skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this blog has an entire article series in this format with more than a dozen write-ups. Incredible that I haven't found this site sooner, what a gem!
> Additionally, the higher 8 bits of rax, rbx, rcx and rdx can be referred to as ah, bh, ch and dh.

That’s bits 8-15 (lowest being 0 and highest being 63), not the highest 8 bits

Didn’t have time to read the whole thing, but it looks nice.
I feel like that's a bit of an oversimplification; better land management should also be on the forefront. Not trying to 100% utilize the land, but leave space for forests, shrubs, tall / unkempt grasses, etc.
Write a post about crafting a strong AGI, post it to HN, earn many upvotes, and clone a few of itself to comment on the thread without being downvoted.
Wild boar tend to quickly dominate and devour an ecosystem. Not sure how stable the population is there, but many times you have to intervene in order to protect the balance of the flora and fauna.
Well who can blame them. The files are not theirs. /s
Look how Trump Uni turned out .....
It could be "the right outcome". Consider the facts. Very, very few young people die from this, almost none. Median age of those dying is something like 80. The virus is now endemic - it's never going away. We are not guaranteed to have a vaccine, in spite of the valiant efforts by multiple companies - there's no vaccine against any other coronavirus, and it's not for the lack of trying. Hospitals are not overloaded right now. They likely will be, come late fall/winter. So one could argue that transmission among the young, mostly healthy people off peak of hospital capacity constraints is not the worst thing that could happen. Done right, in fact, such transmission could be our "get out of jail free" card, as long as we properly isolate the sick and the elderly and maintain some semblance of hygiene and social distancing for those at moderate risk.
But there could be a switch to allow installing apps from untrusted sources" default off. It's sad that people are so ignorant and gave apple so much power. :(
Ooh, very cool! I remember using a very experimental emulator at some point a couple years back and it was sadly too broken to be usable (likely resource constraints?). Will have to dig up the old DS Lite and a flashcart to try this one out.
Epic is absolutely putting up a legal crusade for the little guy, whether or not it's motivated by their own personal gain. The lawsuit explicitly precludes special treatment for Epic.

Who cares what their motivations are if they've mandated that the benefits should be distributed?
The loopholes are part of the laws.

I am very glad that I moved to a country, Singapore, that in general has sane and simple laws that don't suffer nearly as much from loopholes as most other countries.
> It's interesting that few people don't understand the difference between permission to distribute versus actual distribution.

Not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here but in order for Apple to take their 30% cut, someone has to download the app, at which point Apple have de facto distributed it to someone.

> If Apple was doing any distribution for you at all, you wouldn't need to pay Facebook and Google for distribution.

This makes very little sense to me. Are you saying that if I pay Apple to distribute my app on the App Store then they should also distribute it on every app store? And that if they aren't then they're somehow failing me?

> Note how this was different in the early days, where simply being on the app store would get downloads. That has not been true for 7-8 years now.

The App Store is a shit-show in terms of discoverability, this is true. I'm not even sure what they can do to improve things at this stage.
This doesn't work. You can't rely on individual action for massive scale initiatives. Look how far that got us for the ozone layer (solved through governmental action), climate change (unsolved, because there is no governmental action), decent working conditions (everything achieved was through unions, protests and government intervention), etc
"Market driven"? The market has had its chance; "it" is focusing on short-term, optimized profits, on cutting down the rainforests to make way for shitty farms to grow cheap shit to feed to cattle, etc. Some consumers have the funds and the will to buy food from more reputable sources, but I'm confident there's a lot of scummy stuff happening there too.

The market won't solve this; it's time for legislation to control the market before it wrings out everything. We live in an age now where even politicians are wringing out everything they can from a country, funneling billions to themselves and their friends, leaving the country in shambles while they retire to their private islands because hey, not their problem anymore.
Could we stop posting headlines from Markov generators?

"Go home 2020. You're drunk." -- r.t.
Store data and keys seperately.

The set of keys for all your customers should be only a few megabytes, so is much much easier to back up more frequently and more copies of.

It's also easier to have a "we do daily backups and delete any backups after 21 days" policy.
Your threat is bizarre (and quite frankly rude and probably against the yc rules).

There's nothing illegal about traveling to Crimea, only warnings from the US state department and maybe some other western nations.

From the Russian perspective, the Crimean territory is theirs. If you have valid Russian travel documents, you can enter. From the Ukrainian perspective, the Crimean territory is theirs and US citizens can spend up to an entire year in Ukraine visa-free.
As it is, POWER is on a slow decline towards irrelevance by focusing only on milking their existing enterprise customers as long as it lasts.

Which is a huge shame, the POWER ISA per se is mostly fine, and their commitment to open firmware etc. for trustworthy computing (see Raptor) is a niche that for some reason interests nobody else.

If they want to turn it around and compete with x86, ARM and maybe even RISC-V on the low end, they need to commit to openpower. Get some interesting cores open sourced under the openpower umbrella, docs, open source bus interfaces for connecting stuff on a SOC, etc. And get some decent priced hardware into the hands of hobbyists and as dev boards for embedded.
Unreal Engine on iOS and Mac in Jeopardy
That isn't strictly true of the latest version of Real World Ocaml. Most of the examples in the book use Base instead of Core, which is a lot more lightweight.
I guess it's a bit more nuanced. On one hand they support and update their phone's OS for quite a long time, relative to others, and on the other this anti-repair stuff, platform closedness and making a kind of fetish out of having a new phone every year with their superhyped (people camping in front of stores for a phone, really?) yearly release cycle.
Circles look great on my Macbook monitor (being retina, of course) but very aliased/jagged on my crappy external monitor.

Maybe there's a small tweak that will do some antialiasing.
Simple Game – Google Play
I'd say the difference with click is that it exposes a nice Python API which makes it easier to meta program CLIs, nice for lazy people.
And what do you think the UN is then?
By editing 3 places in Regedit manually because disabling Update Medic in Services says "access is denied" despite being an admin account. Yes, you totally can. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59077619/how-to-disable-...
> You seem to not be interested in living with your right to install any app you want on your device, which is fine.

Yep, i'm very happy that privacy/security audit is done already by the app store.

> But do you also believe that other people should not have the right to install software that has not been blessed by an authority on their devices?

This is tricky question. Suppose they can, after opt-in. 1) Tons of crap weather and flashlight and Coupons apps gets user data breached, scams ensue. 2) Incentive to build quality apps drops, as people install clone apps your profits will evaporate. 3) Malware
I heard some of those new admins even use man pages or personal notes. Curse those amateurs, back in my day we kept all of POSIX in our heads and we liked it!
That's absurd, of course I care about the 30% take. I care about both.
The camera companies are so bad at software that the software companies are building better cameras than them... in the few millimeters thickness of a phone! I salivate for the day that Google or Apple buys Nikon or Leica or whatever and shoves all of that computational photography goodness under a 24x36mm camera sensor.
Thanks! There are plenty of breathing exercises but the one I use the most is the 4-4-4-4 (it comes by default). I also enable progression, increasing each time interval by 0.1 seconds every two minutes for 20/30 times (you can tweak all of this in preferences).
I'd personally prefer services to warrant a certain number of $$$'s in case of service outage, a certain number for data loss, and another number for data leaks.

I'd then like then to have insurance to ensure they are able to pay out rather than go bankrupt.

They can then proudly write those $$$ numbers on the feature list, and I'll use it to decide which service to buy.
I have no idea how to respond to such a silly comment.
Apple is hardware maker. Of course it make sense for them to design the hardware so only they can repair it. It is part of their business model.
Fortnite is free. They release patches to the game weekly, with major patches every month or so, which are also free. The _only_ revenue stream in fortnite is cosmetic skins, which as a player you could ignore entirely and still play 100% of the game.

In fact, you can earn small handfuls of the premium currency every season, which actually allowed people to purchase premium skins or the "battle pass" with currency obtained for free.

There is no comparison to be made with Apple, who won't let you do a thing on the app store without giving them money.
Has GDPR compliance gone too far?
Actually, this[1] is the original concept. Pretty close! I coincidentally saw it in a documentary yesterday. They changed the design so they could easily make the prop based on an existing small car.

[1] https://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11...
But insufficient redundancy for that much data saves millions of dollars!
Game Multiplayer Online Terpopuler Untuk Mabar
Why government technology needs much better governance
Prompts outcry from people who will have chicken or beef for dinner that night, presumably.
> Believing that all systems must be maximally flexible is a scarcity mindset that felt more reasonable when families had to save to be able to afford a desktop computer that would be in use for several years.

This is a good insight and it's entirely possible that general purpose computing was a historical aberration.

You say you want to be able to choose between a real computer and a restricted appliance, but how long will the market allow you to make that choice?

Selling locked-down terminals with access to a pay-to-play "platform" is obviously very profitable. How much longer will MacOS and Windows allow you to install unverified software?
Ask HN: How do I acquire users?
I made a coding platform recently (domecode.com). It's open source but the growth has been 200 users in 10 days. I think that's pretty slow and I'd like to know how do I even acquire users?
> Either rooftop solar, or green roofs everywhere

If you want a dense city, you want green roofs - with access. Land in a city is too valuable to waste on solar - stick that stuff out in the desert where nobody wants to be.

> Cut-and-cover highway tunnels

Take an existing dense city like Manhattan and build a new platform above the roads. Existing ground floor becomes basement, new platforms become park/pavements/plazas rather than for cars and trucks. Cities rise anyway - look at down town Seatle for a high speed example, but if you go to old cities in the UK, say Cambridge, and look at buildings 1000 years old, they're a significant drop down from today's "ground level".
I was amused by a podcast I listened to where some guy delivered donuts and a pay on the honor system coffee can. He found that drawing a pair of obviously fake eyes on the collection box significantly increased the amount of money he received per donut.

So apparently even humans are sensitive to obviously fake eyes.
Fortunately it was a new service and likely not yet very commonly used. Definitely not something any professional or even amateur in their right mind would use as a primary storage, never mind the only one.

The primary use case of the service is the short-term 30-day storage mode where you can auto-upload photos straight out of camera and auto-download them to your computer. The long-term storage is an afterthought, the available space is tiny at 10GB, and if the service is not used in a year, all images are automatically deleted.
More likely than not some manager decided all those extra nines weren't really necessary.
Best avoid putting all your eggs in the same basket (build in some degree of redundancy in storing information, dependant on how important that info is to you).
One less non-Chromium browser left in the world. What a shame that Microsoft never open sourced EdgeHTML.
Is Oracle the executioner in the IT world?
Hacker News after dark. Brilliant stuff.
SAM conversions finally. I'm in tears!
Really good to see these changes. Kotlin is a great language to work with, it has the stability and performance of the JVM and it writes like Ruby / TypeScript. I wish more companies were adopting it as their core language and it is not just limited to Android development.
Through marketing and hard work. Good luck.
How could a normal Joe User know which side app stores are reliable and which will sell your info and credit card number to the highest bidder?
Interesting! Do you have any examples or further reading links about the buzz? I skimmed through the audio samples on the page but I couldn't quite hear it.
Still earthquake country
A proposal to fix Social Media/YouTube
I am posting on anonymously hacker news for various reasons, mostly to gain feedback on the idea:

The problem:
Youtube/Social Media has a lot of problems. It’s controlled by very few companies ie (Facebook, Google). People are being de-platformed for voicing their opinions. The algorithms are a blackbox

The solution:
Build an open source decentralized peer to peer social network/video sharing website. Where advertisers can pay the content creators/server hosts (peers) with cryptocurrency.

Getting paid in cryptocurrency would incentivize people to host videos and create content. This would solve the problem of lack of seeds most p2p solutions have.

While decentralized, this does not mean it's a free for all where people can post anything. But it does mean that the algorithm for monitoring content can be open and improved to make better.

Ideally this would become a new way to host all forms of social media/videos and it could be created by the people for the people as opposed to the big tech companies.
Show HN: Get our new tech stickers by retweeting
Tutorial: Static Websites with GatsbyJS and Enonic XP
Telephony honeypot received 1.5M robocalls across 11 months
Is the implication that they're fools for... considering multiple cases and scenarios and not having a strict mandate to kill all animals in all situations or save all animals in all situations?
What a strange coincidence. currently reading bateson's book with that title.
Official announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/08/kotlin-1-4-release...

What's New in Kotlin 1.4: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/whatsnew14.html
Show HN: Parents, would your kids like these videos and stem activities?
Hey, I am a scientist mum of twins and a science educator. I created a series of videos with quick STEM educational activities for young kids and parents/educators to watch and play together, in parallel to the video. I only use household items and aim for very very low cost & quick preparation so you can do it together with your little ones avoiding long boring preparations! The videos are playfully designed encouraging kids to feel happy and excited for science activities so they can have fun and learn:)

For example, here is one of my stem activity videos

this is a super fun and easy surprise paper craft for young kids that young kids can easily do with a few household items. It stimulates imagination, creativity, symmetrical and spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, scissors skills & patience, and perseverance.

Would your little ones like this video and activity? Please give your feedback!

Thank you so so much!
Storing names separately can help but the subset of data you have a legitimate legal reason to "refuse to forget" can change faster than you would want to rewrite your backups(well, nobody wants to rewrite backups, but you get what I mean)
The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)
On topic topic, can I get HN’s advice on my backup strategy?

All important files on Synology Ds218+ NAS, which has 2x12TB helium HDDs in mirror.

Daily HyperBackup to Google Drive. I test restoring files on a monthly basis.

Email alerts on failure.

Anything I can improve?
...which can instead be pocketed by higher ups in the company food chain :)
Wouldn't you need to edit every single backup where the key is stored in order to comply?
Software engineers generally aren’t trained in anything, to be completely honest :/
I would argue that the Gamecube was pretty state of the art when it came out and in some ways ahead of its competition at the time.
No.

Losing data is just as bad from a GDPR perspective.
I live in Hong Kong where there are wild boar living in the jungle right next to the city. Several people have been killed or injured by them when they wander into populated areas and get lost / confused, or just in general when people encounter them on the hiking paths and think they can mess with them.

Yes, it's funny that it stole the naked man's laptop, but they're not a joke. They are dangerous wild animals.
The short version appears to be that the author has managed to replace standard linear algebra notation with an alternative (but mathematically equivalent) graphical notation, which is harder to do computations and write programs in.

This submission is the latest in a trend of what I would classify as "math-lite" category theory and Haskell articles that reach the HN front page, which purport to explain something interesting but end up just rehashing standard mathematics in opaque ways.

I really wish this would stop. Fortunately (unfortunately?) I've been down this road a few times and know to avoid getting sucked in, but I can easily see a bright, curious person wasting a lot of time before realizing that the content is merely linguistic, not mathematical.

Is (for example) category theory a useful organizational tool in certain abstract branches of mathematics? Sure (those branches being, basically, algebraic topology and algebraic geometry). Is it a grand unified theory of math? No, it's just some useful vocabulary. Most mathematicians go their entire lives without writing a paper mentioning categories. Getting excited about category theory is like getting excited about matrix notation – useful, sure, but not where the meat is.

I also find any claims that category theory is relevant to the average working programmer to be dubious at best.

(And yes, I realize the graphical notation presented in this article is not category theory. I am making a broader point about certain kinds of articles I see, which also applies here.)
In several European countries the population of wild boars exploded in recent years.

I've just read an article about France. Apparently 46,000 wild boars were hunted in 1973 and that rose to 780k in 2018 in an attempt to control numbers, with a population in the millions.

Wild boars cause damage to agriculture but, as this story shows, these days they also come very close to people and often forage in people's trash bins, etc.
Cloud is a joke. Everyone with half a brain knows it...
To be fair, image.canon is definitely not a cold-storage or backup solution, never mind primary storage. Its main use case is acting as a buffer for auto-uploading photos from camera and then later downloading them to a computer. As an afterthought it also offers a tiny long-term storage space, 10 GB per user, smaller than most memory cards available today.
Hmm, I was selling and installing a lot of Cell Phones in Silicon Valley in 1983 (C-Tell Cellular, Santa Clara), and we had an office in Sacramento that was doing even better than I was sales wise.

To characterize the nearly ten years of cell phone growth as "virtually zero" makes me seriously question the authors fact checking and thought process.

To whit: "While American cell-phone usage has grown from virtually zero in 1992 to virtually 100 percent by 2008"
Or maybe an engineering mistake? I do not think you can claim anything without knowing the details. AWS lost customer data too, I would not try to assign blame without reading the post mortem.
> Perhaps you are thinking of trying to use an output column name in a WHERE clause?

Yeah, I think I am thinking about this.

Its pretty frustrating because the actual query engine is perfectly capable of executing fairly complex SQL expressions efficiently (they're not really that complex computationally, but they are syntactically because of SQL's verbosity), but the code becomes quite unmaintainable if you use too many of them.

For example, the following expression:

ROUND((
(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (s.end_time - s.start_time)) / 60) -- Shift length in minutes
- (FLOOR((EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (s.end_time - s.start_time)) / 60) / 380) * 20) -- Break length in minutes
)::numeric / 60 , 2) as hours_planned,

It repeats the sub-expression `EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (s.end_time - s.start_time)) / 60)`. If I could name that sub expression and reference it multiple times then the overall expression would be a lot more readable.
I am posting this anonymously to get feedback on this idea, I am a software developer capable of building this, but I would like to make this a community effort of people who would like a new type of social media.
Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
I often have trouble switching off from work during the week as my workspace is my 1BR apartment. I don't have this problem on the weekends, as I don't 'start' a working day.

Given that not starting work during the week isn't an option, any tips on how to switch off after-hours during the work week?
Definitely. I started researching them just because I noticed how much more aggressive they are than the mosquitoes we had when I was younger (including hunting during the day). Most of the literature I found talks about them as possible disease vectors. So far nothing has been connected to them (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627635/pdf/928...), but it's definitely a cause for concern.
> It should be free like the Web,

Lots of entitlement here. Apple does not owe you anything.

If you don't like Apple's terms, just don't buy their products. It really is that simple.
That the pigs usurped the human role on Manor Farm was not accidental.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24078684

(I have had incident-free encounters with boars, bulls, and bears. Wild animals may be dangerous, but unlike some domesticated humans, they aren't respectless.)
IcedID Banking Trojan: Expert Perspective
The dark spot is the shadow and the faint circle is the moon.
The manager probably put five 9s onto the spec sheet, and provided absolutely no resources. You’ll never guess who’s going to get the heat for this, the manager or the poor person who didn’t follow the spec.
I assume that if you do fake billing, you wouldn't do that with your own identity, so the risk of losing a medical license isn't there.
According to TFA (which apparently nobody reads) it most certainly was an engineering mistake. Files in long-term storage were accidentally subject to the same code that deletes files in short-term (30 day) storage.