skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article? It is noted assange was scared a password leaked by the guardian could be used to unlock wikileaks unredacted content and would go out of control.

When I first read your comment I assumed case files or something were leaked, this is not about that.
Is that part of your NDA?
In my country consumer protection laws say they would have to give you a new TV if the TV stopped displaying TV channels, even after all those years.
The Matrix.org blog post isn’t really me trying to wave a hand over it - it’s just that the Element, Gitter and GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/30/gitter-moves-to-ele...) and Changelog stories fixate on it being an acquisition, and I wanted to dwell on the impact for Matrix.

The reality is that bridging a big existing network is a significant undertaking and nobody has done it before (other than possibly Matrix.org and Freenode, but it’s not like Freenode is letting us talk TS6; we come in as clients). So the acquisition is basically a catalyst to break this impasse. We’re hoping that Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Teams, Slack, Discord will watch what we do and copy it with more confidence to join the network. At least that’s the dream :)
I suppose it shouldn't surprise me, I'd just expect Microsoft to eat a little more of their own dogfood.
I don't follow this. Customer service is useful for customer retention in small firms, but customer service is also useful for building a brand in large firms.

The motivation for both is the same: selling as many vacation packages as possible.
I love how anyone is trying to make claims about which approach is best. We are probably 30% of the way through the Covid epidemic. We have a long way to go.

We'll likely see an effective vaccine early next year, with several candidates dropping out before then due to toxicity or lack of efficacy.

And even when the FDA approves a vaccine, it's going to take over a year to vaccination a large percentage of the population. Maybe by 2022 we'll have enough immunity to go somewhat back to normal. And that's if a vaccine get approved in the next few months.

And we'll see more and more social strife as people push back against lockdown, mainly because of the slow pulled back on assistance. Canada's deficit will be 10x what it was the year before. That's not sustainable.

Come back in 2022 and see where each country is. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
Apple tried to use a side channel in their security coprocessor to detect if the device had booted out of DFU (which is part of how the exploit worked). This didn't work because people found a vulnerability in that processor itself.
I believe that Apple is burning their cryptographic key into readonly memory, so they would need to build out a readwrite pipeline and provide a secondary keystore option for "non-default" users that is writable by the hardware itself. That's a tall ask, but it's feasible, so we're good so far. The benefit to expert users with crypto competence is clear.

How would this benefit third-party repair shops, though?
Not exactly. When you install an app on android tv you can create a "channel". App developers get one channel "for free" and more channels requiring implicit consent from user.

Netflix chose to use recommendations as their first channel. Google TV acts as aggregator for those channels.
Because I think separation of concerns is a better model than throwing everything together because the browser will make sense of it anyway.

It's the same reason I prefer a structured MVC project over a PHP file with the contents echo'd in with <?= ?> statements. Both get the job done in the end, but one is clear about where what responsibilities lie.
So you'd be okay working for a company with policies you don't agree with because "they probably won't enforce them"?
I’m personally super excited for lit-html’s future in web components. It feels much simpler.
It's 1985 and the slow connection was called postal service...you know that thing that broth you deadwood editions of pdf's.

>It annoys me you can't do things better than that.

Today you can, buy a faster connection or step on your government feet.
I don't get why this keeps coming back. They're 14th in the world in deaths per million. If anyone is to argue that they did a good job we might want to look at those numbers too!

Then the economy! Their numbers are as bad as their neighbours.

Why oh why is Sweden touted as some success?
The goals have not changed. The pace of development (in the chemistry) has accelerated by orders of magnitude in the last year. The software is advancing as well. We are still looking for good developers who want to work with us.
Good for Jude, he's one of the few people that is always about knowledge and not the flavor of day discussion.
An attempt at an AI enhanced, suped up Wikipedia. Definitely in the model of Freebase.

It'll end in a sell-and-bury exactly as Freebase did, for exactly the same reason: venture capital + knowledge service = only one possible eventual outcome. It's always just a matter of time before the money corrupts the service. The demand for an exit / return (outsized at that, typically) by the owners who have put up a large amount of money forces the matter. Now that big venture capital controls them, they have to pursue revenue and profit as their long-term primary goal for existing, rather than knowledge being at the center of the mission (initially they'll pretend knowledge is at the center of their mission, that will pivot as the return pressure builds on them over time).

When's the IPO? But but but we're a knowledge service, we're here to help humanity. Where's my return? When do I get a 1,000% return on my $10m? But but but we're a knowledge service, we just want to spread knowledge for the betterment of all. Breaking news, July 2024: Golden purchased by Verizon Media [insert big corporate swamp monster here] for $586 million in a fire sale. July 2026, Verizon Media quietly buries Golden.

Andreessen in particular seems bent on driving as many interesting knowledge concepts into the ground as he can. His magic knowledge service touch was all over Rap Genius as well (with dreams of annotate-everything going back to the Netscape days [1]).

There hasn't been a single prominent knowledge service in the history of the Web that has escaped destruction once they've taken big venture capital, except for Stack Exchange and they're starting to teeter on the edge where the owners start to push it in a way that begins the rolling corruption phase (with Stack that inevitable process was delayed for a long time by the influence of its founders and the decisions they made, but eventually papa VC wants his fat return).

The only for-profit knowledge services that survive with their soul intact, are slim independent operations like wikiHow that are not commanded by venture capital and the never-ending need to force an exit.

[1] https://genius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-andreessen-horowitz-i...

"But that's just the start. It turns out that Rap Genius has a much bigger idea and a much broader mission than that. Which is: Generalize out to many other categories of text... annotate the world... be the knowledge about the knowledge... create the Internet Talmud."

"Back in 1993, when Eric Bina and I were first building Mosaic, it seemed obvious to us that users would want to annotate all text on the web"

Bullshit.
Direct link to the mailing list post for convenience:

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-September/145...

Normally Phoronix is more or less blogspam, but in this case Larabel has actually added some interesting context (history of the backend in LLVM and GCC). So I do not suggest changing the discussion's URL to the ML post.
This has already been possible for years upon years on Roku.
From a firewall POV: Can the host system reliably interact mechanically with the VM? I.e., can the host get root in the VM? If so, a firewall only reduces the attack surface by eliminating the obvious.
> Moreover, given how low the infection mortality rates are for those under 70 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...),

From your link:

> The parameters in the scenarios:

> -Are estimates intended to support public health preparedness and planning.

> -Are not predictions of the expected effects of COVID-19.

> -Do not reflect the impact of any behavioral changes, social distancing, or other interventions.
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Heh, nope, `timebuild.pl` is the canonical entrypoint for an "official" Windows build, and has been for a very long time. It's a hideously elaborate dependency resolver and task runner that is responsible for tying together all the various build steps necessary to create an installable OS.

refs:
https://web.itu.edu.tr/~dalyanda/mssecrets/other/Startup.htm

In order to perform these operations, execute the following command from within a razzle window, whose current directory is %sdxroot%.
· perl tools\timebuild.pl

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/869511

Experience with “Timebuild”, razzle, and the Windows build system
It seems straightforward to me:

* Google has not been able to put together the new features that would justify this flagship cost

* Because they cannot, they should instead focus on their strengths which are simplicity, all around quality, and affordability (e.g. the $349 4a)
> And therefore there should have been no surprise from the beginning that the CDC estimate of the IFR for the Spring would come out where it did, 0.65%.

Where are you seeing the CDC say that please?
You're coming across as creepy right now dude. You don't need to know, stop pestering them.
Sorry but this is a very bad take.

> sexuality is a valuable thing

Yes. It can be a source of pleasure. But its value isn't transactional.

There is one group which assigns transactional value to sex, though: Sex workers.

> a marriage and a house.

”In a game of hypothetical questions, Lord Beaverbrook asked a visiting Yankee actress: ‘Would you live with a stranger if he paid you one million pounds?’ She said she would. ‘And if be paid you five pounds?’ The irate lady fumed: ‘Five pounds. What do you think I am?’ Beaverbrook replied: ‘We’ve already established that. Now we are just haggling over the price.”

To be clear: I have nothing against sex workers (I have lots of problems with the system that enslaves and forces lots them). But by giving monetary value to her sexuality, you would be (probably involuntarily) nudging her in that direction.

I don't have a daughter, but I have a 4yo son. Some day I will have to have "the talk". I have thought about what I would tell him.

I would try explain to him that his sexuality is valuable, but not as a merchandise, but because it is good for him. Like food, or water. That masturbation is natural, but there are social norms. Where to get porn and how to clean after himself (just like when pooping). What consent is. And rape, and pedophiles. What STIs are. I will answer all the anatomy and ... mechanical questions, to the best of my ability. I will explain how a woman gets pregnant, how that can ruin their life, how to avoid it, that they can tell me, and what to do if they don't want to tell me. I will encourage him to discover what he's attracted to, and which social norms to ignore on this regard. I will buy him a box of condoms, put it on an drawer, and refill it when empty.

I would suggest you do the same with your daughter. Perhaps we are too socially different to do exactly the same but: educate her like you would educate a son.
As an engineer, to become a multi-millionaire, you need to get "lucky" by your small share of equity suddenly being worth a lot because of an acquisition or IPO. If that doesn't happen, you're not going to be a multi-millionaire. As a lawyer, you can easily become a multi-millionaire simply by doing your job at a respected law firm, and that doesn't require an acquisition or IPO event.
Couldn't you say this is true about many other jobs?
The majority of that torrent was junk -- something like 20 GB of Microsoft's (freely available) patents downloaded from the USPTO, a couple of DVD rips of documentaries tangentially related to Microsoft (like Revolution OS), and a bunch of wacky conspiracy videos downloaded from YouTube (Bill Gates 5G nanoprobe vaccines, etc).

All of the actual content was available elsewhere as much smaller downloads. In particular, the Windows 2000 and XP leaks are distributed as a single 3 GB archive ("nt5src.7z").
You're right! Thanks, I've fixed it!
what about MS Paint? There is a bug in there were you can draw with the background DVD video. Would love to have that bug/feature.
Looks really useful, but that's software side. Hopefully other versions will be getting that update as well. Wouldn't make sense to gate that behind the Pixel 5, but maybe they will.
It's especially galling when the first thing you stutter to says "Smooth, fast performance. More RAM lets you move from
task to task, super fast." :)
if it works then thanks a lot, it's helpful
Minimap.vim
Milestones in Google branding:

2010-05-20: Google introduces Google TV at Google I/O (https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-google-tv... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASZbArr7vdI)

2014-06-24: Google introduces Android TV at Google I/O (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/introducin... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dCUPeyhag), a rebranding of Google TV

2017-02-28: Google introduces YouTube TV (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/finally-live-tv-made-fo...)

2020-09-30: Google introduces Google TV, which might be a rebranding of Android TV back to Google TV, but I'm not sure.
Yikes. Thanks, I'll look into it. The terms and conditions have no influence on this, but it could that that one of the scores required to create the life expectancy prediction is missing (age, gender, bmi, country).
Yes, the flattery appears most sincere with this one:

Google's take on the TV app from Apple that runs on Apple TV, iOS, and Mac, serving as a common UI to content from apps that buy into the partner ecosystem.

Awkward how unclear that site is: this new app from Google is to be the UI pre-installed on future Android TVs, but for now, you can get as a thing running on a $49 Chromecast puck.
Then presumably you agree that girls should be taught to protect themselves and that one of the ways to protect yourself is to avoid places where known rapists hang out with nobody to hold them accountable?
I love my little chromecast dongle. Makes my cheapo dumb TV smart enough to play tubitv or vhscast.com from my phone and when people are over they can send stuff from youtube as long as they're on wifi.
> If we care about blood pressure, for example, why have we not given every drug, at every dosage, every regiment, and in every combination to a mouse and actually seen what happens?

One of the answers is hidden behind this question: Ethics.

We could make a ton of progress if we started growing humans for lab testing. Then we could run massively parallel tests and get data much quicker. I mean, think about how much we could learn grom the brain if we had a large lab full of humans whose brains we could arbitrarily poke and prod at. Direct access would make us so much faster. But... is this something we will ever want to do?

Ethics force us to attack problems of (human) biology indirectly.

If we're talking about biology in general, though, I think we have made enormous progress in the last 10-20 years. In fact, I don't think we are in any way prepared for how accessible DIY biology is becoming. You can engineer viruses in your basement now. Once gene synthesis can be done in a garage, anyone could engineer anything they wanted (anthrax, ebola, whatever). Progress in biology is accelerating.

My guess is that in the future "learning how to live forever" will be seen as alchemy's goal of turning lead into gold. In theory, you could slam a bunch of subatomic particles together to do it, but that's not really worth doing. We've found other ways to get what we want from nature (shininess, gold color, conductivity, etc.) without using gold. The "living forever" argument also runs very quickly into philosophy (ship of Theseus) and away from biology.

I think it's much more interesting to consider the biological factories that we're building. Directed evolution, CRISPR, BIL Gates, gene drives, etc. We're making real headway into playing god.
Yet, Malmö- which is not as isolationist as Stockholm and has incredibly few cases.

I think it’s something else. Probably the working from home has a large impact.
macOS on Apple silicon is just as UNIX as your Intel Mac was, at least at the moment.
Why does hn love every low effort, low information blog post on biology? Basically this boils down to just throw more resources at the problem + machine learning.
You probably haven't spent much time in Silicon Valley if you think that.
Sorry if I am jumping a line, but did you not figure out that you and your wife don't really have a lot of common interests while you were dating?
Synchronizing clock domains is already an issue. More commonly a problem in FPGAs (larger dies, more buffering & switching, so slower clock traversal across a larger distance), but it definitely has to be accounted for in CPU design.
Google TV is a launcher for Android TV, so far as I can tell. Android TV is not being rebranded, as it is the OS - but Google TV is the "Google Experience" on Android TV.

To make this more complicated/interesting - Google renamed the Play Movies and TV app to "Google TV." I'm guessing so you can have Google TV on Google TV?

Will the Play Movies app on my existing Android TV open the Google TV launcher like shown off here, or is it still just a browser for the content I already have?

Is the change to Android TV just that this app becomes the launcher?
> The witness also stated they were asked by Morales to steal the nappy of a baby that regularly visited Assange, to establish paternity.

Wow.
pyhtel, I gave it a go at explaining the rationale in this comment I made below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643272
Yep, JIT bugs are a bear.

We use LuaJIT pretty extensively and some codepaths trigger a crash-on-assert which we've confirmed is a JIT bug. But not consistently, the weather has to be just right. 95% of the time, randomly inserting `assert(true)` into the code un-breaks it.

We're using the beta, so this is an expected sort of thing. I'd love to be the guy who squashes it, but that's way outside my wheelhouse. I'm left crossing my fingers and hoping one of the updates makes it go away.

Globally disabling the JIT is a nice way to confirm that using LuaJIT was a good idea, though. Instant code starts taking seconds to complete.
Just a heads up: sites built with Wix and Squarespace come with tracking by default, even if you don't use it, and it's impossible to disable.
> We're in the phase now where the person under threat is the problem, the victim is being attacked for speaking up.

Yes; the victim is being attacked by activist coworkers for admitting that they don't agree with attacking people for admitting they they don't agree with things.
Yep. Windows has been largely built, at least until the Win8 Era, via `make` and `perl`. What a world.
Have you used a recent OnePlus? Their cameras are actually really good. I'm very happy with the camera on my OnePlus 8.
Absolutely - at Element we categorically have zero desire to have access to anything in your GL accounts. On the other hand, for the same reason, we’re not going to exploit that :/
I'm a hobby photographer and I already pre-ordered the Pixel 5. I suspect there will be no comparison in the picture quality.

However I also edit big, 47MP jpegs from my Leica on my Pixel 2XL and amusingly I'm not sure if it will be faster or slower to edit on the Pixel 5, given the processor. Alas the 2XL has cracked in 3 corners and is held together by tape, so to the 5 I go.
> If CDC and the Surgeon General had wanted universal mask use, the worst possible strategy would be something like: spend two months insisting that, not only do masks not work, but buying them is unpatriotic and selfish, because we need to save them for health care workers, since masks require a hospital boundary to be effective. Just wash your hands a lot!

You know things can change, right? It's a fact that during the initial stages there was insufficient supply of masks of all kinds, and the ones most available for purchase were N95s which are still in short supply. Now surgical masks are literally given away for free at the door at Home Depot.

In retrospect, they did make mistakes (too much focus on evidence based vs. common-sense recommendations (e.g. use a homemade mask), and much focus simplify the messaging leading to a neglect of education about the subtleties of mask use).

> Then pivot, pretend universal masking was always the advice, and act shocked when the resulting cognitive dissonance coalesces into a partisan issue.

No one serious pretends that "universal masking was always the advice" (at least in the US). However, it's clear that the advice now. Like I said initially: it's kinda unreasonable to expect this should have all been figured out perfectly during the initial uncertain and chaotic period.
One thing to keep in mind is the price at which Buffet invested. I vaguely remember they he invested at about $70 per share (I may be wrong. Just going by memory here). This means there are a lot of buffer room for correction at current price of around $250.
Is the name a reference to Dune’s “Golden Path?”
React is a nightmare when it comes to performance or energy efficiency...

Downloading 500kb of js and processing this is just a nogo. The best advice to anyone interested in page speed, dont use this crap.

https://youtu.be/plt-iH_47GE
Companies that have embraced politics have time and time again come down on the side of censorship, so it is the lesser of evils.
Not sure if there are official IA specs for such things but pretty much all of these old magazine scans tend to have a ZIP full of JPEG2000 images, which the IA will generate directory listings for:

https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe...

From there you can hit those 'jpg' links next to each page, though the URLs can get pretty long:

https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe...

https://archive.org/download/Forth_Dimension_Volume_06_Numbe...
em500, I gave it a go at explaining the rationale in this comment I made below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643272
This is an ongoing, infuriating Twitter bug. Reload the page and it'll show up properly.