skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a similar approach in the less wrong study hall, target is usually students, buy may be useful for some https://complice.co/room/lesswrong/interstitial
“In 2006, Shapiro called for sedition laws to be reinstated. He cited speeches critical of the George W. Bush administration by Democrats Al Gore, John Kerry and Howard Dean as "disloyal" and seditious.”

Throwing people into jail for criticizing GWB? Yeah, that’s far-right. A;so far-out, and authoritarian.
> can we not sub-divide tranches like LEO into N components and majorly fine those whose satellites deviate?

Not realistically. Jurisdiction aside (are you going to fine Russian, Chinese, Indian etc satellites for not respecting US rules?) this would restrict allowable orbits beyond reason. They would all have to be circular and at the same inclination (within each "shell", defined by its altitude), or they would inevitably cross each other. You could try to define some fixed volumes where crossings are allowed, but that would only add a small subset of orbits (sun-synchronous, unless the crossing volumes are allowed to move around relative to Earth's surface) and concentrate collision risk into those volumes - and increase it, since average distances would be correspondingly smaller.
No. On paper, the BBC is independent of the UK government. Its funding comes from a licence fee rather than general taxation in order to emphasise that.

In practice, the BBC is part of the establishment but that doesn’t mean it is an arm of or voice for the government. Governments of all stripes have had a rocky relationship with the BBC.

The BBC outside the UK is a voice of a particular kind of Britishness rather than of the government. You could perhaps call that a soft power promotion of that aspect of British culture but no more than CNN International is for one aspect of US culture.

The BBC is very far from perfect and in danger of losing relevance but it is a misunderstanding to think of it as propaganda for the UK.
Corel Painter, but it costs $400 rather than zero.
That sounds more like classism to me.
In what country does it have that option? Doesn't seem to be a thing in Australia as far as I can tell. But we do have multiple different ways of doing free (or free for the sender and very low cost for a merchant) payments and transfers, including real-time transfers to/from financial institutions...

Given that it seems to be a similar case in Europe, UK etc. I assume this might just be a US thing?
It will actually be better for everyone the smaller the number of employees is as long as all positions are covered and the bus factor is acceptable.

Remember: WhatsApp used to be 50 people.
This is from 2016. It probably needs a year tag. Definitely Minecraft has been know to help build friendships, at least among my friends. We’ve known this for a good while, to put it one way…
Why no releasing an ebook version? PDFs are more from the paper printed era.
Oh, you wouldn't want to be able to split up black holes, since that means they could be destroyed during warfare.

Depending on what the cosmological constant is, massive black holes could be quite useful in the far future. 10^100 years from now, long after all the stars have gone out, it could be the case that the only life in the universe would be huddled up against the event horizon of supermassive black holes, exploiting the tiny temperature difference between the pseudosurface and the void to generate a trickle of power.

Splitting black holes would rob the far future of that power source to be used now. You could do it, but why shorten the useful life of the universe?
The experience of creating and selling NFTs needs to be better
Tarsnap is very secure. Depending on your use case however, it might not be the best in other ways
I loved screen, but only Debian/Fedora killed it for me. No love for other linux distros? :(
Just installed "Nitter Redirect" browser extension. Thank you, Twitter, for finally making me avoid your site entirely.
Top Robotics Companies in World to Watch Out for in 2021
The world is evolving at a faster pace where different robotics companies have achieved much more over the past years. Plenty of companies have achieved a new feat where their range of robots has already started working in different sectors. This article discusses the top robotics companies in world in 2021.
For most of my use cases, I also need

4) can easily interact with Excel.

A lot of things 'around here' run off spreadsheets, because relational databases weren't invented here and no-one ever needs more than a few million rows apparently.

I seem to spend half my job on the current project exporting stuff to CSV, running it through my code, then opening the resulting CSV in excel and formatting it a bit and saving as .xlsx again.

Still, at least I don't have to use Visual Basic that way.
In Hungary, if that would be your net income, that would put you in the middle-higher tiers of Lead Developer salary range. For comparison, the minimum wage for skilled work would be $2.88/hr.
Ah, poor poor people... If only they had more info / data streams.
Vim in a Bash shell should do the trick?
I hate Twitter and their hostile anti-user behavior. Wasn’t there a service that blogerized Twitter chains? It would be nice if people took a habit of using it.
By that measure, I haven’t changed my Facebook habits. But I’ve gone from an hour per day to checking it twice a month, as have many people I know.

BUT: I wouldn’t be surprised if there are difference between age groups, social classes, and regions of the globe, and that it may even be possible they are still growing their audience.
I long for the times where there were less package managers, not more. Maybe two at most (one for distros and one for developers maybe) but isn't it time for some kind of standardisation? One per language is not justified.
Black holes don't suck anything in. They just have very strong gravity relative to their size. So just like a space probe would drop into the sun if it got too close, things can get into an inescapable orbit around a black hole. If you can build a Dyson sphere around a star you can build one around a black hole of a similar mass.
- Why do you want to join XXX?
- https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-08-17
Sorry for being confusing.. I have been digging in and refreshing my memories of that first and second wave of small computers in the early 1980s.

It's a bit churlish to knock the IBM PC, the box that launched a thousand clones. The computer came with BIOS listings and schematics of the motherboard!

It's just that, as built, that first incarnation of the IBM PC was a kludge. A brilliant kludge, but in truth a hack designed to be replaced in a year or two. At the time, there were very low expectations regarding "open" versus "closed" systems. At least in my group of computer ah, enthusiasts. Rather than an S-100 passive backplane, where you can swap out all modules, you had storage and video display in one smaller box. With the printer, a RAM card, and the floppy controller, you had two or three slots...

High end video display terminals in 1980 could be expanded by installing big cards into a rack behind the CRT display. Then they could run with all processing locally!
No they're not 'ridiculously easy to detect'...at all.

They give insider info to corps & non-related individuals to act on.

Good luck tracing that.
Been wondering about this, how many people are using old browsers? caniuse.com reports [0] 96% support for ES6 classes. The other 4% is divided between Internet Explorer, Opera Mini and obsolete versions of every other browser. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of people are using such ancient technology and why? What kind of unusual visitors would I be missing out on?
> The Afghan army couldn’t fight back ... when the army was trained to work in coordination with US Air Force ...

Did their AK-47s need special US Air Force attention to work?

> Once you go in - you at least have a responsibility for the manner in which you get out.

The people living there had every chance to train and fight for their freedom. Apparently they did not want that.

The pull out was announced and negotiated 2nd of Feb 2020, they had ample time to prepare.

Did you have the same oppinions then as well regarding the pull out?, and did you do anything about it then?

Full press release from back then:

https://theweek.com/afghanistan-war/1003748/gop-takes-down-2...

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS CONTINUED TO TAKE THE LEAD IN PEACE TALKS AS HE SIGNED A HISTORIC PEACE AGREEMENT WITH THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN, WHICH WOULD END AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR

On February 2, 2020 , the Trump Administration signed a preliminary peace agreement with the Taliban that sets the stage to end America's longest war.

Under the agreement , the U.S. will withdraw nearly 5,000 troops from the country in 135 days in exchange for a Taliban agreement to not allow Afghanistan to be used for transnational terrorism.

Time Magazine reported that other components of the agreement included an agreement that U.S. counterterrorism forces stay in the country, permissions for the CIA to operate in Taliban-held areas, and details of how the Taliban's promises to reduce violence will be monitored and verified.

The deal has been called the " best chance to end this conflict ," a " decisive move " towards peace, and " the best path " for the United States.

The war in Afghanistan is the longest in U.S. history, a conflict that has killed more than 3,500 U.S. and NATO troops and cost U.S. taxpayers nearly 900 billion dollars.

As part of the peace agreement, the Taliban and the Afghan government recently began historic peace, talks which would end decades of war that Afghanistan has consumed.

The negotiations will cover the terms of a " permanent ceasefire, the rights of women and minorities, and the disarmament of the country's many militia groups ."
In this context, security by obscurity is literally what protects private keys.
There is a different HN story that doesn't accept comments, why? I don't see any there and can't write there. It is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28231153
I saw a really brilliant meteor while driving on the night of the 15th over southwest MO. It was as bright as a medium-sized firework explosion, green in color, and much larger than a streak. More of a shower of sparks than a shooting star. I wish I'd thought to be out observing the sky on the 14th.
Yes for X11: _NET_CLIENT_LIST [0]

[0] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.h...
Not GP, but I assume autistic people see the goal of a universal cure for autism (or even an accurate screening method for pregnancies) is the same as wiping out the existence of people like them.
I don’t see this as wrong at all, it’s an extremely useful feature with no alternative. Actually if alternatives start to appear it’s to services like theirs.

And insulting their whole user base like this sure will get you lots of support.
I have my own little-known human story. I was missing a knight emoji for some personal project and decided to make a request to the unicode consortium. The problem is I can't draw. I asked if someone could make one knight emoji for free on r/characterdrawing . Someone gracefully accepted to make one and our submission is now 'Under Consideration'.

https://old.reddit.com/r/characterdrawing/comments/mw0wy9/rf...
I really appreciate this comment, as anytime a new security issue creates a fuss, I feel like I'm the only one wondering what the real attack vector is. I'm genuinely glad people are so thoroughly investigating this new Apple policy, but at the same time I feel like I'm the only one dumb enough not to understand what I should be actually concerned about.
...and has gaping flaws in its ipv6 implementation
Thanks!

Yes, I agree the state market is even bigger - China's potential market for surveillance alone is 1.3 billion and rising - but I've heard from colleagues in tech who seriously think child abuse is only a very small number of bad actors. My understanding is the "industry" is almost as out of control as the illegal drugs trade.

I am indeed a SSC/ACX fan (and subscriber).
It's a YC company job posting. They appear on the front page every day, and never allow votes or comments.
Going back to your original point, what makes you think checking for CP in images uploaded to iCloud is more private or secure when Apple's servers analyse the entire image, rather than having the client generate a hash of the image and having Apple's servers analyse that instead?

I work in data engineering and I can tell you what I'd rather do. Having Apple's servers check hashes rather than the entire image means you can segregate the original images from the CP-checker data processing pipelines. That's a much simpler and more secure security scenario.
Yes thats the official version. I still wonder what would be the cost difference. In this scale it is not just for free.
And that's why some of us use firewalls, and/or avoid the Docker craze like hell.
Why do people hate redesigns?
No, for now I am fine with rooted stock Android. I keep an eye on Librem 5 and Pinephone and in the future I think I'm gonna get one of them as a secondary phone with hopes of eventually switching completely.
What do you do if they choose “door number 2”, when the deadline is approaching and you’re pressured to work overtime while delivering subpar code that will be a major pain to modify and maintain for the rest of your time on that project, leading to even more pressure and overtime?
I believe the emoji modifiers appeared much later than the hearts variations. The red heart is also an OG emoji and variations, such as broken heart (2010) and purple heart (2010) came much later. The skin tone modifiers seem to appear in 2017, and some other joined emoji seem to date back to 2015 [2]. So in summary, it's historical and changing it would break unicode.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/search/?q=heart
[2] https://emojipedia.org/eye-in-speech-bubble/
What part of "they already totally fucked up how their own process is supposed to work" don't you understand?
That is why I put the word "general"; C could be a dict, etc. I know that there are better ways for specific types, but the following code is a snippet that works for fast prototyping and I have found it to be idiomatic in VB for collections (but I do very occasional VB, less than once a year).

# pythonic pseudocode
def exists(x, C):
try:
C[x]
except:
# could be more specific
# IndexError, KeyError, etc...
return False
return True
Having slaves IN your country IS something you can change, having slaves in other country's is not (or just very slow ATM). That expat has a disgusting mindset if you ask me.

But having said that, Spain/Italy and the USA has their Modern-Slaves too, you don't have to go as far as bangladesh.
A blog would be a barrier to sharing brief information. I don’t understand why twitter is not appropriate.
Ask HN: Legality of reverse engineering game for engine reimplementation?
I have been thinking about reverse engineering SimCity 4 for the purpose of doing a engine reimplementation in the vein of Open RCT2 (Open source, Free, no assets included).

What I am concerned about, is what the legality is/if EA would go after me.
Software Bundle Using .distfile
I love dotfiles, my dream is to create a popular dotfile as the great .bashrc. This mission motivated me to create the DIST(dot)SH project (https://github.com/javanile/dist.sh). This is a tool for creating software bundles (ZIP files so to speak) based on a manifest called '.distfile'.

As for the popular '.gitignore' the '.distfile' as a convenient syntax for bundle complex package with custom file structure or ignoring specific files, or anything else that could get into it by mistake

Support me with STAR or FORK or better still a Pull-Request

Please be patient for the spammy content but I'm sure you love it for time saving.
An Analysis of the Potential for Formation of ‘Nodes of Persisting Complexity’
A lot has been said about using this as an attack vector by possibly poisoning a victims iPhone with an image that matches a CSAM hash.

But could this not also be used to circumvent the CSAM scanning by converting images that are in the CSAM database to visually similar images that won't match the hash anymore? That would effectively defeat the CSAM scanning Apple and others are trying to put into place completely and render the system moot.

One could argue that these spoofed images could also be added to the CSAM database, but what if you spoof them to have hashes of extremely common images (like common memes)? Adding memes to the database would render the whole scheme unmanageable, no?

Or am I missing something here?

So we'd end up with a system that:
1. Can't be reliably used to track actual criminal offenders (they'd just be able to hide) without rendering the whole database useless.
2. Can be used to attack anyone by making it look like they have criminal content on their iPhones.
I did consider Thinkpad at the time too, but they did not have an option to select linux OS when buying, so I went with Dell, because they don't just pretend to support linux, they officially do.
Did anyone sit with the users for a few days?

I hear the same success stories from the MSPs while simultaneously their users are crying into their coffee on a daily basis. In fact “sorry our systems are slow today” is a normal catchphrase these days.

Only high performance call centre outcome I’ve seen in recent years is run by Indian scammers.
old.reddit.com seems to work fine on mobile.
https://www.netbsd.org/support/security/advisory.html

NetBSD-SA2021-001 Predictable ID disclosures in IPv4 and IPv6
NetBSD-SA2020-002 Specific ICMPv6 error message packet can crash the system
NetBSD-SA2019-004 IPv6 neighbor cache leak on expiration
NetBSD-SA2018-004 Remote Memory Corruption in IPv6
NetBSD-SA2018-003 Remote DoS in IPsec (IPv6)
NetBSD-SA2008-015 ICMPv6 Packet Too Big messages
NetBSD-SA2008-013 IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol
NetBSD-SA2008-011 ICMPv6 MLD query
NetBSD-SA2008-003 IPsec in IPv6 Denial of Service
NetBSD-SA2007-005 IPv6 Type 0 Routing Header
NetBSD-SA2006-016 IPv6 socket options can crash the system
NetBSD-SA2004-002 Inconsistent IPv6 path MTU discovery handling
The protocol designed to heal the ozone layer may also have fended off warming
Also a long time vegan and not completely malnourished. Did you read the whole article? It discusses several studies where vegetarians and vegans are given supplements, and generally ends on the note that you absolutely need to supplement to live optimally on a vegan diet.

I mostly agree, although I think the title and tone taken at the beginning are uncharitable.
I read this way back when. It deserves its status as a classic. I highly recommend it.
yes another great one

these projects are just commendable!
Databases of people are the exact opposite of human rights. IBM famously enabled the nazi holocaust to go faster/further because of their punch-card databases. Eastern Germany Stasi, and KGB/FBI scandals famously pushed for privacy regulations in pretend-free countries like France (Loi Informatique et Libertés, 1978). Anything that uniquely identify someone else (ID card, phone number, DNA) is a tool of tyrants to oppress their people.
also, you can use light, instead of matter.

Termed the "halo drive", it's a very nice theoretical concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqL9CkNxXw
Boston Dynamics' robots can parkour better than you
Hey, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Co-founder of Sturdy here.
We are focused on teams who work closely together and iterate quickly. People often want ship small incremental changes to production. In those cases we found there is a significant overhead of creating/reviewing/merging Pull Requests.
At its core Sturdy is about allowing early and continuous feedback in asynchronous collaboration.

The equivalent of switching branches and checking out different code all happen in the webapp. On your computer you get a two-way-synced "magic directory" where you code with your existing tools/IDE/editor of choice. This means that if you wish to checkout someone else's work, a click in the webapp would instantly swap the content of your project dir.
Video Synopsis for those that don't like reading.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YL6ERPmI738
Most redesigns make the software objectively worse, IME.
Great idea. Although it is probably unrealistic for accounting data (profits, losses, cost of sale, etc), other types of data are indeed likely already present in internal systems with at least daily resolution: number of live accounts to show signups and closures, median watch time, total number of hotel bookings made, mining ore yield, vehicle occupancy and miles run for logistic companies, number of cars serviced, etc.

SEC could make a list of required realtime reporting metrics by industry and mandate this information to be published with delay no more than X days.
Iowa solved the Covid numbers issue – Hide them
How does a system created by the SEC detect that person A is a (close) friend of person B, with accuracy? Family I can understand, if you share the same last name etc, but friends?
i could say the same thing about poirot. not books but the suchet series. in the end, poirot can never, ever, produce a proof to jail the killer or thief. it's all about the journey, as you said.
> and it doesn't support unordered_map (or even use it as the default) for objects.

std::unordered_map has massive overhead in space and time. Maybe I misunderstand your idea, but outside of extremely niche use cases, std::unordered_map is basically never the right tool (unless you don't care in the slightest about performance or memory overhead).
"The SEC Market Abuse Unit's Analysis and Detection Center uncovered the trading ring by using data analysis tools to identify the traders' improbably successful trading over time."

Fascinating tool!

I remember a video we had to watch at my previous employer, explaining what insider trading is and discouraging it. Part of it had a testimony from a real guy from that company, who was caught on insider trading, was convicted with a jail time, and was very remorseful on the video, explaining how he ended up going that slippery path, and how awful the consequences are. Maybe he even got some time reduced by doing that video, don't know.

But it definitely left a lasting impression...
You're missing on visitors with disabled (or whitelisted) javascript. On HackerNews that'll be pretty common.
Since other commenter had concerns about the PS4/PS5/other consoles wgpu being proprietary due to SDK restrictions (and consequently, Bevy PS4/PS5/other consoles port being proprietary), I will ask: does this mean that Bevy for consoles will cost money? (apart from the console SDK cost). Will Bevy for consoles be source available, as in, developed exactly like current Bevy but under a non-open source license?

Or actually: is it feasible to license console-specific Bevy code as MIT/Apache and have the only proprietary bits be the console SDK? (This means having Bevy, an open source project, call a console SDK in the open - is that allowed?)

For me those are my main concerns regarding Bevy.
>>The only CSAM Apple will flag has to come from multiple organizations in different jurisdictions; otherwise, those hashes are ignored.

Have they actually said they would do that? I was under the impression that they just use the database of hashes provided by the American authority on prevention of child abuse.

>>And since no credible child welfare organization is going to have CSAM that matches stuff from the worst places

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, can you expand?
Right, but that's 16 years ago - twice as long - so it doesn't really establish anything.
Unfortunate, yes. But it keeps with the spirit of a language that is designed for both single pass compilation and separate compilation. A module system that mimics other languages like D or Python (I don't know enough about rust) would require a major change to how C++ compilations works. The compilers are by now complex enough that I'm pretty sure that compiler developers aren't keen on rewriting their frontends for multi-pass compilation.