skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ninjutsu OS appears to be a full ISO file containing a tweaked Windows installation source. Why not release everything as a tool that applies all the customizations on an installation from the official ISO?

The tools that are used to implement that customization (Win10-Initial-Setup-Script and O&O ShutUp10) were always available. So why not just publish the recipe? Do people still download OS and antivirus software from random sources, like a Yandex drive?
Sync data from MySQL to ClickHouse, support full and increment ETL
Sync data from MySQL to ClickHouse, support full and increment ETL.
This is wonderful! I forgot how beautiful Cambodian pop was. Be really nice if they had country borders and city labels as an option too.
Government is expanding the scope of definitions used for regulation until everything fits. "Regulation creep risk" must be accounted for by investors and entrepreneurs seriously considering chasing their dreams.

Even if you are technically correct that your startup isn't within guidelines, you'll need hundreds of thousands (millions?) of dollars of budget to fight a neverending series of lawsuits.

Transportation industry is but only one example.
0.5.8 major changes include:

* Better support of ELF files for easier interoperability with host environment (e.g. while PPCI doesn't support shared libs, those can be linked with host `ld`).

* Many improvements to C frontend.

* Many improvements to WASM support.

* Some improvements to Pascal frontend.

* Improvements to graph-coloring register allocation in the backend.

* Docs (https://ppci.readthedocs.io/) improvements.
The argument is that HBR's article is just speculation, nothing more.

Some mergers have literally saved companies, some have ruined them, some are considered 'unsuccessful' for esoteric reasons and others successful for purely numeric ones.
> Checkout the translation of "you can you up,no can no bb" (see other comments).

Who actually is "WDNMD0-0"? Looks like the account was created to make just that one comment.
South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore haven't even had a real first wave yet. They're at 5 deaths per million, that's nothing.

The US, by contrast, has rapidly increasing herd immunity. That's why the trend is going down despite less social distancing. And there has never been a working coronavirus vaccin, so the assumption there will be one for covid19 soon is unfounded optimism.
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Recent version of json2pcap script by using tshark output allows pcap anonymization
The Elements of Computing Systems - Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press)

It's used in the Nand2Tetris course[1].

It guides you through building a computer and writing an assembler and compiler.

It's not so much a textbook you read as a textbook you do.

[1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
You got a source for that or some other reading material? Never witnessed it myself so just curious.
That was a little too much work TBH because the tools keep changing. I put a minimal textual description which is way easier to maintain.
ECommerce Design Best Practices
Yay, lynx!
Do we have algorithms that allow bipedal robots to walk at human level? Or run at, let's say, 10th grade standard student level?
The shitty IoT products can then also use a shitty battery/power supply because the advanced brownout protection the grandparent is talking about won't be spazzing out every 5 minutes that a LED causes voltage to droop. It's a win-win.
I have memories of this sort of thing going on back in the early 2000s with DirecTV access cards. One of the methods was to glitch the access card processor during bootup by pulsing and otherwise messing with the power. IIRC, it could be put into a test or debug mode if it was timed right.

On one hand I'd expect most systems that take security seriously would defend against this, but on the other hand the pitiful state of mass market and consumer hardware would indicate that very low expectations would be appropriate.
At least the internet archive usually follows the law. When IA is gone everyone will just go to libgen which actively opposes copyright. Not only that but a bunch of history will be lost and source links on Wikipedia will break.

IMO: most publishers are worthless anyway. I feel bad for authors but it’s hard to sympathize with publishers.
The police dept released a statement said they'd review the video and take any action deemed necessary. What you would have them do?

That, but with an independent third party instead of the police dept. Police are clearly not capable of policing themselves.
Thanks for this. Didn't know about this. Added to list.
Isn't it better to have people learn from their mistakes (if this is a mistake) - at least, perhaps, learn to be more circumspect - rather than just getting rid of people who have experience of making mistakes?

I hate that whole thing about requiring people to resign because they made a mistake (if it's genuine); obviously a pattern of mistakes is different. An obvious blunder would also be different, where it was self-evidently wrong and lacked mitigation.
I have a work notebook, so the second screen in my setup is the notebook screen. This screen is there anyway, so there is no electronic waste. As for the energy, the notebook overall consumes about 10 W during normal use. My estimate for the screen's power usage is about half of that, so maybe 4-6 W. To put that into perspective, my body's baseline energy usage is 90 W.
As the article states, "However, metaphors can be misleading, and I do not claim that we should write specifications just because architects draw blueprints."

He's not arguing for specifications because architects draw them for builders. Rather, architects draw them for some of the same reasons that the author posits that software specifications should be written.

As it says elsewhere... "[A]s the cartoonist Guindon wrote: 'Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.' We think in order to understand what we are doing. If we understand something, we can explain it clearly in writing. If we have not explained it in writing, then we do not know if we really understand it." That's why one should write specifications.
Catalina has caused a bad IDEA experience for me; updating tanked performance.
> the impossible standard of not returning fire

And yet they managed to not return fire all day, until they decided to literally invade an apartment.
I recently worked with a developer who proudly told me he has over 25 years experience. Unfortunately, he wasn't a very good developer.

In talking to him, he told me he switched jobs on average every 3-5 years. And I realized this was the problem. He didn't have 25 years of experience, he had 5 years of experience, 5 times over because he never went deep enough to master his craft. He stuck with Notepad++, never bothered to understand topics like hard tabs vs. soft tabs, never added automated linting or reformat to his coding workflow, didn't bother writing tests (or testable code).

I'm sure many of us have worked with someone who's terminal is misconfigured, has a messy PATH or their computer is in a general state of disarray. This is an example of short-term usability. Long term assumes general mastery of a tool/system... But this isn't always the case.
Look for the word 'network' in the list
These are caves in the Pilbara. There are a loooot of caves in the Pilbara. Pretty much all of them are as old as time itself; and most (all?) of them will have had some sort of Aboriginal contact in the ~65,000 years Australia has been settled. 'Aboriginal site' is a broad term.

Designating them as 'important archaeological sites' would render Australia un-minable. There is nowhere in Australia that hasn't been important to the Aboriginals at some point in the last 65,000 years. Look at how Europe is dotted with cultural sites and that really only track back a few thousand years. You mention Stonehenge, a modern construction dating back to only ~3,000BC. Australian Aboriginals claim a much older heritage.

To cover that many nooks, hollows and small sites with the umbrella of heritage protection is basically equivalent to debating destroying the mining industry as we know it in Australia. It is a very big debate.
The author says that he has soured on Python for “serious, large projects”. While it’s clearly personal opinion, and that’s fair enough , I can’t help but think his choice of framework hasn’t helped him and has likely caused significant slowdown when delivering features.

Looking through some of the code for Sourcehut, there’s an insane amount of boilerplate or otherwise redundant code[1]. The shared code library is a mini-framework, with custom email and validation components[2][3]. In the ‘main’ project we can see the views that power mailing lists and projects[4][5].

I’m totally biased, but I can’t help but think “why Flask, and why not Django” after seeing all of this. Most of the repeated view boilerplate would have gone ([1] could be like 20 lines), the author could have used Django rest framework to get a quality API with not much work (rather than building it yourself[6]) and the pluggable apps at the core of Django seem a perfect fit.

I see this all the time with flasks projects. They start off small and light, and as long as they stay that way then Flask is a great choice. But they often don’t, and as the grow in complexity you end up re-inventing a framework like Django but worse whilst getting fatigued by “Python” being bad.

1. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/paste.sr.ht/tree/master/pastesrh...

2. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/core.sr.ht/tree/master/srht/emai...

3. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/core.sr.ht/tree/master/srht/vali...

4. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hub.sr.ht/tree/master/hubsrht/bl...

5. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hub.sr.ht/tree/master/hubsrht/bl...

6. https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/paste.sr.ht/tree/master/pastesrh...
FYI Amazon already left the "hot" food delivery market. Amazon Restaurants was killed
How sanitary is that? A small room that is aerosolizing feces and urine after each flush?

I doubt there is a lid on the toilet.
> if Hitler/Xi/Kim were to publish an opinion piece in NYT, should they reject it or should they publish it?

They did publish a chunk of Mein Kampf back in 1941, only adding a single small paragraph of context.
What is Cyber Intelligence and how is it used?
It doesn't generate diagrams from textual descriptions
This morning, I chanced upon the wiki page for "George Floyd protests".

I consider myself more liberal than many, and yet I was struck by the obvious left slant of that page.

Not that it has inaccuracies, but its selection of facts and how they are presented, are definitely not neutral. From the header ("protests" or "riots"?) to the prevalence ("George Floyd protests in Minnesota"[0] and "George Floyd protests"[1], etc[2], [3], [4], [5] ...) to the descriptions and topics....

IMO such bias erodes their trust, and the more centrist will have to choose between one echo chamber and another and decide their facts by emotion.

Unfortunately, I am beginning to feel that the more "woke" a subject is, the less likely the facts will be presented fairly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twin_Cities_riots
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests_...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests_...
Yes, but it is the prescribed language for native applications (like C#). Java is really becoming a “niche” language for Android development (until it is replaced with something like Go or Dart). We are seeing less and less of it for server code, as Python and JS take over.

C++ is becoming “niche” for engine code. I’m glad it’s no longer really used for UI.

There’s a lot of specialized languages popping out of the woodwork, these days. I once worked with an image processing language called Halide, which I found to be quite painful (it’s basically an FP language with the good parts removed), but an interesting idea. Totally niche.

https://halide-lang.org/
tagged with entity-relationship
Another truly eclectic station is Radio Paradise. It's like a constant wandering journey with a great community.
A tangent, but I'm really glad California allows any state resident to use any public library in the state. In the state where I grew up, I was fortunate to live in a town with excellent library resources, but it was not something everyone in the state could enjoy even if they were willing to travel to another town. There's still a very noticeable difference between the library systems in different towns in CA, but at least one can still register and utilize online resources (assuming they visit in-person once if that's needed to register).
(yWorks employee here, having worked on that Graph Drawing Contest)

Thank you for the kind words.

I've tried to make it mobile-friendlier, after our marketing team told me that most people who come via Twitter use a phone. But we kinda ran out of time, so I only managed to fix the most egregious problems. By now I also have a few ideas how to get the edge paths to be much better (and built-in Bézier spline routing would have helped, but that was only released publicly ... two days ago). Admittedly, while that layout has been produced by yFiles' hierarchical layout it needed a bit massaging to do so properly (about 200 lines of custom layout code, if I remember correctly). However, a proper library that gives you that flexibility helps tremendously, of course. Sometimes, trying to get Graphviz to do the right thing can be pretty complicated and may involve hacks like invisible edges to force a certain layering (although that was way back and I didn't know about "rank=foo" back then; perhaps the invisible edges were really not needed).

In any case, yEd Live (https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/), built on yFiles for HTML, also has an undocumented, incomplete, and rudimentary Graphviz import. I've got a fairly exhaustive list of issues and missing features, but little time to tackle it, sadly. This is further complicated by the fact that the DOT language uses attributes to describe the graph structure, visual attributes of items, and to control layout settings. That makes mapping Graphviz to anything else a bit hard.
Two hairstylists with coronavirus saw 140 clients – no one got infected
And some people honestly believed a underground child sex ring was located under a pizzeria with no basement.

And that Obama was born in Kenya.

At what point do you decide that there is conspiracy preventing publication, vs. that your hidden sources of information are lying to you?
Zoom suspends U.S. based activist’s account for Tiananmen anniversary meeting
Persistence Hunting
Given Mermaid is now supported in Azure DevOps, it's not crazy to think GitHub might support it in the future.
>> The corporate work culture survives on people's fears. If you don't play by the rules of the people in power, how will you make money, how will you feed your family, how will you contribute to society?

>> When people long for the days of the early web, the glorious idiosyncracies of personal sites and forums, they are really longing for a time and a space where people were free to communicate their own values. Now that space is owned and rented to the highest bidder. A site like LinkedIn wraps you up into a tiny, uniform package, sets you in an enormous data warehouse next to millions of other tiny people just like you, and sells the lot of you.

A lot of what he says resonates really strongly. Fact of the matter though is that we are locked in this state of affairs. Specially if you are in a not-exactly-buzzing job market. I don't know if there is a will and a way to revert ourselves back to something more than a commodity. And I don't see a way to move forward to something beyond that.
I get that Jimmy Wales acted questionably towards Larry Sanger, but I'm always a little saddened that Sanger has become a rent-a-quote to criticise something truly amazing that he helped to create. Wikipedia is for all its flaws a remarkable achievement.
I haven't checked in a while but on mobile, responding to threads would collapse the text completely on itself in the new layout. The problem persisted for months and I ended up dropping Reddit from my reading list altogether.

Incredible how a billion dollar corporation can be so bad at doing the basics right. Twitter is the same - I still can't play videos on the first try 80% of the time.
Microsoft hasn't changed after all...

I used to like what they were doing with WSL, but now on the contrary it starts to worry me, because it can become an avenue of evil behavior against users/devs/open-source/...
Was thunderstorms proof of Zeus' wrath? I believe it is quite hard now the comprehend what share they thought of the gods as mythology or literal.
I quit using LinkedIn after realizing that just viewing pages spams people you know with emails... Talk about unprofessional.
> 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).

Wow, you're not kidding. https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/www/chromium/pa... is positively scary.
I found my last 2 jobs through LinkedIn. One through direct application through LinkedIn (the Easy-Apply feature) and then once through a recruiter's message.

I couldn't imagine not having LinkedIn nowadays, it's invaluable.
Definitely seen in the German market Takeaway buying tonnes of domains.
Which is why it's called the "Slippery Slope," not the "Sheer Cliff" or the "Trap Door" or the "Gravity Well."

Whatever ancient neckbeard decided it was a fallacy clearly didn't get out much.
Yes, the sad reality is that this doctor is completely delusional about the actual risks of covid because of his first-hand experiences. The news amplifies this kind of hysteria so badly that doctors start believing they and their coworkers might die if they leave their wrists exposed. It would be comical, if it didn't have such a large societal impact.
I wonder if it is actually made by GE or just rebranded? It's a shame they could have been the USA Miele but they didn't think it was worth it I guess. Do you think they ever go to bid for a nucleur power station and the guy goes "nah, not after that fridge you sold me"?
A written software specification can still be spectacularly wrong. Writing down a spec is no guarantee that you have avoided fuzzy and incomplete thinking or that you understand the problem you are trying to solve.
KataGo optimized AlphaZero and achieved 50x compute reduction.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10565
Deliveroo investment is going to affect the UK market, while this deal has 0 impact on any markets.

That's the relevant difference
The board are in that role because they’ve made the mistakes and are now experts who can avoid them and are truested to. If its an obvious mistake they shouldnt be board members.
Pikiwedia sounds better than Wikipedia.
How to make mini polony pizzas
For VMs mostly because of what you said. And generally, the ability to run Win-only software on a Linux host.

For Docker, I think it's just the ease of use. Imagine a standard web service you want to host, consisting of an Apache, some PHP, a MySQL database and maybe a Redis cache as well. Now imagine how the software's author would write setup instructions. 'Grab this and that version of these things, install them, then edit these 10 config files and make sure these lines are in there.'
With Docker it's literally 'Here, copy that docker-compose.yml to your server und run `docker-compose up -d`'.
Interesting case. If Microsoft really demands that a user does not disable features, I am looking forward to some taking this to court.

The thing is, software licenses are still largely uncharted territory. If I am not allowed to modify the system as my hardware executes it, will Microsoft take liability for any damage, material or immaterieal that could be caused by it? Think of an upgrade bricking your device (happened to a kindle of mine once) or a security hole that gets exploited.

On the other hand, there is this whole discussion about the legality of ad blocking. Often, publishers claim that it is a copyright infringement to disable ads on their site. I think the cases are pretty much the same: A party offering software to you under the condition that you execute it exactly as they want. I wonder what the closest thing in non-software law would be to such a stipulation.
Tiananmen museum seeks funds to preserve crackdown relics online
Interesting that museums are moving online to avoid censorship/harassment. Wonder if this will occur more often as authoritarian governments crack down?
>> the US - the country that went to the moon, that invented the internet, that built a military capability that literally saved the world in ww2
> two of those are in part result of propaganda

Eh, no.

We (the USA) did really go to the moon, though I know some USA citizens dispute that.

It was really USA universities and corporations (with DARPA funding) that built the foundations of Ethernet, TCP/IP and the Internet. Yes, plenty of contributions from others (including foreign grad students), but still, USA institutions.

The USA produced a lot of war material for all the Allies in WW2. A lot went to the USSR to keep them in the fight. This in no way should diminish the absolutely unprecedented loss and sacrifice of the USSR peoples in the Great Patriotic War, who bore the brunt of it. But without the USA, I really doubt the Allies could have stopped the Axis powers.
WhatsApp fixes issue that exposed some users' phone numbers to search engines
Most modern audio creation and DSP software use AVX, some even require it.
Like I say, I don’t disagree with anything in the article. In fact I’d go further and say that the metaphor is not just misleading, but actually damaging.
What I dislike about Zoom is that it's a Chinese binary on my computer, something I don't want.
> I'm fairly certain LinkedIn has never helped me in my job search. This is likely not true for everyone, but I'd go so far as to say that unless your profile is exceptional for some reason, it probably does more harm than good. You and I are just another candidate in a tall stack—ie. our profiles are more useless information they can use to cross our name off.

This is exactly the problem that sparked us starting https://otta.com - we speak to job seekers on a daily basis and the overwhelming feedback we hear is that LinkedIn really doesn't help people. We're doing our best to change that - just in London right now, and just for tech companies, but soon (hopefully) everywhere.
If you ever want to become an independent consultant, LinkedIn has a value that won't be immediately apparent to you.

While YOU might hate it, there are some business folks who search LinkedIn first. They want to see consultants/contractors who've been used by other people in their network, been recommended, etc. I know it sounds odd to us - I would neeeever search LinkedIn first - but I've heard from prospects who have, and they've contacted me on LinkedIn first.

It's never worked out for me though - the billable rates on those kinds of gigs have been pretty low.
A Neuroscientist’s Theory of Everything
Well that's an organizational problem. Personally when I do code review and I see a comment which is redundant or doesn't match the code, I immediately return the PR and tell the developer to fix it.
The idea that you need LinkedIn to further your career is a myth straight out of the LinkedIn marketing budget.

It was a weak signal that is now pure noise.
Tiny exposure to covid (by passing somebody on the street) is exceptionally unlikely to make you sick, but it will help your immune system recognize the enemy. This builds partial immunity and if you get exposed for real at some later point your immune system will be able to kick into gear right away.
After a century of searching, scientists find new liquid phase