skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan

"Ibn Fadlan was a 10th-century Arab[1][2][a] Muslim traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, known as his Risala ("account" or "journal").[b] His account is most notable for providing a detailed description of the Volga Vikings, including eyewitness accounts of life as part of a trade caravan and witnessing a ship burial.[4][5]"

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspian_expeditions_of_the_Rus...

"Initially, the Rus' appeared in Serkland in the 9th century traveling as merchants along the Volga trade route, selling furs, honey, and slaves. The first small-scale raids took place in the late 9th and early 10th century. The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in 913; having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Gorgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods. On their return, the northern raiders were attacked and defeated by the Khazars in the Volga Delta, and those who escaped were killed by the local tribes on the middle Volga.

During their next expedition in 943, the Rus' captured Bardha'a, the capital of Arran, in the modern-day Republic of Azerbaijan. The Rus' stayed there for several months, killing many inhabitants of the city and amassing substantial plunder. It was only an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus' that forced them to depart with their spoils. Sviatoslav, prince of Kiev, commanded the next attack, which destroyed the Khazar state in 965. Sviatoslav's campaign established the Rus's hold on the north-south trade routes, helping to alter the demographics of the region. Raids continued through the time period with the last Scandinavian attempt to reestablish the route to the Caspian Sea taking place in 1041 by Ingvar the Far-Travelled. "
Nowadays you seem to get fired when telling a "dongle" joke privately to another colleague, but someone overheard it. Sorry, but that is absolutely crazy.

I have a few fun colleagues that tell jokes all the time. If they get fired for this, I'm instantly quitting.
Before you do that, it seems quite an interesting site:

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/
You could do such a hybrid system, but honestly purely paper based systems seem to work well enough in practice. Eg Germany uses paper and human counting, and the results are usually available fairly quickly.

The problem with randomly hand-counting a few boxes of ballots is that you then need to convince people that the random selection was uniform and fair and actually random.

There are methods to do that, but there are at least as complicated and full of cryptographic finesse, that they ain't simpler than vetting an electronic voting system in the first place.

Having said that: human counting isn't fool proof and is still open to abuse and tampering.

It's mainly that any village idiot can in-theory audit the human-run system, and that it would take a conspiracy with lots of people to engage in wide spread tampering.

The more people involved, the harder it is to prevent leaks.
> even software that's this battle-tested is still not fully reliable

But does it matter?

I also don't understand formal methods well, but wouldn't they also be subject to bugs? It seems like all we can do is make software less unreliable.
Yes, but they can build multiple in parallel.
I think argument this has considerable merit.
That would be frustrating. And it might lower their productivity.

As Facebook, I'd rather pay for some yoga classes so that people don't have time to think about their actions.
Perhaps 'moral responsibility'?
IceSL: A free lua based modeler/slicer
> A senior editor on the Dutch site had spotted the experiment in progress, and proceeded to ban all future updates from the team. Commercial editing is not allowed on the site, and the research was deemed to cross the line.

From the paper:

> Community reaction:

> In the first day after the treatment, we checked the articles, and in French and Italian language, no problems occurred. In German Wikipedia, an administrator contacted us and asked about the purpose of the content uploads and whether we have any commercial interest. We replied, providing information about our institution and the research group, and about the research project. This response was sufficient.

> In Dutch Wikipedia, a single editor reverted all our edits within 24 hours. We discussed the issue with this editor, but the editor was not willing to accept our
contributions and therefore we decided to stop the uploads on the Dutch Wikipedia and
accept the reversions.

I am not surprised.

The Dutch Wikipedia has one massive drawback compared to other non-English Wikipedia editions like the German, Spanish, or French; most Dutch capable of contributing to Wikipedia with any kind of depth of knowledge are also proficient in English, and seem to prefer to invest their energy in the English Wikipedia instead, if at all. This leads to the Dutch Wikipedia being even more insular and cliquish then the English one. If you encounter the wrong editor unwilling to accept your edit (even if it is factually correct, non-commercial, and fully compliant with Wikipedia's values) you will need to invest literal work-weeks in hours to get it fixed via arbitration and other such instruments (after carefully studying the Wikipedia policies the editor uses as munition), or, you just give up.
Your article seems to focus on individuals. Consider also organisations.

Transport-level security and authentication of email content is a perfectly valid use-case for an organisation when protection against third-party interference is desired. They don't need to worry about forward secrecy, they just need attachments to be transmitted in a legally-compliant manner.

For example each month HR email me my payslip as an encrypted attachment. I decrypt it and save locally. They just have a batch job that encrypts for each user and sends. They don't have to worry about who uses which IM client. They don't need to care if I self-host or use Gmail, because their ligation is simply to keep the information secure in transit.

You are also too keen to support Signal's use of phone numbers as identifiers. That's a design choice, instead of using client-managed identifiers, and makes it unsuitable for organisational use. Whose phone will we use to send the deposition to the court... and who in the court will have a phone with Signal on it? Email by contrast is universal and integrates well into organisational processes without dependency upon individuals.
Do you mean this one? https://citymapper.com/cmi

Because it shows Moscow and St P at 79 and 88%. Around the same as Brussels but lower than Paris and Lyon.
One email thread out of thousands released where they brainstorm theories and predictions. Doesn't mean it's the official strategy and Giesecke is not even employed by FHM but retired.
"And that 10 or so freight ships produce as much pollution as the whole of Europe."

This one is highly misleading. They may produce some very specific pollution more than entire Europe together, but pollution overall will be clearly lower.

Emissions of just C02 is about 4000 megatonnes in just EU ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... )

4000 / 10 / 365 = 1.1 megatone per day.

I am not expert on ships, but emitting 1 100 000 000 t of C02 per day seems unlikely.
Do you happen to know how they patched it? I thought the idea was that it was bad encryption and once the license generation was broken, eShop couldn't tell if it was a real license or a fake one.
This isn't effective as browsers partition the cache using a double (or triple) key of the document origin and third-part origin.

Safari started this and Chrome is following - https://andydavies.me/blog/2018/09/06/safari-caching-and-3rd...

So with a public JS CDN React would be still transferred multiple times.

Using a custom bundle is probably more efficient as it should compress better resulting in lower download sizes (bit often modern bundles are huge so I wouldn't rely on this point)
The cost of things gives you a reasonable idea of the environmental impact. Energy intensive products and services have to pay for all that fuel.

This is why cities produce more CO2 than rural areas. Potentially it is more efficient to live in a city but city dwellers are richer and hence spend and consume more.

I went to a talk by the economist Jeffrey Sachs a few years ago where he said the sustainable level of spending around the world was about $10K USD PPP. Not much room for a Tesla in that budget.
China begins military drills as senior U.S. official visits Taiwan
Seems a bit of a weak argument to be talking about something released 8 years earlier?
You can apply such a tax in various ways. If the company resides in the US, directly tax the company. If they are importing, tax the imported goods.

The worst thing that could happen would be some 'world dictator' making universal rules because then large companies could lobby one entity to shift the rules in their favor, and against ours.
I second this. As a programmer, OpenSCAD feels like home. Just give me a text editor and docs.
Well you're certainly right that the economy will move. If it wasn't for the virus, I would have done even more business at one of the village pubs around here. I can see more than a few people just bringing their laptops to lunch, your local gastropub is nicer than Starbucks.

The food trucks thing makes sense. I've also spoken to some people who run that type of business, and they probably have the best outcome of all the food businesses.

Several of them do this thing where they will book a popular spot in town centre on certain days, then the commuter belt on the weekends. They are of course not bound by long term rental contracts, so it's easy for them to simply not book the expensive now-empty locations on their apps. They also seem to sell out wherever they go (great inventory management), so they can simply adjust their locations.

Agree almost everything about the family owned experience is better. I'm not sure it will be so easy for Pret/etc to move out to the suburbs. Name recognition is all they bring, nobody thinks a Pret sandwich is particularly good. There's also more options for people who are at home: you can cook, you can meet someone for a proper lunch at a pub, you've got the food trucks, the supermarket also sells sandwiches and you might go there anyway, and you've got farm delivery. Pret might be worse off but the rest of us are better off.
It stuffed with features:

* OpenSCAD like modeler
* with GPU support everywhere
* various parameters for support/infill/...
cannot only be defined for layer ranges
but also as vector fields
* experimental slicing features not seen anywhere else
e.g. 'cavity': makes parts as hollow as
possible while keeping them printable
or 'wings': support that avoids the part itself
or direction agnostic infill patterns,
...
You could run any encrypted protocol on top of SMTP/IMAP; been there, done that; the main issue is you need specialized software on both ends to make it work.

Still, doing so solves the transport and persistence problems you would otherwise have to deal with.
Yes, I realised this was stretching the argument after I posted. Probably, repurposing terminates in slower, lower spec devices the A13 targets anyway. Maybe in something like the Apple TV?

It would be true that compared to Intel they have far less binning opportunities
A friend of mine looked at the feasibility of getting into bug bounty as a professional career. He mentioned that if you're not specialized on a specific attack, you have no chance.

I think it's quite refreshing to see that Shubham Shah is a strong counter example.
I think it must be. It's kind of interesting the data. You can see London shutting down around when I left and now can see Paris and Lyon as the most back to normal which maybe explains why there are a lot of new cases there now.
It's less about the web and more about the computations we're running. The stack end-to-end is inefficient because software quality is lackluster and deficient of craftsmanship. This is mostly because the hardware enabled this type of behavior.

The only way this is going to change is to change the hardware. I see this becoming possible as we transition to localized manufacturing where the individual only depends on themselves.

So as we get closer to chip fab happening via a 3d printer, and all hardware and software being local, we'll be closer to the energy efficiency goal.

You can see the trajectory already happening and IoT/Microcontroller/Etc boom. Lots of cool new projects are coming out with the "hacker-like" culture of old on energy efficient chips that can run amazing software powered by just solar alone.

Super cool, I have faith we'll get there soon!
In many parts of the world there are so-called deregulated electricity markets, where a market operator takes bids for producers and the marginal price then determines the wholesale price for that time period (usually the period being something between 15 minutes and 1 hour). So yes, if the marginal unit that sets the wholesale price is a low marginal cost producer like wind, solar or nuclear, the wholesale price for that period will be very low. Conversely, if demand is very high and the marginal producer is a peaker gas plant, the price will be very high.

This is basically the business model behind grid batteries as well. Buy power and charge the batteries when power is cheap, sell the power when it's expensive.

One big problem here is that despite wholesale markets working like this for a long time, customer uptake of electricity contracts with time-varying prices tied to the wholesale price has been very poor. In general it seems most customers rather pay a higher fixed electricity price than check the current price before starting their laundry (or something else that takes a decent amount of power).
I didn't find a list of the actual Spanish cities for which they edited Wikipedia though. This unfortunately makes it impossible to view a diff of their edits. That would have been informative.
App Compatibility for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S Consoles
Simple Java implementation of netflix conductor
Although Netflix provides very vast and detailed docs for workflow orchestration engine: Conductor, there is no easy way to get started without lots of other dependency like Dynomite, dyno-queues.I am new to this technology, so if someone can suggest some reference project that I can try out in local that would be helpful
Well so you want FB to step outside law and filter content. I don't see a way they can be right here.
The ICANN states that you must provide a way to directly contact a domain's owner. If I'm correct, the contact info must be freely available in the whole, whether it's an email address, an obfuscated email address, or a contact form on the website of the registrar.

Charging for this is really shady, but not contacting the domain owner when requested is a registrar agreement violation.

Note that it's also the responsibility of the registrar to ensure that contact information of their registrants are correct.
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One of the things I love about startups is feeling like my input is partially responsible for the mission, culture, and direction of the company. I can't imagine doing work for a company that was doing something and not feeling like I'm making a contribution to that goal.

Maybe you're right and developers at FB don't see that they have any responsibility or input towards what FB does with the tech they build, but I hope not. It would be horrible to be that detached from the outcome of your work.
You keep it for the next tether or you sell it at destination.
I love namecheap. Been a satisfied customer for close to a decade. I have to thank Drew Houston for this.

Many many years ago, when YC was newish - I read a blog post featuring Drew. He registered the first Dropbox domain (getdropbox.com I think) on Namecheap. That's when I decided to give Namecheap a try, and I'm so glad I did.

Haven't been disappointed since. Thank you!
Except McKinsey didn't hire them after getting the contracts, but before, which clearly positions it to get many contracts. A few years back, it was clear as day that most of the govt business went to McKinsey in the Middle East, while BCG and Bain often received scraps.

Relevant article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-growing-saudi-business-mckin...
"entire network already consumes 10% of global electricity production" - [citation needed].

I keep encountering blatantly wrong claims like "10 largest ships pollute more than entire Europe" or "unplugging unused chargers is important" or "there is no global warming" or "global warming threatens extinction of Homo Sapiens" so often that I stopped treating such claims seriously, unless there are proper verifiable nonpaywalled citations.
If it is possible to use proof that is lovely; but it isn't necessary. Things have been engineered to very high levels of reliability with only the most tangential reliance on proofs.

Software is highly unusual in that proofs can even be deployed. Most highly safe processes can't even use proofs. How do you prove that a dam won't fail? It is impossible.
Please, DO NOT BUY currency from farming bots, enjoy the lore and learn the game mechanics, it's much more rewarding.

I've given this game over 2k hours of my life and I have no regrets. If you have fun with games where there's a LOT to learn, steer away from EVE Online, it will steal your life.
As I said in another post,

> This is a very hard problem. It's a regulation on a quality that is a very fast moving target with weak consensus.

Doing this in a regulatory way just isn't viable today.

> the few effective ways

I disagree that they're effective. I don't think they are. Lots of companies with a SOC2 are breached, no company that people consider 'very secure' has earned that reputation due to SOC2 (or any other compliance for that matter).
Nothing much has changed: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/10/24/something-rotten-i...

Are we witnessing the greatest fraud in history?
From a purely utilitarian point of view, I can’t argue with that. If almost everyone speaks English and your only goal is to be able to communicate effectively, a native English-speaker gains little from learning any other language. I suppose the benefits I have found in studying other languages are more subjective.

For example, I enjoy travelling and exploring other cultures. If I’m going to be spending some time in someone else’s community, I feel both a little vulnerable and a little… inconsiderate?… if I haven’t studied at least the rudiments of their language and culture before I go. Sometimes the locals seem to appreciate it if we’ve made the effort as well, even if we’re obviously tourists and only able to do basic things like ordering lunch or simply being polite and friendly using their language. And of course, not everyone speaks English, particularly once you move away from the main tourist areas.

Sometimes I also find it interesting to see foreign perspectives on current events. Brexit is the obvious recent example given I’m a Brit, but more generally, I think it’s healthy to see different views of international relations or global issues from time to time, and sometimes also to understand the domestic politics of our geographic neighbours and our foreign partners in trade or other matters.

As a rather different point to end on, I think studying languages in school can also be helpful just for expanding the young mind. It requires being able to see things from different points of view and to think logically, and I think those are healthy characteristics to develop in general. IMHO, school at that age shouldn’t just be about memorising raw facts and figures and about learning economically valuable skills.
They are about protecting the company.

https://classunity.org/racism-and-responsibilization-in-whit...
Lot of developers don't care about performance at all. Knuth must be regretting his life choices when he knows webshits write O(n²) code when O(n) code would be equally straightforward, and allocate memory gratiously, misquoting "premature optimization is root of all evil". Most of them also have latest hardware and don't know the user experience / business consequences of this.

Lack of knowledge of proper computer science fundamentals among blue collar developers is also a reason for this.
Someone cue in the appropriate xkcd about n+1 standards.
Anandtech should have an article with primary source instead of this estimate. ( Assuming they are allow to publish it )

1. It is no use discussing yield % without putting the die size. It is defect density per cm2 that is the most important factor. ( Your yield percentage change due to design and die size )

2. 5nm defect density is better than 7nm comparing them in the same stage of development. i.e Very Good.

3. TSMC is actually open and transparent with their progress and metrics. Both in Investor Meetings and Technical Forum. ( And with their business partners.... something most other Foundry aren't doing as well )

4. Most of these calculations in the comment are in BOM cost, which completely ignores the Design Cost ( Billion ) and Research Cost, in terms of Apple that is Architecture Cost, and IP Cost such IMG, FPGA ( Lattice ) etc that are paid per unit. ( Edit: And testing, packaging cost, but it is relatively small )

5. Hopefully with these figures in mind, you will see how Qualcomm is fighting hard to compete, considering they will have to sell it with at least 50% margin. ( And why Nvidia dont necessarily want to be in the Mobile SoC market, as suggested in the ARM- Nivdia discussions previously )

6. And then you should realise, how the ARM royalty portion is not an important cost factor. ( As per all ARM or RISC-V discussion on HN )

7. You should also notice the trend of Wafer Pricing. Hopefully that will finally shape your view on Moore's law.
I had to read the paragraph a few times, but I think what is being said is that "Joe has hosted self proclaimed neo-Nazis'.
Probably in the tens of billions plus a decade to get something advanced working. You can do older nodes yes, and there is plenty of business there but your competitors have already amortized those costs and have business relationships built already.
This article will answer your question:

https://classunity.org/racism-and-responsibilization-in-whit...
We do know that when the price of oil goes up people buy smaller and more economical cars and when it goes down they do the opposite.

If the market re-routed around that by building electric cars for instance then isn't that exactly what we want?

The nice thing about fossil fuels is it's fairly easy to identify and tax extraction. The problem is those industries will fight tooth and nail against any attempt to tax them.

On the other hand I do wonder what happens if carbon taxes become a substantial proportion of government revenues. Then there could be a tension between raising revenue and reducing consumption.
I agree with you entirely, and I think that will be my plan. It could be a problem though if US society is back to "normal" with a "vaccine" that ends up rushed through some how, and I'm one of a few crazy holdouts that don't trust it.

Would any of our Russian comrades reading along care to weigh in on how they're feeling about getting the vaccine on release day?
> Reminds me of an ex girlfriend that would account for coins she found on the ground in her monthly budget...

Where do you find enough coins on the ground for that? I haven't come across any in my entire life.
Yeah this is happening everywhere. See: https://classunity.org/racism-and-responsibilization-in-whit...
I find this kind of arguments ridiculous. Sure PGP is not perfect in all cases, but advocating not using it at all is like throwing away the baby with the bath water.

And personally, I think the points made it the linked article are weak.