skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to get off the internet for a little while. The world does not revolve around 4chan memes, and the phrase "it's okay to be white" does not signal that someone is secretly a racial supremacist.
If it's TLS1.2, certificates containing CNs and/or SANs are sent in the clear too.
It was legitimately a Chinese. Virus. Leak.

Your entire approach to this is arrogant. You have decided that based on your superiority and judgement that your mental inferiors are too simple to handle the truth and thus it should not be revealed. While I dislike him, Trump was a democratically elected president.

"your perspective here seems childish at best"
This appears to be your approach to your fellow citizens, you are right and every one else is a child. You come off just as narcissist as Trump. Grow up friend, realize there is nothing special about you, you are just as intelligent and naive as your fellow man.
The UK can only ask Germany to 'do something about it'. Courts apply to entities over which they have jurisdiction. UK isn't even in the EU anymore, they have no power over a German mail company.
> To defeat enemy in aerial combat, hypersonic plane should zoom ahead and launch missile backwards, according to computer simulation

Not counter intuitive at all. This was my favourite dogfight setup in one of the greatest games of all time, Star Control 2.

You put a lot of dynamos on your ship, then use just one weapon slot that shoots backwards, and add guiding hardware. A short burst of shots, from big distance and any enemy ship is history, without any damage.
I see, thanks for clarification! I glanced though their website and expected a standard set of features including IMAP.
> I take issue with the idea that maintainable code is about "making programmers' lives easier"

He's talking about "clean code", not maintainable code. The claim that "clean code" is more maintainable is an unproven assertion. Whenever I interact with a "clean code" codebase, it is worse in every way compared to the corresponding "non-clean" version, including in terms of correctness.
How do you make sure that the source you see is the one that's deployed?
Indeed, for a native English person who doesn't have genders for inanimate objects (I'm sure someone will come up with an exception) they don't seem to add any benefit. La chaise vs Le chaise. It's a chair, you sit on it. Someone articistic might decide that a chair has a masculine form, but another chair could be feminine, but that doesn't change the "le" vs "la" part.

Do non-european languages have genders?
Move your organization to another jurisdiction?

I don't see any other option if what service you want to provide is illegal where you are based.
Apple Users Need to Update iOS Now to Patch Serious Flaws
The same kind of thing has always happened when I’ve sent emails to my MP (in Australia). Just basically a form letter with my name inserted at the top. I expect what happens is one of their staff just skims it, sends the form reply and deletes it…
Agree as well. In the team we all do:

- git checkout -b "new-branch"

- git commit

- git merge --no-ff master (to get the latest from master into our branches)

- git push

That's all you need. No rebase or force pushes. Easy.
Test grade shielded HDMI connectors would probably mitigate this. They’re generally about $50 for 2 meters.

I’d also expect this attack to only work within a few feet of the target system. The author admits that the quality of transmission is pretty heavily affected by antenna and cable orientation. The bigger concern IMO is proximity - if you’re close enough to pull this off, you’re already at “physical access” levels of threat to a secure system.
>I listen to songs by Micheal Jackson, watch movies starring Woody Allen and OJ Simpson, and directed by Roman Polanski. It doesn't mean I agree with their life choices.

It easier to separate the art from artist and not boycott producers of long form art works (Kanye, Woody Allen, Polanski... I wont include MJ since the allegations werent proven to be true) that are therapeutic, inspirational, and have a lasting impact on a large % of the world population.

Scott produces low impact & reach comic strips that are good for a short chuckle and little else. His body of work which is limited to distribution on a dying medium just cant survive him going off the deep end.
Sigh. X11 actually can. Even in its original release it supported different PPIs for different displays. But a lot of Linux programs (especially GTK ones) will flat out assume the specified monitor PPIs are just wrong and will use 96 PPI. Plus with the way modern multi-monitor usage works with X11 by faking one giant single screen that doesn't work anymore. But when it works, it works.

But even with that it's STILL possible with the right setup using xrandr where you essentially render at a higher res and then downscale. Ubuntu's X11 version of Gnome has had this out of the box since I think 20.04 and it works very well. IIRC upstream Gnome refused it because that's what Wayland is supposed to do...
Well, I am making a live Youtube stream with audio and wanted to add an album cover on top for the track when it is playing.
While the "incompetent youth" trope is trite, I do feel we're past "peak learning curve" on systems for youth.

I think photography is even a better example than scanners: so many things that were super hard once are now literally point-and-click. However what was once an easy growth path now requires a large upfront investment, which most people pass on.

The unfortunate casualty is the hobby-ness of the occupation. If doing things requires so much premeditation, people start treating it as a job/chore, and lose an opportunity for joy. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is a shame.
To summarize: if you make the problem complex enough, then the specific performance methods used in the article don’t work. But hey, why not take your complex example? If you apply a polymorphic approach to Bézier curves and polygons, then you still get a 1.5x slowdown compared to a switch statement. If you have any commonality between your implementations of area for them, it’s harder to find, which could be worth 2x or more. If there is a common algorithm for calculating all polygons and curves, wasting work for simple shapes, but vastly improving cache and predictor performance, then you could be leaving another 5x on the table. Orienting the code around operations instead of types is still a win for performance with similar cognitive load compared to type hierarchies.

You’re right that once you’ve done the 15x performance gain that Casey demonstrates, the code is pretty brittle and prone to maintenance problems if the requirements change a lot. But I think we can have our cake and eat it too by maintaining our code with the simple path available to fall back to if we get a complicated new requirement. Need to add in complex cases that weren’t thought of before? Add them to new switch cases that are slower, and then keep looking for more performant ways of calculating things of need be.
Is that a hedge or is he being ousted? I thought Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI.
I know some services do this somehow, so I was thinking maybe there is a way in ffmpeg.
Why should anyone not be unhappy that their favorite cocktail is harder to find?

The article tried to paint the monks in a favorable light for limiting their production for environmental reasons but the phrasing rings hollow to me. They didn’t stop all production, or release the recipe to the world. They merely limited their output which, much like many companies with monopoly power are currently finding, allows them to have a higher price per unit, while no one can come in and compete in their market.
But he's an OpenAI cofounder? And also just recently laid off a bunch of ML researchers from Twitter's Cortex team?
* 2017 - the Attention Is All You Need paper proposes transformers, suggests language translation as their primary application

* 2019 - GPT2 is presented to the public and demonstrates transformer-based LLMs and their emergent capabilities

* 2020 - GPT3 is released and shows that throwing more compute at LLMs yields significantly better LLMs

* 2022 - ChatGPT is openly released to the public, showcasing the versatility of an LLM-based chatbot

In my experience transformers have been all the rage in the researcher/enthusiast scene since 2019. The technology has just gradually matured enough to become viable for consumer use, which is why you see the industry rushing to adopt it. ChatGPT was the watershed moment for the tech because suddenly anyone in the world could sign up for free, open a chat dialogue and start getting legible LLM output without needing to understand the tech or prompt engineering.
He teaches at an Israeli university, so that’s a pretty big hint.
Policy isn't made for you. It's made for the Daily Mail, who will relay it to voters in marginal seats, who are the relatively narrow set of people who can actually affect the outcome of elections.

It's not even made to be implemented. The previous "extreme porn" ban fell apart. It's made to get headlines. Then next year there will another "make the internet safe" bill. And another. It's no more going to be finished than "get Brexit done", and for the same reasons.
I don’t buy this narrative. We’re only doomed if you just accept we are.

People manage! They have before, they will this time. Discouraging them doesn’t help. If that’s all you’re willing to do, better just don’t.
Ah, sorry! That makes sense. :-)
Among others, likely in old introductory books on BASIC or its other flavors.
The desktop metaphor is still my favorite way of doing computers. Android is still heavily influenced by it, they hide it just enough, mostly with the hideous "Data lives in apps" idea that's more the fault of cloudmania than android itself.
Could be worse: you could waste your life fretting about it, and it happens anyway.
>>You are only left with web access, which is not really practical.

That is the saddest thing to come from Apples insatiable greed... The original iPhone was not going to have apps at all, it was all going to be web pages.

There is nothing stopping the browser from being the only app a device needs, nothing other than greed and authoritarian control that is...
it's not that they are the only onew willing, but that only those can succeed
It's the riffs they're knocking, not the last word itself. There's bad riffs out there!
US CHIPS Act fund recipients barred from expanding in China for 10 years
archive: https://archive.is/wU9VO
For sure. But that's a point in favour of Nuclear power, wouldn't you say?
I immediately thought of itch.io. There's certainly room for competition but that's the site I go to for independent and demo games. They have a pretty good discovery system and can take payments or tips for creators.
> I remember struggling with torrent clients, cracked games, dodgy drivers, unrecognised CDs, building my own pc &c. then in uni I was toying with linux distros, I probably spent more time hacking around to make them work than actually studying but it taught me a lot of things, things that were useless on the spot but are helpful in the long run

You do realize only a tiny tiny subset of kids were like that back in the day, right?
Frankly given how unworkable it is and how difficult it's going to be to be subject to extra-territorial jurisdiction over this, the easiest strategy is to ignore it. Lots of companies will, the government will whinge a bit, then forget about it.

The UK is not the US in terms of enforcing its laws on noncitizens overseas.
Yes.

They ARE complicated and this is compounded by the fact that you almost never need to use one-- until you REALLY need to use one. At that point it becomes a race to print to the right printer (because they're almost never named in a logical way). Or worse, add a printer that the IT department installed months ago and you had ignored until you needed to use it. And finally, diagnose problems and fix jams which can be an interesting exercise with varying degrees of frustration depending on the model of the printer and its condition.
Thanks for the answer! You guys are doing great work with the Linux port.
Ignore history at your own peril

We are seeing the decline in real time, the documentary from time travlers in idiocracy clearly outlines our future.
There are a lot of comments here saying that printers and scanners are complicated! Really? More complicated than your microwave, fridge freezer, television? More complicated than your car?

Printers and scanners aren't complicated, it's just that we don't really need to use them much anymore... until we have to. 99 times out of a hundred I don't need to scan because I can just take a picture on my phone of any hard copy document. I don't need to print because people are happy to receive an electronic document by email.

If I never had to drive again, I'm pretty sure I'd forget how to operate a car after a few years. If I'd never operated a washing machine in my life, I'm pretty sure I'd struggle to put on that first wash. Every time we have a power cut, and my oven refuses to work, because the clock is not set, I just push buttons randomly until it works. Instructions for resetting the clock are just not worth remembering, as it only happens once a year or so.

There's nothing complicated about these devices. I used to bootleg VHS tapes by hooking up two player/recorders. That's a skill that's completely useless now. These devices are just becoming obsolete, so we don't bother learning how to use them. I'm pretty sure I'd be unable to start and drive a Model T Ford, and I don't see any shame in that.
Sure, but what happens, once you want to start supporting other shapes other than basics? Because clean code assumes code will be changed/maintained.

Then you get people writing their own horrible hacks.

Both clean code and performance oriented design have their extremes.

Clean Code has Spring with Proxy/Method/Factory monster... and hyper performance has the extreme in the story of Mel (i.e. read-and-weep only code).
Unless you have a Sony phone (where photos are still point and click witha 2 step button) it's point and tap now.
Ignoring your electorate just got so much easier with ChatGPT
Americans' Overall Opinion of the U.S. News Media by Political Party
Not everything. Imagine a character that has a certain agenda/motivations/personality, but is able to 'naturally' react to the player's actions in a non-scripted way. NPCs is future AAA games are going to be insane.
> Well, the issue is there's never been a university that had to "cut costs"

The evidence from recorded history disagrees.
> Honestly, the only reason to plant non-native plants is vanity.

That's a bit extreme. Planting a bit of herbs and veggies in my garden alongside the native forest on my land will neither destroy the local ecosystem nor is it for vanity (nobody can even see the plants but me and my family).

If you live on a small plot of land and you only have room for a few plants, then native is a good choice. I have acres and acres of untouched woodland on my property. A few bell pepper plants in my garden does no harm.
I'm not sure. Having run a smaller datacenter (~2 megawatts) We got far more bang for our buck by upgrading the core switch fabric and moving to dual 40gig(from dual 10 gig) ethernet for the "heavy" nodes.

Sure it cost more in terms of capex, but once it was installed we didn't need to change anything else. The cost of having an engineering team porting mission critical stuff to a new transport mechanism would have been astronomical, not only in opex, but in lost capacity to do other business critical tasks.
Quit Monkey, Grit Monkey
I sometimes work with students too, and the level of general tech knowledge is very low indeed.

I understand not knowing how to use a copy machine, since they don't have a copy machine at home. But not knowing how to change notification settings in apps, or generally turning off spammy notifications (in android) is something completely different.. they have the device in their hands for many hours per day, and the spammy notifications come daily, and yet they don't even try to figure it out how to disable them.

Privacy settings, again, are something they have no idea how to use or set.

Stuff like scanning multipage documents into a single pdf (there are many many apps to do that) are revelation to many.

And i'm not talking 14yo kids here, i'm talking about engineering students.
I’ve seen the blogpost before, but the Wikipedia article is great.

From Wikipedia:

> This oxidizing power, surpassing that of oxygen, causes ClF3 to react vigorously with many other materials often thought of as incombustible and refractory. […] In one particular industrial accident, a spill of 900 kg of ClF3 burned through 30 cm of concrete and 90 cm of gravel beneath.

Two things: First, the idea of burning (not melting!) through 1.2m of what is effectively stone is wild. Second, somebody had 900kg of this stuff in one place?!
Scientists unveil plan to create biocomputers powered by human brain cells
I can see now why we’re talking past one another. I am making a statement about the usage of the word “rights”. When I say “you have a right to due process” it is not a statement about an abstract concept but a matter of fact statement about the legal protections you have, which depends on the jurisdiction in which you are physically located.

You’re talking about the philosophical basis for how we come to our individual beliefs about what rights we should have. Note that the conversation is teetering on the edge of an appeal to the law fallacy: what the law currently says is entirely irrelevant when considering what it should say. To say that slavery is legal is not to say that it is moral, it’s just a question of fact.

In any case, if you have an absolute basis for rights I’d like to hear it. I’m not an expert and I’m curious about people’s theories about these things.
Would it also apply to humans that read and remember the content?
> in a variety of ways

is what what people write when they cannot think of a concrete example, or when they cannot get my boss to sign off on something...
> The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow.

Add in tree style tabs and you get this relationship on steroids - new tabs are automatically a child of the source tab, and you can expand/collapse the tree.
My printer (A TS8220) is fine. I'm not sure why everyone hates them. Like, I'm a big office a few will be bad, and they'll accumulate wear if used all the time, but a home inkjet is fine unless you let the nozzles dry up, although they seem to be fine for months.
This part is hilarious to me:

> "How would they know how to scan something if they’ve never been taught how to do it?"

I'm not surprised that came from a professor of education. Leave it to a teacher to protect you from bullies by saying out loud to the whole class exactly what your bullies were whispering to mock you.

Snark aside, in all seriousness, this seems like an article about nothing. Young people are going to get a little bit of snark from older people who are jealous of their youth and hipness, then they'll learn how to use the copier, and nothing of note will have happened.

There isn't going to be a follow-up article in twenty years about law firms going out of business because all the workers who can send a fax have retired. People who can get a printer to print double-sided and collate will not be working into their 60s at inflated wages like Cobol programmers. It's just a bit of fluff.
Ask HN: Insurance against App Store bans?
Has anyone managed to buy insurance against the various "acts of god" which can occur for an app businesses? For example:

- App pulled from app store

- Cloud provider account blocked

- Cloud financial app account / funds frozen

As many others have noted these are real, existential dangers businesses face. Has anyone found a market for this risk?
>For me the biggest issue is the lack of understanding of files and folders. Google Doc is used by I'd say most people under 25 today. It sucks, it teaches people to rely on search, and not even Google is good at finding stuff on that level.

It pains me to say this, but honestly? I think it's an elegant solution to a problem that doesn't want answers.

The world at large has never, and I mean never, understood files and folders. Most people, both in the 20th and 21st centuries, create and leave all their files straight on the desktop. Teaching people about file structures never works because they don't care, far as they're concerned they have more important stuff they need to be dedicating their brain cells to.

So the wiser(?) computer nerds giving up on trying to teach file structures and bending the knee to what the world at large wants, a singular place to store data and a quick way to find them, is an elegant solution.
For now I think copilot is a really powerful prototyping tool. I'm using it as a MVP helper, if something sticks I just rewrite the functionality
> the encrypted email service Tutanota, says: "We will not 'walk out' of UK.

Would they in any way be required to?

> Email services

> 1 A user-to-user service is exempt if emails are the only user-generated
content (other than identifying content) enabled by the service.
As the research by this professor shows, layoffs are not a guaranteed way to profitability. Unless a company is in a dire financial situation (Twitter), layoffs do not pay off long term. Lay-offs are expensive and tend to result in lower staff morale and, in addition to that, lower productivity. It generally increases staff turnover, especially if pay raises are also delayed. Good staff leaves typically first, as they have no problem finding another job. That leaves you with an overworked and demotivated staff base when the economic downturn turns into an upturn. Even if you manage to rehire staff quickly to deal with the upturn, you still need to train them before they start adding value.
Well to be honest the Dropbox issue is all on dropbox. Backing the entire computer up? Putting a pop-up at startup asking for that? Grade A BS
I think the models would be too biased if the training data doesn't have legs.
Wow. Ribbon and preferred interface in the same sentence.

By the way, NitroPDF is great.
TMDS will reduce the number of crossings, but 10110110 will still have more crossings than 0.

It'll be some pseudo-random mapping, not "greyscale", but it'll still be readable.

Look up the wikipedia page for 'ECB mode' for a nice illustration.
Never heard of Tutanota but I respect the stance
Hoo boy, this brings back (bad) memories of emissions testing HDMI.

Back in the days when I worked in consumer audio, we were working on a small sound bar that used HDMI for sound transmission via ARC. However, the product folks were worried about compatibility with SPDIF only TVs, so asked us to design a little HDMI to SPDIF dongle to allow this soundbar to work with SPDIF TVs, or HDMI TVs with no ARC support.

Long story short: the compliance test folks were only testing with the SPDIF/ARC dongle. Due to a quirk of this (I think not being able to read an EDID from downstream?), the processor would shut off the HDMI interface. No TMDS, this; little to no emissions.

We all got a nasty surprise when we hooked it up to a monitor and ran it in the test cell again. That was a big scramble to fix.

Funnily enough, it was only at the highest bitrates (which I think was 1080p) that emissions were problematic. All the lower bitrates passed with no difficulty.
> Like Suse had previously ?

Do you mean SUSE Studio? That functionality has been integrated into the openSUSE Build Service at https://build.opensuse.org/ .