skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I believe I was registered. Airbnb takes a copy of my (and any fellow friends staying with me) passport and does a few extra checks compared to stays I've had in Australia. Having said that I was staying in a pseudo-serviced apartment so it may have just been a normal hotel that was advertising on Airbnb.
Reshaping Our Cities: Microsoft at the Smart City Live Expo
The official github page has installs.

It won't update automatically. But if I don't misremember there is less telemetry.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
I wholeheartedly agree. Baby steps.
Everything can be both tech and not-tech if you want to argue semantics (ie. If you use a computer to do your job, is it tech?). That's not useful.

But I find the zero marginal cost qualification useful. These companies are fundamentally different than companies that are further out on the marginal cost spectrum.

Take for example CME, NYSE, Nasdaq, etc. Pure zero marginal cost. Virtually unassailable positions for the marketplace niches they dominate.

Then compare that to JPM, Morgan Stanley, Goldman (farther down the spectrum). While they do offer software products in trading, retail, etc...they also offer lots of high touch, high human cost investment banking services. Not the same thing.

It doesn't really matter if you IPO with JPM or Goldman. The bank will make lots of fees but it will be proportional to their man hours worked. No obvious winner.

By this definition, you could say they do some tech, some old school professional services.

As a "tech worker," I find this useful when examining which employers to work for. It determines how much leverage I can have in affecting my employers business. Far and away, the best jobs I've had are at companies on the extreme end of the zero marginal cost spectrum (pure tech, by this definition).

To use banking as an example, you can go from zero to $1B quite quickly in the software (zero marginal "tech") side of the business. Look at SoFi or Plaid.

Meanwhile, on the old school professional services side, imagine how hard it would be to get to $1B there.
not only do I see fewer macbooks every year among the affluent crowd…

Turns our Apple's MacBook business grew 39% last quarter: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/16/apples-macbook-bu...
Building a bridge to the future of supercomputing with quantum acceleration
The author's suggestion, as I understood it, doesn't prevent this, it only prevents them from doing it beyond a certain point in the future.

If you got an email that warrants "holding someone accountable", you would have plenty of time before the keys are released. So if you receive an email and call the police, nothing would change.

What you couldn't do it save it for years and keep it as blackmail material / until it's politically opportune to use. Of course it's not as clear cut as that, and an email may look harmless at the time, and only later, with more context, you might realize it contains evidence of misdeeds. So even a good faith actor might unknowingly sit on evidence.
The clone chips are not better, they could've fixed some bugs in the original chip but they may have their own bugs. While there may be some good clones, there's no way to confirm the chip you got is good. Better to avoid FTDI, real or fake, altogether. For the record, I never used or purchased any FTDI chips since that driver incident, the chip I mentioned was not a FTDI chip.
Due to rate parity clauses member rates on OTAs like Expedia basically match the franchise reward rates. They’re often the same rate plans in the software hotels use for managing their rates.

I checked Hilton SF downtown for next week and it’s $91 on HT and $95 on Hilton Honors rewards pricing.
Apple's MacBook business grew 39% in the September quarter
Building and Sharing Jupyter Books in Azure Data Studio
What happened to the people who yet again believed MITs PR lies?

Moved onto the next dopamine hit no doubt. With zero repercussions for MIT.

It's good you are following it up. I recommend you put a reminder in the calendar to see in one years time how MIT behaved in a deadly pandemic.
I see very little inflammatory content on my Facebook feed. It's all a matter of who you follow.
A curated list of links to post your side project
>with extremely expensive labor & shipping costs can "wreck" the dairy industry of a country of ~1.4 billion where the cost of labor is a rounding error is astonishing.

You are severely under estimating the cost efficiency of modern mass manufacturing vs a country with very little to no infrastructure in the segment.
Yes, payment systems.

Until recently WeChat Pay and AliPay could only be used with Chinese bank accounts in China, and to get a Chinese bank account you need to get a Chinese mobile number first.

If you are a frequent traveller and read Chinese, it isn't especially hard to get a mobile number and bank account other than preparing to waste half a day standing in lines. After that, life is heaven for you because you now have access to all the convenience of the myriad e-commerce websites and apps.

Any other visitors would have tough time getting train tickets, booking accommodations, renting bicycles, hell, even buying from vending machines or automated convenience stores, because people really don't use cash anymore, but the system is really only designed for domestic users without much thought for short-term visitors and tourists.
Yes. The Italians are utter dumbasses stuck to their ways for all things, but especially about food.

I love mocking them by ordering/preparing strange things when I go there or they come and visit.
Lean's OpenWrt Source
This looks really nice and useful!
If it's specifically a change Google did, and upstream MySQL still supports this behavior, I'm inclined to agree with you that this is a surprise.

Having said that, it is worth emphasizing that you relied on unsupported / discouraged behavior that "is at your own risk". This isn't just any random feature Google disabled, it's security-related behavior that is discouraged to rely upon by MySQL themselves. This is a big caveat, and is something that I would never recommend anyone to do, especially not when you're planning on outsourcing the management + maintenance of your database.
One particular sentence in this story brought this short science-fiction story to mind: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

Prominently featuring a 'recursive image' that causes fatal damage to the human brain when viewed.
The problem is not the defaults. The problem is choice. When the motto is "just works", the system needs defaults that works. But savvy user needs to be able to change these things.

A more common use case for this kind of choice is corporate laptops. They usually set up their own policy on the laptop before handing it to employees for good reason. Firewalls are especially necessary to avoid leaking confidential information.
Azure CLI and Flexible Server for Postgres: Better Together
International Open Call on Pain Managment – Deadline Nov 30th 2020
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Also the high paid CEO tax of SF likely means he can avoid the tax in future years by granting a lot today...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/overpaid-executi...

as I understand it the value of the RSUs is on the _grant date_ for such purposes. (and not at vesting)
>If it makes you hit the close button without even focusing on the text, why not assume the general population does the same thing?

It's hard to know, my gut feeling is that since I've seen this ALL over the place, they are A-B testing it and realize it works (sort of like market forces). i.e. The same reason we still get spam email is becz there ARE some people/idiots clicking on those links titled: "1 Sip of This Reverses Type 2 Diabetes as You Sleep" and buying stuff.

Now it's hard to know if what I'm seeing is just everyone copying everybody else and those that HAVE A-B tested it are no longer doing it. :)
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I wish someone at Atlasian would understand this. After N iterations of changing the Jira UI, only God knows if I don't have permissions or I can no longer find the action :(
Not so fast. November and December are the months (in the Northern hemisphere) when death rate is the highest. Yesterday, they have decided to introduce stricter measures.
I've been using Windows 10 LTSB and now LTSC for 3 years now. Absolutely, it's not for everyone. But for me, I tend to dislike the kinds of applications that are exclusive to Windows Store anyway.
If the Predictor is just a light which monitors your mental state, then yes, this already exists, and with similar implications: https://www.wired.com/2008/04/mind-decision/
Oof... what's the term for being sunk by the very thing that you're warning against?

I was using a very hand-wavy version of the word "truth" in my reply, trying to frame it in terms of how people talk about capital T Truth in informal philosophy rather than, say, model satisfability in model theory (which completely side-steps this question by assuming its resolution).

What I meant was to express a hypothetical anti-Platonist position. One version of mathematical Platonism is a belief that only some subset of "plausible" (i.e. those expressed by a consistent set of axioms) mathematical entities are real and it is the job of logician-philosophers to feel out just what those are. Of course they must appeal to extra-mathematical and extra-logical principles to do so, but that is after all why Platonism is a philosophy rather than a branch of mathematics. This is a simplified version of the philosophy that underlies some efforts to find "the one true set theory" that extends ZFC.

A hypothetical brand of anti-Platonism could argue that every consistent set of axioms is similarly real or unreal. There is no reason to choose one over the other. The only thing that has any objective reality to it is the mapping of those axioms to the real world. That you can do either correctly or incorrectly. Hence if we're talking about capital T Truth (i.e. the reality of the world) it is captured in that mapping, rather than the axioms themselves. Therefore, e.g. there's no point to trying to divine "the one true set theory." Just use whatever you find useful.

Regardless my overall point is that these are all matters of philosophy that cloud the particulars of what is going on with Godel's incompleteness theorems, often by exaggerating their consequences.
If they used unwind tables for panic, it would be cheaper than a deeply nested stack of mispredicted “if err != nil” branches. But according to https://dr-knz.net/go-calling-convention-x86-64.html they don’t, probably because you can randomly defer stuff anywhere and it isn’t statically scoped.
Thanks! Hope it helps!
He revolutionized video gaming from his garage. Then the world forgot him
In preview: Azure Key Vault extension for Arc enabled servers
100% Agree. One cannot explore the interface, if nothing is shown because of role-awareness. In our startup, I've strongly advocated for showing almost all features all the time, with appropriate messages based on roles or other criteria (except for very sensitive things, of course)
lol, I remember staying up crazy late to watch the new years roll into action in those far eastern Pacific islands. I think I was watching it all on ABCs World News Now. I forget the order, but stuff rolled in with some primitive island that was like the first to get the dawn, then in rolled over to Samoa and Guam, and things were looking great, no issues. But I figured maybe they didn't have too much reliance on computer equipment and networks etc, I'll wait for the big one with Japan and see how they do. Then when they hit Japan and reported from Tokyo and all was fine, I was like "man this was bunk, I'm going to bed". It was so underwhelming and I remember worrying somewhat about the end of the world lights out scenarios. Dang fake news man come to think of it.
Azure skills and certifications can boost grads’ salary potential
> dragging my heavy baggage one place to the next for half a day being rejected all over Beijing

Yep, one would think that for a government that cares so much about their image they would avoid visitors having to go through this nonsense.

For budget travellers to Beijing -- 如家 accepts foreigners last I checked. 7天 used to but they don't anymore as of a couple years ago.
I use Windows LTSC. I have not used Windows Terminal yet, but I'm fine with Cmder or Conemu so far.
How to choose correct Availability Zones for SAP Application cross-zone
The title is slightly misleading, a better way to phrase it is:
* Faster than any other Mac in single core
* Faster than any other Macbook in single-core and multi-core
No one, not even the supposed originators or the terms or the ideas, knows or can agree on what OOP even is or means.

So when codebases coded in the ubiquitous "OOP" style, (essentially procedural code full or state, mutation, temporal dependencies, side effects, exceptions and other things which make it impossible to reason about what's going on) are full of defects, the advocates can always claim it's because it's because it's not Real, True Object Oriented Programming.
Sorry, I’m still hung up on the drug metaphor. Regulation of drugs does work. You know your prescription of X is not cut or laced with something because it’s regulated. It’s how you know how strong your alcohol is. It’s how you know what your buying is what it is claimed to be. I trust the pharmacy over the street corner. To reiterate, I’m pro legalization, but I’m also pro regulating.
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I have met plenty of bad engineers so maybe it's just luck.

Engineers that can't write simple code and always over engineer. Engineers that have no concept of encapsulation and use globals all over the place. Engineers that have no concept of perf. Engineers that can't ship and noodle the same piece of code for weeks that others would have finished and moved on in a 1/10th the time. Engineers that are all talk no work.

That last type sticks out where the engineer would basically walk around and stop at people's desks and talk their ears off but never actually finish any code. People complained. The boss said "they have a family so I don't want to fire them". I don't know how to answer that.
Accelerating Drug Discovery with Supercomputing Scale Biomolecular Simulations
Army-Funded Algorithm Decodes Brain Signals
Have you heard of the BBC? Try reading Manufacturing Consent. The government doesn't need to, they already get their message out in spades with virtually no opposition on anything they consider important.
Azure SQL with Managed Service Identity Sandbox
I would be curious if YouTube's code contained any phrases at all considering it gets minified.
Yeah regardless of these other points about the risk you took, the lack of response or initial communication is not good at all. Seems to be a pattern with Google. Sorry to hear you sunk so much time in chasing that change down.
PowerShell SecretManagement preview 6 and SecretStore preview 4
>Microsoft is a big company, with many divisions that are doing really great work.

Are they really though? Github is slowly becoming less and less endearing with export regulations ICE contracts and lock-ins like github client. Minecraft was a confusing four-billion dollar purchase that left people scratching their heads in 2014. analysts said it would help get newer younger users into Microsoft products, but youtube and google trend data since 2015 shows interest had peaked by the time Redmond bought it. They tried shoehorning it into code camps for whatever that was worth. They bought Linkedin, a sterile wasteland of spearphishing and recruiter spam that (surprise) is export restricted as well.

Azure and office365 target the same locked in old-news customers: corporate and mega corporate IT shops that deploy COTS and do whatever their rep tells them to do when its time to pay the piper for the OS and server licenses. Neither of these services can seem to stay online for more than a few months at a time before a crippling outage.

and now they fold the edge browser into their competitors engine and flog it mercilessly like the '91 browser wars never ended. hardly "great work" from the company thats desperately trying to clean up Ballmers spiraling mess of myopic war drumming against the OS that clearly and definitively won.

I guess you could say "Xbox" is doing "great work." the console is fun, the games are fun, and the division in charge seems to genuinely care about and do things the customers want.
You'll be surprised to know that this exists https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ and even more surprised to find out why it exists.
Almost all of that stuff is public data which can already be scraped.
This... This is great. As an aspiring security expert, this is really, really great. I'll take a closer look at it tomorrow, but I am very grateful at the possibility of a more streamlined approach to RE instead of learning several arcane tools in isolation and manually constructing a workflow.
The rise of citizen science: can the public help solve our biggest problems?
> In that scenario we would certainly expect per capita energy usage to increase faster than population growth.

But it won't continue to grow now, which is what I showed with California. You have fundamentally misunderstood my example. The physicist claimed exponential per capita energy consumption growth, but California shows that isn't happening.
I love it for both mountain and road cycling. I pay for it, to use its modeling to help avoid over training. I like the social aspects of it. I learn new routes by following people, including the local pros. It's a treat when people write entertaining ride reports.

It's hard to imagine that GPS errors help cheating, unless you're paying attention to really tiny segments. I'm interested only in segments that are at least 5 minutes, but normally 20 to 40 minutes. It would be really hard to reliably cheat to your followers who get to see how you grow over time and gain an understanding of the performances you can deliver. And if you track heart rate, cadence, and power, it becomes really easy to see what is legit. I have power meters on my mountain and road bikes.
> It's curious though that most of the unrealistic scenarios are the ones who portray the Americans are great and never the other way around. Ideology masquerading as entertainment.

Sorry I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

Are you saying that Americans should lose more in film directed at Americans? It's not that it doesn't happen. It's just that it's hard to do. An example that immediately came to mind is the ironically named (for this conversation) show, "The Americans", where the Russians definitely win more than they lose. From Wikipedia:

"The series's final season earned Rhys the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, while Weisberg and co-lead writer Joel Fields won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series; it was also awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. Additionally, Margo Martindale won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series twice for her performance in the third and fourth seasons. It also became one of the rare drama shows to receive two Peabody Awards during its run."

It's easily my favorite show.

Looping back to Queens Gambit, I think the basic idea is that it's juuuust unrealistic enough without being too unreasonable to take you out of it. It's not unrealistic that Americans can be the best at chess. Hell, an American faced Magnus last world championship for the title and is still world #2. It's also not unrealistic that a Woman could get there as well. Hou Yifan is 84th right now.

But the combination is just unrealistic enough without taking you out of it, which makes it very entertaining.

A documentary about an orphan Russian or Chinese guy who ascends to the top? Might be more realistic, but not a good enough story for a Netflix #1 level of entertainment to a US audience.
> It skipped 1:08, instead holding 1:07 for two minutes than going to 1:09.

Haha, love that story. Reminds me of another student who was going to build a digital clock that only displayed the time, very accurately, in 15 minute intervals. Because, he reasoned, nobody should need time more accurate than that!

I, too, built a CMOS digital clock for a freshman lab project out of about 40 chips. It did not work, it just blinked the display LEDs erratically. I still have it, it still does not work and I still don't know why.

My senior EE91 lab project (single board computer) did work, though, but I misplaced it somewhere in the last 40 years :-(
k3s still defaults to sqlite. For HA dqlite was dropped in favor of embedded etcd in k3s 1.19.
is taht why you just repost the same comment on HN over and over again hyping tesla products?
Instead of penalizing change, why not encourage it? When you work from home, you don't put anywhere near the carbon into the atmosphere that you would commuting. You also spend a lot less on lunch, and you don't need to put your children into state-run schools that are really there to function as daycare centers as much as they are to educate. If all of that office space in downtown areas stays dark, and the zoning laws are altered or removed, it can be redeveloped into housing that's actually affordable.

We really are running into a wall on the methane crisis, and we we simply don't have the time to integrate these changes at a slower pace.

Let's focus on changing our regulations that prohibit building neighborhoods for pedestrians. Let's work on getting homes with solar roofs and big batteries. Let's get drone delivery everywhere. Let's electrify the transport system with electric cars, electric trucks, eVTOL aircraft. Let's tunnel underneath and between cities and connect them with hyperloops. Let's connect people in rural areas with low-cost, low-latency satellite internet access.

Doing these things will directly provide a great number of jobs for a great number of people. It will make a great number of new jobs possible. It will improve the natural environment. I think this is a much more positive direction to take than to try to slow things down.
>but I also wonder if the average visitor is really that bothered by it.

Maybe.. Another example is that I really don't understand how anyone reads web pages without an adblocker and yet I see it all the time.

Accept cookies, sign up for newsletter, half pages being covered by "you have 2 articles left this month", banner ads that take over the page etc. It would drive me mad.

I remember once when I went home and was watching TV with my mother and the ads came on (with a big increase in volume) and automatically clicked the mute button. After several times doing this, she said "What are you doing? am I supposed to sit here in silence waiting for the show to come back".

So you might be right... sigh
Agreed, it has nothing new beside the YouTube video demoed a few months ago by exploiting MEMS microphone on voice assistants. The pictures in the paper is hilarious, an oscilloscope showing two Sin waves from the internal calibration source, seriously?
Brilliant, thank you! Sad to see there is no extension for Safari, however.
You just made me LOL. Thank you!
Cutter is a truly fantastic piece of software. Now that they’ve incorporated the decompiler from ghidra, its even better!
That study shows zero growth in resource consumption instead of the negative growth observed without their methodology. This does not match the exponential growth in per capita consumption that the physicist assumes.
> often by exaggerating their consequences.

So you assert, many think differently.

Edit: To clarify, are you asserting that they do /not/ extend into philosophy? What exaggerations are you specifically referring to?