skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But then there's still the harddrive firmware and who knows what else."

Graphics card blobs, wifi cards blobs, etc. Just about every vital subsystem on a modern PC/phone/tablet etc. has been compromised by design through closed device drivers so that someone with enough skills and access to those information (such as some 3 letter agencies) can create a sort of covert channel where data can be computed, read or stored and transmitted without any means of intercepting that by any applications, because every part it's going to pass through contains some closed code that can be instructed to encrypt and tunnel the data from one place to another.

This came to mind years ago when I was struggling with a network card requiring a firmware blob that refused to load. I started wondering why were they making things so complicated for users and admins by keeping drivers closed; that blob could have contained just about every possible malware in existence and I would never have noticed it. Then I had a flash: disk drives also contain closed firmware, and video cards too. I recall having thought "heh, if they had a blob into the CPU as well they could close the circle and build a system where they can move information inside the machine or receive/transmit them from/to the external world completely unbeknown to the user. Then years later I read about Intel ME and got a thousand flashes because I almost saw that coming.

To me there is no such thing as a trustworthy system anywhere in the world, at least not until every single line of its software, firmware and hardware has been opened for public scrutiny. There is too much at stake, and surveillance is a damn rich business both for companies and people in power.
throwanem and jordanb: The growth rate numbers are from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Upvoted because you're welcome to your opinion and I'm a bit sad to see this buried.

You should visit. That doesn't mean you'll like it, but it's the most amazing place I've ever been. On the final approach to KEF, I looked out the window and all I could say was "no way". It's like nothing else. I found it absolutely stunningly gorgeous, and loved the place. It's at the top of my list of places to go back to -- over and over. There's life everywhere. The people are wonderful, there are animals everywhere, there are grasses and mosses and all kinds of life. So some of your statements are opinions, and others are merely factually wrong.

I've only been a few tropical places, but frankly, I don't like them. Humidity is like hell on earth. I get as much enjoyment out of a cold black sand beach as a warm white sand one -- it bores the piss out of me to lay on a beach and do nothing, so I'm no more likely to spend time on a "nice" beach than on an "ugly" one. In fact I'd more happily spend an hour on a black sand beach photographing ice formations and looking for puffins than sitting in a beach chair sipping a pina colada.
"The trouble with text-only email"

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478546

Tracking users via email is such a lucrative business, we would need hundreds if not more of these blog posts to even make a small dent in the mindshare that HTML email has captured. How many phishing attacks rely on HTML email? All of them?
I would be shocked if the unredacted video still exists.
Either hypothesis is valid given the limited evidence investigated so far. What’s wrong with making a quick observation followed by a hypothesis?
No, I can honestly say I've never worked on a software project that dealt directly with currency values. Personally, in the kinds of projects I do, explicit support for units of measurement would be more beneficial: you'd like to use the type system to detect where units from different systems are mixed (e.g., km+mi) and behave appropriately by performing a conversion; or to detect where inappropriate units are mixed (e.g., kg+hz) and signal an error (at project build time if possible!)

With that background in mind, I imagine the scenario here you have two data in a Ren document which are both the literal $1.00, but one is actually 1.00USD and the other is actually 1.00EUR: it doesn't prevent errors (for instance, when you want to perform an operation like + on the two data), because you still don't know what the data means. You have gained very little over just using the literal 1.00 instead.

So if I were making a proposal I'd be tempted to suggest a syntax like [1.00 USD], and maybe even giving up one of the remaining sigils ^[1.00 USD] if it is important to raise to being a special element in the syntax of a Ren file. Now that you're saying what you mean, you can use the same syntax for all units: ^[1.00 kg m -2] (1 kilogram per square meter), ^[1.00 V hz -.5] (1 volt per square-root-hertz, a typical units specification of noise in opamps).
There are TONS of resources out there on sexist image of women in advertising.

I’m not going to play the ‘why dont you spoon feed it to me so I can rebut stuff or change the discussion’ game.

If you want to know there are plenty of resources. If you’re trying to be obstinant I’m not going to play.

Given the general attitude here on HN I expect it’s the later.
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I stood up my own instance for giggles, and somehow ended up with over 200 users carrying on their own conversations amongst themselves.
There are two grocery stores in my town, one takes Android Pay and the other does not.

Considering the price advantage changes week by week, the sole major differentiator in my routine is what payment methods they accept, and that makes me to go to the one with Android Pay almost exclusively.

I really hate how a year ago it seemed rollout was better than it is now. Every damn store and restaurant is trying to use their own app as a payment system rather than just using Android Pay, its bad enough that the local Burger King told me they the Android Pay no longer worked on the terminals and to use the app instead, which wasn't NFC based and required me to reenter my card info to start using it...
I feel being shocked at how this person was treated is not just "armchair quarterbacking". Given the power and trust we place in police, I don't feel it's unreasonable to expect they treat people with respect.
Trazodone works like a charm for me. Knocks me right out. I take it 1x a week when I want to catch up.
That's perhaps in Poland, the Baltics and the former Soviet Block. France, Germany, Norway, etc will promptly put 100+K€ on the table for an experienced consultant in some niche.
One thing that was really educational for me was reading how CPython implemented their object system. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Include/object...

Basically objects are structs that all share the same header which contains a pointer to the object type (ob_type) and the reference count (ob_refcnt) for memory management.

That way you can always cast back to a pointer of that header struct and access ob_type and ob_refcnt no matter what the actual implemented struct contains afterwards.

ob_type contains the name of the type and function pointers for common methods used by objects (getattr, setattr, hash, arithmetic, etc).
Why don’t you explain why yours is ‘better’?
> 15.6 Mbps (for 4k)

That must be laughable quality. 1080p blurays easily clock in at more than 22Mbit/s for grainy content, the spec allows 40Mbit/s. And that's not even including the audio.
UHD discs must deliver at least 82Mbit/s.

And a lot of content is not even using the things that UHD standards allow to deliver (4:4:4 chroma instead of 4:2:0, higher framerates).
So even if they're delivering in HEVC is suspect that the compression is not source-transparent.
https://www.textise.net

Turns websites into text only versions.
Pichette got a 56-million-dollar payout just for quitting. That was shortly after the “scrappy” year.
From my understanding (and also mentioned by someone in the comments on the RFC I linked), while you can do things to the threads by just directly calling through to C, what you end up with is a thread that doesn't have all of the Rust runtime niceties set up on it correctly.

I'm just waiting for a full featured version of this functionality to be available in the language, but I was also sort of curious to see what OP's solution to the problem was.

And like I mentioned originally, my day job is to maintain code that does the same thing but for Java. I don't wanna have to maintain it in two languages even if one is just a pet project. Since Rust is billing itself as a systems language it makes sense that this will be a feature eventually, and I'm willing to wait patiently. It's not holding me back from anything, it's just a personal curiosity.
But those guys out there with uniforms on are the ones trying to survive every day

Yeah, no. It's not that dangerous.
So maybe don't buy an iPhone? There are tons of alternatives, and Apple doesn't hold a majority of the market share in any country.
There are quite a few tiling window managers for either of those OSes, you just need to do some googling.
I develop and use Stack on Windows. https://losttech.software/stack.html
Yes, but it isn't monopolistic abuse. You can always go to another phone and another ecosystem and probably get the very same apps.
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Air Force will recall as many as 1000 retired pilots to address serious shortage
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By the same token, your insistence on lumping threats of violence in with racial slurs is similarly inane. I don't hear anyone defending rape threats here.
>Banks are really in the best position to verify signatures on checks that they get. They could potentially access a huge database of authentic signatures from previously cashed checks and do some sort of AI pattern-matching against the signatures they get before cashing them. But do they? I don't know. But I very much doubt it.

I know for a fact that Bank of America does this. I've been stopped on multiple occasions there after trying to cash a rent check from my girlfriend that I filled out and signed for her. It's kind of annoying but I'm glad theyre doing it.
What do cops care about a defense lawyer's "easy payday?"
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Abuse of dominant position requires dominant position.
My thoughts here would be "is an attorney".
Okay. For the sake of discussion, what would satisfy you in terms of transparency? Perhaps I'm misreading you, and please do correct me if I am, but it seems you've arrived at a conclusion of bad faith on the part of mods. What would move the conversation productively forward?

Edit to add: Without more details from you, I can imagine the mods being hamstrung with respect to figuring out or explaining what's going with what you're observing. Likewise, there's nothing preventing you from continuing your comments here while also emailing them. Particularly as it seems you'd like to continue to participate on HN. I can imagine you'd prefer to do so without the hassle you're currently experiencing.
Is your answer an example of the possible outcome of the proposal? Shorter papers with less content (but more frequently)?
You are not a proponent of free speech. You're a proponent of speech that you don't find offensive. It is, in my opinion, okay to hold those views.

You're absolutely entitled to have those views. However, you're not a proponent of free speech. Free speech allows people to say all lawful things.

Threats and slander are unlawful and aren't protected speech. Child pornography is illegal. There are many things freedom of speech doesn't protect.

I have no major complaints about the legislation aspect as it currently is.

I did not assert that rape threats were civil rights. No, those are illegal. Well, they are actually only illegal of they are credible threats.

Slander is illegal. Credible threats of violence are illegal. Disclosure of classified data is illegal. Certain kinds of pornography are illegal. Inciting a riot is illegal. Credibly suggesting someone harm another is illegal.

There are more but that's the gist. Those acts are illegal.

What is not illegal is when some jerk comes and says, "I think all women should be raped." I think we can all agree that it is deplorable, but it is not illegal.

'It would be great if all those n&ggers were strung up.' is not illegal. But, "I'm going to get a truckload of us, come back, and string up them n&ggers!' is illegal.

That last one is illegal because it has become a credible threat.

When the neo-Nazi marches go on, complete with their fancy clothes, and shouting how they hate K&kes, N&ggers, Sp&cks, etc... and throwing up their Nazi solute - that's legal.

It's deplorable, but legal. And I support free speech. That means I support their right to express themselves within the legal framework.

The right to express yourself as you see fit is very much a basic human right. There are already limits.

So, I support all lawful speech. That is what it means when you defend the freedom of speech. Anything else is not defending it. Anything else doesn't need to be defended.

It is okay, really. At least it is okay by me. You don't have to support free speech. There are probably a list of other rights you don't support. The rights I support are in the US Constitution. I'd like to keep them there, but I accept that it is a living document.
"...are data exchange formats, not in-memory representations."

Real world values are still typed.

"If you need more control ... metadata is your friend."

aka implicit user typedefs. Explicit is better.
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I draw a cute little animal on the signature line (the species of which I'll keep confidential for security reasons) and nobody has ever noticed or questioned it.
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Yep, I have a half dozen credit cards in my wallet and a few more in a drawer and I have no clue what my PIN is for any of them (or if I even have one). The only PIN I know is the one for my ATM card.
No need for special syntax. ^ is already the escape character. Just use blocks. Though a `unit` syntax has been brought up. The notation would use path syntax, but start with an number instead of a word. Frink, of course, is the king of languages in this regard.

And while this may be more beneficial in your work, a lot of software does have to deal with money, where it's important not to use floating point, but BCD or something else.
Not even in the top ten. Less dangerous than grounds maintenance worker.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/01/28/chart...

As far as straight up getting murdered, it's in the top 2, but #1 taxi drivers are murdered at almost 3x the rate.
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Yes, and what a shame. Their hindrance is at least exemplified quite clearly. There could be hope.
It would be illegal otherwise, wouldn't it? Redaction of evidence
How exactly would this benefit consumers? Arguably it would suck — either it’s not well tested or they spend so much time and money testing they don’t ship as much anymore.

Btw, you can already put Windows on their hardware, or Linux for that matter.
What has you unsure? Wanna talk about it?
Um, this study isn't controlling for socioeconomic status?

It sort of barely controls for age, which finds lower violence when the officers are older.

But it's not very convincing. Anecdotally it seems like there is a domestic violence problem in the population, but you can't compare it to the general population. You need to control for education, background, and socioeconomic status.
Nice! I will try it. Did you test the inference on Intel GPUs?
I think bitcoin will go to $10,000 USD and when it reaches the five digits people will stop caring about 1000 USD price fluctuations, just like people no longer care if the price increases or decreases $100 USD.

I think the price will slowly reach $100k and $500k and we'll see trillions in market cap. I think the bitcoin price reflects our economy; the more governments/central banks print money, the higher the bitcoin price will be.

Bitcoin already is a good store of value, but I think in the long term we'll also see bitcoin being used as money, with things like the Lightning Network.

I think we'll see more soft-forks being done by the community to improve the network and make things more efficient.

Also, when the price goes higher than $500k people won't even notice price fluctuations anymore, so the price will remain stable and people will start using it as money.

I also think that people will stop comparing bitcoin to fiat eventually. Maybe we'll say 1 BTC == 1 BTC, or 1 BTC is worth N mBTC?

Of course this won't happen overnight, but it will happen, the only thing bitcoin needs to do is survive until it reaches mass adoption.

We already hit $100 billion market cap, $1tn is right around the corner. The price should only increase with the market cap increasing.

"When bitcoin goes to the moon, it becomes the moon" —Richard Heart
Yes, you'd download some things you don't need to. Last I heard, they're working on an extension so the browser can tell the server what media it has when it requests the initial page so they won't get sent at all.
“According to the Catholic Encyclopedia this is a false etymology.” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail#Etymology

It’s been around for a while but was most recently popularised by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code.
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Mine was prosecuting attorney. I don't think defense attorneys are considered officers of the court, but I'm not sure and it may vary by jurisdiction.
I guess they should then randomize komi so any player would have 50/50 chance of getting a small edge.
The President has invoked the apparently-permanent “national emergency” resulting from the 9/11 attacks to activate Defense (and, I believe, Homeland Security, for the Coast Guard) Department for unlimited (both in number and duration) recall of retired military service members to active duty (outside of wartime and select roles, recall of retirees is limited in duration and, for officers, sharply limited in number simultaneously recalled.)

There are suggestions in other comments that this addresses the USAF pilot shortage (which the 25/service limit on recalled officers would limit without use of an order tied to war or national emergency), but there is no limitation to that application in the order, which activates and delegates the full unrestrained emergency power to the service secretaries subject to the discretion of the Secretary of Defense.

Without further Presidential action, every single retired member of the Armed Forces could be called up, indefinitely, under the terms of this order.
You should sprinkle some more "I think" and "I believe" and "I'm under the impression" when stating your opinions, because none of what you say is anything more than speculation and just-so stories.
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24yo male in West US working as a contractor while attempting to bootstrap several small ventures
Please no. Papers are sufficiently terse, jargon-filled and hard to follow as it is
Yes, this is the real benefit. It's no longer the police's word against the defendant, which nearly always goes the way of the police in a court of law.

Accountability is key.
Oddly enough I got a Gold MasterCard from a Luxembourgian bank (Advanzia) that almost (but not always!) asks the payment terminal for signature instead of the PIN.

That's infuriatingly annoying.
I think posters like this are less for changing minds and more for empowering the base. Seeing it could inspire an act of courage, or let you know that you are not alone, perhaps even in the majority.
And when the bans happen, the Butterfly War will be ready and waiting to completely hijack their policy and AI until they target the very people they seek to protect.

http://www.cultstate.com/2017/10/13/The-Butterfly-War/
I was reading a piece lamenting that Australia was leaving a club of only "8 other nations" where a car could go all the way from conception to mass manufacture. I will track the source down precisely if anyone expresses interest. So I started mentally listing the 8 countries: US, Japan, Germany, South Korea, China, UK, France, Italy. But surely also Sweden? India? Brazil? Spain? Eight seems low to me.
Yes. This.

A peggable USD coin with a decentralized exchange for BTC would be most valuable.
There is a way: ES6 modules. If you can account for the order of execution (with modules or custom loaders) async is, in almost all cases, the best way to load your scripts. Defer (or body-end) scripts also specify the execution order, but only in a strictly linear fashion which usually has a performance hit.
Deer can be quite the issue. There are a handful of cities in Utah (and I'm sure other places) who have opened up hunting to archers - within the city limits because the deer population is out of control.

Back to the tree side of the story - I'm in NW Montana where trees are like weeds. In the spring I could find 1-2 fir tree seedlings per square inch and sometimes 4-5 in an inch! Despite having quite a few deer, forests are thick. I should rent some sheep to keep down the "weeds" we call trees.
> What do these two things have to do with each other?

They are both emergency responses and require tremendous amount of material and human resources to get there very fast.

Police have the fastest cars with the brightest lights that let them go wherever they want the fastest (Bonus if they have a motorcycle, but those they keep to give speeding tickets for some reason). It also means they are the first ones there and might need to do CPR from time to time or help that guy about to jump down the bridge.

>Why has our society conflated those?

We are imperfect humans in an imperfect world. We can't assign every single task to a different human being. We, as a society, accept that.

>The fact that we're talking seriously about affording public policing a sphere of secrecy is just a symptom of that problem.

There is a big difference between secrecy of the police and privacy of the policed.

Go watch Live PD and come tell me seriously they should stop censoring the names, date of birth, addresses, plate numbers, SSN, wardrobe malfunctions of the victims, witnesses and children that appear in the show.

They take the time to protect the privacy of the bystanders, but it costs money and an incredible amount of resource to do so just for a couple of teams for a couple of hours a week and they don't even do a perfect job.
I would be wary of depending on gn. Google is really only interested in supporting it for their open source projects.
The Aussie economic model - export bulk raw materials to China, buy manufactured products back - is a curious inversion of the old British Empire economy. And it's one that is not even remotely viable over the long term. Countries whose only source of wealth is raw materials get eaten alive by manufacturing economies, then left to rot when the mines are exhausted. There is a ton of historical precedent.
The typical young Australian male is a pretty special breed - lazy, entitled, willfully ignorant and undereducated - the result of having it too good for too long.

I would never buy a car built by these overpaid idiots when I could get a japanese or south korean car.
Is the Washington DC police district known to be relatively free of the corruption that plagues e.g. Oakland and Chicago? It's possible they measured a district that's already "constantly under observation", and thus detected no significant behavioral shifts.
So not only you have to compete with non-meritocratic hires to come on board, you are expected to tutor them afterwards and save their egos while code reviewing?