skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China and Climate Change: An Exchange
So VSCode, which is basically slomo Sublime Text for retards and Typescript which is usable only for prototyping are a good enough compensation for having most of their income from Linux (on Win and Azure) after all the almost criminal FUD they poured on Linux[0]? Come on, get real.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
I meant it as an observation, I'm not sure if OP was condoning it or not. Either way, that would be the reality of it, with such entities wielding so much control.
Your logic breaks down at step 2. As a counter example, what are the odds that in the other 7 weeks you would have zero cases? Of course the answer is that this isn't how the data works.

You are not sampling a random, normally distributed event over a fixed interval, you are sampling the spacing between two different events where one of them is systemically linked to how you define the population and the interval.
That they don’t dare show their content speaks mountains.
It is "GNOME-based desktop environment" making it sound like there are other changes as well.
> Also, the US Navy started instructing enlisted seamen how to navigate at sea by the stars, in case GPS stops working.

Is the threat model there that someone hacks the GPS signal, or that someone shoots down the GPS satellites? Lots of countries have ASATs these days.
Iran is a danger, but Saudi Arabia isn't?

Israel is occupying Palestine, mobility controlled by checkpoints and passes a la South Africa, and actively takes actions to ensure that non-jewish people do not gain a majority in the country.

Israel extends a "right of return" only to displaced people who are of a certain ethnicity.
About that:

> We do. Plenty of developers fund FSFE, Conservancy, EFF and so on.

This is FSFE's response:

https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.en.html

> We disapprove of this step that came without any message of remorse or willingness to change.

> Therefore, in the current situation we see ourselves unable to collaborate both with the FSF and any other organisation in which Richard Stallman has a leading position.
FreeBSD 13 Released
We are hiring top freelancers for startups
we are hiring top it's a platform dedicated to top freelacners from the world
Last I checked Tata had quite a few engineers working for them...is that accurate?
Coinbase got good PR in some circles.
You're sort of subtly changing the argument to a utilitarian one, about whether allowing the status quo is good from a systemic perspective. This is a different argument about whether or not the current circumstances are justified, or what might be better.

These sorts of discussions also always seem to skim over the surface in many ways. For example, you make statements like this -- "an entrepreneur who gets rich by reducing waste and improving productivity by harnessing technology" -- as if the reasons someone got rich are by reducing waste and improving productivity, in a way that is clearly demonstrable, when the validity of this assumption is the very thing in question. There's a circularity to these kinds of assumptions that is of the form Person A is rich by virtue of their position at X, which has been associated with an increase in efficiency; therefore Person A caused the increase in efficiency at X, and therefore deserve to be rich. The problem with this argument is that not only is the "do they deserve such wealth given the other assumptions?" complex, it's also the case that the "did they cause these desirable things" and "did they alone cause these things?" is in question.

I agree inequality isn't necessarily a problem in itself. What is a problem is inequity, or lack of correspondence between income and "true merit" in a idealized sense (including one with true competition). My sense is that this is the real argument: is it fair that someone like Bezos has the wealth he does, even as one of his workers is struggling to make ends meet? (Consider what would happen if all Amazon workers left their positions simultaneously and permanently, and could not be replaced. Is Bezos responsible for Amazon's operations?) The inequality per se is one level of argument, but the real argument is something more like "is Amazon a good or bad thing? Should Bezos as an individual deserve the credit for whatever net goodness Amazon has accrued? Is it the case that whatever credit he does deserve, do to his actions per se, or the circumstances he found himself in?"

I suspect that in a fair world, incomes would be much less disparate, even globally, and there would be much more movement up and down, and back again. There's too much idolizing of the individual, as a static unchanging thing, one way or another. I think a lot of societal ills stem from this sort of perniciousness, including "cancel culture" and many other things: the fruit you see beneath the tree is due to that tree, and will never change one way or another, and cannot be changed.
<the above comment wouldn't exist if it followed its own advice>
6 obvious deaths that we're aware of. The risk of the vaccines is in their novelty and morbidity. An abundance of caution is required in this instance. It would be very bad to discover that there's a vanishingly small chance of blood clots within the first 3 months but a significant chance when paired with other events over the following decade.
My simple GitHub project went Viral
Who is paying you to post this?
Deep dive in CORS: History, how it works, and best practices
> Many people feel that the oversight requirements were not stringent enough

This might be true! But it was replaced with a situation where there are no requirements at all. And here we are. If you have a better policy idea you need to implement the better policy and not just take your toys and go home.
Are nuclear scientists civilians? Would it be acceptable for Iran to assassinate Israeli nuclear scientists in Israel?
I think the various ship subsystems were isolated and they used analog voice telephones to request various ship operations from crew in those sub areas.
Yeah, I have the opposite feeling.

My 2020 MBP is so hot I hate using it on my lap.

I have an X1 Carbon 7th Gen that I've been using as a laptop pad for my MBP the last few months... MacOS is just so much more convenient.
I love USBC power. Is there a good reason?
In the monetary sense the the farm productivity may equate into growing more of something you can later on sell. In the case of the house, it equates to gaining an asset (or at least equity in an asset) that you can later on sell, also.

But in a more abstract sense it's not all about money - it's about getting around roadblocks, for a cost. For example, being productive can include things like getting stuff done that you've been neglecting. Maybe a person bought a house to have space to practice yoga at home or something like that. They're knocking out things they've wanted to do but couldn't before. Also maybe increasing the demand of housing in your community by buying a house makes the local construction industry more productive.
I read the "friendly competitiveness" line and rolled my eyes, because it is just so transparently disingenuous. There's nothing friendly about the things Wix is saying in this exchange, but framing it that way is an attempt to appear as though they're taking this in a friendly spirit when they clearly are not. It's just very, very juvenile behavior.
Real-time recognition of handwritten math functions and drawing their graphs
Sorry, but I didn't say that. OP ludicrously exaggerated for rhetorical purposes the destructive power posed by a single nuke and I corrected it.
Four more remotely exploitable bugs found in Microsoft Exchange Server
I'm not sure what NFTs have to do with record labels. Unless you're saying that the only reason we have record labels is because musicians can't otherwise keep track of who owns their work?

Seems like a stretch
This won't help with what follows.

"Bad guys" will use the anonymity of Signal to do the usual stuff: Phishing, collecting ransom etc. etc.

Signal will get a bad image, no matter whether it's opt-in or not.
i volunteered for a weekend activity with this organization just by using the links on the site. i am not a POC and indicated that i'd be willing to offer technical or just logistical help. i ended up being a classroom assistant for a robotics camp. overall good experience.
When Ubuntu dropped the hammer on Gnome2, I saw Unity desktop and was kinda... ewwww. And next I have installed Gnome 3. After 15 minutes with it I decided that Unity is actually not that bad, so I switched to it.

In the following years Unity kinda grew on me, so I'm sad that it was axed and now everyone use this Gnome3 abomination. It is not as bad as it was five years before, but loss of top menu and general preference for biggins buttons instead of drop-down menus is a bad idea for desktop computers.

I wish someone would fix Gnome3 by making it look back like Unity .
There's no ambiguity though, right? [0x for x in (1,2,3)] is nonsense (one typo off from something legitimate, but nonsense regardless). I can't think of another way someone might expect this to parse.
Well, that is still essentially Clevo hardware and so system76 don't really have full reign over the design process yet.
Create No Code Business Process Simulations in Agent Based Models
That's a positive point for MobileCoin.

This way it seems like they can follow a better path (regarding energy) than the mainline coins like btc, that's a very good thing.
The idea isn't that bad.

Obviously the following can't be taken at face value:

> lightweight headless Chrome Electron [...] with only a small overhead of cookie policies, cross pipe scripting, modern auth tokens, 2-factor authentication between client and server, SAML, and a tiny surface area increase for security concerns but only a few dozen MB or so.

However, there's probably much to be learned from the history of the web when it comes to security and compatibility between different implementations and successive evolutions of a protocol. http certainly has merits, given its long history. It isn't flawless either, of course.

Even features such as compression could make sense at first glance, though they would be a better fit for a dedicated tool like piping to zstd, since you control both ends of a pipe. Range requests, multiplexing, server-sent events, etc, could have some use. And it isn't like making a http server or client is so hard with a small library, given you already pull in libc or worse.

http probably wouldn't be suitable as-is, certainly not over TCP (though the fopen/fclose dance is quite close to it), but making it a fully fledged bidirectional protocol could be interesting, especially if you can somehow build on top of the system IPC on a microkernel. It could be a way to forward hardware access and such.
Out Of Control: How consumers are exploited by the advertising industry (2020) [pdf]
Ironically, if you are capable of understanding demographics, you know that China is about to have a population collapse and India will overtake it.
They probably want 1 bomb so they can join the elite group of countries that make big decisions at the UN.
Clubhouse is not a great example of a platform that handles abuse properly.

Putting the moderation burden on people is also not a solution, it's duct tape.
Yeah... shouldn't need to but... there are issues with escaping command line parameters with invoke-command and ForEach-Object that prevent parallelizing older cmd-style command line applications. The work around is to write a wrapper in a compiled language and use PowerShell to invoke the wrapper... There's a lot of really cool stuff in PowerShell.
After a decade and a third of QE, 11 bil is not really serious money. These days the unit of power on the capital markets is a trillion.
Ask HN: Is there a crypto“currency” that doesn't enrich its issuer?
Is there a crypto“currency” or stablecoin that doesn't enrich its issuers from increased adoption, or isn't built on top of another coin that enriches its issuer?

I.e., I'm looking for an actual digital currency that doesn't incentivize greed and spam to get as many people to buy for profit.
Things have changed since the 1990s. Some mild homosexual slurs might have made their way through Usenet moderation, and trans issues were not even on the radar. Today, those favouring content moderation expect what they see as anti-LGBT attitudes to be filtered out.

Also, Usenet was so niche that state actors weren’t running troll armies for propaganda purposes, but this is something any modern social network has to deal with.
Absolutely. I don't feel any guilt either. The web is straight up unusable without these extensions.
could just be speaking from experience, on their scheduled HN break
Sinal wants to protect their users. Sometimes those users ask each other to Venmo them some funds. Venmo isn't to be trusted with privacy.

This seems like a natural next step to me.
It privileges younger less attached people with more free time over more experienced people who are more likely to have families. Note that I was the latter kind of person when I did this, and trust me, a credentialing solution like the one in essentially every other professional field would have been way better for me, but there are also advantages to having a lower barrier to entry than those fields.
You don’t get medal for participation.

Same as Facebook - they get tons of shit for hate speech, even tho they invest tons into trying to get rid of it. Same rules apply to Apple - I don’t doubt that it’s problem that’s being actively tackled. But unless it’s fully solved, external criticism is well deserved.
I choose bitwarden because I like my passwords with a 3rd party rather than the big guys google/apple/etc . It works fine as both a desktop client and browser extension.
Ask GP. His words not mine. Or are you agreeing to his FUD that everyone, including you, hate Israel?
There are math input methods that are on par with handwriting, e.g. texmacs or mathcad
Imagine this being a turning point in human history. This seemingly mundane HN post links to humanities defining discovery for centuries. This begins a path that takes us to the stars and a post scarcity species.

More likey there's some deal breaking issue. The pop-sci sites wave it from the rooftops for a few weeks then we forget about it.

Edit: fixed first sentence
Holocaust day was one week ago, I thought a lot about my relatives that were murdered. The atmosphere in Israel right now is very solemn and difficult (was before but now even more). Seeing the unravelling situation with promises of 60% enrichment, I fear the trains are set in motion and hard to stop. And as 70 years ago, Britain and US knew what the Germans were doing with these trains but did nothing, there is a real possibility of repeat.
I think the main reason Iran wants the bomb is the same reason North Korea wanted the bomb and in fact all other countries wanted the bomb: National security.

Nuclear weapons are not offensive weapons, certainly not when you're small enough so that any such attack on your part would only result in you being completely annihilated in retaliation. Nuclear weapons are an insurance policy against others deciding that you're ripe for "regime change" and/or invasion.

From what we know Israel also has the bomb and for the exact same reason.
I think granting a "right of return" based on what ethnic group you happen to be a part of is bullshit and out of step with the modern world.

Definitely would improve their international stature if they stopped occupying, but they are still a state organized around an ethnic group.
Discord bans NSFW server access on iOS, sparking Apple criticism
Imagine them hiring dozens of resentful, rebellious teens to watch the dials of their budding nuclear programme. It’s like something from Futurama
Pfizers marketing department is on fire!
I don't think that's honest. Signal has the reach to get plenty of beta-testers on board, enough to maybe grow it from there. I'm not saying that it isn't tougher to do this way, but it's not like a "Signal Payments" App with a similar Logo by the same outfit trusted by many people for secure messaging already, starts at absolute zero. Plenty of outfits would kill for the Signal IP to create something like a payments app.
It may be insulting to you, it might be true that you or the people you know would never trash a property and still at the same time some people in your demographic might behave like that. Since it's zero cost to exclude the whole group, that's what the owner is going to do.

People with money are not perfect or of inherently better character, the banker that does coke on Friday is just less likely to use the floorboards as kindling compared to a junkie with more congruent background.
It's hard to even call them websites. Right click doesnt work right. New tab doesnt work. Links dont go to anchors. They are as bad as any of the "flash websites" from back in the day.
It takes only one buffer overflow within a fixed purpose control signal handler to convert any bus into a general purpose bus.
I think for someone who needd to launder large amounts of money and can't spend it otherwise, 30% or more might not be unreasonable. 70% beats 0%.
yes, let computers do the repeatable work and humans do the original thinking.

i still haven't seen a moderation system better than slashdot, which community-sourced its moderation/meta-moderation semi-randomly. though it still had issues with gaming and spam, it seems like a good base to build from. and yet we ended up with twitter, facebook, reddit, yelp, etc. that optimize for (ad) views, not quality.
I would like to thank Signal for enabling me to pay my therapist in MobileCoins. I'm sure she's gonna be thrilled! I know I am!
> There's such an enormous stream of candidates, and no baseline "bar exam" to qualify people

That could be trivially fixed tomorrow, either by universities or (better) by an accredited certification body.

I mean, I'm sure there weren't bar exams for lawyers and professionals either, at some point in history. What prevents us from creating one for sw developers? As long as it didn't require additional attainments just to sit for it (i.e. you should not need a university degree), it would make the whole process more efficient for literally thousands of companies.
It works as a bus when the chip manufacturer is nice enough to add a couple of address pins. Unfortunately not all that commonly done.
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Hi! I work for 1Password. We have this functionality available in beta with our 1Password for Linux app. It will be available on Mac and Windows in the not-too-distant future, though I can't say more specifically when that will be.

[1] https://1password.community/discussion/comment/591579/#Comme...
The linked page literally contains two tables concisely describing all the changes
From what I understand, Korea and Japan got their first writing systems from Kanji. Japanese aristocratic ladies were the first to transform kanji into Hiragana, it is very flowy and round. In Korea, a leader got some scholars together and invented Hangul which is a brilliant writing system where multiple sound effects placed in the same block on blockpaper are one syllable. I'm not aware of any evidence of earlier writing systems in either Korea or Japan. In the Jomon period of Japan a lot of pottery with intricate rope weaving and patterns was made, and ancient pottery typically indicates a need to mark things, but it seems like marking got an all-at-once makeover when kanji started spreading. Kanji took hundreds of years to become anything resembling a standardized collection, and typically you did not need standardized writing systems unless you had something really important to write down -- holy scripture such as Buddhist sutras.
I've been using Vivaldi full-time for a few months and I find it very pleasant. It took me a while to get used to the sidebar but now I appreciate having it. Ditto with how it reopens your last session's tabs by default.
Why is everyone worried about blood clots, and not that the J&J vaccine has a crap-tastic efficiency of 66.3%?

Would you want the chef at your local takeout to be vaccinated to 66.3% efficiency? or 94%?

Why was this vaccine even approved, instead of just having J&J produce the same vaccine Pfizer and Moderna are making, which would be in the best interest of the world? Is this some utterly idiotic capitalism bullshit that prevents J&J from making a 94% vaccine as well?

Why can't we just take $100B out of the $1T military budget, throw it at Pfizer and Moderna to shut up their patent lawyers, and then hand the formula to J&J to become a 3rd factory for a good 94% mRNA vaccine?

And then hand that formula to the rest of the world including Brazil, India, China, and other recent new COVID hotspots so that the virus doesn't boomerang back to the US in an evolved form?

At least that's what I would do if I was president.
RTX 3090 also does 936 GB/s which is very close to Radeon 7 but with conventional GDDR
I should ask about subq. My current regimen gives me a lot of anxiety, even though I know it's pretty safe.
Understanding TypeScript’s Popularity
I feel like I have hit a point in my life where I don't want another framework to learn, and due to this I am not giving Deno a fair shake...

Does anyone have a short anecdote why I might bother to invest in yet another JS framework?
Also Ivy League : there are a number of mechanisms that make that seem like a perfected meritocracy (genuinely in the opinion of many running it) but if you are a bad person like wot I can be if I forget to be nice... there are dark strands of corruption flowing under and letting the scions of money get into the community.
> Polish allies did nothing until France was invaded.

On the contrary [0] - "Germany had started low-intensity undeclared war on Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1938. In reaction, the United Kingdom and France on 20 September formally asked Czechoslovakia to cede its territory to Germany, which was followed by Polish territorial demands brought on 21 September and Hungarian on 22 September."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
I just don't like how FLoC was implemented. No opt-in or opt-out consent. Written completely by Google employees. Not approved by Privacy Interest Group, Web Technical Architecture Group, or WICG. No control over which cohort you are in, despite being able to add this feature.

If it was complemented with a Privacy Budget API– each privacy-losing API call costs budget and there is a limit– to eliminate other factors for fingerprinting and IDing that you can combine with FLoC to unique track people– thus giving advertisers complete browsing history– then I'd reconsider.

Another thing is webmasters can opt-out of FLoC through a header. But many webmasters don't control headers...

And on top of the practical consequences of its implementation.... not good.
In this hypothetical the bomb is constructed by Iran who has never made one before. So it prob wouldn’t match the best performance possible.
I disagree with the sentiment and conclusions drawn in this post. Moderation is not dead, here is my public response:

https://www.remarkbox.com/remarkbox-is-now-pay-what-you-can....