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Unless you modified your BIOS with a SPI flasher after disassembling your device, you know it's still running :-)

It would disappear from the PCI bus.

Your commands un-provision AMT (Active Management Technology), the ME feature that apparently has a security issue. Unless you've explicitly enabled AMT, it's not provisioned anyway so this doesn't do anything.
In all seriousness, what could happen for trans individuals? What would be the actual effect of replacing all cells' XY's with XX's?
In fact, AMT isn't listening in the operating system either but directly on the ME.

What OP removed is probably some sort of OS-level agent that collects information about the system (installed software, patches, ...).
Sad but true for most Americans.
Get real. The auto makers aren't passive players who "have things happen to them." No, they are active participants who "make things happen." Of course the technology wasn't ready--they didn't build it!

What they should have done is to say, "This is the technology we have to work with today. How can we build a compelling vehicle with it?" That is, in fact, exactly what Tesla did (and continue to iterate).

That's why Tesla started with a $200k+ boutique vehicle and have started to work their way down market. And it might have something to do with the relative market cap of Tesla and GM.
I think you are missing the point of the article. The article is not about initiatives to get pre-set numbers of people of a certain race without regard to merit and qualification (which is what your comment is about). The article is about people who met the requirements, and were qualified, and got the job on the merits. The article is about how these people choosing to leave tech in high numbers because they feel the environment is racist and sexist and it raises questions about how that can be properly dealt with by the tech community.

If Black and Hispanic women feel as they are being passed over for promotion at rates higher than other women despite qualifications, I think it's time to at least look at that and investigate instead of dismissing it out of hand. And really I think that dismissive attitude is part of what these people are complaining about.
There are a couple of them kicking around the Mechanical Keyboard community. This sort of thing: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSutzW...

However, you will be able to make a keypad consisting of anywhere between 1 and 16 keys using the TASK software. In fact, you will be able to make a highly functional single key for about £7 using the designs I will be releasing in the shortcut keypad crowdfunding campaign!
> Now either the answer key is regularly wrong, or I just don’t know what street signs and mountains are.

Clearly, the author is a bot.
Japan's public transportation is great, most people don't even need cars there.
It is quite obviously an anecdote and not hard data (which the claim referenced in the original article provided), but it is an anecdote based upon direct observation rather than a whining response from someone with neither observational data or empirical data.
No matter what the privacy notice by Google says, you should absolutely discount it since Google has a history of steadily making privacy agreements looser over the years (and they are legally allowed to do so). In 2014 they amended their policies to join the Google and DoubleClick cookies for targeted advertising. In 2016 they started joining that with YouTube history for targeted advertising.
Just to let you know, that person is not and never was a Google employee according to their resume
A similar conundrum exists in UK universities. It was decided that all university lecturers (professors in US parlance) should have a teaching qualification regardless of experience in actual teaching. The solution was to create a series of new post-graduate certificates in teaching, the requirements of some of which are fairly easy to fulfill if one does actually have academic teaching experience, e.g. 10,000 words one's teaching philosophy plus a few classes.
It's probably less appropriate to ride it while drunk. Cyclists don't seem to like them, as they're bigger and tend to be driven without much consideration.

I live in Copenhagen.

(I haven't seen any e-mopeds here, only petrol ones.)
Debugging Web Push in Mozilla Firefox
So kickstarter is close to what could be the ideal platform when you primarily want the product to exist, with actually selling that product being a secondary goal at most. Unfortunately, only very successful kickstarters would be cloned and by that point one would be far too deeply invested to be content with the product existing.

Put a great idea on kickstarter, with the "rewards" orders at a high price point to make it more attractive for cloners, then if it succeeds fulfill rewards with rebadged knock-offs. What a gamble that could be!

Could a zero-cost kickstarter fully refund backers if the founder capitulates after finding formally succeeds? Can kickstarter fees be postponed until the funding is actually used? If that is possible, this charade could be a surprisingly light shade of grey, "we try to find manufacturing, otherwise you get your money back" would hardly qualify as a lie if the only omission is that you intend to look no further than alibaba.com .

Kickstarter for ideas, anyone, with the established crowdfunding model on the C side and open bidding for design and manufacture on the B side?
And we'll certainly save a chunk of that in air pollution medical cases avoided.
You'll be happy to hear that this no longer works with newer devices thanks to Intel Boot Guard, which prevents firmware modifications altogether.
Ouch:

The trials delivered some success [...] but when high-doses of the drug were linked with increased rates of cancer in animals, GSK decided to scrap further development of the drug for humans.

Is there some indication of a new approach without the increased cancer risk? Not seeing it from the Verge article, though I could have missed something.
The benefits of exercise are pretty significant. Even assisted biking is still more biking than none.
Hmm yeah that's the thing with a highly customised setup. Well if you do get one I've no doubt it'll do the job for you well :)
Without making this too political, there would be far less pushing by the states to get this land back if the federal government hadn't gone on a (ahem) roughly 8 year spree of turning it into enormous national monuments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bears_Ears_National_Monument#D...

Turning federal land into national monuments greatly limits the traditional uses of these publicly held lands -- restrictions on livestock grazing, hunting, camping, etc.

Obviously there needs to be responsible land stewardship, but abusing the antiquities act to carve out enormous not-parks-but-not-free chunks of land isn't the best way to get everyone working together there.
I strongly suspect that it is possible for a language to be too powerful.

The more capacity a language has to let you do wonderful things, the more capacity it has to let you do truly awful things as well. ("With great power comes great responsibility" and all that).

Also, something about the expressivity of the code means that your code is wonderful, but other peoples code is potentially a nightmare.
What is racist about wondering whether a marginal distribution network is being as closely regulated as the dominant/mainstream one? It's a natural thing to wonder regardless of anyone's race.
There's a fascinating story I'd love to hear about Microsoft's education strategy and how they seem to have lost it to Google. At least in the UK in comprehensives when I was in school (I guess I left 4-5 years ago) Microsoft absolutely dominated - every computer was Windows, and if you did a presentation it was PowerPoint, a poster it was Publisher etc etc. In fact I believe that the curriculum for most subjects involved some sort of computer skills.. which was always Microsoft stuff (or I guess computer research counts too).

ICT was exclusively Microsoft too. It's so bad that when I was looking at universities for Computer Science many actively discouraged an ICT A Level and I can't think of any that rewarded it in any way. They owned the ICT curriculum, I wouldn't be surprised if they literally wrote it. The closest thing to practical programming was recording VB macros. My ICT teacher told us they got major discounts from Microsoft and I imagine that goes for every similar school.

There is a computing curriculum but my course didn't even offer it - which isn't a surprise because our ICT teacher had no programming knowledge. I imagine most similar schools were in the same situation, where all they taught was Microsoft-sanctioned ICT to an exam/curriculum that might as well have been written by Microsoft, using Microsoft software exclusively, to the extent that ICT is a negative for technical further education where it should be a boost.

Everyone leaving school knowing only how to use Microsoft things was obviously good for them, they controlled or might as well have the entire judgement of student's ICT knowledge through exams, I wonder how they blew it.
I originally created The Amazing Shortcut Keypad to automate AutoCAD during my engineering studies. Instead of having to type 'line' 'rectangle' 'fillet radius 20' 'snap 5' etc, I now just press a button and it happens instantly.

It sped me up so much and was so much more efficient, I decided to develop the project to help other people... and here I am today!

It's not just long tedious things which are worth automating, but sometimes, it's the things you use really frequently which need a slightly more efficient way to be accessed.
That's not really the case for R6RS, and now R7RS Large.

Both of those have huge swathes of libraries and make the language quite large.
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Can we crispr resistant bacteria to be susceptible to penicillin/antibiotics again?
'We sold our home to build a social network'
From a privacy standpoint, the fact that they make a copy of your data is alarming, as this multiplies the attack surface for your data.

Also, all the data is "looked at". Sure, not by a human, but if the algorithmn can flag you as a terrorist and then humans look through the data, what's the difference.

You also seem to be under the impression that they delete the data once they're done. But why would they ever delete that copy of your data unless they need the space for something else? They never will, and that's why they're building a huge datacenter in Utah, to store EVERYTHING INDEFINITELY.

As to your last point, I'll flip the table: if only 0.01% of the records are interesting and only 0.01% of those records lead to any meaningful insight into terrorist activities, why should we continue these programs knowing that they are, on average, 99.999% ineffective?
Very similar functionality to the G Keys - if you have them then definitely make use of them. I'm jealous, I want G keys.
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We're probably spending close to $200k/year for another company's services that we're looking to build on Twilio to save money. We'd probably end up paying 1/3 of that on their service.

We're just one company but there are many tens of thousands of companies with the exact same LeadGen problems that we have to solve that just don't have dedicated engineering teams attached to them yet like we do.

There are many other things that we could do on Twilio that would increase our spend once that foundation is laid too that we can't do now and we would like to.

We need zero touch from Twilio salespeople to make this happen -- it really only costs them in infrastructure.

I would be willing to bet that Twilio spends huge amount of money wine & dine-ing Uber and WhatsApp. Our (big internet advertising company, you fill in the blanks) rep sure does take good care of us.
Designating an area a national monument ties the hands of subsequent governments to do with it as they please.

On the other hand, every other way of losing public land also ties the hands of subsequent governments to do with it as they please. Suppose that you sell it for a song to your friends, or allow resource extraction in an environmentally sensitive area... A decade down the road, you can't wave a magic wand, and undo that damage.

The fact of the matter is that once public lands are lost, they are gone - forever. Every election year, we must fight to keep public lands public - we only need to lose once, and then its over. Can you really blame someone for seeking a more permanent solution to this problem?
I'm working on an app that helps devs with their work, what do you think?
Hello guys,

I'm working on a desktop app that helps (mostly) web developers with their work. The main purpose of this app is to simplify and accelerate the boring and repetitive tasks you do while working on your projects. It also contains timers and rest functionality (like work x minutes, rest x minutes), hosts file gui editor, ssh config, known hosts, etc. So I have many ideas to implement, I'm really at the beginning of my journey, but I'm passionate about it.

I wrote about this project and in more detail on https://blog.moonphase.io - I would be really happy if you would read it and give me some feedback. I'll also write blog posts regularly about my work and the challenges I'm facing. I'm really new to the online hacker community, but I really like the openness here, that's why I'm posting this question, hoping to get your opinions.

Thank you! :)
off shore drilling stocks have been great shorts over the past few months. However, they all seem to be over extended to new lows. If oil pops back they could whip back, so be careful.
One does not read on the toilet because he's still shitting; he goes to shit so that he can read.

The bathroom is a place near-guaranteed to offer solitude, quiet, peace of mind and a lack of interruptions. The toilet is comfortable, made better for reading than excretion, the area generally a clean and simple porcelain white. None dare disturb a man on the pooper, and few dare speak in such a revered place. It is the most serious room in any building; never comfy, never uncomfortable (except when rendered in poor condition), never too bright and never too dark.

Do not pity the man who loses a half hour to the bathroom; praise him, for he has learned the True Way.
These step by step instructions were built based on the mitigation guide, which is linked in the advisory. I've updated the HN link title and post's title (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14253732)
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More context on Kansas economic policy:

"Kansas has made national news with its fiscal policy in 2013–14. The state’s tax cuts were large, but we show that their projected outcome brings Kansas’s state-level tax burden only slightly below the national average (5.0 percent of income), while its local tax burden (4.1 percent of income) is a little above the national average. Kansans have little choice among local governments: only one jurisdiction for every 200 square miles across the state. The state spends much less than average on business subsidies, but government employment is much higher than average (15.0 percent of private employment). Government debt peaked at 24 percent of income in 2008 and is now down to about 21 percent."

https://www.freedominthe50states.org/overall/kansas
You are correct, I've updated the HN link title and post's title.
Yeah, but allowing cattle to graze on land they've been grazing on for 100 years keeps states from starting campaigns to take it back. I'm not suggesting that selling to the states is a good idea. I am suggesting that taking _away_ traditional land rights is causing states to push to take ownership of the land.

The BLM has not traditionally been enemies of the people using the land. The antagonism is a very new phenomenon.
This will probably be more than outweighed by the savings in public health due to less pollution. Air pollution kills and harms so many people every year.
Huge amounts of the cost of clinical trials could in theory be cut by automating many of the tasks. A lot would be done if all computer systems across hospitals (and lab equipment) could seamlessly talk to each other, medical records were completely standardized and contained all necessary information in machine readable formats etc, not that I see this happening in the near future though.
> Looking at all the parens of even that simple lisp factorial, and I realize that I'm feeling a lot of cognitive load that would simply never go away, because the punctuation doesn't let me filter any of it out. I'd have to read everything more carefully.

Completely the opposite here.

Parens means function call or list. Lists usually denoted by a quote first.

I don't read the parens, I skim everything, reading words. And the punctuation is really simple.

For example:

if (number? a)
+ a b
error "Not A Number" a

I stripped most of the parens there, (like Wisp [0] does), because I don't really see them. I see function call and arguments, because there isn't anything else.

Scheme has the very least syntax out of just about any programming language I've used. It has a tiny cognitive load compared to most.

[0] http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/
If Apple would have released an OS version which you can unlock for $50 there would have been an internet shitstorm decrying them.
I hope that as e-bikes become more popular people keep the speeds low; otherwise it will become unsafe.

For reasonable speeds, like that of a city bike in high gear, an aerodynamic umbrella works plenty well:

https://www.senz.com/en/
Some riskier but possibly more effective solutions for disabling or at least limiting ME (AMT is one application that runs on ME):

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016/11/17/neutrali...

To be 100% clear, I haven't tried either.
In Oslo, Norway, people mostly park on the street as well, and there are a lot of EVs. The municipality provides charging stations around the city, so being outside on a street is not a problem at all. Also, most public parking lots and garages have charging stations as well.
Interesting approach, and may be valid for some fields. I feel that most of science is about discovering falsifiable objective truths, though the specific set of potential truths that are chosen for research activity is definitely influenced by those in power.
Not always. Personally, I find annual billing a bit annoying to deal with because it introduces spikiness into our monthly revenue numbers. Whereas before I could tell you roughly what we'd bring in each month (by looking at the previous month and adding a bit), now it can vary by a few thousand dollars depending on where our Annual subscribers land in the year.

In the long term, it's probably better for the business, since it bumps Lifetime Value up a bit for those customers. But I'd actually prefer it if nobody took advantage of it, so that I could have a nice smooth revenue chart to look at.
I am very much in favor of genetic engineering and gene therapy in general, though I actually have mixed feelings about this. The old song "HIV+" by one-man industrial act Suicide Commando described the virus as "God's reprisal". Metaphorically, at least, this appears frequently to be the case; there is a downside to curing HIV. But I expect that success—whether or not this particular finding will carry over into a viable cure—will attract more funding and influence to a field that overall has very beneficial effects.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQGeKIJ1j0A
Microsoft can see the $28 billion in revenue Apple gets from their app store and think they should be able to do the same.

Much as I dislike the idea (I make a living from selling Win32 apps) I can see why they want to do it.
Seems to me that its something that should be written up somewhere, since it is such valuable knowledge. I mean, I've read the posting guidelines, but your succinct description of the effect is far more useful.

However, it has to be stated that the entire basis of American society started with the Declaration of Independence, which frames the argument in entirely substantive terms leading to the conclusion that there is no government without its people - thus the people are responsible for their government whether they like it or not.

I feel that this point is valid in this conversation, because there is most definitely groupthink involved in not taking any responsibility, whatsoever, for ones governments' actions. Especially in the HN crowd, this is a vital issue and one that is no doubt bound to create diversion. But, doesn't that mean we need to continue the discussion, not censor it?
Bikes/electric bikes seem like a good idea until sadly, one bad incident with a reckless driver. I'd absolutely bike/ebike in SF if not for the continuous stories of friends and friends of friends getting hit, getting run off the road, or having close calls.

Bay Area drivers are much more agrressive and hurried and distracted than a decade ago and I am concerned for my fellow cyclists and pedestrians. (My friend almost got hit last week in downtown MV in the crosswalk when a car ran a red. In downtown! And we were at the other side of the intersection)
This is not something I can get excited about.

I've been following an artist called Raven Kwok for a while. IMO his generative work is much more interesting, and a better contender for "state of the art."

E.g. https://vimeo.com/147383431
> It is as if every project in lisp somehow magically develops its own DSL. That's a high hurdle for newbies to clear.

I'm not sure it is, most Lisp code I've seen is very readable, and you don't need to understand the internal most of the time.

Like in Scheme, if the function name isn't followed by a !, then you can assume that it is functional, so you don't need to worry about anything other than input and output.

So you end up with DSLs like:

> (read-html (string-as-port "<h1>Hello, World!</h1>"))
= '(h1 ("Hello, World!"))

It's a DSL, it's created a non-standard list at the end, an X-Expr, but it's readable, and predictable, without me trying to work out the internals of how a string-port functions, or how read-html works beyond it reads from a port.
By law federal public lands are multi-use, e.g. hunting, fishing, camping. States have no such proviso.
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FWIW I did ask multiple times. Each time there was a 'next-time' excuse. I saw my shy fellow coworkers moving up but maybe they were better negotiators behind the door.

On my part, I did some research. Except the senior management whose salaries are publicly available, the women in the company that I'm close with either receive little to measly bonuses and have had a hard time moving up. Maybe it's because it's a large company or because I'm not someone to forcefully ask a raise just-cause. Either way it's nerve-wrecking to make up excuses for no obvious mistake of mine.