skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immediately before other people stop giving them money they don't pay back.

I think what you don't understand is how math works.
No, you’re misunderstanding me. Websites should not be able to talk to localhost over HTTP. Browser vendors should eliminate the back channel.
https://lwn.net/Articles/299211/ is from 2008. This is the first pre-systemd source I could find, but PulseAudio became the default in Fedora about a year before so he might have been employed at that time, too.
This is one of the edge cases that makes me dislike Apple's walled garden. The Chinese gvt can simply request that Apple remove firechat and other decentralized chat apps from the App Store and that's that.
LED brightness is controlled by pulse-width modulation: at low frequencies, the camera LED would appear dimly lit. A more sophisticated approach might be to combine gaze detection to ramp-down frequency if someone is looking towards the camera/LED.
I think that RedHat itself and the investments in CoreOS and other tech used in OpenStack is a pretty big thing for tethering in IBM. I think it's a better fit than, for contrast, Oracle. I do hope that the RH of old and some of the other bits remain Open Source friendly.
It's 1.21 gigawatts, but only 0.25KiloWatt/hours.
I think Windows has a pretty decent emoji interface as of a couple feature releases back: Win+. or Win+; (the Windows key [or Super key if you prefer the Linux name] with either . or ; whichever feels more comfortable) brings up a palette that can be navigated via keyboard and/or searched by typing words (and/or clicked/tapped). Most recent feature update even added common kaomoji.
Actually, by definition it is not. You just want it to be.
Peace of mind.

I know that they're not going to kneejerk shut my account just because I received a bank transfer from a cryptocurrency exchange. I trust them more than I trust the regular high street banks to not try to screw me with hidden or unfair fees. If anything ever happens to me, I feel like they'll be helpful to my wife and family, whereas a regular bank would just shrug and say "Sorry, can't help!"

By the way regarding the "extra fees", the standard account fee (£60 per month) is waived if you keep at least £25,000 in your account, and normal day-to-day online personal banking transactions are free so I don't actually pay any more fees than I would with a normal bank.
There's also the probability that you have met numerous people who rarely/never use soap on their bodies and had no idea. Meanwhile, there's someone who smells bad despite daily soap showers and you complain about them.
And we aren't cheering them for buying the kit. Assembling it successfully is significant.
The government, since they're the ones illegally blocking.
> It would be nice if it also worked on local IPs, like 192.168...

That would defeat the security purpose.

Anyone within your local network (which practically speaking very often means the next Wifi your device could find) could attack you.
They should have bought arrows with appropriate IFF circuitry.
I think the problem is, there's a distinction between a customer and a user. The customer just looks at the object, judges if it's adequate, then takes the cheapest one that meets that rough criterion. That's a very different kind of test to actually using the thing.
> (I still don't get how this is an unpopular opinion.)

Not unpopular, just unrealistic. You can't do it on an iPhone, and if you're doing local web development you really ought to be checking it on an iPhone.
Would love to see drone usage for sly data transfer here.
The original Be File System (BFS) for BeOS had some attributes of a database. I'm happy to see more research being done on the concept.
I'm not sure how you would go about fixing that...?
I don't get why people who even admit that they dont trust these random npm packages can think its okay to ship them in production and put all their user's data at risk. It's malpractice.
The court is taking a large step in defining twitter as a public space.

When private property is so functionally akin to public property that it is deemed a public forum then it is within precedence that the private owner may also be restricted in denying speech based on the First Amendment. Marsh v. Alabama, the Court held that the private owner of a company town could not forbid distribution of religious materials by a Jehovah’s Witness on a street in the town’s business district. The town, wholly owned by a private corporation, had all the attributes of any American municipality, aside from its ownership, and was functionally like any other town. In those circumstances, the Court reasoned, “the more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.”. An other case is the Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza.
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters
And what about foreign heads of state? Does this apply to them as well, or do they observe local laws?

Re: ex-officials. Some times they become involved in quasi governmental institutions or continue their influence after serving, but it makes sense if it follows official dates in actual power of the offices.

Let’s say a couple of countries overseas go to war with each other. One is the aggressor and one is the defender, one is a democracy the other dictatorial. Does twitter stay neutral? Do they take sides? Do they take s cue from US state department or the UN?
> people keep saying USB-C will get better

Maybe people remember the beginning of USB. No cable marked charging/data but some are charging-only. Different resistances interfering with charging. USB 1 hubs pretending to be 2. It was all sorted out with time. Now USB 2 seems like magic that just works everywhere, but it really used to suck. (The experience, not the tech itself)
A theseus ship type issue. As okcando says - it contains fatty acid salts which are what we call soap. However, lots of things contain these without becoming soap e.g. cheese and napalm so... yeah.
I assume it is ok to say religion is a virus, or a particular religion is a virus but the rule is that you can't say the followers of the religion are a virus. Likening religion to a memetic virus is not a fringe opinion.
1) They're old, but they're not that big - book value is "only" 370 million pounds.
2) They're not Jewish. A lot of the diatribes directed at the Rothschilds are anti-semitic in origin.
I was still really impressed by the 12,000km (7,455 mile) trip... until I saw they made 6 stops.

Getting that distance in a little plane would be impressive. Somebody even went around the world, so it can be done. One ends up flying a wing-shaped carbon-fiber fuel tank.
Perhaps it could start with, yeah I don't need that unreasonable brand new car with a 72 month payment plan, or I can take these college courses for 1/10 the cost at a community college rather than a more unreasonable expensive school, or I don't need that unreasonable 5500 square foot McMansion in that fancy neighborhood, or I don't need that unreasonable 10th pair of jeans, that unreasonable new iphone, etc. People bury themselves with debt - and not because they can't do math, but because they DON'T. Instead they make impulsive, emotional decisions. Hardly anything good ever comes from them. Unreasonable bills usually come from unreasonable decisions (Medical bills being an obvious exception).
Are you asking why a corporation wouldn't build stuff cheaper elsewhere, or why we as a populace might want to prevent it?

Because those are two different questions with two different answers.
> ... price discrimination leads to better market efficiency ... but it is also true that pretty much everyone viscerally hates it.

The same dynamic is true for markets generally and even economic thinking; truly sad facts!
Software engineering at least has a fundamental underlying educational system supporting it (comp sci, EE).

I think the harder thing is training sysadmins, there’s no real formal education. I know we’re downplaying a lot of the traditional sysadmin roles and pushing for more development in sysadmin but the sysadmin approach is still required, and the only thing that keeps it going is the corpus of industry knowledge, a myriad of vocational or vendor based certs and a willingness to teach.

Or am I wrong?
Apple could simply make the camera take 1 second to activate.
I have “recycled “ Dell keyboards for both home and work macs. The window keys map to command.

Maybe there are some shortcuts / combos I’m not aware of???
The Descent into Stupidity of Quora’s Evolving Business Model
PR? Marketing?

And not really. I've never seen First/Business cabin that was more than 70% occupied. Though I'm a leisure traveller, taking roughly 3-4 return flights a year.
You can't break out of the sandbox to run shell commands et al from a browser. That's where electron & friends come in.
This is a lesson that needs to be learnt and relearnt over and over again, with increasing level of clarity each time.
The one issue I've always had with Hackintosh, is that while the main OS is from Apple it invariably requires using some 3rd party bootloaders, kexts and other files. And, this to me always raises the issue of security and whether they contain, or can contain, any backdoors/malwares.

Part of it could be my paranioa, but I never got a good answer to satisfy me.
I am pretty sure a redneck doing custom welding and ECU mapping on a LS1 turbo is much more of a technical accomplishment. Genuinely.
probably related to the hamburger menu on mobile, which pushes that div over 300px
Privacy groups ask the US government to end use of facial recognition on public
Welp, you don't get to do that on Twitter now.
You can’t argue that bad teachers don’t matter in private schools because if a teacher is unable to teach the subject effectively then it doesn’t matter how well the class behave, they’re still not going to learn the subject.

One of the private schools I was referring to had successfully been sued by several ex-pupils because they failed exams because the teachers were that poor they didn’t even touch large sections of the syllabus.

Another school was trying to teach ICT on hardware that was more than 10 years out of date and their ICT teacher was actually a geography teacher who’s only qualifications in IT was a passing interest in the subject.

Sure, if you pay a high premium then I’m sure you can make some guarantees about the quality of your child’s education. But honestly, some private schools are actually a whole lot worse than your average public school.
Having seen what these negotiations look like from a technical perspective, I can see why they want to do this. A lot of the old contracts are causing issues when they want to go to streaming, because they aren't clear as to what platforms the license is for in the first place. This is why sometimes some music is replaced or a scene with a particular guest actor is cut from the streaming version of an old show.

These changes are effectively future-proofing. By making these contracts apply to all platforms now and in the future, including platforms that might be impossible to maintain individual accounting for each show, it makes it a lot easier for them to exploit the content in new ways in the future without having to track down all the old actors, their estates, and their agents to negotiate new deals.

It probably will also suck for the actors as it will limit their potential upside while providing them with more money up front, so you'll have fewer crazy rich actors but more middle class actors.
Amplify Framework Adds Support for Lambda Triggers
Comments like those in the examples Twitter provided will reliably get you excommunicated from HN.
You can buy a Galaxy S10e with a headphone jack today.

But beyond that, we have to define what being _correct_ entails. It is _because_ of Apple that other manufacturers followed suit and their justification was ostensibly for making a slimmer phone (fitting more components into the shell) which was quickly proven to be irrelevant. I don't romanticize about the headphone jack but the premise behind the claim that Apple could be "correct" to remove it doesn't seem foundationally solid as an argument (let alone from a historical standpoint).
Considering that Americans who shot down Iran Air Flight 655 were given medals, shooting down a passenger plane is quite an achievement for a well-trained Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655#Post-tour_...
You've obviously never tried an apple laptop. Over the years nearly all of the components of my 2012 mbp retina have been replaced several times. The only things that are still original are the ssd and the bottom plate. Motherboard issues within a year, weak hinges, battery failing within 2 years, power cables failing every 9 months.

In all my years of using laptops (15 years before I got the apple) I've never had a failing power cable, until I tried Apple cables.
A quick search seems to turn up quite a few examples of webcam spying. I'd love to see actual numbers, but it doesn't seem to be "incredibly rare".

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5228017/Hack...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638874/More-90-peo...

https://globalnews.ca/news/2158281/what-you-need-to-know-abo...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10131456/Hackers...

This site claims a guy made a business selling software to hack and remotely control webcams, complete with paid employees and $350,000 in income:

https://www.welivesecurity.com/2015/04/21/webcam-hacking/
>I'm also someone who gets really passionate about bad design in everyday life and I have strong feelings about the way I think everyday things should be designed.

I can respect anyone who has a passion and follows through on it. Thanks for your article and reply.
> this practice serves as a very strong discouragement from indie games ever participating in bundles again, because the bundle economics depend on many (most?) of the keys either not being redeemed

This isn't exactly a compelling argument in favor of having the bundles around.
This is the route from paris to algiers by car:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Paris,+France/Algiers+%D9%85...

Not to mention for most of the world's immigrants (indian/asian) this is not even an option.
It's all about risk versus reward. Making an indie game for the saturated indie market is a risky endeavor. The potential for high reward has to be there for developers to spend the time and money to make a game with a low probability of success. So some games absolutely need the ability to maximize profitability, including price discrimination (market segmentation).
Yea, I'm absolutely onboard with privacy laws that make this kind of mass biometric recognition illegal or subject to very strong constraints.

The point I (poorly) tried to raise wasn't: "well, grocery stores could do this too, so it's not a problem". Rather, it was more: "shouldn't this be even more alarming, given that it can already happen at most stores across the country".
"Hong Kong's protesters use AirDrop" seems a drastic redaction. It would be helpful to know _what_ they're using AirDrop for.

How about "Hong Kong's protesters use AirDrop to spread their message to Mainland tourists"? "Hong Kong's protesters use AirDrop to inform tourists why they protest"?
Here's a recent 0-day involving Macs and Zoom (or RingCentral): https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-milli...
That's a great idea! You've inspired me to try setting it to Delete, because it's a bit awkward to delete characters after the caret on Mac right now (FN + Delete is the only way I know how)
Student loans are not unreasonable. Rising education costs are unreasonable. But anyone who took on student loans did so willingly.
IP addresses can be shortened by dropping the zeroes
How to live your best remote life
Chrome will let you pause, rewind, and control any video
And why did Google oppose it?
Am I interpreting the delay results correctly? That's the time needed for the operation add/multiply to complete?

Because there isn't much difference in that regard... values deviate no more than 25%, which is not insignificant, but not overwhelming either.

What I find even more suprising: Is there almost no difference in latencies for FP-operations between software-implemented and hardware-supported FPs?
You said this:

> I assume that anything I install has whatever privileges I have (or root privileges, given the broken must-install-as-root behaviour of many of them).

My point is that Linux apps don't have general root rights. Even though you must install them as root. That is, unless you start them as root. So an app can't just decide to access and change some other app's settings.
One of the main audiences for this GUI are people who maybe only ever use the CLI once a month/quarter and can’t even remember how to edit mid-line in the terminal. For them this GUI is a great idea.
I am worried though about WebRTC! And also what about skipping ads on YouTube? :)
> Community has always supported people in times of need

Sure, if you are the right gender, race, and religion.
Also, for the macOS users, there's a great emoji picker interface: cmd+ctrl+space brings up a very similar-sounding menu where you can search by typing, or scroll through and click the one you want.
تحميل برنامج الخانق Throttle لزيادة سرعة الإنترنت ADSL كامل رابط مباشر
The Alan Watts of 1820?
> Sadly modern filesystems still don't support ACID transactions

They offer range locking, optimistic locking, snapshots, atomic swaps, durable writes and various other interesting features as primitives. If you're willing to build some data storage around a specific filesystem you can do a lot. The correct incantations to get those features can be a bit gnarly, but so is coding database engines.

NTFS even offers actual transactions, although their use is discouraged.
Rip in so, so many pieces
For those interested in hosting this project you should _absolutely_ follow them on Mastodon. The guy behind it is posting constant updates.
A bit of interesting legal text in regard to public forums owned by private companies: https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/17-speec...

Based on this case I could see someone being deplatformed suing twitter on the grounds that twitter is a Quasi-Public Place because it is functionally akin to public property.
Constant-time operations feel like such a hack.

I mean, sure, if we could ensure that all operations were always constant-time, that'd be a rather simple, stress-free way to get time-invariance. But the low-level implementation assumptions feel flimsy.

Instead, if we want time-invariance, seems like we should just have dispatchers handle it -- this is, if we want the system to hide timing information, we should explicitly specify this behavior rather than trying to get it as a side-effect.

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Note: We don't actually need strict time-invariance so much as for any time-variance to not leak information about secrets. For example, if a dispatcher takes an hour to resume a process, then sure an attacker might very easily pick up on that time-variance introduced by the dispatcher, but so long as it doesn't reflect on any secret information, who cares?
Nice, didn't know about that! I have a PC desktop and a MacBook but lately my PC has been getting dusty, so I have to admit I'm not super familiar with the latest on Windows. Thanks for letting me know :)
Improving perceived interface responsiveness on public kiosks
"In fact, I've known so many people who have either lost their home, almost lost their home, or are worried about losing their home that it makes up probably a majority of the people I know."

Doesn't seem to match up with

"Did we forget somewhere along the line that a home is just a patch of dirt with four walls and roof thrown on it"

I guess these people aren't struggling to afford a hut on a patch of dirt. I also guess you aren't condemning the majority of people you know as spendthrifts. So how are you reconciling the 2?
Tom Turcich has walked from New Jersey to Peru and is currently working his was across Europe.

http://theworldwalk.com/

I think this is his most recent AMA:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6pgo2n/i_am_tom_turci...
Two reasons why switch is better:

1. If it does happen to light up, what would you do, turn off your computer? That's shitty.

2. What if your AFK and aren't looking at the light?
It's more or less a feeling. Because if someone can activate your camera without you knowing you have bigger problems.
Although it's a bit of a pig, Acrobat Reader DC is still the best thing out there. I bought and really love Drawboard, but since there's no reliable way to gracefully make it persist as the default PDF app for the OS (and consequently, the browsers), I just went back to DC. (This is a general problem with "modern" apps - they can't really be made to act as reasonable default apps for Win32 apps, AFAIK.)

That said, for all its warts, the Win10/WSL combo is light-years ahead of MacOS. (I had to use a Mac for a recent client engagement, and truly felt like I'd been cast back to the turn of the century. Seriously, MacOS is really primitive, especially for dev, compared to Win10/WSL.) But more than that, I'll just never go back to a computer without really awesome pen and touch support. The only problem I've had with several versions of Surface Pro hardware is Intel's execrable Skylake power management cluster-foxtrot.
I know of his work. I just disagree with it. He isn’t the only teacher with 30 years of experience in public schools under his belt and plenty of other teachers have the opposite opinion of homeschooling to him.

While I do think it’s good that people like him create a discussion I still see him as somewhat of an outlier when all of the other teachers I know - both retired and those still in “active service” - take a dim view of homeschooling.

But if that’s what you want to do for your kids then I genuinely hope it works out for you.
I can't agree with this more. I have already moved off of Firefox on the desktop. If this is the destination of Firefox mobile, there is absolutely no use case for it.
Ask HN: How to Search for Research Papers?
I am looking for research papers related to computational photography and improving image quality using deep learning. What is the best method to search for research papers?
If anyone is looking for a nice webcam cover for laptops, I've found the super-thin ones (marketed as "0.7mm thin" by EYSOFT and others on Amazon, etc) are fantastic. Very cheap, very thin, visually unobtrusive, and dead-simple to use. Doesn't interfere with closing my Macbook at all, it protrudes less than the rubber bumper around the screen border.

Still miss the physical mic mute button on my old Thinkpad X230... and it didn't have a webcam button for that, but we've _almost_ had all of the right features in the past...
Thanks for info on costs. I wonder how these compare to Cessnas.
I think you're really exaggerating the severity of what is fundamentally just a minor matter of personal taste.

(I say this as somebody who's written a GUI wrapper around rsync to, among other things, implement my own progress bar. So I agree with the general principle of writing porcelain around rsync.) (Incidentally --progress has actually changed in a way that breaks (my) scripts in the past; the version that ships with MacOS and the latest version exhibit different behavior by default. It would be nice if there was a better way. If rsync followed the ffmpeg model of foremost being a library with a standard command line interface, I think that could be ideal.)
Sorry, I've just copied the first two replies.
AMD launches the Ryzen 3000 CPU line