skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If people with social influence disagree with your position and are public about it, they are in a position to influence more people than you can,

Yes, it does.

But in a different way than people think.

First of all, it only reinforces the positions pro or con, it doesn't actually move votes, it polarizes them though.

So in theory the best reaction would be to ignore the statement if you are against it, to not give it more exposure.

Secondly, attacking that person personally, commenting on social networks, usually with fake names, I doubt solves anything at all.

> Perhaps secondarily, people get upset with famous folks holding opposing views because it ruins our perceptions of them

That's my impression too, people, but I should simply say humans, we are all affected in a way or another, usually don't like to have their opinions challenged, because it puts them in the position of reconsidering their choices and we kinda have a natural protection against it that made us form tribes that lasted because members shared a common view and common beliefs against "the others".

Probably if that famous person is someone you follow and then you find out that they don't actually think like you do or like you believed they did, it can feel like a betrayal.

But on the other hand, I love Ted Nugent's music while I completely despise the man behind it...

I'm not shocked when he says what he says, I simply don't understand how that same man made something I like so much.
Pen test that took 6 months with 10 people would cost at least $2mm using an extremely low $200/hr rate. People who are best in the industry will be significantly higher.
Also, it looks very fragile.
Apple complaint posts on here are always so funny because the logic is always so niche and techy and silly. It comes off sounding like a person who loves running their own steam train because it works for them and can't believe that anyone would ever want to use a car or bicycle.

More power to anyone who's needs are met by OpenBSD on a laptop, but they are as far from a typical user as can exist. And I don't mean just a stereotypical 'business user' who only uses their computer to access email and spreadsheets, I mean any power user who actually creates stuff with their computer, whether it's programs, websites, music, video editing, documents, whatever.

This person hates Finder. A normal person hates a laptop that might not go into suspend mode when they close the lid to go to a meeting or it might just lock up and lose all their work because some webcam driver that got loaded doesn't fully support suspend. And god forbid if they try to plug the laptop into a random projector to do a presentation.

This person hates the startup sound. A normal person hates a laptop where the fonts look like crap or all the GUI elements render at way too small a size unless you edit config files and play with DPI settings.

This person hates the dock. A normal person hates a laptop that requires you to install command line utilities and edit config files to enable reliable power management and get decent battery life.

This person hates laptops that don't have lots of different kinds of ports to plug in stuff. A normal person loves that they can just buy any external solid state hard drive on Amazon and plug it into the USB-C port with zero configuration and it transfers files super fast. Or they can buy any brand new USB-C webcam or headset and everything just works and they get it with next day delivery and can get on with their actual job and never thing about it again.

This person hates .DS_Store files. A normal hates a laptop where trying to have a simple video call is probably going to require 6 hours of figuring out which kernel modules are required to support your webcam and audio chipset. And if you use multiple webcams or regularly switch between headsets or whatever, you might as well just give up.

This person hates the App Store. A normal person hates a laptop that doesn't let them run essential software like Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Illustrator or whatever modern creation software makes them 50x more efficient at their job.

But if OpenBSD solves your specific laptop needs, that's awesome and keep on keeping on. The best thing to happen to computing since the mid-90s is that now pretty much any computer can talk to any other computer and most file types can be read across and range of operating systems and software. It really didn't used to be like that. So at least we live in a world where the steam train people can keep on running their steam trains.
Yes, companies find it easier to sell solutions, when there is the word cyber present
Well, that’s the end of story of me and Apple. My next phone will be android (because there‘s nothing else mainstream enough).
It's been trivial to do for ages even before masscan existed.

Even then, you exist as an entity on the internet to have things connect to you. If there are ways in which you don't want to be connected to, you have a firewall to enforce that.
After many matches and chats one will be disliked by many, some will react disproportionately. It happened though without a single physical encounter which they can easily detect. I guess the workaround is to unmatch as early as possible? I was also exposed to many spam/scam profiles (promoting their Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube accounts) and Tinder somehow is not interested in combating this.

I'm an average male, I think they don't care that much to have me in their users' pool or I could be prohibitively horny and boring. Who knows.
New Golang Book: “For the Love of Go: Data”
He has form with that sort of thing: Hiro Protagonist from Snow Crash

(Edit - heh - just saw parent poster’s username ...)
> Humans are pretty good at spotting fake in person

I doubt it. People can be really really talented at being convincing but fake.
IBM Jettisons Legacy Services to Focus on Hybrid Cloud
Yep, I used to be a fanboy, was cooling off for last year or so, this news is point of no return for me.
>Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge"

I meant this. Academia-related BS is just a one way to do that.
How to Build Online Clothing Shopping Business
I once ran nmap from one EC2 in our account to another via EIPs (ie out to the internet and back again) to test the firewall and got a nastygram from AWS about running scans.
An egg cell's 'operating manual' sets the stage for fertility
What if they sold it as "Facebook Oculus"?
IBM CEO will be on the hunt for acquisitions and new businesses after spin off
Why belong to a church and hide major life events like divorces from it?

But your broader point is sound. I'd just replace "church" with "nosy extended relative".
Here is 4 minute video of Ward Cunningham explaining the debt metaphor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE
I doubt VMware is for sale. What are his other possible targets?
I think augmented noses for humans would be much better.
That you probe your customer's networks, I can understand, but, but why would you scan other people's networks?

I encountered a bunch, always trying the same, lame URLs for a PHP framework bug or a Wordpress config error, sometimes a hundred variations in a few seconds. What's the point? Same goes for all these ssh connections, but they seem to be real hacking attemps.
TIL we do aerial drops with dogs
I read about decentralized apps being forced to blacklist certain servers by appstore providers (I don't remember if it was Apple or Google or both).
Well, it's more that corporations aren't specially benign. Other hegemonic organizations are usually problematic, too.
I hope that's sarcasm. Hard to tell
After reading this I checked my own logs. I seem to get hit by masscan every few days and at least once per week:

"2020-08-31T05:55:15.314510181Z"
"2020-09-07T04:31:10.32778784Z"
"2020-09-12T07:37:23.354113494Z"
"2020-09-14T04:48:22.862297069Z"
"2020-09-14T10:31:45.331617062Z"
"2020-09-21T01:03:47.198615685Z"
"2020-09-21T04:04:12.142308436Z"
"2020-09-28T04:40:15.616859176Z"
"2020-09-30T14:21:35.844867635Z"
"2020-10-02T23:05:58.837039985Z"
"2020-10-03T03:18:33.945424629Z"
"2020-10-03T14:02:51.344484887Z"
"2020-10-03T16:47:59.941939178Z"
"2020-10-03T16:54:16.67585357Z"
"2020-10-04T03:40:37.740594379Z"
"2020-10-04T09:12:23.443293148Z"
"2020-10-04T23:07:21.37800867Z"
"2020-10-05T06:06:11.452526929Z"
The "L" part was an effort to include all the speakers of Romance languages who say "software libre" or "software livre". In my experience living in South America, very few people say "código abierto" or "fuente abierto" at the Linux conferences except if they are companies presenting business plans. For most, they don't see the need for the division between "free software" and "open source", so FLOSS is a more inclusive term to cover more of the world.

My personal belief is that we need the discourse of both the OSI and FSF because they appeal to different segments, and we need both the business community and people care about user rights to be in the movement if we want FOSS to succeed.
To me this sounds more the the sort of thing foreigners tend to project on Eastern Europe (or whoever is outsider) then anything having anything to do with history or sociology.

The story is generally unlikely to be "general sentiment" of Russian soldiers. Among other things, there was enough mandatory political propaganda targeted at soldiers for them to not ask questions like this all that much, not loud.

> why would a country this rich invade a poor country like ours?

This question implies that soldiers assume the war was started because aggressor was poor and struggling, attacking out of no other choice. That gives quite a lot of benefit of doubt toward heavily demonized enemy in the war.
For example someone like Obama...?
The original paper mentioned in the article [1] deals with metric TSP, so a triangle inequality must be satisfied. This means that you can actually find a space where the points will be the coordinates.

Anyway, the grandparent solves the Euclidean TSP which is still an NP-complete problem. I will be reluctant to say that it is an easier problem in a general sense.
I agree though that there are better and easier approximations for it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.01409
Something similar: https://caddy.community/t/caddy-commercial-sponsor-header-cl...
A human with an augmented nose, would still be a bad choice to fill the role of an attack or bomb dog. Regardless of how good that nose is.
Porting to AMD GPUs in the Corona Age
Reading the description it's kind of amazing what kind of throughput you can get with it.

And I will say that identifying the tool in a way that it would show up in logs was responsible.
What I find funny is that in the next video recommended to me [0] Gates demonstrates something we used to do daily in the 90s but the indistry still hasn't figured out how to do it properly with web technologies.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_UDQnboRw
half an hour ad. no thanks
One of the computers at my father's job is still running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. It's a prebuilt from Escom with Intel 486, 256MB disk, not sure about RAM, and combined with HP Deskjet 510 printer. The only thing it needs from time to time is to replace the CMOS battery and unclog the ink cartridge (there's a bottle of liquor right next to the printer). It's used almost daily and has outlived several generations of other PCs in the office.
Rob is active on Twitter. https://mobile.twitter.com/erratarob?lang=en
Some have a Java based computer that happens to use Linux kernel, but could pretty much use anything else POSIX based.

Others have an Objective-C/Swift based computer that happens to use a mix of FreeBSD and mach hybrid kernel, but could pretty much use anything else POSIX based.
It also gives Purism some idea where to focus its development efforts, since Purism literally has a thousand problems to solve so it has to prioritize what is truly important and what can wait.
I find Hanlon's razor a wishful thinking at best. I do not think there is any evidence backing it up.
I believe the shotgun is the best home defense weapon because it makes the clack-clack sound.
Yeah, everybody thinks it's evil except for the people who use Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp. It's bizarre to me how many upvotes pretending society isn't still embracing FaceBook gets. And when you say this people parrot tired points about how most people "use it because they have to" as if people who thought it was evil, in the the real way, wouldn't be willing to resist the compulsion. I don't think most HN posters are from tough enough places to know what it looks like when people actually think something is evil.
I don't make up an entirely new name, but I do mispronounce my own name differently in different countries to make life easier for everybody. I also know several person that either uses their middle names or shortened versions of their 'real' name when traveling in English speaking countries.
Scanning other people's networks without their permission has no valid research purpose.
Against depression:
You might want to get involved into local JS/PHP/C/whatever communities. Most people there are very enthusiastic and like working on problems (like solving, not just complaining). Some are open and visionary for new ideas. If your ideas can stand the feedback of your community (and your ability to solve arising problems (these might be legal problems also)), you are good to go and start a business.

Starting a business without any plan and vision is a sure way to nowhere.
One could say that the term "technical debt" has a technical debt that further analysis has found that wasn't available when it was first specified.

So the technical debt is subject to technical debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
Less Scatterbrained Scatterplots
The Computer Girls: 1967 Cosmo article on women in tech
Yeah with a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 and a single fan I get idle of 40-45 and a high of 76 and I tend to run with fans set to be mostly silent. With a bit of a noisier experience I seem to recall idle was under 40.
Totally agree. The European Union got the peace prize in 2012. Europa used to be most warn torn part of the world, and the origin of two world wars. Members states of the EU are expelled if they have armed conflicts with their neighbouring countries.
Obama getting the prize wrongfully doesn't make trump more or less suitable.

As an Israeli, I tell you, this peace deal is a joke. We've had relations with the UAE for decades, they were never hostile to Israel. It was nothing more than a photo op for Netanyahu. The UAE and Bahrein didn't even send same level representatives. The sent foreign ministers for meeting our prime minister. Seems silly, but it tells how serious this accord is.

So a peace deal that changed nothing. And will only let some arms dealers pocket extra bucks. The Palestinians will still be under Israeli military rule. Israel citizens are still targeted by missiles and rockets. Violence is still prospering here. Peace is no closer.
Sorting Algorithms Visualizer with Wiki Page
15+ percent of the internet is bot traffic
I think it's kind of like someone who goes down the hallways in a building, checking to see if all the doors are locked.

There are basically two types of people who do that. The security guards and... cat burglars.
>but it still seems to me that they want the power to block acquisitions.

They don't want that power. They have it.
Hello, Startup
Give us link to the Issue once you create it :)
Amazon revealed its first electric delivery van of a 100k-strong EV fleet
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2097152) (tried to allocate 12288 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/ad-inserter/class.php on line 667

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 2097152) (tried to allocate 4096 bytes) in /var/www/html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php on line 271
>Hard to tell

Yeah rlly hard ;)
Well agreed but I was thinking in more general terms of who requires augmentation.
I wonder if you can randomize the source address?
It's also a problem that Apple sells its own phones while breaking the Apple Watch's compatibility with other phones.
Makes sense, you could easily train a dog to react with aggression towards targets outlined in a certain way, even point it in the direction it should go etc. Dogs are not stupid and they are always very eager to learn and decode what you want them to. (Well, most dogs, when they are at a certain age at least)
I've also run across a few major US cities in filmstrips on https://diafilmy.su , were those censored as well?
Most Americans I know that have spent more than a week in Western or Central Europe, want to be in Western or Central Europe.

Not quite the same as Russia, but the concept being undermined is that USSR was a superpower that fell leaving only the US. When, at this point, most countries that were aligned with US offer better infrastructure and average-case opportunities for people, while dulling the best-case of rapid excess wealth attainment and practically nullifying the worst case of poverty, incarceration and marginalization which is a constant threat in the US.

Without a millenium of geopolitical baggage, Americans don't really care which country in Europe and sample them all for an unparalleled combination of benefits.
I agree and and I'd like to offer two more incredibly damning evidence of it being a monopoly like no other.

First, there are countries where Facebook is de facto synonym for the Internet. Thanks to its marketplaces, groups, and events, there are places where much of the online economy is heavily based on Facebook.

Second, I'd argue that nearly every mobile provider in the world that offers zero-rating does so by providing access to Facebook's services either free of charge or at a much lower price than the rest of the Web.

Absolutely no other company in history had these two advantages over not just their social media competition, but the rest of the Web as a whole.
You also have once offered an answer when everybody else was enjoying a rare level of incompetence. Remarkable.
Doggles are, like so many products, both clearly a good idea and not something I would have expected to ever exist even just five years ago.

I hope there are also civilian models — entertaining dogs doesn’t just need to be about throwing balls, and I can imagine AR hare chasing could be a lot of fun for some.
I don't think the people who downvote this comment have really thought about whether they own their phone, their computer, their printer, their ebooks, their car, their software... We have come to an era where you "buy" things but then can't repair them, can't modify them, ant even can't use them anymore once the maker decides so. Most modern machines are actually leased, not bought.
Results of Authoring a JavaScript Library with Rust and WASM
Microsoft is letting employees work from home permanently
> I don't want to have a browser fingerprint, tell me how to not have one.

Use Tor Browser.
> You don't have to use Facebook.

You don't understand what a social network is. It's a natural monopoly.
Greed always finds a way in, everything evolves with time.
Jelastic PaaS did this a long time ago, and in much better form. It is possible to automatically scale your apps horizontally or vertically without any additional configs.
I really don't understand why it is not that popular, It is the smoothest cloud experience I had compared to any other PaaS I tested.
Well, according to C99, it should. Section "5.1.1.2 Translation phases" says (in phase 3): "Each comment is replaced by one space character."

Edit: just checked and clang behaves just like gcc with -E. Maybe you didn't mean comments but preprocessor directives?
This. I went to thinking the Universal God is more supreme than the Christian God
This. Google has a major advantage in that they have a massive dataset. They can use their data to improve the cost function even in real time to detect traffic.
Apple has iOS where AFAIK there are more games than Android. They're really happy if you adopt things like Swift, Metal, SpriteKit etc, because then you're unlikely to want to port to spend time to port to Android.

Where as if you use OpenGL ES 3.0 your game, for the most part, your game just works. (having done both). I'm not advocating for OpenGL (yuck), just saying it's a real factor to use something portable vs not. Of course now-a-days most devs use an engine for which that's already taken care of but it certainly wasn't that way in the past when these types of complaints of lock-in came up for DirectX vs OpenGL and C# vs C/C++ etc. They're no less valid for Apple than Microsoft.
They already have ROCm, just that it lacks Windows compatibility.
You know, the title of this article puts a slant on this investigation by choosing the word tryst.

Why couldn't they have been meaningful relationships?
To your point about transmissibility versus Flu there is this report: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm

It looks like our protections for Covid-19 were very effective against Flu transmission at least that is the assumption.
>and I can imagine AR hare chasing could be a lot of fun for some.

Yes, first he destroys your room, hurts himself by running into walls and after 10 minutes he throw up all over your place.

PleasePlease let a animal be an animal and make other games with it.

https://www.puppyleaks.com/games/

It needs you and not a TV/PC whatever (counts for any children too btw)
We have too much beer (and soda, and seltzer), and not enough cans
The topic can only be discussed using political speech until November 3rd then on the 4th we can go back to using scientific speech.
Just with integrated packet filter...have you ever been in Delhi?
Roger Penrose and the Big Bang
Is AI cheaper than bandwidth?
Disclaimer: I'm one of the organizers of eBPF summit

If you are interested in eBPF, consider attending the eBPF summit [0] on Oct 28-29. Community driven, free and virtual. I've spotted half a dozen "getting started with eBPF" type talks in the proposals already and we will select several of them.

Besides that, both eBPF maintainers, Brendan Gregg, as well as Cilium & Falco developers will speak. Definitely worth considering if you want to learn more about eBPF.

[0] https://ebpf.io/ebpf-summit-2020-cfp/
There is more to IP rights than copyright.

>why should only the implementation be protected?

Because copyright only protects authorship. You are the owner of your own creative works but you are not the owner of other people's creative works. What Oracle wants is to prevent independent reimplementation of Java libraries which is clearly a case of patent law not copyright law.

The Java standard library casts a "shadow". That shadow is the API but the standard library is not the API. Someone who only looks at the shadow can rebuild their own version of the standard library without directly copying the standard library. This is called clean room design and it is done all the time. Patents are the primary way of preventing clean room designs by competitors.

The fact that people on HN are insisting on bloating copyright even further makes my blood boil. IP law already created lots of solutions for all these problems. Stop trying to shoehorn everything into copyright.
Ah I feel you.
I'm not sure I'd call someone with a pipe bomb a "protestor".

Using a bomb for political purposes... that's terrorism, not protesting.
What if you sent 1-2 packets several times in a row to Apple’s entire IP range?