skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and that's an assumption you make that requires evidence. Your claim is that there is not only this kind of identification happening, but that it happens even if I have the common tracking blockers. Otherwise the blocklist in this thread would be completely overkill, just as I said.
Ah, Theres the old Steve Balmer Microsoft we all know and love.
Grover's algorithm still takes exponentially many operations to solve a search problem that can be brute-forced in exponentially many steps. Much faster, but still in EXPTIME. No jump from exponential to polynomial complexity class.
Doubling the bit length makes the problem much much harder than just twice as hard. The n in the sqrt(n) you mentioned is the number being factored, which grows exponentially with bit length.
How would you go about and rebrand the button on a common laptop? Stickers wear down, look ugly, break backlighting. Using acetone will leave an ugly transparent spot or ruin the texture. There's basically no nice way to fix many of the keyboards. Imagine if every single one of your PCs had to show the windows logo on startup, right now it's just on your keyboard.
There is a bit of a problem considering that the organizations that you name are also in blatant violoation of the principles that you name. As the EU is growing, it has incorporated countries with not very strong liberal values, so liberalism may not have a majority in the decision making process. Also, the EU is a very non-democratic organization. The executive power of the countries ends up in the lawgiver seat when they go visit Brussels and the power of the European parliament pales in comparison to that. Also, it is very convenient for the large companies that they mostly can just lobby in Brussels instead of in every indivudal country. What the people want is in the mean time an unasked question.

Also, these trade agreements tend to come with 'intellectual property' agreements which is the government handing out monopolies to the large companies. Also, when trade is governed by treaties of 10000 pages length this is quite the opposite of free trade.
The thing being asked for with the right to repair and why these companies are against it is that devices arent so convoluted you cannot repair them. We would see bigger devices that can be repaired because not everything is soldered together. At least thats what I remember reading a year ago. It would force companies to redesign their devices. Which is sensibly why they are against it all.
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And you're selectively quoting me. I did not say "women suffer far more", I said "women suffer more from violence by men than vice versa". If you're going to debate a quote at least be honest about it.

Framing things as human problems is a lovely concept, but disparities exist. Ignoring them by labeling them a "false dichotomy" and talking about "victim olympics" does not help solve any issues. You can't solve an issue without identifying its causes. Otherwise we end up asking "how do we solve violence as a human problem" and guess what, nothing ever gets solved.
As I understand, it's only about removing the Win logo from the button, which is long due on officially Linux-supporting laptops.
If you want to use html templates server side. As soon as someone wants a modern client framework, this rails falls short. Unless there is something I'm missing, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Since JSON’s syntax is much simpler and smaller, it’s faster to parse a very large object as JSON and return the newly built JavaScript object rather than parse the object tree in JavaScript, which has a much more complex syntax parser. Obviously there’s diminishing returns for smaller and smaller objects.
This isn’t quite DRM.
Favorite quotes from the answers:

> You're alienating the product that makes you big. But that's okay, all companies do that eventually, giving rise to the competition that appeals to the alienated user base.

Tschallacka is right, it seems the be part of the normal lifecycle of most online sites/apps. Perhaps SO's expiration date is near, for those users who made it popular enough to be "ruined" by the devs.
Who's running largest car sound database where you can download sounds? Ridge racer? Ferrari? Good old Beetle or T-Ford etc.
A deeper implementation would be a browser designed for this.

Some hard problems. E.g. URLs provide a consistent place to go to find varying content. If the URL is the content, then it cant vary. How does one solve content discovery without resorting to hosting?

PS: The first person who says blockchain buys the beers.
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Ask HN: I am a horrible procrastinator, please help
Hi HN,

I’m not able to get anything done which is making me feel really bad. Be it coding, or reading, or going to the gym. Nothing works.

Few years ago, I had a gym membership for over a year thinking that spending money would force me to go but it didn’t work. I fell in the same trap again recently by getting a new membership, thinking that my willpower changed but it didn’t. If I want to work on a personal project, I can’t keep coding more that one hour then quickly switch to watching a movie or Twitter/HN/reddit etc. My library is full of books, each one is either not started or halfway read.

I’m really straggling with building good habits, besides the day job that I’m forced to do to survive. Every good habit is tough or unpleasant at first which makes me quickly give up.
Bad habits on the other side come naturally : I spent countless weekends watching hundreds of tv-series, still spend like 3-4 hours daily on social media, and I really don’t want to count the number of hours spent on my porn addiction, for more than 12 years.

All the advices about getting things done, becoming disciplined didn’t work, or I couldn’t apply them. What do I do? Anyone who was in the same boat and successfully quit it?
For local development in WSL my solution is to simply run a ssh server from WSL and connect to that from Windows, forwarding any ports I need. I've found the Chrome SSH app [0] to work really well (aside from needing to run Chrome), as it can forward ports and supports tmux w/ mouse control and copy paste nicely. But any decent ssh client will work.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell-app/p...
They do, but NT file performance over many files scales abysmally. The two major reasons are a legacy of bad decisions: deleting files is forbidden if there are open write handles, and filter drivers are allowed to be placed between other drivers in the file I/O stack.

There's not much Windows can do about this, which causes tons of issues with e.g. git clone. Erick Smith is ludicrously smart, he just couldn't squeeze better FS perf out of WSL1 due to these issues.
While having such an option may be a good idea, one of the main appeals of ebooks for me is that I already have far too many linear feet of paper books. Giving me a hard copy adds to this problem.

Either way, let me annotate my own paper book TYVM.
Annotating data with multiple services, you can send the same doc out to (i.e. ML entity recognition) several services at the same time. Merge results when they get back
"cook with the electric hob and microwave less",
"get rid of the electric shower", "spend more time out".

Arent these just displacing your electricity usage? I assume you aren't going to have less showers for example. And I can't see a trip to the coffee shop or cinema being 'greener' than the stay at home equivalent.
I notice that the bike messengers in the city now have “horns” that are more like an electric beep that is not as loud as a car. Also, the police cars have rumblers that you feel more than hear.

When I’m in NYC, I always wish there was a counter for horn-presses that eventually triggers an automatic fine if you use your horn too much.
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I'm surprised we haven't seen more hard sci-fi in the jovian or cronian systems. While constant 1g acceleration drives open the whole solar system to the ~month travel time that benefits stories, much more realistic accelerations (or limited fuel) can still manage the same within those systems. Add to that the plethora of interesting moons, rings, and gravitational points to focus people and material around and the action should flow quite naturally.

See The Expanse Season 2 (it's amazing).
They could also make them merely tamper-evident. There's plenty of ways to allow device owners to unlock their own devices, without also letting others do so. Manufacturers just aren't interested in that, and are all to happy to lie and claim it's impossible.
The Json version only requires the full, complex JS parser to find the end of the string parameter. The string itself is then passed to a specialized Json parser that is faster because the language is a lot simpler and it has to check less possibilities at each point.

Apparently this is faster than running the whole string through the full JS parser that has has to deal with all kinds of portential shenanigans in that block like references to variables instead of literals etc.
That's a terrible sound for a car.

> ...produced a sound for the car that feels right out of a film...

The problem being that it sounds exactly like a soundtrack being played alongside what the car is doing rather than being able to believe that the car is making the sound.

Also, the picture of that BMW M Next looks like it could have been made in the 70s if with much less imagination and far more conservatism. The Forumla-E cars don't look great either but at least they're trying.
Windows keeps automatically adding EN-US keyboard layout (2016)
Presumably that might be baked into the “bring up on mgr 1:1”
Actual future:

PING

VEHICLE IN TRANSIT

PING

VEHICLE IN TRANSIT

PING

VEHICLE IN TRANSIT

(inaudible subsonic vibration to alert hearing impaired and headphone-wearers)

WOOPWOOPWOOPWOOPWOOP

...

PING
How is IPFS better? To share a piece of content, you need some place to share a new link, just like with this mechanism. In fact, IPFS is more failure-prone, because besides removing the link from where it's posted, attackers can also try to identify and DDOS the nodes hosting the content, thereby making the links useless. With this mechanism, anyone with the link could decode the data using some offline tool/script, even if the whole Internet goes down.
I have never thought that it might be something windows does automatically. I have had this problem even back in XP since some programs that I use like photoshop use keyboard shortcuts with space involved so sometimes I accidentally press win + space and change my keyboard layout, it's not that big of a deal since I switch often between layouts since I use US layout when programming. But now that I think about it, my machines switch layouts randomly during the day.
Long ago I measured how much water I needed too. Two steps:

- soaping: 1 glass of cold water
- cleaning: 1 glass of cold water

head to toe
> It's very easy for a family of 3 in the US to spend $2K/mo on food and throw most of the groceries away. If you drive that down to $1K/mo, you can eat pretty well, and there won't be much wastage.

When I was reading the Mr. Money Moustache blog some time ago, one of his first advices was to cut food spending, saying that "you don't need to spend $1k/mo on food with these few tricks". And I was completely baffled by these numbers. I spend €300/mo on food ($340), and that includes eating out at restaurants nearly every workday for lunch, something that I plan to stop.

(Now, granted, Germany is a cheaper place to shop for groceries than the US from what I've heard, but still, wtf.)
I met someone recently who had to do pretty high performance JS to ship webapps targeting feature phones - presumably every bit of performance helps there and as someone else mentioned, the compiler can probably do this bit for you
I prefer not to be hit, even if it's not fatal.
I mean, honestly this was clear from the moment online stores with DRM'd media started appearing.
If it's not stored on your own device in a DRM free format, it can disappear at any time.

It's less 'the dark side of DRM', and more simply that DRM requires actively maintained infrastructure. When the business case isn't there to pay for that anymore (or the company goes bust), then what else can one expect?
A public anything would be helpful; you don’t need a blockchain because there’s a single publisher.
Breaking hashes aren't a decision problem, so they're not directly comparable, but sha2 isn't on the same shaky mathematical ground that RSA is.
But if you use an url shortener, then the website is not stored entirely in the url anymore.
Or, instead of blockchain, a simple API.
They left out measurements of "cognitive load".
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Right, that’s why I said it wasn’t an apt comparison
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Not sure where SO would have been without google obviously giving it a leg up for all these years. I literally cannot for the life of me find another search engine that brings me to the correct question no matter how vague my search terms are.
For those who thought Microsoft was an alternative to Apple with regards to right to repair: think again. The mid-range and high-end HP laptops (not Lenovo) are the easiest serviceable these days.
Right, but it all just ends being whataboutism. Effectively we're saying "sure, domestic violence exists, but what about prison violence? What about war?".

They're not invalid points but the effect is to grind conversation to a halt. We can talk about, and tackle prison violence. We can talk about, and tack domestic violence. But refusing to consider one until the other is also factored in just means nothing ever happens. They don't depend upon each other. We can work on both, independently.
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Battery warranty is one of the more grey areas of warranty coverage. Depending on local legislation and the specific coverage for the model you can get 6-12 months (it's considered a consumable) and the warranty might start when the battery was manufactured rather than the sale date (like Dell did some years ago, not sure if it's still a practice).
I haven’t used them personally, but there are several mentioned in the replies to this tweet about the MS eBook shutdown: https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432?s=2
There are de-DRM tools for the Kindle; I bought almost no Kindle books prior to finding them. Now I'm willing to buy some because it's relatively easy to remove the DRM.
Why launder? Plenty of goods and services would accept crypto as payment. No need to launder cryptocurrencies but the wild swings in price will affect your accounting in your business.
There's a novel about this, Factor Man. (I haven't read it.)
Interesting! I might want to try and preach some app to my friends to get them all to go in to. Thanks for the anecdote!
Fiction? What's wrong with just perusing gutenberg.org for that. If you really care about paying them for the e-books, they do take donations.
You are right - while suffragettes could be quite violent, the violence was political and (as far as I can tell) misandry didn't hit hard until Second Wave Feminism, in the 60s-80s. But hit hard it did, and the effects reverberate today.

The point is, toxic hatred for the "other side" is a distasteful but not uncommon feature of movements in a particular stage of their existence. It doesn't invalidate their complaints.
Baen Books

https://www.baen.com/

They have always been very customer friendly. They have a "free library" section, too. (Often has such things as the first book in a series.)

J Novel Club

https://j-novel.club/top

Translated Japanese light novels. There's a membership that lets you read along as they translate, but if you purchase the ebook when they're done, it's DRM free.

And of course http://www.gutenberg.org/
Depends on how fast the magma cooled. There are life forms which can handle up to 122°C and still actively reproduce. Look up hyperthermophiles for more info.
You miss the point. The issue isn't whether it's nicer to use a transpiled-to-JS language or JS itself. The issue is that JS as the root is an unfortunate situation, and there are so many other languages that would be superior.

Just look at the history of JavaScript. It does not deserve the attention or human time that it currently gets (compared to other languages, assuming we could all decide simultaneously to replace JavaScript with another language).
I have been moving very much to texts. The fear usually is, though, that someone might have to pay to contact me which is not ideal. Such a shame XMPP isn't foolproof for calls
This strike does not seem very well thought through.

In an action of this kind, you want to demonstrate organization, capacity, and that you have real numbers behind you. Having people silently not use the internet on a major U.S. holiday achieves none of that.

If the goal is to get people to share the hashtag, then that should be the focus of the action.

A failed strike is much worse than not striking at all. But frankly, this seems more like a vanity effort than a serious attempt at change.
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> At 11 it's probably TB?

Could be BCG (TB) but that's usually a couple of years later. I was 13 but I was a year ahead, so for most kids it would have been 14 at that time in New Zealand. At 11 it's even more likely to be TDaP, which is a booster for the better known DTaP typically given earlier.

> Tetanus isn't a routine vaccination.

The T in DTaP and TDaP is tetanus. It's very routine.
But what if you find an algorithm with a low asymptotic complexity, but with such a high constant factor that it could not be put into practical use? We would still want to move away from RSA (since constant factors can often be improved), but there would be no way to actually use the algorithm in its current form.
Bitcoin signatures rely on the difficulty of elliptic logarithms, not factoring, and only publish hashes of the public keys until they spend an address, meaning the vulnerable window is quite short as long as they never reuse private keys.

The papers claim, that np but very likely not np-hard problems are likely to be in p is applicable though to breaking ECC
The whole Microsoft is one big dark side. Ok, just 80% of it.
Yeah, I've seen scwm, I figured it was too old to try and adapt for today.

I haven't heard of Rwind! I used Racket mainly, before this, so it's definitely interesting to me. I'll definitely look into that.

Xmonad is one of my favorite projects and Xlambda is a reference to its name :D

I usually use one-app-at-a-time window management, so I'll want to make sure that sort of setup is very comfortable.

Also, wow! Your project of combining PostmarketOS and Racket is amazing!

A reason why I didn't use Racket for Xlambda is because the FFI wasn't as easy to figure out as Guile's was. Otherwise, I would have gone with Racket.
My point is that if they do choose the noncompete for whatever reason, I’m still losing.
National security isn't just protecting from outside, it's also protecting from within. Stabilizing society via bread and circus is a valid realpolitik strategy, and what better way to do it than boosting the production of food to post-scarcity levels
https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/635.pdf

> Boiling all water on the planet (including all starfish) amounts to about 2^24 lakes of Geneva and leads to global security: 114-bit symmetric cryptosystems, 228-bit cryptographic hashes, 2380-bit RSA. This needs to be done 16 thousand times to break AES-128, SHA-256, or 3064-bit RSA.

I think this paper isn't using Landauer's bounds though, but conventional computers. So maybe my claim was wrong, because we aren't 16 thousand times away from Landauer's bounds but millions [1].

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141219043239/http://www.bloomf...
I’ve had to run a Windows vm because a not-so-old but not widely released canon laser printer just won’t work under cups. It’s a pain but hey, still works.
Not if you’ve tossed the fixes all away.
I agree with this very much, I already handle my phone with care in terms of making sure it isn't grabbing my attention.

Having to sift through 4+ messaging apps to find conversations here and there would be a nightmare.

I already have several friends who initiate conversations on 2 or MORE messaging services. The Pidgin era was phenomenal...
I'm not very familiar with cryptocurrencies, but wouldn't you be able to also crack crypto wallets?
If so, wouldn't the value of crypto go down to 0 thanks to your service?
Free PDF: https://wstein.org/books/modform/
> I understand my neighbors across the pond may not feel that way and I'd be curious about their thoughts. Is this just an abuse of that law? Does that law also feel undemocratic? Other more nuanced position?

I'm from Europe, though not from the UK. That law feels abhorrent.

You'll often hear the claim that "other countries have a more nuanced view of free speech". It's certainly true free speech protections are weaker elsewhere, but using that to imply all the citizens agree with that is extremely misleading. Plenty of us subscribe to a more 1st Amendment style view on free speech.
Excuse my ignorance but in what way was the UK trying to appease Hitler? I only ever knew they fought Nazi Germany.
It's interesting that they benchmark Facebook and Reddit, two sites I find significantly more laggy than, say, Google. Are there choices in how we build sites that are more important than how V8 can optimize things?
The Galilean moons are hard to see with the naked eye because the light from Jupiter is overwhelming. It is much easier if you use a distant object like a lightpost to just barely block out Jupiter.
Are you connected now?

Add a blinking caret. Perhaps it's not historically accurate, but I was expecting to see it before writing.

/help /exit /welcome to see the welcome message again (/help is obvious, /exit because I want to /exit the current waiting step, and /welcome because I want to to see the /welcome message again. Perhaps also /commands)

Perhaps after waiting for a minute, offer again to connect to eliza.
> I've spent the last couple years trying to build an Evernote replacement. Sync for us is very tough

Agreed. I'm in the same boat as you, and a huge amount of engineering and architecture went just into syncing. And it still has problems. Being client-side encrypted also complicates things because the server can't just apply diffs, so whole objects are being passed around for small modifications.
I like that this site punts on reCAPTCHA. The web is not usable without Google services, which fact is useful in talking about the impossibility of consent as a model for regulating Google.
Indeed. Some stores sell this license above market rate as well compared to an actual purchase of a good. Infuriating.
Yes - is there any extended reading available re. subj.?
Great! I find I might be in the same situation in the future. How do you do parenting around the dinner table? Heck—how do you get dinner ready for 5?! If you can, would love to hear more! :)
That’s why is started decrypting and making backups of my ebooks.

Happy to play the corporate’s game but only to a point. And it’s clear that one need a plan B cause corporates will go nuclear without hesitation. So I don’t feel bad at all about bending the rules on this