skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Foreign government behind major cyber attacks on Australian gov and biz, PM says
Tim Sweeny [1]:

> “There’s a rationale for this on console where there’s enormous investment in hardware, often sold below cost, and marketing campaigns in broad partnership with publishers.”

I guess it really just comes down to console makers acting like a partner whereas Apple acts more like a mobster running a protection racket.

1) https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/3/17645982/epic-games-fortni...
Definitely a red flag. I can't imagine a legitimate company doing something like that. Although the eBay executives ordeal is close.
That doesn't necessarily mean that you need to check in auto-formatted changes. You can just autoformat the two revisions before feeding it to the diff program.

Of course, a lot of tooling simply isn't there for that, unfortunately, but that's what I see as the ideal solution.
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This is great. I think the summary understates his points regarding the burden on energy demand that will come into play over next several decades by developing regions. The numbers are astonishing.

Also underrepresented are his comments on just how unrealistic the assumptions are in the models calling for temperature reduction, specifically about the implications for reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Reducing energy consumption (whether through bans or price hikes) has a known humanitarian impact in present terms. The idea that you can convince your poor neighbor that he doesn't really need to eat better or have access to more resources is a tricky problem.

pfdietz, I think the case is made quite plainly in his presentation that renewables cannot catch up to much less displace ("100%") fossil fuels anytime in the near future. If you don't see that in the sum of what he presents in the notes, I'd encourage you to watch the source material to hear him say it, sector by sector. It's full of real data from a guy that's been studying energy use in human civilization for many decades.

This link has some of the same info in PDF form: http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/JPM.2019.pd...
Houdini is an incredibly cool tool: https://www.sidefx.com/products/houdini/

One of the things I most dislike about tools like Blender is that it can be really hard to go back to earlier stages of the process and make adjustments. Most changes are destructive, even though they don't really need to be. I follow lots of digital artists on Twitter and some of them use Houdini, and the kind of stuff they can generate is just mindblowing.

I'd try it out myself if it weren't for the price; I've always been drawn to procedural creation as a bridge between what a person imagines and what they can get a computer to render.
Seems like the one thing that I will miss from desktop Linux is i3
If you could see my apartment and my credit report, you'd eat those words. My finances are on autopilot. My apartment is a mess, because it is not.
I still list a bullet point on my resume of the approximate dollar value of all the equipment I repaired myself during the ~3 years I was stationed in the calibration lab on a CVN. My favorite is the $20k precision power sensor standard that I troubleshooted down to a single transistor which cost a couple bucks to replace.

I’ll add that on my ship, the “screening” you speak of was most often performed by the cal lab, since we were the only ones trained in component-level repair on general electronics. The 2M shop just did the soldering for us ;-)
> Get experience via ‘hobby projects or internships’.

Covid stay-at-home helps ramp up theoretically. But no hands on with internships. most internships are closed this summer
No.

They got a $1bi shakedown in a local court because they successfully fought the RIA in 2015 and won (it was $25mi then).

This time, Cox legal team tried to simply stand behind the DMCA safe-harbor (just like google does) and somehow lost.

it will appeal and win (or likely settle out of court as RIAA already got what it wanted, a hole in safe-harbor)
Ok, let's use that phrase in the title instead. Thanks!
https://nextjs.org/ is a react wrapper framework that has some nice SSR features. It makes a ubiquitous dev experience where the majority of the app can be rendered server or client side. Last time I worked with it about a year ago it was only the first page load that was rendered server side though but the first one the one that arguably affects the user experience the most.
I think the problem with both of your arguments is that neither of you will be able to actually define consciousness in a way that is satisfactory to the other party.

Which is cool. Because we don't really fundamentally understand what it actually is. We have a rough feeling, but any definition we put forth will either also be satisfied by something you both agree is not conscious or not be satisfied by something you both agree is conscious.

So we can't really say if it is emergent or fundamental. And it may even be a property of purely mechanical elements.
In houses upkeep matters more than age. 2 out of 3 buildings I lived in are about a 100 years old (not present in map surveyed in 1914, present with right house numbers on map surveyed inbetween 1920 and 1924), and my current flat is in a 75y old building. Reinforced concrete skeleton, and the rest is brick. Best flats I ever lived in, the brick structure dampens the sounds well, and the high ceilings/tall windows let in a bunch of natural light.
Yeah, auto formatter (or at least format validation) is a must.
The current legal system effectively requires that you need a lawyer for everything you do.

Also, just having a lawyer read it isn't sufficient. They still need to communicate to you whatever information you need to be able to avoid violating the contract/law (if that is your intent).
Mapillary has been acquired by Facebook
US already did I thought? Around Jan 2020 I saw news about US lobbied hard for ASML to stop selling high end units to China. And they complied. China is in a tough place right now with regards to chips.
I like your list, but I’d suggest:

8) learn a statically typed language with a good type system

Even if you end up preferring mainstream language X, learning a language that makes you think in expressions rather than operations, and a language that makes you think in contracts rather than knowing the runtime state in your head, is invaluable for learning how to design, structure and maintain a codebase
I wouldn't call it ridiculous, but you are kind of begging the question ;-)
I use Python and R for data science, and I've never had any issue with R. In fact, I find that many tasks are much simpler in R than in Python.
wiby.me can be useful for finding sites.
And it's harder to avoid dollars than it might appear. How does one convert between TWD and EUR? Via USD.

You also have to avoid SWIFT, since the US controls that too.

The Europeans just set this up to avoid these issues with Iran:

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

It took nearly a year and a half between the founding and the first payment.
I don't believe I equated property to a life. I stated that property represents a part of one's life, which is obviously less than the whole, and still believe it's right to choose a person's life over a thing. However, a person committing a crime against me negates that. When a part of a person's life is threatened, he is justified in responding with any amount of force if that is the best way to recover it. The life of the criminal, at that point, is simply out of consideration as the instigator of force against another.
WSL2 came out (in non-preview version) last month and is a vital improvement. Windows Terminal is still pre-1.0 as is the CUDA and DirectX on Linux stuff. Then give it a bit of time to percolate through, technically and socially.
>no one is compelled to use the South African Post Office.

They are actually - and SAPO is trying to legally enforce it. Whether it sticks or not...we shall see.

https://mybroadband.co.za/news/business/346729-online-stores...
Crown prince of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos's phone by sending him a video over WhatsApp, so its definitely something that agencies are already hard at work on.
My experience was that it used to be bad specifically because of the bad interactions with WSL (1)
Well, I will tell you, because it's already on here! I live in the SF Bay Area. East Bay, more specifically.
Sure, but with those tattoos, the 14 & 88 are significant and inescapable. There’s no ambiguity and their presence is not hidden. But once you’re counting the number of words in a tweet, you’re talking about things much more hidden. It doesn’t work well as a dog whistle if the metaphorical dogs can’t hear it, either.
Title needs [2016]
The point is, you should compare phones to other brands of phones. It does not make sense to compare an appliance to just another appliance.

Would you be happy if your coffee machine boiled the water but did not actually make coffee, because that's what electric kettles do? It's just another appliance; but it's not an electric kettle, it's supposed to make coffee.
How is the letter sanctimonious? It's acknowledging the fact that Apple has added value to DHH's business without actually having made any money from it. If anything DHH sounds a bit self-entitled.
ah, "Twitch runs" instead of "Twitch plays." Terribly confusing indeed.
I understand you are taking offense at "again". I've had a hard time grappling with the past. It's dark. The history that brought us to this point violates every aspect of the values I hold as "critical path" for the future of humans.

America's past is dark. But we have a legal system and founding documents that allow for peaceful revolutions through civilian oversight.

The past is dark. The future doesn't have to be.
Technically the Wassenaar Arrangement isn't a treaty, so it has no legal force.

Probably doesn't make much of a difference though.
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They don't know any better, and when they turn to the experts, they get upsold. Some business owners think they're the exception to the rule and seek out agencies for bespoke work, but again, they don't know any better.

But, yes, I've seen countless businesses for which something like Wix is perfect.
Aren't date collisions just the birthday paradox in action?
if you work from home and your company provided computer do not talk exclusively to a VPN tunnel into their network, I doubt they will pay a threat analysis.
New approaches aim for better performance, more flexibility — and for some, lower cost.
> It's not incumbent upon me to spend money to protect against the crimes of others.

Then, don't cry when you lose your stuff.
Yes, that must be right, although to me the trade-off is escaped strings which lack good aesthetics.

'The class of \'72 didn\'t think much of Sam\'s speech'

vs

"The class of '72 didn't think much of Sam's speech"

To me, the shift chord is an almost negligible price to pay for more aesthetically pleasing strings, especially since on a QWERTY keyboard, the shift key is literally right next to the ' key. For emacs users who are used to complex key chords, it's even more negligible.

I do use single quotes for strings frequently in interpolated f-strings though:

f"The date is {result['year']}"
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so what is the over / under on the chance that in 100 years we look back on the 19-21st century phenomenon of blanketing every centimeter of the planet with anthropomorphic electromagnetic radiation of varying wavelgenths and just assume there are no negative downstream effects the same way we look at Romans drinking from corroded lead pipes
And as far as Epic, sloppiness by third party developers is a great reason for the App Store.

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...

Edit:

Most retailers do choose their own markup. Ironically, Apple got sued for working with book publishers where the book publishers set the price and Apple chose the markup.

However, the book publishers wanted this arrangement because Amazon was selling ebooks at a loss devaluing the hardcover and paperback books.
SoftICE, yes, I used that one.
Is it possible it is being made as “breaking news” as support for any other narrative? Just saw on BBC breaking news

> Regrettably, this activity is not new. Frequency has been increasing.”
Good job, Kenta :)
> First, the TLDR version: In the 21st century, the main question in American social life is not "how do we make that happen?" but "how do we get management to take our side?" This is a learned response, and a culture which has internalized it will not be a culture that "builds."

> The real question is whether we will be able to rebuild a building culture. I believe it is possible; Silicon Valley has shown that building sub-cultures can persist even in the face of general malaise. I am afraid this is a long term project. It may involve wrenching cultural authority out of the hands of existing arbiters and pulling it towards places like Silicon Valley, where men and women have not forgotten how to get things done. This may require building up the sort of cultural, media, and political infrastructure that exists along the Acela Corridor, just divorced from the patronage networks that currently keep things anchored in Washington and New York. Tech titans who care about these things should begin thinking seriously about what it would take to begin political and social experiments in the places closest to them: San Fransisco and its metro, other towns and cities in the state, perhaps California itself.
I was totally expecting the content of this post to be "return to html leading to JAMstack"
>One of the things I most dislike about tools like Blender is that it can be really hard to go back to earlier stages of the process and make adjustments.

I do not think it is a big drawback of Blender since other tools such as Maya and 3ds Max are also destructive.
With an 80 seat majority barely four months old (at the time) why exactly do you think Johnson would care about appeasing the opposition?
Apple Rejects Appeal of Email App That Blasted Store Rules
That’s a reasonable idea. One issue is cheap real world products like painkillers can be useful and dangerous.
BuildZoom (a better way to remodel) is hiring a growth associate
Works out just fine on macOS.
Someone compiled NetBSD (rump) to JavaScript before WASM was a thing :-) https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_drivers_compiled_to...

The link seems to be down, I found this as a replacement http://197.155.77.5/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump.js/
The article mentions this but links to a Google search as "proof." Even VM's have lots of ways to escape these days.

Chroot vulnerabilities have been discovered and fixed over time, as any security issue in an operating system is. It's not accurate to say that they are insecure in a blanket fashion especially these days. My opinion is that we should be using Unix as it is meant to be used, as on operating system, and using its time worn facilities meant for purposes such as security and sandboxing. They are very well tested and the solutions are baked-in and generally pretty small in terms of both code and overhead when compared to spinning up a VM, for instance. There are arguments for using VMs for security and scaling but they don't always win over just one modest local server in either domain. We're not all serving Google search after all.
Fortunately US antitrust laws wouldn’t use irrelevant global stats, and iOS has over 45% smartphone market share. It’s also important to note other dilutions like “all operating systems” or whatever else are also irrelevant, look at the MS antitrust case which took place in the era of TRON. Finally, oligopolies lend themselves to predatory practices and collusion. It sounds like Android’s App Store has similar policies, which is nuts. That means I need to pay a 30% tax to give 99% of US smartphones access to my service via a native app? Any way you look at it it’s just a cartel.
"On" means that the shelves are fully stocked?
There’s an exponentially growing recruiting, training, and hiring industry based on developers who only know how to write fat JS frontends. I think everyone has probably experienced high growth in their company’s frontend team. Many developers choose to write them not out of expertise but to have them in their resume and for job security.
SynSin: End-to-End View Synthesis from a Single Image
Nitpick, that's kind of a non example because the official Postgres docs let you swap versions more or less seamlessly. IME I will click the top result then click the correct version for my Postgres SE queries. 2 clicks, 0 scrolling.
> never had any issue
Maybe V like in System V?
My first job out of college with a degree in Physics was electrical officer on a Navy ship in 1999. I remember flipping through these because my guys had them to study for their rating exams and thinking they were surprisingly good.
So my 2018 MacBook Air can drive the Apple LG 5K display (lid closed) at 5120 x 2880 at 60Hz.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210205

I currently have the Apple LG 4K but plan to upgrade to the 5K.

I agree with you on the just works thing. I have the same keyboard, trackball, monitor, tbolt dock and external HD on my desk at home and work.
Beyond the Pale: Will Silicon Valley face up to its diversity problem?
> When there were only a handful of television channels, the content was higher quality than what we have now.

As someone who watched TV in the 1970s, before cable was a thing, I have to disagree here. I think we look back today and see "MASH" and "Columbo" still holding up great after 40+ years and think of it as representative. But nearly all TV was formulaic dreck back then, just like it is now. And even if the average quality level is worse now (which I'm not convinced is the case, but let's assume) the quantity is much higher and there's a large amount of really good stuff to choose from on the right side of the bell curve.

It's true that content can only be created so fast, but it can also only be consumed so fast. Once you have access to enough high-quality content to fill all the spare time you want to spend watching TV or reading or gaming or whatever, having more of it to choose from doesn't improve your experience much.
"Is there a generic term for this sort of provocative rhetoric?"

Yes, but it's not allowed by the rules here.
Who would buy the licenses? In a world where the libraries for the Signal protocol are free, lol.
That's a mypy setting
I guess sentencing an Australian citizen to death wasn’t enough retaliation.
It really speaks to the Hacker News culture to suggest that in 2020, browsers shouldn't be allowed to run code.
I was an Avionics Tech in the USN. I remember my initial electronics training being very accelerated and intense. I still remember much of it and use it from time to time even after not using it for many years - so I guess it worked!
If anyone else finds the Linux userspace boot debate confusing, try running:

strace -ff dig icann.org 2>&1 | tee ~/dns.log

I normally don't care that much about DNS. At least not until I notice things like a fresh Linux install having a 1000+ millisecond lag to curl a file. Then maybe try to fix it using the standard textbook technique of editing /etc/resolve.conf and then noticing the system somehow reverts my edit within microseconds.

Those are the sorts of engineering practices that help me learn about all the interesting things our Linux community friends like Systemd are doing to... enrich the domain resolution process.

Take a look. What you find may surprise you.
Evaluation of Covid-19 Models
Then you are pushing the problem to someone else to manage the domains right? How do you set this up?
Tesla worker who criticized coronavirus safety measures is terminated
I miss the lack of ads.

But they had all those annoying pop ups and pop unders.

Nowadays, Google just tracks you everywhere you go. Even when you’re browsing incognito.
Military guy with a genie girlfriend. Now where did he come up with that idea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie
Type annotations aren’t equivalent to this check, though, because they’re not enforced at runtime.
The psychology of the "hot take" on twitter is a prime example of this. Is it less friction to read a 3 page blog post that critically analyzes a subject and takes into account different viewpoints that all have merit, or to read someone's 280 character reaction?

I am guilty myself, I often find myself jumping to the comments section even here on HN to understand what people are taking away from an article without even finishing it.
I've seen Youtube videos of collapsing buildings in China that were built not terribly long ago (someone on HN posted a link in a related discussion a while ago, but man, I would have to dig). So I would need some additional data to conclude that China is doing it better than anyone else.
> Is facebook trying to get access to namecheap's user info on the grounds that it might help them get trademark infringers?

Apparently. At least that's the impression I got.

> Why does facebook think this will help them?

I don't know. The article explicitly goes into how whatever data NameCheap has is not necessary to enforce a trademark action.

> Are the trademark infringers really just phishers publishing fake "facebook" sites that look like facebook but aren't?

It doesn't say. Who knows? Who cares? The point is that NameCheap is not giving up the data unless legally compelled to do so by a court, and a demand letter from a FB lawyer doesn't cut it.
Yes. Why did I get a flashback to the rushed Challenger mission disaster. If they'd waited till the weather was more suitable, it wouldn't have happened.
You're right. They were placeholders that showed future intent. I shouldn't put my TODO list on the website. I'm taking it down now.

I appreciate your feedback.
Tremor sufferers are a wildly underserved community from a technology perspective, if anyone wants to jump in. I hope usability advancements outdo my personal ET decline as I age. And if not for me, for my children which will have the same as my father has before me.
Let me take a total shot in the dark. The country responsible starts with a C and ends with a A.
Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, and Blockchain
ICML 2020: Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries
HN doesn't use markdown:
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I found the paper they're referring to [1], and it's just trivially wrong. The authors argue on pages 9-10 that:

* Infection rates calculated from seroprevalence surveys are consistently at least 10 times higher than the number of infections confirmed through PCR tests.

* In Zhongnan Hospital, 2.88% of the workers got positive PCR diagnoses, which means we expect the true infection rate is above 25%.

* The seroprevalence survey of Zhongnan hospital showed only 4%, so the other 20% must have not developed antibodies.

But that third bullet doesn't make any sense! The 10x multiplier is an expectation based on seroprevalence surveys - a lack of antibodies doesn't actually explain the discrepancy. (To flip it in the other direction, if it's really true that only 4/25 of patients develop antibodies, NYC's 20% seroprevalence rate means 320% of the city's population has caught the virus.)

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20130252v...