skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of the index, try enabling the camera passthrough to experience severely mismatched IPD and camera spacing. I imagine this is what it feels like if ipd is set too high, but cant say because i leave it set at maximum.
If the card still has a mag strip, then a skimmer can still be introduced into an American chip reader, since you still have to shove your card in the slot.
All verbs in the article are in future tense. "will ask to stop the lawsuit" etc.
"Delivering" is kind of an overstatement - "shipping" maybe. I've placed at least a dozen orders over the last month. Almost half of them have been subsequently marked as "Get a replacement" (or whatever the text says). The Amazon delivery drivers seem to not be nearly as dedicated as UPS/FedEx drivers, at least in my area.
Sea level is only going to rise by a few feet. How can a map reflect such a small change?
Boeing will suspend 737 Max production in January
I wonder why they stuck to the "standard" machine types on GCP. Unlike with AWS you get to vary the config there somewhat, so if your workload benefits from more CPU you can add jus the CPU. Same for RAM. That will affect the per-dollar figures because you can tailor your instance to your workload pretty exactly.
What is "EST"? I know it's not the timezone. Given the frantic exclamation marks, probably it is "Everyone Stands Together" (had to look up: "EST + Urban Dictionary").
The Elvis Operator is particularly useful because it's such a common pattern in Kotlin, since the language enforces null safety. When you're using a legacy Java API without nullability annotations, the language forces you to explicitly handle a null result.
Would you trust Joe Random to replace anything in the hardware authentication pipeline?

Edit: Replied to the wrong comment...
That's true, and Kotlin definitely leans into it, but extremely concise code basically ends up looking like Brainfuck -- lots of symbols jammed together and hard to read.
>Aren't all permission-supporting filesystems vulnerable to this if mounting by a user is permitted?

Technically, it's only vulnerable on operating systems that support setuid style permissions. That doesn't exist on windows, for example.
The release model that LineageOS inherited from CyanogenMod included three branches of varying levels of stability. The philosophy that if it isn't already finished, there's no point starting is the problem with LineageOS today.
> we give individuals the freedom to do business with the corporations they choose

Is it really bad faith when this belief is obviously horseshit? Government sponsored oligopolies exist partly because we allow corporations to exercise their freedom to act how they wish at the expense of the individual's freedom to do business with the corporations they choose. The government doesn't really act to watch out for the citizenship in this context and as a result doesn't restrict the freedom of corporations to act as they wish. Given this, the statement that "Americans seem to be relatively more in favor of allowing corporations to screw them than many other countries" just seems obvious.
Apple has at time made a version of this argument for their iPhones. There probably is some truth to it (removing the repairability constraint probably does let them build thinner devices at times) but overall it is more about maintaining control than engineering practicalities.
To be more precise, I would say that expressive code == good code
Looks like an early entry point for something that can raise something completely new in computer games.

I'm looking forward to progress concerning generating some graphics based on text. I'd be even more "lucid dream" experience.

My adventure with computer games finished quite early - around Fallout2 and Baldur's Gate. Since then nothing could impress me, except maybe few examples (one I can remember was a racing game, which I found interesting, because it mapped a real world city, I can't remember the name, thought). I think that the main reason is that when I discover inner mechanisms of something it stops being interesting for me. With that kind of experience, which is more like digging into some subconscious areas of mind it won't happen to soon ;)
Silent Sam was erected to promote white supremacy, not to respect history. The speech given when it was erected in 1913 literally included quotes such as 'the purest strain of the Anglo Saxon is to be found in the 13 Southern States' and 'I horse-whipped a negro wench until her skirts hung in shreds'.
This doesn't really showcase many of the best advantages of Kotlin. They should add some with data classes, JavaBeans, multiple assignment, lambdas, map/reduce/fold, extension methods, etc. I've found that Kotlin code is usually 3-4x more concise than Java, and most of the benefit is in your data structure definitions (i.e. changing 100 lines of boilerplate to a 4-line data class, or destructuring a Pair/Triple where you would otherwise have been tempted to create a new class and 2-3 lines of assignments) rather than in individual statements.
Oh, I was hoping this was going to be like the What 3 Words of IP addresses. Like "fourteen-mangled-yellow-squirrels.has-a.name".
What about TypeScript?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/
Interesting math problem would be to make a 30 second audio sequence that could match against the greatest number of ContentId copyright works. Could a deliberate mix be crafted where 100+ different unique songs (not good, presumably purpose built for this 30 second clip) all contain ~20 seconds of the 30 second audio clip and would allow 100 unique claims on the content.
I have this setup for all of my Chase and American Express cards. The notifications show up within seconds of me making a purchase, which makes it very easy to sanity check.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624 It's ~7 years of hardware parts availability. Software is around 7-10 years.
> Heat is usually conducted in a solid? I haven't heard it defined like that before.

How have you heard it defined?

>Don't see how it's not a purely hyperbolic statement.

Obviously. And I do believe it was meant to be taken as such.

>Is that because quantum mechanics wasn't being taught 25 years ago

I took my first quantum course about 20 years ago, and it didn't seem like it was something new.

> or because they simply were not thinking deeply about that particular topic at the time?

They were talking about an anecdote about shouting through a vacuum. You, yourself determined it was hyperbolic in nature, so I don't see how questioning the "depth" of their thinking on the subject makes any sense.
Probably because reporters don't work for cyber-security firms and don't give a shit about the C&C URL... just saying.
There is a certain sort of personality that despises that sort of human contact. But I don't expect they're a large enough portion of the population to make such a robot commercially viable.

(Also that demographic is already served by hair-cutting vacuum cleaner gadgets.)
> one complicating factor is the risk that an upgraded system remains vulnerable, which you'd need to account for in some manner

Bundle the financing with cybersecurity insurance.
> Needless to say, the victims that spun their wheels chasing after me usually suffered far more substantial financial losses (mainly because they delayed calling their financial institution until it was too late).

That really rubs me the wrong way... someone doubts the random phone call telling them they are being robbed and he acts like it was their fault for doubting?
This is a bit of a tangent, but my parents owned a gas station in the late 90s and early 2000s. When they bought it, pay-at-the-pump was rare. Towards the end of their ownership, it was becoming common, and they were under a lot of pressure to install it. The installation was going to cost more than $250k on top of eating into the profit margin on gas sales (through credit card transaction fees) and discouraging folks from going into the store -- and in-store sales were by far the primary profit generator, as gas margins were low, zero, or negative depending on the constantly changing state of hyper-local competition and global gas prices. They opted to just sell the entire business instead and let it be someone else's problem.
Cockroach here: Thank you! We'll get this fixed.
One side effect of the growth of Amazon is the replacement of "decent" jobs with absolutely soul sucking ones.

In the early 2000's I knew people that worked as delivery drivers for UPS or FedEx and it was a decent job. They seemed happy. Now I see the Amazon delivery people, and they look majorly stressed out as if they are on the edge of collapse. Many times they are delivering things at 10pm desperately trying to meet their quotas.

I think a lot of the same thing happened in the retail as well. I see the salespeople at malls or brick and mortar retail stores. Even though it is stressful, at least they get to be somewhat human in that they talk to people and have some degree of freedom to move around. Compare that with the Amazon warehouse workers whose every second has been planned out with maximally efficiency and who so afraid of losing their jobs that they are afraid to go to the bathroom.

It seems the "decent" jobs are going away, replaced by ones that turn workers into robots to better extract value from their labor.
I don't understand what Bezos is thinking here. He seems to think that he can force the employees to work on military projects. What happened with Google is the employees said "it's either this project or us" and Google preferred to keep the employees. Bezos could make a different decision, but he can't keep both, and it doesn't sound like he realizes that to me.
Meaning, software dev salaries should go up at these companies?
> It's hard to convey how uncomfortable a straight keyboard is to someone who hasn't tried the alternative.

This is how I feel about the Qwerty keyboard layout.
I don't know offhand, it's a different team that runs it. I'd guess it's something related to backwards compatibility and the general "roll big changes out slowly so it doesn't break" credo. And it may be tied to a certain kind of HW that supports it, which doesn't exist everywhere, since cloud providers can't just throw out all their HW each time a new feature comes in (as much as we wish we could). But that's just a guess.
Still shocks me how widespread magnetic stripe credit card use is in the US. The rest of the world moved on a very long time ago.
One could cease to provide social security as it is structured if one replaced it with an alternative. We already know from US history that it is unwise (in a humanitarian sense) to trust the public to just save enough to retire comfortably (including having the foresight to keep their savings in assets that don't diminish in value before they are needed to offset continued life without labor into the system).
They will. I am in the process of updating Java code snippets to Java 11.
That's not really what I was saying. If the will of the people doesn't support giving resources to all the people (goodwill) Socialism is not possible.

That said, a better example is that 'socialist' countries seem to give less to charity for those abroad. The biggest donating countries per capita are Myanmar, the USA and Australia, the most likely to help strangers appear to be Iraq, Libya and Kuwait. Even in Europe, it's topped by the UK which, while it is in possession of a social safety net, I would not call Socialist.
Amazon offered overnight or 2-day shipping, and it turns out that customers apparently love it. I suppose we can quibble over who "creates" the expectation, but note that other things Amazon have offered or tested did not lead to intense customer demand.
Large parts of Florida are not much above sea level. Some articles have explored that with maps already, for example:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/4818/elevation-of-s...
As long as expressive doesn't mean too terse and somewhat readable to most...lest you commit perl's sins.
If this stuff bothers you a lot, I suggest not brining it up as a topic when it isn't being discussed already.
Amazon doesn't seem much better. Last week, they 'delivered' an item, marked it delivered. The problem with that is that I didn't get it, and the picture proof was not my house. I have no idea whose house it was. When I called to ask for a refund, they first told me to wait as sometimes they mark things delivered before they are. I told him about the picture. Then he asked me to go door to door in my neighborhood because maybe someone else has it. I told him in a not so nice way that was their job, not mine. In the end I -did- get a refund, but seriously, I can't imagine UPS or Fedex saying things like this.
OK, but where are the advantages? The page has just a different syntactic sugar resembling Pascal/Scala; sine JVM nihil Kotlin anyway. Sometimes Kotlin's "advantages" there have more boilerplate than Java...
I'm surprised some foreign power hasn't done this just for the sole reason of messing with the US movie industry, which is one of America's more significant export industries, and thereby harming the American economy.
The bad thing is their market position and ability to negotiate rates makes it much harder for independent business operators who must charge more for shipping or else lose money. The situation isn’t sustainable. Eventually, unless something drastic happens, we’ll be faced with asking whether they should be permitted to provide their own delivery services or not due to concerns about competition.
> Note that the only information sent is domains—not interests, not profiles, just general-purpose news domains like bbc.co.uk.

Alex requests The Washington Post and CNN.

Bob requests The Wall Street Journal and Fox News.

And Joe requests PornHub.

I know the last one is not in the list buy my point is: the domain is more than enough to profile you for profitable reasons.

Plus, the fact that this isn't addressed or even mentioned in the article is not good.

Will we ever get a browser that dose not send anything to the company/organization developing it for any reason/excuse?
The restructuring of the economy?
Websockets.
I once ordered a Battery-backed UPS, that arrived via FedEx. It wouldn't work on small loads, so I arranged to return it. I put it in the original box it came in, and took it to the FedEx store.

The worker was very rude, and refused to let me send it, unless I double-boxed it. Company policy? He offered sell me a box and packing material.
Probably a lot harder than you would think because there are tons and tons of different versions of the pumps out there. You'd also need to get your solution certified for each model of pump. It could make sense if there is a particular model that is especially common and reasonably modern (so you aren't asking the owner to upgrade a pump that only has a couple of years left on it anyway), but my impression from driving around is that there are about as many gas pump designs as there are service stations.
On the contrary, I consider the "Elvis operator" to be one logical operation: give me this value, or the other one if this one is invalid. What's the more terse way to write the example with a ternary operator?
What's their definition of "major"? Missoula has been offering no-cost buses for years now.
A Cloud Guru Has Acquired Linux Academy
Contacting the company is strongly discouraged as well and for good reasons:

* You do not want to create an environment where some enjoy the protection of the FBI and others do not.

* You do not want to jeopardize an ongoing investigation or later trial.
Modest Proposals: In Defense of Deep Fakes
Chip doesn't work once in a while, they end up swiping instead when that happens. Not sure why.
Learning Esperanto first may lead to faster proficiency in French, but it may not be good proficiency. This is because learning the words first through Esperanto would ingrain some bad habits in the learner that will be hard to eradicate after he or she moves on to French.

What I have in mind is the fact that French distinguishes between the vowels /ɔ/ and /o/, and between /ɛ/ and /e/. When learning new words, foreigners must get this distinction down right, it is key to having a decent accent in French, and in some cases avoiding misunderstandings. Yet when French roots were used in Esperanto, those vowels were leveled as just /o/ and /e/, respectively. That means that the learner does not learn the right French vowels from the start, and is likely to continue using in French the /o/ learned from Esperanto when the vowel is actually /ɔ/ etc.

In modern language teaching, it is considered vital to avoid pronunciation mistakes from the very start, because otherwise they become too firmly rooted to get rid of later.
Check the follow on messages to that they've gone peer to peer and it's no longer costing money to host.

https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1204064712394076160
Not defending Total Reclaim's misrepresentation BUT.... the market for many recyclable commodities is insufficient to justify processing expense in the US. Why? Two reasons. First, there's little manufacturing capacity remaining in North America to utilize many (not all) recyclable commodities. Second, subsidies and currency manipulation continue to dump virgin commodities and new products into the US. This is not a consumer demand problem. It is not a US regulatory problem. It's no longer the fault of US product designers. The decisions that drive this environmental and safety disaster are made in Shenzen and Beijing, period. The US cannot legislate how China manufactures its products, nor how they are recycled in China. US consumers and recyclers now have nowhere else to go for supply or end-of-life solutions. Those of us who have warned about this dystopian reality were laughed at, gaslighted and ignored for the past 20 years. It's going to get worse. Electronic waste today. Civil rights tomorrow. Don't believe me? Here's a couple youtube videos featuring real experts on the issue. The future is bleak.

Hudson Institute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8UUKYf-7Ws
Chris Balding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1h9ciK7Yfk
I'm not sure how the terminals are organized in terms of how locked down they are, but it's specifically occurring on the terminals they use for accessing patient data; they all freeze up simultaneously. It stops the entire hospital from operating each time until IT pays the bill.
It is less to do with Google investing in GCP offerings than their investment in general in Operating Systems and their sheer quality of engineers.
This school of thought works as long as individuals are free to do business with corporations. It breaks down when there are monopolies whether they are farm equipment companies or platform operators like Amazon or Apple.
Yeah. This was the point I was halfheartedly making -- concise code for the sake of concise code is a dogma that needs to go away.
No, I am not affiliated with them (though we follow each other on Twitter). My point is, I don't see any security implication involved with a wrong PTR record in relation to this service. If I set the PTR of my IP to this domain, but the domain itself resolves to some other IP. Or are you implying they can only request a cert if the PTR matches the domain? At least for LetsEncrypt this is not true, otherwise home owners with dynamic IPs wouldn't be able to request certificates.
“Snowcrash” to be HBO series, compete with actual early Metaverses for viewers
Imagine you have a giant magnet and using it makes you lose money.
500 or 2000 hours for an extremely useful outcome vs. 50 for completely useless. I'll take the former, please.

If you're a polyglot who wants to learn two dozen languages, then go for it, but don't prioritize Esperanto over Klingon or Elvish.
I personally believe it is a mixture of

1) American apathy to corporate behavior
2) Corporations being most willing to dedicate resources to lobbying in the US (compared to European countries) due to its corporate friendly legal and legislature systems and extremely powerful economy
Comparing to

>>> public static void main(final String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello world!")
}

Is just a glamour shot. How many times does one actually have to type public static void main? Once per application, by definition.
This is probably due to an overworked worker pushed to meet some metric saying something is delivered when it isn't. I'm sure amazon will do everything they can with software using gps, pictures etc to make it harder to do that.
That is essentially treating the symptoms, not the cause.
The I/O example is moot since Java 11 where Java got https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/13/docs/api/java.base..., so we can do `Files.readString(Paths.get(doc.txt))`.

Java 14 is getting an experimental preview of Records (https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/359) which takes care of much (but not all) of ceremony around "data classes".

And Java 13 got a preview of text blocks, https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/355.

Things are coming. That said, I hardly believe those minor syntax improvements are what is so "good" about Kotlin. It has some better defaults (non-null by default, final classes by default), and is a more modern language. Java will stay with us for many years to come, though.
Worst case is 2.5m rise by 2100, which is half the smallest change in your link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
Lot of the skimmers now are so small they go inside the card reader https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/insert-skimmer/
... isn't that basically what a credit card skimmer is?
> Languages like Swift and Objective-C hide the reference counting for you, so 'instruction pollution' is not really something I care about. The overhead at the instruction & memory level is fairly minimal for these language too, by means of using tagged pointers. I'm pretty sure the compiler is smart enough to factor out reference counting for complete sections where it can determine objects can impossibly go out of scope (e.g. sections where aliasing can be ruled out, and all assignments are to locals, such as in many loops).

New Swift Ownership API can help, but compiler is not that good to figure out exclusive ownership all by themselves without any annotation. It is common to have more than 10% of you time in RC environment spent on refcount calculations and locks acquisition (some stats: http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu/iacoma-papers/pact18.pdf).
So much this. Although if the guide is meant to hit on the heavy-hitter basics, I think it's a great start.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799845
More than half of Americans end up not paying taxes, because their income is too low. If you're saying make it negative, sure, I'm all for that, but I think you are underestimating the poverty situation in America.
The delivery company by that name was, at one point, owned by the Purolator oil filter company. (The shipping company used to be named Trans-Canada Couriers.)

Purolator comes from the phrase "pure oil later," as in long-lasting oil filters for combustion engines.
Quick question, has anyone here heard of a very odd company in Kansas City called...https://joesdatacenter.com.

All of the staff on LinkedIn exist...but there are only 3 of them and apparently the founder and CEO just got out of community college?

They claim to have at least a few ten thousands of floor space, so that must be minimum $25 million in server capital assuming all are used.

They also for some reason broadcast incredibly interesting weather data from the top of the building: https://joesdatacenter.com/hvac/

I currently work in San Antonio as a short term contractor for a SOC (many military bases and sizeable banks here) and last night an incident was raised and a breach somewhat close to being declared and we are getting pinged is it Tsinghua? is it APT 17? to which we have to respond seriously on Slack...no it’s “Joes Datacenter” ASN 19969 out of Kansas City.
Ah I see - they’re too good and should be hobbled so people who aren’t as good can keep up. Consumer looses out.