skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

>"We cannot afford to give our water away frankly to anyone, let alone the Saudis, for free," said Mayes.

This person is saying that giving the water away to the Saudis is worse than just giving it away. It isn't simply the action of taking the water that is troubling them. It is that it is going to a scary other. This is classic xenophobia.
> is probably not Intel's fault

consensus is Intel went down the shitter quality wise, just one example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXNyHFOWx_k
It will only work from real mode because it is, in fact, a VM86 mode monitor. So no EMM386, Windows in 32-bit mode or OS/2.
The problem is that academia has a lot of power, since the intellectuals there often set what is considered the Overton window in politics. For example, the "woke" wave started off in academia before it became mainstream in the last ten to fifteen years. So it is very important to defend free inquiry and debate in academia.
1. The article is simply a summary and repetition of Judith Curry's announcement, and Curry is/was an academic climatologist.

2. Given (1) I don't really care what reason.com is, but at any rate, I think right wing think tanks are far less biased and far more reliable than universities, government agencies and left wing think tanks, so that's not a useful or convincing response. Climatology is flooded with money due to their claims of doom, so they're as biased by money and profit as it is possible to be. My experience was that their opponents are barely funded at all and object due to a belief that things labelled as scientific should actually be so.
The red is definitely in front at first, but if I stare at any of the colors I can move them to the front.
Which GPT model did you feed them into?
Doesn't WebAuthn require a Trusted Platform Module or an equivalent hardware solution, like trusted execution environments, for storing keys? This varies across hardware platforms and vendors which why I'm guessing solutions like WebAuthn haven't become ubiquitous yet.
True true, now draw a ellipse programmatically or line that follows the mouse in Flash and you'll see this flip round and P5 is easier.

Both have their benefits, P5 is far superior for creating interactive digital art or creative tooling. Flash is far better at creating intricate animations.
I am using RON in a gamedev experiment I'm doing and it's great for live reloading of stuff
> I do get the impression that they're doing random inspections.

As someone who's been responsible for various iOS App Store submissions for closing in on a decade, the impression I get is that the variation is primarily due to inconsistencies in process between reviewers. The corners probed by one reviewer might go entirely ignored by another and what one reviewer finds perfectly fine constitutes a violation in the eyes of another.

The Play Store review process on the other hand comes off as feeling almost entirely automated barring a handful of exceptions, which works fine until some innocuous change in code or the automated review system trips something somewhere and your app listing is removed. Good luck getting in touch with a real person to fix it.
NYC
http://www.capoliticalreview.com/trending/in-nyc-more-crimin...
In the "old days" (2015 and before), PD used Wormly to mass-blast all engineers.
It reminds me of ZipSlack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZipSlack
> there’s a far greater chance that hackers can make it onto the [Android] platform to distribute malware through malicious apps [compared to iPhone].

https://nordvpn.com/blog/ios-vs-android-security/
I would love this. Almost all of these can be achieved using Firefox and tons of extensions, but its to much for some of my relatives who feel the same way about the web but don't have the technical knowledge to set everything up.

for example, bypass paywalls clean was removed from most (all?) web extension stores and now has to be sideloaded. I don't think most non techies would be comfortable doing this, so maybe something like a firefox distribution (a la librewolf) would be ideal, so you could build off the other extensions there, and the anti tracking tech built into firefox.
Not necessarily.

What I think will go away is the annual developer fee, since the provision specifies access to the OS and features must be free of charge.

Apple may charge separately for access to the App Store and developer tools if it so chooses. However, I predict that once it becomes viable due to the law, a new community of FOSS developer tools will arise.
You assert a feedback loop that is reached at a certain absolute temperature level, I respond with evidence that it can't exist (otherwise it would have already triggered), and your reply is that you can't even understand the link between these two things?
One would expect Intel to do periodic regression tests on Linux kernel releases on their hardware. A lot of Intel customers use Linux, and they may switch to other vendors if Intel hardware has bad Linux support.
I can add one more data point to it as MIPT graduate. Number of people among MIPT, MSU and HSE graduates I know personally who emigrated in the past 12 months is remarkable. It’s somewhat similar to early 1990s when whole labs were relocating to the West.
Yeah, the point is about 16 core one.
Absolutely. I'm just more fascinated by the idea that there are still such climate change trolls out there in 2023, and they're wasting time on HN. I thought they'd moved away from straight denial and on to bad-faith arguments against renewables.
"30% off" ain't a claim to be "harmless". The stuff is still quite insane. Ditching cow and milk is still quite relevant. (Also, corn price for feeding cattles vs famine is still a topic with tension).
Functional Reactive Animation (1997) [pdf]
Come on, too easy. Too many lives have been lost to just step over it with a shoulder shrug.
Try Vanilla OS:

https://vanillaos.org/

> Vanilla OS is an immutable and atomic Ubuntu-based distribution that receives updates at the right time without sacrificing security or functionality.

> Vanilla OS is an immutable operating system. Core parts of the system are locked down to prevent unwanted changes or corruption caused by third-party applications or faulty updates. Some paths such as the home and configuration directories are still writable, allowing the user to keep and modify their files and application data.

> Core components are updated via controlled and atomic transactions, which are only applied when successful and made available on reboot.

Anecdotally I've been running Ubuntu 18 since it came out and updates don't mess with my system. They're not designed to mess with your system. They're mostly security patches for modular pieces of the OS.
I don't believe IEEE 754 specifies which infinities it encodes as its positive and negative infinity. I'd tend to treat it as the surreal equivalence class {0,1,2…|}, but it might be any of the others.
I was just discussing this general subject with my better half. She showed me a corner of an OD chart at a going-concern with several "managers" and "directors" having between 2 and 7 direct reports. Context: cost-cutting. Worse: the company asked an outsider for recommendations. Figuring it out themselves I guess was too adult of a responsibility.

Now having two direct reports is absurd asking questions like how that was ever allowed and tolerated for as long as it was.

But I would also point this out. When upper management knows what in the hell they doing, a couple of middle managers can help tremendously. At HP's zenith, middle management was a strategic asset. They are too senior to get caught up in every team's day-to-day, and too close to the action to walk around with detached C-suite perspectives.

Composing the parts into an organized whole which requires tamping down sectionalism, getting specialists out of their backyard, and so on can be huge. Man, that's a tough ask. Holding that center is darn important.

So just like anything else, if you're talking Middle Management in the Drucker or Gerstner or Berkshire Hathaway sense, that's the real deal. If you're talking lower-case "middle management" that are glorified paper pushers and meeting mavens, cut like the dickens.

But no matter what, how is upper management getting away with spending that kind of shareholder cash on nonsense in the latter case? I am inclined to agree with another HN story circulating that the pendulum from competent but jerk has swung way too far to DEI nice-guy but total moron. Professionals are both: competent and personally accessible.
I wonder if it possible to really quantify how difficult it is to get an bad acting app for any store approved?

We've all heard stories about random bans and apps black listed and so on. Happened to some folks I know.

Having said that ...

I worked on an app recently that used location data heavily. I was told all about how picky Apple (and they mentioned Google too) would be, from folks online, and at work. Some folks even suggested hiring someone who had managed to get an app approved to help us get it approved.

I asked that everyone calm down ... and just let me TRY submitting the damn app first before we decided we're climbing a tall mountain or whatever they thought.

I got right in to the App Store and Google Play ... no problem.

Now granted my app is REALLY up front about using location data and such. But I wonder what the story really is?
For stocks, there's this thing called "production", which results in "profits". It's not zero sum, like cryptocurrencies. "Trading", though, means fees and spreads, which is how brokers make money and traders lose it.
I worked for a company that used PagerDuty, but eventually moved to a service that provided actual physical pagers. Well, they looked like 1990s pagers, but connected to Wifi. Really cool. Not sure why more don't do this.
I understand. You literally don't know what else to say, so you have to at least attempt to say something that you think might sound witty. A real pity.

And yes, compared to Imperial Russia that was a Near-Absolute Monarchy with an Hereditary Emperor whose imperial style/form of address was "Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias" the Soviet Union was a beacon of progressiveness.
A response like "that looks like nonsense" isn't arguing in good faith, is it. That's not even arguing at all. It's the shallow dismissal of someone who doesn't know how to respond to unexpected evidence of incorrectness.
The generic term used to be "hush covers," if I remember correctly. The printers of the day could be pretty noisy blighters.
You were talking about F9 landing, and taking off with 33 engines. Only the first stage lands on the F9. Only the first stage has 33 engines. I guess it's more confusing when Starship is what the whole ship is called, and possibly the second stage.
That's another advantage of community college courses, is it may actually be practical to implement that sort of discipline. It certainly isn't when it's you and a TA and 100 students in a big lecture hall.
I think we do need science. We just went through three years of divisive public debate about science vs. "knowing" what is good or bad for our health.

Plastic is pretty chemically inert. We've been using it widely for decades to great benefit and there is no strong evidence that it's harmful. I would not be surprised to find that in the body it's basically benign.

Or maybe not, but I don't see how you can "know" either way, without scientific research.
but lets say they're upset enough to leave - where will they go en masse that replaces reddit?
The article is from 2004.
Also, you are citing numbers of war casualties. I am not referring to Putin's war agenda, I am refering to his state agenda that affects the society at large, aside from the war.
I’ve never visited the front page, but I’ve found a number of helpful folks on various construction trade or woodworking subs. I only have notifications enabled for /r/costco_alcohol quite useful to gauge the overall distribution patterns for specific whiskeys I like, so I know when it’s worth making a trip or not. Pretty much every sub I’ve recently spent time offering help in, or have found interesting enough to scroll around, has a pretty rigid policy of no politics and no religion. With all that said, I made the mistake of visiting /r/BayArea and found your assessment spot on.
If a link is paywalled and/or the content is not able to be crawled/archived for a reader mode, a browser that warned me before I wasted time opening a tab whose content is totally inaccessible would be appreciated. Contextual lock icons on links or a hover state with a preview.

If paywall status was exposed via a standardized API to the browser, it could further make it more seamless to buy a subscription iOS-style that I know I can cancel easily later. Looking at you, NYT and other new sites.
> Scientists have long suspected that transcription may go awry with aging, but the new study offers proof that it doesn’t—with a twist. In all five of the species tested, as the organism grew older the process surprisingly sped up. But like trying to type faster when blindfolded, error rates also shot up.

I got incredibly annoyed at this piece of writing, and the article as a whole, trying to make it "fun and exciting" to the detriment of being clear. In the case of this particular problem, the short of version is "as individuals grow older, transcription speeds up, which leads to increased error rates". There is no "twist" - the process does indeed go awry.
Yeah, commonplace in offices in the 1980s. We had several, including one for a very 'industrial' CMYK ribbon Mannesmann Tally MT490, which had a metal platen! It was a really impressive, fast dot matrix printer which we had hooked up to a VAX 11/750.
ISS Rodents Uncover Possible Link in Gut Bacteria and Bone Loss in Microgravity
These are opinions of course, but I suspect my prog and reading comments will hold up if somebody locates survey results.
If you're asking explicitly epistemogical questions, knowledge as in "do you have knowledge of the events of last night" is probably not the definition you want. You probably want want the definition as in, "what is knowledge, what do I know, and how do I know it?" (Note the definition I used is also there.)

You're asking questions and then declaring the answers impossible to determine, I don't really see the point. You don't really avoid the question of belief in the line of questioning you propose. It just gets implicitly shifted into the observer.

Personally I don't care about whether this paradigm will ever reconcile with that one, I care about which I think is most appropriate to a given problem space.
Tobacco, in the form of Phillip Morris, is still actively advertising in the sport, albeit rather more indirectly now.

Ferrari counts among its sponsors a brand called Mission Winnow, which had prominent billboard space on the car through 2021.

Their website is a real treat: https://www.missionwinnow.com/

> Mission Winnow is a change lab focused on reframing global conversations, sparking open debate, connecting people and supporting the realization of innovative ideas.

This one specifically always gets a chuckle out of me: https://www.missionwinnow.com/en/pmi/pragmatic-approaches/co...

For a while PMI wasn't even mentioned until you dug a few pages in. And then, still only ever "PMI" until a few layers further. Some countries like France were aware enough to ban the advertising for races hosted within their jurisdiction.
> quiet
> cars
> Pick one.

You can get all of those things in walkable cities. SF and NYC have single family homes with back yards in walkable neighborhoods, they are just really expensive.

Also all neighborhoods have truck access, including fully pedestrianized streets.
Not an expert, but I've encountered Reed Solomon error correction extensively in my career, and this seems to be replacing RS applications? I wouldn't be surprised if there was a fair amount of inertia to overcome given how widely used and how well RS worked for a very long time. RS was critical for things like ADSL data transmission over POTS and other similar large scale applications.

The wikipedia page for RS suggests some RS implementations are now "being replaced by more powerful turbo codes".

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
dont ever count on any assistant to not complicate the surroundings with extraneous noise. if your situation requires being able to hear your surroundings or suffer deleterious consequences, its best to unplug, or turn it off, instead of saying stop.
The people teaching at the community colleges don't tend to be new at teaching, since you need to already be financially well off to be able to do it. And the credential requirements are still high enough that you can't just walk in without at least a Master's and some level of industry experience that would allow you to easily make more in industry.

It isn't a "bootcamp" for aspiring professors. Think of it more as a public service for professors nearing retirement who actually like to teach and interact with the students.
The problem is that the scammers don't care, and they don't give up. They just keep throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. As the article explained, these scam developers have multiple Apple developer accounts. Even if Apple bans one account, they'll just open another. And they're often in countries where the US legal system can't touch them, so there's nothing to be lost from getting caught.

Legitimate developers won't go to such (unethical, possible illegal) lengths. Rejection is a much bigger deal to those who spent a lot of time and care on an app, and hope to make a good name for themselves as developers.
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> The term HTML5 is essentially a buzzword

HTML5 is just the common name of the living standard. It's clear, unambiguous, and what everybody uses. It is not a "buzzword".
This is really nihilistic and not remotely true to the reality today. It could change in the next ten, twenty years, but it still seems unlikely.
> What's the evil mastermind plan here?

Make money? That's what companies do. When they get too big and too powerful (at the point where governments don't really have serious leverage over them), a third-party should probably split them.

> Taking control is an existential risk

Why do you think big companies open source code? To help humanity? If Android (AOSP) was not open source, OEMs would probably not take the risk of depending on it. But the Play Services are there for the lock-in. Protobuf being open source is better for Google than having to integrate with other systems out there. Why is Chromium open source? Well most "alternative" browsers are based on it, and Google controls it. And so on. Open sourcing code is a strategic decision. And the strategic decisions in a company are there to make more money, not to help the world. It's all about control.

> What I see is a lot of very sincere dedicated engineers coming up with helpful & rich ideas.

Sure. Because you work for Evil Corp does not mean you are not sincere and dedicated. Many good people work for Philip Morris, for many reason (maybe they have an interesting job, maybe good conditions, whatever the reason). The difference with Google is that most Philip Morris employees probably realize that their company is not a non-profit aiming at making the world a better place.
To be honest The Lego Movie franchise was annoyingly American for my Danish taste. It doesn't surprise me that many people think Lego and other European companies are American when they behave and market themselves as pseudo-American companies and insert themselves in American socio-cultural issues.
New York city which, in itself has skyrocketed

No it hasn't

Drug and Prostitution cartels run everything and get no jail time.

No they don't

The end result is businesses close an society and culture break down to ghetto status.

This has not happened

Stop soaking up whatever propaganda you are hooked into and realize that an entire country is being destroyed and cities are being reduced to rubble. If you think about it more you might decide teenagers stealing from walgreens is not the same as hundreds of thousands already being dead and millions of people with their live shattered.
Ask HN: What is the state of homomorphic encryption?
Is homomorphic cryptography still academic or is it ready for production use cases? Who are the leading companies?
I use linked in sometimes. see lots of colleagues suddenly write lengthy motivational or sales post in perfect English.. but worked with them and know they did not type it.

it set expectation on your ability to write clear english and can have wrong consequence.

recently someone respond to my post on HN and accuse me of being some USA person with agenda. they present evidence that they found me older post written in very clear english.

i wrote text..asked chatgpt to clean it for me.. and then posted here. ;]
Yep. Same tricks that the CCP plays on it's population.
I've heard (from random people) it's about whether the permission aligns with the category the app falls into.

A map app is assumed to have a legitimate purpose for location. But if you want to make a journalling app that automatically captures where you visit (like Apple just did) you'll have a hard time being allowed to make the argument.
I asked GPT
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.05803 make a good useful title that's not silly for this paper and wht's about

I dunno if it even read the article lols

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Title: “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Navigation in Complex Environments”
This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning approach for multi-agent navigation in complex environments. The proposed method uses a centralized critic and decentralized actor architecture, where each agent has its own policy network and learns from its local observations, while the critic network takes in the global state information to provide a centralized value estimate. The method is evaluated on a variety of benchmark environments and achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to existing methods.
Agree - if a function is otherwise cohesive and doesnt mix independent concerns, I prefer one 100 line fuction to 25 4-line functions.

Splitting functions is tempting because it makes each individual function seem simper, but the higher cost in complexity and maintainability is not as directly visible.

Shorter functions are fine when appropriate, but length by itself is not an indicator of quality.
The implication that Teslas were somehow superior and outside the category of other EVs. I don’t hate Teslas; I just consider them another EV, with some pros (the supercharger network) and some cons.

Elon and the FSD nonsense is one such con. I only brought it up because he just promised it again by the end of this year, and it set off a spate of people going “Tesla is the best” when we’ve all seen this story before.

I credit Tesla with kicking off the revolution; I don’t even dislike their cars. I’ve enjoyed when I’ve rented them.

I just think they’ve stopped innovating in recent years, and frankly, I wish they would. More competition is always good.
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