skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you have someplace to put more secure equipment on the open net, that would be better.

A [your choice of HW] would do fine, if it runs only your code."

Idea: "Colocation centres" for users' computers instead of data centres for users' data. As directed by the author here, users would store no data on these computers.1

1. By their nature, each user-owned supernode computer would provide some discoverable metadata, as would any router, namely, the IP addresses of the members of the private network/s it supports and which of those IPs are connecting to each other, but this would be unlike the centralised repositories of millions of users' metadata we have now, managed by private tech companies.

As for the rest of this writeup, it sounds much like the need for a supernode in "LAN-over-Internet"-type P2P networks that encapsulate Ethernet-like packets in UDP packets. The supernode does not necesarily need to route traffic between nodes behind NAT (rarely necessary), it only needs to store the equivalent of an ARP table accessible by all of them.
You are claiming the Google money is 'pure profit' while making phones is not.

They are saying that you can't account for the Google money as pure profit, even though the costs aren't as obvious. In particular, their argument says, you have to make and sell the phones before Google will give you money to make their search engine the default.

So the Google money is not pure profit, in the same way the phone sales are not pure profit (even though the underlying costs are not as obvious).
As an unrated player who plays occasionally, I've also found the mental checklist you've listed in 1) to be more helpful than memorizing chess openings. I've had a pretty high "win rate" when playing non-chess enthusiasts around my workplace or friend group.

The issue I've encountered with memorizing openings is that it assumes both sides are playing perfect openings that complement each other. In reality, in my "lower rated" games, my opponent is likely to make suboptimal moves against the opening I memorized. There are ways to punish their moves, but I would've needed to memorized that. So, I have to come up with changes to the memorized opening on the spot.

Going through the checklist allows me to play without memorizing movesets even though the moves I make are not the "best".
Elon is a business owner, with the virus affecting his bottom line, he has belittled it since the beginning.
AG Pax­ton Leads Mul­ti­state Coali­tion in Law­suit Against Google
I guess that's what happens when I trust Wikipedia without looking it up further. Thanks for the correction!
I don't know. I think GP is nuts. But when I have my own weird use case I expect people to think I'm nuts, too.
I'm at about 15% NW crypto exposure, should've done more.

I missed out on the huge gains because I didn't believe in the use cases. But now I realize the ultimate usecase is a huge pyramid scheme. Might as well ride it up.
>211. Google falsely told publishers that adopting AMP would enhance load times, but Google employees knew that AMP only improves the [redacted] and AMP pages can actually [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. In other words, the ostensible benefits of faster load times for cached AMP version of webpages were not true for publishers that designed their web pages for speed. Some publishers did not adopt AMP because they knew their pages actually loaded faster than AMP pages.

Vindication for everybody pointing out that amp pages don't actually load faster, they were just incompatible with things that commonly made sites load slower.

>212. Google also [redacted] of non-AMP ads by giving them artificial one second delays in order to give Google AMP a [redacted] [redacted] slows down header bidding, which Google uses to turn around and denigrate header bidding for being too slow.

Seems damning. (emphasis mine)

Wonder what all the redacted is.

Also glad to see that google's preferring of amp sites in searches is going to get them in trouble, as that was basically the primary complaint I had with it. AMP pages would show up in searches for dynamic content, despite its restriction of static pages
that is super interesting

Waiting for when they realize there is a silent agreement between Amazon + Google + Facebook

and that they do coordinated attacks against their rivals

and also against any company that is growing quickly
I got my engineering degree almost 30 years ago, and at my first job was working with other "engineers" who did not have a degree. I was dismayed at first, but got over it.

I think it only matters if you're offering services to the public as an engineer, or if you're doing public-works projects. Then you need to be licensed as a Professional Engineer.
> Google also provided Facebook with a [...]. Google subjects
other marketplaces competing for publishers’ inventory in Open Bidding to 160 millisecond timeouts. Competitors have actively complained that is not enough time to recognize users in auctions and return bids before they are excluded. By comparison, Google [...]. The longer timeouts granted by Google were presumably designed to aid FAN win more auctions to abide by the spirit of the agreement.

Not sure why these were redacted but it seems pretty clear what happened. Is Google actually running the monopoly marketplace and tilting the scales in its own favor? That seems like a knockout right there.
I think that life would be better if employers honoured their wage obligations instead of drawing up elaborate networks of hidden fees and transfers which put employees' hard earned wages back into the employer's pocket. Nobody really owns anything, they have everything they think they earned on layaway.
It's not about the cost for you. It's about the millions of premature deaths and impact on global warming due to pollution from gas heaters. I'm happy for you that you earn enough not to care about the money, same here, but please consider that there are also consequences for strangers as well as loved ones.
Looking at older technology like VHS/Betamax, VR will take off when people can use it to consume pr0n without being tethered to some company like Oculus/Facebook that may collect information about them.
Indeed. I have read somewhere that until the 19th century, that moment was often months after birth. It was common to give the newborn away to a nurse if you could afford it until it had survived the first year, and only then accept it as part of the family. This way, the parents could safe themselves a bit from the excruciating pain of child loss.

Edit: This is e.g. mentioned in the German Wikipedia on Pox (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocken#16._bis_19._Jahrhundert), there is also a citation for it. I have read it several times during the last years, but don't have a better source, sorry.
Prato: The Italian town turning discarded clothes into new clothes
I'm sold on VR because it has completely revolutionised my fitness regime. It turns what is otherwise a boring, painful chore into immersive, interactive and fun experience that leaves me sweating and heart pounding and running late because I wanted to do just one more round ...

If my headset broke today, I would order a new one same day.
That doesn’t mean there wasn’t file corruption.
I knew what CentOS was, but never followed it because I've never personally had use for it. Still, I appreciate what it did and was glad to have it as an option should I ever need a super stable distro in the future.

That said, I think the FAQ is missing an answer for a critical question: What ultimately drove CentOS to its regrettable fate and what will Rocky Linux do to avoid a similar misfortune?
(ad-blocking was pretty optional in 2005)

It was still pretty sweet to run a transparent Squid proxy with an ads blacklist.
I struggled to find good software for this. Is there a specific app you recommend?
That is not exactly designed to deliver any kind of isolation though - it just runs normal processes
I know you're writing about the Texas lawsuit, but that suit was tangentially related to, among others, the lawsuit in Wisconsin, which made similar allegations that state laws were not being followed.

Generously, that lawsuit in Wisconsin was heard on its merits [0]. It was dismissed with prejudice.

The Federal judge that issued the ruling—a Trump appointee—said: "This is an extraordinary case. A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred. This Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits. In his reply brief, plaintiff “asks that the Rule of Law be followed.” (Pl. Br., ECF No. 109.) It has been."

[0]: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20423518/trump_ca...
As a Texan this is really what upsets me more about these fake lawsuits that Texas keeps tossing out, mostly to make political statements. The election suit is hardly the first. Someone appears to have discovered that the state can't be censured or have its legal license revoked. So they are making a mockery of the actual legal power of the state.

But of course anyone who digs into the jurisdictional games the Texas AG has been playing to avoid criminal prosecution wouldn't be surprised at this behavior.
Without reading the article, it sounds as the author or editor is referring to Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.
A computer.

I started off my "learning more than what you get taught in school" reading PDFs on a tiny phone, I now do it on a bigger phone, a big DPI monitor etc. none of these platforms makes a blind bit of difference to me because my eyes aren't the bottleneck.
If everyone else on Earth disappeared, how would you spend your time?
> Instead of placing antenna arrays adjacent to one another, we used tiny antenna element structures to overlay one over the other. This has never been accomplished in the Ka-band

Starlink does this but in the Ku band. Starlink is 2 feet in diameter vs. 1 foot for Kuiper. Much more portable, although I imagine still far too power hungry to run off a laptop and of course still far from cell phone sized.
Are there any good TUIs for mercurial?

I have only found https://github.com/matheuslessarodrigues/verco which not as good as tig or lazygit
The solution to poor results from scientific work is better scientific work, not throwing out the scientific model.

The issue described is akin to testing some new code with unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, and running it for some time in a dev environment, but not running it in a QA environment that mirrors production, and not monitoring it for issues when it does get deployed to production.

The response there wouldn't be "the test/devops model isn't the correct one to use in the first place", it's that the testing and QA was inadequate because it only looked at an idealized model of reality and didn't consider "where the rubber meets the road" (literally). Testing something in isolation is insufficient, since you need to test the downstream effects and potential complex interactions with everything else in the environment.

There is no testism problem; only a poor testing problem. Unless, as you say in your last sentence, one is just arguing about definition semantics - e.g. if "QA" falls under "testing", or, here, if "real-world observation" falls under "scientific testing". I'd argue both do. I think your concerns might be better phrased as "lab model" and "lab-ism".
As most home woodworkers could confirm, a filter-on-a-box-fan works wonders in a (saw)dusty garage. Even after sanding or sawing MDF, the air is clean after about 10-15 minutes. From personal observation, I'd suggest that non-taped is a good idea, as any non-filtered air is routed through the fan to help overall circulation; ideally you want to displace all the air in the room quickly.
Having vulnerabilities is never great. However, this is a separate issue from whether the PDF reader explicitly allows code execution or supports some of the more obscure PDF extensions, which is what the parent was talking about.
Unix was cutting edge OS theory? I mean, it was Bell Labs, and they were probably the premiere research facility in the world at the time, but my impression is that the trick on Unix was how small they were able to squeeze it, not that it was pushing theoretical boundaries.

Can you point me to any aspects of Unix that were theoretically new?
Not quite after he exited. It was while he was Chairman of the Board, and in at least one instance he used his Google email to engage in political work that would get any other Googler sanctioned, but got a pass because he's Eric Schmidt. Had he used personal emails in all cases it would have been ok per corporate rule.

The rest of your claims are indeed tin-foil hat worthy.
> Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me.

Hahaha. Quite a lot of people around me think that PDF is a collection of JPEGs glued together (because they mostly see PDF as scanned non-OCRed docs).
First impressions and names matter. As much as we don't like it, human beings are irrational and emotionally driven. There's nothing wrong with discussing a name.
Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS'd Playstation Network as a Minor
IBM. Rocky will not be be IBM.
You act like RHEL 7.1 is a fixed artifact — it’s constantly receiving updates, security patches, and backports. And CentOS always trails behind on those updates so it’s never exactly the same as RHEL either.

This change makes CentOS so much closer to RHEL that it’s weird that people are acting like the opposite is happening.
Look up scientism.

The whole point is we need to accept that no single method will give us this kind of visibility and understanding, and given that fact we should be more careful about certain things, especially things we just seem to keep miscalculating and that have long-lasting, terrible effects.

That's actual science vs. commercial/industrial marketing masquerading as science.
The GnuPG implementation was just one of the problems with PGP; Sequoia can't fix any of PGP's real problems while still being a "PGP" implementation. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

tl;dr: PGP is absurdly complex, mired in backwards compatibility with broken crypto algorithms, and relies on long-term secrets with no forward secrecy.

In this very blog post, Sequoia PGP explains that they continue to support SHA-1, which was broken in 2005, for backwards compatibility reasons. They've added some code to mitigate the damage (introducing more complexity); they hope to turn off SHA-1 in 2023.

Cool. In the meantime, don't use PGP, not even Sequoia PGP. Use Signal to transfer messages and files. Use full-disk encryption for encrypting backups. Use Minisign to sign packages. Use libsodium for encrypting app data.

EDIT: This post is currently at -3 downvotes without comment, presumably from folks who think SHA-1 is just fine and that I'm overstating the case. I ask you to just read the link I posted and explain why you think PGP is good, actually, despite its terrible reputation among professional cryptographers and security professionals.

"We can’t say this more clearly or often enough: you can have backwards compatibility with the 1990s or you can have sound cryptography; you can’t have both."
It was tiny (relative to the US vehicle market, ~700,000 vehicles vs ~15 million annually) and obviously didn't remove 2010+ cars from the market.

Which those more recent vehicles are the vehicles the other poster alluded to, that I did not find with a real basic search.
If this is a bug with Preview, then that's really, really bad since Preview is a bedrock of macOS and has been for years.

However... it sounds like the issue is that FineReader is storing the OCR'd text in the metadata in a way that's not part of the official PDF spec. So, it sounds like Preview is able to open the file by ignoring that metadata and then, upon save, is storing the metadata back, as normal, which then corrupts the OCR data. This reminds me a lot of when people would store metadata like this in MP3 files to include things like album art and booklets. Normal mp3 players would ignore it as just metadata or bogus data but opening it in an audio editor would do this same thing.

I'm not sure who the "blame" lies with in this case because Abby FineReader probably is writing this stuff in a non-supported way but Preview really should just ignore it rather than trying to correct it. It's very likely that the OCR text, post-save, is actually bits from the document itself rather than from the metadata.
It can also be associated with a 'rocky ride'. The name doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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The case went to the Supreme Court. It wasn't tried in any lower courts because cases between states have original jurisdiction in the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court can reject a case for lack of standing (the plaintiff does not have the right to sue the defendant) or for lack of merit (the lawsuit is obviously frivolous). They can also reject it if they think the lower court ruled correctly, but that doesn't apply here.
Bitcoin is an investment, just like any other, it can go up or down.

If you really want to talk about profiting off the backs of others, look no further than interest bearing loans. It isn't for no reason that parasitic and immoral practice had been declared prohibited in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Most, if not all of the economy today is based off of interest, and the sooner we get rid of it the better.
No, that's not a sane way to interpret this RFC for the receiver either. I already answered this, so you'll have to go back to my earlier comment (this might be my last comment as I won't keep repeating myself): any system (be it Google's or anyone else's) that penalizes you equally regardless of whether the recipient's addressed existed 1 day vs. never existed is just plain trash. A sender that attempts delivery to an address that accepted their email a day ago is obviously unlikely to be a spammer; there's no justification for treating them as one. It is absolutely unreasonable to interpret the sentence this way. Just as it's unreasonable to interpret "the mailman shouldn't knock a second time when he's told the recipient has moved" as "I should never open the door for the mailman ever again if he does so".
I've been programming Clojure for a while and I've dabbled in CL, and while the CL debugger is certainly nicer, I don't see a major difference in how you develop interactively. Could you explain where do you see Clojure falling short?
That's not the only choice. Focusing protection on the vulnerable while allowing the rest of society to function could've spared us both from the worst of the pandemic's destruction and the economic destruction -- "economic" is a bit of a misnomer too. There is a greater cost to lockdowns than just economics. Mental and physical health also suffer. Those that can't get preventative care they need suffer. Depressed people and those with anxiety who turn to drugs, alcohol and suicide suffer.
Humor was intended but I really did want to know. Sometimes English syntax is ridiculous and I can be annoyingly concrete in my thinking.
Studying theory to become a SE is one thing. Being a SE is another thing. Being able to communicate with your (tech or non technical) colleagues in a constructive/useful way is also another important thing.

What I have seen is that a lot of software engineers lack communication skills. Being able to deal and communicate with other people, feel empathy, see things from their perspective, deal with non technical POs or managers, crazy CEOs, offensive colleagues and all sort of things is something that should be taught before you enter the market somehow. And when I say "deal" and "communicate" I mean it in the most fruitful way for you, your colleagues, the company. In that order.

So "being" a SE is not only knowing the theory.
Legalese is a technical language. As far as I’m concerned, it’s as close to plain English as SQL: close at first glance, but actully quite distinct.
In many areas you can get antibody testing on demand. I recently had it done in NY at the same time I had a PCR test. I think more people should get it just so we can cut down on the number of people who blithely say "I had a tickle in my throat six months ago so I probably had COVID".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact
yeah we can do one better with the holodeck. im not sure the problem is that much harder...
Besides the obvious waste and weird decision making of this event, I want to share a bit how this affect the engineers working on the product.

I was directly involved in the internal (open) debate (as a bystander and G Finance user at the time) when GFinance team were disbanded and the decision were made to fold it into Search.

Back then myself and the then TL of GFinance were engaged in some not so pleasant private messaging over internal mails. And I eventually asked HR to step in so that we can both stop engaging with each other.

At the time I was very confused why he would be defending the decision, which was obviously nonsensical, given how different are Finance data and Search, and how valuable is the finance data. Now I can see he probably were too professional and would want to still believe the company actually still cares about the little piece of product area that he has devoted a part of his career into.

Fast forward in 2019, I was directly hit by a reorg, where my own project, which I need to work with my manager to directly appeal to the Great Urs Hozle to get an approval (Urs personally rejected the staffing plan previous year), was transferred from Sunnyvale to Warsaw, during the time I am on a baby-bounding leave, and without consulting myself...

Well, at the moment I see how futile was it to spend my quickly diminishing creative life at this giant bubble. That's when I joined PixieLabs (https://pixielabs.ai/).
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Once the headset is as big and light as a pair of sunglasses and has 2x 8k screens build in. Since desktops are no longer mainstream, the controlling hardware is most likely not integrated yet. It needs to be +-50 times faster than current hardware though.
Probably in 5 to 10 years it will be a necessity in order to live a mainstream life.
Redhat acquired it, then ibm acequired redhat and then game over.
Complaint is based on the Sherman act. Sherman act requires harm to the end customer which be interesting to see how they show a negative impact to the public. I have free email, web browser, maps and other things paid for by google.
Textbooks are different from other kinds of books in that you have formulae and figures that can't easily be reflowed.
I've been using the ACVM app with. Windows 10 VMDK file. Changes are indeed persisted to the VMDK
I agree! How did Netflix do this? Was this in Queen's Gambit?
I think that a better "Enterprise" edition would be one that allows remote administrative control and centralized management, that's what large orgs would want out of something like that. That's why AD and Azure MDM are so popular because of the level of control they provide.
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FYI kortbroek is shorts in English :) Afrikaans is 'n grappige taal als Nederlander! :D Fun fact: you have an easier time understanding Dutch than vice versa, I always felt weird that you guys seemed to be fine with Dutch but I couldn't understand sentences in Afrikaans but it seems that it's not just me. Let me know if you care about the reasoning, I didn't fully get it but can probably find the original video where I learned this.

Also sorry for the off topic but I figured two days after the thread mostly died (everything's so ephemeral here) it doesn't really matter.