skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Protocols like TLS and encryption is there because any physical network is untrusted. If you have sensitive data, use e2e encryption. And any sensitive data is most likely already using such scheme. Also today's routers and physical network has insane bandwidth. 100 to 400 Gbps networks, billions of packets per second, millions of flows. To sniff the physical network and gather specific useful data, such as a personal contact, some files, or a message, especially from encrypted steams, is a huge endeavor. you would need a large dedicated ASIC with Gigabytes of memory, storage and large power budget. And you need a team of people to work on the software and hardware of such system. And there is no way you can hide such endeavor. Huawei has foreign people in key executive position and in multiple countries. I don't think its possible for the company to keep people quiet on things if these people feel its wrong. If Huawei's attempt to sale networking gear is a secret campaign to sniff and spy on world's data, there is no way these people would not find signs of it and stayed quiet. This whole scrutiny on Huawei has been a long time, multiple years. If foreign employees saw anything internally they would have whistle-blown by now. Honestly, if you want to know what Huawei is really up to, you could get some high ranking foreign employees to check up on executive meetings and documents. Huawei also have customers and partners working closely with each other. They also allow third party's review their source code and products. Many times partners are saying there is no evidence of security issues. Frankly, if a bad actor wants to get access to secret data, its much more useful to hack OS, servers and databases.
Most of the time, you’re supporting your fellow investors rather than the company. In many cases, after an IPO, the company doesn’t care about the price of it’s non-voting shares anymore — only the other investor that you bought them from.
THE FORGOTTEN ROCKETEERS: GERMAN SCIENTISTS IN THE SOVIET UNION, 1945–1959
https://warontherocks.com/2019/10/the-forgotten-rocketeers-g...
The human foot is a strong and complex mechanical structure containing 26 bones, 33 joints (20 of which are actively articulated), and more than a hundred muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

I suppose you are thinking "Why should I care, those Walmart sneakers fit me just fine" but if you had to pay podiatrist $400 for custom orthotics every year this article would get your attention.

TFA says the first applications are for elite athletes.

Pravda says this is potentially a way to free the poorest paid workers of the world from some of the most difficult repititious labour.

Isaac Asimov says in the future lots of things will be made this way.

What will all the people be doing in the future when all the work is done by machines? Some of them will be writing novels, and editing documentaries, about how the world used to be before robots.
AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison
Bellman's Curse on Advice
While I appreciate the point of view the author of the article presents here, I do not think warning labels are a good solution to the addictiveness (and other negative effects) of social media. I would much rather see a regulatory perspective that comes at the problem from a data gathering and processing direction. If we limit (via appropriate legislation and a regulatory body) the amount and type of data that social media sites (really all websites) are allowed to retain and use to target users with content and advertising we can directly reduce the addictiveness of the product. It would be like taking the nicotine out of cigarettes during the production process, to borrow an analogy from the article.
> our driver should follow Linux’s best practices like upstream development. That includes using the New Intermediate Representation (NIR) in Mesa, the home for open source graphics drivers. NIR is a lightweight library for shader compilers, with a GLSL frontend

I remember when building everything on LLVM bytecode was best practice. It wouldn't be the Linux ecosystem without continual reinvention of the wheel, would it?
Its just marketing...Banksy isn't just some anonymous street artist, its a well funded art studio. And they Banksy style itself was ripped a guerilla artist Blek le Rat...hence the use of Rats in Banksy works.

Society never really reacted to Blek Le Rat because he was a legit guerilla artist and as such his work remained unknown. Whereas the well funded art studio behind Banksy work mass marketed his art, it just so happens the marketing strategy was that of an anonymous street artist. Yet in reality his work was often shown and sold in galleries catering to the rich and celebrity types reinforcing its "value", now the studio even sells the work direct through auctions houses, it is anything but an organic reaction by society.
Yep, one of my friends in high school (1980s) was on my sports team. He would call his mom "collect" from the school's payphone [0] at the end of each practice (end times varied by as much as an hour) and the name was something from a Chevy Chase movie (Fletch?) and his mom would reject the call, and get in the car and head over to pick him up.

[0] Remember this was the 80s, no mobile phones. And a collect call was free from a payphone, since the callee was expected to accept and pay the charges.
Various malware lurking in discord app to target gamers
Likewise using that pejorative.
Linus Torvalds issues one more release candidate for Linux kernel 5.12
I don't see any camouflage. The meaning of word is clear to me. Wiki is not in business of advertising or personal data trading, it's volunteer run project you know, so I don't see a problem with analytics there.
The problem is these are not independent. Autopilot can lead to inattentiveness or other things that come from the sense you are now being assisted. So it boils down to a question similar to “is one driver at skill level X better or worse than two co-drivers at skill level Y+Z” where Y is less than or, unlikely, equal to X and Z is currently known to be less than X.
You should show those changes in your post or elaborate a little bit IMO. I'm being blunt but your blog post is really not engaging because you skip over the most interesting content. Even diagrams showing how you deduced the screen sizes, the changes you made to the code, any problems you encountered etc. I clicked because it was an interesting heading, I skimmed through and gave the TL;DR because it's a 2 minute read that could have been engaging but missed the mark. At the moment the read is essentially compiled an emulator and made some macro keys, you have 1 sentence in the whole post about modifying the source code.
What situation could you possibly be in where its autopilots fault but takes more than 30 seconds to cause a problem AND it was necessary for you to take control?
The privacy of current tracking methods (3rd party cookies) is bad, which is why a lot of browser vendors are starting to block 3rd party cookies by default. FLoC may be marginally better than 3rd party cookies, but still browser vendors are mostly choosing to block it by default. There isn't a good reason to let either succeed.
Was cofounder still customers CTO when their company started to use your product? Is he/she still employed on customer side?

It feels like quite a conflict of interest and a risk, if the winds on that (sole, as I understand) customer's side will change...
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Look on the bright side, when it comes crashing down, there will be a whole lot of money to be made in undoing the damage done by frameworks upon frameworks inside of containers/serverless locked up in proprietary cloud services and APIs. And there won't be a lot of competition, either, since the old timers are retiring and many of the younger engineers couldn't tell you how a Kernel Module or a POSIX Signal works if their lives depended on it.
The blog post she links to explains exactly why it's not a "reinvention of the wheel".
I have not had difficulty writing code for AWS Lambda. I just write everything locally and run the code by invoking the entry point with the proper event and context dictionaries. For debugging, I just attach a debugger and run the entry point like any normal script.

I don't know why you need to deploy to test Lambda code; you can hit remote AWS stuff from local. The AWS SDK picks up your local config's IAM role the same way as it picks up the one granted to the Lambda itself. You don't need localstack for this, just an account in your AWS organization with the right role attached.

Packaging dependencies was a little weird to figure out, but the docs [0] are very good. A simple shell script can do the packaging work; its just a few lines to make the zip file.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-package-...
“Star Waggons”
Also curious how far progress is on reversing the Apple NVMe SSDs. Last I heard, Linux couldn't properly install itself on modern Macs, only do liveboot.
> low-entropy energy/matter (to extract energy/work from)

A word i like for that is exergy. Energy you can extract.
I don’t share your confidence. We’d be exposed to multitudes of new viruses any one of which could potentially find a host in us. We’d have no specific defenses and they may have novel (to Earth life) means of infecting hosts.
Something that bothers me is this:

In California, 75% of renters support building more housing, 51% of owners support building more housing, and yet housing gets built at a glacial pace. I'd like to know why this is. Some wild-ass guesses:

1. A majority of Californians support housing being built, just not too close to where they are

2. The 75% or Renters and 51% of homeowners skew younger and are thus less likely to vote or complain at community board meetings

3. The permitting process in municipalities near me is so byzantine that it's expensive in both time and money to build new construction; the added time could be particularly problematic because that's greater risk that housing prices will plummet before construction is complete.
Hard to launch a biz without risk in some front
Thanks, I was curious and wanted to ask the question in your edit.

One follow up I might add is how might one acquire such food? Is it even commercially available or do you have to grow it at home yourself?

EDIT:

Nvm, found out via quick search that Spirulina is one type of cyanobacteria.
And a browser can be tricked into sending the cookie if you accidentally misconfigure the server. You will have no indication or warning of this happening, from either the client or server side, if you get it wrong.
I do see this more often in UTF8 native platforms.

arr1 and arr2 might use subscripts for 1 and 2 with no side effect on plan9.

Why use "delta" when writing a delta symbol is so easy?
also some details on the connection between food prices and the Arab spring https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/17/bread-f...
Why is this getting downvoted? This was my first thought when I saw the title. I would prefer having tagged walls in the city than polluting the ocean with a new class of persistent chemicals.
You don’t get to choose which cryptobean keeps the name, the market does (see 2016 fork, and 2013 fork).
I've not been following this proposal closely I did find

https://github.com/WICG/floc

>Tracking people via their cohort

>A cohort could be used as a user identifier. It may not have enough bits of information to individually identify someone, but in combination with other information (such as an IP address), it might.

Whose purpose is:

>A FLoC cohort is a short name that is shared by a large number (thousands) of people, derived by the browser from its user’s browsing history.

I wonder if it's possible to define a large enough number X that people are OK with the idea. (Cookies are effectively "1" and nothing is "3,010,000,000" ie on the internet)

Could the cohort minimum size be configurable?

Given the IP address can be known today: what's the existing accidental "FLoC proxy" or "How unique are you online?" Or "online finger print" (something I'd not thought of before: my timezone can significantly narrow down who I am)
You can try using yourself on:
https://amiunique.org/fp
Handling Monitoring as a Solo Founder
1) Most student hours aren't in override steering wheel cars

2) For this analogy to make sense, it needs to be an average driver, not a driving teacher

3) Unless you're claiming AI and human drivers are uniquely suited to solving different types of driving, if the effect you're claiming is true, you would expect the rate of human/teacher driving hours to be much worse than average because they miss out on all of the "easy" miles. So far, no evidence of this.
FIN7 gang member jailed for 10 years by Seattle judge
In my Model Y, there is no way the passenger could reach across to put his foot on the brake or gas unless they were straddling the console.
> this will end up being treated like the "no track" headers

This seems disanalogous. FLoC requires browser cooperation. The user can simply use a browser other than Chrome.
I see some graphs here: https://medium.com/runkeeper-everyone-every-run/how-long-til...

5:30/mile is like 17:00/5km, which is near the edge of the bell curve.
So is global agreement on state a criterion for datalisp's correct operation, or not?

If not, then why compare it to Avalanche at all?
There was an interesting post here on HN recently about a home-built STM.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26740968
It’s much easier to take risks when you have a safety-net in case of failure. People who aren’t born into financial privilege more often have nothing or nobody to fall back on if there’s a problem. Just knowing that can impact whether or not you really chase your dream or play it safe.
I'm seeing a lot of misinformation here.
The original source[0] is De Volkskrant, which is a _very_ reputable independent newspaper. It does not do sensation pieces.

Key points, from top to bottom:

- When a daughter company of KPN was looking for a new customer management system, Huawei's price was only 25% that of the competition. This was so low that employees initially thought it was a mistake.

- In 2009, KPN wants to reduce the cost of managing the mobile network by outsourcing ot to Huawei. It asked Capgemini to analyze the risks, which is the now-leaked report.

- The results are alarming enough that they are declared secret. Literally, "if those results were to become public, there will be a mass exodus among companies and governmental organisations to other providers. The existance of KPN as a whole would be seriously threatened".

- The core network is managed by Chinese citizans from a dedicated room in The Hague.

- Access from China is possible, but strictly limited. It requires explicit permission from the KPN NOC, who are supposed to provide temporary access.

- Unauthorized and uncontrolled access from China has been detected after 28 october 2009.

- The KPN network has a wiretapping system. A record of phone numbers being tapped is kept on a secure server. This server is managed by Huawei, who refuse to provide information about who has access to it and how it is secured. After a lot of pressure, they discover that tyis security is extremely weak and that Huawei has full control over it - meaning that Huawei has full knowledge of all numbers being wiretapped by the police and intelligence agencies.

- The six Chinese employees use a tool which allows them to listen to any phone call on the network. This is in direct violation of the law and it violates the agreement between Huawei and KPN. They can use this tool without anyone at KPN being made aware of it.

- Huawei is supposed to have access to second-long snippets for quality assurance. In practice, they had full access to all phonecalls. KPN had no way of knowing what they were doing.

- The tool used has no record keeping and the interface is in Chinese, meaning nobody is able to understand what they are doing.

So yeah, yikes.

This is way beyond admins having admin access. This is Huawei having unlimited access far beyond what they are supposed to, and evidence of this access being actively misused. It's not just the regular propaganda.

[0]: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/huawei-kon-alle...
Risk by age decreases from 16-25, bottoming out from 30 to 40, before increasing again. 30-40 is, likely, a huge part of the Tesla demographic.
Dead programming languages we should never forget
Yes. Lots of examples. The problem for the natives is that there were more coming. That may or may not be the case in the scenario the GP describes.
Reducing the battery capacity would make things better. We don't need such massive battery capacity for daily use but we buy them to support rare use cases.
Microsoft Edge Adds a 'Kids Mode' Limiting Browsing to 70 Web Sites
Do any other car companies run a comprehensive surveilance system on all of their vehicles?
This reminded me of "How Tech Loses Out at Companies, Countries and Continents" by Bert Hubert of PowerDNS.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26849669

KPN should be administering their own equipment.
TL/DR: Erlang, Haskell, Visual Basic, Objective-C, Perl
Three years ago, I was frustrated about how difficult it was to find sustainable and ethically-made products. I had around twenty tabs open on my desktop, flicking through Instagram, using Google, reading Reddit forums, all just to find something that fit my price point, style and my values.

This time last year, I decided to do something about it. I started by sending a survey to hundreds of people, posting it all over the internet, and conducting interviews with those who I’d consider an early user.

Armed with solutions, ideas and confidence that there could be indeed market fit, I decided to start building ONYOU - a platform that aggregates sustainable and ethically-made products from reputable brands. Users can browse, filter and search through thousands of sustainable and ethically-made products all in one place. All ONYOU.

Last month I released a prototype, and I’ve got around 700 users. I’ve received so much direction, support and feedback from the early users I surveyed and current users that I feel like I’ve got some sort of idea of my next steps. I guess what I lack is confidence. Any advice on next steps or feedback on the prototype would be super appreciated :)
> It seems like one of those things that are simply to hard to keep secret.

I used to believe that too. You might call it the unwieldy conspiracy principle. But I'm not as certain of it anymore. Things like the Snowden revelations might seem evidence for the principle but I kind of see it the opposite. For years, thousands even tens of thousands of people knew about that and they still kept it secret. It's entirely possible it could've gone on for years more without a particularly conscientious person happening to be let in on it.

The same goes for the Pentagon papers. And COINTELPRO was only uncovered due to people actively breaking into an office and stealing records.

Who's to say if stories like those are inevitable conclusions that befell all the major conspiracies worth writing about in our recent history or if they are just some portion of ones uncovered. Similar maleficence has persisted in the private sector too.

I'm not saying for sure they are listening in but at the same time, I'm not sure I buy unwieldiness as a surefire principle demonstrating it is not happening either.
Could you please follow the site guidelines when posting here? They include:

"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That doesn't work for a long list of reasons that I get tired of trying to explain. It boils down to "If I have to actively hide my gender to make money in business, my gender is still a barrier to success."

Some issues:

1. If men will only take me seriously if they think I'm a man, what happens if they arrange to meet me in person and find out I'm a woman?

2. How do I arrange to accept payment online for work while continuing to hide my gender? My name is not gender neutral.

3. Business is done on a basis of trust. How do I convince people to trust me when they find out I have been actively deceiving them wrt my identity and gender?

There are other complications specific to me as an individual, but women generally will face the above issues if they try to take advice to simply hide their gender as a supposed "solution" to such problems.

I've heard that kind of thing a lot -- "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog if you don't tell them" -- and it ignores a lot of critical details. You can potentially be anonymous online for purposes of engaging in discussion in a forum but if you wish to actually make money, it gets vastly more challenging to be anonymous and hide your gender.
Food prices are through the roof in Brazil. It's getting real bad, especially for the poor.
I'd like to check it out, but you can't even view their beta site without giving name and email. It's interesting, but I'm having a hard time getting much enthusiasm when they don't respect my privacy at such a basic level.
If you're paying someone else to live in a house, then you are on the losing side of the power dynamic.
Not always. The program I described was really a way to transition folks into a sustainable lifestyle. Rents in this place are more than property values, so training to let working class people afford a home and rent the downstairs bring stability to the family and he neighborhood.

Real estate is insane because we’re in an era where wealth is being shoveled into a few peoples hands, and we are literally printing money to extend a boom cycle for as long as possible without regard for the future. The house I grew up in Queens was purchased by my folks in 1976 for $15 and recently sold for $1.3M. My dad was a clerk for the city then, and my uncle, now a millionaire across the street was an able seaman.
Do you trust Udacity's nano degrees when hiring talent?
You also don't know for sure (or have not explained) the rationale for saying that:

- a society (really ? Do they also have city halls and a bi-party congress?)
- unrestrained by resource limits (that you understand, because I can tell you that when you swallow suns you possibly have a limit eventually you wouldn't want to run out of)
- lost its tendency for conflict
- front the gene pool (that's very optimistic to think they would have genes, working like ours, in a context of natural selection similar to ours: with a bit of luck, we could have had 2 intelligent, non-sexually compatible, species of hominids, and I suspect things would have been very different in term of what sport-killing means).

Me I can absolutely imagine a species of metallic robots created by a far away biologic equivalent who are so absolutely bored that reducing biological life to ashes became a way to escape, to feel something. They can switch off time perceptions, travel everywhere at whatever speed, reproduce programmatically and don't suffer from maternal instinct or mirror neuron empathy. Their vast intelligence does generates curiosity, which in turn generates boredom when there's nothing new to do or see. We became their latest weekend sport event, and they'll move on as fast as they've exterminated us, on to the next surprise of life.
> antidotal benefits to my digestion

Is this a typo of ‘anecdotal’ or are you having it as an antidote to something?
"If you take a Covid test that only gives a false positive one time in every 1,000, what’s the chance that you’ve actually got Covid?"

If you take a Covid test, and you aren't given the result, how would you even calculate a chance that you have Covid? Statistically it doesn't make any sense.