skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you can do, and many emulators do, is provide a hook to say "when the game draws texture / sprite X, instead draw higher res texture / sprite Y". Obviously, this can be rendered at a much high resolution than the original system. In the case of Gameboy there is no explicit pixel buffer anywhere, so there is no way for the game to even know the emulator has done this.
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So if there's no differentiator why should I be interested in it? If you have a library that's entire purpose is visual and you show me nothing then that's a failure. I'm not going to clone a repo and spin up some examples just to see if they suck or are awesome.
I feel like openstack will end up being the subject of an interesting book that will explore all the ways it ended up screwing itself despite (or perhaps because of) corporate sponsorhip.
If malware can set arbitrary environment variables, it can also typically analyze and/or modify browser memory.
Good riddance to function keys. They're slowly being pushed out of reach on many computers but my fairly new PC laptop still has sysrq and break keys. That's pretty objectionable.
Twitter User Replaces Word 'White' with 'Black,' Gets Banned
As recently as the 50s, there were publicly active KKK groups throughout the US. Or at least, that's what I've gathered, from talking with locals who were adults then.

Edit: And there were (are?) "code words" for getting referrals. Some have even become everyday slang. But I've forgotten the specifics.
Could you expand on the "dodgy history"? I always thought that Kaspersky was one of the "good guys"
Yeah, that's the part where it stops making sense. System fonts are good enough for human consumption.
no in politics it means on the extreme end of a spectrum eg the KKK or the equivalent on the left who where calling for the workers of the world to help our Baathist sisters and bothers crush the uprising.
Well, regardless of substantiated or not, Fox News was never respectable.
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Musk's real practical talent seems to be as a "scaling enthusiast". While I don't want to come across as a fanboy, I've been re-thinking my assumptions recently based on his perspective of what the real costs of things should be when manufacturing, testing and QC is mostly automated and I can't find fault with a lot of his calculations.
It works extremely well for my wife's business, due to the ability to target very specific audiences. We'd be spending way more otherwise.
Why provide ubiquitous internet coverage for a car that depends on electric charging stations to go anywhere? Remote areas have few charging stations for Tesla.
Yes. Both look ugly and not even close to native.
Where's your evidence that the Catholic church did consider the heliocentric view heretical?
I actually lean on your side, I think free easy access to knowledge is awesome and is for the best, but to put a counter example, there was a Hackernews not too loNguyen about how the top result for election on Google was to a false news side.

So I do think we'll have issues controlling that false information doesn't spread faster and wider on the Internet then true info.
Can the beams be intercepted, maybe if the signal scatters a bit, or isn't 100% targeted? Do they need to be encrypted between satellites?
Went to a KGB sponsored Uni and worked for the GRU :-)
Thanks, but I don't want to pay for two SIMs/plans.

Edit: I'd also prefer not to have to remember to carry two devices.
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I remember watching video or some tutorial how to change plain, unstyled html page into nice looking, readable design (with information about fonts, colors, spaces). I have problems with finding it now, anyone can help ?
It would. That's what certificate pinning is for. If they did that and (ab)used it, they'd be found out in no time.

This whole conversation is just not going anywhere. The Russian government can't snoop your tls data if it leaves the country, end of story. That's the reason for this law and the article to begin with!
> writes their own kernel 100% matching their need, prove its validity via formal verification

It's hard enough for one organisation to do this, given the fairly specialised set of skills it requires. Let alone every IoT vendor. There's no reason to massively replicate this kind of work. People would be better off building an ecosystem around sel4.
I wonder if this concept could be extended to site aggregator such as HN or Reddit? The amount of bandwidth saved could be significant.
I agree with your assessment otherwise, but I interpret "curation" as a wikipedia style project. Though that is problematic enough in its own right.
>Posting detailed reports of errors discovered during an internal audit when under no obligation to do so

You dont think a public company is obligated to audit internal controls and keep shareholders and regulators in the loop?
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This is exactly why here in Russia people generally do not like so called "liberals". Try to understand a person who feels himself as he's at the next evolution stage. There is no any chance that the majority votes for him or party he represents or supports. Unfortunately, such persons associate themself with democracy, what automatically discredits this word in our country.
Not for sleeping hours but I've discovered that going for a run is a boost of creativity. And related to this, I would say that any automated task that you can do almost with your eyes closed, without paying attention, free your mind enough to see things from totally different perspectives.
Any half-decent "deep learning" system should be noise-tolerant.
There are several controversies, you can Google it, but that is not really important. Only "anti virus company" clause would be enough for me to not touch it with a ten foot pole.
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I disagree slightly, mainly because I'm not expecting it to be spontaneous. In my mind, I see this going on for years if not decades, since no matter how many tools we add to try and assist with curation of information, the core issue comes down to this scenario: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CDj1bfTW0AAwZ2Y.jpg

Forgive me for linking a comic to assist in a point, but a lot of it is more that right now we still have many people used to authoritative sources; they find one source that is complimentary to their viewpoint, and the details on the source don't matter. I've seen commentaries and opinion pieces that we're in a "post-fact" era, but I think a more accurate assessment is just that the number of authoritative sources has grown while the previous ones have diminished in scope and authority. It's incredibly easy to find an authoritative seeming source for just about any opinion or item you care for at this point, be it a journal paer, a tweet or reddit post, or just a website dedicated to that subject.

I guess that's my ultimate issue with the idea of provide better tools, it's that as information is liberated, you have an untrained public making use of it. I don't particularly care what conclusion they draw as long as people aren't jumping the gun on conclusions and just assuming so much.

Twitter astroturfing and similar activities I think is just going to be one of those problems that continues - there are businesses, as far as I'm aware, behind these projects, and if their livelihood is threatened, it seems to me they'd just adapt. I fully expect that, if Twitter hasn't been bought out or changed drastically by the next election, that we'll see Twitter bot armies out in greater force than ever before and it will have an amazing influence as media from all varieties will happily use it for reference. Heck, we still use # of google search results as a metric as if the total number of results even means anything. That's not something you can just do away with on a tool, because it's not the fault of the tools reporting bad data - it's people latching onto irrelevant data points.

This isn't a call that the world just needs that little more education and suddenly we'll all debate rationally - that is not going to happen short of major worldwide reprogramming of people. It's more just getting the idea out of how to judge a resource or realize why certain metrics just aren't a good measure of anything most of the time, like how a large number of retweets doesn't mean much more than "many accounts retweeted this message". People are still adjusting to what a completely online world means and what automation can do. You don't need IBM's Watson to make a political poopshoot or to generate a fancy looking paper, you don't need a state sponsored astroturfing group to spread an idea. A little gaming with algorithms and you can propogate just about any piece of information you want.
Anonymous data is by definition not privacy-invasive. That's why it's called anonymous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyS3Ghevf2I
If it is a proper open source project, no.
Well, it makes sense to anyone who fully trusts the Russian government. :-)
Which is funny, because they say that popular operating systems are not designed with security in mind. They give this as a reason to start from the ground up. I am from the camp saying that currently sole kernel does not an OS make. With this in mind network equipment OSes are certainly not popular ones. Nevertheless there are probably lots of less popular OSes with less popular kernels that are designed with security in mind. Some of them are probably good tries at such a goal. They could be used and extended and it would be probably better securitywise, because of years of bug fixes, that no new OS can have.
Don't know where in the world you are, but here in Europe it's not uncommon for carriers to supply an extra data-only SIM at no (or minimal) charge using the same quota as your primary number.
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Twitter, Facebook and Google. All push this same agenda. They are the most corrupted organizations. They feel they can suppress, hide and delete your online profiles when they feel that you or your organization is not following they nwo agenda. Latest twitter censorship quiter is James Woods.
Thanks, but I'm deliberately looking for something non-Android non-iOS.
I know this is satire, but I really don't get the snark. All the claims are pretty valid imo. Satire or not, but having 15$ adapters for EVERYTHING simply cannot be seen as anything else than a massive fail and nuissance. HDMI is one of the features I use most on my MBP and tbh I would probably have to buy a new HDMI adapter every other month because I would likely loose it on a regular basis.

So all in all I actually agree with everything stated in this article, despite the obvious snarky and satirical tone. Pretty sure that apple is going to kill their laptop game with this MBP bullshit move.
I don't know what technology you need to track and hit low-orbit satellites with a narrow beam, but I bet it's not as cheap as a dish?
You can also just see the moon by staring at the night sky.
I'm in the UK, I didn't know that.
this is subjective evaluation, but they have been open about it and not lying on our faces.

I get the big brother corp hate, but let's be reasonable and factual with it if we must go this way
All the handwringing over fake news on the Internet prompts within me two negative, dismissive reactions:

The first is that this is just a convenient scapegoat to avoid examining the failures of the Democratic Party in this election cycle. They can't have screwed up. Must have been FAKE NEWS which misled voters into erroneously not voting for them. Fix that and fix the problem.

Fine, whatever. Pin the blame there if you like. But…

My second reaction is that I think among what we are inclined to think of as "fake news", very little is actually outright brute falsehoods.

Such things as are actually libelous or fraudulent, perhaps they should be blocked, or dealt with in some manner. But most of what is shared is, I imagine, rather "fake news" in the sense of being ideologically shaded in a manner we find ridiculous. "Immigrants are going to murder your children", that sort of thing. And this stuff IS ridiculous, and false, and terrible… But not in a clear, mechanical, bright-line distinguishable way.

It's wrong because it's wrong, not because there's something for a fact-checker to point at.

And if we do put moderators in charge of deciding that such news is still clearly false and therefore not shareable, I get uncomfortable. Because the merit determination will just become "Whatever matches status quo consensus", which is just "Whatever pleases the status quo powers".

It was fake news when the New York Times beat the drums for war, Judith Miller speaking of WMDs in Iraq. But that would never be classified as such. The source was prestigious, and the claims buttressed the politics of the right people.

"fake" determination at any level where there is controversy would amount to simply enshrining consensus of that class of often wrong people. Indeed, I say to those liberals itching for something to be done, the same board that today puts the kibosh on articles full of conservative idiocy about global warming evidence being overblown could just as well tomorrow decide "Econ professor consensus says minimum wage hikes destroy jobs; articles arguing otherwise oughtn't be shared", or some such thing.

On the other hand, if "fake news" suppression only targets articles where there is no controversy as to their falsehood, then it is a solution in search of a significant problem. Such things exist, but did not (as far as I've yet seen any evidence to prove) play that major a role in the election. The story that fake news swung the election could itself be fake news.

Anyway, that's my skittishness over cries that communication networks don't do enough to crack down on voluntary sharing of "fake news".
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If something doesn't exist and the NYT tells you it does, doesn't that make NYT a fake news outlet as well?

I'm talking about the WMDs in Iraq
>So long as it impacts all advertisers equally

That's a huge assumption.

Besides, if click fraud is rampant it is no consolation to say "well, at least everyone's ads are being clicked by bots!" The end game isn't to win the ad auction, it's to be seen by real people who might buy your product.
I guess at some point you can't protect people from themselves anymore. One might even argue that people who use WSL (especially in beta) would be tech-savvy enough to understand how it's implemented and works, but apparently not ...
I would wrap such libraries myself, which is rather easy with React and takes out one third party thing that could break.

I made an integration example a while ago: https://github.com/kay-is/react-from-zero/blob/master/16-adv...

I found it much easier to reason about these libraries behaviour if I had one small interface from React to the lib. It makes updates also easier, no need to wait that the wrapper gets updated.
The thing is that ad ROI is super hard to measure for branding campaigns. Coca-Cola can't tell exactly what their Facebook ROI is and a lot of the people who buy ads for those types of companies have incentives to overrate the ROI of these ads, too (because thats basically the rating of their work).
Totally agree (swimming and running in my case), but this leads us to the next very controversial question -- how much our free time off the job during the day, impacts our results on the job (so shouldn't we have more of it)? I know I am not creative past 6-7 hours a day at work.

This question is of course applicable only to people in positions where creativity is heavily involved in producing the value.
I'd considered that. That would explain the second, but the first has to be sloppiness. If nothing else, if you want to produce english content, set your spellchecker to english.
I mostly use Azure for hobby/small/exploratory work, but I'm generally quite happy with it, sticking mostly to their PAAS offerings, and a Linux VM here and there. I never touch their UIs, which are terrible indeed. But the CLI tools do everything and I'm pretty happy with those.
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It was really good up until the end.

"I am throwing out my 3 year old MacBook and will be buying a Inspiron forthwith."

He's implying that all other laptops are a joke, however the Dell XPS 13 and HP Spectre both comparable to the Macbook Pro in features, styling, weight, etc.
Which country is this and its not actually clear what does

"that him(manager) hand in his resignation cause of this guy"
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> That whites feel the need to act like a minority group is disturbing considering the economic and political power that we obviously weld.

I don't see it being about whites though. I think its everyone except-the-activist-element-of-the-minority-group. People think Trump's victory is a victory for whites, but then cannot understand why some blacks, latinos, muslims, women, gays would vote for him.

> However, if even the most privileged demographic groups engage in identity politics, then economic and political inequality will likely either be maintained or be exacerbated through tyranny of the majority.

The minority always needs the support of the people wielding the power to make changes. The prominence of these movements comes from the whites joining their cause and campaigning for them. So it is in these movements best interests for the privileged demographic to engage in identity politics....or so you would think.

But what is happening now is that the privileged are peer pressured to go along with everything, but are told not to engage or criticise.

Naively, you would think that this social justice machine that has been created is a positive force.

But the backlash from the election of Trump shows that it is moving to fast and is actually counter-productive to the objectives of these movements.
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Calling Trump pragmatic is sugarcoating. I think he meant that Trump only sees dollar signs.
From the (excellent list of) papers you listed, it seems the weaknesses are not so much that the encryption can be broken, but that you can do all kinds of man in the middle and timing attacks. Does this mean, that as long as you are not being actively attacked, the security is acceptable? That is, if you are only trying to avoid passive logging?

I guess in either case, it would be better to just go with openvpn. I really don't understand why it isn't natively supported in Android, OSX etc.
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There's not quite true, you could download tens of gigabytes with no minimum ratio required at all as long as you seeded them.
I was really hoping for more advice on letting the team members appreciate code reviews, and not take it too personally.

We've just recently introduced code reviews on our 3-4 person team. We're working in a particular environment, and most people have no production level experience in that environment. These people have gotten used to _just getting it to work_.
We've clearly stated that we will be going with Google's style guide, but we can always divert, as long as everyone is in agreement. When pointing out that the changes are not according to the style agreed (frankly, it's not so much about style, as it is about using patterns from other programming languages, that are not applicable), the response is:

- it works

- I don't think you understood what this does (note: no comments or attempt to explain)

- In the future, please do not waste more time with pull requests. Desktop sharing and a call is the most efficient way to work in remote teams.

It's getting more and more hard to keep an open mind and not take things personally. We're at a point now, where there's a intermediary person refactoring the code.

Does anyone have any practical advice on people understand the importance of structure code, and to limit the _personal factor_?
This assumes an even distribution of click fraud and wrong measurement along all advertisers and the ability to perfectly measure the ROI of your Facebook ads which is as strong (and in my opinion wrong) assumption to make...
Well, if you're so inclined, you can re-create the NTFS extended attributes on the file you broke and things should be back to normal. However, the article is for people who clearly don't know what they're doing, or what they broke and how, so I think giving the »Have you tried turning it off and on again« advice is just about right for those folks.

And even on Windows you can fix most issues in different ways than reinstalling, it's just that for some degrees of brokenness it's by far the faster solution (cf. just re-cloning a git repository instead of figuring out what is broken).
They don't have to merge them. Just let them speak to each other.
But, the reality is that "creative professionals" have very few reasons to change platforms as Mac/Windows satisfises [0] them. This means they don't contribute to making alternative platforms better for their use-case.

Second, professional Linux development is focused on the server. No-one is really paid on the desktop side to create applications for creative professionals [1]. Most of the applications are created by "hobbyist" developers whose target audience is themselves.

This means no-one is really contributing to what "creative professionals" want.

The Linux desktop works for me perfectly, it's been the year of the Linux desktop since 1996 - but then I'm not a 'creative professional' or an 'accounting professional' etc etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
[1] Creative professionals are a more difficult segment than general users because they have high expectations of the platform and specific applications/use-cases.
Yet it's not widely used as embedded OS. I never saw any router with OpenBSD or web camera.

The underlying problem, IMO, is people. They just don't care about security, they want to deliver working device.

Also it's not clear how many vulnerabilities, used in real life attacks (like DDOS from IoT devices) are in latest Linux kernel? May be problem not with Linux, but with custom software or lack of updates.
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I'm only familiar with TypeScript. It is adding types to javascript, which is welcomed. But that doesn't make up for a lot of the uglyness of the language. Javascript was never meant to be anything else than a way to open porn popups ads and it shows.

But even C# is starting to show its age and would deserved a reboot. If we agree on a truly cross platform language, we might as well make it modern and simple, with great tooling. That does mean breaking backward compatibility with older languages but the benefits of having a common language way offset the cost of retraining developers.
Security through obscurity. I thought we all have learned that it doesn't work. Well, good riddance, KasperskyOS!

"And then there are some details that will remain for certain customers’ eyes only forever, to ward off cyber-terrorist abuses."

https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2012/10/16/kl-developing-its-ow...
Should be easy to do.
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Version 6.0.2 has Arrived. Now its easier than ever to create a Seift iOS calendar.

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Haha yes, it is shocking to see all the people taking this so seriously. If I am not mistaking there is still a version without the touchbar right? What is the big deal?
Kaspersky had a history of working with Russian security agencies, has a lot of buddies there and a lot of people have throughout their careers moved from Kaspersky to these agencies and vice versa. If Russia will need somerhing from Kaspersky, government won't even need a warrant - he'll be happy to help.