skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The patches between 0.18 and 1.0 added some very ergonomic blueprint placement in map mode. You can place blueprints directly on the map, and design them in a way so that they snap to a grid.

Nilaus did a video recently on city block architecture, where you make large, uniform blocks to do one thing and one thing well. I want to give this a try, but I may also copy some of his blueprints to start with.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD80bzqJh1N7lOqn7n0vKTg

He said this style is like service oriented architecture software design.

I’ve used a mod called simple start (I think) which gives you some nerfed construction drones that move slower than late game drones. They get the job done, though.

There are also jump start blueprints on Factorio prints:

https://factorioprints.com/view/-KuGj0uUTKl8VpIau-_l

I haven’t tried this though, and the top comment says it needs updating. Still seems like a pretty decent start.
Oracle and Salesforce hit with GDPR lawsuits over cookie consent
Ahhh. With SSH working you have options. :)

If it happens again (but SSH still works), then to enable general web browsing you can:

1. Set up Squid (a proxy server) on a remote host. eg a VM in Digital Ocean. You may need to ask someone to do this for you, if you don't have a VM you can access remotely already.

2. Configure SSH to proxy traffic from your (desktop) web browser to that remote Squid server

3. Configure your browser (eg Firefox/Chrome) to use the new SSH proxy

It sounds like you're familiar with the Linux or macOS command line, so you shouldn't have much trouble.

I've done exactly this before, and it works reliably. Browsing speed is a bit slower than standard though, but not horrible. :)
20 Examples of Unfortunate Translations in Advertising
As someone who works with WordPress every day, I can see both sides of the issue here.

Could it be easier to set up and run locally? Sure. Could it be easier to customize without knowing any code? Sure. But also, getting a dynamic CMS like WordPress to produce static output for use on GitHub Pages is a sort of "square peg, round hole" situation, and it's not surprising that the author ran into some issues.

For running WordPress locally without mucking around with PHP, MySQL, and such, what you probably want is Local [1], which installs everything you need all in one go, and is quite user-friendly. You can spin up local sites in minutes, install whatever plugins you want, and go to town. (If you host with the company that makes Local, you can even deploy to live from inside the app.)

I haven't used any of the plugins designed to make static pages from WordPress, but my gut read is that they probably aren't going to work quite right unless you A) really know what you're doing with WP, and B) you understand the limitations of your chosen static code generation tool. After all, WordPress is meant to be run in a dynamic environment with PHP, MySQL, and a web server. Shoehorning it into some other way of working might not end well, especially if you are new to WordPress.

Anyway, it looks like the author wound up on SiteGround, which as basic shared hosts go is one of the better ones. :) It'll certainly be easier than running WP locally, generating static files, and deploying those to GitHub Pages.

[1] https://localwp.com/
How much is ‘much lower’? I would love to build a workstation for myself using PowerPC.
Would it run AmigaOS?
Some good points!

I am not a doctor, but I have spent a lot of time in sleep clinics and reading about sleep. I am also quite familiar with the huge number of issues surrounding the relatively recent book "Why We Sleep" which is essentially considered partially-debunked at this point. I feel about that book the way most of us would feel about a book declaring that people who code or are interested in startups are missing opportunities to play more football.

My rhythm seems to be off by two REM cycles eg 1.5hx2, and I actually find 3h pretty easy to manage as it loops around every 7-8 days.

I don't have any trouble falling asleep during the day, because I own a https://nitehood.ca - the discount code is August15 BTW.
https://thaines.com/post/alevels2020

I just read this article, and it was interesting.
Transcripts are really important and they need to be proofed and edited by humans. However, they can be produced efficiently by sending digital audio recordings to a team of fast typists who can work remotely, work concurrently, adjust the playback speed, skip pauses, and pause and replay tricky sections. These days, automated transcription software can further accelerate the process by generating a very rough draft. I don't think stenographers are used to produce court transcripts outside the United States.
I wish I could sleep eight hours but I tend to get up regardless at the same time alarm or not. I do try to enforce an afternoon nap or just eyes closed time.

I know nothing about the viability but like others you just find what works for you. I do know when I don't have enough sleep, it is really easy - I am irritable
Could you ever?
The amount of curtailed energy produced by renewables is like a sad joke in Germany. It's not enough to deploy renewables, you also need to shut down the existing coal plants.
> A healthy news media sector is essential to a well-functioning democracy.

This part at the end is interesting. If this fight goes down that rabbit hole, bearing in mind filter bubbles, Cambridge Analytica etc. it may lead to a discussion worth having
>> The fact that a working system for the limited domains of e.g. customer support or medical diagnosis would be worth a lot of money suggests to me that they must have been tried, but that nothing useful could be built, and we didn't hear about the failed attempts, meaning that those domains (at least) are too big for hand-crafted systems to work.

That's actually a good point and one I've made myself a few times in the past- negative results never see the light of day. So, yes, I agree we can't know for sure that such systems haven't been attempted, despite the certainty with which I assert this in my comment above.

On the other hand, there are some strong hints. First of all, there was an AI winter in the 1980's after which most of the field turned very hard towards statistical techniques and away from the kind of work in SHRDLU. This kind of work became radioactive for many years and it would have been very hard to justify putting a PhD student, or ten, to work trying to even reproduce it, let alone extend it. That's in academia. In the industry, it's clear that nowadays at least companies like the FANGs strongly champion statistical machine learning and anyone proposing spending actual money on such a research program ("Hey, let's go back to the 1960's and start all over again!") would be laughed out of the building. That is, I believe there are strong hints that the political climate in academia and the culture in large companies, has suppressed any attempt to do work of this kind. But that's only my conjecture, so there you have it.

>> It is inaccurate to say that all benchmarks are useless.

Of course. My point is that current benchmarks are useless.

The fact that you find Google translate useful is unrelated to how well Google translate scores in benchmarks, which are not designed to measure user satisfaction but instead are supposed to tell us something about the formal properties of the system. In any case, for translation in particular, it's not controversial that there are no good benchmarks and metrics and many people in NLP will tell you that is the case. In fact, I'm saying this myself because I was told during my Master's, by our NLP tutor who is a researcher in the field. Also see the following article which indcludes a discussion of commonly used metrics in machine translation and the difficulty of evaluating machine translation systems:

https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/state_of_nmt
The bill says Google needs to make available "a list and explanation of the data the digital platform service collects".

This is quite ambiguous if it is just a collection policy or the data itself.
I can see Google being fired up about that but should be something that can be clarified ( there is public consultation going on ) not whined about.
I think you can get Power systems on the cloud here
https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/power-systems-virtual...
As a consultant, I once did a two-day gig at a client site installing some software on a Sun workstation. It was very unsettling when the "restaurant scene" from "When Harry met Sally" started streaming out from the workstation speakers.
If they're in it for the money then better maintenance and support of projects should be easily solved with a few paychecks.
You're literally in the worst of it.
> vegan crap no one is interested in but vegans

And SF has a large populace of vegans like me, who have a choice of dozens of innovative restaurants with mind boggling vegan food, from Michelin quality and expensive to cheap and homely and everything in between, that I literally can’t find in any other city. It’s cool if you don’t like this kind of food but you did ask what kind of fare SF is known for, so it’s not clear what your point is.
That's interesting, so you literally have to add the jar file to the EOF for the MSI?

I know this can be done w/ Cat.

--Wow, so JAR files are read from bottom top so it literally masquerades.

That's interesting.
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Is a car thermometer really placed inside the car? I would've expected it to be placed under the back of the car.
Intel Trust Domain Extensions [pdf]
Is this an official Y Combinator entity?
I’m no fan of ham fisted normalization.... but I think the bigger issue is the fairness aspect of thresholding based on class sizes.

I think it should be possible to create ‘virtual classes’ above the threshold by combining smaller like classes together.

Such a model would be fairly ham fisted.
I'm familiar with the concept of chaining multiple exploits to default different layers of security. That said, for step (2) to work, you need either:

a) A separate vulnerability that provides arbitrary code execution to run your trigger exploit

or

b) A vulnerability that allows you to execute a specific program/command on the target system

If you've got either of those, the ability to run a pre-existing JAR doesn't really increase your capabilities. You've already got at least user-level access. Having a way to distribute a malicious JAR in advance might be useful in some cases, but having a file sitting on disk in advance significantly increases the risk of having your exploit detected before you get to use it.
Show HN: Create a mega product listing that includes all your other listings
Creator is a shareable listing of your product that encapsulates all the other listings of your product. It's tailored for developers who like building stuff.
Interestingly an appreciation of what is meant by "qualia" seems to be correlated with age. I would wager that it is also inversely correlated with scientific qualifications. Imho there is a kind of person that while hugely clever is not necessarily very conscious and curricula (also imho) select for those kinds of people.
So when you say "unconscious scientists unconsciously trying to be consciously smart" I take it literally. I think scientists can only make such claims as "consciousness does not exist" because they are not particularly conscious themselves. Or at least their awareness is, in the flow, as it were, with no meta - no awareness of awareness and hence no consciousness as I think the term is best described.

Oh and I like your interpretation of the article better. Although I'm not convinced I give the author that much credit.
An attack—even an intentional one like a jailbreak—is usually many individual exploits applied simultaneously that each achieve a different step toward the goal of the attack. This MSI thing means a malicious blob of code can hang out on your machine in a supposedly-safe signed file, then something like a waterhole attack will use a browser exploit to trigger that malicious file. Compare to this real-world iOS attack: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
No.

I'm pointing out some differences between a private entity and a goverment, which the parent commenter either ignored, or forgot to mention when comparing said governement with said private entity.
They not saying "this reading show climate change is true", they're saying "climate change (which is an accepted theory in the field) predicts readings like these will become more common".
What do you recommend for revision of the different problems again? Won't that take much longer time?

Sometimes due to disconnect for say a week of preparation it takes much longer time to get back into the groove again.
Yeah. The Google letter insinuates a lot. The ACCC just said "it's not going to be a problem unless Google makes it a problem". No more uncertainty.
One of the problems with attempting to propagate Smalltalk culture is that when your interaction with the machine doesn't resemble interacting with a teleprinter, then a wall of text becomes a poor medium for capturing it.

Not disputing that video brings its own problems.
> is it possible to self learn more about Gene Editing

You could (1) read a basic textbook in genetics (or look at online courses in genetics and molecular biology), (2) read a textbook in genetic engineering, and then (3) read a book in CRISPR. Maybe there could also be some shorter path than reading 3 books.
I meant in the specific sense of trusting the basic humanity of HN, not the general veracity of the internet at large.
> how respected an institution the ACCC is

Maybe we’ve been living in different Australias, but over the last decade the ACCC (like virtually every other public institution) has become yet another mouthpiece for the government.

From their attacks on solar, their constant support of “traditional media” (Murdoch), and their utter ineptitude to actually protect individual consumers, any respect left is there through inertia alone.
Canon USA's stolen files leaked by Maze ransomware gang
It seems there's a surge in ransomware attacks, at least there are more cases in the news. See e.g. Garmin [1] or CWT [2] hacked recently.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24013580
In this case it is pretty obvious what was meant, isn't it?
Pac Heights is still great. So are most of the areas surrounding GG.
One of the films he mentions, Acros 100, was recently re-introduced as Across 100 II. It seems very similar to the original, although is probably made by Ilford under contract.
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Not unreasonable. $500 for the 4-core processor or $800 for the 8 core. Basically what you would have paid for a decent system decades ago, without adjusting for inflation.
There's stuff deposited on top. Depending on the stage, it's not silicon only.
Kubernetes Services simply visually explained
For me, there is a link...

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I think the basic idea could be done for a fraction of the cost. Assuming the island didn't have cars you could have conventional buildings with narrow streets that would be used by snowmobiles in the winter and bicycles in the summer.

Ever been to downtown Montreal? They have all the buildings inter-connected either with tunnels below or skyways above. It all works pretty well in a region with long, cold winters.
For all we know it might even have been Réaumur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Réaumur_scale
Same message is used for the bundled Python 2.7:

`WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.`

Similar message for Ruby, but without the "not recommended" part:

`WARNING: This version of ruby is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
In future versions of macOS the ruby runtime will not be available by
default, and may require you to install an additional package.`
Not yet illegal, agreed.

The old fashioned way was using QPST/QXDM to modify the ESN/IMEI of phones but that was questionable enough. This also includes bluetooth mac address too and other UID's in the baseband. :)
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Margaret Tatcher famously only slept for 4 hours, but it’s said she used to nap in the car whenever she could. I think cultures where they take a nap during the day, such as the siesta in Spain, may be onto something. More offices need to have sleep pods.
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Sure, i agree that many of the non-bitcoin altcoins are pump-and-dump schemes.

Although lots of financial fraud has similar elements, this seems very much not a ponzi scheme (users arent paid with other users investment and not a pyramid scheme (users aren't explicitly encouraged to recruit new people nor do they get an explicit cut of newbies). Pump and dump seems like an appropriate description of what you are describing.

I also don't think that applies to bitcoin, which was the cryptocurrency we were talking about.
"Pay for what you use" isn't a tax. Also, AFAIK the government gets none of this money, but I might be wrong on that.
This runs really slowly, surprising for such a simple game, must be using some super inefficient algorithms for generating the mine placement.
True, I do talk to many vendors related to hardware purchase. But, it usually is about the hardware I want, after I already made up my mind about what fits into our budget and matches our need. IBM is usually not even in consideration because I cant even get a ballpark estimate of what these things practically cost (I can get some $ figures from Googling forums but it is not really of my interest).

To give you an idea, I can log in into a local vendor's website, for example, https://www.atea.dk/eshop/products/?filters=S_sr650
and quickly get an idea of what an SR650 Lenovo rack server would cost me. My configurations would obviously change the cost, which is where I talk to the vendor to get the real costs.
First, Snowden did not have much of a chance to selectively leak documents. He gave basically everything he had to journalists and they've sorted it out.

Second, while many of those actions may be constitutional, citizens should know what their government is capable of and deploying against people. And arguing whether a certain program was constitutional seems pointless when they never get punished.
> A healthy news media sector is essential to a well-functioning democracy.

This feels like a slap in the face. Whoever wrote this would be fully aware that our media sector is anything but healthy, and that our “democracy” flatlined years ago.

I can only imagine that this was written by a committee that was sinking beers and laughing their asses off as they watched this post go live.
The risks of contact-tracing apps
A contact-tracing app could vastly reduce the number of infections, but it entails risks according to analysts...
I fear that because of the asymmetric power/financial balance between the parties involved, such a choice could easily lead to a kind of war, in which the companies will have the upper hand. They will have may more means/resources at their disposal and when it gets ugly (out of the public eye) things could get nasty.

Please, don't get me wrong. On itself I think this whole responsible disclosure culture is bullshit. It wouldn't be if more companies actually treated it more sincerely. But I have seen too many companies abuse responsible disclosure, or simply hide behind bug hunting programs to limit/squash exposure (too many times even without fixing anything), and then burn anyone who doesn't want to play by rules they themselves set.

The problem is, there are far more things than just legal prosecution when this would turn into a clash between companies and security researchers. However, maybe a union or anonymous organization could level that playing field. Problem with that is that many security researchers also want recognition, at the same time as feeling safe (.. something about cake).
Try https://www.integricloud.com/ it's the cloud of Raptor (the power workstation builder)
Show HN: Hack on Notion with TypeScript
He is probably fun at parties and not undermining his colleagues trust at work.
Hitler got 33% of the vote in the last free and fair elections.

But I agree that democratic government doesn't automatically justify everything. Minority and fundamental individual rights are a problem. There are a lot of tricky issues with self referentiality if you think about independence movements for instance.
> seems like it would require another (more serious than this) bug

Yes on your first part; no on the parenthetical. One exploit to let the malicious hanger-on into your computer. Another exploit—maybe in a web page you visit regularly—to trigger it. Compare to this real-world iOS attack: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-d...
I'm afraid its going this way. Belarus will join Russia this year. Trump will get reelected and throw the Baltics to Russia in exchange of the new nuclear detente.

NATO and the EU are useless - NATO depends on the US, EU is toothless and their biggest military power - France is Russian slut.

The only solution would be to show strength NOW - deploy nuclear weapons to the Baltics and deal with every single fifth columnist there in a brutal, public fashion. Of course this will never ever happen. Annexation is matter of time.

I'm moving away from Tallinn next year, so hopefully this year nothing will happen...just in case I have all my money moved out of the country.
The required sample size doesn't depend on population size that much.
The fact that you find my comments -about cooking no less- "infuriating" is a clear signal to end this conversation right now.
Both of you don't know the city.
> The problem is that we keep our brains active late at night and that's the reason why it is hard to get to sleep.

You are correct, however, that's a confounding problem. The (relatively) weak effectiveness of software solutions is due to blocking only a small percentage of blue light from a (relatively) strong light source (assumes short distance to screen, low ambient light at night).

Blue light (and even some green light frequencies) is a hardwired stimulus feeding into your circadian rhythm. Blocking all blue and green frequencies, e.g. with simple welding glasses, is effective in supporting the creation of melatonin.

But again, having enough melatonin in your system is a necessary but not sufficient condition to be able to sleep.
I would want to say that comments should be judged solely on their content, but yes, "redis works for us" is a different message from an account that you know is CTO at some big corp instead of some random one.

Web of trust is inevitable either way. I just hope it won't be owned by any huge company. Most likely it will be practically shared by a few of them, like the Internet or web standards.

After playing some with GPT-3 though I noticed I work a lot of like it though. Unrelated comments about web of trust are a great example.

Also, dude, I see you in almost every comment thread, how do you consume HN? Some clever scripts or lots of tabs and lots of refreshing?