skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "The upshot is that if you don’t trust any of your workers (public choice theory, again) and do trust the managerial elite to be able to run all industries equally, then you can just do whatever you want and blame the inevitable failure on the workers being too stupid or incompetent."

Strong statement.
Do you think companies should always be expected adopt and implement the proprietary products and technology of other companies in their products? That seems like an extremely broad expectation.

For example cars nowadays have computerised entertainment systems. If your a car manufacturer and I bring out a service for use in cars with a free client app, should I be able to sue you if you don't put my client app in your car and integrate it into your infotainment systems at no cost to me? If I bring out a new proprietary internet technology, should I be able to sue all the phone manufacturers that don't build in support for it into their phones at their own expense?

I'm having difficulty seeing how this ability for companies to unilaterally impose obligations on other companies, enforceable on anti-trust grounds is practical.
Renault does that, they publish winter and summer realistic range. They're pretty spot on.
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How does one know whether the app in playstore is compiled from this very repo + specific commit and not some other fork of it?

Edit: This is not questioning this particular app. A lot of govt are making their tracing app open source [1].
Since making it open source is supposed to increase trust hence the question.

[1] India app: https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android
> why is using deep learning to do something useful impossible?

This is completely false. Here are some examples: Google translate. It's infinitely useful. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me when I want to quickly check whether my translation into my second language is okay, or I'm not sure I got the meaning right of some translation.

Second example: My home security cameras now uses object classification and only alerts me when there's movement in "high risk zones" and it's human. So many stupid false positives of shadows and stray cats completely gone. I'm pretty sure I can fine-tune it with examples of myself and my family and it will ignore them when it's reasonably confident it's them, but I couldn't be bothered.
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Without any server-side logic, I suppose user permissions must have been handled entirely by the database, with clients connecting as different database users?

Did row-level security already exist in some databases at that time? Otherwise this must have been quite limiting.
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> The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country

That's no exaggeration. For English Canada, the destruction of those planes was a trauma that lasts to this day because the Arrow represented the height of national pride, and their destruction the deepest low.

Similar but lesser feelings for the A220, sold by Bombardier for $1 to Airbus because Boeing lobbied for a 219.63% tariff on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A220

https://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/news/companies/bombardier-b...

Canadians are polite, but they can kick ass when they want to.
Milky Way could contain 36 contactable alien civilisations, scientists claim
Requires google play services to run with the developers not caring at all
Files from the newest WikiLeaks dump on 9/11
The technical director gave a press conference and confirmed that they'll add reproducable builds in the near future.
Well, if you read the parent comment here again, I hope you can understand that "how big of a 'client' Amazon is in AWS itself" is _precisely_ about estimating profits for AWS.

The fact that Amazon is self-serving AWS resources is obfuscating profit calculations or estimates as there is no way of determining ROI on assets Amazon consumes itself - most likely in a somewhat shared model together with other, actually paying customers.
"but they can kick ass when they want to.

Obviously not when it comes to Arrow, Bombardier, and getting salary parity with US workers.

I say this unsarcastically as a Canadian.
> "How do they write the right stuff?

The answer is, it’s the process. The group’s most important creation is not the perfect software they write — it’s the process they invented that writes the perfect software.

It’s the process that allows them to live normal lives, to set deadlines they actually meet, to stay on budget, to deliver software that does exactly what it promises. It’s the process that defines what these coders in the flat plains of southeast suburban Houston know that everyone else in the software world is still groping for. It’s the process that offers a template for any creative enterprise that’s looking for a method to produce consistent – and consistently improving — quality."

I think here it is part of the solution. The team culture should be strong as also, to achieve a good software.
I agree that Lego Boost (and WeDo 2.0) are similar but better suited to younger kids. Mine were 7 and 5 and loved both of them.
This was officially released just a few hours ago by the way:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.rki.coronaw...
The problem is that the same medium (HTML) is used for "documents" and "applications". Programmatic access to clipboard, zoom etc is legitimate for "HTML applications" like Google Docs/Maps but unnecessary for "HTML documents", along with virtually all scripting.
It is still unbelievable, that the German government paid 20 Million Euro for these apps. Hopefully the request for details about the contracts[1] will be answered by the corresponding gov agency.

[1]: https://fragdenstaat.de/anfrage/kostenaufstellung-der-corona...
I am cheering on their ever increasing range for one reason.

It will force traditional manufacturers to step up. They all seem too content to deliver products whose range numbers barely make it to the mid two hundred mile range number.

This is the same complacency that would have doomed us forever to a world of sub one hundred mile range EVs when Tesla was not a factor.

They just don't want to push the numbers because the longer they drag their feet and the slower the number increases the more profit they can wring out of the market.
This is exactly why this is a dumb change. Lot of people learned it before 1998, before the -bibytes. Even now it's being used as if they were interchangeable.
It was a meme adopted from the 3DS hacking community.

Anyway, I still remember the first year that the switch came out when everyone thought “maybe this next update will add bluetooth audio”.

Seriously. Other Tegra X1 devices have bluetooth audio. Why can I not use my wireless earbuds on a portable device with all of the technical capability to use them? Is it really such a big ask to enable this most basic of feature?
Compared to the billions to potentially trillions of euros Germany will be paying for the lockdown and the other EU states this is basically nothing I think.
I have to say the main reason I did not install my country's (Norway) corona-tracing-app is that they said it could not be made safe if the source code was public. Nice to see other countries do the right thing.
> Do you think it's wasting time to push back against something if you believe it is not useful?

Yes

> Do you think it's wasting time to push back against something if you believe it is not legitimate?

No, but here I see only mockeries, not actual arguments about why such change is not legitimate.
If there is a moral here, it should be to take precautions when working on equipment which might contain dangerous substances. We’ve learned this lesson ourselves cracking open broken laptops. You might find anything from coffee to soda, to pet urine or worse. A box of nitrile gloves definitely should be standard equipment in any hacker’s lab.

_Louis Rossmann entered the chat_

See also:

- Louis repairs flies-infested laptop

- Louis repairs semen-"water damaged" laptop

- Louis repairs cockroach-infested laptop
> there is no general type of Rust lambdas that take an A and return a B other than the trait object type `dyn impl Fn(A) -> B` (Or FnMut or FnOnce);

I don't understand the issue (and I know very little of rust), but isn't `dyn impl Fn(A) -> B` exactly that type? Any language with first class function parameters and objects, but type erases them (unlike rust and c++) would implement them pretty much like the dyn impl above under the hood.
Windows 10 was released in 2015. Windows 8 was released in 2012. From a user POV the settings menus shouldn't be so complex after that long.

There are a few examples of things that are now much harder than they need to be because the settings have been spread over several different places, and you have to know the correct route to them or you get an incomplete settings menu.

Some Dell laptops will use a generic Windows driver for a mouse device, instead of installing the correct drivers for the trackpoint / Pointstick and touchpad. This is a suboptimal experience, and installing the correct drivers is harder than it needs to be.

But once you've installed the correct drivers where do you find the settings?

Start > Settings > Touchpad will give some settings, but not for the pointstick.

Device manager doesn't give you the settings.

Search > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Dell Touchpad > Launch Mouse Control Panel will give you a window that then allows you to open the Dell settings.

The easier way is to open the hidden icons in the notification area, right click Dell Touchpad, and open the settings from there.
Metropolis (2001), directed by Rintaro with screenplay by Katsuhiro Otomo (the Akira director). Phenomenal set illustrations, unusual character animation that intentionally harks back to the 1950s or earlier, and a fab soundtrack. The plot isn't the strongest and the aesthetic is divisive - I know some people really don't like it - but if it's your kind of thing, it's glorious.
https://github.com/gadsden0/wikileaks-9-11-files/issues/1#is...
Tesla's are already very close to that right now.

I used to drive from Florida to Pennsylvania fairly often, and in my model 3 it's a rough cadence of drive for 2.5 to 3 hours, stop at a supercharger for under 30 minutes, repeat until I'm there.

And that's with the vast majority of the trip at 75mph/120km/h.

It does get worse in the winter though, I need to stop more frequently like every 2 hours, and for more like 30 minutes per stop.
Thank you for the answer. You might want to make that even clearer in the documentation of the FOSS project.
I don't think it was a WebRTC issue, I think they crafted a video such that the decoder would end up executing code.

Similar to what happen to Jeff Bezos.
> "McGraw installed a program to the machines that enabled him to remotely access the computers, including the clinic’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) computer and the nurse’s station computer.
Additionally, McGraw installed a botnet to some of the computers to subsequently use it to initiate denial of service attacks (DDoS) on the websites of rival hacker groups, on July 4, or as he called it, the “Devil’s Night.”"

That's what he did. But how should 'the justice' define the sentence?
(~80%) appears to think "dealing with illegal immigration" should mean "provide a path to citizenship" [1]

You left out "... after fulfilling certain requirements"

Meanwhile, that exact same poll had 75% of respondents favoring "Hiring significantly more border patrol agents."
Is this just a "random" UUID or does it meet specs of RFC 4122? I have seen countless times when it was just generated as {8}-{4}-{4}-{4}-{12} with complete random numbers. Well, works for most applications...
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I think this is a great description of that feeling, and one I share. It's led me to the thought that at the moment, I just won't be able to do something in the morning I'm not intrinsically motivated to do more than just continue sleeping. Extrinsic rewards don't seem to do that, but meeting friends for a sporadic event like coffee early in the morning, or a hiking trip do. I think you've solved this in a novel way with your caregiver.
Canada is a joke and will continue to be a joke until the economy collapses under the weight of a government run by sissies. (Edit: to be clear, that's all of them. Not just the current one. The culture of Canada's government is to be a leech.)
It is incredible what some used to do, I once used a day or two trying to document an old logical system that was using 20-30 relays and contactors by tracing the wires. Did end with giving up and had it rewritten in PLS-code. The old system was created a long time before I started working there by someone who where good at that kind of work and never learned to code in PLS.

I don't know how it is done now, but at least 20 years ago more advanced systems where expensive and creating something using logical gates was what we where used to, so used that for simple systems. In some ways creating something using logical gates and get it to work is like doing something simple with command line tools instead of writing lots of code to do it
are the (known) Android bluetooth-RCEs fixed everywhere, where this runs?
Is this related to the "Network Computer" idea that Sun was pushing around that time in the 90s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Computer
ZFS on Windows is slowly getting better.

I wouldn't actually trust it with data yet, but I suspect the developers would welcome any contributions or effort sent in their direction: https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin

(I'm not affiliated, but I think it's a cool project, and I really want it to succeed)
FreePDK is not a "real" cell library in the sense that the core logic cells it defines are not real ones that can be manufactured/fabricated by any entity. It is a fake kit that can be used to both "estimate" chip area (for your own RTL, for some definition of "estimate") and also used as a starting point if someone wanted to design their own PDK (e.g. VLSI research into new PDKs done by research labs.)

The fact that this PDK will eventually be "production ready" for a real fab and real chips can be printed using it will be a significant step forward.
I think of it as "zero ops" API endpoints. I have some serverless functions deployed on Vercel. I wrote some Typescript code, pushed it to a file in a directory called api/. Now every time I call my function endpoint, the function runs and returns my result. I don't have to provision anything or set up any ops. The serverless part takes care of spinning up whatever compute it needs, runs my code fully statelessly, and returns my result. I don't have to touch or think about scaling anything. I'm a developer who wants to spend time on features and code, and remove myself from the dev ops as much as possible. That's why I love serverless and use it whenever I can.
> so unless he tasted the crystals

We have plenty of evidence that people's hand hygiene is often pretty poor, so licking his contaminated fingers isn't surprising to me.
> Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert

I love this tagline! I think this is as accurate as one can get about why we procrastinate, in one sentence.

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> What research has indicated across a wide variety of studies is that it is an emotion regulation situation.

So CBT, meditation and similar things might help. I'd like to see studies on that.

Hypothesis:

emotion regulation (bad) --> coping (none-existent) --> procrastination

emotion regulation (bad) --> coping (e.g. mindfulness or CBT) --> less procrastination

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> What's the song of the procrastinator: "I don't want to, I don't feel like it," and usually there's the chorus of: "I'll feel more like it tomorrow."

That's a very playful way to phrase a characterization: what's the song of. I'm stealing it ;-)
20 million is still 20 million
Yes, it is a good idea thank you
Congratulations to the Tesla team! You deserve the success that you‘re having!

Tesla is 100% succeeding in their quest to speed up the change to renewable mobility.
Provided the app will solve all those problems single-handedly. There are voices arguing the impact will be about 0.
I have exactly the right link to answer this: http://switchfromshapefile.org

Funny enough, two popular contenders are built on SQLite.
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Interesting to contrast with Sweden, a country of 10m people, having a domestic fighter program to this day.

Though at least the current Swedish fighter, the JAS-39 Gripen, uses a lot of 3rd party components like the engine and most of the armaments. Still, an impressive achievement from such a small country. Will be interesting to see whether they will create a follow-up to the Gripen, or will instead opt to participate in some next-generation common European thing.

Also similar to the Avro Arrow story is the British TSR2.
Technically, you are free to implement the Exposure Notification [1] API for your own potentially open-source alternative of Google Play Services, right?
Or why would this currently not be possible?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_Notification
You can say the same about Europe generally having a great and free education system but the best and brightest move to the US.
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Depends on the GUID. Some of them include version numbers, timestamps etc... I would need to code the http request too. The problem with web services is that they might disappear again, so I would maybe use it on a website, but not for production software.
Not sure if "iconic", but I recommend Millennium Actress for an interesting way to weave a story which goes through the evolution of the Japanese film industry.

The screenplay was written by Sadayuki Murai, who put a unique touch on whatever he worked in (he also worked with Satoshi Kon in Perfect Blue).

Also not a film, but I found "Mōryō no Hako" (a short series adapted from a 1995 book) worth watching: at the heart it's basically a crime story, but the execution, with some "hallucinated" scenes, and also the characters are interesting.
Especially since slavery was not recognized under Scottish law:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Knight_(slave)#Appeal_t...
Owning a car in a city is dumb. For some cities.
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Even a very small blackhole would catch all neutrinos that pass it, right?

So maybe we could use them as neutrino detectors and/or sails :)

Hm, can we detect big black holes that way - looking at their neutrino shadow?
There is in principle a day-night effect which may be measured. The electron flavor component of the neutrino can be enhanced or diminished by the presence of matter.
> An open source set of EDA tools is actually the last roadblock.

This is not true. As of last year it is possible to design a complete chip with open source EDA tools and has been demonstrated on RISC-V with the Raven platform [1]. Though this was previously true.

There is debate amongst the community if open foundry tools are essential - with rms surprisingly coming down on the side of “no” with many caveats - but to date there has not been a single chip made with an open source design flow and an open source process technology because while previously there were open source EDA tools there previously were not open source PDK’s. Now there are. Hence the watershed moment.

[1] https://youtu.be/r3GLdsSXcxY
Pretty biased language if you ask me.

Tech companies do not “overrule decisions” made by a government or legislative body.

Tech companies restrict what people can do with their devices.
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Canadians are stupid. They should drain the Canadian economy of workers, but instead they are sold on the promise of "we're better than the US"
The Federal Government also sourced PPE for around 900 M € without really distrbuting it. Also, without paying suppliers on time, or at all. So I guess the app is kind of cheap?
In c++ vtables ptrs are attached to object instances (although all instances of the same type vtable), while AFAIK in Haskell "vtables ptrs" (better known as function dictionaries) are attached to object pointers (also known as fat pointers). I believe that rust impl traits behave similarly to Haskell. I think go interfaces also use fat pointers.

The advantage is that "interfaces" can be attached to objects non intrusively (and outside of that object declaration, which is a huge win for interoperability), the disadvantage is that pointers are larger and there is no easy way to cross cast between interfaces.

In c++ "fat pointers" (also sometimes known are virtual concepts) are often implemented manually, the most well known example is std::function. We are all waiting for compile time reflection to be able to implement virtual concepts generically (you can only approximate it up to a point currently).
I bought a Surface Pro 2 on eBay for ~200 USD a couple of years back. I literally use it only for reading PDFs, and run Xournal on it, so that I can annotate them. I save all PDFs in my Syncthing shared storage, along with their annotations, so that I can share back to a real computer for when I want it.

This way I can comfortably read in a hammock.
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Until then, I hope that infosec researchers are going to scrutinize the binaries.
Absolutely not. The angular resolution is nowhere near good enough.

Every time the Internet regurgitates this link it is misinterpreted by essentially everyone that comments on it.
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Of course not, why are you even asking?
Monzo gets £60m fundraise over the line; confirms 40% valuation drop
For a system which interacts with Germany's divers structure of health authorities. Last time I counted there were 374 municipal health authorities, all of them have to be integrated. Also the laboratories and doctors. In addition they set up two calling centers (a technical hotline and a health hotline) and did multiple audits for security and for epidimological sense. And then all of it, frontend and backend, is open source.

For a government project that is cheap! (25cent per citizen)

Edit: source for the 374 is the table on https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesundheitsamt
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> told to destroy the blueprints

What on earth compelled them to order that? That's just so barbaric. As if they were trying to destroy evidence of a crime.

Surely it makes more sense to preserve them?!
You might even try to sell or license the design to recover some of the $250m invested?
I read a fuckton of papers and non-fiction literature with images. ePub simply isn't useable in these cases. If I'm reading something with no images or graphs or anything, then fine. I'll use ePub, otherwise, no.