skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding Python scripts: All Python scripts runnable by more than one user should really have the “-I” option on the shebang line; this, among other things, ignores all PYTHON* environment variables. (Note: Python 3 only.)
No, we're in the "time to build flood defenses and buy a house on a hill" times. "Yes And" ended before 2000
> The one use case I think it might be worth it is if the robot can take a room full of toys and return everything back to where it belongs.

I think the 6x label on the dusting Spiderman scene is where I lost any interest. If it's that slow then it would take weeks to pickup the pile of Legos sitting on my floor right now, assuming it could.
Hilariously I hadn't even heard any of the things listed and I even went through the whole subnet!

I think if anything this website is a good illustration of how IP =/= person and should never be assumed it is.
Homomorphic encryption enables computation to be performed on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it on the CPU. Compared to Confidential Computing approaches, the processing complexity of FHE is quite high, especially for tasks that require execution of complicated algorithms, making it hard to scale with this approach.
Confidential VMs with AMD SEV decrypt data within VMs and keep it encrypted "in-use" by encrypting memory with a key generated by AMD secure processor (non-extractable) per VM. After processing data and code can be encrypted back to keep it protected at-rest.
Why does your argument not show that cars would have a similar lifetime?
This received some more comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23819964
A company reaching a massive size does not mean it’s been a net positive on society. In fact I’d argue that many previously beneficial companies have become net negatives once they got massive.
So if

Assets - Liabilities = Shareholders Equity

Then

Liabilities & Equity = Assets

So why are there separate totals (showing the same amount) for "Assets" and "Liabilities & Equity", if they are by definition the same thing?
> The whole value proposition of Harvard is that you socialise and bond with the sort of people who get in to Harvard.

I wouldn’t say the whole value proposition is networking. There’s also the brand. Even if you lived like a hermit the whole time at Harvard and never spoke to anyone, you still come out with a degree that will immediately put you on the fast track at most of the S&P500
"You can rely on the USA to do the right thing; once it had exhausted all the other options"

- Churchill (I think)
>That's newsworthy because it's unusual: western states are typically limited to publicly lobbying their corporations for backdoor access, or working around things like end-to-end encryption

Isn't this contradicted by secret courts approving NAS warrants, loopholes like meta-data can is legal to collect, digital data is considered different that data you have on paper in your home etc. If CIA, NSA has some judge approval to ask Apple access to someone data and keep it secret do you think Apple(or Google) can challenge the secret orders?

What if a judge produces soem secret order so Apple and Google provide full access to everything do you think some manager or developer will make this public and suffer a fait similar or worse as Snowden? IMO we people in the west we sometimes forget how corrupt people in power are and how exceptions to laws and constitution can be found when national security is mentioned.
No for some reason these are omitted, such as the death of a recent French mathematician and another one that came up here on hackernews.
4chan is a shining example of the outright failure of anonymity on the internet shines a light on the discussion. That concept just introduces people who will argue completely in bad faith, have their argument taken down eloquently by a new user not realizing what is going on, the that same troll will just post the argument again, constantly.
Real names are absolutely not necessary for a good discussion but social and structural consequences are very important in removing trolls.

HNs rule if allowing throwaway accounts for discussing sensitive content is a good thing, but I'd prefer some kind of linking to the main account to make it obvious that if you're making a green account you troll it will effect your main account as well.
Protection from specter/meltdown or other memory isolation vulnerabilities is pretty significant.
LMAO so true. The search is beyond dire. Not much better on the desktop either.
> Cash accounts for less than half (44%), by volume, of transactions in Canada.

That’s about where the USA is as well. Cash is used in 31% of consumer transactions. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/06/spike-the-dollars-obit-cash-...

Anecdotally I haven’t carried cash around in years.
I've got a set of $30 wireless earbuds, the Soundpeat Trueaudio, which are surprisingly decent for its price, except for one fatal flaw. It has an indicator light that blinks when it's on. Which is fine when it's bright, but in a dark setting the blinking is so obnoxious it is pretty much unusable.
At some point us in the US will have to figure out how to cope with the issues our Democracy has with making changes and overcoming momentum. It seems our government is uniquely unsuited in this capacity in comparison to other modern democracies as seen with healthcare, income inequality, and the recent pandemic response.
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Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what point you're making with this link.

The link states that Sir Andrew Parker (head of MI5) doesn't believe that the inclusion of Huawei in UK telecoms infrastructure will have a negative impact on the UK's relationship with the US.

The US has been emphatic that it could: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51581095
But widespread remote work will probably make résumé bling even more important.... :/
> Sure you have, albeit by another name likely.

> GitHub/Gitlab as a service easily saves more than 5hrs a week.

> I have custom slack bots that easily save me a couple hours a week in aggregate.

> Then there’s services such as managed CI or, heck even things like the “search” function on a wiki, those are all things that can be provided by a service.

These are three highly subjective, very unconvincing statements. I use Github, Gitlab, multiple slackbots (some I wrote, some others wrote), managed CI, and a few search services internally in my company every day. I have no confidence that any of them are timesavers in the way that you state.

Slackbots in particular have been shown to use more time than they save (context switching is extremely costly). Github is a source-code host that ads distracting social features, notification queues, etc. all which can add to an employees distraction load and decrease productivity when compared to a more basic code-host.

I'm not saying they don't save time in aggregate, but there's certainly arguments on either side.
Having a carbon tax would require to measure carbon output somewhere, isn't it? How would that work? I mean, where in the chain does the measure take place? How is it accounted?

For some reason carbon tax seems like a lot of extra and complicated steps to just tax fossil fuels way more. If we tax oil, coal and gas a lot, that's basically a simple way of taxing carbon emissions, isn't it? It's way simpler to manage, and actually sound like something realistic.
I saw him as an engineer before being a celebrity. I'm like you deaths of celebrities although sad tend to be of vapid people. But Grant was a scientist who inspired many. Just reading the comments here it's amazing the impact he had in such a short time.
No, I'm saying that similar countries were able to lift their populations out of poverty without creating concentration camps for millions of political dissidents and religious minorities in the process. China's economic success isn't tied to its authoritarian regime, and it's actually pretty easy to argue that they would have lifted even more of their population out of poverty even faster if they hadn't had harebrained/genocidal schemes like the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and communism in general. China didn't begin to see any significant economic success until after they abandoned most of their communist policies and began liberalizing markets in the late 80's and early 90's.
The onus of explaining is on the person claiming astral projection without any proof of basis in reality, not on the person being skeptical of those claims. It's called the burden of evidence.
a human cleaner isn't really a perfect substitute for a robot. people might feel uncomfortable with having a human worker in their house for a variety of reasons. most people I know actually clean their whole house before the cleaning service shows up. you don't have to feel guilt/embarrassment at the state of your house when the robot starts working. I could imagine a lot of people might be willing to pay a premium for this, even if the robot doesn't do as good of a job.
You know how after the last big civilization all-out-war it turned out that the losers had secretly engaged in gross scientific experiments on humans? I think it would be naive to imagine that the winners didn't do so as well, they just didn't have their file cabinets put on display to retroactively justify the extreme violence that the world had just witnessed. Governments do scary things in basements, and they keep those basements as secret as possible -- we only get to see behind the veil when a government falls and an opponent successfully takes their files/scientists and that opponent has an incentive to make those files public. Not having brains attached would be a huge improvement over the current state of the art, in my opinion; I believe that we're probably already living in a world far more dystopian than the imagined one being discussed.
We have a similar problem in the UK with Scottish bank notes. They're legal tender across the whole of the UK, but most shops in England have never seen them before.
Pun intended :)
I wonder how much improving the efficiency of software would help --- a lot of "modern" development stacks use significantly more resources to do the same thing the older ones did, seemingly negating improvements in hardware efficiency.
Or recently: why bother wearing face mask at all if it doesn't fully prevent covid-19?

Or: why should I do my part when everyone's selfish?
> This is especially apparent in countries where a form of proportional representation is used for elections.

Proportional representation is almost a necessary condition for the parliamentary system to encourage consensus-building. More specifically, it's necessary that no party hold an absolute majority.

With first-past-the-post, you usually end up with one party having full control for one term, and no one to hold them accountable (particularly if you have the principle of parliamentary soverignity).
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> Psychology is the most underrated major in tech.

That particular tweet continues with "UX, growth, management, etc all boil down to understanding how people think."

And you know ... my tech education did missed even basics of user interfaces or reasonable level of management/organizational/team dynamic info. Just a basic information on how to select colors or generally make things look decent. Does not have to make us experts, just basically not disasters. Just a basic information on how to communicate with users.

Just a basic information on humans and teams beyond kindergarten level of "be nice to them and hope they will be nice back" nonsense. Or like, this is how you communicate with slightly autistic. Or like, this is what you do when encountering narcissistic or someone domineering.

All of that would made me better developer.
Non-video link: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/coca-cola-just-invented-a-wa...

TL;DR: Those fancy restaurant soda machines will have QR codes on them that you can scan with your phone, and it will take you to a web page where you can control the machine from your phone.
You’re not forced to but few people won’t take a huge bag of money if offered one, especially if it’s their first one.
It appears that most families making under 65k USD/year pay nothing to send a child to Harvard. Families making up to 150k USD/year are expected to pay a maximum of 10% of their income.

The sticker price is what Harvard charges rich people. Harvard has a massive endowment, and probably doesn't really rely too heavily on tuition anyways.
Any thoughts or places to look for what impacts D & K have on the condition?
1982? Back then Microsoft's attitude toward the Internet was "embrace, extend, and suffocate." It made little sense for them to work with the nuances of standards, according their business model back then.

I have added this capability to every commercial web property I've worked on.
$10k to rent for one week in a novelty once-in-a-lifetime Heli-Home? I've seen people spend more on their bachelor party weekends in vegas and they can't even remember what they did.

Those same people don't even spend $800k on their house.
it's the kind of thing that only has to happen once for you to remember it forever.
That is so cool, each time I learn some aspect of the resourcefulness of countries involved in ww2 I always feel inspired.

Random story connection at miniature scale - While traveling around Loas a few years ago, one of the places we stayed was on a river with boats available, the other guests took the few canoes available in the evening before we had a chance... my partner was quite disappointment as we were only there for one night. I found what at first looked like an unsalvagable very green old wooden one sunk about 4ft next to the pontoon, since I had nothing else to do - within about 30mins, some perseverance, creative use of levers and sheer "manliness" I managed to surface enough of it to flip it over and scoop some air into it, drag it to shore, empty it, polish the algea off the seats and put it back in the water to test it's hull.

We had a great time in our old green boat, and ended up exploring more of the river's tributaries than all the other guests :)

There is something very satisfying about bringing stuff back to life when you have real utility for it and then enjoying it.
Show HN: This startup acquisition announcement does not exist
You can't get a Harvard degree on Coursera though. To get the degree you have to be accepted to a degree program, and being accepted to a Harvard degree program is much of what the degree signals.
How many kids do you have and how old are they?
This is a terrible name. Assume everything else is not confidential!
Did they forget to say why in the article ? I couldn't find it.
For some reason hotels don't actually seem to optimize rooms for sleeping at all.
> The arm was “one of the most significant engineering challenges on the robot

There's not much to the robot besides the arm, so, um, yeah?
Another paper that mentions AES in the ECB mode is "Secure Encrypted Virtualization is Unsecure!" [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05090.pdf
nobody is saying that that is worse than literal concentration camps, what people are saying is that failures to live up to racial justice at home weaken your ability to authentically criticize violations abroad, and that's a very valid point.

And as far as communications infrastructure is concerned it's relevant too. In countries like Germany or Eastern Europe in particular the behaviour of espionage among allies over recent years has created an atmosphere of "well everyone is spying on us anyway" substantially weakening the case against Huawei, say.

Also as far as discussion here is concerned, most people here are from Western countries, so at the end of the day discussions will mostly be about our own behaviours.
I'm not wholly convinced the first statement is the case. It's probably true for some types of changes like Executive Orders than can be easily repealed. Others, like laws and judge selections, take much longer to revert. I wonder if this is due to the lobbying culture in combination to competing interests.

Somewhat humorous example: In response to the need for warm clothing in the Korean War, US lawmakers instituted an alpaca subsidy in 1952. This subsidy remained in place for over 40 years.[1]

I do think there’s evidence that your second statement is true. Bad policy takes a lot of political will to overturn.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=fV_SuDMHpOsC&pg=PA273&lpg=...
Meh, that also happens in lots of countries where testing candidates isn’t illegal. Example: France. French corporations are extremely attached to the rank of engineering and business schools. The salary of the first 5-10 years of your career will be more or less predefined by where you studied.

If anything, it’s the big new US internet companies that are shaking thing up, at least in the IT space
The social acceptance part is truly hard. I recently received a BS trademark cease & desist because i was using the company name in the e-mail address I provided them & was using to communicate with them.

Personally, i've just replaced the recipient_delimiter default value(+) with "." as that is basically impossible to strip out. Ex, firstname.COMPANY@example.net

I do get a lot of weird looks when handing the addresses out in person, but a quick explanation usually works. I just tell them, that if I start receiving spam from one one the addresses, I can just block it and be done with it. They sometimes counter with "but we won't spam you" and I acknowledge that with "but not everyone is so nice as you" or something like that.

ps: you can use multiple delimiters, so grouping is possible with firstname.bills.COMPANY@example.net
> Millions in equipment that isn't even made anymore has been destroyed. Many of the systems in the island are moved from ship to ship as new ships commission as they can't make new ones anymore.

Have any examples of this? I wouldn't be surprised if it was classified, but I'm curious.

You'd think they'd make sure everything is replaceable, since equipment tends to get destroyed in wars.
So what does SEV actually protect against?

Something like heartbleed would still happily decrypt and transmit confidential data.

Something like speculative side channel attacks would still speculate on the unencrypted memory right?

Rowhammer would still flip bits, but now one bit flipping would turn an entire 128 bit block into garbage when decrypted? It seems like that would at least make rowhammer a lot harder to exploit into a privilege escalation. ECC memory already gave some limited protection here.
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The entities that control the biosphere no longer need the Western world to survive.
And humans can't come over during a pandemic.

For high risk people, this might be a good alternative for normally-simple tasks they can't do by themselves.
That was really interesting, thanks. For the pilots of HN out there, it's an interesting discussion about adverse yaw and why birds don't suffer from it, and what we can learn from them.
Nominating this for the most HN comment of the day
Proxmox is an absolute great product, in production at 7 clients since over 8 years, some with ZFS some with Ceph, some with lxd some kvm, it's rock-solid and the support is great!
I wonder if this encourages some parents to take sabbatical or part time in order to stay under the 150k barrier :)
Wow. Thanks for this tool.
> Only those unaware of hundreds of years of advance in philosophy assume that

So then, nearly all children, and most of your average working-class people? Seems to me the author was just tailoring the piece for a layperson audience, which is kinda the default writing approach.
This provides an additional layer of confidentiality against physical attacks, as well as attacks cross-VM or VM-to-hypervisor attacks.

This gets you close to the security of a physically dedicated server, without the expense of actually buying/leasing a full server.
Do you have an idea of some of the downsides? (Imagining cost - but also radiation?)
Wait, it has been two years and people are still referring to that fake story?
(author here) I think it’s just as a sanity check to make sure they’re equal :)
Perhaps but an average middle class high schooler who's spent hundreds of hours working on a college app worthy of an ivy isn't worrying about that, I guarantee you. That's not the kind of concern you have time for when you're in a college prep pressure cooker.
Actually yeah, that sounds a lot better. You're right, if there's no eye movement tracking, people who are not dyslexic would immediately stumble on the text.
Possible Explanations for the U.S. Navy UFO Videos
By the time I wrote this article, it is the year 2020. And what a year this had been! It had a fiery start, literally, when Australia nearly got incinerated thanks to their wildfires. If that’s not bad enough, Iran and the U.S. almost started World War Three when they thought it was wise to bomb each other. And did I mentioned the pissed-off Iran won the blunder of the year when it shot down its own plane? But how about in Southeast Asia when volcano in a tourist spot blew? It destroyed a lot of properties and good thing that few people died. And then there is the world-wide pandemic that basically sent the world into a stand still. It started somewhere in China, and now it is sickening scores of lives in this planet.

The year 2020 is now earning its reputation. It maybe the year of the Apocalyptic plague, but I’m still hoping for the best. Maybe the rest of the year got better surprises, like alien invasions perhaps?

Hopefully, it won’t end up like that, as recently the U.S. Navy declassified a video recording showing strange flying objects. And in case you are wondering, the U.S. Navy admitted it was a UFO.
I'm new here and I faced the same issue in many topic not only related to politics.

If your opinion is not following the sentiment of the majority then you can get down votes.
Welding involves lots of sparks and flames.
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Haha, that's classic.

Reminds me, Dell Workstations have multiple numbered LEDs on the front panel that pretty much describe an error in binary.
What do you define as the benefits?
GCP does not have root access to the customers VMs. Confidential VMs with AMD SEV create an additional cryptographic isolation layer (in addition to virtualization one) between tenants and Google infra, mitigate 0days guest escapes, make observability attacks less possible, protect against some set of DMA attacks, and mitigate memory physical access attacks. To add to this not all spectre variants are applicable to AMD SEV, e.g. L1TF or foreshadow is not.
Well actually you can. The degree is listed as from harvard along with the program. Getting accepted is a joke all you need is a undergraduate gpa of a 3.0.
I imagine if you introduced yourself as "Bob from Acme Systems Inc.", they might have given you real support.
Very true in this case, if it was not for US foreign policy choices China would not be the problem it is today.
> I say take it further: nickels should go too, and probably dimes.

A US penny in 1913 has the purchasing power of 26 cents today, so I’d agree that dropping everything below the quarter makes good sense.
This is mostly due to the difficulties scaling DistributedLog more so than BookKeeper. DistributedLog basically had no contributors other than Twitter and was just too big of a mountain to climb alone. The blog post you linked goes somewhat into this but that is ultimately why the choice to transition away was made.

Pulsar likely would have been considered if it was more mature at the time and sported a community of comparable size to Kafka (it's still a long way from this).
I'm not sure how pricing carbon dioxide emission will change datacenter operations given that Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple all have serious carbon dioxide reduction targets and all already by as much co2-free electricity as they consume.