skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about Fermont in Quebec, then? http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_se...

It is predominantly French speaking, is 1° further north than Dunkirk, is incorporated as Ville de Fermont, has a population of about 2400.

It also has a Wikipedia page that claims "Fermont is arguably the world's northernmost Francophone settlement of any considerable size": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermont.
what laws are they breaking by doing their job
This comment will not age well.

1- Battery? I use a Rift, it is fine, it takes power from my PC. For the portable Quest, you get 2 to 3 hours of constant usage. That's pretty good

2– Weight issues: headsets are not very lightweight today. They are not ridiculously heavy either. Have you even tried one? My mom has, she's a senior. It's fine. They should be lighter if we are expected to throw away our monitors and use them exclusively on a day job. For normal usage? They are fine. If anything, the heat (and associated sweat, specially with physical activity) is much more of a problem. Again, I doubt you have tried one. For me, the main problem is using with glasses, it is not completely straightforward to put them on.

3– Quality issues, what quality issues? Do you mean QA or resolution? If it is resolution, it's already pretty good unless you are doing lots of reading (and even then YMMV, there are people coding with them already). There are many other things that need to be improved before resolution becomes the main factor. The fresnel lens used in some headsets have some strange aberrations, specially with primarily dark scenes.

4– This objection is straight from the Millennium Bug era. It's mostly(not only) used by a subset of the gaming market, but that in itself is huge. There are entire industries in other fields which are smaller than the current VR market.

Yes, improvements are needed. They are coming, if headsets for professional applications are any indication. VR could be said to be 'niche' when headsets cost multiple thousand dollars. Now? You can get decent ones for the price of a good monitor – and the thing actually has two monitors running at a much higher refresh rate, plus a whole lot of extra hardware.
European Commission launches consultation to seek views on Digital Services Act
1. Germany's federal govt and mainstream media are NOT engaged in damage control. The mainstream media has not even picked up on it as this article says.

2. The article claims this was a report from scientists and doctors but the said report was a private opinion of an employee who published it on a multi-page document using the BMI (German Ministry) letterhead and the official communication channels.

My opinion: Possibly it is the work of right wing channels who want to weaken the faith in the government and get more right-wing parties elected as they have always been trying to do.

PS: This article is published by Russian propaganda platform. The only German news article I found on this was also published by RT (Moscow State News channel). The linked Der Spiegel articles are not related to this report but have been added to mislead and add credibility.
Curfew orders have exceptions for credentialed press. The law is on the side of journalists.
+1 for Az KeyVault.
I use it in my Docker deployment scripts using Azure CLI. Example here is a secret, but similar concept for certs using CLI:
STORAGE_ACCOUNT_KEY=`az keyvault secret show --vault-name=<your keyvault> --name=<secret name> --query=value | tr -d "\""`
This populates a .env file, referenced in Docker-compose.yml.
Also, for a lot of sites they've outsourced their payment systems (which was the main reason for SSL certs in the past), so you can place less importance on the SSL cert if the payment gateway is PayPal, or Amazon, or Squarespace, and they are essentially providing the same assurance (and are a responsible party you can contact to reverse charges if you suspect fraud).

At this point, I'm very hesitant to enter any credit card info into a site itself, even if it's secured through an SSL cert. It doesn't really signify what it used to.
Wait. Are you saying the law allows for police to physically attack peaceful bystanders? Am I reading you correctly?
What is the obsession with laptops? While I fully understand they have their uses, I don't understand why someone who is employed full-time doing programming would cripple their own work environment by using a laptop. I've been hearing and reading about laptop complaints for years from "professional" programmers. It's very easy to avoid so many problems by building your own desktop. If money isn't an issue then just buy one prebuilt.
Ah, the Nuremberg defense, neat.
This is such a cool blog post, and has pulled the covers back on something I have been curious about for some time.

Makes me wonder why more people aren't abusing this. I can see the gold, silver and platinum level open source sponsors shoving some big logos down your throat by writing directly to the framebuffer during your next yarn add.

(I realize it is more nuanced than that, since it requires elevated priviliges to write to the device ... but hey how many sudo curl bash scripts have you seen out there in the wild? time to pwn the framebuffer)
Intentionally picked up from the crowd?
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> If you're friends with a lot of people who play games, and you learn games from each other, then it will be very rare to have a game that no one present has ever played before.

Only if you and all of your friends play from a very limited, range of games. In my experience, people like this exclusively play games that are currently or have been recently heavily marketed.

I'm friends with a lot of people who play games, I own a disturbing amount of games, and I sit at a table and play a game that no one at the table has played about weekly during normal times, maybe biweekly now that I'm stuck online. As a person who researches and finds a lot of games, it's very often me who's teaching the game that none of us have played.

In my experience, people who are really into games are constantly playing oddball, older, and obscure games, from the rules.
I love Ben Thompson's writing and I like how he accurately connects the history of institutional racism to the events of today. I have seen a few articles of this kind, and it seems like in today's America vast majority of people (except a few Trump holdouts) have acknowledged that the historical arc of slavery to segregation to white flight to real estate discrimination has led to where we are.

However, what I don't hear is radical solution to this problem. Even in Obama's medium essay, the solution is deep police and criminal justice reform. Which, while important, is incremental. What we need here is a step change to course correct 400 years of history. And incremental changes do not cut it. Here are some step change suggestions

1)Trillions of dollars of reparations
2) A generous UBI
3) Free healthcare
4) Trillions of investment in schools in poorer neighborhoods
5) A dramatic rise in minimum wage

In pre-COVID world, I would accept a reasonable pushback against this suggestion was "deficit" "debt" etc. But COVID has exposed these pushbacks was hypocritical (puts a stark spotlight on the hypocritical Tea Party movement). We printed trillions of dollars overnight to save small and big businesses, and employees. Why can't we move at that scale ? If we can suddenly print that much money, what is stopping us from massive investments in our most disadvantaged communities to undo 400 years of history ?
People don't have a mechanism to "inject civilization" into Mars either. Pushing massive quantities of ozone into the stratosphere sounds solvable in a year or two, since we already know how to make it. Making a self-supporting Martian colony is a multi-generational project that we can't even begin yet. Let's do it, but these other threats are going to be extinction-level for a long time.
When someone presents all these negative outcomes for minority groups (education, poverty, incarceration, etc.) it's difficult to not see that in a racial light.

"Madison is one of the greatest places to live, just stay out of the black neighborhoods." - how are the people living in the white neighborhoods to be blamed for that?
This is an idea I have been waiting for quite a while.
Thanks! I am not paying for a plan, so the app is subject to their free quota. That line of source you found is simply going through a little proxy I set up to add my API key to the request.
Important to note: I have seen not one example of a non-press person claiming to be press and I've been watching all the livestreams constantly.
I'm downvoting it because it is willfully, thoughtfully, and purposefully attempting to argue that there is no racially motivated correlation between these datasets.

There is. Constructing a convoluted worldview in which there isn't, and promulgating it, is racism.
"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." HN Guidelines

But this is probably just my lurker observation. Not against all news but there should be at least some spark of insight of novelty. Feel free to flag now.

Edit: To expand a bit. What I like about HN is not that it's tech but it has plethora of very interesting topics and comments are almost always insightful (unlike this one). This headline is basically the whole article. The comments are therefore not guided by idea, but news. This topic is important but nothing comes out of these threads. This rant is contributing to bad quality of comments, one thing I always try to avoid.
> What can Microsoft do, as an alternative, that doesn't result in an identical or worse situation?

Do what Apple does -- allow me as a user to set a setting that allows unsigned code to run, or allows signed but not recognized code to run, but with a warning that it is signed but not recognized.

They could also fix their warning screen to better explain that it's not necessarily malware.
It's possible, but also, there's precedent from 2014 in Ferguson. Several members of credentialed media were arrested and assaulted to various degrees. Pretty much nothing happened by way of punishment other than a settlement from the DoJ saying they couldn't kettle people anymore, enforced by what is now Barr's department.

Any officer paying attention would know you won't be punished unless you act particularly egregiously like the one officer in Louisville reassigned to desk duty (big whoop). Add on the amount of animosity stoked by the president toward media for the past 4-5 years, and it really doesn't take a simultaneously coordinated effort to have this outcome.
Is this satire? I've never heard of that sub. And all conservative or even center political subs are massively manipulated and will never show up on the frontpage ever. Which is their good right of course, but Reddit is absolutely overwhelmingly left with all the major default subreddits bought.
Uber lays off 3k more employees in latest round of Covid-19-inspired cuts
MSIX only enforces a sandbox if an application doesn’t elect to use the restricted capabilities that allow it to run without. File system and registry virtualization can be disabled quite easily with a few lines in the package manifest, as well as a host of other isolation features.

This is a good thing, and it makes MSIX a usable packaging format for pretty much any application under the sun - but nobody should assume a MSIX package is safe just because it’s a MSIX package.
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But they aren't enforcing the law with many of these actions. See the first major publicized incident with the CNN crew. No laws were broken, the crew was compliant, they asked if they should move, explained they were in that spot because other police had told them to be there.

The police have gone beyond the law in these cases, and their handling of protesters (not to mention the cases which precipitated this present set of protests). The law doesn't need to be changed, the way police behave does.
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In at least some of the videos the journalists are not actually near any protesters, there's no way they just got caught up due proximity.

Multiple reporters have been shot at directly. The cops have shot into the cameras themselves to break them.
It is perfectly possible to blame both the politicians that propagate unjust rules and the people that take advantage of them. Both are contributing to injustice, each in their own way.
Windows already works the way you describe. There's a Developer Mode that relaxes some restrictions and SmartScreen lets you run unsigned code even in its default configuration (you have to click More Info to show the button, which is annoying but hardly unique to Windows - security error bypass in most browsers has been this way for ages)
Seems to be a Theorbo.

Here is a video of Rob Scallon interviewing Brandon Acker about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48RVcbkhNHQ
To use an obvious example, if you log into an account you've previously logged into directly from your home computer.

More broadly, any privacy tech can be undone by poor 'operational security'. For example Ross Ulbricht - 'Dread Pirate Roberts' of Silk road - posted on StackOverflow under his own name to ask "How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?" [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/silk-...
> ...this Administration has done more than virtually any other Administration in its first 2yrs.

Mr President, that's going to need some fact checking.
Thanks, this answer is helpful for focusing my search terms!
I'm pretty sure that Facebook won't do anything until they finish integrating the Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp backends so that any future antitrust action won't be able to split up the company. They just need to postpone.
I've had these variations at work: Checked into the code encrypted, a custom secret vault, stored encrypted in a S3 bucket and downloaded/decrypted at startup.

The main observation I'd make that if you put your keys somewhere only accessible in production, you've made it impossible to test anywhere except production. If you do that, you need to create a process where people can ship some small bit of code to test if the production key setup genuinely works (hint: it won't).
Lets say that a load from the L1 data cache takes two cycles. Take the following instruction sequence.

r1 = 3
r1 = load(r2) // will return 8
r3 = r1 + 2

In a typical processor the system will stall or reorder things so that the load completes before the third instruction so the final result in r3 is 10. In an exposed pipeline model the assignment to r3 will happen before the load instruction returns so the final value of r3 will be 5. I don't think this is very common outside VLIW systems but you have some famous ones that have used it there, like the Transmeta Crusoe. And the Mill guys are hoping to use it, basically, though they're calling it phasing and it's not exactly the same thing.
Done. Some quid that I could have spent in a book by Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley or Penguin Random House went instead to the Internet Archive, and I'll be doing the same every time I plan to buy a book by the above publishers, which I have just put in my do-not-buy-from list.

Clarification: not that their reasons were unsound, they're perfectly understandable, but going straight with a lawsuit without other attempts to solve the problem equals to bullying, and I'm not supporting it with my wallet.
Then again, if being cop attracts far right, then left is bound to notice, comment on it and hate them.
And if Apple make a mistake and exclude you from the market incorrectly who does one appeal to?

I would rather Windows didn't become another walled garden.
Leadership, but individuals too and they spread it themselves.

Bias is now barely defined as "I didn't hear my opinion read back to me." and just about any event is used to discredit entire news organizations, reporters, etc. Write some less than positive articles about a company "they have an agenda" and so forth. We get it on HN here too.

A buddy of mine was a camera man. Not far from the station was a lake where they heard there was some sort of boating accident. He got there first as the station was across the street, emergency services hadn't showed up yet and the crowd that gathered got quite upset and accused them of exploiting the situation somehow as soon as they got out of their van.

It seems people assume poor intentions, not just on the media but in most cases now.
It’s an experiment.
Extreme time zone differences are still a challenging problem that might actually be an insurmountable limit to remote work. (Depends on the level of asynchronicity of the job, of course.) Unless there starts to be a culture of remote shift work, which would just be dystopian.
See here: https://v.redd.it/m62sz14qmc251
A few days ago I had that exact discussion with someone here who didn't understand that there's a distinction between legal and illegal orders (wrt the military, in that context). That it is in fact illegal to obey an illegal order, and the right of members of the military to disobey such orders (assuming knowledge that it is illegal). The other person thought that I was advocating for anarchy...
the brain behind all this is the police union, FOP. It is a national scale organization which uses violence and threat of it to achieve its political goals. People mistakenly think that when they're dealing with local police they're dealing with local police.
Because they get signed.
I mean California had a $27bn deficit 10 years back, but ended up with a $15bn rainy day fund. Even back then, I heard the exact doom and gloom. I will wait and see how this plays out.
Sure, but none of that requires there to be unique IDs or hardware info sent to their servers. Let's not pretend that Microsoft enabled us to make that choice for ourselves.

Requesting software packages from a server should not require them to keep logs or send uniquely identifiable info.
> Where have you seen cops forcing weapons into the hands of someone on the ground? I haven't seen that.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/06/01/cop-put-baton-george-floyd-pr...
WebAssembly is a security/privacy nightmare: https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2018/10/dark-sid...
This has already been tried. I, personally, hated it so much that I just stopped using the self-checkouts whenever possible, because employee checkout was faster, even with the wait for customers queued before me. The weight check always brought the checkout process to a screeching halt, requiring an employee to come along and restart it, even with the smallest baskets in the best of conditions.
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"But what really kills the argument is looking at how our medical professionals have stepped up and responded to COVID-19, putting their lives on the line every day, with utterly inadequate gear. And still they serve."

You can't compare spontaneous heroism with mundane risk.
I've noticed that some stores put cameras behind cashiers such that they point at both the cashier and the customer.
Most modern “journalism” is garbage and “fake news” is a pretty accurate description of what they’re peddling. Let’s not pretend that most institutional journalists aren’t in bed with powerful political or financial interests, or that they don’t habitually misrepresent facts for those interests.
Another HNer participating in one of the site's favorite pastimes: moving the goalposts. Hooray.
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The official count is 17, if you trust that.
How fast does the rotor spin? To shred, or not to shred, that's the question here...
> it claims more significance for this mechanism than, you know, masses of people marching on the streets

Sure, seeing large marches are great at grabbing attention, but seeing actual video evidence of police brutality is _much_ more persuasive. Now almost everyone has high-def cameras, and the ability to stream live to everyone (so people will see it even if the police take/destroy your phone). I think that makes a big difference, though I'm not arguing that tech alone deserves credit for improving things. Having people in the streets still matters.
You don't think police attacks on journalists counts as an "interesting new phenomenon"?
While this is very disappointing news, these matters are not black and white. That is that say that even if police attack journalists in two countries, the one where it happens less frequently still outperforms the other.
> The accused loses escrow when a lawsuit is filed.

So all the alleged copyright owner needs to do to deprive the accused of $Y is file a lawsuit (which could be completely lacking in merit)? That is arguably worse than the status quo, unless $Y is trivially small, in which case it lacks meaning to begin with.
Well I don't know who's going to be at the grocery store, so I better strap on my grenades. You can't be too careful.
One big difference is that this $100/yr (ish) for MS side of things doesn't actually bypass smart screen on its own. Smart screen stops showing up if more people eventually install and use your app (black box). If you want to bypass it out of the gate, you need an EV Cert. Which are hundreds more (further down this article quotes one at $700), and require more effort on the business side of things.
Free speech is overrated. Speech can be dangerous and therefore we need to regulate it on every level. Not just Facebook either; we need to ban speech and public commentary whenever it’s problematic. Books need to be screened too. Hopefully we’ll be able to monitor and correct people’s thoughts as well when the technology becomes available. When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong.
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for clarifying!
We have been bitten with this one, multiple times now over the years but seems to have gotten worse.

Our otherwise SaaS product requires an installable component for our customers PCs, from installation package (MSI and/or EXE) that we generate on the fly per customer -basis in order to customize data inside the installer for each tenant. For this reason, the timestamping of digital signature varies between packages as does the hash [of the content], and for _months_ after we have renewed our signing certificate we get support messages about both Smart Screen "scary warnings" as well as from some AV products as well. Despite number of downloads for runs for the package(s) signed with one and the same signature.

As the article mentions, it does not matter if you have had previous certificate; each renewal (=new certificate technically) starts this reputation process from zero. What's worse, since the signing happens on the [Windows] server as part of the product itself we really cannot use EV certificates either as those require physical USB dongles to be attached to machine doing the signing.. so we are left only with option of using regular certificate that gets this treatment. Sure, 10 year certificate would postpone the issue for a long time, but for security purposes we actually want to recycle those signing certificates with one to two year interval so the problem always resurfaces regularly.
What usually happens is that legitimate certificates are stolen.
Yes, you are. Please, refer to

> https://study.com/academy/lesson/unlawful-assembly-failure-t...
Journalists deserved to be attacked more often. Their lies are leading to death & destruction - and they have no disincentives.
So the video of the man being held down and a baton being forcibly placed into his hand, is the one I'm assuming you're calling out.

What possible context would make that okay? In what possible scenario is putting a man's hand on a weapon for the sole purpose of harming him reliant on context?

These are not meant at all to be snarky, these are my very real questions, because I'm confused by your statements.