skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They said the same thing about Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden's leaks. Apparently, everything sensitive was so secret that if anyone was hurt or killed as a direct result of the leaks blowing their cover, we never heard about it. Several instances of appalling behavior (read: constituting war crimes) were exposed, though.

Watch them find something KKK-related in here.
The article offers a few reasons but they strike me as weak sauce.

> persuading Web developers to use it is where the real problem lies

So what? There are various alternative markup formats, like Gemini, Gopher, Finger, Troff (used for Unix man pages), and perhaps we'd also count Markdown, and even RTF. Not every project aims for world domination. Websites interested in being lightweight, already can. HackerNews, Pinboard, and SourceHut, all manage it.

> getting your entire constituency to agree on a specific list of allowed features is going to be very difficult

Maybe so, but it doesn't sound insurmountable. This sounds no more challenging than any other committee-driven process.

> Video? Animated GIFs? CSS :hover? CSS media queries? Different people will give different answers to these questions.

My answer is no on all counts, for what it's worth. None of those things belong in a simple minimal document format.

> we could build a much more efficient browser (or browser mode) for that subset. As a former Mozilla distinguished engineer, I'm skeptical.

It's obvious that the system requirements for such a browser would be far lower than those of Firefox. We already have a project much like this in Castor. [0] I figure that's the point here. No-one is suggesting that Firefox, running on a modern desktop machine, struggles to render basic HTML. It's still heavyweight software though. The idea of running Firefox on an Arduino, for example, is laughable.

[0] https://sr.ht/~julienxx/Castor/

edit Forgot to mention, this question of subsetting HTML, vs using an alternative like Gemini in the Castor browser, cropped up in recent discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165029

edit 2 See also Point 2.5, Why not just use a subset of HTTP and HTML?, at https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.html
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Love Figma!

However, their enterprise licence is $45/month ($540 annually)! That is ludicrous for the functionality that the app provides.

In comparison Microsoft or Adobe software (Photoshop is $250/annum) has immense amount of technology & man month behind - Photoshop has been in development since 1990, and Microsoft Office must be in development for similar amount of period and have perhaps 5K+ employees (wild guess).
Thank you. Yet another instance of electoral result not reflecting popular vote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_United_States_presidentia...
In my experience, as a Pakistani who grew up in the middle east and had friends from all over the world in an American college, it is pretty universal to feel pressured to be doing something productive all the time.
My first thought upon seeing that comment was "there's no way a Brit wrote that".

I know the BBC has its critics here in the UK, but I've never seen any one of them conflate it with socialism before. Just reading that sentence forced me to do a double-take...
Ask HN: Social Network for Engineers?
IMO, stack overflow is becoming a Google for devs.

Is there a facebook/linkedin for devs or technical people?

What would it take for you to join one?
not only rumors, but unpriced rumors?

and iphone SE is not a low margin example https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-iphone-se-2020-teardow...

so question still stands, got any post jobs example?
The Gophersphere seems to prosper and I have seen some interest in Project Gemini[0] over on Mastodon in the last weeks. So I guess People are trying and somewhat succeeding.

Personally, I am also quite skeptical of the benefits of these approaches. I would like a web more focused on documents, but many of the "forbidden" features these communities define are actually things I was excited about when they were introduced and still would not want to miss on the web. At the same time, just limiting the technology will not make it magically better.

I would love to see more experimentation towards more hypertext and the things it could offer to the user, but just using a subset of old technology seem not really like a great way forward.

At the same time, why can having a cleaner, more performant web not be a social movement amongst developers? I still remember when many of our websites features "Valid XHTML" or "Made with Web Standards" Badges, to show our peers and the world what was important to us. Maybe setting some rough guidelines what we envision a modern, performant and user respecting web to be and whipping up a few badges to show our colors could get as further then trying to reinvent the technology from scratch?

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
>It's also 40% as powerful as the RTX 2080 Ti, the best-performing consumer GPU on the market, that draws hundreds of watts and very well cooled.

Keep hearing these extremely bold claims about iPhone, iPad chips. But if they're truly that powerful why are we not filling compute farms with them? I mean the 2080 TI is $999 alone with just the card with much higher power and cooling requirements than the A13.

or is none of this really true at all to real world performance.
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My theory is that they will switch low power devices like Macbook Airs to ARM chips while keeping high power devices on Intel for now. They will sell millions of those low power devices, but designing a competitive workstation chip takes a lot of money and they won't sell enough Mac Pros to offset that cost. Intel makes those CPUs for servers and basically rebrands them for workstations. Apple is not in the server business.

May be they'll just discontinue powerful Pro devices at some point and that's about it.

May be they'll manage to create powerful CPUs using chiplet design, but I absolutely have no idea whether it's cheap or not.
holy fuck. do you have a url for me?
Don’t be that guy. You’re derailing the conversation. No one is “banning” a word. We are saying that a term should be dropped and a more appropriate one brought into usage. No one is “banned” from saying the word slave and no one is advocating for it.
I'd argue it's the same, right now I have Apple Music and Xcode open.

Also I'm pretty sure nobody wants a crap keyboard.
Nuclear thermal isn't chemical propulsion. It heads a propellant to a high temperature using an onboard reactor, and then expels it.

The advantages over solar power is thrust (which, within the solar system at least, is important if you want to get somewhere fast), and the fact that it works further out from the sun, which means you could use it to get mass to the outer planets (or mars) relatively quickly. Solar propulsion, yes, is limitless, but and can reach much faster speeds, but it can take so long to reach them, that by the time you're going faster than the NTR, the NTR has already arrived at its destination.

The advantage over chemical propulsion is efficiency.
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Slightly agressive tone in reporting but to the point. I really miss that. Great that he mentioned Coverity and got a statement from them.
Straight to the comments. I would only read something if it's less than a screen-long and still contains something I'm going to find really valuable or exciting. If it's longer than that I am to be convinced it's a text of exceptional value and quality before I decide to invest my attention.
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> The belief in competent government would seem to be a logical flaw

Only to someone ideologically blinkered or completely ignorant of history. There are countless examples of governments achieving all sorts of highly non-straightforward things both for good and for bad. Even the CIA, which will probably not make it onto many shortlists of history's most competent governmental organizations had its successes.
I'm getting downvoted to oblivion but it's a hill I'm happy to die on - so far everyone has brought up lines envisioned by jobs or items that actually enjoy high margins.
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Solar power is not a method of propulsion, it's a method of collecting energy. Perhaps you mean ion engines paired with solar panels? If so, the difference in thrust is massive, as in several orders of magnitude - to the point where getting anything larger than a satellite moving with electric-based propulsion would take many orbits of acceleration. You also run into issues of not being able to collect power when in shadow, needing power storage banks (batteries are very heavy), and diminishing power output as you move away from the sun (ex. at Mars, solar energy density is 40% less than at Earth).
This is small potatoes. When the UK government really puts its mind to it, it can screw up far more royally:

How about 10 - 12 billion GBP (depending on who you ask) for a National Health Service computer system that never worked and was never delivered.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/01/case-study-10-billion...
x64 chips can run at 4-5 GHz because these are desktop parts that can drop 10+ W sustained on a single core if need be. Power-frequency scaling tells us that of course this is very inefficient (perf/W), but efficiency isn't all, sometimes you just gotta go fast.
There is another angle when it comes to this "remote work revolution" - does it really matter for employer if remotely working employee lives 200 miles away or 10000? Not necessarily. And oh yes, there are plenty of solid and skilled potential employees around the world who will work for fraction of current SV salaries. It looks like widely appraised "disruption" might be coming to SV as well ;-)
This is a truth nobody is willing to hear or accept.

Thanks for saying it.

Another part of the story that nobody is willing to accept into their egocentric reality is that there actually is no problem to begin with. A quick look at FBI statistics will show you that many fewer unarmed black folks are killed by police than white folks. The higher per-capita rate for black folks is easily explained by the higher crime rate exhibited in their communities... which are almost entirely run by democrats. In fact, when you look at the crime statistics, black people are technically under policed (fewer police incidents of nearly every kind, per crime committed). I know tons of black people who don’t go around committing crimes, and I know none who do. The crime rates in these large cities has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with Democrat governance (welfare, immigration (sanctuary status), other economic policies, etc.).
Cities just happen to have a majority of the population and a lot of minorities. It's also harder to hide things in cities. Small red towns are generally much worse and things rarely come to light.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/police-are-killing-fewe...

edit: Regarding cities having a much larger percentage of minorities: https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/05/22/demographic-and-e...

It took me all of 2 minutes to look these things up, the fact that you didn't just shows that you care more about a particular ideology than facts.
Well, now that I think about it, our chemical propulsion requires an oxidizer, and judging by how this works, this doesn't need one. So by using this method they cut down on the oxidizer mass, which is something fairly significant. Not sure if it'll beat an ion thruster powered by the sun when it comes to convenience, though.
Looking at the netsential website does not exactly inspire confidence that they employ state of the art infosec methodology.
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I believe this would be correct if there were no examples of life already extant - but the fact that we exist shows that the probability of life and civilization arising is strictly greater than 0. Given an infinite universe with a flat probability distribution (i.e. there's nothing particularly special about our little corner), any >0 probability will occur an infinite number of times.

I highly doubt the actual universe is really infinite, however. Incomprehensibly big, yes.
It's not a bad faith comparison if the vendor forces you to make it. If only 2 cores are available then that's something the vendor is to blame for.
I assumed same thing. The question is why would they put a traffic limit on it? Seems like it goes against the hope for the website of generating readers... though I guess if he's paying for all the servers himself it makes sense to block at a certain point.
Probably some of the senators responsible for regulating banks, so yeah.
Perhaps - although Audio software tends to still be heavily CPU based.
Ask HN: How to amend SAFE for early hire equity?
Seed-stage company, brings on let's say a CTO with some typical equity package. Can this be structured with a SAFE?

If not, are there similar simple/semi-standard forms for the paperwork?

If so, would the investor's "payment" info be replaced with a nominal amount ($1) or with a reference to their position at the company?
I'll let the guys at Android Central judge how much value for the money the iPhone SE delivers:

>I didn't think we would get to a point where an iPhone offers more value than Android phones, particularly in the mid-range segment. But that's exactly what's going on with the iPhone SE.

https://www.androidcentral.com/iphone-se-2020-just-killed-pi...

Feel free to ignore Ming Chi Kuo, but given his track record for accuracy and known good sources inside Apple's supply chain, people pay attention to what he has to say.

More interestingly, will Apple use the same strategy of selling at entry level prices with a custom ARM SOC that outperforms the competition for an ARM Mac as well?
One of the cool features of SAT problems is that they always terminate (if you're patient enough). Aren't regex, especially with backreferences, Turing-complete though? If so, they could be caught in an infinite loop, meaning they are more general than the SAT problem.
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/18/nypd-misconduct-body-cam...
NPR How I Built this Interviewed Tony and covered the same questions: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/09/666295686/doordash-tony-xu
Diagrams of system architecture usually mystify me. A common issue is that it’s unclear what the various boxes and lines and arrows represent.

Consider that it might be that your way of drawing diagrams only make sense to you; unless you are able to state clearly what a diagram illustrates, you might just be confusing your colleague by using drawings.
>And, yes, Black individuals can participate in racist power structures that hurt Black populations, and of course racism doesn't have a particular political party.

You should try to broadcast this on your personal social media accounts and see how long you will keep your job. The BLM mob and their "cancel culture"-enablers unbfortunately lack your nuance. In their rhetoric "police" is just a stand-in for "white" and laws are "white" too and therefore by defintion racist. If the whole affair actually were about justice, the fact that "martyr" George Floyd had a Fentanyl overdose and died from a heart-attack (not asphyxation) inside the hospital several hours(!) after the police encounter would be quite relevant to measure the involved officer's actual guilt, don't you think? Instead the mob is out for blood and payback, demanding to defund the police, so they can loot, defraud, rob, sell crack and murder unhindered,

The movement is about revenge not justice, lionizing habitual criminals like George Floyd.
You get to see how the sausage is made in a developed country which is, by far, an outlier in its crime-rate. I'm all for increasing police de-escalation training and policing standards in-general, I just don't think it will solve the problems that the protestors want to be solved when the crime rate is as high as it is. Ultimately, the cops are going to get jaded and stressed in ways that cops in other nations would not, and they will always prioritize their life and well-being over that of the perpetrator.

I was travelling a few years ago, and hanging out in the hotel bar in Portland, Maine, and I listened in on a heated conversation between some guy and a lady whose husband is a cop. They were discussing police brutality and the protests at the time (Baltimore maybe?), and the lady's point was basically "do whatever you want with regulating police behaviour, but I will take my husband coming home at the end of the night over anything else"

It's possible with the falling rates of crime, this may just solve itself (though increasing police training and standards is a good thing regardless).
From the article:
> The centralized approach would allow much more data analysis

If this was really a benefit, I'd expect the journalist would have been briefed on the beneficial outcome of the data analysis, rather than just "more data analysis".
Wait until people find out about zero point energy ;)
If they do make the jump to arm, who else is excited to play games like "adventures in cross-compiling" and "which of my core dependencies suddenly doesn't work anymore?"

AMD chips are better than ever, throw a curve-ball and adopt them, please don't pick the weird mutant-mobile processor to seriously put in desktops Apple
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We'll find out more later on today, I'd imagine, but my feeling is that ARM on desktops is likely to be ~2 years away. If you buy computers about every 2 years, go for it. If you buy computers every 5+ years and can wait, then wait.
Ask HN: Concerns about Huawei?
I am considering a software engineer job at Huawei. I quite like the job itself, but I would like to know what are your opinions about the company, particularly regarding news about security/spying concerns?
How many times will we need to learn that the audits and auditors are not always doing a good job?
Comparing USB to Ethernet is difficult. Any USB-device is talking USB1.1 at startup. So negotiation basically is transferring a data packet with the capabilities at a pre-defined data rate.

While Ethernet has to negotiate the number of wires, full-duplex vs half-duplex (which depends on the number of wires). The code like Manchester vs. 4B5B.

The main difference is, in USB the host decides on what to talk. In Ethernet there is no such instance.
A study I heard discussed on a podcast once, and have been unable to subsequently locate, found that once you have accounted for failed private businesses the public sector was on par (and perhaps slightly better, though from memory they said it wasn't a statistically significant) with the private sector in terms of efficiency of output (i.e. what society gets for what is invested). If that rings any bells to anyone I would love to find the paper!
I didn't propose any specific solution, all I said is that the field doesn't do enough to account for population variability. It is hardly acknowledged! You will find PhD students at top programs who say "huh hadn't thought about that being a problem before". Because the training and grants and whatnot largely revolve around this same experimental setup. And IMO it is not a good approach to have everyone working on these problems think in largely the same way.

Btw, in these cases where they find a result seems to only apply to a particular mouse strain, that feels like a pretty trash result to me too. What are we supposed to do with that knowledge? Currently what we often do is build on it, cite it completely out of context, and happily walk away with a publication.
Unlike https://antifawatch.us, the files on this leak is not individually backed my MSM links
Agreed, and this goes for other substances too.

I took a few hundred or so micrograms a couple weeks ago. I did a dab weighing about .15g during the strong part, and I didn’t notice any perceptual shift at all.
I have a few questions:

> "In my city of Charlotte, with the Keith Scott shooting, it was: 9 democratic council members to 1 republican, democratic mayor, democratic governor, black police chief, and a black police officer that did the shooting, but somehow it was institutional racism."

Why does the political affiliation or the colour of the people involved mean that it cannot be institutional racism. Isn't the idea that the racism is baked into the policies, the modus operandi of the police and judicial system?

> "There is a policing problem in this country. Period. Color of your skin be damned. If people started from there, things might have been a little different at this point."

Let's assume that this was the case. How will this improve things compared to now?
The motivation of your friends to put many in Wirecard stock probably less about investment and more about gamblng. I guess, they didnt invest their life's savings but just some money the had not better use for right now. In these times of zero risk free returns (and even low returns on junk bonds), investing in distressed assets can be a good strategy if you have the stomach to lose it all.
Especially when the people forfeiting your money are also the one criminalizing the drugs that the random criminal needs to rob your house to be able to afford, lacking any support for their conditions elsewhere because that money is put into police budgets instead.

(It's also worthwhile in discussions about "crime" to remember that it's a very loaded term. For example, wage theft numbers absolutely eclipse burglary, yet those are rarely what we think about when we hear "crime")
After the Enron scandal, the auditor (Andersen) was dismanteled. The german branch of Andersen was bought by no other than Ernst & Young, the auditor of Wirecard.
The scientific community often comes to an incorrect consensus, and this consensus becomes dogma that must not be questioned because the consequences would be too damaging to reputation/credibility/whatever.

Here's another example from a while back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21911225 - "How an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure"

When you've got enough incentive, it's hard to resist the urge to use your power to simply decide what is and is not allowed to be true.
Heh, that became very confusing. The post I replied to was edited at some point asking why there isn’t a direct microwave link down I-88 in Chicago. Sorry about that :)
True, and I would not trust it if I had a phone that could run it. It's not trust in the app but in the government.

I recall some dickhead politician being asked about security of a centralised app, his response was "GDPR would take care of that". Because hackers care about that kind of thing.

Honestly this uk government is so bloody inept. When you want theresa may back, that tells you something.