skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need computers to do that. Look at anime. The large eyes and cute faces are definitely optimized to evoke an emotional response in the viewer. And it appears to have worked all too well, if the existence of waifu culture is any indicator.

GANs may find as-yet-uncovered maxima in the same problem space, but superstimulus-level attractiveness has already been achieved.
I think it's new as of the 2019 revision, though it wouldn't surprise me if it's been ignored for a while. I don't think CMMC requirements specifically call out expiration periods, so hopefully a good sign.

Microsoft seems to be fairly forward thinking[1] on passwords, doing away with expiration requirements and focusing more on their risk based MFA stuff.

[1]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
The internet didn't fix these things, fuel injection, electronic ignition, and digital signal processing / denser silicon integration did.
Only 26 months in the Earth/Mars system, in fact. And that's still the fastest way to go, which is the only thing that's relevant for crewed spaceflight. Doesn't matter how much you're saving on gas if you still need to bring enough snacks for the drive.
1. more time spent on headphones 2. more revenue options for creators 3.improved podcast discovery
> Back to mainframe / time sharing?

Back to the entirely proprietary mainframe of 1970 with dumb remote terminals.

But this time the mainframe performs pervasive surveillance.
I have stopped arguing about it. I just cynically observe the people who keep insisting that they have nothing to hide, and then watch them suffer the consequences of their own decisions.
I would say this is another proof that fears of privacy advocates are misplaced, and reduced privacy is more beneficial to ordinary people. Of course all people have secrets that they want to keep hidden, but revealing secrets of ordinary people will just change the boundaries of accepted behavior, while revealing secrets of governments will limit their power.
I may be wrong, but I thought members of the security apparatus weren't allowed to leave the country in Russia? I may be horrendously wrong, but I thought someone mentioned that when these sanctions came out about Guccifer 2 and such.
A fascinating line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chef-d%27%C5%93uvre_inconnu

> In 1927, Ambroise Vollard asked Picasso to illustrate Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu. Picasso was fascinated by the text and identified with Frenhofer so much that he moved to the rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris where Balzac located Porbus' studio. There he painted his own masterpiece, Guernica. Picasso lived here during World War II.

https://static3.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/style...
Yeah, currently I run my own DNS server. However, as traffic grows and so does your customer base and server locations, it would be nice to use a dedicated DNS provider, as they'll already have the infrastructure set up to handle a significant capacity of DNS resolutions quickly, as well as servers around the globe to do so efficiently. In addition to the speed, it's usually also less expensive than setting up and maintaining multiple DNS servers of your own around the world.
Related, sites ranked by reporting functionality: https://i.cbc.ca/1.5822691.1606800089!/fileImage/httpImage/i...
I’ve never felt that time spent in a static simulator translates to real world car control at all.

It does, but you have to be intentional about recognizing the deficits, similar to how you can only get so much takeoff + landing training from a flight sim, and too much is detrimental. A quality FF setup + good pedals makes a massive difference on practicing good road-feel response into your brain. VR steps it up further with the full visual experience and helps with yaw angle management.
That’s based on low population densities, and inequality in terms of commanding labour (getting slaves to cut down trees and keep the heating system for a large house running) and in accessing natural resources (a house having enough acreage of land to grow enough wood to keep the heating system going).

It’s something which is a luxury in the absence of fossil fuels, or the rollout of new technologies they mention.
I dont know why it continues, but when someone says or does something that says "im not interested in ads" the response is to hook around that and force it upon them.

This is how you create hostility toward your product, not desirability.
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Did you also consider this[0] an act of war?

[0] (U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid) [ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-r... ]
And comments! Until Microsoft moves the blog URLs again and breaks every link and deletes every comment.
“Somewhat widely adopted” is not “widely adopted” :)

I see people tend to write C89+designated initializers but this is a code smell IMO. Initial data should always be 0, especially data that lives in BSS/data section.
That link is broken for me.

You wouldn't have an article title that I could search for, would you?
> You cannot grow the economy without increasing energy use.

Yes, you can. It’s called Efficiency. In the narrow sense, we are nowhere near the limits of thermodynamics. But there is also efficiency versus effectiveness. If I make a different product that better satisfices the greater needs, it may have a higher embodied energy costs than the old product, and yet still drive overall efficiency.

A thinner saw blade has a smaller kerf, resulting in less raw material turned to dust. And even though the blade contains less steel, that steel is more dear. But I chop down fewer trees or dig up less stone if I use it.
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Legally I'm not sure. But ethically, stolen TV show clips are way more justifiable than stolen porn.
Oh, wow. And 9 years old. Thanks for showing me this.

People do just naturally put numbers in front of things, though, and I’m convinced it’s to solve the muscle-memory issue. Or it’s that I generally work with nerds and we find it easier to remember that our folder is 34 in the list of 67 rather than remembering that it’s ‘SQL designs’ or whatever.

I mean literally back at a major bank 15 years ago the root structure just had numbers in front of every folder. Long before I meddled with it.
Yes, absolutely. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728 is probably the most famous bug here, but many I-unsound bugs are similar.

This would be the case even without this. Compilers are programs. Programs have bugs.
To expand on this a bit: I feel like learning Zig has helped me better understand C, particularly when it comes to allocation and pointers. Zig has more facilities to specify the intent behind a lot of the common C programming concepts, which has helped make things "click" in both languages.
It reads like a list of trends from 2017.
Napster added too much value it woke the bear.

Megaupload poked a bigger bear.
International fuel is tax exempt.
Thanks for the answer.

I was curious mostly because I never recalled any SIMD intrinsics in GNU code (ok, probably GIMP has them, so maybe I should say GNU utilities), so that would be a first.

It's interesting how much stuff leans on memchr, shame there aren't systematic wider versions taking more bytes to avoid false positives for longer literals (ignoring wmemchr): these could be nice and fast with SIMD.
Yes, it's my belief in data that's the problem here.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/06/racia...
I'd say things like moralism also play a role here. We've allowed people to believe in untruths like the idea that people who value privacy have something to hide, or even that the average person has nothing to hide. The latter can be easily seen when you see what people seem naturally prone to sharing on social media that the average non-social media viewer is astounded by.
TIL a fancy new term for a long-known phenomena: Apophenia: “the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)”
You bought the cheapest ticket going - a 6 berth couchette. You could have instead chosen a 4 berth, or a 1-2-3 private cabin.

Paris to Venice for example (pre covid), prices in the 6 berth couchette were €29, a 1 berth sleeper €170.
I think it's very realistic to have driver-assist solution that can provide advanced collision warnings, collision assistance and watch the driver's face to see if they are paying attention.

With respect to self-driving, search YouTube for FSD beta. You can see what Tesla has been up to. It's not perfect but it keeps getting better. It's not going to take several decades.
Indole. Also what causes the sweet fragrance signature or jasmine and most fragrant white flowers. It’s the smell of poop and rotting waste.

https://deathscent.com/2016/01/19/the-chemistry-of-death-and... [..] What does fleshy tuberose, cooked Brussel sprouts, chocolate, the musk of human sex, faeces, and a decomposing body all have in common?

Indole, dirty, sexy, carnal Indole. You have smelled it thousands of times without knowing its name, but if you are smelling something a little bit overripe, heavy, and with a strange sweetness, it is most likely Indole. Even untrained noses can pull out the waft of clammy decay in a magnolia blossom, the crotch-like quality to heady jasmine or the slightest smell of poop in roses. That is Indole.[..]

Also: https://www.mizubrand.com/blogs/news/the-story-of-indole-in-...

[..] What gives florals their seductive power?

Let me introduce you to a little compound called indole.
Indole Molecure, White florals and indole in natural perfumery

Indole is, by definition, an aromatic heterocyclic compound which contains a six-membered benzene ring, fused to a five membered nitrogen-containing pyrrole ring.

If that doesn’t mean much to you, here’s the what you need to know; it smells.

Perhaps poop isn’t the best description for indole. In its pure, isolated form, Indole is more like musty, wet, yet also a penetrating sharp-clean smell. A sort of odd combination of wet-dog, stale hot breath and moth balls all rolled into one.

Yes, this compound does contribute to the smell of feces ( mixed together a cornucopia of other things ) but trace amounts are also founds in “White” florals, like Jasmines, Tuberose, Neroli, Orange Blossom Gardenia, etc. What really creates the signature aroma of #2 is really when high concentrations of indole are mixed with humidity and the surrounding decaying molecules found in poop.[..]
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I'm laughing at the 'good night's sleep' bit! After a lot of sleeper train travelling (mostly in Europe but also Russia and China), I still sleep incredibly badly on them and have had times where I have arrived exhausted but not able to check-in to my hotel for hours.
And would you be willing to spend $17,500 a year on said service? That's the figure cited in the Economist. And even if you were willing to spend that sum, it'd be far beyond the means of most people. Heck, almost the average global income of $18,000.
> Once we achieve quantum supremacy, is it still impossibly hard to break the private keys?

Yes, because there are mitigations in place (since day one I believe). When you send bitcoin to an address, you don't send to a public key, you send to a hash of a public key. It's only when you need to spend the coins that you need to disclose the public key. According to wikipedia hash functions are considered safe against attacks against quantum computers[1] so any coins stored in addresses that haven't been spent from before should be safe. There's still potentially a window of vulnerability between when a transaction is broadcast and when it's confirmed, but I doubt quantum computers offer enough of a speed-up that it can crack a 256 bit secp256k1 key within an hour or two.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
Tesla was founded 17 years ago. They started shipping cars 12 years ago. How long is the "it's a startup" free pass good for?
Not sure about cigars, but pipe smoke almost always smells very nice.
Yeah - similar for me.

I think there's something interesting here with how different people respond to 'fake achievement'. For me FPS games were fun because it was a little competition between players (also I was often interrupted growing up and short rounds are better for this).

After trying WoW and having to walk 30min to pick up a feather and bring it back then do the same for an acorn I lost total interest in ever playing again. That might be all the time I had to play that day.

I suspect some people get more of a positive feedback response from seeing numbers go up than others. I think MMOGs can also have a social component that keeps people coming back to do shared events which is probably stickier than the fake achievement bits.

I'd be curious if people really vulnerable to fake achievement would also be successful if they could create a fast feedback environment for themselves with something other than the game as the goal (since they're clearly amenable to that kind of motivation).

For me, the difficulty is on the other side. Even outside of games it can be hard to find something that feels like it matters and is important (even if you can make money and be otherwise better off in your life by doing it). Curiosity can also pull you in a thousand different directions.

Figuring out what you want is hard, figuring out how to move in that direction is hard, then actually getting yourself to focus and do the work is hard.

When the search space of what's possible is so big, it can be difficult to coordinate. I think games reduce that to something extremely narrow. For some that's effective, for me the illusion is obvious and unfulfilling.

Today I tend to like one-off indie games driven by story (like Firewatch). I feel like I get more out of it.
> Keeping your core warmer, especially with the thermal underwear discussed at length in the article, will also keep your hands warmer.

That's a lesson of wilderness camping in cold weather - if your hands are cold, put on another layer.
>You think you are supplying software to all the armed forces branches and "forgot" to update a Jenkins plugin?

yeah. Just now I am reading that their FTP servers had such a weak password that it allowed the pentester to upload/replace any binary back in 2019
This is a good point. I don't think MindGeek is as sophisticated in detecting and taking down infringing content. However, complaints do get filed and videos do get taken down for infringing.
Ask HN: How do you work remotely from an opposite timzeone?
I've recently moved to California from my home in Europe. As a technical manager I have to directly manage employees and work with many of my colleagues in Europe.
The main issue I am experiencing is having to match work hours to schedule meetings. No matter how I look it someone has to make a compromise (wake up very early).

With many employees moving to remote work, how do you handle major time differences?
> I believe the situation is the same in C++,

in the specific case of shared_ptr, which are a small part of codebases, if they are even used - for instance an immense amount of C++ GUI programs use Qt which doesn't use shared_ptr-like ownership semantics but instead a tree-of-objects model which does not have this issue. In contrast in Java / C# any object that has a reference to another is at risk.
There was a fun one a few years ago when someone realized that Maven Central didn't require https so anyone could MITM arbitrary amounts of open source Java code. But I think this problem could be even more pervasive. Think about that giant green lock icon you see on secured sites. And then think about all the apps and devices making requests with no UI and we have no idea what they're all talking to until you have the patience and knowhow to operate wireshark.

Off the top of my head, the only real solution is to feed a lot of this arbitrary traffic through trusted brokers which is going to make us even more dependent on Google, Microsoft or whoever else takes up that mantle.
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> The Johnny Decimal website is silent on the subject of stewardship. Here I want to focus on two aspects: keeping things working, and managing succession.

An error I intend to correct! On sufficiently large projects I believe you need a ‘librarian’ who has ownership of the system. I’ll expand on this on the site eventually.

Ah, if only I didn’t have an actual job. :-/

> We have had two generations of office workers who have never experienced properly functioning filing systems

This sentiment inspired the opening paragraphs of the site. We literally used to have people - women - called ‘administrators’. Their job would be to file things so that people could find them again. Then we all got a computer, the number of files exploded 100x, and we pretended like we could just search for what we needed.
Rosetta does quite badly with JITed stuff (notably, it does very, very badly with x86 JVMs). I assume it'll be fine once native Unity is available.
The horse manure in the streets would have been one of the more pleasant aromas compared to the human feces and urine smells everywhere, the dog urine and feces smells everywhere, the rotting garbage, etc.
I really doubt the M1 would perform nearly as good if it was a 14nm chip with 8b transistors.
>Why did schools end up teaching evolution? For scientific reasons? To suppress religion in some freemasonry conspiracy?

I think it has nothing to do with "increasing scientific literacy" or anything like that, for sure. It would be very odd that of all the scientific things you could push to teach kids, the theory of evolution is somehow the most important one. I think it has everything to do with attacking the Christian Right at their homes by forcing their kids to learn something they don't want them to. It's a socio-economic and political tool for war.

When grilled by someone, I remember Richard Dawkins, one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, said that he just wants people to understand that it happens in nature but doesn't want people to live by the idea of natural selection or something to that effect. In other words, he wants people to understand evolution but not "believe" it... i.e. in the sense that he doesn't want people to live by it (I disagree with Dawkins, but more on that later).

Speaking of that, it reminds me of a comment I posted yesterday here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25412712

I know that if one really believes in evolution, there is absolutely no reason to "conserve a species". It makes absolutely no sense. Species come and go. Whatever species remain will evolve to acquire characteristics suitable for whatever changes happen... or perish. So why does everyone believe in conservation and in evolution? Because they don't. But what if they believed in Noah's arc? It would be terrible if one of the species that Noah himself picked to be on a boat were to go extinct because humans did something, wouldn't it? That is exactly the reaction you see from all these westerners who allegedly "believe" in evolution.

I mean people can make use of certain rhetoric for status, or political gains or economic gains, but to actually believe those is a different matter altogether. I think westerners believe in many dogmas of Christianity, no matter how much they deny it or pretend that they are above it. I, as a non-Christian non-westerner who grew up mostly outside of the reach of westerners, see it in many aspects of how they actually live. The things that they actually believe in comes from Christianity. The things they pretend believe in comes from corporate and political PR material that they're exposed to... and some of it they do believe, as long as it doesn't contradict with Christianity.
Belarus didn't do lockdown just like Sweden and had the same result. Are Belorussians also disciplined?

Correct solution is to treat covid like very strong flu.
Presumably threat actors are working on generic algorithms to optimise the production of images by the ML system such that they have the absolute worst affect on viewers of those images.

Optimising for minor effects like blindness to areas, up to major effects like epileptic seizures.
They could have just gone with, "No fans during Zoom calls"

That's why I bought it
One suspects they've given this advice for a long time... because their shit has been hacked for a long time.
I noticed this with smoking vs drinking. When I used to smoke I always felt like shit right after smoking a cigarette yet still craved one, in contrast to drinking a beer which I craved less but enjoyed more. Or meditation which is always very pleasant but isn't accompanied by a strong want or desire.
Is the actual payload encrypted, but just sent over HTTP? In that case, it’s bad, but not as bad as unencrypted over HTTP.
Further conjecture I heard that I'm repeating with no supporting evidence: it was partly a side effect the Cold War.

All the new airports built well outside cities meant that low cost airlines could offer flights to (near) a major city fairly cheaply, which in turn pulled down prices for the entire market.
On top of that many smaller cities actually paid airlines to fly to their muicipal airport. The idea that Brest would pay €2000 a day to fly 200 passengers from London to Brest, and those passengers would spend far more than €10 each in the local economy.
We don't even have to go with GAN generated faces:

https://thechive.com/2015/09/13/heres-what-the-average-perso...
Are the accusations credible?
Is this the same SolarWinds that owns Pingdom?

https://www.solarwinds.com/pingdom
> I'm also surprised something like this hasn't come out of Japan already

Gatebox doesn't count?

https://www.gatebox.ai/en/
Microservices Size
That's a good point. It wouldn't be the first time that providers (most notably VPN providers) have lied about their logging policies with devastating consequences for the end user while they get off scott free. Getting something in writing would be ideal, however I'm not sure I'm big enough yet to work out a custom deal like that with a major provider. Thank you for pointing that out, though.
XML

I'm amazed people can get it as right as they do half the time? I do think Go will get fixed eventually. It's just too weird if they couldn't fix the core issue? But I've never used XML if I can help it, so I'm absolutely no expert on what would make it impossible to fix something like this.
That's very interesting. A CR-48 looking, basic laptop with workable keyboard and trackpad. Chrome/Chromium OS (similar to CloudReady) since all the schools are on Google. If they could get it to $249 with reasonable performance, they could crush it.
Video games that didn’t need software updates :)
I don't agree with that. 1) because knowing a fact doesn't mean that you really understand it or that it's really made an impact beyond a theoretical awareness. Repeated exposure can hammer it home. And 2) because a lot of people don't know things you know. Even the simplest thing you know, you didn't know until a certain point, and some people haven't reached that point yet. And every day people are born who don't know it yet, or people can be convinced that things are different. For these reasons I think it's important to keep broadcasting the message
What about Tor hidden websites? Or would the fact that the URL is a public key (essentially) prevent deterministic randomness without embedding the private key?
Arm cpu core designs like cortex a78 and x1 are also designed for tsmc 5nm. But their per core performance is like 30% to 50% worse than Apple's firestorm cores. The low power a55 is worse than Apple's low power. And the mali gpu is worse than apple gpu. The circuit design and placement on to the chip is part of the equation as well.