skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't. It's absolutely horrifying the extent to which posters even here want to treat this as a legitimate subject worthy of debate. The executive branch, with minimal warning, minimal justification, less than seven weeks out from an election, is just capriciously deciding to ban popular platforms for online interaction. There's no congressional oversight, there's no proposed legislation, it's not even a request to a court. It's just, "poof", you're banned. Of platforms that have hundreds of millions of users in the country!

If that doesn't scare you imagine what your "enemies" might do with that power.

I mean, it's true that I too don't personally don't see much value in these platforms and am genuinely confused by TikTok. But... yikes.

People: this is a disaster. And once that power is uncorked it's not going back in the bottle.
> Distribution is not that hard, discovery is hard

I think you and I have different definitions of distribution. I'm not talking about being able to "distribute" your content per se. I'm talking about getting enough reach which is a way harder problem.

Just because you can upload videos to YouTube doesn't mean that you will automatically get traffic. Distribution in this context is not only the podcast being able to have content in x or y platform, but rather having prime time treatment so it reaches more audiences.
It's amazing how contrarian HN can get. The EU is literally composed of member states in its formation documents
>> What did Autodesk do with Fusion ?

They are reducing the features available in the free version. This is actually a good thing, as it is forcing users to either go commercial or get behind the actual Free Software alternatives.
Unless I missed a comment, I'd be interested in how fast adding and removing Players is in the first example. I imagine it's O(n) where n is the number of fields. Maybe even O(nm) with m being the number of items being inserted/removed.
Have you thought of open sourcing this?
Microsoft release Windows Hello (Passport) with Windows 10 on July 2015.[1] Apple copied it as "FaceID" into their smartphone devices on November 2017.[2]

A marketing innovation certainly, but calling this a usability innovation is quite a stretch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#System_security

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_ID
The DARPA inspired - Radio Resilience Competition
Build interference-resistant, high performance waveforms.
"how many times has a developer excitedly clamored to ruin their performance metrics, layout, security, etc with more ads?"

Depends how much traffic they have I suppose. I'd be pretty excited if ads bought me a Lamborghini for every color of the week because Tuesdays right now are pretty boring.
No, I didn't.

Quote myself "but you solve a specific problem, as your example shows."

So I have to assume your choice of technology for your problem was the correct one & the stats you supply seems to backup such claim.

However you also implying a bigger claim that C++, or something similar, is preferable in web development, where you mostly do string handling, is not something I can agree with.
I guess looking 'tough on china' gets out a different vote.

Plus LITERALLY ANYTHING to distract from how bad the Covid response is going.
Yes and 100%, YES!
>why can't they similarly disagree with software import restrictions?

It's easier to verify what a borderless, open algorithm does.

It's a lot harder to do that with packaged software.

Has TikTok posted the source of their app publicly the same as those borderless and open algorithms? Can we verify what we install is the same as that posted source with no changes?

You can ban finished products without banning their constituent parts.

American companies probably do many of the things that Tiktok does, but this is political and that's where the unfairness comes from.
Write static pages in pure html with zero JavaScript.
Eesh. Man I wish freecad was better. I got my daughter up on F360 in a matter of minutes (and that was after I used the app myself for about that long).

If they had some $100/yr family maker plan, I'd be all about that. Same for any reasonable competition.
I'm not sure if they were first and they were API incompatible with modern JS promises, but jQuery had deferred objects in 2011, 2 years before the first Bluebird commit on Github.

Bluebird wasn't the first JS Promise library. It became the defacto library because it was faster than everything else.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises has a history
That’s what int_least8_t or int_fast8_t are for

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#stdint.h
Assange is currently under extradition trial in London, so this is probably being mentioned to make the case that the extradition request is political in nature as opposed to actual legal interest (no personal take on validity/chances of success, that just seems like the play).

I'm not sure about the reasoning for why one would do this, but it's the same person that took a gamble to get dirt on Biden and got impeached over it, so probably shouldn't approach it from a place of pure rationality. It's terrifying that Rohrabacher was a part of this though, and really skews my personal take that nothing about this was above board.
If another nation state knows so much about American citizens, and can use that to manipulate, blackmail or
persuade them, if that nation state has indicated hostility towards us ...
Farther along in same doc:

"hub is a project whose maintainer also happens to be a GitHub employee. He chooses to maintain hub in his spare time, as many of our employees do with open source projects."

My experience at FANMAG has been that "spare time" is the scarcest of all resources.
just apple. you can sideload apps on google, you can easily install 3rd party stores.
For 3rd people like me Trump is very entertaining precisely because he acts with exactly this same disregard for institutions and decorum that our 3rd world populist politicians do, just like Bolsonaro (Brazil), Berlusconi (Italy), Erdogan (Turkey), Kirchner (Argentina), Putin, Duterte, ...

Sure, there was a time on the 19th century when all American presidents were all like that. But the U.S. were a very different country back then, the Federal government was a lot less powerful.
Its not even that, Pompeo already talked about a quasi US version of the great firewall called the Clean network.
Its kinda weird seeing the US being afraid of competition. Kinda had hoped that the scenario Kai Fu Lee wrote about in his book "AI superpowers" wouldn't happen that the tech world would bifurcate into the East vs the West.
Used a whole lot of openscad to design and print my own version of the mpcnc, but recently i switched to the much simpler tinkercad because openscad was just not productive enough.
At least it can snap windows
> Being lawful-evil person

The word you are looking for is "sociopath". Oliver Wendell Holmes' "bad man" is an analytical tool, not a recommendation.

There's nothing inherently evil about the mood-detection feature you have described, provided it is deployed with continuing and informed consent from the user.

The feature is already deployed on billboards in public spaces, although this instantiation is evil as "users" are generally unaware of it, have not consented to participation, and cannot opt out.
It is the primary source; he made the claim while interviewed by Hannity.
> If it's not "Russia" it's going to be a big embarrassment to many of his opponents.

No, Assange being paid off by Trump for saying that it's someone other than Russia (which Assange has said, in less specific terms, before, repeatedly, as part of denying that he himself was acting as a witting or unwitting Russian agent and not an independent actor won't embarrass anyone) won't embarrass anyone.

OTOH, the offer (if there's was concrete evidence of it) itself would bolster Assange's claim that this is a political prosecution by the US Administration.
Happiness gurus are the original antidepressants. They reframe the identity of the client effortlessly causing dependence on the easy upkeep of that new identity. But all sweet sounding mental models for learning indifference eventually lose their ability to convince. Human's will always have legitimate unique concerns worth actively suffering through to solve rather than blanketing over.
People still smoke even though everyone knows it's bad for you. Maybe like smoking we need a minimum age for social media that's actually enforced and heavily penalized?
Obviously anything to get a pardon.
You still get safety, if you write normal rust code then rust will largely behave the same.

But it allows you to for example to dereference raw pointers (and by proxy, allows pointer math).

A lot of unsafe functions become available, like unguarded array access (ie, you can go out of bounds of an array) but you have to explicitly do that.
It is funny Google is banning Paytm claiming "Gambling", when their competing app Google Pay literally gives away a scratch card (with variable, including zero payoffs - a literal scratch card) with every transaction in their app.
I'm certainly not an authority on the topic. FWIW, here [0] is the basis for my original comment.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9AmJTKYmZE&ab_channel=Visua...
The same could be said of SQL or any other 4GL.
So, could you potentially store more metadata than just the face name, like it's normal for example, or the location and approximate surface area, and try to use that to reduce the problem space for an educated guess?
In this instance, cutting corners is equivalent to not gathering data, and acting on the premise that what you want to be true is true.

Which is another way of saying: when there are massive consequences, is not the time to proceed on wishful thinking.

Because, as TFA pointed out: if you give people an ineffective vaccine, they will act as though they have an effective vaccine, and likely increase spread.

If you give someone a vaccine that has more antibody-mediated enhancement than protective effect (or at least, just a significant proportion of), you may do more harm than good as well.

And once you've deployed the vaccine to the general population, you've significantly impaired your ability to resolve questions about the above.

When stakes matter, and consequences are large and long-lasting, isn't the time to make blind leaps of faith.
That statement only feels true to me if you interpret the word "power" as an exact synonym for "performance." Which is a definition that is valid, but also just about perfect for leading someone to miss the point.

Numpy approaches the performance you could get with Fortran. Mostly because its core is written in Fortran. What Numpy offers that Fortran never did, though, is leverage. The article mentions, but doesn't really do justice to, the sheer volume of interoperability that Numpy has enabled. It's not just that all these libraries were built on top of Numpy. It's also that their common Numpy substrate makes them all deeply interoperable with each other. And that works both above and below the boundary. You can swap out BLAS and LAPACK for something else - say, CUDA, or a distributed representation - and as long as the replacement also speaks Numpy's language, you can plug it into existing libraries that were originally written against Numpy.

In short: Fortran gets you performance. Numpy gets you that, and also productivity. I would argue that that actually makes Numpy more powerful than what was possible with just Fortran.
That may just be reasonable but I fear that reason has little importance regarding this tiktok matter. It looks like war on drugs from a distance, just layers of BS and misery.
0.115: B-Day release Media browser, tags, automations and WTH – Home Assistant
You always have to take bias in context. If the source is claiming that someone said something to them in an interview and the person agrees, then bias is irrelevant.
When did CrowdStrike say that? Because this claims otherwise, and, I would have expected them to update this post if what you are saying is correct.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

Anecdotally I remember reading an intel report from Crowdstrike about Fancy Bear...
Some people will do that. But the vast majority can barely handle email clients, so they will not bother to figure out how to install manually. They will simply move to the next garbage out there.
This doesn’t need to be a secret flipped switch. It could be a very public announcement, which lots of supporting data and arguments. Nobody is going to build a successful competitor to FB based off of “we’re doing the same thing that Facebook just very publicly stopped doing because they took a stand against its society-destroying implications”.
The sketches/pads/pockets are just one of the workbenches in FreeCAD (Sketch/Part Design). There is also Part, which is CSG on geometric primitive. And a bunch of others that almost nobody uses, like Ship Design.
Just to be clear I was not making a value judgement, just an observation. I find it compelling that many traditional societies have come to this principle. I personally think that removing interest from a money system could go a long way to stabilise it.
I found myself using separate windows more during my time with a heavily customized Manjaro install, where I used a tiling window manager and had lots of ways of quickly adjusting my window layout with minimal extra information needed.

I think managing windows in say... Windows is terrible (even if macOS manages to be even worse). There are a few third-party applications to sort of emulate tiling WMs, but they're very clunky and software likes to act "surprised" about it and often have weird behaviours. That, and the requirement of window chrome.

That being said, for your specific example of flipping through two tabs, I still find that very useful as a visual diff: get both tabs on the same scroll position and spam Ctrl+Tab and your brain will quickly generate a diff between both. The ideal solution would be actual universal diffing tools, but that's far-fetched.
TikTok and WeChat: US to ban app downloads in 48 hours
That's a personal preference, but I prefer the way the tabs were shown in the older version, I could see more at the same time and reorganize them
What about long term effects. If "mild" covid cases come back in 2 years as death (this does happen in the case of some diseases), or you are never seriously ill but have other problems. There has been speculation that Chronic Fatigue is caused by a seemly mild cold.

We don't know what the long term effects might be. There are some reports that they are pretty bad, but nothing is confirmed.
Or subscribe to the "I don't care about cookies" list on ublock. It has the advantage that it's maintained by someone else so you don't have to maintain it yourself
> Build as much as possible from scratch and host it close to metal as possible.

come on guys this is obviously sarcasm
For those interested, a colleague of mine wrote a tutorial series on implementing an OS using Rust that targets RISC-V: https://osblog.stephenmarz.com/
Considering how many $Billions Facebook has, they can pay me if they want me to speak up for them.
I don't think they are lock-in to US based public cloud providers since they also use Chinese cloud providers, but I wonder how this ban will impact discussions around vendor lock-in. Lots of companies will go into deep trouble if US decide to ban their business to use US based services in such short notice.
Tech bubbles are a cancer and a drain on the progression of ideas. Most people on HN don't care though.
I cofounded the Hackerfleet[1] Community, a (rather too small, join! :) group of sailing hackers and nerds.

Since we operate our tech stacks with batteries and often only solar/wind power, we try to come up with very energy conservative solutions.

One thing we couldn't do without: ARM CPUs even for servers, because they're quite energy efficient.

If you have any questions, i'll be checking this comment thread for a few days.

[1]: https://hackerfleet.eu
How is the apple watch a blue ocean innovation when smart watches existed before that? It might be better but it's not a new product, similar to how the ipod wasn't the first mp3 player. Is faceid a usability innovation over previous face recognition systems or is just more secure?
> That's a lot just to store, process and transfer bits.

Thats what the infrastructure does not what it is used for.

For example those bits are analytics and algorithms used by logistics companies so they can transport goods more energy efficiently saving a lot more energy than was spent on the computing.
Even that isn't good - it doesn't account for people who don't go in and drop dead. It is suspected this is happening in India.
Fox News actually reports news from the news wires and the local Fox new station affiliates. I think that gives Fox News a bit more credibility than HuffPo, which sometimes reads like Gawker.

Though they are still both very partisan.
I think you are dramatically underestimating the differences between operations 2D and 3D space. There is zero chance you would want to re-use the vast majority of your 2D code for 3D points.
WAF and Rasp: Best Practice for Defense in Depth
As I understand it, the Quake RTX demo is fully ray traced but I could be wrong on that. The FPS isn’t super high but definitely playable.
"after the pandemic"... this sounds like a message left by a time traveller.
Would it matter where they lived?
Says the company running the tower...
FYI This concept is employed extensively in the excellent novel Seveneves. The author Neal Stephenson worked at Blue Origin for a time.
That is similar to the concept of the Aldrin Cycler.
This is pretty interesting. It made me think that maybe in the end we'll see that the way the pandemic was finally brought under control was through a bunch of things, not just a single thing? It seems like many people are thinking something like "once we get a vaccine it'll be over", which might be true. But maybe it'll be a vaccine, and masks, and something like this, and advances in air filters and a dozen other things that just finally stamp it out, or reduce it to a level where we don't need to think/worry about it. And maybe at the same time that'll help greatly reduce the common cold, the flu, and maybe other things?
I guess it would serve them both well to put out a story that it wasn't Russia.

Just as much as Trump doesn't want Russia to have helped him become president, Assange doesn't want to be seen as an unwitting pawn of Russia.
To be fair, you have to tolerate bugs in commercial products as well. The AutoDesk products I use for work crash daily. If you look at the developer documentation, though (https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technolo...) you kind of get an idea of how mind-blowing complicated this software is. Any particular part might be implemented in C++ or .NET or VBA or a custom Lisp. There's maybe 30ish years of layers AutoCAD is built on. After a few weeks of learning F# and the ACAD API, I concluded that I would much rather just do everything manually than ever write a plugin.

Bear in mind, though that everything else (Microstation, DraftSight, etc.) Aren't much better. For a problem domain like roadway design, the difference in productivity between something like freeCAD or LibreCAD and AutoCAD Civil3D is like the difference between having a printing press and a lump of charcoal. I really admire the effort, but there is a moat between industrial and FOSS software for the AEC industry that takes more expert developers and more man-years than hobbyists can provide.
This mirrors my experience, FreeCAD is practically new user hostile and horrifically buggy. I'm very inexperienced and had really only used Autodesk Inventor and Fusion360 previously, but FreeCAD was like moving from modern Photoshop to an early version of Gimp
> - Epic SARL also collects direct international payments for the developer-agreement infringing version of Fortnite

I think it's possible that the judge allows Apple to ban Epic SARL based on this alone. The original justification was that they were two separate entities and only one breached its agreement. If Epic SARL is making money from the infringing version of Fortnite then it's involved in the breaching conduct as well.
An interview with Hannity? I can think of nothing more concrete.
Two things: First, he can't say it wasn't Russia. What he can say is who it was. The difference is who that person was influence by. For example, I can say it wasn't Russia, but the person could actually be an agent of Russia without me knowing. I wouldn't be lying, but my statement wouldn't be true. So, that's why people don't consider the denial to be concrete.

Secondly, about your second point, many people will downvote you simply for complaining about downvotes. Next time, just wait. Votes eventually land where they should be, and complaining about votes adds nothing to the conversation.
Under the US constitution and given legal precedent, absolutely.
Microsoft can do what they want with their own store because nobody cares about it anyway. And the moment they try to "ban" Steam, Epic Store, Gog etc, they essentially kill Windows as gaming platform and turn it into a business-only offering. I don't think that's in their own interest (as their renewed interest in PC gaming demonstrates).
Yeah. This is the a similar problem with alternatives to 2D AutoCAD replacements. 2D CAD application can pretty much all do the same things. However, most of the really useful productivity features such as dynamic blocks, sheet sets, constraints etc. are absent from the cheaper or free alternatives.
>HANNITY: Can you say to the American people unequivocally that you did not get this information about the DNC, John Podesta's emails -- can you tell the American people 1,000 percent you did not get it from Russia...

>ASSANGE: Yes.

>HANNITY: ... or anybody associated with Russia?

>ASSANGE: We -- we can say and we have said repeatedly...

>HANNITY: Right.

>ASSANGE: ... over the last two months, that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party.

He's basically saying that Vlad didn't call him up one day and say "Russia wants to give you some files." No shit.

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> Researchers from the Atlanta-based cybersecurity firm Dell SecureWorks reported that the emails had been obtained through a data theft carried out by the hacker group Fancy Bear, a group of Russian intelligence-linked hackers that were also responsible for cyberattacks that targeted the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), resulting in WikiLeaks publishing emails from those hacks.

> On December 9, 2016, the CIA told U.S. legislators the U.S. Intelligence Community concluded that the Russian government was behind the hack and gave to WikiLeaks a collection of hacked emails from John Podesta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails#Data_theft

> "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...

> Following a comprehensive investigation that CrowdStrike detailed publicly, the company concluded in May 2016 that two separate Russian intelligence-affiliated adversaries breached the DNC network.

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

> We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump. We have high confidence in these judgments.

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

etc, etc, etc.

I thought this was pretty well accepted at this point.