skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that is what you do a lot of times. but then what if the user resizes the window? do you just scale the texture and let it look like crap? do you draw new textures on resize events? same question RE user changing font size. what if the game has lots of varied font sizes. now you have a lot of textures. what if the font has features that depend on adjacent letters? then you can't just render every letter and slap them on the screen as needed when people type.

fonts are hard
Research, especially fundamental research, should have stable multi year funding by the government. The current way, with many researchers being forced to spend more time on grant hunting than researching or teaching, and focus not dictated by scientific needs but by political aims (NASA!), and young researchers being ruthlessly exploited, is unsustainable.

Just compare the structures back when science, research and progress were taken seriously to now. It was the US government that gave humanity lasers, Internet, integrated circuits, battery tech, databases (Oracle!), satellite-based data gathering - almost all of what modern life grants us was founded back decades ago by massive government/military research programs.

Side note: this is also valid for Europe. We have all lost our collective focus to progress and advance to corporate greed and minimalist-government theories, while China has picked up the slack. The 21st century, I fear, will belong to China thanks to the collective actions of the last 30 years.
I really really wouldn't trust a game across Linux to windows unless it was read only.

Probably possible, but when you have (for example) the DCS installer starting itself and possibly wiping the drive, I don't trust half the games I own to play nice enough to behave in a weird setting
“M3o” refers to the 3 letters in the middle, not the version number (similar to i18n or k8s)
Hi denysvitali - we are developing the android version as we speak :)
Anecdote! One of my co-workers appears to have gotten covid from flying.
Is online gambling legal in Canada? I know lotteries pretending to be giveaways always have clauses about not being available in Canada.
If you have a psychologist examine people, they will find a “mental illness” in some huge percent. People don’t understand what “mental illness” means. In fact, the definition is a hot topic of debate among psychologists and philosophers alike. But it basically boils down to some sufficiently undesirable behavior or thought pattern that we can measure and theorize about. Most of us could frame our flaws and anxieties as “mental illnesses” if we wanted to.
So make anonymized statistics about it. The nationality of any given individual who is alleged to have committed a crime, is not relevant.
Tell us!
Arguably aren't those security engineering goals more than cryptography goals?
Here is a short list of the downsides. I’m sure there is more. Tech is always double edged, it seems.

- present false source to claimed binary build of same.

- allow for pervasive backdoors in binary blobs that resist scrutiny by security researchers
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I don't want to make any moral judgements against people making business decisions, in particular this founder for making the best deal possible. Good for him.

However, no matter how much money General Catalyst or Bessemer made last year, I would not want to invest with them going forward. I get that this is only money on the margins, and they get a benefit from a write off. Still, how hard would they have had to fight to get some of their money back? It sends a disturbing signal to me to write the whole thing off.

Someone will reply: "But they made $10b last year! You don't understand the business." And I am sure I don't. But the world is full of people who made a lot of money or were in the process of making a lot of money and then get careless.

Or reply: "It's part of the model! If they don't get 10x-100x they just want to write it off as fast as possible. That's what there investors want." Sure, but if you are careless people will take advantage of you. Also, I just don't buy that all institutional investors that back VCs are that savvy. A lot of them are just following a trend and over funding an asset class.

Tell me I am wrong. I am no expert.
How did covid get to Europe or the Americas? I realize you were trying to talk only about person-to-person contact while on the plane, but don't forget why covid spread so quickly to all the other countries on earth in the first place, that's part of what parent was referring to.
I support this message. :)

Coincidentally, I just moved to Austin and am rebuilding my hot sauce collection. Does anyone else have an absurd, hoarder stash of spicy substances in glass bottles? Any tips on sourcing quality hot sauces locally?

PS: at a long gone sushi place in Capitola, I took the "satan roll" challenge and asked for seconds. Although I got an employee monogrammed/embroidered polo shirt and scared most of the Japanese waitresses, I wouldn't consider either an accomplishment.
I think it's extremely valuable as a lesson for prospective early employees.

My own personal takeaway is crystal clear: if you want to benefit from the sale of something, you need to be the owner!

Much like a gardener or builder who doesn't get paid out when the house gets sold, unless you have a LOT of equity as an early employee, you will not be getting founder-type payouts (and rightly so as you took little to no risk)
Those typically aren't approved for civilian air-transport though, are they?
Almost all airline accidents in modern days are "freak" accidents, but I personally consider AF447 one of the freakiest of the freaks. The long wait to figure out what was wrong probably amplifies the feeling.
A14X Bionic GPU Performance Leak Shows a 26% Improvement over A12Z Bionic GPU
I thought the pitot tube 'failed' by getting iced up? I'm not sure of that's a common thing to happen though.

Obviously the subsequent decisions were what ultimately led to the disaster.
I would have a conversation with your companies legal department.
What's the alternative? There was a flaw in the aircraft design, a dreadful one. Some fundamental structural issues and conflicts of interest at the FCC (that the NTSB has been complaining about for roughly its entire existence) were again highlighted. Boeing executives turned out to be as subject to lying to themselves when making difficult decisions as the rest of humanity. Other nation's certification processes turned out be inappropriately trustful of the American certification process (that's widespread through all sorts of areas, but one of the few positives of the Trump regime will be a re-evaluation of that little habit).

People make mistakes. Systems (human and technological) fail. The holes in the Swiss cheese sometimes line up just enough to permit a tragedy, as issues with training and maintenance lined up with an inexcusable design flaw to allow one crash and then bureaucratic inertia and incompetence (and perhaps even a little racism) allowed a second. The reason modern commercial air travel is so absurdly, unimaginably safe is that we always, always make sure we understand these events when they lead to tragedy or even just near misses.

This has happened before. If you think aircraft automation vs. pilot is a new problem, take a look at Airbus' history. The pre-MAX 737 (arguably the safest commercial aircraft in widespread use) shipped with a flaw in its rudder actuator design that took four crashes and a half-dozen near misses to finally figure out. I'd happily board one (MAX or otherwise) tomorrow, knowing that among the myriad of things that might kill me, rudder actuator failure or MCAS won't be found. Because we fix these things when we figure them out. And not just the part. The process that allowed the part to fail so tragically as well.

Remember the DC-10? Even a cursory read of its history puts the MCAS affair to shame, and it ultimately killed not only hundreds of passengers but the reputation and brand of the legendary Douglas Aircraft. Know what else? Still flying. Pilots love them, although they call them MD-10s now and they're rarely used for passenger service. There's a good chance your next package from Amazon will fly on one to get to you. And when the pilots board one they can be pretty certain that even if the plane kills them, it won't be with a cargo bay door failure. Because we fixed that.

What do people propose? Shut down Boeing? Let Airbus have a monopoly on commercial air vehicles? That's won't serve safety. Start buying our aircraft from Tupolev? Might want to check their record first.

Want carriers to just scrap their 737 MAX tails? Right now? That's the same thing as just declaring bankruptcy. The investment in a commercial aircraft takes years of steady use to pay off, and no one in the industry is in a financial position to take that hit. Once the aircraft are deemed safe (and, trust me, the MCAS problem will be solved), they should be flown. If you really want to save a lot of lives, lobby to hold the automobile or pharmaceutical industries to even a fraction of the standards we require of commercial air travel carriers.
Not just Nit, but I think this is a major point. It is my biggest pet peeve and I immediately back off from articles written in such manner.

If writers write good introduction paragraph, it gauges my interest and I am more likely to read.

Otherwise, I don't read out of spite or protest.
What do you do after you’re banned from Parler? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...
Old worries are whatever went wrong in previous medicine. (not just vaccines)

> given this is the first mRNA vaccine?

This is not the first mRNA vaccine, they have been using it against cancer for many years. They have had time to look for long term bad effects. If there are any they must be rare because none of been detected yet.

>Heavy metals ...

we also know when they are a problem and when not. This don't contain the bad forms. I don't even need to bother looking this up to state that confidently. The people working on this are not that stupid.

> On the other hand, we know that Covid is killing a large number of people right now.

> It doesn't

several hundred thousand dead already. And Covid is only around 9-10 months old. I didn't even get into long term effects of Covid. I personally have lost family to Covid, and have others who are having a hard time because of long term effects.

>I'm not going to ask for sources

The press release is the main one: no adverse effects noted.

I am going to wait for the science to be published before getting this (or any vaccine). However there is every reason to believe it will be good based on what we do know.
Yeah, same here. That was such a class act. I really hope that they get some serendipity like deal flow from that good will.
I think it's good work, but their over glossing in their descriptions. I commented because I felt the article's adjective enthusiasm ultimately distracts from the work.
Origins of the youtube-dl project
I don't have a Brother laser printer, but I do enthuse about things I like; I believe them.

(Actually I realised my label (thermal) printer is a Brother. It's ok. Works on Linux except not continuous/arbitrary length - I have to use a preset label size even though it's loaded with a continuous roll, or else it weirdly distorts flips and scales the image.)
This is such a misleading/bad article. 12% already had pre-existing mental illness, and then afterwards 18% have it. Many things could explain the 4% increase, besides Covid-19.

Also if some people are struggling with low-energy after covid-19, I imagine that could easily be confused for depression.
Yes! We are Netlify for the backend and in fact our next post will be titled "Netlify for your frontend, Micro for the backend". We think there's really a need to do what Netlify did for frontend to the backend and just help people build APIs and services super fast.

The M3O Docs have some content about getting started with things quickly https://docs.m3o.com/getting-started but we need to add more. The open source docs are a great reference https://micro.mu/reference and otherwise we're working on some sample services in https://github.com/micro/services.

Well luckily M3O is M[icr]o so I think we're going to get away with it for the long term :)
> I know it seems silly but that's why I've been advocating for getting those little "was this page helpful?" links at the bottom of pages, followed by an opportunity to provide freeform feedback.

Whilst this is great, I think most people perceive documentation differently. Rarely does documentation delight me in the sense that I'd leave feedback. Generally, my interaction with documentation is one of "It works as expected"; "pretty bad but I still managed"; or "bad, didn't help, or didn't exist".

The thing that has the most effect on my is the last one. That is what will get me to drop a system. The first one "it works as expected" comes with a little but of surprise and delight. But, perhaps paradoxically, even though it surprises me, it still only meets my expectation. With a 'was this helpful' prompt, I'd need to click "it was helpful" on every successful search of documentation I ever do. This seems still too unremarkable for me to explicitly mention it was helpful.
Cheating at Online Video Games and What It Can Teach Us About AppSec (Part 3)
I literally googled a few hours ago for "Why is Apple documentation so shit?"

I mean, look at SwiftUI. Conceptually it's great, but it is also fucking buggy as hell, and I think one of the main reasons is that the developers themselves don't have good documentation available. The best documentation so far I found is this, but it's third-party: https://www.objc.io/books/thinking-in-swiftui/
In general, when you're looking at video that old, you're almost certainly looking at multi-generation copies with some transfers being decidedly suboptimal. It's pretty unlikely that they have the original nitrate film.
The Growth Premium in SaaS Has Never Been Higher
Multi-million $ Black Friday success comes from all year’s work and preparation
Oh wow, it really is tiny -- about 300 lines of C. Great work!
The fundamental problem is a lack of effective redundancy for bad sensors. They haven't fixed that. Software alone will not fix it. They've just implemented superficial procedures that don't address the real safety issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQCwhjWNcH8

A much better version, but without the Epilogue.
How so? (So I don't duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25047668)
This is confusing:

>For decades, computer scientists wondered if there is any secure, all-encompassing way to obfuscate computer programs, allowing people to use them without figuring out their internal secrets.

Obfuscate executable code? Somehow I don't think the original paper is talking about that.

<skims through the beginning of the paper>

They are?

But... how do you execute it then?
git is versatile enough to enable the authors workflow and your workflow, where neither are invalid.

I’d be willing to bet they sometimes, even if rarely, use stash when as you say it’s the right tool to use.

I think the point is not stashing meaningful amounts of changes, as if they can be recalled later. Sounds like solid advice that requires some discipline
llimos - you are right. It is not built for the use case where you are typing you password in continuously to login to normal web apps. As you already know, the browsers do a good job at that (if you trust them). We are going after the use case where you want to share passwords easily with family members, store desktop app passwords, as well as ability to store some of those sensitive passwords you do not wish to store in your browser.
They can try the same as they can pass any other law. Of course, whether or not practically they can do it is another issue altogether...
Yes, although there are degrees and differences in culture.

For instance in the telco world you have a much more direct dependence on regulators because you need a stack of expensive and hard to acquire licenses to operate a network in most parts of the world. Some worse than others. In that environment there is a very high degree of compliance with regulators because they have to be given explicit permission to operate.

For pure internet services or P2P applications it is quite a bit different. You don't actually need anyone's permission to distribute software. And you can move your servers around the world. You don't depend on permission - just that nobody comes after you with warrants you cannot ignore.

So the advice is really to look at who you are dealing with and how dependent they are on regulators to operate.

Large internet companies tend to have entire divisions whose job it is to tell regulators to get lost or at the very least maintain a really high bar for interference. Of course, this becomes difficult when the government is also a large customer. So for instance you might want to be careful with vendors who make a lot of money in / off of the defense and intelligence sectors.
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@dang, it may be good to de-editorialize the title of this article. Best to simply say that indistinguishability obfuscation has been achieved.
How to beat the bank
excel always felt more like a really bad smalltalk machine to me than functional programming, but maybe OOP and FP are more similar than we'd like to admit
How does it compare to Unreal's, I wonder. Seems to have the same problem, third party (Video, bleugh) tutorials.
Android HAD fantastic documentation, just like Apple had 7/10 years ago. It might not be overly apparent just yet to everyone, but Android documentation is slowly following the same path as Apple documentation, where the experience is slowly degrading, but since it was so good a few years ago, that degradation didn't creep everywhere just yet.

My coworker and me are already starting to feel the pain on various core APIs, the latest being notifications, which according to my coworker had 3 full revision, and finding documentation for the last one is hard. Storage (with Android 11 modifications) is another place where the documentation is starting to get stale. Those are not the only APIs were the documentation was poor.

In my opinion, Android documentation is at the same place iOS documentation was about 5 years ago (before they started removing entire pages from the documentation) : overall very good, but a few places were it's not up-to-par or downright horrible. I don't expect the quality to improve in the future.
Can someone please explain why the investors were not able to recoup their initial investment of 800K$ when the company sold for 4 million? Thanks in advance.
The driver & related crapware on your computer can push firmware update to the printer. From the perspective of your firewall, it goes the same route as a regular print job.
Is it really an asset to not have documentation for old frameworks or versions? Some people have customers on old hardware and legacy code using old APIs that they might need to integrate with, it's useful to be able to find out how that stuff behaves.
Given the opportunity, most governments would. Just look at the US's attempts to force phone OS vendors to include backdoors
> E2E would help her meet HIPAA requirements

e2e is not a hipaa requirement.

> So it's not just an abstract, "lulz security"

by all means, show me all the concrete harm zoom has done.
This makes me curious.. As a sysadmin, the firewall is almost always blamed (or some imaginary change in the "system"). But often, simple things like DNS are the actual cause. I wonder what the equivalent most common blame and actual cause are in the medical world.
Interesting. I didn't realize that Skype was really P2P. Thanks for sharing :)
You have made no distinction between "perceive themselves" and "mechanically and symbolically represent the perception of objects". That is the same thing, less the woo. And, events, including their own actions, which also need to be perceived.

I have no reason to think that you are not mechanically and symbolically representing the perception of objects and events. A pattern of activation of neurons is a symbol.
I've worked with these types of people and what I've noticed is, even after you explain to them simply what they're saying is false, they insist or pushing those statements or as close to those labels as they can. They may even be angry after you inform them because they lose plausible deniability.

I've also been in situations where an ultimatum like E2E encryption is dictated by a marketing team and then expected to be created without adequate budgeting or time, essentially creating pressures on development teams, project/product managers, etc to lie.

The conclusion I've come to in business is that ultimately, your product or service is going to be falsely advertised and oversold one way or another. It's a lot easier for some to lie, act deceitful, and/or feign ignorance than it is to actually deliver. Your competitors are doing it, if you don't, you lose.

The way I deal with this nonsense is that I make it a point at least once in meeting or fairly tracable record like an email that others know what is and isn't true once and it's up to them to decide who they want to lie to. I've been on the other side being pressured to lie and its not fun so I'll happily pass that responsibility. I didn't pursue a career in computing to be a constant liar, I'll let the people who want to lie, lie.
With Linux support AOT compliation and other goodies I wonder how many people will prefer writing backends in .NET over Java.
bdcravens is correct. m3o is a numeronym for 'micro' and does not relate to the version number.

The format of a numeronym is to take the first letter of a string (micro) + x + the last letter of the string, and replace x with the number of characters between both. So, Andreesen Horowitz (the most popular one I'm aware of) becomes a16z. Micro becomes m3o.
I do this all the time, it’s the only real way of saving state when you are abruptly asked to do something else
There's also this: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
It’s because journalists have no clue what they’re talking about. This is true for all journalism but you only notice it when it’s about something you’re familiar with.
I'm really not interested in splitting hairs over taxonomy.

Real-world cryptography and security engineering intersect a lot.
How about Jitsi?

https://meet.jit.si/

https://jitsi.org/
Industry Insiders Don’t Use Their Products Like We Do. That Should Worry Us
A cryptocurrency exchange will allow 100x leverage trades of tokenized stocks
unbiased eh... lol.. If i make a racist comment, its respecting my unbiasedness is it?
Well, there might be conflicting interests within government. From a consumer advocate perspective government might want to demand this.
From an intelligence services perspective you might want companies to lie.
if you read between the lines he is definitely going to start something again. some people cannot just sit on their hands.
I'm a native vim-er now so a lot of it is second nature, but there's absolutely nothing about "modal" that suggests one mode is "commands + navigation" a priori. For instance, why isn't navigation a command? It's not necessarily bad that it's unintuitive -- lots of things require you to know something before you interact with it -- but to suggest that anyone who doesn't immediately guess the syntax has somehow failed only introduces needless elitism.
This is untrue. A Level 6 Engineer or Manager and higher makes $500k+

VPs likely make millions.
The D bindings were also ok last time I checked.

I wish they didn't go with C#, I keep trying to use const-correctness and getting annoyed