skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need legislation to stop this overreaching by the government and police. Soon, you won’t be able to walk out on your front lawn without being recorded.
> I think it's safe to say that 'pornin knows more about writing safe C code
> (and dealing with strange compiler behavior) than almost anyone.

Yeah, I agree hehe:

https://stackexchange.com/leagues/162/alltime/security
> A bit of a sidenote, but after all, I remember how badly Zuck was clowned everywhere (including by FB shareholders and people here on HN) immediately after the purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp. People were saying that FB is dying and Zuck is trying to buy companies that are hyped but irrelevant to the core business out of desperation.

Most of HN didn't have some insider information which Facebook did. This information was acquired by surreptitious data logging of a VPN "security" app [0]. This is the same app which was controversially packaged as a "research" app and then forced to take down from the App store [1].

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-social-me...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/22/17771298/facebook-onavo-p...
Okay, so in this scenario, either 1) the developer is losing money on every sale to a Thai customer, or 2) the developer is overcharging US customers. Either way, the developer does indeed seem to lack any incentive to have separate pricing for Thai customers; why take on those support costs for a fraction of the revenue when you still have Americans paying full price?

The demographics that can't afford the game (e.g. certain overseas countries, or low-income individuals even in domestic markets and otherwise-more-affluent overseas markets) will be out of luck only until the game goes on sale (whether temporarily or permanently; older games tend to be cheaper than newer games).

In other words: setting a lower pricepoint for specific countries to attract more sales in those countries is a pretty major footgun when it comes to actual revenue from those sales. Better to keep the price even across all markets, then only drop the price if you want more sales (and in smaller increments than "here's a 90% discount just because you happen to be in Thailand"). Trying to establish different prices for different locales is a premature "optimization" at its worst.

The actual reason for separated national markets was that selling to a national market once upon a time involved actually getting a physical good (e.g. a cartridge or optical disc) to a customer in a different nation; for most game developers, it's easier to go through a distributor for that particular market than to try to tackle all the logistics themselves. Nowadays there's no physical good being exchanged, so there's really no point to dealing with that kind of market segregation.
For sake of comparison I also have a retina 2012 MPB, and it’s been rock solid. Aside from one OS reinstall for AFS I’ve never had any issues.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambl...
I get what you're saying. I agree that college and university should be looked at differently going forward for a lot of people. It's just that there is a problem that exists right this minute, with an entire generation of people who already took the loans, not realizing the outcome they would face. I'm just looking at all the wreckage and sense of instability people have all around me right now, and it seems to make sense that some collective action should take place. Unless we just want to punish people until they are middle aged or older for not being financially savvy when they were 18 years old.

But my point wasn't really to pick out just student loans. Not just due to people being burdened with student loans but a wide variety of other issues... We're more and more seeing people who hope to be able to save their own lives with GoFundMe campaigns because they can't afford to stay alive. We're seeing the idea of owning a home fade for giant swaths of the population. One third of the country is currently "subprime" in the eyes of financial institutions. And my understanding is that percentage is expected go up. The Dollar Store's massive growth is predicated on the forecast of "a permanent underclass in America". I'm seeing, hearing, and reading about so many people having a hard time every single day. And I'm reading about the country readjusting to accommodate the situation as a permanent reality. If the institutions cannot help, then I do think it's probably reasonable for the people to force the issue, given how prevalent we are seeing these problems become.
PWM reduces average power. If the LED is on the same circuit as the camera, I don't know how successful you will be at powering the camera while trying to dim the LED.
"Lots of these guys thought they were doing it just to beat the Germans at it"

Well, they haven't stopped working on the bomb after Germany had capitulated.
But like, do you really expect stages to be open with this? The real this that drive people tend to be personal and during hiring process people are bound to bias it towards what they think makes them sound good.
Facebook's Libra should be called ZuckBucks
I believe they are soldered on nowadays
If someone agrees and wants to implement something like this easily - autohotkey lets you do this in Windows with a one line script.

CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here

To leave yourself some flexibility on using capslock still by hitting shift+ caps to activate it, use

+CapsLock::CapsLock

CapsLock::Ctrl ; or some other key here
If you're willing to share, I'm curious how you came up with the name, especially with it being literally one character (a space) different from such an established project from two decades ago.

And kudos to you being willing to change it now that you know. It probably only really affects old OS and embedded nerds like me, and as an amateur musician I do find your project interesting, but I have to admit I got my hopes up that QNX Photon had finally been open sourced, or at least brought up to modern standards with a new release.
postmarketos is beginning to support cellular capabilities. You may not have to wait a whole lot longer.
Show HN: Dino Cruise, a quick HTML 5 browser game I made for my 6-year-old son
Thanks! Let me know what use case you have in mind. Iterative collaboration was the original case we had in mind -- as it allowed ML devleopers to iterate different versions of medical imaging model with doctors at the Stanford hospital.
Two planes collide at Amsterdam airport causing delays
charred crusty (but still beautiful) woman turns to face the camera

"Napalm doesn't dry you skin like soap can"
The way art 30(5) is drafted though means that the exception applies to basically nobody.

Unfortunately, this is a good demonstration of two criticisms made of the GDPR right from the start: the costs of creating new paperwork in the approved format even if it makes no material difference to any actual data processing, and ambiguity about what is required or permitted even in quite fundamental respects.
How is that all that different from any other software you download? With 100s of dependencies any one of them could be malicious and just wait for the next privilege escalation attack and achieve the same persistence level as a malicious kernel module.
Many if not owerwhelming majority of people who read do read same story or kind of book over and over. It is called preference.
There is that. There is a lot of other things that put them in the bad monopoly category.

* Using secret API calls to make sure their software ran faster than the competition. If you had a database server or spreadsheet application you could had a myriad of choices in the early 90s but the fastest, stablest one was always from Microsoft.

* OEMs could not change the default browser. Even when given money to install an alternative the default OOB browser was required to be IE.

Early Macs had no browser at all and at <5% of the PC universe they had no monopoly status. Before Safari Apple used MSIE as the first browser. Firefox and Webkit weren't ported over until ~2005. And long before the Apple App store the only application on iOS1 and 2 was the browser. It didn't have apps as we know it today. It would be hard to prevent them from including the browser since it shipped with the device day 1.
Most realistic ml collaborations are with other ml engineers or users who either don't know or don't care. Not sure how many non coders would find this useful
I was there too but only saw Woz and some of the original Mac team. Started late as was Steves habit in the early years (and probably flakey computers too). The essence of the demo was multimedia capabilities- uncommon in that era. I was Stanford faculty that time. The computer was aimed ar education, but I did not why it was so much better than others. An OS mostly OOP ground up was nifty.
From the README, the instructions are targeting an Intel i5 4300U. That's a four year-old part, and i5 is definitely a midrange processor.
Nuclear material worth $72M seized in a car in Turkey
It’s called Mother Dirt[1] they have a line of microbiome friendly personal hygiene products. I only use AO Mist (I think this was the original product) and have been since maybe 2014 or 2015. They’re made in Cambridge, Mass and the original product was developed by (affiliated) bio-tech company AOBiome.

I bought the Mist on a whim after chatting with someone at OpenBiome (AFAIK unaffiliated). I figured I’d try using it instead of face wash for a few months as a little experiment to see how my skin felt.

Well I have lupus so I sometimes get the “butterfly rash” across my cheeks. Anything from hot water to alcohol to a cold can trigger it. I hadn’t even considered that the mist might help with it but I was shockingly and pleasantly surprised that over time the butterfly rash became much more faint so I just kept using it.

It’s entirely possible that it’s the placebo effect but when I get the butterfly rash now it’s imperceptible to anyone who isn’t looking for it. If I were a true scientist I’d stop for a few months and see if if returns with the same intensity but I guess I’m too vain.

[1] https://motherdirt.com/
You're right, but at some point support will be dropped for the older Macs and an Apple proprietary security chip will be made mandatory.

DRM will kill the Hackintosh dream. How sad.
...after Mozilla chickened out and removed the upcoming DoH default for UK users.

The ISPA is veiling this under the guise of caring about user freedom/control.

I want to like Mozilla but they keep on making decisions that undermine themselves.
This is impossible to fix on the terminal. But you can render it correctly with bidiv or fribidi. Yet, this breaks copying.
You have to love how all their "thoughtful criticisms" of DNS over HTTPS have nothing to do with the things they cited in their nomination of Mozilla as villain. Their issue was explicitly "bypassing UK filtering obligations" not that load of flaming horseshit they just pulled out of their ass in response to the backlash.
We Use RocksDB at Rockset
Would love this as a PDF
Yeah true but the problem with chargeback happens regardless of whether somebody bought the codes or not - unless they bought the codes with stolen credit card, and then the store selling it, not the developer, gets the chargeback. So I don't think this scenario applies here. Developers usually have publishers to deal with things like credit card charges.
I jumped into reading this note without looking at the url or author and near the end I was wondering who wrote it -- Then I saw the reference to the SPI driver which was a dead give away for James Bowman. I am continuously impressed with his work in the embedded scene after discovering the gameduino. It feels like even though there are thousands of voices on the web I actually only care about what perhaps 50 people are writing.
It's a USB camera. It needs more time than a flicker to turn on and start producing frames. I don't think you could do as you said and still have the camera both work and the LED be dim.
When I was developing my first iOS app and was required by Apple to use a Mac to publish it to the Apple App Store, I resorted to installing macOS on a VM[1] rather than using a physical Mac. There is minimal configuration and it ran smoothly on my Windows PC laptop that had 16GB ram where 8GB was allocated to the macOS VM.

[1] https://techsviewer.com/how-to-create-a-macos-catalina-virtu...
Is this the phenomenon that paralyzed athletes exploit to increase performance?
“materialism” has a more specific meaning in philosophy jargon. iirc it is something like: matter is fundamental and everything arises from it (including things like consciousness), without requiring any metaphysical component (heaven, gods, etc).
Built on Sand [Episode]
I think the problem with "getting rid of it" is that someone will define a terrible "what it should be" and move other keys around.

Right now it is basically a user-defined key.

I redefine it as control on all my systems, which is wonderful as an emacs user.
It'd be acceptable if we could run code on it, as root, like we actually own it.
Hrm? Its Open Source, anyone could fork it and add support (like the Florence fork of Mastodon) and Dansup would probably give a PR with said support a fair shake. I'd love to use the Pixelfed interface to browse Sinblr/Humblr posts.
I did newspapers too. The Christmas tips were a goldmine, I did the paid for papers so there was always a weekly exchange of money.

I had to call my mum out to help me carry the vast amount of loot - if only I had that money now!

I think that the free newspapers were not welcome by all. Whereas if you are delivering someone their Daily Telegraph or Times then you are of value to them. So I received good tips from all classes of people, although there were the old folk that thought that a 5p tip on a weekly basis was generous. They might stretch to £1 at Christmas time.

The other benefit of this network - I had something like 100 customers in the rural shires - was school sponsored walks. I just had to ask the customer base to sponsor me and I would raise ten times the amount of anyone else.

But with it came an important life lesson...

I was never able to get all of the four figure sum in on time. People would be on holiday, they would move, they would die or just somehow not be around for me to ask them for the money they pledged.

Hence I would be at least £50 - £100 short. I didn't want to pay that out of my own pocket but the school was strict about the rules. They couldn't have any kids pocketing the money, which is fair enough.

So I never received the prize money for raising the most money. Someone else would get to the stage in school assembly to get the £10(!) book token and the kudos that went with it.

My teachers and my friends knew I had raised vastly more than whomever got to the stage, typically they would have large sums donated by relatives, not hundreds of small sums pledged by everyone in two villages.

I learned from that more than I would have done had I been up on the stage collecting the prize. We don't do charity for fame and prizes. The recognition comes in other ways.

Other ways?

Well, apart from the good causes aspect, I was part of the community. I had a support network that I would not have had if I was not delivering the papers. I also got actual respect from my teachers, so years later I was able to do work placement things for the teacher that had put me through the wringer for being tardy paying in the vast sums pledged to 'Save the Children'. Also, in my adult life I think I understand 'personal philanthropy' (not charity) better than most.
I respect the Irish in this regard when they refused to pay for a water bill that was introduced. They collectively managed to have it reversed as far as I can remember.
A new Cessna 172 is just north of a quarter million dollars, it seems.

Experimental/amateur-built aircraft are the fastest growing segment of aviation, precisely because it represents a fairly affordable avenue for getting into flying. The prices of certified aircraft have skyrocketed way past what any normal, even reasonably affluent, person can justify.
I think there's a hype in quickly training software engineers. This article is an example. We poke around with tools to find quick and easy ways to create software. Tools have been improving quickly but creating software remains challenging. The tool race is influenced by market more than software engineering.

The discipline of software engineering has not changed much for decades. To teach effective software engineering, we need to start with the principles. Some fundamental questions:

- How do we create functional and scalable software?

- Given an existing (complex) software system, how do we maintain and incrementally improve?

One important principle I learned outside of school and training: software is never just code, we always need to think about the user ecosystem around the software. Failure to understand this principle leads to wasteful effort. For example, attempt to rewrite of the code.

These principles are very abstract. We cannot teach them easily. People use tools and new technology to cover up their lack of understanding.
> Objects are different from data in the sense that objects are a combination of data and methods.

So data are models, functions views and objects controllers?
> Is it possible to turn the camera on and off very quickly?

Not particularly. At least on my 2015 rMBP, using code that I wrote (so I know it's not doing anything extraneous), the light is on for about a quarter of a second before the first frame is returned from the camera. This is because the LED is literally showing you when the camera has power (which includes any sort of handshake with the system), not just when it's capturing frames.

Is that enough that a user who's really concentrating on the screen will nonetheless see the light come on? Not necessarily. But GP has a good point about this being a feature that doesn't rely on the user being proactive.
Makes sense. Thanks for replying. :)
I'm a software engineer undergrad, I do most high level stuff. I took digital circuits on college, cause I like electronics. One day watching videos on YouTube I saw ben eater project and loved it. I thinker with Arduino and Raspberry pi, but never built anything cool like that. I just want to give it a try, I guess
> Rivaled only by BeOS

Those were the days! I had BeOS as my only OS for over a year until it became clear that Palm wasn't going to continue supporting and updating it. It wasn't long after that I got into QNX, initially because of my interest in embedded systems, but after running Photon on a test machine I fell in love with it almost as much as I loved BeOS.
Ok, we've added an extra phrase from the main text that conveys this.
Most users will only use an ad blocker that is built-in. You should consider how elitist it is to confine ad blockers to users who know and trust certain extensions vetted by their community, but not the remaining extensions which have been a minefield.

Having a built-in ad blocker doesn't hinder an app from also accepting extensions which block ads.
> I think I would mind //graphical menus// less than the change to an always in your face ribbon.

The ribbon has always been collapsible / "auto-hidable" to just a menu bar (double-click the active tab; admittedly not entirely easily discoverable). It's very much a graphical "pull" menu in the classic sense in that mode and the two-step Alt+ shortcuts might feel a lot more understandable/close-to-home in that context, as it is just like menu bars have always worked (Alt+E,C or Alt,E,C for Edit > Copy as opposed to Alt+H,C or Alt,H,C for Home > Copy; and in Office the old menu shortcuts still work to this day if you have muscle memory of them, you just don't get visual feedback).

> What I loved most about the seriously ancient UIs, way back in the Win 3.x days and forward, was that not only were the options categorized, they also had prominently displayed (right justified instead of left) the keyboard shortcut you could memorize if you knew you were doing it frequently. Yes, that sort of still exists, but you have to go out of your way to do something extra to see it: these days you have to tap a modifier key while in the focus area of the menu.

In addition to the Alt bubble pop ups, hovering every ribbon command has always provided a tooltip with command name and description and in that tooltip has always shown the most direct shortcut key in bold if there is one. Maybe silly to use the mouse to discover the fastest shortcut, but it's roughly the same discovery process as classic menus. (For instance, Format Painter shows Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V as opposed to Alt+H,F,P.)

(Not to mention, Windows stopped showing Menu keys by default way back in Windows 95, and even stopped showing some menus entirely unless Alt was pushed over the years. So the Windows 3.x days where everything always had underlines and macOS-like right-justified keyboard keys were relatively fewer than the many years of push Alt to see keyboard stuff on Windows. The ribbon wasn't a big shift in that department.)
Nope, but it's so likely, it may as well be assumed.
The question is: do we really need these rabbit holes?
The odd thing is we are seeing this on clients that have not updated. So in this something they are controlling remotely?=
It's like that time Twitter banned Bob Marley for calling people iron like a lion in Zion.
You might have actively alienated people who realized the requirement is bullshit and had a choice to get emplyment in company that does not broadcast red flags.
btw there’s quite good subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh
I was thinking that svg would get you better browser support, but it turns out it just gets you IE9/10 and Opera Mini. Which might be important for business apps, but I guess not for everyone:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=webgl

https://caniuse.com/#feat=svg

I am interested at where it would be an advantage (if at all) to use SVG over OpenGL on the front end or server?
FWIW I had one of these on my laptop and the screen now has a crack that started right where this was.
Oh wow, an old school Perl CGI script! I remember doing those about 20 years ago. Neat.
It's reasonable to expect any modern computer screen to support touch. By far the most annoying feature of my 4K desktop monitor is that it lacks touch. I will never buy another non-touch monitor. While you are clearly anchored to the quaint ways of the past, the rest of us have progressed two decades into the 21st century. Come join us in the modern world - and loosen up a bit on the OCD!
There is briar.
Arguably better to be aware of the breach than prevent one sensor from leaking too.
Programming language in firmware.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar.

We detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20396583.
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.

I’m aware of, for example, the unfortunate theme song switch for Dawson’s Creek, but I haven’t heard about particular actors being cut from streaming releases. Any notable examples in mind?
It's part of the Direct-to-Consumer & International strategy.

Disney+ launch later this November will be massive. Disney will have Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, Movies Anywhere
and ABC, and others in different countries (Hotstar in India). Disney has acquired massive amount of content and multiple channels. To fully monetize it, they need the freedom to use everywhere.

As they are pulling all their content from other providers, it's interesting to see what happens.
Astronomers make history in a split second with localization of fast radio burst
> Soap is straighforward, effective, washes off easily

I suspect that the real reason why soap feels like it washes off more easily is that it leaves a layer of soap scum on your skin and detergents don't. Those detergents also likely have moisturizers added to compensate for stripping off all of the natural oils that protect your skin.