skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also would be great if games that use a lot of text could have an advanced option where the game would call an external script(or have modding support) with the text and some metadata. I was hacking at OpenMw (a Morowind open source engine) and experimenting with having teh dialogs,books,tooltips read using Text To Speech. I think it is important to allow the flexibility and not built the TTS into the game,
This is a Linux distro, not "their own OS". Many countries all over the world have had government-subsidized Linux distro projects, at national, state and city government levels. It's something that happens pretty quickly whenever and whereever a large deployment happens (e.g. LiMux).

For that matter, many a CS faculty at many a university have actually created their own OS. Nothing too sensational either.
Even Samsung sales mostly lowend phones. The average selling price of their phones is still under $300.

https://www.gsmarena.com/analysts_average_selling_price_of_a...

From everything I can tell and looking at the numbers, the high end Android market is minuscule.
Vietnam seizes eight tonnes of ivory, pangolin scales
> Why wouldn’t a company notice any of the outbound traffic using firewalls?

This is telling you that your experience is limited, not that the story is wrong. Trying to do egress filtering at scale is extremely hard for all but the most basic threats. If they open a socket to data-collector.pla.cn, yes, probably a majority of large shops would notice that within a few months but what if it's just a connection to S3/EC2, buried in the noise of all of the legitimate use of those services?

Think about how hard it is if the attacker is smart enough to bundle that into other traffic: compromise your mail server and have it respond slightly differently to some spambots, have a webserver respond to the Baidu crawler with actual data encoded in the cookies it sets knowing that the Great Firewall can pick the data up (Baidu doesn't even have to be involved – just something which gets packets somewhere they can see them), etc. If it's on a network with people, that's especially easy – is that user-agent hitting sites in China a bot or just the staffer who keeps tabs on market news for that region? (But, you may say, our user and server networks are tightly segregated! Does that apply perfectly to your terminal servers? How would you know if your web proxy started making a few extra requests?)

The mention of seeing a problem first in a Siri data center was interesting to me because those data centers probably have very consistent network activity and it'd seem like the kind of place where the defense team would have the best chance.
Even the very first Windows 10 version was deleting files on hard drive, if they were false positives of Windows Defender. I remember fighting it for a few hours once when I needed to run some (safe) utility (I compiled), but which was disappearing within seconds after Windows Defender ran scan on it. IIRC it was very difficult to find settings where you could completely disable Windows Defender.
I'm sorry but who is "they"? Google? Israel? the palestineans?
> ...they are selling to customers who would not have purchased the name brand in any case... it's likely that the "name brand" is seeing enough benefit to continue in that way. The two entities seem to find a way to balance their interests.

I'm sorry but I just can't buy that. Generics in the supermarket and drugstore (at least the ones I go to) are directly next to the name-brand and clearly compete directly. There's no "arrangement" or "balancing of interests" between the two, any more than Coca-Cola and Pepsi have an arrangement or balance of interests to appear on the shelf next to each other -- which they of course don't, but rather are in cutthroat competition with each other, the same way they have been for decades.

It's flat-out competition pure and simple, there's zero difference of intent from what Amazon is doing. And both survive, because some people prefer to pay a little extra for name-brand or quality, and some people prefer to save a little money and trust generics. The only balance is between pricing and demand.
Amazon’s Wage Haul Sparks Concern for Retail Industry
That is surprisingly crappy I heard that their marketplace had substantial counterfeit issues much like Amazon.

It is at least possible to filter it to items only sold by Newegg.
“You don’t have the experience for this role…let’s talk”
For all the newbs out there, if you're trying to figure out whether not to accept an offer, know that there is a huge difference in work life balance from company to company: above you've seen the two extremes.

Read the glassdoor reviews very carefully.
Of course there was going to be pushback. Politics is politics and the partisan divide is great right now. But this isn't just pushback. As I said, Gorsuch didn't have anywhere near the level of pushback Kavanaugh has. And Gorsuch was taking a seat which people felt was stolen by stalling tactics.

What's craziest to me is that, with some rare exceptions, Supreme Court appointments used to be pretty nonpartisan (https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nomi...). And now we're talking about a confirmation that will fail/pass by most likely one vote. And this... doesn't raise any eyebrows. It's fine if he gets confirmed, it's fine that the GOP got rid of the 60-vote rule for Gorsuch, everything is fine and dandy. He'll "follow the constitution".

> And I'm not sure what "cult" you think I'm representing.

I'm saying the way you talk, in other posts, is very cultish. Make of that what you will. Someone told that to me once and it made me seriously rethink the way I talked to people, and what kind of media I was ingesting.
I'm always amazed at the amount of data Buffer makes transparent
Oh well, if you say so!

The point is the adjective is commonly used imprecisely, despite a minority’s desire for it to be only used to describe a precise circumstance.

Genie, meet bottle.
The CIA had a separate system which wasn't hacked as I recall.
They never said that they're legitimate, simply that they're legal. Until it's overturned by a court or legislation, that remains absolutely true.
I'm not claiming it's based on marketing alone, but I am claiming there is a significant difference in the usability of their products, and that contributes heavily to their success.

I'm certainly not going to be able to produce any studies, therefore I'm responding with actual occurrences which led to me Apple as my final solution. What happens when the linux computers hard drive fails? With an iPad, you tell your grandparents to go buy a new one and put the iCloud log in, and in an hour it's back to the way it was. I don't want to deal with backup and restore, neither do most people I know.

What happens when they bust their phone? Go to the mobile phone store and get hassled by a minimum wage kid trying to trick the elders into more commissionable services? Have them call Samsung or Google 800#, wait on hold, have to do shipping and receiving? Or tell them to go to the Apple store and get it swapped out?

These are all real life experiences that are much improved with Apple's devices. If you can afford it, and are not interested in tinkering, then I can't recommend anything else.
Thank you for taking the time to explain that.

I guess it really comes down to Criteria 1 of the open source definition being worded as "...shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away..."

But this is surely an oddity. It's almost like someone went out of their way to come up with a license to prove they're different.
This is quite astonishing. He wasn't the guy who ripped the movie. He just shared it on fb. It was likely shared everywhere else to begin with, but he was the only one they could get because he put his real name on fb. So what's the lesson here ? Don't put your name on shit. It may seem obvious, but it is not so difficult to fall into this.
Anyone else literally can't because they don't have supply chain advantage that China has.
> it's the ability to mutate that can't be shared.

So, I do think you're more right than your parent, but I also think this formulation misses important things.

Rust only lets you share when you cannot cause a data race. A type like Mutex lets you share something that's mutable, because the mutex is guarding the sharing. Functions like split_at_mut let you mutably share disjoint parts of a slice.
I wonder if there isn't some level of national security super mega secret scenario situation where the government requires companies to do something and the government indemnifies them against all risks associated with the required action.
This is a great description of what Waymo is doing, and why Honda/GM etc. don't want to become a commodity provider (thus letting Waymo capture most of the value).

From Waymo's perspective, that's exactly the scenario they want. Focus all your resources on developing a tech advantage that others can't match, and have others in the ecosystem serve the lower-margin stuff.

If this sounds familiar, recall Google Search and Web Content.
True but there's an additional factor for a mortgage: leverage on the capital appreciation.

You make money 2 ways with a property: income and capital appreciation.
Windows 7 and XP were not good, people see XP through nostalgia goggles and Windows 7 is just prettier XP. Windows 10 is easily my favorite of the three.

I wish I understood windows better though. The issues I run into with unix machines always seem more fixable, because I find the solutions and approaches more intuitive. Windows remains a black box to me.
It's so hard to detect that I doubt they will never do it again.
Not really. There's no universal law which says that bread has to be X% of local income or that housing has to be Y%.
Just stop. You clearly have no idea what a Battle Royale game is.
That's part of it, but doesn't fully answer the question. Decoding and issuing 6 instructions per cycle ordinarily is extremely costly in terms of power. And it's usually very hard to keep those execution units busy--it's hard to find six independent instructions to issue every clock cycle. How Apple built a 6-wide CPU within that power envelope, and optimized the compiler to actually use that IPC is the really interesting question.

On a Xeon v3 core, SPECint averages below 2 instructions per cycle: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322745869_A_Workloa.... How does Apple beat Intel on branch integer benchmarks like 403.gcc by a factor of two per clock?
Amazon Prime on Apple TV tends to crash a lot. Maybe less often now than it did at first. Netflix has been pretty stable in my experience.
Thank you for the insight. I was rather naively imagining that every board is subject to some kind of x-ray image matching with the original PCB design to find differences. Not that simple, I see.
Yeah you don't want to consume a lot of it without easing into it. I have been using it for only about a week now and use it as a mouth wash after each meal and my teeth have gotten noticeably whiter. You will get diarrhea if you don't ease into consuming it because it is increasing the production of butyrate which is the mucus that lines yours intestines. If it is also killing off gram negative bacteria as studies claim, you may have some stomach irritability as those bacteria die off initially. I'm surprised xylitol isn't more ubiquitous given the research surrounding it.
They forgot to turn the flag down while it is exiting Microsoft Ring.
> Let’s assume an implant was added to the motherboard at manufacture time. This needed modification of both the board design, and the robotic component installation process. It intercepts the SPI lines between the flash and the BMC controller

Circuit wise, you don't really need to "intercept" (place in series with) the SPI lines. Two parallel drivers [0] will generally fight it out quietly, and you can guarantee yours will win by designing your implant to have the beefier driver (and perhaps only changing 1's to 0's, as P-channel FETs are generally weaker).

If there already was a footprint for an extra chip (debugging, part flexibility, etc), then it would not require modification of the board design. And an extra component can easily be hand soldered afterwards outside of the standard robotic component placing.

[0] The standard topology of SPI, but in proper operation only one is active due to CS lines.
Aren't cars today mostly "dumb" boxes anyway? (And yet there seems to be enough competition in the field)
The software people at GM aren't a part of GM's existing tech groups. They went and bought a (YC-backed) self-driving startup, Cruise Automation, to get this effort going.

I think the combination of Cruise's expertise on self-driving tech combined with GM's on cars makes for a pretty serious competitor, assuming the two can work together effectively.
Decision Engines
Today? Few. However, in doing this, Apple is creating opportunity - provided the market wants an alternative.

That being said, the arc of my point is, that if there's going to be legislation it should start with information that enables the consumer, not inject Uncle Sam into another problem that it's unprepared and unable to solve.
Any media organization that doesn’t repeat the kremlin’s propaganda is, by default, a western intelligence operation. I remember Assange tried to label the Panama papers as a CIA operation because it found some of Putin’s accounts.
I wonder if China is making all these cheap wifi chips (esp8266, esp32) etc as backdoors into US infrastructure.
It would explain the bizarre hiring practices - plausibly relevant, but often in areas most devs just don't use day to day - that you could coach fellow agents to pass!

(I've never actually bothered interviewing with any of the above, maybe it's all entirely normal or you need to write your own self-balancing tree implementation regularly).
Brex Has Amassed A Valuation Of $1.1B In Under Two Years
Joystick, bring it back: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/well-didnt-work-saabs-weird-jo...
> I cancelled mine a few months ago. Tomorrow is my last day. They've been harassing me on their site constantly with popups and notifications on every single page since I cancelled. It's gotten to the point where the harassment has firmly cemented my distaste for their user experience and I actively search for alternative sites first now.

I've switched to sharing Prime with my fiancee through "Amazon Household," and they're even nagging me as I let my now-redundant Prime membership lapse.
That's another possibility.

Although I'd still question the fundamental ability of any bureaucracy to be correct 99%+ of the time.

Given correlations that high, one almost suspects the courts and government aren't independent.

https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories/china/criminal-la...

Highlights:

- 1-7 days arrest and detention without a formal arrest filed (up to 37 days in some cases)

- Up to 13.5 months detention without formal charges filed

This is contrast to the US 72-hour rule & writ of habeas corpus avenue.

Objectively, I feel it's merited to say the Chinese judicial system is inefficient, unjust, and inhumane... at best.
what a weird thing to notice
Absolutely, and I think that is why a lot of people are reluctant to do it. It's a fragile process and if you lose power or have a random cosmic ray hit at the wrong time it's game over.
Reports: Newest MacBook Pro Bricked If Not Repaired by Apple
I doubt that.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

talks about Congress, not an executive branch. the latter can gag a person, or a company.
Or maybe your 70 year old grandmother is a several standard deviation outlier and that has something to do with you commenting on this website, which is frequented by several standard deviation outliers.
>Self-centered, detached, unaware of their constitutional privileges to change things or unwilling to use them, perhaps.

I think this is very accurate.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but calling "mu index" from the offlineimap postsynchook is going to suck, because mu4e invokes "mu server"[1], that aquires a Xapian lock on the index, which means you can't run the "mu index" while reading your E-Mail.

This is the worst thing about mu/mu4e. You need to do the indexing with a timer in Emacs, and because Emacs is single-threaded this blocks things / slows down the UI. After trying to get it to work in some automated way I gave up. I manually issue a key-combo to re-index and then read my E-Mail.

Another comment: I recommend not using Emacs to send E-Mail, but to outsource this to a local smtpd such as Exim (which I use with mu4e on Debian). Then if you don't have WiFi or whatever the smtpd just queues those up for later sending, and has queue inspection tools etc. All of the solutions for doing this in Emacs itself are dirty hacks full of edge cases and bugs smtpds have solved decades ago.

Despite some rough edges, mu+mu4 (plus Exim, or similar). is an amazing tool, and the most useful E-Mail client I've ever used.

1. https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/mu-server.html
I feel compelled to plug the book Indra’s Pearls here, by David Mumford et al.
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People also forget the costs of selling a home. For example, sellers usually pay a realtor commission of five to six percent of the final sales price.
You might be right, but a sci-fi novelette published X years ago with this storyline could very well be on HN's first page, and bring a great discussion, any day.

Just because it's real doesn't mean is less interesting, for some readers.
duplicate, please check before submitting!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145815

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18143151
This is what drove me to cancel Prime. After having this happen to me three times (adding Prime items to cart and getting all the way to the end of checkout before noticing the lack of two day shipping).
> wouldn't blame Honda for thinking for itself

Seems right. I bet Honda wants an actual piece of the action in exchange for its world class quality control and production line expertise, not just a role as a commoditized car manufacturer.
The book was also set during the Second World War where sugar was rationed in England. I'm sure any sweets would have been highly prized by children.
Ask HN: How to prevent abuse of free service costing money to website?
I run a website (https://freephonenum.com/send-text) that allows people to send FREE SMS worldwide. I started this service a little over 1 year ago to allow our remote dev team to test sending and receiving SMS to and from US number.

After a few months, I realized that a lot of people needed that service; I started getting organic traffic to my site.

But recently I've been seeing few people who are trying to abuse the system. They are sending 1000s of text using my website that costs me a lot of money. I still want to keep the service because it is useful for so many people, I don't want to shut down the service because of just a few evil people.

Here are a few things I tried that didn't work:
1. Google captcha
2. Restricted number of text that can be sent from one IP every day.
3. Don't allow people to send the same text more than 3 times a day.
4. Disabled error message on the site so the abuser would not know if the texts are actually going out or not (Always gives success message).

Things I know abuser is doing:
1. Changes IP address for each request.

2. Manually solves Captcha

3. Adds a random string at the start and end of the message (So that it's not treated as a duplicate message by my system)

4. Somehow the abuser is able to send a 1.5K text every hour (I'm not sure how). I know it's manual because there is like 15 seconds lag.

5. sample texts:

"KREDIT VSEM, LYuBIE SUMMI. Rabotaem s dolzhnikami! t. 89879141731 k1FpLt"

"KREDIT VSEM, LYuBIE SUMMI. Rabotaem s dolzhnikami! t. 89879141731 op0vF0"
Financial Deplatforming: How Gab Must Beat Bank Card Assocations with Bitcoin
If the government can compel one kind of speech, it's not hard to compel others. They don't even have to make a a brand new rule for this. The companies have stated they use this technique to get around the gag order.

Judges aren't compilers who will faithfully follow all the rules as written down without deviation. They at specifically empowered to make decisions in light of new evidence, so why wouldn't they force companies to actively like if they are already adding exceptions to the first amendment?
I believe the acronym stands for the title of the book, "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
> They treat it as the front page of Facebook.

For me, the last several years my designated Windows machine is just a firmware for running single-player triple-A games in the weekends, and always offline.
Not to mention thinking that clean sensible code is always an option. There will always be something. It could be a kernel bug, it could be a quirk of an external library, it could be just to get the bloody thing to link against static libraries, but there will always eventually be an issue that requires a workaround that doesn't make sense without context.
What do you mean? Deleting pirate user's data? That is definitely computer abuse.
Ever? No matter what advancements are made with the technology?

You sound like someone who would have said you would never ride in a carriage that didn't have a horse.
There's quite a lot of embedded firmware that isn't derived or controlled or affected by BIOS/UEFI firmware updates. e.g. Thunderbolt (PCIe) firmware.
I suspect the same sort of deep-learning/reinforcement-learning that manages to play video games could be used to both assess and improve playability for the sight-impaired.

For example, can a 'blind' agent, that's fed just the (stereo) soundtrack of a game, become good at it? (While not, add more audio cues.)

Can another cooperative agent, which can see the screen but only emit audio, learn to help the blind-agent do better? (Train up this helper-agent during playtesting, then add its audio cues to the main game – either always, or in a special 'audio assist' mode.)

(Parts of this could wind up like a rotated version of this "sound of pixels" work:

http://sound-of-pixels.csail.mit.edu/

But, instead of learning which pixel-regions are responsible for sounds, it'd be adding sounds to second-medium-communicate relevant visual information.)
Hey, it's Jason.

The VICE emulator is slightly faster than the MAME implementation. We actually got C64 emulation in MAME working at the Archive, but they're continually doing improvements and it tends to run at "only" 200% of native speed, which means that with the javascript/webassembly overhead it dips down below 100% in anything but the most beefy machines/browsers.

MAME is ALWAYS our go-to. But VICE is a particularly unique case, what with the quarter-century of development and the intensity of C64-only considerations they've brought in.