skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Combination of comparing a localtime Time.now to a UTC value, daylight savings, and devs in more than one timezone.
There's plenty of middle ground between $60 and $2, and it ain't like a $60 game can't go on sale every once in awhile to attract people who would otherwise be unable to afford it. Most games also get cheaper as they age, giving more permanent opportunities for it to be affordable to a broader and broader base.
Yeah, noticed that ;)

The UK's Internet authoritarianism is horrible enough. But the idea that an association of ISPs would support it, rather than just complying under duress, is bizarre.
I mean performance / safety wise.
The description of "Mach with a BSD layer on top" was nonetheless accurate. When you look at actual BSD you will see it is rather un-Mac-like, so I don't think it is a highly relevant comparison. (The path drawn here from the Purism laptop to XNU is very dubious.)
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I thought the mac pro wasn't super expandable. No spinning drives possible, miniscule flash drive space, no pcie power plugs.
And for those that wonder what a more "modern" scratchbuilt plane is like, check out the Cozy Mk IV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cozy_MK_IV. Made from fiberglass and foam cut to templates that came with a set of plans (with a handful of pre-fab parts).

A typical builder's log: http://www.cozy.simpex.com/

source: I, too, am building a plane in my garage. https://twitter.com/acozyplane
I remember a TedX talk where a gentleman said a dirty bomb is probably about the best even a small rogue nation state could hope to pull off as nuclear weapons are such a pain to deal with you really have to have the resources of a very large country to even start: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AeodWP0B-pw
It covers fuel on board and fuel leaving the country.
It's a smell that a course that dedicates an hour to object-oriented programming even mentions UML.

Wouldn't your audience be far better served if you offered dozens of focused sprint classes (1 topic; 1 hour) rather than some sort of eclectic marathon?
How is something like Californium priced if it's bought on a national scale?
Convenience fees are just immoral.

I wonder if this means flying out of the French side of Geneva airport would incur the fee while the Swiss side would not?

(Edit, it seems like the French side no longer exists after Switzerland entered the Schengen).
If it's an international chain they likely have VPN set up at the edge, and have licences allowing their VPN connection filed with the party
Dogen.

Though mostly satirical rather than actually educational lessons, I've recently found it to be an amazing channel.
Some of his videos are almost poetic.
They give an insight into Japanese culture and quirks.
He also offers actual classes via Patreon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucqMh9iYpTo
Full moon date? In which time zone? With daylight savings?
I wish there was some kind of patent or trademark law that could be used to punish companies who advertise with the word "USB" or "Type-C" without adhering to the spec.
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A momentary click on a phone line was also imperceptible... until it wasn’t.

You might not even see the flicker but if you catch it in your peripheral vision often enough, or you found out someone else was caught by it or it hit the news big time, you’d suddenly become more suspicious about that momentary flash. Maybe even paranoid.
Global climate change => higher air temperatures => more water in the air => more water available to fall out of the air.
To qualify as an "experimental/amateur-built" aircraft (which is the official FAA designation for these planes), the majority (ie > 50%) of the work must be done by amateurs. This means, in particular, that the kit itself can not be more than half the work it would be to build it from raw materials. So, like other people have said, it's not like you're slapping some parts together and you're done.
That doesn't bode well for Red Hat over the long term.
> so cue piracy

Piracy is inevitable. No matter how low of a price you set for it, there will be countless people who'd rather have it for "free".
>The current culture telling everyone to go to expensive private colleges

"Everyone" doesn't go to expensive private colleges. Of those who continue on from high-school at all, 75% attend a publicly owned institution, usually community college.
No, was too busy working a minimum wage job to pay for clothing and save for college. What a productive use of time that was.

Anyway, I stand by my point. Not that I have a workable solution for wealth inequality.
I had trouble reconciling the presentation of the course as an introduction to software engineering with the claim that it will become "the basis for doctoral training programmes in research software engineering at Oxford". Shouldn't candidates for a PhD in software engineering know this stuff already? But it means "engineering of research software", not "research into software engineering".
What do you mean? Bundle terms usually forbid redeeming of the keys by anyone other than the bundle purchaser, but that generally can't actually be tracked (I know Humble Bundle always tells me that the steam keys should only ever be redeemed by me, but ultimately they're just keys with no technical means of enforcing that restriction). The fact that people are breaking these terms and selling the keys doesn't mean the concept of bundles is flawed. In the absence of marketplaces like G2A key reselling isn't a big deal because you really need the marketplace to find someone else who's willing to pay for it.
Privilege is how the system affects you. Power is how you affect the system.
That is some super expensive stuff by gram. Anyone know how they detect this? Some movie material stuff.
:) Thank you for clarifying this - I hope I didn't miss the tone. I was making fun of this app / popup-widget - and not your name, of course.

I think it is a good thing to know when there is a real human behind a product, project. But it's sad when the chat-technology makes this effort senseless by switching names.
Published in 2013, but describes "the Apple internal iSight webcam found in previous generation Apple products including the iMac G5 and early Intel-based iMacs, MacBooks, and MacBook Pros until roughly 2008".
As an alternative to the "remap caps lock to esc or ctrl" crowd, I'd like to suggest remapping to scroll lock. I don't need easier access to esc or ctrl, so I decided to pick a different key. Scroll lock doesn't really get used for anything important (in my workflow) and provides an extra key to use in bindings for your text editor or games. I've been using it for about a decade and it gives me a bit of additional utility for a key that I wouldn't otherwise use.
It's just politics in a democratic system. Mainstream parties like the Liberals and Labor in Australia can't go far from what the Australian people will vote for. Apparently, the voters support measures against crime, especially terrorists or paedophiles. Presumably, Labor have done the calculations and think they will lose too much support if the Liberals are accusing them of being weak on crime.
You should take a look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b5yb0/a_mercur...
=> more snow in winter => mini ice age
The most powerful supercomputers in the world are focused on weather analysis and they can only project a few days out. Yet, some people think they've got it figured out.
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The people loaning them money bear some responsibility, also. If it’s obvious to you that it’s a bad loan it should be even more obvious to the bank, but they shield themselves from their poor decision making by wrapping the debt into instruments that they unload onto some other poor sucker.
I forget what book I read it in, but there was a story about Moshe Dayan, the Israeli military leader.

He apparently liked to shop for stuff in the various bazaars. He would pay for his purchase by check. The seller, instead of cashing the check, would frame it, and sell it to tourists as an authentic check with Moshe Dayan's signature for much higher than the value of the check.

This resulted in a win-win situation. Moshe Dayan never had to actually pay for his purchases, the seller made far more money than the actual check, and the tourist got to have an authentic check with Moshe Dayan's signature to hang up in their home as a conversation piece.
Was this before or after North Korea, with an economy around the size of Botswana or Afghanistan, assembled a nuclear arsenal?
On that note: why not just skip geography entirely? Just sell the localized versions worldwide, which each translation being priced according to what the users of the respective languages would on average be willing/able to pay.
I do not understand how people involved are still alive. Californium-252 is one of the most efficient neutron sources available; it is really hard to protect against neutron radiation, and it will activate all materials nearby. Keeping 18g of californium "in the car" is a certain death sentence (and will require hazmat cleanup of epic proportions).

Here's how a container suitable for safe transportation of _one_ gram of californium looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californium#/media/File:CfShie...
Data is defined by behavior, even for "plain old" types. The point of "objects" is that sometimes you can implement the very same behavior in ways that are essentially isomorphic from the POV of your outside code, and want the freedom of switching out the underlying implementation at any time, and perhaps of validating complex invariants about the behavior your object has been designed for-- without letting implementation details dictate what sorts of behaviors you're going expose (the way, e.g. a "record" datatype exposes the equivalent of getters and setters, or a "variant record" exposes pattern matching, etc.).

This ("objects-based" programming; or programming with "abstract types") actually works fine. The part where OOP leads to real problems that make it inimical to true modularity is all about the tacked-on features of inheritance and polymorphism; specifically, implementation inheritance. Because that means you've started relying on the very interface you were supposed to define in order to implement some other behaviors implied in it, and then for good measure you're allowing that interface to change in practically arbitrary ways as new "derived" classes are defined. It's not surprising that this fails to work well.
Latin Americans have been doing this for a long time:

>A tanda is formed between ten friends and family. Each member gives $100 USD every two weeks to the group's organizer. At the end of the month, one participant gets the "pot", $2000. This continues until each member has received the pot.[4]

>Tandas are formed for many reasons, but often because at least one member is in need of money to pay a debt right away, or an emergency arises. But they can also be formed with no pressing financial obligations.

>Among Mexicans, these forms of informal savings associations play an important role sustaining the livelihood of many people living in both Mexico and the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanda_(informal_loan_club)
It says you need nuclear reactor and particle accelerator. I guess entry to barrier is sort of high.
I'm sorry to hear that, Oliver. We spent a lot of time trying to strike the right balance of tone and storytelling on both the print feature and web video.
Most of the alternative Android distros/builds (other than for devices supported by LineageOS at the moment) have similar provenance problems, in my experience with many devices: XDA-developers usually told me to just download and run/install these binaries from some strange file-sharing site. Not only is that highly questionable practice, but it seems to relieve much of the demand for more reasonable solutions. Which is one of the reasons I'm hoping PostmarketOS takes off -- a lot of the sketchiness potential has been removed.
A switch plus a notification (as opposed to modal prompt) if you try to get into video/audio calls but forget to flip it back. Just to remind you that you’re trying to enable video/mic but have the hardware switched off.
Call it `time-pad`
One unsuccessfully attempted to keep photos of their house private.

The other successfully orchestrated the murder of millions of people and brought about a war that engulfed most of the world with knock on effects for years to follow.

I don't think it's that similar.
> you'll have fewer crazy rich actors but more middle class actors

For me it has always seemed weird that for the last half century or so, the people we pay the most are the entertainers: actors, musicians and sport-stars. More middle class actors and fewer crazy rich actors sounds good to me. I would rather have more people being able to make a decent living off their craft than a few with more money than they know how to spend.
I'll take that over the absurd amount of money I'd have to otherwise pay for a mac system. All so that they will graciously allow me to to develop software for their other, totally unrelated mobile OS.
You need to take into account the distance between the airport and the city center, the security checks, on-boarding, checking in, getting your luggage back... etc. It’s both time consuming and annoying.
After cloning the project, all you should have to do is to ./src/main.js and the shebang should take care of the rest (running gjs, node, python etc).

Why complicate things? build-steps are the root of all evil.
Right but if you make the language as natural as possible for the human, you introduce layers of abstraction that make it difficult or impossible to understand what's happening at the machine level.
Visitors from mainland China still mostly use popular apps that is censored no matter they are inside or outside the mainland, like WeChat.
I keep hearing it said it's used in reactors and weapons but no one really has any details about the weapon and the best I can find is you need about 5 kg theoretically as the critical mass using it.
What's your experience with Linux?
In a similar vein, I ran a little experimental project using redis as a distributed filesystem using this: https://steve.fi/Software/redisfs/
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Neutron detectors. They are installed in many public places, customs, truck scanning areas, airports etc. -- specifically to prevent nuclear materials smuggling.

This one was easy -- californium is the among the most intensive neutron sources, and 18g is a _huge_ amount of it. Any neutron detector worthy of its name should have raised the alarm.
One of the two being a lunar landing mission, for the government of India. Which might not be the best use of their citizen's money:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20254416
Hiroshima "Little Boy" was the first to land at only 15kt, but Nagasaki had the H bomb.
Also note that the webcam closes onto the large, glass trackpad on Apple laptops, increasing the risk of damage if any debris gets in between there.
That does put things into perspective, a bit.
The most powerful supercomputers in the world are not even close in processing power of a 4 year old. Isn't it possible that some people can see patterns that the supercomputers can't?
Nintendo has 6k employees, rpi foundation has like 1/100th of that. They are not really comparable.
When I was in highschool people would do this all the time to each other by attaching trojans to files to gain access to webcams. This was the days of Windows 98, and security was almost non-existent for most users.

People would get someone infected, and then share the credentials so everyone could watch. So, I personally know of a handful of people that were spied on 20 years ago.
So, you basically agree with me.
Remember when they did that for your battery power indicator! With a little button to trigger it.
400 hectare = 20 hectometer x 20 hectometer = 2000m x 2000m = 2km x 2km
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”spinning on a fine-grained clock register until it reaches a predetermined value” would require a second thread to do that counting, and isn’t guaranteed to be constant time.

Also, even if it were, one probably could detect that the CPU was just spinning from a side channel, for example by tracking CPU sleep state, cache line pressure or contention for integer units in the CPU.
Should we expect dry (arid) regions around the world to experience more rainfall?
Another prominent walker is Rory Stewart MP, for the time being International Development Secretary of the UK.

Among his prominent walks is his hike across Afghanistan in 2002, part of a longer walk through Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal. As an MP he walked all across his constituency. Recently he campaigned (unsuccessful) for Leader of the Conservative Party (and as such Prime Minister) and did that by walking and talking with strangers across British cities and tweeting the resulting videos. He is expected to resign or be sacked when the next prime minister takes over and has already announced to walk some more.

(And that's not even the most interesting part of his biography. Tutor to the princes, representative to Montenegro, Iraq War provincial deputy governor, and a very persistent MI6 rumour.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Stewart
Tech executive changes stance after very public embarrassment that could impact their bottom line. If they didn't get the backlash, they would have kept their course.

There's not really much "willing to accept responsibility" here as far as I'm concerned.
Ah sorry. Safety-wise EAB has a slightly worse accident record than certified small airplanes, but not much. The majority of the accidents are due to pilot error, so it's not clear the type of aircraft makes a difference there.

Performance-wise, you can get better performing airplanes, with better instrumentation, for far less money as experimentals. This is because they do not have to pass any FAA certifications, so there's much more innovation taking place in the EAB market.

Of course, it's also dependent on the builder and designer doing a good job, so especially second-hand markets can be iffy since all the due diligence for figuring out what you're buying is on you.
That amount seems suspicious to me too, as does the fact that it was being transported in just a bag. I wonder if it will turn out like the previous large bust that is mentioned in the article.

>In March 2018, police in Ankara seized a whopping 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of a substance, believed to be Californium, in a car following a tipoff. That time, however, the substance turned out to be organic with no nuclear or radioactive properties.
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Sure, but those supercomputers aren't autonomous, they're programmed and designed by thousands of human adult experts.
Is there any legitimate reason for a site like G2A to exist? Reselling unused digital purchase keys isn't equivalent to reselling used games; once you redeem a key, you can't transfer it to someone else, so these are keys that have never been used. And people generally don't purchase a digital game for themselves, then change their mind and look to resell the key without having redeemed it.

Which is to say, as near as I can tell the only three real sources for keys on a marketplace like G2A are:

* Keys resulting from theft of fraud (such as buying with stolen credit cards)

* Keys purchased from region-limited discounted markteplaces and transferred into regions without the discount, such as described in the article

* Keys resulting from bundles, which are not supposed to be redeemed by anyone except the bundle owner

None of these three sources are "legitimate". Is there anything I'm missing here? Why would anyone have a digital key, which they have the full legal right to transfer without violating the terms of the store or bundle they got it from, that the paid for but never got around to redeeming? Having written that out now, the only real scenario that comes to mind would be something like Kickstarting a game, then changing your mind later on and selling the key you get once the game comes out, but I would wager that keys sourced in this fashion are so rare that they're not even a rounding error on a marketplace like G2A.
It is a startup neutron source for nuclear reactors. It won't work as a neutron initiator in nuclear weapons (since you can't regulate its neutron flux), but it has the immense research value for criticality experiments if you are running your own nuclear program.

P.S. you can't build a nuclear weapon out of californium, at all. To achieve the nuclear explosion, you need to assemble the supercritical configuration (minimum necessary k_eff about 1.53 for plutonium) without any stray neutrons leading to premature initiation, then, at the precise moment, inject neutrons in the system (even a single neutron is enough) to start the runaway chain reaction. Californium excels at spontaneous fission; there are so many neutrons in the system at any time, that premature initiation is guaranteed.
You can send a key out that will only unlock a Review "branch" of a steam game. The game itself can be clearly marked as a review copy and can even be a cut down copy of the game if you want.

For Void Bastards we often have multiple branches going out to different groups for different things.
> I really hope Zoom promptly fixes all these recent issues.

They don’t see them as issues, but as features. These happen on purpose. They’ve said as much, including that they don’t intend to change this behaviour. If they do it now, it’ll be because they’re trying to stop the bad press and not because they believe these are problems, which means they can’t be trusted to not pull other crap like this in the future.
Climate vs. weather.

With many natural systems, we can understand qualitative elements of the system, at least in part. Of course, the long run general equilibrium may be quite drier.
This paragraph later in the article is odd:

> In March 2018, police in Ankara seized a whopping 1.4 kilograms (3.1 pounds) of a substance, believed to be Californium, in a car following a tipoff. That time, however, the substance turned out to be organic with no nuclear or radioactive properties.

That's a strange way of saying they seized "a whopping 1.4 kilograms" of nothing. Kind of makes you question the merits of this story/seizure.

Least of all since them seizing the wrong thing a second time seems far more likely than someone driving around with $72M worth of a rare substance which can only be made in two places on earth (neither of which are Turkey).
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You are mixing in airline surcharges with taxes.
I'd go further and say anyone running serious enterprises that have important security implications should not be taking it lightly. Nobody should "run an ISP for fun". Cowboys like that, or people who describe themselves as "hackers" have no place in the industry.
It's interesting that this happened in Bolu, which is nowhere near an international border. I'd be curious to know what tipped the police off that they should start tearing up carpet in this car. Were the smugglers stopped for some other offence and things seemed fishy enough to warrant a search of their vehicle?