skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hilarious and probably terrible for society that you can sell your company but still control it. The most powerful companies become even less accountable to anyone. If you buy a share in an active business, sure the amount of control that share represents was factored into the share price. But it is still slightly absurd that these companies with zero accountability are allowed to be traded on public markets.

Here's a pretty detailed argument against dual-class shares from the UPenn law review: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
>On the same theme, I think that people have fixated on "security by obscurity" == bad instead of the original message which was "security by only obscurity" == bad.

This seems to be the case for a lot of things in the technology. Someone shares an idea, it gets popular and through the years of "the telephone game" the original indent is lost but everyone is running around treating it as gospel. Everything from alige to security by obscurity.
A company is an interconnected system. Culture begets revenue model, revenue model begets culture. You can't have a revenue model that works without a culture that executes it, nor vice versa.
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Thanks, sounds exactly like what I have been looking for and Arch Linux seems to have an AUR for it :-)
I'd be curious to see what happens if you setup a sophisticated fake SSH daemon on port 22. Give them access to a virtual machine connected to that port, and log every command they try to run.
There are a number of responses here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43382825/where-to-find-s...
> thought the people here had a sharper political view on what kind of society we could/should live...

Your condescending framing that suggests anyone who doesn't agree with your political analysis isn't sharp is a quintessential example of what is wrong with political discussion in today's era.

You didn't present any facts or arguments, you simply invoked a tired political virtue-signal to let everyone know where you stand on Assange while simultaneously expressing disdain for those who don't agree with you, all without addressing any specifics. Bravo.
Would just love to help a highly corrupt, secretive organization hurt people all over the world. Love it.
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Yeah, it would be extremely surprising if we had anything on Earth that would do the trick (the layer of clouds in question is fairly nice, warm but not hot and fairly normal pressure, except for being chock full of sulphuric acid, so things like volcanic vents at the ocean floor or other typical "extreme" Earth environments wouldn't be a good analog for it), and even more surprising if it were able to contaminate a space probe as opposed to being confined to some, well, extreme environment on Earth.

But with respect to time, I'm not sure that intuitively 40 years wouldn't be enough -- you're talking about an environment that is uniform, free from competition, and circulating rapidly (the wind circles Venus every 4 days). So the microbes would only need to adapt to ~one environment, not a gradient of conditions of varying temperatures, humidity, and illumination; any resources that were present would be up for grabs as opposed to already claimed by better-adapted organisms; and you wouldn't be spatially bound to slowly expand from a single spot at a snail's pace. It'd be one big petri dish under the right circumstances.
The problem isn’t the marketing or the cheerleading, it’s the management (corruption) and organizational structure that forces engineering to take shortcuts.
As a long time Microsoft customer, this is why I'm not loving the Nadella age.

Sure, free VS Code is nice, but Ballmer was trying to sell me Windows licenses. That's simple, it's clear. Nadella, instead, said some blarb about could and mobile, made Windows free, and added bucketloads of telemetry.

Currently I still have the idea that Windows exists to sell me office and azure licenses, which is less bad than why Android exists, but sooner or later they'll have finalised whatever shady revenue model 180 they're in the middle of and I'll have to consider alternatives.
Is there a cicada in the logo?
That's a common trope but i think it's false. Different languages did not matter for many other industries, autos, foods, tourism, etc. IT is not about making content, it's about hosting it and there are plenty of good hosts in EU.

It's not as if europeans learn about europe when they are on US social media anyway. Most of what they hear is about US and Trump, not their local stuff. That hasn't prevented Twitter and FB or ebay or whatever to become huge in europe. Besides far too many europeans do their work in English, hell even Brussels operates in english apart from some public appearances. I ve certainly never used another language in any EU project i joined.
Bracelets and more generally art are part of the (Epi)Paleolithic package since at least 70000BC South Africa.

Claiming that these were truly made by Denisovians or similarly Neanderthals requires much more evidence in my opinion, especially since those finds coincide with the arrival of modern humans
You should take a look at how personal computers were affecting the economy in the 1980s.

Maybe the wikipedia article on the Digital Revolution [0], starting on the section "1969–1989: Invention of the Internet, rise of home computers" [1], or the section "Rise in digital technology use of computers, 1980–2020" [2].

> In developed nations, computers achieved semi-ubiquity during the 1980s as they made their way into schools, homes, business, and industry.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Revolution

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Revolution#1969%E2%80%...

[2] Rise in digital technology use of computers, 1980–2020
So this is it! Bethesda is officially dead. ESO was the early prognosis and 76 was the death rattle. This is the funeral.

Morrowind was a masterpiece of a game. Oblivion was amazing. Skyrim was quite special and carried the genre forward but left behind important bits from morrowind. The job of making the spiritual successor to oblivion and morrowind is now officially open to anyone because Bethesda will never do it.
This isn't the first time someone tried to bring COBOL to the web. 20 years ago, there was CobolScript[1] by a company called Deskware.

From an old article[2] about it:

> New language speaks up to help solve an old problem

> Catherine Mitseas

> Tampa software firm DeskWare Inc. (http://www.deskware.com) has launched a new language that Web-enables COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language).

> Matthew Dean and Belmont, Calif.-based Charles Schereda, both engineers, started designing the new language while marketing their Y2K software products. As they worked with clients, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, the two realized the need for businesses to leverage COBOL systems while ramping up to do work on the Internet.

> COBOL, a language designed in 1959 at the Conference of Data Systems Languages, is why Y2K fever has gone on for the last several years. Because programmers condensed dates down to two digits, computers interpret the year 2000 as 1900.

> According to Dean, there are 700,000 COBOL programmers in the United States, and many businesses still have key databases running in the old language. Because of Y2K, these companies have had to invest vast amounts capital in their systems, which run on COBOL. As a result they designed COBOL Script, which has been in Beta-testing for eight months.

> The new type of COBOL allows programmers to tie these existing COBOL-dependent business applications onto the Internet. Dean believes it will allow companies to use COBOL-trained employees and, with minimal amounts of retraining, Web-enable business applications without having to go to bleeding edge technology.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CobolScript

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20010305215620/http://tampabay.b...
More information: "Officers who develop new technologies at CIA Labs will be allowed to patent, license, and profit from their work, making 15% of the total income from the new invention with a cap of $150,000 per year. That could double most agency salaries and make the work more competitive with Silicon Valley." : https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/21/1008654/cias-new...
So? Lots of studios have flops. The point is they've had plenty more successes since Skyrim. I even forgot to mention DOOM and Prey. And don't forget, FO76 wasn't even made by the main studio.

Adding the back catalogue to gamepass (and probably taking it all off steam), is part of the price too.

Hell, if the price was $7.5 billion even after the FO76 flop, what would it have been if they'd pulled it off? Making a whole new type of MMO.
There's nothing stopping you from getting an FPGA board and rolling your own CPU, system, software stack from the ground. It's easier than ever before to walk in the footsteps of Woz or so if you like the idea.
Self-determination Theory predicts this. It’s my favorite theory on about intrinsic motivation.
It's possible, but history's repeated proof that behavioral modification by repetition works (we call it brainwashing in more extreme contexts) and that fan worship is real suggests that yours is not a meaningfully valuable rebuttal. We have facts on the ground showing that people absorb what they hear in tragically large numbers, so saying "but technically they don't have to" is both not useful and probably also just flat out wrong.
Free trade goes both ways. European companies make a fortune selling to Americans, so if EU blocks American companies from operating there retaliation will follow. It would be a lose lose for everyone because free trade is a non zero sum net positive activity, and throwing it out of the window for nationalistic reasons can only be harmful to all parties involved.
Tethers are about not treating launches as isolated events. So why are you still thinking about the rocket equation as a single interval?

You could imagine one company having a more reliable but expensive launch platform and another having a cheaper one that occasionally explodes, or has a smaller launch window. You'd fly up fuel on the cheap ones, and your deep space probe on the other. And any fuel left from previous missions can be resold or spent on good will.

Essentially instead of 3 stages to high orbit, or 4 stages to another planet, you have 7 smaller stages (2 + 2 + 3) to another planet.
I love pretty much everything that Patrick McKenzie writes, but for some reason, my default internal monologue for his writing makes reading everything that he writes sound like an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Makes reading his pieces a very interesting experience.
Because while you're worried that you'll get an ad for a clothes iron after searching for one, they're worried about how they're going to make rent this month.
I was surprised by this, too. I've spent the last 20 minutes researching; it seems every time I look away for more than a few minutes, Microsoft changes things up (then leaves nasty comments like didn't you read the FAQ or 'it was explained clearly, .net 5 is a separate language together and individually' https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/177951/future-of-xamar...).

My reading of this is that Xamarin has been dropped from .NET 5 and moved to .NET 6, and Microsoft is hoping you don't notice.
Ask HN: HN: What is currently the most realistic text-to-speech service?
I have this idea of making short videos defining one concept. I have used Google's
https://youtu.be/Lt6bwkR7bUI
Also tried Amazon Polly but it seems worse. Are there currently better alternatives realism-wise?
From a gamedev friend, there is no money on macOS. iOS and apple arcade is a viable option, but on Steam, the macOS sales are not worth the headache support and development gives you. Lots of quirks to work around with macOS, and more to come with the ARM transition as apple will surely blame developers for performance problems with x86 titles. Not to mention that the yearly developer fees that you have to pay to keep a game's long tail on the store. It eats into profits for Indies.
Some of this may be reasonable, but many of tech regulation laws do not help the customers, and they would never pass in a referendum.

On the bright side maybe this kind of thing will help tech giants to understand that they must disrupt the harmful bureaucracy that infects governments all over the world. We already have technology to make direct/liquid democracy possible [1] [2], and a small push from a company like Facebook or Telegram can help to fundamentally change the way politics works, and the type of people it attracts.

[1] https://github.com/voteflux
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy
FWIW, throwaway accounts and politically inflammatory remarks are a bad mix.
I'm excited about seeing what the current learning algorithms can do in Math. Games like Chess, Go, Starcraft as "easy" (note the quotes) compared to mathematical theorem proving, and using the bag of tricks (known theorems and axioms) to solve new problems.

Heck, even understanding a problem is a challenge in itself. Just look at the sample question provided:

Let n be an integer greater than or equal to 3. Prove that there is a set of n points in the plane such that the distance between any two points is irrational and each set of three points determines a non-degenerate triangle with rational area.

99.9% of the people would have no idea what to do here.
Apple's entire approach to gaming is broken. I tried to play various games on my iPad Pro and AppleTV recently and just getting a controller to work is a shitshow. Half the games that work with controllers have weird moments where you need to touch the screen.

It's fine for extremely casual or touch based games but doesn't work for anything serious.
This is a completely baseless claim, and it is directly contradicted by testimony in Assange’s extradition hearing.

For example, John Sloboda of Iraq Body Count testified both to the crucial role Wikileaks diplomatic cables played in corroborating many illegal civilian deaths in the Iraq War, and also the huge degree of care and effort Assange and Wikileaks put into carefully redacting identifying information and weighing the moral balance of information that was too important to be fully redacted.

If your comments on Russian disinformation are about the DNC leaked emails, then you’ve unfortunately got it backwards.

Assange and Wikileaks didn’t assist or engender Russian disinformation, rather the DNC members whose behavior was revealed by the emails did that. The DNC did that via their behavior. Assange reported it.
It's not enabled on any of my iOS devices, so that's one data point. They were upgraded to iOS 13, if that makes a difference (maybe it's opt-out on a fresh install?). I tried searching online and I found an article saying it's opt-in[1], but also found anecdotes similar to yours about it being enabled without their knowledge.

[1] https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/11949543/iphone-map-location-t...
I think this glosses over that TikTok and WeChat are Chinese communication companies, not that they are just foreign tech companies.
Musk delivers late. But he does deliver. At this point, any question on Musk's engineering/business acumen cannot stand. He's weird, too ambitious and optimistic. But not a charlatan. The hundreds of thousands of Teslas being driven worldwide and the astronauts flying to and from the ISS are a testimony. But he is weird.
That was great fun to work on and I'm amused to see my COBOL implementation of Conway's Game of Life still running just fine on Cloudflare Workers.

We've announced a few more languages for Workers: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-announces-bro...
The other end of this consolidation is that there is an uncountable firehose of great indie games released all the time.
Nikola’s Trevor Milton steps down, stock crashes following allegations of fraud
I would say that in some ways its easier because you don't have to 100% polish your product page and explain everything your product does without leaving any open questions. Enterprise sales always has this concept of "let's set up a call so you can tell me everything that's already on the website", which at first seems annoying for us engineers, but actually it's really great because your prospective customers ask of lot of questions which makes you understand their background, their problems, their technical skills, etc. So instead of having to guess those things up-front, throw up a product and pricing page and just wait for signups, you can iteratively perfect your sales pitch, your product bundles, your pricing and really hone it in on your target audience.

It's harder to bootstrap some customers who have a 6-months process with NDA, vendor db onboarding, compliance questionnaire, custom T&Cs, but other Enterprise customers are just as willing to send you five figures via credit card within a day or two of first contact. So these can bootstrap your business while you wait for the other deals to go through.
Christian Grothoff explains that the material was already available online in encrypted form. By the time Wikileaks made them public, people had already decrypted them thanks to Guardian journalists revealing the password in their book. Blame clearly lies with the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding for being reckless with the password.

> WikiLeaks made the unredacted cache available after they were available on the other sites, on 2nd September 2011

> The materials at that time were already available online "in a way that was virtually impossible to stop"
World's first healthcare cyberattack death
Short lists with short programs in short time
Yeah, I have that in my backlog. I still need to take a look and see how hard it is. Thanks for the feedback!
Just stay within budget. That entirely solves the problem you invented. Good luck.
There is also Zen Internet who are cheaper than AAISP. They provide a static /48 subnet allocation that you can divide up into 2^16 /64 subnets.

Unfortunately IPv6 is opt in so after getting your connection you will have to contact them, they will then assign you a /48 and enable IPv6 on your connection.
I could not agree more.

In many technical interviews, they want to talk about "scalability", using fancy big data software for horizontal scalability etc

But I also know from experience that many, many of these problems would be more elegantly solved by more traditional tools like Postgres, especially since servers have gotten more powerful, the cloud service options more plentiful and reliable, and the software more optimized. The "scalable" approach can lead to massive amounts of wasted person hours unless you're sure you really need it. But if you say, "just use RDS or CloudSQL, or maybe BigQuery", you get perceived as a newb by the 24 year old who just got his MS doing Spark work on toy problems.
Those things exist everywhere people and power come together.
Phoenix Point was a game I cared about a lot. Then one day, they announced they would not be making a Linux version. Not long after they announced it will be Epic exclusive for a year.
> “ They can monitor the trial without some special recognition.”

No, their remote access request was denied. This is separate from any request for standing as an expert trial observer (which is a whole other can of worms).
NASA to test precision automated landing system designed for the moon and Mars
Interesting analogy. You could extend the analogy to ASLR. ASLR randomizes the address just as you might randomize your SSH port. But no-one thinks of ASLR as "security by obscurity" - it's a mitigation strategy like any other.

Thinking of the SSH port number as a "secret" in same way that libc addresses are "secrets" is an interesting and valuable perspective. It suggests that, like with ASLR, there should be some higher-level "linker" that gives this secret information (address of functions, SSH port number) to those who need it, and no-one else.
Iranian Hackers Can Beat Encrypted Apps Like Telegram, Researchers Say
It doesn't take many to saturate those markets though.

If you're looking for a good indie shooter, look at Diabotical[0]. It's more Quake than Quake Champions was, or even Rocket Arena for that matter. There's plenty of pro-level gameplay on Zoot's stream[1] as well.

0: https://www.diabotical.com/

1: https://www.twitch.tv/thisiszoot
Thanks !

I can't find a subscribe button in gutlab but I will set a reminder
I've been a Playstation gamer since the PS2. I have multiple PS4s and a library of over 1000 games in my digital account.

With that context laid out that I am a big-time PS user, looking at the XBOX game pass subscription model where you get the console for free is REALLY tempting.

In every market I've looked at, there is a deal that works out to about $30 a month for two years. They give you the console, instant access to hundreds of really good games, day one access to all microsoft first-party games included in the price, many new release games from other publishers (for example EA ACCESS titles). Free monthly titles on PC.

AND all of that is actually CHEAPER than buying the console with the two years of subscription.

Plus the XBOX is going to have a number of new features related to second-screen-game-streaming that are also really exciting.

I'm really torn here right now. I might move away from playstation for this next generation - the XBOX is looking like it is going to be a big deal this time round.

OTOH - I really want to play the Miles Morales spider-man ... so there are arguments on both sides. To say nothing of the third option involving an Nvidia RTX3080...

I honestly don't know what I'm going to do yet.
I've seen this many times, so great. Imagine Cook taking random developer's questions at WWDC today.

In that same year, the famous Gates at the big screen speech. The audience was booing. Can you imagine something even close to that today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY
Ahh that is much better, I'll update my link. Thanks :)
Kerbal is so awesome, it brought me back some authentic gaming experience
Probably a better workplace than their illegal torture camps, though only marginally.
The Accident Preventers
I totally understand people who are burnt out on building commercial software. The incentives are often to create systems that work poorly for both users and are hard to work with for developers. It's a miracle when that's not true!

However if you're really burnt out, and still want to exercise your skill, take a break and give open source software a try! I'm still having fun building http://www.oilshell.org/ after many years.

If you're building it for yourself, open source software can be fun, and it should have the side effect of being useful to some others as well.
https://visjs.github.io/vis-timeline/examples/timeline/

This will generate from textual data I believe.
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Seems like a strange proposition, I take all the risk of creating a new technology that will likely fail, and then if I beat the odds and succeed I'm capped at 150k?

Also, if I'm not allowed to monetize my technology or patents, do I really own them?

Is this just a bad startup incubator?
Might I ask how (as in which platform/bank/etc) you shorted NKLA stock?

I tried shorting it on alpaca.markets, although on a paper trading account, with no luck: "asset NKLA cannot be sold short".

related: https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/asset-cannot-be-sold-short/10...
Well yes, there were additionally special characters and numbers in the passwords.

This was also before the internet and for less than 100 students. Not used for any homework or graded work whatsoever.

I'm sure if you cracked a password you could steal someone's Blobby Volley.exe, but that's about it.