skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because keeping a Hackintosh up and running is a hobby. It requires maintenance. macOS point release comes out? Better hit the forums/subreddits and start looking for driver compatibility/kexts/other hacks etc. Hackintoshes are crazy fragile. I had a Hackintosh during the Snow Leopard years and when Lion came out I just gave up.

Parent comment was simply saying that macOS on Apple hardware doesn't require maintenance, and if the poster was interested in an OS that did then Linux would be better than macOS on a Hackintosh.
Every lobbyist is going to present an analysis that concludes "our client's product is the best thing since sliced bread". They commission dodgy research, they fudge figures, they gloss over unflattering facts and emphasise others, because that's their job.

Regulators in other developed nations have concluded that while asbestos may have some marginal advantages in certain use-cases, the externalities are immensely expensive. There are plenty of good, cheap, safe substitutes for asbestos.
Okay I know nothing about trading halts but reading this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_halt it seems that Tesla is supposed to tell the exchange to halt trading 10 minutes prior to releasing news. Did Tesla initiate the trading halt here (late) or did the exchange?
Binary Search Is a Pathological Case for Caches
I havent been to Defcon, sadly after so many opportunities to go even many years ago.. but if I were to go now - I would go with the express desire to be hacked.

I would go with a fresh machine, a new phone, and anythin else I could think of and just walk around like an open christmas tree waiting to see how many santas came and left presents on my devices. (Clearly I would never have logged into anything from these devices - just band new logins.

Or create accounts for them on Reddit, HN, other sites - logged into these sites once... and see what would happen.
Is it time to automate politicians?
I switched to emailthis after the EU fiasco. https://www.emailthis.me/

You get a parsed html email with the article without the adds. It literally supports every app there is for saving (you just share via email). You can read it from any email client and easily share it with your friends. I also use fastmail which has a great full text search so finding old articles is a breeze. You can also do many cool stuff with IFTTT because again, it's just email.
I had to block one because they kept asking me to endorse and recommend them for shit that I don't even know about.

I'm like dude, when did you ever worked on "designing collimation towers" for NASA? You are like 19. Unless you were like a child prodigy, which I doubt, since you are asking me for an endorsement.
Gotcha. After looking through the source on Github I'm more at ease. One always has to be skeptical about things that involve authenticating to important accounts.
The drafting limitation is a joke.

Game 3, the OpenAI was forced to reveal its carry pick (HARD CARRY SLARK) as first pick. What a farce.
I get it, it's Musk, but this is still such an irresponsible way to announce news of this magnitude. From a WaPo article:

The sudden announcement gained immediate criticism from former regulators who suggested it may conflict with SEC rules for potentially market-moving statements.
Harvey Pitt, a former SEC chairman, told CNBC on Tuesday that Musk’s tweets “might consittute fraud if any of the facts he disclosed are not true” or if there was any indication that he had floated the proposal purely to boost the stock price
The memory block contains all data together in well, a block, thus you can happily overwrite two neighbouring arrays, unless I am missing something here WebAssembly does not have fat pointers.
> One of the downsides of programming being easily accessible and easy to get a job in is that there is no required standards body to write code. There's no way to fix this.

I guess that's what I was getting at. There never used to be a standards body for civil engineers, either, but after a while society got tired of bridges falling down and buildings collapsing. When will we get to that point with computer software?

It's kind of funny (or sad) that barbers and hair stylists need a license, but software engineers don't.
The stock was work $360 before his tweet and almost $390 afterwards (before the market decided it was a boutade); if Musk can prove he has the cash, the price will naturally gravitate towards $420. That basically means he's daring the Saudis to pay 15% more (about $10bn more), in order to take over from him, than they had presumably planned to do.
When I first started traveling for work 10 years ago I thought it was nuts to pay $8K-$10K for tickets, and usually just had the company buy coach tickets for $1800-$2k. My thinking was that for the 12-14 hour flights, it seemed to my naive mind that spending an extra $6k was "wasteful".

After many years of traveling north of 100K miles/year, trust me, traveling in coach sucks, and anytime I'm forced to do so I'm miserable. If I had the money, I would never, ever, take any flight > 6-10 hours in coach.
Is there a good reason not have a law that prohibits service providers from mandating the means by which you form requests your machine sends to them.

I totally get limiting the volume and frequency of requests. That's fair. Bandwidth costs providerds money afterall. But why really should you have any say over how I formulate my requests? Whether they comee from your app, a personal script I wrote or I hand form them in Fiddler, what's the problem besides the service provider's control-mongering.

Am I missing something here?
New Pattern of Conduct: instead of being direct and simple, use more words.
Elon Musk tweets he has funding to take Tesla private
There are several ways that this can happen. For example, instructions can be misleading. Consider boilerplate instructions such as "vote on every page" combined with a race whose possible candidates extends to multiple pages. How many people are going to be confused by those instructions?

Another possibility is that labels and voting regions might not line up properly. The infamous butterfly ballots of 2000 had the property that, if you viewed from the appropriate oblique angle, the arrow next to Al Gore's name very neatly lines up to the hole next to Pat Buchanan. Unsurprisingly, in Palm Beach, there was an unexpectedly high vote count for Buchanan in a region which most observers would think highly unlikely to vote for him.

What happened during the 2000 recount was that Gore asked for a recount of specific counties that he felt would improve his tally; the Bush campaign countered that all the counties should be recounted, since recounts in other places might improve his tally. The Bush campaign also argued that the varying standards of what constituted a vote (did you need to have at least two corners of the chad hanging, or did you merely need a dimple, to constitute a vote?) also was too lenient a standard for the recount.

The general consensus of most observers, after the election furor died down, is that Al Gore would have won the state under a 100% accurate vote counting mechanism. A full recount likely would have been to Gore's favor, but the recounts that Gore asked for do not appear to have been sufficient to get that result.

When the results of the election change depending on the exact measure you use to determine the intended vote, it is fair to say that, in a statistical sense, the election is a tie. I would argue that election laws should treat such cases as a tie, even if the numbers aren't actually identical.
I used to image my boot disk before each update, saved me a few times when I needed the machine to just work again.

Then moved to Linux in 2013, never needed to go back.
is this a 420 joke?
In serfdom, didn't the owners of the land get a certain percentage of your output?
I can't for the life of me understand why Thinkpad doesn't nuke Mac in sales, other than I guess marketing? Or just maybe people prefer the "simplicity" of MacOS? Because Apple hardware is pretty?

I must be neckbearding, because from an objective standpoint, it doesn't make any damn sense. Swappable batteries (on some models), universally better keyboards (at the very least, more robust!), usually far cheaper for far better internals, ability to swap hardware out, before-market and after-market customization options...

This whole "but it just works" thing doesn't make sense to me, because my latest job gave me a macbook pro and it didn't "just work" - desktop config was weird (fullscreen opens in some random ass place and desktop locations were completely randomly assigned), nothing was configurable like I wanted, I couldn't dual boot well (windows/ubuntu on my thinkpad)... No yea, I am definitely neckbearding here, my argument basically boils down to "but it's not Linux wah!"
Fair, though, I think the story is a bit different with editors. Ultimately they're just a means to an end (editing code), and it's obviously true that plenty of people are able to work successfully with either of them, so you can't really fault people for just picking one to learn and going with it. Learning both intimately enough to make a serious comparison is a time-consuming prospect.

I'm also inclined to say that, unless you work in a Windows shop, there really isn't any either-or to it. vim is, at this point, so pervasive that I think the real alternatives are either "just vim" or "emacs and at least a little bit of vim".
How has AMD managed to come up with more processor and speed count the Intel? Why now?
Considering the blatant lies and misinformation being spread in the comment, the fact that it's a fresh, new account makes it suspect.

Couple the two together makes it for a comment that doesn't honestly want to drive good conversation.
> Squid caches less than 10% of my traffic.

Well duh, ideally Squid without a TLS MITM would cache 0% of your traffic.

> And I understand browsers will start screaming bloody murder if they detect this as well.

Sorta, you need to configure your clients to accept your proxy's CA but browsers should be good after that.
I'm confident she did drugs in prison. Because opiates are a way to escape, and prison sucks, and prison has drugs. [1]

If you want to help people get off drugs, don't criminalize them, send them to rehab, end of story. Portugal decriminalized all drugs and started sending people to mandatory rehab if they had problems and the rate of drug harm went from one of the highest in the EU to one of the lowest in just 15 years. Portugal has 3 overdose deaths per million citizens, compared to the EU average of 17.3 [2, 3] The US is 213 per million, accounting for 1 in every 4 worldwide. [4] Clearly the US system does not work.

It's crazy, right, that a country where all drugs are legal has a 100x lower overdose rate than one where drugs crimes are enforced as strictly as humanly possible.

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/13/17020002/p...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-dec...

[4] https://www.overdoseday.com/resources/facts-stats/
> Doesn't seem like you can reasonably charge a car in europe/asia from solar panels in the middle east. You'll be dealing with some pretty nasty transmission losses.

First of all, the oil reserves in Saudi-Arabia aren't going to last forever - but they will need massive amounts of energy to maintain their cities, especially for drinking water. Desalination is ridiculously expensive, and water access will be the war driver in the entire Middle East once climate change really hits. Cover the desert with solar plants, the coasts with desalination plants (and don't care about the brine) => control who gets the electricity and/or the water, control the region. Saudi-Arabia is actually already going pretty far in their fight for regional supremacy, that would fit perfectly.

As for transmitting the energy to Europe/Asia, well... there's technology in the works to synthesize gas (both gasoline and, well, gas) using electricity, which can be fed into the existing gas pipeline infrastructure and thus sold to the wide world.
We have a larger migration project going on for months. So far not a single failure occurred and our TEST environment is already fully migrated (quite responsive and rock solid) since 2 weeks.

However, I do share that Azure indeed has released a lot of half-baked features and services lately (last 1.5 to 2 years). I hope this trend does not continue.
No, but it's time to automate the state apparatus.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17708283
Sure, you can corrupt all the data in your instance.

You can't overwrite code or the true call stack, so what's the (security) risk?
>If Pi-Hole had a webpage where you could put in a domain, i.e. cnbc.com, and it went off and loaded the html of that page, worked out all the other domains that html connects to, and then gives you a 'unblock' button to click, that would improve usability significantly, as even a non-techie user could use it.

It kind of already has this. Just tail the log in the web admin, then hit the site in your browser. Unblock the sites that were blocked on that request.

I've been using pihole for a year and have only had one site that refused to load. Was pretty easy to figure out which request it was and whitelist it.
You can upgrade like you would on normal mac hardware
It's really not that hard to type a password into the terminal every time you commit.
Well, almost no one. :) Sarah Winchester had such things built, with doors and stairs leading nowhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House
yes, but only

> so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information.

and if the stock has been halted for news before you post on twitter.

At the very least he violated the later making this a moot point.

I can't speak to if Elon's personal twitter account can be used for official Tesla news but it seems pretty suspect.
Plants Are the World's Dominant Life-Form
Archive Link since the main blog is dead for now

https://web.archive.org/web/20180807171806/https://martinher...
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Why would we have cared what Britain was doing?

They were our cold enemy during the Civil War. (At least, they were the cold enemy if you were on the Union side.)

What the rest of the world was doing was irrelevant to how the 13th was drafted. The war would be won. Slaves would be freed. The only questions we were considering was how to put that all down on paper. And for that question, the only thing that mattered was domestic politics.
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And an excerpt from that post:

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A very bizarre logic did that judge follow.

If cars were American companies:

1. You come to a car auction and sell your car for 10$

2. The buyer of your car sells it for 13$ tomorrow

3. A guy who was selling another car for 12$ sues you for selling your car cheaper than his, and somehow wins
Hopefully this will offer some way forward for FOSS software like Blender running on macOS when Apple kill OpenGL off.
The notch is in a separate category. It was definitely a natural necessary technical compromise. For ergonomic reasons, a phone can only be so large, but you also want the screen as large as possible. There is an argument to be made for getting rid of the headphone jack to increase the room available in the phone.

The butterfly keyboard was an unnecessary attempt at thinness. The laptop did not need to be thinner for ergonomic reasons.

The touchbsr generates a lot of nerd rage but most people don’t really care about the function keys.
It surprised me, but I've come to like the News app on iOS. A little bit of currating and adding subscriptions to The Economist and such and its become part of my morning news ritual.
HN is awesome for that specific niche. Interestingly, I've been using twitter (exclusively) for global news, in addition to HN (tech news). It works pretty well and you get straight to the point. What made me switch is the amount of articles written around one single tweet every day.

It's crazy to see how journalists these days can create a whole story out of a 140 character message. I'd rather get the 140 original characters...
Facebook forbids them to learn something about Facebook. It was the phone's fault when they didn't limit what data Facebook pulled from it. Modern ones do just that.
The difference is that in the case of China (and Russia), requiring local data storage is intended to enable government oppression. EU countries have much better human rights records than China and Russia do.
I've been running Linux for about 20 years. My previous two employers furnished me with Macs, so I got used to MacOS over five years of usage. But I still found Linux easier to use: MacOS doesn't "just work" nearly as much as advertised, in my experience (especially for dev workflows).

My new company is a Windows shop, and I'm actually finding it surprisingly pleasant—to the point that I'm seriously considering using Windows 10 full-time for personal use as well. I don't come to this decision lightly: I'd been anti-"M$" for a number of years, to the point of writing a paper in high school advocating for them to be broken up (back around year 2000).

Looking at the trajectory of recent OS releases from my experience:

- Linux: Still tends to lag behind a bit in hardware compatibility (as is expected), but quite pleasant to use—especially when staying on the stable/LTS releases.

- MacOS: Not sure if I can identify the last release that actually made my life easier.

- Windows: I see a fair amount of real innovation, and they seem committed to reducing paper cuts.
As the CEO of Tesla, his Twitter account can act as a legal announcement platform for the company, just as the Tesla site can. The SEC issued that guidance five years ago.

The requirement to comply with Regulation FD is that investors should be able to have some reasonable confidence that the source in question - the twitter account - is a legitimate source for the company. The two Twitter accounts that would clearly apply to would be @tesla and @elonmusk.
Despite the HN hate, Oracle is still doing a better service than Sun was on their dying years.

And lets not forget no one else bothered, beyond a timid attempt from IBM, which I think would have been probably worse as Java steward.

Google just hoped that Sun would have died in silence as way to settle their wrongdoings.
If there is one thing I fail to understand it is the impulse to electronic-ify our elections.

It goes back to the "hanging chad" election. The losing side decried paper ballots as unreliable in every form and fashion, and the only way to have a fair election was to make it all electronic.

Thus, an industry was born.
That kind of moral relativism is precisely why humanity is currently being suffocated by communism.

Please take a second to center yourself and then consider that you are retorting an unachievable standard as measure by which the USA must be evaluated "indisputable American moral high ground", and you are doing that in combination with rationalization and excusing of Chinese moral low ground.

There is no comparing the two countries or societies, let alone any other for that matter that the USA has lifted out of poverty and defended and secured for decades now and all the USA ever gets is what is really a mentally deranged and suicidal mentality echoing mindset of self-loathing and insult of America.

While China and Russia were intentionally starving tens of millions of their own people and abusing them to degrees that are clearly unimaginable to the types of self-hating and self-destructive types as you seem to be, a single American literally saved billions of people from starvation through the Green Revolution ... and that, do you types, infested with post-modern, communist, self-hating, self-destructive ideological subversive mental illness, is the same thing.

The moral superiority and general superiority of all things American is so without equal and incomparable to anything any other society has ever produced or done, and yet you cannot see the objects in front of you for all the light streaming into your eyes. It's a bizarre and strange mental derangement. A mass psychosis, that in the end will also choke off the engine that you rely on, the USA, if you don't realize that.

Forget global warming, nuclear war, pandemics, .... they are nothing in the face of the destructive force of post-modern, relativist, communist suicidal westerners that are destroying the engine of humanity from within out of manic mental illness.

American moral high ground IS indisputable, people's minds have just been so twisted and propagandized that they can't see that there is literally no other country that could replace the USA. Which is a morally superior country and society than the USA and has the capacity to take over from the USA? Let us know, we will gladly take over so they can suffer the disrespect and being spit on and shit in our face for everything the USA has provided to the world, which essentially makes up every single thing you see and have around you.

And no, it was not a multicultural communist poison pill, it was teh homogeneous white and christian society that created everything we are still running on, every single bit of it that is being torn own and ever increasingly being beset by parasites.
Answer for your Q is already there in OP's post

>He is willing to take it private at the $420 price, probably way higher than the Saudi's were planning on

> how the Saudis would be negatively affected by Musk tweeting out that he effectively wants the stock to go up in price.

Saudis would have to shell out more money if valuation keep going higher
> So it sounds like they verify your identity based on two photos that you provide? So if two photos provided by an unknown person match, then they become a trusted person? Even if there's a separate step that matches that to the DMV database or something... all you actually need is a photo of the person you want to impersonate.

I recently signed up for two different mobile banks (Monzo and bunq). Both of them verified my identity by having me take a photo of my passport, but then also recording a video of myself (with my face clearly visible) saying an exact phrase they specified, in one case “My name is $legalname and I'd like to open a Monzo account” and in the other a sequence of random numbers.

That seems way more secure.
Financial Modeling for Cryptocurrencies: A CoinMarketCap Spreadsheet
Exactly.

There are obviously situations that call for incarceration because there are individuals who have to be kept away from society (diagnosed psychopaths).

However, simple incarceration is a dreadful solution so far as raw justice goes. If the criminal were instead rehabilitated, they would have to live the remainder of their life under the weight of their own guilt. Revenge is the quick or easy way out, for everyone.
Also the "attack surface" of paper is so large as to be humanly impractical. A computer system howevever complex always has an attack surface that is actually practical.