skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Lancaster was loaded with the technology of the time by the end up the war e.g. they had radar navigation, radio navigation, (when it worked) a 'lock' detector for German night fighter radar
My interest in PKD was never based on his futurology, but I have to say he totally nailed the scene where Joe Chip argues with his apartment door. "Never accept anything your TV proposes" could be straight from Ubik!
> RCS is reliant on carriers

Isn't that exactly what this article claims is changing? Google leading the main implementation also means most others will have to follow, and they very well could have an E2E mode similar to Allo's incognito mode. Not as good as always on, but still. Having it free through Google also makes it harder for ISP's to charge for it.
I just wish they would take the advertising right out of Windows 10, as well as Bing in the start menu etc.

It really ruins it.
Nit-pick: 0s (no hole) are heavier than 1s (hole).

http://www.punctum.com/interest/punch/index.en.html
> Soviet Russia's wanted to be number 1 everywhere while completely disregarding how they got there, That is what led to Chernobyl.

What led to Chernobyl is a reactor design flaw (could happen to anyone), and irresponsible behavior of the plant staff, who run the experiment against "the book".

Only the later probably is because of the culture-wide trait. The rest of it could have happened to anyone.

Though I do agree, that the show displays the need for open information through the lack of it in Soviet Union like nothing else.
You can already use custom schedulers with java.util.concurrent though.
It seems to me that the alternative to relying on experimental sci/tech is relying on a functional, far-sighted political process or mass individual behavior change.
That's a little bit of recursive thinking though. No one uses SMS because SMS is bad, not because it's SMS. People used to use SMS all the time, before it fell behind.
"20th century democracies found out that people care strongly about their human rights, but they were easily distracted from them."

-- Hoyt Kingston, "Dystopias that brought us here"
How to make a Personal SLA to find balance at work
so basically, if you have "root", you can get at another user's secret store through some esoteric weird means under some weird windows post update auto reboot auto logon whatever... which means absolutely nothing because if you have "root" you can do a billion other things to get at the same secret store anyway... i don't see the point of this.
I agree that some topics are hot-button topics whether that's on-wiki or AFK.

But on Wikipedia anything can become a hot button topic. Look at, for example, the amount of discussion about whether to use en dash, em dash, or minus in article titles.

Approx 20,000 words (no consensus): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(poli...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=dash&pre...

Here's how it plays out in one article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mexican%E2%80%93American_...

The Arbcom discussion is useful, because it links to some of the Ani threads: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitra...

There's about 500,000 words about –,— or -.

There's no way of knowing in advance if you're going to fall into one of these tarpits.
The mentality of bullies. The US really needs history to teach its people some lessons of humanity. Luck may turn away and smile on other countries, and experience more of these times and the people as a whole may start to learn.
Also "A Scanner Darkly".
If Graal and Scala interest you, then you should be aware of the Scala Native project:

http://www.scala-native.org/en/v0.3.9-docs/
https://github.com/scala-native/scala-native

It provides manual memory management as needed, making it suitable for even hard real time applications.
The waste in the landfill produces toxic gases. Also it can burn and produce even more toxic gases. Even if the landfill is several kilometers away from homes, it is still dangerous.

Also, the waste can pollute underground waters, and if there are many rivers in the region, the water will be contaminated in a large area around.
Except that is a Pyrrhic victory, as Swift is quite useless outside Apple platforms.

Linux support is still WIP, Windows nowhere to be seen, and everything else is not supported at all.
The very continued existence of Chrome is the bad thing about Google, Brave can only fix that by using the Firefox engine.
You only have to make it as far as the fourth section to see that this doesn't apply only to accounts with auto login enabled.

I also don't think it's fair to say there isn't a description of mitigation. They outline exactly how this could be mitigated: microsoft should disable lock screen applications.

this quote from the article really distills what this is so bad:

> Unlike the first implementation, the new vulnerability is not a developer mistake, but a forced compromise of security and usability, so to speak.

If microsoft didn't have a secure way of implementing lockscreen applications, they shouldn't have implemented it at all.

Edit: to clarify, the solution isn't even that drastic — simply don't enable lock screen notifications until the user is logged in. It's pretty funny that this vulnerability is partially a side effect of microsoft attempting to mitigate the intrusiveness of their aggressive auto update policies.
Although not that much more even for the proof... the paper is 2 1/2 pages, and almost half of that is introduction and references.
So far on 3 VMs where I've checked (all are public facing, on is fairly high traffic MX, the other is a webhost), netstat -s informed me that SACK is barely used.
If most people are pessimistic for that reason, why havent they done anything about it?

If you're worried about the zombie apocalypse, you start prepping, you don't start complaining about how rubbish the world is because the apocalypse is coming and no ones prepared for it.
> The tenuous grounds for this denial are almost irrelevant in this decision

Far as I understand dismissals are the result of the plaintiff having no case even if the 'facts' alleged are 'true'. So yeah the court isn't making any ruling at all on the malpractice allegations.
I was hardly advocating adding more coal.

Removing fossil fuel subsidies and setting up meaningful carbon taxes are steps in the right direction, but this means that the price the consumer pays will, ultimately, be higher, which is the point I was trying to make.

FWIW, it's something that I strongly believe we should be doing but through a combination of circumstances will only very slowly happen.
Thanks for sharing this. :)
> What I don't get is why the escalator manufacturers don't make the risers the same height as normal stairs.

The taller the step, the shorter the escalator. Doing that saves space and money.
What? An admin to do what? Also, this doesn't apply to only users with autologin enabled.
yes, the noble savage idea if from rosseau
this whole leveling thing is very sad. It makes you realize you are simply a number: a small pawn that falls into a predefined category and that will do a predefined job without too much opportunities to go out of its way.

I'm missing the craziness of studying at university where I felt everything was possible. I had sometimes similar feelings in startups.

In big companies that created that level structure it's shocking how boring everything becomes. People define themselves based on their level. That becomes the only goal together with the TC (Total compensation). It really feels like a rat race sometimes.
What would make a life not horrible? Having to struggle for food and shelter?
Or very much not admitting to it ever. Like their Cobol experience. cough

(I write Pascal for an obsolete VAX11/780 in around 1985... I wrote COBOL in a WANG VS in the mid 1990s. No _way_ am I ever gonna let recruiters or employers know any of that...)
Nice, sorry, I didn't notice you actually meant working on Android.

Great work btw. I've found a few actual bugs with ASan and MSan already. Not once a false positive.
Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus.

• Experience in COMM and Navigation.

• Avionics experience

• Experience with aircraft operations.

• Microsoft Office

I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"
Yes, it would. In fact, I am an immigrant.
A bit of a mixed bag, and overly long. Could benefit from some distillation and less back patting.

Given point 3, they seem to spend an inordinate amount of time complaining about vandalism, even going so far as to call out sockpuppets and anonymous IPs as a special type of "despicable cowardice" when they are basically the internet equivalent of wearing a hoodie while you spray paint a tag. Don't call out this behavior as particularly egregious, it is just ordinary vandalism and doesn't deserve special outrage.

Also, point 21: "There are no fools more troublesome than those with wit," should I find this ironic? That's the mixed bag bit. What is this doing in there? It is hardly an observation on wikipedia behavior but is obviously the author trying to feel superior to clever people they disagreed with. Then again, I'm probably guilty of point 31 and seeing my own arrogance.

It started getting samey and I stopped reading further.
Are you saying the rectangle’s area is caused by its length, rather than its width?
Well, I can spare 500 on it, can you please share the title, here on in an email, otherwise, what is the point?
"Per the initial discussion, there are places (and this is one) where a human is still MUCH better at assessing the situation and acting appropriately."

You've done nothing to support that assertion. "MUCH better at assessing the situation and acting appropriately" doesn't compensate for 10x slower reaction time. Nor does it account for the high percentage of time that humans are paying attention to something besides driving. Machine systems don't get distracted, at least.

We'll agree to disagree, but anticipate fully autonomous cars sooner rather than later. ;-)
It's worth noting that lwIP, the network stack used by most microcontroller based IoT devices, has a very low MSS. It's configurable, but typically defaults to 512.
You can’t install central ac for $2000 and certainly not in a rental.
The callkit api required a list of numbers passed to it that it would check to see if the list included the incoming call’s number.

I couldn’t figure out an obvious way around the api restriction, but if you want to try there was a github project called open call block which was a decent starting point.
Emacs isn't a CL program, but mezzano has an emacslike editor.

I don't think SSH ever had an implementation in pure Lisp. Telnet for sure is there, but I don't think SSH is. You theoretically could try compiling openSSH into LLVM-IR and then into Lisp, the same way Quake was compiled, though...
Yes, Home ownership is seen as the pinnacle of social status. This is stupid and people should rethink this preconceived notion.

In the bay area for example it doesn't make ANY sense to buy right now (Price to rent ratio, google it) but still people are flocking on every shitty apartment on sale. That's because they want to feel that little ego boost when they say they are "homeowners".
Popcount is ridiculously standard as many US government computer contracts require chips that support that operation. Also popcount is very useful if you are doing cryptanalysis.
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My Samsung SyncMaster T27B300 is a good example. LED TV without "Smart" software.
I, absolutely, positively reacted to that requirement as well! What a wonderful addition to the qualification requirements!

Maybe 1/5 is enough for someone to apply? Makes you wonder what superhuman will get the job.
How long did you prepare for the interview?
Free Android Games with Lulubox July 2019
Wow a computer connected to internet can be hacked!

Dear people, if you don't like smart tv's - don't connect them to internet.

Everything can get hacked. Whether it's Roku, AppleTV or your local cable STB...

Not saying Samsung software is any better or worse, but why we are surprised by this?
Show HN: OVH Environment Inspector
It reminded me of this funny "paradox" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IQE0uZUMys
TLDW : In WW1, after being issued helmets, the number of head injuries for soldiers rose significantly.
But the A500 could still be had in retail, and it was the same as the A600, only a bit bulkier. But with more peripherals.
i was thinking this too. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, this has never happened before to thaw two countries, and it comes right after the nyt article. It’s definitely a message
> I've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast

But you wouldn't get the security service from the CIA. They should just do tests like they do for paternity.

Tests have concluded to certainty of 99,9% that jmalkin is no domestic terrorist.

Maybe they would even have a printable version you could pin on your walls.
This is a very honest and non-naive answer about the pros and cons of working startups. The "We're a family!" bit made me laugh too - the startup cliches are real.

I would add - don't assume that because its a startup that means you have to be working 60 hour weeks. I have worked in and known plenty of other people who have worked in startups that were 9-5 with hardly any over time. There are plenty of startups that succeed with the majority of the employees working normal office hours, you just don't hear about them because they don't brag in interviews about how hard they are "hustling" and how they do yoga at 5am in the morning etc.
Studying a DApp: Issues to Dwell On
The Unabomber Manifesto talks about very similar themes. He kinda made a bad name for himself with the whole "killing people" thing, but a lot of his complaints about alienation, the "power principle" and need for struggle, and the feeling that individual freedom is being subsumed under an over-arching technocratic system echo things you might read on HN today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...
If you read the article, you will find out that you are only supposed to use the exception on historical names. Most people use it incorrectly and drop the trailing s any time the word ends in an s. Arguably for Bayes, he is historical enough that it could be appropriate, but that makes the rule even worse: at what point in time does a personality become historical enough that you must drop the s? I personally consider "historical" to mean: about the time of Archimedes, when a lot of people's names seemed to end in s.

In my opinion it is just better to keep the s as that matches how people will pronounce it and regularization of the language is better. Plus the misuse of the rule makes it even worse.
Limit permissions with roles for signed URLs
Except it's a matter of record that Zuckerberg is intent on undoing e2ee in whatsapp, and increasing ads[1]. you can't inject ads unless you're scanning the texts.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/whatsapp-fou...
San Francisco is not Silicon Valley. There is a substantial temperature difference between Mountain View and San Francisco.
> Is it a problem that Technology can solve (I'm thinking about startup in the privacy field)

Probably yes, at least in part. See https://puri.sm.
I strongly dislike that reply, because

1. it fails to address their actual argument, which is that they have nothing to hide from companies or the government, especially law enforcement.

2. it fails to convey the actual threat of loss of privacy: the threat to democracy and freedom of speech when journalists can't protect their sources, lawyers can't be trusted by their clients, etc.

I therefore prefer to emphasise that latter point, that even though they might have nothing to hide, people they should care about do.

Although lately it's become easier to convince people that even they have something to hide: as political actors (e.g. Cambridge Analytica) learn more about them from their data, they can target you (and people like you) with tailor-made lies to influence who you (and people like you) vote for.

Doesn't convince or even interest everyone, of course, but more than before.
If you have to rely on bitlocker anyway, then what problem is DPAPI solving?
Hey, I can help out as well. Have a look at the SEO and digital marketing projects I (well, my team actually) have delivered, https://www.upreports.com/free-reports.html

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Missing something. What is "leetcode grind"?
For rcs it is
Why would the UN have a stance on this?

It's been hugely magnified the media, but it is no more than a government bringing a bill forward and people demonstrating against it.

This often happens in most Western countries and no-one asks the UN what they think about it.

Perhaps time to put things into perspective.
> ...because of how in modern OO languages like Java or C#, there is no syntax or popular naming convention to tell the difference between a data structure and an Object.

In C#, you create a class when it's an object, and a struct when it's a data structure, or am I missing something?

ie:

// Data Structure
public struct Foo
{
public string Bar { get; set; }
}

// Object
public class Bar
{
public string Foo { get; set; }
}

You can check to see if something is a Data Structure like so:

typeof(Foo).IsValueType (true)
typeof(Bar).IsValueType (false)
This is currently an issue in Russia. Big cities like Moscow produce a lot of waste and the cheapest way to utilise it was to dump to a landfill in a countryside. Now people living nearby are protesting because the gases from the landfill are carried by the wind to their town several kilemeters away.
For most of human history - and in many places around the world today - living a "horrible life" means that it's about to end if you don't actively find food, evade guys with guns, and stay healthy. Being able to waste your entire lives on video games, star wars, star trek, etc. is a privilege of having your entire lifetime basically assured.

That we've evolved for the former situation and seem to be miserable in the latter seems to be the grandparent's point.
So a couple of the comments here have been mentioning the high pay of people with specialties like this in the context of LM and other defense contractors. My impression from Glassdoor and general conversation with software developers has been the DCs pay pretty low for software in general compared to FAANG or even other engineering companies. Is it true that people with obscure specialties at places like LM can command high salaries? Or have I been misled that LM pay is on the lower side? Or is it all relative?
I'm surprised this isn't a bigger issue in the election, actually. I realize that there are bigger issues at stake, but robocalling seems like a tangible thing that basically all Americans deal with every day and absolutely loathe, across all party, class and racial lines. It's also something that politicians actually can do something about. I figure the first candidate that goes up on a stage and says "I will end robocalls" will get massive applause.
Design Thinking in Software Development
They are equally as affected. Linux is Linux, it makes no difference in what box it runs. What is usually a mitigating factor is that embedded devices usually have a very different configuration compared to non-embedded devices (built with minimal options, not a lot of services running on them etc.).
They would care more, yes. But given the limited bandwidth for outrage, unless something is actually done about it, it becomes tacit approval, and the ratcheting up of the surveillance continues.
How is it different from iMessage?
While I haven't played CDDA, I can talk a little bit about what makes Cogmind unique compared to the rest of the genre.

Cogmind is classless - you always start the game with the same set of items and abilities. Your build is defined by what parts you find or salvage from enemies, as well as certain events that give you permanent upgrades.

The most obvious difference is the combat system: each and every item you equip can be damaged and destroyed. Items also have a 'coverage' statistic which is proportional to how likely the item is to absorb a shot. For instance, armour in Cogmind isn't really special under this system - it's just an item with high health and coverage.

Cogmind is also mostly based on ranged combat, though melee is an option for both you and enemies. Therefore, the tactics you must use are slightly different.
Is there a link to the source? I can't seem to find it from their website or github.
Sudden traffic drop? This might have happened
You're reading the job description all wrong...you've got to think like a hiring manager in the defense industry to make any sense of it, i.e. reverse qualification priorities and the actual job you'll be hired to perform will become crystal clear.
Using Yoga for Weight Loss
We haven't because we are much more social than we realize. We don't want to break social conventions, if possible. We don't want to tell people who are talking with joy about having kids or exotic vacations or luxury cars that they should hold back. Even though we all know that these things are the cause of the problem.

We are facing a collective procrastination of sorts. Just like when you procrastinate, you know very well that you should be doing something else, and you can even be pessimistic about it. Yet you don't.

That's why the governments, people in charge, need to take action, at the very least, start talking about it openly. Then the rest will follow.
Thanks. Would gvisor be stable enough to deploy into production?
Depends on where you swim. Water does indeed absorb radiation quite effectively withing a few meters. Radon water sounds like the modern equivalent to leeches
Au contraire, raising heaps of money on a pure vapor product just might be the mark of a truly powerful pitch deck.
I think to some degree its a matter of opinion but I couldn't disagree more.

The argument for abstraction at the procedure level seems obvious if you've ever used an interface or private members.

I think you have some picture in your head where everything has to be abstracted in a needlessly obtuse way to be an object. If you have some DTO, the fields are the contract so its fine if they're public. (In Java in particular its easier to refactor if you use the getter/setter pattern but that's not an OOP issue.)

I mean, I really don't understand what you're advocating here. Everything should be public?
I played with borg some in the early days and was unimpressed with some of the methodology and code quality displayed on public forums like GitHub. This is kind of archival work MUST be correct and carefully designed due to its sensitive nature. I hope I'm not giving the project an unfair shake here, but I checked it again recently and the first several lines of the GitHub page list 3-4 fairly recent versions that have caveats around data corruption and the like ...

This is not really isolated to borg, so I don't want to pick on them too much (plz shield your eyes in the direction of rclone...), but calling it the "holy grail" is a bit rich IMO. This kind of stuff is simply not industrial grade software.
Vaccine Injury Claims Are Few and Far Between
I also lean towards the stairs (or at least not just standing on the escalator), but in my experience it's like 80/20 or "worse" between people who go for the escalator vs the stairs. Of the escalator crowd though, there are a good chunk who prefer to walk rather than stand.

Stairs are faster and better exercise than (standing on) escalators. I guess you can make the argument that walking up escalators is faster, but stairs are almost always wider and less congested, whereas getting stuck standing on an escalator happens all the time anywhere busy.