skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/12/vietnam-coronavirus-pan...

One thing we have learned is that it is easier for authoritarian regimes to deal with pandemics, because having a police state that knows everything about you makes it a lot easier.

So, the answer is, a number of things matter, and it will take many years to parse these things out.

Being a small island helps, being remote helps, having less public transportation helps, living in a police state helps, etc. etc.
What would you do if you were in a position of importance and China had some things you'd rather everybody not know? Don't be fooled that nothing can come of it just because the legal jurisdiction doesn't exist.
> A different 'start' mechanism for every car is actually quite a nightmare.

I've driven a bunch of cars, over the years. I haven't seen too many different mechanisms.

What have you seen on modern cars that's different than make sure it's in park or neutral (or clutch pedal depressed) and turn the key, or for keyless make sure it's in park or neutral (or clutch in), press the brake and push the button? And if the key battery is low, press the button with the key.

I've driven some older vehicles where you turned the key to enable ignition, but had a separate starter button, and some vehicles with ignition locks that didn't work, so you could turn the ignition without a key. And some cars with keys go off -> accessories -> ignition -> starter vs accessories <- off -> ignition -> starter. If the key retention in the switch/lock is broken, sometimes it's tricky to make sure you pull the key out in off instead of accessories.
as with the hundreds of other converters, it probably will produce varying results
It's a bad-faith term intended only to shut down conversations.
David Fravor: UFOs, Aliens, Fighter Jets, and Aerospace Engineering
Some of the cost is due to grift.

But a lot of the cost is due to making sure that things work in harder conditions than office/home, that the parts can be repaired quickly, etc. It also usually has to work for longer than typical lifespan targeted by server vendors (3-5 years for normal server, 20-30 years for industrial/military hw)

All of those requirements also mean that there's less made, so you have less exploitation of economies of scale - even if you use COTS chips, the market for, let's say, OpenVPX SBCs with specific connector configuration is pretty small. So even efforts to commoditise parts run into problems like that.
Smaller consultancies rely on good relationships for recurring projects and / or referrals, so I haven't seen this behavior as much from them. That said, I do not think it is uncommon for a consultancy to try to make up losses on the original fixed bid with higher margins on changes or future work. It really depends on the people running the show, especially on the sales side of things.
If you want to ride on the street you get the 500, 600 or 650. The 1000 is a dedicated track weapon and riding more than 30 minutes to an hour on the street with result in posterior and back pain (the seat is designed for full tuck/lean off, not the upright position you often use in traffic).

Remember that it’s about fast as a six figure sports car, so $17k for a track only vehicle is a bargain.
Has anyone discovered a way to bring the content into a form that is halfway bearable to read? Neither zoom nor reader mode of Firefox helps.

Edit: before you spend time trying this: it does not have a proper printing stylesheet either.
Those damn commies and their public transit (that you have to pay for) ;)

The library system in montreal (+BANQ) is one of the things i missed most when i left. It really was amazing.
Good for whom is the question. I suspect they’re quite good for what they’re seeking.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22197158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549189
After all the tortures he described. That's the evidence picture he showed? A 'scar' on hand, hmm, alright, fully convinced!
that can happen from both sides though. plus i m not in that position obviously
It seems to crash or otherwise reload frequently as well, at least in Safari on my iPad.

After a while I put it in reader mode, until it reloaded crapify mode again :-(

Note to Wired staff: surely you can do something that would make people want to return to your site, rather than viewing it as a last resort?
In another thread someone explained that the videos were stored in their original chunked format, so it wouldn't be that easy to just extract it.
I’d like to plug my project, APStreamline for just this use case (https://github.com/shortstheory/APStreamline). It supports network adaptive streaming which adjusts the resolution and bitrate of the H264 video streamed from the Pi camera depending on the quality of your network connection. You can then use an RTSP player such as VLC to view the video stream. It works great with other types of cameras too!
Well, there was the case where the the NSA intercepted hardware shipments (I think it was Cisco HW) to install their backdoors.
This is such a great point, and distills a lot of complexity down to a few sentences.
> existing software borked
Yes by design just like your existing services are borked until you set up new certs.

Where HP screwed up was that they didn’t re-sign their binaries, so people would (correctly) go and download the drivers again and get the same failure.

Again, it is not apples job to work out if you really wanted to revoke a cert, or you just screwed up. How are they meant to make that determination?

Let’s put it another way, say someone requests a revocation issue to malicious actor or some such. And Apple then futzes around going back and forth through email to make sure revocation is intended. The headline would be “Apple tried to stop me revoking my signing certificate”

> CRL vs OCSP
OCSP is fed from a list the CA manages.

Whether you’re downloading a list of revocations ahead of time or getting individual responses is moot.
Knowing who talks to who, at what times, the type and approximate size of messages, the members of groups, and the contents of the phone book of every user gives enough information to keep their business model without exposing them to court orders asking for the plaintext

Similarly Google runs 8.8.8.8 so they know what services you use that aren’t HTTP that they don’t have bugged already.
I mean, with my 30+ year old car I can buy a Haynes manual for $10 once and I have the wiring diagrams and guides for how to make specific repairs forever.

Plus you only get those subscription services for as long as FCA decides they want to sell them to you. Will they still offer that 10 years from now? 20? Consider me extremely skeptical.
I'm a blockchain skeptic with the best of them, but this does not solve the problem GP is describing. Yes, git supports multiple remotes, but there is no durable, decentralized hosting infrastructure for arbitrary repos that I am familiar with.
Ask HN: What low-maintenance career tracks, if any, exist for SWE's?
My parents are very blue collar and not from higher education (they haven't even completed their equivalent of high school) but what I share from them is that my outlook on work. I just treat my developer jobs as just that, a job, just to pay the bills. Not as a way to move up beyond an IC role, not to become a lead, not to stay on top of industry trends or news. My dad's been a welder at the same company for 20+ years, with the same position, and he only quit because the health risks associated with the job were catching up to him. He has been a trucker since.

So I want to follow my career cadence basically the same way, only needing to change jobs if I feel it's impacting my health (mental or physical) or if I no longer find my team and manager great to work with. Is there a career track like that for SWE's which is low-maintenance and have few disruptions? Traditionally I've been a web developer but am tired of running the tech treadmill.
Back in my day when I did such things it was just Excel with some macros and filters. What this person is doing is very similar to what I did, but it was a subset as I use macros to pull up things easily and search the text of them. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/gradhacker/organizing-y...
Nsaname – Like petname, but for naming secret projects and tools
yes but unlike .bmp -> .jpg compression is optional. you can display exactly the same content and layout in e.g. HTML, but there is no standard to govern or reverse this
Wow edgy. You could have also said “today”.
Pilots don't really care about where the bend is because it only shows up to 15 knots and it becomes mostly relevant for limitations at higher speeds. Most relevant visually is the general direction, changes in direction and whether it's half inflated or full, that's enough precision from a glance.

The strength and gusts are also reported by the tower, they'll say something like "Wind 270 at 15 gusting 25, runway 23 cleared to land" which means the wind is coming from 270 degrees (West), at 15 knots with gusts up to 25. Then you have a general idea of the crosswind on the runway being about 12kt gusting just under 20ish from the right. Accurate enough to figure out whether a limit needs to be calculated.
> The rise of fake news, the alt-right, and other extreme social factions coincide with the rise of viral platforms for that reason.

Reality check: Twitter didn't cause the Uighur situation.
More typically you cover the lights with masking tape. Its cheaper.
> When local Engineering Manager Tiana Newbauer-Hampton sees the issue play out in her corporate environment, she says that a simple “let me finish my thought” usually does the trick.

This is exactly what I find useful. When men interrupt women, it's usually not because of an intention to discriminate, to devalue what the women are about to say, or to express disapproval of the women. It's simply an unconscious action. There is no ill will. This is the reason why women can prevent the interruption just by saying "let me finish my thought" or even just by ignoring the interruption and keep on talking.

I wish more women did this. This will subconsciously let everyone know interrupting is not okay.
Samsung Foundry Update: 5nm SoCs in Production, HPC Shipments to Expand in Q4
They are probably eating relatively small absolute amounts of good cheese, rather than covering food in mountains of lower-quality cheese.

A cup of wine (assuming a literal cup, so 280ml) is probably on the higher end of what is advisable, but not horrible.

I also assume they're not snacking constantly outside of meals, which makes a huge difference.
First SpaceX Starlink Public Beta Internet Speed Tests Live Up to the Hype
This is the first time i hear about WhatsApp storing unecrypted copies of my chats in their cloud.

Can you provide more information?
This fork has existed for a long time (under blackjack4494), it isn't some random fork. I don't believe it merges PRs just randomly either, it's just a more active maintainer. This is explained on the README.

I'm not totally sure which tool I should use, but I'm leaning towards the fork, because it has more support in general, and has fixed things faster.
This class of submarines was designed to spend a long time underwater on patrols. The problems faced by the crew are comparable to problems facing long term space missions, except there was higher chance of returning to port.

Because of that, Typhoons were designed with crew comfort in mind, with lots of amenities, ensuring crew performance after several months underwater.
You have to preserve architectural registers only when some other instruction actually depends on them. When you detect a dependency you lazily compute their content (causing a stall)
I always use roller/gel pens, but I have never tried a fountain pen.

I cannot use a cheap stick ballpoint pen. My writing looks bad, my hand cramps up, I don’t know why that is.
I have listened tales about backdoors in unmodified Cisco switches and routers so, I expect any country can try to backdoor another.

So it's something between a slippery slope and futile attempt unless you have a multi layer security from different vendors or roll your own defenses.
The problem is that providing extra bits for "sign-extension mode" and "read 32b or 64b" blows through the opcode space very quickly.
So it seems, you like sophism?

Because

"The communalisation of farmland and factories by the CNT/FAI and by the CPSU were also completely different."

for the former owners of that farmland and factories, it did not really matter - for them it was lost, uncompensated property. Which is why they supported fascism, when they were pushed towards it.
The fact that you can only write is the exact reason that it is such a loved device. If want to get distracted by the lust of hacking the device instead of writing, there are thousands of other alternatives.
I'm running several-years-old non-flagship phone, but own a UBports edition PinePhone to tinker with.

Personally, I'm interested in eventual higher specs because I think it enables more things down the line. For example, I have 2 GB of RAM right now (maybe 3 GB if I now decide to replace my mainboard). But what if Pine64 decides to put go the Raspberry Pi route, and suddenly add an option with 8 GB? Maybe you could use an LTE-enabled SIM card to build a cheap remote environmental monitoring node based on the PinePhone, since it's already got a camera, GPS, and the data link built in, and could access peripherals through the Convergence functionality. Who knows? Optional higher specs only extends the range of possibilities.
Just look at the paid members of the kotlin foundation:
(Ctrl find Google)
https://kotlinlang.org/foundation/kotlin-foundation.html#kot...

https://github.com/jsjeon is probably the most prolific one as I often see him in the commit history.

BTW which plugin are you working on?
Then you're one of todays lucky 10000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
>Paying $10-20/mo for a fridge is not going to significantly impact retirement savings over the long term.

First, your numbers are way too low. Nobody is going to lease you, for example, a $2500 fridge where the capital cost will take 20 years to be paid back, especially since cost of service, depreciation of asset, and profit, needs to be priced in as well. You'd be looking at something on the order of $50/mo.

The opportunity cost of putting $50/mo into a tax sheltered investment account (with a reasonable 6% return) is around $15,000 after 15 years. In other words, you paid $15k for a fridge that retails for $2500.

> The alternative is putting that little bit extra into savings every month to buy the next fridge when it breaks. It balances out.

Huh? If you're overpaying for an appliance, you don't really 'fix that' by saving more.
Well, until that democracy decides you have something interesting they want to take away from you.

In that case, regardless of whether you're a grotesque dictator or a quasi-peasant just getting by with your life, better start counting the days before something bad happens to you...
Jack Rusher: the Aesthetics of Programming Tools
As a user, I block and personally hate those traffic leeches. They don't reduce streaming costs, they just push them onto unsuspecting users. I'll be billed for the additional upload by my ISP if I open their video on my phone. Plus the idea isn't even new. There have been streaming video BitTorrent clients implemented in Javascript for some years already.

As an admin, if anyone in my wifi opens a page using this technology, their increased upload traffic will slow down or potentially even block more important things like off-site backups.

That's why companies and universities tend to block p2p "CDN"s. Or at the very least, they heavily throttle it, which means your watching experience suffers.
> Those are not real IFRs, those are estimates used for planning scenarios.

Estimates are the realest thing we have.

> Do not reflect the impact of any behavioral changes, social distancing, or other interventions.

How would these things affect the IFR negatively?
OP probably meant one of the most stable times recent history, as in within most generations being alive today.

The majority of the population, boomers and younger, didn’t live during WW2 and we probably are globally the least stable since then right now.
I think what most fail on when it comes to Twitter, is following the right people.

Personally I follow a bunch of vendors of products I like, a whole ring of C++ and developers, as well as a few game developers. So I have a quite pleasant and informative Twitter experience because I am selective.
Debugging in Julia – Two different ways
Maybe they were just too cheap to buy the backdoor off the (black) market... ;)
My understanding is that it’s not a full PoC. It’s enough to crash Windows, but not enough to do more than that. An attacker would likely need to do additional work to make it relevant to them unless they’re just a prankster. Given that the disclosure says exactly where an attacker would need to start looking, it doesn’t make much difference whether a PoC is released in this case.

This isn’t always true: sometimes knowing where to look is the easy part, and crafting a working exploit is the hard part. I don’t get the impression that’s the case here.
Emacs+LateX for anything complicated and Markdown for simple notes and what not :) . At least it works for me
Anyone have a quality the 'elevator pitch' type message on why someone should leave twitter for something like substack?
Right - ballpoint pens are horrible to write with and your writing will look terrible, but they are useful in an austere environment like a plane or outdoors, especially when they're the pressurised variant.
The data used by XKEYSCORE is stored on multiple servers, including the NSA's long term storage servers. How could the Danes be certain the NSA wasn't conducting searches from some cache they do not have access to?

At the end of the day, this will rely on trusting the NSA despite their dubious history.
> If we can't convince people with their ear to the ground, how does one convince the general public.

Convince them of what? Some of us don't believe the NSA are bad actors and and possibly we also believe they're doing their jobs and support them in that.
I remember when Skype was trying out a similar feature for P2P video, where user devices would be used to help forward other connections and calls. My phone left a scorch mark on my (admittedly cheap) countertop because the battery was running so hot.

As a user, battery life and bandwidth limits are super important to me, and this seems like a thing that will eat through both.
I’m pretty sure TimeMachine related issues (either bug or misfeature or something else TM related) is the cause for most folks having phantom disk space usage issues (not due to a bug specifically in APFS or FileVault), but obviously can’t prove that.
You could try nerdydata.com with "shopify" as keyword, that seems to find quite a few. Possibly using other more specific keywords might make a more targeted search.

Disclaimer: I never signed up for a free account so I only saw first 10 results but the result page indicated 151,101 sites.
I feel like if you're trying to make code Just Work on both the web and any other platform, you either end up implementing HTML and CSS for the other platform, or do something that breaks the web.

> Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

> - Alan Perlis
If you have fairly sophisticated formatting needs, like if you’re writing technical papers with formulae, the latex is a help. For most authors, who are in the business of writing words (not formatting documents) latex offers nothing.
Internet was too ethical, naive and immature when NSA did that. We were happily using unencrypted connections to connect to forums, telnet based BBSes and such.

NSA, OTOH, intercepted the switches which would isolate high security networks (red/black separation) and bleed sensitive information with these enhanced hardware.
1984 grew directly out of Orwells experience in the war. POUM and Andreu Nin Perez and Leon Trotsky's treatment at the hands of Stalin and the ComIntern were very disheartening for him

1984 is very difficult to map directly on to US politics because liberal/neoliberal capture of the universities and mainstream journalism are kindof total the way that American conservatives allege, but also George Blair hoped that figures like Trotsky of the Red Army and Perez of the POUM would win out in the end

Orwell would not have been friends with the pepper Christian homeschooler, the glad-handing inside dealing Mar a Lago member, the little local lord like the area car dealership owner, the conspiracy theorist YouTuber, the Rad Trad anti Vatican II syncretist, those supremely Trumpist figures.

You kindof have to visit with George the man, his actions, and his times to understand his story. But that tends to muck up any chance to put him to use purely for your side.

(He was a socialist though, til the day he died, so he'd be voting Biden were he here in Wisconsin right now : P)
Did I say Anarchism is all bad?

I merely said most books about anarchism are more based on fairy tales and "wouldn't it be nice" than reality.
And yes, unfortunately most anarchist I discussed in person with, just also uphold the same fairy stories from the books I read before.

You can change that, by recommending me a book that does better.
Part of the value of youtube-dl is that its reliable. If it randomly didn't work on some URLs it would make it much less useful.

Moreover, there would be a risk that unethical actors would exploit the URLs that don't work in order to conduct unarchivable fraud.
As an European, does it really make a difference?

Is USA really much better than China?
I think on the front of collaborative editing we have too many open (research) questions regarding what the best algorithm for solving 'conflicts' is (OT, CFRD, etc.), so that the actual GUI toolkit doesn't matter so much.
Why would you be posting non-work related news articles in work's slack channel? That is for work related discussion!
7k MS-DOS Games playable in the browser
Orwell was there. His "Homage to Catalonia" is a very sober look at factionism, complexities and absurdities of the conflict. Not a very partisan look at all if you ask me.
https://twitter.com/q3k/status/1322949727600680962/photo/1

I'm wondering what -1 could mean in that context.
If you fully trust your phone manufacturer, now and indefinitely, AND want to install "random" software from an appstore, then yeah, I can see how you need bigger security departments to keep it safe.

If any of these don't hold true, then I'd rather not use the latest shiny-app, fall back to a set of reasonable apps (maps, messaging, camera... I know that even these can be difficult on pine at the moment...) and only run software I can trust to do what I want and nothing else. That last bit "and nothing else" is really key.

Personally, I have come to hate interacting with android and ios devices lately because it always feels like they are trying to make me do something and as if they are trying to extract information from me, not the other way around. Very similar for the web by the way, which I also use less and less.

Essentially, modern smartphones feel like they're constantly working against me. They are powerful tools for sure, or at least they should be. But tools don't work against you. You can misuse them and hurt yourself, but that's not what's happening with smartphones.

These devices are actively trying to harm me (my mental health and my concentration at the very least) because the business models that produced them are based on that. Yes, even for apple. Their OS is much, much less like that than android, but iOS is nothing without the apps, and those largely follow the same pattern.
> template specialization - C++ is somewhat moving away from this

Uh oh... I love template specialization... what replaces this?
Trump's plan to declare premature victory