skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably half the macros I see could just be a function call.

Yes, that particular breed of C macros would likely manifest in Rust as people just defining a new function. In Rust, you tend to see macros in places where "just make a new function" doesn't suffice for whatever reason; for example, maybe you need to define a dozen different structs that only differ by the type of one field, so instead of actually defining the struct a dozen times, you could just define the struct inside the macro and then `define_my_struct!(u8); define_my_struct!(u16);` and so on.

You also can't use Rust macros to "redefine" other unrelated pieces of code, so that's one less thing to worry about.
My knowledge with Windows is a few years outdated but the way I recall it is that basically every DC by default is a DNS server (or at least the first DC that gets created) - because you need a name service if you want a useful Intranet.

So every company that has AD probably has a Windows DNS server - which is kind of like every bigger company.

Hope someone can confirm or dispute my info with 2020 hands-on experience.
I don’t know. I wouldn’t call downtown San Mateo and Burlingame either industrial zones or far away from political influence.
Third world countries have rich people who live with a substantially higher standard of living than the rest of their society, and yet we don’t consider that fact as evidence that the country is doing well.

The existence of premium healthcare plans for the high earners or the wealthy is not a reflection of the healthcare system. It’s how much access most people have that matters, statistically.
Yeah that’s what I always thought - surely quieter, more private, more staff, so why only business.
> plenty of libraries with stable APIs that are buggy piles of hacks.

E.g. the API:

char *gets(char *s);

has not changed in probably forty years. Rock stable!
I agree that's how things should work, but I agree with a sibling comment that the fitness function of companies right now in the USA doesn't select for the attributes you are describing.

I act that way, but I've never worked for any of the most successful companies in my industry. That's probably not a coincidence.
They'll just set up dummy companies or buy current companies and get it another way
http://chaiscript.com/

http://www.squirrel-lang.org/

https://micropython.org/

https://docs.racket-lang.org/inside/embedding.html

I've heard that some of the new WebAssembly implementations are actually nice to embed. But, that just moves the problem to "What language to compile to WebAssembly?" ;)
He might just be inferring what he believes rather than an out right allegation. You are right though, I would consider this to be doxxing.
How to socialize kids during a pandemic, from Manisha Snoyer, founder of Modulo
Looks like it costs $2,549. Which doesn't really seem profitable in volumes that low.
Do you have any idea of the scale of the numbers you’re talking about here? 1/3 of the defense budget is nothing, about $250 billion. A UBI that’s double the cost of a 2BR in NYC would be $7,500 per month, or $540 billion per year for every adult in NYC. And NYC is just 2.5% of the country’s population. You’d have to cut 1/3 of the defense budget about 80 times.
The promise of the free market economy is that the standard of living keeps improving over time, and that includes housing. For probably a majority of the population of the US, that has not been the case for a number of decades.
You need a CPU that doesn't exist yet just because it's DDR5!

Expanding from 48 toward 64 bits isn't difficult.
China has only recently been able to reverse or halt the brain drain it was having for decades. As far as talent coming from the US, you will need to provide actual data to back that up, unless you are referring to Chinese students that have been unable to secure a work visa as coming from the US.
> In total, some 600 million people—roughly half India’s population—live without enough clean water.

I think India is projected to add 350M more ppl by 2050. The challenge is certainly daunting.
> We'll have to stop equating cars with smog. Modern cars don't have exhaust pipes. So this can no longer serve as an argument against cars in general.

But:

> Data from the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory indicate that particles from brake wear, tyre wear and road surface wear currently constitute 60% and 73% (by mass), respectively, of primary PM2.5 and PM10 emissions from road transport, and will become more dominant in the future.

In terms of local air quality, this will remain significant (tyre/road wear will get worse unless we manage to significantly reduce the weight of electric vehicles), and what little studies have been done tend to suggest this largely negates the gains from regenerative braking.

Essentially, we've _already_ substantially got rid of exhaust pipe smog such that other components create the majority.
The Purism story is that you should be transitioning to a Matrix client such as Element (nee Riot) now that it supports end-to-end encryption, and abandoning the Signal ecosystem.

Not qualified to have an opinion, myself.
The "move the ball around with your eyes" demo doesn't work at all for me in Safari on a MacBook. I can only move the ball with the mouse. The other demo works okay, but very low accuracy (like 50%). Firefox on the same computer is unusably slow, generates a new "data point" (the visible dot) only every few seconds. Accuracy was about 10%.
I don't buy the stock market argument. People open short positions worth more than $100K every day, especially against companies like Tesla. There would be nothing suspicious about a few such trades.

But really, my point is that pulling off a sophisticated exploit involving major celebrities, politicians and CEOs, social engineering/bribery, internal access at a top company etc. doesn't really seem worth the risk if at the end it nets you $100K.
BPMN is not declarative. It is imperative. It doesn't say what should be achieved. It gives exact instruction what should be executed and in which order. And a big chunk of those instructions are not really visible in the diagram. For example which parameters each activity takes or shared state updates are hidden.

So it has all the issues that I pointed out above.
TFA asks a bunch of what-if questions -- very good ones indeed.

> Would a failure at Trinity have changed the outcome of World War II in any significant way? Ultimately this question relies on what you think caused the Japanese to offer up a conditional surrender on August 10th, and then an unconditional surrender on August 14th. In particular, it depends on how important you think the Nagasaki bombing was for the decision-making of the Japanese high command.

I think it's pretty clear that a) the Japanese had been willing to surrender on one condition (keeping the emperor) for weeks, b) the U.S. was holding out for an unconditional surrender, c) the USSR entering the war pushed Japan to make, and the U.S. to accept, a privately-conditional / publicly-unconditional surrender. I believe the bombs made little real difference. From a Japanese perspective they destroyed nothing that hadn't already been firebombed to smithereens -- all large- and medium-sized cities already had been firebombed to smithereens. It's really hard to believe that the war with Japan would have had a different outcome if either or both bombs had not been dropped.

But I found this very interesting:

> After getting the successful results from Trinity, Truman took a very hard line with Stalin. He believed that the bomb gave him leverage for both the end of World War II and the peace that would follow. Though he did not try to argue that the Soviets should not declare war on Japan or stop their invasion plans, he was less convinced he would need the Soviet entry into the war, and did not encourage them.

Well! If he had been certain enough to demand that Stalin not enter the war, that might have meant we'd have no North Korea today. Interesting thought.
Never change below your feet unless your machines are ephemeral, constantly changing, and thus do not have a permanent cache.

Do not use this in production folks.
Yes, China is in a position to wait.

In African markets (there are many), there is often instability and for the foreign entrepreneurs the way to navigate that is just knowing that there will simply be a different strongman to pay.

From a Chinese perspective, America must just be the same and on a more predictable 4-year cycle.
Most of the time we don’t numb patients to be honest. I’ve had it done to me, we practiced on each other in Med school. It is painful, but I suspect the Novocain you got didn’t work because it’s the artery that’s painful not the skin.

But it does give you different information than a pulse ox. For example, people can have respiratory failure from too low oxygen (captured on a pulse ox), but also from top high CO2 (not measured on pulse ox). It also gives a measure of acid-base status, which can be thrown off for a variety of reasons (usually renal or respiratory). It is used somewhat too much in my opinion but can be life saving in some situations.
We are using DataGrip and DBeaver to develop any non trivial SQL and investigations.

Metabase we use for building dashboards, and we taught non technical people to use it so they can answer ~70% of questions they have about the data themselves.
I'm sad to see the Queen of the skies go. I do hope that I'll catch a ride on a 747-8 before those get retired too.
> It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me.

What small step is that? Looks like a textbook case of doxxing to me.
Market forces are real, but can be regulated to align with our priorities. It's not a matter of explaining "how the world works." The market works how we design it to work. If it is unregulated, it frequently reflects exploitation.

You make a quip about engineers and political theorists, but fail to explain why a market cannot be regulated in order to benefit society in general. We do it all the time.
Former presidents are still privy to a lot of information (e.g. they receive national security briefings still). Hacking their technology accounts is absolutely a threat to the security of the US govt, and is one reason the Secret Service specifically monitors their technology usage.

I'd bet a lot of money the inclusion of people like Obama and Biden all but guaranteed the FBI/NSA get involved now, or at the very least the Secret Service.
To your point: it's situations like this that could (likely) be mitigated if they would have just upheld backwards compatibility: keep HTTP, add gRPC as alternative, 1st class ways of interacting with the tool. I haven't used etcd directly beyond K8, so I don't know if the new versions inherently invalidated the use of HTTP. But seems to me this is just another example of breaking changes...well...breaking stuff.
Remaining airlines with 747s in passenger service:

- Air China

- Air India

- Asiana

- China Airlines

- Korean

- Lufthansa

- Rossiya

- Thai
Show HN: Select&Speak – privacy-focused text-to-speech bookmarklet
Seems to be the case. Scrolls fine on Firefox
Data Visualization with Sound 🪐 D3js Skillset
Will coronavirus change college admissions?
I don't see any issue with auth without VPN if TLS is terminated by owner
Yeah, Musk specifically doesn't feel likely to care, perhaps if we assume someone else, who is less, shall we say, favorable to controversy?
> import "https://git.io/fAWiz"

Hoo boy.
So no evidence, you just have an unsupported opinion. Cool.
It’s the things that do not have direct impact on my current life that I need insight on how to find motivation on.

The example from the article of learning languages comes to mind. Nearly impossible when at home in the US, but amazingly easy when I know I’m going somewhere (or even on the train or plane on the way there - the vocab and sentences just get uploaded). Anyone have insight on hacking this internal motivational learning system for more abstract goals?

It seems so easy for some, but for me, I’m like the author when there is direct impact on my daily life, it’s easy to learn but the abstract goals are somehow so much harder. As people on hacker news are obviously really great learners, I hope some of you can share your approaches to this problem.
Most AD infrastructures, e.g. SRV records. It's used for domain discovery, service discovery, optionally registering computer hostnames to DNS as part of IPAM/Microsoft DHCP server, and probably other things. Not an Exchange admin but I'm sure Exchange uses it.
Most annoying website (in a good way)
Perhaps 30 seconds? It was uncomfortable but not a big strain. I see someone nearby saying 2-3 minutes. For me, it was not that long!
My finger hurts from tapping so much XD
I don't think the OP meant the president. The senate has about 400+ bills sitting on it's desk. If we had a functioning senate, then it would force the president to publicly veto the bill.
I worked for Deloitte for a year. I'm convinced their business strategy is to put their worst foot forward first, find the clients that will put up with it, and then milk them dry.
FWIW, Wyze manages to offer RTSP firmware (not pre-installed, but freely available on their website) for their $25 cameras.
Probably, but possibly only under the right conditions.
Exciting idea!

For me the application of this that I'm most interested in personally is for dotfiles, configuring the interactive shell. I have a fair amount of useful stuff in my own bashrc that I've developed over the years, which people who see me work often want to use too (and I happily share). I've wished for a good way to share each logically-independent customization in its own separate chunk -- so that people can pick and choose, and also combine what they like from me with their own existing config and chunks they've picked up elsewhere.

For zsh, oh-my-zsh seems to have been extremely successful, and IIUC this describes a key technical contribution at the core of how it's worked so well.

So I'm hoping that this thing can play part of the role of oh-my-zsh, for bash! (And for other shells too, sure.)

I'll definitely be interested to read more of the details of how it works, and to play around with it.
Those lawyers already spent the money writing a ToS that says they're not liable for shit.
Mars is, at best, no less risky a place than Earth
The title doesn't seem to be outrageous or click-baity enough, try this:

ADPOCALYPSE: The Ad-Industry HATES this COMPANY! YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY DID NEXT!

There. Much better.
I personally suspect that there are surprises in store for me by rooting around in this space. I have a .caffemodel that appears to correctly label better than chance, so my next step is to create a test dataset that's independent of original and see what happens. Personally, I find it unsettling that GPT 3 now contains 175 billion parameters. Why not go in the opposite direction and test the lower bound of what is possible?
> (in fact it sounds just as likely that the doctor was experimenting)

I can think of another prison "doctor" who's known for "experimenting" on unwilling victims. Claiming to be doing experiments, yet without any hint of scientific rigor.

If the claims made in the article are true, this guy belongs in prison no matter his excuse. Whether or not an ideological motivation can be proven or ruled out is completely irrelevant.
Most likely one or another optical cement, for joining lenses into a lens group, for example: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/661086-using-norland-uv-c...
I’ll take your word for it. But I have certainly seen transitioning (which involves estrogen when the transition is mtf) referred to as biohacking in a way I don’t have to pretend to be offended by.
They're active in the Politics game...
The bare minimum for saying "never change" involves a cryptographically secure checksum of the content, and even then it's not guaranteed.
And it all goes back to all entities paying their fair share of taxes to fund infrastructure, etc.

As if there isn't enough money in San Francisco to build roads and trains! The city governments certainly don't have it, but it's there.
That must be a typo I guess.
Since Microsoft aquired Github, I think they may also put some MS closed-source code in the vault. Seperate.
Which groups are you talking about?
It’s ironic. In the USA they freak out over the idea that someone might receive more unemployment than they are entitled to, but they will happily waste millions of dollars paying someone to do a shitty job.
Thanks for sharing. Watched and enjoyed. How did you learn how to do that? Trial and error? Or you rode with someone else?
Think of how much worse tight connections are when your connection leaves earlier than it was supposed to!
https://thepointsguy.com/news/these-are-the-last-boeing-747s...
so, will we see mini-ITX mobos that support 128Gb RAM?
On Intel's 10 nm process you can make SRAM with a density of about 20 megabit/mm². [1] Older processes are much worse (<5 megabit/mm²). [2] A current-gen DRAM package achieves about 170 megabit/mm² (but that's two dies, probably stacked). This article [3] cites 8 Gb on 77 mm² on a 21 nm process, giving 105 megabit/mm², and 148 megabit/mm² for the DDR5 version with a die size of 54 mm². The same article shows a Samsung part with around 200 megabit/mm² density.

So even if you were to manufacture SRAM on Intel's ultra-expensive 10 nm logic process, you'd need a massive amount of silicon for the same capacity.

[1] https://fuse.wikichip.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/isscc-2...
[2] https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/f20203949a744276e338d6...
[3] https://www.anandtech.com/show/13999/sk-hynix-details-its-dd...
Paul Krugman and other experts now admit they were wrong about globalization
By the objective criteria that the current POTUS retains his office despite ample, credible evidence of committing impeachable offenses. By the objective fact that he continue to commit more such offenses routinely and Americans seem almost numb to how unusual it is anymore. The precipice is the upcoming election, which if the current POTUS wins, will signal the de facto end of Democracy in the US, as he and his cronies will consolidate their power and forever remake the institutions that are supposed to keep democracy functioning (Federal Agencies, Judiciary, Education, EPA etc).
(Before using this for real, I'd certainly want to be able to track the exact version I'm getting of a dependency, with a hash, in a "lockfile" sort of file that I can keep in version control. That's not mentioned in the demo on the front page - but if it doesn't already have that feature, I hope it will grow it.)
Bacteria that eats metal accidentally discovered by scientists
After a Twitter employee suspended Trump's account on their last day of work in 2017, I expect access to his account to do anything at all is much more highly restricted within Twitter's internal tools.
Software consultant chiming in here. Deloitte is a dirty word that most people in the office react sourly to... This doesn't surprise me one bit.
Ah, see, the way I read the article is that it is saying that they have already decided that this is the standard for a crisis, not that we have decided. Where "they" in this case is the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and perhaps also the author and maybe by implication the editorial voice of CNBC. I don't see an attempt being made to put words in my mouth; I see an author using their own words to make an argument mostly based on a study by another institution.

You're right that articles and studies often use terms like "housing crisis" that don't have objective definitions in a way that fits their subjective definition without doing any throat-clearing to call that out. But I don't think there is any real way around that, it seems like you just have to read things with that in mind. Maybe I'm wrong though. Should every article say things like, "there is no objective definition of a housing crisis, but the NLIHC believes this should be considered one". Perhaps they should!
It’s probably a leading indicator of COVID pneumonia but that probably still takes some days to develop during which time infected people are still contagious. Probably better to stay home or at least wear a mask...
...huh. I would have expected to pin to a commit (by hash), but that shortener link has nothing like enough address space to be doing that, so yeah that's a poor arrangement. But you could point to a commit, which I would think is quite good.
Eating fish could help protect aging brains from air pollution, study finds
It's almost as if $7,500/month for a 2BR apartment is ridiculous, no matter where it is.
Sounds like a golden opportunity for someone to set up an EU company that is EU law compliant and start marketing themselves to banks and bodies that need this.
For a fun movie on similar try Shattered Glass (2003) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/

He got busted by computer nerds outing him over a hacking story, not his articles on conservatives.

[1] The story he wrote - http://penenberg.com/story-archive/hack-heaven/
[2] The story which brought him down - https://www.forbes.com/1998/05/11/otw3.html#35e255922d7f
China is trying very hard to shut down all criticism of China and/or the CCP, worldwide. That makes China a threat to free speech worldwide.
For what it's worth, almost any time Matt writes about Scheme he's likely using Racket so it'd be worth trying that for his posts!
Fan Uses AI to Lipread TV Series Before Chinese Authorities Censored Them
All great points. Data significance + education on how it works is super important here (and something I've been personally explaining to many brands and merchants).

Another thing I'd like to add: most of the comments in this thread are assuming price is going to be increased when in reality a good number of merchants are going to actually end up lowering their prices (and serving more customers). In the end, it's all about delivering + capturing as much value as possible.
Debit cards are definitely better than credit cards in several situations, but most of them outside of various national schemes are still using the networks run by VISA, MC, etc.

The thing that bugs me is that we're perfectly capable of doing quick, reliable transactions without any need for cards at all today, particularly in Europe with the SEPA infrastructure, or in other areas that have national debit schemes. We just haven't got around to making this easy for both online and in-person payments yet, though things like the payment methods using smartphones and the consolidation of debit schemes that fintech firms like GoCardless are working on seem like obvious steps in the right direction to me.
Hey, I'm in the market for some ONVIF/RTSP IPcams and saw Reolink highly recommended time and time again. Upon seeing how their 8MP cams don't have ONVIF but <=5MP do, I found this write-up just a week or two ago. Really cool work! I hate to say it with the author in the room, but I pretty quickly decided on 5MP to have everything work natively without also running bleeding edge middleware ;)
EU is trying to enter the game as well.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/SPEECH...

>But putting a halt to a decrease is not enough. Now we must invest massively, with the objective to produce in Europe high performance processors (with a 2 to 3nm of feature size) and reach 20% of the world capacity in value.
It didn't "erase" anything. A few day traders gave money to a few other day traders.
There would be afterwards though, so the question would be could the money from the trades settle and be exfiltrated to a private non-traceable account before the SEC thought something was amiss and started looking at impacted stocks and suspicious associated trades by timing.
This.

We've entered a world where the lowest common denominator of information is being used as primary source for current events. That's asinine.
Basic question - where will all these 747s actually physically go to be retired? Will there be a landfill somewhere with a huge amount of airplane parts? Will they be left to rust in some hangar in the middle of nowhere?