skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Forbes article you link to does not say that the DNC files contained forgeries. Assange also never said that Seth Rich was responsible for the leak. He was asked about it in an interview and gave an evasive/vague answer.
I wrote some software to handle charging customer's credit cards. It worked fine in the dev environment so a week later we deployed it since we hadn't been charging customers at all until that point. We would run bills once a day until all the unprocessed billing was caught up.

Well, in dev, the database was refreshed with prod data every night at midnight, so we never saw the bug in my code. I had a sign error in updating the customer's balance so instead of lowering their balance by the payment amount, my code increased their balance. Geometric growth is an amazing thing. A few days later we had calls from angry customers because we had maxed out their credit cards. Miraculously, I was not fired. In retrospect, I think that it might have been because the manager would have then had to explain why he had not made sure there was not adequate testing on something so central to the business.
Yes. I agree. Also, the insistence on a "single task at a time" notion when real work required context switching.

Simplicity goes too far on the balance of, and in search for, advancement of design. Form + Function. Not an industrial beige box bucket of parts and not a confusing 2001 monolith, but something in the middle.
That’s Cassandra syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_(metaphor)

Cassandra was gifted by Appollo to see the future, but then cursed to be not believed.
I thought they said that Windows 10 would be the only version of Windows forever, and that everything would be updates of Windows 10. Did they change their mind or did I misunderstand in the first place?
> They're doing this to force people to buy new hardware

Forcing people to buy new hardware while there's a global chip shortage is going to be interesting.
>most of them basically imply that construction is inefficient because contractors are dumb.

Yeah, that's a problem.

Usually, next up is some handwaving about building homes from shipping containers because they're rectangular.
2018 Report Detailed ‘Major Structural Damage’ to Florida Condo That Collapsed
There is a 100% chance this tech will be used to surveil, subdue and repress people in draconian ways.
You did more than anyone else to turn this thread into a flamewar hell. Moreover, this isn't the only time recently that you've broken the site guidelines with flamewar comments and attacking other users (e.g https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27590644).

If it were just the one thread, I'd let you off with a warning, but this is egregious (and it seems you've done this with other accounts in the past, too). Therefore I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: just in case anyone is worried about it: when we ban accounts in politically contentious threads, it's not because we secretly disagree with the politics of the banned account. Our goal is simply to enforce the site guidelines and prevent HN from turning into a flamewar hell, the end state of which would be scorched earth (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The history of moderation comments here—not that anyone would want to slog through it—contains plenty of examples of HN users getting banned from every possible political angle.
There is probably a special floor in hell where middle-managers roll around grating "in-no-vate!".
Please watch "For all mankind" from Apple TV (a really good series) instead of considering to fight on the moon.
So first a disclaimer. I've been thinking about this design or something like it in the back of my head for a couple years while keeping up to date on VLDB papers and the like. It's only recently that I've gotten serious about shipping a proof of concept. As it stands I'm just working bottom up trying to confirm the more risky components will work. So it's by no means a done deal. Obviously I think I'm on the right trail or I wouldn't be doing it though.

I'm working in golang. Client goroutines that execute read write transactions buffer up their read and write sets, then submit them to the committer goroutine via a channel. Part of the struct they submit has a blocking channel for the committer notify them of the result. So nothing returns to the client unless it's stable on disk. Assuming I get far enough, in a future version that'll also include optionally waiting for raft replication.
>Firmware TPMs are firmware-based (e.g. UEFI) solutions that run in a CPU's trusted execution environment. Intel, AMD and Qualcomm have implemented firmware TPMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
XL-WSD: Extra-Large, Cross-Lingual Evaluation for Word Sense Disambiguation
But that breaks a lot of design assumptions, since many times the use of vh vs vw is to avoid assuming which of the height or width is greater. You’d have to use a min/max calculation to avoid aspect ratio mayhem whn comparing landscape to portrait.

The real big is UI elements that randomly appear and disappear in the browser chrome, such as scroll bars and address bars, that contribute to vh/vw randomly spazzing.
I love my Apple TV but the Shield is my go to player simply for the audio passthrough of audio formats such as TrueHD and DTS-HD which last time I checked are not supported by the Apple TV!
Wow...this is a really big deal. Congratulations to this team and to the patients who were treated. I hope the treatment continues to keep the disease at bay.
>The tenants of a 4-6 story structure can't support those shops.

In the polish version of these, the stores are in one building of the cluster of 4+ buildings, generally on the main street of the area. The US has a retail store for every 500 people or so which is about how many fit into a few of these buildings..

>Such places are not usually convenient to drive to.

You don't drive to them, you take whatever local public transportation there is or walk. It's dense enough that you can visit all the important stores without driving or leaving your local area.

>Many shops are vacant.

That has more to do with the increasing rents and commercial rates being locked in for 5+ years. More economical to keep the place vacant for the landlord.
I agree there’s a line where putting data in DNS is just a gimmick (eg storing images in DNS) because the web does it infinitely better.

But in the case of contact information I think it makes a lot of sense. This demo site is an intense example because it’s contact info for very large companies. For smaller companies it’s just one DNS TXT record, usually under the original 512b DNS UDP packet limit.

I don’t agree that contact information is meant for human consumption. The humans (or often machines) at the end of phone numbers are for humans but the route to get there (eg telephone system) is designed for machines.
React Native and (arguably) Flutter are going through a golden age right now. Major companies like Tesla, Coinbase, and Shopify have adopted them, and the developer experience has never been better. I'm not sure why it worked now, but didn't work for Xamarin / Ionic, though.
Yes. They’re copying macOS. Apple decided to change their numbering with Big Sur
If only they used all that money to build up instead of down..
AP: “China pressured Ukraine by threatening to withhold Covid-19 vaccines”
Yup, I think a bunch of us are running up the same trail here. Definitely the zero coordination required read only transactions are super appealing.
Do the US need to extra judicially murder Assange in order to make an example of him?

I can imagine what would happen if Russia tried the same tactic as the US and used diplomatic channels in order to successfully influence the legal systems in countries like the UK and Sweden.
A real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war
Important to note that Wikileaks wouldn't publish a retraction anyway, even if they were totally wrong.

Come on...
20-inch wall is enough for pretty cold climate according to my calculations. Either that or thin wall with insulation (or thin wall and more money on heating which might be an acceptable solution, if you have cheap coal and your country does not care what you build).
https://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf

These are the prior work for HAMTs, which have been implemented in a bunch of languages.
NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone – Ars Technica
LG TV don't run Android TV. They run WebOS. So they probably have not been getting those ads.
The frequency and maximum strength of tornadoes are higher in the central US. Casual skim of the wikipedia page indicates about as many F4 tornadoes in Europe as F5 tornadoes in the US since 2000.
Demonisation of Israel cannot be tolerated. Very telling.
8777 Collins Ave – Structural Field Survey Report
Note that you can report spam to AWS https://support.aws.amazon.com/#/contacts/report-abuse
Edit: after getting in touch with Joshua, behind Echo, the original evidence on Twitter by Kevin Beaumont has been retracted [0] and Joshua claims that Echo is not related to the rootkit in question.

Edit 2: Some further clarifications about Echo from Joshua: "We also don't just give untethered access, it's a scan which does specific things and doesn't have any malicious capabilities from the staff member on the player. How it works is cheats leave traces behind, Echo is almost a forensic analysis to see if cheats were on that PC. For example, any executable on windows that resolves a domain has strings in the Dnscache service, or any process that makes requests to cheat servers will leave the domain as strings in lsass.exe (which is can be PPL and can require kernel to read from). We use the driver and strong obfuscation to prevent cheat developers (known to be good reverse engineers) from being able to just clear these traces."

[0] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1408900596145569795

Piecing together info scattered across disclosures [1] and tweets [2], it seems the malware is related to Echo [3], a product marketed for Minecraft server owners that allegedly helps in detecting cheaters. From what I understand, suspected cheaters are requested by the server staff to download and install the Echo client, which shares the player's screen [4] with the admins and apparently gives full, unrestricted OS access.

I've tried to get in touch with the people allegedly behind Echo [5] [6] for clarification, and I'll update this once I get more info.

[1] https://www.gdatasoftware.com/blog/microsoft-signed-a-malici...

[2] https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1407328596247646217

[3] https://echo.ac

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/screensharing/

[5] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...

[6] https://discord.gg/mGTTAT5
Show HN: Is shared inbox automation worth the effort to train an AI?
To this day, The Guardian refuses to admit that it released the unredacted cables to the public, and blames WikiLeaks for the release. One of The Guardian's own journalists used the decryption key as a chapter title in his book about WikiLeaks. The Guardian's excuse is that they thought the decryption key was temporary. I don't know if people at The Guardian really are that misinformed about how encryption works, or if they're just being deceitful.
Area That Needs "Disruption:" Job Application Process (Not exclusive to IT)
If you are not a knowledge worker in an in demand field the job application process is really soul crushing.

You need to enter a huge amount of finely detailed information into web forms about your work and biographic history. There is no indication how this information is used, looked at or processed. Either you spend a lot of time entering information, most of which is or should already be duplicated on your resume or you have to fudge stuff and then that may or may not effect whether you get an interview or get hired.

It seems that realistic aptitude tests for jobs is more the way to go. A person's work history should be pretty irrelevant if not directly related to a job. A person should not be discriminated against for lack of work history or bad work history if they can actually do the job that they are applying to. In the USA most jobs are "at will." It is trivial to fire a person for any reason if they can not cut it at a job. It is incredibly laborious for the applicant and prospective employer to vet resume, work history and biographic information. Why do employers set up so many barriers for job seekers and ask so many irrelevant questions? Employers would seem to treat the sunk cost of hiring as an "investment" when it is just a sunk cost. They should seek to minimise sunk costs by lowering the irrelevant barriers to entry.

I hate spending up to an hour on an online application, being forced to duplicate the material on my resume in web forms not to know if the application even sees human eyes.

What job I worked in 2017 in a different field or where I lived in 2015 should have no bearing on my ability to do a job.

Detailed aptitude tests are what is called for.
Indeed, content moderation is the single hardest problem on the internet right now, and every big tech company is struggling with it. From Youtube to Twitch to Twitter to Facebook, etc. Reddit, while not perfect, has done relatively well, but as you mention it's all on the back of volunteer unpaid moderators. I'm surprised they haven't yet setup any sort of revenue sharing with large popular subs.
Very interesting, thanks for the data. “API call” being the first and last call to CloudFlare DoH? If so, there’s some throttling going on somewhere. It’s completing in around 1-1.5s for most I think.
There are many tornadoes where I live and most of the houses don’t have basements. Directly in the path of the tornado, houses built on a slab were completely gone, leaving only a clean slab. This happened to a few entire neighborhoods.

But, tornadoes here follow similar paths over a fifty year period. When I bought my house I found a hole in the fifty year tornado map and I’ve never had one come near me. Every couple decades the patterns may shift to other patterns, but generally speaking both the new patterns and old patterns have all happened in the last fifty years.
There was a cadre of Chinese students who were educated abroad to be diplomats. The program was scrapped when it was found the students wound up pro-democracy. They do something else now, but it is not clear if it works. Party loyalty enforced by the state ignoring your corruption seems likely, as proposed elsewhere.
Balloon framing is, like all construction, more common in some regions than others.

Short construction seasons are somewhat favorable to it. Dry in can be quicker. A trade base familiar with the necessary fire blocking makes it practical. Same with designers and inspectors.

The sun belt tends toward platform framing. Being the sunbelt, construction tends to be more year round.
Peace is not possible on occupied land or in an apartheid state.
These memecoins don’t even pretend to care about lending and staking and farming. Its literally about just buying the coin and hoping someone pumps it.

The most traded coins right now according to CoinGecko are almost entirely memecoins with no utility whatsoever.

And if I’m honest, BTC was the original memecoin.
The person who created Twitter's experimentation platform is also at Reddit, and heavily influenced Reddit's experiment design and review process.

But yes, a revolving door of product leaders and decisions is going to bias towards short term optimization.
As an American Jew who grew up with a distorted and racist world view in regard to Palestine this just feels like history repeating itself. The troubles that face Israelis have always been amplified over those of Palestinians in my experience. That control of the narrative led me to be actively racist for most of my life while thinking I was not and also morally superior. This kind of censorship has a body count, and it lets war crimes happen in clear view while the on lookers think they are doing the right thing.
Anybody can make claims in court and the US government is hardly going to confirm or deny poisoning someone.

It's an unproven allegation and a world away from Navalny who was actually poisoned.
For me, paper works for short lived tasks or "I need to get this out of my head for a now" style inbox stuff. Mostly just post-its and maybe a few larger scraps of paper.

Anything long-term or larger in scope I want to have in a digital, searchable, format.
A lot of times you hear about these breakthroughs in medical papers or in mice, but this really feels different.

Like an actual breakthrough with an actual cure for a specific disease. It's remarkable.

Here's to more cures.

God bless.
I'm not saying they owe me anything, they're offering it to me, I'm just taking it.

No you are not. If you are deploying proxy containered services on cloud computing hosts orchestrated by yourself to circumvent mechanisms to prevent such behavior you are delibertly and unethically acting in a manner directly not intended by the owner of such data.
> So it's better to say that our models are simplified, not lies.

To be fair, for most purposes (atoms, molecules, metals) there usually (very-) technically aren't any electrons, just configurations of the relevant quantum fields (eg in the form of electron orbitals) whose asociated conserved quantities would allow them to convert into a certain number of free-flying electron particles if you dumped in enough energy to make up the difference.

You see this a bit more obviously with ('virtual'[0]) photons, where some non-particulate field configurations simply can't be thought of as particles at all (eg attactive electromagnetic forces).

0: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
It's kind of hard to keep a drawer full of old cars in your house.
Pixie is super cool - I recently spent some time getting it up and running on the 3DS and was shocked at how easy it was. I only needed to do a single code change and everything just... works. Granted CPU rendering on the 3DS is pretty slow, as it isn't known for its speed, but it is super cool that I could write Nim code and draw stuff on it in a platform agnostic way.

Eventually I'll get around to rewriting one of my projects (a visual novel engine) to use it for better 3DS support, and so that I can get a lot of the benefits of Nim.
I just looked that up and that appears to have been an EF2 tornado. That intensity deals an order of magnitude less damage than the EF3, EF4, and EF5 tornadoes that regularly appear in the US, which can literally tear entire houses off their foundations. A brick building in those conditions would be reduced to individual bricks.
That's the whole plan, keep the old interface around (along with power users) until the new user population (who only knows the new interface) grows large enough to be able to get rid of the old interface without getting a full Digg-like exodus.
> I don't want my neighbours smoking on the balcony below me, as I can smell their smoke but the law doesn't allow my building to ban it without consensus.

That's simply because you're in multi-family housing, it would be a different story if the neighbors smoked and put up a fan to blow the smoke into your yard/window/etc, and that's probably a more apt comparison to bots that literally fork bomb themselves to crawl your site at 500 requests per second.
It is a free update. That quote is out of context and has become a meme. 0

The continuous build integration system for windows makes it so that new builds come out every week. Under the hood W10 and W11 are the same thing barring UI refresh and regular feature updates.

Its Windows 11 because marketers know most people are technically illiterate and want higher version numbers. Its mainly about the UI refresh to pull more people away from Apple and build out the MSFT store.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
> And although class action suits are frustrating and should be "fixed" so that those harmed get the bulk of the proceeds (i.e. it's not okay that consumers receive discount coupons or $10 checks while plaintiff's counsel receives a disproportionally huge payday)

I don't understand why most people have a problem with this. It's the company that sold you the $79 product that cheated you. Be upset with them.

Personally, I don't care if I get $0 out of a class action lawsuit. I've already been cheated out of my money, so my main concern is punishing the company that ripped me off so they don't do it again.

Class action lawyers get a lot of hate, but those firms are fronting a ton of money and taking a ton of (monetary) risk by litigating on behalf of the class. They deserve a big reward when they win.

If you want to change the system, impose MASSIVE penalties on the companies that are cheating consumers. Make them pay 3-5x the going rate for the plaintiff's lawyers PLUS 100% refunds to all the customers that got ripped off.

Then the shenanigans will stop.
Is there any justification for the cutoff? It might be possible to just patch out the cpuid check and have the OS run.

If it's boot attestation someone will do it. This is probably to force enterprise vendors to move to devices that better support enterprise management, but yes, it drags us kicking and screaming along with it, at nontrivial personal expense.
This is the requirements surprise nobody wanted. For Windows users, they have the following options:

1) Use a hacked ISO that removes the TPM requirement.

(This is a quick hack for unsupported machines but will probably break on an update, and comes with a possible risk of tampering, malware in the ISO from third-parties)

2) Upgrade the parts in the machine (TPM 2.0 module, Intel/AMD chip) to meet the hardware requirement.

(Good luck doing that on a laptop. Probably pay someone to do that properly on Desktop machines)

3) Purchase a new PC / laptop that is Windows 11 ready. (Effortless but expensive)

4) Sit on Windows 10, until it is unsupported.

Enthusiasts and early adopters will go with (1), hardware hackers go with (2), security guys will go with (3) and most will give up with (4).

For existing Mac users, there is NO benefit in purchasing an Intel Mac anymore. Would much rather wait and get a M1X Macbook Pro or Air at this point.
They changed their mind. Annoying.
I wonder if there's some internal APIs the cloud providers share to let them know when customers release ownership of an IP so that its reputation can be reset.
In that case just get a cheap computer (that's all these set top boxes are anyway) to keep in the living room.
That's not accurate. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and these past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....
Only stable if the whole society can force itself to not even want to expand.

If 1 per billion wants to expand, out of a population of 8 billion, you have 8 expansionists. If each of them breaks the social conventions and have twice as many offspring as the sustainers (and if the desire is heritable), after 30 generations they’re now equal in number to the sustainers. Cambridge University is in the order of 30 generations old.

https://isogg.org/wiki/How_long_is_a_generation%3F_Science_p...