skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you have a FOMU and are interested in exploring Chisel, I recently added a simple Blink example that should help people get started: https://github.com/im-tomu/fomu-workshop/blob/master/chisel/...
FireEye's own blog post is up: https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/unautho...

As is the GitHub repo with their red team tool countermeasures, which they admirably released immediately: https://github.com/fireeye/red_team_tool_countermeasures/
The key to happiness is to stop getting upset all the time
Hate to tell you, but 8GB is quite common across IT departments in 2020.
Google introduces support for SSH'ing into Cloud TPUs
The paper this is a review of is at :

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The Abstract :

"The choice of an efficient document preparation system is an important decision for any academic researcher. To assist the research community, we report a software usability study in which 40 researchers across different disciplines prepared scholarly texts with either Microsoft Word or LaTeX. The probe texts included simple continuous text, text with tables and subheadings, and complex text with several mathematical equations. We show that LaTeX users were slower than Word users, wrote less text in the same amount of time, and produced more typesetting, orthographical, grammatical, and formatting errors. On most measures, expert LaTeX users performed even worse than novice Word users. LaTeX users, however, more often report enjoying using their respective software. We conclude that even experienced LaTeX users may suffer a loss in productivity when LaTeX is used, relative to other document preparation systems. Individuals, institutions, and journals should carefully consider the ramifications of this finding when choosing document preparation strategies, or requiring them of authors."
Apart from the benefits to the individual juvenile - to be harder to spot by predators - I wonder if there's some benefit to being able to see what's coming up behind (looking through) one of your siblings.

Somewhat aside, I note TFA uses the word octopi, whereas I thought we'd agreed that octopuses was the correct plural?
No, and with the update process it really shows.

Because Microsoft has had to pay so much attention to it - and maybe Apple has not - the Windows update process is at the very least far more informative about what’s going on - status of installation before and after any reboot. Updating OS on wife’s MacBook seems like comparatively opaque process. Which is fine if things “always work”, but they don’t.
Ripcord instead of Discord and Slack.
Tell that to Jack Ma.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/technology/china-ant-grou...
I use them after every shower, so basically every day. In my experience, there's never enough build up for there to be anything to push in and get impacted.
What are the usual roadblocks for people?
Some useful information about SVG security here https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Security
Indoors 'during the daytime' is still pretty dark in a great many rooms, often due to the preference of the rooms occupants. So it really has little to do with the time of day. Right now it's early in the afternoon for me; the sun is still up but it's overcast, my window blinds closed, and my lights aren't turned on because there is no reason for them to be on. Dark mode works great in these sort of dim conditions. It's really a matter of comfort, not fashion.

As for 'at work', it's been my experience that offices generally aren't very bright. Not even remotely as bright as daylight, nor even as bright as electric lighting could be. Those overhead florescent bulbs produce a harsh shade of light.. but not all that much of it. That's why people squint or put on sunglasses when they walk out of office buildings during the day.
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This is a bit of an awkward situation: Google just announced support for SSH'ing into TPUs: https://twitter.com/frankchn/status/1336414044907966464

But there's no official blog post, or anything like that. It's hot off the presses.

This signup form is how you get access to it. So I'm not sure what else to submit.

My tweet explains it like this: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1336422227097489408

"TPUs are servers on steroids. Now you can run arbitrary Python code on them. Think of it like a server + 8 GPUs."
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Uber sells “flying taxi” business to Joby Aviation
I've seen some cute work with corrupt DWARF tables (DWARF is internally a Turing complete VM). That work was more focused on hiding computation from virus scanners (so an edited binary), but I wonder if that could be used towards what you're getting at via runtime corruption.
You do not need Nomad too!
> Its not legal for the MAX to be flown without MCAS.

That's an entirely different claim, though, than this:

> Without it, the max is like a very badly designed fighter jet.

Boeing isn't taking the "get rid of MCAS" approach, they're taking the "fix MCAS" one. If they wanted to get rid of MCAS, though, they'd have to apply for a new cert, without the "737-NG pilots can fly it just fine" piggybacking they did - pilots would have to be trained to the new aircraft type.
True, during times when I juggle multiple mature projects I find commits extremely handy since I can’t comfortably fit enough context.

But a lot of the time my work is a string of exploration and in-depth sizeable PoCs until something solid and worth documenting rigorously is born. I strongly feel that if I spend time writing up each change as a “green” atomic commit at earlier stages when things are routinely rewritten and rethought, I might never arrive at the latter stage in a satisfactory way.

During such intense work, commenting about my implementation is a radically smaller context jump for me than switching my mind into “commit mode”. This is likely individual: I tend to be overly perfectionist with commits, trying to never mix style and logic changes in one, to make sure a fully functional version of software can be built at any given point in history, etc.

From another angle, I think a lot can be achieved with other forms of documentation, which you mention and which should not be underused either. Of course, best is having your APIs, architecture and units properly documented. It is undeniably bad form to refer others or future yourself to comments, especially for why’s. However, it’s arguably even worse to direct them to commit messages (though in a team it could be an invaluable troubleshooting instrument, that is not the context I have in mind).

(I would never advocate “fat commit” approach to be applied to teamwork on larger projects. Just wouldn’t recommend taking commit count as an axiomatic measure applicable at all times.)
Curious. Let's say the Swiss military has been studying other conflicts and strategizing accordingly, but has not actually experienced any warfare in 200 years. Does the lack of actual experience in warfare put a force at a disadvantage to the forces that had experienced actual warfare?
Reality - these folks don't need to "do this now".

Yes, Visa may need this. Guess what, 1TB+ of transaction data paying 30 center + 2% PER LINE - you'll be able to afford to do something reliable and scalable.

Folks don't realize, noSQL is not actually that scalable except in very narrow ways. And you can spin up pretty good scale SQL stuff with things look AWS RDS, including backups, replicas, snapshots to go back in time etc (noSQL doesn't support a lot of this).
Has the author considered asking people instead of speculating and blindly discrediting studies? As with others in this thread, I have had earwax compaction issues from attempting to use q tips to clean. Don’t do it, use the squirt bottles. They’re great and like $20 for infinite uses.
The virtualUser messages are being shepherded by `@matrixbot` behind the scenes but you shouldn't really notice that part.

`@matrixbot` does show in the browser notification but we do plan to fix that up: https://gitlab.com/gitterHQ/webapp/-/issues/2695

If you see messages directly from `@matrixbot` in the chat area, then that means that the room is still plumbed using the old Gitter bridge. We're working on a plan to migrate rooms using the old bridge over to the new one, https://gitlab.com/gitterHQ/webapp/-/issues/2674
Can almost be better not to transition.

Newer Devops / SRE is about be declarative, letting them system build itself up.

Mindset of old sysadmins is more tribal knowledge.
You can get stuff done crazy fast are are awesome. But heaven help anyone that needs to mess with it.
UCSC Engineers are fighting Covid-19 (interesting piece)
don't ever move when using them, period, lol
I've cleaned my ears with q-tips every single day for almost 30 years and haven't had a single issue. In fact, every visit to the doctor I get a comment about how clean they are followed by a word of caution.

Maybe letting it build up then trying to use a q-tip causes impaction?
Soon after I moved to Vietnam, I discovered "ray tai" through a friend there. Nearly every barbershop has this service. I nicked named it the 'eargasm'. It is one of those things foreigners can't understand, but once you try it... omg... so good.

You sit in a chair or lay down on a table (my preference) and someone who does this all day long, puts a bright light near your ear and uses a razor to cut off the hair on the outsides of your ears (if you have any) and then uses a bunch of different tools [0] to extract out all the ear wax and anything else in there. I always come out feeling like my hearing is more 'clear'.

They literally touch your eardrum and the feeling is somewhere on the edge of uncomfortable, but oh so good at the same time. At the end, they use a very fuzzy q-tip and it makes this wonderful noise and feeling.

Of course, I've heard horror stories about this not going well. Punctured eardrums, infections, etc... but the fact is that literally millions of people every day get this service in Vietnam. You see people all over getting it in shops. You also learn quickly that if you don't like something, move your head away and they stop immediately.

If you get this often enough, you should purchase your own set of 'tools' (about $4-6) that you carry with you and have them sanitize them each time before use. I went to a whole bunch of different people and eventually found a few places that I liked a lot. For the most part the service is the same all over, but everyone has their own unique different technique too.

[0] https://chamsoccothe.com/uploads/images/san-pham/lay-ray-tai...
Looks like you're making good progress on windows, less spikes in terrain than I saw last time (I think it was the same project).

We also created a 3D renderer for sports tracking app Ayvri. Our standard player is Cesium, but if you click on the view beta link, you'll see our custom renderer. Still improvements to be made in tile loading.

https://ayvri.com/scene/v5plro09jr/cki6prg1a00013b6baegp6ub6
FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack
Your EDIT is a perfect explanation of reddit. No nutrition whatsoever!
I replied prematurely. It definitely looks like we’re in the same boat regarding programming style. I wonder whether I can apply this with measurable results. It would be nice if it were easier to compare your completion time with others on Leetcode and Hackerrank so that the improvement could be measured.
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts has an overview and links deeper into the site for more detailed information.
Is that you Zooko?
The grandparent wasn't talking about retail.

> restaurants, travel, events, etc.

You think those things are moving online? I don't see online vacations getting much traction.
Oh I am absolutely aware that erasure codes are an old thing, Reed-Solomon codes exist since the 1960's, but this is not simply a trivial application of erasure coding to a storage system: erasure codes alone don't provide the same durability guarantees that replication does. [0]

This is a combination of erasure coding AND replication, whose combined storage amplification is dramatically lower than previous SOTA.

I gave a longer explanation in a sibing comment to yours [1]

[0] http://fireless.cs.cornell.edu/publications/erasure_iptps.pd...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25351678
Take a walk along the beach. A small proportion by volume but a large proportion by number, of the pieces of plastic you will find, will be the stems of Q-tips. If you're going to use them, get the paper kind and leave the ones with plastic on the shelf.
It's a good recap but it's all things I expect a college grad to just know or be able to grok pretty fast.

Also why not Google?
The Streisand Effect scenario only applies if you assume they are doing this to silence down Uighurs. It doesn't matter if they contacted those folks due to their involvement with religious extremist groups, which also matches the problems experienced by their family members back in China.

As for the bans - we don't know why they happened. Claims it's related to discussing Tienanmen are just that - claims.
If you’re going to use Tumbleweed you might as well use CentOS stream, no?
Omg it was about time!
is there a similar feature available for Azure/GCP as well?
Are there any license traps in Oracle Linux?

Writing like this makes me very wary of putting Oracle Linux anywhere near my employer's systems

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns...

https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-trap...

Then there's the famous lawn mover quote from Bryan Cantrill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
Zcash is no more compatible with “regulations” than any other cryptocurrency
Good lord.

What have you done??
Exactly. Anytime you are giving guidance to the public, you need to factor in that the average punter is capable of incredible feats of stupidity or craziness.

If you've had issues with your ear, you'll know that many treatments sound alot like the problems describe. People with lots of issues will have a procedure where they cut the eardrum and insert a tube. Or have a vaccuum or waterjet pull out earwax.

Are there people who will compulsively clean their ears and cause a buildup of wax? Probably. The only difference between that and people who damage their teeth or nose by picking is that they are using an implement to do so.
HTML is the answer.

- Can be opened on every device

- Content can be embedded in base64, so you only have to
share one file

- Dynamic layout, so it looks nice even on phones

- Searchable, standardized XML structure

- Great customizability through CSS and optionally JS

- Can be written in markdown

- Basic support for page breaks, if you really must print the document (IA Writer already has some HTML-Templates meant for printing.)

The only downside I can think of, is that you can't lock the document to prevent edits.

However, conventions are what keeps PDF alive. Until the academic world realizes that they can do better than Latex, we're stuck.
Can the proxies be (ab)used to proxy arbitrary HTTPS traffic?
For what it's worth: I have an incredible ENT with 40 years of experience, and she's consistently recommended Q-tips for her patients and held that the AAO is overcautious here (though it's certainly possible to cause impaction by, e.g., using a dry Q-tip in a dry ear canal).
Well, if the frying pan has bugs, customers are entitled to bug fixes, for free, from a legal PoV. After all, these are bugs ie. problems in the program.

New features, sure, ask money for that, fair enough.

Which is why I would be OK with Qt 6 having a new license model, as long as all bugs fixed in 6 are backported to previous stable (at least) ie. 5.x, without 5.x getting relicensed.
I have a feeling they are going to switch RHEL to the same model that Ubuntu follows, where it’s free to download and use, with no license to worry about or anything, and then there’s an optional support contract you can add to it if you want paid support.
I use my dominant hand for both ears.
Ah, yeah that's a great point. Definitely don't think they're taking advantage of all the possible space. I feel like drivers have a bit of a thankless job. I definitely appreciate them more after learning this kind of stuff.
Great advice! Easier said than done.

Mindfulness training (ex: meditation) can help you gain the skills to realize in the moment that you're being too serious, and therefore give you the opportunity to course correct.
Fuchsia is a capability OS. I think that's enough to interest anyone interested in secure OS.
What's in the space between the brain and the skin? Is it just transparent fluid - csf? The space between the eyes seems to have something else going on, as in less transparent.
Kubernetes 1.20
20 years traditional often meant dropped out of CS to join/start your company. Gain useful skills.

Well placed like MIT were actually good
try Wooden Coffee Stirrers,

the have the perfect shape, to remove the wax,

been using it for years. make sure you brush the Wooden Coffee Stirrers against something like your jeans or shirt, to unsharpen the edges.
And the point is that most of the things perceived as only working on Apple are actually standard nowadays. You can automatically switch devices, you can automatically transform multi-channel audio to spatial audio on headphones, and so on.
Yep I think Aztec is pretty cool.

It’s not trying to provide an anonymous base for the platform though.
NetBeans 12.2 released with Big Sur support
> RJ/E Diamond prepared Cat 7 Ethernet cables use solid 100% Perfect-Surface Silver conductors, which completely eliminate strand interaction, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables, for clearer, more dynamic and involving sound.

WHAT.
We make a competitor to MapboxGL for mobile called WhirlyGlobe-Maply (https://mousebird.github.io/WhirlyGlobe/).
It supports vector tiles & Mapbox style sheets, works on Android and iOS, even supporting Metal on iOS. Indirect mode in Metal, actually, which is no mean feat.

WhirlyGlobe/Maply has been around a long time. It actually predates MapboxGL and it's used in popular apps like Dark Sky, as well as a ton of aviation apps and a not a few GIS apps.

Engineers like to write their own, so we're going to hear from a ton of random projects here. And hey, more power to 'em.

But you're looking for a fast, open source mobile map toolkit that's going to be around next week? It us.
Thanks, will check it. I'm playing with FPGAs for a couple of weeks only, RISCV was a starting force for me. Currently am trying to figure our which is better SpinalHDL or Chisel. I find SpinalHDL's syntax more convenient and less verbose, but Chisel has way larger support from HiFive surrounding community.
I'm a doctor, but I'm not here to take sides on the Q-tip issue.

I'm here to clarify how many (but not all) of us use medical research: the "pyramid of evidence."

The idea is that I rely upon the best available evidence, which (roughly in order) is: meta-analysis, randomized controlled trials and other prospective data, retrospective analyses, expert consensus, and (finally) clinical experience.

This is rough because there are good critiques of meta-analyses as a tool, the available data may be a bad fit for that patient, research biases, etc. A big one is that many questions don't have a big commercial upside, so nobody will ever fund a good prospective blinded trial. Which takes us to the last point: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Just because all the of the studies about Q-Tips are low quality doesn't mean a better study would find something different. We don't know the answer to that, and that would be a big assumption to make.

So, sometimes the best available evidence is not statistically ironclad. It falls on us to use a reasonable approach about how hard a line to take. Some do a better job than others.

That was long and rambling, but hopefully it helps to clarify some misconceptions. As an applied science, we have to go with the data we've got, which is almost always not an ideal fit for the patient in front of us.
'Choke up' on the q-tip, holding it closer to the business end such that your fingers prevent it from being inserted further than intended. That's what I do anyway.

YMMV of course, particularly since earwax consistency is apparently something that varies considerably between different populations.
I used to use Q-tips all the time because my ears were always itchy from the earwax (ew, sorry.) My doctor told me the q-tips were irritating the inside of my ear, and that's why they were itchy. I stopped using Q-tips, and after a few months the itching went away. shrug ymmv.
I've never understood people that spend so much time making their README pretty with emojis, fancy tables etc.

Don't get me wrong, documenting your work is very important, but do it efficiently.

Github Readme's are turning more and more into developer myspace.

Just keep it text, to the point, start with why someone should care, then once they care, show them how to use it.

When I see some kind of video embed, it's a huge turn off, I don't want to watch some animation of your typos at high speed, or your fish terminal.

"Show me the money".

Edit: my point is: spend your time making your code better, sorting, fixing and clear your issues and merge or reject decade old PRs /s
Yes, but customizing and patching is not that uncommon for commercial software (Qt is used a lot in the embedded space, for example, where patching and shaving away is common).

Also, businesses do pay for support as insurance; say tomorrow Windows patches something that screws up a bit of Qt your product depends on, what are you going to do? Waiting for a reply on a random mailing list and hoping someone has time to fix it, is not going to cut it.
well, yeah, there's never enough buildup because you're cleaning it every day, what about the anti bacterial and foreign object protection you're giving up for no good reason.
What seems to be the issue with radare2 that makes a fork necessary? I love cutter and r2? But I’m not in the community enough to know about any beef. Does anyone have a summary?
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Their channel is still quiet, maybe coming up at 4:00 CST, but Lab Padre is showing now. The channel is saying target time is 4:30 CST; NASA's WB-57 is in the air; and they've been doing some venting so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STGWOEKhrtI
I think the point is that a lot of people use Word for jobs that LaTeX is designed for.
There is no reason for them to have taken the CentOS name for this role. There is no defense of this, other than to purloin resources or to make it harder to run RHEL-like distros.
Maybe I'm missing something, but where's the product part? The app looks free. There's no discussion of paying. Where's the part where you make money? Is there idea that I install and start using it now, and then once enough people sign up, you yank the free version and begin to charge?
I never had any use for them; is that buildup something that is different per individual or? I would not really want to poke my ear if not absolutely necessary.