skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politely, I don't think that you're actually talking to anybody in "the [non-]working poor".

The article you linked commits a dire mistake: They claim that a government that took care of its lazy and poor would encourage the poor to be lazier and the lazy to be poorer, but when has there ever been such a government that actually does care for its lazy and poor? Their claim is without evidence and based upon a style of governance that hasn't yet been tried. In other words, their claim is anti-inductive and generates a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Your last two paragraphs are in conflict. UBI would lift people out of poverty in ways that existing welfare programs don't, and it's via the same effect I pointed out before: UBI's effects taper off slowly as people improve their situations, rather than producing more all-or-nothing thresholds which trap people.

The bigotry that I am complaining about is the bigotry that you exhibit: That of putting words and actions in the mouths of the poor. I wonder whether you have ever lived below the poverty line.
In addition to the costs of developing good foundational code, I think revenue is becoming a driver for slower-than-necessary software.

An increasing number of providers (for example databases) charge per server, per core, or another hardware-usage metric. The more hardware, the more revenue for them as they make about 90% margin for every new machine. There is a high incentive to get users to need more machines on their "managed cloud".

Vendors could try to improve their software so it requires twice as little CPU. But why bother since this would result in 2x cost in revenue? It makes more sense to focus on horizontal scalability than on core efficiency so users can keep on adding machines to their cluster over time.

If software is running at 1% of the maximum performance as suggested in the article, a 1% improvement could reduce costs by 50%. But I think none of the existing vendors will ever make the move as it conflicts against their own interest.
This is largely because Japanese prosecutors are so underfunded they only take on cases with absolute certainty of success.
Just to clarify: the attack depends on reading (unencrypted) management packets going from the AP to the device, and if PMF is enabled on the AP, it will only send encrypted management packets so the attack is not possible. Is that it?
i.e. "My wrongdoing is much smaller than your wrongdoing, so I will keep doing wrong until you stop doing wrong."

So sick of this argument.
:), especially for fantasy, science fiction, etc. Those prices are fantastic on amazon too, I usually get great books for $2,99 or 4,99.
And IBM sold to the Nazis. There needs to be a higher value enforced by law.
It simply uses udev to identify when the USB device is removed, then executes a linux command of your choosing. In the examples provided, he demonstrates a simple 'lockscreen' and 'shutdown' command.

It's clever, I'll admit, but the name leaves more to be desired with a name like 'buskill'
1. Give them a very locked down by default device like an iPad if possible.

2. Set their phone to send everything to voicemail that isn't a contact. Many scams don't leave one & if they do it can be discussed with appropriate people first.

3. Install a browser like Brave or extensions that block most garbage on the internet.

4. Setup their important files & pictures to be backed up automatically to one or more cloud services.

5. Not related to tech scammers, but more the ransom scammers or your grandchild needs money scammers - Always have some type of secret agreed upon phrases or questions that no one would ever know or be able to find out. Even better, make it a question someone could easily search for but have a ridiculous answer that is an inside joke between the two of you.

6. (Geek Bonus) - Enjoy watching social engineering videos together! They're entertaining, informative & I personally think more enjoyable than most of the stuff that passes for movies, sports & TV shows. Ok, this last one is probably not for everyone.
For the sake of nuance, in 2019 "tech" has been in unfair bad spotlight while it has been a blessing for society.

We literally have magical powers at our fingertips. People however do not want to spend money on the software that makes this possible, period.

We still have companies like Coke that sell sugar water and propel a tsunami of obesitas at scale with an advertisement budget that only recently is surpassed by Google's annual profit.

There is advertisement and advertisement, helping every business with tools to sell more products and services is moving us forward. Google's Chrome OS offering is a clear business contract which has a paid option.

It is up to you if you want to keep using it for free. I hope more of "us" can convince more people to start paying for software services like GSuite and Chrome OS.

And Apple's iCloud runs on Google's Cloud Spanner. So it's the same "server" anyway.
How does that work well in a global economy? What if China doesn't break their big companies, but rather encourages them?
The permissions could have been better set before sharing this.
this ^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah seems you are right. Can't connect via websockets. Console output:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at ws://expo.stimulusreflex.com/cable. action_cable.js:241:25
I'd say it's no different to Google Project Zero.

Of course since it's China, there'd be worries. I'd guess the Chinese government also employs crack hackers, like the NSA probably does?
Norwegian traffic lights are the same.
There is no definition of success for a for profit company accept profitability. Anyone can sell a bunch of dollars for 95 cents.

And as far valuation, Uber and Lyft both have multi billion dollar valuations and are both losing billions a quarter.
Is Quantum Computing a Dream?
How long can nuclear weapons be kept without being used?

We are as close as ever to nuclear war according to the doomsday clock, just two minutes to midnight.
Are there sub-dollar ARM microcontrollers that run Linux? Anyway there are a bunch of cheap (not sub-dollar, but sub $30) RISC-V chips coming out of China this year which will run Linux.
Seoul to install AI cameras for crime detection
The systemd project develops a lot more than that. One component is udev, which manages (among other things) /dev and firmware loading. For this purpose it includes a database of all supported hardware, which alone counts in at 271K lines of "code" (it's really just structured plain text).

I wouldn't be surprised if the core service manager comes in at only ~20K lines of code.
Using the word "attack" as if I've mortally wounded someone is pretty disingenuous.

BTW, thanks for inviting me not to contribute.
I disagree. Evolution has created signals -- "tasty" -- for things that are good for us. Fats, salts, and sugars are comparatively rare in a wild environment, and thus they taste good.
You can implement your GraphQL server to do either of those, it's not inherent.
” At a different all-hands meeting, the entire policy team was separated into various rooms and told to participate in a “diversity exercise” that placed me in a group labeled “homos” while participants shouted out stereotypes such as “effeminate” and “promiscuous.” Colleagues of color were forced to join groups called “Asians” and “Brown people” in other rooms nearby.”

Wow this literally sounds like an episode of The Office (S1 E2)

Definitely not the most damning thing in this article but the one that really jumped out for me.

Can’t even wrap my mind around why someone thought this would be a good idea
A big part of the RISC-V story is the idea that microarchitecture decisions belong to the implementation and not the ISA specification. Specifying that multiplication must be constant-time would effectively be specifying that area-optimized cores aren't allowed to provide the multiplication instructions.
The Go Blog: Go's Declaration Syntax (2010)
My top talks from the second day of the #36c3 congress
Anyone else getting "An error occurred during a connection to www.bbc.co.uk. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR" when trying to access BBC News? This in under Firefox on Linux but also cannot access it in Chromium.
That documentary is definitely on my top 10 list.

It's amazing (especially in hindsight) how both prohibition's opponents didn't take the movement seriously, to how it's proponents didn't take the problems it caused seriously.
China's TikTok Banned by US Army Amid Security Concerns: Report
The connection between the smartwatch and the computer would, in practice, be wireless, which is something the author wants to avoid because it's easier to hack without the victim noticing.
Okay well it looks like they've put even more emphasis on pair programming, which Kanban certainly doesn't require, and... I'm not gonna advocate for that part.
Regarding the section "The World is on Fire": The farmers protests recently in Berlin were a normal expressions of freedom to demonstrate in Germany. Not much to worry about, and a sign of a healthy democracy.
It appears to simply be a USB plug that works with a simple software driver to automatically log out if the USB is unplugged. The scenario is a snatch-and-grab of the laptop while the user is logged in to a highly-secure, high-value online account.

Not something most users likely need but I can imagine some TLAs being interested in something like this, as it looks pretty inexpensive to implement.
In some languages it was never rebranded (I believe the Portuguese word for "advertisement" is just "propaganda")
It appears that it runs a script of your choosing, so you could make it more violent if you wanted (start trashing data, clear cache etc.).

I'd be careful though, as you don't want any "misshaps". It's not likely worth going that far unless you're doing something very sensitive.
Kinda rough and probably missing some stuff, but...

[megadekay@ryzen ~]$ du -h /usr/bin/systemd*
1.5M /usr/bin/systemd-analyze
16K /usr/bin/systemd-ask-password
20K /usr/bin/systemd-cat
20K /usr/bin/systemd-cgls
36K /usr/bin/systemd-cgtop
24K /usr/bin/systemd-delta
20K /usr/bin/systemd-detect-virt
20K /usr/bin/systemd-escape
40K /usr/bin/systemd-firstboot
16K /usr/bin/systemd-hwdb
20K /usr/bin/systemd-id128
20K /usr/bin/systemd-inhibit
24K /usr/bin/systemd-machine-id-setup
48K /usr/bin/systemd-mount
20K /usr/bin/systemd-notify
312K /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn
20K /usr/bin/systemd-path
0 /usr/bin/systemd-resolve
56K /usr/bin/systemd-run
28K /usr/bin/systemd-socket-activate
20K /usr/bin/systemd-stdio-bridge
52K /usr/bin/systemd-sysusers
84K /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles
28K /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent
0 /usr/bin/systemd-umount
Nothing wrong on safari iPad
Basically not true. This applies to a small section of the city center.
I find this whole series of events to be fascinating. I'm also very interested in what Ghosn has to say on the 8th. I have only read briefly on Japan's prison system and from what I understand it assumes guilt.

It's hard to infer what might have happened. Leading up to his arrest in Japan there were mentions that he had treated his co-officers in a "un-Japanese" way and was suspected to have lead to his being targeted to be removed.

It's also interesting how this how debacle has caused Nissan to suffer. It really seems like Nissan was about to turn around their design and car interiors (the new Maxima, Altima, Sentra, and Versa have gotten big boosts) and then this hits them hard.

I hope Nissan pulls through and I hope the truth about Ghosn comes out.
It's because of the various definitions of "city center".

The upcoming car free city center in question is just a pretty small area, which has been a driving hell for years anyway, due to all the pedestrians, public transportation and low speeds. Unless you're a taxi who want to increase your fare, you wouldn't want to drive through it anyway.
The attitude of the content there isn't much better than the poster below who got flagged.
Huh, it was my VPN (PIA). Does anyone know why this would happen? I tried a few different servers.
“Interpol issues a warrant for Carlos Ghosn's arrest”

Interpol is neither a police force nor a court of law, and does not have the power to issue warrants.
I created something similar for my personal website. I don't get spam comments, but I think that's only because I'm too small to be worth the effort for spammers. It would be pretty easy to pattern-match the few different question types and find the right answer using a dictionary.
Sure, but is that really useful? Just better not read something exciting or notice an attractive person while working.
Norwegian drivers are very careful and look out for pedestrians.
Kentucky has been transitioning to natgas for some time now. The TVA shut down three big coal plants and another big utility also shut down a big coal plant last year. They’re not building new coal plants but natgas plants. That’s not going to change the economics much.

I’m hoping Kentucky starts to do more solar as it is pretty decent for sun, but the local politics likely think solar + stationary battery storage is some lib-ruhl conspiracy.
The parent comment is complete drivel. RISC-V has a very small instruction set (under 50 instructions in the base arch) and lacks the weirdness of UltraSPARC (register windows! branch delay slots!). 680x0 was a joy to program in assembly, I used to be a commercial 68k developer on VMEbus systems, but those days are long gone and are never coming back. There is simply no point optimizing a modern architecture for hand-written assembler coding.
The year we kill the news article
"Kill cord" is jargon from jetskis, powerboats and treadmills, which often have a cord you attach to your body that cuts power if you are thrown off. [1]

On Linux there is blueproximity [2] that can lock (and if you like, unlock) your computer based on the proximity of a bluetooth device. My personal experience is that Bluetooth is frustratingly unreliable, and this package was no exception. But it's there if you'd like to try it!

[1] https://www.rya.org.uk/knowledge-advice/safe-boating/look-af...
[2] http://www.daniloaz.com/en/automatically-lock-unlock-your-sc...
Er, why not just attach the laptop itself to your body? Low tech > high tech
Pedestrians have the right of way compared to cars with a red light. Cars turning right on red are required to stop before turning, but whether or not they do depends on the culture of the locality.

Also, as a note, college campuses are some of the worst places for cars and pedestrians to have to interact. The students seem to ignore the rules of the road regardless of whether they are pedestrians or drivers.
Amazon threatens to fire critics who are outspoken on its environmental policies
It begs the question of what philosophy is. If it is "love of wisdom", as the Ancient Greeks suggested, then it seeks to know all things. That is, it seeks knowledge of what is, not of what is most likely, which is the domain of modern science.
Top Skills for Video Game Designers to Learn
It is called a scientific attitude. Do you have a problem with science?
Simply a meme about exploiting your user data as extremely as Google can. Ie, I am their sole business model on the advertising front.

A good example is many of the things outlined in this post. People _trying_ to use Android privately, but after an update Google switches all of their privacy settings back to giving Google everything - and it syncs all old stuff to boot.

That behavior is what I consider actively combatant towards the consumer. It's like how Comcast just keeps finding ways to make incremental fees, "accidentally" charge people, etc.

These are under what I consider "evil" for corporations.
Ah, I do miss the community of Ingress. It's such a shame the game was ruined with Ingress Prime, which is a lesson in bad usability.

I don't miss the "cheating" griefers, though.
This is >2 articles per month with one a week in December alone. Here's a better overview: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=systemd
>that doesn't mean that a pedestrian can intentionally create an unsafe situation (e.g., start crossing the street as a car is turning).

So does that mean a person is allowed to intentionally create an unsafe situation by maneuvering their 2 ton+ vehicle into a crosswalk when a pedestrian is approaching it
Google and Mozilla. Apple will continue to tell the world where you live.

Microsoft no longer uploads WiFi passwords, but when it did, you could opt out by putting _optout anywhere in the SSID.
As We Enter a New Decade, Space Food Has Rocketed into Renewed Prominence
I’ve just spent three weeks in Stockholm, and locals seem to generally ignore red lights if there are no cars nearby.
I get the same issue using NordVPN; not sure why.
What will likely happen is those companies will now have less competition and as a result dominate the world economy. Serving as yet another tool to exert and influence the geopolitical landscape.
Of course it is. The mutating operation is the CAS which requires the existing value anyway.
Tor browser and the email provider of your choice. I find that cock.li makes it particularly easy to create new accounts and does not restrict Tor use.
Handling Back-pressure in Distributed Systems
begins having to have version to manage dependencies this does nothing to solve dependency hell, to the point I question whether the author has a clear understanding of the problem space
Insanity Defined
The seatbelt nagging thing is basically mandatory for any car sold in the EU. Has been for quite some time already.

The way some people get around it is by plugging a fake "belt end" thing into it so it thinks you're wearing a seatbelt. Quite stupid because that also enables the airbags which are quite dangerous if you're not wearing the seatbelt.
> - And by relying on Google Play Services, they avoid having to maintain a push notification infrastructure.

It was mentioned in a sibling comment to GP, but Play Services are no longer required. If you don't have them installed, Signal will use its own push notification infrastructure.

Indeed, this was not always possible, because they had to implement and maintain it first, in a way that would provide a good user experience for users. (And even then, the non-Play Services version is still somewhat detrimental to the user in the sense that their battery depletes more quickly, so it's a trade-off they'll have to make themselves now.)
Developers, please stop blocking zooming on mobile Web pages via meta tags.
Apps don’t provide reliable help for suicide prevention
Ttyd – Share your terminal over the web
Hackers, by Putin
There's a great Stuff You Should Know podcast episode on Interpol. As you point out, they're not a police force. They're an international organization designed to help connect police forces together. They know who to call and have translation services, etc.

A more apt description is that Interpol issued a notice stating that Japan wants this guy.
Well, the author is now running for a US public office position. So I personally take this article as just another form of content marketing for his new public persona.
https://m.xkcd.com/2249/
My Goals for 2020
Well hurricanes are also made stronger by the fact that CO2 traps more heat in lower layers and thus makes the upper atmosphere colder, leading to a higher differential with lower layers. So there you go, please inform your activism accordingly.
domain fronting is also something that you can do with any service, it does not require centralization. You can still use it on top of the censorship advantages decentralization gives you.
This is a really neat project but it’s also not really a solution to anything.

First, it doesn’t solve for the scenario of person pointing a gun at you and telling you to access your top secret files for them. That will defeat most forms of security and so if physical access is a concern you probably shouldn’t be logging in at your local coffee shop.

Second, a thief who wants your computer for its monetary value isn’t interested in its contents. Your normal drive encryption and screen timeout restrictions have you covered there. They’re gonna wipe your computer, sell it, and move on.

Institutionally purchased hardware is often equipped with zero-touch provisioning (such as Apple Device Enrollment). These products can be bricked at the hardware level they moment they touch the Internet. They’ll need a new logic board, i.e. new soldered on storage, i.e. they’re not even necessarily worth stealing.

Third, the idea of a magnetic connector’s removal locking or bricking your computer seems awfully inconvenient. That’s gonna be constant false positives without a gain in security.

If you’ve got someone who is after you to obtain your secret company info and knows enough to cause mayhem, you’ve got much bigger problems than whether or not your screen is going to lock. They’re also probably going to use social engineering, targeted malware and spyware, not brute force physical access.
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With Apple I trust, but verify. Apple actually has in it's EULA terms that it won't share the data. I know they can easily change it, but that's a good sign.

With Apple's icloud services, outside of a small free tier, you actually pay them money.

With Google, the only real revenue they have is from ads.
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> A more apt description is that Interpol issued a notice stating that Japan wants this guy.

Current article title is "Carlos Ghosn: Interpol issues 'red notice' for Nissan ex-boss's arrest"
How to penetrate NASA security without being notice
This article goes into pretty good detail of his takedown
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/silk-road-1/
Is Tesla having any effect on that?

Most new cars sold in Norway are electric and Tesla has almost 50% share of electric cars. Model 3 is the most-sold vehicle in Norway.
>At least one report has named the Big Apple the dirtiest city in America.

Chicago is laid out with an extensive alley system, even in the downtown parts of the city. In New York, garbage ends up on the sidewalk. In Chicago, all of that is tucked into alleys. Garbage trucks and dumpsters are all tucked behind the scenes.

That layout was done generations ago, and is probably the biggest reason that downtown Chicago smells like chocolate instead of trash.
This was my experience too. A lot of the holdouts that stuck with Altavista etc. were those of us who had learned to use them properly.

Google became better for inexperienced users very quickly, but took a long time to become clearly better for those who could compose complex queries to find exactly what we wanted...

It was an interesting example of how power users can often become blind to major shifts because they've learned to work around the problems the newcomer solves.
Article title: Carlos Ghosn: Interpol issues 'red notice' for Nissan ex-boss's arrest
It's almost done in a streaming fashion. `xsv join` uses memory proportional to the number of records in one of the inputs and the size of the join columns in one of the inputs. Namely, it creates an in-memory map from the join column's values to the corresponding record index. Combined with another in-memory index that maps record index to the corresponding record's byte offset, it can jump to the corresponding record in constant time while streaming over the other input.

There are better ways to do this that don't involve using this much memory, but this struck a good balance between memory usage and implementation complexity. I may improve on this some day.

So basically, as long as you have enough memory to store the entire join columns along with `8 * len(one_input)` bytes for the record index, then you should be good.