skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In one test of how well a USB scam can work, Trustwave planted five USB drives decorated with the targeted company’s logos in the vicinity of the organization’s building. Two of the five “lost & found” drives were opened at the organization. One of the openings even enabled the researchers to glimpse software employed to control the organization’s physical security. https://www.redteamsecure.com/blog/usb-drop-attacks-the-dang...

They are used to great effect in pentesting. I think it's natural to see a drive and think "Oh no, I need to get this back to a coworker."
Right! For some reason the news media can put anything on blast to the entire world. Even stuff that isn't peer reviewed and no legit medical establishment would use to determine treatments or diagnosis.

Even crystal and chakra 'science' can find somewhere to get published.
Have you used a 10 year old phone lately?
Hey Ross,

Love this idea! How are you thinking about sharing Artifacts with less technically inclined recipients?

I'd love to give this as a gift to my parents but I've unsuccessful tried a few times to get them set up with listening to podcasts.
I assume so, given that Ryzen runs in "rage mode" all the time (and RDNA2 is the first architecture where people from the Zen team have been involved).

I also assume that you are going to need a high-end case (notwithstanding the PSU) to provide adequate cooling because, if it is anything like Ryzen, it will react strongly to the cooling available to it.

It will likely be noisy and, as always with OC, not all cards will have the same headroom: it allows them to avoid promising headroom that may not exist on your individual card.
Why was this thread even posted? Shameless nvidia advertising. Today belongs to AMD.
Depends on the era of apps. If you're doing mostly bitmaps (that is, Qt4+, GTK2+, anything that draws its own UI, anything with HTML incl all electron, anything using GL, anything using composition) then VNC will work better, as it transfers better bitmaps. Working with Xlib, GTK1, or Qt3-era or earlier apps, X will perform astoundingly better. Test with xemacs next time, and you should see your results inverted.
> Their emails and calls can go
unanswered, or Amazon's replies are incomprehensible,
making sellers suspect they're at the mercy of
algorithms with little human oversight.

Only if you are the "little guy". You can be sure that amazon responds to big companies. If someone from Apple, Samsung, etc contacted amazon about something, do you really think they'll be tossed into the trashbin of the algorithm?
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wayland_on_netbsd_trials_a...
Running a bus isn't that expensive. Running one every 15 minutes around a small town in a loop isn't that expensive.

I don't think there's anything fundamental about density. Its about ridership and funding. Even LA could have functional mass transit if it had the will to fund 15-minute busses on a grid all day. A 25 cent tax on gas would do it. If even 2 people average rode each bus, it'd break even on traffic density as well?
This is a great idea! I feel like I’ve been waiting for this kind of story for a long time.
My god this is an irresponsible comment. Where to begin? First, it fundamentally misunderstands the history of Silicon Valley tech development, which has been primarily funded by government institutions such as DARPA at its core. This is true for sustainable energy as well — it is federally funded research that is advancing solar panel efficiency, for example.[1]

Second, you have a profit motive to rewrite this narrative and position private tech investors as the key innovation enablers. This happens all the time. The reality is the VC industry cherry picks the fruit that DARPA and related agencies invest in or sustain through government procurement. It takes billions over decades of failures to produce something that can be brought to market, and it’s done at taxpayer expense. The profits are privatized.

I say it is irresponsible in this case because we are literally facing the doom of our planet. This is not time to screw around with easily disproven self-aggrandizing Liberterian narratives that would detract from the political activism we need to solve this problem. We must understand how our system really works if we hope to save ourselves.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/nrel-darpa-both...
I think this product/service is targeting the "if it works, it works" mentality. The aesthetics just have to be a bit better than a mess of wires.

It brings up an issue, though. What if it doesn't work? How is their customer going to troubleshoot the board?
Cool concept. The 'oh yeah' was a nice (or not nice :D) touch.
I'm not saying it's statistical, it's just a reference to a small issue which is compounded because of high fatality risk and that the dynamic environment makes the likelihood of unlikely events more likely to occur.
> In the post WW2 era the world has seen next to zero sustained deflation in any major economies

That doesn't prove that economists are fools to fear it, it just proves that policy makers, particularly at central banks, have been listening to them and acting to prevent it.
It's cool how "conspiracy theories" are always false, because the instant something which had been dismissed using the term is confirmed to be true, it's no longer a theory!
Indeed, the creature comforts of a car is probably the big reason they are so successful compared to the alternatives. I rode public transportation well into my late twenties I think. When some folks would accompany me for the trip at times they didn't even own hardy thick winter coats to be able to bear the cold elements outside. People who haven't had to spend significant times standing and waiting to be picked up outside can be pretty shocked at how unpleasant the experience can be, especially given harsher locations.
I don't see the issue here. If you're going to update your drivers for an antiquated OS, might as well just upgrade it im the process. Switching to Linux would also give you much more flexibility for long-term maintenance.
Marxism is more a critique of capitalism than it is a theory of communism. Marx wasn't interested in prescribing "recipes for cook shops of the future." Economics isn't a field that studies things the way they are in the same sense that physics is the study of the way things are. Just because you lack the imagination to envision a different economic ordering doesn't mean that the ideology is moronic or that those of us who are students of Marx lack the brain power to understand basic economics.
The amount of people that seem "unable to regulate emotion like a healthy adult" as you say is surprising.

I used to work at a call center job many years ago, and the amount of people who just seem unable to act like a decent person is astounding. I had to leave the job after a few months for my own sanity.

I know its somewhat biased since obviously a call center position will deal with many unpleasant people, but it worries me how it seems like there is an overall decline in mental health of the general population
LLVM.

Abseil.

I work in Chromium all day long, so I'd like to say that, but it's also huge and has... complexities.
How does your age map to this Douglas Adams quote:

”I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Not because of not having a GND, but if the US doesn't take drastic measures soon, yes all other countries are doomed.

Because the US alone is the 2nd biggest contributor to carbon emissions in the world, and probably the only country that can make China (the 1st carbon emitter) cut theirs.
That looks cool! Can someone create an issue to add support for this to GitLab? And maybe we can consider switching GitLab.com to this as well.
It's not that they're user-hateful it's just that they're (I think rightfully) being aggressive about scoping Wayland to things related to drawing surfaces and handling input events. If people started treating as one domain specific protocol that display servers use for drawing stuff on the screen and not "everything a desktop app might want to do" protocol there would be less conflict.

I'm glad they're leaving all the "desktop" stuff out and letting desktops agree on dbus interfaces. I doubt people writing little CLI utilities want to have to create dummy Wayland surfaces to do interact with the display server which is how wl-clipboard works.
Just mentioning for those interested, but dissuaded by the $949 design fee comments in this thread, SparkFun is providing a temporary discount:

> To encourage you to give ALC a try, we’re offering 50% off the design fee on all new orders through 11:59 p.m. on 12/31/2020 with promocode: ALCSPARKFUN50

Disclaimer: Not at all affiliated with SparkFun, but I'm a fan of fun with sparks (magic-smoke, !smokey-the-bear).
"it comes at a cost which is expounded on by the article."

I would appreciate it if you could quote the article where it expounds on the cost.

I've read through it a few times, and could only find two very brief, vague, handwavy complaints against X:

1 - "the code happens to implement an unfortunate specification"

2 - "You can only apply so much thrust to the pig before you question why you're trying to make it fly at all."

As an end-user, I don't find these to be particularly convincing.

Moreover, X works for me now and does everything I need.
> always use .value_or()/.value()

But neither of these solve the problem either. Neither one forces the programmer to really confront the possibility of nullness and write the appropriate if/else block. Throwing an exception rather than crashing is only a slight improvement IMO.

> I disagree, the operator* has the same semantics as pointers did, making it no more semantically hazardous.

It was already severely hazardous with pointers, that's the problem.
You can buy tons more space for Git LFS on GitHub. 10GB seems to be a hard limit on Gitlab.
I'm not trying to shame anyone into silence. I'm not trying to shame anyone. However, I would like to see people complain less and act more. Being on the other side of open source software is eye-opening. It can be very disheartening to get mostly negative feedback for something done out of passion (even if you might make a bit of money for it).
The whole FAA/EASA cert process is burdensome, but it is worth noting that the aviation industry has an impressive safety record. It is not at all comparable to the safety of a '55 chevy.
Their Linux support is very good compared to Nvidia but I will agree that their drivers are quite buggy on windows relative to Nvidia.
The 3090 is priced at $1500 because it is designed for whales who want the best regardless of price.
I don't think anybody is suggesting that. But if public transport is better, if there are safe paved roads for cyclists, and if city center become safer for pedestrians, then maybe people will buy less cars and drive less miles...
It’s sadly a little too big for my iPhone SE :(
This was illustrated in a chart[0] by someone on the Tesla subreddit just yesterday.

Using Autopilot is in general much safer even though it does from time to time make fatal mistakes that human would not do. (Like when it fails to recognise a truck and tries to drive through it[1].)

Of course AP is a very different thing to FSD, so this doesn't speak anything about current nor future FSD safety.

[0] Autopilot safety comparison https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/jim86m/i_graph...

[1] Accident https://electrek.co/2019/03/01/tesla-driver-crash-truck-trai...
In my experience forgiving APIs don't play well together. I've inadvertently tried it and wind up having to make everything 'forgiving in the same way'. Otherwise out-of-range inputs mean different things to different functions, and using multiple APIs requires tracking all the forgiving behavior.
Funny, Alphabet donates slightly more to Republicans through its corporate PAC, even though Alphabet employees donate almost 99% to democrats.
Come together in SV, Big Crunch.

Covid-19 was a biological/social Big Bang?

Strange loops indeed.
Though, AMD is in the new consoles. Including the Xbox which likely has the same DX raytracing APIs as Windows. I would be surprised if RTX is the standard bearer in a few years.
> How do you even begin to think about testing hardware like that for correctness?

From my understanding: Binary decision diagrams on supercomputers. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_decision_diagram)

Verification hardware is a major business for all these major CPU players today. Fortunately, solvers on this NP-complete problem have benefited not only from faster computers, but huge advancements in algorithmic improvements in the past 20 years.
People wanted to live in the suburbs. It was definitely promoted by government and business leaders, but it was also desired organically by people. It may not seem obvious now, but prior to the suburbs, a lot of people lived in ragged tenement buildings that were in bad shape. The suburbs were a boon to the economy, to standard of living, to incomes, etc. I found a great video from a filmmaker on this subject:

How The US Government Sold Us On The Suburbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmL6xIg-EJ0
There are hundreds of low-volume contributors not paid by anyone. The project would continue without them. Most regular developers, including you, are paid.
My theory holds true on HN, that is, not a week goes by without a japan related article.
While ideal, this isn't very realistic. Likelier is that we will slowly get off carbon intensive energy sources and production mechanisms, but fail to move off them entirely for a long period. In this period it is essential that we invest in the technology required to stablize our climate, i.e. carbon capture.

With the proper clean energy generation capacity these systems can exist in harmony. Where carbon capture buys us more time to get more people on board with cleaner mechanisms. In addition, as this page points out, sustained investment is essential to technological development. By pushing down the cost of capture we allow for new economic opportunities, which provide both incentives (carbon tax for example) and direct benefits (using that tax income for capture).
> Unfortunately, it looks like the their home power division is taking a back seat to their car division.

This is not accurate. Tesla's stationary storage unit is seeing unprecedented demand outstripping their supply of cells [1], and they are prioritizing deployment in geographies where they have partnerships (South Australia [2] and Vermont's Green Mountain Power territory [3], both of which are deploying distributed storage as large virtual batteries [VPPs]). Off-grid applications simply aren't a priority at this time (and there are other vendors for such applications, such as Enphase, SunPower, and Generac, who are offering stationary storage for off grid), as grid tie batteries offer more value both to electrical consumers and the electrical grid.

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/tremendous-demand-for-stati...

[2] https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-vpp-expands-to-add-virtual...

[3] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/05/26/green-mountain-powers...

EDIT @boulos: That wasn't my interpretation, but if that's the case, I hope my citations are still helpful.
Please tone down the rhetoric, I'm not blaming anybody. X is still included on those distros as a fallback option in case you have something that doesn't work.

Re global hotkey bindings: Can you please describe your setup to me? I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, global hotkeys were supported in all the Wayland implementations I tried recently. (KDE, GNOME, Sway, Wayfire)
I'm not super familiar on the subject, but are you sure the analogy holds?

If we build enough capacity to scrub more carbon from the atmosphere than we add each year, then the problem will taper off, no? In your analogy, we'd be moving money from the high rate card to a lower rate one, and also making more $$$ than we spend annually.
>You had a productive day

I appreciate that you thought that
Looks neat, but a few thoughts...

The video is from January, what changed since then?

I still only see a Get early access option linking to typeform, and no actual download/signup.

> We plan to open-source it with the public release

If it'll be open source, why not open source it now?

Also, according to: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.
Novel Approach to Mitigating Chromium Contamination in Wastewater
No, it's ":penetration."
If Google pays Apple 10b to be a default search engine, it should profit at least 2x-3x from that positioning. I beleive the real number is in the ballpark of 5x. Going after that pile of dough looks quite reasonable for otherwise stagnant Apple.
I also came across people who would report bugs that don't exist. The team would spend days trying to track down the problem user is reporting, but the problem was never there. One case I remember user would claim that he paid for an item, but it is not visible on his account and he would keep asking for a refund, but when checked the items looked as they should. We asked him to send some screenshots and apparently he had photoshopped the items out from the screens. He stopped asking when we told him that our support member would like to access his desktop remotely to fix the problem.
It previously returned an XSS test payload https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElAYZTcX0AEyFUY?format=jpg&name=...
My time is money, and public transit costs a lot of time and frustration. And with a car, I have freedom to go anywhere.
You're absolutely right!

Freight cannot be efficiently moved between the railyard and final destinations on public transit, on foot, or on bicycles. Self-driving vehicles can do this.
But that is not what the NSA monitoring meant. They do not get to see pictures of your SO's junk. They do know who you called and when but not tied to your name.
Why Video Game Violence Isn’t Innocent
The boring company is a bet on improving tunneling machines for speed and cost. This might not be realized but there's no good argument that proves it to be impossible.

There are fields where physical limits were already reached, for example rocket engines specific impulse has barely improved since the 60s because of fundamental chemistry, but this is not the case for tunnels.

Provided enough funding it should be possible to dig faster, and cheaper per km.
It would get unproductive but since you cannot turn the sound off, it stayed productive.
How to Take Good Care of an Elderly Relative
Taking care for an elderly relative is a big responsibility. Here are some steps to follow to improve your elderly relatives quality of life.
I'd like to read the article but the sidebar keeps moving up and down the page and it's really irritating.
> Anytype is free without storage and upload limits

So you mean there are no limits for P2P transfers? I'm not understanding this. Do you actually offer unlimited storage hosting?
Toronto: not actually that dense.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=population+density+tor...

Well…OK, the core of Toronto is pretty dense, but the megasprawl that is amalgamated Toronto is not that dense.

But good luck getting by in any non-major metro area in Canada without a car. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver…maybe Ottawa…it's doable, but the second you get into the suburbs, or cottage country, it's Subaru time.
Economics isn't a science in the same way as climate science. I don't think you can label anything in the field a "scientific" consensus. Popular consensus maybe.
I'd say the opposite. The fact that a species memory has been created by the written word and the printing press means that nothing ever dies, and initial mistakes and the achievement of local maxima can be preserved forever. The tyranny of Aristotle over the Dark Ages was no joke.

Natural senility as an individual is probably no more than the accumulation of calcified habits, rather than completely biological - the ability to abandon old, wrong knowledge is a sign of youth and indispensable to the learning process. The written word has enabled us to achieve senility as a species.
It's not just pure functions. Two things break modularity: Free variables and mutation.

The problem with OOP is that no method is truly pure, no method is a combinator.

class Thing
var memberVar
def addOne():
return memberVar+1;

The above is an example of your typical class. AddOne is not modular because it cannot be used outside of the context of Thing.

You can use static functions but the static keyword defeats the purpose of a class and makes the class equivalent to a namespace containing functions.

class Thing
static def add(x):
return x + 1;

the above is pointless. Just do the below:

namespace Thing:
def add(x):
return x + 1;

The point of OOP is for methods to operate on internal state. If you remove this feature from OOP you're left with something that is identical to namespaces and functions.

Use namespaces and functions when all you have are pure functions and use classes when you need internal state... there is literally no point for OOP if you aren't using internal state with your classes.
Very few games have implemented raytracing
> 25 cent tax on gas would do it. If even 2 people average rode each bus, it'd break even on traffic density as well?

Busses accelerate, decelerate, and turn differently than cars, so even if in terms of steady-state flow the two-riders = break-even argument is correct, it's not in city traffic.

Moreover, I'd like to see your work on operating and capital costs, especially accounting for road wear for which the usual approximate rule of thumb is that it varies with the fourth power of vehicle weight.
I'd rather work on a Go, ocaml, haskell or clojure project with a C dec than a C++/Java dev. OO programmation is hard to unlearn and add basically no value for system/network projects. Yes C can give you bad habits, especially if you're not rigorous, but people trying to add inheritance and classes everywhere are a disease. I remember most JS code pre-ECMA6, it was cancerous, that when my OO hatred started.
You can run more than one thread.
Microsoft Azure is fast becoming the de facto cloud choice for a lot of enterprises that fear Amazon's might. I work in Banking and AWS is persona non grata. If you bring up AWS as an option, you risk getting fired.
Social media CEOs get earful on bias, warning of new limits
LLVM is good but highly idiosyncratic. A lot of complexity shows up there from doing things like building and using a custom RTTI mechanism.
We already see this with global hotkeys/shortcuts - some compositors support it and others not, and how to configure it is not unified. :)
Socrates being probably the most quoted person of all time who never wrote anything (giving Homer the benefit of doubt since he did leave a couple of epic poems).
This is great! I was ready to update to an RTX 30-series card once they were finally available, but now I'm strongly considering a RX 6000-series card.

Of course, even if AMD's benchmarks are representative of how the card will actually perform and even with the lower price, I still have to consider Nvidia for their software features. Shadow Play, G-Sync, and RTX Voice are some nice features. Not to mention DLSS...

With the $1000 price tag on the RX 6900 XT, though, I think Nvidia would be crazy to not lower the price of the RTX 3090.