skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're getting downvoted by people who don't have the contextual information

Boris has been sitting on a report into Russian influence and he is refusing to release it because apparently there's nothing in there.

Dido Harding has links to the Tory party and was in charge of the Talk Talk data leak scandal, and has been put in charge of the track-and-trace programme in the UK.

They have given all of our NHS data to Palantir for no observable gain to UK citizens.

New corruption stories about the Tories are appearing almost daily in UK media.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/27/richard-des...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8416475/Boris-Johns...

https://www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-russia-report-...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-cummi...

the above is just a selection. I don't believe Hanlon's razor applies to the Tories.
In Canada, we have at least 4 major political parties, and a few others that usually get a seat or two in parliament. The NDP is the third party (one time they had enough seats to form the official opposition). Anyway, only the Liberals and the Conservatives have ever been in power; every 10 years it seems to swing back and forth.

Jagmeet Singh, current leader of the NDP, tweeted the other day something along the lines of "Systemic racism comes from the power structures in place. If you want to find the source of systemic racism in Canada, you have to look at the parties who have been in power for the last 150 years: the Liberals and the Conservatives."
A lightweight spreadsheet with Lisp formulas: new improved version
substitute "not always" with "almost never".

Edit: The problem is that companies get to pick their auditors. Since the auditors sell a homogenous product (it doesnt really matter, who signs off you yearly report), the only way the big four accounting firms can compete is by being cheaper and/or more "favourable" to the customer. Both not that great for the customer (which actually should be the shareholders and in reality its mostly the board).
MDMA will not reduce the effects of LSD but remove the element of fear and bring your imagination into more pleasant areas. This is something that Rick Doblin, the founder of MAPS, describes in the latest Tim Ferriss podcast.
It is not the first time for Apple to make the switch. 68k -> PowerPC -> Intel -> ARM

While the cross-compiling pipeline already exists with Xcode where you code your iOS (ARM) stuff on macOS (Intel).
Try smoking a bunch of strong weed to sleep after tripping, works better than alcohol for me, YMMV.

Strong indicas in particular, Gorilla Glue for example.
There have been quite a few articles on the benefits. For example the central model would allow the NHS to quickly spot a spike in cases in Town X - a pretty important benefit.
And what about left-wing extremism?

The far-right has been under a microscope since at least Obama took office. Trump's admin was probably too stupid to think of doing the same to the far-left, who have had near-total freedom.

Have you not noticed that DAs in Seattle and Portland have just... let violent rioters go? That doesn't just happen. Lot of young, skinny, white faces, arrested and then released.

I met neo-nazis when I was in jail. Those rioters do not look like the far-right. Not at all. Wrong tats, wrong build, wrong everything.

Media claims those people were "white supremacists"... who live in Seattle, and were put back on the streets by Democrats? It makes no sense. It does make sense if they are Antifa.

Statues of the general that defeated the confederacy (Grant) and of the President that kicked off the Progressive era (Teddy Rosevelt) have been toppled by angry mobs. So was Washington. People have been beaten, stabbed, and shot by these mobs.

We are living through the start of an American cultural revolution. The resurgence of the Weather Underground.
Maybe you are one of those 10x programmers who can magically keep track of all the type data in your head and always catch yourself before you push to prod.

I and most people however are human and make mistakes sometimes. Worse, the bigger the project, the more you need to collaborate between people and sometimes teams. Types are almost like docs that check your code at compile time and reduce the chances of human error creating a production failure. Its not a panacea but its certainly nice to know that if I change a functions parameter, that the system breaks someone else's code depends on that function following a certain signature. At that point, I can either write a different function, message him to update his code or discuss how to make the changes together. All 3 cases are MASSIVE upgrades over fiding out shit broke in prod with some undefined behavior arising.
Solar does not work very well beyond Mars/Asteroid belt distances.
In my news bubble Intel seems to be on a very bad roll. What are some good ways to gamble on INTC going down significantly in 12 months time?
Incredible! Thanks for putting this together. Yes, I'm using a more first principle based approach (merely applying the inverse square law to the transmission power). Clearly your approach is better (because it accounts for background noise). I shall have a look at all this!
There are a few. There's one called 'crash' but I can't find it now, a bunch of case studies of IT failuers. It wax pretty much the same underlying story repeated over and over and over...
This smells of legacy PHP where any PHP file uploaded to a web-accessible folder can be executed.
Except none of that is actually true - they're just made up smears and conspiracies. Be careful what news sources you consume.

The NHS "centralised" app would have worked and worked fine IF they could have made the Bluetooth feature it relied on work properly. But this was always going to be impossible given what every mobile app developer already knows about the platforms. Whilst the NHSX app did have some ingenious ideas in it - it was not enough to get around the platform limitations enough to provide a working solution.
The fault is spread though. Sure, the data portal was broken, but if you store secrets which can put people's lives at risk, you have to assume the portal is broken. There should be a number of checks on top of basic authentication and also in the LE network. If they found out about the leak from the leak itself, there are many teams that failed.
You can use https://pidtuner.com to obtain the gains based on an easy experiment
However, falling in the bathtub isn’t ideologically driven or at risk of increasing dramatically based on political shifts.

We don’t take terrorism or white supremacy seriously because it poses an imminent threat to everyone right now, we take it seriously because it has the potential to put hundreds of thousands to millions of lives at risk in the future if left unaddressed.
> And what about left-wing extremism?

Whataboutism is a tactic that almost always borders on flame-baiting. I don't think HN is the venue for this kind of conduct.
I really hope they will make a remake of the originals. I loved Deus Ex: Human Revolution when it was out, but it’s a challenges to enjoy older games most of the time.
Can't access your link from the EU but fully agree with your point. I did an analysis in June 2015 in the EU, but I am sure it still holds now, by comparing the number of deaths from eurostats for just the year 2011, to all cumulative terrorist attacks in the EU from 1958 per wikipedia:

https://zbpublic.blob.core.windows.net/public/terrorism2015/...

Also modern terrorism is bad but we forget that far-left and state sponsored terrorism was worse in the 80s (numbers as of 2017):

number of attacks over time:
https://zbpublic.blob.core.windows.net/public/terrorism2015/...

number of deaths:
https://zbpublic.blob.core.windows.net/public/terrorism2015/...

And this is in the EU. In the US I am sure the numbers would be completely drown in the numbers for common crime.
Thanks for providing the link, I edited my comment to reflect that.

I’m not one of those people either, that had to be embarrassing for them and I’m assuming they changed their editorial practices to avoid such things in the future.
The title is misspelled (s/Debofusc/Deobfusc/).
Research in the previous century: https://youtu.be/Zm7PNlK5Aco
Was going to ask what you had used. Brazilian too, but know only Spanish (kinda), and English. Will check out these two. Thanks and congrats!!!
The poster is being downvoted because it’s wasn’t suppose to work’ is unsupported supposition.

Even if the contract was awarded unfairly through the old boy’s network, the intention was still for it to work.
Honestly, this 'entirely new set of users' sounds like wishful thinking for a problem that does not exist as you describe it.

Back in the early web people couldn't run their own server not because HTML was hard (WYSIWYG editors not only existed since the Windows 3.1 days, but they were very widespread at the time - Netscape Gold even came with one included and that could do pretty much everything you'd see in most pages) but because it was hard to have and maintain the necessary hardware and internet connection.

This still exists and is still an issue today if you want the full ownership down to running your own server. But if you do not care about running your own server and you are fine with shared hosting (which existed even in the 90s, see geocities) or a VPS, then outside of a basic setup you do not need to be much of a technical user (and many hosting and VPS providers have tools to do that setup for you, often for free). For the slightly more technical users, there are tools like Publii (stupid name, but the tool works) that can do mostly full WYSIWYG site editing, management, syncing, etc.

And a dedicated native client? From a user's perspective there is nothing to win here, they already have a browser (and the less technical users are confused by even that), why would they run another browser that wont even work with the majority of the content they want to access?

Really, these are not practical solutions for practical problems. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make something like this, but they'll just be toys for fun, not real solutions to real problems and if you expect them to be anything like that you'd be disappointed.

After all Gopher, for example, exists and can be targeted and used, but all of its users are using it for fun and because they can, not because they expect it to compete with the web (well, outside of edgy "the web sux, gopher is the future" comments that are at the same level as "M$ suxx0rz, linux rulez" you'd see not so long ago).
You're not wrong, but learning how to draw out a system is a critical communication skill in almost every Engineering discipline. It's so important in Software that there's even an entire set of industry standard diagramming grammars for this under the umbrella "UML".
ColPrac: Contributor's Guide on Collaborative Practices for Community Packages
It's a good article but it's a bit confused in its use of terms.

They talk about an "NHS app", but this wasn't developed by "the" NHS nor under the control of the NHS, it was developed by private companies for the Department of Health and Social Care.

This is important (for people who live and vote in England) because the NHS was saying all along that this wouldn't work and that we should just use the Google and Apple method. It was government, not NHS, who decided against that and chose to outsource development to private companies.
That's the same reply I got.
If what the article says is true and PPI is indeed in these documents than these documents are ripe for fraud, criminal use and identity theft. This is worse than a password leak.
Nagware, though annoying, is not in the same universe as the control that Apple has over the iOS ecosystem. To further reinforce the point, you do realize that Apple with nag you endlessly to upgrade your OS (on iPhone and Mac).
I did something similar, but because i had no requirement to playback audio "real time", i opted for a simpler solution.

I run a simple video capture from a Raspberry Pi Zero W running motion, meaning all motion events are captured, including leaves blowing in the wind. The captured files are stored on a NFS share per camera.

On the server i then monitor the parent directory for every camera for new files, and run my object detection there, which in turn generates push notifications with a screengrab if certain objects are detected. It also stores a bounding box annotated version of the file. Not really needed except for figuring out why you got an alert without any clear reason.

doing it this way however allows me to save a bit on each camera, and use dedicated hardware for object detection on the server. I currently use an Intel Neural Compute Stick 2 (https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/hardwar...), and while it is far from dedicated GPU performance, it is equally far from dedicated GPU power consumption.
You have to have some pretty big engines before the mass of the reactor is a small enough portion of the mass that the Thrust to Weight ratio of a nuclear thermal engine + tank + reaction mass is better than that of a chemical engine + tank + fuel. The only place that kind of thrust is needed is getting off of Earth, and a nuclear engine doing that is a non-starter.

And inside the orbit of Jupiter, solar + ion engines are way more efficient.

The Ars commenters are very well informed, they go back and forth on this a lot. I highly recommend reading the comments there.
Monarchy does not imply feudalism. Certainly not a Constitutional Monarchy.
That's not true at all. The way the data is analyzed could be done differently for example- there are some cases where previous clinical trials were brought back up as possibly helping a subset of the individuals, but got thrown away because of p-values. When our disease labels are so bad this is the type of thing that needs to be especially carefully considered.

But also I was talking about basic neuroscience. The pharma companies don't just magically start a clinical trial, as you said. They base the clinical trials on previous results from academia and their own basic research labs. Which mostly doesn't involve humans at all. Perhaps those labs are not putting forward the best candidates, or not doing as good a job as they could be at eliminating candidates.
What are MSM links?
During my control studies, when talking about history, professors always use the centrifugal governor as a control application that triggered modern formal studies about control (basically discovering how useful it can be)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor
RIP. I think I was one of the last years to take this wonderful class. I guess it would have been in 2004 or 2005, since I took it as an elective (being an Econ major) on the strength of its reputation. It was hard but so interesting!

Since then MIT has switched its intro CS class to be python based. I suppose that makes a little more practical sense but there's something magical about Scheme that I fear they're missing out on.
Centralized models would be more palatable if the keys to the kingdom were stored with an NGO.

There's too much temptation for governments with poor privacy track records (and that's where they're even trying) to stick their hands in the cookie jar for other purposes.
It's worth noting postgis has exported to mapbox vector tiles for some time (ST_AsMVT). While it's great to have in qgis it's not my pick of the new features (temporal data and new mesh features are)

qGIS has to be one of the standout open source projects these days up there with firefox. Its great to see.
I made an Android app to do the same at the beginning of Lockdown for my country, South Africa. Was quite a cathartic experience. Just being an observer helped me to deal with the situation...

Then the guys doing the data moved their table and broke my app. Lucky I found a more reliable source. The app still works, I check it every morning. Anyway I found an international api here: https://github.com/ExpDev07/coronavirus-tracker-api - even started making a world map but moved on to other things. Code is on my site - https://www.circusscientist.com/parsing-online-corona-virus-...
Unfortunately the same reasoning could be applied to Hertz selling stock in a bankrupt company, which would have been impossible 5-10 years ago, but maybe even a few months ago.

I think the markets have been completely messed up by stimulus since 2008, and it's only getting worse. Governments are buying company bonds for gods sake. Stocks aren't about market pricing any more. They are some vanity metric that governments are obsessed about now to keep from falling (just like house prices).
Solar geoengineering could cause unwanted changes in climate, modelling suggests
Brown researchers use rGO to double toughness of ceramic electrolytes
Probably true. But to me that's still disgusting. I belong to a social class, which can put an amount of money you could use to feed a family in the first world for an entire year into a company that's probably a pyramid scheme without even blinking an eye. Just makes you think, what kind of stuff people above us could do.
Do you already know the code that is not executed? If not, dynamic program analyses can help with identify the regions of code that are untouched (e.g., take a look at javaagent for Java programs). Subsequently, you can use some form of reachability analysis to determine which code blocks to delete without causing a compilation failure.
> They named their website PaloAltoDelivery.com in hopes that this would prompt the google engine to display their webpage favorably when people search for "Palo Alto Delivery." It worked. Half an hour of launching their page, they got their first phone call for a Thai Food order.

I don't know much about Doordash (I don't live in the US), but I find this sentence hard to believe. Launching a fresh new website with some keywords as the domain name, will not get you immediately ranked highly on Google, and certainly not within 30 minutes of 'launching the page'.
I'm no Bill Ackman but I still do think that Herbalife is a fraud.

It's basically just a better marketed MLM company, I first realised about the MLM part 12 or 13 years ago when I went to one of their presentations in my city (got out as soon as I could), which I guess leaves them with the "better marketing" part, which I admit they're pretty good at (if I'm not mistaken at some point they were sponsoring the football team AC Milan and the football player David Beckham).
s/don't have/don't want to give/
Yeah, this is a standard part of the spin at this point.

If they really want to keep their means and methods secret, the way to do that would be by giving their internal complaints system enough teeth to never require leaking full documents in the first place.
I came across @mappletons[1] profile, she is behind the illustrations of egghead.io and has a blog and newsletter about visual metaphors for explaining tech concepts, highly recommended.

[1] https://twitter.com/Mappletons
Can you elaborate further? It will be interesting to see other use cases for code cleanup.
This is a cool technical exploration of some concurrency ideas: but event loops combined with Rust's borrow checker actually make for a re-invention of the actor model from first principles.

Languages like Pony, and the actor model more generally, were designed to prevent a whole class of concurrency bugs (same as Rust) - what's interesting is that, like this post shows, they also have unexpected problems with message causality.

It makes me wonder if there's an even better abstraction out there which will solve this kind of concurrency bug, and what will arise after these are solved.
That is what github is heading towards.
This is the kind of pseudofact that tends to trigger my BS detector (tl;dr: it's BS), so I followed your link. It mentions Ron Paul in only one sentence beyond the headline: where it appears in one clause, a semicolon-separated member of a list of "disturbing incidents": "a Missouri-based center's report that support for Ron Paul's presidential bid was a sign of membership in a domestic terrorist group".

But if you did, there's a link at the bottom to the report they're citing, so let's check that: http://www.austinchronicle.com/documents/fusioncenterreport.... This one isn't original reporting either. It's a 38-page think tank whitepaper from "The Constitution Project" on the subject of Fusion Centers in general.

And IT only mentions Ron Paul in one sentence too, where it mixes it in with two other items in the same bullet point: "A Missouri-based fusion center issued a February 2009 report describing support for the presidential campaigns of Ron Paul or third party candidates, possession of the iconic “Don’t Tread on Me” "ag and anti-abortion activism as signs of membership in domestic terrorist groups" So now we've gone from your 8 year old link to a point three years farther in the past. And the source for that attention grabbing headling is still nowhere to be found.

But that bullet point was footnoted, so let's check that. It's... another news story! Actually the URL in the footnote is stale and broken, but I found the story by headline using Google: https://www.columbiatribune.com/article/20090314/News/303149...

So this tells us all about the Ron Paul thing, right? Nope. It, too, mentions Ron Paul in only one sentence: "Red flags outlined in the document include political bumper stickers such as those for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, talk of conspiracy theories such as the plan for a mega-highway from Canada to Mexico and possession of subversive literature.". So that's dilluted STILL FURTHER in a bunch of other items, most of which sound... not too terribly off to me.

And the source for this report? They have a link, but not to the report: https://www.infowars.com/secret-state-police-report-ron-paul...

Yup, four hops and we're at Infowars. And the report they cite? Not public. They're apparently the only one who have seen it.

You got fooled by "media laundering" into regurgitating partisan agitprop. I can't prove your "fact" is wrong, but the support for it is VERY thin.
Or, in this case, it's making sure we're looking at the whole picture instead of the part we'd prefer to look at. If we're talking about domestic terror, it seems relevant.
In the 50's and 60's similar technology was in the early stages of development as an alternative delivery mechanism to ICBMs: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2015/12/31/putins-nuclear...
Nice story, but there isn't anything in there about getting 1000 customers. And having a good domain = the phone ringing within a couple hours? I highly doubt it.
The arch version:

pacman -Syu docker
I think that they'll unify internals between macOS and iOS, but interface will be different. Something similar to iOS on iPhone and iPadOS: OS is mostly the same, but UI is different.
Exploiting Bitdefender Antivirus: RCE from any website
You're inferring way too much from a couple of failed investments.
Darn, it seems nuclear thermal propulsion is not the same as the Project Orion "spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion)". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
£4 million to develop an app.

Nice work if you can get it.

Where is the source code repo, the other was public?

It would be nice to know how many actual developers are working on it, what the money is actually paying for.

Note this may not include other services involved in the supply of the app, eg. pen testing etc has been granted in a separate £200k single-bidder contract.

Though it's not clear if that is for the new app, the old one, or both.

https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:280701-2020:TEXT:EN...