skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you begin to publish opinions prolifically, you have to consider that it could result in things like a loss of professional opportunities. You might decide to go ahead and use a pseudonym, but there's no right or expectation in the real world that your works must not be attributed to you.

You can blame the NYT but Scott's basic problem is that he published a bunch of stuff on his blog that could interfere with his practice as a psychiatrist. When you have multiple sources of significant income it's not abnormal for conflicts of interest to arise. It's not really a journalist's responsibility to protect them. The rule that they identify the WHO in their story is a good one.
Computer Science 521 Advanced Algorithm Design
Great! Now we can run all the shit code from the H1b's that need constant reboots! Yay innovation!
That’s exactly what people claim it is.
This looks really well done, congrats!

How are people managing Cloud Functions these days? Any ruby tools around this topic? I‘m excited to try this on the weekends.

edit: also huge thanks for unbundling the google-cloud ruby gems.
You do bring up an important point. Have there been successful cases of taking several levels of the code at the same time? Is there a JIT that uses both the bytecode and the AST together? Some things are easier using some data, for sure.
And another quote from the article "Gamarue.I, a worm identified by Microsoft in 2012" which has documentation at Microsoft.com[1] and at some random site [2] saying "This threat tries to use the Windows Autorun function to spread via removable drives, such as USB flash drives." and "Worm:Win32/Gamarue.I copies four essential components from one location to another. These four components are the four files used in the attack: "desktop.ini," "~$wb.usbdrv," "usb drive (1gb).lnk" and "thumbs.db.""

Self-propagating it is, self-propagating over a network it doesn't seem to be. Is it more likely "A School in Bradford plugged an infected USB stick into laptops while setting them up, and disabling built-in antivirus in favour of some third-party less effective antivirus"?

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...

[2] https://www.enigmasoftware.com/wormwin32gamaruei-removal/
Oh I’m not doubting that this has a lot of industrial applications, I’m doubting the desktop and cheap part that essentially means it’s suitable for a consumer application.
AWS, as predicted, is forking Elasticsearch
Didn't Microsoft replace all Google APIs with its own alternatives? This change probably will have bigger impact for other browsers built on Chromium, like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc.
PR damage control > actual damage control and being honest.
I have 3 Pi running, including the original Pi 1. Unfortunately, the Pi 1 is just sucking up electricity. It used to be my main OSMC (Kodi), but that is my Pi 3's job now, and my older Pi (2014) is running PiHole.
Still unused. The smallest bit I've used is a 0.8 mm one. Anything smaller, it's impossible to even see where you are going without a microscope.
I fail to see anything contradictory here. As an example, there's nothing contradictory about "a small outbreak of a highly contagious virus". Large outbreaks necessitate an initial small outbreak.
someone needs to update https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
About a decade ago i had a work laptop getting bogged down by our large data application. I was grumbling to IT. The head of IT heard g mentioned that there were two servers which are nomachine remote-x servers (like in the article) available for developers to work on.

suddenly I had 256 GB of system memory & way more cores practically all to myself. I had about two happy years of working purely inside for remote desktop environment.

It was great. Quite good battery life working from coffee shops, with whatever laptop I felt like bringing.
Pretty sure Chromium based edge does not sync to google

> The reasoning given for this change? Google does not want users to be able to "access their personal Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) ... with a non-Google, Chromium-based browser.

I actually use this for having one google profile running in two browsers on one computer (one with a proxy, one without).

Sucks quite a bit as this is the primary sync system for Chromium. You can run your own but that is not quite that nice.
Why Kids Might Be Key to Reaching Herd Immunity
Well maybe we need to go over their heads then. That's supposed to be the purpose of the legislative branch - make rules about how the government is allowed to operate.
Why did they need the public's help? They could have checked cell phone records, stitched together traffic camera video, and likely tracked down the suspects within weeks.

They will mysteriously remember that they can do that in the next spate of unrest, now that it serves no useful purpose.
The alternative pick which is marking both women as programmers would have made the score exactly the same.
You will end up with "Computer says no" situations if there are no knowledgable humans that review the decisions from the models.

It's really no different in banks but they are regulated and must provide proper reasoning to denied customers for the models they use in my country. It's not enough to say "your score is too low".

It's very easy to create artificial stupidity!
Freifunk works:
https://freifunk.net/en/https://freifunk.net/en/
They still do that. See https://www.lyngsat.com/america.html

If you guys think "fuck it, we'll do it live" was bad, you should have seen Barbara Walters. I wish I recorded some of it. All these people in media have egos like you wouldn't believe.
Yes, if it's the same cost.

Take my car insurance, for instance. I can pay it all in one chunk, up front, for $X, or I can pay two payments of $Y. But (IIRC) X < 2Y. It's not the same cost. (This is one of the ways that it's more expensive to be poor - if you don't have the money to pay for car insurance up front, it costs more.)
> will eventually become common knowledge and the censors will be implicated in the coverup thereby harming their trust.

But by that time almost no-one would care.
And this is probably what they're counting on.
This is a neat alternative, how to use vim without plugins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2WjJbmmoM
Let me just add 9front even though you already said Plan 9.
Show HN: Get webhooks in Slack every time you sell a product on Gumroad
My time in finance has led me to believe that traders and investors are far more prone to groupthink than they’re willing to admit to. “Hedge fund manager predicted inflation after QE and was wrong” is very low on my list of things that surprise me.
There's a "Contact the Web Master" link. Also from 1997.
Pretty sure Opera, Vivaldi and Brave does not sync to google servers. The syncing to their servers will still work fine AFAIU.
This is terrifying. I swear the tech community would have been universally against this just a few years ago. What happened?
I think it would be nice exercise to go through a couple hundred failed units and repair them just to learn what exactly happened. If I was somebody who created a product like that I would probably want to do this.
If you've never seen it, it's worth your time to watch
"Don't Talk to The Police",
a lecture by a law professor, in case the FBI, etc. come knocking on your door.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Every action of this kind should be accompanied with clear and very specific (including time and date) specification of the reason.

GDPR gives you the right to have any algorithmic decision explained, people just need to start using it and complaining to the commissioners.
Hi, since someone else mentioned your product's website I looked over it and I'm curious.

As far as I understand students need to install your app and the app requires users to log out and when they log in, it's launched automatically in full screen mode and users cannot escape until they submit their answers.

What if I install your app in a sandboxed environment (like a windows box in a vmware virtual machine)? While the app is in fullscreen mode inside it, I think there would be nothing preventing me from using host machine's functions (like accessing internet via browsers or opening documents). Have you considered these kind of risks?
The TTP Methodology: Through to Production v1
Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight Covid-19
I disagree with all 4 of your assumptions.

Usually you're working on different types of problems. The technical dangers are different, the type of business logic you're implementing is different, and the types of new things you'd create are different. There's also a huge ecosystem of tools and techniques that you probably haven't even heard about.

If you're just going to make a CRUD app in C or something, odds are you're going to experience the drawbacks you mentioned without much extra benefit. But if you work on actual low-level problems, it can be a completely different world where programming isn't even half the story.
This is actually a good thing. People shouldn't be syncing ANYTHING with google :)
> ... so this might be the next step.

Absolutely.

When I first heard about KVM on Android, I thought Android was going to run every app in its own micro-VM managed by crosvm... But that'd be too resource intensive for mobile devices, I think?

What they are instead doing with this project led by Will Deacon is more towards isolating non-Android workloads that OEMs run (like Radios): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905643, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109856, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14859602?
Back in the 80s or 90s, one of the Labor Industrial politicians concluded that it would be cheaper to give every GM and Ford worker a million dollars payoff than to continue to heavily subsidise both Ford and GM car manufacturing in Australia. And then to remove all tariffs on imported cars from overseas, giving better, cheaper cars for Australians.

This has finally been done. As for those Australian workers who lost jobs to overseas manufacturing, it's pretty much the same as all those workers in other developed countries whose jobs have been outsourced.
Does MMT work if you're not the reserve currency? (Honest question; I don't know enough about the theory to say.)

But it is really an economic question. What will be the results if you run your economy this way? What will be the results if you do so as the reserve currency, and what will be the results if you do so when you're not?
Does it mean the end of browsers like Brave?
> In this new effort, the researchers looked to the quantum world to create a truly random number generator.

If only there was a use case. I mean, it's cool research, and they should certainly be doing this, but there is zero effect on computer security.

You don't need "truly random" numbers for, well, anything. That's a philosophical property, not a practical one.
“ This is conspiratorial thinking. The whole "wake up, sheeple" mode of political argument is based in the paranoid belief that clandestine groups and powerful actors have a certain degree of control and agency over the world, and that there are those in possession of awareness or knowledge who can "reveal" the truth to the masses.”

Except nothing in the quote says anything about clandestine actors.

You are adding that.

Also nothing about warning people has anything to do with paranoia or ‘wake up sheeple’.

Again you are adding something out of whole cloth that simply isn’t present in what he is saying.

There is nothing ‘paranoid’ about saying that a liberal democracy can become authoritarian if it adopts certain priorities and practices, or warning of this when those practices are being adopted.

Commenting on an observable trend is not the same as claiming that there is a conspiracy behind it.

On the other hand, dismissing ideas as ‘conspiracy theories’ can be a way of simply discrediting one’s political opponents, so we need to be careful not to do it casually.
It's coming out out on BluRay (though the guess is that it won't be HD, just either SD or upscaled, thouh on BR an SD release can probably be 1 disc per season, I've always wondered why we don't get old DVDs released as such, perhaps they view it not profitable relative to simple streaming).

on a different note. a lot of the digital files have survived, a bunch of different people have provided 1080p rerenderings of many important scenes from B5, can find them scattered over youtube.
Here is the discussion on the Chromium embedder-dev mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/embedder-dev/c/NX...

Most interesting to me is that even though the Chrome team specifically provided API keys for open-source Chromium builds to use back in 2013, they are now claiming that "the Terms of Service don't allow this usage, and [the previous developer] didn't have authority to change the terms."
Well, Waymo has demonstrated full autonomous using lidar?
Full product catalog from the manufacturer if anyone's interested:

https://www.uniontool.co.jp/assets/pdf/catalog/drill_router2...
If you change the subject or redirect when someone asks you a difficult question you're not lying. That sort of thing could be called social engineering.
I love the idea. Open to try it one day.
A synthetic basket of the top currencies. Such a product exists (SDR aka Special Drawing Rights), but it’s niche. When you consider securities indices (SPY, for example), it’s not that outlandish.

https://www.imf.org/en/About/Factsheets/Sheets/2016/08/01/14...
This is the major dilemma of my career right now... move close or farther away from embedded..

1. Tools are shit sometimes

2. fixing bugs no-one else understands (and so you don't receive proper praise - because manager might not even understand what you did)

3. Literally spending weeks on insane hardware issues, that requires sifting through 1000 page documentation.

4. harder work - less pay (depending on company)

The major positive is it's extremely satisfying when you do fix the things..
What you’re saying is that they are not indeed GDPR-friendly? That would make their claim a false one.
Acceptable, sure. As burdens go it isn't crazy.

Useful/good idea is one for the debate floor. I imagine in this case, for example, Facebook would send Mr. Birch an email telling him that he distributed nude photos via Messenger and they have a 0 tolerance policy towards that. That doesn't really move the situation forward from what is already being publicly written about in an article. It increases the cost of competing with Facebook too, which is probably an own goal given the outcomes the regulation is trying to achieve.

There are a lot of things in life that do not need a legislative response. Being banned from Facebook is one of them.
Pidgin will be in Gtk4 one day.. But right now we're still trying to replace deprecated API that we're using with Gtk3...
I think you mean mlock
“The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.”

-- B F Skinner
Ask HN: I'm crushed, share with me your failure story
What's your biggest project failure and why did it fail? What did you learn from that?
> different licensing would make it more complicated for companies

True, although just removing a couple of words from the MIT license would still be a very attractive and easy to use license. Examples of words you might remove: "sell" and "sublicense".
You have to do quite a bit of statistical gymnastics to come to the conclusion that wages are stagnant. Wages are almost always increasing. The stagnation observations come up when you account for inflation (a statistic called real wages). Until recently, real wages had peaked in 1973, so if you only had two points of data, February 1973 and March 2019, they would make a perfectly flat line on a graph. That’s where you get your “stagnation”. In reality, they steadily trended downwards between the early 70s and mid 90s, and have since then been steadily trending upwards between the mid 90s and today. I’m sure COVID is going to confound this to a non-trivial extent, but in 2019 they were at the highest level recorded.
Seems like you're mixing a lot of classical mechanics concepts into your 'understanding' of QM. Even in a single water molecule the electrons loose their "identities" and even if you could look close enough at infinitesimally small time intervals at the molecule you'd never be able to say "There's one electron here, and there's the other over there". And I'm not saying it's just too hard to have a microscope that good, I'm saying not even "Mother Nature Herself Knows them apart"

Imagine if you setup a standing wave on a water surface, and there are exactly two peaks in the wave system. You cannot label one "Wave A" and the other "Wave B" and then turn off the energy source and then turn it back on and create the pattern again and say "Ok now which is A and which is B". The question itself is nonsensical. The same thing is going on in physics probability waves. Particles don't have identities just because "when you look for one you find one".

People think QM is describing "where particles go". It isn't. It describes where they can be found, and there's a huge leap of knowledge in understanding to comprehend the difference.
"Low-level" is, like all areas of computer sciences, pretty huge and diverse so your experience will depend on what machine you are programming for.

FPGAs are fun, because you can design logic circuits and hardware, but with some exception you will have to deal with huge proprietary toolchains and closed source 'compilers'. It offers a pretty unique way to solve problems, which is fun to do. Like playing with a tiny but powerful electrical circuit toolbox.

With micro controllers you might have to deal with proprietary compilers, libraries and IDEs but to a lesser amount than with FPGAs. Still fun to get something to blink, move or a display to work.

If you work on micro processors, then you could work on bootloaders, where you more or less concern yourself just to get something working enough to boot another system, or with OS kernels, where you work in a bigger system infrastructure in order to allow as much of the hardware as possible to be available for the user-land by writing drivers. Its challenging
because you work on a small gear in the middle of a huge clockwork, that is mostly not written by yourself, and you will struggle to understand.

There are also many special processors you could implement stuff for like DSPs. There you will feel the language limitations but they are very interesting and odd beasts to work with.

Low-Level is mostly about reading hardware and often software documentation (and finding errors in those or the hardware itself) to figure out how to do certain things, and then if something doesn't work, printing out registers to figure out which bit is wrong. Or having to use oscilloscopes or logic analyzers to debug. This certainly isn't everyones cup of tea, but still very rewarding when you actually start to understand how the pieces fit together and things work.
This is a false accusation made in incredibly bad faith. I don't know whether you're suffering paranoid ideation or what's going on, but someone sharing links to a tech they're discussing (which I edited out after your previous accusation that you deleted, in a failed attempt to keep the peace) is hardly evidence that I'm a founder of said company engaged in underhanded promotion. The mods can check my IP address and see I'm in a different country to the founders if they really wish (not that that would put your mind to rest, you'll probably just think I'm using a VPN).

It's a rather elaborate scheme that you're accusing me of: make a HN account, spend hours writing 20 posts, all to plug my startup in some comment that nobody will read. Think through the plausibility of that one.
I think people are also terrified by the political violence from both sides over the past year. That was obviously the impetus for this. Just as other extremist violence like 9-11 was the impetus for the patriot act.
There's nothing inherently wrong with darktable and RawTherapee and such having tons of choice in image processing, but I made Filmulator "opinionated" because among open-source photo editors it's an unfilled niche.

As far as filmic versus Filmulator, both of them can compress highlights while retaining colors, but Filmulator does it by simulating the depletion of developer while filmic has a whole bunch of math to maintain hue and saturation while rolling off the highlights pleasingly. Filmulator also enhances local contrast, which as far as I know filmic does not.
Glad Google is catching up with Ruby. But if you really want to learn how I am doing this with AWS and how easy it is to handle Rails on Lambda, check out the Lamby work here. https://lamby.custominktech.com
If you think they're all equally bad that's fine by me.

Yes. Seems we agree. All censorship is bad. You can't ever have free speech if you also have censorship.
Thank you. I've assumed that doing quality work and clearing management requests was enough to advance to L4. I guess I'll have to establish a common understanding of this point.

BTW. Why are you leaving?
I prefer my mate Vince.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChY9Cgv-iyPDvf1Bkyx20OQ

There's probably other better channels. Anyone?
This makes sense from a support point of view.

Supporting non-standard configurations costs money (both in direct and indirect ways, such as developer attention and time lost triaging bugs, etc.), they don't want to spend the money on it.
Interesting that the video uses space alien technology as a name for magic. Just look at that magic, cosmic powder, as it's sprinkled on the teddybear. Is it a coincidence that in Land of Lisp, space aliens help humans, and in SICM, the programmer is a wizard?
That verbosity is exactly why I love it.

It's easy to write and easy to read (especially years later). It's just such a joy to work with.
I would think a warrant would still be required, so not as minority report as all that.
But printing dollars like they're toilet paper might lead to the US no longer being the reserve currency. That isn't a divine right. It isn't a once-and-forever thing. We can lose it.
The only time people care is when they care. And you can't predict when that will happen. It's like a flock of birds flying in the air, you can't figure out which individual bird caused the first change in direction, but it quickly spreads across the entire flock.

The other fallacy is that inflation is here, it's just not being measured by the Federal Reserve properly. There is crazy inflation in things like house prices and assets like stocks. Look at the vast income inequality that has occurred in the last 15 years. Whoever is invested in stocks and housing market has made money. Everyone else is basically forgotten or left by the wayside.
That's pretty surprising to hear, considering that SQLite is one of the most widely used pieces of software in existence and has a solid reputation. And the insane amount of testing they do - https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html.
Might be illegal in Europe but it still happens [1].

[1] https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i...
If given a mac binary (and only that, only see it as a mac app and unsure here if there is a wrapper around it to make it so), is there a typical way to run it like pure java binary so I can add any xarg params for running it? I'll probably need to due a quick check on how a wrapper might have been created as it looks like a mac app so I can separate out the pure java binary.

Memory: As far as I see, there is a built-in profiler within the app showing the memory usage. It has a high limit to 1gb and I see it rise quickly to about third of the way and repeated (quickly, about every 2 seconds) garbage collect down to 200mb. So it appears memory consumed very fast and than it garbage collects. Then repeats.