skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Created an account to share this, as it seems not many people know...
You can use an AOSP such as lineage, or carbon. There are quite a few options.
Then, use fdroid and a play store alternative. You DO NOT need the google play services, such as microgapps, or opengapps. Even to use Google Maps! I use google maps by downloading maps anonymously with the Yalp store, and then I don't sign in. I don't have the so called high accuracy location, but I still have GPS, which, obviously, is sufficient. I can navigate easily in a large city, for example.

As far as I know google can't link me to any data that maps sends.

Spotify works fine, along with a half dozen other apps.

Signal can a bit of a pain, as it complains about not having a google api backend, which I think is for contacts. Again, the pain is worth it. And there are open source contact alternatives.

I can't get apps that I paid for, for that I would have to sign in with Yalp, which I haven't bothered with. The freedom is so much better.

Everything else works, banking apps, Firefox, Dropbox, etc.

I'm using a Sony Xperia Z2. The battery is AMAZING! I really wish a largish company would pick this idea up, and start selling phones without google. Sony? The freedom and privacy is worth a lot in my opinion.
It's not quite that they had no other options. They just had no other options to remain in power. "We must either become murderous thugs, or lose" does not necessarily imply "therefore we must become murderous thugs". It only does so if you believe "we must not lose" (or "we must remain in power") more strongly than you believe "we must not become murderous thugs".

But "we must either become murderous thugs, or be murdered" does at least allow the justification of self-defense...
> This was part of what killed the Dreamcast. It became very easy to burn CDs of games, rampant piracy, developers dropped out.

The original Playstation also could run pirated games rather easily, even without chipping it. All that was needed was an action replay/game shark and using the swapping trick. What made this even more appealing was the fact that the console was region locked and these methods allowed to bypass the region lock.

Which was a pretty big deal back then because it wasn't a given that games got released in every region (no Final Fantasy Tactics for Europe) and if they were then there was often a delay of several months until it ended up in certain regions (Europe). So chipping the Playstation had several advantages for an avid game player.

As a result, there was a very lively schoolyard market of burned PlayStation games being traded, back then I didn't know anybody who didn't have their PlayStation chipped/used swapping trick and didn't have a massive collection of burned games downloaded from the www or straight up copied from rental places.

Did that kill the PlayStation? Nope, it still ended up being one of the most successful consoles.
So I'm not sure that console piracy is really that big of a factor for a consoles success or lack of success.
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Wow. This is a lot to take in! Thank you for this, it gives me a gateway into things I can research to expand my knowledge on the subject of graphics.
It’s not as bad as you make it sound.

The original problem requires plenty of conversions (to cubic inches) and memorization of infrequently used constants (how many cubic inches in a gallon?).

If imperial isn’t your thing, doing it in metric is easier, at least it was for me.
I'm not sure I understand what is meant here by the "principle of no learning." Is it a rule that an interface should not require training/learning in order to use?
> How old are you? Let me just guess; not old enough to have experienced living/working in tech while Bill was doing his thing

Please no ad hominem attacks, focus on what I said, not how old I am.

But if it matters to you, I wrote my first lines of code in 1979 on an Apple ][ and I've lived through the exact same times you did.

I find little point in speculating on what could have happened that didn't, I focus on reality and what people have actually achieved in their life time.
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I have no issues with the screen.
Yes it was, when the stars were younger than today :-)
You're very naive if you think that Microsoft's market abuses was limited to web browsers.

This is way too non-inclusive, but at least it's something:

https://www.pcmag.com/feature/302767/9-companies-microsoft-d...

In the 80s Microsoft under Bill Gates was extremely fierce. Silicon Valley software companies lived in constant fear.

There was a bunch of well-documented market abuse using the control of the OS (MS-DOS).

Further reading:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41611.Hard_Drive
I’m not American but I wish he would decide that the situation there warrants ’philantropy’ and would this casually pour a billion or so into getting himself the Democratic nomination and the presidential election just for the sake of ousting Trump I’m a Battle Of The Billionaires (alleged, in Trump’s case).
I'm getting into semantics, but though I get that the Bolsheviks of 1920 transformed (officially) and eventually into the CPSU in 1952, with that "rebranding", did anyone in the USSR still call themselves Bolsheviks or were they communists or was there a more popular term?

It's just that I've never seen it in (historical) contexts outside of describing the pre 1920s revolutionaries.
Writing is an exercise in literary mastication.
Of course they would have laughed, just as the Mormon leadership laughs at The Book of Mormon, the musical.
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I Never played wing commander but I don't think it is possible.
With dos 6.22 using DOS=HIGH,UMB and loading everything possible in high memory and removing all the non essential stuff gave you 622k free memory if I remember correctly.
I managed to get more only "cheating" using a boot disk from the dos version bundled with windows 95, but even in that case you couldn't get more than 635k of free conventional memory.
Yes. I accepted a job some years ago at a company that was working a contract for a General Dynamics subsidiary in Georgia (some of you will know exactly which one). They had incredible difficulty giving me a start date and strung me along after signing for about a month.

I was extremely eager to get out of my then-current employer, so the situation became extremely stressful to me. I didn't want to burn a bridge with my then-employer and wanted to give them a full two-week's notice.

Eventually I'd had enough of waiting and gave them my resignation before I worked a single day, even though I was supposedly an employee (went through full handbook, tax stuff, etc). This was on a Friday morning. The full rest of my day was them calling me over and over convincing me that they could start me the following Monday.

I still walked -- not worth that kind of disorganization and hassle. I'm convinced that the whole time I wasn't working they were billing the client for me to be there. ...They paid a lot of money for my background check too... whoops!
This assassination had almost no coverage on the continent. EU institutions and member countries apparently have more important issues than billions of euro vanishing without a trace (time to increase the contributions for those employed; those single, childless, and employed soon will not be paid with money at all).
> I think his primary motivation is so simple.. he wants people to like him.

Yeah, you definitely have something against him, don't you?

I don't really care what his motives are, I just look at the results of his contributions and there is no doubt in my mind he will be remembered as someone who was instrumental in saving millions of lives and advancing our civilization.

> Many, many people disliked him after his predatory business days.

I profoundly disliked him as well back in the days, especially since I was a hard code Amiga fan.

As opposed to you, I have changed my opinion based on additional data.
> All sorts of things are force multipliers for violently disturbed people: guns, cars, explosives, and yes fraud and deception. We should treat people who employ fraud to harm others the same way we treat people who use pipe bombs.

You've conflated employing fraud with direct use of force.

Fortunately, the law draws a fine line between the two. You must prove that swatting somebody presents the same probability of death as detonating a pipe bomb. The truth is there is far more successful SWAT operations that doesn't result in death of innocent lives. Out of the SWAT pranks, only a few results in death. Therefore, it does not pose the same direct harm and high probability of death that a pipe bomb would.
These calls require just a few words, it'd be trivial for a single determined individual to cause a mess across the country by simply making these calls in bulk in an automated manner.
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https://github.com/raganwald/braythwayt.com/commit/dc07b496d...
Another: "May tiny such creatures, when they died"

Many?
Compared to what, though? Leninism had a lot of adherents because it had actually worked on multiple occasions, whereas the economist/trade unionist approach hasn't panned out so well for the working class, or indeed the middle class in developed countries.
Such a bold statement. You have to explain why.
In The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James had to define religion.

So he defined it as "the sense that there is an unseen order to things, and that one must conform to it harmoniously."

Bolshevism obviously qualifies.
It wasn't an attack (heck, wtf, I was just asking your age, maybe stop over-dramatizing?); I was trying to find out if you had some sort of personal experience or was just parroting the newer reddit hivemind.
A lot of people have been talking about the evil of this one individual kid, or the irresponsibility of the police department, but there's another aspect being glossed over here:

The first thing I thought when I read this article was, "Wow, the toxic Call of Duty community finally killed someone."

I've been playing CoD WW2 online off and on since it came out last month. I have been astounded by the behavior of many people in those games. Players with racist and genocidal names who spout horrible things on chat about minorities. Threats of real world physical and sexual violence. Homophobia and misogyny. And of course just childish spamming and yelling and cheating and complaining and other nonsense.

It is a terrible, terrible community.

It does not surprise me at all to see it escalate to actual real world violence.

Yes, the kid who made this particular call should be punished. And the police department needs to be held accountable too.

But the root of this problem is the CoD community, and to some extent the gaming community at large. I don't know how to fix it, I don't know how you get an entire community to start treating each other like human beings -- but that's what needs to happen.
"A 100m length of 1cm hose is charged with water. How many liters (1 dm³) of water are in that length of hose?"

That problem is still no fun to do in your head. If it's important to do frequently, it's not hard to memorize the constant for "1 ft of 1 in-diameter hose = X gallons" and then multiply as appropriate.
It's just unfortunate that the plot/timing/details aren't consistent with the books.
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Aurora read replicas are just compute heads decoupled from the storage. They increase availability and read performance, but don't do anything for the reliability of the storage.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

"Each 10GB chunk of your database volume is replicated six ways, across three Availability Zones."

So, if there has been a storage layer failure, most likely it was a software bug in Aurora itself.
I've never been to any bar or restaurant in the US that wouldn't do the same, although I'm not sure it's a law. However, the sporting event example strikes me as different because they may have soda and beer dispensers but not actually have a water tap at the concession stand.
Your definitely pushing the religious agenda in this thread
> This is logic that says that if I point a gun at a crowd of people and shoot blindly, I haven't "murdered" anybody, because there was no one person I intended to kill, and, in fact, I might just as easily have gotten lucky and killed nobody, so what intent could exist to prove against me?

No, in the example you've presented, that is directly demonstration of intent to kill using a device (a gun) that has high probability of death. That is not the point I've made and you are attempting to bend what was said.
Worth watching just for the visualization of how accelerating electrons leads to radiation emission.
Just watched the video on your site and this is by far my favorite Tiny House project I've seen yet. It's the first one I've seen that I felt like I could actually live in that with two kids. Great job! Thanks for taking the time to document the experience and share it with all of us!
There are several things we -- as a broad generalization over many societies -- get wrong about dying, and this article illustrates one of them in the medical, caregiver sense.

While there are several contributing factors, like an activist reading of the Hippocratic Oath and fear for malpractice claims against the caregivers, this reckoning is consistent with the value system of many societies that assumes that one's informed choices must always tilt towards their continued life, and any feelings to the contrary are morally corrupt or simply misinformed, and therefore don't confer valid consent.

It's impossible to separate analyses of one's own medical death without considering wishes of one's death in the general case. Modern societies tend to make discussing death taboo, not just because it's an uncomfortable topic to grapple with, but also because people who can control the terms of their own exit have an opportunity to do great harm in ways that can't be disincentivized by punishment. It's no accident that religions attempt to rectify this loophole by ensuring that mortal deeds will determine one's fate after death.
You don't need to pay them for a phone. You can install it on the device yourself for free.
It reminds me a bit (perhaps oddly) of technical consulting work. Sure you can check the box, deliver the letter of the contract, and collect your pay. There's a difference between that and building what the customer wants, not what they need; driving end user adoption to make the project successful; caring about outcomes and satisfying your stakeholders, not just about solving the technical challenge as it is presented. There are specialist techies who want nothing to do with half that equation, and don't need to pretend that they do because they are so valued for the specialized thing at which they are a truly expert professional. If you're not like that, another way to add value is by blending technical skills with the other half of that equation.
"Trailer age restrictions, I haven't heard of that."

You will. California is awful. Particularly the bay area. I ended up having to park over an hour and a half away from San Francisco when I visited. I'm in an old Avion travel trailer these days. When I first moved into an RV it was a newish motorhome, and I never ran into the trailer age restriction. But, I think there's actually two things at play: Parks that never had such restrictions in the past have added them in recent years. All the parks I used to stay in in Austin had no such restrictions in the past, and all but one does now. This is, I think, a reflection of the growing class divide among RVers and the growing desire among wealthy RVers, who do it by choice, to not be associated with or share space with poor trailer residents who do it out of necessity.

It is most pronounced in major cities. It's rare to find this restriction at parks that are out in the country. Also, obviously, city, county, state, and national parks have no such restrictions. So, it's usually possible to find a good place to park it, but it's surprisingly difficult to get a spot somewhere close to a major city.

It's been such a frustrating problem for me that come spring, I plan to buy a newer rig just so I don't have this problem anymore. I like to be able to visit major cities with my RV. It pisses me off that I'll have to give my business to parks that participate in ugly classism in order to do it, though. I've also considered going with a big old bus and just putting a gazillion solar panels on the roof and huge water tanks, so I don't need to be in a park at all.
The innocent victim was the absolute least suspicious target the SWAT team would ever encounter and they couldn't even see it. They were blinded and under the control of a social engineer. It's pretty awful and twisted that someone would make the call, but who are these government assassins and how do we stop them?
> The income statement is very clear in that respect

A matter of opinion I guess. I would characterize it as being as misleading as possible without actually being false.

The point is that Bookings are not income at all so they don't belong anywhere on an income statement.

"Contra Revenue" and "Net Revenue" are pure fiction because the Bookings are not revenue in the first place.

Once again, if you want to see how a real company run by adults does this, just look at Visa's annual report:

http://s1.q4cdn.com/050606653/files/doc_financials/annual/20...

Spoiler Alert: transaction volume is on Page 38.
To add to this:

It's still sort of just scary in the abstract. There's no evidence that a quantum computer that could attack even weak incarnations of DH or RSA are within the realm of feasibility, and if things break in engineering's favor over the next decade we still probably won't be there. It's possible that me might never get there!

The big problem is that there's a chance (a low chance) that we might get there within the (long) lifespan of our existing public key algorithms. There's a mindset in cryptography engineering that we design for secrets that must be kept for many decades. So: the "plausible" threat we face here is decades-hence retroactive decryption.

It's useful to keep this in mind when doing security engineering, because PQ isn't "free": we have to trade things off to get it. It's possible that the modern PQ schemes we're pursuing will have grave flaws that put them within reach of classical cryptanalysis within just a few years. Even more importantly, it's not only possible but likely that there are implementation errors --- like using schoolbook RSA, or failing to validate a curve point --- that we won't fully understand for a decade after we adopt a new PQ scheme.

And, just to make things more fun, we're not looking at 1 PQ scheme but at 3-4, some of them entirely unrelated to each other.

Against all this you should also keep in mind the other forces that push PQ to the front of the field of cryptography's consciousness. Most serious cryptography is done academically. PQ has created a gold rush of paper topics. Naturally, it's going to seem super important if you pay attention to IACR ePrints.

If what you're trying to protect are conventional financial transactions, or the integrity of applications running today that will have been rebooted at least once before 2050, there's a good chance that PQ is bad engineering for you.
There seems to be no shortage of prosecutions for people smuggling cigarettes, or avoiding the taxes.
Copperhead OS is a great project and seems to be short on funding (based on threads on Twitter and Reddit). If you'd like to support it, donations can be made at https://copperhead.co/android/donate.

(I'm not affiliated with the project, I just use it as my primary phone OS.)
Well, it's certainly acceptable to challenge it, but fear of death is rather dogmatic and polarizing. Many people, from diverse backgrounds of philosophy, have submitted world views where the quality of life and your impact matters more than your length of time. Others, like many on this forum, I suspect, have argued we should be investing in fighting death and aging, using war and financial metaphors, without establishing why this is such a worthwhile fight and/or investment. Why length of life and not quality of life? For sure, they're related, but how you frame these questions will dictate the response and interest in the conversation.

I doubt humans as a whole will ever feel strongly that death is a negative force. However, improving quality of life is one of the easiest pitches to make, and doesn't necessarily disproportionally value the rich. In fact, the least worthwhile place to spend improving the quality of life would be people with enough money to dictate it already.

But hey—the idea of living for centuries is cool, I always wanted to be an elf.
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Dirac and Bohr were both theorists, not experimentalists! But you're right that it varies within disciplines.

I'm an experimental physics Ph.D. student working on LIGO, and I have also found that experimental physicists are often very good at motivating engineering from top to bottom. I think having depth of knowledge is part of it. My advisor has told me that some of the best experimentalists have sufficient depth of expertise to be theorists. I can't comment on how this compares to other fields (since I haven't worked outside of academia) but I have been very satisfied with how eloquent and deeply informed experimental physicists usually are.
What was the "right" interaction from your point of view?

Please keep in mind... I used to live in an Atlanta neighborhood where a Sheriff and his deputy responded to a domestic violence dispute. Sheriff responded to a call and knocked on their door. The man inside the home opened the door, shot the deputy in the chest at point-blank, slammed the door shut, and then barricaded himself inside for a 6-hour standoff (ah, the memories of that neighborhood!). Thankfully the standoff ended peacefully thereafter.

Keep in mind the shit that SWAT deals with on a regular basis: they're putting their lives at risk for public safety. That doesn't give them carte blanch to go shooting people, but they deal with life & death situations regularly. It sucks.
Because not all 401k’s offer low-fee funds, whereas IRAs are more flexible
I tried it a couple of months ago. It immediately broke build of one of the images. It was a known bug. So I guess I just wait one more year to try.

In the mean time, I make sure that all my containers runs as non-root with max security restrictions. The exception so far was sshd from OpenSSH and mostly due to incorrect porting from OpenBSD in portable ssh.
> Yeah, you definitely have something against him, don't you?

Well, yeah.

I think we'd be at least 5 years further into the future in terms of software than we currently are, possible 10, unless he hadn't abused the markets so gravely.
> belief in their ability to succeed

Or an objective economic capability to fail-and-retry. (As opposed to fail-and-starve.)
Apache starts as root so it can bind ports 80 and 443, then switches to the apache user. But the logging subsystem starts before the setuid to apache, so a piped CustomLog binary runs as root.

More secure options would be to use CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE instead of root, or to make Apache bind an unprivileged port and then use something like iptables (or an external load balancer) to redirect 80/443 to the privileged ports. But, for reasons I can't quite recall (it was 10+ years ago) we didn't take up any of those more secure options.
What you did is the text book definition of an ad hominem attack: undermining someone's argument by attacking their character instead of addressing what they said.
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"It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past"

-- Carl von Clausewitz (On War?)
How would Uber be any better at fleet management (than cab companies) when the fleet is self driving? Do cab companies’ fleet management practices fall apart when they don't need drivers?