skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People also sometimes accidentally paste passwords from a password manager into their shell and they end up in their shell history. This can easily happen if you are meaning to paste it into some kind of interactive command such as ssh or su and the command doesn't execute the way you expected.

That doesn't seem to be case from the article:

> The entire process took about eight seconds. And then he did what he had always done since he first started programming computers: he deleted his bash history. To access the computer he was required to type his password. If he didn’t delete his bash history, his password would be there to see, for anyone who had access to the system.

It seems that deleting his bash history was something _routine_ that he did every time, not some one-off thing to fix an occasional mistake.
I agree with the general sentiment here, but ARM is not exactly Snow White. It's an open secret that ARM was (and still is) selling the CPU design at a discount if you integrated their Mali (GPU). This isn't relevant to Nvidia today, but it was when they were in the mobile GPU space. Also this caused obvious problems for IMGtec and other smaller GPU players like Vivante.
Fair enough. I have no complaints with that scenario.

If someone can cook up a way to deliver remote higher education of complex subjects in an interactive environment with dynamic, real-time feedback in a way that is comparable to in-person education in fields other than software, for your average person of average motivation, with no negative impacts on socialization cheaper than $1,600/year, I really can't argue with that.

Whoever figures out a mechanism for this, they will make a whole wheelbarrow full of cash, and I would be the first to sign up for that program.
That doesn't seem to be case from the article:

> The entire process took about eight seconds. And then he did what he had always done since he first started programming computers: he deleted his bash history. To access the computer he was required to type his password. If he didn’t delete his bash history, his password would be there to see, for anyone who had access to the system.

It seems that deleting his bash history was something _routine_ that he did every time, not some one-off thing to fix an occasional mistake.
How GPS/Galileo jamming and spoofing work and how cryptography might help
Being a Team Lead
From an outsider perspective, sure. But don't you have an inner mental world? I don't understand if you are conscious why you think a copy of your consciousness that you have no access to would offer you anything, or in any way be "you." There could be 5000 copies of you a block away and you'd have no idea. In a sense, aren't "you" the passenger "on" the Ship of Theseus? Whatever "you" is, you can trace the path of the ship across time from beginning to the end, and "you" have only access to the scope of your instance of consciousness.
Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Laboratory Modification
I was thinking Google PNaCl, Google's LLVM-based IR for Chrome, which supported C and C++. [0] True to form, it's now deprecated.

Of course, neither PNaCl nor IBM's ILC really speak to whether it would break 'normal' applications to switch to an IR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client#Overview
well they are basing it on the constitution, which lists no specific power for the federal govt to be involved in education.
> because as cool as plants and fungi are, you don't see any of them doing anything that one can imagine leading to intelligence in any form that we'd recognise.

Reminds me of a documentary I once watched, watching a timelapse of a vine growing upwards. It grows spiraling, and it looks like it is "looking" for where the walls are, adjusting its trajectory whenever it touches a wall.

It's fascinating, and for me it definitely does have some quality of "intelligence" to it.
There've been a lot of flops, and that's one of them.
Factory Arrow Functions in JavaScript
It was mentioned on my Nextdoor feed, so it has clearly reached even the tech novices :)

I haven't watched it myself yet, but I'm excited that it's getting such reach.
I’m still looking for intelligent life on THIS planet!
>about $150,000 in the game in just two years.

Probably still cheaper than two years of mental health care for two people in US.
We wouldn't be. The countries that control the coronavirus with shutdowns have had to continually impose new shutdowns as cases arise. I'm not saying policy doesn't matter, but I don't think any country is or could have been out of the mess right now.
Had to truncate the title. Figured the twitter post where the author posted the link to their paper would be an interesting link to share.

Edit: direct link to the article: https://zenodo.org/record/4028830
>There are large categories of products, this one included, where there are ZERO remaining US suppliers.

I don't know very well how patents and intellectual property protection work... But, if there are no suppliers of such a product in the United States (assuming your previous argument as true), then what product is being pirated? if there is none (worth the redundancy),
to my understanding, there has to be a vendor whose product is being counterfeited within the united states for it to be taken as an infringement of intellectual property.

Other than that, you were not entitled to a trial? They just confiscated everything and there it ended?
That's not what conflict minerals means. That term means what it says: that the minerals come from a (civil) war zone where people are killing each other over the right to extract them. That extraction may well also include slavery in some places, but it's not exactly the same thing.
The ocean is host to a very wide number of creatures and bacteria, some live in arctic cold waters, others on volcanic vents, and every range in between. There's a good saying for this, roughly translated, that nature doesn't love an empty spot — if one type of plant or bacteria won't live in an area, someone else will quickly settle in.
The spanish Flu killed about 600k Americans. We're on target to hit 400k+ by January. So, it's a safe bet we'll beat the Spanish Flu by next spring.

These are people who didn't need to die, who wouldn't have died for another reason. Do you really place such a low price tag on people's lives? What if it were your life, would you gladly sacrifice it?
Something being established is not a grand argument for it's usage. The reasons it got established are relavent, and if you feel the end result of said establishment is obtuse or inane, why would you use it?

That's not to say Go's decisions to toss some established practices are "wise" or "sagely", just that broad acceptance is not a criteria they seemed concerned with. Which is fine.

>they think they know better.

It's safe to say Rob Pike is not clueless or without experience in unix tooling. You should listen to some of his experiences and thoughts with designing Go [0]. I don't always agree with him, [but it's very baseless to suggest he makes decisions on the grounds that they were his, not they have merrit.]

Edit to clarify: [He makes decisions on merrit over authority]

[0]: https://changelog.com/gotime/100
You can use mbasic.thissite.com and it lets you use chat features from mobile browsers.
If you have a Friend that is good in electronic he can have a look into your PSU...they have Capacitors too (bulging), but the PSU is really NOT a playground..you don't want to light your house on fire.
Your described experience is so wildly different and long tail uncommon from the hundreds of other ex-Google SWE colleagues I’ve had over the years that we unfortunately just have to exclude it as extremely unrepresentative.
An HVAC system above ground would generate far more heat. The advantage of sinking the data center would appear to be that it can function with passive cooling from the surrounding water only, no HVAC. This means less electricity consumption (meaning less energy generation required, and fewer resulting greenhouse gasses). And HVAC systems create far more waste heat than they do cooling, so this passive cooling will just be moving the source heat to the water, not dumping extra waste heat as well.

Overall an underwater data center should generate far less heat overall than an aboveground one.
the impact was pretty minimal

We used to say that about plastics in the ocean. And landfills. And light pollution. And noise pollution. And space junk. And on and on and on.

Heck, not that many decades ago there were responsible people who thought that air pollution was no big deal because there's plenty of air, and it's just fine if California allows rich car collectors to keep buying leaded gasoline long after other states outlawed it. The impact is "minimal."
The short answer is yes, the long answer is "it depends on your local electricity generation but probably still yes." There are some places in the world where gas wins out because they burn coal to produce electricity but it's rare.
This is an interesting story, but unfortunately the article is a lengthy advertisement for a larger program that does not appear to be available in text form:

> To hear how Martin returned to life, listen to Invisibilia, NPR's newest program. The program debuts this weekend on many public radio stations, and the podcast is available for download at NPR.org and on iTunes.

Edit, because this is still floating near the top: It's an older article, and has been released in text transcript form after all:

https://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/375928581/locked-man
>Still, John Carpenter, an ALMA observatory scientist, is skeptical that the phosphine observations themselves are real. The signal is faint, and the team needed to perform an extensive amount of processing to pull it from the data returned by the telescopes. That processing, he says, may have returned an artificial signal at the same frequency as phosphine. He also notes that the standard for remote molecular identification involves detecting multiple fingerprints for the same molecule, which show up at different frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. That’s something that the team has not yet done with phosphine.

>“They took the right steps to verify the signal, but I’m still not convinced that this is real,” Carpenter says. “If it’s real, it’s a very cool result, but it needs follow-up to make it really convincing.”

>Sousa-Silva agrees that the team needs to confirm the phosphine detection by finding additional fingerprints at other wavelengths. She and her colleagues had planned such observations using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a plane-mounted telescope, and with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii. But COVID-19 got in the way, and the team’s attempts have been put on hold.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/09/possible-...
Yes. But no one sent me any cassette cases. If you have a stock of them, I could certainly knock something up.
Also clashes with this existing q:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from...
Algorithms are changing what we read online
I've got a Rift, and that will be my last Oculus purchase unfortunately (unless they divorce from Facebook). Love the product, hate that the rug was pulled out and I will soon need to be tethered to Facebook to use it. I should not have to get the manufacturers permission every time I use a product I bought.
I guess the impact would be much less than that from underwater volcanoes and fissure vents that exist already.
Ask HN: Is there Any app which collects all the interesting articles to read?
Is there any app which aggregates all the interesting articles in the web to read?
His "Music for Airports" is beautifully serene.
I really like FreeBSD, and I run it on my home server, but the whole update process really needs a lot of work. The process described in this announcement is accurate in my experience: Run freebsd-update twice, reboot, run freebsd-update again, reinstall or rebuild applications, reboot again, run freebsd-update yet again.

The upgrade process works well, but it's much more manual than it is in the Linux world.

When PkgBase[0] becomes a thing, I hope that the process will be closer to the Linux world.

The other thing that hurts the upgrade process is the lack of packaged software. My big pain point is currently PostgreSQL 12+PostGIS 3.0. This combination in FreeBSD isn't a thing, the packaged/ported PostGIS 3.0[1] is for PostgreSQL 11. My solution has been to build PostgreSQL 12 from ports (because the packaged version doesn't include XML support, which I also want) then build PostGIS 3.0 from source, after installing all its dependencies from packages. I have to rebuild PostGIS after most FreeBSD upgrades since it links against now-changed libraries. If I were doing this in the OpenSuse world I would just use the Applications:Geo repository[2] and be able to install the right combination of software very easily.

Because of these issues, I'm slowly moving towards using FreeBSD to host VMs running whatever OS/distribution is most appropriate for the job. Moving PostgreSQL off of FreeBSD will greatly simplify my upgrade process.

[0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase

[1] https://www.freshports.org/databases/postgis30/

[2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Application:Geo
The Soviet Union was still the #2 economy too. And while it was behind in microprocessors, it was ahead in other branches, for example phage therapy and some fields of metallurgy. So it is correct to say that it was #2.
Trying out AMD DASH remote access on a Thinkpad T14s
Any thoughts on this versus draw.io? Like new or missing features, etc?
Exactly this. In my recent experience PayPal is also absolutely inaccessible for a chargeback resolution. This was the reason I left booking.com, now I am considering to get rid of PayPal. In my opinion no serious transaction should ever be done on either platform.
I would have thought github itself filled this niche. Stars, forks, activity and the number and status of issues are all direct metrics of the facets of what users care about.
Oh that's a terrible technology choice. :(

Other people in this thread are saying they have done DIY single key replacements... but maybe it was on models that weren't the butterfly keyboard?

Do I understand right that the "butterfly keyboard" is actually no longer used in the new 2020 models, it was abandoned by Apple? [1] It does seem to have been a mistake all around.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/butterfly-keyboard-vs-scisso...
Curious as I don't know the terms of a perpetual architectural ARM license. But, is it valid only for a specific architecture, say v8 or v9, or is it valid for all future architectures as well? Or is it one of those things, where it depends per licensee and how they negotiated?
The equivalent graphs for the USA have Covid-19 still killing people.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
I have a deck (pics: [1][2]), not original - probably from around 2001-2002, but they are :)

There's a twitter bot that randomly posts the cards [3], which is cool too

[1] https://tinyurl.com/yy76phgw

[2] https://tinyurl.com/y4xfu57b

[3] https://twitter.com/ObliqueBot
I'm sure that ARM is not a saint here in the sense that they would also have an incentive to milk their licensees as much as possible. Now they will keep having that incentive, but also the terrible incentive to actively outcompete their licensees which is much worse.
Tools that accept filenames often expect you give them a real file, as they’ll do things on it that may not be supported by the various “it’s a file descriptor pretending to be something on disk” solutions.
To play devil’s advocate a bit, are nVidia's incentives necessarily so different? Their goal will be to make as much money as possible, and it's clear that licensing has been a winning strategy for ARM.

Samsung comes to mind as another company that makes their own TVs, phones, SSDs, ect., but is also perfectly happy to license the underlying screens and chips in those products to other companies. From my vantage point, the setup seems to be working well?
Yes with the latest Sambaserver you have everything Linux has.
Debian-installer, mdadm configuration and the Bad Blocks Controversy
> to remove all the carbon Microsoft has ever produced

Does this include all carbon produced by all devices that have run MS OSes? All servers, computers, mobile devices, gaming platforms, etc.?
Out of morbid curiosity, how would you describe 200K+ dead from a contagious disease in 6 months? I'm sticking with "pretty damn dire".
I believe it was actually OAuth or else FB would have likely blocked the login from another country or at the bare minimum sent OP a suspicious login email.
I spent a minute looking up the results of existing studies. If a professor at a public university spent a minute to look up an answer for a reporter, I'm ok with that professor having a salary.
I've had a lot of different synths in my life.

Lartely, I've had a whole lot of fun lately just playing with a single groovebox, specifically a Novation Circuit.

Although I have had much more complex rigs (I've built several eurorack modules from kits, and owned several keyboards, groove boxes, and other tools), just having a super simple little box and trying to get as much as I can out of it has been a useful exercise of the last two months.

If the goal is to "make music", I'd probably start with a groove box. If the goal is to have fun making weird noises, I'd probably get either a Moog Mother or a Behringer Neutron... both of those are kind of gentle introductions to modular synths.
I'm all for nuclear, but I'll also acknowledge that solar is a good step forward, even if it (gasp!) kills birds.

And that 29% claim is very dishonest of you. That's how much the bird population declined overall, since 1950 (!), and says nothing about how many birds are anually killed by solar, at all. (You've updated your post since, to a statement that again basically says nothing.)
> Fukushima was a tsunami

Tsunamis, by themselves, don't contaminate ocean-water with radioactive material to a density high enough to create a 10-km no-fish-zone.
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00664/fukushima-fishin...

And while Chernobyl didn't happen in the past 20 years, I think it's naive to consider nuclear power safe when a continent-threatening disaster occurred in the past 40 years. "One massive disaster per generation" makes people justifiably leery. Personally, I think the grand calculus may tilt slightly in nuclear's favor over fossil fuels, but the risk can't be swept under the rug.

> The west coast has had catastrophic human intervention in the natural fire cycle, piling up fuel year after year until it was too big of a hazard for humans to handle

This is a concern, but I think we shouldn't discount that the hottest years recorded in California history of record-keeping have been, with only a couple exceptions, the most recent years (https://www.climatesignals.org/sites/default/files/resources...). The "natural" fire cycle will get further and further from its historical nature as ambient temperatures climb and rainfall diminishes.
Apologizes, I meant to say that if you owned the application, it would be a super easy way to launder. Especially due to the sheer volume of similar apps on the play store and numerous grey-market giftcard processors.

dirty cash -> giftcards -> casino app -> app developer
I really like the friendly feel and the way she talked in this this leaked Oculus Quest 2 promo video.

Well made and not at all that pushy like many commercials can be. Informative and to-the-point.
> But what exactly does it mean to add an emotional and moral dimension to products?

Odd not to mention the GPL license, which attempts exactly that - to make software serve the moral goal of user freedom.
I don't have any numbers, but on intuitive level, cooling servers with ocean water directly sounds a lot more efficient and eco-friendly than burning coal in order to generate electricity in order to power AC in order to cool the whole giant room full of air and people in order to cool some servers.
That's weird framing. The individual needs help, but there are significant regulations on alcohol companies, too. We went too far, by prohibiting it altogether, but we still limit alcohol advertising, we have age limits, etc. None of that is "telling him" to blame the alcohol producers; we need both regulations against harms facilitated by corporations for profit and support for those harmed.
Ask HN: What Are You Afraid Of?
I’m afraid the economy will collapse and we’ll be unable to educate the next generation.

What are your fears and how do you live with them?
We need underwater, seaborne, or subsurface nuclear power plants.

Radiation release is contained to within the largest stratum available on the Earth: ocean and rock. Anything avoiding our thin atmosphere is a win.
Thanks for mentioning this.

Never heard of Azure RTOS before, but it seems MS went and bought Express Logic. That's quite big.

But it doesn't seem to be MIT?

https://github.com/azure-rtos/threadx/blob/master/LICENSE.tx...
Because it would most likely mean forcibly destroying petrol powered cars, which is pretty economy killing as well as vote killing.

Consider: if you don't do that, you're emitting a lot of CO2. You could wait until everyone upgrades to electric cars but it takes several decades for the vehicle fleet to turn over, so even if everyone started buying nothing but electric now, it would take decades to phase out the old vehicles. And they're not all buying electric cars now. So on the kind of timescales that governments are making these "commitments" the only way to stop people driving petrol powered cars, given how useful they are, would be to seize and destroy them.

As for why they're committing to it, well, they still think academic models are accurate for COVID and are acting as if that's true. Climatology is mostly a modelling based discipline. 2+2 = ...
> Tiny cheap mirrors are also readily available

Where?

> potentially more available since lots of young teachers legitimately may not have any CDs

I'm sure you'll pass a Walgreen's on the way to the tiny cheap mirror shop.
This is really nice, well done on the launch!
Indeed the author does. I recommend reading that blog post [0], it's rather well-written and enjoyable.

The thing is, "genius" doesn't scale. At some point, if you want to scale production up, you'd need more people. And most of them won't be geniuses, they will be normal people, in the very literal sense of the word "normal": they'll be somewhere in the middle of the bell curve on most of the parameters; and even the number of parameters in which they're outliers too will be in the middle of some bell curve. So either your tools and processes accommodate normal people, or your company won't make it. Heck, even if you somehow manage to gather together 10 geniuses, it's a (biased) coin toss whether they'll work together productively.

And that means you will at some point arrive at systems (and organizations!) that nobody comprehends in entirety. At this stage you can only hope that those systems managed to grew up resilient, that is, that they can be maintained, repaired, and extended on a piece-by-piece basis. Sometimes they can't be (cf. most government departments/small-to-medium businesses at the latest stages of their life cycle), so they collapse and are (eventually) replaced by something else. Sometimes it turns out that the organization that had collapsed was your whole civilization and now you're in the the Dark Ages. That sucks, but the only way out of the Dark Ages is gradually building up a new complex system, and while it will start from a small and seemingly perfect new way to run things, it will eventually, grow large and incomprehensible in its entirety—if it doesn't, it will be supplanted by the one that can grow so, there is really no escape from this.

[0] https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
I would imagine bulkheads can mitigate some unforeseen leak. They can also be built in relatively shallow water without a substantial amount of water pressure.