skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for RTS in Serbia, worse even because not only do we HAVE to pay the TV license via power bill, or get sued and have power cut off (I kid you not, because of the TV license fee!) (happened to me), RTS also has 8 commercial channels that are funded from the public's money, which are only available on select cable networks.

It's RTS 1, RTS 2, RTS 3, RTS HD (which is redundant since the 3 channels are already in Full HD), and then RTS 24/7, RTS Drama, RTS Archive, RTS Music, RTS Life, RTS Kids, RTS Music 2, RTS VOD and RTS SVOD, RTS [something I can't translate] (all names are translated from Serbian).

The TV service is the only one with HD terrestrial broadcasting, and yet it's production quality is absolute garbage (I mean literally, the video quality is absolutely terrible, I'm not even talking about the topics they deal with).

Basically, a money sink and waste of time. People who have SBB (United Group) watch N1 (CNN affiliate) in Full HD (with 30 Mbps bitrate, compared to 4 Mbps for RTS 1 HD).

People who don't have SBB cable, are stuck with the low level garbage channels from our state broadcaster.
I will very firstly remove the pre-installed apps that comes with the Windows 10. These apps are not only useless bur also eat up hard drive space and as a result the system start working slow.

Check it out - http://www.pcerror-fix.com/trick-to-uninstall-or-remove-pre-...
Correct, but I'd like to point out that responsibility does not imply consequences. If the higher-ups mess up they can blame it on those below them. Usually it is done in an indirect way by setting expectations. For a lot of people, if they are the ones setting expectations they mentally take themselves out of the equation, assuming they are good. They might be wrong.
Lol, in my personal evil ranking, Rupert Murdoch is certainly Top 10.

Larry Ellison is a greedy jerk too. But at least he‘s content in being jealous of Google, Amazon and Microsoft and stops short of keeping a harmful conservative media empire alive. As far as I know.
US & UK intelligence have a long record of actively creating discord where there would be none for economic/political gain.

To act like this is not the case, is to ignore well documented history.
The epi-pen auto injector is tricky to do right, so it took a few tries to make a good generic. But they’re on the market now: https://www.consumerreports.org/drugs/epipen-shortage-contin...

Insulin is hard to manufacture. The older versions are now generic, but the new, patented ones have measurable advantages. Because most people have insurance coverage, there is a limited market for the older, generic insulin.
that looks like an = sign which would be confusing but also, many uses for pipes are as filters. a filter is a flat surface where something passes from one side to another. the pipe symbolizes that filter (even though the actual filter is the program behind it, so yeah, both metaphors kid of work. either the pipe connects two programs, or it invokes a filter which is named after the pipe symbol)
> ..scientific bodies that have chipped away their credibility...

How? Examples
Yes, Project Treble, it basically kind of changes Linux into a pseudo-"mikro-kernel", which is kind of ironic.

Where classical Linux drivers are considered legacy (Passthrough HALs) and all new drivers since Android 8 are user space, written in either Java or C++ and talk to the kernel via Android IPC (Binderized HALs).
1 click purchasing to me seems like N+1 razor blade systems. Just as it is 'obviously' better to add more blades for a closer shave, so it is obviously better to take steps out the purchasing experience.

It shouldn't be patentable any more than the Gillette Cloud 9 or the Wilkinson Sword Legs 11.
You can skip Banggood and save a bit. It's $52 from Xiaomi's official store [0] and $8 shipping from a forwarder [1], so $60 total.

[0]: https://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=582112668204

[1]: https://www.superbuy.com/en/page/query/freight/#areaId%3D3%2...
Just do sysctl vm.panic_on_oom=1
Because what are you going to OOM-kill, some non-important process? Why would you run non-important processes in the first place :) And random OOM-killing is plain crazy. Just reboot and start anew.
You're correct that the technology is unprecedented.

But, there's a lot of unprecedented technology invented every day. And for the most part we do just carry on as usual. That's part of what made the original internet such a beautiful place - we didn't try to waterlog it with proactive legislation because of potential bad things that could happen. Instead, that freedom created the wonderful ecosystem we have today.

The (US) law eventually reacted, but for the most part did so in a measured and reasonable fashion to form things like DMCA and CFAA.

Conversely, it's my opinion that proactive lawmaking leads to disastrous and overly broad, unenforceable, and burdensome laws like SOPA and CALEA. And I see this kind of ban on facial recognition to be firmly in the proactive category.
A Billionaire Software Mogul Doesn't Want His Company to Grow Up
Kind of right, but it's not THAT bad. I commute from Neukölln to Prenzlauer Berg every day and taking the S41/S42 trains is by far the fastest way of getting to work. Car is slower and it's quite annoying to go through the city, bike is a bit slower but I prefer to get my exercise by running.

Another story are the renovations and building projects that just cut whatever part of the public transportation down for days/weeks. There are alternative routes one can always take, but I prefer to stay out of the hot U-bahn during the summer days. There can be some nice surprises, like that one Monday morning when this guy decides to start smoking heroin in a full and sweaty U8.

Edit: Forgot to add that the trams are awesome. Air-conditioned, fast and comfortable in the eastern part of the city.
There's also https://mundraub.org/map, a map that shows free fruits (mainly in Germany).
Go. I don't feel the need for yet another language without conditional expressions.

(More generally: I'm pretty firmly in the camp of "terse code tends to be easier to read and reason about", and don't want language designers nudging me to break expressions up and name intermediates).
The NSA or any other agency would pay you 10x that if you go to them instead of report it.
I'm hoping that the US have a plan to end this (not too sure considering things like "mission accomplished" in Iraq).

One of the main policy of the Communist Party since they were founded is to fight off foreign aggression (look at China's history since the 18th century if you are wondering about that).

The Chinese also have a strong cultural concept of "face" and "saving face".

Thus, I don't think that hitting China will produce any result unless there is an opportunity to get a deal that allows both parties to save face.

China is willing to endure, which is also an important Chinese cultural aspect, and their government does not have the pressure to please crowds in time for the next elections (which means all the time in the US).

At the moment I think that this just reinforces Chinese nationalism and the Chinese people's willingness to stick behind their government.
Low-Wage Workers Lose Out When Tech Jobs Gain
iPhone sales are down ... better start nickel and diming the loyal "supporters".
Fun fact:

“The term S-Bahn was until 14 March 2012 a registered wordmark of Deutsche Bahn, where at the request of a transportation association the Federal Patent Court of Germany ordered the wordmark to be removed from the records of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office.[9] Prior to the said event Deutsche Bahn collected a royalty of 0.4 cents per train kilometer for the usage of the said term.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-train#Etymology
Why just users? Surely people who haven't signed up to Facebook, but have their photos uploaded by someone else and subsequently analysed, should be included?
I had my bike nicked a few weeks ago in London. Turns out the council installed new HD/4K cameras that very morning right where I left it - they managed to ID and arrest the perp, and charge him with multiple other thefts too.

So it looks like the crappy cctv is getting an upgrade
Since you can’t sue a company for propaganda, spreading lies, lobbying politicians, willfully destroying the earth and killing humans indirectly despite knowing what your product does, this is the best possible option.

It’s also peak capitalism, where only investors matter.
> The million dollar question is whether and to what degree is human-made

What part are you struggling with, that CO2 causes warming or that the CO2 is produced by humans? Because the evidence for both is about as solid as something gets in science.
I see it has listed a fruit tree in my yard... Is there a way to revoke that? I've given permission to my neighbors to pick as long as they knock, not to randoms.
That gives whole new perspective on Twitter. :)
I’ll say it once more. This isn’t that big of a bounty when you consider what Apple’s iPhone security crew make on average/year.
> Apple’s head of security engineering Ivan Krstić

Oh great, the creator of that bitfrost junk. Time to short Apple.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on Shopify?
Hello guys, I was wondering, what is your opinion on shopify? Has anyone used it successfully? Would you choose it in case you wanted to create an eCommerce solution?
> But rejecting based on things done for fun and publicly shown seems 'unfair'.

Portfolio sites are used to showcase the developer's work. If the developer's work sucks then it doesn't matter if it was done just for fun or as an extension of his CV.
True, but in terms of privacy those kinds of ads are mostly a non-issue (and speaking for myself, I'd probably be happy to see them).
Wanting to make a product cheap and therefore available to as many people as possible is a noble instinct—especially a product like this one. I totally get it.

But unfortunately that doesn’t change the fact that for many reasons, selling a product at a very low price point is an extremely difficult way to start a new business. Can it be done? Yes, of course, but you better be able to either raise tons of money or acquire customers very cheaply.

An app that costs 15% of what weekly therapy does and is similarly effective will help a lot of people. A company that dies because it can’t afford to advertise will help no one.
> I sometimes wonder what the world would look like had more free licenses (such as MIT/BSD) been just a bit more popular during critical points in history, or had less free options like GPLv3 or AGPL come a bit sooner as viable options.

It would have stayed as it was and how we are now back to, thanks to adoption of MIT/BSD and daemonising of GPL.

Public Domain, Sharewhare, Demoware, whateverware.

They too used to occasionally provide source code for the free/demo version.
Friedrichstraße is not a shopping street by any means. It's probably one of the most desolate places I can think of in the city 'centre' (Berlin has many city centres)
Do you remember a "Mirror" Sionnain?

She was made into an object if you investigated her. She was a "mirror".
> I stand by my original position: have some swap. Not a lot. Just a little.

Is there some exact figure on this ? Like how much percentage of RAM size should be allocated as swap space.
Will this be the end of rooted iPhones?
8chan: Ex-users of far-right site flock to new homes across internet
LVMH St Tropez Hotels
I heard they did some prototype that ended up being successful once they added some green elements and child playground.

http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/superilles/es/
Not certainly - perhaps there's no device node available to you to open the device that contains the bootloader, and no mknod to create one?
I actually disagree here. Majority-Owner/CEO‘s like Page/Brin, Bezos and Zuckerberg absolutely might have idealogical ambitions and not just monetary gain. I kind of buy that Page/Brin want to create real AI to bring humanity forward. And that Bezos uses Amazon as a money machine to fund humanities future in space. Not sure about Zuckerberg but he‘s certainly not motivated by money I think.

I‘m not saying their motives are pure obviously. They still want to be in charge of that future. But money seems like an incredibly boring goal.
In Germany a few big car companies start with an interesting middle ground, a "car as a service" where you pay monthly, can always switch to a different one or give it back for some time, they also handle repairs, tire changes and everything else that might pop up.

It's quite affordable starting at ~$350/mo, so I am curious to see how people will accept it.
What kind of amount in tax are you talking about? Is it net profit anyway compared to paying back tens of thousands?
> Otherwise big corps would just create tracking profiles for you based on activity of others.

Mirimir is totally trackable. And if you could (not likely) get data from Riseup and Keybase, you could find all his contacts.

But even then, none of that is linked to me in meatspace. Nobody I know in meatspace knows about Mirimir.

Hiding is not so hard if you just compartmentalize.
It is a true black swan. I doubt it happens regularly enough to become a reinforcement mechanism.
I thought where loot boxes are banned, it's because they're considered gambling.
The problem with FOSS ideals is that the rest of the world still likes money as exchange for goods and one cannot get a steady stream of it just by donations.

It is like playing on the street, yes you can make it for the supermarket, but don't expect to pay for rent and pension out of it.
Don't know how unsafe it is, but it is a bit nasty to see the stuff that goes on in U-bahn stations such as Moritzplatz, Kottbusser Tor, Schönleinstraße, Hermannplatz, Leopoldplatz, Boddingstraße et.al.

Never felt unsafe, but the heroin usage and dealing is very open and in your face during the commuting hours.
Their point was about the way Boeing is trying (and mostly succeeding) in steering media coverage about the MAX-8. (If Boeing keeps discussion on the micro issues, maybe they won't have to publicly address a macro problem). Their comment doesn't take a position on whether software is a fundamental part of the airframe or not. Yours does.
The official Berlin website disagrees with you, https://www.berlin.de/en/shopping/shopping-streets/. I live in Berlin and disagree too.
Luckily Exxon can’t deny climate change based on their own research done the past couple dozen years.
What was your experience? I haven't been able to find where we interacted with you.
Uber lost over $5B in one quarter, but don’t worry, it gets worse
Have you seen the new electric Lotus? It makes the Bugatti Veyron look distinctly underpowered.

The price? If you have to ask...
I don’t know the law of which you speak, but the risk of not catching an ugly vulnerability after posturing themselves as a secure platform all over the media could easily cost them a lot more than 1M. That’s why their bounty is actually a lowball. It’s not that they’re a big company, it’s that they have a lot to lose. Does that make sense?
Open Identity Platform Community Released OpenIDM 5.5.0
[Forgive if I've missed this in the deservedly KM-long thread; I didn't find any in a couple of rushed `grep`s.]

On the "sheer quantity of it is so overwhelming":

Not that I didn't already guess the workload would be staggering, given the gargantuan flow of comments and submissions ... still, I find the above somewhat disquieting—for the long-term health of both the moderators.

I realize that some long-time members of this community assist dang & sctb in helping moderate. Regardless, I hope they can have a slightly larger "official" team to spread the unstoppable stream of workload. Not merely for the sake of quantity, but to have fewer occurrences of having your psychological buttons get stress-tested. (I'm sure they know this, and consider this topic from time-to-time, as mentioned in the article.)

- - -

Also happy to have learnt some background and interests of the human moderators.

Thanks for the fine work, folks.
I’m assuming you know from experience.
The ordering is also not just by score. Newer comments get some time at the top as well and then decay to what I assume is their scored position.
Moof.
Some people really do learn from classes. I'm not being facetious. Sometimes teaching you can actually see that students have never considered certain things and for them it is a revelation of sorts.

To understand this you have to also take on board that ethics is difficult. The media often gives us simplified versions of situations after the fact and we can't help but feel the "right" choice was always obvious. But in reality, as an ethical conflict develops those involved often feel helpless as the problem continues to grow. No one risks stopping it precisely because they don't have the intellectual framework to deal with or understand the developing complex ethical dilemma until it is too large for a single individual to take on.

I get where you are coming from though. I'm just saying that some people aren't lucky enough to have come from that place. Education does often make the difference for well meaning people not otherwise exposed to a good moral foundation.
Bezos' investigator Gavin De Becker claims that the Saudis hacked the phone. National Enquirer already knew about the affair when they contacted the brother.
It's really, really not _that simple_.

The majority wouldn't know what VirtualBox and Whonix is, and that's before we start discussing what the benefits of privacy even are.

This is the disconnect we have with our peers who don't work in software/IT and why the right to privacy is being lost to jargon and technical expertise.

Privacy now is only a right to those who know how to employ it.
I wonder how many people know this high loss mainly comes from IPO costs and compensations which is almost 4 billion. So stop analyze something you don’t understand lol
I think a better question is what is the difference between a non linear regression and machine learning!
To a rough approximation they differ in the theorems/results they care about. In statistics one would care about consistent estimate of parameters -- as sample size goes to infinity and the model is such and such here is an estimator that will converge (according to some interesting mode of convergence) to the true parameter generating the data.

In ML one wouldnt care much about recovering the parameters. The results/theorems of interest would be that with large enough samples the predictions and the new data will converge (according to some interesting mode of convergence). If this comes at a cost of doing poorly in terms of parameter recovery, ML wouldnt be bothered.

According to ML the cycloids and epicycloid based geocentric model of planetary motion would be perfectly acceptable.
This is one of many cases, cf https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02121-6
In the sixties it became popular among urban planners, at least in the American Midwest, to have shopping districts ban cars. It did not prove popular, in fact you could say it led to the rise of shopping malls. Most if not all of these car free plazas were torn out. Is history repeating itself in Europe?

What happens if everyone moves to electric cars and the pollution problem from car exhaust disappears or is greatly abated in the inner city? Does closing the street off still make sense?
I'd also be very interested to know whether this is also the case in the other western countries, as this is how several sketchy umbrella companies work in the UK.

For those unaware, an umbrella company acts as the "employer" of contractors for places like the NHS. It's often required (or perhaps phrased strongly enough as such by the recruiters that it's difficult for a layperson to know whether it's true) to have one, and they charge a fee + withhold income tax and national insurance contributions + pay the salary of the contractor.

The sketchy ones have determined that they can pay the contractor minimum wage + a small "loan" each month of the remainder which is promised (verbally only, of course) to be forgiven entirely, and this way charge a higher fee and remain competitive because the contractor is paying minimal tax.
It reminds me of Dirac on Poetry:

>In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Does anyone seriously behave unethically because they don't know how to behave otherwise? I have a feeling that it's virtually always a conscious decision where someone prioritizes their own benefit over any cost to others, not that they just didn't know what the "right" decision was. Curious if anyone has experience a major change in mindset after taking an ethics course.
I would hope there is sufficient discouragement for that sort of behavior - that's definitely breaking at least two federal laws.

Maybe I'm naive, but I would think that any programmer skilled and privileged enough to be able to insert a vulnerability into a mainline product, get it past code review, and make it look like an innocent mistake during the inevitable root-cause analysis would not only know better, but would also value their career enough that whatever payout they got from the bounty wouldn't be worth jeopardizing all they've worked for.

And anyway, how's that conversation supposed to play out? "Sorry about that bug boss, yeah could've happened to anyone. Anyway, about my retirement in two weeks..."
I'm one of these people driving through Berlin city center streets with a car but I only do it once or twice per week to haul something heavy. I have a car because that's how I came to Berlin and the car has been very useful from time-to-time. I would never use it for daily commute as parking is complete nightmare but I would not get rid of it either. Public transport is very good here but I prefer bicycles.
When I hover over some of the "links", my FF 67 doesn't tell me where the link points to. I don't really like clicking on links if I can't tell what they're doing. Too spooky for me.
> Just consider: A physics course in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia would likely teach the same thing as a physics course in Stanford. An ethics course absolutely would not. Consider why and what that means.

Deutsche Physik rejected relativity and quantum mechanics, aka “Jewish physics”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik

Lyshenkoism killed millions through famine by espousing nonsense biology and ignoring genetics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

Philosophy, including ethics, is foundational to everything we do, and unfamiliarity with the rules of the normative allows the unscrupulous to corrupt the positive.
There are non-parametric statistical methods too though (such as bootstrap methods) which don't make such assumptions.
So the question is, assuming you have a valid exploit, could you not convince Apple to pay more than $1m?

If you found an unfound gaping crater of an exploit somewhere -- how much would that be worth to them? Likely a lot more than $1m. I'm sure you could negotiate that number up, a lot.
> protecting the data of 10k users was just as important as— or more important than— protecting the data of 1.5m users

care to elaborate on a logic behind that?
How can we automate our jobs?
Just as a gut-feeling guess, I feel like 256MB or 512MB should be fine. I don't think we need to deal with percentages; the number is likely independent of the total RAM amount. Not enough to run things on (and you don't want to run things on swap anyway), but enough to get you out of the weeds when the system is under heavy memory pressure.
Sure, but that only works if you compartmentalize from the very beginning, which regular people never do.
Cash ?
One has tatts.