skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge if true.

Recall the promise of 5G is an order of magnitude increase in speed (among other things like low latency).

If we can get there by reducing bandwidth requirements by an order, that will be great. Wonder if it applies to Netflix...
This story reminds me of when the Soviets fought their way into Germany in 1945, and eventually Berlin. The Red Army soldiers saw the wealth that Germany possessed and it pissed them off even more. They thought "why would a country this rich invade a poor country like ours?".

The theory is that it was a contribution to the brutal treatment of Germans immediately before and after the end of the war (beyond the retribution for the German atrocities in the East).
If API's are copyrightable, does this mean hypertext Internet links are copyrightable too? Uh oh!
How would accessing the FPGA through registers instead of instruction opcodes do anything to address the issue of needing to ensure that the FPGA is currently configured to behave in the manner expected by the current process, as opposed to the FPGA still being configured to suit the process that was running before the last context switch?
This worked fine for decades and the sky hasn't fallen yet. Being able to run "random malicious installers" as you call it was what made Windows successful in the first place and how it stays relevant today.
He's one of the very best writers out there, really. Witty, funny and to the point. (The whole WeWork affair was totally hilarious.) I hope he returns soon!
Yeah and this is the Truth. But hey it doesn't matter because all these elites are living in their own bubble. That bubble will burst come November.
He even wrote his own IP-Stack! It's a great tools for sure.
Regulatory fees? Nonsense. You mean cost of work required by regulation? Tell me how we make NPPs safe without regulation, or how we find sufficiently omniscient Regulator Philosopher Kings who can tell the necessary from unnecessary regulations beforehand.
An interesting question along those lines is what's the status of flour bombs? Powder explosions can be pretty powerful if conditions are just right.

I've heard of authorities accidentally(1) outlawing the mixing of vinegar and baking soda in attempts to make dry-ice bombs illegal... so who knows?

1) as in, some lawyers thought the laws as written were broad enough to cover that in theory - I've never heard of someone actually being arrested on that basis.
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I'm very much tempted to try, i wonder what comes of it.

If you run any services (ssh, vpn, whatever) from your home connection you're probably making yourself into a target for counter scans
This is amazing! It's so clean and intuitive and it supports live collaboration and saving documents without ever registering for an account, love it!
Despite, of course, almost everything working almost all of the time. And, of course, of almost everyone involved acting in good faith.

We have elevated tiny mistakes to headlines, and politician's character flaws to some systematic issue with the whole of government.

This has profound issues for governments actually being able to, eg., manage a pandemic. If no one trusts, you cannot coordinate. And trust is often warrented and needed.
Hey, you should start a buck bounty program then. Provide companies with financial advice and get a percent of what they save!
Yes, this list seems like a catalogue of easy targets more than anything else.
This is why we need to do large-scale human gene editing.
Can Smart Cities be equitable cities?
CalDAV/CardDAV exists and works through GNOME Online Accounts for Nextcloud/OwnCloud, and there is an issue to support other solutions:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/-/issue...
I remember back in the AOL days being excited about the internet and choosing it as a career because I was convinced that when it was possible for everyone in the world to openly communicate and share information that things like corruption and inequality couldn't possibly survive. Funny how that turned out.
It is fun but not worth integrating Facebook into your life. Better use the alternatives. Sadly I own 2 devices from oculus. Will use them until they don't work anymore and then they are headed to scrap. Would have a bad conscience selling the devices and maybe that doesn't even work.
If a big company buys another one in order to close it down, not migrate its services with the sole goal of achieving market dominance (monopoly), then yes, the government should have the power to block that acquisition as the public would be worse off with one big company being the only provider of something, rather than N companies providing something. This is why we have free markets, as we want companies to compete with each other, not absorb each other.
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more like status quo ante? IOW nothing to be afraid of.
> A new study finds that incumbent parties lose votes after their citizens get online.

It appears that the study doesn't factor in cases where the governments indulge in mass propaganda. Mobile internet helps disseminate information at scale instantly, and people usually don't tend to ascertain authenticity of information.

Platforms such as Facebook and Twitter also do little do prevent spreading misinformation. If a government is "committed" to spreading misinformation, mobile internet makes it much easier to have a much wider reach that would be easily possible otherwise.
Cloud providers are vigilant for signs that accounts have been compromised and are being used by hackers for nefarious things. It's in their best interest to detect this early and step in before the hackers can pile up a ton of charges that the account owner is then going to dispute. Some big clues are (1) seems to be mining cryptocurrency, (2) seems to be trying to DDoS something, (3) seems to be sending email spam, and (4) seems to be scanning the entire internet for vulnerabilities. Sending a ton of email is usually actively prohibited and the cloud provider will blackhole your packets because they're protective of the reputation of their address blocks. Scanning the internet is more of a "try it and see" sort of thing. If it's not a significant change in behavior from the background of what's normally going on in your account, or if you're doing it from a trivial number of machines, probably nothing will happen. If you suddenly spin up a ton of infrastructure for this purpose you can probably expect a friendly phone call fairly quickly, followed by having your account suspended until they hear back from you. If you run a big account with your cloud provider they won't go suspending your VMs willy-nilly, but also if you have a big account with your cloud provider they have your business number and expect you to answer it.
Ask HN: I'm surrounded by passive people, I'm getting depressed
Hi HN,

It has been a few years since I'm trying to involve people around me (primarily software engineer friends) in brainstorming ideas to solve problems I and others encounter on regular basis.

Sadly, they are passive, they usually complain about stuffs, they say "it would be a good idea to do that or this". However, whenever I move forward and start suggesting solutions to solve the issue, I make diagrams on how a solution could work; it always finishes in them lacking any motivation moving forward in either finding issues with the solution itself or even thinking of how to get it done.

Do you know where I can find people with the right mindset? Are there any communities where we're safe sharing ideas and designs with people willing to get things done?

Loneliness is kill me :)

PS: My wife is really supportive, so at least I have that
A power imbalance isn't a problem to be solved defacto. We're not stalin-esque egalitarians.

What would you want power for. What problem are you trying to solve. If you say individual vs collective, institute or corp for a third time without introducing an issue to be tackled, there is nothing to talk about.

Attribute the desires to anything other than power and the jealousy tag falls away.

Corporations did not start as they are, they were tiny teams of people off to do one task. How can I say any different about the implications of a new org structure like unions.
I tend to agree with this take. The internet has allowed people access to alternative news sources that often cover stories that the mainstream media have deemed "unimportant". You can also get a lot more detail from well researched sources, and like you said, it often shines a spotlight on how poor a job the mainstream media does.
This doesn't really solve the problem, it just shifts all risk onto the buyer. Under this system, if you take my money and run, I have no possible recourse
I realize this will cause cognitive dissonance in rabid anti-Trumpers but the fact that this admin has brokered MENA deals to recognize Israel as a Nation is a very positive thing for World Peace. Unlike the constant bombing of MENA by Bush and then by Obama. Disgusting policy really. The Obama win was laughable, why did he get it again? Instead of downvotes can we get some information?
The keyboard shortcuts are good, but the problem is they do not behave the same across all the application. I guess the problem is partly the application implementing them (one example is the end key going to end of line in some application and end of page in others. Ctrl + E does not work on some application etc).

I have been using Rectangle now which makes window management bit more sane. But things like command+tab not working on minimised application, having to use a different shortcut to switch between windows of an application is not ideal. In MSWindows, windows are first class citizens and alt + tab works across all the cases mentioned above.
Alternatively:

> Why did you leave Coinbase?

> Because I was ready for new opportunities and they were offering a hefty severance package.
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Yeah I understand that perspective, my question is what happens if the owner of said company wants to sell?
But Can It Run Nytimes.com?
>>> A few connections per minute hardly classify as abuse in any reasonable sense of the word.

The tools is precisely advertised to be able to send 10M packets per second, to scan all internet or all ports quickly.

As a security professional, I wouldn't be surprised if someone runs this at home with gigabit fiber and DDoS the machines/networks they are testing.
I think he's talking about it being a grant program. Probably tongue in cheek as well.
> If you work or have hobbies that have to do with photography, music, audio editing, video, multimedia in general etc, it's more of a wasteland.

I'm quite fascinated by this dilemma: on one hand there's too much choice with Linux (desktop environments, package managers, shells, ...) while on the other hand there's the complaint that there's too little choice (graphics suites, DAWs, CAD/CAM packages, 3D rendering apps, video editing...).

The actual complaint, however, is that there's no Pro Tools, no Final Cut, no Adobe Suite - because that's what people actually mean when it comes down to it.

The perceived "wasteland" primarily refers to just a handful of very specific products, most of which do have equivalents in Linux (not all FOSS, mind you), albeit often with vastly different workflows associated with them.
It took me a moment to process the title as Ur is Hungarian for "sir" or "lord".
That Yeltsin story is a great anecdote but surely the Soviets did enough (and way more) spying to know basic and everyday facts about the US, like whether supermarket shelves are stocked. I mean, how much does it take to know this fact?
And pretty much all developed nations have subsidy programs for farmers who are a well organised political bloc.
The preprocessor removes the comments? I thought that was the compiler?
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An API is an invisible thing. It's not in the code. It has absolutely nothing to do with code. You can create an API without any code at all. Therefore copyright does nothing because there are ways of copying an API that do not violate copyright.

Compare it to x86. It's just an "API" as well. Someone can write a specification or reference listing all opcodes and even though that reference is licensed under MIT or GPL you are still not allowed to make your own x86 processor because there is an IP tool specifically designed for this case. It's called patents. Just because you are not violating Intel's copyright doesn't mean you aren't violating Intel's patents.

Google probably didn't violate copyright and probably didn't violate any patents. So it is pretty much clear cut. Oracle failed to patent its API and therefore Google is allowed to use it.
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I must say that the software code quality of that project seems quite good.
QAnon shows that the age of alternative facts will not end with Trump
Bush did far more damage than Trump in my opinion. He set the direction for policies for decades to come. Terrorism everywhere... An aging western population will keep it that way for a few more.
Not trying to get political, but I feel the middle east talks wasnt even between the right countries.

Get Syria, Iran, Palestine and Israel to sign a peace agreement, now that would be an accomplishment.

Peace between Israel and Bahrain? Were they even fighting?

Edit: should have known this was a touchy subject...
Why is Bugzilla interesting?
Jimmy.
Given how many villages were burned out as part of German expansion and ethnic cleansing, also given the nature of Stalin regime, it is quite unlikely that Russians needed to see German riches to get pissed and violent.

The second world war in the East was brutal, even more brutal then the one on the West, which was super brutal anyway.
Individual users running massscan et al, are not going to produce anything like the level of traffic all the major providers (and quite a few sitest that aren't that large) see from DDoS attacks on a pretty regular basis.

Given that there are several sites who scan the Internet regularly for more than just open ports (e.g. Shodan, Binary Edge, Censys) it's not a volume of traffic that should cause a concern.
>I wouldn't even say he's made it in life

No offence, but this is an astoundingly ignorant thing to say about the legacy of Brian Eno.

Yeah, he’s not big like Celine Dion or Bono or anyone in that tier of musical fame or mega rich but to suggest that Eno hasn’t really made it in life is hilarious to me. He is one of the most respected and influential artists of his era. It’s like referring to Lou Reed as an unknown.
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I have a hunch that one of the reasons "Agile" becomes ruined is the complexity of the stack most teams are using. IIRC, the stories/tasks were originally meant to be able to be completed by anyone on the team with little help from specialists/others within a reasonable time (..including UI?). When the Frontend Engineer needs to wait on Design, coordinate with Backend (ex: discussing API), or even wait for the S3 bucket to be up, mini-waterfalls will be the easiest path to take.
This is great, thanks for posting.
They do have equivalents, mostly FOSS, some not FOSS (e.g. Reaper and Bigwig are not FOSS), but they generally those aren't the top picks of pros (or hobbyists for that matter).

That said, for 3D it's a much better situation, but for video, music, and graphic design it's much bleaker. And even when you do 3D you still want some Photoshop, video editing and other stuff, unless you're part of a large team and only do modelling etc.

Then there's a big ecosystem of smaller utilities, plugins, specialty drivers, and stuff, that also doesn't work.
I don't think it's necessary bad, but I value specificity of language as any good engineer should. If you are able to differentiate between different types of problems more effectively (discrepancy between abstraction and implementation, versus simple growth in complexity, versus code missing consistent defensive safeguards), you will be better able to rectify the problem at hand, instead of getting frustrated at a team who is doing their best, but continues to have "inefficiency due to all this tech debt".
This year for me.
You really missed the point on this one
Nope. See https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/cpp_1.html#SEC2
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... sit in boring corporate meetings

... tackling more and more exciting technical problems

I have some bad news for you.

Boring corporate meetings are where exciting technical problems are defined, and where it's decided on whether or not they're worth tackling. If you're not actively participating in the boring corporate meetings then you'll only ever be solving problems that other people have decided to tackle - which means you'll never be working on the things that you want to work on unless you're very lucky.

If you're really opposed to corporate meetings the alternative is to start your own company, but then you'll end up in sales meetings instead and those are much worse.
It is defined in EO 12333 as well as in 50 USC §401a as, "The term 'counterintelligence' means information gathered and activities conducted to protect against espionage, other intelligence activities, sabotage, or assassinations conducted by or on behalf of foreign governments or elements thereof, foreign organizations, or foreign persons, or international terrorist activities."

In theory, they would not legally be able to without a Court Order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. At least not when it concerns unconsented physical searches or electronic surveillance of US persons.
I agree on the conspiracy stuff. But GGP seemed to say it was the reporters fault, and not a compiler bug.

From what I understand, it _was_ a compiler bug, and it's now being fixed. That's right, isn't it?
I enjoy how the exemption list is now a target of places you want to scan.
Facebook has been trying to create a monopoly since years. Whatsapp was a messenger app but now it is a part of social media. Instagram was an image sharing app, now it is a part of social media.
I'd guess they'll take our their home connection's networking kit at 10M pps before they take out the target server(s). Tools like massscan generally send 1-2 packets per port, so a target host just has to deal with < 130k packets, even assuming no intermediate firewalls are dropping the traffic to unused ports.

Also, minor nit, if it's just one machine doing the scanning, that's a DoS, not a DDoS :)
English has enormous variation in pronunciation, but I think (drawing from knowledge of German, more than of English) it’s more like “oer” in “boer” (/bʊər/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer), with a somewhat shortened “oe”.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-, says it’s

- (UK) IPA(key): /ʊə/, /ɜː/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɝ/

So it seems that is one of the UK ways to pronounce it.
Is the word "cyber" making a comeback?
The preprocessor doesn't remove comments and at least in clang, comments are parsed into the AST.
> I mean, how much does it take to know this fact?

I believe nothing can dispel the disbelief people outside of ex-Union feel about what you point to, other than living through that surreal time, but it was really like this.

Out of all Soviet defectors to the West, the biggest groups were: 1. diplomats, 2. spies, 3. military. All who were entitled to see that.
If they can provide an alternative towards the same goal they dont necessarily have to copy the API just make their own reliable API. I just wonder if the concept of CUDA is patented in regards to GPUs.
Like I said to get these Countries to RECOGNIZE each other is a major accomplishment. Downvoting does not accomplish much besides suppress the truth via greyed out text.

HN mods should flag this discussion. Sad to see this type of divisive behavior but I'm not surprised. I'm personally excited to see UAE and Israel sitting at a table instead of flinging bombs but I've always been pro peace. Perhaps Obama supporters truly are not. Gross
No-one's saying that the BBC is a hotbed of radicalism, but criticising the British empire isn't a radical position in current British politics.
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Stories based on fabricated evidence are also alternative facts.

Example: https://www.cjr.org/special_report/interference-election-202...

This article certainly isn't aimed to inform readers. Why should QAnon stop their bullshit if cjr.org doesn't?
The award is to be given based on last years effort.
Obama had the time between Jan and Oct 2019 in office, where he did several important things to improve world peace.
I guess the reply to stevewodil clarifies some of my concerns.
Window management: Native window management makes it difficult to dock them or move them across screens. Rectangle allieviates some of those issues, but things like command+tab not working on minimised application, having to use a different shortcut to switch between windows of an application is not ideal. In MSWindows, windows are first class citizens and alt + tab works across all the cases mentioned above.

Keyboard shortcuts are good, the issue is it does not work across all applications. One example is the end key going to end of line in some application and end of page in others. Ctrl + E does not work on some application etc. This probably partly the applications fault, but it does make for a subpar experience.
I assume the butterfly keyboard needs no explaination.
I think the 'too little too late' you mean is the American education system. If things like critical thinking, personal finance, ethics, philosophy were emphasized in K-12 you think it would play out this way. Heck Facebook might not even exist now, but sheep need their shepherds supposedly.
I agree, but only in that your new analogy is even better, not that the original analogy was flawed.

Maybe yours is more similar to typical consumer credit card debt. People make an early decision to acquire a good or service, and know they will need to pay for it down the road.

Original tech debt is more like leasing a car. You are making regular payments on something for benefit, with the knowledge that you aren't investing in the perfect solution, and at some point, you will either need to buy the car or surrender it to the dealership.
Exactly. And if investors have already priced in the high growth potential, sometimes even if the "good part" grows a lot it can be that it doesn't grow enough to justify the valuation.

Fair to add that this doesn't refute the structural logic of seperating the parts - if your business has two halves that are that different, a split can make total sense.
>runs this at home with gigabit fiber and DDoS the machines/networks they are testing

Yes i do that and i test my own routers with it.
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Hope Amazon sues Oracle over this and uses Oracle's arguments against them, claiming judicial estoppel.
In this conversation I think it is fairly clear we're talking about government politics. And I would say the majority of things you do in your life do not (and should not) involve government politics. Obviously "apolitical" in this context does not mean Coinbase will lack "office politics".