skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paranoid like Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Venezuela, Thailand, Turkey, etc...?

They all have Linux distros, sponsored nationally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:State-sponsored_Linux...
Usually you scan boards at a percentage determined by statistics (SPC can get complex).
However the checks are automated, so you would have to perform the checks in a different trust zone (eg: different country).
It's not like these boards are found in every living room. I would assume that if somebody found a suspicious board at their org, they would kick off internal processes first.
Let's just say that that's not exactly what happened in Alexandria.
They might have noted an anomaly in the SMC given the acknowledged SMC firmware exploits (maybe a beta test run?) and investigated the SPI lines to the SMC as a response.
Would you use ODBC to communicate to a web API?

Also, ODBC is not quite the abstraction layer I think parent was referring to, because ODBC only (barely) abstracts getting SQL from a client to a server, it doesn't abstract any of the semantics of the communication because it entirely punts that to a "driver" model. ODBC is slightly better than RS-232, but it's about the same abstraction layer from what I've seen.
No customer service rep or low level manager is going to have the authority to deal with hearsay customer reports of criminal activity. That's a job for the police, and Amazon may wait to report it until there's corroborating reports or evidence.

It's just as likely that they handed the report off, and it will be handled by someone else entirely. However, none of that makes the situation with the customer right; the customer's problem is they don't have a product. Re-shipping it is just about the only thing they can do in this case.
Another tiny little cosmetic error. On your about page you talk about being "file" star Jeff Goldblum. Should that be "film" star?
A few bucks either way on price (including shipping costs) don't matter much to me either way. What I do value is my time. And that is what missed delivery dates and time on the phone both cost me. "Spend time dealing with customer service" is another cost with no associated value to me.
Would be pretty wasteful to wait until the hardware was shipped to the US to look for manufacturing defects.
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Post author here. That was what I was thinking of - simply overdriving the lines to drag them high or low in opposition to the 'official' driver. That's pretty much all you can do with 6 pins. I was trying not to overcomplicate the explanation, since the material is already complicated enough!

Fair point about hand soldering, however it would be more obvious to the manufacturing employees for an entire production batch to be diverted to have parts added manually than to simply sneak in another reel to the hundred on the pick and place machine.
Counteroffer - if they say no, walk away. Being you're the last one, I'd be surprised if they're actually able to say no.
The management engine in question is an ASpeed standalone part which is only used in large-scale server deployments, not the CPU MEs that you're forced into.
> top flagships from Samsung, Google, OnePlus all run Android without any stutter at stable 60fps too

This is true. The problem is that the FPS don't matter so much as latency touch-to-update does. And Apple keeps this latency about 1/2 of what Android can do.
Wow, this is fabulous! I use Trello AND Basecamp AND Apple Notes so this would be incredibly useful for me. Instant signup.
You're talking right past the comment you're responding to, which is highlighting the distinction between the inherent aspects of the technology, and the non-inherent authoritarian aspects which will be shoved down our throat by business interests and government perverts (different specializations of the same group, really).

Similarly, we could easily have mobile phones that do not track us. It's just in none of the manufacturers' interest to design them, as the vanishing epsilon of people who care enough to pay extra do not offset the economies of scale from going with the current surveillance-based designs.

Having said that, one of the themes in discussion of mass surveillance is the quantitative difference of it being easier than a police department having to expend the effort of physically following someone around. Government (de jure or de facto) controlled cars will make the act of arresting someone similarly effortless.
My local theatre has ASL interpreters, available for select (?) shows, for patrons that are deaf or hard of hearing. They aren't up on a stage, though.
It can't be QSPI, he's forgetting the clock and (potentially) chip-select lines.
Many cars on the road today have no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the tires. This is nothing new.
> Even more importantly, on whom does the criminal liability fall?

Observing how these things are usually handled I would say the liability would fall on no one. Unless the driver is intoxicated car crashes, even those resulting in deaths, are treated as unavoidable accidents with charges rarely being filed.

When a cab maims a pedestrian in NYC the typical response is the NYPD releasing a list of pedestrian safety tips.
DNSSEC not protecting those who choose not to be protected is entirely to be expected.

Should I assume you figured "nobody cares" about the Web PKI back just a few years when tutorials wouldn't have mentioned TLS? Were people who said that right? Or wrong?
Thanks - interesting read. I always took “the medium is the message” a little differently than that author does. To me, I felt like McCluhan was saying that it almost doesn’t matter what the message is — the medium itself is the message, and it’s a message that is consistent regardless of the information being conveyed through it. It’s why Trump is so effective at Twitter — it’s not what he says so much as he is tapped into the medium better than almost anyone else.
How Kitfox Games played the long game with Boyfriend Dungeon hype
usually the bullet cluster is cited as the exceptional observation for MOND, but that thing is a really strange beast and who knows what could be happening there: In fact one of the theories is that there's conventional lensing going on in the "area ahead of the bullet" due to plasma in the bow shock, which to me sounds way more reasonable than "a fleeing blob of dark matter that has been separated from the stars."
LOL, how does California think they're going to enforce this? They could possibly ban the sale of devices that don't comply within the state of California? This doesn't make any sense to me.
i think i got banned by either vilerat or brown moses for shitting up dnd, years ago
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This is a really misleading headline...but it did get my attention, I guess.
I give a fuck. Look, I have to work sometimes too. The post (yes, Zerohedge is not a great source) explains it quite well. If someone does not understand the problem after reading it, he maybe should ask himself if it is a good idea to be invested in the stock market. So, take it or leave it. Stop bitching.
Google Launching OnLive-Type Game Streaming Service – Sign-Up as a Tester
General practice for things like BMC and other out of band control systems is to put them on isolated vlans and default deny any non-approved traffic.

There is no way that any large tech company security operation misses this traffic phoning home from a management vlan.
> Privacy issues aren't my number one priority.

It's not your privacy that's the issue (Well, it is, as a user of the device) - it's also the privacy of the persons speaking with you. Single-party consent for digital recording of audio is a controversial topic.
Hey bro you want to hit this? Whats the WORST name for a company we can come up with??
Walmart sells something for $8, you list it for $12.
Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime
Even if you are right with everything you predicted (some of it, all of it is doubtfull), that does not negate the core competencies of traditional car makers.

You still need someone to buold cars -> existing car makers

EVs are actually easier to built than EVs -> inceeasing the advantage they have on production

Maintenance -> to be done locally, there is no way to centralize it on a full continent, car makers and their existing network are king

Fleet management -> see above, plus existing fleet mgt serives, only real competition are large rental car companies

Ride sharing -> acquisitions, mytaxi in the case of Mercendes, drivenow and car2go in the case of Mercedes and BMW, VW with an in-house solution

Self-driving -> acquisition of the provider (GM and Cruise) or sourcing the tech, alternative is a partnership (Jaguar)

Traditional car makers slept into these developments, a few years ago I would have bet a lot on disruptors in that industry. Now that changed, the only "tech" (as in software) companies that can compete are the likes of Google and maybe Uber as long as VC money doesn't run out. The same is true for certain smaller manufacturers of automobiles, but this market cleaning is gling on for while now so they are used to it. And let's fave it, the automotive sector is well entrenched in politics (Europe, Japan and the US, Chine, too) and money generally is not a rwal problem. So, yeah, now I would say Google / Wymo might become a major Tier one supplier. But hardly more.
I know first hand that my car will not prevent a crash if I press on the gas pedal near an obstacle (that's how I hit my garage wall).

The GP was asking about a scenario of stop and go traffic (if I understood it correctly). I've used autopilot on a couple of occasions on I-5, and indeed, my car stopped when the car ahead did, then it resumed when the car ahead moved forward, maintaining distance and keeping lanes.

It's a different use case from the one you are describing.
It's not equivalent, though. A car without a steering wheel will be legally required to be L4 - to allow the user to take their mind off the route, or even sleep. A drone has makes no such promise - the feature is known to be "dumb" and you therefore must judge if it's safe to use it.
Like hiding cameras in Xerox machines: https://electricalstrategies.com/about/in-the-news/spies-in-...
It isn't too bad. You got your oomkiller, maybe a kworker.
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Agreed. According to the summary text of the bill:

This bill, beginning on January 1, 2020, would require a manufacturer of a
connected device, as those terms are defined, to equip the device with a
reasonable security feature or features that are appropriate to the nature
and function of the device, appropriate to the information it may collect,
contain, or transmit, and designed to protect the device and any information
contained therein from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification,
or disclosure, as specified.

A better title would be "California to ban weak default passwords on devices." Edit: or "California to require more security features on internet-connected devices."
Is no one going to mention how stupid the concept photo looks? If you don't have a steering wheel, why wouldn't you have a console for the driver or per person? If I have nothing else better to do, I'd want the controls the driver will interact with to be more accessible to the driver.
>Joseph Anderson babbling about hitboxes in Dark Souls 2 and how you get critical damages even though the NPC sword stroke was PI/2 radians off your character's position...

Yeah, um, that won't get your average gamer excited either.

HN User 'lmm' was right, everyone from the gaming press, to the youtubers, to the people at the conferences etc, publicizing things that the average gamer could care less about. No one cares about hitboxes off by Pi/2 radians, or your "high art" narrative based games, or your slick C# or Rust based backend server and how cool it is.

The press and the youtubers are, of course, free to focus on whatever they want to focus on. I'm just saying that a lot of people out there are just using games as an escape, we really don't want all those details. And I'd go even further, a lot of games, tech, and issues they concentrate on are out and out boring!
I'll keep my gasoline car with a steering wheel....thanks.
Likely a service car, paid by the shop. Otherwise, it would've been registered on a residential address.

They are so poor.
The back story I heard is that the authors submitted to the top journals, were rejected, and kept going downward in perceived impact until the article was accepted. That is, that most of the articles (with perhaps one exception?) did not appear in the close-to-top journals. And they had many papers in the works at one time, and some of them did not get in at all despite the above "just-good-enough" optimization technique.

Although I kind of enjoyed the original Sokal paper - I was a subscriber to Lingua Franca, where Sokal announced the hoax in the first place - I think the message of this iteration is more that: "if you work hard to game the system, you can indeed find a hole and game the system". This finding is not that interesting.

---

Specifically (https://www.chronicle.com/article/Sokal-Squared-Is-Huge/2447...):

"Three scholars [...] spent 10 months writing 20 hoax papers [...] and submitted them to "the best journals in the relevant fields." Of the 20, seven papers were accepted, four were published online, and three were in process when the authors [stopped].
You sell item on amazon for $300

When one sells, you go place an order on Walmart.com for $150 and ship directly to the amazon buyer.

No risk of holding inventory. Pretty easy profit if your competition is low.
In terms of economic capitalism yes, but more abstractly "market share" goes to a select few winners: ARP, IP, TCP, and HTTP.

Because things are easier when devices use the same protocols as many other devices.
This may be obvious to many but I just noticed that the iphone's default wallpaper is designed to hide the notch.(at least I assume the wallpaper in this review is the default)
Tensions were running high: over 100 Palestinians, nearly two dozen of them minors, had been killed in the preceding two weeks in violent protests with Israelis forces in Ramallah,[11] and four days earlier, the badly beaten body of Issam Hamad (36) had been dumped outside of the city after being run over by a car, an autopsy revealed. His death, according to Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera, was attributed by locals to settlers in Halamish.[12]

Both Haaretz and Maariv reported that approximately 13 Palestinian policemen were injured while attempting to stop the lynching

Israel kills and injures 100s of Palestinians, Palestinians try to stop angry mob. Somehow Israel is not at fault.

You're right maps are important and they should be accessible to everyone.
> says that all other explanations besides baryonic are ruled out by data

That's something you don't see in physics. Ever.

There is always some alternative explanation that isn't ruled out by data. One may rule out all known explanations, but the explanation set is infinite and has a crazy topology. You can't ever exclude them all.
There had been zero chance to deny Gorsuch since he has been appointed right after elections. The current situation is different: elections are coming and if the confirmation had been delayed past elections and if Democrats took Senate (and they believe they have a chance) then they could have denied Kavanough's confirmation.

If these two had been swapped, the same thing would have been happening to Gorsuch now and you would have been wondering how come Kavanough had been confirmed before and why there is no better candidate now?
Any non-power assisted system can hit you back hard in the right conditions. If something is regularly a pain in the butt to operate then it's going to go away, just like manual steering, synchronized transmissions, non-power assisted brakes and hand crank starters. No need for a law.
Humble and humiliation are completely different. I think the word you are after is humility.

Just trying to help - not attempting to brag that I'm better than you in any way :-)
Google calls Apple out for sneaky iOS and Safari security advisories
Yeah...I'm thinking you guys need to start spending on some advertising.
The rumour I heard was $10.

The Oracle trial exposed Android revenue to the public. "Google's Android operating system has generated revenue of about $31 billion and profit of $22 billion since its release, an Oracle Corp lawyer told a U.S. court hearing the software company's copyright lawsuit against Google.Jan 21, 2016"

Some of that was from the Play Store and some from Ads, but it seems likely most of that was from licensing.
to further clarify, beta is the statistical volatility of a stock compared to the market return (which has a beta of 0, by definition). volatility is our proxy for the riskiness of a stock; note that higher risk results in potentially higher (or lower) returns (we reward higher risks with potentially greater returns).

the true market return is unknowable because it has to include both public and private offerings, and by definition, we can't know (in most cases) the returns on private investments, such as fine art and the like.

that's why we use the S&P 500 (or another index) as a proxy for the market return to calculate a security's beta. we don't have enough historical data to truly know how good of a proxy the S&P is (we'd need hundreds of years of data for that, iirc), but most studies consider the margin of error acceptable for research purposes.

edit: and in the long run, you can't beat the market (unless you have consistently good insider info).
I mean, most advancements in technology come with restrictions on personal autonomy and freedom. Today's urban factory workers have significantly less autonomy than independent craftsmen, who had less autonomy than subsistence-farming homesteaders on the prairie, who had less autonomy than the Native American tribes they replaced.

Historically, it seems not to matter. The advancements in technology let societies that adopt them support a much higher population level. Those societies then go and kill off or enslave everyone who didn't adopt the new technologies, once a few generations have passed, their military supremacy is obvious, and there's enough cultural distance to view the adherents of the old technology as savage, subhuman primitives.
XP was a very hot mess back in the day. It grew to be a passable OS, but if you were around IT when it was new you know what a nightmare it was. I still have nightmares about taking calls about the blaster worm. The problems people have with windows 10 aren't even close in scope to the ones we had with XP.
I love halva. My mom was able to purchase it easily as early as the late 70s at a normal grocery (Publix) in Miami, so I don't think it's that rare.
is the amount of effort and money spent on the case worth the 3 week punishment he received? my point is they could have better avoided the whole trial and given him a deal to do community work etc instead of sending him to prison for 3 weeks for something which even though "a crime" is not exactly rape..
How Do SIM Cards Work? (LiveOverflow)
As you know, there’s a difference between price and value. A price is the inefficient maximum of what the market will pay for an asset. So if there’s an influx of wealthy people to an area (or cheap subprime credit), properties will ride a wave up as those credit-flush buyers compete for a limited pool of homes.

But my home doesn’t generate cash flows, so it’s impossible to say the home is “over valued” because there is no objective benchmark. Perhaps someone is selling my great grandfathers homestead. it will be “valued” more highly by me, and I may “over pay” because I want that property. Or there is only one property available per year in a small neighborhood and I must have it. The value is psychological.

At a market level, look at the percentage of household monthly income spent on housing to gauge the market’s mood. If that strays from historical norms, it’s possible that the market is temporarily overheated.

Keep in mind that historical trends are distorted by the recent zero-interest rate policy from the Fed, too.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
As I mentioned on somewhere else on this thread, the problem with Blizzard games and other multiplayer games you may want to play on Linux under Proton/Wine/whatever will fail to join the actual online games because anti-cheat like Battleye don't support Linux because Battleye on Windows loads a kernel module.
Looking at the system version is always possible for any third-party app. If you have, say, the Pythonista app[0] for running Python code, running the following is the equivalent:

with open('/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist', 'rb') as f: print(f.read())

But the apparently builtin plist parsing is a nice touch I'd say.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pythonista-3/id1085978097?mt...
Amazing editor. I'm working in a little side project and I had in my mind an editor like this one.
Here's the original blog post by Project Zero:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/10/365-days-late...
Check out SQL zoo :)
Weak passwords banned in California from 2020
> minor gripes.

This last update deleted people's data. Permanently.

I have a windows 10 machine (for games), I installed it myself so it's got no pre-loaded shit, and yet it still bothers me about stuff. Onedrive, cortana, etc. etc. The UI is shitty like someone in MS has gone ERMAHGERD TERBLERTS and dumped a load of swipy touch screen UI into it, UI that is just frustrating on a normal regular computer.

Also, I shouldn't have to fix the OS right after install. As far as I remember the only customisation I did to my mac was to switch back to the non-wierd scrolling direction. Maybe that and turning on dock hiding.
Cool Company! I am going to reach out now!
Article mentions smallparts.com - however, SmallParts was an independent company that Amazon bought years ago (2005). I remember getting their (awesome) catalog in the mail before the takeover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
This brings back fond memories of being in secondary school (high school), and finding out you could circumvent the rudimentary "student friendly" restrictions of Windows 95/98/2000 by simply creating a shortcut to the C:/ drive on the desktop.

This allowed us access to CMD.exe and, well, it didn't take long for people to find a way to install games
We approached this new effort by asking two central questions: Are we correct in our claim that highly regarded peer-reviewed journals in gender studies and related fields will publish obvious hoaxes? (...) And, if not, what will they publish?

We set out with three basic rules: (1) we’ll focus almost exclusively upon ranked peer-reviewed journals in the field, the higher the better and at the top of their subdisciplines whenever possible; (2) we will not pay to publish any paper (...)

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...
> CORS are a cheaper way to enable cross origin requests

Is it really that much more expensive to check the Origin header than to check the Authorization and Cookie headers?
A manual-driving car can just lock you in until the cops arrive.
It bothers me endlessly about Apple's new marketing materials. When comparing the iPhone X and XS on their site it seems like they got rid of the notch in the XS, even though the phones are almost identical.

Screenshot of apple.com/iphone/compare: https://i.imgur.com/EKEJ8vE.jpg

It's misleading to say the least.
Cool, I'll check it out but unfortunately, I've never used Rails before! This is made in Node, Express, and Mongo. :)
You can just ask them not to put in the vanilla; starbucks is impressively malleable, and removing a syrup is likely barely on their complexity meter, given the hyper-specific orders I’ve seen people give