skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And exposing one CIA agent exposes others. Basic opsec.

Bellingcat looks suspiciously like it was "adopted" as a public front for CIA to release intelligence they want out there publicly using parallel construction.

Not necessarily a "bad" thing but I've yet to see them release something the CIA wouldn't either be either happy or ecstatic to see in the public domain ("Russia shot down an airliner you say???").

Idk do you know of any examples of them using "open source data" to expose an undercover CIA agent for instance? Expose a an American war crime like wikileaks did with collateral murder? I can't and I'd be shocked if they actually did in the future.
I didn't hear about The Free Speech Union until now. I don't understand why you would consider it an ‘awful source’ to have on HN.

Here is an article I found by one of its directors for a more balanced view: https://archive.fo/bAMqm
The market always dictates the price.

People who make solar panels for a living say yes, the curve has been astronomical and beyond predictions, but, we're closer to a wall than we are halving costs again
Is it really that they don't want people to criticize their bullshit?

Or is it that they don't want their bullshit to be censored off the face of the planet? Whether or not we agree with their views, should they not be able to express themselves, and how they truly feel?

Imagine if your criticism of their viewpoints was being censored instead, so they got to speak un-opposed and un-criticized.

I constantly hear that people should "be themselves", and "should not be made ashamed of who they are". It appears this advice falls down when the people aren't who we want them to be, or hold views we consider "wrong".

If I hate a specific ethnic group, how else do you expect me to change, if not through sharing my views and then being challenged on those views. If you censor such a person, would you not then further radicalize them?
Not really. It's rather expensive (billions of dollars) to setup a nuclear plant in the first place, even before a single fuel rod shows up. Meanwhile solar is so cheap and easy that you can install panels on your roof yourself.
Programming Strategies and Mood and how they affect your decisions
What are programming strategies, how can we leverage them to be better developers? what kinds of things impact the strategies we choose? When you're angry, do you code differently than when you're happy? Follow the link to read more!
> First, point out that Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, and Fukushima amount to extremely small numbers of deaths relative to the power these plants generated.

I keep seeing justifications like that and it makes me want to puke.
First of all: The total number of victims is unknown and it is still rising. Even for Chernobyl.

Second: It costs tens of billions of dollars to clean up these messes. Paid for by the cow you can milk forever: tax payers.

In short, if the goal is decarbonization wind and solar are the only game in town.
Add medium and long-term storage to the mix and there's nothing stopping us from a truly green future other than politics.
Extended use is single instance. Re-use is multiple instances. These are separate things.

If you read the linked papers, the reuse guidance is over the course of days with rest periods in between.
Home Internet or Wireless? Americans Choose Their Wireless Plans
Draw clear boundaries up front - "This is in scope, this is out of scope" - and make it an itemized list if possible.

First, it pushes that conversation to the beginning and can make it negotiable. Then it reduces surprises throughout. And finally, it gives you the ability to say "No, we agreed to.." when you need.

Nothing is perfect but it mitigates some risk.
Couldn't care less about this. Just put out a paid version of Firefox that dedicates this revenue stream exclusively to continued Firefox development and I will happily pay fist fulls of money for it. Seriously, Firefox adds so much value to my life and I'd happily pay for it.
You must have it on do not disturb. I exclusively keep my phone on silent (but within view) and have no problems answering calls because it pops up on the screen.
teachers at your school are able to directly effect organizational budgeting and spending?
This is mathematically impossible. The entire world could be powered with 200,000 square miles of solar panels.

Since 1990 we’ve lost ~2.5x that amount of land to deforestation, approximately zero of which was due to building solar.

We have a deforestation problem, but it has nothing to do with solar.
Animals' Magnetic 'Sixth' Sense May Come from Bacteria
Minor correction: As long as you are only in a first world country [and you don't use a VPN service or Tor] you will never notice.

I point this out because I think it's an anti-privacy "feature" and I wish CF would stop.
The Statement I was making is that the new iPad does not use that cable, it uses USB-C, meaning that a person who buys the iPad Air 2020 and then sees that they can use the cheaper Pencil 1 with it might be weirded out by the idea that you need a battery bank or power brick or a specific Type C to Lightning cable that comes with none of these devices. It just doesn't work out from a marketing/use standpoint and makes for a worse product in the long run. Plus they can sell more Pencil 2s.

Personally, I don't get why they don't just adapt all iPads to support wirelessly charging the Pencil 2 and get rid of the Pencil 1, it's really quite poor compared to the second gen.
The case where you need something one week every two years is precisely when "pay one month to use it now" makes more sense than "pay to use it without limits and do not use it".
Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation (2018) [pdf]
Man, I was just getting started in Fusion 360! Bummer!
Minimizing death as much as possible isn't and cannot ever be a goal. There's a balance that must be struck.
Which parts of the facts listed do you not "buy" ?

The fact that a remote server gets to silently respond to the request "Hey, I'd like funny-cat-noises.mp3" by writing two files, funny-cat-noises.mp3 and also .security/overrides.conf ?

Maybe your understanding of the protocol was that you allow a remote server to write whatever files it wants to your disk. That seems like a pretty crazy thing to want, but OK.

Most people assume it does what it seems like it does. You name one or more files on one machine, and they're copied to the other machine. SFTP can deliver without nasty surprises, but SCP can't really do so, although the OpenSSH team have worked pretty hard to make the worst surprises less likely to bite you.
Oh dear. Time to pack our bags and head to the principality of Sealand then.
I mean I did explicitly say the West vs the West. And self-determination is definitely a special case so none of these apply.

Again, the US vs the West?

I'd be surprised if its never happened. But the ensuing uproar is part of the politics - It's an extra hurdle for countries in a political maneuver. And a broadly positive hurdle.
Capitalism is fine. FLOSS software is also part of a capitalist market after all, especially via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon etc. Mostly, what we need is more real competition and less focus on monopoly platforms as the only kind of "success" in this market.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

I stand by my words. 10 categories of exceptions is many. Many of which I find reasonable, if not all.
This is like saying Agile or DevOps is a mistake because the usual grifters sold a PowerPoint to the C-levels but didn’t change the culture. If you approach anything as a formality, you can definitely minimize the benefit you’ll get but that’s saying more about your organization.
Adding Auth to a Flask App with Azure Active Directory and Oso
That is extremely unlikely. You need to cover single digit percentages of the world with solar panels (depending on latitude) to cover all our energy needs.
This is a very good point. From a legal standpoint this article is highly questionable. I understand that there are political issues with this project (on which I'm also not an expert) but this should be clearly distinguished from the legal side of things.
Well, it did do that. I checked, and that setting is off.

Almost like Apple products can have unintended bugs like disabling your alarm on OS update.
Similar concerns were raised when the .sucks domain was first made available:

https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/6795/legal-issues-of...

That's primarily what I was looking for clarification on. I have no personal malice against Apple, it was simply the first example that came to mind.
I have a friend who had a dorm in college with 3 other guys, and all of them had problems waking up to alarm clocks. They each had an alarm clock that they placed in a different part of the room, so each of them would have to get up to shut it off. One day they discovered that they overslept, each of the 4 clocks had been turned off but nobody remembered doing it.
Reverse Engineering the Logitech Harmony
We do have a good way to store energy. It's called batteries, they are already cost effective in several use cases, and their cost is going down about 5% per year.
Removing Friction to M&As with Open Source Software
Land usage is a big factor. Most people are interested in solar because they care about the environment so taken up vast swathes of land for all the solar panels, destroying habits, is counter productive. Another downside of solar or wind is that it is intermittent and thus will require massive battery systems or alternative conventional power plants to provide energy the rest of the time.
There is a need for public betas, but a private QA team could catch a lot of bugs before release, and catch regressions. The public beta builds might not be much better, but they'd likely at least come with reported known issues.

Of course, iOS was nototorious for not alarming on January 1st because Steve wanted to sleep in (actually I don't know why, but I think it happened at least 2 years in a row, and maybe three)
Learning to Program Is a Lifelong Pursuit
A number of years ago, I worked on a team (~20 engineers in total) that successfully carved off two relatively independent portions of a large Rails app using engines. I'm happy to see that Shopify is also using that strategy.

I'm curious to know more what sorts of challenges they have around managing dependencies across engines — I think what we were doing was fairly vanilla Rails, and we didn't have the opportunity to run into those sorts of issues.
New Artists Auction Prices That Take Your Breath Away
The concept underlying renormalization/invariance as we now understand it, is a fundamental and profoundly beautiful idea about the very nature of what it means to make a model for a phenomenon. Essentially:

A theory is nothing but a way to turn (a finite number of) measurements into predictions.

The number of degrees of freedom in some putative model might be infinite, but all/most of them will be common between the observed context and the prediction context; it’s only the difference between those two that matters. And renormalization theory provides certain bookkeeping tools to track & ensure that, which then makes tractable the task of predicting.
> Because it's not a problem.

Have you seen John Oliver's piece about that and can you point out the flaws?
The leaders who ordered the Holocaust took substantive action to ensure that their orders would be followed. They took positions of power, which meant their orders existed in a social contract that converted them to actions. They cruelly punished disobedience. And even under those circumstances, we don't absolve the people who actually did the work from blame.

If private citizen Hitler had just put an op-ed in a national newspaper calling for a Holocaust and Germany had done it on that basis, the whole of the blame would fall on Germany, who took the action, and not Hitler, who wrote an editorial.
That sort of division assumes you can be completely sure about how a system will be used in the future. I've definitely seen internal systems deployed in a public-facing capacity because someone found a useful reason to do it.

How are you going to do that, if the internal tool is written in something that is not supported by SAST tooling?
Mint for tracking spending and M1 for investments
> I was able to buy 20 KN95 masks for $50 through an online retailer advertising through my local business journal.

> KN95 masks are the Chinese regulatory standard vs N95 which is the NIOSH standard, but KN95 sales in the US still need FDA approval.

We bought two brands of KN95s from Taobao, and I've found they don't fit my caucasian face very well. The bend strip around the nose is too short to get a good seal.

This was earlier in the pandemic, and I believe they were off-brand ones, so they might be lower quality than others. We definitely didn't pay that much. I only consider them a marginal improvement over a surgical mask.
Not that I oppose to nuclear in principle, I only wanted to point that for heavy industry there are clean alternatives in development using mirrors.

https://heliogen.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21955247
I would tend to agree with you, but is's John Carmack leading the software group for it and I just cannot believe that he hasn't done a bunch of optimizations and other work.

It would just negate a reputation that he has worked his ass off his entire life to build if he hasn't done valuable targeted work on the visuals of the device.
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Maybe they could something like what Drastic/Citrus does and have the two 3DS screens share the Switch/TV screen? I would say the main problem is that it has an effective resolution of 400x240 pixels on the top screen and 320x240 pixels on the bottom screen and the games were designed to look good on the really small displays, not blown up to a TV or even a Switch size display.
Elision never assumes 'static, since that's an unusual case that has very few real-world uses.

This leaves the only remaining possibility that references in the return type must have the same lifetime as references in function's arguments. Without a GC, or leaking memory, you can't make a Rust reference/lifetime out of thin air, so there's always such relationship.

When a function takes multiple arguments by reference, the compiler will ask to disambiguate which one is used for the return type. Borrow checker intentionally checks borrowing against function prototypes, not function bodies.
ARPA Funding Gives Green Tech an ‘Innovation Advantage’
I spent 10 years freelancing. If i can give an humble advice: you don't cost your customer some money, you produce some extra value for him. Charge between 10% and 30% of the extra value you provide to your customer. Charging per hour is a trap. It is nice to start, it is easy to read, easy to calculate but it makes you a commodity. Don't be a commodity, be an expert.
in America the buyer or resident will have recourse to the courts and will take advantage to the maximum possible.

The courts are only a good remedy for the wealthy or if there's a lot of money at stake -- they said they bought the house for $105,000. Successfully suing the builder and/or seller could cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Not many people can pay $30,000 in legal fees for a "possible" payout that might only be a portion of the price paid.
Joe explains in episode 1520 (https://youtu.be/j9NeQTkJjIs) (not time-stamped...)

That all he was saying is if you transition from male to female AND you are going to fight females, you should have to tell them, because there are physical differences from maturing and muscle mass by growing up with testosterone. They speak of a fighter who did this and did not tell their opponent and really messed them up in an unfair fight. Joe has no problem with fights like this, as long as the opponent knows that they will be fighting someone who has transitioned.

But leave it to the rapid response media culture to overlook the truth and base decisions on clips and outrage by the few. I started paying for Spotify just for Joe. If they censor more, I'm going to cancel. Wish Joe went independent so I could support him without the corporate taxes and tainted leadership...
I hate their search results too.

I do like being able to search the web with regex.
Not only is this psychopathic, to prioritize property above human life, to have such draconian sentences handed out so carelessly, not only is it so inhumane, to value human life so little, but it's also just factually and objectively bad policy.

We learned from history and the Bloody Code, that when you have draconian sentences it means people will "upgrade" their crime since there is no difference between say "minor theft" and "major theft," but it also encourages horrible acts to avoid draconian punishments (murder is often involved in high risk crimes that have draconian sentences). But we also have most criminology and justice theory based on this modern principle that the punishment must fit the crime for law to be effective under the punitive system.

On a technical note, it is doing a favor to expose the exploits, as long as it's handled in an appropriate way, I mean that's literally why companies pay a ton of money to white hat hackers, and why there are bug bounties, etc. But even more that's why someone like Edward Snowden is a hero.
Isn't this because of ISP-grade NAT where one bad actor (either maliciously or via running something like hola vpn) can kill a few hundred users' IP reputation?
>>Did you know it was possible to create a GBC cart that would act as a fully-fledged SNES game (i.e. mapping a separate SNES game ROM) when plugged into a SNES through a Super Gameboy? Or to have “progressive enhancement” logic in the GBC ROM itself that draws full-color sprites (OBJs) when played on a Super Gameboy? AFAIK, literally nobody has ever fully exploited this, not even demoscene devs.

https://loveconquersallgam.es/post/2350461718/fuck-the-super... are the definitive posts on this madness
I guess it is good publicity and easy money.

I dont see how an established author like Cory needs a
Kickstarter to finance an audiobook.

I think he can do easily on his own, and have various
companies queuing outside his door to finance or publish it.

If you were an unknown author and none of the established publishers were interested I see that as a Kickstarter candidate but then raising funding would be difficult.

Cory has all sorts of means og financing and getting paid
Now this is awesome.
Australia is a good model for proportional representation. At its simplest, congressional districts would become larger multi-winner districts with ranked choice voting. The top N vote getters become representatives. The expected outcome would then be that districts would tend to have 1-2 representatives from each major party, and specifically that we’d end up with more parties as alternatives to red and blue. So perhaps in NY the Green Party starts getting seats, while in Iowa maybe it’s the Libertarians.

One goal is actually to decentralize politics. Increasingly today elections are fought on national brand, not local issues, hence the “NY wants to manage Iowa” problem.

I recently read a great book on this and would highly recommend it if you want a deep dive on this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-tw...
If you are short on space for your solar panels put them on your roof, problem solved. There are cheaper better ways of storing electricity like water stores, and this is what they use not batteries, they have never used batteries thats just a Tesla thing.
Counterpoint is Madrid, Spain, which had one of the worst outbreaks in the spring (antibody tests showed prevalence of 11%[0], higher than Stockholm[1]) and now is having a severe outbreak again[2]. What explanation is there other than herd immunity not having been reached?

As for Sweden, there's a lot of variety in human behavior and a lot we don't understand about the virus, and there are many possible explanations for the lack of major spread in any particular area. Sweden has continued to post a steady low level of cases over the last two months, not a continuing bell-curve decline, suggesting the virus is still consistently finding new hosts, just at a low and steady pace.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/21/just-7-per-cen...

[2] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-09-doctors-hard-hit-madr...
I worked in a Haskell shop, and later in a Clojure shop. In both cases, engineers were happy-go-lucky about every security or privacy concern under the sun. Often they seemed to believe that being functional saved from having to worry about validating their inputs, checking authorization, or (absurdly) having access control on their critical data stores. They told me as much on several occasions, and exhibited no interest in altering these beliefs.

As you might guess, this drove me nuts. In both cases it eventually blew up in their faces and the events proved to be free of side effects. Their imperative colleagues did not have the same mindsets.

If those two shops are in any way representative, then it may perhaps be worth considering very carefully if keeping cool new technologies away from serious usage could in some scenarios be a win.
Thanks for acknowledging my point. I acknowledge your concern about Audible but still say that they are currently too-big-to-fail and as a result, unlike in video-on-demand (Netflix vs. its competitors) and perhaps ebooks (Amazon vs. Kobo vs. Google), there is a real danger of them becoming too powerful for a healthy market. I understand the debt of gratitude that I see with you and others defending Audible but hopefully you will see, not before it is too late, that a little diversity in the audiobook market won't hurt.
Rosalind Franklin and Ray Gosling figured out it was a double helix. Pauling was speculating it was a triple helix. They published their finding in the same edition of Nature as Watson and Crick published their model.
The Planstorm
> They would be better off with 1) a simple one-word name

https://duck.com
Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com
searched a few days ago for felons.io,
looked for unique names for simple game
didn't know if I wanted it or not

guess godaddy decided for me:
1 days old
Created on 2020-09-16
by GoDaddy.com, LLC

just a warning if you have a special name do not use godaddy to check if its available
I ordered some of these and was very impressed with the quality.
I'm always mind-blown reading comment threads like this regarding recommendation, with people annoyed that explicit feedback helps recommenders, or exasperated that they're recommended one item that they haven't approved while also wanting novel recommendations.

1000s of hours of videos are uploaded every minute. 5+ billion videos are watched daily. Are you not rather quite pleased that YouTube can deliver highly relevant top-20 recommendations within milliseconds from such a large and changing corpus, while keeping track of your past preferences, your interactions, your social circle's preferences, popularity and trends, content features, etc?

It's pretty amazing to me. I think people expect recommender systems to read minds.
> No it doesn’t. Because of free speech laws in the US, there is no legal liability for whatever it is you are calling “disinformation and hate groups.” Moderation has created remedies against speech that have never existed before

Section 230 absolves online platforms that feature user generated content from publisher liabilities, by revoking it facebook would be liable for everything on its platform. For example if someone posts on facebook that a certain vaccine causes hair loss, with section 230 revoked the manufacturer of said vaccine could sue facebook for libel.

Edit: typos
297/year is not bad, certainly cheaper than a lot of hobby. Is hobby supposed to be cheap/free ?
The kernel source code was leaked too