skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember installing Rockbox on an original iPod for a blind friend of mine, just because with the right settings it would read out the name of the song to her. It took me about two hours, because we were working on a WinXP PC with JAWS and the iPod wasn't exactly Windows-compatible, even in mass-storage mode.
You're right, except for an uninitialized entropy pool

Once the generator had been seeded (once), sure, read from urandom and don't worry.

The main issue is trying to read from it at boot time
People are used to it and don't care about it anymore.
Does #1 mean that a person with high blood pressure is more able to survive blood loss than a person with standard blood pressure?
If there were one ton chickens running around they’d probably be killing us. They’re not that far removed from their ancestors.
MSE enthusiast, polymers
What exactly would you need to happen that hasn't been done in order to draw that parallel short of a swastika on their flag?

I think 2019 China is pretty damn close to 1939 Germany, the only thing required to push it over the edge is a looming economic collapse.
Logic and Numerology. More so for Numerology, if I'm being honest. I could probably get along with any DAW after the initial learning curve. Plus, I make heavy use of IAC Buses. But, I believe there's a Windows version that people use.
This is in hong kong though not in the mainland
That’s a clearly false distinction.

If Apple turns over the files of one individual to the government, then whole society is vulnerable to that, and this is incomparably more oppressive than removing a one of the UI buttons that displays a particular flag.
“Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein (1949)
Reminder: 32-bit apps will not work in Catalina.
If you use your computer as your main work machine, hold off on the update. You're bound to run into a random forgotten app you use every once in a while that's no longer supported.

To see what's still 32-bit on your mac, go to:

Apple icon > About this mac > system report > applications > then click the 64-bit column to sort. No will be 32-bit apps.
Do you live in SF? After working in tech in the bay for 6 years I’ve sort of had enough of the tech unicorn life. The greed and sociopathic tendencies got to me more than anything.
If a program works fine, with no issues, why should companies be forced to update it simply because Apple decrees they no longer support 32 bit applications? "Sweeping the dust" is an absurd declaration.
Thought experiment - if you're Chamberlain, and want to postpone the war with Germany for a few more years while you build an army - what exactly do you say in a speech? "We're currently too weak to fight, but we'll get there" is not the sort of thing that I would expect to result in postponing war.
Even if you're correct, how is denying these people Photoshop doing anything and why is Adobe punishing the other 10%? Otherwise I can't imagine how you could frame graphic artists as the true enemy of the people.
I'm surprised the number of people on HN that assume Microsoft's security group involved in actively trying to find malware by running unknown programs has absolutely 0 precautions that one of the programs they run would be malicious.
Just a heads up, Robert Shiller's new course in "Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral And Drive Major Economic Events" goes live on Coursera early 2020 ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLsG4R8FFOc

If you have quantitative skills, I think an alternative to delving into classical econ theory would be to take a data science approach. A lot of non-parametric stats texts use econ/fin examples. And there is an abundance of datasets available via FRED

https://www.federalreserve.gov/conferences/nontraditional-da...

Best of luck ;)
Bash is actually pretty decent at this by itself if you don't have a lot of extra columns:

cat somefile.txt | while IFS=" " read one two; do echo -e "$one\t$two"; done

IME the pattern matching is where awk really shines.
This is probably going to be what gets me to switch all my audio applications to Windows 10. Once again, everything I use -- Serato, Ableton, and half a dozen pieces of hardware from different manufacturers -- is broken in this release.

Apple's become a phone company that grudgingly still makes computers, and this is reflected in their treatment of end users.
I think the question of treating ISIS territory as an independent state, with all the international law that would imply about respecting its independence and autonomy, treating it as a peer at the UN, etc., is a textbook case of why (international-legal) legitimacy is a status not granted automatically in the basis of territory and control alone, and should not be.

The things ISIS members did to subpopulations people within that territory were almost universally condemned across the world as large-scale serious human abuse, and the territories were obtained through quite recent violence from other nations whose administrative borders had not stopped being recognised internationally.

So I think it was widely regarded that ISIS should not be granted the international respect and autonomy of legal recognition, nor should it keep any power it had of a monopoly on violence within its borders (or any borders).

That's not to say there aren't widely condemned things going on in other countries. But there is a kind of collective, sometimes grudging, but systematised respect for the autonomy of countries as nations, which I think was widely regarded as not something that would be right to grant to ISIS (or take away from the nations that ISIS had taken territory from).
There are 64 bit versions of the Microsoft Office apps. Do they not work in Catalina?
"Rabbi Chanina, deputy to the kohanim, would say: Pray for the integrity of the government; for were it not for the fear of its authority, a man would swallow his neighbor alive."

It's important to remember that Rabbi Chanina saw the destruction of the Second Temple and still made his statement that has come down to us in the Pirke Avot.
If you use cloudwatch, the “should” part is tricky. “Should” you be able to and “should” you do it if metrics were reasonably priced based on their basic required storage / computational footprint? Yes.

However, “should” you in a world where you only have cloudwatch because you don’t want to roll your own monitoring or bring in a third party vendor? Probably not. It’s not a good thing, but it’s a reality. 1/n approximation is your go to here.
This is incredibly gracious feedback taking, a lesson in how not to be defensive.

I agree with you where some here don't. I think there are often better tools for any single data cleaning task.

R's strength is being second best at an enormous range of tasks (and often being first to get new techniques) and packaging that with analysis and visualization.
Consider: Malware that doesn't do anything suspicious unless it can first fetch a plausible benign file from what looks like a CDN. If the goal is to properly inspect the behaviour of potentially-malicious code, what it does after successfully fetching a set of ads is as, if not more important than what it does when the connection is blocked. Perhaps a multiplayer game with a backdoor triggered by the MotD service, through intentionally-vulnerable-to-buffer-overflows string processing code.
Not in Hong Kong it seems, where protestors are well within the reach of the PRC.
I've experienced a number of problems. Anything from Apple fuckups to software that won't run for one reason or another. It's much safer to wait at least 6 months before updating.
Ok, then "the law shouldn't be just designed".

We shouldn't let a defeatist attitude discourage attempts at improvement.
Assuming you argue in good faith, how about this:

1. Germany annexed the Rhineland, Sudetenland, and Austria using the justification of unifying German-speaking peoples under a single banner. The Chinese line for Hong Kong and Taiwan is the same -- you look Chinese, you are Chinese and to say otherwise is treason and will get you labeled an American lap-dog. I can tell you this firsthand as a Chinese-American and if you need a more concrete example, just look at how the Chinese treated Gary Locke.

2. Revenge for the perceived humiliation of Versailles was a core driving factor for the rise of Nazism in post-Weimar Germany. If you can give me another explanation for the state of Chinese-Japanese relations, I will eat my words.

3. Go on any Chinese social media site and the amount of nationalist rhetoric you'll find is quite disturbing. Having pride in your country is one thing, to insist on your national, racial, and cultural supremacy is another.

4. Google what's going on in Xinjiang and tell me that doesn't stink of something.

Maybe I'm wrong and just being an alarmist, and it would certainly be in the best interest for the world if I were, but ask yourself -- what are the stakes this time if I'm not?
Tegridy
They're referring to a (default?) dark color scheme on the web products, to make it better on the eye with better contrast.
Thrusters with some sort of controlled decent if it doesn't receive a signal in some period of time?
> at what point does appeasement just become acceptance of China's behavior?

This seems to be US policy since Nixon's visit to China. The difference is now we're just more open about it.
But what do they feel? What Trump and Obama feel about SP? For example, in Russia everybody would (hypothetically) laugh their asses out, but the creators would be promptly sued, because reasons, and won't proceed.
That's one option, but at some point one will want to get a new plugin or something that will require a new macOS version.
Thanks. An FAQ would be useful with info like this.
It's not difficult to flatten JSON but turning into a table is another issue altogether.
A lot of podcasters make money off of live shows and merchandise too.

If they had a large, devout audience, but couldn’t make money, it seems their main issue was relying on the wrong form of monetization.
A few months ago I tried a Mojave and a few older versions of macOS in VirtualBox on a 2013 Thinkpad (Hackintosh) and had no problems with booting nor basic things like Finder and other operations with the GUI. I didn't try more graphics-intensive apps, however, but it was actually surprisingly fast and easy to install from an ISO created using the official source download, minus the workaround I needed for EFI booting from APFS. Building an app with Xcode (the reason for doing all this in the first place) also worked decently.
And as a result South Park has been banned in China.
Microsoft does not exactly have the best track record with this.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...
Its funny that people focus on extraordinarily rare situations like sitting on a needle that are so rare that you have to find a news article to show that it can happen but ignore the horrifyingly common occurrence of car crashes which are so common almost everyone has experienced one or knows someone who has and usually has life threatening outcomes.
SimpleRockets 2 is a space flight simulator
The whole one China policy has always been confusing to me, but haven't done too much research. Taiwan, Hong Kong and China each have different entry requirements for example for visiting, yet they are supposed to be the same country? I guess it has to do with control after their civil war though, but confusing for people who haven't been following the whole story. They are not separate, yet they are separate is like some sort of double speak.

But the US has some confusing things too going on, like people from American Samoa are considered US nationals but they aren't US Citizens. They still get US passports, but can't vote, etc. I guess they aren't technically citizens of any country then but aren't completely stateless since still considered a national. It's like they aren't really citizens anywhere but are kinda like a half citizen in a way since they still get a passport. John Oliver did a segment on this, https://youtu.be/CesHr99ezWE
Which china? If the world was truly fair and honored the original signatories, it'd have gone back to the ROC and not the PRC. But it didn't because of might is right.

I saw you made a comment earlier that both countries say "China" on their passports missing the point of this whole conflict.

I think you should spend at least an hour reading about the history of this conflict (not through China's censored Internet).
Audio people have been moving away from Apple over the past few years specifically because of show-stopping bugs introduced by new versions of the OS. This really never happens in Windows now and it's become more and more appealing to switch.
> Yea it's not possible (in a way that works without breaking stuff) to drop from 64bit to 16bit the way you can with 32 to 16.

Yes, it is. It’s almost exactly the same. What you can’t do is run v8086 code on a 64-bit kernel without using a VM, most of the code people care about is 16-bit protected mode code.

I maintain the messy but small amount of Linux kernel code that makes this work. It is, indeed, gross, because the x86 architecture is awful. But it works fine in practice and there is quite a good test suite these days to exercise the ugly bits in the kernel tree.
Indeed most writing which demands clarity and precision (legal documents, regulations, military reports, etc.) intentionally avoid ALL pronouns.

In a military report, the enemy isn’t ever referred to as “they” because that pronoun could also be understood to refer to another friendly unit or allied government force depending on ambiguous word order or mistranslation. Instead a term like OPFOR or similar is used consistently instead of a pronoun.

This is what sites like SE should use as a standard: precise and pronoun-free language for both questions and answers.
A few years back I discovered the Siri interface would not only talk to you in a different accent of your choosing, but it would also understand you differently based the chosen language. I did a quick video based on American English vs Australian English: https://vimeo.com/207295417 (you can probably skip the first 10 seconds or so - it's just me demoing the choice of language).
Ok, here's a simpler example that might demonstrate why it can't always be solved.

ffmpeg -i input.avi -metadata author=shakna output.mp4

What metadata keys are allowed, if at all, actually depends on the output file. If I'd chosen to make an ogv instead, then that metadata flag would become disabled, because it doesn't accept most sets of metadata.

I can't complete:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -metadata a[TAB]

Because the entire set of CLI commands isn't simple left-to-right solveable.

However, if I do:

ffmpeg -i input.avi -metadata author=shakna output.mp4 output.ogv

That means I'm outputting one file with metadata, output.mp4, and one file without it, output.ogv. So the flag is conditionally enabled or disabled.
The (new) ABA has lots of teams you could support. Lots and lots of teams. If you have some extra cash, you could probably even have your own ABA team.
Can you return a bit by deciding whether the executable gets flagged as malicious in response to the network activity? Can you set up a timing difference to send more than one bit per executable?
Probably not a great idea if you don't have the depression fully controlled, but have you considered doing independent consulting? Pick a vertical or technology that you enjoy and hang a shingle.

It's definitely not the best way to make a lot of money, but I spent 15 years working with people for 4-24 weeks at a time and i loved it. Just keep in mind that if you're married with family it can create a tremendous amount stress with variable income. Also if you're in the US make sure you sort out health insurance...and lastly make sure you have someone to do the paperwork if you get in a hole with the depression. The IRS is not to be trifled with.
I would like you to remind me every day until I submit to your annoyance, I mean tomorrow please
> Dropping 32bit support is game-over for gaming on macOS.

No, it isn't. There were never any 32-bit x86 Macs with decent GPUs. Dropping 32-bit support only affects games that were already old enough to be commercially irrelevant or games that rely on unmaintained third-party middleware that never got a 64-bit port. Those don't add up to enough to be a major impact on the Mac gaming market. There are plenty of other factors that are much more important, such as Apple's abandonment of OpenGL and preference for Metal over Vulkan.
Or this is how you get the creators apologizing through the characters -for almost half an episode- of being so stupid of equating climate change with a half man, half bear, half pig creature.
Joe Rogan Experience #1361 – Cmdr. David Fravor on UFO Chase
Maybe selection bias, but as a long time podcast listener, ever since the medium exploded, I've noticed more and more old podcasts that predate popularity surge getting canned. Creators that regularly cast for years fail to pivot to monetization their passion into a career, get demotivated and burn out. Maybe they're losing ears to plateuing audience and ad money to competitors. Maybe they're just getting old, starting families, have busy careers. Kind of a bummer either way, patronage is good for the arts to a degree, but extrinsic motivation (money) is also less resilient than internal motivation (passion). Also I miss quirky geocities pages.
But if someone has a hint about useful prior art, please let me know.

http://fuzix.org/ - lots of 8-bit targets, z80 included

http://cowlark.com/cpmish/index.html - has a vi-like editor, assembler, and is cp/m compatible so it can run lots of old cp/m software like various compilers
Everyone realizes it's counterproductive to overreact to any particular SP parody.

Most people recognize SP as libertarian in general orientation, with a slight liberal bias.

Neither Obama nor Trump has spent a second in office thinking about its portrayal of them.
Spotify agreed to buy Gimlet for $230 million.
Although it's annoying to prompted so frequently for access as shown in the screenshot, I feel it's a necessary evil.

In regards to the "Vista" reference, users went from a Windows XP "do whatever you want" model to an "are you sure?" (UAC) model with Vista, Windows 7, 8, and beyond. It caused frustration but at the same time Microsoft made an attempt to give software less access by default, which was a great thing for software security, even if it didn't make it secure.
At some point we have to accept that if the Chinese were coming over the hill with nothing but chopsticks we’d still lose.

When that happens you don’t want to be on the PRC’s most wanted list.
Well played, PG&E. Well played.
Pretty much every time
This is definitely true. I live in Vietnam and the same problem exists here. If you used true "local pronunciation", most foreigners wouldn't be able to understand many of the street names.

The disconnect between the two pronunciations is so stark that many times taxi drivers have literally no idea what street a foreigner is telling them to go to.
I'd be interested to see stats on how often people skip over the ads during a podcast. I admit I do occasionally, but most of the time when I'm listening to a podcast I'm simultaneously doing something - like driving, exercising, mowing the lawn - that makes it inconvenient open my phone, navigate to to the app, and press the skip button a few times. Coupled with the fact that the adds are generally not too long, I don't find it to be too intrusive to the episode.
That's an incredibly insulting and myopic viewpoint.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21187044

> If you're on an ancient Linux kernel, you can poll /dev/random until it's available if you're uncertain whether or not /dev/urandom has ever been seeded. Once /dev/random is available, don't use /dev/random, use /dev/urandom. This side-steps the "/dev/urandom never blocks" concern that people love to cite in their fearmongering. This is essentially what getrandom(2) does.

This is outlined here as well: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/05/how-generate-secure-rando...

This is what randombytes_buf() does in libsodium on older Linux kernels.

This is actually the best of both worlds: Although /dev/urandom on Linux will happily give you predictable values if you try to read from it before the RNG has been seeded on first boot, once /dev/random is "ready" to be read from once, you know that the entropy pool powering /dev/urandom has been seeded. And then you can guarantee that /dev/urandom is secure and nonblocking henceforth.

If you can't just use getrandom(2), do the "poll /dev/random, then read /dev/urandom" dance and even the fearmonger's favorite issue to cite becomes a non-issue.
> I expect the next step to be: if you use an unrestricted platform (Linux, OpenBSD, etc...), you won't be granted access to major chunks of the internet.

We already have this in the form of browser drm modules. It's not hard to imagine similar modules being implemented for network stacks. ISPs and internet exchanges can be required by law to drop any unencrypted traffic.

Lock down is an inevitability for any technology. General computing, Machine learning, Encryption, and other technology will inevitably get locked behind a sea of regulation. The only way to combat this is to keep governments playing catch up by innovating faster than they can legislate (e.g. mesh networks as a response to telecom overregulation).
- Scripting isn't gone. The OSA services are still there; Python isn't installed by default but that's all.

- Services isn't gone.

- Yeah, that's fairly annoying. I think Skype has tear-off-able windows but that might only be for voice calls, not chat windows.

- The new Music app (which is really just iTunes with all the videos, podcasts, and other crap ripped out) now just manages music — it's oriented towards Apple Music by default but a couple of clicks in the View menu changes that.
Not really what I'm asking but OK... I doubt a lacking
of a color scheme is going to add much to your competitive analysis.
Podcasts are great. I think Michael Lewis has really nailed the niche.
Nobody should get credit for inventing something in secret. You make your decision — invent for corporations or the military industrial complex and get the big bucks or the jingoistic frisson, or for academia and get the accolades. No way a person should double dip.
You've just described the Roman Empire to a <T>.

(Is that generic type notation?)
I don't know think the PRC guys have much of a sense of humor. But the Taiwanese animators are hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4G3lPPWm6qtoWtRk4vyGwg
No, it's very much still San Francisco. Are you sure it's not a browser plugin issue, or perhaps something changed in Catalina that causes the browser not to display the font the same way as in previous versions?

If you're using Chrome, this may be the result of a bug in Chrome. Have a look in Safari, it should be fine there.
You're right. It's the perfect form of media in terms of consumption addiction. It's completely opt in, and easily opted out of.

I wonder what we can learn from that.
Since the transistors are used as switches, one can use electromechanical one, aka relays.

There's a nice project page of one here[1], including an in-depth video about it here[2]. There's a collection of other relay computers here[3].

[1]: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsp2JntuZ3c

[3]: https://github.com/Dovgalyuk/Relay/wiki
When you vote with your wallet the way that I described, the companies that act badly get fewer dollars. If they want to raise their prices more and more until 1 person is paying $1mil/year for their software, and he gets all the votes, that's fine by me.