skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that is in needs of an update: something like 'the cloud setup from beyond hell'
The talk was held in English. The website seems to push the wrong audio track in some cases but you can change that with the little gear icon at the bottom of the video.
What? The poor in developing countries have no cash. They're the ones in debt? They'll find it impossible to borrow any more; impossible to earn enough to survive. They'll go hungry, some will starve and die. Like always?
When I don’t subvocalize my brain basically turns off and I stop understanding what I’m reading.
I can't read a space fantasy/sci-fi book on the same device that has my addictive free cell game.
> Your brain is being polluted. This is just wrong.

This isn't even an argument here. How is he/she wrong?

It's true that the majority of C/C++ programs are riddled with memory corruption vulnerabilities. Just look at the countless CVE's of WebKit, Linux, Chrome, V8, VMWare and the list forever goes on.

There is a case for Rust to reduce or possibly eliminate these age old vulnerabilities which C/C++ find it hard to do.

You are free to change my mind. :)
Nah, I just brought up Health as a general topic - one that has a deep pool of knowledge, more than a typical person even remotely knows, and also one that the experts in it's subfields advise against all sorts of things. What to eat, how much to drink, how much to exercise. My step mother didn't even know what a carb was, which I thought was basic understanding on food intake. So I used health as an example of a field where:

1. there is a lot of knowledge

2. the ramifications of not knowing things in that field are fairly high.

3. is a common source of experts advising the public do things differently. Eat less, exercise more, etc.

Which I think is somewhat the case here with Privacy and Information Tech. It's a problem that affects the public to some degree of severity, but "they" seem largely unaware of it.
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I don't know what you mean by predictive instrumentation or why you are running out of memory, but don't forget the original interprocess communication, the file system.
I couldn't find a mention on what drivers for hardware devices it supports
Thread: https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/1211262124724510721
That's true. So on my own servers, software I write gets a pass and is run as root after a while.

As for context swicthing etc I need some unixy bases. Instead of reinventing everything, I've found in practice that the linux kernel running my programs on baremetal (no virtualization) keeps the overhead to an acceptable minimum.
Rolls-Royce unveils aircraft set to be the world's fastest all-electric plane
You just made the parents point about the overhead in dealing with offshore devs is too high to be productive.

Perhaps you’d like to expand on this technical debt you’re cleaning up?
Imaginary overhead doesn't count. Show me the benchmarks.
Rubbish. Being attractive only makes things easier. Why on earth would a less attractive person have a higher chance of finding a soulmate than a more attractive person?
German law covers this in §32 StGB ("emergency defense"), which includes emergency assistance. If people were reasonably convinced that he was threatening others, they're done & out clear.

P.S.: in German law, it's actually a crime to _not_ render assistance to others in danger - StGB §323c ("failure to render assistance")
If you are going to write an article about this on a website with geek in the domain name, and post it to hacker news, you are going to have to get more technical than that.

Explaining the "WIFI:T:WPA" bit would have been nice to see.

At the bare minimum a link to an article that explains it would be necessary to meet the bar.

In the current state this article is a users level how to document, and fails to met the bar for an article targeted at "hackers".
On the one hand, I’ve been wondering the same thing for the past thirty years.

On the other hand, I’ve been wondering the same thing for thirty years now.
The 9/11 event is by definition the outcome of a conspiracy. The parties to the conspiracy and the methods employed are where some disagree with the official analysis. Regardless of your political stance, do your fellow human beings a credit and acknowledge that it wouldn't be the first time a government lied to it's people and it won't be the last.

Also it's kind of a weird take that extremism == far right. It seems like far left would be included, again as a matter of definition.
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Thanks for the warning, I had no idea. Note to self: always give temporary guest passwords to Android users.
There is a lesson here about the push for privacy laws. If you can't trust the government, why trust that they would uphold any law about your privacy? Privacy has to be established from a technological perspective - strong encryption, don't put information on the Internet if you don't want it compromised. Laws require a government that will respect them.
It looks like a bunch of teenagers jumping someone. They don't look or behave like professional security agents.
The bad chokehold one of them was attempting is actually banned from many police forces.
Can't you collect the dust at a particular location by using an opposite charge?
Ask HN: Do you know of any open data sources for food nutrition?
For everyday food items with values for energy, calories, fats, carbs, sugars, fiber, vitamins and minerals.
If true, this is sad and worrying, but be careful with the Wikipedia page: almost every source in that section is the work of one man, which doesn't convey a consensus at all.
This is not a "tool" for "users", this is to write your own programs in a funny way, in C++
Vincent was kicked out because some congress folks believe that he is a fascist.
>it seems like most students actually know shockingly little

I think that having students take 5-6 classes together in 16 weeks doesn’t promote mastery in any of those classes. Tying the performance in those classes to scholarship eligibility and job placement incentives grades, not necessarily understanding. Grades and mastery can be separated because 2-3 exams in a class, which determines the majority of the grade, rewards students the most, on a time investment vs. performance basis, for understanding technicalities in the grading system and for hyper focusing on the types of problems that can be on an exam. This doesn’t promote mastery, this is a game academia and students play for the satisfaction of government, finance and corporations. Definitely, a problem, solutions could include more frequent sampling of understanding, more diverse ways of measuring knowledge, decoupling performance from financing and longer periods to learn topics.
Where's this girl from? Intrigued about the accent. Is it a German accent?
It's not censorship, but this position makes you not simply a neutral platform, but an opinionated editor.
I always joke with my students that the best way to avoid burnout is to avoid work. Work is overrated anyways...
What for? For performance gains? What's wrong with Cython?
CNN, along with most media companies, seems to be more pro-conflict than anything else.
> If people were reasonably convinced that he was threatening others

You're the first person to suggest that he was threatening others.
Just out of curiosity, how does it work?

Interesting, my country has a kind of strange "necessary defence" law - it covers defending something that is protected by lay, not necessarily your own thing - as long as the defence is appropriate.

So you can "defend" someone else, or stop a thief even if they are not threatening you, because you are upholding the law - but you don't get to shoot a thief for example, because that would not be appropriate.

Is this how it works in Germany? I'm kind of curious if we just stolen this from our neighbour.

EDIT: Tomte replied on the side.
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Yeah the author is being deliberately dense. To make a point I guess.

The idea that e-books are licenses is self-serving for the publishing industry. Since they can't control distribution of an e-book after it leaves their site, they want legal controls. So they can sell the book more than once.
Why does it say that all the scheduled upcoming launches are “NO-GO”?
On the same theme, if you need surgery and are a high skills athlete who can make millions off of that surgery you won’t pay the going insurer rate
All I have to say is don’t wait, read Cryptonomicon now!
Wow. Pretty cool. Had no idea about this.
Gah, please type the names of your projects into the search engine of your choice before polluting everyone's search results with a new project. There are already a few programming projects which go by "rx". I'll boost the one I care about by linking it: http://reactivex.io/
First off, thank you for bsnes. Have used it a lot in the past.

It's a tough call, but it's somewhat understandable what Google is doing. Arbitrary binary downloads from arbitrary websites are for the most part a problem for the majority of users.

There is nothing stopping a savvy user from still finding and downloading your binaries. You should probably figure out a better distribution channel.

Remember that all the hoops you have to jump through to get a signed binary are also required for anyone who would want to pirate your software and re-release it with a virus ( which I have seen done in the emulator community before ).
> They don't look or behave like professional security agents.

Well they aren't. Security roles at congress are performed by volunteers and that's a good thing, they don't usually have to physically evict people.
You can as soon as you converted it to EPUB.
Vets still seeing cases of dog heart problems linked to grain-free food
German law has extraordinary self-defense statutes, both civil and criminal. The following applies to criminal self-defense:

Any ongoing[1] illegal attack on any legal right may be warded off using force, including insults (that's an attack against personal honor).

The force does not have to be proportional, only necessary (it must not be more severe than another one that would lead to success) and effective (it must have a reasonable expectation of success to start with).

Apart from that there are only minor exceptions (for small children and so on).

[1] "ongoing" is again much wider than you'd think: someone robbing you and running away with the loot? Still ongoing. You following them and striking them down? Still ongoing. Meeting them on the street next day by chance? Not ongoing.
Yes it is a bit redundant.
Yeah, he’s saying I’m either not that smart, or that I’m wasting my life... I’m not sure what to be offended by here.
One thought I had was an "in person" dating app that lets you see pictures of single people checked in to a specific location, along with the option to show their exact location with a venue map.

The fun feature would be "bumping phones". You could bump phones with people using this app, and it'd share additional details, and give you a list of questions and suggestions of things to talk about that you could ask your date to keep things moving.
Programmers have their own cartel but instead of focusing on reducing the number of entrants in the field (e.g. by demanding special universities or certifications), it works through job creation.

Developers have an innate ability to keep creating more work for themselves by increasing the complexity of the solutions that they produce. Managers are completely obvious to this.

The monopolistic and highly profitable nature of software companies allows managers to keep hiring more developers, who keep creating more unnecessary complexity which requires more developers to maintain... A vicious cycle. There is no limit as to how much complexity can be created. Most managers still believe that the best way to speed things up is to hire more developers.

In reality, the best way to speed things up is to reduce the number of developers and to hire better developers. The problem is that managers, even highly technical ones are not capable of knowing what a very good developer is. A technical person cannot accurately rank other technical people who are better than them; they can only rank others who are at or below their own skill levels.

There is an old saying that the top experts in any field are those who know when and how far to bend the rules. This is especially true when it comes to software development but 99% of technical managers will disagree with that statement; they still believe in blanket one-size-fits-all approaches.

The spectrum of talent is extremely broad, much broader than everyone realizes. IMO, even the most talented, most acclaimed CTOs and project managers will fit somewhere in the middle of the technical talent spectrum so they will miss a lot of talent.
Sounds like Seinfeld, which I hate.
The pagination links have lots of spaces before the page number.
Every tesla car has a sim card and data connection that is used to connect to a vpn that high enough level engineers can use to run ssh commands directly on every tesla car at once or even target certain ones.

You know nothing john snow.
So don’t? There are dozens of eInk reading devices on the market.
In old days Mac OS files had two properties: file type and creator type. File type could be like "TEXT" and creator type was a unique code for the application that created it (they were registered at Apple, I believe). All this was purely internal, users never saw such things: Mac file names normally didn't have an "extension", it was just "1995 Report" or something.

As a result it behaved like that:

- When you opened a file, it opened in the program that created it.

- When there were no such program, you could still open it in another program that claimed to understand these files. I don't remember how it was implemented, I think there was a dialog asking if one would like to use another program with some choice (probably the first one that fit).

This was rather handy with formats like "Encapsulated Postscript" in desktop publishing: this format supported both vector and raster images, but one normally used different applications to manipulate them.

This stayed for some time after the move to Mac OS X, but now I believe these things are gone or not used at all.
There's a "theory" about moving residences: If there's a box that you haven't opened a year after moving, you might not need the stuff in the box.
OK. I switched TV two months ago. I considered purchasing the biggest PC monitor and work it from there but the size threw me off. Ended up buying an LG TV because it seemed that WebOS was the best choice when it comes to performance. I use to have an expensive Sony Bravia TV powered by Android TV and that was the slowest experience I have had on a device since the 'bad Windows PC era' of ~2000 - ~2010.

If anyone in the TV industry is reading this, there is a market for dumb TV panels. Happy to pay a premium for that the same way I was happy to pay a premium to have 4k early on!
Uh, I take it back then. I get this versioning scheme for something that don't have a reasonably application for semver like an operating system for instance, but a programming language? I don't really see the point. If you go that way you might as well tag it "SBCL 2020" or something like that to make it clear.

But I suppose that's pure bikeshedding and it doesn't really matter.
Here's the real world version: https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/12/28/its-still-abo...
If nobody will use it, does it really work great?
Its funny how he mentions domain fronting as a technique to counteract censorship, and even uses Google as an example, while in fact Google (and also AWS) banned them from doing domain fronting a long time ago...

https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/
It's Still About the Applications
A lot of this becomes fairly obvious if you start from the assumptions that:

1. Work exists only to support your lifestyle. If your work doesn't allow you to live a lifestyle you are happy with, it's not serving its purpose. This is obvious to most people when their work doesn't pay them enough, but it's not as obvious when their work doesn't give them enough time.

2. You are a person of worth who deserves to have proper boundaries around your work.

3. Your job is a transaction where they need you just as much as you need them.
The article talks about "free and open source" software in its text, so it's clear that "free" is referring to FSF version of free.

But then it talks about distributing binaries. Cry my a river; most FOSS can and should be distributed primarily in source form, in a git repo hosted on a site like github. FOSS software can be released via distributions that can supply controlled, and accountable, and digitally signed binary packages to end users who aren't skilled enough to build from source. This includes Debian, SuSE, Google Play Store, Amazon App Store, Microsoft store, etc.

Training users to download binaries from random web sites? That's a security disaster, and it's a Good Thing that web browsers discourage such reckless behavior.
OpenBSD -stable base errors:

anthk:~>syspatch -l | wc -l

15

Who cares about your toy language backed from Mozilla. Do you think the Go runtime from Docker is bug free?

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1418...
I disagree. There is a large supply of programmers. There is a small supply of good programmers.

The good ones, if they know their own value, get paid well.

I'm currently paid well. They went through 50 applicants before getting to me and now rely on me to keep multiple systems running smoothly that run a 100 million dollar company.

I do have a college education, but have been working on some sort of code almost every day since I was 13 years old (now I'm 40).

Many of the things I do for work are easy...mostly because I know the systems so well.
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> illegal attack on any legal right

Except abortion, strangely.

That's for historic reasons, Germany also had a long debate about abortion, and the compromise found was that abortion is illegal, but does not lead to criminal culpability.

According to that, it would be possible to use self-defense for the unborn child against the mother and doctors when she tries to abort.

Obviously, nobody wants burning abortion clinics, and the courts settled on that abortion cannot trigger self-defense.

That's un-principled, and I'm not aware of any legal expert actually justifying it on doctrinal grounds, but it's useful to keep the peace in the debate.
In ON the liquor is also controlled by LCBO, yet marijuana was given to the private sector. I guess they learned their lesson with liquor control.
Most of my old Intel CPUs (80s/90s) are "made in Malaysia". So I guess they did in the past.

Edit: here's some PR: https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/intel-marks-40-years-i...
I was a (Canadian) kid in the blue boxing and codes scene in the early 90s. I lived through Operation Sundevil, the persecution of Phil Zimmerman and PGP users, the Clipper chip fiasco, and the V-chip with the 1996 communications act (which led to vast media consolidation). By then it was clear the government were going to surveil everything and try to censor as much as they could, and that this was completely bipartisan initiative that was driven by the unelected career senior public servants and private corporations in law enforcement, intelligence, and the security establishment.

Individual politicians fought these efforts to bring some of them down (in the case of Clipper, a surprising mix from John Kerry , our 2004 US democratic Presidential candidate, to John Ashcroft (!) who later became GWB’s attorney general and completely changed positions , supporting STELLAR WIND which was revealed by Snowden).

The EFF (formed after Sundevil and funded by Mitch Kapor’s Lotus 1-2-3’a fortunes), Wired magazine (much more iconoclastic in the 90s), 2600 magazine, Phrack, and the ACLU all did much to educate people about the risks. For a time, we listened.

STELLAR WIND was when the 1960s-era Military SIGINT programs like ECHELON melded with broad domestic surveillance. The populace was too angry and fearful to stop it in the mid aughts.

Similar to how the military industrial complex grew regardless of who was politically in charge, the security establishment has become an end onto itself that accelerated once terrorism scored a major blow on 9/11. Or maybe it was a glimpse of today’s cynicism of wanting unlimited power/deficits/surveillance/Executive orders/military options for your own party when it controls the presidency, but not the other party.

There probably was a window in the 90s to mid aughts where things weren’t well under control, but funding after 9/11 fixed that.

It will require an educated electorate and major mandate given to a future congress and president to undo this situation, and it likely will require sustainment over 3 or 4 terms to stick. Which is to say: The realm of remote possibility, but not likely. Adapt accordingly.
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There is a super app like this called Lex, but it’s for non-straight people only.

https://apps.apple.com/ru/app/lex-app/id1436964232?l=en
This is why you pay more for a Dumb monitor than a Smart TV. The monitor has no avenues to sell your data so all cost and profit needs to be extracted from the consumer through the sales price.
In this context I understand R&D as Research and (product) Development. Sure, that includes actual scientific research (say material science for better break pads) but also the development of that research into actual products (making a new, attractive, profitable break assembly with that great new materials the scientists came up with), as well as mundane product development (let's make a new truck by making slight modifications to last years model).

Programming can fall anywhere on that spectrum.
IANAL, but you can't physically eject someone from a space in most civilized countries even if they're doing something wrong. Call the polizei/police.

There are exceptions for immediate threat to life, but you can't go wild and start kicking and punching someone for trespassing. That's assault and the video footage is possible evidence that could lead to charges.

I was a bouncer in a previous life, and there were very strict rules to follow after asking someone to leave.
This is a great talk. I'm excited to see what else they can learn about the PSP as they continue working on their tools. So far, it seems that it's much easier to explore than the Intel ME.
Basic organisation skills applied to work and life helped me a lot, I was sorely missing in this area and dedicated some time to getting a system in place. I spend 15 minutes in the morning planning my day. This had a lot of benefits, one is being way less stressed if I know I can "dump" incoming information somewhere and parse it later.
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi 4 as an development machine for your iPad Pro
I have an old Kindle it would be fun to put the QR code on that.

And maybe somehow a script that rotates the password updating the Kindle.
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OpenVMS was promoted as ultrasecure back in the day. Hint: exploits happened too.

Here's your hard slap in your face.

https://medium.com/@shnatsel/how-rusts-standard-library-was-...
Call the police. Don't use a nerd militia.
> So why have eBooks failed so miserably, when other media such as movies and music now sell and rent so well online?

Repeat after me: the average person doesn't read. The market for ebooks is a fraction of the market for movies and music.

OTOH, there is a viable market because there are such things as "avid readers" (people who read more than one book a month.) Those are the people ereaders are made for.

I predict that ebooks will be like jazz records: they not terribly popular, but they'll still be made because there's a devoted audience.