skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a huge difference in freedom of expressing your opinion online between your country and authoritarian states. I know your first instinct would be to say "yes but…", but it's not. Not even close, not even 0.1%.

People without first hand experience often do not comprehend it, even if accept the argument logically. But when you live there, you grow up with the 6th sense of political momentum. It's as natural as breathing. You are not starting to shit on a powerful person in your country unless you sense a strong political tailwind.
Tragically there was nothing simple about ISDN. A customer would have to know their switch type at the CO and there were a number of other things that could break it. At least with a T1/DS1 you only had to worry about SF/ESF, B8ZS/AMI and number of channels.
“didn’t do anything warrant a positive article,”

...is a false equivalence.
Ok? This happens dozens of times a day. It this just to push more anti-Boeing/America propaganda? The engine isn't even built by Boeing. Are you also going to post any time any plane by Airbus or any of the other manufacturers have a divert or go-around or an engine out or any other issue?
Yes, and also GEOS running in a Commodore 64
that’s the point, yep!
Agreed. I outlined my thoughts in a more detailed post but I dont see how M1 changes the game for anyone using Orchestral libraries. SSDs and disk streaming large sample sets multihundred note polyphony has been a thing for 20 years.
Don't forget the "Half Life" series which still lives up to enormous hype, Gordon Freeman ;)
I assume Frame Buffer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer
Yep, the reference to a gift economy also ignores the fundamental aspect of it which is keeping a mental tally of who has given what to who, what each persons status is and their relationships to each member of the community. A gift economy is just a mental ledger for lack of any coin of the realm. Tangible and fiat currency improve on it by making accounting accurate, transferable and applicable to people you don’t know personally. I’d call it FUD but this is more so ignorance, sentimentality and naivety.
The anxiety we are talking about here is exactly the kind of anxiety you _don't_ want. If there was no vaccine in the short/midterm future people would probably (and somewhat rationally) assume that everybody (or rather 60%) will get the disease at some point, which would mean that the reward for behaving cautiously now is a lot worse (at least on an individual level, it would still be necessary not to overwhelm hospitals or to protect certain high-risk-groups).

You might be inducing a "so-what" mentality where people don't want to refrain from going to bars and restaurants just to not catch a virus that's going to get them at some point.
I think the "talk" by Chris McCord should apply here
"Build a real-time Twitter clone in 15 minutes with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5", while not really a talk this year was special and the demo completely blew my mind.

it's available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI
I heard there was some incestual stuff at medium-high levels of relevant google org/teams and pinterest in terms of people moving between the companies and being friends/favors. Also that these specific teams at google are mediocre at best now and all the good engineers and product focused people have moved on to greener pastures. Probably why google image search has stagnated hard (I find bing and yandex out perform it easily depending on your searches).

The explanation that Pinterest is just "good at SEO" never made sense to me because at their scale someone at google obviously would notice and could decide to counter their SEO tricks etc (google has never had problem with doing this before).

Not to sound conspiratorial but from what I know I find it more plasubile that mid level decision makers at google can block any change that would nuke pinterest because they or their social circle have personal interest in keeping pinterest up while issue is not close to big enough or impacting larger revenue to attract attention from above.
Looking forward to the sequel coming soon!
What is the source for AT&T being the intentional target? Maybe it just happened to be the building in the background?
>There are bigger exhibition grounds in Germany (obviously Hannover, probably Köln and Frankfurt, possibly more), but not for this budget.

Oh ok thank you for the clarification. Your description just makes it so much more amazing that they have kept this up for 36 years now. Again, I was deeply thankful for all the amazing work the Angels and the greater Congress leadership did in making 35c3 such an unforgettable event.

I just wish it was a bit easier to get prepared to buy a ticket. It was very difficult and nerve wracking when I was up early to get in line for the ticket. The first sale caused the website to time out and so I thought there is no chance for me to compete with what I assume were automated ticket buyers.

The second sale is where I got lucky and grabbed a ticket as fast as possible. There must be some middle ground between this and having full open admission no? It is impossible to get perfect so I do not fault them for this.

>Besides that, it's an open question if Congress actually wants to grow further. Accomodating more and more attendees from more diverse backgrounds runs the risk of losing your own identity.

Yes absolutely. There is no perfect solution to this. One one hand it would be a joy to introduce the hacker spirit to as big of an audience as possible. It could only lead to a better world. On the other hand, you run into problems that Defcon is experiencing with its 30,000+ attendees.
Proof of absence is not required for lack of belief, and lack of belief in any god makes me an atheist [1]. There's nothing faith-based about it.

There are millions of other things I don't believe in too; it's the default position in many cases.

[1] That's the definition: "a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/atheist
I’m... skeptical about this firewall
Agreed.

If we were to evaluate China objectively we would have to recognize its huge achievements. Living in China for much of the last 20 years and being able to witness the changes first hand, the subject often comes up in conversation both here and overseas. Without getting bogged down in tangential statistics, I generally point out that at the beginning of the 20th century, China was roughly parallel to India in many macro-economic metrics. Now look at the difference. It is a viable superpower, a space power, the world's renewable energy technology and perhaps also deployment leader (certainly e-vehicles), the world's reforestation leader, a far more educated (eg. popularly literate and numerate) and healthy (well fed) population, a population no longer dangerously expanding, corruption is under control, world leading mobile payments, world leading logistics, and it is at the center of the world's global supply chain (and consumption!) for almost every industry.

That said, China has many problems (living here is earth-shatteringly frustrating a lot of the time), @alisonatwork's comment is on the mark, and the achievements of the 20th century do not by any means excuse the grave and terrible costs, but to suggest that its government is inept in a hand-wave is shatteringly naive.
As a developer, I found Figma to be amazing, but that may be due to the designer I worked with.

At a previous job, I would just get PNGs or PDFs of some design, and I had to try to implement it. Often ended up with inflexible, hard-coded shit, guessing sizes ("8px padding? I think so??"), guessing colors, whatever.

At another job, the designer I worked with just gave me a link to a Figma file, and I had everything I needed. I could shit out front-end stuff quickly, without any issues.

I used to think I was just a bad at front-end, and therefore preferred the back-end. Turns out I'm just not that good a designer, and with a tool like Figma, building the actual designer's vision was easy and joyful.
If you haven't seen it already, check out https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla and have helped with the rollout of this)
This is great! Good resource to link people that worry too much about Resident Set (RSS) memory usage...
Do you know this for a fact or is that just a plausible idea you came up with? It sounds plausible enough but it also sounds plausible that if symptoms were delayed even more or failed to show up at all it might be transmissible for longer, meaning that that there would still be selective pressure towards less virulent strains.
I'm sure there's better/different forums to push your political propaganda than Hacker News.
You're correct: methane would not work well as a replacement for conventional aviation fuel both for the reason you mention (weight of storage system) as well as the lower energy density per unit volume: 35 MJ/L for jet fuel vs. 9 MJ/L for compressed natural gas at 3600 PSI. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density)
What would be your advice we should do in the face of a system so complex it's impossible to understand or predict?
Look around for GEOS from Berkeley Systems. It was a graphical OS for the Commodore 64/128. I was using this thing in 1986.
> If you allow for conspiracies to exist, it becomes harder to judge truth since all facts become subjective.

What are you talking about? Conspiracy theories? This bombing is a conspiracy by definition (Edit: Unless he acted alone).

This missuse of the term conspiracy as something only a crackpot would use need to end.

BTW my favourite conspiracy theory is that lunatic conspiracy theories are a conspiracy to limit free speech.
> How does a Linux port make it easier to port emulators or console games?

It helps emulator development by giving you something to work with inside of your emulator that actually has some tooling to let you look around and test out the system from the inside, unlike trying to get a game working. If Linux-N64 can boot, you can expect that a lot of your code is working properly.
I'd rather CO2 be turned into a building material... like wood or bricks. That way it's fixated. Sorta defeats the purpose to put it back out into the atmosphere, and why I don't really see today's "carbon capture" stuff going anywhere unless we find a source of "free" energy.
>Which is why you join one of the manymany assemblies and get into the voucher rounds.

Can you elaborate on this further? I do not know what this means. I was not part of any local assemblies as I am not German, nor do I speak German, and many of the assemblies at 35c3 seemed to be treating me very coldly as they are just local clubs from all over Germany. (Understandable, I do not fault them).

>My only recommendation here is to fly into Berlin and take the hourly train down to Leipzig. It' somewhat cheaper to fly into and the train ride is a nice ride.

yes. I was looking into this, Do you have a recommendation for a good website to explore train timetables and routes? What I have to be careful about is timing because if I need to stay overnight in Berlin then it may increase the cost such that if it wastes a lot of time, then it may not be worth saving the additional plane money(as many flights have stops in some other city on the way to Leipzig anyway).

Thank you for the response!
I have used both SVN and GitHub Enterprise for work, and they are nothing alike.

For SVN, we mostly had long-lived "release" branches. Things like pre-merge code reviews were very hard. If you wanted to send some incomplete code, you sent an email with . tar.gz file attached.

With GHE, everyone makes branches all the time. It works great for code sharing or review. And there are unique advantages too, like an ability to run a distributed set of tests on arbitrary unmerged fork/branch, which rely on branches being very cheap.
I’d like to see some references that back up this claim. It doesn’t pass an initial sniff test.

Our understanding is that mastering fire was one of the earliest steps of humanity’s climb towards civilization. Even today, hardcore campers spend an hour chopping firewood that’ll sustain a fire overnight. It’s hard to believe that it’s been significantly harder to do this historically.

Slightly related: I love this book “In praise of shadows” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. He lived through Japan’s rapid modernization period and talks about how much darker everything was before electric lights, and how the darkness and dim firelight created a very different aesthetic that’s lost in the era of bright electric lights.
China's Economy Set to Overtake U.S. Earlier Due to Covid Fallout
The IR is pretty messy but if you can see through the clutter the IR is much easier to read the flow of. There's a reason why we use SSA (although prior to mem2reg running you don't quite have it, but still)
Definitely look at some of the photos. Looks like windows, and doors for half a block were destroyed.
Zoom Rooms, not the software most of us call Zoom. Appears to be a slightly different offering targetting physical conference room displays.

https://zoom.us/zoomrooms
Taxes select for income brackets, not people.

Consider your example: 1mm is an average. You need about 300k/yr to be in the top 1%. So you make it a marginal tax on income above 300k? To actually collect 10% more taxes from that group, you would need strictly more than a 10% marginal tax. In practice, your marginal rate is probably 20-30%, since you would barely collect from the first ~0.5% (too close to 300k). If you have a marginal increase of 30%, you’re going to start to see significant changes in behavior, since dollars above 300k would be taxed at ~65%. (Since we’re talking about people taking in > 1mm/yr, that probably just means more retained earnings.)

The top 1% is already likely paying the full federal marginal rate on their income (or AMT at least), so even if you tried to take every last cent above 300k/yr you probably wouldn’t be able to increase revenue by more than 10%. (But this is a hypothetical only, as such a move would obviously result in less revenue than today, since no one would bother earning the dollars that are taxed at ~35% right now.)

So yeah, maybe you could squeeze all those people for a few % more revenue, but there’s not a ton more juice than that, and I’m skeptical that it would even work at all. But “taxing the 1%” is certainly not a game changer the way it’s spun.
I've been waiting for something like this for years, but goddamn it, why does it have to be 16:9?
I thought eink was the last market that saw the sense in 4:3. It should be an instant buy, but maybe now I'll see what else comes out.
The NSA’s building in NYC is one of the windowless telecom building called Titanpoint and can withstand and an atomic blast on NYC. [1]

As you said the building in Nashville if it’s not even on your list. I guess it’s worth speculating.

https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
How do you capture CO2 from a jet? Do you store it onboard? Direct air capture seems incredibly inefficient.
I don't know what the pathway for this is but just -pinterest does it for me.
> It's only after you've tried, many times over, in futility, to build a coherent & effective belief system from first principles that you'll realize this approach is a dead end.

Because religions don't make any sense.

What's fascinating is that Islam is going through a period where for the first time it's being examined publicly using logic. And the result is not pretty - online versions of the Koran and Hadith are being scrubbed.
Hi SWE @ Brainboard here,

Indeed, managing complexity is one of the most difficult part of making a graphical tools useful, and some architectures cannot inherently be represented only by a simple 2d graphic.

On the flip side, IAC can sometime be complicated to reason about without deep-diving in the source code and having deep knowledge about Terraform and every cloud provider.

We believe that there is a middle ground, where Brainboard helps engineers design and communicate about their architecture efficiently, are able to manually edit the generated Terraform files, while avoiding the churn of constantly redrawing their documentation graphics.
Leavenworth?
Also cool work history/projects from your website
Silicon Valley elites are fleeing the region for states like Texas and Florida
Google - I can think of Ray Kurzweil and Peter Norvig.
Ezra sat next to me the second day (he was giving presentations the first day) and we had some good talks. You say you miss him, is he not OK? If so, I am very sorry to hear that.

EDIT: I just did a web search. Very sad. Long before I met him at the Merb conference, I appreciated some nginx plugin he did for uploading files with a progress meter - that was a long time ago.
A question for the LLVM experts here:

In the past when I've looked at LLVM from a distance, the biggest stumbling block I found were that it's written in C++ , which isn't the language I'm using for my frontend.

How important is the C++ API in practice? Are the bindings for other languages usable? Is it possible to have my frontend emit LLVM IR in a text format, similarly to how you can feed assembly language source code to an asssembler? Or should one really just bite the bullet and use C++ to generate the IR? I noticed that the compiler in this tutorial has a frontend in Ocaml and a backend in C++, with the communication between them being done via protobufs.
Info is available about which college majors pay off, students aren’t using it
Let's give them billions in COVID-19 relief while we get our measly $600. I'm sure they'll improve broadband access and services.
This approach sounds similar to clight, which uses a webcam to adjust backlight levels (so may be a little less fidgety than using a color calibration sensor if you just care about brightness): https://github.com/FedeDP/Clight
I liked Flex for deep learning. I set Julia aside because I was managing a deep learning team at work and we were all in for Python.
Many large dams play a major role in flood mitigation so removing them can be a significant risk. IMO, traditional fish ladders are often a poor solution as they don’t divert enough water down them, but scale things to 10+% of average flow rates, and dams can coexist with large native fish populations. Notably discharge rates that high significantly reduce the amount of hydropower generated, but don’t need to be maintained year round.

However, most small and mid sized dams should be removed as they harm wildlife and are often a safety issue for the general public.

PS: In terms of supporting evidence. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092585741...
This is truly strange. I'm thankful that nobody was killed. But what on earth is going on?
This probably would have been good advice in late summer or early fall when contact tracing was still possible.

However now there seem to be so many diffuse infection events and undetected chains that the question is more about how to regain control. I'm not sure how this is achievable without contact restrictions.
SoC is mostly used for: within one packaging, not for: on the same silicon. For example: if you open the esp32 or 8266 you will see multiple chips even with their own packaging inside.
Personally I’ve taken it to changing optimization tactics. I’m going to use pseudo-statistical language to illustrate my point so please try to be charitable. In a usual model I’d base my actions on the mean outcome for a given set of choices. For covid, I think it’s smarter to choose to minimize the maximum, worst outcome. Ie assume the absolute worst and react in the harshest way. This new strain may prove to be nothing major, but personally I’ve decided it’s wise to be even more distanced from possible disease vectors. I suspect this may be a good strategy in a universe in which an already rare occurrence has been observed, in a larger sense.
True, but that post got no attention and no comments, which means (1) it's ok to repost (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and (2) it's best not to link to it from another thread (otherwise users click, find nothing there, and get grumpy).
I'm not sure what you mean by that, there are new & improved models of 3d printers coming out all the time and decent hobbyist printers are becoming available for progressively lower prices.
Xu Bing's book : https://publicdelivery.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/... and https://xubing.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/bookofthesky1.jpg
Typo in the title (not the source). "Procrastination".
That's kind of what the private market already does, without the PTO's involvement. If people think your patent has value, they can license or or buy rights to it.
It sounds less like a dispute about the objective validity or soundness of arguments, and more like a dispute about which side you’ve chosen in a conflict.
Answer to the title question but not the second one: I decided to go into computer science after reading "The Turing Omnibus" by A.K. Dewdney. It was like my brain was let loose in a candy store. I must have been insufferable that summer, always talking about Boolean logic and perceptrons and Turing machines and NP-completeness.

Answer to the second question but not the title one: "The Friendly Orange Glow" by Brian Dear is a well-written history of the PLATO computer system and, most importantly, of the community that grew around it.
Boy, the way a lot of these Apple threads go, I'm amazed that anyone is able to get any work done on anything that isn't a MacBook.

Apple make great products. Other companies make great products too. That there are no other options is nonsense.
You quoted the worst of the four models that they evaluated ("This model was the least parsimonious model we evaluated"), and only part of that model even. They're not pushing that sole hypothesis; they were testing to see if that could explain the current evidence.

The other models they tested were better:

> First, we modelled increased infectiousness as an increase in the risk of transmission of VOC 202012/01 per contact, relative to preexisting variants. This model was best able to capture the data parsimoniously among the four hypotheses tested...
Nice—thanks!

(I put a space before your semicolon to make the first URL work.)
You misread the article. The article is saying that the emails said they were from the godaddy.com, but it doesn't say that they were actually sent from godaddy.com.
Anybody who thinks a non e-ink screen is comparable even at "low" brightness should try turning the screen brightness down to lower than 15% in a completely dark room and turning the screen away - you will see that you still essentially have a torch in your hands that you are shining constantly in your eyes when reading.

I have tried every option with smartphone screens,: low brightness, night light filters, dark themes and nothing short of paper is remotely as free of strain as e-ink hardware.
We’re asking people to stay home to help mitigate the collapse of health care systems, at which point the young will find that car crashes, heart attacks and strokes that they may have otherwise survive now become far more deadly.
The title is misspelled. It's “AT&T”, not “ATT”.

Also, that's not the title of the article, though it is factually correct.
Well said. I think my post was a little misunderstood - it wasn't my intent to draw an equivalence. I was using the mass incarceration point as an example of how wolf warrior diplomats and the media in China disingenuously try to move the conversation away from injustices happening under the CCP.

A sibling comment to yours raised Assange. That's another unfair comparison, when in 2020 alone over 100 journalists have been disappeared or detained in China. Assange has just been indicted and failed to appear in court.

My point was that in order to have a constructive conversation, it might be better to acknowledge and compare the facts, rather than jumping in with emotional language in the vein of (paraphrased) "no matter how bad it is in the west, nothing can hold a candle to China".