skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is high time for companies who make hardware be financially fined for lapses like this. In this particular case, the manufacturer was warned and did nothing for years.

This is negligence especially considering these chips control critical devices that can cause damage or even loss of life if they are successfully exploited.

Can you imagine if car maker didn't fix a hardware defect they knew for years. Oh wait...
Huh I would have tried a 20mp dslr with a nice lens instead figuring it could pick up the differences. You can get Canon ones for about $450 on cl with lenses now.

Good to know it worked on the composite. Thanks for the info!
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Since you want to be pedantic, yes, it does not _prevent_.

It helps with it not being a daily occurence. Which it would be, were the FDA not there, or had there been no regulations.
What about having high standards on tests and some kind of practical evaluation, but not requiring third-party credentials to enroll, particularly at the graduate/professional level? i.e. not going for the 18 year old undergraduate market, which is very competitive, but something more unique.

(My German is 1- to 1 right now, but I could probably get to 2- to 2 without too much work over a year, but I have no undergraduate degree. If I wanted a professional degree without completing undergraduate, I'm mostly stuck with UK schools (LBS, LSE, ICL being the top options) in MBA or Econ, or a back-door "special student" PhD route somewhere. If there were a German institution which made this straightforward, it would be worthwhile for a lot of people in the mid-career stage in technical fields who don't have formal credentials. Those people would be far more likely to remain in Germany, or at least to maintain some connection to Germany.)
Why Do We Want COBOL to Die?
They've been pretty open recently that the issue with their desktop platform is that the trashcan design assumed SLI would be the future. It isn't.
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I'm not convinced that's how the math works. I can just as easily conclude that if all 95% of the non-handicapped population is using only 10% of the non-handicapped spots at any one time, we would only need 9.5% of a parking lot to be non-handicapped spots.
They should have been using census tracts all along. They're small enough for epidemiology in urban areas.
A common anecdote. Please provide the link.
Upvoted for your use of "multithreaded!"
If I may attempt to bridge two viewpoints?

You're absolutely right. Facebook can be an immensely negative experience for a person, a damaging force in their life. Facebook also can be a positive force, connecting a person to their friends, loved ones, and community.
Good point.

One thing that I've noticed in some places around me is a reduction in those types of conveniences. I used to work in the mall that I mentioned in high school 25 years ago, and then there were benches (and garbage cans) all over the place. IIRC, older KMarts and Wal-Marts used to have at least something in the front of the store, which are missing now unless there is a food place in the store.

Now, they seem to be building these weird little "living room" spaces with couches, but there are fewer benches, indoor foliage plots, old-school water features and similar 80's stuff with boundary walls to sit on.
Nintendo figured 2.3M NES Classics was enough (it wasn’t)
What?

No one in England is going to stop watching Manchester United games to start watching Chicago Blackhawks games, or even to watch some sucky MLS game. That's not happening man. Get that out of your head.

No one in China, Europe, the MidEast or Brazil is gonna stop watching basketball and start watching some sucky hockey game. That ain't happening either.

Do you have any idea the YoY revenue growth global sports leagues like PL or the NBA enjoy at the moment?

What you are saying may happen, MIGHT happen in your small neighborhood... though I doubt even that... but it certainly isn't gonna happen on a scale large enough to actually make the money that PL makes in a year. In fact, I doubt that American soccer and American hockey will even make the money something like the NBA pulls out of just China. Let alone global basketball in general.

Basically, you need cheap, accessible sports to challenge the global soccer and basketball behemoths. Something that could be played barefoot in a field. Or you need to JOIN the global soccer and basketball behemoths.

But yeah... sports leagues like American football, American hockey, or American soccer stand little to no chance of challenging those more global leagues growth wise. Best outcome for them would be to somehow link into those behemoths. And I can only see American soccer being able to do that... MAYBE?
Pay to publish is not that uncommon e.g.

https://academic.oup.com/nar/pages/Ms_Prep_Submission#charge...

Sometimes this is under the guise of "open access" or other charges... there is often a waver if the author can not afford the fee (which you have to apply for).
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You can do exactly that (in Canada only, for now).

http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/mcdonalds-sauce-bottles-canada...

McDonald's has a dozen different burgers and you can get them made however you want. You can even get a double Big Mac if you need one and you can supersize the fries and drink. You can even take the burger home and add more ketchup, mustard etc.

So, your assertion that Apple be more like MacDonald's is spot on.
Just provide a link to their profile. These anecdotes never come with links.
> The 68000 (1979) had 40,000 transistors.

Where did you get that figure? I'm curious because the figure I've seen tossed around is 68,000 transistors (the story going that this is where the model number came from).
With Fluid, you don't do anything from the web developer's prospective. The Fluid app just packages a Web site as a separate application. So, what this means that any user can take a Web site and make that a separate app if they want it.
I stand corrected. Hadn't looked there in a while because the repo owner/maintainer had dropped off the grid for the better part of a year. Can't beat Zim it's speed though.. its even faster than Zplug despite Zim being a full framework and Zplug only a bare plugin manager.
The person I was replying to said "Mathematically, there's no difference between a process which can only be predicted probabilistically, and a process which really is random; no difference between incomplete knowledge in your head and stochasticity in the world."

This is because randomness can be seen as a matter of incomplete knowledge. Determinism is independent of our knowledge.

Now, perhaps there is randomness that is independent of our knowledge. But I was talking about randomness/determinism in the context of the quoted statement, which was a matter of knowledge.
Too bad there isn't a great RSS software company. It seems like someone should have created a ubiquitous RSS app. Maybe I should go do that... brb
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In Australia they have it worse, interest and charges on your mortgage are tax deductible (in Australia this is called negative gearing, even to the point of excluding all other types of negative gearing); it only encourages mum and dad investors to overpay for properties. That added with absent foreign owners looking to park assets overseas out of reach of their local governments.

Sydney in particular is heavily affected, in the 5 years to Dec 2016 house prices in Sydney rose 70%, wages 13%. A month ago HuffPo reported that the median house price in Sydney was AUD 805k, and the median wage is AUD 80k; a 10 time multiplier. These days in Sydney if you haven't been able to afford a deposit / mortgage on a house before you are 40 you'll never be able to afford one.
I wonder how much was that, and how much was the fact the launch window opened at 4am.
The language I used clearly is not all-or-nothing. I said the overwhelming majority of cases. What you are referring to is an edge case - a situation that is more rare than the far more common situations. It should be clear that I acknowledge that not every situation is visibly verifiable from what I wrote.
Uber’s Travis Kalanick Has Canceled His Code Conference Interview – Recode
I've disabled ME on my PC because at some point LMS (Local Management Service) started consuming too much resources for no apparent reason.
A guess, but I think it's due to full confrontation of the realization that: What's meaningful is almost never economical.
Yes, and if a blog doesn't have a feed I generally don't keep track of it – only very few resources are important enough to follow by going there individually.
In my business analysis the link you included is a really bad move for McDonald's to perform: they should not have done that. Don't expect it to remain on grocery shelves.
Concurrency by default feels a bit like the underlying processor of the machine, what with superscalar architectures and all.
U.S. Patent Office Inexplicably Downgrades from Encrypted Connection
Taxing empty properties might help a bit. But it doesn't address the root of the problem. That housing has become such a scarce resource it can be treated as a commodity. We have the technology to build denser and higher. There's no economic reason that housing should cost much more than the cost of construction. Which should only get cheaper with time, as technology improves. Certainly not more expensive.

But this doesn't happen. Why? Because the people commoditizing homes want to protect their investment. The scarcer housing is, the more money they make. It's an incredibly perverse system. It hurts the poor especially. Even the middle class ends up losing most of their income to it. It leads cities to stagnate instead of grow.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow
When I was in school textbooks weren't expensive and they did get destroyed by little future criminals.
I was walking to work this morning in Westwood LA. All the street parking on my way to work were vehicles with handicapped placards, who are exempt from time limitations in parking, and of course don't have to pay (another weird thing about CA). All the cars were very nice (various high-end German and Japanese luxury cars), which isn't unusual for LA, but still noteworthy.

I have never seen this anywhere else in the US, even in snowbird-heavy Tucson Arizona. Something is definitely different in LA, maybe it is just easier to abuse the system here? I don't want to judge, I didn't see any of these people get in and out of their cars (it was early in the morning), but...it definitely feels weird.
That's exactly what || (concurrent statements) and ; (sequential statements) do in Esterel.
The problem with articles like this is they're too long. I understand the problem (prolonged sitting is bad for me), and I don't want to read entire books. I, like most people, just need to know a single exercise. If you start telling me about a second one I could do, I just won't do anything.

Also, describing exercises in words or even static pictures is a bad idea. Just make a short (30 sec max) video, so I can just watch that and do it from now on.
> For obvious reasons we couldn’t publish what we found

It's not obvious to me why anyone not under an NSL or NDA would sit on this vulnerability for 5 years and wait until it's actively being exploited in the wild before public disclosure.

It's extremely negligent to global security for SemiAccurate to not immediately publicly disclose the vulnerability 5 years ago after Intel refused to fix it. Of course this is ignoring the root of the problem, which is that the US government has deeply compromised Intel since the very first security management interfaces were added to Intel chips in the early 90s.

The real solution to the root issue is legislation that forces security disclose timelines of 90 days or less for government-found vulnerabilities, and prevents the stockpiling of vulnerability exploit kits.
Again, investors can and will find renters at market prices. That's the main reason for owning an investment property. Rents usually provide most of the returns for investment properties, voluntarily forgoing them would be like not deigning to pickup $100 bills laying in the street.

And rents are enough to pay for maintenance, which you have to pay for whether you rent or not. Just try re-selling an uninhabitable investment home.

And you need to be a more critical reader. The guardian article is full of red flags. It "claims" 57k vacant homes in London, where there are 8.5M households. So less than 7%. How many do you think should be vacant, considering that homes are vacant when for sale, when waiting to find a renter, and when waiting for the owners to move back if they worked out of country for a few years?

Secondly the paragraph on "buy-to-leave" investing indicates that rental regulations are so absurdly onerous that it is keeping properties off the market. Reforming them is the real solution.
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There is a laptop theft recovery/tracking software called LoJack for Laptops (AKA CompuTrace). Some laptop manufactures have added BIOS support for this service (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc). According to the Wikipedia article [1] this BIOS service copies a downloader into the System32 folder on Windows, which then downloads the full service. It doesn't appear that the BIOS service itself is remotely exploitable, however it can be used for persistent root-kits [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack_for_Laptops
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoJack_for_Laptops#Vulnerabili...
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I think the burden of proof is the opposite: why not link them together? What are the benefits of having closures and lambdas be two distinct language features when having just one seems to suffice (specifically, having a lambda be a degenerate closure)? As for naming, that's an orthogonal issue, as a closure can be anonymous just as easily, and I see no use in drawing a semantic distinction between anonymous "lambdas" and nonymous "functions".
I understand the chase (or I think I do at--that level) but I wonder: why not buy a huge yacht, some index funds and relax? Go out on top and all. Hand out chicken to housewives in Sub-Saharan Africa or something. And delay a heart attack for as long as possible.

Trying to prove he wasn't lucky that one time I guess.
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> a fairly large chunk of early HNers who are well known in hacker circles basically stopped posting

is the problem one of diversity? Writing for a diverse audience is hard, especially at internet scale, it's a lot easier to write to people who agree with you. Writing for people who don't agree with you is way harder but also way more valuable. It's a shame that most people just give up. I see this not just on HN but also in other elite communities that over time begin to mainstream. A lot of the clojure discussion forums died once the language grew enough that it wasn't just elites. The people who know the most just don't say anything in public anymore. All the discussion is on slack now which is a shame.
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I have visual recall but I often have a tangible sense of spacial memory. Like I'll feel an almost tingling or aura/presence of an important object in a given vector and magnitude.

Maybe related? But I also get the same kind of extra-sensory feeling when I copy data (doubly so if I cut data) -- like my hand is charged with something extra until I "unload it" by pasting the data. This has saved me many times when I get distracted at work mid-task, and before I go copy some new piece of data I can feel that I haven't pasted in the old data and go take care of that first. (I Wonder if anyone has done a study on this, and how many people experience something similar.)
ESR attributes the invention of the "AI koan" to Danny Hillis "while a student at MIT". Hillis graduated in 1978. GEB was published in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Hillis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
your sister comment made an interesting point that McDonald's does sell the sauce in grocery stores. That is a close analogy to this (since if someone really wants a big mac, they can make a hamburger at home and, by including some of that sauce, gets something that meets some of that need.) I think that's a pretty bad business decision for McDonald's to have done.