skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your cell number is from an area likely to have a lot (i.e. 5%, maybe) of Chinese folks (especially visitors rather than permanent immigrants), it's a scam aimed at them and you're just among the collateral annoyed. It is easy/cheap/etc. enough for the robocallers to just hit all the numbers in your area in hopes of a few bites from those who speak Mandarin and fall for the equivalent of the IRS scam in Mandarin.
2.4. Installation Media

2.4.1. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/BD-ROM
2.4.2. USB Memory Stick
2.4.3. Network
2.4.4. Hard Disk
2.4.5. Un*x or GNU system
2.4.6. Supported Storage Systems

https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch02s04.en.html

I am going to burn a CD-ROM and/or DVD-ROM. It's been a while and feels very retro, I guess I could do this. What is a a BD-ROM?

I am going to use dd to copy the image onto a USB Memory Stick. I've done that.

I am going to do a Network install, no I am not going to do this.

Hard Disk install, this is how I installed it previously. Let me find my notes.

Whether it's CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, USB Memory Stick, or Hard Disk install, the tricky bit is getting the computer to boot the image from that media. And, the tricky part about this is knowing the incantation for GRUB to do this. And, the additional tricky part is the mangled PC EUFI/Secure boot settings. If it's the raspberry pi it's easy: I stick the USB Memory stick in the pi and go. If it's the PC, it's well, as you said: forensics.

I wish that I could download a little install program, and install a fresh OS into one of the many free partitions on the PC, and that the installer would automatically configure GRUB to recognize that new OS without the incantations, and without stomping on other distros.
Show HN: Old School Graphics Algorithms
> Most humans can’t really successfully master complex skills without instruction, though. It would be interesting to see if orangutans can learn to fish with a little help from a teacher.

I think most humans could learn how to spear a fish without instruction after enough trial and error.
Preemptively gonna say that your site is likely going to receive the HN tug of death.
http://archive.is/99QgE
...that depends on how you define wealth but you know, there is the infinite vastness of space. So to say that wealth is finite doesn't even make sense when talking only about raw resources. Then add to that the potential scientific innovations, machines and other things humans can invent and produce from all those raw resources and it's pretty infinite as far as we'll ever know, certainly in our lifetimes times a trillion.
Huh, no it's not?

https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/xom/ownership-summary

https://www.marketscreener.com/EXXON-MOBIL-CORPORATION-4822/...
it's hard to know what you'd do until your back is against the wall
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20367422
That happened last year in March.

Linus Tech Tips used to be heavily sponsored by TunnelBear but they chose to drop them in favour of PIA once McAfee acquired the VPN.

https://youtu.be/RNG4-9BqUIQ
That doesn't really counter what they said.
Does this mean all those lock picking videos have to go too?
OpenPGP Keyservers Poisoned Keys
I understand your point but what I wrote is the strongest possible interpretation of his comment that is possible for an atheist like me.

That's exactly what he said for me. That the terminally ill child should avoid distractions that lessen his suffering just to have time to reflect on his short and troubled life because death might not be the end and there might be some consequences after that which is completely supernatural reason flying in the face of all available evidence.
I occasionally think about subscribing to a vpn to protect my behavior information from my isp (Spectrum). But, everytime I get to considering it, I get sketched out that the low cost vpn providers will sell my data just as indiscriminately as my ISP.

This article suggests trust is hard to come by. Who can recommend a quality and secure vpn?
Is this surprising? Chinese people need VPNs more than anybody.
It sounds like this is a pretty easy problem to solve if files aren't identified by their names. If a file just has a name (and a parent, and a bunch of tags...) then tags are trivially stable when moves/renames/writes happen. No need to hash anything, ids are a fine way to track identity, and perfectly amenable to storing an a SQL database.

If you want to support hard links you can decide whether to associate tags with files or inodes, depending on whether you want all linked files to have the same set of tags.
What happened with the 2012 "spray on skin" treatment?[1]

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/spray-skin-cells-heal...
I just googled "PC professor firing" and found these examples right away. What's especially bad is that the departments publicly denounce the person. In [1] a committee of deans said he was "uncivil, illogical and damaging to rational thought" which is just not true (he anonymously tweeted opinions that can be debated and aren't objectively true or false). This is still going on, [4] happened a few months ago.

[1] https://nypost.com/2016/10/30/nyu-professor-who-opposed-pc-c...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/pc-hysteria-claims-another-pro...

[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/stripp...

[4] https://quillette.com/2019/05/02/cambridge-capitulates-to-th...
Why does the video at 0:36 mention cannabis?

Is it a painkiller? Does this thing double as a bong?
Would aliens understand lambda calculus? (2018)
> You don’t get more access to data just because you use graphql?

The data you expose via apis is often one “view” of the actual rich data store you own. If a dependent team wants more data than your rest api provides, it is blocked on you adding that data to your api.

If you instead provide a way to query your data store, the dependent team isn’t blocked on you.
> Personally, I won't be using Wayland on my main machine once I update that as I'm a CWM user, and Wayland support probably isn't every going to happen for that.

I've been thinking about this myself, as I use a handful of programs which I am unwilling to give up but which Wayland will probably never properly support (intentionally; I'm fond of recording and playing back arbitrary input events, which Wayland has helpfully blocked for security reasons). My reading of the docs is that it's possible to run Wayland+xwayland as, effectively, a complete X server... well, it's not even a drop-in replacement, it's just an X server that happens to be implemented differently. So I think that if/when Xorg starts to become problematic to continue using, I can just swap it out for xwayland running in root window mode, and then run my X window manager and programs on top. Might need to mess with environment variables to mask Wayland so nothing tries to use it directly.

Anybody else have thoughts/plans on the future of X if Wayland really does take over?
Well I'll be. I'd thought that the rules were more strict. It appears that even if the bank does run out of bills more can be created by writing on pieces of paper.
Imagine a dumb piece of hardware storing your variables. Two pieces of a statement try to do conflicting things to the same variable at the same time. This can cause the data to get corrupted, or the entire chip to have a fault. The C standard allows an implementation like this.
does that imply Ubuntu code might've been compromised , and some trackers / keylogger codes planted ?
A small thread from 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043933
Conversely, Lantern [0], one of the most popular VPNs in China is funded by the CIA. Their privacy policy makes for a very eerie read [1].

Snippets:

> Personalize and improve the Services, including to provide or recommend features, content, social connections, referrals, and advertisements.

> (We may share information...) With vendors, consultants, marketing partners, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf

> When you use our Services, we collect information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other access device. The information sent to us includes, but is not limited to, the following: data about the pages you access, computer IP address, device ID or unique identifier, device type, geo-location information, computer and connection information, mobile network information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, and standard web log data and other information. We also collect information through our use of cookies and web beacons.

> Device Information: We may collect information about your mobile device, including, for example, the hardware model, operating system and version, software and file names and versions, preferred language, unique device identifier, advertising identifiers, serial number, device motion information, and mobile network information.

> Log Information: When you interact with the Services, we collect server logs, which may include information like device IP address, access dates and times, app features or pages viewed, app crashes and other system activity, type of browser, and the third-party site or service you were using before interacting with our Services.

> We may transfer the information described in this Statement to, and process and store it in, the United States and other countries, some of which may have less protective data protection laws than the region in which you reside

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10126667

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/lantern/LanternPrivacyPolicy.pdf
Cannabis is an analgesic.
> how would you know if you picked the right one.

Especially important part because picking the wrong one might end in infinite suffering.
What Disney+ Traffic Could Be Worth to CDNs
Men absolutely losing their minds and filling women game designers' inboxes with death threats because they wanted to make games that didn't cater exclusively to men is a thing that already happened.
>And I don't think you need to be an expert to realize that full autonomy is a Really Bad Idea. All you have to do it look at how the 737MAX MCAS debacle is unfolding.

Thank you for this. Boeing's hard on for de-skilling pilots isn't getting nearly enough credit as the reason why all those people died.
In that specific case, it's hard to justify taking Acela over a bus. Acela is at best an hour faster and something like 4x the cost (or more) It is certainly more comfortable, but unless we get true high speed rail that shortens the travel time between Boston and NYC to < 2 hours I can't ever justify personally paying for it. I've only ever taken Acela between Boston and NYC when an organization I was working for was willing to foot the bill.

In Europe, I took trains that hit speeds of 195 MPH for long stretches. That sort of speed would make rail a real viable third way between car/bus and air for long distance travel.
Not existing at runtime seems more like a performance consideration. The macro could very well had just deferred evaluation of it's arguments, so you could manipulate the AST during runtime and return the code for immediate eval, and it would work provide the same syntactic sugar but with a runtime function (and it's probably how it works when an interpreter evaluate the macros instead of a compiler).

But by moving that transformation to compile time, you get not only the power to create syntactic sugar for the programmer but also to better control what the compiler will generate (and cache it, so you'll be free from the asymptotic complexity of the runtime control flow). That's great for both AoT compilation, for which you can effectively remove parts of the algorithm that can be pre-computed from the output program, and JIT for which runtime and compile time can interact to more intelligently distribute the workload.
Hell, I was doing it when I was 15... :p
Attractiveness is not a one-dimensional scale, it is a two-party phenomena.
They're really not. Bugs would be entirely appropriate.
All Four Major Mobile Networks in the UK Are Using Huawei 5G Gear
If you had two job offers, one salaried at $100,000 and one at $100,001, I assume you would pick $100,001 with zero consideration for any other factors?
Ideally, procedures are not designed by "your average police officer."

All of this said, I agree that there's reason to be skeptical and keep close watch to ensure rights aren't being trampled. That's the case without this tech as well.
I actually stumbled upon a dead bear in Wisconsin a month ago, invalidating your thesis. I have pictures.
Could this also be significant for super large lenses like giant telescopes?
It is a magnificent thing to see people defend their civil rights. And it is the rational ting too: given the implications of the extradition bill, a few days on the street will seem a tiny price to pay.

And indeed, given ever growing intrusion into HK by the main land and ever increasing biometric surveillance technology, once on film, I doubt the surgical masks will provide anonymity for all the decades these folks will live.
Tesla YouTuber Bjørn Nyland breaks 24-hour electric car distance record: 2,781km
Russian Couples Lining Up for Crispr Babies
The most notable article I guess is from South China Morning Post (https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3017530...) and they cite 'a source'.

Also in their article, there are clearly many others in the photographs without masks. So I think his impromptu speech is more important than taking off his mask, but lots of articles cite removal of his mask..

Since this organization has no leader, it would benefit the opposition to paint a leader out of thin air and show faults in him.
> and as an individual everyone needs to investigate for themselves which religion (if any) to follow

I disagree. Nobody needs to investigate any religions. There's no knowledge based reason to do that. You might want to join religion for the community but even then there rarely any investigation necessary. It's sufficient to just follow their practices.
Xmonad[1] cannot be ported, but there is a Waymonad[2]. So yes, in most cases that would mean rewriting from scratch. What is worst of all this - no existing plugins/extensions/etc would work...

[1] https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad

[2] https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
> Not always, especially when working with electronics. Many manufacturers offer development parts at one price, then when you try to scale up production you find the price can be double or triple the original cost.

Can you give an example? If one goes to Digikey or Mouser, the price of most standard electronic components decrease when the quantity increases.

I guess the phenomenon you described only occurs if special or proprietary components is involved, so that the company is willing to sell samples at a loss in exchange for more consumers.
I know this sort of personally aggressive comment is common in some technical circles, but it's not ok on HN. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to those rules, and spirit, when posting here? We'd appreciate it.
BD-ROM: Blu-Ray Disk Read Only Memory.

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BD-ROM
That was my comment, and the point wasn't that the R code still ran four years later--the point was that R Core's focus on backwards compatibility (in reference to R being hamstrung via its focus on "compatibility with S") isn't a bad thing. You're never going to get the 2.x - 3.x schism that python had with future version of R, assuming R core continues with that philosophy.
> housands of sightings that continue to occur every year across the USA.

Amazingly not a single one by people with phones to take pictures with. Huh.
Please don't do programming language flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I really enjoy Wren (https://github.com/wren-lang/wren) and have used it for a few of my personal programs.
Import a standard library module and write a single line of code is "too hard"?
As I said, there are limited disclosures, just like the Chinese. In this case meaningless - I ask who owns this and you say "Blackrock" and "Northern Trust" as if you've answered the question. "Northern Trust" is not a who, it is just another layer of "secret ownership" to use the magazine's phraseology. I still have no idea who owns Exxon-Mobil - it is a secret, to use their phrase.
I wonder if this would also result in fewer children being nearsighted?

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-urge-children-to-pla...
Image was made by comparing polarization of photons on each pixel. BH gravity bends space and that changes photon plane. It is all in authors papers.
Ask HN: What are good YouTube channels on motivation?
Like the Skunk Ape of Miami area and the Hodag of Wisconsin.
Oh, it's that many businesses (and all Enterprises) just can't often use PaaS. You need to deal with regulations, customers who want you to retain tight control of data, private links back to corporate networks, SSO, IAM, support and availability contracts, NDAs, code quality gates, security scanning, policy auditing, dedicated performance guarantees, microservice ecosystems, network access control for partners, overall cost. And as far as "lock-in" goes, you can't get much more locked-in. Enterprise won't even use hosted CI/CD [unless it's for an open source product/service]. You have to fit a very specific niche to be Enterprise-compatible.
This article just kicked me off into a one hour tangent thinking about voting reform activism and my frustration with staunch ordinal voting advocates.

I've found that a lot of ordinal voting system advocates seem to feel that in order for a voting system to work well, it must impose a total order on peoples' preferences. Although they might say that people's preferences are naturally totally ordered, and that it wouldn't be an imposition at all. For me, ordinal systems are destroying information about equal openness to multiple choices. They are filtering the nuances of my preferences through a strict and destructive hierarchy. All just to distill these hypothetical "favorites" that I don't actually have, but which ordinal voting system advocates seem to feel are real anyway.

But I just don't believe that. It's like a whole different worldview. I believe that this sort of bias is at play in that broken, age old gap between ordinal and cardinal voting system advocates.

I wish some funny people would get together and do skits exposing the quirks of different voting systems by playing them out in an everyday, relatable situations e.g. a group of people choosing what restaurant to go to.

I can just imagine a Rob Richie character enforcing that everyone must have a strictly ranked preference between pizza and Thai food. No you are not allowed to be open to both. You must declare which is your ultimate favorite of the two. Even if it means alienating our lactose intolerant friend. They'll be fine since there's salad at the pizza place.
Two set violin: https://www.youtube.com/user/twosetviolin
Because they always urge you to practice.
For more than four decades I have done the greater part part of my reading (the far greater part - maybe 90 percent) in various shades of English. Only a year or two ago did I come across a sentence which somehow suggested that khaki did not necessarily designate the militarily greenish color I had always assumed because that's what it means, period, in my native Danish. Or used to mean. Things may be slipping with the massive encroachment of English into everyday speaking and writing we're seeing these days.
Well, it does sound wonderful. Could be bollocks, though.

There is spray collodion aka nitrocellulose. It's just old-school molecules, though.

I love Band-Air Hydro Seal (hydrocolloid) bandages and 3M Tegaderm film. They work far better than absorbent bandages.

I once stuck a finger in a running high-speed axial fan. Maybe 2-3 mm got shredded. So I just wrapped the fingertip with hydrocolloid bandages, and forgot about it. Maybe two weeks later, it had completely healed, with no scar.
In a practical sense. Are they typically used.

Take CentOS for example... No 3rd party repos are required to run the system, but everywhere I've seen CentOS used in production they've installed packages from EPEL.
I guess the advantage here is that Delphi and C++ Builder don't have a borrow checker.

Even simple stuff like what Apple has demoed with SwiftUI designer can be a challenge, as you cannot just drag stuff around without changing the ownership semantics.

Naturally Swift has the advantage that Rc<RefCell<T>> is implicit, so it isn't as if the cost is magical gone.

However having to deal with it explicitly is a hard sell for anyone used to the comfort of GUI tooling.

So I imagine Rust is an easier sell for doing the low level stuff of a GUI engine, with what 90% of the devs using some managed language on top.

Basically what is happening to C++ on current desktop and mobile OSes, although for different reasons.

Or what is being done to Firefox actually.
Watching a YouTube channel about motivation sounds like a procrastination tactic, not a solution to low motivation...
Suppose your face is identified by a machine as looking like someone in a criminal database who is wanted. Suppose that you in fact are a dead ringer for that person in the database; even to a humans who double check this match, you look exactly the same. You have no ID. What are they to do?
Lua. I never really got behind importing a package for everything, so the lack luster package management/community doesn't bother me. The syntax is fairly clean (its a nice break from braces and semi colons everywhere), it's easy to extend, and it's perf under LuaJIT is hard to argue with.
I have never found this to be the case, in that 1) normally I only design BOMs around parts that are "normally stocked" at Mouser or Digikey, anything else and I don't want to waste time on the supply chain and/or 2) If you aren't designing around your batch manufacturing size then how are you designing the circuit (economically) in the first place?
The worst case is when the acquired company colonizes and destroys the parent company by filling its management ranks with stooges.

NeXT did quite well for Apple's shareholders by colonizing.
My understanding is that every Wayland compositor automatically runs XWayland by default for compatibility reasons, and will do for the foreseeable future.
Ask HN: Why is this C code not working as intended?
These two functions

unsigned int M1ByteMirror(unsigned int iNumber) {
unsigned int lVal = M1GetN3(iNumber);
lVal |= M1GetN2(iNumber) << 8;
lVal |= M1GetN1(iNumber) << 16;
lVal |= M1GetN0(iNumber) << 24;
return lVal;
}

unsigned int M1ByteMirrorSingle(unsigned int iNumber) {
unsigned int lVal = (M1GetN3(iNumber) | (M1GetN2(iNumber) << 8) | (M1GetN1(iNumber) << 16) | (M1GetN0(iNumber << 24)));
return lVal;
}

are logically the same, yet the output is:

random data: baa206c, mirror: 6c20aa0b, single: 20aa0b

Why is the compiler/C ignoring the last function call in the single line declaration? Is there a typo/mistake I missed or is there something deeper going on?

EDIT: Or is this just my setup? MinGW32, Win7 x64 Ult SP1, i5 6600K.

EDIT2: I had -O2 on, turned it off, same results, but holy crap, is optimization effective.
if you don't understand what it means to downscale production I can't help you. Capitalism doesn't depend on infinite growth.
Non-light sensitive parts of photosynthesis has to be inefficient because otherwise aerobic respiration would be inefficient.
Congratulations! Hopefully libdrm will start moving soon, so Mesa master will be buildable again.
I understand the parent's point because I am the parent.
"If it doesn’t stink, it’s not durian."

- Tan Eow Chong
That's just silly since "burger" is slang. But States seem to be in a contest to pass asinine laws lately so I'm not surprised they made this one.
Effectively, you're waiting for NVIDIA to implement the same APIs every other Linux GPU driver uses.

You may be waiting a very long time.