skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowden had a specific proposal IIRC. i think it was basically an exception for public interest.
>So close to 2 to 3x more than wind turbines and solar panels

This is a pretty facetious comparison. You install solar knowing that the sun won't shine all the time, and turbines that the wind won't blow. No one installs it expecting 100%. The cost to install is low.

Nuclear, on the other hand, is a massive capital expenditure. When nuclear is down, that is a major problem because you don't overbuild. An unplanned outage can be a disaster.

This whole conversation is a bit rich given that many of France's reactors are nearing EoL and France has no plans on replacing them.

Regardless, I soundly and overwhelmingly debunked the nonsense that Germany "went back to coal" so now it's on with strawmen and shifting goal posts. Such is always the nature of any discussion involving the magical panacea of nuclear.
BBC Olympics coverage misses events after loss of TV rights
With the convenient excuse that Windows Defender is a separate app that is not part of Windows, of course.
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That's fantastic, and I hadn't seen it - thanks for posting!
You can track handles within your process using GetProcessHandleCount. We have discovered some leaks in Windows APIs this way (which were fixed pretty fast).
"Don't worry everyone I'll be a great arbiter of information"

- Adolf Hitler when he took over the press probably
We don't have enough water anymore in Dresden
Has anyone seen a way to call this from Rust?
Lots of social networks failed before FB took off, a similar network failing doesn't mean it would fail. The key is Clubhouse's selling feature and hype came from the fact that was where the cool kids were, and the audio setup made it harder for conversations to leak to the riff raff. Once both those things were untrue, it lost its hype/sheen.
Yes plus there's the bit about the sheriff departments themselves, they are their own little fiefdom. This link really brings it home for me:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274...

Note, this is legal behavior. They are their own little governments with the only repercussions being their next election cycle, and we all know what sort of folks we tend to vote for.
I'm not defending the NYT, but there's a reason why most news sources have become extremely opinionated. There's lots of competition for people's attention, especially when it comes to news and people don't want to pay for news. As a result, they've tried to gain back viewership by becoming more editorialized. Sure you lose people who want a more objective source of news, but you gain a more dedicated following by picking a side in the culture wars. Highly opinionated content also gets you more of that sweet advertising revenue.

Until more people actively seek out more objective news sources and are willing to fund it with something other than ads, I don't see the situation improving.
+1 I enjoyed the writing style thoroughly. It made understanding the concepts super simple and fun to go through.
http://lichess.org

I can't recommend enough lichess.

It's been featured on HN numerous times [0]. Will always be free and has an extremely interesting tech stack.

Note: lichess isn't just about playing chess with other people online. They have great "training" section (e.g. how to mate in X moves, pick the best move available, etc). I almost enjoy the training section more than playing against someone else.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26910579
As usual, the people with the biggest stick up their ass tend to be the least useful and most time-wasting.
>Do you remember Web 2.0

Yes. That was when the Web started really going downhill.
Oh wow that’s pretty cool. It looks like there is a current that stays mostly within Canada, with the exception of upstate NY and northern New England.

It suggests that my climate will have more in common with areas 300mi to the NE vs 150mi to the SW. I know that Windsor-Detroit is in a warmer Koppen zone than pretty much every Canadian zone to the east. Continental a vs b IIRC.
I'm so done with the f-ing Olympics. They're just a vast marketing scam that countries and cities buy into -- often acting against the wishes of their own people. The cities that host them see more negative impact than positive; and, frankly, the coverage is boring.

After the last fiasco in Brazil, I was hoping it would drive a spike into the heart of the old relic -- maybe the tremendous loss on the investments in Tokyo will help it end . The summer games are the only ones any mass audience really cares about anymore, true?
> utilities being free on Linux negates the need almost entirely in any case

Some of these utilities are installed by running: curl hxxp://urlshortener.ly/Bde29al | sh

> Yeah, but less likely frankly, because it's less likely the malware author would take the time to make a ransomware for Linux

Linux is the dominant server OS. Enterprises are far more capable of paying ransoms than individuals.
The very notion of identity thievery is "BigMoney" (banks and credit rating) putting on their customer the responsiblity of what we used to call fraud.
xxHash is not cryptographic, whereas BLAKE3 is. You can use the former for things such as file integrity from errors checking, and the latter for file integrity from malicious intent checking. Or, one is for the file system and the other is for the internet. You should use something altogether slower like bcrypt for passwords though, because then you don't want to have speed in case someone has a copy of your database with a million passwords and tries to dictionary attack those million.
Two questions:

Why would copy-pasted (from EU REACH) "UK REACH" regulations present more of a burden to the semiconductor industry than EU REACH?

What NTBs exist that are known to affect the semiconductor industry?
Semantic versioning. 4.0 -> 5.0 indicates that the new society may be backwards-incompatible, whereas 5.0->5.1 implies that society will keep all of its existing APIs while adding more. A patch version that changed its internals without adding or removing any new features would be called 5.0.1, but society versioning doesn't include the last digit because civil servants don't ever get credit for their behind-the-scenes improvements.
We got better at talking to users
One aspect of security is also the misuse resistance. You can of course create a secure MAC with SHA256 in the HMAC configuration, but it usually takes a masters level course on cryptography to know what is Merkle-Damgård construction, and why it's design is imperfect:

You can't just do SHA256(key + message) to generate a safe MAC. With BLAKE (and all SHA3 finalists) you can do that safely.

It's true every time you make the algorithm more misuse resistant, the universe will come up with a more dunning Kruger, but despite that, it's something that can actually improve, the security is already more than adequate: Like Schneier so eloquently put it, "we're building a fence for sheep, it doesn't matter if the fence pole is a mile or two miles high".
Congrats on the launch! Would be very useful!

Some feedback:
1) While it is awesome that you will be doing all the communication with the contractors/vendors, it would give additional confidence to know who is actually doing the tasks
2) There should be community feedback on the vendor/task. Having it available in public would increase our confidence, for example, i might be willing to use your service for visa related tasks but not necessarily for building maintenance
3) Rather than country service, it should be city-specific.
4) Allow users to recommend vendors -who they have personally vetted
5) If I am ordering food today via zomato, etc in India for my parents, it asks for OTP pin etc prior to placing the order, can you explain how this workflow would be achieved? This is currently my most common task.
No. Europeans / US seek to convince people of their ideology which is called propaganda (democracy, human rights, climate change, etc.) They don't launch offensive operations with the sole goal of destroying the ability to have a conversation around the above (disinformation) and convince people there is no truth.

The fact people think everyone behaves the same way is, in a large way, a big victory for authoritarian govs trying to convince people this is the case.

After all, if everyone is guilty, no one is.
>"except partisan dismissal of a differing viewpoint"

My thoughts exactly. The other thing I find so frustrating is that people online will assert that bias is a terrible thing and that people should be open minded. But they also assert that it is a bad thing to be an "enlightened centrist" and they immediately become dismissive of anyone who utters the term "both sides". It's maddening.
Except if the moderators are in agreement with the tyranny. Then you have no views to oppose the tyrants.
Genius idea. I feel like you guys sort of missed out on the biggest opportunity that the world could have presented you with: Covid. I know that all my friends still living abroad were shitting their pants right around the time the pandemic was raging here. That would have been the perfect time to expand your business. Yet, better late than never. This can easily be a billion dollar business.
While this may sound like a dumb policy, the end result is exactly what you want, a system that makes it impossible to have you download executables without you being aware.
I don't know much about SF specifically, but I think it's generally a good idea to promote a strong system of public transit and then charge those who wish to drive instead of using the system. It allows a metropolitan region to scale up population density without eternal gridlock on the streets.

That said the bay area isn't particularly ramping up housing or transit either, from my understanding. Congestion pricing is one piece of a never-to-be-completed puzzle.
Shouldn’t change major parts of the os unless you fully understand what you’re doing. Has been true on every os since the beginning.

I recommend Ubuntu Mate as something that works well for dev work with a minimum of tweaking needed.

Also, I always keep my data files on another partition so OS installs are not a worrisome operation.
This is very important, very unappreciated point, to which I'd add that there's a legitimate fear that, within the organization, as your business infrastructure increases in size to handle international sales, your core business of making the product is a smaller part of the organization. The whole idea of "make great products" gets diffused in a situation like this: you now have sales-driven input coming in from a much wider market, with more competing directions. The core product team has to address a lot more stakeholders, and the domestic market that built them doesn't carry as much sway.

I worked for a company that turned down an offer by Walmart to become a top-tier vendor for them. We recognized we couldn't do it in our current form, and would need to rebuild ourselves from the ground up to handle the challenge. Many businesses took the opportunity: Vlassic Pickles most famously became a company 10x as large, but it was a completely different company afterwards, which the president noted was not without certain costs (basically, the family business destroyed, and replaced by being a part of the Walmart supercomplex). Many other companies tried to do the same thing and failed, effectively destroying the business in the process.

[Heh... Walmart as the Gom Jabbar of retail. "They tried and failed?" "They tried and died."]

Most of the comments here see this as entrenched interests trying to hold back the tide, but there are many businesses that don't survive the transition, and many more internal cultures that don't. It's a legitimate business choice to remain focussed on a domestic market one understands rather than gamble on international expansion.
PopOS on a Thinkpad is the best Linux experience I’ve ever had, by far. The far-field microphone even works.
At least Eurosport does that in Europe, I paid €12.49 for an annual pass so it's valid for this Olympics and the winter too in February. And you can watch rewatch every single event

https://www.eurosportplayer.com/olympics
Wildlife camera study is turned into a game
So what I’m hearing is, governments world prefer criminal enterprises stay in business so long as they get a cut of profits via settlements
CSS is not a technology designed nor intended to protect you from anything. It's a technology that enables professionals to style web pages.

And it's simple enough that even amateurs can accomplish much.
It's not misinformation at all.

The UK was just clever enough to hide the export ban in their contracts with AZ (unlike the US which did it more bluntly). The first xx million doses of vaccines manufactured in Oxford/Keele had to be supplied to the UK. Which is an export ban in all but name. But it gave the UK government the opportunity to claim that there was no export ban in place (even though nothing was exported for months).
Dude that is what I find the most annoying. Like, there is equestrian competitors, bike races, all kinds of crazy stuff.

Nope. Swimming and gymnastics. And for winter it is 80% Figure skating with a dash of ski and snowboard.
Getting on Product Hunt isn’t very valuable as a launch vehicle for most products. The exceptions are products targeted at people who read Product Hunt, such as product design and self-promotion tools. Unless you’re very positive that Product Hunt viewers are your core target audience, be careful about putting too much weight into Product Hunt.

If you still want to get on Product Hunt, you really need to work your way into the inner circle of someone who can help. Product Hunt wants users to believe they can organically work their way into these positions of influence in the site, but unless you have huge amounts of time to invest in Product Hunt it’s not likely. I know many product managers who invested way too much time in Product Hunt with hopes of gaining some clout, only to give up once they realized it was a huge time investment for little or no return.
Let's be real here anything that Facebook or Twitter or Google call "disinformation" is just another way of saying things that hurt their hold on the power of information.
So SHA224 and SHA384? They're not exactly common. SHA256 is pretty much the standard and SHA512 is usually used for hashing larger files due to the larger block size and thus faster speed. I don't think I've ever seen 224/384 used anywhere.
Which means that other communities ran by other moderators can be created. (This breaks down probably if the moderator is like, an ISP, AWS, etc.)
> Its going to be amusing to read replies to this thread.

I feel like respondents did a good job in the previous thread explaining what is going on and why. Your summation of that interaction, tone then, and tone today seemingly suggests you've got a predetermined conclusion in mind and consider any other interpretation/explanation as inherently adversarial.

Or to phase this more simply: This isn't constructive. You should assume good faith in the people who respond to you, test your assumptions, rather than simply dismissing any insight as a blanket "defense."
S-Curves
The frontend of HN?
Who cares about the olympics? Seriously, who is watching this? Who is the target market?
> "where people are told to redeem tether to USD"

If Tether has no actual cash in its kitty and its price on open exchanges plummets to zero, how exactly are "people" going to redeem it for USD? Tether is entirely unregulated, there's no FDIC insurance or equivalent backing it.
The founders of the Blu-Ray Disc Association were: Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung Electronics and Sony.

The studios did try to push HD DVD but it failed in the market, they only went to Blu-Ray when they had no other choice. So yes that's a case where you could argue Sony 'won', but it was a lot more than just Sony and not at all comparable to the situation with say Mini-Disc which was a purely Sony technology.
French is a good example, nasal vowels are everywhere and are just impossible to pronounce correctly for English speakers without training, so not only we shouldn't take offense but it's even insensitive to expect it.
I have an antenna as well. I was really hoping my NBC affiliate would use their other broadcast channels (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc) to show other Olympic sports. The promise of digital broadcasting. Nope, just more reruns from the 1980s.
How does this square with Hollywood's bending towards China? Or, the fact that Hollywood is fully independent from the US government?
I also make sure that if I'm using a platform with more than one person each contact must be visually distinct. For example, all my friends are on WhatsApp and they each have their own chat background image. You can't slip up that way.
Yeah, if you move fictional dollars in the form of USDT to USDC then you are just shifting the imaginary amount around, it doesn't change the fact $61B is rendered worthless.
> They don't launch offensive operations with the sole goal of destroying the ability to have a conversation around the above

Maybe not the US government itself, but American corporations and various political and corporate interest groups do literally this all the time.
Not false.

Sure there are exceptions to most rules, but break them only if you know what you are doing and are able to justify doing so.
I’ve seen a surprising amount of things with functional version numbers.

The frozen vegetable “meat” that’s being delivered my way is on v1.1 apparently. If people get used to food versionning, I think they’ll be fine with any other versionning.
A less than 1:4 ratio of tech positions, 2 backend developers on a supposedly 50-employee SaaS company is ridiculous and shows how startups burnout tech employees.
Top Grossing Apps and What Marketers Can Learn from Them – CleverTap
Global app spending is projected to climb to $270 billion by 2025. To give a bit of context, this number includes premium apps, subscriptions across Google Play and the Apple App Store, and in-app push notifications.
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As you undoubtedly remember, the universe popped into existence, complete with faked history of all space-time events, seventeen minutes ago.

There's no evidence against it.
Which games do you play that don't work on Linux? Because I switched to it a long time ago and haven't looked back. Proton and Wine are excellent nowadays, and 99% of what I want to play works, with the rest usually just a short `protontricks ...` command away from working.

The only stuff that is completely broken is Easy Anticheat and BattleEye, but those will supposedly be working when the new Steam Deck starts shipping.
>The NYAG showed that Tether was not fully backed.

In 2017, when they were busy securing other banking partners due to accounts being shutdown.

I consider this a gap due to growing pains, as did the NYAG. How would you shutdown Tether temporarily (2-3 months) if a bank ends a relationship?
> Seemingly headless

Heedless? Termites have quite well-defined heads.
I wish google would buy the American rights and put it onto YouTube. 4K video for everything. High frame rates. You name it.

That or twitch but I don’t think twitch does 4K and it’s client apps aren’t pervasive like YouTube. They don’t even have an Apple TV app.
Great game, one of my favorites. Fun to play solo also.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957813
This is quite cool. I would love to have an ELI5 to why these bots tend to cluster and stop acting randomly than, once they do.

I am currently not understanding (not having read the original paper) if there are basic rules being programmed into them. Or if this is really "just" emergent behavior from random movement.
Your last statement, I believe, is the point of the article.

> Possibly humans just don't like being reminded that they can do better

Humans don't like other humans who go around acting like they're better because they're doing Y and you're doing X.
I don't think it's the scale, but the specialization. When what you need is unspecialized manual labor, favors work great because those kinds of favors are fungible. It starts to fall apart when you need specialized work. I.e. I'm a farmer and I need to see a doctor. The doctor doesn't want to see me, though, because 134 other farmers already owe him/her favors and he/she doesn't know what to do with the favors he/she already has.

The doctor needs a way to convert all those favors they don't need into favors they do need. You could trade them, but then you need an exchange rate. There's 400 farmers in the town and only one electrician; is a favor from the electrician worth the same as a favor from a farmer? At a certain point, it makes sense to just exchange stores of value rather than try to manage favors like assets.

> but we are still trading the same thing

I don't really think they are. Favors are closer to an asset. $5 is $5, regardless of the holder. Favors have bearer-specific value, such that one might be near-worthless to me but priceless to you.

> For example, I use currency to track and buy favors from some laborer in China I have never met.

To me, this demonstrates the above premise. That laborer in China would rightly value your favor at near-zero. You're too far away for them to meaningfully cash in on that favor. Your favor behaves like an asset that they have no use for. Money is distinct in that it allows you to crystalize the labor that would have been done into a physical form, and allows you to do it ahead of time. No more worrying about fungibility, and no more worrying about whether the other party will actually honor the favor.
"if not the government-enforced kind, then the kind that comes from those who control the flow of information"

When they work together cooperatively, there is no distinction. https://nypost.com/2021/07/15/white-house-flagging-posts-for...
Doesn't this imply we need to vaccinate all animals too? What if it mutates in animals and contaminates humans again.
According to zooko, one of the authors, in new-ish cpus blake3 beats sha256 even with hardware acceleration: https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1419403567320821760
> But if you native Italian speakers did happen to pronounce it "gah-tes" or "googleh" or whatever while speaking Italian, Americans would not insist that Italians are pronouncing it wrong.

Of course the would. And I can ensure you other people from Italy would correct someone that say "gah-tes". When politicians are caught speaking terrible English they quickly turn into memes on social networks and are mocked a lot.

You are being dishonest here.

>> This is incredibly arrogant.

> I was making a joke. Probably didn't land well with those who disagree with me.

I don't believe you. You keep moving the goal posts.
It's unsurprising because China burns a LOT of coal and has a per capita emissions about the same as the UK, even taking into account exports vs imports (!) in spite of the much lower per capita income. China burns ~51% of the world's coal, in spite of not having even close to 51% of the world's population. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-coal-consumption-...

(I think China's coal plants tend to be smaller and so don't show up on these lists.)

If everyone else drops their emissions to zero (which needs to happen) and goes autarkic, cutting off all trade with China, assuming China maintains its stability and current energy mix, we'll still be screwed from a climate perspective.

We need everyone to reduce emissions, including China and the West both.