skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think these two are incompatible?

If APIv3 has a `/foo` endpoint that is deprecated, usually I take that to mean that the developers discourage its use, and likely plan to remove it in a future version (say, APIv4 or APIv5). `/foo` will never be removed from APIv3, because that would be a breaking change, and so if I'm willing to stay on v3 forever, that's fine, but in the (likely) event I will want to take advantage of new features at some point in the future, I'm doing myself a disservice by using /foo because it will make the migration harder.

There is at least one case where I think "deprecated" is clearly, inarguably, the right word: when the developer wants to remove a part of an API (say, because it is a large maintenance burden), but it's also committed to stability, so they won't remove that api until some acceptably small number of users are using it.
You may try to use Tor through VPN's.
> I guess that makes the guy who manages my software engineering team a software engineering expert too?

If they do it very well and can point to measurable results of success, I would think so!
You can do recursion in YAML, and it ends badly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack#Variatio...
Am I Going to College? Yes. Should You Go to College? Maybe Not
I know Italians won‘t like this, but...
I use, for a can (400g) of tomatoes: chop a half onion, simmer in olive oil at low temp for 5-10 mins (“soffrito”), add heat, add sugar (2 tbsp, not if the tomatos are really sweet), let it caramelize a bit, add bayleaf and pimenta (allspice), add 0.1-0.2l red wine, reduce until it gets sticky, add tomatoes, stir well, put in 2-3 cloves of garlic, reduce by 20%, add salt, remove garlic, add a bit of oil. The balance of sweetness, acidity, saltiness, bitter notes (from the wine) and umami (from the tomatoes) together with the aromas from the wine, the oil and the spices never disappoints.
One open source tool for all your API needs: APIC
Maybe I missed it, but your landing page could use a couple of example stores built with your tool, and a better description of the features/personalisation options.
Probably since electronics has become so miniaturized and cheap, thinking of one cell per building or even one cell per light pole, wouldn't be that odd.
> all the former commonwealth people who call Americans backwards […] yet still quote things in pints, miles, or, heaven forbid, stones.

Only Brits seem to do that. The rest of the Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations have fully transitioned.
Right. And while there is no legal cap to immigration, de facto there are limits to how much immigration is feasible in a given period.
The allusion to Twitter culture did not help that comment; it would have been better --- both shorter and clearer --- without it.
I in fact realized how much time I spent locked down in an office everyday. And it seems too much. And now with home office, I'm locked down most of the day again, at home. With this corona situation I was unemployed for 4 months. I finally had time for my own projects. And I was able to actually finish them. I'm now working home-office for a company. But the idea of earning money with my own projects remains.
There have been 3 flu pandemics since 1918: 1957, 1968, 2009. In addition, cholera and AIDS have had non-influenza pandemics in the same timeframe, and there's a clutch of infectious diseases with little spread that qualify as pandemics by the definition of sustained spread in two countries in different regions of the world (e.g., mumps). MERS might also qualify by the definition.
For anyone who cares about sustainability and how textiles and fashion relate, the documentary The True Cost will change everything for you. It's available free online: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost.

The industry pollutes and oppresses beyond what you think.
All I know is that a crowded elevator is going to be strange experience for many now for a long time, especially those who work in tall buildings.

A small cough in an elevator is the new fart.
No, he doesn't have to know that. There is a deep divide on that question; it only seems like there isn't because this particular bubble we're in is essentially unified on it. That's not true of the wider world.
Citations?

Are you sure you have it in the right direction? There's forces trying to privatize the post office and the schools, which is the opposite.
1 GW per billion dollars is dirt-cheap compared to solar power in America, too. Thinking of two of the largest PV installations in California. One was $2.4 billion for 550 MW and another was $1 billion for 130 MW.
this is like saying to only buy mac laptops, because an os is hard to install on your laptop. I guess that's why the corporate world and other people don't run a bunch of linux. because it's a "community project." redhad and ubunty are community projects. gotcha. they are. just like lineageos. supported by hundreds of paid developers and many huge companies.

installing an os on your phone is not simple. but it is harder than installing it on your laptop. and because installing it on a laptop is hard, people don't buy copies of windows and never have.

i am not glossing over complexity. but this is not complexity. anything apparently is complexity to you if it's not "buy small computer, and literally do nothing." yes, doing something is "complexity." opening a door requires keys. too complex.

us somewhat technical people, like this entire site and literally a third of the population, can follow xda directions. my gramma can watch a 15 minute youtube video and just click exactly what it says. the complexity is not complex.

as far as unlockable bootloaders, there are some. i can count on one hand, out of the hundreds of phones I can buy. if by many you mean 2%, sure. i guess that 2% means don't use 98% of phones. strange how apple is unlockable on 100% of their phones, yet that 2% is "worse."

When you play pretend with fake information, the only thing you are doing with the narrative is making yourself look like you're spreading narrative. this works for fox news watchers like yourself. not on a forum with a bunch of downvoting nerds.
Yes: you can (for example) confuse a vision algorithm into thinking an image of a turtle is a rifle https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/mit-researchers-fool-google-...
I think that's the problem. We need to be able to trust they wont, in the current climate there is no chance of that.

If there were strong privacy laws defining how and when data could be collected and accessed then in theory I'm happy for the right people to have access to investigate criminal acts. Under a warrant that a judge has reviewed.

But currently it seems to be a free-for-all with tech companies being the ones in control of most of the data.
What's frustrating about this question is that it (inevitably!) commands the top of the HN thread with a discussion of the least interesting thing in the article. It's an article about COVID and Facebook, and here we're recapitulating the end-to-end encryption debate for the 8-zillionth time.
What an interesting idea!

Several commenters point out end-to-end encryption would prevent filtering or tagging messages.

But that's not true. The message analysis could be done at either endpoint without violating privacy.

Tagging (or removing) a message before you send/forward it, or after you receive it, with "the central message of this comment has been tagged as "probably a hoax" by hoaxtracker.com; check out this CDC notice <here> to learn more".

<here> does not need to be a URL which reveals much other than your general interest in the subject. But if that seems too revealing, it could already be already available as part of the endpoint's filtering data and readable locally.

Lots of people forward (retweet), or write a little something before resharing what is false or misleading information, not realising they're doing so. I would not be surprised if getting those tags, rarely enough to stand out, before they send the message would cause some people to hesitate and check/think a bit more before sending. Maybe rephrase their attached comment into a question rather than confident outrage.

Technically this is not much different from privacy-preserving spam filtering.
It's starting to sound like this "mobilization" process is the marquee project pushing this, if Google is still a "nothing gets done that won't result in a promotion" shop, which is another stereotype the company has built for itself.

Also, people have technical knowledge here, even if they've never been hired by someone as "the best of the best," or having graduated from a top 10 CS school, so handwaving "fundamentally works differently" is not actually likely to be the enlightening description you might hope it would be.
Like it or not money is influence. It’s even more amplified when you have an incompetent government. It would be great if Trump hadn’t bungled the entire response, then maybe BG would just be another person behind the scenes helping with funding.
There is definitely less conspiracy theory floating around in China
Nuking the Japanese was just the culmination of rather horrific methods used by the US against Japan.

Another one the US was quite keen on is firebombing (aerial incendiary bombing of urban areas). Grave of the Fireflies is a movie well worth watching that provides a depiction of the effect of war on society.
The design of this article is absolute trash.
I checked the sources - they are either inaccessible or don't go into technical detail, and basically just repeat what the sentence on the wikipedia article says. So no, they are not sufficient to actually get to the details of the case. If you are "familiar" with the case as you claimed, surely you can answer one simple question of mine rather than make me tree-search through all these links? Additionally, I am coming from a background of having the media spew these accusations at me all day without actually backing them up, so I am not inclined to want to tree-search through yet another probably-unsubstantive source being thrown in my face.

When your officer mentions "strcmp" on a public blog post, as one of their key examples of "theft", that is extremely telling.

> But this is exactly what happened in Huawei's case. [..] providing way better support than Cisco [..] They aren't even ahead of everyone else

Providing better support is not helped by copying technology, but you have to train large numbers of non-technical support staff to be competent at supporting that particular technology. Sure "ahead" depends on your measure, but they are certainly ahead in some key areas such as coverage.

> If I steal from you, and use that money to buy a fancy car

Stealing money is different from copying technology. If I steal your money, you no longer have the money. But if I copy your technology, you still have the technology. By the time it takes me to understand your technology, you have had enough time to innovate further upon it. So attributing Huawei's success primarily to this, is extremely biased. Given than there have been much more substantial lawsuits with widely-covered technical evidence (Apple vs Samsung, Google vs Oracle) as well as heavier fines involved, I cannot put any strong belief in these Huawei accusations. Huawei being singled out for something less substantive than what other companies have already done, this stinks of some sort of prejudice, and anyone reasonable can see this. If it's not racism, it is ideological - that a company from a country run on an entirely different set of principles, is doing as good or better than you.
1) any part of you out from under the blankets (face, perhaps) feels the coolness.

2) I can't sleep with few or no blankets anyway. I mean I could probably adjust to it over time, or if I'd hiked 20 miles that day I bet I could, but I certainly can't right now under ordinary circumstances.

I don't start to think a room's too cold for comfortable sleeping until it's under like 60F. My sleep gets worse if it's over about 68.
> What motivates a statement like this?

Because billionaires don't need encryption to keep themselves safe. The billions take care of that just fine.
I was answering the question of "What is the business of the Facebook SDK doing in a thermostat app?". The though process is "Want to offer Facebook Login for Nest" -> "Need to use SDK for it" -> SDK talks to Facebook servers.

I have never used the facebook SDK (and have not used the Nest App in a long time) so I don't know personally.
Not sure you are using the right word.

If a prepper subscribed to your idea wouldn't they think they are better off not equal because of the investments they made.
> Finns and Danes are my idols on simplicity, practicality and a hint of elegance.

Jesus... I never thought I'd ever read that Finns could be someone's idols when it comes to elegance. But if you fancy wearing sports overwear [0] fitted in your rubber boots, after all...

----

[0] don't forget to buy the exact same model for your partner, and wear it at the same time, if you want to pass as a true Finnish couple.
So, the Heckler's Veto, then?
Lets do the math:

Cheap LFP batteries get around 160-170wh/kg.

Largest supertankers have net tonnage of around 250000.

250000000 * 170 = 42.5GWH.

Quite respectable. Karadeniz (the biggest floating powerplant operator) has actually floated the idea.
I also disliked the article. Systems are complex, so it's suddenly pointless to try to understand them? Or, if you don't understand every detail of a system, you don't understand the system? Give me a break. I suppose we may as well give up on trying to understand natural systems while we're at it.

Maybe there's an alternative?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3828902-thinking-in-syst...
> [...] because the compiler can't re-order things past a memory load.

Re-ordering of reads and writes is not really the problem either, even if we assume that one could automatically safely reorder reads and writes arbitrarily to yield significant optimisations. Fundamentally, the compiler does not know the semantics of your data and the relationships between pieces of data and the logic of their transformations. Knowledge of your specific problem and the specific data you are transforming yields the majority of the powerful optimisation opportunities. Similarly, a garbage collector doesn't know the meaning of your data or your algorithms.

> Is that really true in all cases though?

Consider: Given a set of data, if a compiler or garbage collector understood the data sufficiently, then there would be no need for you to exist to write the program, because the compiler could simply write the data transformations itself and generate the program.

However, one is encouraged to do experiments for oneself. Concrete profiling data, not abstract theory, is what matters when evaluating cost-benefit of any approach.
Surely American culture is the problem. Conspiracy nuts predate the internet. This is a deeper problem.
I get them all the dang time

Suppose I want to search for a textbook in an open directory. This query will get flagged almost immediately:

textbook -inurl:htm -inurl:html -inurl:asp intitle:"index of" +(epub|mobi|pdf|txt)

Suppose someone says to me "no one in this forum believes (dumb conspiracy theory from Obama-times)" or "the lamestream media never reported on X." Naturally I will do a few quick iterations of

conspiracy related "terms" site:someforum.com before:2017-01-01

which will trigger a humanity check if you iterate too quickly.

I got hit recently when the news about Tucker Carlson's racist writer came out. I set out to find the full threads in which the offending comments were made. Iterating through combinations of text, usernames, and urls like

"full text of offensive post" username before:date-news-broke -inurl:news

got me checked every 3rd search or so.
I had a very similar experience with Adidas shoes. For a long time (~15 years maybe) I was pretty much exclusively buying Adidas shell-toes for my daily footwear. They were the most comfortable well fitting shoes and fit my wide feet well. It was nice not having to spend much time looking or trying on shoes - every 2 or even 3 years when they wore out I'd buy a new pair and they fit just like the last one.

The last pair I bought fell apart in 3 months, the ball of my foot eating through the interior material in that short span. I kept wondering "what changed" and then I looked at the label in the tongue. Different country of manufacture than the last 2 pairs I bought (I'd usually keep my old pair as a backup since they typically still had some life left in them, despite the sole wearing down)
I've done this stunt a couple times, it worked on one device and caused the battery to puff up badly in the other. Much better to do this via a lab power supply limited to a hundred or so milliamps, or fake one with a 5v USB supply and a 47ish ohm resistor in series... Monitor visually until at 3v or so, then charge using original device. Then keep the device in a fireproof area or bag until you get a new battery.
Well, or you could render on the phone and stream to the glasses.

I don’t think even 5G is low latency enough for what you’re describing—not even close. Stadia works because it’s not VR, so they have some latency headroom. For good VR (Valve Index, etc), you get around 20ms for the entire rendering chain.
I would argue that this statement from Bill is the most interesting. This statement shows Bill Gates, someone who has influence on legislatures, making a statement against encryption.
If this is differentiable (which it seems like it should be), it could be used adversarially to create better deepfakes, BTW.
I'm not sure how one would formalize it, even less so for the children of immigrants.
JGroups – A Toolkit for Reliable Messaging
This reminds me of an article I once read about the neat tricks that used to exist in altavista.com search engine
So if an engineering team is successful, then their manager is necessarily an engineering expert? You’re really not providing any rationale to support this rather extreme position. Bill Gates experience in the field of public health is choosing projects to finance, and even then he is not the primary person responsible for that in his foundation. Bill Gates has no credentials you could point to, and has done no work you could point to, that would support an assertion of him being a public health expert. It is frankly a ridiculous proposition.
The point is that they were able to meet capacity with 4g towers. I'm not sure how that's related. I guess I should also point out that the population of the city is 600k people, so it may not carry over to something like NYC or Tokyo.
Woman hunts for photos and treasures in used books, returns them to their owners
That's quite a statement.
"Aesthetics and logic are both concerned with the enjoyment of a composition, as derived from the interconnections of its factors." -- Alfred North Whitehead, "Modes of Thought".

I wonder how this ties up with Naur's classical "Programming as Theory Building"? Also worth mentioning Gang of Four software patterns and their relation to the work and aesthetical thinking of Christopher Alexander (cf. "The Nature of Order").
I've always believed that the pants are almost meaningless, it's the shirts that need to be different daily.

So I used to have 8 pairs of pants, 2 colours total. Black and beige. Then, once a year, I'd go buy 2 more pairs of each colour. On a 'bad' year, I'd buy 4 pairs. EG, I'd rotate the worn out, always only having 8 pairs.

This persisted until, 20 years later, the company that sold them went bankrupt. As my gut and ass had literally grown to into the form / shape of these pants, drooping and expanding to perfectly fill these specific pants, no other pants I tried seemed even remotely comfortable. Or to even fit well!

So I tried to find the company that made them... note, this was very early internet, and I had to go old-school. Finally called the trustees handling the bankruptcy, eventually found out where the pants were made, called them, and?

It was in Mexico, and they made custom for a variety of retailers. And none were left, no matter how I begged.

Two things:

1) Don't wear the same pants for 20-30 years, while you gain your middle-age gut and ass. Just don't.

2) Always have a pants fallback plan.
>Since when is 'fast fashion' 'high fashion'? 'Fast Fashion' is not even 'fashion' - it's literally just 'clothing'.

I'm not clear why you would call fast fashion, "not even fashion". That sounds embarrassingly elitist.

To be honest I'm not sure what point you're making that relies on their being a clear distinction between the two? I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that you're trying to say high fashion is not as culpable or "bad" as fast fashion is?

Sure, not directly. The lower volume and having more money for better sourcing probably makes it slightly more sustainable.

But, high fashion sets the dangerous expectation that you have to update your wardrobe regularly in order to fit in. That's the crux of the problem. They also directly profit off of fast fashion churn [0].

[0] https://www.thefashionlaw.com/just-how-successful-is-your-fa...
He's being intentionally vague. The attacker is obviously aware of his posts. If he reveals how he is indentifying the relays, they will change according.

If you read between the lines, he gives a few hints with regards to the sslstripping and traffic manipulation on only a limited set of sites.

This is from another post @ https://medium.com/@nusenu/the-growing-problem-of-malicious-...:

> In autumn 2019 I stumbled on something odd: Tor relays doing something that the official tor software is unable to do. This is intentionally vague to avoid giving away the detection methodology to the adversary."
>https://github.com/kripken/llvm.js

It seems to be big

I suppose nowadays you can just use something like that to achieve similar thing?

>llc -mtriple=wasm32-unknown-unknown -O3 -filetype=obj main.ll -o main.o

>wasm-ld main.o -o main.wasm --no-entry -allow-undefined
It looks like the last iMacs with (Thunderbolt) Target Display Mode came out int 2014, but the Retina (and later) models don't support it unfortunately:

https://www.lifewire.com/use-imac-as-monitor-with-target-dis...

No reason Apple can't bring it back - it greatly increases the value and lifespan of an iMac!!
Once I visited a customer site who were having a performance problem. They ran everything on AWS. The day before I arrived on-site, they spun up a brand new production-sized test environment just for me to debug their issue in. I spent a day or two on-site working out what was causing their performance problem. When I left, they deleted that environment. They only paid for its existence for 2-3 days. So with cloud you can get away from fixed always-on staging environments, and move to "staging environments on demand".

(My recollection was they loved everything about AWS except the price tag, although creating a personal staging environment for me to debug their issue in would have only made a marginal difference to that total cost.)
Notice the similarity with today Russia:

- Run by an eternal Emperor adored by population at large (not counting few remaining intellectuals he murders every year)

- Extremely religious-jingoistic national ideology as “strong spiritual braces of Russians”. Quite similar to militaristic Japan “warrior spirit of master race”.

- Already invaded and conquered few smaller neighbors in the wars of conquest

- On of top sources of toxic influence in every field in the modern world

Countries who blindingly follow some two bit God-Emperor aggressive trash should not be surprised to eat Gamma rays for breakfast one fine morning.
Bill Gates was the one who linked encryption to Covid, not HN.