skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a 1,000 page bipartisan Senate report about Russian meddling in the 2016 election just released a few weeks ago [1]. The Senate intelligence committee is controlled by the GOP, so it's unlikely that this is some sort of partisan effort, and it's pretty damning.

Here's a summary of some of the key findings [2]. Among other things, the head of the Trump campaign was sharing confidential campaign information with an individual that the new GOP report identifies as a "Russian intelligence officer". It's all around pretty shocking stuff, if we lived in a world where people could be shocked anymore.

> Kilimnik was also the “primary liaison” between Manafort and one of his clients, sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to the Senate report, which also alleges that Manafort “worked with Kilimnik starting in 2016 on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.”

> The GOP-led committee said it “obtained some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected to the GRU's hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election,” a reference to the Russian cyberattacks that targeted the DNC in the run-up to the election.

> Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the Intelligence Committee, hinted that senators have additional information, including “evidence connecting Kilimnik to the GRU's hack-and-leak operations,” but those elements are redacted.

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/press/rubio-statement-se...
[2] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512613-five-tak...
Ken Wilson wrote a beautiful popular article on the renormalization group for SciAm in 1979.

https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~wrs/Project/2014-summer%20sem...
In US

Would say the CDN will hurt TikTok the most.
Should not be too difficult to estimate the actual number: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central

Same deal regarding people who work on FF vs those who work on FS
I'll take that bet. You've got $10 if stock Blender supports parametric modeling on 18 September, 2021. You are invited to email me at my HN username @ gmail.com
> People who it seems are too blinded by their hatred of others to notice their noses being cut off right in front of their own eyes...

You mean the people so blinded by hatred that they attack, burn and destroy the shops and residences of uninvolved parties? The people so blinded by hatred they can't even give the president credit for making peace between multiple middle eastern countries, and bringing back the soldiers that have been reponsible for thousands of innocent deaths there? The people who march down streets chanting "fuck you Jesus!"?
None of those optimizations matter in the context of energy efficiency, to make a material difference for global warming
I think you’re mistaken: This is hacker news, not institution-trained software engineer news.
>Said differently, if I'm gonna pay you 300k per year, you'd better have the exact skills I search for.

If only executive salaries with golden parachutes were as discriminating as developer negotiations.
Excellent comment. This level of deception is disgusting. I can't believe I have to scroll to the bottom of a HN political post to find out what's really going on.
> a bit more entropy

The appropriate use of "bit" here made me smile.
You can choose to use int_least_8_t or int_fast8_t as the implementation type blc_int8 of Blech type int8 for code generation https://github.com/boschresearch/blech/blob/master/src/blech...
So you can adopt to your needs on your platform.
Hisilicon owns surveillance chip market, like 90+% of the market. TI used to own it but was beaten to death in about 3 years time span there.

Based on recent Huawei silicon restrictions, not sure if there will be any alternatives.

the best and secure way for surveillance market will be like PC in the old days, i.e. off-the-shelf components with open source code releases that anyone can install and upgrade.
> protecting US interests,

I think this is increasingly protecting the interest of the super rich (those with vested interests in large corps). Not "the people".

I'm not claiming other govts are better. Just saying they've shown they cannot be trusted.
The hygiene hypothesis is about infection in the development age preventing the insurgence of allergic and autoimmune diseases; it does not say in any way that being infected with a virus protects you from an unrelated, worse virus.
> As an iOS developer who worked with apps that access camera frequently, I can confidently say that it's just a UX optimization. Starting the camera takes a brief few hundred milliseconds which is easily noticable from a user perspective.

Look at it from a user's perspective:

As a user, I don't know you. I have no reason to believe you. If I see my camera being accessed, I have no way to tell whether the data stream gets processed by the app or sent straight to /dev/null. I'd have to assume the latter on trust. But what reasons to do that does your app give me? The loads of ads assaulting me? Or perhaps the malicious UX dark patterns sprinkled everywhere? The regular media stories about omnipresent surveillance capitalism don't reassure me either.

It may very well be a performance optimization in Instagram, or in many other applications. But users have no way to know it, no way to be sure of it, or (in most cases) no way to even conceive that such optimization is needed. Meanwhile, they have perfectly good reasons to assume nefarious purpose.
they protect their bureaucracy first, American people second.
Once again we confront the terrible consequences of large corporate powers (e.g. App Store signing) being able to, in an instant upon legal demand or other state threat, function as a government censorship department.

https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/

This is a huge ticking time bomb: insofar as the government can order large, centralized corporations to block, censor, alter, or otherwise impede your person-to-person communications, it's only a matter of time before it's a direct issue for health and safety, whether it be disaster, unrest, or war.

Sure, it might be illegal, or might get unwound in court in the weeks or months or years to follow. But in the meantime, you're cut off from friends, family, and information, and your family might not survive the disaster or crisis that triggered the government demand long enough to have the wrong turned right in court, much later.

This is an existential threat to a free society. The state must not be able to pick up the phone and have your communications tools shut off in bulk.

What happens when there's a wildfire or a natural disaster or a war and the military demands that Facebook disable Messenger and WhatsApp and that Apple disable iMessage in a certain region, on national security grounds?

We built a network designed to survive a nuclear war, and then somehow recentralized all of the node-to-node communications edges in an overlay network, squandering that whole benefit.
Oh, yeah, I should probably have been clearer; I don't mean to imply that it's similar to the situation in the USSR.
Given the state of surveillance technology today, it's pretty hard for me to believe that any large hacking organization manages to fly under the radar of their governments for very long. You need infrastructure, equipment, and financial capabilities to pull off what these groups manage.

These groups are either working explicitly with governments, or their leadership has been approached by domestic police forces and are strong-armed into focusing their attention on specific organizations.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Being skeptical of Putin's Russia is simply logical given his track record.
"root access via telnet...The telnet daemon is running on the device by default, and there is no way to disable it via the official admin web interface"

That brings a bit of nostalgia on for me. Interesting that a modern device would be set up this way.
Some code samples can be found in `test/blechc/codegeneration`, I guess they serve as compiler test cases.
If there are already running threads on the topic (and looking at them, commenting started pretty much immediately), duplicates don't do the sites any good (and are not supposed to even be submitted), so flaggin them is not a problem IMHO, although it is good custom to add a comment pointing to the already existing threads.
A lot of people would probably deny camera permissions to Instagram (and upload by sharing from gallery if they upload content), and their reputation would take a significant hit (currently they aren't known to covertly gather any personal data beyond generic OS-provided statistics).

Also Instagram isn't really essential to communicate and learn about events in the way the main Facebook service is, so stopping to use it is highly feasible.
Actually as you get higher in the pay skills, people often pay the most for rock solid algorithms and cs, not "is an expert in kubernetes"
Two registrars I like:

internet.bs
inwx.net

gandi.net has a terrible interface. But free Email hosting included. If you need email hosting only, try swiss based infomaniak.com
Configuring Wake-on-LAN
Steam goes down to 20%

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/d...
In the spectrum of "evil", I'd rather an NSA run by American citizens to have my data than the Chinese government. I can, in theory, at least elect representatives to change the policies of the NSA. I have no such power over China, and China is actively censoring and repressing citizens who even mildly criticize the state.

How are those the same?
100% agree with it. As a child, I always felt most creative when the number of lego pieces was limited. Like, what can I make that's cool with just these two handfuls of lego? Where would this weird piece go, and what could it be?

Unlimited possibility bogs me down. I get frozen.
It's sad that just as all the technology in smart phones is reaching people, so many places are clamping down and sacrificing all the benefits to keep control.
Airbnb REQUIRES recording you call but if you want to record they REFUSE call
Called Airbnb today and they said they are REQUIRED to record me (wont talk to me without it) and will NOT allow me to record them (they will hang up if you try)? Totally unfair, just like their service, VRBO anyone?
all the HiSilicon stuff I've RE'd had hardcoded root passwords less than 8 characters in length, and a telnet server running with root login permitted. many of the passwords I've run across are actually the SDK defaults. all but one used the default webadmin setup included with the SDK that allows downloading a config backup that includes the passwd file. not much need for a back door when the front door is wide open...
It was written in 2013... when Servo was announced. Servo was originally intended to replace Gecko. Anything else is a retcon.

Saying "large parts of that work landed in Firefox" is misleading. A browser engine is a huge thing, and most of Servo is not in Firefox. If you just want to replace a few parts, creating an entirely new engine from scratch is far from the most efficient way.

Why does this matter? Well, because decisions have consequences. Way back in 2013, they were feeling pressure from Chrome, and decided the best way to compete was to rewrite the browser engine (in a brand new language to boot). The original engine stagnated, and here we are 7 years later. What a colossal failure.
Those filters are picking up auto-generated css classes that will most likely change sometime soon, although there’s not much you can do to counter that until one of the filter lists starts to track them. Just FYI in case you wonder why it stops working suddenly.
By this logic, we basically still don't even have offline ray-tracing.

Both Renderman and Hyperion have denoisers that Pixar and Disney use on feature films.

> And because we could not afford to render images to convergence, we needed to develop a robust denoising solution

> The denoiser is used on most production shots, and is run automatically unless disabled

https://www.yiningkarlli.com/projects/hyperiondesign/hyperio...

(The fact that Hyperion uses a denoiser does not mean that it isn't rendering via path tracing. Similarly, the fact that real-time rendering uses a denoiser does not mean it isn't rendering via path tracing. dealing with noise is the name of the game, and machine learning isn't somehow "out of bounds")
Americans still talk about politics over dinner.

This advice is more about protecting Europeans from an uncomfortable experience on vacation because of exposure to political views they will find objectionable, than about some fundamental inability to talk about politics in the U.S.
> Pretty much everyone acknowledges the books are almost always better. Part of the reason is this, yes.

It's usually not the reason, though. People say "the book is better" because films necessarily have to remove a bunch of content in order to fit within a movie timeframe, which requires changing the narrative arc. That's an entirely unrelated issue.
I mean, even presidents before Trump often used it rather arbitrarily, but Trump is definitely a new low in recent history.

I think you could divide uses of this power into a few categories:

- Righting past wrongs; pardoning people convicted under old laws now repealed and considered immoral - this is the primary use in most countries that retain a pardon.

- Influencing policy; pardoning people convicted under existing laws that the pardoner is personally opposed to - this happens in the US a bit.

- Electoral franchise; pardoning people to restore their right to vote - this one is mostly only US relevant, as most developed democracies (including large parts of the US) don't remove the franchise for this reason.

- Patronage - Pardoning personal friends/contributors/etc. This historically happened quite a lot in the US.

- Quid pro quo - Trump seems to be the main offender here.
What makes you think HN users “rely on institutional knowledge” more than anyone else? My experience is exactly the opposite.
That seems like a reasonable request, possibly clear up some of the hysterical conspiracy theories.
It "is" clear that the Russians/Chinese/Iranians/Naughty Koreans are keen to disrupt the US elections and did so in 2016 as well.
All very entertaining, thanks for the show!
> Running your site in a container on a shared host will be significantly more energy efficient then running hardware. It's silly to claim otherwise.

Probably not. Running your own hardware implies more total hardware because you're not going to be able to saturate your hardware as efficiently as Amazon/Google/MS/etc. Moreover, you'll need to hire more people to work on that hardware (doing the work that Amazon/MS/Google do for you--and let's not pretend that cloud provider work is trivial).

That said, I don't exactly understand the calculus here because it's not like you're creating people who wouldn't otherwise exist for the sole purpose of operating your hardware.

> The issue is how many computations you do at runtime. That is completely unrelated to third party libraries.

Presumably the logic is that third-party libraries cause bloat, and bloat that needs to be sent to the client every time they reload your page (modulo cache hits). And it's certainly far more energy intensive to send a megabyte across a continent than to load it from memory into CPU cache or whatever.
It is worse than just getting out of their seat really. Even if they regularly formed mobs of protesters and weren't ignored or took harsh measures to force the issues quickly they would still come back. Even going to the extreme of killing everyone who fits the label wouldn't fix it long term as someone else looking for easy money would try to fill the niche whenever their personal courage outweighed the ambient terror.

The only way to fix the issue long term is to replace them and fill the niche better than they can. Needless to say doing so personally risks becoming as bad as those they set out to replace and creating an automated AI official/manager/business entity capable of doing their job better than them and getting it accepted in the face of centuries of stories warning of it being a bad idea before it even existed are very tall orders. It isn't like they are telephone switchboard operators who can be replaced by an impartial dialing mechanism by a disgruntled funeral home owner.
A Rails style framework would be really nice. I tried to get a Rocket/Diesel/Juniper setup working and it was a lot of futzing with types. One framework would be a lot smoother and get around any orphan rule issues.

The only question is how much Rails-style magic we'd want. We could get pretty crazy with macros but IME the debugging story with the macros used in Juniper wasn't great (maybe it's gotten better?).
Literally no one who voted for Trump wanted or expected him to be bound by the conventions of the office, rather the opposite.
Unfortunately mainstream undercurrents of islamaphobia/orientalism have hijacked the english use of an arabic word "Sharia" and made it into a knee-jerk scare word.

It seems weird to pronounce that you detest it in general since it's not a monolithic thing and is more of a general concept encompassing a law tradition informed by a moral/religious framework.

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-sharia/

https://ing.org/a-closer-look-at-sharia-in-the-united-states...
Of course, I tottally agree. I am not talkng at all about tracking, and 3rd party services at all.

I was talking mostly about the actual application logic and presentation.

BTW tracking is hapening even w/o javascript.
Amp It Up – Essay by Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake
Same institutions who said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Supercomputing on Nitro in AWS Cloud
A U.S. government department taking actions on behalf of the U.S. government for the U.S. population. What do you think?
Unless they wanted it known, that is most likely the case. The non/-statements by Assange around Seth Rich are worth considering too, the Mueller report apparently establishes a chronology whereby he would've known these documents weren't coming from a single person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich#WikiLeaks_...
Well I can supply plenty of watts, but at some point I reach the limit of performance.
and Fox News wouldn't run the interview if they didn't like the results, so in that sense they are biased, just like NPR,PBS,CNN,MSNBC and everybody else.
So your strategy is to dismiss "mainstream corporate-backed news" and instead watch comedians on Youtube? Hard to take that seriously.

My comment links to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, NBC News, the WSJ quoting Republican leadership, and CrowdStrike's own account. They're all collaborating on some elaborate lie and Jimmy Dore has dug up the truth? Give me a break.

I don't know if you're mostly joking; if so, I'll admit it's over my head.
The term "backdoor" is motivation-neutral - while this is a backdoor, you don't have enough information to establish intent, so I'm surprised at this conclusion:

> While most vulnerabilities seem unintentional (i.e. coding mistakes), one of them stands out. The hardcoded password is a deliberate backdoor.

It certainly could be, and there are good arguments that it probably is, but it also could be something they put in for testing and forgot to take out. (It could be quite literally a backdoor they deliberately added during testing but didn't intend to ship in production.) Certainly there's no shortage of US-based companies that have done this and have offered that rationale for why their production products have backdoors.

It's also not a backdoor that the Chinese government (or whoever) can particularly easily exploit, since it listens on your local network. Unless you're connecting it directly to the internet or forwarding the admin port from the public internet with no further authentication, it's not accessible to outside attackers.

If they had an automatic firmware update mechanism that connected to a server on the internet, that would be much more easily accessible (but also, we generally don't call automatic update mechanisms "backdoors").
Animals' Magnetic 'Sixth Sense' Might Come from Bacteria
No, this is a backdoor in application software that runs on a device based on huawei silicon. This is like blaming broadcom for openwrt bugs.

The title is extremely misleading.
How would that help? It would still nag you to log in each time you cleared cookies.
Yeah, I rely heavily on one-tab.

But for me at least, I've realized it's less about keeping content for later, and acts more akin to the conversational bridge "well, if it's important I'll remember it later" -- It just gives me permission to let the tabs go and move on, with a pretense that I'll maybe come back to them :)
I know, and I use it. It however wont support TB 78.
They already are banned. What we need is enforcement of existing provisions.
I'm a hobbyist, so I don't care if things like finite element analysis simulations are missing, but I do want basic things like constraints, some of which I think SolveSpace is missing.

One big "quality of life" thing that even OnShape is missing that Fusion has is the ability to dimension a line from another line, i.e. you can specify a dimension as "line_23 / 2", which allows you to do math with the other element as a variable. It's a pretty small feature, but extremely useful.
History rhymes.

A witch-hunt or a witch purge is a search for people who have been labelled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft, and it often involves a moral panic or mass hysteria...

In current language, "witch-hunt" metaphorically means an investigation that is usually conducted with much publicity, supposedly to uncover subversive activity, disloyalty, and so on, but with the real purpose of intimidating political opponents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
Skype as of 2019 was working. Whatsapp was blocked a while ago. Currently I know that Teams and Zoom both work into or out of China. There is a new WeChat clone that popped up when all of this started that was marketed in China as a way to evade this ban for people that needed to talk with others outside of China, but I don't remember the name at the moment.
I should note on this -- _Apple_ is the one asserting that Epic SARL is accepting payments in one of its legal filings; Epic may yet provide evidence that it is not, in which case this situation becomes a lot clearer for the duration of the trial.
One could argue these institutions aren't "trustworthy".
Myself, I really don't know where the truth lies.
For example, WMDs in Iraq were also by institutions. They may have their own agenda (weather justified or not).
When, if or where people are either poor or primitive enough it works like this: You build a house then you live in it.

There is nothing in this that suggests one needs to spend 1/4 or 2/3 of the productive labor in their lives to maintain the house.

Progress is to reduce the maintenance cost. The lower it is the lower the salaries can be which increase productivity exponentially.

IOW grandpa's pension plan is for a large part to continue to pay for housing. He spend his entire life busting his ass but some how didn't manage to earn a place to live.
To expand slightly, it's used for "channel programs", scripts that can interact with ZFS to create or modify datasets and similar tasks. There's a write-up here[1] about the feature.

Main advantage is that it allows for multiple operations to be applied atomically, as well as better error handling.

[1]: https://www.delphix.com/blog/delphix-engineering/zfs-channel...