skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides the already mentioned things (ff+adblock, termux, etc):

1. Aard2 Dictionary

Offline Wikipedia for eg. travelling. Other Mediawiki dumps are supported as well. Bonus: if you deactivate image loading you don't leave any trace online.

2. use old saved app versions

3. USB-CDROM-emulator via usb gadget mode and a USB-CDROM drive app that "inserts" .iso files off your sdcard (eg. Win10 install disk, Grml.org live CD, servicepack disks etc)

4. rtl-sdr radio scanner, handy for eg. checking AirBnB homes for "bugs"

5. 400GB microSD cards for 60$ (e.g. on newegg)

6. the existence of specialty distributions like Kali Nethunter edition for Android phones

[1]:
https://aarddict.org https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=itkach.aard2

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softwareba...

[4]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mantz_it.r...
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I do not see this comment as an attack- just as an impression needing discussion...
keyword being

>if it's in the documentation anywhere

A quick search for "RegBack" doesn't turn up any MSFT documentation on it. But it does turn up an article titled "How to restore Registry from its secret backup on Windows 10". This makes me think the feature is undocumented.
The only weird thing going on here is you are drawing conclusions not supported by data that your are citing, and intimating systemic suppression where there is none.
I'm still wondering how BSV hasn't tanked both on the news that 98% of BSV's transactions come from a shitty weather app associated with it and Wright's constant antics.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/98-of-bsv-transactions-used-f...
"the culture and way of life will be passed on to the next generation."

In certain states, fathers take their sons to KKK rally's to pass on their "culture and way of life", does not make it right.......
TBF the Rockies are no easy passage either. Amtrak runs on the Hi-Line year round, over 2200 miles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Builder
Do you blame Microsoft for leading to this current situation?
1. Use nickserv and chanserv? This is solved problem.

2. This is also a solved problem, there are bots that log everything on the channel and then you can read/search through channel history from web interface. But mostly this is not needed as you can just spin znc for whole your team.
Yeah, my first reaction to Google heading yet another standard was to cringe but this is one of the situations where I think it makes a lot of sense. They're dominant in the search industry and most other engines tend to take their cue so having them spearhead it seems like a good move.
> between an output and an outcome and a huge distinction between a project plan and a road map.

I mention neither of those.

I'm not complaining about your reply, I think it shows how those texts are (to be?) used: Just like art. You project your own experiences into it, it's more about getting you to think. So naturally different people are going to react differently and read different things into the same text. That's perfectly alright - you get something out of it (only) if you put something in. If there is nothing to begin with, which may just be lack of experience (new programmer), you'll get less out of it. If you have two decades large project experience in various companies and teams you'll get a lot out of it. Let's attempt to make the best out of it then, out of any text, if we are presented with that opportunity and the headline got us to click on it :-)
Sure, if they 'preserved their culture' by whaling in traditional wooden craft in Japanese waters that would be fine, but they bring their mechanized slaughter factories deep into Southern Oceans around New Zealand and Antarctica where local whale sightseeing (tourism) is a far more sustainable and ecological enterprise.
This is not a dupe. Do people even read the linked articles? This mentions investments funds in Switzerland that imploded, not just China.
Comparison shopping is difficult because the stores are allowed to get away with marking interchangeable items with wildly dissimilar units (type and/or magnitude), quoting per item, per ounce, per pound, per gram, per quart, etc., all on items that are sitting next to one another. All of the grocery chains that I've ever shopped at are guilty of this.

People who are serious about cooking know about the volumetric units used in cooking and the relationships between them. (teaspoons/3 = tablespoons)/16 = cups.

But your American friends who don't know how many ounces are in a pound? I hope you're kidding. That's basic stuff, taught in elementary (primary) school.
In this case, not really. If the OS reports a backup has been done but it is 0 bytes, then that is a failure.

Skipping the backup would have been better.
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This could be largely mitigated by adding voice control for the center console functions, and probably should be for safety purposes. "Hey car, turn on the air conditioning".
Anyone here qualified to answer the alternative question "Would your mobile phone be robust enough to get you to the moon?"

I suspect the much more delicate circuitry may be less than reassuring in its ability to deal with the environmental conditions in space.
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> Most of those restaurant owners probably won't know what's going on, or who to ask to have the domain transferred to them, or that they could even ask.

That's assuming you don't have to hire a lawyer to send a strongly-worded letter to them. Given the thin margins many restaurants operate under, it would be easier for many places to not bother, especially since GrubHub relays the orders, so even if the order goes to the wrong address they still get their money.
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> If, as clock A nears the speed of light it appears that stationary clock B is slowing down, doesn't that mean that at the speed of light is no time?

If clock A could reach the speed of light (which it can't), then, yes, clock B would appear to be 'frozen in time'.

> Does a photon in a vacuum arrive instantly at its destination?

From the perspective of any possible observer, no, it always appears to be traveling at the speed of light. If an observer could travel at the speed of light (which it can't), then, yes, it would appear as if it arrived instantly in the sense that clocks at both its source and destination would appear to be not running at all.

> If a photon looks at another photon, does the other photon appear not to be moving at all, or... Ouch my brain.

Yeah, this is tricky. Photons can't look or see – what could that mean as looking/seeing involves detecting photons (or, in the sense that something like echolocation is 'seeing', detecting a pattern of matter, e.g. sound)? In a sense, not moving at all or both moving at the same maximum speed don't seem to be much different, from the 'perspective' of a photon.

Somewhat related, this video describes how, if one could travel on a vehicle that could accelerate at a constant rate continuously for decades, one would eventually see the cosmic microwave background radiation as a rainbow ring because traveling closer and closer to the speed of light would shift the apparent frequency of the radiation first into the visible spectrum (and then beyond it).
Don't larger animals tend to have lower metabolic rates (per cell)? That could easily be the relevant factor.
The beds are surely at least 2m? What makes it uncomfortable for someone over 160?
It has its basis in real models of reality.

Unfortunately the original models are biased, and so too is SimCity's model of the model.
Disable backups, fine. Ok. But don't _lie to the user_
Fraud usually requires that the entity doing it gains something from it, especially if we are talking about a "criminal act" as the parent did. (IANAL)

The civil side might be different, but that is not what the parent insinuated. (And yes, my question to the parent was obviously meant to show that I disagree.)
> I'm still on Windows 7 on a 2012 desktop... I haven't run a virus scanner in 15 years, I'm just extremely paranoid over what I click on and which sites I visit. I run an ad-blocker and pi-hole to decrease any attack vectors.

To be blunt, this is a bad idea.

I'm sympathetic to the general motivation. I think the value and effectiveness of antivirus is generally overstated; it's often a replacement for vigilant browsing, and usually not an adequate replacement. If you keep to trusted sites, don't click email links, and don't ever unblock ads, you can do remarkably well for yourself. (Of course, if you've ever clicked some link and regretted it, it's time to start scanning or wiping.)

But you don't have to fall for spear-phishing or click shady ads to get into trouble. Since 2012, much less 2004, we've seen zero-days compromising servers and numerous other threats that could affect you indirectly. If your machine was Lenovo, it quite possibly came with malware. If you've used Sennheiser's setup app, your root certificate store may be poisoned. Further back, if you put Sony BMG music CDs into your machine, they may have given you a rootkit.

I don't worry about antivirus much for on-the-web protection; the threats most likely to reach me are the ones it doesn't protect against. But I think it's valuable to have something that keeps up with the history of other known screwups to help protect me against other, stranger threat vectors.
I always thought it was to figure out how small of a tin can you can fit a whale in.
As a consumer, I can buy an already manufactured pair of jeans or an already programmed Adobe Photoshop for a fixed price.

As a producter, the cost of building a jeans factory does not seem to be inherently more predictable than the budget of a software development project.
And if the current OS is completely borked, a clean re-install is probably a better route than trying to restore the registry.
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It protects against the 'Silhouette attack"

Original research paper: http://www.ntt.co.jp/news2018/1807e/180718a.html

Twitter Blog: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...

"A website can request a page from Twitter in the background with JavaScript using standard browser APIs. That request will be made using login credentials (stored in cookies), so if you're logged into Twitter, that request will be made as you.

Our site implements common CSRF protections on POST requests to prevent actions being made on your behalf (for example, being able to send a Tweet). The browser also enforces a number of limitations on cross-origin requests for security reasons. For example, another origin cannot read the response content. However, the requesting page is able to determine how long the request took to load.

This timing data will only reveal information if the response times can be manipulated into result based on a specific user. Generally, your page load time will depend on the Tweets you're viewing, and these aren't easy to predict.

However, when you are blocked by another user, we prevent you from being able to load their profile page, and just show a basic empty page. That page is much faster to load than a profile full of Tweets.

In our tests, profile page load times reliably dropped from around 500ms to about 200ms. In this way, one user can affect the page load time of another user viewing a specific url."
An object is moving 25.

Is that m/s, km/h or kmps?
I doubt there's any vulns in the code seeing as its job for th last 20 years has been to parse input from the wild west that is the internet, and survive.

But I'm sure someone out there will fuzz it...
Yeah, I mean why doesn't everybody dig through the kernel sources on Windows when they encounter a bug like that?

The vast majority of Linux users will never poke around the source to the Kernel ferreting out a bug, but they do have the option. On Windows it's much harder to get access without being a Microsoft employee.
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>65 layers of unrelated generic abstract stuff

Do you know what is monad?

Layers of abstraction are mostly based on polymorphism, Rust and Go support polymorphism. Though layers of abstraction are mandatory in modern coding practices in all languages if you don't write code as a single function with gotos and global variables.
Notably, it’s not called “the Amazon Basin” to the people who live there (given that English is not their primary language).
Indeed, the dependence on a persistent connection itself is an absolute non-starter for this feature.

It's statistically guaranteed to fail, and IRC as a protocol spec is powerless to do anything other than shrug.
> Though I’m not sure when it will be implemented

Presumably, when some random IRCd hacker decides to spend their spare time doing so. Most of the IRCds are FOSS, no?
Norway also has a vert particular geography. It is the definition of a coastal country. Populations are very clustered around port towns. Average commutes are relatively short, and mountain roads between towns are not strait high speed highways found in places like the US. The country lends itself to electric cars.

>> The average trip is 14,5 km, an increase from 2009, and lasts for 24 minutes. The average length travelled per day by each person is 47,2 km, spending 78 minutes again an increase from 2009.

https://www.toi.no/travel-behaviour/the-norwegian-national-t...

Compare canada, with double the commuting distance:

>> The majority of people now work in a usual location, travelling an average of 22.8 km one-way in a straight-line distance.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/171129/dq171...
When there is not enough funding to provide kids with a 5-day school week and teachers have to buy supplies for the kids with their OWN money, then the system is underfunded.

I'd be interested if that figure included funding for competitive sports teams.
The OED has citations for "encapsulation" (including variant spellings) going back to 1860:

1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. viii. 172 Every subordinate clause being inserted in the main one by a species of incapsulation.
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I worked as a summer hire at KSC in 1987, and one of the things that stuck out most in that experience was when they took all of us summer hires on a full tour of the facility.

We got to walk besides the Crawler-Transporter 2 as it was moving to the launch pad...that was awesome. Touring the VAB and taking a ride to the top...amazing view. Same for the actual launch pad and them describing why the lightning arrestors had to be aligned perfectly to the N-S magnetic poles (to maximize dissipation, of course).

The saddest part of the tour is when we went to the KSC version of the Apollo control room and it was in total disrepair (this was 1988 remember). I remember thinking "what a shame this looks like this..I don't get it", but this was the time between the first Challenger explosion and overall, the place wasn't at its best.

I think it's amazing that Gene led the restoration of the Johnson control room...I just hope that people don't forget to do the same at KSC.
Oh please, they started Gnome and used the shutdown command from the menu.
I think you might be misreading the meaning of this? If the person reviewing knows the language better than you, they they are hopefully less likely to tolerate "clever code", not more.

By "clever code" we're talking about weird unidiomatic tricks and hacks that maybe writes things in a slightly shorter or in a fractionally more (unnecessarily) optimised way, and makes you feel clever, but makes it harder and more time consuming for anyone else to understand what your code is doing, or verify that it's actually doing what it's supposed to.
You can't know that a threat isn't empty until it's too late.
True. But, I think most of that came down to clock speed.
1 doesn't really solve the problem.

2 is a problem with the architectural decisions modern IRC has inherited. It cannot be fixed because it depends on persistent TCP connections and that is not the way the internet works.
backpropagation is entirely linear.

Huh?
Google is also really generous with how they will let you spell "disallow": https://github.com/google/robotstxt/blob/59f3643d3a3ac88f613...

:D
In Germany, jet fuel is untaxed, whereas train companies have to pay tax on electricity, in particular renewable energy. Also, VAT is handled differently: if you buy a flight from Germany to another country, only a portion of what you paid for your plane ticket is taxed at German VAT rate, but for train tickets, 100% of the ticket price is taxed with the German VAT rate. These are several factors that make it quite a bit harder for the railway to compete with short-distance flights.
3,800 cars constitutes 1/4 of the entire country's monthly car sales?

Norway is a lot smaller than I realized (I'd guess the majority of US states have more car sales per month than that).
What is "reproduction age"?

As I understand it, humans are quite unique in having menopause. Most species keep reproducing until they die, as do human males.
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I think a lot of people that own coastal property don't want the offshore turbines to spoil their ocean views.
They've put massive efforts into destroying unions. They've funded mike rowe, who goes on tirades against osha. They don't care about workers at all.

Then there's the consequences of these efforts such as https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/03/17/koch-complianc...
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I am not kidding. Most seem to be resigned to the fact that it’s 12 or 16 and that’s close enough. Also nobody knows how many cups are in a pack of flour so buying something for a recipe is hard too.
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I’d be surprised if google isn’t fuzzing it with their (also open sourced) fuzzing tool.
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