skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a way to flash Pixelbooks?

Being able to reflash a current nvme Pixelbook with my own trust root and build and sign my own OS images would be super excellent.

The platform security of the Pixelbook is lovely; the only way it could be better is if I were able to control it.
Same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19869281 .
They tried to get out of a deal and Axon essentially threatened them. What a nice credit rating you have; it would be a shame if something happened to it.

"The only cancellation term is Termination for Non-Appropriations or a lack of funding," was their reply, which was false, and they're making a positive statement about the nature of a contract apparently without having first reviewed said contract. I'm not an attorney and I know not to do that.

If someone asks me a question as it relates to the terms of a contract, I would never respond without reviewing, or if I did, state that "I haven't had a chance to review it but if memory serves..." If someone says, "we want out of this contract," I would never say, "you haven't satisfied the conditions for cancelation" without reviewing the conditions for cancelation.

If only because I may want to do business with that company or someone who works there in the future, and referencing the terms of a fair deal (which it looks like this was) is the best way to mitigate any unjustifiably bad feelings coming as the result of it. Terrible practice by Axon and they wound up in the news over it. The same could be said for the city and PD. Precisely nobody looks good in this scenario, and a quick search of the contract would have saved the city thousands and a lot of bad PR.

Just because Axon isn't the only bad guy in this story doesn't mean they aren't the bad guy.
I think he oughta check his neurotypical privilege.
This is an ARPA-E competition for grid optimisation, although its working through its stages.

ARPA-E is the one looking at research technology for the energy industry, high risk experiments. I believe Trump has wrote it out of this financial years budget, I hope it can survive.

There's also an ARPA for the CIA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_Advanced_Research...

Anyone have any ideas for further ARPAs?

Perhaps a ARPA for Space technology, although I think SpaceX has pretty much got that sorted.
Ha! I remember buying a mac with a disk drive right after the Apple started offering macs with solid state drives. After upgrading the OS, it mac became super sluggish--Apple didn't support the computer for more than a few years.
Haven't heard of it, no.

Looks like a DAW, right? DAWs aren't really the problem - Reaper is on Linux as well, and it's perfectly serviceable. The issue is proprietary software like Helix Native/ HX Edit, and VSTs that have tough DRMs would be borderline impossible to set up. I assume.

I kinda gave up on Linux when I got my XPS 15 though, because there just didn't seem to be a way to have good switchable graphics without reboots, because that's just dumb and impractical, decent battery life, and the OS not freezing every time the touch screen was activate (mainly an issue with Ubuntu and derivatives, for whatever reason). Oh and the fingerprint sensor wouldn't work. Per display scaling seemed finicky in some desktop environments, etc.

Might try it again soon with Pop_os! or something of that sort, but I need this to be a stable machine for work, so dunno :|
> That second bank account should be set up to reject automated ACH withdrawals

This is a thing? How do you do this?
This article is strange. Low power devices that need to conserve batteries are not ddos origins.

Cctv cameras are. They are not that underpowered (they need to be streaming servers), can run tls just fine and 1.3 optimizations don’t make that much of a difference.

Cameras generaly run linaro and they absolutely can update themselves over the network. The problem is that their manufacturers (at least the chinese giants) care very little about this problem. To them running ssl and having an auto update mechanism is a risk and a cost with no return.

What we actually have is an influx of electronics engineers and programmers stepping into a networked world without knowing or caring about security. I’ve worked with them enough to see this attitude is pervasive. IT sevurity is far from their area of expertise.
I am truly disgusted by this comment and those with a similar sentiment below. Selling PBNs is not against Paypal’s TOS, regardless of whether or not you happen to dislike them. The point is that PayPal falsely asserted that a business violated its TOS, and that means that it could happen to anyone else - instantly and without explanation. That is the problem here.
Obama certainly campaigned on putting a stop to drug company price gouging inside the US by finally allowing Americans to purchase prescription drugs from Canada where price gouging is not allowed.

However, a back room deal was quickly cut.

>WASHINGTON — After weeks of talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. To cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure that President Obama would stop a proposal intended to bring down medicine prices.

On June 3, 2009, one of the lobbyists e-mailed Nancy-Ann DeParle, the president’s health care adviser. Ms. DeParle reassured the lobbyist. Although Mr. Obama was overseas, she wrote, she and other top officials had “made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation” on a different proposal.

Just like that, Mr. Obama’s staff signaled a willingness to put aside support for the reimportation of prescription medicines at lower prices and by doing so solidified a compact with an industry the president had vilified on the campaign trail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/us/politics/e-mails-revea...

Supposedly, the industry promised to control costs themselves in exchange for the deal, but looking at the data on drug prices, we know they never followed through.
If they only sold 1400 of them, then more than 10% of them must drive on the 280 every day.
"If you told a C64 user back in the day his machine would break in two years..."

That was pretty much expected. Hardware upgrades were just as fast and furious as they are now, if not moreso. Backwards compatibility with years-old systems at the consumer level was a byproduct, not a plan.
Sufficiently prolonged incompetence, when the resources are available to easily correct it, is malice.
libaom support in ffmpeg is still experimental.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libaom-av1 -strict experimental out.webm

Encoding on the CPU is less than 1fps now. rav1e is a bit faster. Hardware encoder support might be available on CPUs in 2020.
I like GIFs too, they do indeed work well on all platforms. But I agree with OP, in that we should be switching over to more sustainable standards. Think about the energy savings we could get across the web if even 25% of GIFs were converted to newer and more efficient formats.
H264 has the advantage of very widespread decoding hardware.

H265 is getting there, but in the meantime you'd be killing a lot of batteries with software decoding.

This page claims 78% supported on iOS and 57% on Android as of last August: https://www.scientiamobile.com/growing-support-of-hevc-or-h-...
I'm running Chromium 73 on Debian 9 and AV1 examples also don't work.

edit: I've downloaded first example[1] and video player won't play it neither.

edit2: Firefox 66 works!

[1] https://www.singhkays.com/blog/its-time-replace-gifs-with-av...
Which ones are the rip-off and so-so platforms, in your opinion? Thanks
My Nexus 6p worked pretty well except had to do a battery replacement once after which the battery life remained excellent. After nearly 3 years of usage, dropped it and shattered the glass. Tried several places for a replacement screen but the feedback everywhere was "parts no longer available". The phone works perfectly otherwise and I had no intention of getting a new one soon. Finally gave up and bought a Oneplus 6.

This kind of forced phasing out of devices is really unfortunate.
who keeps company with wolves will learn to howl

In my opinion the reason for ban, even though mentioned that unrelated to their SaaS offering, is likely higher number of transactions with parties who have been also baned for some shady practices.
Such rat clusters are usualy nuked in batch.
You don't need anything close to $7M.

If you had $2.5M, you could buy a house outright in Texas and still have more than $2M left. Assume a 4% withdrawal rate, that's $60K+ for living expenses after taxes, not including housing costs (because you own outright).

I live a very middle class life in SF right now and don't spend anywhere near $60K for my non-housing costs.
Boeing Admits It Knew of a Faulty Safety Alert in 737 Max
While I agree with most of what Chris has said in the video (& the article), it's hard for me to consider his intentions as purely objective.

Chris Hughes has always been a democrat and has been part of Obama campaign and endorsed Hillary. Democrat leaders blame Facebook for how much it has contributed to their loss in the 2016 elections. To me, all of this makes sense. But, Chris being on the side of the democrats and coming up with these points, IMHO, makes it less objective. This also seems like a good time to come up with something like this, especially, when the candidates from both the wings have begun campaigning for 2020.
It's implemented nearly everywhere (firefox, ffmpeg, edge, chrome, opera, vlc,...) and the spec is 100% final. Problem is that (and now the everywhere gets weak) android didn't implement it yet (afaik) and some packaged versions of the software haven't got it enabled or are just out of date.

What we can get from the article thought is: why isn't gif replaced by webm/vp9 yet? Can be encoded in no time and is actually supported everywhere.
64-bit Windows users only, according to the release notes. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/

Edit: as ataylor pointed out, Mac support was added in 66.0 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0/releasenotes/
I believe the big issue with h265 was the huge licensing cost to bundle the decoder in the browser.
Another tech company without a moral compass of any kind.
This is a super gnarly one to me because it is a PASSWORD MANAGER. Literally they could just supply a password manager that also sends all the passwords to a third party.

I get it open source, hard to keep the lights on, etc etc but I feel like if you take the steps of getting into a such a security heavy space, then you have to be able to keep up your end of the bargain.

In this case it might not mean registering every variation of keepass (keepass.com probably useful though) but it certainly means working aggressively with search engines to get things flagged, send push notifications to your users warning them of it, etc etc
Are you on Linux? https://caniuse.com/#feat=av1 says that FF 66 has it enabled by default only for Windows and macOS users.
Chromebooks are locked to using Google for authentication, but you don't have to use most Google services once logge din.

Now you can even use an alternate Android or Linux browser instead of Chrome.
Odd, it's working for me:

Firefox 66.0.5 (64-bit)

on Windows 10
Did you mean "physicians"?
I disagree -- the difference between IE8 and IE9 is that IE8 expects the user to interact with the browser's interface, while IE9 attempts to get the browser out of the way of the user and instead puts the browser's content front-and-center.

Personally, I like this thought-line a little better. Users ultimately want to interact with the application only with regards to their content, not the applications that house that content.
The NYT paywall seems to have gotten more stringent. Guess I'll pass: I already subscribe to the local paper, the Washington Post and The Economist.
Cancer-stricken teacher charged for sub’s wages
How are Chromebooks designed to preserve data?

They are basically modern version of a dumb/dumbed down network terminal.
Chromebook experience is tailored for doing everything in the browser.

For fsck's sake you have to print through the "cloud": https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-set-up-google-prin...

You have to trust that Google will preserve your data in its cloud.
Israeli Mossad launches cyber challenge
Calling AV1 something that looks almost exactly like AVI seems like a mistake...
Please ignore us simple families struggling with their daily onslaught of criminal fraudsters.
I think an interesting comparison here is GPU cores, where a core will get blocked on a memory access and it will switch out its state for another. It looks like this is the approach here, which is a bit more aggressive than ordinary out-of-order approach. It's less ordered.
GIFs take up a massive amount of space (often multiple megabytes!) and if you’re a web developer, then that’s completely against your ethos!

Judging by most websites I comes across, this must be referring to some other universe.
Then you should root for their secondary public offerings to fail.
Was there any actual malicious or reckless intent behind these events? From what I gathered, there were a whole chain of bad decisions:

* Moving the engines higher and forward and keeping the same aircraft designation.

* Patching this design change over with software to push forward on the yoke at high AOA.

* Failing to account for AOA sensor failure.

* A bad trim-resetting logic that let MCAS exert almost total authority over the elevators.

* Poor pilot training on these new features

All these things came together to make planes fall out of the sky, I'm not sure if there was any one individual that had the whole picture in their mind.
Living in an urban forest, ripping up wild young trees is part of normal yard maintenance. I probably get at least a dozen a year. Two of my full-sized trees in my yard were wild seedlings that I allowed to grow because I like those particular kinds of trees (a catalpa and a sumac), and they were in good locations.

This also includes invasive tree species like buckthorn, which is a villain in our area. Buckthorns pop up constantly.
More than 75% of Asian population is lactose intolerant. Milk is not good for us. Body adapts to smoking and alcoholism. Does that make cigarettes and alcohol good for us? Coffee is a potent nerve stimulant, but too much of it makes you insensitive to its effects. Does that make coffee less potent or does that make you insensitive?

Potent medicine is what Ayurveda calls it. Garlic is right at the top. Our concept of potent and the way nature works are not compatible. Hence, the diseases.

Try detoxifying your body and then consume garlic to know if it is a medicine or just another food item.
The IRS already checks your work to some degree when you file your taxes. A pre-filled tax form would basically just the IRS to do what it already does earlier, and allow the taxpayer to check the IRS's work instead: a role reversal.
GIFs are still here because people make art with it, in some form. This is how we got still GIFs around, not because we needed to transfer videos. The idea of replacing everything based on technical superiority is extremely shortsighted. We need more humanists in computing.
I mean, should they? It seems like you're asking rhetorically, but in a world where society bears the cost of firefighting, it doesn't seem unreasonable to outlaw Christmas trees on pain of not fighting Christmas tree fires.

Once again, my original point was not that people should be left to die, but rather that it doesn't seem horrifically immoral, as the parent was suggesting, to believe that people should have to face the consequences of choices they knowingly make, especially where there are real costs to real people to mitigating those consequences.
At similar bitrates, they would be barely disinguishable visual garbage. At similar visual qualities, they'd be 10-20x filesize. It would be useful for the author to make this point by example though.
AV1 is not enabled by default in Firefox 66 on Linux. You have to flip a switch in about:config to get it to work.

media.av1.enabled

For what it's worth, AV1 videos play really slowly on my machine. There's probably a reason AV1 is not enabled by default yet.
The contract contained a Termination for Convenience clause. I tend not to threaten people or advise them to "ride it out" when they terminate for convenience and our agreement contains such a clause.
I agree. Hopefully it'll lead to discovering and understanding the root causes of problems and not just the symptoms.
No, because it is in general intractable to figure out object lifetime at compile time. Rust has just solved the problem for more cases than, say, C++ does, or perhaps just with more rigor.
And I also said they try, but they don’t always succeed.
I think it's ok, but I like Sublime better and that's what I use.
Ever since the his piece on ACORN, I have no respect for that guy.
I usually just enable reader mode and refresh — seems to still work for this article.
I like how we live in a first world country, but yet casually dismiss the fact that there are homeless people living outside in tents, and that feces and syringes are only an occasional thing so it's really not so bad. Coming from a clean, safe neighborhood in New England, where even trash on the side of the road would be offensive, I feel like we are definitely living in two different parallel universes.
AV1 is an open and free format, but if people really wanted to replace GIFs they could've done it with H.264 or VP9 or VP8.

Notwithstanding any issues about video codec support in browsers, GIFs will continue to have value until browser-vendors, spec-writers, and webmasters accidentally or deliberately coalesce around a sane ruleset for embedded motion picture completely devoid of audio.

Today, browser-makers have concerns about which videos to autoplay, webmasters' tools for specifying "muted" videos have been unreliable. GIFs completely sidestep that conversation, because GIFs cannot contain audio, and will always autoplay.
This doesn't have anything to do with the discussion of Python application streams. The linked blog post contains a table of UBI 7 images that includes python-27 and python-36, and a table of UBI 8 images that only includes python-27.

I think the table is misleadingly presented as comprehensive ("the set of container images"). If you follow the "RHEL 8 How To" link at the bottom of the page, you'll find a larger table that indeed includes python-36. It doesn't seem to be usable out of the box, but I was able to pull it with Docker:

$ docker pull registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/python-36

Now I need to read up on S2I and podman.

Edit: not sure what I did wrong the first time, but it does work fine in Docker:

$ docker run --rm -it registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/python-36 python
Python 3.6.8 (default, Apr 3 2019, 17:26:03)
[GCC 8.2.1 20180905 (Red Hat 8.2.1-3)] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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There may be some semantic nuances. Savepoints aren't real transactions, so they "inherit" the locks of the parent transaction, for example. But it might not matter in practice in the context of tests.
Same.
After I tried unblocking it temprorarily Firefox blocked it as well.
No it was supported but it was obsolete which is two different things. But also why I don't have mac hardware any longer. One of my favorite machines is still my SamsunNC10, tiny (for it's day) 32 bit machine that runs a *nix. For what I do, which involves writing software, managing servers and browsing the web, it's great, though At some point, it will not have os support any longer for 32 bit.
Do you realize that the automotive is the #1 spender on advertising, with a $50 billions yearly budget according to Publicis[0]. It spent $9 billions in 2018 just for digital ads – a minor channel for auto brands, up 17.3% year over year[1].

Note that car reviewers often accept to review new cars only when the manufacturing company has signed an deal for advertising campaigns with a sister company of the media organization. Also, media generates far more clicks with scandal-mongering headlines > clicks > ads views/impressions for auto advertisers > revenue for the publisher > exclusive car reviews > clicks > etc.

Tesla's marketing activities are just a drop in the ocean: no ad budget, a few official social media account, a referral program limited to Tesla owners, and a few product reveals.

[0] https://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/tv-networks-beware-au... (calc: 35.5/.76)

[1] https://www.emarketer.com/Article/US-Auto-Industry-Middle-of...
caniuse.com says av1 isn't supported in (all versions of) Safari, which also means it won't work on any iOS device.
Just a parenthetical note:

The article, in its ffmpeg encoding guide says,

-f - Only used in the first pass. Specifies the format of the output file in the second pass i.e. MP4 in this case

This is not required to be the same as the intended output format. Using `-f null -` will work just as well, as long as the encoder is epxressly set, which it is, in the commands shown.
Disregard. Updated version works the way I expect it to. It must have been a while since I last used it.
Here's to hoping Docker for Windows will rebase on WSL2 and make the same jump in quality as Docker for Mac did when they dropped virtualbox
That is correct. Safari supports neither of these.
How far are built in phone gyroscopes from providing inertial tracking for underground, it would be handy to walk around Tube stations and see how there're all connected, but the accuracy seems to be someway off.

Although this looks to be a lead:

https://aaltovision.github.io/handheld-INS/assets/presentati...
You are really making a lot of negative assumptions here. I happen to work (a little, I used to do more) on a F/OSS project that is all about user interface, and when I have no good idea for a UI, I ask an expert. Disdain for UX?? Please. Maybe you're thinking of that guy, I forget his name, that came up with git. He's very pragmatic about licensing, you'd like him.

(I actually think Linus is a positive figure overall, I just really can't stand git's UI)
FB platforms can only be used for hurting people in ways approved by FB.
The Netflix DRM stuff has been mostly solved at this point. Most of the modern distros + chrome will work just fine.
What ever happened to the APNG format? I remember dabbling with it years ago but seems to have never caught on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
Exactly the reason why my colleagues and myself do all deep learning in C++, performance and portability, from cloud to RPie. We've even modified caffe2 so we could build the training graph from pure C++. We know this is not the current doxa :) It's also all open sourced just in case others might need it...
These two twitter accounts are pretty entertaining:

https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor?lang=en

and

https://twitter.com/nextdoorsv?lang=en

Nextdoor is definitely a vector for accute NIMBYism where I live.
> Finally, the venture capital world will become even more clubby. That clubbiness has its virtues: strong networks of successful investors and entrepreneurs help ensure that the best opportunities are funded.

Does it? I can't think of many things less meritocratic than not being able to fund your idea because you don't happen to know any millionaires. How exactly do we know that these networks aren't letting the best opportunities fall through the cracks?
Did you notice that that businessinsider article is from August, 2018? Do you think that's an accurate representation of Tesla's current Model 3 production issues?
Heckuva name.
> Always pay with a credit card, it's much easier to reverse this kind of stuff versus a debit card. There is literally no good reason to ever use a debit card.

What is a debit card exactly in the US? I'm familiar with US-style credit cards, and find them horrible, expensive and insecure. I normally pay simply with my bank card, and online I prefer to with through iDeal bank transfer. Unfortunately that's not supported internationally, so I have a credit card only for international online payments. I would not own a credit card otherwise.