skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have a signed Grub EFI loader, remove the default secure boot keys and add in just the CA/certs for your system and password your BIOS/setup, you have the potential for a very secure system (ignoring the Intel/AMD management systems that are difficult or impossible to disable).

Or just dump Grub altogether and boot kernel directly as an UEFI image. No need for middle-man!

(Instructions vary by distro but see this for example: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/EFI_stub_kernel)
40% of the population isn't $400 from ruin. They just can't easily absorb unexpected expenses. Given the frequency of unexpected expenses, the majority of the population obviously figures out how to get by.

If 40% of the population was that close to "absulute ruin" there would be rioting in the streets.
FPS implies a single final render target. That’s a big assumption to make of the universe!
Dutch police officers have access to guns, but they're only allowed to use them when absolutely necessary, and are trained in de-escalating potential conflict situations. I sometimes get the impression that American police officers are more likely to be trained in escalating situations in order to justify the use of a weapon.
Snarky comments aside, Zuckerberg built a massive ads business from scratch, not previously knowing anything about ads. He built a massive social network from scratch, not knowing anything previously about social.

Bezos built the biggest e-commerce business in the world, never having worked in e-commerce or retail before. And seems to be doing some impressive stuff at Blue Origin, not knowing anything about space travel.

That's all not to mention Musk, who goes from new industry to new industry, building successful businesses that fundamentally change those industries, without previously knowing anything about those industries.

These are incredibly impressive accomplishments. They've proven their bonafides for solving general problems in fields they weren't previously familiar with, probably more than just about anyone else in the world.
Was the index build with or without parallelism?
This is where a little knowledge can go a long way. Assuming a ~10% interest rate (just to make the math easy, and is approximately what you'd expect in the stock market), it takes ~6.5 years of constant savings before your saved money earns more than the amount saved each year.

In other words, you can give future you (6.5 years in the future) a raise over 100% of your current income by beginning to save some percentage of it (e.g. 10%). At 6.5 years, the 90% you can spend will be greater than your 100% from 6.5 years prior, and you get to continue to save 10%, further increasing both your income and your nest egg.
That’s not really how eyes work. It’s possible for the laser to be focused. However, it depends on how your eye is focused.

This is why you can’t keep objects on the foreground and background focused at the same time.
GPL is a way to ensure that this particular piece of software stays free forever. One thing that GPL definitely doesn't do is "you have to contribute back your changes", it's fully legal to modify and use GPL-based systems and not contribute any changes back; the only thing that GPL prohibits is enforcing copyright restrictions on others when (if!) I pass the software on to them.

In a legislative regime where all software is free, that goal is achieved without GPL so GPL isn't needed anymore; I get the permission to use, modify and redistribute all software as if I had received it with the GPL.
I'd get a window AC unit.
That blog post is amazing.
Scheduled maintenance for more than 12 hour? Sounds like something is way too wrong!

I am curious to understand what can take so much long time? and wouldn't there be a better strategy (i.e., without downtime) for maintenance?
I think the difference remains that the things you are talking about have natural-language-ness as an inherent property with all its promise and baggage. Whereas the tool's mention of 'natural language' is almost incidental. You could rename it 'a command line for snippets' and still accurately describe it.
This is nonsense. You're micro-benchmarking some detail without reflecting on how to use these methods. I take it you have this code (sort of)

const all = [[1,2,3,4,5], [1,2,3,4,5], ...] //15000 items
let ret = [];
for (item of all) {
ret = ret.concat(item);
// Or ret.push(...item);
}

The point of using concat is of course that you don't have to do the loop. You're shuffling bytes for no use like crazy there. Not concat's fault. You should be doing:

[].concat(...all);

This runs in ~1ms on my machine (latest Chrome). Custom versions, and loop + push both come it at around ~4ms.
This is probably narcissistic rage, and it would be a result of the narcissistic injury of being less intelligent than the parents. There are lots of other potential causes of narcissistic injury, but realizing that one is relatively stupid can do it for people of any class background.
What happens if I negotiate down, and three months later Aetna finally unfucks my asshole and agrees to pay the $20k?

I guess this is a question for a lawyer, and not a stranger on the internet.
To clarify: is the distinction between delta-v and change in re velocity that thrust could be applied in any direction, including in the braking direction, so a rocket applying a maneuver of given delta-v could end up with an increased or decreased (or zero) final speed?

If the above distinction is correct, then in general delta-v is not coupled to the physical change in the rocket's velocity. But in the case of a conventional rocket with a fixed thrust vector launching from Earth's surface (as in OP's comment), isn't it perfectly true that delta-v is equivalent to change in velocity (barring air resistance)?
I understand and I do not doubt that those people exist. However, they don't make up all credit card holders. There are still people who use a credit card rarely or only for emergencies.

Further, pointing out the distinction between these two groups does not strongly debunk the data. That's nit-picking, at best. This should still be concerning, even if it's improved over the past few years.
It is one of those things that seems like it would be fun to know, but I have no idea how to learn. Even if I would learn I don't know where to get reading material to practice with. I suspect most readers agree with the above.
6-8h a day is fine by me, just not 5 days a week and/or on a rigid schedule.
Counting up and counting down are the same thing, if 0 and 1 are arbitrarily assigned.
"We live in a global world now. Countries that fundamentally tie their culture to ethnicities will someday be a thing of the past. "

No we don't and no they won't be. The only countries that are making this mistake are those from Western Europe and the US & co. Others are proud of their heritage, cherish it and fight for their culture.

Your utopia may only be true once we become space-faring and encounter other species. Only then our humanity will unite us in spite of our differences.

The US... is a darn poor choice of example. Half the population voted for a president that wants to build a wall around Mexico. Half the population are short-sighted fools, are they?
The US is rife with ethnic conflict, I used to think it's a success story, but now I think that it's a ticking time bomb.
One-Quarter of Working Americans Have Zero Retirement Savings
I think ultimately it would have suffered from Spotify and Apple Music. Both them have grown an enormous amount since What went away.

That said, I agree it was a music fan's heaven. Just as Oink was before it. It is sad how badly Apple Music's recommendation system is, how bloated it is with recording industry pushed crap.
Planesaves[0] is led by Mikey McBryan of Buffalo Airways[1]/ Ice pilots[2] fame and is restoring a D-Day DC-3 in a very compressed time frame. You can check out the YouTube channel[3] for updates. They aren't going to make Normandy but it's interesting following along taking a plane from a wreck to flying in a few months. He's doing a video a day which is impressive and helps capture the process.

[0] https://www.planesavers.com/

[1] https://www.buffaloairways.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Pilots_NWT

[3] https://www.youtube.com/user/McMakk
neat! i studied the related phenomenon of locomotion by swinging and we postulated that elastic energy storage (and release) in the shoulder was an important part of the energetics and efficiency of that form of locomotion.
One impression I've gotten from Barkley is he's used to interacting with people who do not believe in ADHD, or underestimate the conditions effect on individuals and their lives. His talks often revolve around acknowledging the seriousness of ADHD and how the symptoms are not a result of moral / intentional failures but cognitive defects
Here's the actual Federal Reserve Board news release from which Bloomberg made their report:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...
I've tried so many times to work with government entities. It's a complete mess. It seems the only people who want to fix the problems don't work there or are fine with the problems.
Wait, why is the “race to 5G” even a race?
Yeah, so far the form designer is just to help you create layouts which are then turned into C++ code. There's a bit of smoke & mirrors here though, I haven't even started on the tool that converts a saved form into C++.. but all in good time!

It would be fun to build a visual programming system in the style of VB6~, but it's not something I've started on. :)
I don't want this to end badly for you (via CertSimple), but as you perhaps come to anticipate my primary concern is always preventing Future Harm. EV hasn't been effective for that purpose.

The article I've just read never uses the phrase "the true meaning of SSL certificates" that I can see, if that was removed I apologise but otherwise I think I have to assume you're putting words in Troy's mouth.

"The certificate fields for organisation, city, etc have existed and were expected to be verified since SSL was created in the nineties. Anyone who has ever made a CSR knows this."

Anyone who understands what's actually going on here knows that these are part of the X.500 directory system and are present in Netscape's SSL because it leverages that systems's X.509 certificate format. In 1999 PKIX (RFC 2459) proposes how to use this system sensibly with the Internet and the modern Web PKI largely falls out of that and its successor documents.

Prior to the CA/B Forum (and the creation of Extended Validation) the only promises you had about what, if anything, in certificates you relied on had been "verified" and to what extent, was written in the legal documents of the issuing CA. In most cases they disclaimed all or almost all responsibility to the extent possible. Their methods were... unsound.

Even today, when if you run Firefox (or more or less, Android) you can actually trust that someone cares whether the validation was done properly, it's more slip-shod than any of us should want. What has Certinomis been up to for the past few years? What are all these certificates doing with ST=Some-State (yes, literally the words "Some-State", because that's the default in OpenSSL)? or L=Default City (again, the default in OpenSSL)?

I think we can reasonably conclude that the reason nobody engaged with my questions about those is that the answers would be embarrassing and they're hoping that if they stay quiet nobody will follow up by asking why they're filling this crap out (to make money) if they can't validate it properly...
They aren't planning to sell it. I wouldn't be surprised if it did sell well if their tried.
Were you seeing the slashdot banner ads too?
>>an otherwise good constitution

This bold assumption is where the issue comes in. There's plenty of constitution that I'd be fine shredding and plenty more that could really use some specific, involved updating. The whole of the 2nd amendment can fuck off and I wouldn't shed a tear. 3rd feels like it doesn't need to be at "cornerstone of our government" levels, and the 4th could really use some extra juice to it. Also, based on recent events, we can get rid of the 10th and I'd be happier.

TL;dr- Having a constitution is great. Ours could use some work.
Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Doctors
They stuck their heads in the sand refusing to have a package manager for like 8 years and asking people to put dependencies on a vendor folder.

That's not learning from established work.
That is an unscientific statement. If 15 countries have tried and failed, the burden of proof is on providing evidence that another attempt would not similarly fail. Empirically speaking, the evidence speaks against the efficacy of wealth taxes.
In terms of sheer aesthetic appeal, the DC-3/C-47 is at the top of my "most beautiful airplanes ever" list. It's just such an elegant, clean design; like the Platonic ideal of an aircraft.

On the other hand, my father had some occasion to spend time traveling various places in C-47s during his time with the Air Force, and he describes it as a bone-shaking experience. So maybe beauty isn't everything it's cracked up to be :-D
And we can't. Because this person failed to follow the regulations that allow for that to be proven.

It's like if I ran a car rental business, and I stole license plate numbers from random cars or made them up, and then kept no records. And then when convicted and charged you were like "but you have to prove that those license plates were used for crime". How? The whole point of the crime was to obfuscate and prevent that very action of tracking the license plates.

Which is why he isn't going to jail for any additional criminal acts. But he is getting a very long sentence for the crime he committed because his crime was particularly egregious in enabling other crimes and preventing them from being discovered or tracked.
Even the ones still standing often aren't because of fantastic original engineering but because they are the ones people have cared to carefully maintain and to perform renovations on to compensate for original engineering flaws.
I am in no way a social security expert, but I'm concerned that this article missed several key points that feed the pessimism. I rarely see them addressed elsewhere, either.

Here are my concerns, and why I don't have faith in Social Security.....
1) Retirement age is going up. I probably won't be eligible until I'm 80.
2) Life expectancy is going up. Grampa will probably exhaust his SS before he passes away.
3) More and more doctors are putting too many underage work-eligible people on disability/SS just because they can't find work/aren't productive employees. This breaks the work/eat feedback loop that everyone else relies on.
4) My current contribution level won't mean shit in 50 years after infaltion.

When older generations complain I usually use the joke "Yeah well at least you're gonna be able to collect social security. I'm never going to retire." It's a lighthearted joke but I am 100% convinced that it's going to become reality.
Cheating service members can have consequences. We were TDY and put up in a hotel in Los Angeles, that was ripping off customers by removing placards that advised some local 7 digit numbers were now long distance. Both the hotel and the phone company were making extra money off this little scam. We advised the Area Defense Counsel of the practice and the military cancelled the contract with the entire hotel chain. The hotel chain never recovered from that loss.

I presume something similar could be done here. i.e. contact the ADC for each branch and advise service members are being taken advantage of. The military could send out a memo globally suggesting how to file for free and to not use TurboTax.
This is a shame, but if you're in a big coastal US city take a look for them. They're around, sometimes!

Mostly, they campaign for things like police accountability and run candidates to force focus on certain issues like surveillance and net neutrality. They don't win, in those cases, but it's a good way to keep solidly-Democratic candidates from letting the issues slide. But there are some Pirates holding offices like town council seats, which is inspiring to me.

(And on a practical level, they seem to be way better at recognizing their position and making an impact than much bigger factions like the Libertarian Party. Perhaps ironically, they've got some great organization.)
What about a solution that makes it easy for any small group to hire lobbyists? Something like Kickstarter campaigns for cause areas where you want to get something done (eg. prison reform) so you create a campaign and get people to contribute; it hits a minimum threshold and the platform hires a lobbying firm to work towards the goal. Of course, with lobbying there are no guarantees anything happens, but would be interesting (sorry this isn't very thought out, I'm just reading the threads here and this came to mind)
It seems almost certain that "piracy" would go down. Even if the only change was that people torrenting Firefly in 2019 would be doing so legally, that's that much less piracy.

Then you get the effect that everything from the 20th century becomes available on YouTube, which is likely to cause increased viewership of that content over newer content pirated or otherwise. Which I suspect is the main reason Hollywood is really against shorter copyright terms -- not just losing the revenue from past works but having to compete with them when they're free.
It's almost like TPB is not hosted by a public company with data centers in the United States.
Incorrect.

The free market can reward this, with certain incentive structures ( https://hackernoon.com/wealth-a-new-era-of-economics-ce8acd7... ).

It is Capitalism that doesn't. Neither does Socialism. :/
a large glass of ice cold water and a quiet oscillating fan at the opposite end of the room
Do people only charge their car twice a week? We have charging stations at work and they are packed each day and each car has a scheduled time.
It definitely still exists - I used my old DECUS membership number to get a new set of license PAKs (and a link to download the install media and software kits) last week.
But they are completely different.

On the most basic level, governments are responsible to their citizens and their only purpose is to serve those citizens.

Companies are responsible only to their shareholders, who may or may not be their customers. Their only goal is to earn money for those shareholders.

Companies get to pick their customers, governments do not.

The examples you give are instructive. Intuit spends a tremendous amount of money lobbying against improvements to the American tax system that would benefit everyone, because that would mean fewer profits for them. Fedex competes in some ways with the USPS, but USPS provides a government mandated service to every remote region of the country, which a private company would not do, because as a country we decided that service was an important function of government. Plus, Fedex actually uses USPS for a significant percentage of their deliveries.
You see I’ve read this kind of information in exactly the words you use more than once and I still can’t summarize in one sentence where should one put his variables for things to “just work.” Locally for one user. Provided I just don’t know and don’t even care what the differences between the login and interactive shells are and that I just run the whatever terminal it is default from the GUI menu (whichever GUI it is).

And your explanation what the differences are is for me still circular, exactly like in the man pages: login shell is the one which invokes login-related tasks, and I should care about the difference from the interactive shells. I still have no idea what that even means, it is what exactly happens when?

Anybody knows some sane explanation of these? I admit I never tried to find it, as I tried to read the man pages, didn't find anything reasonable, but knew that it doesn't matter to me. I just want the darn variables to exists whenever I need them. I don't care about the differences. One single place is enough.

But now that you say that you "do understand these mechanisms without evicting too much from" your "brain cache" I'd really like to learn everything about the differences. Specifically, when is one invoked and when another for the user "acqq", let's say, on a default Ubuntu system, and on a default Red Hat system?

Are really more different user shells invoked in different forms for a single user, on a single machine, between the booting of the machine, logging in (in GUI) and then starting a few times the terminal with shell inside? When is invoked and which is invoked when? And why shouldn't be a single place for the variables I want to define? No idea, but I would be grateful to read about it now. Thanks in advance.
Are Cryptocurrencies Money?
I've worked in advertising for 15 years, in different parts of the industry and in different roles.

The thing is: ad tech doesn't want your personal data. Ad tech doesn't even want 'individually-targeted' ads. Advertising is applied sociology and works with statistics and its laws of large numbers.

What ad tech really wants is to assign you to broad classes of sociological groups. ('Gamer', 'parent', 'hobbyist', 'instagram user', etc.)

The insane spree of personal data collection by Google and Facebook isn't driven by advertising needs. It's a deeper and more insidious strategy for things in the future that aren't advertising-related. (I think the strategy bosses in these FAANG companies imagine a future with something like China's social credit system, except on steroids. But this is just my hunch.)
This is true if you only consider the first order effect of copyright.

However, the second order effects would lead to, for example, significant decrease in investment of the creation of any work that has marginal production of near $0. Why would Disney/Marvel go to the effort of creating the Avengers movies when those movies could be shown freely by movie theaters? They, of course, would not as there would be no way to recoup their investments. Now the millions of "the many" who have freely exchanged their dollars for movie tickets are worse off. Nobody wins, not the few and not the many.

Why would GRRM write the next two works in ASOIAF if ANY publisher could take the text, print it and sell it without remuneration to GRRM? At best he would because he's already rich but would he ever have in the first place?

The winners in your world may very well be Amazon and others with the easiest/best distribution platforms at the cost of the creators and in turn at the cost of all as the creators no longer create.
With parallelism, default settings (i.e. 2 workers).
It has a long life ahead of it especially with the turboprop conversion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basler_BT-67
You can only "film" something when the photons hit the "film" (a.k.a the image sensor). There's no way to record photons flying by.
Interesting. Thanks for the context.
Where is my check?
I don't know how you meant that, but this is absolutely the case in every European country that I know of.

You are considered one of them if you have the appropriate skin color, name, accent, etc. This is so deeply ingrained in the human psyche that it's nuts to even fight it. It will only change when a large enough part of the population will have the "wrong" skin color, name or accent. Or you get large scale open conflicts, I guess, there's no guarantees of a happy end, on the contrary.
Interesting that all 3 nominees this year have such a relatively mediocre bgg rating
Do you have any knowledge about how Code for America is doing? My understanding is that they're more on the citizen engagement side of things and have built a few cool solutions. Maybe we need more orgs like that (or need to contribute more resources to them)?
Private trackers are just mostly ran by power-hungry people with basically 0 benefit to the regular person.
OO, Functional, Imperative, and Reactive