skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, there's hardly anything outside GFW that an average Chinese would want, local alternatives often are feature rich and considered "more advanced", outside news are dismissed as "obscenely fake and hostile".

In the few Chinese that do pay for VPNs, most women use it to access Instagram for celebrities, most men for porn on Twitter.
You can enable the search bar, Ctrl-k focuses on it.

- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-search-bar-firefox-...
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This is in line with how other countries operate to track non-citizens within their borders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries_applying_biometrics
Only 65% of the value, and tbh, the R&D is in China, and most of the data collection that mi does benefits China much more than India. Hard to call it a phone "By India For India."
The "reliable source" here is the German Government. It has confirmed that, yes, Navalny was poisoned, and yes, he was poisoned with a hard to obtain poison that has been used in the past by the Russian government.

This does seem to reduce the likelihood that Navalny wasn't poisoned, or that he was poisoned by someone unconnected to the government. MattGaiser's argument is that the implied threat is the goal, which is helped by confirmation of the above.
> producing a unique single-cell protein out of thin air

Who writes these press releases? "single-cell protein" really?!?
Impressive. Looking forward to the d-heap article.
Okay, but you can't extrapolate homicide rate to find the rate of e.g. drug use.

This is a complicated issue with many interwoven contributing factors. There's no one magic figure you can point to that explains or disproves everything.
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Sympy is for solving an original solution. handcalcs is for plugging numbers into formulas. Next major milestone is integrating sympy with handcalcs so it is easy to transition from the sympy steps to the calculation steps.
You're insinuating that the German government is lying? Or that they're not a reliable source?
They stress that the TSA doesn't have the authority, not simply because of COVID. Eg, "we believe that in the absence of OMB arrproval [sic], assignment of an OMB Control Number, and a valid PRA notice including that OMB Control Number, the pRA provides an absolute defense against any sanctions for declining to have data from an ID card or passport collected by the TSA."

The site links to an article of Form 415, which points out that the TSA has not had OMB approval for that form for 12 years, so "sooner" and "changing this system" are both long time scales.
It looks like all the replies so far disagree, so I want to let you know you are not alone. I consider a lot of different languages a form of fragmentation.

To extend a naive view, I think it would be ideal if everyone can choose the languages they want to learn and use. This would make it a bit more like programming languages. There is concentration at the top if you want efficiency of communication, but also a lot of choices to explore. Of course this wouldn't work so well with human languages, since you need something to communicate with people around you. There is a little bit more choice if you decide to learn a second language or more.

By the way, some of this is already happening with globalization. I'd expect one's first language to be whatever used where they are raised. Their second language, if they choose to pick it up, is likely to be one of the popular ones. And the third on so on would be whatever interests them.

On a tangent, there is a Freakonomics podcast "Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?" that covers some of this. The distinctive conclusion I remember from it is, it's only worth it if the foreign language is English. I guess now or soon it could be Chinese, who knows.
Is it actually effective at stopping any kind of problem? Otherwise it's equivalent to burning cash in a barrel—the essence of Big Government.

I can't think a single moment of when I've been grateful for the existence of the TSA. It's a giant jobs program. I'd rather pay them to do something for society rather than be a drain on it.
And that billionaire just happens to have access to a Russian Military Chemical Weapon?
There is also cancellation.
This looks more like an implementation flaw than being easy to abuse. The API is still useful after it is patched.
I wasn't clear, I didn't mean to imply that MacOS is technically better than Windows, just that Windows is by far the most popular OS and was trying to cut off any rebuttal boiling down to "but I use a Mac."
> Terrorists prefer simpler approaches.

that is a very dangerous assumption to make.
I believe it might come from the fact that this process of going from high level programming language to hardware is called "high level synthesis". I think the "X" is meant to make it more generic, i.e. X level synthesis.
But it doesn't do the calculation for you. handcalcs is about performing calculations and having it automatically show your work.
Literally incorrect. You can't verify the jwt prior to reading the header, because you don't know which of the advertised keys was used to sign the jwt.

Check out e.g. auth0's doc. https://auth0.com/docs/tokens/json-web-tokens/validate-json-...
> Ok and does that measurably reduce safety? You can get practically everyone's details from marketing companies - the direct increased risk from this seems like it's zero to negligible.

Not everybody. Lots of us go to great lengths to preserve our privacy when engaging in commercial transactions. You can pay cash, use a cover name, only have things shipped to your postbox/office, or only engage with vendors who have adequate security and privacy practices.

You can't fly without engaging with the TSA. They're the only game in town.

Additionally, many people in society are especially vulnerable, such as labor or political organizers, investigative journalists, and public officials. Having their home addresses leaked, or their family members' home addresses leaked, poses a direct threat to life and safety.

You can opt out of data brokers, or spyware smartphone apps, or use a cover name when you order a delivery sandwich or pizza to the building you sleep in. You can't use a cover name or opt out of the TSA.
Agreed. Self-study is the most important part in going to school and doing things yourself leads to it. Lots of intelligence self starters here on HN claiming homework is not essential because they were able to absorb the material some other way.

That's like saying you're a great natural basketball player and practice should be abolished.
Not real threat, huh?

There is at least "Smart vote" (aka умное голосование) initiative, that helped to beat government on some regional elections earlier.

Oh, and it's big election day in less than two weeks, so there is definetely a motivation for poisoning.
Not if your objective is to send a public message.

Putin isn't afraid of the foreign response. He's afraid of domestic enemies gaining enough confidence to attempt a coup. Domestic enemies are the sole threat to Putin. He wants them terrified; he wants them to understand that he will kill them as necessary. Putin knows very well the first rule of being a dictator (which Lukashenko has forgotten): if you want to be dictator you're going to have to kill people, and if you want to remain dictator, you're going to have to keep killing people so long as you want to retain that position.

If you're Putin, ideally Navalny lives and is grotesquely destroyed, broken, by the poison; an example for all that would challenge his power. It says: I can do this to anyone in Russia at any time, I don't need to be very subtle about it beyond minimum plausible deniability, and there is nothing the world can do to stop me.
You don't need a VPN here in India. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 or DNS over https is enough.
Bad actors man, they spoil it for everyone. We can push through but ultimately bad stories will pile up.

Example American right to keep guns. Its the best thing about America, but bad incidents have turned the public against it.
100% agree. We're big fans of CloudCustodian and use it ourselves. However, it can be tough for some org to get approval with using open source tools.
IMO, GPG is simply not a good tool and it should be replaced.

Others have said it better than I can. See e.g. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Because many users would rather not learn how to use 12 different cli commands. Many software dev can't even be bothered to learn how to copy/paste text content in the terminal or vim that spans longer than the screen.

A Web page makes things simpler, everyone has a browser. I built an internal web tool, replicated what the ones found on the Internet do, and developers in my organisation are using it daily.
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Astounding levels of Pro-Putin astroturfing in this thread...
Tupac is alive in Dominican Republic is a conspiracy theory.

I don't have Novichok in my fridge, only Russian secret services can get hold of it so maybe, just maybe we can wonder...
Not my reliable source, but the Government of Germany.
I was thinking something very similar to this just reading the headline.

We don't really have monoculture of Unix-like OSs in the strictest sense. It's true that a lot of people here will assume any server is Linux. But a lot of people reading are also using a Mac as a client OS.

I myself use both FreeBSD and OpenBSD a lot [typing this on FreeBSD]. Just want to mention here that those are totally viable OSs. I believe many people, including here, do a disservice when they dismiss them.
> "A possible fix is to allow custom deny reasons but large changes like this to any already extremely large and entangled system like IAM is unlikely."

This would allow an attack to enumerate permissions by seeing what's denied.

Generic statements aren't a bug, they're a feature.
This was an interesting article. It sometimes pays to leverage an old experience and integrate it into a present one.

The article below talks about a similar concept albeit from a business perspective https://leveragethoughts.substack.com/p/originality-is-not-t...
PUBG was raking in the cash in India. I know quite a few people who snuck in games in breaks, and nearly every delivery guy I saw waiting around restaurants and stores was playing PUBG. PUBG mobile streams on YouTube were massive. IMO this is probably more about the economics, given we have no way of verifying whether or not PUBG was actually stealing any data.
In theory, yes. In theory you can often fix a slow web app without rewriting it, too. But in practice if you have a large team, your rewrite is statistically extremely unlikely to succeed in improving performance meaningfully or even at all.
Honestly the only reason I would consider this a big deal is the warrantless addition of my biometric data to a federal database in order to exercise freedom of movement.

I don't care if they want to compare my passport photo with my face, it doesn't offend my privacy sensors to verify that someone coming into the country at least looks like the photo on their passport.

Making a database of everyone's face, fingerprints, DNA, that kind of thing is the "big deal" part to me. Especially consider that now they think they can just make an image of your phone every time you cross the border and store it for... what was it, 70 years or some similarly absurd timeframe? Or "only" 20 years if you are NOT suspected of any crime. Yeah, 20 years if they can't make up a reason to keep it longer. Minimum. 20 years.

You know, way more time than it would take for any current disk encryption to be broken and way more time than it would take for anyone to reasonably expect the database to remain unhacked? In 20 years quantum computers will be readily available.

But my objections are to the invasion of privacy and collection of personal data that they don't have a right to. This particular argument against is just yet another reason.
What party is navalny a member of? How many seats do they have?
I read the underlying article (https://elifesciences.org/articles/59177) and was unable to find any evidence of that. In fact the paper doesn't mention anything about SUmmit or details on the computations :(

There certainly wasn't any "heavy biochemical calculations"; this work is entirely comparative genomics, so just operating on DNA strings.

I see this fluff article https://www.ornl.gov/blog/genomics-code-exceeds-exaops-summi... and there may be more detail here: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/presentations/april2019/Joubert... which shows near-linear performance they ascribe to "Made possible by aggressive communication overlap and low-congestion Mellanox Infiniband fat tree network with
adaptive routing"

So there may actually be an HPC/supercomputer story in there, but I'm having trouble figuring out what they did in this most recent work.
If they can see it through then that's a pretty good development. But there is more to QnX than just 'realtime' and 'microkernel', their whole philosophy about how a cluster of machines should work, the services location and so on is very well thought out. I'd be happier if Redox took some more lessons from Erlang and QnX on board than to do a re-invention. We have a lot of knowledge about systems like that lying around and re-inventing the wheel is fun but also ultimately will lead to having to re-learn those lessons the hard way.
I love this. I did something similar with using Java to build an RTL:

https://github.com/mmastrac/oblivious-cpu/blob/master/hidecp...

I was thinking about turning it into a full language at some point, but they beat me to it (and I love the Rust syntax!).
This topic is much broader than just online JSON tools. There are all kinds of converters, transformers, and linting tools available online for many languages and frameworks that you shouldn't be sending your private code to.

I disagree with the author on always running it locally for yourself. If a service is useful enough, you should set it up internally so your team has a sandbox to use it. Spread the knowledge instead of hoarding it. Compiler Explorer is an example here.
They cite their sources! Many of the points they make are based on case studies, and some appear to be misinterpreted. But importantly, they cite their sources so we actually look at the science, and as such are a shining example of what good science journalism looks like.

That said, I think they accidentally omitted a couple words or edited something in a way that it no longer makes sense:

> According to some reports, as many as 7 percent of deaths from COVID-19 may result from myocarditis. (Others feel that estimate is too high.) The arrhythmia that sometimes accompanies it is also worrisome, and researchers have found that to be fairly common among COVID-19 patients. In J.N.’s case, he noticed his heart racing on several occasions into the 130 beats per minute range. And while the prevalence of this in virus patients is not known exactly, a study found that ventricular arrhythmias occurred in 78 percent of patients without COVID-19, with up to 30 percent of them experiencing serious arrhythmias 27 months later.

I think that latter sentence was based on "Peretto et al32 reported in a recent study that 78.7% of myocarditis patients exhibited some form of ventricular arrhythmia" from Siripanthong et al[1]. "78% of patients with myocarditis present with arrhythmias" makes a lot more sense than "78% of patients without COVID-19 experience arrhythmias".

Still, I think it's important to note, once more, that this is science journalism that actually cites and links to its sources, and as such should be encouraged.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7199677/#bib32 -- yes they're citing a researcher citing something else, but the Peretto et al study appears not to be available without a paywall so that's understandable
> a mental shock for many teenagers when they either enter college

The typical live-in-a-dorm college experience is not so much a mental shock as is about putting off adult life for another four years, while you party.

And, while older (30+) students do exist, most of them don't live in dorms (And those that do, don't live with all the 18-20 year olds.) They will be, at best on the distant periphery of your peer group.

For most people, college does not solve this problem.
Who said 100% of all future Supernova detection work will only be done by algorithms?
The Eddington limit constrains the absorption rate of a black hole, but through mergers there's no theoretical upper limit.
> Russians apparently have no appetite for such an uprising today
>

Many Russians would disagree with you [1]. And would you have appetite if you would be treated like the protesters are treated in Russia?

[1]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-49220117
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Exactly! Most commenters piling on the idea clearly don’t know about cpu shares and how they are used in container runtimes.
It mentioned that the groups were closed. It also showed how the documents were labeled as internal sensitive information.

Sure the data no doubt had more than one purpose, but if all they were concerned about were bugs in the platform they could easily have a bug reporting box like thousands of other software platforms. It’s not as if a company like Amazon can’t figure out how to improve a service without religiously monitoring a closed fb group.

Combined with the job posting for analysts to stop labor organizing/protests I think their ultimate motivation is pretty clear.
I dont think I do though. Video game-addicted teens dont constitute 'most' of the Indian population.
Wait what? Were you guys scared of bombs? Or apprehensive about invasion and economic strife?
Computers better be familiar with that story and with what happens next.
I'm curious at what point an organism is considered to be capable of thought. From a mechanistic standpoint, it seems like the goal-seeking behavior of a simple organism could be modeled as a gradient ascent toward a local optima. But even complex organisms are still seeking certain conditions to maximize their ability to survive and reproduce. Is the existence of a brain enough for a creature to be considered capable of thought? How complex does an organism have to be before we no longer think of it as being a biological "machine"?

Or do we simply fall into the trap the GP described, where once something is complex enough that we don't understand what is going on from a purely mechanical perspective we consider it close enough to human to empathize with it?
I didn't know that. This was very helpful. Been here for a while too (a few years passive read prior to making an account).
Wait but what if I’m eating oyakodon with some crumbled bacon on top?

/kidding, I know this is an absurd stretch of the terms, appreciate all the explanations.
I looked through the tutorial video, and it doesn't seem very simple... thought Shopify would have a plugin system where everything would be wired up without you having to edit templates and code.
I find that completely unrealistic...

It will almost certainly be found on an unsecured S3 bucket
The right to keep guns is the best thing about America? You and I live in very different Americas, there are a lot of great things about this country and I'm not sure I agree that gun ownership ranks towards the top.

Edit: Removing the politically charged statement, though I do think it makes this a less substantial comment.
Now that I could afford one, they are no longer made ;-)

Never found one without missing keys (or cracks, rust, fire damage...) on Ebay.

And, as far as my retrocomputing needs go, I chose to live on the wrong side of the Atlantic.
But it's notifications still get through via google play services. No idea why they would allow that.
> Ads in default apps, user data collection and selling the said collected data.

That's almost everyone. Yesterday, I opened a brand new budget samsung phone. Despite not logging in anything and declining every box I could, it was automatically filled with invasive apps. It came with made in India sticker.

At least with xiaomi, I can flash it with a custom rom and remove the bloatware. Many alternatives lock down their phone.

The other phones that I would trust are expensive and out of reach for many Indians such as the pixel (their last device was banned in India).
You're talking about the ecosystem in 2020, after the market is mature.

Facebook was blocked by China in 2009. WeChat wasn't even started till 2011.
The article doesn't simply say they used a supercomputer. It says they used Oak Ridge's Summit supercomputer, the second fastest in the world. Unless 98% of all bioinformatics done on a top 2 supercomputer, your point fails.
The website itself (papersplease.org) is dedicated to ending identification at airports
Yeah, all I'm saying is that pretending school is a purely education institution is awkward at best.

It's better if school policy can be discussed admitting it has two main purposes.
> This is not related to any nationalism.

> Its the response of a sovereign nation in order to secure the data of its citizens which.

That's... contradictory?
> Example American right to keep guns. Its the best thing about America, but bad incidents have turned the public against it.

It's not a few incidents that have turned us against it, it's an unending stream of bad incidents. And I say this as someone who likes guns.

(Also, correction, the best thing about America is the national parks).
What happened in the last ten years?
well, it's Russia. USA feared that generals could sell nukes a while ago, but I sincerely doubt that any oligarch would do this without Putin's approval. Too high profile. And if Putin approved this (one way or another) there's no need for oligarchs to get involved.

So it's not an oligarch thing but reaches the highest levels of Russian government
Essentially you're spinning waiting for the event that you know must come. Your latency will be on the order of a few clock cycles. Whereas if you use interrupts you are always at least a state-save and state-restore underway before you can service the next event, and likely a lot more than that.

The difference is real time control of stepper motors with crazy speeds when microstepping at 300K steps / second or more interpolating across 5 axis vs moving them at a snails pace of maybe 10K steps / second (on really nice and otherwise idle hardware, miss a single step and your goose is cooked, now you have a cumulative error).
i guess that provision must have been small consolation to folks facing the downside of gentrification in disadvantaged neighborhoods. it doesn't seem to address the potential abuse of evictions to overcome the implied (but not explicit) restriction on ushering out the disadvantaged.
Verilog for codemonkeys
Why? It’s likely the reason why we have seen terrorist attacks where people drive into crowds of people. Cars and trucks is everywhere, its easily accessible.
I would argue that the other way around is the dangerous assumption, that people will NOT use the easiest accessible means to hurt other people.
Retrocomputing is a pain if you aren't looking at the most popular home computers. There are a few machines I'd love to get my hands on, but I've never seen one for sale.
Judging by the web.dev page this seems to be pretty well done though. Permissions are only granted to a subset of files and new sessions will need to ask for permission again.

LocalStorage is okay but a user might not be aware when LocalStorage is cleared (f.ex. they might accidentally clear it when deleting cookies). Cloud Storage might not be in the user's interest in terms of privacy. You kinda have to add some export/import functionality on top in both cases.