skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any evidence less handwavy than that would be a good start.

There are leaked Chinese government documents:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063

Satellite photos:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/09/ch...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/satellit...

Open source Chinese government documents, such as budgets and construction bids:

https://jamestown.org/program/evidence-for-chinas-political-...

But if that's not good enough, please organize an independent investigation team to go to Xinjiang and find out, and tell me how that goes.
HPE and some other vendors do this, not just Dell.
Truth! Low tech or no tech is much easier to deal with if you are forced to.
This is not stopping any enslavement or forced labor, in China or elsewhere.
Yes, of course if you look for something you will find more of it. But many Black people are in fact not looking for it at all. And yet, it still finds them and it can hurt them because even if the intention is pure, the action can still hurt.

Perhaps you've had someone innocently comment about how nice it is to see a woman in engineering since there are so few? Maybe that doesn't bother you at all. But what if you get that comment constantly, several times a week for you entire career? I suspect it would start to weigh on you and you would become quite exhausted by it. You might even start feeling that you don't belong. Or maybe wonder if your gender is the only thing people notice about you.

Then also imagine that we all wore name tags that identified your career. And now you can't even escape it when you are not at work, you get it at the checkout line too. And from your waiter, etc, etc.
I fail to see why people think that matters.

Any number of tragedies or inconveniences can happen when you have children. If a perfect life where everything goes according to plan is your requirement for having kids then don’t have them.
I remember playing and being amazed with both of the projects you linked when I was a teenager! Fascinating!
D is weird to me. Ive only looked breifly at it, but I liked what I saw. I'm assuming it had some early issues or completely failed to market itself for too long because it seems to see very little use compared to similar languages.
How do you deal with operating system security?
If you wanted to build one at the scale of a PowerWall (5kW/13.5kWh) what kind of height/weight combinations would be required?

By my calculations you would need to raise 40 tons up 3 meters to store 13.5kWh. Definitely not a home storage revolution!

Now, if the entire house was built on a lift....
Very interesting. Thanks for the explanation!
I lost this one when my card got cancelled and they didn't reinstate it after I added my card back, so I have no such incentives unfortunately for them, but I agree having YouTube Premium definitely was kind of worthwhile, but I don't want to feed into Google anymore after what was a perfectly functioning service is now gone. I can only assume it's some licensing related shift so they can focus these efforts on YouTube instead.
> At that level public schools shouldn’t exist as private do a better job by all metrics.

There is no real "that level"; average are misleading without better context. Bill Gates walks into a bar and "the average net worth is 1 billion per person".

> At that level public schools shouldn’t exist as private do a better job by all metrics.

Private schools have the liberty to pick and choose their students. A special needs student that requires extensive care throughout the day will be rejected by a private school, but the public schools have to accommodate the student. Most private enterprises are efficient precisely because they select their customers with a view to minimum cost and maximum revenue. This is fundamentally incompatible with a public teaching system that has to serve everyone.
The article describes the mechanism as programmable fuses; so there is a near-certain chance these are one-time-programmable and can’t be reset. Ever.

(This is fairly normal in cpus. Picture 8 regular fuses. If you read across them, you’ll get 0xff. Now blow the first four fuses and read again. You’ll get 0xf0. Here’s the catch. You can’t “unblow” them. With real fuses, you’d replace them. If they’re inside the cpu, you replace the cpu.)

Fun trivia. The boot loader signing in the raspberry pi works the same way.
The CPU isn't what's compromised - this is protecting against a compromised motherboard
If you are good at communicating, sometimes you do not even need to write a line of code.

Understanding what someone really needs should be a skill taught in CS.
Porque cuando la tiranía es ley, la revolución es orden.
> Chrome 86 Enables the Native File System API by Default

Not only is this not the source title, but this information nowhere in the linked article.

It's true, but the linked article only very indirectly suggests the possibility in that the most recent origin trial ends in Chrome 85.

The Chromium blog post on 86 does indicate this directly: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/09/chrome-86-improved-focus-h...
This was not a micro-aggression. And to discount the existence of real micro-agressions is rather lacking in critical thinking skills.
Fair point, I never thought of that. Thanks for expanding on this!
It really should copy the article:

> AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost
Does this defend against any additional attack surface that wasn't already defended by the UEFI Secure Boot standard?
> This morning I went up and down the stairs at least ten times

Not trying to be arch or disrespectful here, but I view these moments as an opportunity to get a quick cardio work on happening. (I work at home and I've had to make these trips for decades due to handicapped family members.)
At the risk of nitpicking, you only need two leading spaces here.

Of course another two are harmless, they just indent farther than you need.
Discussed later in the video. But this is possible which adds another layer of complexity if one tries to track pulls.
You're right about AS/400 - it is a giant pain for developers in our company. But for the user, it is amazing.

I agree with the rest of the take but you seem to be coming from a developer's standpoint and I am talking about the user side. Developers back then also had access to terminal and knew how to use it. It's just that the entire software industry has grown.

When I was 10 years old, we had to write a turtle program in DOS. Tell me which 10 year olds today know CLI? They're all plastered to their iPads.
I felt that the headline of this article wasn’t well-supported by its content. Almost everyone in the article supports parents and understands how difficult they have it. The only exception was three commenters on Blind, which is notoriously full of trolls. That’s hardly evidence of “growing resentment”. People here on HN seem to agree, if that upvoted comments are indication.

To be honest, I feel this headline is clickbait trafficking on the anxiety felt by many parents.
Should be corrected to "Vendor-Locks", as well.
I'm not as sketched out about this as if it were single socket workstation ryzen/threadripper CPUs. In the market from $1000 to $6000 workstation desktops where enthusiasts and people with specific requirements (or just 10, 15, 20 years of experience building x86-64 PCs themselves) would want to build their own desktop from individual components ordered off Newegg.

I doubt more than a single digit percentage of 'serious' dual socket (64-128+ core) rackmount server customers are going to be buying their own barebones motherboards and CPUs and assembling it themselves. They're going to buy it from a Dell, HP or a Supermicro integrator or similar. If you're buying a $12,000+ server with 128 cores and 512GB to 4TB+ of RAM and some fast NVME storage it's highly unlikely you're putting it together yourself.

Any massive hosting/cloud scale operations that want to DIY their own EPYC systems from pieces will be doing it through a Taiwanese integrator, such as those that supply the ecosystem components for open compute platform server motherboards. And as such they'll also not encounter any technical issues or procurement issues with this. At the point where you have two $3000 CPUs on a motherboard that costs $1200, the full firmware/motherboard/CPU integration and qualification process is very different than putting a $399 ryzen into a $300 board.
If you can use read and write, it's a file.
Er, I should clarify by "endorsing" I mean "endorsing that Facebook should leave up messages saying 'death to all cops,'" not "endorsing 'death to all cops.'"

I think that, in context, ihm's statement can quite easily be read as implying "...so, no, Facebook should not remove 'death to all cops' because it's not hate speech, only 'death to all Jews.'" I am guessing that's not actually what ihm is trying to communicate.
If you have contact with an agent of a foreign power, you're required to report the encounter and what you talked about.

I'm not really sure how agents, or contact, are defined. I think the law is intended to keep IC people honest and forthcoming about foreign attempts to turn people.

(Disclaimer: I have never held a security clearance.)
Is Washington Post lying when they say he's a "vocal proponent of the far-left antifa movement"? [1]

In fact, you appear to be attempting to disprove him in his own words, since he claimed to be "100% ANTIFA", again on Facebook. [2]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/michael-for...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-reinoehl-suspect-portla...
> companies are definitely going to want to sell the the gigantic and growing Chinese market

Tons of companies have had that same dream in the last 40 years, before China gets old in 2050, before China became nationalist in 2018. Companies like KFC, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Nintendo, Home Depot, Mattel, Ebay.
Is it even possible to unlock it with the signing key? Saying it's fused implies it's a one time thing, doesn't it?

I had the same initial reaction though. It seems like something that makes more sense as a jumper or something that can be reset by jumper so physical access becomes the requirement.

The only reason I can think of to do it as described is to kill the secondary market or, even worse, to maintain a lifetime licensing requirement on the system. If the signing keys can expire like signing certificates I expect step 2 will be custom signed firmware via a cloud portal where no license means no signing. I hope I'm wrong, but that's likely the endgame here.

TLDR; If the signature on the BIOS can expire, it's more nefarious than it sounds IMO.
React basic Concepts you should know
I don't but I use vscode for note taking. Chrome is cross platform and widely used so it would be easy for me to develop a standalone web app that works on most of my devices. I can sync the directory containing my data with self hosted next cloud.

There are other one time use cases where I don't want to install a native app. Sqooshy app is one. Maybe I want to make data extraction easier for someone with directory of old clunky pdf files. They don't need to download an app for that. Also Linux is a bit broken with sandboxing right now compared to browser.

I started using this: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
There's nothing inherently safe about injecting stuff into humans. There's nothing inherently crazy about questioning if injecting specific things into people is safe.

Vaccines on the market today are only safe because they've been studied and trialed extensively. Many vaccines, doses, additives, etc have and will continue to be proven to not be safe.

A recent example of an approved vaccine which may have caused deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy
If you dig a well with cross-sectional area A and depth D, the amount of energy you can store with compressed air at 10 MPa is 10AD MJ if A and D are expressed in m^2 and m respectively. [1]

If you drop a steel weight down the same well of cross-section A and height H in the same units the energy stored is 0.08HA(D-H) MJ[2]. Again, H is in meters, and AD > A(D-H), and in order to beat compressed air 0.08H > 10, so your steel weight needs to be 10/0.08 = 125 meters long! That's taller than most of the buildings in downtown San Francisco -- and in order to get any use out of this thing, your hole should be at least twice that deep.

Of course, compressed air has its inefficiencies and complexity, but the feasibility of a metal rod even close to that long seems pretty low to me. Compressed-air caverns use as much as 7.5 MPa, but a purpose-built well could potentially go much higher. Plus you don't have to deal with the damn thing vibrating from Coriolis forces and seismicity.

Now, I know what you're saying -- you're saying, if you're so smart, why don't you do it? -- but there are simply too many huge caverns out there to even think about constructing CAES chambers. There are several GW in service today. And even with that huge resource people wonder if batteries won't simply corner the market. Storage is getting here painfully slow, it seems like, but the competition is very fierce.

1: True isothermal decompression cycles are impossible, so of course I'm approximating by using the ideal gas law.

2: (8000 kg/m^3)(10 m/s^2)/(mega = 1000000) = 0.08
So much BS above.

> Back before the web was prominent, software had to be distributed via physical media, usually floppies and later CDs.

This is blatantly false. Home users could digitally obtain software via online services or BBSes, businesses with minis or mainframes could obtain software from their vendor or reseller via modem, and universities could trade software via ftp. All these sources could (and did) cross-pollinate.
Charlie Reese was our county commissioner (lifetimes ago) and afterward he wrote a local column for years (eventually syndicated by King).

That man went after everyone with equal ferocity; no favorites. He often tore apart pols I supported & when he did, I paid attention.

I've never instinctively trusted another journalist, like I did him.
You don't think it is valuable to have in-person meetings, or impromtu conversations with people on other teams? Maybe being onsite isn't worth the commute, but to say it has no benefit is absurd.
A financier works to efficiently allocate resources in the economy, which is very valuable.
Iirc it was implemented with a pretty seamless API at the undocumented ntdll layer, which let you set a current transaction on a handle then do API calls as usual.

The issue is that while NT mostly reasons about files as handles, Win32 deals primarily with the name for many operations. So they duplicated every api that took a filename.
I think that’s the chicken & egg. If the motherboard was responsible for this, you’re trusting the firmware to validate itself. So this moves the validation a level lower.

It’s an interesting problem. The solution is valid, but it’s unfortunately permanent.
You are mixing up the far right with the right-liberal part of the Liberal faction.

We live in a chimeric system and it confuses nearly everybody in it. There are always two factions working against a third.

I think political partisans are victims - they have been given a bad political map. Spectrum, compasses - all ideas given credibility by their political competitors. You should ask yourself who benefits from these models. It isn't the left or right. It's a third faction hiding in the blindspot of the other two factions.

I have to admit it's very clever and it took me a long time to realize what was going on. I have to thank outsider science fiction author Liu Cixin who vividly bought the topic to life with his Straussian description of our political order in the Three Body Problem.

For most of the population it's the perfect political Venus Fly Trap and probably the explanation for why the West has dominated the world for centuries.
> private do a better job by all metrics.

Not much, if at all, when you correct for student body makeup. Private schools do a good job of selecting the students that would do better anyway.
I just have a list of sites I want blocked in /etc/hosts , just rerouted each entry to local host:

www.reddit.com 127.0.0.1
Thanks for that! I set out to make a simple solution to a real problem that I had experienced on a lot of web development projects. I hope it's useful to others as well.

I looked around for a long time for a similar tool -- open source or otherwise -- and I never found something exactly like what I had in my head. So I decided to built it myself.

I'd be very interested in hear about your "other different use-case" ... I'm very open to making enhancements and adding new features driven by specific user's needs. If you'd like to chat about what you're trying to build, please drop me a line and maybe we can make something happen!
About once a week I get a note from another recruiter offering, for C++ coding, north of a half $mil per annum from a certain hedge fund with a reputation for high turnover.

And of course we all get our monthly calls from Google recruitment contractors to come code Google's special subset of C++. Google doesn't offer a half $mil to everyone, but remarkably many do get it. I expect a few even get it for coding Haskell, although one may doubt that is what the req they were hired on called for.
My jaw hit my lap in the theater when I saw that shot. To this day, the DVD for Contact is my favorite with the amount of BTS included. Actually, it was the first DVD I ever purchased just hoping there would be something interesting.
PayPal blocks transactions that include the word “tardigrade”
Thanks for your concern. I'm pretty sure it's just regular parent stuff vs regular office job though.
Only slightly on topic, but the title reminded my of a "music video" by a band called Brightly for their song Preflight Nerves[0]. It pulls live tweets that contain the lyrics of the song in time with the song. Pretty neat

[0]: http://tweetflight.wearebrightly.com/
Evolution doesn’t try and say why - it says how. Yes, I’ll grant that. I believe it implies the why though as a biological organism. It’s not everything or even anything in the grand scheme. However it is the purpose since our biology is removed from our sense of self or humanity in the end. We, like plants, biologically exist to reproduce and carry on.

The Sun analogy doesn’t make sense. You are describing the existence of an object/being in terms of existence and death. This is more analogous to an individual than a biological _system_.

Indeed a star can’t reproduce as far as we/I know. However I’d argue a star that contributes to life, as the Sun does, is far more meaningful than one that does not. My evidence is me. There is no one to speak for the stars that don’t contribute to life.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412810

Also, editorialized title.
If they’re setting OTP on the die, all AMD could offer would be a warranty replacement at best. There’s no etching new fuses into a packaged die.
>a nightmare for developers of portable applications.

man 2 fstat.
Not enough people read the whole thing before downvoting. Brilliant. I'm sure you're in talks with SoftBank about an acquisition?
The arson and vandalism has been caused by right wing white nationalists.

edit: downvote all you want, racists, it’s true.
Android 11 officially debuts with a focus on usability more than new features
I was refuting the claim that the Muslim were the only ones who did large scale massacres. You believe in a queer and ideology warped history history if you are ready to call Mongols tolerant and Islamic rulers (in particular, Akbar) not.

With massacre at that scale what difference does it make to those killed whether they were killed for religion or something else. Mongols killed those who did not accept Mongol rule.
Darn, I was hoping the weekly review of high profile legal cases was real.

I'd pay $5/month.
So many questions...

Did you order 5 piano stools? I have 2 grand pianos, a clavichord, and about 30 electronic keyboards and I still only have 3 piano seats (1 bench, 1 stool, 1 drum throne). So now I have to know what you used those 5 stools for ;)

Second... how long did it take you to find 20 piano stool recipients? And how did you get the message across? Every time I try something like that I get treated like a scam artist and lose interest in helping.
A lot of the useful "how-to" content on youtube is created by people wanting to make a buck from creating the videos.
The XBox 360 used the same technique for patches to keep you from downgrading the system.
Good books like Herman Hesse's.

Nutribullet.

Aeropress.

Quality running shoes.
Yes, but at some threshold wouldn’t this indicate a problem?

103F+ fevers are relatively rare from typical vaccines, and from my understanding a lot of the damage from COVID is immune response related.

mRNA vaccines and our immune responses to these are uncharted territory, so I’m not sure how much we can reason by analogy from other vaccines vs. first principles.
And this is why trials must be allowed to run their course, not use vaccines as political propaganda, like what the Russian gangster and the orange clown are doing for their own political gains.
All they have to do with this API now is just save their own fingerprints to somewhere the user can write to and they can find later. Evercookies that can survive browser reinstalls, and anything short of a meticulous search through everything in your home directory.
https://certisfy.com

uses plain PKI certificates to solve identity and information verification in general.
Local news seems to be inherently hard to do well. Small towns tend to have fewer resources and "everyone knows everyone," so you don't want to be controversial because if you are, you are stepping on the toes of people you actually know and/or people who can directly impact your life in some way.

People with a lot of talent tend to work for bigger publications because they pay better, so local organizations are often left with people who aren't all that good (edit: implicitly: This fact probably undermines credibility/reputation for local papers).

This is a problem for small towns for any serious profession, not just journalism. Small towns have trouble attracting good talent for any kind of job requiring "professional" skills because those same people can got to a larger city, apply to the same kind of job and get a better paycheck while living someplace most people typically feel is more desirable than a small town.

I sometimes wonder how to address such problems because I think this overall trend causes other problems that I think are very serious, but I don't know where to begin.
WhatsApp Business Vs Facebook Business: What you need to know
Which app is it?
The success of democracy is not that it allows 2 rabbits to convince 3 foxes to eat vegetables, but merely that it convinces 2 foxes to limit themselves to eating vegetables based on the votes of 3 rabbits.

To achieve the result that you're hoping democracy will provide, it is perhaps better to rely on the principle of Freedom of Speech / Expression.
It would be an honor to write a gamefaq. I'm not a creative individual. I'm never going to write a novel or a foundational technical work. If there was a game I knew very well that didn't already have a comprehensive guide, though? I could create something that would be referenced for decades.
I wonder if one will do 4K and the other is 1080p limited. Seems like 4K one might be a too big of a power bump so maybe 2k with upscaling
Palm tried what you said.

Now Palm is dead.
Tested this myself by sending some money to a friend with a note reading "tardigrade," and was told the payment is "pending."

> As part of our security measures, we review certain payments more closely to ensure our platform is being used properly and to minimize the potential risk for us and our customers. One of the payments that you sent is currently being reviewed. We are working to resolve this matter as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.