skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't listen to music at the same volume in all situations.

I often set a volume level that feels right just before parking my car after getting home at the same time everybody else does. The same volume feels incredible loud when getting back to the car early in the morning.

The same goes with climate control. I can get to my car after a long run in that case I'll likely need a colder temperature than what I need after coming back to the cinema.

I find myself adjusting volume and climate often in different situations. I have an old car and use mecanical switches. Going to a touchscreen to me would be a step backwards.
What network?
Other ways are to use phones with 2 SIM card slots or simply use a local carrier with decent international roaming support or (of course) carry a paperclip to just do it yourself.
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We all had a moment buying some dumb overpriced toy from think geek 15 years ago right?
Yay, I guess. Mine's touchscreen and rarely think to poke at it. Also it doesn't respond to poking if the car is moving. The console controls are terrific.
here's an account of one person who've done this:
https://news.bme.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/pubring/peop...
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I've seen anything and everything passed around in Excel.

Project timelines, infrastructure descriptions/allocations, working on systems that allow users to deposit parts of their workflows via spreadsheets (financial related), some RFPs come and are returned in Excel form.

I can't speak to any exceptions but I personally use Word and Excel semi-daily.

I also believe there are a variety of people on HN beyond traditional strictly software devs. DevOps, Cloud-related (myself), Product Managers, Project Managers and the like.
If it is pegged to USD, there is no investment potential. It is just as bad as cash.

The idea behind bitcoin is that you don't need to rely on the US government for storing value. There are 21,000,000 BTC ever ever, you can't print more.

That article did not address this at all. This is the most compelling reason to buy bitcoin.
Perhaps that's the case...
I'll add to this that most business domains have online presence. Find the forums where the people discuss their business problems online and lurk there.
I expected the situation in Calais to be the main driver.
I <3 my geek blanket!
Exactly, and here's where you can see and hear one played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSTgU36xn4
Of course not and therefore there is no monopoly.
Just let people enjoy what they enjoy.
> Audi, for instance has said that part of the reason it’s discontinuing its rotary controller is that a touchscreen better supports Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.

Sturdy rotary controls which really are knobs are much better for a car. If you're on a bumpy road, the axis of the control will stabilize your hand. The controlling motion (twisting) can be more easily controlled, even if the bumps are trying to move your hand up and down. (I never see cars on the highway rapidly rotate about their roll axis more than 10 degrees. This only happens in Fast and Furious movies.) Furthermore, the feedback necessary to get from the control is all tactile. Contrast this with a slider control. An up/down slider is bad, because the control movement is in line with the direction of the bumps. Even a left/right slider has some problems with this, if your arm isn't perpendicular with the control.

Contrast all of the above with controls on a touchscreen. Almost all of the feedback is visual. Simply registering your hand on the control requires visual feedback. There is almost no physical stabilization of your hand in bumpy conditions. Instead, you have to compensate with a hand/eye feedback loop, which requires even more visual attention.
Phones' PINs aren't connected to SIMs. I have to enter my PIN on reboot, even if I removed my SIM. Putting the SIM in a phone without a PIN results in nothing being required.

Edit: Thanks for correcting me- I guess my SIM does not have a PIN.
What results and special cases did you work on?
Being a dev is fine, but it usually means being in a small company. Alternatively, try to meet people in the company who aren't devs. Talk to sales, marketing, production, start small talk with who ever's in the breakroom, etc.
Salespeople especially, love to talk :-)
Also see Uber where they killed a woman, faked evidence (with purposefully making the video look darker) and got away with it.
It makes me sad that 47 year old tech (emoticons, 1972) is the fore-running value add of a $900b company.
Note that during the talk they said they heard the cries for GPU access loud and clear (they mentioned AI). It will hopefully come later.
Title has a typo: 'a' should be capitalized 'A'.

Ah, this is near and dear to me. My first Unix was A/UX on an SE/30. My second Unix was A/UX on a Quadra 950. From which I naturally ran a warez site and irc bot. Gopher/Veronica/Archie were still in their heyday then, and Eudora was the GUI mail client of choice.

From there I "graduated" to IRIX and did real work. Molecular simulations and visualizations. A huge step up from the Mac hardware ...
If there's a monitor, you don't need to trust the first keyboard—just display a message with "type this [random] code to allow this keyboard."
> The Apple Watch has become a staple for many, allowing them to be more active throughout the day, and saving many from life-threatening situations throughout the years of its existence

Is this a PR piece?
Seems like Firefox U2F is just disabled by default: https://www.yubico.com/2017/11/how-to-navigate-fido-u2f-in-f... (tl;dr: Open about:config, search for u2f, enable)

With that done, GitHub prompts me for my key. My Linux office workstation is missing the necessary udev rule, so I couldn't test more. (Funnily, pressing Cancel caused them to send me a SMS, so their 2FA is practically worthless).
What does runtime container security mean?
I'm currently working on an offline-first app with PouchDB as the data store on the front-end, and I'm going to use exactly this concept on the server. Each user will be an actual CouchDB user, with their own databases.

My use-case lends itself well to this paradigm, though. Other apps might not be able to to this as well as mine.
While not directly related to buttons, recently my father ran into a deer, causing moderate damage to the front right bumper of his 2017 Suburban. It cost $5000 to repair due to all the sensors and technology. It would have been $1000 or less in a 1997 Suburban.
When is someone going to come up with a tactile touchscreen, with buttons that indent or protrude out of a flat touchscreen, depending on audio or tactile usage.
I know. Otherwise, I would have said some variation of “big if true.” Or, maybe I would have emailed him about it. :)
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i've known it was possible, but it's still the first time i'd ever seen a clip of it actually happening.

And i'm pretty sure using this exploit for totally benign marketing purposes is a new one.
Vizio probably still sells lower quality TVs without smart features, and their "premium" lines seem to use a "built in chromecast" instead of some stupid knockoff system.

So check out your local walmart I guess
Nice to see VisiCalc getting some recognition. A lot of people seem to credit Lotus 1-2-3 as the original spreadsheet, but people had already been buying Apple computers primarily to run VisiCalc for four years when 1-2-3 came out. It's hard to appreciate, looking back, what a mind-blowing thing it was to make changes in one part of a spreadsheet and have the other parts automatically update, and for this capability to be in the hands of ordinary people instead of specialists (or those who could afford to hire specialists). No programming required. Suddenly, a whole lot of people could do a kind of modeling and projection that had been out of reach before. "Killer app" definitely applies.
OK, maybe bad examples. My point is that it's underemphasised in school.
When I read the phrase "no pun intended" in an online article, I always wonder why, if they don't intend the pun, they don't just rephrase it?
And when all the cones' fancy electronics break or aren't charged? Is the cop just supposed to not stop? What about poorer jurisdictions that can't afford it?
Don't use an sms/voice phone number as part of your 2-step verification in Google.

In the past, I did use a verizon landline phone number as Verizon had the ability to "lock/freeze" that number from any outside changes, but I got rid of my landline a while ago.

Also, print out some backup codes and stick it in your wallet.

I have no idea what month and year I created my google account, and google doesn't seem to make that info available to you in a simple manner.
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WSL 2 is a full Linux kernel running in Hyper-V rather than an emulation layer on top of NT.

The article is about two things:

1. WSL 1 was not enough to run docker on it
2. WSL 2 is what was needed and with it Docker can use it and replace the Linuxkit based bits it currently ships, and get other improvements along with it.
I think what he meant is that,

The pixels are square in DOSBox, but the graphics from these old programs are designed for non-square pixel ratio. So, if you display it with square pixel, the display aspect ratio will be wrong.

(Of course, this still contradicts with what
neatcoder said, but I can't remember if these programs were "squished" on CRTs or not.)
>> It is just as bad as cash.

You mean that it is as good as cash. Bitcoin become a failed project, a big internet casino. Some people want to use digital money to make payments and get paid, you know?

The success of the facebook coins depends by the ways to redeem the tokens(i.e do other shops accept it, can they be cashed out at atm, can you use it with 3rd party wallets etc)
The construction can be explained in two sentences, the argument proving this is a proper counter example not exactly I think !
Just don't give your TV network access
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This is a good reminder to never entrust Google with sensitive financial records and documents. Sure, the cloud service is a convenience, but, if a hacker accesses your account, it doesn't take much to download copies of those documents and use them against you.
Those features do exist, but you may need a certain level of Windows licensing, and get ready to crack open a Powershell terminal to configure it.
WSL1 is syscall emulation on the NT kernel. Docker does not use WSL1. WSL2 is a Linux VM on Hyper-V which will be used by Docker Desktop.
Why can't you just disconnect the TV from the network?
This is a misinterpretation of the experiment results.

By default, aspect=false. This gives incorrect results, as you observed, with Logo producing a squashed circle and square.

The fix is aspect=true (or aspect=1). This gives correct results, with non-square aspect for pixels, with Logo producing a more correct circle and square.

Because the Logo implementation was written for an actual IBM PC or compatible, it assumes that the aspect ratio of a 320x200 pixel screen is about 4:3. However, when displayed with the incorrect square-pixel aspect ratio given by default in DOSBox, it will be 8:5.

In other words, DOSBox displays graphics with a square pixel ratio by default, which is different from the original hardware. If you wrote a DOS program to draw a square number of pixels, say 128x128, then you would see that in DOSBox it would also be square, but on real hardware it would be about 20% taller than it is wide. If you use Logo you will get the opposite results, because Logo is correctly designed for the original hardware.
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You've got the customers because they know you've got enough drivers. You've got the drivers because they know you've got enough customers.
Another Reddit-tier post. Thanks. Have an upvote :>)
> People who pay for G-suite have real support, even ::gasp:: telephone support. Why on earth does google not offer this to consumer users?

I know people are getting sick of this phrase, but I'm going to repeat it here anyway because it answers your question perfectly: why doesn't Google have customer support? They do, but if the product is free, you're not the customer.

As you note, Google does have real customer support for people who pay. The other people are not customers, they are advertising targets. Why waste money on support for them?
When it comes to at least Gmail and Drive, they do have a paid option with contracts preventing them from using your data for tracking, and it removes advertisements within those applications.

https://gsuite.google.com/
This, completely.

A few months ago, I lightly rear-ended a vehicle ahead of me when they stopped at a green light while turning.

Legally, I was in the wrong, and it was a stupid mistake. I had looked left to make sure no traffic was coming at the exact moment the person ahead of me stopped. Had either event (my head turning or his breaking) been different by about a second, no accident would have happened.

A simple anti-collision system would have prevented this, and saved me some money (and him from some scratches on his bumper).

As I have an older car - 2012 model - so this feature wasn't prevalent when I bought it. But my next car will have this capability, if for no other reason than I hate stupid mistakes.

This one feature would make my drive to/from work much less stressful (there are a ton of people who will switch lanes in front of you at the last minute and then hit the brakes here in Houston). Add in lane-change warnings, and I think a significant number of accidents could be avoided. They may be small accidents, but a bumper replacement or painting (times 2 - one for each car involved) is easily $1,000, if not more.
I got my TV at costco and it came with a 2 year warranty. Take it back if it's broken!
I am a pilot and you are exactly right. With an airplane autopilot coupled to a modern GPS, once you're cruising, you can pretty much crawl into the back seat and take a nap until it's time to land. (That's a little bit of an exaggeration but not much.)
Don't use 2FA, if the 2nd factor is anything mobile-based. Use strong passphrases, and type them when you need access to the assets they protect.

There is the concept of "security VS convenience", a trade-off you make when using secured assets. 2FA is convenience just as much as it is security. By having SMS as a method to reset a password, you reduce the attackers workload from cracking a difficult password to "compromise your mobile phone physically or electronically". I trust my passphrases much more than my mobile device and/or carrier.
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Now all we have to do is convince acid rain to stop at national borders.
.. in a tweet. From his twitter account. I feel like he may not be taking things seriously.
Thanks for the article. I really like how it was categorized and had a ToC so that I could read only the sections I am interested in (iPadOS and MacOS in my case).
Authy allows you to recover your account using... SMS. So this is also vulnerable to SIM swapping. https://medium.com/mycrypto/what-to-do-when-sim-swapping-hap...
I would say this seems more like airbags: a safety feature which requires no work on the user's part, 99.999% of the time, and which you might not even know exists up until the point when it jumps into action to save you.
I'm sure it's unrelated, but I'm entertained at the timing of $TSLA being up nearly 5% right now.
and spyware, don’t forget the spyware.
"Repo Man", Chinese Edition.
> The insistence on using Chrome is arbitrary and I don't like it.

Supposedly this limitation is because Firefox doesn't implement the JavaScript calls that permit a U2F-calling site to know the type of U2F key being used and Google wants to enforce, when enrolling for ATP, that at least one of the two keys being enrolled can be used wirelessly (Bluetooth or NFC).

I don't agree with it either but will only truly be mad if/when Mozilla implements the requisite call and Google still blocks enrollment without Chrome.
Quoting the animated Dilbert TV show when Dilbert buys his mom a gift card: “you’ve exchanged your money for something like money, but less useful.”
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OSR is in Manchester. They're niche (Windows drivers, particularly in the filesystem stack), but well-known in that community.
What makes you think that ad blockers wouldn't also block contextual ads?
Middle class Americans can absolutely afford to have kids. People in certain metros maybe can't afford it, but living there is often a choice they explicitly make, or at the very least talk themselves into. Sure you make half as much working somewhere else, but the cost of living is also a quarter as much.
> Isn't it strange that the Chinese copied facebook, but now facebook copys WeChat

You've clearly never used WeChat if you're under the impression they copied Facebook. This "___ of the West" is just a simplified trope to help readers make a comparison. Western companies/apps fail in the East and Eastern apps often fail in the West as the market is completely different that you can't just port something over and hope to replicate its success.

https://hbr.org/2018/08/why-western-digital-firms-have-faile...
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With the number of data leaks, PR disasters and the federal probes looming over Facebook, the last thing I want is the company handling any kind of financial transactions, especially if it's with cryptocurrency.
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Thank you for your kind words :)
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"We'll test it in production."
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No. Just no.

You can't use a touchscreen without looking at it constantly. Full stop.
NB: I am against slavery and racism in all its forms and times. You may believe it ridiculous that I am stating this but one never knows so I wanted to be explicit.

I didn't mean that quote as a contradiction to your statement. Indeed Lincoln had a personal wish that all be free [1]. My point was that slavery was an ancillary issue to both the start of succession and the war to end it. If what powered the south's livelihood was--let's say for the sake of argument--oil and the north was looking to ban oil as reprehensible and to make it a legal obligation to use only renewable energy then the outcome would have been identical.

Yes, Lincoln being personally for renewable and himself anti-oil would certainly have affect voting blocks respectively. But I maintain that it was still only a component of what started and sustained the war; the south saw the north as an existential threat to their mode of existence. By disallowing new regions statehood unless they outlawed oil the north was severely disrupting the previous balance of power.

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[1]: "I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free." -- from the same letter
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Surely, and I appreciate its existence.

Just making the point that they have been largely ignored.
So basically JPEG with 100% quality (a JPEG with all quantization table factors being being 1).

I personally won't call it lossless then, since no one will call 100% JPEG (even the 4:4:4 one) "lossless" (there is an entirely separate "true" lossless JPEG that no one uses).

But I'm not trying to argue if it's the term H264/video codec community uses.
From what I understand, this will only affect Linux containers running on Windows. Is that correct? What about Windows containers? I know they're not nearly as popular, but we did evaluate them at one time for running a legacy Windows application. I doubt we're alone in that use case.
It doesn't. Children have parents or legal guardians who must provide for their livelihood. If they don't the government provides it. Such is not the case for migrants.
This article hit one of my biggest pet peeves - conflating GitHub with git. No, rebase, commit, pull etc are _not_ “GitHub” commands.

It also seemed to dissuade users from taking their git history seriously. Acting like Git is super confusing helps nobody. Don’t get me wrong, it _is_ confusing at first, but taking on that mentality only holds you back. Case in point: the number of coworkers I have who are afraid to rebase their dev branch onto master. It’s no harder than a merge, yet some people are terrified of it.

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The rest of the advice is fine, albeit a little cliche.
I will try to do some additional walking if my watch tells me I’m close to meeting my goal. I should still exercise more but a small improvement is good as long as I have a sedentary desk job.
> Of course you can. I can not understand the details of something like the webextensions surface area, but still can look at the polyfill and understand that it's well written, that the tests aren't useless, that the popularity isn't faked, and that the maintainer is worthy of trust.

No you can't, at least not in the general case. You can trust Mozilla because it's Mozilla, but ultimately that's an "argument from authority".

> Looking at the chances of me getting a malicious developer or a very broken update that I didn't test against or see is much smaller than the chances that I'll write a bug and not test it, or I'll not fully understand a domain and will add subtle bugs into it, and won't even know how to test it correctly.

Perhaps, but unless the code you are writing is "safety-critical", those "low chances" are outweighed by the fact that a malicious actor can do far more damage than some bug you introduced.

Also, you have to multiply those low chances with the large amount of micro-dependencies that you might bring in through this attitude.

> You can't 100% vet all 3rd party code, and you can't run entirely on first party code.

Of course you can, unless you count the runtime environment as third-party code, which I don't.

> But we do! That's what dependency managers are for!

Yeah, well. Believe that if you must.

> Just like how you using a browser to post this comment which relies on a compiler which uses tools written in python which relies on a python interpreter which...

This is a slippery slope argument. I think there's a distinction to be drawn here.

CPython doesn't have a lot of dependencies, certainly no micro-dependencies. The amount of contributors is rather small and changes are extensively vetted. The standards for browsers are similarly high.

Your average NodeJS project, on the other hand, pulls in a thousand packages from a thousand authors, supposedly vetted by the community - but not really.

> don't just throw out statements like "a little copying is better than a little dependency". That's how you get dogmatism...

It's a proverb, I didn't make it up. I put in the "Often" just to make it sound less dogmatic. You took it out again, presumably so that your long diatribe doesn't look so misplaced.

Your mileage may vary.
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Maybe not a series on that same type. The crash investigation was about a pilot moving from an airbus to boeing, and it was a 777. The plane did what it was supposed to but the captain didn't know what he was doing. It was on an approach to SF and several people died, someone got run over by a fire truck. The series of accidents mentioned was probably attributable to pilots vs automation and not only to that particular plane model.
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