skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LINQ is pretty much a clone of SQL. Its nice, I agree, but do you think its materially different?

SQL could benefit from being language-integrated, yes. Very few languages can model relational algebra types though, if thats a thing you care about (it certainly is for me).
Yes that's called the trigger. You have a trigger, that leads you to focus on and review what caused said trigger, and reach conclusions.

The ban is the trigger. The review is about to happen, so they really can't talk about its result yet. For all you and me know, said review will say their processes are just fine which I would personally disagree with but it could happen. Then, if there was an issue, they will update their processes, which is the end goal stated.

So your quote:

> the ban is the focus – not what led to the ban

The ban is the trigger that starts it, but the focus, the thing on which they will work, is their process. "Something important happened so we will spend lots of time figuring it out how it could have happened despite our processes made to protect against it" makes it pretty clear the focus, the thing they will spend their time on, is the review of their processes.
Agreed! The broader R&D group seems to work on symbolic execution, and given the patches, which it seems to stem from.

Most charitably, the tool makes changes maintainers largely don't care about -- see the revert reviews that characterize past acceptances as being rubberstamping of irrelevant patches to irrelevant code -- so this just violates basics like informed consent by not disclosing what's happening. Maintainers had to figure out the nonsense, and instead of declining a second round of undesirable non-opt-in participation, banned. What would normally happen is the patches would be tagged w/ the R&D tool, so people know they're part of an experiment, and can ignore / ask them to stop / consent through action.

Less charitably, it is a DoS attack on reviewers, and who knows what else is in here.

Either way... not good.
> In an email, a Cellebrite representative wrote: "Cellebrite is committed to protecting the integrity of our customers’ data, and we continually audit and update our software in order to equip our customers with the best digital intelligence solutions available."

Spokespeople and their statements are vacuous. This statement doesn't say anything. It could have been left from a former employee in a group of similar statements, and instructions for which statement to issue in various situations.
Me too. I find the business model disgusting, even if it wasn’t Facebook.

But it _is_ Facebook, one of the most profoundly unethical companies of consequence, which has caused harm across the world at immense scale.

I don’t like Apple’s App Store or Nintendo’s region locking or other things like that, but I don’t have literal _moral_ qualms about buying their devices.

I really do, with Facebook. But the Oculus Quest 2 hardware is so incredibly good — so far ahead of anything else available — that I do buy it so my kids (and I) can use it (with my own FB account, which I have specifically for this perfect).

Depriving my kids of the insanely rad tech while it is contemporary and so superior to other competitors, for me presents its own moral dilemma.

So I strike this uneasy balance. But it does make me feel very uncomfortable.
Sure, sandboxing all the individual components and not just the whole would help. That's not what was being suggested though, and is a significantly more complex and labor intensive task than even just fixing all the the included libraries to be more recent and not have known exploits (even thought it would pay dividends later). I wasn't dismissing sandboxing as an effective tool, just noting that it's likely not all that effective to put it all in one sandbox as suggested (and since actually fixing all the problems is likely a lot of work, it doesn't negate the effectiveness of the strategy of Signal by providing an easy solution to the problem).
"Amazon Rekognition can recognize thousands of celebrities in a wide range of categories, such as entertainment and media, sports, business, and politics. With Amazon Rekognition, you can recognize celebrities in images and in stored videos. You can also get additional information for recognized celebrities."

Wow, that's legal ? :P Not to mention moral...
Node has worker threads, which are basically the equivalent of Web Workers from browsers, with similar message based API
USENET is filled with them.

People would reach a point where further conversation makes no sense.

So, one would make a kill file entry, and plonk basically communicated that smack the carriage return, enter key with gratifying authority to the user who had earned their place in the kill file, not to be heard from again.

The conversation is over, sort of like a block works today.

Edit: See in the definition I linked where plonk is the sound of some poor soul hitting the bottom of a kill file? I think that is debatable, depending on perspective. The peeps who mentored me onto the net at the beginning explained it as that gratifying press of the CR/LF [ENTER] key.

The sentiment is the same though.

---

plonk /excl.,vt./

[Usenet: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly (latter is lit. equivalent to Yiddish `schmuck')] The sound a newbie makes as he falls to the bottom of a kill file. While it originated in the newsgroup talk.bizarre, this term (usually written "plonk") is now (1994) widespread on Usenet as a form of public ridicule.

----

This particular plonk is proper, not just as an insult, which is the general use case, because the person who earned the "plonking" did so in spectacularly stupid fashion, in the opinion of the "plonker."

Total classic!

On some older TTY's, the two asterisks denoted bold text too, here HN uses it for italics.

Plain text would show the asterisks as the linked exchange showed to us.
I agree. They should take this as a learning opportunity and see what can be done to improve security and detect malicious code being introduced into the project. What's done is done, all that matters is how you proceed from here. Banning all future commits from UMN was the right call. I mean it seems like they're still currently running follow up studies on the topic.

However I'd also like to note that in a real world penetration test on an unwitting and non-consensual company, you also get sent to jail.

Everybody wins! The team get valuable insight on the security of the current system and unethical researchers get punished!
Firefox 89.0 Beta brings a new look
> explicit time frame

This seems incompatible with the pace of academia, as I have experienced it.
in my case i couple of app that have windows equivalent, but i also install them inside linux for better io performance.

The main one is sublime merge since, while i can access my wsl repository form windows, doing so is very slow. instead i have smerge on both windows and linux to access the respective filesystem.

I admin it is a bit confusing at times...
You may like "Politics and the English Language" (1946) by George Orwell

https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20180223/html.php
How is an image map not interactive?
I think that reverting them so that they can be reviewed is entirely appropriate - sure there are lots of people at that particular university, but it's not the linux maintainer's job to know which of them are bad actors - better that the entire university gets locked out, if only to get their attention, and then let them sort out their bad actors before being let back into the fold
> Lots of slippery slopes there, and science has spend a long time to get away from such an "the end justifies the means" attitude.

if the developers were working for a private company, there could be a similar loss in time for a similar exercise that could be approved by company leadership, no? if tim cook ordered an audit and didn't tell anyone, wouldn't there be developers at apple feeling the same way?

look, i get it, it's unfortunate and people feel like it's a black eye... but it's also a real issue that needs real attention. moreover, linux is no longer a hobby, it is critical infrastructure that powers large chunks of society.
Most commodities like corn & lumber & gold - are up over 25%.

Consumer prices don't change as fast. It will be interesting to see if commodity prices go down, or how much of the increase is passed on to consumers.

In the US - 41% of electricity generation is mostly debt-financed - Nuclear and renewables - which is cheaper because of the Fed setting the price of debt. Another 40% is natural gas, which is also getting cheaper because its production is largely financed with debt - which is also set by the Fed.

So the price of electricity & housing is largely price fixed by The Fed. I would expect inflation there to stay "stubbornly low" indefinitely.
Fees are a function of supply & demand.

High fees means there's tons of demand to use the chain.

Yes, it sucks for small users who are priced-out, but scaling solutions such as rollups should be launching within the next few weeks.
"Also, it's more than a little obnoxious to hand-wave an anecdote about personal loss away like this."

Good. It's anecdotal I do not care. Basing your decisions on anecdotal emotional evidence from some random poster on the internet is pure idiocy.
Crematorium's in Los Angeles had to get the smog pollution limit lifted so they could cremate more

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/0...

so this suggests that its not conspiracy talk as all forms of governing systems around the world experienced the exact same issues

all forms of governing systems had bad data, intentionally hidden data, and inadequate forms of transparency depending on whether the person trusted that institution or whether that person was skeptical of that institution
And in the meantime allowing patched permissions vulnerabilities to reappear in mainline? Seems to be a bit of an overreaction no? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Possibly of interest, some work I did with Ed Fredkin several years ago: http://busyboxes.org/?hash=PeciXwDuTA0
I agree, and given that they have only just started to look into it, I think it shows an appropriate amount of concern and urgency. They'll at least want to talk to the researchers and get their point of view, before committing any further. This is about the best you could expect at this point, they'll want to proceed methodically.
Myth notwithstanding, lemmings are the proverbial manifestation of "following your friend off a cliff". Disney did this brilliantly. Here is a fun podcast on it:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/sounds-natural/
How would sociologists and anthropologists know how to write kernel code ..?
Wow really? Since when/what version? I have to see it. How did they solve the serialization issue? If I remember correctly that was necessary to pass objects between threads.
We don't have to support it. We are unwilling to pay the cost of the friction facebook removes from our ability to connect to their community.
I am beginning seriously to consider moving to windows from Mac, even with the M1 chip. In the end, I must have a Linux runtime and WSL support seem to be getting better and better.
I would implore you to maintain the ban, no matter how hard the university tries to make ammends. You sent a very clear message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated, and organizations should take serious measures to prevent malicious activities taking place under their purview. I commend you for that. Thanks for your hard work and diligence.
That seems to me like an unjustified and unjust generalization.
I was traveling to India during March (Mumbai area) and immediately concerned about the lack of masks and possibility of super spreader events like kumbh - https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/indias-covid-conundrum. Unfortunately the worst case scenario has happened and it will now take time for the lockdowns to take into effect and the cases to reduce.

For those in India, please support healthcare workers. This is something I wrote about in another post - https://rahulrevo.substack.com/p/healthcare-services-in-indi...
I tried it. Window resizes and moves are very laggy, but I mean, it's pretty great other than that.

https://i.imgur.com/EBdMKz7.png

Kind of hard to justify buying anything else for a dev laptop at this point.

edit: I feel obligated to mention the code in that screenshot is not something I wrote. https://www.mathblog.dk/project-euler-141investigating-progr...
Uh, s/you can/you can't.
Even if you didn't, i think its pretty obvious from context.
Facebook Announces Live Audio Rooms, Its Clubhouse Clone
And Belgium counted every possible related death as covid related.

Overreporting 100%
So, you shouldn't have laws at all, because they're enforced unevenly against some races? Is that what you're saying? I'm outspoken against police overreach and misconduct and even I won't go that far.
Mats was my prof for software engineering when I was there back in 2008ish. He is a good guy I trust he will handle it well.
OpenCV AI Competition 2021 Highlights and Team Profiles Part 1
When I'm feeling optimistic, I muse that the relentless hostility and distrust which a large cohort of 30+ year old developers will feel toward MS for their entire careers, might just be enough to keep them honest.

As one of those developers, I hope so: but I can barely bring myself to use VSCode, and made excuses to switch everything to GitLab once they bought GitHub. The latter is somewhat of a coincidence but it was a factor for sure.
> if I were compelled via court order to give my passcode

In the US that won't work if unlocking the device requires a password or pin. In practice, you can't be compelled to provide that unless you openly admit that you know it. (Even then, the 5th amendment might afford you some protection.) YMMV, IANAL, etc.
It doesn't take much to write a single paragraph, though. I think the quality of their response will become much more clear later.
I think 24 hours would be too slim. BGP is "routing by rumor" across a lot of AS's. I think a week would be more interesting allowing for route propagation to be a little slower. Obv this requires the spec really changing which in the case of BGP is unlikely to happen other than little tweaks
Imagine keeping sanctions on South Africa for apartheid decades after they've ended it and that regime is long gone.

(Not that I'm comparing the two but since you brought in child labor I'm just going further down that lane.)
Yes, I'm aware of many, many people looking for crypto vulnerabilities. I'm not aware of many exploits in the wild.
I think you are getting downvoted because you're mixing up terms. Ryzen is a CPU architecture brand (which all the deep learning libraries can use). You're wondering if CUDA-accelerated PyTorch (if there's an NVIDIA card) or a ROCm-modified Linux kernel + PyTorch (if there's an AMD card) would work correctly.

I think that's a reasonable question to ask! I think a lot of this landed earlier though: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2020/06/17/gpu-ac...
Obviously millions of people disagree.

Volatility is to be expected during the monetization process.

Bitcoin transaction fees are lower than CC fees (2.5-3%) on any sizable transaction and lightning brings the fees close to zero.
This is probably going to break my multi-row tabs again... sigh
You could emulate what data.table does and allow a search string variable to identify the header row.

https://github.com/h2oai/datatable/blob/385a9b370db32de90135...
What is wrong with their video hosting provider? It is randomly buffering every few seconds for like 5 seconds or more. If they don't want to use YouTube, at least make sure your provider doesn't provide a significantly degraded experience.
Quick thoughts:

1. It's 2021. Why use foam for packing?

2. The video is slow to load and buffers much. Why not just host it on Vimeo and let them handle the surge?

3. David Hammer's favicon is blank.

4. You should offer (for a $Reasonable value) for the privacy screen to come preinstalled.
I like it alot. Feels straight edged and modern
Unfortunately it’s not up to your personal opinion if things are “allowed to continue”.

A fair comparison with Bitcoin alternatives reveals it is net more efficient than the things it’s replacing (petrodollar warfare, giant payment processors, etc).
It reminds me a lot of Big Sur, even on Windows. It looks okay, but the tab bar now takes up more vertical space for no apparent reason -- other than looks -- which I'm really not a fan of. It's just wasteful. But that seems to be par for the course in user interfaces these days.
If you meant to respond to me, I'm not sure what you are trying to say. What are you comparing?

It's not a matter of opinion that you have to pay property taxes. It is a matter of opinion that you should have health insurance - as you may recall there isn't even a nominal financial penalty for not doing so any more.

But based on your comments so far, you see the situation as the opposite? I don't understand what you think you are being ordered to do.
What's next, will they prove how easy it is to break into kernel developers' houses and rob them? Or prove how easy it is to physically assault kernel developers by punching them in the face at conferences? Or prove how easy it is to manipulate kernel developers to lose their life savings investing in cryptocurrency? You can count me out of those...

Sarcasm aside, pentesting/redteaming is only ethical if the target consents to it! Please don't try to prove your point the way these researchers have.
Was just saying the same thing about the issue with the video buffering. Not a good look.
According to who? I don't want my search results based on what you or anyone else thinks. I think CNN is horrible journalism, propaganda, they've been caught lying consistently, and their headlines are full of sensationalist bullshit but I can guarantee you Google won't touch their search results.

I'll make my own decision on whether it's bad. I do not want it filtered out before I even get to make that decision.

This desire to stop people from seeing stuff you dislike is really weird and reeks of authoritarianism. The option for you is to not click on anything from DM. Except you then go on and force your beliefs on everyone else by making it so they don't get the option to choose and that just means you want to control what they think and believe. I find that attitude abhorrent. The irony is that people doing these are supposedly so anti right wing and yet they do exactly what the Republicans were doing with censorship in the 90s.
never change your creditentialism
Does anyone have screenshots of the new UI changes?
There are some seriously anti-blockchain moderators in this forum. Heavy downvotes for reasonable comments; not showing off what HN could be.
I really wish this went into more detail, or linked to a technical change log. What does this even mean:

> Fewer interruptions: We’ve removed unnecessary alerts and messages.

What messages were removed? What if they were useful to me?

Also, it appears that they're sticking with their decision to remove a useful menu setting (compact mode) and hide it in about:config[0]. I guess I should count my blessings that they aren't removing it entirely. If anything, they should remove the standard size mode - I want to see less of my browser's chrome when using the web, not more.

[0]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703254
I am sadly working more hours as my home office is now my workplace and it’s harder to compartmentalize my life when I get an “ah hah!” moment for some tough problem at work.

Don’t get me wrong. I like my job a lot, but even so, life balance is important especially with a family.
Has anyone experimented with making a custom version of Deno that has its TS files built-in? I want to give my user exactly one binary that they can run to use the tool I'm writing, as if I'd compiled it in C/go.
Also see https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-o...
The prep of setting up a pandemic task force that the previous US admin did was axed by Bumf.
No me gusta.

The new tabs seem to large and waste a lot of space. It also isn't intuitive what Tab I am on because I would expect the one I am on to be in the front, instead it always feels like it is set back for some reason.

I enjoy Firefox browser, and think it is important, I try and evangelize it as much as I can, I especially loved the container features. So if anyone from Mozilla is seeing this, please consider focusing your browser use case on power users, and instead of spending time and money on UI changes that don't do anything but create churn, focus on personalization, customization, and core usage.

Also please don't ever support FLoC the day that happens is the day I leave FF for good.
What is with the recent string of rehashed studies posted here on HN? These things are dime a dozen and almost never do anything to actually help real people live longer or better lives. We have know for decades about the relationship between sleep and plaques. We don't need to know about yet another study conducted over an extremely short time period confirming this for the 100th time.
Can't you offset this a bit with good diet and/or autophagy via fasting?
Tornado has retrofitted async/await into the framework so you can use standard async modules.

The advantage I find to using frameworks like Tornado is the number of protocol edge cases they've addressed over the years.

I also appreciate the ability to deploy as a stand-alone multi-cpu application.
This article has a few good ones.

https://9to5linux.com/firefox-89-enters-beta-testing-with-st...
You sure you couldn't just mail them a Visa gift card? It works for the narcos, so it probably works for SciHub.
Jay Foreman (Map Man, Unfinished London) does sponsorship messages as silly skits, which is nice.
Yes, I just used it as an example though. I'm looking for anything other than crypto. I also don't see any problem with my barber knowing about Bitcoin though :)
I would assume their aesthetically pleasing files would not be part of their client code since the clients are fetching these files from Signal.

So whether they're fetching aesthetically pleasing files would be easy to tell, but trickier to tell if those files actually have payload.
The subjects were the kernel team. They should have had consent to be part of this study. It's like red team testing, someone somewhere has to know about it and consent to it.
I see, still pretty far from India’s 84% though. UK, Sweden, and Denmark are in the 70s, and everything else is lower.
the active tab looks a bit odd, just a floating box. Also the tabs header bar (tabs+address+bookmarks) takes more pixels than other browsers.
So that would factor into someone buying an Apple Computer all 0% right?
Maybe as faith in the system declines, people are more likely to take matters into their own hands. So some of the murders would have previously been police killings, or arrests.
Clearly in over his head though.
FB became the new Yahoo!. I can't think of a single feature they came up with in the social space lately that they didn’t copy from their competitor[1] (Snap, Clubhouse, Youtube) or via some sort of acquisition (e.g. Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus, etc)

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-times-facebook-copie...
It provides details of why it was a human experiment.
so if satya nadella hires security firms to try this on the nt kernel (do they still call it that) and they succeed, then they learn from it, tighten security and process, and then move forward...

but if a set of academic researchers try it on the linux kernel, nothing changes and then there's a bunch of internet drama with people calling for them to be fired because why?

honestly, i've believed in oss since i encountered it in the early 90s. but this is making me start to reconsider proprietary software again.