skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product companies move slowly despite what they believe and all their agile ceremony. Consulting firms move quickly. The reason for the distance is cost center. At a product company a developer is always a fixed expense and never a driver of increasing revenue, such as sales and marketing. In a consulting company a developer is billing a client for their time and that billing determines the financial effectiveness of the developer to the business even though the developer doesn’t determine the relationship or set its terms.
I don't think there is much to "cyber-destroy" in retaliation even with a country like China.

On other hand, you have much more countries constantly exerting overt aggression despite retaliation by Western countries being quite possible... but never coming for all reasons from co-opted politicians, and insiders, to power of their public image, to plain cowardice.
Can you link to any resources, to where current security community hangs out ? Blogs, articles ... ?
Maybe my google-fu is failing but I mostly find someone trying to sell me some product, whenever I search for such topics ?

[1] During the 90's and early 00, I was sysadmin and interested in security, past decade and a half I have been dev/devops for various small and medium firms and have had security "beaten" out of me. I am now back at sysadmin role, but most of the forums, mailing lists, are gone or shadows of itself etc.
Does anyone have a link to an explanation of exactly how this turbine works? I'm particularly interested to know whether it's bi-directional, how power is transmitted back to shore, and how it's anchored in place.
What about having huge floating object with huge amount of extra buoyancy chained to the bottom?

As the tide tries to lift the object the force could be converted for various purposes.

This can be used basically anywhere where there are significant tides and where bottom can be reached easily.

It is the same as other gravity storage methods except uses buoyancy.
Such a terrible story. I'm surprised it hasn't been more prominent within the tech community. Many dozens of lives were ruined.
I like to read news and keep up to date on silicon development but when it comes down to buying a laptop with an Intel CPU I really can't tell how good it is from the name.

I usually end up putting it into cpubenchmark to get any sort of comparable numbers.

Nowadays a chip from 2014 and 2019 can both be named i5, and the 2014 can have higher clockspeed while being half as slow... You just can't tell, and maybe that's the goal.
As a man I'd be wary about talking to female strangers. For the simple reason, that I'm aware a lot of women suffer from street harassment and I'd be wary of contributing to the problem.

For this reason also I also try hard not to talk to female colleagues at work without good reason - unless not interacting with them would be weird. i.e. I try to treat them the same as men at work.

When I was younger, I did have a little bit of a habit of being a bit friendly with the ladies at work/social events - and I've consciousnessly tried to move on from that (especially as I have a partner too). I want to be seen as a good solid guy.

But yeah, talking with strangers is great, the few times it actually happens.
One of very important reasons why FreeBSD haven't incorporated the patches from HardenedBSD was that their code quality was disputed and historically the author had issues with undergoing reviews and applying requested changes. HardenedBSD may do a very good job for the PR about their "superior security" but one may wonder if a system without badly implemented feature isn't more secure than the one with it.
"...for the time being you may continue to re-download content you have purchased or transfer that content from a Wii system to a Wii U system. Be aware that these features will eventually end at a future date."

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/...

It happened recently so there is a grace period to download final copies of a game, but if your console dies and you want to transfer games to another unit you get off eBay in a few years, you are SOL.
DRM-free media stores: https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/ (scroll down).
Wasn't GP talking more about valid but non-existent addressed? I'm guessing this is essentially the same as sending it to an address for which the key has been lost.
Show HN: Dating app that rewards you for doing personal development
Hi all,

FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses.

Currency can then be spent on premium features in the app.

I came up with the idea after being fed up of not knowing why I wasn't not getting matches on dating apps, and seeing too many shallow profiles.

We're now ready for beta testers as part of a private beta.

We've developed it using Angular + Ionic + Capacitor + Firebase - so it's native, and will be super-scalable (NoSQL ftw!)

We have 125 beta signups - 66% of them women! We desperately need more guys, or the beta feedback data will be very female-biased. Ideally, would like 200 beta testers for statistically significant results.

If you want access to the beta, please let us know via the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOmpidvQaFa_-Q-giY...

Note we can't show it publicly yet as we are filing various patents and registered designs for various features.

We'd love to have feedback from HN prior to putting on app stores. The only way you can test on iOS is via TestFlight, so we need an email address for iPhone users anyway - we don't have a web app version unfortunately.

Cheers,

Nick Hatter
Got the 1st and 2nd one.

What kind of integrations will help and why would you need those integrations?
> Putting moving parts in salt water off the UK coast is always a tough prospect.

I’m guessing salt corrodes metals and barnacles grow on them which make the moving parts seize up.

What are some of the less obvious issues that they face?
There is no requirement to forefit your rights once you transition away from physical media. E.g. you could trade DVD equivalent rights on a blockchain. The blockchain including the proof that you legitimately own this copy would stick around for as long as people want it to, it wouldn't depend on big tech companies like MS, Sony, etc. I'm not even a blockchain fanatic but this is one of the few good uses of the technology I think.
It's interesting that we're still seeing such interesting progress in such a fundamental problem. What kind of performance boost do you expect?
It's not on die arghhhh why does this misinformation keep happening. It's on package. It's two separate LPDDR4X chips. Latency is not dramatically better. Other current LPDDR4X laptops run the same clock speeds off package. Maybe Apple has more aggressive timings than them, but the difference would be tiny.
Would you be intentionally referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_Miss_Jones? If so, why?
> That means you’re looking at two months of R&D minimum to get everything rewritten,

For a hobbiest, sure, that's a problem.

But for a big company with a big ML research team already, that isn't an issue - they just assign a few people to work on it, and in a few months it's done. If you're running any model at scale anyway you probably want to rewrite everything to make it run efficiently on your hardware.
Pretty sure that Apple considers this a feature.
The last generation of typewriter repairmen (2010)
At the price NASA is willing to pay, they can. The tankers are only a few million dollars in raw materials.
I just came from another thread (here) where the subject was Google arbitrarily ruining businesses and lives based on algorithmic fraud detection gone wrong. I'd estimate the issue is alive with U.S. techies at the very least.
Agree. What is the point of all these laws on the books if they aren't enforced? That will just encourage people to break them when word gets out.

If the counterargument is that these "crimes" shouldn't actually be crimes, then the solution is to remove the laws, no?

But I suppose that whether removing the laws is feasible is another can of worms.
If it's complicated for most customers to choose a processor/pc, than often sales people help them choose. That's good for those sales people and good for Intel.

And it's not that like Intel is really competing with anybody.
The default is 128GB..
I looked and looked and looked for an option here, and almost pulled the trigger on book scanning gear.

Eventually I gave up realizing it is an extraordinary effort to personally rip books just to have drm-free digital copies.

Instead I built a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf and filled it.

I read ink on slices of dead trees now, like a barbarian.
Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
Are those 1:1 comparisons? I know typically in the US salaries advertised are not exactly take-home pay, but before tax amounts, and is some places in Europe salaries are advertised as take-home pay.
Apple Silicon is NOT just an ARM CPU. It's also a deep integration with macOS, and a unified memory architecture (less unnecessary copying on the bus). For example on the M1, certain very common operations for macOS apps, like freeing Objective C pointers, which happens millions of time per second, are optimized at the hardware level. The M1 is not a CPU.

So no, the Ryzen 5000 with 5nm would NOT level the field.
I do notice a difference between Berlin and Brandenburg. When I venture beyond the city limits, people greet you, and tend to make small talk more easily (not that I start it myself). It's something I also enjoyed in the south of Germany. It was certainly hard to adjust to it, coming from a small Canadian city. My favourite part of visiting North America is being friendly and chatty with everyone.

The Berliner Schnauze is certainly a real thing, but I don't think it's that common. More common perhaps is Ausländer using the term to excuse their unpleasant behaviour. I've seen that a lot more.
This is very true. Before we started building we looked around and didn't find anything good.

Githib issues was the nearest, but it was linked to repos and it didn't make sense for us to create repos just to use bug tracking.

Our current product has only private projects, but we are going to be bringing out public projects to get feedback from end users (similar to github issues).

This is to infact help us manage our user/customer feedback and issues.
Some funny metaphors and descriptions in the article. Seems like the author is grasping a bit to make programming relatable.

"The coding and the analytical skills on display at such events were like the Force in the “Star Wars” movies: it could be used for the light side, or for the dark."

"He spoke about the Stuxnet code in the way that an art historian might discuss “The Night Watch”: it was “elegant,” “precise,” “sophisticated.”"

"The malware consisted of rows of seemingly random letters and numbers flowing down a page, in pairs. In the margins were some recognizable English-language words—“Windows,” “everyone”—connected by cryptic punctuation. Choi could fluently and sensitively parse all this."
Then you don't have a program that can handle the URL scheme, at least according to desktop-entry-spec[0], which is the source of data that xdg-utils consults.

[0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entr...

On my (Debian) system, firefox and chromium ship their .desktop files.
???

So is someone calls an ambulance and they provide you a service without you being conscious, you are liable to pay? What on Earth?
Show HN: GNU sed eBook with hundreds of one-liners and exercises
Certainly seems that way. It looks like there going to be an M1 chip for 99% of folks, which works fine for all non-CPU-pegging work (Air, 13" MBP, 24"iMac, Mini), an M1.Large for stuff that pegs CPU (27"iMac, 16"MBP), and M1.XL for 0.01% Mac Pro folks who drop 5 figures USD on computers. But I'd expect the numbers to decrease logarithmically and the prices to be multiples. M1 machines from $700 to $1700, M1.L from $2000 to $4000, and M1.XL from $6000 onwards.
Star Trek Economics Is Just True Communism Arriving
> I don't think this is true. Most web images shouldn't be "near lossless" they should be "not ugly", with the exception being images that are core content (think Flickr or Unsplash).

Hard disagree here. We're talking image format, not image renderers. Whatever ends up being standardized on will eventually become the format "core content" is being stored in and transferred in. It will be the format in which my phone will save photos of my daughter, the format that her grandparents will receive those photos in (possibly twice transcoded by whatever IM they're using these days), so believe me, "not ugly" isn't gonna cut it here.

The photographers, the stock photo sites, the marketers - they'll all know how to keep images at high quality, and they have their reasons for doing so. Regular people will typically just use the defaults, so it's important to optimize the defaults for them, instead of marketing spam. If marketing spam is indeed the majority of data traffic on-line, there are other avenues to address it.

> I did a performance analysis of a set of sites recently, and many have images that are 10x bigger than necessary

Yeah, they also don't care. Why would they? Bandwidth is usually too cheap to meter for most commercial sites like these. If we try to fix their image sizes top-down by more aggressive quality reduction, some marketer will eventually notice the images "look bad", and fix it. Meanwhile, regular people will get the short end of the stick.
It has less battery life and less performance (judging by Cinebench, at least), so it is a fairly substantial difference. And it's quite possible that Apple will remain one TSMC process ahead of AMD for the next few years, even if AMD do put out 5nm chips in the near future.
Plenty of people would like to die-shrink their 7nm designs down to 5nm if only capacity existed.
I always found it funny that USA has a sports league that rewards teams that perform poorly. Its almost like its socialism. While the socialist Europe has a system that allows for capitalist like competition.
> As long as the disk still exists /somewhere/, a digital copy you ripped from it is legal to keep and backup for personal use indefinitely, and transfer to a new owner of the physical copy.

Depends on your jurisdiction. Ripping a dvd or bluray in the first place would be illegal in the states. Any type of format shifting (including say CD to mp3) is illegal in the UK - even if you did buy a drm free WAV, unless the copyright holder explicitly gives you permission to copy it to your phone, or another computer, you're stuck.
i remember a few years back when online-go.com (OGS) decided to double down on ads in order to fund new servers to speed up the service outside of North America[1]. They opted to not just place ads in the landing page, but to also display ads in the game page. It was a huge disaster. Nobody liked it (including the dev who implemented it).

What resulted is that they turned off ads altogether[2]. I haven’t seen them post about a retrospective, but since they’ve never looked back. It seems like turning off ads was a good decision for both the users of OGS and the platform as a whole.

1: https://forums.online-go.com/t/speeding-up-ogs-around-the-wo...

2: https://forums.online-go.com/t/ads-ogs-and-you/14090
Your best option may be with other employers with more enlightened management and an appropriately large budget for retaining your valuable services.

Your current employers demonstrated that they are not willing to honour the spirit of the original contract they negotiated with you. Sure, they have some clause such that RSUs grants are awarded at the board's discretion, so perhaps they're off the hook legally. But similarly you can just terminate your employment and stop working for them if the deal is now not attractive.

That said, if you are still getting paid more working for this company than other employers, quitting for another job might not be your best move.

Can you compare what you are getting paid with other employees in similar roles who joined at different times? It is possible you may be getting under paid anyway.
Thanks. I guess it is just getting used to it and it’s not a skill one can practice before actually being in the situation.
Keep in mind this is all fallout from the 90s/really 00's where "clockspeed was king" which AMD worked hard to disabuse the market of.

We've never really recovered from that.
Actually I use FAST keypoint detection, which is used to repeatably find "good" points for tracking using computer vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_from_accelerated_segm...

https://opencv-python-tutroals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/py_t...
Most people in "meatspace" are not involved in crypto in any serious way
Using an inbuilt Excel formula vs creating a formula with VBA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ6prlKz3aQ

Carlsen, on Lichess, against other GMs and FMs.
I visited a peat bog yesterday! The sphagnum mats are amazing both visually and olfactorally.
> I'm honestly puzzled why offshore tidal energy projects are continuing to attract major funding.

Is this a globally significant wasted funding? If not, it sounds like a reasonable idea to try something new from time to time. Worst case, some project trial fails and we learn a new failure mode / limitation. Best case, we get a new reliable power source.
The pictures looked like a real life Total Annihilation.
Thats the point, price/value does not fit for the majority of apple devices... But the M1 is amazing, I have to acknowledge that.

I'll stay with AMD and wait for 5nm...
From HN guidelines: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. (...) When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."
For those interested, here is an article [1] on glimpse of how it is cooled. Although I still dont understand how this is possible though. 20kW.

[1] https://www.eetimes.com/powering-and-cooling-a-wafer-scale-d...
I get your point but...

> The M1 processor is a direct result of the death of Moore's law.

It is a bit ironic since the M1 is a 5 nm processor, currently the finest process, and I think it plays no small part in its success. A very Moore's law-esque solution.
I'm indifferent about Mars but I kind of find this argument weird.

It assumes that these secondary advancements would not have been achieved if research into going to Mars was not done.

How about just doing research about renewable energy for earth instead of Mars? You could argue more could be achieved if this was done because we will not be distracted by Mars specific problems that won't apply to earth
No one has a right to a viable business model. If it makes a negative impact on society, we can and should regulate it. Ads are a pox on this Earth.
I would require copyright holders to renew their copyright. 5 years for free, then $1 for the 6th year, $2 for the 7th, $4 for the 8th, $8 for the 9th, $1m for the 25th, etc.
> In the next commit the PR author exfiltrates GitHub secrets by base64ing them and logging in the workflow run (or any other way).

Environment secrets are not exposed to PRs, so this does not work. This really only concerns DoS.
All OLED iPhones, iPad Pros, newer (2018+) Macs, and just about any "flagship" Android phone have HDR capable displays. There's tens if not hundreds of millions of devices that support HDR in the wild. Whether or not it's appreciated there's at least a huge population that can see HDR images correctly.
> FDBK rewards users with virtual currency for giving others feedback on their dating profiles, as well as for taking micro personal development courses.

That information should be high upfront on the page itself albeit more in an ELI5 way. From the first look I have no idea what makes your app special.

Also calling it "groundbreaking" without any elaboration on how it works makes it look kind of shady too.

Good luck!
Whereas cash is much better! You can't lose it, it can't catch on fire, it can't be blown away by the wind, it can't be stolen, you can't give it to the wrong person! So good. That's why everyone keeps all their money in cash at all times.

What's that? They put their money in a bank? What if the bank owner takes all the money and flees to Venezuela? "You should only use trustworthy banks", you say? Interesting.
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Yes this was so annoying... We optimized software for multi core, but the laptop builders label their products as 10th gen i7.... which says little about it’s performance. GPU labels are easier to decode by comparison.
An (IMO) Interesting question is how to reduce the risks of things like this happening.

Where evidence from IT systems is being used as a large part of a prosecution, it seems that it should have some kind of scrutiny as to how those systems operate.

One option would be allowing the defence to see details of how the system works, testing that was done and known bugs, but that would require a lot of expensive work by legal defence teams, especially where the system is complex.

Another option would be some kind of certification of IT system operation, but again it would be hard/expensive to do and very incompatible with rapid development techniques.
Ways to Quickly Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions
Stacks Launches $4M Accelerator to Fund Tech Teams Building Apps on Bitcoin
You can actually find quite a few on Amazon. Example:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08QGM36KB/

"At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied."
I have a report from a first year undergraduate on my shelf that suggested this....

A simple calculation shows you need an enormous volume float to generate a useful amount of power. A tidal range of a few meters isn't that much potential energy applied to a float of limited volume: by contrast, there is much greater mass of water in the sea to generate energy from.
X cores + X gigs of RAM does not mean better performance for higher values of X. That is the fundamental innovation of Apple Silicon, which people still struggle to grasp. The M1 upended how we think about CPU performance. It's not even a CPU, it's a unified memory architecture with hardware-level optimizations for macOS. You can't even cleanly compare the performance benefits of having memory and CPU on the same chip, because the time spent on copying operations is far less.

The plain fabulous joke is that we've spent 30 years thinking that increasing cores and increasing RAM is the only way to increase performance while the objective M1 benchmarks blow everything out of the water. The proof is in the pudding.
Outrageous that so many people's lives were blown up by this. Relieved to hear the court ordered in their favour.

I wonder if the post masters can now go after the Post Office for damages?
> AFAIK those new iMacs ALL feature just 8GB of RAM?

No. But people are confused because the RAM is (annoyingly though not entirely nonsensically) tied to the SSD.
His “as tested” was 11 hours for AMD and 13 for M1. His “max time use” for AMD was 14.5 and 20 for M1. That’s a 38% greater time for the M1 in a best possible outcome and 18% on “average”. Substantial differences that users would perceive noticeably.
The surge of Bitcoin is a reaction to the endless money printing of the federal banks that has been started well over 10 years ago. This has put the interest rates to 0 or even -0% all over the world causing people to pull out their savings and putting it in anything that has a chance of beating the inflation rates.

It is not libertarian economics but keynesian economics that drive people to bitcoin and other bubbles.

Libertarian economics is not "soo yesterday", accepting bad policies from bureaucrats is.

Ps. if ads are the worst thing in your life then your life must be pretty good. Maybe install an ad blocker.