skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Korea outpaced Japan is because the Japanese were too busy addicted to Pachinko.

Hello from Japan. When people from the Westernized world talk about Japan, I find it interesting to hear what everyone has to say. Some are true, some are ridiculous, some are "facts" people echo on forums.
This in not true. This is ridiculous.

Do you think everyone is so addicted that we do nothing else? Do you understand that the addicted to pachinko is a small percentage and these people would be addicted to something else and be un-productive anyway?

Its not a matter of "people".
Korean companies have outpaced Japanese companies, because Korean company are more global. And nice for them. But Pachinko has absolutely nothing to do with that.
It's far simpler. Flipper is closer to a custom built PC, where you buy the parts online and then assemble them.

They got someone to probably use solidworks for the case design and they have some brilliant artists but beyond that you can buy all of these components online and basically snap them together, read some short documentation and be on your way.

Their initial goal was $60k, which would have covered 500 units which they probably presumed they'd be manually involved with each of them so it was basically set up for exactly what I described. They just had some runaway success, which is the problem because they still only have a cheap project that takes no special talent or time

I'm mostly jealous how much of success is just pure luck like this
> I think the way to overcome this hurdle is to get into the lab. These days you could do worse than getting an Arduino and learning to make different kinds of measurements with it.

Last year I took Electronics 101 and 102 at my local community college; validating circuits with a multimeter just became second nature. It was only a small next step to validating them with a SPICE simulator (TI Tina) :-)
No, they should not. Haven't you seen the news? They've dropped support for my platform. Why should they receive money from me, for anything?

Also - thanks for showing your true colors so early. At least I know that engaging with you is pointless.
I'm thinking of the Mclibel lawsuit. McDonald's couldn't scare their defendants off because they were "men of straw".
Sounds like an engineering challenge.
How Generative Music Works: A Perspective
You do have the right to a court appointed attorney for criminal cases, though, right?

I’m not arguing that that is sufficient at all, I’m just ignorant of the basics. My understanding is for criminal cases, you can opt for a free public defender, but not for civil cases. Or am I incorrect?
Aside from the inherent complexity of complex systems, there's another layer we don't talk about and that is arbitrary complexity, particularly in communications, standards and documentation.

A lot of IAM does not need need to be that hard but concepts need to be poignantly clear. It's harder than it needs to be.
It's a bit of both.

If you go through the literature, there's genuinely very little concrete useful stuff on mask efficacy pre-COVID. "We're not sure" was a pretty reasonable statement back in March.

"Masks don't work" like the US Surgeon General was tweeting at the time wasn't a very supportable statement, though.

(The lie didn't work, either, and likely harmed trust in public officials on the matter.)
I was chatting with a few friends about the concept of a dedicated device to host your family media. I'll probably end up building this for myself at some point. And if the project lives up to its vision I'll share.

After searching a bit it seems many stitch together their own solution at home. And others use cloud exclusively. Seems like a nice big problem to solve.
Blog spam. Typical ArsTechnica these days.

Here's the actual report: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2020/08/06/achilles-small-chip-b...
Offering this service can probably be spun into its own SAAS company.
I took all my moms hand-written recipes and made dithechef.com after she died. Never added any features.

[1] http://www.dithechef.com/
It also works to do text selection without clicking+dragging, same with moving files or folders. I've mostly stopped clicking outside of browsers thanks to the 3-finger drag option.
Lol, I guess fruits are banned in the tech world until further notice, unless you are part of a team inside Apple.
The U.S. needs to implement the judical system like in Europe, where the loser pays all the legal fees.
In the EU, you have literally examples of persons who single handedly took their own country to court all the way to the Strasbourg.
I'd generalize to say that 'progressively higher level abstractions are eating the world'.. and always have been.
I wouldn't doubt they used stenography too, was just curious if you had a source. Thanks for the effort.
India’s First Coronavirus Blockchain Platform Receives CSR Funding
There is no unified approach to the virus and states and are fighting each other for the little supply there is
>Being the original creator doesn't mean much when others can copy your design and not pay any of the costs associated with developing it in the first place

yes, it doesn't much if you don't know how to monetize it.

>It is pathetic because it treats illegal behavior as if it you are powerless to stop it.

I'm not powerless, I still can make money by employing different strategy and I still have my knowledge.

>and someone gave you advice to stop owning things

I think its still a valid advice.

>progress stops because no one will take the effort to build something because someone else can just come along and copy it.

On the contrary, you always to have be progressing and innovating so that you always one step further than then copier.

What I mean left behind is if one refuse to adapt.

>How about the adapting is putting sanctions or restrictions on companies that engage in corporate espionage

I'm just merely suggesting alternative solution.

≥I'm really curious what you do for a living, and how you would feel if your work product was just stolen and ripped off and then used to attempt to shut down your living

I would be delighted if someone feel my product are important enough or useful enough for some one to copy it.

Like I said before there are strategy for making money that doesn't rely solely on IP
It is a problem. The defendant's right to counsel should be the right to counsel that is, at least in theory, equipped with the same tools as the prosecutor. When there are huge power disparities, governments become mobs. See: Aaron Swartz.
No. He's saying that without the technical details, Ars is overblowing this issue. Maybe exploitation requires radio gear of $5k and being present next to the victim while their BLE is turned on. Without the details, you can't say if this is a big issue or just another overhyped Check Point research paper, as this company has a history of doing.
It is totally legal to pirate content where I live now, and where I've lived before. Still, I pay for video games on Steam or for Spotify. Hell I even buy music on Bandcamp. I do this because it's convenient and because I want to support creators.

However, when a creator goes out of their way to alienate me as a customer - by either dropping support for my platform, or by region-blocking - I happily put on my pirate hat and get what I want for free. There is no other viable choice for me.
There's a few things here.

First and foremost: Any argument we make is based on unclassified publicly known details related to the technological capabilities of both countries. This is an uninformed and untenable position to be making strong arguments from.

Two: There's not a lot of evidence the ASBMs can actually hit moving targets. There are a lot of impressive claims on the ASBM and ASCM front, but we have seen impressive claims from Russia and China on prior weapons that have not panned out in reality. Everyone postures about having a better hand than they actually do.

Tree: There's a lot of strategies we can employ besides Aegis. The US Navy has countered similar threats before, and can likely do so again.

This Congressional Research Service report on Chinese naval modernization is an interesting read in general, but has an appendix specifically discussing ASBMs:
https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20191220_RL33153_d765d5...
But it's only an abuse of the copyright mechanism based on the "original purpose" (to promote art etc).

It's not an abuse based on its actual, de facto, purpose: to sustain profitable back catalogue sales and aid the entertainment industry.

So whether the "original purpose" is important is the whole point in determining abuse or not...
They absolutely not a public square, and it's sad that anyone thinks they have any right whatsoever to propagate invented lies about 'child molestors, secret rituals and anti-vaxx' information in any controlled community.

Facebook has always had policies concerning content, that was never up for debate.

There's really little to argue about here.

If you want to talk about Lizards in control of the White House, you can make your own web site.
This thread reads like an ad for PolicySentry
Your phone has an app.
"We won't make this mistake again. We will control all sectors of our semiconductor business."

Rule No. 1 in Business: NEVER turn away a paying customer.

When you do that, your customer will become your competitor. Not only will you lose his business, you also lose a lot of your other customers' business.

Very bad decision. Julia Roberts in 'Pretty Woman' says it perfectly: "Big mistake. Big! HUGE!"
This reminds me of Click for Python in that the CLI is built based on the functions that describe the commands and arguments.

Click uses decorators though. I don’t know what the C++ equivalent could be.
Because books are written by real people who have to live with the consequences of what they write.

Anonymous accounts run by various secret agencies, trolls, and even just ordinary people who are wrong can cause tremendous amounts of damage to millions of people. These should be banned.
You have a disadvantage too:

You had to spend time and money to create the thing.

The copycats can instead do marketing, convincing others they're the true creator

Without copyright laws
No way! code.golf author here, I was very influenced by playing your site back in the day, many thanks for introducing me to code golfing :-)
I'm looking into the instruction decoder, but the 8086 is probably too early to answer the questions you're interested in. The 8086 patent [1] is a non-awful patent that provides a lot of information, including the instruction decoder.

For something slightly more recent, the book "Modern Processor Design" has 40 pages on the microarchitecture of the P6 processor. In brief, the P6 has three decoders running in parallel. An Instruction Length Decoder determines instruction boundaries before decoding, so the decoders receive aligned instructions. Only Decoder 0 can handle complex instructions that require microcode. It can issue 4 micro-ops per cycle, while limited-functionality Decoders 1 and 2 only issue 1 micro-op. The micro-ops are queued with up to 3 micro-ops issued per cycle for execution.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4449184
Cloudformation. Ewww.
Wow this is actually incredible if this works. However this study was tested bacteria and relate it to covid in the following way:

"an ozone application achieves a high level of disinfection against PsA, a vegetative bacteria that the CDC identifies as more difficult to kill than medium sized viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19)"

Would the implication be that this same method works on covid as well? That is not immediately apparent to me...
IMO NIFs won't get you the best of both worlds as they tend to eliminiate the resilient properties of the BEAM.

See http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html:

> As a NIF library is dynamically linked into the emulator process, this is the fastest way of calling C-code from Erlang (alongside port drivers). Calling NIFs requires no context switches. But it is also the least safe, because a crash in a NIF brings the emulator down
I still see the various characters of Die Brücke in my colleagues around me during my daily working life, watching them in futile defence of long lost bridges
I think the Fed is a better place to administer this. It already does checks and ACH payments.
There was a girl that I liked. I'd been asking her out for a few times, and in unconventional, or as some of my friends say, creepy ways. Lol.

I bought a domain name, <hernamehere>willyougooutwith.me and put it behind a tinyurl link. On her birthday I gave a gift to her with a piece of paper of that tinyurl.

If she visits that url, there will be a 3D envelope that she can click. If she clicks that 3D envelope, a 3 page letter will come out, with her photo on the first page that I stalk from Facebook (yeah I know I'm creepy lol), and then on the second page a sentence or two asking if she's willing to go out with me, and a list of restaurants. On the third page a form in which if she fills it out I will get a text message saying that she fills the form out.

Obviously she didn't fill the form lol, but I asked her several days later whether she saw the website, and she said yes.

My friends whom I told my attempt were all like "are you crazy? that's creepy as hell, no way she's going to respond", but hey, I just learned how to code (this was 7 years ago), and making the website was fun, so I went along with it.

Now that I think about it, it was indeed creepy. And it didn't help that I was just a FOB that didn't know how to be savvy around people. If I were to do it again now, maybe I'll do it differently lol.

After that one, I did a few other attempts, but in the end she was never interested in me at all. I am now happily married with another person.
Someone from the deep state to distribute misinformation. A conspiracy theorist actor. A disinfo agent distracts the public away from the real conspiracies by clogging the airwaves with fake conspiracies. Q and Alex Jones are Trump's conspiracy media arm. If you are going to attack the actual media as fake, you need convincing counter-media.
Perhaps something like this? https://seanvasquez.com/handwriting-generation
Curious why this is interesting and upvoted so much here on HN. False positive tests or false negative tests both could explain what happened.
If we're playing CLI golf why not use macros to make it even dryer?

int fired_main(int x = fire::arg("-x"), int y = fire::arg("-y"))

could just be

int fired_main(int fire_arg(x), int fire_arg(y))

with something like

#define fire_arg(v) v = fire::arg("-"#v)

The C preprocessor is still the thing I miss most when working in any other language.
Well, you don't really know how many deaths were prevented. You have what is effectively public relations arm of the industry computing those numbers.

However, iatrogenic causes are said to be the third largest cause of death in the US. There are various values bandied about, but I think this is in the order of 225,000 deaths per annum. So, this is to say, doctors taking an incorrect action eg prescribing the wrong drug, wrong amount, catching MRSA in hospital, etc, is the third largest cause of death.

I think, but cannot be sure, that this was the case for someone in my family. An elderly relative who had been on the same medication for 40 years, had their medicine changed. Within a month, that person had a stroke, and was dead a year later. Obviously this is anecdotal, and I actually don't think this would even have counted as a iatrogenic death statistic, but it does indicate how this could be the case. And that the actual iatrogenic death numbers could be higher, if it were possible to get accurate breakdowns of causes of death.
Even things like Patreon likely would not work without copyright, as people would just steal the work and republish it on another medium.

See https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akz4xk/onlyfans-creator-n...
It's retaliation, both for the kids and for TikTok, for snatching up all those Tulsa Trump rally tickets, and making him look bad because fewer people showed up.
I found Mort Garson's Plantasia a few months ago. It's my favorite music to listen to as a I repot my plants.
"You're really convinced" is explicitly about the position you're taking, about how correct your interpretation is, not you as a person. It's not ad hominem just because I used the word "you".

It's very slightly rude, but so is telling someone that you only used the word "seems" to soften to blow of telling them they are 'objectively' wrong, and you didn't actually mean "seems". If you don't think your comment was a personal attack, then neither was mine.

> This is a straightforward example of ad hominem, FWIW.

Sure, that is. But it's friendly advice separate from the logical argument. And it's not ad hominem fallacy.
I do not believe that there is a right to a public defender, though they are often available. There is no corresponding right in civil cases, and the government files many of those as well.
I wanted to take my gf out to dinner to a notoriously overbooked restaurant. I wrote a script that monitored their web site for be reservation slots, and voila within 5 minutes of them making them available I was able to book one for our first year anniversary :-)
Except it is. Now if we started banning the same apps China bans because China bans them too then it would absolutely be whataboutism.
> ...the original model of the internet that senses damage and routes around it is still a strong model...

I wonder if "packetizing" food production in a vertical permaculture food forest form factor is feasible? In other words, instead of vast monoculture swaths, use interdependent crops in interlocking planting patterns, predicated upon the assumption that robot-vision-assisted labor is practical.
That's a great point!

Thinking about it now, I can't be sure why we started to talk about particular products (and then saw ads about them day or two later). It could've been because one of us saw an article or an ad about it earlier. So perhaps this is neither by coincidence nor surveillance - perhaps there's an earlier link in causal chain that we've missed.

I suppose the only way to be sure is to start doing proper experiments.
speedgoose was doing it to an entire country, but tedk-42 is the one who gets reprimanded?
I didn't say I was in the right, nor do I think I'm cool. It's just reality that when artificial roadblocks make something more difficult than it should be people find a way around them.
There are always huge disparities; a large number (possibly a majority) of people prosecuted by the government are driven to bankrupcy, regardless of the outcome.
>People who create need to be able to benefit from that creation.

Only if they need that benefit. If they don't then they don't.
whoah there buddy you got your phd from a 2nd rate school and now you're a "blockchain engineer" (whatever that is). i wouldn't be so quick to pull someone's credentials if i were you
I understood that is one possible interpretation; however, the intentions of the hackers are unknown, and so you’re assuming that they meant it that way. Or perhaps it’s a double bluff, or even a triple bluff. How would we know?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/double_bluff

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/triple_bluff

> I'm not going to walk you through reading comprehension, but if you can't recognize the oozing underlying sneer of that quote and the blatant cherry on top finish, then I encourage you to work on that skill

Easy on the personal attacks, bud. Implying I don’t know what you know is rude, plain and simple. I’m sure you already knew this, I’m just letting you know I see you and how you twist your argument to make others appear to be your lesser. It’s a bad look. Try to argue in better faith. Or don’t, your choice.

Thanks for discussing this with me.
>> "oh shit, someone stole my wallet (/ online identity)"

Isn't one supposed to be responsible for their own passwords/security? Does Microsoft take responsibility if someone steals your windows password or hacks your computer? No, they will just say its you who didn't install the security updates. Why should a banking transaction be any different?
Yeah, it’s the poorest 4%.
In which legislature? In all legislatures around the world?

Have you personally verified this fact or are you just stating an opinion as fact?
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Wikipedia has an article about it:

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

Here's the section that specifically discusses it in a business context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi#In_a_business_context
AWS actually has a research team applying formal methods to IAM because doing it by hand is impossible.

https://aws.amazon.com/iam/features/analyze-access/
Some of the stuff you list are not that sudden. Switch for example is exactly a product of long time refinement. Nintendo has been trying to make a tv-portable hybrid since the snes years.
I keep coming to these threads to read about GUID Partition Tables and disappointed someone is using the initials for something else.
Barely related, but if you haven’t learned how to tie shoelaces instantly, you should:

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

I’ve been doing this for nearly 20 years.
Sixth Amendment provides right to counsel for criminal prosecutions. It's the rare positive right - if you do not have lawyer, or cannot afford one, the state will provide one. (Generally an overworked, underpaid one...)
lol, not sure why I'd want to engage with someone who thinks stealing is fine.
Perhaps Apple has hired topologists as their legal counsel?
A part of due process is the opportunity to be represented by counsel. Unless there are few or no quality lawyers who are not US citizens, I don't see how this would infringe on anyone's due process. Not being able to get the exact lawyer you want is not the same as your due process being violated.
Are you calling the WHO the public relations arm of the pharmaceutical industry?

Most statistics regarding diseases and disease outcomes are collected by the national health services in a country, not by the pharmaceutical industry.
I'm guessing the impact on clock speed was minimal, but the history of the parity flag is interesting.

Automatically computing parity is very important if you're implementing a terminal, since serial communication often uses a parity bit. The Datapoint 2200 was a programmable terminal / desktop computer introduced in 1970. Earlier than the microprocessor, it had a processor built from a bunch of 7400-series TTL chips.

The Datapoint company asked Intel and Texas Instruments about replacing the board of chips with a single chip. Intel eventually produced the 8008 to duplicate this functionality (including the parity flag), while Texas Instruments produced the TMX 1795 chip. Meanwhile, Datapoint redesigned their processor board around the 74181 ALU chip and decided they didn't want a microprocessor.

Texas Instruments couldn't find a customer for the TMX 1795 and abandoned it, but Intel decided to sell the 8008 as a general-purpose microprocessor, essentially creating the microprocessor market. This led to the Intel 8080 and then the 8086 processors, which because of backwards compatibility kept the parity flag (and the little-endian architecture). So that's why you have the near-useless PF flag.
The article is a fairly easy read, and would answer your question "What's Google proposing". They don't seem to be proposing "sole discretion" or forced arbitration. The Indian UPI system specifically involves a central agent, effectively a government body, that is involved in setting up and authenticating all transactions that occur using UPI.
Not sure that’s true, I used to work with a right-handed Pakistani person who was fully bilingual in Urdu and English and they claimed their handwriting was neater in Urdu than English. I couldn’t tell because I can’t read Perso-Arabic.

Although it’s also possible that RTL writing systems like Perso-Arabic are designed in such a way that it’s ergonomic for the right-handed majority of the population to write in.

It’s an interesting topic, wonder if there are any papers on it