links like these:

Zoom banned from New York City schools due to privacy and security flaws https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-yo...

Google Told Its Workers That They Can’t Use Zoom On Their Laptops Anymore https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans...

Elon Musk's SpaceX bans Zoom over privacy concerns https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-zoom-video-commn/e...

Beware of ‘ZoomBombing:’ screensharing filth to video calls https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/zoombombing/

Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/

Zoom security issues: Here's everything that's gone wrong (so far https://www.tomsguide.com/news/zoom-security-privacy-woes

Mass move to work from home in coronavirus crisis creates opening for hackers: cyber experts https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cyber/...

Security and Privacy Implications of Zoom https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_...

‘Zoom is malware’: why experts worry about the video conferencing platform https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-tech...

Ex-NSA hacker drops new zero-day doom for Zoom https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nsa-hacker-drops-zero-1400...

Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/31/zoom-at-your-own-risk/

Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/04/unpat...

The Zoom Privacy Backlash Is Only Getting Started https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-backlash-zero-days/

Hackers Are Selling a Critical Zoom Zero-Day Exploit for $500,000 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdqgv/hackers-selling-cr...

Researchers found and bought more than 500,000 Zoom passwords on the dark web for less than a cent each https://www.businessinsider.com/500000-zoom-accounts-sale-da...
Why is it difficult? Is there not enough context given the conversation is specifically focused on video conference software.

One could say the same of Zoom...

There's Zoom Meetings Client, Zoom Rooms, a desktop app, mobile app, Outlook Plug-in, Browser extension, etc.
What FB debacle? I don't use FB, so I'd not know.
CSS Grid example of a responsive newspaper layout
Kingminer patches vulnerable servers to lock out competitors
What happens in cases like AWS where the Base salary is 170k and Bonus is in Millions of dollars - will the previous company only pay 85k and get away with it ?
No thanks. I do not see any value of the n+1 unnecessary abstraction over things that I am already familiar with. An average customer does not want to use these things either.
That is the use case its targeting (relative to http/2)
I refuse to use Zoom at all.

If it's a client I have a comfortable relationship with, I'll tell them honestly why I won't use it.

If not, I tell them "I can never get Zoom to work on my computer" or something similar, and provide an alternative.
Could you give your top 5 Rich Hickey videos for begginers?
We tend to differentiate between disaster recovery (where downtime is acceptable) versus high availability (where downtime is not acceptable). High availability is much harder and more expensive.

DR typically means your business is down and all hands bring it back at another location at bare minimum capacity just to keep money flowing.
> Security and ease of use are always a tradeoff.

Security and ease of use are not by default mutually exclusive. Depending on circumstances satisfying both may be a challenge, but it’s not a blanket impossibility and we could probably hold certain companies up to a standard that corresponds to their multi-billion valuations.

A virtual “slider” on which you can only dial up security by hurting usability is only a useful map, not the territory.
I've never done any software consulting/contracting but I can see the sense in what you say.
I have stopped regarding it as a fallacy. It seems to be something of a predictive measure at this point.
Linformer: Self-Attention with Linear Complexity
I disagree, accordingly Wikipedia:

> Fashion is a popular aesthetic expression at a particular time, place and in a specific context, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body proportions.

Fashion is inexplicably linked to a particular time. Just like Art - Art evolves with time and it is part of the culture, current events, etc.

Design is not (unless you want to include say media as it changes through time. For e.g. print -> digital media).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-trac... and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont... are essential add-ons to be able to tolerate browsing Facebook on a PC.
I agree that the population of programmers who knew about SQL injection was much smaller, but it was certainly widely understood by people who cared.

I believe that msql_* were implemented in PHP 3.0, in 1998. By comparison Perl's DBI was first released in 1994, with placeholders and an explanation of why they were important. Of course the idea wasn't original to DBI, the feature was based on an existing Oracle feature known as bind variables that I know was available and recommended with Oracle 7 in 1992. (I don't know if it was there before. It might have been.)

So there was certainly no attempt to figure out best practices on the part of PHP. And compared to the other injection attacks that proliferated in PHP in this time frame, the mysql functions were practically sane.
Not an FB user but yes, in the last couple of months. Or was it more discovering what "friend" really means. Either way, I'm actually happier now.
Exactly. Btw. the other end of companies do not use Hadoop either. S3 + Presto is super popular nowadays in case of cloud.
Well, they're distinct groups to scientists too. Nobody is saying dinosaur and bird are interchangeable terms. All birds are dinosaurs, not all dinosaurs were birds.
> in much of Europe, you'd get less than that for murder.

That very much depends on what kind of murder.
I haven't personally used Google Meet, but part of what drew me to Zoom:

- General preference for non-ad supported business model.

- Google Meet wasn't an option until very recently.

- I really dislike hangouts and how it leaks chat all over Gmail (among other things), and this has biased me against their other products.

- Similarly, I was a huge fan of Google Voice which was way ahead of its time and which they abandoned for years until many other multi-billion dollar companies rose up and took the space.

- I've anecdotally heard Meet had worse video/audio quality from friends.

- I tend to try and avoid Google chat products since they're usually a mess and often killed.

Of all of these, the first and last are really the only valid reasons.

Google Meet does have its own scummy practices though (adding itself to meetings without asking which confuses participants and is extremely annoying, Benedict Evans tweeted/wrote about this).

Maybe Jitsi works well enough to actually use? I already have a Matrix server, I could try getting friends to use that instead (realistically probably will be difficult).
> I could imagine the country that discovers it giving priority to their citizens when there is, at first, limited supply but withholding it indefinitely for advantage seems like it would not happen because of the incredible profit motive.

Turns out that those doing vaccine trials have actually thought of that, and most of them are making partnerships in different countries to prevent "bad side effects" from this (such as forced seizure).
Uber ATG Open-Sources Neuropod DL Inference Engine
> Edit: Although as yeldarb explains in a comment here[3],

> it's probably a bit more complicated than that.

Legally speaking I'm not sure anything wrong was really done here.

Morally speaking, it seems quite unethical. AlexeyAB has really been carrying the torch of the Darknet framework and the YOLO neural network for quite some time (with pjreddie effectively handing it over to him).

AlexeyAB has been providing support on pjreddie's abandoned repository (e.g. [1]) and actively working on improvements in a fork [2]. If you look at the contributors graphs, he really has been keeping the project alive [3] (vs Darknet by pjreddie [4]).

Probably the worse part in my opinion is that they have also seemingly bypassed the open source nature of the project. This is quite damning.

[1] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/issues/1900

[2] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

[3] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/graphs/contributors

[4] https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/graphs/contributors
So Trump is not a human rights activist ? Do you want to say Trump is anti human rights ?
Sounds like you are caught up in some horrific FB dopamine loop[1]. You really don't need to engage with people on the internet; it's totally optional, and not particularly "social." You especially don't need to engage with people on that toxic shit-hole which is designed to make you unhappy. You can either remove the app from your ipotato, or quit. I occasionally hear about shenanigans on FB from my actual friends. None of it makes any sense.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/phone-addiction-formula/
It seems like there's two parts to your disapproval.

1. Effort is expended that could be allocated towards helping the poor, hungry, and sick. (Money being an abstraction layer over "effort"). This is immoral.

This is also true of every leisure activity and many jobs including the creation of art, music, and literature. You may wish to argue against all of those things but "all leisure is sin" will find little support, as most people want there to be something to enjoy in life.

2. Because this plane was created for war it is a dirty, ugly thing that should be discarded.

That's a matter of personal opinion. Some people will agree, but there are reasons not to. Just off the top of my head:

* Preserving this preserves a historical artifact. Keeping this plane in flying condition enables people today to see what it was like in use. It is important both as a part of cultural history (the cold war) and technical history (as an engineering development)

* There is beauty in a well-built machine. Jet aircraft are awe-inspiring in general. A fighter is built not only to carry weapons but for great speed and maneuverability. Disarmed, it still has an appeal far greater than a Gulfstream. It is like comparing an F1 car to a Toyota Camry. The latter is a lot more practical, but the former was built to do the extreme.

* It's a fighter, not a gas chamber. It's a weapon specifically designed to fight other warplanes and to get shot back at. Somebody flying a plane like this in a war is a target as often as they are an aggressor. It might have kept the guy flying it alive under fire.
I lose a bunch every election. Selfish right wing friends get removed. I understand their point, but I find it hard to be friends with people who believe those things.

I'm sure they feel the same about me and my left(ish) posts.

I don't know how people can be anti-BLM .... How can I be friends with them?
WebPositive in based on modern WebKit (specifically a snapshot from a few months ago), which is the same engine that powers Safari. Is that not a "modern, mature browser"? The bugs in Web+ are mostly in our WebKit port, which is continuing to improve.

We have no interest in trying to port Chromium. Even OpenBSD, which uses X11 that Chromium already has a native backend for, has thousands of lines of patches they have to maintain (and spend hours and hours rebasing every upgrade). Haiku would have to maintain far more than a few thousand lines, as we would have to add a new graphics backend at the very least.

Firefox is better in this department, but has a codebase larger than Haiku itself, and none of us have any expertise there. If someone knowledgeable about Firefox's codebase wanted to port it, we'd be happy to help where we can, but there's only so many of us.
Have the decency to look someone in the eye.

This is true even if you're not firing somebody. In my first "real" job, I didn't report directly to the guy who negotiated pay. Maybe that was a little weird, but it could have worked. Except, the way he would discuss raises was to wait until some afternoon I was really busy with actual work, and then sneak into my office and blurt "your-raise-this-year-is-$10-congratulations-it-was-good-to-talk-with-you-I'll-be-pretty-busy-for-the-next-few-weeks-ok-bye!" He was literally gone before I had the presence of mind to greet him. This is the same guy who would insist on all sorts of procedures if anyone (e.g. my manager's manager) wanted to meet with him. Geoff, wow, what a tool.
From TFA

> But the losses from CLOs, combined with losses from other troubled assets like those commercial-mortgage-backed securities, will lead to serious deficiencies in capital.

You're making a pretty brave assertion given what we saw in 2008. I now assume that the ratings are all skewed to be too optimistic, publicly acknowledged exposure is skewed to underreport, and our ability to see the actual damage that would be caused by a system-wide collapse in CLOs isn't clear because we don't know what each opaque silo is doing to multiply or hedge those CLOs (and neither does any individual silo).

Also, capital reserve requirements dry up very quickly when a panic starts to set in. The Federal Reserve saved us earlier this year and in 2008+, but there comes a point when it won't be as successful and investors may start to see other markets as being comparatively lower risk, especially after the official US debt will likely jump 20-50% this year alone and we never unrolled the $4.5trillion in QE, only added another $4trillion - $10trillion onto that.
A friend wants to start developing a hobby multiplayer 2D game. He's gonna be the only developer. Would Unity be a good choice? Any other recommended alternatives?
There is a lot of terminology, and the details are absurdly complicated, but the basic idea is simple:

* businesses make things and sell them

* businesses take loans as a way to have a base of money to operate with, because the costs associated to make things have to be paid before the revenue from selling them comes in, and sales may be cyclical, etc

* businesses pay interest on those loans. (Hopefully this interest rate is significantly less than their profit margin.)

* the issuers of the loans- usually banks- sell the rights to the interest payments of those loans. Why? When a bank makes a loan, it is exposed to the risk of the business failing- if it fails, the loan principal and interest payments are lost. banks don't want this kind of "all or nothing" risk (more below).

* people who buy those rights package those interest payment rights into legal structures that combine interest payment rights from a lot of businesses together

* parts of those melded interest payment legal structures are then sold, often sold back to banks, because now the risk, instead of being "all or nothing" is "diversified".

The same thing happens with mortgages- banks that issue mortgages sell the mortgages and then buy into structures that package the payment rights from many, many mortgages.

For every given institution/bank, the move to sell the specific asset and buy the diversified asset makes sense.

At a systemic level, when everyone is doing this, it becomes systemically risky.

What's happening now, because of the systemic risk, entities that hold these "diversified" assets are themselves selling them to the central bank, which is then absorbing the systemic risk. This article doesn't mention that bank holdings of cash are at all time highs.

In principle, this does not amount to "printing money to stay afloat"- though many will say in practice it does. In principle, it amounts to shifting systemic risk around.
I think you’re overstating the complexity a bit. When people mention Zoom I don’t fuss over whether it’s desktop, web (do they even offer it?), mobile, or whatever.
Same trick can be used to bypass paywall on nytimes.
I am reading "The Art of Statistics" by David Spiegelhalter.
There are reasons for that beyond crypto-everywhere-goodness - in the main use case crypto helps prevent middleboxes from messing with things which is critical for its success.
It’s really not, especially for high end models if you are stressing your hardware and it’s not an awfully thermally limited design you’ll drain the battery even when you are connected to the charger.

You have 60W chargers usually for systems with max power draw of the CPU+GPU that can reach around 200W peak and in the mid to high 1XXW sustained if you have a DTR/high-performance “mobile” CPU + dGPU.

Even if your laptop comes with a 90W charger it’s still a problem because it’s not enough to power a 65W series H CPU and a high end GPU that draws another 80-120W.

Most laptops will always use the battery directly and trickle charge it due to the power draw.

Power(hungry)ful modern gaming/DTR style laptops can use both concurrently, heck older gaming laptops used to come with multiple power supplies that were needed simply because even the battery wasn’t enough at the time to serve as a buffer, so you had to plug in 2 power adapters to power the laptop fully.

Even without this constraint having a single power path is cheaper and simpler to design so most manufacturers just only draw from the battery and have a separate charging circuit that charges it without having to add power balancing and switching circuitry.

IBM thinkpads used to advertise that you can switch the battery while the laptop was plugged into the charger most laptops of that period didn’t support this either.

If you go even further it was even more of a headache because older laptops used LiPo batteries which were even more finicky.
When you are programming in some lesser known graphics frameworks like libgdx or when you are using OpenGl then the special Reddit subpages are more active than stackoverflow. For example I implemented a framebuffer in OpenGL wrong a few weeks ago but the output then is just a black screen. Some redditor mentioned that specific thing in a comment on /r/OpenGL
That's sarcasm right? The capital requirement has recently been dropped to zero.

Edit for source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm
I believe this is how you learn:

* I watch you do it.
* You watch me do it.
* Then I do it.

I have to watch someone else undertake a task to understand it. After, I attempt to undertake the task and receive feedback from the individual whom I watched first. Then after I've gathered the knowledge I can do the task. The context I learned about this approach was when I learned to use a chainsaw. But it has served me extremely well in both learning and teaching other topics over the years.
In theory, yes. In practice, since Google and Facebook are free to end users, outcompeting them would require raising enormous amounts of capital. So you would depend on the approval of a rather small (and mind you, non-elected) group of individuals.

I really don't think it's about the wording you put on the decision maker's badge. It's about who's interests they represent and the structure of their incentives.

Government-drivern censorship is bad, because their incentive would become to stay in power no matter what. Monopolies act the same way.
"There are more than $1 trillion worth of leveraged loans currently outstanding. The majority are held in CLOs."

To get some perspective, the FED recently added almost three trillion dollars of "not QE" to the balance sheet, mostly because of COVID-19.

They'll be bailed out.

"But this time, the bailout proposal will likely face stiffer opposition, from both parties"

Doubtful. Everything can be blamed on the virus this time.