skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the 80's I worked for IBM and invented a counter-mode based stream cipher. I did it to speed up overall network throughput in the presence of bursty traffic. The lawyers wanted it patented, so I agreed to meet with them and in their office, while working on the wording and patent claims they wanted me to add a bunch of features.

I just wanted to patent the basic idea of using counter-mode to generate a stream cipher from a block cipher. They said that it seemed like such a small idea, couldn't we allow it to generate simultaneous multiple streams, etc. So it was patented, but the patent is a bit of a mess with some half-baked designs for multiple streams. This was absolutely the worst way to design a crypto system: design one yourself while in the patent lawyer's office.

It still covered the basic idea of using a block cipher and a counter to generate a stream cipher, but I think the good stuff was buried in just a few of the claims. That's all ancient history now since the patent would have expired decades ago.
My desktop is not a smartphone where I download random shady apps from an app store. I don't need any of the "security" wayland offers. If I don't trust some software I simply won't apt install it.
> “Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!” tweeted Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, on Feb. 29. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus"

So the surgeon general, not the CDC.

https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/30/good-guys...
Sure, totally anti-capitalist ideology.
Journalists are already too dependent on ad revenue, that's why they hardly criticise the top 1%.
One word: Londonderry.
Yes, that is their salary but that isn't their total "cost". From the navy's budget perspective people cost much more than their actual salary (benefits, admin cost etc).

Example. I work in the military. I am paid a salary. But, as a government employee I must take certain online courses (anti-bullying, sexual harassment, workplace safety). These are from another department but are budgeted as if they are from an outside organization. When I take the class, at no cost to me, the fee for that class moves from one pile of money (my unit's training budget) to another (the unit offering the course). Such expenses, even though internal to the larger organization, are budgeted by individual units. They are a cost associated with my employment but are not salary, tax, benefits or anything else employees might see on their paychecks. Such costs are real and must be anticipated whenever you hire people.
I mean, you're not wrong.

For example, I know many furry artists who open their commissions and within an hour get 20 solid offers to pay them. They can't possibly do all the work, so they just lose business.

That's, uh, not how capitalism works! Companies like Amazon know, all you have to do is charge 10x more to capture all of that value. Sure, it sucks for 18 other potential customers, but these furry artists have tens of thousands of fans who will enjoy the work regardless.
I do recall hearing similar concerns hear in the US (although I can't recall now where these statements originated from. People wearing masks improperly is certainly frustrating. (e.g. nose out, chin strap, etc.)
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This would be fantastic for households with multiple dietary constraints.
DoD study suggests it’s very hard to contract COVID-19 on an airplane

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/dod-reporters-notebook-jared-...
There are a lot of things we know would help but are hard to do. Its easy to have employees wipe surfaces at your store, but massively expensive to install some kind of new upward pulling powerful ventillation system.

its easy for a city to close a park down, but hard for a city to tell every bar and restaurant to go out of business, or to pay them to survive while closed.
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It doesn’t seem that unreasonable, mostly one guy in a lab chasing a theory. If it were any smaller scale the costs would be denominated in beer and garage space. Government salaries aren’t silicon valley salaries.
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PLLs are common to many electronics system, if you’re looking for a primer, try https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/phase-loc...

However, from the point of view of these designs, the PLL is an internal black box that allows us to generate an (almost) arbitrary clock frequency.

We choose a frequency to meet I/O or performance requirements. In this case a pixel clock of ~25 MHz: we have to meet this to generate a valid 640x480 video signal.

None of the Exploring FPGA Graphics designs uses a CPU: the logic is all in hardware, often a finite state machine. The trick is ensuring the hardware logic completes within one clock cycle. For 25MHz, each clock cycle is 40ns. If a design is too complex to meet timing, we can break it into multiple steps, similar to pipelining on a CPU[1].

You can also run different parts of a design at different clock frequencies, but this introduces the challenge of clock domain crossing[2].

For a low-end FPGA, like an Artix-7, you can expect to run a reasonably complex design at 100-200 MHz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_RISC_pipeline

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_domain_crossing
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I'm happy that now I have valid reason to scream murder when random person tries to talk to me...
"falsehoods developers believe about screens" ?
On tablets you face this problem all the time, too. Both on websites and apps.
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Same thing with checking temperature at the door (it doesn't work because people can either never get a fever or be infectious before/after one).

Attempts to reduce infection do not require 100% success in order to be effective at reducing the transmission rate. If we estimated that say 10% of patients experienced a fever, then a temperature check reduces the number of potential exposures.
I found hygrometers on these machines to be not so accurate. It hardly matters in my use case because even maxed out at 4 gallons per day, it barely keeps up during winter heating months.
They were incredibly well built. It's a shame so few are left.
I tried to load this site and so much of the viewport is covered instantly by interstitial/modal/garbage it barely displays the entire title. It’s like opening a door to find a pile of rocks blocking the entrance behind. Does that type of design actually create desirable outcomes? I have to imagine the bounce rate is through the roof.
Screen capture is a recently solved problem on wayland. Yes, existing screen capture software that doesn't implement a new backend is broken, because the X model of screen capture was fundamentally broken, and one of main goals of Wayland to fix. But Firefox and OBS can do screen capture on wayland just fine, regardless of compositor.

The gnome global menu thing is a problem with gnome's implementation of wayland. The functionality could surely work if Gnome decided to support the same standard as wlroots does for allowing custom panels like waybar. Perhaps the complaint is that wayland give the gnome despots too much power, but if you don't like gnome, then complain about gnome, not wayland.

I don't know enough about KDE or AppImage to comment on those complaints.
Take that with a grain of salt. At the US national labs (Sandia, Los Alamos, PNNL, ...), ~$70k is what a postdoc makes. A Scientist I starts at ~$120k.
I applaud your friend.
Ask HN: Why are UFO stories mainly from USA?
I really don't understand why pretty much every time we hear about a UFO, it's coming from an american.

It's not like the rest of the world is not looking at the skies.

Why?
It was not so much as wearing them improperly, but putting them on improperly ( the proces ).
https://gitlab.com/wcorrales/ecobot
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Or the Latino community, which is marginalized and literally bigger than the African American community and constantly ignored in all of these initiatives.

It's really mind blowing frankly that every single time the issue arises it's about 'one group' and never the rest.

Yes - there are special historical conditions, surely.

But Latino America is massive and almost completely unrepresented in most sports (outside baseball), pop culture, music, awards, politics etc..

It's an odd dynamic.
Yes.
Even scrolling a long page (like this HN thread) in a web browser can easily produce it. Can be very, very annoying.
Tediously complicated explanation:

Burmese is tonal, and has both the noun "Myanma" and the related but not identical adjective "Myanma". The noun has a low tone and a long "a", which reflecting British pronunciation was spelled "Myanmar". The adjectival form uses the creaky tone with a short "a", hence it's supposed to be spelled "Myanma" without the r.

In practice, though, nobody cares and everybody says "Myanmar" for both, even the official English translation of the constitution, which says "Myanmar language".

"Myanman" or "Myanmarese" are both wrong though.
Lock in is fine. But Microsoft saying “we’re no longer primarily a Windows company” is one hell of a step.
Nitpick: really more like a 15% chance over 11 months.

1 - (1 - 5/10000)^330 => 0.152

(But I think you make a great point, it sounds like a tiny chance but it really does add up.)
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Thank you for bringing some actual data. However, I think one has to question the accuracy of CO2 emissions data collected in developing nations [0]. That's not to say it's all pointless, just that I doubt they'll be keeping track of the emissions of that tire graveyard that accidentally burned down yesterday, for example. Or chemicals dumped into the environment by the local mining company.

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying in your second paragraph. Maybe you could elaborate?

[0] https://e360.yale.edu/features/paris-conundrum-how-to-know-h...
No they don't. Only Windows forbids developers from linking static binaries. That's because they change the SYSCALL ordinals every few months. Which means that in order to load a program on Windows you have to give up control of the virtual memory address space to the operating system so that it can load DLLs at arbitrary addresses.

Unix systems have never had that restriction. Because if you use the official libc and pass -static to gcc then that means the "stable api" creates a binary that depends on the kernel abi. If the kernel authors break the abi then it means you need to recompile all your software in order to upgrade.
The material it is written on is from 1400. That is very different than saying was written in 1400. It is common for hoaxers to use old materials. It could easily be from 1500, only written on a bit of 1400 pig found or cut from another work. Even a test of the ink could be inconclusive as the ink too could incorporate older material (charcoal from an older building).
Many people are contagious without realizing it. Some of my own family spread it between each other on Christmas and the spreader wasn't symptomatic until after they had infected others.
That definition of racism manages to be both too narrow and too imprecise at the same time. Completely neglects geographical, cultural and historical context.

The Wikipedia article on racism is much more precise and inclusive. The first paragraph makes for a useful definition. Most importantly it doesn't insult the reader's intelligence or their hardship when they where victims of racism that doesn't fit the ADL definition.
An engine rewrite of a Japanese roguelike I played a lot[1]. I like Emacs, so I decided to see what would happen if I tried writing it in the style of what Steve Yegge calls "living systems", where all the code is interactively callable in-game and reusable in mods. There is no scripting layer, the implementation and extension language are one and the same (Lua). I like to think of the engine as a massive programming runtime with a bunch of libraries and functions made for the sole purpose of modding the game. You could whip up a scratch buffer and start tinkering around with the game state or prototyping new mods fairly quickly.

The engine is not general purpose either, it's specific to the quirks of the original game. The number of weird ideas that I could graft onto it keeps increasing with each week. Yet, without stability and feature parity with the original, it's a long way away from having those things.

Another downside is going back and playing the original now isn't as fun, because I keep thinking I'm playing the rewrite and expecting bugs to pop up at every corner. Working on a project like this for so long affects your perception of the end result in ways you can't easily unsee.

Also gets pretty lonely working on something alone for years you're not sure anyone will care about when it's playable.

[1] https://github.com/Ruin0x11/OpenNefia
this is a solution against wallstreet
https://gitlab.com/wcorrales/ecobot
So the 462k labeled as “salaries” includes items that should be in the “equipment” section of the “cost” breakdown?

Afaik “salary” is the total cost of employing. Cash is part of the salary, but so are benefits.
It's certainly funny after the fact but how could she, or anyone else, tell it was a military coup?

It looks like some military vehicles politely entering a government complex at a rather brisk pace. Maybe an official wanted a joyride in the latest troop carrier thingy?

It's not ignorance if there's no way you can tell something is up !

Certainly Jan 6th mayhem at the US capitol looked more like "a coup", and the rioters involved probably thought it was going their way for a couple of hours, yet in the end it was nothing but a humiliation for a bunch of angry hillbillies and conspiracy theorists. The military in Myanmar certainly knew where to go and what to do.

Perhaps the aerobics video is more like a picture of competence in staging a successful coup? :-)
To add a source:

>Who does not need PPE:
CDC does NOT currently recommend the general public use facemasks. Instead, CDC recommends following everyday preventive actions, such as washing your hands, covering your cough, and staying home when you are sick.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200325060652/https://www.cdc.g...

You can see why this was interpreted to mean “masks don’t help”. There is no implication they are a good idea.
http://yetihehe.com/wcalc/ Weight calculator which applies simple control algorithm to help you lose weight. I've lost 10kg (huge success for me, never had such reduction before in my life), but it was probably too fast and I couldn't keep up. Stores data in browser, nothing is saved on server. Control algorithm - weigh yourself in the morning, enter your weight and it tells you how much food you can eat that day to steadily lose weight to target, currently pegged at 0.2kg weight loss a day. Only in polish, but I may translate and expand it if anyone thinks it would be helpful.

Field names:

Start (start date of diet)
Waga początkowa (starting weight)
Waga końcowa (detination weight)
Waga (current weight)

Przelicz (recalc)

Data utrzymywania (last day of weight reduction)
Limit jedzenia (how much can you still eat today)

After entering first 4 fields, you know how much you can still eat today. You can weigh yourself many times a day and it checks current hour. After last day of dieting, it tries to maintain target weight.
She seems to be dancing by the Royal Lotus Roundabout near the Parliament and Presidential Palace [1].

The building in the background of the video appears to be a shrine located just past the road leading to the Presidential Palace. You can see the vehicles turn left just before the shrine, so they were probably up to no good...

[1]: https://goo.gl/maps/NLYW6hDSY4wMQkBH8
National labs are a tiny (and highly sought after) sliver. In my experience of rummaging through public wage records, I have never seen a staff scientist at state run university outside of the $60k-$80k range.
genuine question:

is there demand for a book in plain English describing the circumstances surrounding the constitution of the major software ecosystems in current use?

because I am looking for a writing project and I have two decades of experience in IP law acting for my very small company in fields from advertising and trade dress and international trademark thru music royalties and as far as the limits of conceptual reduction for algorithm invention protection.

I've put the proposal this became in my profile because I am imminently relaunching my 25 years old business as a education trust foundation for publishing technology and other works with radically improved economics especially for independent students not attending recognised institutions and the simply curious public for who I am going to publish plain English works about critically misunderstood technology initially financed by income from commercial rights I'm transferring.. this means that I can back up what I'm pondering here and back it up with some considerable preparation and immediately available support for anyone who thinks this is perfect lock down occupation and not charitable occupation I am not ever going to accept gifted writing or art under any circumstances nor will I ever pay below market / union. the very purposes of my work for years soon launching is to illuminate the media industry with open intelligible and easily operable legal mechanics and provide the lowest cost tools possible while retaining absolutely every possible revenue for the creator. I had better submit this instead of fretting about being moded down and how late I am with launching my foundation properly but this whole sub thread has screamed it is the very precise target for the most urgent need for clarity which I am set about providing already in other fields in readiness now and so it just feels wrong thinking about cutting out what I've said especially since its definitely not any form of promotion and I guess ironic trying to solve misunderstanding about licensing using a publishing organisation founded on another copy left licence agreement condition. I simply had gotten to be incapable to look at the screen any time I started reading another frustrated report about the poor state of open source software documentation and I looked around at all the brilliant efforts freely available but only on the Web and wondered what I have to do to make the already written good works provide for the development of the missing works desperately needed.. and I will shortly find out how good my solution really is check my profile if curious further...
This comes from the ideals that nature and animals are for our consumption, which comes from many underlying religious values. Its where we are today. Animal and biodiversity is so important but our greed has taken over.
It's not an analogy, it's pretty much the same thing:

Basic Law of Germany, Article 73:

> The Federation shall have exclusive power to legislate with respect to [...] 7. postal and telecommunication services

Constitution of Australia, Article 51:

> The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to: [...] (v) postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services;

The Federal Republic of Germany wanted to start a TV network to compete with the public regional broadcasters created under the oversight of the allies and tenuously linked to the states. The states sued in 1961 in the Constitutional Court, saying that regulation of broadcasting and the media wasn't granted to the federal government by the constitution (or than technical standards and communications infrastructure where applicable) and they won.

In Australia a similar court case was brought in 1965 by a private person and the judges, at least some presumably born before Australia was even a country, stretching the powers too far and basically assuming that YouTube or Netflix or even video tapes would never exist ruled in what the Federal Law Review called a "failure by the majority judges to justify their decisions on a basis of logic or experience" http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/FedLawRw/1965/5.ht... Which leads me to think that if this were re-litigated in today's age by the states it may well yield a different outcome.

Also note how the wording in the Australian constitution is actually a bit more restrictive on top of all of that.
Not in banking industry but startup I'm working with is in the middle of getting SOC2 compliance.

Any pointers I should consider on engineering side?
I understand this is a dress shoe, but running shoes are pretty easy to slip on and off without your hands. Once I get the right shoelace tension on my running sneaks, I never untie then again. I believe this is fairly common.
https://first10em.com/covid-19-is-spread-by-aerosols-an-evid...
Cold air has less of an ability to hold moisture, the colder the air the less moisture it can physically hold. So 100% relative humidity at 20°F is much less moisture than 100% relative humidity at 80°F

When you heat cold winter air to a comfortable room temperature you are increasing it's ability to hold moisture without adding any moisture. This has the effect of decreasing the relative humidity. The bigger the change in temperature the more you decrease humidity by heating it.

Winters are cold enough in some places that indoor relative humidity can easily get so low it effects humans negatively - dry cracked skin, dry cracked mucous membranes, sore throat, static buildup. Add to that low humidity aids in the spreading of viruses.
The protocol is extensible. Nothing would have stopped an approach of having new clients signal they support new behaviour and aggressively deprecate old functionality to iterate the protocol.

The problem was not the protocol, but that the Wayland devs explicitly wanted to throw out a whole lot of functionality people actually depend on without having put thought into replacements.
all kinds of "secrets laws" and secret government stuff is the opposite of democracy.
any country that does this cannot say it's a free democracy without lying. (it seems there exist no free countries).

if the law is this corrupt, breaking it is justice. however you might have an unfortunate accident or be found to be a closet pedophile (or rapist, or other forms of reputation destruction) if you go against these kinds of secretive entities.
just like almost every superhero is from USA and every bad cop is from USA, every bad guy is from Middle Eastern
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The proposed solution for developers doesn't work any better; DPI is correctly calculated on desktop, but nearly always wrong on phones. So fixing sites for vertical desktop monitors will break them in most phones.
"The advice I would give atheists who are interested in this book..." is a good indication of where apologists think that the line is currently drawn. However, the line typically is not "why should folks have faith in certain beliefs?" but "why should folks obey abusive churches?" The only reason that faith and beliefs are examined at all is because folks routinely excuse abuse with professions of faith.
It’s something I’m looking into. The font seems to render thinner on some platforms, making it hard to read.