skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because these powers know it's democratically impossible to be able to mobilze a draft for a ground war to defend your allies, so they're making their plays.

We ended the draft after the Vietnam war and had no problem invading, droning and bombing to the stone ages over 10 countries since then. We don’t need a draft to wage wars and blow up countries. Our national security budget is 1.2 trillion dollars (not the 750 billion headline number).

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

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2019/05/making-sense-of-the-1-...

I don’t know what vacuum idea you are referring to?
We have been tightening the noose around China since Obama term 2 and instigating riots in their province Hong Kong (which was forcibly leased by the white colonial power Britain in 1897 for a hundred years). Our consular staff were even involved in the protests organizations. Imagine foreign embassy staff involved with Antifa or BLM after George Floyd and the uproar that would surround it.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/tag/julie-eadeh/

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-09-04/Who-are-really-organiz...

http://se.china-embassy.org/eng/zgxw/t1691479.htm

We instigated the Maidan revolution in Ukraine. Look up Victoria Nuland (wife of famed liar and neocon Robert Kagan - see bottom) and the ambassador Pyatt who was organizing the rioters.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/18/the-undiplomatic-diplom...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

https://www.cato.org/commentary/americas-ukraine-hypocrisy

Israel has had many successful attacks on and in Iran over many decades. From blowing up people to government facilities to covert cyberattacks to attacking Iranian ships on a regular basis.

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

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

and so much more......

And it goes without saying that we have surrounded all these countries with military bases and armed their adversaries to the teeth.

And then all the secret wars we wage and the millions we kill:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?10353-1/secret-wars-cia

https://www.amazon.com/Search-Enemies-CIA-Story/dp/039300926...

https://www.amazon.com/Jakarta-Method-Washingtons-Anticommun...

If you want to make predictions on the next countries we are going to attack and bomb it is quite easy. Follow the DC pro-war think tanks (all of them with the notable exception of the new entrant Quincy Institute) and their keyboard commandoes. They will manufacture every lie possible for their agenda and the press will follow them suit (too many examples like Iraq etc...). Victoria Nuland’s husband is the famed liar and neocon Robert Kagan who said that anyone who said that Bush lied about WMD is a conspiracy theorist.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/so-whos-lying-george-bush...

https://washingtonindependent.com/15333/fred-kagan-lies-abou...
But instead of meeting the demand for those other things, things we need like electric vehicles, we're just going to end up wasting it on cryptocurrency mining and end up right back at square one. I just don't see how Bitcoin is sustainable in it's current form.
Notes from Elon Musk and Diamandis Carbon Removal xPrize Launch Interview
> As a mid career developer you can easily afford a house even in SF-NY.

I’m pro-US and SF/NY as anyone but this isn’t accurate. If you want a house comparable to one you’d get in a MCOL city like Sacramento/Portland (3-4 bd, 1800+ sqft, good schools), you’re going to be forking over $2m+. That’s not very easy to achieve even for SF engineers. You need to be staff at FAANG or similar and preferably with a high earning partner (lawyer, doctor, executive, etc). Otherwise you’re gonna be house poor.

I still agree US is generally very good for engineers, especially ones in SF/NY/Seattle. But let’s not fool people with saying real estate is also very affordable...
Live in prison and living with knowing that society seems you a deviant vs death.

We shouldn't tolerate either if innocent.
If hang-drying outside, turn your stuff inside out.

UV from the sun kills bacteria, and you want that on the side near your skin, and as a bonus the inside fades (UV again) but the outside doesn't. I have some t-shirts that are quite faded on the inside but still reasonable on the outside.
You realize Apple is designing against more advanced nodes than intel - and from where I stand intel has nothing competitive in small form factors
Might be a good candidate for some self hosted runners on some vms or a pi cluster? Then no need to feel guilty at all
Publishing content relating to security can be seen as a kind of challenge. See the blogs of many security researchers for examples. I can't see why this same effect would not apply to OpenBSD to a certain extent.
They already said they would be 100% off x86 in two years: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/06/apple-announces-mac-t...

We are still only 6 months into that transition.
That story is probably due to coronavirus travel restrictions, given it is from last May.
American abolitionists very much understood that chattel slavery wasn't the only form of slavery. The text of the 13th amendment indicates as much.
I read the book as a young'un in the target demographic.

My review: Harriet the Spy was a very stupid story.

It's a bait-and-switch. The title gets you really excited to read about a female grade-school James Bond.

"Harriet the Spy" is a title that promises stealth and deception and disguises and gadgets and explosions and international intrigue. I fully expected to see a cackling maniacal supervillain mastermind capturing and taunting the protagonist, then when all hope seems lost she somehow gets free, leading to a heart-pounding escape sequence culminating in an action-packed blowout ending that totally wrecks the bad guys' diabolical world domination plan and brings them to justice. All while maintaining her cover identity as an ordinary sixth grader.

Instead it's just a girl writing about her classmates' personalities in a notebook.

I still remember how disappointing it was, all these years later.
> hard to imagine how he could intentionally sink the ship given its lack of fuel/power

Shawshank Redemption style. Eroding the hull from inside and letting rust do the rest.
It seems odd to think that their first attempt at this, which largely consists of small consumer-level devices with little to no active cooling, is the best they're going to do.

Not to mention that they've already been dominating mobile SOC performance for half a decade as well.

There's no indication that they couldn't take on the pro market. They've clearly got the talent in place. It's likely that the market size is a bigger factor than capability.
My knowledge of NK is fairly limited, but I genuinely don't see what help would computers do to NK. Do they have access to the internet? What good do computers do without an internet connection? Maybe you can play some games, maybe you can load some software like spreadsheets but that's assuming they have books to learn how to use it. Would it be for training so they can get some better jobs? Are there computer jobs?
But, they are working toward Go2. Generics, which are the biggest talking point whenever Go is discussed, is already added in a branch and is supposed to come in a year or so. It'll be interesting to see how it'll affect the trends data after that.
Some useful regular expressions for programmers
I already require manual intervention via a bot interaction to trigger CI, so this all SGTM.

It seems like kind of a stretch to be outraged by this. I suppose there might be certain styles of collaborative repositories that have a huge volume of one time contributors, but I’m having a hard time imagining this being much of a burden.
How is English a cure to that problem? How will Chinese google English words?
Hyperbole won't solve the issue you see.
I think the open question about the Mac Pro is the expandability. The trash can Mac Pro didn't do well and they went back with something with expansion slots. Is it worth it to Apple to build out and support everything necessary on the M1 platform for one low-margin line of computers? We'll find out in the next year.
From what I wrote on the Airminers slack: "I made this summary to share on the interview between Musk and Diamandis on the Carbon Remoal XPRIZE etc. I put a lot of direct timestamped linked to their discussion because there is a lot of other info, including some great Musk "tangents" on SpaceX, tunnels, and his reasons for wanting to expand the "scale and scope of consciousness to better understand the questions to ask about the answers that is the universe..."

You can tell him and Diamandis are good friends and have so much they want to talk about etc, but they mostly stay on topic of the contest.

The major takeaways are:
-4 categories: DAC, oceans, land, and rocks.

-Seems that they are going to be pretty flexible in categories and expanding where needed (comments open until mid-May).

-Seems like they mostly want "people [to] have a good time" and that "some productive stuff comes out of it."

-Scalability to gigatonne is key: "unless the cost is affordable, it is not scalable."

-Contest is pretty wide open, any one of any age can join, whether established already or unestablished concepts/teams.

-After some time, likely within the year, they will give $1m to at least the top 15 teams as seed money.

-Then over the 4 years they will have to demonstrate something like 1000/tonnes per year of capture or Elon suggested maybe 100 tonne/month.

-2nd, 3rd, 4th place share approx $20m

-Winner gets $50m of "free money"/"non-dilutive capital"
x86 is dead - first in consumer, then in cloud.

It is hard to see to me how this ends any other way. The creative class (us) will quickly have largely all ARM computers within 4 years.

Its not hard to see from there how software will be even more optimized for ARM variants than x86 and that the scale of both mobile and consumer computing will push x86 out of the datacenter slowly as old software that relies on x86 is retired over the next decade.

People won't want to develop on x86 and deploy to ARM. ARM is more power efficient which is important in the data center too. We already scale by the core in the cloud, so why not just heap a few more cheap cores on if we need more to match x86 (which right now looks like we might not).

Tell me how I am wrong.
What is the site? Just to see his impact.
> Yet it's simply too dangerous for any society to have the death penalty, even for these heinous crimes.

Why? Tyranny? (As per the rest of your note).
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Here is some basic examples of use cases for a digital Dead Man's Switch (DMS):

Will and Trust: The creator of the Will is able to send all relevant data to the heirs, but the heirs aren’t able to read the Will until the creator has passed.

Emergency Communication: Experienced outdoors people know this case well; leaving your travel plans and timeline with a trusted friend has been the defacto DMS for as long as people have ventured away from the cave. Now, we have many tools to help, like satellite communicators and GPS trackers. Imagine being able to have your exact GPS location and emergency procedure released to relevant parties only after you failed to check in? This preserves privacy and sense of adventure without compromising on modern safety.

Political Activism: If an activist is in possession of information that could result in their assassination if the information were leaked, the activist can use a DMS to release the information upon their detainment, imprisonment or assassination. The cryptographically-assured release of the files upon triggering of the DMS can help
Modi regime in India procured 66 million Covishield/Covaxin units at an inflated price and exported them;
> 17 charged with weapons crimes

> These include people arrested outside the Capitol grounds with weapons like guns and Molotov cocktails

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/02/04/us/capitol-ar...
Lots of countries do just that though, without the crazy specific separation and specialisation that America does.
Signal have just added files to compromise Cellebrite to their default installation !

"In completely unrelated news, upcoming versions of Signal will be periodically fetching files to place in app storage.

These files are never used for anything inside Signal and never interact with Signal software or data, but they look nice, and aesthetics are important in software.

Files will only be returned for accounts that have been active installs for some time already, and only probabilistically in low percentages based on phone number sharding.

We have a few different versions of files that we think are aesthetically pleasing, and will iterate through those slowly over time. There is no other significance to these files."
If the expiration was in July, how could it possibly have been Google's mistake that it got sold months before it expired?
Ever been enslaved on a Thai fishing boat? I know a few people who have, including a neighbor that was missing for 3 years. The US has its own problems, but places like Dubai, Southeast Asia, etc. have a much more severe problem with mistreatment and abuse of workers.

Last year a building collapsed here during construction and killed about 60 people. Stuff like that happens all the time.
Thanks. Any tips on how to build sales and communication channels? What worked best for you and what should we not waste our time on?
is there any good reference article/blog that talks about various python package managers, their history, use cases and the current trends in industry? Is there any specific tool that's becoming more accepted standard among developers?
Just bringing the Visual Studio code control into Excel is a plus. This will remove several steps when creating and deploying addin.
The stop sign question almost got me, though I was pretty sure it wasn’t six even before I glanced out the window at one.
Private investigators have to do this routinely. Of course they are probably self-employed.

OSHA laws require companies allow bathroom breaks though.
You can change who you are. Really. In fact if you immigrate, I'd argue you must.

You'll never change your physical appearance, but you can change everything else, your name, your language, your ideas. Don't immigrate if you don't love the local customs so much you're ready to die for them.
All browsers on iOS are essentially Safari with a different skin. Apple doesn't allow devs to use their own engine.
Exclusive-Two U.S. senators make new push to advance self-driving cars
Even the 27" iMac has a 128 GB RAM SKU, so they're going to need to build a chip supporting external RAM regardless. External PCIe support already exists thanks to thunderbolt. So the architecture will be there, it'll just be a question of how expensive it is to scale up.
> I use some tools that are not open source, and which I would not even want to be open source.

Why would you specifically want proprietary software?
Given the price of bitcoin skyrocketing, why would anyone spend it on anything. If you have 1BTC, and you think it's going to go up 100x still, then why would you ever spend it?
You get an M1 with the new iPad Pro as well! I hadn't thought of the situation as the article presents. When shown in that light, it made me pause to reflect. The M1 doesn't make sense when its in every darn product. The only differentiator is screen size, RAM, and OS?

I will admit that I switched to Thinkpad and Win10 about two years ago when I had to return my butterfly for the 5th time. I am not looking back either. If anything, I am more focused on AMD Ryzen and Nvidia 30 series chips in MSI, Lenovo Legion and Asus offerings. There is nothing I can't do with one of those machines. Going Apple is a backward move for me as I like to program, design in CAD, play steam VR, and run blender sims. Can't do any of those well with Apple hardware.
No, I was just responding to the parent comment.
It is bad for business. The owners won't allow it. According to the Economist, 43 of the top 50 most valuable sports teams are in North America because of the closed system.

In an 'open' system like European soccer, owners are forced to spend massively on player salaries to avoid relegation.

The fans may have revolted but the advocates of the 'Super league' were looking out for their own interests. There have been many more bankruptcies in European sports due to the inherent nature of that system. See this:

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/04/22/europes-super-...
a lot of people still rely on windows. maybe if microsoft gets a better emulator going, but I imagine with the amount of legacy they support that's a lot more challenging than for apple who are much more trigger happy when it comes to imposing changes on devs.

i think it'll definitely happen, especially with the web browser increasingly taking on the role of the operating system, but 4 years seems a little optimistic, even with your qualification of that statement
I will grant that the Mac Pro will be one of the last to transition, but I don't think it will stay on x86 forever. It may receive a spec bump at most.
My understanding that was for the special fabrics and/or the dyes used. For example raw indigo bleeds a whole lot more with higher heat. I know there are some fabrics and blends that are fragile compared to something like a cotton tshirt and recommend colder water.
I think anyone who has inhabited planet earth for more than 25-30 years or so starts to realize that most of people are either:

1. “Geniuses” of speculation and every topic under the sun (overconfident braggarts that make sweeping claims that are difficult to criticize because they are so general; such dreamers talk big but really have little expertise)
2. People that actually are “deep-knowledge” experts, but only in one particular, very specialized domain and can otherwise barely tie their shoelaces

And that the 1. Kind of people make visionary, ridiculous claims that are then tempered and shored up by the 2. Kind of people behind the scenes that actually do the work so as not to cause horrific catastrophes and that true genius is rare and hardly ever recognizable as such within the genius’s own lifetime.

If you have no knowledge but boundless confidence and a good sense for what kind of statements you can make without actually resulting in direct (i.e. traceable to your statements) physical or financial injury to other people you can get pretty far in life.

I’m aware of the irony that the claims in this post put me in the 1. category.
> is not a controversial statement in the software security community.

Funny how often this happens. Maybe we need to do a better job of conveying these sorts of things - happens all the time that the security community at large considers X or Y to be obvious and well known, and then you find that actually very large portions of the larger tech community don't know that at all.
Taking an "l" and a "c", it's very definitely false.
Europe’s Super League scores an own goal
Forgot emotions there.

The Wise Mind is the combination of the Logical Mind and the Emotional Mind.
Can't they just kidnap an employee or two and make them add backdoors?

It's not completely implausible given what happened to Otto Warmbier:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rZkdPXP6H4
For me, ideal pixel density is when I can draw a 45 degree line with high contrast, eg white on black, and there are no blocky pixels visible. No stepping at all. Even better is the density where pixels effectively disappear altogether. Same for any other angle.

Aspect ratio also matters. I should be able to take a square and rotate it and it shouldn't change shape. Measurable using a physical ruler for best results. It doesn't sound like a big deal until you rely on it. I'm sure theres a research paper about this effect contributing to fatigue.

Refresh rate and lighting are also important factors. 60hz was a gimmick for me until I got a setup that could maintain it. Originally I figured it was no big deal but now I actually notice when I use a lesser setup of monitor and computer. Its a different experience. Its not a sense of "this is wrong", more like "this isn’t as snappy". Not as responsive.

At around 40", I find 4K on a monitor is "fine" but there can still be some stepping. At lower screen sizes, 4k for me is "excellent". I think 8K or similar at 43" would achieve the "no jaggies whatsoever". Maybe even less pixels would suffice. BTW I'm not talking about setups where you sit away from screen like a TV watched from a couch.
Ask HN: Modular Research Publishing – Looking for Collaborators
I was an academician. Research article writing and publishing is redundant and time consuming. I want to create new way of publishing research works and this paint point is recurring one for me as well as many researchers around the world. Moreover, Current journal publications are print based and mostly closed sources.

I am looking for developers to build this for helping millions of researchers around the world.

I want to introduce modular research open publishing.

Modules are like this:

Theory - It is a concept where authors can share their conceptual ideas.
Theorem - Mathematical theorem.
Definition - Mathematics as well Physical sciences use this lot.
Methodology - Step of Procedures.
Algorithms - humanly readable code/steps.
Data - Any set of data.

Experimental setup - Experiment setup flowchart, graph or photos or even videos.
Experimental Results - Text, tables photos and videos
etc.,

The system should be collaborative tool that can write modules directly on the web and publish. Also the modules are uniquely identifiable. Citation of modules are introduced rather than citing the whole article. Researchers concentrate on specific things rather than wasting time on various things are not necessary for their research such as writing methodology/theorem for survey based social science research publication.

Please share your opinion on this as well as you can contact me jeevasathyatheesars@gmail.com if you are interested in developing this concept.

Thanks and Cheers!
Jeeva
how does this affect my micro-dosing schedule ?
There needs to be a term for this, perhaps Marie Antoinette syndrome, unfortunately there is already another Marie Antoinette syndrome[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_syndrome
Research-threats: Collection of legal threats against Security Researchers
It's a little strange to me to think that the system would be working optimally if most people went to trial. A very big reason you don't take your criminal case to trial is if the prosecutors have you dead to rights, and the risk to reward is bad. If most people went to trial, that'd suggest that prosecutors are taking a lot of fliers on cases that they don't have strong evidence on. Which seems like... a bad thing?
Google doesn't tell me word one about "Black Magin Woman" and "Feetwood Mac"; or about "stop sides". If it tells you, I feel 100% confident that you are hallucinating.

The quiz reliably informed me that I am consistently underconfident.
I guess they mean without writing VBA code.
People other than the owner can stop alerts from any specific AirTag. This works well for the shared car keys scenario.