skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's frustrating that a lot of companies aren't willing to run internships over the spring or fall
US SDNY v. Ross William Ulbricht.

COUNT ONE: Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy

_Overt Acts_

(10) (b) On or about March 29, 2013, ROSS WILLIAM ULBRICHT, a/k/a/ "Dread Pirate Roberts," a/k/a "DPR," a/k/a "Sild Road," the defendant, in connection with operating the Silk Road website, solicited a Silk Road user to execute a murder-for-hire of another Silk Road user, who was threatening to release the identities of thousands of users of the site.
When I was young you could fit 6 in a sedan and 8 in a station wagon. Bench seats in the front have gone away (I assume due to airbags). We didn't have a big family, but on car-pools, I was the smallest so I always got stuck straddling the stick shift for the cars that had the shifter on the floor.
Agreed this metric is better, but the article also notes that these two firms own 70% of SolarWinds so any meaningful sale would be large by this measure I think?
iPhone assembly suspended following a riot in India
SolarWinds FTP password 'leaked on GitHub in plaintext'
Also both sites use the Glicko rating system rather than a straight ELO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system
Dominion the company uses SolarWinds or Orion does not mean the voting system it develops uses SolarWinds or Orion. I am pretty sure Dominion also uses MS Office, but that does not mean the voting system is vulnerable to MS Office hacks.
This is now in the official style guides of several major media outlets.

It emphasises blackness as an identity, i.e. it is a proper noun, the name of an ethnic group, and not just an adjective describing their skin colour.

I can't say I agree that society should be fracturing into more identities instead of fewer, or that people should strongly identify with their race, but that's the trend and that's we're at with the terminology.
The rotary in the article is not at all the same as a Wankel.
YuHasker Guide to Crypto
Because you need a lot engineers (so, hefty amount of money) to clone that concept? Basically CentOS concept is "freeze the version of all the packages and support them 10 years". But in real world people need new features, new bug-fixes, i.e. new versions. If you want to commit to that "never update" policy, you had to back-port everything people wants.

In short, forking it is easy, but keep it attractive is not.
Is Google legal going to extend their protection to you during this?
Are you serious? What else would I use? But I just checked, and DuckDuckGo and Bing return the same page as the first result.
It's an editorial style that some publications (including CNN) are adopting in service of racial sensitivity. CNN has mandated that all staff must capitalize both "Black" and "White" [1]:

> Both words denote a racial or ethnic identity and therefore should be upper case when referring to a person, community, culture, etc., in the same way CNN capitalizes other descriptors of race, ethnicity and shared identity, including African American, Native American, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Asian American, African, and other terms

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-capitalize-black-white-race/
I read this and it was interesting and clarifying. As an aside, I still hate amp though
*claims the transcripts that came out at his trial, which AFAIK neither he nor his defense attorneys disputed.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-...
It has been since earlier this year when a fairly small number of media employees decided to insert their activism into orthography.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...

Being black is mostly an empirical fact. But being Black is about your experience and culture. Calling a random black person "Black" is making the same mistake as calling a random black person "African American".
I find it curious a lot of friends are getting back to Skype, for personal use, across continents, and not CorporateSkype/OC. Is this a huge selection bias thing? Don't know. Several have also recently deleted GMail.
The source is for the US, where it's at least plausible.
Introducing the Privacy Budget – Chrome Developers [video]
See? this comment is an improvement over your previous ludicrous comment of "No, you don't really have the right to disagree". Keep working on it.
Meanwhile, read this.
https://news.mit.edu/2014/liquidpiston-small-efficient-rotar...
Especially, this part.
"The X Mini is essentially an upgrade in design and efficiency of the compact Wankel rotary engine, invented in the 1950s and used today in sports cars, boats, and some aircraft."
Based on the teardown, it's impossible to tell; again largely comes down to what their ICs are capable of. But based on the patents, and what I've heard unofficially, it does support 2 simultaneous beams. The point of that isn't to double throughput or anything like that, it's to accomplish "make before break" handoff as one satellite moves towards the edge of view, and another is better.

Don't know much about how they've set up their satellite terminals--for a typical GEO station, they'd support a huge number of static beams simultaneously to multiplex as much through the station as possible. With many birds in LEO, it's unclear how extreme they have to get about that.
And yet that's profoundly unsatisfying. Ulbrecht was not convicted of murder-for-hire; he was accused of it, and that accusation influenced his sentence for other crimes. Which a fairly large part of this community believe aren't actual crimes.
Oh! Yeah, I just saw the Apple TV one about 5 minutes ago myself (it was too late to update the above w a correction), but admittedly hadn't known about Apple Music.
Here's a video of a PDP-8/e playing tunes over an AM radio:

https://youtu.be/akvSE5Z474c

The software dates to around 1975.
They aren't contradictory. You're working backwards to make humans like computers/interpreters. The fact that human interpretation 'doesn't care' is not so much a feature but a necessity. Ambiguity is inherent to natural languages, not a failure of them, nor a feature. On the other side, programming languages are strict my nature and it is a necessity. In programming we have a limited vocabulary and that limits our expressiveness, which is a feature. We don't want probabilistic outcomes for standard means.

So let's look at the two parts you quotes from me and give some examples. We've conversing quite well, wouldn't you say? You understand me and I understand you? So #1 must be true, right? But have you ever played the game telephone[0]. With the general outcome of every game that must mean that #1 cannot be true, yet here we are. Like I said before, when communicating there's: what is intended, what is said, and what is heard. Usually these align pretty well. But small fuzzing adds up quite quickly. But it should also illustrate to you that what you hear (or read) isn't what the speaker (or writer) intended. Their job is to convey as best as they can to you while your job is to interpret as best as you can. Language being of this form allows us to express wildly abstract concepts, especially ones beyond our capacity to even understand. This is the usefulness of natural languages. But it is also why we created mathematical and programming languages, but why they will never be able to have the same expressiveness. You cannot program what you do not understand. But you must be able to talk about what you do not understand, if you are ever to hope to one day understand it.

I'd encourage you to read both more about linguistics and compilers. If you're feeling lazy, Tom Scott has some decent linguistics videos and are aimed at STEM audiences. For more technical maybe see NativLang. For a book, checkout The Unfolding of Language.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_(game)

Edit: btw, you did get the meaning of finger shoes (German) even with the extreme limitations of only text based communication.
There's a lot of great(?) quotes from this, but was a little concerning:

* During complex chemical operations, so much plutonium nitrate dripped onto the bottom of gloveboxes that workers faced the risk of criticality - an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction that sprayed a deadly stream of neutrons. To prevent criticality, workers did the nuclear equivalent of pulling the plug on a bathtub. They used a "crit valve" to dump plutonium nitrate from the glovebox to the factory floor. That prevented a criticality disaster from ever occuring at Rocky Flats.

"When you got more than 2 inches of liquid in a box, you'd have a choice - you either have a criticality, or you have a cleanup job,"

said Don Sabac, a Rocky Flats worker since 1961. "You always chose the cleanup job."

For a worker, that meant dropping to his or her hands and knees and scrubbing the plutonium solution off the floor with industrial cleanser, called K.W., and strengthened paper towels called Kimwipes.

That didn't always work. Acids in plutonium solutions often ate through concrete floors or walls and prevented a thorough cleanup. So workers painted over dozens of radioactive areas with purple or brown epoxy.
tl;dr "Men commonly use more abstract and analytical language while female-typical language has been described as more narrative, personal, social and emotional; women tend to refer more to themselves and to other people more than men."
What Machine Don't See
I almost didn't understand this, but then remembered that growing up I didn't have a room and all my family members had televisions on in every room. The only way I could read was to put on headphones, turn them off and face away from the tv. Even then it was hard to concentrate.
I'd like to call your attention to the following short Twitter (alas) thread. It may help shed some light onto your question:

https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1339330010684002304

> In some contexts, the meaning of the words ('racist' and 'sexist') has shifted from “assigning lower value to a person because of their race or gender” to “infidel” and “heretic”. If you question virgin birth, you don’t correct important facts. You state that you are a heretic, and you’ll be ostracized.

> Every religious movement asks its adherents for a public commitment to a sacred creed to show allegiance. The creed cannot be literally true, or random people would profess it. If you deny it, you will invoke ire of all adherents. If you go down defending it, you are a martyr.

> This leads to some unpleasant effects on the margins, but many young people see a genuine need for a new, atheist religious movement, since both the theist religions and the rationalist liberalism of previous generations are failing to adress their social and existential issues.
Do you have a reference for the half-duplex note? That would seem a waste given that they already have FDMA. Also most satcom applications are full duplex.
> but to say it is 'too late' is you pouting and trying to let yourself down easy.

I don't think the author is saying he has been out of the field too long, but rather that hiring committees (even postdoc advisors, or fellowship committees) looking for astrophysics faculty candidates are not going to give a second glance to someone who left academia for several years.
Why do you assume didn't try anything?

We actually:

- have been friendly to 3rd party clients developers, like Loquim (https://loqui.im/). Once WA turned on e2e encryption, the situation for 3rd party clients changed from "difficult but fun" to "mostly impossible".

- wrote a JVM in JS to run the S40 version of WA (https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet).

- partnered with a company specialized in bringing android apps to other OSes (they had Windows Phone support for instance).
Chromebook Expiry Dates 9.4M Pounds of Waste
My hope along with these pardons is that sometime before the inauguration he orders the US Marshals to seize and publish all classified documents.
He was convicted of the charge for which the murder-for-hire was a predicate! A finding of fact in the trial was in fact that he ordered someone's murder!
As a world-class browser, Opera did that route. Opera died. I believe that might be in thinking but far from an insider in either, simply a happy Firefox user since 0.7 and Netscape before that.
Slightly OT, but I find tvtropes.org as a whole totally fascinating. Partly it's having my eyes opened to the substructure that spans across our media, and partly it's just awe at how enormous and meticulously thorough this taxonomy of concepts is.
I don’t think thats true.

There’s people who have endless time (teenaged trolls) and there’s people who have endless money (lonely middle aged techies)

The teenaged trolls (incels) provide the engagement, and the lonely middle aged techies (simps) provide the spending.
Indeed, that was the log I gave a characture of above-- you'll note that there is no mention of the supposed four other ones as they entirely rested on claims made by the now-convicted officers Carl Mark Force IV and Shaun W. Bridges.

Media coverage from back then: https://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-murder-charges-ross...

> To date, there have been precisely zero murder charges filed. Instead, the indictment has been changed without explanation, the formal charges omitted, and the broader accusations buried within a lesser drug trafficking charge.

> Of the six murder indictments trumpeted by the U.S. government in the days following Ulbricht’s Oct. 2013 arrest, five have fallen off the table and the sixth sits untouched in a separate indictment (legalese for an unproven allegation) that was purposefully left out of the upcoming trial.

Of course, we know now why they didn't charge-- those charges were impossibly tainted by the involvement of the corrupt officers. But the trial was no less prejudiced just because they skipped charging on the murder-for-hire parts: those corrupt officers had administrative control over the systems, they fabricated evidence to conceal their heist, and so on.

Had the compromise of the investigation not been fatal to the prosecutions case they simply wouldn't have risked concealing it from the defence.
This indicates that the app claimed the URL, so to prevent that you'd need to go into the app settings (at an Android level) and stop Google Drive from claiming those URLs.
A few more days of news coverage and they'll be the hot new cyber security stock everyone has heard of...
Relevant recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25440738

Waiting for an Air-FM paper now.
Nice.......might give Packt a try
If they don’t match, then what? Is ot a mistake or was it intentional?
There is literally an exception in US and other countries’ copyright law just for typefaces.

> If they were not then why would license agreements even be a thing.

We could make a license agreement that you pay me per breathe of air you take. It’s not my fault if you sign that.
Yea, professional applications use win32 directly and it blends in well with the OS.
I’d say we’re pretty interested in learning. We study inter species communication all the time as a species don’t we? We communicate with dogs regularly. The challenge is that we haven’t learned how to have higher-order communication which makes it challenging (we learn to communicate primarily with the species, primarily mammals, we co-habitate with). The more distant evolutionarily from us the harder it is to communicate for us as there’s less commonality and more technological assistance needed.
That all might be well and True. Except there also has been testimony that the voting machine do have the ability to connect to the internet. It was turned of during the vote counting. But I presume the connection to the internet is for the machines to connect to servers to download updates. So its not like a possible vector could not exist during these updates. If the company is compromised.
I know nothing about the justice system, so how was an allegation as grave as murder-for-hire considered for sentencing (and surely informed the bulk of the sentencing) without being one of the actual charges?

His only convictions were money laundering, computer hacking,
and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.

I'm sure the court documents put a much finer point on it than a Wikipedia paragraph, but that's too much effort right now at 11:40pm. Just looking for some light HN procrastination.
I would have bought a Mazda 5 if they still sold them. However, I don't live in a great place for buying used.
Can verify does not work on an M1 MacBook Air with BMW AM radio, tried the _mm_stream_si128 version couldn't hear any of the tunes on any frequency between 1550 and 1630 hz.

I remember playing with Tempest probably 20 years ago. It worked on a CRT monitor, the bigger the monitor the better, I had a 21"! Even with that I had to get my computer's speakers literally right next to the monitor for it to barely work, but it was absolutely fabulous when it did!
Chinese steel mills ask for help from Rio and BHP
I just tried this out yesterday. On my MacBook Pro 11,1 running NixOS the signal is clearest at 1620 KHz. The receiver is an older Bose SoundTouch and after 50 cm it degrades to noise.
Do we know what kind of work is required and what are the kind of contributors they're looking for?

Happy to help wherever I can.
I was living in China for the last 2.5 years and within that time span the quality of air in Beijing went from absolutely unbearable crossing over the 500 to blue skies almost every day. Probably one too many politician's kids died from lung problems.
The other interesting thing in the bad days was how they could turn on a dime. When there was an important political event or international visits the air pollution would magically get better for a few days (coinciding with the international internet and VPN connectivity getting dramatically worse...). They would just shut down all of the factories in the area.

When there's a political will there is definitely a way.
"In a message sent to Pichai and others that linked to the letter, Alex Hanna, a senior research scientist on the Ethical AI team, said it was sent on behalf of her team. A source familiar with the team said it includes roughly a dozen members."
I wish there were multiple reps of each experiment, especially with how noisy the results were and the difficulties of reproducing smoke

Regardless, this project actually makes me feel better about buying my fancy air filter

Instead of buying 2 filters (both HEPA), a fan, and a poorly calibrated air quality sensor for $150 like the author, I bought an air purifier that contains 2 filters (1 HEPA, 1 activated charcoal) a fan and a poorly calibrated air sensor for $153.

However since my air quality sensor is integrated with my purifier, it only pulls ~60 watts at the times when I'm cooking or if something is on fire. That probably saves me $50/year on electricity
There are plenty of SUVs that won't fit 3 car seats in back any better than a Civic.
I think we should further honor the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and make all the letters capitalized. BLACK
FCs and FD
The same reason "Latino" is spelled with a capital "L".
While it's really sad that CentOS 8 will meet it's end so soon, for those who are on CentOS 7, the planned EOL is still 2024.

And if that applies to you, that's plenty of time for Rocky Linux to get rolling. Just a thought.
The coolest example I'm aware of with hiding low frequency content like this was with an ASIC fingerprint mechanism. The tool would modify your design in a very subtle way so that the power it burned would be very slightly modulated. You could detect this with a sensitive thermometer (over many hours I believe it was). Its main use can was to read IDs out of the chips to trace which vendors were leaking/making bootleg copies of your chips.
I read rather slowly. I've been setting meager book goals for myself the past couple years, hoping to up my goals over time. But I feel my reading speed hasn't improved much.

Do you, or did you at some point, make a conscious effort to read faster? Or did speed just come with practice over time?
If what you were trying to communicate was that Ross Ulbricht was never charged with ordering a murder, all I'm saying is, the indictment flatly refutes that.

Whatever corruption you say taints the charge, it taints the entire Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy charge as well! The murder-for-hire scheme is a predicate!
It's intentional too. Many programs start with basic research, but also have specific milestones related to commercialization.

For example, a biomedical program might have specific timelines for filing patents, meeting with the FDA for Investigational New Drug/Device Exemptions and thence clinical trials. This is rather different from the NIH and NSF, which tend to want smaller, self-contained projects from individual labs rather than a consortium that'll take a single idea from end-to-end.
There are some real gems in here for data guys at least. So eager to explore these books.
Ah, OK, I understand better.

Yes, in theory, a terminal with a phased array antenna can be built to emit more than one beam simultaneously and steer them independently. Doing so is currently still costly in terms of research, electronics, and power, so it's unlikely that the SL terminal can do it. It would also require there to be a second PHY chip somewhere in the terminal, which would also drive up cost.

Also, it's not really necessary. Satcom already requires nanosecond-level timing accuracy, so I would think their terminal can probably steer its beams with at most ms lag.
Would love that.
What a great way to end 2020!
Will the web app version still work given recent high-precision timing limitations due to Spectre/Meltdown mitigations?
No need for proof or to mention that that the "User" was 1 of 2 corrupt FBI agents involved who is also now in jail for stealing millions in BTC during the case when you don't actually try to charge someone with the Murder-for-hire. The charge is conspiracy, there are several overt acts listed, not all of them need to be proven to be convicted of conspiracy.
how dismissive and reductionist. most of the HN crowd are appallingly blind to their consumerist, bourgeois, proselytizing. capitalism does suck and parasitic corporate boot lickers are the last thing the world needs
At the time I didn't really understand Snowden's motives and it wasn't really clear how right he was. At this point I feel like the writing has left the wall, has copied itself on every build board, every road side, and is probably being flown by an airplane as a banner in the sky. This interview with Glen Greenwald (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qEuKCS-czU) was what really opened to my eyes to what he was trying to say back then. It sucks I didn't listen.

Edited due to poor wording
Our World in Data: Tracking Covid-19 Vaccinations
Go talk about Vim someplace else
Yes but you’d have to find a piece of hardware capable of producing sound outside the audible range.
Do people consider Snowden and Assange in the same league here? While Snowden seems to have been purely focused on exposing the spying mechanisms to influence that specific debate, it seems that Assange has gone quite a bit more political here? I'm sure my very superficial understanding of these stories gets a lot of details wrong, but didn't Assange purportedly coordinate with the Trump campaign to leak information at a significant time relative to the 2016 election?
And I'm waiting for "Receive WiFi-5G-4G-3G-GPRS-AM-FM-TBA on computers without hardware receivers".

Just won't buy RTL's USB-Pin.
China's Chang'e-5 mission returns Moon samples to Earth
You corrected some misconceptions I had about how straightforward things are
Oh, I don't mean I hate Dart by any means, I've just written UIs in a lot of languages at this point and would rather use something I'm more familiar with... The one very minor annoyance I've had with Dart that immediately pops to mind, and I think is going to be fixed soon (according to the github issue), is typedefs only working for functions. I personally think it makes things a lot more verbose and unnecessarily difficult to read at times ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I certainly like it well enough to continue to learn and use both it and Flutter :)