skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The EU can say this all they want, but the reality is it has zero teeth for any organization conducting business outside the EU, with no actual presence in the EU.

Perhaps not, but the EU is the world's second-largest economy (only $2tn behind the US and $4tn ahead of China) accounting for about 1/5th of the global economy.

If one wants to operate a company that does international business, one will probably want to do business in the EU, which means following EU law in such matters.
> An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete. They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone to irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth.

For a comment that adopts a rather condescending tone, it's odd that it displays such a lack of understanding of some basic truths. When Americans speak about their rights, they are generally speaking of negative rights, i.e. the natural rights of man which cannot be infringed upon by their government. The "freedoms" referred to above are exclusively positive rights, so named because they require positive action--in other words, these "Freedoms" are imposed by the state. Europeans who are compelled by the state to cough up half of their incomes to the state are free to refer to the resulting programs as "freedom", but this is a new formulation of freedom that has no basis in the historical meaning of freedom to which most Americans adhere.

> while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local, and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover).

This is nonsense. The taxation rate in the us is far lower than those in Democratic Socialist countries, while incomes are ~40% higher after accounting for healthcare costs.

Taxation by country: [0]

Denmark - 52% of GDP

Norway - 55% of GDP

Finland - 53% of GDP

Sweden - 50% of GDP

Iceland - 42% of GDP

>>Average - 50.5%

USA - 22% of GDP

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OECD data shows that Median American income is 40% higher than the oft-hailed bastions of Social Democracy:

Household Income in US dollars (2018) [3]

Denmark - $34,712

Norway - $39,555

Finland - $34,497

Sweden - $34,301

Iceland - Not reported

USA - $50,292

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Household Debt as % of disposable income (2015-2018): [1]

Denmark - 281%

Norway - 239%

Finland - 145%

Sweden - 189%

Iceland - Not reported

USA - 105%

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Household Net worth as % of net income (2014): [2]

Denmark - 553%

Norway - 318%

Finland - 359%

Sweden - 526%

Iceland - Not reported

USA - 601%

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[1]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm

[2]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-net-worth.htm#indicator-...

[3]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm#in...
I know how to evaluate the quality of the discussions and contributions from my experience.

Also, we can discuss the quality of Internet communities, but I would tend to trust one of these quite a bit more than an advert, even targeted, which was where we were coming from.

As real life examples, I have got advice on stuff to buy from photography websites, modelling (railway and wargames) Facebook groups and blogs without any trouble, and I know where to find it when I need it. I know when to take a photography buff raving about a camera with a grain of salt ("but it has a better score with DXOMARK"), I have about zero confidence in adverts on the web.
No connection. And Cerulean here is just a codename; we have no desire to use it seriously - it’s more likely the threading will get pulled into Element and other Matrix clients when baked.

(also, microblogging is sufficiently far from Trillian that we assumed nobody could get confused. there’s a lot of shades of cerulean out there.)
Why doesn't calling Hitler a Nazi make actual Nazizm more popular? Would you argue that all the Allied propaganda during the war was actually counter productive?
> They advocate immediate disclosure of zero day exploits found by government

How do you think governments find these vulnerabilities? Accidentally, under the couch cushions?

What you actually seem to be proposing- in practice- is a ban on government-funded vulnerability research.
> which is indispensable for etching chips in 7 and 5 nm

This isn't quite accurate; ABF is used to make the chip package for high-thermal transfer, high-speed flip chip packages:

https://www.ajinomoto.com/innovation/action/buildupfilm

It doesn't seem to have a role in any specific manufacturing node; it's just essential to the best way of packaging high-end chips.
It is very easy to work on these tools without even realizing it. Let us say that you are developing a video processing algorithm and publish the code on github. The developers of missile software can and will use it. At some point, they may ask you for consulting/support in exchange for a large amount of money and you will say yes, and never realize who they were. I'm not saying that this has happened several times to my lab.
> I know I'm just guessing, but the writer of this article seems crazy driven.

Look at the details in the article, breaking down time and money spent per course and per week. Yes, this is a person who is extremely organized and disciplined and knows how to optimize their time and effort.
I think I saw an article here that says that a few times per century, a star explodes in a distant galaxy and the resulting radiation can interact with a spinning hard drive in such a way as to allow Facebook to enhance their ad targeting profile on you. So no spinning hard drives, please.
IF you're referring to the Capital One incident, that had nothing to do with AWS. Their systems behaved as intended. It was a error in the implementation of Capital One's systems.
DOJ antitrust case against Google may not go to trial until 2023
In the short term I just want to stabilize the site and get it to a point where it's usable for most people. I'd like to solve some UI issues (many suggested via feedback), fix bugs etc.

Eventually I'm hoping to get to a place where there could be an api, a paid plan for extra features, and the ability for users to monetize themselves w/integrations for the site features etc.
IntelliJ is great, PyCharm is good. But RubyMine is the one I’ve used daily for years and it’s a bit of a dog’s dinner and I think getting progressively worse over the years.

I’ve been summarising issues lately:

- https://andyroberts-uk.medium.com/rubymine-code-insights-or-...

- https://medium.com/swlh/rubymine-more-distractions-part-2-24...
No experience but with Brexit I imagine being a tradie of some kind eg a plumber would be good. I know someone who went coder->builder and was very happy with it.
Having trouble finding a reference since the search terms aren't too friendly (lots of targeted ads though), was there one where it wasn't an account configuration issue?
mcafee anti virus?
Encryption only helps if you can guarantee that your attacker can't get access to the layer below where the runtime decrypts things.

A cloud hack like the parent poster talks about assumes that you get access to the hypervisor layer and can look at the RAM of the guest machines.

This is not inconceivable. Rather, it seems quite reasonable given the complexity of hypervisors and the prevalence of CPU architecture bugs that makes these attacks easier.
Hire people you believe in – believe in the people you hire
2 main comments:
1) your example of 1% death rate would be detected very early in a rollout, and would represent something akin to a 10000x worse vaccine outcome that has ever been experienced. The worst vaccine ever is generally regarded as causing 1 in 10,000 narcolepsy.

2) the word "approved" is misleading. Of you change this to say "banned" or "not banned", this reads very differently. The requirement to ban everyone from taking a vaccine in order to mitigate some extreme long tail event and maintain public confidence is hard to justify on utilitarian grounds, but pretty much any other ethical framework.
The technology has been in development for decades, so in that sense is a response to the pandemic, but it's not a result of the pandemic.

(the first SARS certainly encouraged vaccine research)
I used to share the "Java is bad" mindset, but now I realize Java (at least the JVM) is actually really good.

The main issues people assume with Java are that it has slow runtime and it's verbose.

But the JVM is actually rather fast. Especially compared to JavaScript and Python, which aren't even compiled (and which I still agree with the "it's crap" hivemind). Anything that needs real performance you should be outsourcing to C/C++ FFI calls, and as long as you do that your Java app's performance should be OK. And a key cause of Java's big slowdown are checks e.g. for null-pointers and casts, which are much better than C++/Rust's approach of being unsafe-by-default.

Java is verbose, but JetBrain's awesome IDE single-handedly fixes this problem - writing POJOs and using long-named functions and classes is fast, and IntelliJ will hide excess boilerplate so that even reading code is easier. And if verbosity is still too much of an issue, there are JVM alternatives like Kotlin.
I don't think that's tenable. Could you imagine trying to test a 40 hour game?

Sony and MS's teams aren't QA. Neither are Apple's. Apple's team looks for the standard stuff like are they using IAPs properly? Is there anything deceiving happening here? etc.

By the sounds of things Sony and MS's review teams did find that Cypberpunk 2077 was NOT in a good spot. But they took CDPR's word that they would fix it before launch (the typical day 1 patch situation). And that bombed hard.

I think your expectation on what happens is not in line with reality unfortunately.
I didn't say it's crap. It said it's unremarkable. He is welcome to do (or not do) w/e he wants.
Are you missing the real-time part?
hey thanks for checking it out, did you happen to click the left "chevron" and it confused you? Just curious if that's what you're referring to because it's been mentioned a few times, and I'm planning to change how that works to be more intuitive as a back button.

thanks!
You're still looking at over a hundred thousand dollars to put a single 1U cubesat in orbit (including development, testing, and certification for the sat itself). And that would be moving at 6-7km/s relative to the ground, so you can see how expensive it would be to put any kind of useful personal constellation into orbit still
That's the result of housing shortages. Landlords can pick their tenants and since they don't run a charity they usually rent out to the highest bidder. The obvious solution would be to increase supply.
I'm not sure I agree with the author of this book that that counts as an example of "The Strategy Pattern" (vs. simply "passing a function as a parameter").

Is having parameters at all "The Parameter Pattern"? Should we call passing a boolean flag "The Flag Pattern"?

To me, "Design Pattern" implies at least some higher order structure than that (and which is not natively abstractable over in the language in question).
True, I was being hyperbolic (oof, the pun material is just too good). But the organics pretty much take of themselves, leaving behind just the bits we might want to reuse. Of course, we could be composting the organics and reusing them now, my city does that, though they give the compost away to any takers, which suggests the economics are still a work in progress.
Probably more like 2x rather than 5x. Comparing coding to a decent (not entry level) typical job. San Faang excepted.
patterns are not frameworks. Patterns are not libraries, too.
What's the difference between Fallout 4 and New Vegas? I thought New Vegas was just an expansion.
> React alone and the tooling it requires already gives you about 1400 dependencies

When you throw around FUD like this, can you please also give us some credible sources? You can use cdnjs to get react and react-dom in exactly 2 .js files.
From that link:

> The Go language will support Apple Silicon in their 1.16 release which is targeted for February 2021.

That article is a big part of why I said this was a bit earlier than expected. This ticks off one of the concerns Docker devs had about the next version.
Streamers can ban anyone, yes. I'm not trying to justify this, I think it's stupid and pointless and mostly just twitch virtue signaling.
Which is impressive considering it was announced before those consoles were.
If they lose control and starts putting profit up front as their primary objective than developer spirits, I'm sure many will move to vs code and vs code may speed up its development with more eyes and hands.
3D printing layer shift site:reddit.com

Or:

3D printing layer shift !r
How do these circuits deal with random bit flipping from cosmic rays?
Do you say this because you think some hacker can gain access to the VMs where your data is stored? It’s significantly more likely that this will happen due to one of your engineers getting social engineered. While we don’t know the details of the SolarWinds breach yet, I’d be willing to bet the hackers did not gain access to production VMs.
None of those questions seem to be relevant to whether or not there was some sort of smart device involved.
Microsoft probably has a large network and lots of employees and vendors. So I'd assume that every day some machines are being compromised at Microsoft (like anywhere else with lots of employees and stuff like Google, Facebook, Amazon,...) - it's just not that unusual these days.

The question is if any of these leads to lateral movement and access of sensitive information or modification of data and stuff. No company is required to tell you about every single piece of malware they find in their networks - unless something "bad" happened. Maybe we should require more transparency in general.

I guess investigations will show what happened or is happening still.
That was a very clear explanation, thank you. So all my grand ideas about how quantum communication might work are now sadly dead
It's trendy to despair, and I want to call it out. I've seen it recently in prominent journalists talking about disinformation, in the former Google AI researcher's exit message to colleagues, in lots of people talking about politics and government and democracy and public affairs (such as racism). 'Let's leave the city - what's the point of being here?'

It seems that people want to say: 'it's useless to try', and 'I don't know what to do' ... sometimes they say they will quixotically continue (to drag out the despair, I suppose).

Perhaps it's a consequence of the pandemic, which creates depressing environments for much of the world. Perhaps it's a the reactionary concept of the 'SJW' (a negative term, which mocked their supposed uselessness) seeping into broader society.

Whatever, despair is a pretty f*g stupid trend. Really? Despair? That's cool now? You sound smart now? I promise you that you will never accomplish anything you don't believe in. Remember the American Dream - anyone can accomplish anything they believe in and work hard for. A friend of mine (now hip to despair) once said, 'the biggest obstacle most people face is that they don't believe' - my friend was right. Who would even choose despair, given the options - what an unhappy life.

I believe. I believe we can do it. I believe that the biggest obstacle is all these people standing around talking about despair, and that we outnumber the actual bad people 100 to 1. I believe democracy and freedom and believing in people has an incredible history of success and we can solve these problems too. I believe we can make the open web work on mobile. I believe we can solve disinformation - it's just a matter of engagement, of finding out what engages them and where; they reading that crap for the content. I believe in the city - the land of opportunities, on every block, at every corner, in every cafe and bar. I love the city, I love people.

Let's do this! LET'S GOOOOOO!

(And I'm not being ironic. I am dead serious. Why are you standing there talking about irony? Is it so rare that someone could be earnest and enthusiastic these days? I'm going to leave you behind; I'm going to make the future while you despair. Let's go!!!!)
The next few decades will be interesting.
That’s the joke, yes. GA is sometimes called Grassmann algebra hence the “grass” reference.
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Yes - but the alternative argument could be made that a million small organizations have no ability to stay on top of every little best practice, update, software, no dedicated security/zero day team, no ability to do investigations/in-depth analysis - i.e. easily compromised.
I'm playing on ps4 and I enjoy it.

It's very buggy, and it sometimes outright crashes, but it's just a very good story, progression, and visual.
It’s a community dedicated to discussion and promotion of geometric algebra.
> What you actually seem to be proposing- in practice- is a ban on government-funded vulnerability research.

To be completely honest, I don't have a concrete answer to this question yet because I haven't finished the book and didn't give the hard think it requires.

However, I can see and both parties' perspective and reasoning. I just need to give these perspectives a good rub with my own views.
I'd like to echo this statement. I found the text was a bit too bold and there wasn't enough whitespace to let the page breathe. I couldn't really get my bearings on what I was looking at. A little bit more tweaking of the design will do wonders to communicate what the "intention" of the page is.

Sites like reddit can get away with a cluttered interface because they've been around for a while, have loads of content, and loads of users, so people put up with it, but for a new site, you have to sell them immediately.
What happened with the nginx owner?
I'm aware of several leaks that were basically "account holder left bucket wide open"

Some of that is on AWS for initially making the defaults too open, but at the end of the day, S3 was doing what it was told.

Is there some case where S3 was locked down, and the data still leaked?
Are there any interesting project's one can participate in by launching say 1 kg in space?

$5k sounds abit accessible
Fallout: New Vegas had a handful of endings, but is nearly universally praised for making player choices affect how you play. It's not about what endings you get so much as your actions influencing what options remain open to you as you play.
> The time to start taking information security seriously was 15 years ago.

Yet we openly embrace hardware we don't understand riddled with flaws and software we can't see in to or audit and makes requests without our consent. When you login to $bankingApp are you aware of all the DNS requests, information it's POSTing?

Heck, Facebook's SDK derps and cripples many applications. Our software stack is built on a mountain of hacks, flaws and quite frankly, insanity.

Computing, from the hardware to the kernel needs completely revamping, because nothing else will be able to salvage our current environment.
I work with RNA, but not in medicine. mRNA is not a long-term molecule in the body, so its difficult to imagine direct long-term effects. Of course, immune responses can cause long-term damage. So the question is: should we wait to find out?

The doses have 30-100 ug. Assume 1)this is pure RNA, and 2)the molecules are about the same size as the spike protein sequence. With these assumptions, a dose gives you 10^10 RNA molecules. Average sputum samples show about 10^6 molecules/mL; max samples show 10^9/mL. I don't know how vaccines dilute when you inject it into somebody's shoulder, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to say the final conc will be between 10^6 and 10^9 RNA/mL.

So RNA is going to be in us, whether we want it or not. The question is, do you want the whole genome, or part of the genome. I'm picking the one that doesn't make more virus.
They re-emerge called "737-Max".
I think this is the wrong analogue. I absolutely would not trust Amazon or Microsoft with my personal data (I'm the type that hosts my own e-mail, sync, docs, etc.)

Now for a BUSINESS, I could see the advantage in less maintenance cost and being able to spin up/down services easily. It is easier and that cost is measurable (up to a point; when you get big enough AWS costs become obscene compared to self-hosting. I've been at more than one shop that moved things back on-prem to save money).
It needs atleast 3 points IIRC.
As I understand it from my readings here on HN, that will be a major undertaking, since the malicious software that Microsoft discovered in its systems is actually Windows 10.
OK, so the plan is to make owning drugs legal, and sell drugs once to users, then tell them they can't have any more, and that is supposed to accomplish what, exactly? I'm not even against legalizing drugs, I'm just against legalizing them occasionally arbitrarily, that seems to be the worst of both worlds. Now we have legalized crackheads and opium addicts, with a legal method of getting addicted (but once you are addicted and desperately want more the govt cuts you off) and a crime fueled black market coexisting
I have a colleague which calls a higher-order function Reader pattern which is obviously absurd.
Do you have any notes or advice for someone who wants to build a similar blog? Every time I try I get bogged down in the details (Wordpress is painful and buggy...how to tag these articles and make a tag cloud... how to get people to sign up using some Mailchimp code....) and I can never get it off the ground.
I thought Grassmann algebra consisted of only scalars, vectors, bivectors, etc. but not their linear combinations. So a mixed scalar plus vector is not an element of a Grassmann algebra. An alternative name is exterior algebra. You get Clifford algebra / Geometric Algebra (two names for the same thing) by taking closure under sums and considering a more general product.

[edit: It appears I'm right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra]
People's expectations about the life paths were really overblown, they took marketing bullshit and took it as gospel. Then their own imaginations took over.

No game _ever_ has been like this. You just can't get three completely different fully immersive all-spoken-dialog games for the price of one - unless the main plot is like 10 hours max.

Even the Fallout games have a few bigger decisions (FO3 had the choice of nuking either town), but the rest of the stat-based chat options are mostly for flavour. Maybe a few side quests have different endings or dead ends because of your stats, but the main plot is still essentially the same.
I wasn't defending CDPR in any way. Just stating that the whining is becoming needlessly loud.

If 3/4 of your players ask for refund, I see that as a clear critic that your game has a big problem.

Almost a new thread on the same subject every 2h: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
And make sure to keep it in a sound-proof room to avoid side channel attacks.
On Earth 2 where Jetbrains took VC money there's an ambitious product manager pushing his team to finish a built-in music player (along with 2 gigs of royalty-free lofi beats) as the issue logs backs up with angry customer complaints about poor language server integrations, crashing, and general slowness.
Just delete the network firmware and forget to rewrite it.
To answer - no we don't have the same certification requirements. NASA steps in when there's human lives and/or a lot of money on the line, but most smaller projects and just about every independent project is free to assume its own level of risk.