skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people post their passport photos when travelling on instagram, you could quite easily "borrow" one of them to send to the bank.
It is actually a pretty long list of resulting changes. I'll describe a couple:

The German government became very interested in open source firmware, I've heard talk of RFPs requiring it from vendors - which compels vendors to put pressure on manufacturers, leading to fewer binary blobs.

Google became very interested in the power processor. Years ago their decommissioning process involved a hole being put through the Intel processor. For a long time I just assumed that there was a deal in place with Intel requiring a certified field destroy, but I'm now thinking that it was their distrust of Intel's backdooring. That may sound extreme, but nobody can say with certainty that whatever bs is occurring in ring -6 isn't caching private keys. Intel is now trying very hard to fool people into believing that they're going to be open sourcing their firmware - this will not happen.

As far as the social consequences, that is hard to say - I'm less plugged into popular culture than most. I'd be surprised if it didn't influence people's views of the government though, especially if they had voted for Hope and Change™. Greenwald timed and ordered the releases perfectly so that the government would predictably lie, only to be proven a liar the following news cycle. This pattern repeated a few times before they got the hint and STFU. And then there was the director of the NSA showing up at Defcon in a black t-shirt and jeans...
OK, so you put the dirty $$ in the banking system. Then what? This can work in Russia and alike places but at least in USA you would have to declare it and answer soon or later how you got it. The former Economy Minister having $1.7 Billion in his account might ring a bell or two.

Having it there and not being able to use is...useless.
Just looking at the requirements of both of you shows how hard it is to make a decent mail client.
The fix has been available for almost two months. Don't iOS updates hit the 50% adoption mark within two weeks?
Lazy developers throw exceptions, good developers return errors. Exceptions should be exceptional.

I'll use URL to this bug in my next comment-holywars to prove this point.

Yes, it takes much less code to throw an exception in hope some code will catch it, but while compiler (not runtime) doesn't check it - this technique is not safe. So we should return errors, check them and handle - sometimes it means returning error further, but in some function we'll write code to handle this case without crashing the system (or, at least, it will shutdown everything gently, without panicking).
Using PWM to Generate Analog Output [pdf]
And yet, I was able to game competitively from my apartment in Brisbane, using a server in Sydney, using Parsec; usually coming in at less than a frame of latency, sometimes just over a frame. This was two years ago, too. And Australia isn't known for it's amazing internet connections (though mine was better than most).
Yes it can - I added error handling. Thanks for the feedback, the extra lines are worth it.
As a customer or employee?
I bet you also chime in anytime “Serverless” is brought up.

See prescriptivist vs descriptivist.
The reasoning is that once a fix is out, by making it public then users can know about it and intentionally update their devices if they haven't yet.
>A personal agenda will decide which one to pick.

My personal agenda was to go with the usage in context. You can introduce other uses of the term, for sure.

My point is that populism, in the context of "populism can show the danger of democracy. A tyranny of the majority is not a good thing." is rule of the mob and so is actually ochlocracy, not democracy, as the demos is all of the people.

A good example is wealth redistribution. A democracy might decide that it is good for society as a whole to tax and spend its way to a more even society, an ochlocracy is more apt to sieze that which is owned by whoever is currently most unpopular.

Not all populist movements are ochlocratic, but all ochlocratic movements are in some way populist. Is hard to form a public mob without being populist.
You were downvoted for some reason (automatic?)

Here’s a wiki page for that book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Bake_Pi
Dropping packets is not passive...
I don’t know their ISPA status but I have been incredibly impressed with Aquiss, who offer similar levels of support to A&A. They also offer month-to-month phone lines and internet service without a minimum term, which is unusual in the UK.
From the New Yorker:

> they offer an alternative to the nationalism of men who claim a monopoly on the meaning of country and flag

From an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail titled "Two toxic legacies of Women’s World Cup: Hatred of VAR and loathing of Team U.S.A."

> See, it’s never just about results; it’s about what the public extrapolates and the U.S. team seems starkly ignorant of this fact. That’s odd, since most of the players are university educated. What they don’t get is how the rest of the world sees them. When the team is dominant and arrogant about it, some people see the frightening, imperious military muscle of the United States embodied in the team’s strutting invincibility. That kind of deduction is human nature.

> When the rest of the world looks at the smug behaviour and declarative, narcissistic goal celebrations of U.S. players, it sees a U.S. need to humiliate others. It sees more than childish brattiness; it sees a lack of compassion. It thinks of migrant children separated from their families and put in cages. No player goes to the World Cup emotionally equipped for humiliation, but that’s what the U.S. sets out to do – humiliate others and sneer.
With ALL their infinite resources, how are Apple's bugs SO BAD.

Like, repeatedly.

goto fail, Facetime surveillance, empty password grants root access, and now this.

As much as Apple touts privacy and security, this is not a great track record.

The more resources a company has, the less forgivable serious bugs like this are.

I need to keep reminding myself: Apple is a hardware company, not a software company.
This is a patent for stealth satellite technology. It's not a mirror, per-se, but it does demonstrate that there's interest in concealing satellites. Additionally, I'd expect that anything that could "shatter" a mirror would also be capable of shattering the entire satellite beyond operation; if we assume that statement is true, then the fact that so many satellites remain in service suggests that a mirror would also survive.
“22 percent of people ages 23 to 37 now living with their folks from 11.7 percent of people the same ages back in 2001”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/more-millennials-are-living-at-...
Would you please stop posting dismissive, hostile, and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot, and it goes against the site guidelines. So does complaining about downvotes. If you would please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and practice the spirit of this site more earnestly, we'd appreciate it. I know it isn't easy, but it isn't easy for any of us—and we've had to ask you this multiple times before.
From Two Bulls 9M Dairy Cows
What is this "obvious problem"?

Aside from the quality loss due to re-encoding - which should be identical to the loss encountered when capturing digital video and audio output, assuming the capture is done correctly - I fail to see anything "obvious".
Can I Have One Eighty Four(184)K Views Please?
The pegging is not forced on them. It's their own national bank which buys and sells tons of Euros to keep the exchange rate stable.
In my large East Asia country-China,4G already covers 99% of the population（1.3 billion） and unlimited data plans for homes are available from 129 rmb / month（nearly 17 EUR） for China Unicomm user.Yet, everybody is talking about 5G or the urgent need for it :-)
'...the evidence that humans have contributed to a warming climate in the last few centuries with all of our carbon emissions, primarily from energy production'
What is this evidence exactly? I"m on the fence about human contributions to changes in earth weather and suspicious about carbon taxation. Sensible stewardship of the planet is a no brainer, but the hysteria is slowly increasing with children particularly freaking out about the planets demise after daily doses of alarmist rhetoric. This can't be healthy and pushes people to go along with questionable political measures.
We are at a point where 'climate change' by human activity has to be pushed by Greta Thunberg and others as a slightly fanatical emotional event. I'm not seeing nearly enough hard evidence despite the legions of angry people I come up against who assure me 'it's all been proven' and claiming I am anti science...
> With ALL their infinite resources, how are Apple's bugs SO BAD.

Infinite resources do not easily translate to quality for many many reasons.

The main being: we’re just human, and we suck at managing large projects at scale.
That does sound pretty bad, if true, but more on the noise front rather than temp, assuming 95C is Tjunction and not Tcase.
I agree that to an inexperienced reader, most of your points would be valid. The downside is, it would be too verbose (imagine defining what big R is, for example). It being too verbose would stray away a different subset of readers, which arguably is more invested in learning (the number of readers that know what R and a monoid are but not category theory).

I think that the best way forward in your case is simply googling terms that the writers took for granted and which you don't understand (a monoid, for example), because the book material is one of the best I've seen on category theory.
Going Deeper with Osint Profiling: Instapression
It could be related to gameifying it. Finishing a task isn't simply a task, it's an item moved along the kanban board!
Would you use this app to connect with relatives?
We have built social networking app for Relatives. You can add your family tree and it gets merged with other family trees as you add more people. For example, if you add your uncle and he adds his wife and kids then you will see his tree and your tree, all connected through your parents. You can send private messages or post on family tree wall. Here is a video so you can see the demo or playstore link if my description is not clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulJN3er-7Co&feature=youtu.be

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.relatives

We do not know where to take this app from here. Let’s say we built all this database of all most of the relatives of most of the families in a region or country, how can it be useful? In "theory", this will map out all relations of everyone in the world, its like google earth of people. I am completely open to all honest feedback or suggestions. Here are a few questions which I am struggling to answer myself and I NEED YOUR HELP. Desperately.
Please give me BLUNT and HONEST feedback. I KNOW for sure we are doing something wrong. We are just trying to learn.
1) Would you use the app? Why yes or no?
2) What would make the app better?
3) Who- government, companies, brands can potentially benefit from this?

THANK YOU.
Relatives Team
I like the post, but would like the OP to do a recap after working 12/18 months or 2-3 teams in Uber. 1 month is too short of a time to have meaningful outlook of the current situation.
So I've become pretty cynical about companies announcing layoffs. In the short term, it'll boost the stock and make the CEO look good as a result. The net effect will be:

- A certain number of people who leave or retire won't be replaced

- Some workers will get relocated geographically and/or within the company's business units such that they'll be counted as a layoff and a new hire

- New hiring won't stop

- The company will use layoffs as a means of getting rid of a number of workers that would otherwise be legally problematic to get rid of (eg older or pregnant workers)

- Some smaller teams, projects or divisions will be sold off to other companies

Hiring is near constant. Layoffs happen in bursts. Combine this with natural attrition and not much has changed. Overall staffing levels will continue trending downward slightly with increased automation. Business as usual.
Have you considered a couple of issues here? The first is that while companies may simply be in the business of harvesting massive amounts of information for advertising today, once they have that data they can use it to whatever end they like. From the legally gray such as manipulating elections to their benefit to the outright illegal such as using that information to gain leverage over politician, media, regulators, influential figures/celebrities, and so on. Kompromot is a term from the KGB era. Yet now private corporations such as Google and Facebook have many magnitudes more information on everybody than the KGB could have ever even imagined possible.

The second is as a peer comment mentioned: information these companies collect is subject to end up in government hands anyhow. People are so quick to forget about the Snowden leaks of things such as PRISM: [Program participation entailed NSA access to] "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information." Examples included email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats, and more. [1] Some of the companies confirmed to be working with PRISM are: Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.

I think things like this fall of people's radar because it doesn't get mentioned in the media. But it doesn't get mentioned in the media for the same reason it was never mentioned prior to Snowden either. These programs have not gone anywhere and, if anything, have grown only more expansive. The NSA didn't set up an exobyte scale data storage center [2] on a whim. Everything you submit to a major corporation in the US is something you should equate to submitting to the US government as well.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
It’s a super frustrating thing about the US. They’ll say ‘this summer’, but being in the Southern Hemisphere it’s winter. Month names are so much easier.

Next rant: which Timezone are we talking about.
> What we decided was to go with option 3 - we implemented a Linux system call interface within our own kernel to give us 'native' support. This, of course, is exactly what the first version of WSL did, many years later. Plus ça change...

Joyent as well for SmartOS.
"there's no reason airports need to know who you are"

What?
Lazy developers also ignore errors by swallowing them. In this particular case, note that the error was detected many methods away because of Objective-C's weak typing, not because the developers "chose" to throw an exception.
> cargo build --release

Otherwise you'd be compiling it in debug mode (which is really slow for most projects).
I-banking and trading divisions are getting gutted. One would think there are money to be made there and most banks aren’t following suit. Sounds like leadership failure to me.
Crashing a program is often safer for unexpected conditions than hoping your error handling will recover from it?

Have you tested every combination of state + error and made sure your app is robust for each situation?
iPhone 11, 11 Max and XR2 Price in Singapore and Malaysia
Things I've learned building data products
Even at a constant sea level we still have wave erosion.
> Getting used to no front facing camera takes getting used to. There's no autobrightness! The phone doesn't know when you put your ear up to it!

Technically, this is not because of the lack of front-facing camera; these things are handled by a separate front-facing sensors (that's why smartphones usually have more than one camera-like thingies on top). They could've retained those features while doing away with front-facing cam; I guess they wanted to go all in and stretch the screen all the way to the phone's top edge.
Yeah, this guy is paranoid. Saying that the customs officer at a international airport is akin to little brother to big brother...

> A flicker of understanding appeared momently in Little Brother's eyes as he realized that reasons Big Brother had given him for these surveillance procedures were a lie. He didn’t need this machine to carry out his stated task.

I am against facial recognition within the city, but at the airport, it is totally reasonable to have a record of who you are.
Yea, I missed the obvious one!
Does WSL support ptrace now? UML can't run without it.
That's close to literally impossible.

There was an absurd plan to place a dam between Richmond and San Rafael[1]. When it was finally studied, there were two fatal problems with the plan. (1) There is not enough water in Summer, to keep the bay behind the dam full. (2) There is too much water from snowmelt in early spring and the San Joaquin valley would turn into a lake.

Now to the environmental side: the bay is amazingly productive. It also acts as a nursery for the ocean. The damage done to the Pacific Ocean ecosystem would be all out of proportion to the gains of a little bit of land.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan
You missed the small but important season of "Bathurst".
Can this be avoided by disabling iMessage notifications?

> The calling method then calls -[IMBalloonPluginDataSource _replaceHandleWithContactNameInString:] which calls im_handleIdentifiers on the 'NSString' which is really an NSNumber, which throws an exception as the selector does not exist in that class.

Looks like they need to move more of their stuff to Swift to reduce snarfles like this.

Stories like these (this isn't the first time that iOS/macOS could be crashed by chat messages), and the empty root password debacle, or all the GateKeeper bypasses, make me wonder if their engineers take their own WWDC security-related talks seriously.

Still, it's not so bad as the Windows XP-7 epoch, when eldritch nightmares walked the land.
> Or a signal into optic nerve ))

That you can do with a single LED.
Expected an article about how do deal with boring free time. Got an existential crisis instead
Oddly enough I'm used to the summer/winter mixup but spring and "fall" still trip me up. Which is weird because you'd think I could just map "fall" to "spring" and be done with it.
The Nederlands indeed does this and there is no talk of gradual retreat. We are too invested in the current system, retreating means relocating 7 million people and the economic heart of the country. So we built mega walls. No one really knows how much and how fast sea level will rise. The guesstimates vary wildly. So far, the last century sea levels increased very moderately.
A door is a terrible idea. It’s too thick so it will be too high or your knees will hit it.
“Difficult [for someone] to recover” should not be a partially overlapping state as “bricked”.

I had a EdgeMax Lite router which has a propensity for the flash storage to get corrupted at which point it fails to boot. The fix is to buy a particular model of USB flash drive, and image it with a specific .img file. Open the case and replace the flash stick, then boot holding the reset button.

It was a somewhat difficult repair, but in the end just a matter of following step-by-step instructions with readily available tools. I would not consider the device to have been bricked. No more than your computer is bricked when your hard drive dies.

I did brick an Xbox once, trying to solder on an early gen mod chip that was well beyond my soldering abilities!

In this case it’s not even a question of hardware damage. The fix is to reset to factory, upgrade, and restore. This is the happy path recovery process which has done millions of times over on iPhones. I had to do it just a couple weeks ago when my son changed the PIN on an iPhone we use to play music on, and then promptly forgot the new PIN. (He’s 7)

With the proposed meaning, everything is a brick to the technologically illiterate. Better to admit the headline is simply sensationalizing / clickbait.
I put some cheap molding up at the top and bottom of the board so that it slid into place and was held up by that.

Worked perfectly.
Not sure how's DeX on the phones, but my brother recently bought a new Samsung tablet and I'm thoroughly impressed by how DeX works. In fact, having no peripherals to connect it to, he still runs the tablet in DeX mode all the time - because that's how much it's better than regular Android experience.

I've been saying for years that Windows 10 is the only sane, productivity-oriented OS for tablets. DeX makes me want to reconsider Android in this role again.
I wonder if the wafer angle is less the case because AMD is fabless. Intel, indeed, would lose the capacity, but AMD can farm out the Xbox One to a second-tier manufacturer or process while still cashing the cheque.

I also suspect there's a market positioning long game in controlling console chips. Every AAA title and major engine for the next 5-10 years is going to target 8-thread AMD CPUs, so you'd expect lazy ports to perform well on Ryzen for free.
Even more amazing, after watching Ben's video, I was thinking too myself "That wasn't so hard". Other than a few Arduino projects I've never used an IC, but I was able to follow along with Ben completely.

In fact, I think that a tutorial dedicated just to explain the VGA standard, the same length as Ben's tutorial, would have been less clear and informative.
Draining the bay is probably too extreme, but much of SF is already built on reclaimed land. All of Embarcadero, Mission Bay, Southbeach, even parts of Rincon Hill were underwater in the 1800s: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/1858_U.S...
Exactly. Obtaining a bank account requires person's ID and tax number. Even if you would know the private tax number, the person in question would get a high income tax and would start to investigate.
Well that’s not wrong.
I think OP wanted a browser-based non-flash player solution. Pretty much rules out RTMP.

I have used nginx-rtmp in the past - a very solid solution for my use case.
Any proof for this? I don't believe you. Every SVG is smaller than the rendered PNG counterpart. And SVG is a really inefficient way to serialize drawing commands.

Also including drawing into your Compositor (like Windows and MacOS do) gives you additional infinite scaling for free which would solve the multi dpi monitor problem.
your comment has no relation to what is happening at DB - they're writing down $73 billion in assets and exiting businesses they tried to expand into
Astrid Tasks was the only one that really helped me get a lot of old tasks done, but Yahoo killed it. No to do list since really keeps me on task.

I've tried Habitica which attempts to gameify your tasks, but I dunno .. I just never got into it.

I have an OpenProject server running for myself, but I kinda forgot about it for a while and stopped checking in.

When I was a kid in the 90s, I found myself much more able to stay on tasks. Going into college, I could code for hours, building things, write things ... I don't even have kids/family as an adult, I just find my motivation waning.

I've taken sabbaticals in my life, which has helped me focus on some tasks and get some big things done, but even then there is diminishing return as I start to worry about money and look for work again: https://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

I don't think a personal Kanban or anything else is a silver bullet solution. You have to hit a critical mass in the work you're trying to do, whether it's an open source project or creating videos or live-coding. I'm more impressed today by major YouTubers like 8-Bit Guy or Wendover Productions, and people like Drew DeVault who just write so much production ready stuff.

It's harder today because we have to fight greater distractions ... like browsing Hackernews when I really should try to get this regex working. :-P