skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just specifically lists how children could play with those dolls, not all articles must have "newly discovered insights". For example, I didn't know they had such precisely made and articulated dolls in those times.
typo:

>Caps are what human eye actually percieves as text block

should be 'perceives'

...also, cool-looking article. didn't follow the details but it def seems like fonts are always more trouble than they're supposed to be.
Debian unstable is another one
The US Dept. of Justice has determined that violating a website's terms of service is a felony under CFAA 1030(a)2(c).

Breaking EULA is considered a crime the same extremely broad way. It just depends on how rich/powerful you are if the district attorney in $venue can be bought and convinced to do your bidding. They don't normally enforce these things.
Cybertruck is not real.
How to Make $10k in 30 Days or Less Even If You Are a Complete Newbie
This isn't a project developed for the public sector really. Afaik it's a privately funded, for profit, product that has been licensed by several states in Germany by now.

Apart from that the official (indeed publicly funded) Corona-Warn-App did a much better job at this. (They actually did follow all the recent best practices in software-develoment + it's (mostly) run as a free software project, taking community contributions seriously, reacting to feedback and issues, etc.)
I wonder if Max Martin or Dr. Luke have these issues? Is it a matter of the larger the stable of artists and hits you have in your portfolio then the more negotiating power you have? I'm just curious, I honestly don't know.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/
Again it is a pure random walk, only parallelized on a large number of nodes, and run for a very long time: basically since the beginning of life.

I would not describe this process as efficient. It has no memory: mutations could be randomly done and undone. A huge majority of mutations lead to non viable viruses, still keep occurring again and again. Of course it successfully adapts to changing conditions, but without that that would not even be an optimization algorithm. Given huge resources we would have no difficulty simulating such a process. At a smaller scale it has inspired genetic algorithms and a large family of stochastic algorithms, which had to be carefully refined to become useful. We do not have the same resources and the same patience as Mother Nature.
The photo of solar-cells pasted over landscape on the top of the article is actually a nice ad for nuclear power. This much area just to power an office (complex). Now how about a whole city?
I haven't read the piece, but the headline:

"Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write"

... makes me think of this Don Draper quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Y6CIyyBcI
Unfortunately you are in the extreme minority. I was watching a stream on youtube that has an optional patreon subscription and people were complaining that $0.99 per MONTH was too much because the stream was too quiet for a bit.

Paying directly for things you like on the internet doesn't seem like a big deal to us here on HN, but the overwhelming majority of people will never even consider it. Everything else is free, why should anyone have to pay for anything?
Ah, got it. I misread the data, thank you.
Non-U.S. chip manufacturers using American chipmaking equipment, intellectual property or design software require a license to sell to entities subject to US export controls.

As such, TSMC is subject to them. Huawei was TSMC's number 2 customer prior to the controls announced last year.

The article talks about devices manufactured by HiSilicon (a Huawei subsidiary).
They're manufactured in China, where quality control can be low to non-existent. My best guess is that somehow the batches got contaminated in the factory.

The current admin in Canada has spent the majority of the pandemic failing to vet companies properly, so this is very unsurprisingly to me.
Can someone recommend me a good online course in automata theory (or even a book). I tried Ullman's course on edX (or Coursera, don't remember). But I found it a bit difficult to follow -- seemed a bit dry and monotonous, to me at least.

Had the same experience with Ullman's book (first edition at least). I have enough theoretical background in CS and am not averse to reading dense material.
Procrastination – Sustainable Productivity (How to embrace and minimize delays)
Screenwriters have a good union and are paid pretty well for movies that get made. Not star money, and usually not director money, but more than just about any other roles. Their residuals can also be substantial for a successful show/movie.

They also have very prominent credits, second only to the director (notice it's the second to last in opening credits or second if it's closing credits).

Their biggest issue is all the unpaid work they get asked to do. They can do months and even years of work without any compensation with projects that aren't really moving forward.
Malicious Docker Cryptomining Images Rack Up 20M Downloads
How to Build an App Like Clubhouse: Everything You Need to Know
Previous ARM chip designs contained “US origin technology", apparently, so I guess they were't entirely designed in the UK. ARM asserts that this does not apply to the ARMv9 architecture.
Sometimes! Conditions have to be just right. Specifically, only the most recently launched few can usually be seen as they travel to their final orbits over several weeks; the thousand plus operational ones generally can't be seen (which is good as there will be tens of thousands soon). And of course also they can only be seen if they happen to pass over in a time window about an hour after sunset or before sunrise, not the rest of the night. And these days SpaceX is deliberately rotating the satellites to reflect less light toward Earth, so sometimes they are still difficult to find.
No, they don’t. Ubiquity literally covered up a giant security breach to avoid backlash while putting every single customer at risk for 3 months. Imagine - for 3 months someone had direct access to your entire network and you didn’t know.
This is a large reason behind why I switched to programming after receiving a bachelors in media arts. I’ve had bad experiences with people claiming work they didn’t do, and getting away with it because they knew people.

...and programming pays better, anyhow.
Downloading Tik Tok will quickly disabuse you of any delusion that popular music has faded as a crucial driving force in the culture.
> The problem is not "every obsolete .NET version", the problem is .net in reality have two incompatible platforms at this point, but newer C# versions are only supported on one of them.

But that’s fairly consistent right? An old platform not getting updates and a new platform getting updates?

Why would you expect the SDK of the officially deprecated platform to get updates with the latest compilers and technologies, but at the same time in every other way remain stagnant?

Microsoft has been very clear that what you have will keep working, but you won’t get any new toys.

If you want those, you have to put in the effort to upgrade your projects, and in worst case rewrite the portions you can’t.

> So for the foreseeable future, .net will have these two platforms in parallel.

Yeah. The old one not getting updated, used by those who won’t put in the effort to update their tools.

And the new one where all the nice things are happening, which really should act as a nice carrot, not a source of bitterness.

> Microsoft have forgotten how important developer enthusiasm is for the success of a platform.

99% of the old ASP.NET stack was terrible and unpleasant to work with.

The new stuff is nice (enthusiastic!) to work with exactly because they decided to not carry all that stuff forwards.

The new APIs was a nice fresh start for the current kind of apps one writes today.
Fingerprinting only tracks your visits to the sites using that particular ad vendor, and FLoC adds additional info based on your visits to other sites.

Sites that know who you are (e.g. because you log in) gain even more info, if they previously only knew about your visits to that site.
I'm ok with "code intelligence", or even more precisely "autocomplete based on code intelligence". All good. Just not "intellisense", please ;)

> I personally wouldn't go back from VSCode to an editor that merely provides autocompletion

Autocompletion can draw from multiple sources. By default, before LSP hooks have a chance to add themselseves to the list, I have following sources configured:

'(ac-source-symbols
ac-source-variables
ac-source-functions
ac-source-features
ac-source-filename
ac-source-abbrev
ac-source-dictionary
ac-source-words-in-same-mode-buffers
ac-source-semantic
ac-source-yasnippet
ac-source-files-in-current-dir)

Maybe that's why I don't think changing the name of the feature based on just the source it uses makes sense.
Performers who don't write or produce their own material are still artists and are as legitimate as any others!
I think the implication here is a switch of which tool is your "daily driver", the one you lean on for most common tasks.
I love sublime text, but I really wish you'd reconsider relying on a community LSP package. There was an issue a year or two ago where the LSP package couldn't be installed due to a dependency issue in the package, and since it's a community package, they could only fix it when they had enough spare time. I think it was a 1-2 month timeframe where there was no way for new installs to have LSP functionality since it required a third-party plugin.
Two things:

A) there is no way for your OS to know what a millimeter is on the 3rd-party monitor you hooked up. So yes, they are in theory roughly tied to real-world dimensions, but in practice, regardless of what the spec says, a browser "pixel" is just another arbitrary unit of measurement that may or may not map to a physical width. This is especially true if you're mixing monitor resolutions on a multi-monitor desktop setup.

When I swap browser windows between my HDPI monitor and my normal monitor, both the reported resolution of the window and the physical size of a "pixel" change. It doesn't remain fixed to 96 pixels per centimeter.

And when I open Chromium, I get different sizes entirely, because Firefox is using a different scaling factor on my HDPI screen than Chrome is. The spec is great, and you're correct, browser pixels don't map to individual physical pixels on a screen. But no, in the real world it's not a completely independent logical unit. In practice pixel densities and screen sizes will affect the physical size of a browser pixel in some scenarios.

B) the effects of tying your layout and column widths to resolution are negative even if your resolution is defined in real-world logical widths. Even if every single browser pixel was perfectly sized on every device so that it was genuinely 96 pixels per centimeter, it would still be a problem to define all of your column widths and font sizes in centimeters.

People are debating the exact definition of the word "resolution" and it does not matter at all to the point I'm making; this is a useless debate. If people are really offended that I used the word "resolution", then fine, swap it out for some other word like "rulers". I don't care what word you use, it doesn't matter. It is still generally advised on the web not to define your layout based on "rulers". If CSS had an "inch" unit, it would be bad practice to make a static layout that set all of its widths in inches. It would still usually be preferable to set font size and to think about column widths/margins using `em` and `rem` units.
AWS launches Space Accelerator for final-frontier startups
The paper has earned an expression of concern regarding its peer review process, I don't think many scientists rely on it at the moment:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620987756
This article is not so much about the data, as it is about rules and thresholds used to divide that data into groups.
Biden’s Two Trillion Dollar Infrastructure (American Jobs) Plan [pdf]
Gaming mods, cheat engines are spreading Trojan malware and planting backdoors
Kind of love the initial story in the article about 48-hour wait times.

I had a stint writing conferencing software for quite some time, and every once in a while we'd come across a customer requirement that had capabilities which were obvious to us developers "would be misused". As a result, we did the "Thinking, Fast and Slow" pre-mortem to help surface other ways that the system could be attacked (along with what we would do to prevent it and how it impacted the original feature).

If you create something, and open it to the public, and there's any way for someone to misuse it for financial incentive (especially if they can do so without consequence), it will be misused. In fact, depending on the incentive, you may find that the misuse becomes the only way that the service is used.
Fair enough. I suppose it depends on your language and coding style. If you want/need to align arguments with start parenthesis for example, you'll have a bad time with variable width fonts for sure.
> Isn't software choice a good thing?

Yes, but tightly coupling can reduce the ability to make a choice.
I wonder if the Quebec government tested the masks for things like this? Especially, considering:

> Back in December, the Quebec government revealed that masks it had been distributing for months to more than 15,000 daycares across the province did not meet safety standards, and daycare staff were ordered to stop using them.

> Between May and November, the ministry distributed 31.1 million MC9501 masks throughout the network to protect staff from COVID-19, but they were determined to be unfit for use.

Fool me once...
Maybe they are the first lottery winners? The first non-government employees?
My experience is the same. I've worked with tiny startups as well as giant enterprises and the brand campaign is always super cheap.
Pick the Right Market
Exactly, complain is easy, but only Red-Hat, Ubuntu and a couple of others are willing to put in the money.

Having been born during 70's I also saw all those ideals turn into business people the following decade.

It is easy to be idealistic when others put in the money.
AstraZeneca vaccine: review of rare cases of unusual blood clots continues
it's a civil offense, not a crime - you can sue for slander but you can't go to prison for it.
Maybe it's the morning blues but I accidentally read the headline as "How Alphabet (fka Google)...." and had to do a double take given her death precedes the founding of the internet.
True but I did appreciate the images of the wooden dolls.
>> If they did not write a song they should not be getting paid for songwriting.

What does "write the song" mean though? You hear lots of remix and cover versions of famous songs which are obviously derivative works, but what if that happens before the song is ever published? What if a song writer creates a song specifically for an artist? Do these stylistic influences count for writing credit? The line is not well defined.
It's specially annoying when your're not american, but I feel it way more with Google and Social Media. It feels like having anglo political frame pushed down the throat, it gets boring pretty quick.

The worst is that it is successful with newer generations, and they divert their attention to anglo issues instead of local ones.
The trick is to consider the key invalid for use in signing after it expires, but still valid for verification after that time. Signatures produced by that key can be considered valid well after the key itself has expired. For that to work, you need to have some confidence that the signature was produced at a given time, which is what third-party time stamping authorities (TSA) do. You send your signature to a TSA, which validates the signature, and that the key is valid at the current time, and the TSA counter signs.
Installing a bunch a different repositories for every new version of a software you want is a risky recipe to get a system that will break something on upgrade or that you get barred from upgrade because of some packages or can't upgrade some packages... things like these.

On the other hand, even with ubuntu 16.04 (supported until recently) you can easily get the latest version through flatpak.
With regards to the car crash probability: those are the odds that if something were to kill you that it would be a car crash, not the odds of actually dying in a car crash. In reality the odds of any specific 30 year old male in the US dying in a car crash over the course of a year is 0.02% (I don't have data for driving fatalities for china, but I presume they are not substantially higher). This is about 50 times less likely than a 30 year old who has tested positive for covid dying from covid, or equivalently getting covid at 30 raises your risk of death as much as a second lifetime worth of driving.
> he should have easily been able to garnish a minimum of a 10 cent CPM

Uh, not in my experience. I haven't tried to monetize a site like this, but I would expect a CPM around 1 cent. Still, times 50 million, it isn't nothing.
Which is fine except that I would go with Moz VPN specifically because I want to give them money.

Mozilla seems to make it really hard to pay them for goods and services.
If the photo is accurate, I can't imagine anyone seriously using those masks !

If I got a box of masks that looked like it was previously worn by a chimney-sweep, I would either return them to the seller or dispose of them. They look filthy !
I second this based on my experience. My masters thesis was in code generation for Haskell where in I spent fair bit of time learning tree pattern matching, AST manipulation, register allocation etc. One can achieve a non trivial speed up by understanding these different phases of code generation.

Another reason, in the context of compilers, is that there’s not much to be gained by micro-optimizing lexing and parsing. After all, a code is compiled just once and executed multiple times. So you know where much of the fun lies. The undergrads unfortunately usually miss out on the meatier part of the compiler course.
Lawsuit: Facebook fraudulently bought (and fired) Israeli startup ServiceFriend
I'd be proud even if it wasn't a massive hit. It's an insanely catchy song, performed by two women who deliver the lines perfectly, on top of a very creative production (I especially like the repetitive "there's some hoes in this house" line that plays throughout the entire song).

I don't think it's fair to the people involved to paint it something it's not just because the sexual language makes you uncomfortable.
UK “should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries”
I didn't say they were under any obligation. Your strawman is all wet.
What happens if Nvidia's acquisition of ARM is approved?

Wouldn't ARMv9 then become US technology, and subject to US export controls?
Here’s why we are going open source
I think it's because he is the creator of that website. And he missed all that value.
I was wondering if that will bubble over... it kinda looked like way too many videos were spreading on 4chan for it to be fake, but we'll see. Really odd with those videos and the "graphene strands" start wiggling - probably just graphene exposed to heat?

I expect things there to be faked. Anyone with credibility seen the videos care to comment?
I think its just the nature of innovation. It takes 1/4 the effort to copy as to create new and this is true in marketing as well as engineering. Call it the second mover advantage, where someone else has already paid the cost of innovation, risk reduction and marketing (convincing people that they want x) and the second mover capitalizes on the new zeitgeist that they created but with lower overhead.
I always wonder what kids could play with in other time periods. I guess that woodwork always was pretty excellent, so there could be all sorts of stuff that is lost by now.
I'm not guessing that it's easy to misunderstand things one has not experienced - that's axiomatic. And there's nothing utopian about, for example, healthcare in Germany (with which I have a decade's experience) - it's just more accessible, more affordable, and more effective at producing public health outcomes than what exists in America, my country of birth.

There is nothing dystopian about having a dental emergency handled in the middle of the night, at no cost to you.
I am grateful for all the tools available to create quick websites :)
Ask HN: Metadata emotionally frames communication, but how do you convey it?
The "solution" that has begun to rain down is AI-assisted writing, but how else is this solved?

HN user @nybblesio began a comment with:

<sarcasm heavy="true" comedy-intended="true" do-not-hate-me="true" smiley="true">

...which is effective, efficient, and itself humorous.

► Does anyone know of a writer's resource guide as a way to avoid #feelsAngry problem of quickly written information coming across as terse or irritable?

I know the most popular solution to "socialize" writing tone is supposedly emoticon choice, but in practice emoticon volume has become overused to mean do-not-hate-me="true";smiley="true"; etc.

Hashtags are common as well #dontHateMeBro but can't writing convey metadata without requiring great writing skill?

It seems there should be more than simply the sandwich technique, starting and ending with "something nice" and conveying purely analytical or anything seeming difficult in the middle.

I've trained actors for decades, and more and more they are framing
directions from the producer as something like "character tags". (After a detailed description from a director, an actor said recently "Got it. Hashtag selfInterested.")

What are effective ways to "tag" writing as intending kindness?
in 2016 I made a single serving website it's only purpose is to copy emojis to your clipboard, it is kinda popular now it gets 6K users a day but moste of the visits are from Russia so it is a bit hard to monetise www.emojilo.com
You’d be funnier if you quoted what you believe I said that’s incorrect, rather than making nebulous accusations because you didn’t understand or agree with my comment.

Go ahead, get scientific.
> It is a de facto government

I can't understand why you'd think that.

What characteristics of a government do you think it has? Assets and income? A government is something that 'governs', not something that has assets and income.
Google translate

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

> founder of ServiceFriend, is suing Facebook ... acted fraudulently .. after pledging to pay him in blocked shares worth millions of dollars and fired him
Another benefit is that VPNs raise the bar for investigation. You are not safe from the FBI or interpol, but for "petty crimes" like pirating you are safe(r).

Comcast basically has automated the process of sending you a cease and desist if they detect you are torrenting something you shouldn't. Mozilla doesn't.
Indeed, and it goes back before Elvis. Screwing popular songwriters of their royalties has been a fixture of the music business since time immoral. From what I've read, Jelly Roll Morton's publisher added his own lyrics to Morton's instrumental tunes, to get a cut of the royalties. And it goes back before the recording industry. Before the phonograph, the "music business" was sheet music, there were "stars," and sheet music composers experienced all of the shenanigans that we associate with the music business today.
> why would dentists allowed everyone to have perfectly healthy teeth?

Because it's the ethical thing to do.
Sounds like dark magic.