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>I could really hear it in his talk why he moved on to spend more time on his next passion

what is he moving onto?
Is it? I feel that people vastly overestimate the actual number of competent programmers (not managers, CxOs, etc) many projects need.

Consider that even here on HN we have one person who wrote their own HTML5 renderer, JS-like scripting language, CSS, etc from scratch (csmile). How do you figure that to go from that to what is needed to make a browser that renders sites properly you need to add more than 49 additional programmers?
> For those making quips about Russia: Assange has already claimed the source was _not_ Russia.

Assuming Assange is telling the truth, how would he even know who the ultimate source was?

I mean, Russia might be sophisticated enough to not pass on information like this using someone with an obvious connection to them. It's not like their agents are required to have an accent out of a Bond movie and wear a KGB/FSB uniform all the time.
It's usually quite fast. It's using web sockets so it's full duplex. You may have hit a rate limit. Rate limits (albeit generous) are in place to prevent abuse.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/the-download-on-the-dnc-...

He won't elaborate on the DNC hack because he says he has no original reporting. Does that mean no one on the forums or in the subculture talks about it?

He said:

"Based on what I’ve learned over the past decade studying Russian language, culture and hacking communities, my sense is that if the Russians were responsible and wanted to hide that fact — they’d have left a trail leading back to some other country’s door."

And note, the founders of phishing in the early 90s were mostly teenage kids, maybe 14-16. It doesn't take a state actor to 'spear phish'.
Oh, the CIA, you say? Yeah, let's believe what the CIA says. They can definitely be trusted at their word and they never have done anything questionable. /s
If anything, that's more impressive in a way. The NVIDIA presentation for the 30xx series was the first time it really "clicked" for me, despite having a 2080 in my PC for a while now.

The RTX cards dedicate something like 30% of the silicon and power "budget" to neural-nets.

This isn't something designed to appease only the ML crowd, it's used for gaming. The graphics you see is 30% ML noise reduction and upscaling.

I used to think of "AI accelerators" as some sort of gimmick, one-trick ponies like Apple's face recognition. Useful for a handful of apps, a few seconds at a time.

But no, in the RTX series of cards, the "AI stuff" is drawing nearly 100 watts and doing real work, making ray tracing viable and making 1080p look better than 4K.
I have a home one, it cost about $2k to buy, but the LEDs are dropping in price so fast it will be cheaper in future.
I keep my tabs under control and always set FF to start with a fresh session so I loose all tabs every day. Works for me.

The new FF for android though forces a new tab to get to my favorite websites and does not allow for a clean session after close, so I now have 47 open, mostly the same 4 websites :s
Apocalipsya zombie coming!!
Eh I don’t think the US is afraid of competition, but what competition exactly? Chinese companies can freely operate in the US, but American companies can’t freely operate in China? Obviously that isn’t going to go on forever. None of this would be happening if Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. we’re allowed to operate in China like TikTok is/was allowed to operate in the US.
The the 2nd amendment is irrelevant here. That amendment only applies within the US and this is about export controls. Pretty much every US constitutional protection disintegrates once the issue becomes international.
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> In the event that Assange could prove some other actor sourced the emails, that would mean that the FBI, NSA, and CIA were wrong, ...

Which is just about impossible for him to prove. Does Assange have access to the kind of IT forensics experts, access to the hacked systems and other resources to prove someone else did it? No, he does not. He didn't do the hacking himself. Whoever he did get the leaked info from could of course claim not to be working for the Russians as an intermediary. But that is just a claim, and not proof.
I can see the spike protein added to all the common cold viruses, if the capsid is big enough, so we would get a dose of capsid with every cold (less if we have a flu shot that hits). They can also use any spreadable virus that does not give long immunity (since we need new spike antigen exposure every year it seems, since that immunity wanes).
What could go wrong? The spike alone carries no problems. it is the associated virus executibles that unpack from Covid-19 after entry that do the harm.
It is a worthwhile approach but the path will be long as they will have to make sure there is no risk of 'gain of function'
>It's a point of information, not an endorsement

Well, you have to realize when you link Fox News, most people wouldn't call that a "point of information".. If one links any obviously biased news site, then it is perceived more of an endorsement than just putting a 'fact' out there.
So we just say now that "The American Way" and our system of government and laws isn't good, and we should just do what China does?

I don't like that idea very much. We're supposed to be above that.
I’m not an expert on this, but my guess would be: it’s logistically very difficult to produce the required number of doses. They’ve been gearing up all over the world to get ready. So, I would think that you really don’t want to spend those resources on a vaccine that’s either 1) not safe, or 2) not as effective as you thought it was.
Overstating it? Folks are not all behaving responsibly as it is, so nothing new there. Deploying in larger numbers, then measuring the result is gathering data too. There are massive consequences to the plague as it is.
The transcript is a textbook example of begging the question. And the first paragraph fully spells out why Hannity was there, which was to try and dispel the idea that Russia helped Trump. Hannity doesn't even pretend.

Not to mention the way the questions were worded allowed Assange to answer without answering. Did the Russian government directly give Assange that data? No, and that would be hilariously inept for Russia. The way Hannity phrases all his questions allows Assange to easily answer "no." Just a terrible interview.

This "interview" is why Hannity is not, and should not be considered, a journalist.
Why is preteen a coveted demographic for a business? Are you able to point me to something I can read that would explain why a business wants to court what to me seems like a financially handcuffed group? I understand that preteens can influence their guardians into making a purchase for a toy or some other small ticket item, but they're not going to influence big ticket purchases. Or do they?
NIR acts on the mitochondria. This is already proven along with movement therapy in small studies. The price of NIR and red light fall with LEDs. So if it works even a bit now, in 5 years when LEDs are much cheaper it will be the first line.
I'm still going to wipe down my plastic and cardboard groceries when it's not a complete pain, but I'm probably not going to worry about spraying my produce with hydrogen peroxide.
I can't deny it - I'm enjoying it a bit too. Trump's disregard for legal process or even common decency is exactly how I've seen leaders in my country act.

BUT I have to say that even in my 3rd world country, President/Prime Minister tier leaders rarely, if ever, succumb to the kind of rhetoric Trump uses. Usually, that's reserved for tier-2 leaders.
> That seemed to be a bug and is fixed now.

That's likely the case, it looks like I had an old version installed in Termux. But in any event that's just a matter of getting an intelligible error message, and not fixing the underlying problem.

> I think wormhole uses only 99 channels [1] so it is also susceptible to a DOS attack.

In that case I'd certainly have the same concern.

> But generally, collisions in channels can occur but are probably pretty rare because I don't have enough people using croc simultaneously to collide.

I disagree. Suppose you only average 2 users at a time. In this case ~1/630 connections will randomly collide, just by chance, which means that some people have certainly experienced this already. IMO that's too high, and in any case the relay code certainly shouldn't be written to only support <10 channels. (Note that the number of collisions will actually be higher than my back of the envelope math suggests, because some 3 character prefixes will be more common than others since you're using English words.)

Importantly - Wormhole doesn't have this problem, even though it technically has a lower channel limit, because it allocates channels dynamically instead of having the client pick them.

IMO it's also pretty weird to take the channel ID from the beginning of the passphrase. This takes away any entropy you'd otherwise get from the first word, since you're using a wordlist, which means the effective size of the secret used for PAKE is only about 1600^2. If you're okay with that, just use the entire word. It seems pretty low to me.

But yes I would like to see more work done to mitigate extremely easy DOS attacks, given that this seems like the most obvious vulnerability to these relay-managed PAKE approaches.
There could be, but there won't, because that would be aesthetically unpleasant.
How big an overlap do you think the TikTok market and the "willing and able to set up and pay for a VPN on their phone" market is?
Actually, "paese" is the normal translation for country (optionally with capital "P" if one wants to avoid ambiguities with the "town" meaning)

> nobody will ever say that Germany or France are a "paese"

Google lists > 200.000 results for "la Germania è un paese".
Since you brought up LHC, here is an anecdote.

I worked on software development tools used directly for LHC as part of an internship.

That experience was of zero use when I tried to apply for a PhD later. It did get me several $BIGN internships though.

Make what you want of this story.
/gestures vaguely at Facebook, Google, every single digital ad network...

That's different though because china scary
Assange stating it didn't come from Russia is meaningless.

He has no way of knowing if where he got them from was hired by Russia.
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Please don't throw mental health diagnosis willy-nilly around on the internet. Not only is it impossible for you to make such a diagnosis, it is rude to both the community you are using as a punch line and to the poster.
Agreed. Here it means, older than 50. Which is still running marathons, still having children, still working, still riding century rides for some.
I would love to know the full story on how we ended up with the "hey, we use cookies" legislation? Of all the ineffectual privacy laws, that one sure surely takes the cake. Has _anyone_ _anywhere_ ever left a web site because of that warning?
> It really seems like one of these fringe conspiracy theories that doesn't really make sense as soon as you start digging a bit.

Because it is. Don't waste your attention on this.
Speaking as an American, Brazil is here, it’s just not evenly distributed.
I don't think she wants to work for a company which wouldn't hire her because of that anyway, so it'd be automated bullet dodging.
Sounds like "plausible deniability" where you can not guarantee that the email you just got from vladmir at gmail is not from the Russian government.
AGI, artificial general intelligence as an independent researcher.
You aren't going to find any one category of thing that uses a "significant" fraction of total electrical energy or fossil fuel. Dismissing efforts because of that won't lead to meaningful betterment.
Yet every time this is posted the default response is that China has done worse to US companies, so It's only fair! How do you reply to that? (not asking rhetorically)
It's more likely he was murdered for doing something he shouldn't have been doing rather than anything else. The area where he lived had no shooting in the past 16 years or so, and this young guy gets clearly murdered for no reason and not even robbed?

Rich was pissed at what the DNC did to Bernie (look at his past), and I think it's a fair guess to say he wanted to screw them over. He was in the perfect position to do so. If that's the truth, why Assange won't leak that, I'm not sure.

On top of all this, CrowdStrike themselves said under oath that it's likely it was hacked internally, although they have now conveniently changed their stance. See my original comment.
> Using modern optical sensors which detected the precise time of passage of the pendulum without disturbing it, he compared its rate to an atomic clock for a month. He found that it was stable to 200 microseconds per day (2.31 ppb), equivalent to an error rate of one second in 12 years, far more accurate than the 1 second per year that was previously measured.

This is incredible. Its performance matched or exceeded quartz oscillators in modern electronic systems [0]. It's the ultimate (electro-)mechanical clock [1].

A good general-purpose quartz crystal oscillator is only stable to 20,000 ppb, a good temperature-compensated oscillator is stable to 1000 ppb, and a crystal oven (a quartz crystal in a sealed, temperature-controller oven, the best quartz oscillator you can ever made) is stable to 1 ppb. And this ultimate mechanical clock is stable to 2.31 ppb [0], I'd happy to use it as the time base for my SDR receiver or spectrum analyzer if I was given the chance... It's only measured for a month, so long-term stability can be worse (and crystal oven's short-term stability can be better), but you get the idea.

> Shortt clocks kept time with two pendulums, a master pendulum swinging in a vacuum tank and a slave pendulum in a separate clock, which was synchronized to the master by an electric circuit and electromagnets. The slave pendulum was attached to the timekeeping mechanisms of the clock, leaving the master pendulum virtually free of external disturbances.

The basic principle of accurate timekeeping - using a free-running primary oscillator as a reference, and lock a less-accurate secondary oscillator to the primary, is vital in electronic systems. Atomic clocks, radio/GPS time signal receivers, or NTP, all use this principle. This clock basically implemented a rudimentary form of PLL mechanically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oven#Comparison_with_o...

[1] Now electro-mechanical clocks are making the comeback, in the form of MEMS oscillators in consumer electronics. But MEMS oscillators are often slightly worse than its equivalent crystal oscillators, and their main advantage is size (i.e. chip-scale integration), not accuracy.
I detest sharia law in general and the whole idea of a religious authority making rules others then have to follow but... There are subtle and important differences between Islamic finance and non Islamic finance and there are upsides to the Islamic approach. One example of this is that there is no chance of bankruptcy from debts or negative equity. This strongly encourages responsible lending.
Canada and the US are pretty integrated. Do US ISPs need to block WeChat traffic that is transiting the US, say coming from China to a user standing in Canada or the UK? That sort of blocking could have serious impacts beyond wechat/tiktok.
It's the primary source. The point of information is what Assange said while being interviewed by Hannity on Fox News.
From experience, what happens internally in an organization is quite different from what is visible from the outside. Making up numbers like that is just a terrible insult to the people who work on a lot of useful stuff in Mozilla.
Harmful lies, like what exactly?

You have morons out there saying corona is fake and mask are tool of enslavement + the whole Q mess.

Rogan is saying to wear masks and stay healthy.
Only think that he is saying wrong is the amount of vitamins to take (he is actually taking too much).

And he has no "I'm joking bro". As a matter of fact he is quite humble and admits when he is wrong. I don't know what you expect him to do? Fact check every minute of 3h conversation?

Look what you did, you roped me into defending podcast I listen to few time a month...
You may be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_structure%E2%80%9...

It's a family of methods to try to predict the properties of molecules using computer, in particular from similar molecules. There are a thousand of variants that are useful in some cases. It can be used for an initial filtering or to get some ideas, but it can not replace [1] a clinical trial.

[1] For now, and probably for a long time. Nobody know what will happen in a few decades/centuries.
I think if we reduce the common things (like the cold and flu) too much we will have more serious infections sweeping across the planet. The immune system needs training too.

Just like for kids living in a clean environment (no dogs, dirt, etc.) are more prone to illnesses.
Yeah because the FSB can't use a cutout to send data to Wikileaks /s
Thanks for the context, that joke about the 2nd amendment's widening scope had indeed gone over my head.

> You need to broaden your news sources

To be fully honest, I don't think I "need" to anything. My life doesn't revolve around having an accurate impression of the US. The image your country spreads of itself is one of loud angry lefties on the coasts and gun wielding red necks in-between. I'm sure that reality is very different, but don't blame me for the bad country marketing :-)
This is quite a staggering amount imo... Why not just avoid painstaking and just start fresh? Is this a form of FOMO?

Edit, you are at the point where you need a search engine for your tabs, you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs.

If I may ask, on what basis did you close all those tabs, did you read them all? What will you do with the rest?
This idea seems to strike many different people at different times. One my favorites is the ANS synthesizer [0], made with optical tone wheels. There's an android app simulating it [1] (my only relation with it is "user").
The synth presented in this github page really goes a step beyond.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org
/wiki/ANS_synthesizer

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nightradio.vir...
>> portion sizes are gigantic

Agreed. My wife and I typically get an appetizer and split a dish at restaurants. In lieu of having to pay for another meal we typically tip nicely.
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Does this affect users outside the US?
I'm not very keen on calling that "liberal". For one, it goes against the very definition of liberalism, which covers equality and liberty. No individual should be judged based on factors they don't control. A liberal would not oppose free speech.

But the main reason I disagree with this "liberal trend", which I'd call "leftist trend", is that I disagree with them and identify as a liberal.
The CIA cannot lie to US legislators without committing a federal crime. They can choose not to disclose information to the public and “neither confirm nor deny” but they can’t knowingly tell a lie.
I thought airline pilots and marines trained specifically to avoid taking unnecessary risks in an emergency. They rely on playbooks, checklists, training.

There are also other tools left in the Arsenal before throwing Hail Mary passes — like, everyone could wear masks.
What do you mean by PGP "not [being] as secure as the people using it thought that it was"? Can you mention something specific?
Assange is bastard that works with Russian Government.
@dang Can we fix the spelling? It should be WeChat.
It wasn't a "reasonable speculation". More like pure fiction, simply intended to denigrate the target.
Or "hide" the stuff you don't like. I like to do that so that when I come back 10 times later that day I don't continually have that annoyance when seeing the story again.
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I am listening what justification you will bring for my browser downloading 3MB of crap to display 500 bytes of actual information which requires zero interactivity, and for sure does not need you hijacking the scrolling.

The problem is that web devs got so involved with their toys, that the toys themselves became alpha and omega. Use case, users, accessibility: who cares! All I know is React (mind you, not even JavaScript, but React), so I will build everything with React. And maybe throw MobX in, because I just happen to learn it.

Watching what's going on is part-amusing and part-horrifying. Alas, the latter part grows faster.
That is the standard in scientific computing languages, as well as math. Fortran and Matlab are both 1-based.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

Italy, Turkey and Russia were pretty much not third world countries when that word had a political meaning.

Later on it became a synonym for developing world, which basically rules out most of the rest of your list, since Brazil, Argentina and Philippines aren't on that list either.

So I assume you just use it a slur, meaning that those countries have a dysfunctional political systems, with corrupted strongmen; ok, I guess; just say "corrupt, failed, authoritarian political systems"; third world brings too much baggage, needlessly insulting people who live in those countries and who produce vibrant economies that have nothing to do the perception of starving masses associated with the "third world" slur.
And Russia would like to be seen as completely uninvolved in the whole matter.
/r/gaming is fuming about scalpers/resellers, and someone (allegedly) made a bot to bid on eBay listings just so they can't sell. Some were going for over $90,000 as of today.
I think they are asking for something like "App Store Policy", except from the US government.

Current App Stores are capricious and make mistakes, but they are not completely random as the TikTok and WeChat bans.
You're saving money, but this doesn't necessarily translate to energy savings, the excess you were paying was overhead for the VPS company.

While a server in a typical DC would use way more power than a home system, it's also theoretically possible that they are running at near 100% load, meaning all that energy is used doing SOMETHING, whereas your home PC is burning watts at idle.
No, OpenSCAD and FreeCAD aren't similar. OpenSCAD is functional CSG, FreeCAD includes a module to do that (with a interactive GUI), and more importantly, FreeCAD includes OpenSCAD as a workbench- write an openscad program, get the geometry output and then use it FreeCAD for further steps.
What about the Republican majority Senate Select Committee on Intelligence?

> "The committee found no reason to dispute the intelligence community’s conclusions," Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican chairman of the panel, said.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-report-affirms-u-s-intel...
They (CIA, NSA, US deep state in general) are in the business of lying. The WMDs that Saddam had? The Gulf of Tonkin incident?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
If this stick, it could be very bad for Apple. This is something that can make lots of people switch off of iPhones. Millions of Chinese abroad probably want to have sideloading WeChat as an option