skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/carl_sagan42/status/1270938812315611136

It seems Rowling is spreading misinformation targeting transgender people.
This is disappointing yet expected from the executive.

What's more disappointing is watching the thunderous applause from technologists here and elsewhere as software is outlawed which is not otherwise illegal and is not being litigated as illegal. We should not cheer on the restriction of any software on nationalistic terms. Content is one thing, physical equipment another, but algorithms should be borderless. Most in the community disagree with encryption export restrictions, why can't they similarly disagree with software import restrictions? 2A groups recognize slippery slope precedents, why can't technologists?

If the content/data is being harvested and/or managed illegally, then make that illegal and/or prosecute under that pretense (even if the evidence is subject to national security non-disclosure). Otherwise, it's obvious this is political posturing at the cost of digital freedom. It should be as widely condemned as government surveillance has been.

(reposted from the now-buried https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515461)
Same with Didi—-needed to be used with a SIM card linked to a Chinese bank account/national ID. Ended up just paying cash for cab rides because of that hassle.
Pretty much means the Great American Firewall, doesn't it?

Now Americans are going to have to use foreign VPNs too.
Coursera has Model Thinking from Umich but its not based on this book.
If it wasnt the Russians, it's almost certainly Seth Rich. CrowdStrike has already said the hack seems it came internally, and there's no evidence it came from Russia, but somehow the FBI came to a different conclusion. One is either completely incompetent or lying.

Edit: It appears CrowdStrike has officially changed their conclusion in their investigation after the FBI concluded theirs. I hope you people know this is all complete nonsense. The CEO himself said they ONLY had 'circumstantial evidence', and nothing at all concrete. Not a single thing.

Edit2: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/...
> As of changes made in March - before that Croc sent the key in the clear to the relay

That doesn't instill me with confidence about its development
I was under the impression Firefox Send was one of the upcoming paid service offerings. At least, that we were seeing the free service and waiting some premium features to be released later on. It will be missed, it was a really easy and intuitive solution for file sharing,
Abstract it that way and it's hard to argue that this very post isn't an ad.
A quick story to illustrate why Apple will likely keep doing its thing despite Epic and any other criticism:

My neighbor has two young teenage sons who are into PC gaming, also Android tablets. They sometimes come to me with questions knowing that I'm in the industry. Several months ago there was an incident where the parent discovered over $2500 in credit card charges mostly due to in game purchases. A good chunk was on Fortnite V-Bucks but also some SuperCell games. They were able to request a refund for more than half, and it was a stressfull event for the family with a lot of disciplinary actions following. I was asked for advice on about any technical solutions to the problem. I was able to suggest monitoring credit card charges in realtime, some parental controls that were rather painful to setup. Another touchy subject was how to talk to and educate their kids about online spending.

This incident highlighted how unregulated and seemingly dangerous the Windows and Android platforms are to an average non-technical family. You need to install AntiVirus software, you have to worry about malware, you have to worry about kids installing random crapware that bogs down performance (remember the IE toolbars?). I have to say Amazon and Xbox Live parental controls are some of the most kafkaesque nightmares I've had to battle with.

I also see predatory techniques aimed at kids that have long been used by companies that are primary funded by in-app purchases. There is widely discussed concept of fun-pain in this genre of game development, where you induce some level of "pain" that would induce someone to pay money to alleviate it. Simple example is to eliminate wait time for artificial delays in game progression. Yes, in some ways Apple and this entire genre of mobile games, profited from it and is now trying to provide alternatives with the Apple Arcade model.

In comparison Apple and iOS provides a walled utopia for these families and justifies its tight controls as a method of providing that safe and worry free computing experience.

How many people bought an iPad for their older relatives because they were just tired of family tech support? Seems like it was enough for that to become a tired stereotype with a grain of truth.

I have sympathies for the idea of an open computing platform as a developer. I see the web and open source an excellent outlet for those that are willing to take on that level of responsibility with their devices.

However most takes on Apple in response to the Epic spat have been crude caricatures of a capricious monopolist robber baron type. I'm not in complete opposition to that idea, but that its not a particularly sophisticated or informative analysis, when their success clearly shows a market need for just this type of curated platform.

Also Epic knowingly violated terms of a contract that they agreed to when it suited them and are painting it as a moral imperative as opposed to an argument over money and how to extract it from customers.
Only those that never used Apple before OS X.
> But I haven't heard any where that Epic wants an exception and fuck everyone else.

Apple has made a few filings documenting this, including that Epic specifically asked for a side letter to the standard developer contract granting them special treatment.
I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still.

The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser interface. This is one reason I’m really excited about the Nyxt browser.

PS: Part of it might be FOMO, but part of it is also that these links represent certain threads of thought/exploration and are like bookmarks of things to revisit at a later time. Yes, in principle I could export the list of tabs to a text file, and begin anew, but that’s not a fully satisfactory solution. I think we need tools & interfaces to better (more holistically) accommodate people’s intellectual workflows; what we have today is geared much more towards consumption.

As an example: why can’t we easily group tabs into projects and have bidirectional sync between the browser and project related resources (Eg: Some markdown/org file, or sync with Evernote/Notion/Roam, etc) so that whenever I resume working on the project, I get a warm start with the context mapped out (continuing from the previous session). And I want a much tighter relationship between my tabs and my project notes (akin to bibliography of references), including annotations on webpages, etc. If we are to use the web more effectively, the ecosystem surrounding browsers needs to grow up and help us get there.
To your point, one of the things I worry about with apple news, for example, is that the underlying ai won’t understand _why_ I dislike a particular news story. Generally I downvote hyperbole, clickbait, and paparazzi content, but I would guess it’s more common for people to downvote things based on the substance of a story, e.g. downvoting a well-written, truthful article because the truth in that case is inconvenient for their political stance, or because it’s about a loathsome-yet-newsworthy person. A facial recognition system would have to know the difference between my face being frustrated at a high-quality story about the fires in the western states vs my frustration that apple news seems to find Andy Borowitz to be hilarious and relevant. Maybe possible, but lots of nuance under the surface.
Excuse me? Where is there "left wing activist" in the Puyallup brush fire? (Not forest fire, but whatever.)

The article just says it was a streamer
At this point the morally responsible thing to do is to reverse engineer the hardware / software and open-source it.
Scientists are working on self-spreading vaccines. What could possibly go wrong?
I advice people to take it slow and stop if uncomfortable. Whether it’s involved or not it works.
You can get 'vaccines' on the dark markets (ie Agartha). Hard to say if they are real. They say they are from animal and human trails. $500

No Russian vaccine yet I can see.

But if it is being produced in India, which this is, along with permission for the Indians to produce it for internal use, then I'd guess it'll be available on the clearnet.

Do you let your 80 year+ male family and friends risk death from Covid or buy it online... Plus of course to do it for fun.
A telling quote comes to us from the Commerce Secretary, via reporting by the New York Times:

"""What they collect are data on locality, data on what you are streaming toward, what your preferences are, what you are referencing, every bit of behavior that the American side is indulging in becomes available to whoever is watching on the other side."""

Well, shit. If that's the concern, I hope nobody's told them about blogs, YouTube, or the Internet.
This is a good example of why everyone should oppose code signing requirements. Users should be able to easily run any code they want on their system. No one should be able to prevent me from running something I choose to run.

And yes, it's possible to run it unsigned but Apple has intentionally obfuscated how to do it.
The only phone that I can buy, that is not based on an American app store subject of the US administration's long-arm legislation, is a Huawei.
It's not just a ban on import, but also a ban on execution! It's insane overreach.

The government should have the power to manage armies, fiscal policies, and so on, but giving the State the power to decide which algorithms I should be allowed to run on my own computer is insane.
After reading this: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n05/andrew-o-hagan/ghost... (obviously Assange defenders will call this a biased hit piece), Assange lost my admiration, he seems to be yet another self-obsessed prick. But the way he's been treated and is being treated by the UK courts is also fucking undemocratic and inhumane.

But in my view, Assange is unprincipled enough that he'll say whatever Trump/the thugs running the West wants, so he can be freed. Or to paint it in a different light, they're torturing him so he'll say whatever they want him to say.
This was a great service for transferring 1 off files between 2 people (such as 500mb wav files for podcast episodes which is what I used it for).

As it turns out, you can get similar behavior with Dropbox. The person sending the file doesn't need a Dropbox account either. You just send them a URL and then they have permission to upload the file.

The only extra step vs Firefox Send is you as the receiver need to delete the file after you've downloaded it. Technically that's optional but in my case that's what I wanted to do.
> The German word Blech roughly translates to bare metal.

Not really. Blech means sheet metal or tin. Bare metal would translate to "blankes Metall".
I'm really confused about why the adminstration is doing this right before the election, seems like annoying a bunch of young people is a great way to get out the democratic vote.
This is analogous to saying it would be impossible to have an effective federal government if what people say is somehow exempt from their oversight. That would be a giant loophole.

Which, true, is in fact an argument often made.

Software execution itself is not the issue. Criminal intent is the issue.
When you recommend something, please mention what is good as well else I can't tell if it's a shill account or not.
If you think Firefox has stagnated you clearly aren't aware of the substantial and complex improvements that have been made to the firefox core over the last couple of years:

* Faster Quantum Engine (multi-process architecture, etc)

* Faster CSS rendering with Stylo

* GPU-based rendering with WebRender

Any Moz engineer who worked on the above will have boosted their CV's substantially. They don't need to work on tangential greenfields to do that.

Sure so extensions had to be rewritten for Quantum, but sometimes that's the price to pay for deep architectural/security improvements.
same place were pro-reality people are. there isn't anything to be for. it just is.
If you already followed the story in the news then there's nothing new in this documentary. If you wanna learn about the story, its a good one.

Its narrated by Keanu Reeves. It has decent scores (~7-8 out of 10) on IMDB (already linked) and Rotten Tomatoes [1]

OP was asking about a Hollywood movie though; this is a documentary. A Hollywood movie would be to Snowden what this documentary is to Citizenfour.

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deep_web
I finally found a few samples in the pdf tutorials. Agree putting some code samples front and center would be nice.
Maybe so, but then we need to come up with more words. As the UK proved, a nation in the EU is free to leave the EU, but a state in the US is not. (Without consent of the US, of course.)
Based on my evaluation that Trump only does things to further his agenda of sowing distrust in institutions and not out of any sense of justice or progress, here is my take:

He is forcing Assange to say "I will not reveal my sources as I am a journalist". Trump then gets to say he tried. The "media", especially any real journalists that take their profession seriously, will provide analysis that Assange is right for refusing. This gives Trump another opening to smear the media by portraying them as pro Assange, pro hacking and anti DNC.
If it can be demonstrated that a not-insignificant amount of employers actually do this, then sure.

But considering the amount of "We think you're perfect for this Java job" (as a Javascript dev) from even legitimate companies, then I doubt that any employer is running anything more complicated than a Nigerian Prince-style spam bot.
Of course, that's not the concern, the concern is that they don't get that data, somebody else does. It's pure hypocrisy. They could have done the right thing by passing sweeping privacy laws that every company would be subjected to, but in reality the goal is to maintain the monopoly of the USG on espionage.
I believe they're afraid this will increase the strength of the argument that app stores can be regulated for national causes, which is bad news for their control of their own ecosystem (to a first approximation: government involvement always increases cost). It's also, sort of, bad news for, like, Americans... If a foreign company makes a parody game critical of US politics, can the government use this precedent to get it yanked from app stores?
By locking Epic out of MacOS version game updates aren't Apple punishing Epic outside the bounds of the agreement Epic is accused of breaking?

That's like being caught for speeding, but being punished for breaking and entering in addition to speeding.
It should, AFAIK that was on the SM-level.

> Ampere's benefit is that it can deal with dense and sparse matrices differently. Its cores are twice as fast as Turing's for dense matrix and four times as quick for sparse matrix that have all the needless weights removed. The upshot, per SM, is dense processing at the same speed - it has half the cores, remember - and twice the overall throughput for sparse processing.

https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/145342-nvidia-geforc...
That mostly a tech "scene" thing, not outside the world of competitive performativity at non-academic tech conferences and Twitter.
WTF: Google’s OAuth verification process and security assessment
This is getting out of control!
Trump isn't the FBI.
Mutual TLS Authentication for Amazon API Gateway
I played through the entirety of the Metroid 2 remake with 3D on on my New 3DS, and it was dazzling. No discomfort or headaches, just a constant sensation of disbelief that this can even work without some kind of glasses on.
Yes.

It's called the free market. Private businesses can make decisions as they see best, and the barrier for government overriding that is extremely high. In America at least, this is traditionally viewed as a good thing.

We also generally believe that making things "purely a money issue" is how to incentivize people to do their best work.

There are countries in the world where it's widely accepted that the government is closely involved in business decisions and does what it thinks is best for the country, and they ask people to be motivated the goals of the country, as determined by the ruling party, not their own profit motive. TikTok is familiar with one of those, in fact.
Old news from February: https://www.businessinsider.com/dana-rohrbacher-confirms-he-...
Bi-lingual kids can be in similar cases, especially when character sets are different. Some are fluent reader in one of the language, but have a hard time in the other, skipping or misreading characters as the parsing is completely different.

I talked to a school teacher trying to have a kid labeled as dyslexic because it would make everything easier to ask for extra time to follow the kid, get out of class hours with a specialist etc.
Multiweek is pretty good. But I wish it had a better "multi day" view. Week view is great, a column per day, with the days neatly split into hour blocks. But my screen is huge. It could fit much more than 7 days with just as much detail. As soon as you switch to Multiweek, all that detail is lost. I guess what I'd like to see is a "Multi day" view, which starts today and displays the next N-days with as much detail as my screen allows (or N configured days).
Pandemic response was really chaotic. So much conflicting information from politicians instead of relying on scientist and healthcare system to take care of what message must be delivered about COVID19. Often just pure speculation instead of proper emergency communication.
It’s still pretty cool that these cards have enough oomph to get close enough to real-time for DLSS to work.
> Even if you don't like the OpenSCAD DSL

I've actually been working on making the DSL language modular so that you could use it with any programming language (given bindings)
It is in your users interest to have access to APIs that are as useful as possible.

The moat APIs created by OS vendors are mostly in their interest. Does anyone but Apple want an API like Metal? Developers don't. User see no benefit. Only Apple benefits.

I'm not saying there should be only one globally used API for every task, but praising APIs that exist only to be moats to increase corporate profits is another.

About innovation, everyone can join Khronos (for free) and contribute to their API of choice. You can add whichever extension you want to these APIs, and if they are found useful they are included in the main standard.
From a policy perspective, the states HAS to say this.

Wisdom of the particular policy aside, once a country makes a really bold demand - "do X or we'll do Y" - they can't back down without losing a tremendous amount of credibility. If you don't follow through on your threats, they're meaningless; if your threats aren't meaningful, only action is. Action is more expensive, so it costs you more to accomplish a goal, so you can accomplish less.

I happen to think this particular policy is unwise (dude, you need allies, and you think Europe won't help you regulate tech? C'mon), but the US has committed. Barring judicial intervention, it would be more unwise to back down now.
https://transfer.sh
The downside with Dropbox's way is that a lot of people using the link will think that they need to register an account.

I think the link offers you to create one but it's not clear that it's not required.
Probably because the government doesn't actually have the authority under current international or federal law to ban apps for reasons you listed. Apps exist in that weird "code is speech" space and regulation of them can get very nit-picky.

If the intent is to ban them for the reasons you've listed, this is a disingenuous way to go about it and a court might see through the facade.
No. There is no proof that 'the Russians' had anything to do with it. There is not even proof that the data was exfiltrated at all.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/05/13/...
The HSP will go down in history as one of Australia's great culinary creations, along with Vegemite and the meat pie.

I'd say pavlova as well, but we're trying to be nice to our Kiwi cousins so they'll let us visit.
I think Wiktionary disagrees, and I do too (but then again it's been years since I studied German): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blech - there is a subtle lengthening of the 'e' in their audio clip, but it's very slight. No doubt there are regional variations though.
Out of interest, are there particular platform(s) you have in mind?

I remember working with TI C5x DSPs which had 16-bit "bytes", but that was a long time ago. I'm curious whether there are still important embedded platforms that you might target with C and have unusual addressable word sizes.
It's a no lose situation. There are two possible outcomes: Russia did it, or someone else did it. The FBI, CIA, and NSA published a report saying that the hack was carried out by Russia to support the Trump campaign, that is the accepted truth on the matter. Worst case scenario for Trump is that this holds up, in which case nothing changes.

In the event that Assange could prove some other actor sourced the emails, that would mean that the FBI, NSA, and CIA were wrong, and the single biggest argument in support of the 'Russia Collision' narrative would go away. Trump would fold this into his narrative that the investigation into Russian collusion was a witch hunt.
I dunno, seems consistent with my experience in the midatlantic/northeast. politics is absolutely on the table with close friends and my family. outside of that, I find people usually avoid discussing politics unless they are confident everyone else present already agrees with them.
I think part of it is the source. Fox News, or Huffington Post as another example, are arguably pretty biased in their coverage.
Any metric that becomes a measure, ceases to me a good metric.
- Goodharts law
Because there's a belief that America's political and economic freedoms make it a better country. If we not only admit that China's authoritarian approach produces better outcomes but also adopt it for ourselves, what is left of America?

China also knows that oppressing an ethnic minority and placing them in forced labor is good for short-term economic success. America did this once, too, also in textiles no less, and concluded the same thing. Shall we go back to it so we can compete with China there too?
And then you'll just have to use a VPN, a proxy, or an alternate DNS depending on how it's made. Big deal.
It is enough that one requests it if the data system is not prepared for that.
I see that the discussion centers around Trump, but what would you do if you were Assange?
It is forbidden to lend money with interest in Islam. So they invented this thing which is exactly the same, but formulated with other words and so it's appropriate.
They’ll just use edge locations in Canada
The first port is for communication, the four other ports are for transferring data in parallel. You can setup a relay to use only two ports (one for comm, one for transfer) but in general I found that the parallel transfer give a little speed-up.
A virus is not computer code. They mutate.