skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is not a monolithic item with a single best practice. A horses for courses approach is better IMHO.

If you're exposing SSH to outer world, minimizing attack surface by removing users and/or passwords is good. OTOH, if you're not exposing these services outside, or putting them behind a VPN maybe with people connecting from unsecured locations, adding a password is always a good idea in my book.

A laptop maybe stolen, a workstation maybe breached if someone is not careful and losing a key create bigger consequence.

So maybe instead of a tug of war about which method is the silver bullet, we should discuss about which one is better, under which circumstances.
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Zig has excellent support for WebAssembly (out of the box, no need to install anything else). The resulting modules are small and fast.
In the US you are not required to register your trademark in order to enforce it. However, you do get some additional protections. The cost is $225 and it is good for 10 years
bold to assume any new generation machine will come out of this, meanwhile real business that produced real wealth are closing down.
ASML makes photolithography machines, including the EUV machines TSMC will be using for 3nm chips.
How is donating directly to a project "perfect"? That's a pretty normal expectation, imo. Framing something normal as "perfect" is definitely a fallacy.

Would you really be OK with donating to a cause whose major service is their most visible one and for your money to instead go into mostly, completely different things? I'm not and therefore I won't donate to Mozilla. I donated to other projects with clear goals, limited scope and visible results - there are quite a few of those. If the firefox team decided to split from Mozilla or a team decided to build a browser upon a new browser engine (like quantum or whatever that new rust browser engine is), I'd be glad to donate directly to the project.

Mozilla leadership has proven that they are too scatterbrained and insensitive to reality to be trusted with donations. Their priorities aren't aligned with the ones stated by the org. I try my best not to give money to people like that.
Why not? They know their prices, hospitals are in business to take as much as they can, and by having insurance pay they'll gouge as much as they can, and now their true prices are coming out. To competition and freedom!
An NPR review of hte book was discussed earlier, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24300467
Except they did have. Romans and antique people in general were smarter than you give them credit for. When they were about to set up a city, they would look for local villages and check how many long lived people there were. If people were not living into their 80's and 90's, they would conclude the water (or something else) in the location is unhealthy and look for another place. They didn't have to know the exact reason, just that the place was unhealthy. There was a similar article on HN recently, I think it was about ancient hospital in Turkey. A ruler determined preferable location by hanging meat around the city and seeing where it rots the slowest.

I didn't bring up vaccines because they are used to prevent infectious diseases. Taking a vaccine or not is not only your business, because it affects people around you. They also use methods like horseshoe crab blood for testing and it convinces me.

I don't know where you live but around here food industry is chock full of additives, preservatives, and 'flavors identical to natural'. Food industry and chemistry can be used to do good, but often they're just used for greed. It's a constant arms race between consumer rights groups, testing various substances, and food industry coming up with a new one that hasn't been proven harmful _yet_. There are documentary movies like All That Sugar. Also, I know it's nasty but in some European countries we call sizes beyond XXL "American Size". American food is especially heavily processed. It used to be that only the rich were fat, now it's the opposite. The poor can't afford healthy food.

GMO is making changes in spaghetti code, except genetic labs are much more expensive than chemical labs. See above. Why would they use them to make food healthier when they can make it tastier and cheaper to make? More sales, bigger profits. Do you think they have unit tests and regression tests for genome? Look how much trouble there is with Roundup, pesticides and herbicides.

Consider plastics. There's an ungodly amount of propaganda and entire industry set up on systematic lies. Best case scenario for recycling plastics is 30% return, after careful segregation (there are over 100 varieties). Most of it ends up in landfills in Asia or Africa instead. Even if you do get some recycled plastic, it's of worse quality. The public has been manipulated into thinking recycling plastics helps a great deal. Coca Cola is one of the biggest polluters in the world, and it's actively sponsoring recycling efforts because it SHIFTS THE BLAME. Everyone bringing up plastic pollution has been ridiculed for DECADES.

Consider omnipresent sugar, and the campaign to demonize fats in food. Consider cholesterol or butter.

And you're telling me I should just jump at 5G with only a few years of studies? I don't need 5G, autonomous auto industry needs it.

I'll gladly be called a lunatic, idiot, paranoid and worse for being skeptical, patient and cautious.
Yeah, well I'd gladly play basketball for the New York Knicks if they'd just make the hoops more accessible to people my height.
Fighting being the relevant word. If they hadn’t been armed and trained, the fight would have been over before it began.
I'm fine with proportionally spaced fonts when not coding. I'm also in love with extra space at the end of sentences; HTML based displays took the easy way out, there.
Can you re-read my post and explain which part of it advocates for censorship?

You (and the downvoters) have entirely misunderstood what I said. I thought opening with 'China are a god-awful totalitarian lying genocidal state and Apple are ruthless hypocrites' would make it abundantly clear my stance on this. Apparently not.
Every state requires information control to exist, secrecy is basis of national security. Multinational companies conforming to local laws and customs is status quo. Most companies sell products and services not ideology even if ideology gets imbued via marketing. Sometimes pre-existing ideology comes preloaded in because regionalization and cultural competence cost extra. The entire trade will export western values narrative - an economic bug that westerners have conflated as a soft power feature because non-western markets have been too small to advocate for themselves. Now they're not.

Global market =/= global values and global trade is not trade between peoples but governments. CCP wants to import phones, NBA games, blockbuster films not western values and certainly not western propaganda. No one expects US soybean farmers to bundle exports with bibles, but somehow expect Google or Facebook to operate in China without complying to censorship laws that domestic companies must adhere to. And the have the audacity to suggest these western platforms are "banned" in China when they chose not to operate there legally. That's peak exceptionalism mindset. It's time to separate trade with imperialism and stop expecting companies to execute foreign policy. US companies are already foreign policy instruments subject to National Security Letters, that's enough.
Which other ones you mean?
Almost any "federal government" branch in any national or transnational entity works that way. They still get results good enough to push technology forward by encouraging parallel private investments.

I mean the whole USA tech sector was basically bootstrapped by federal money/grants/investments given in no different way of what EU is doing right now.
Why don't you instead quote a source that proves that it's a pointless giveaway? Without it, your post seems like mud slinging.
Since the doors and bodies come from separate production lines, you could use computer vision to very accurately measure them and then match up those with the best fit so you need to do the least adjustment.

Alternatively you could pre-bend the doors in a machine for each body, after welding.

But probably cheapest indeed to have a station late in the assembly line with people manually twisting the doors to fit, as is the standard practice.
Can you name examples of EU initiatives on that level that delivered the desired results?

EDIT: I am asking because I seriously want to know. I haven’t made up my mind yet what to think about the whole thing. I am not familiar with successful EU initiatives. I’m open in believing this can work if there were successful examples in the past.
Good point. Also: is the visual information transmitted by the optical nerves when you don't have eyes equal as when the eyes "see" darkness?
It's not a genuine question.

Companies shouldn't have to manufacture lawsuits every time a hostile third party wants to screw over their customers.

This law is both pro-business AND pro-transparency.
SciPy 1.6.0
> Why? The practice involved is in response to the absolute garbage of misrepresentation of a restaurant's telephone number to be intercepted by your own call centre's.

Sure, that's bad and that should be banned. But that's not the practice banned. What got banned is me paying someone to pick up my food for me.

I could still run a website that misrepresents the restaurant's telephone number and intercepts your calls. I can take your order (at a mark-up) and relay that order to the restaurant. They'd just make me pick it up.

You could ask why would I use that service. Maybe for the convenience of being able to order from any restaurant from a single website. Maybe I wouldn't. Maybe they give me rewards points. Maybe there's a discount and they just want to harvest my data.

But really. it's irrelevant why/if I'd use the service. The problem is that the law doesn't address the one thing you've pointed out as absolute garbage. It only bans the part that isn't terrible.
This was not in my radar, but strikes me as really good news for American healthcare. Are there any substantial downsides? I was not even close to being convinced by the arguments given by insurance companies in the article.
That's how we got to the current cutting edge. Research of most important technological inventions of the past century was funded by beaurocrats. Market is only good at figuring out how to make things cheaper and in volume. Both very important things. But true scientific breakthroughs that push the business over next decades happen on taxpayers bill as distributed by beaurocrats.

It sucks a bit that it's this way but if you are profit driven, you can't gamble 140 billion of your own money in hopes of developing new tech.
Horizon2020 for instance
Ask for transparency and report slimey assholes. If you want the change, be the change.
Now imagine reflecting objects at various locations in that room, and an obscuring object in the line of sight so you can't see the LED directly. You can see light from that single point source from various locations in the dark room, but cannot see the origin.

That's what the GP is asking, I think. How do we know the patterns we see aren't reflections or interferences that could be traced to a single point source?
EMC sales types told us that the EMC method of using "vault" disks--disks that cached writes for the rest of the SAN--saved the bacon of various companies that lost power in lower Manhattan that day.
I was first about to say this was bad because it arbitrarily restricts FOIA, but on actual reading of the legislation this makes sense: the delivery apps are deceptively representing themselves to their own customers as agents of the businesses in question.
To me it looks more like they're trying to get more technological independence. Right now they're at the mercy of the US and China in many areas and as the result are target to political pressure. Reducing one's dependency does not hurt.
EU has the tech. ASML is #2 company in EURO STOXX 50 index with 5.69% weight.

ASML is the world's largest photolithography systems manufacturer and the only one producing extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. These EUV scanners are expensive as hell. Last years model costs $120 million per piece and you need 10-15 of them for TSMC gigafactory.

TWINSCAN NXE:3400C (7 and 5 nm nodes, >170 wafers per hour) is probably the most expensive machine in the world.
aaand here's a typical representative of said companies "positive for the union", "ask for transparency"...
That's an extra amount of work that keeps new, small players from entering the field. As with a lot of regulation, this is designed in a way that favors large incumbents.
Informative article about what this means in respect to George Orwell's works:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/jan/01/geor...
That chapter worked really well in the context of the book, I'm curious if it held up as a separate book?
Good! Let’s hope Biden will have the courage to do even more about price transparency. If we can’t have something like Medicare for All they should at least make sure the “free market” works like an actual market. The minimum requirement for a market should be that the participants know at least how much goods cost. The current situation is just ridiculous where hospitals and insurance can do pretty much whatever they feel like and the patient has no way to know if they are being overcharged or not.
That isn't the case with these delivery services.

If ANYTHING is wrong with your order, they will refer you to the business that cooked the food unless you blow them up on the phone.
They haven't changed the name either...
for a decent introduction to sparse matrix computations, see Tim Davis lectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dGRTOwBkQs
This is exactly the kind of dumb idea I expected to see on HN
That's a programme providing research grants. Why do you think it's a failure?
Right! I especially like your Russian example.

There is no general rule. Life sucks.
China beurocrats have been quite successful with this strategy.
Can you show where Horizon2020 squandered money? Or gave any other reason to bash the EU?
If you just want to set the initial time, you could do it server-side and not break the spirit of it.
> Per 10 U.S. Code Section 127e, the Pentagon can spend up to $100 million annually on support to foreign forces for counter-terrorism operations. In these programs foreign units conduct combat operations with US operational guidance. However, unlike 127e programs the Special Night Squads and the Gideon Force in Ethiopia were directly led by conventional British officers and non-commissioned officers embedded in those units.

...

> Two insights appear to have particular salience still today. First, the use of irregular forces largely made up of foreigners with a backbone of British officers and non-commissioned officers was a force multiplier that had dramatic impacts in multiple theaters for the British.

The article seems to argue that the US should emulate the British use of troops made up of colonial subjects commanded by the titular "British masters". But unlike the British colonial empire, the American sphere of influence is mostly comprised of sovereign countries whose governments might object to foreign-controlled guerillas operating in their territory primarily to protect American interests. So I'm not sure whether that's really an "insight of particular salience still today".
Better defined goal, more money?
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They cause health problems on the level comparable to smoking or bad sleep.
I mean until recently ARM was based in an EU country.
Sure would be nice if the law mentioned something about impersonating the restaurant rather than merely adding restrictions on who can be a courier.
This looks a lot like what NSF does in the USA, on a similar budget.
It might not be 2021 but it'll definitely be in the decade, but I believe that people are seriously underestimating the impact that cheap green energy will have on the economy.

Right now green energy is only slightly cheaper than fossil fuel energy so it's effect has been minimal. But the price is forecasted to continue to drop the way it has over the last 50 years.

Energy is a massive component of the price of much of what we consume, from food to travel to chemicals to material.

Solar & wind energy have some troublesome characteristics, like their intermittency. But where some see problems, entrepreneurs see opportunity.

I'm not sure exactly how cheap power will transform the economy other than the obvious (fossil fuel producers are in big trouble). But I have no doubt it will.

Energy prices dropped massively and regularly between the industrial revolution and the oil price shock of the 70s. They've been relatively constant since then. It might not be an unreasonable prediction that the boom times between post-WW2 and the 70s might return.
Running Debian on a 32MB RAM Single Core ARM SBC
As a high school level teacher, I don’t believe 5. will happen in a meaningful way. The fundamental funding models and incentives that brought us to this place of almost universal mediocrity in Ed Tech will continue. With the waning of covid over the summer, there will be a massive push to “get things back to normal” and no progress will be made.
Women of 1857
EU’s decreasing GDP share in the world shows that EU is wasting lots of money by trying to pick winners. Just having low tax for small tech companies like in Shanghai would incentivize people to work on new great ideas, but I don’t see it happening.
Finally, much needed relief from nonsensical stuff. Thanks for building this.
Gaijin is not really written with hiragana, fyi.
That's not true. A trademark costs around $300: https://www.uspto.gov/trademark/trademark-fee-information

Enforcing it is free: you can send your own cease and desist for free. The only time you need a lawyer is if they refuse and you want to sue them. If the court rules in your favor, you can even sue them for the legal costs and costs of damages.
Perfect example of "everything is a file", imo.
Yes, there are. One of our project partners (in a different EU project) has a fab for large structures. I don't know what I can legally share beyond that, and also don't want to put wrong info here since I don't know the hardware details well enough (did software work higher up the stack and only have to care for the ISA) ;)
> allocating 1bn to fighting covid

No sure what you mean here. Seems like the EU recovery package is €1,824B. Also, in Sept and Oct they allocated €87.9B in financial support.
Listening to the EU bang on about state subsidies (they are very worried UK might subsidize some industry) always makes me laugh.

The EU farm and many other policies are basically state aid. I’m not against it, but stop with the hypocritical denouncements.
They do review every update, but they have a lot of automated tools that help a lot when reviewing minor changes. So for example, if only a few bytes have changed and the binary is only a few bytes different in size they can mostly rely on the tools. That’s probably most bug fix updates right there.
Little Alchemy 2 is a PWA and it’s been great since I installed it on my home screen.
That would be via lawyers, not private eyes.
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No, I don't have plans to open source it currently. I am not sure where open source will take this project to and the source code is a bit messy. I may write about how I built it in the future.
George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?
Anyone familiar with EU politics care to comment on how likely it is that this funding actually goes through, and a probable timeline?
> real business that produced real wealth are closing down.

Could you please share some examples? I'm genuinely curious.
Why the move to New England?
There are no downsides to the consumer. Hope the Biden administration doesn't reverse this.
Eh, food delivery is a pretty local business. In fact, if I wanted to compete with these VC-backed companies, I'd probably do something like partner with local restaurants whose food traveled well, come up with some good packaging, etc. Of course, that's not scalable and disruptive.
After about five years of researching UK wildlife/natural areas I have come to the conclusion that the UK should be considered one of the worst examples of how to manage nature.

It is amazing how much Brits insist on destroying their nature rather than working with it, truly a sad thing.

Just look at the total destruction of basically all of the chalk streams, the insane struggle to reintroduce beavers (beavers! Not even that crazy of an animal to bring back), badger culls, grouse moor monocultures for hunting, nearly complete destruction of any native woodland, the list goes on and on and on.

The UK really needs to take a step back and look at what they've done to their nature.
The US recently spent their way into a cutting edge private space launch provider industry, and that seems like a roaring success. What makes you think it doesn't work?
Ariane has / had a similar reputation to Airbus, the only problem with it is that SpaceX lapped everyone. There were some really bad European projects in IT though, like that big search engine project, Quaero, that didn't deliver any end-user product in eight years and was then cancelled.
Customer orders pizza from SmallCorp through BigCorp.

BigCorp pizza arrives late, with wrong order because BigCorp transcribed it wrong, or because BigCorp's courier failed to double check all the items.

Customer gets incorrect and incomplete order from BigCorp.

Customer calls BigCorp to complain.

BigCorp tells customer to contact SmallCorp if they have an issue.

So now SmallCorp has an issue where even though they correctly fulfilled the order sent to them by BigCorp, the customer (who they have no record of) is unsatisfied.

I've experienced this personally from both of the "red letter" food delivery apps.

Just as bad is when they screw up and add "pick up" as an option for a company who never agreed to take pick up orders. Last week I ordered meals for my family, arrived at the place, they had no record of me placing the order because they did not do business with BigCorp.
A Worker Accused of Spoiling More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Is Arrested
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Wine Vulkan Back End for DirectX 9-11 Is Coming Along Nicely
Most Venezuela Bitcoin statistics are based on information published by localbitcoins.com

I wouldn't trust anything published by Chainalysis. Their accuracy is much lower than their reputation

Venezuela is often painted as a "Bitcoin solves this" poster child. Yes, Bitcoin is sent from the USA and other countries into Venezuela, mostly by Venezuelan expatriates to family. It's useful for buying USD in Venezuela. But USD liquidity in Venezuela is very weak, so Bitcoin doesn't really solve much at all there. You can't buy groceries in Venezuela with Bitcoin

>Does anyone know if you can tell country of origin of a transaction request?

You can not

> Maybe the IP sending the request is public to the network?

If the sender is using his own Bitcoin node, the sender's IP is known only to the other nodes the transaction was broadcast to. If the sender is using a third-party service, that service records the IP addresses of its customers in the same way as any Web site does, just as my IP is known to ycombinator when I submit this comment
The London Underground doesn't have 4G/Wifi in the tunnels. As with most things with the tube, the reason is that the infrastructure is very old and installing extra equipment inside those old, narrow and twisty tunnels is quite difficult and expensive.

Here's a decent article on the topic: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/london-undeground-wi-fi
And even earlier, in chemical and advanced manufacturing space - just how many of the well-known US companies started as small shops that got their hands on government grants during WWII?