skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication isn't that being Chinese makes one likely to be a hacker. It's the other way around. It's that being a hacker makes it unusually likely that you're Chinese (or Russian). Similarly, being a Nigerian doesn't make you an email scammer, but being an email scammer makes you unusually likely to be Nigerian. Being a drug lord makes you unusually likely to be Mexican.

These are archetypes, i.e. popularly associated examples of particular actions. But I'm not sure if they're full-blown stereotypes, where they get over-applied to members of that group. People don't believe that all Chinese and Russians are hackers, that all Nigerians are email scammers, that all Mexicans are drug overlords, etc.

Stereotypes tend to be more insidious. Many people (in America) do believe that Blacks and Mexicans are criminals, that Chinese are great at math, etc., to the degree that it changes how they actually treat people. So I think these are much worse and shouldn't be equated.

That said, despite the above analysis, I can see how being Chinese you would still cringe when you see the phrase "Chinese hacker" being used casually. I'm an ethnic minority and have felt similarly in similar situations.
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I think they have the capital to buy enough copies of all books in existence to allow effectively unlimited lending of not recently released books.
Nitpick: giving slack usually means being less strict, perhaps you meant flak as in excessive and abusive criticism.
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Having visited r/politics and r/news, I'd actually agree with that characterization.
This combined with Microsoft's roadmap with a WSL that works on CUDA GPUs is going to cost Apple a lot of ML/AI/HPC developer mindshare. Yes, we do a lot of our work on remote machines, but it's not always the most convenient way to experiment. I doubt my next machine will be a MacBook.
Amazon marketing claims are not something you should trust.
Reuters is just a newswire agency: it just does research and provides the facts. Downstream news outlets like Fox and NBC are the ones that will put the spin on it, and boutique outfits like commondreams and Mother Jones will give you the call to action if they cover it. The problem with Mother Jones and publications like it is that they have a pretty strong slant (they are trying to persuade you, not inform you) and they also don't run stories that go against their narrative, thereby omitting information that may inform you/provide greater context or nuance.

In any case, the solution here is the same as always; write to your representatives or get involved in a protest (all variations on "advocate for change").
My experience with depression, an isolated major depressive episode that lasted most of a year, suggests that antidepressants were highly effective. I didn't feel like any clues were to be found. It felt much more like a chemical switch in my brain was in the wrong position.
Thankfully I would expect all of this isolation to soften next year's flu season quite a bit.
Thank you!

I'm not sure taking away the use of the vehicle is much more humane than prison for someone too poor to pay traffic tickets. Without a vehicle in the US, they likely won't be able to get to work, which all but ensures they won't be able to pay their tickets.

Same with revocation of the license, what if they drive anyway? What if they don't show up to community service? What if it's because they need to work? These punishments seem to me to need to be backed up by the threat of prison, or else they're just as toothless as the fines themselves.

Wage garnishment seems much better, though it requires that they have an identifiable employer and that they make enough to pay the fine and rent. Getting evicted because of wage garnishment, like the taking away of a vehicle, seems like somewhere near the same level of inhumane as prison time, for a person in that precarious of a situation. And what happens if the employer refuses to garnish the wages?

Though I know that some garnishments are income dependent, and employers are usually compliant, so that's probably the best of all worlds.

All of your suggestions seem more compassionate than prison, but I still think there is a major question of what happens if there is still non-compliance? Do we let violators go, or do we escalate until we are doing some violence, either through prison or confiscation of property?

And if we aren't willing to do violence, should the penalty exist at all in the first place?
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Bitcoins main feature isn't being anonymous and also the wallet is more likely an exchange wallet than some random billionaire's. There's privacy coins that heavily lean towards achieving anonymity. But I mean if I had a billion dollars and I wanted to have it in Bitcoin, there's nothing stopping me from having one hundred million Bitcoin wallets each with $10. If performed properly, I think that would sufficiently obfuscate my identity until I had to liquidate them.
Not a doctor but my suspicion is..probably not unless your isolation resembles a bubble. We still go to the store, eat the food, etc. You have basic immunity at-large but not to the local variations that you catch them when you travel. The local variations evolve without you when you go to antarctica for a while.

The more serious infections (cold, flu, covid) aren't a "gradual" immunity thing, they're individual strains that pack a hard punch in comparison to everything else. In part because we don't see anything super close to them on a regular basis.
SafetyNet’s dreaded hardware attestation is rolling out
Doesn't sound so far fetched when TikTok is allowed to violate COPPA and is a haven for child predators.
My guess would be that apps that target an earlier Android version will continue to work properly, even on Android 11.

Ok, maybe that's more my hope than my guess. We'll see.
Congratulations on completing such a very successful project!

Also, good decision, and happy to see that you now can finally take a real vacation if you want.

Also, it is good news for everyone, because it means you will be able to concentrate your energy on new creative pursuits if you want. Which, for example, leads to beneficial things like video tutorials, etc.

It feels like people may still kind of be on your back a little bit but this time they may be asking you what the next big project is. I hope you can shake them off and just follow your passion without needing to make a commitment to something new
(especially not anytime soon). This will be best for everyone in my opinion.
In my case I am stuck with a spare phone on android 8 since they banned wireless scanning from 9 onwards. it's a matter of functionality over perceived security. fed up with google. will check out the PinePhone
Surprised that 4chan isn't mentioned here. IMO the linear structure combined with references gives you the best of both worlds. You can follow the discussion linearly, but also jump around to check references.
The problem is the hate is in both places; it's just that the first's hate is in alignment with the morality of the educated elite.
It is a prisoner's dilemma.

When you all have big cars, you're back in an equilibrium where everyone seems as safe in head-on collisions as the equilibrium where everyone drove small cars. But each car now has way more kinetic energy and momentum, and needs bigger crumple zones to absorb it (oops! You won't find room to expand those in side collisions!), is more prone to rollover, has less visibility of pedestrians, bicycles, and children playing in your driveway, worse gas mileage, more pollution, less parking space, etc.

And then someone decides to get an edge over the crowd by driving a monster truck and you're back to scrambling into a new, even worse equilibrium.
FYI, here's where they get the 12x more dangerous data from:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091122180337/http://www.statis...
It's not thinking that gets me into accidents - it's not thinking that gets me into accidents.

That also applies to driving.

edit: Unintentional. I meant, it's not those situations where I think for a second and make a bad call - it's those situations where I act without thinking at all.
I feel like there has been a concurrent pandemic of post hoc ergo propter hoc logic since the COVID-19 pandemic started. I can empathize with the desire for certainty but I feel like alot of the time it might be better just to say we don't know and still do whatever we think will help (e.g. masks, lockdowns).
Not only could we not build it today, we can barely modify it today: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Co...

> But despite not a single resident registering a complaint about the antenna work — a modern-day miracle! — getting the permit from the city's Planning Department took two years. Approval came just as special crews arrived to do the work.

> “It was held up for no good reason,” Hyams said, echoing a common gripe about our city's slow Planning Department, which mirrors the slowness of just about every department.
I like the Telegram safety feature where they use Emojis as fingerprints.
Unless they've made huge strides lately, it's nowhere near parity and leaves out most of the differentiating features.
Doesn't get you much, unless the vulnerability requires a writable filesystem in order to be exploited or you really really really want to persist across reboots (not hard but not usually needed) or firmware updates (much harder to do robustly, expertise required).

Malware can operate entirely in memory, not touching disk. If access is lost, reinfection can take place (has been used by nation state actors). Even the Mirai botnet which was done by amateurs didn't persist and simply reinfected. So it comes down to your potential adversaries. Actors deploying wide, non-targeted attacks Mirai-style get little value from persistence. It's simply an extra layer of unneeded complexity.
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Many issue trackers have APIs that let you use them from within IDEs, and often in quite powerful ways. JetBrains does this nicely with trackers like JIRA and the native one in GitHub.
For the very poor, a short (few days) stint in jail would be far preferable to having your car impounded.

That's the problem with these debates about penalties--for the very poor, any penalty might be life destroying. But then how do you incentivize certain kinds of behavior? And how do you determine when somebody is too poor to be subject to any kind of penalty? Any loopholes you create will always be abused by the rich and powerful because that's the very definition of power--capable of bending the system to your advantage.

The real problem is that the poor are very often unplugged from civil society as experienced by the middle classes. They don't have a stake in it. Rather than just throw up our hands, if we're serious about the plight of poverty and its ill effects, we should be more proactive. Keep the penalties, because jail time is something everybody understands, no matter how poor you are. But be proactive about not only enforcement but remediation. Send the darned judges to the people rather than making the people come to the judge. If all the person can afford is a quarter, then take the quarter and thank them for their time and their participation.

The goal afterall isn't punishment for punishment's sake, it's to heal the wounds to civil society caused by law breaking, repairing the relationship between the offender and the community, and bringing the offender back into the fold. If the offender doesn't have any sense of a personal relationship with the state, then punishment imposed from a distance can't meet even half of its function. Moreover, no penalty whatsoever, or one with no teeth, does absolutely nothing except reinforce the estrangement, which is worse. It's like leaving the mentally ill on the street to rot to death out of some absurd sense of individual liberty; it functions only to make the non-mentally ill feel more secure in their privileged circumstances, rather than addressing any of the real underlying issues.
Weight increases mortality in all accidents. Either by increasing the likelihood of the other driver being injured or by increasing the amount of force impacted on crumple-zones in single car accidents. All modern safety studies have shown this and only recently has any SUV gotten a pure 5 star award. SUVs are less safe than equally priced cars. Also most SUvs cost much more than cars with similar wheelbases.
That too is criminal, it's not a one or the other thing, nor does one justify the other.
Yes, you are missing something.

Two threads reading and writing to the same memory area do not necessarily give problems. In fact, many software is built to exploit several facts about how memory accesses work with respect each other.

ARM processors give very few guarantees, so code has to workaround that.
> I don’t like much what the underground programming world became in recent years,

I find this to be a provocative statement. Does anyone know what he means?
how? this is an amazing domain.
Depends on how many results it brings you -- if it declares 10 candidate matches, and 1 is correct, then its still 90% wrong -- but still very useful.
> In eleven years I hope I was able to provide a point of view that certain persons understood, about an alternative way to write software. I hope that such point of view will be taken into consideration in the evolution of Redis.

To me this epitomises what Bill Gates meant when he said "Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.".

I just wish I had something to show for my last decade that had as much impact as Redis!
HTML should be created by WRITING HTML! WTF is your malfunction? Javascript should ALWAYS be as minimal as possible on your web page. We aren't building a native app! THIS IS THE WEB!!!!!
Supposing there's a reliable CDC left after this is all said and done. Might get dismantled from within as a scapegoat.
For anyone who checks the comments first: this is a Severity 10 Critical level bug affecting a pile of PAN devices running 8.x and 9.x series OS. When exploitable (SAML auth, net access to device, not validating ID cert) it allows easy remote escalation to network administrator because the devices just plain don't bother validating the signature.

If you're running one of these things update and make sure the box is checked to validate ID (why is this even an option?). Or throw it in the trash. I guess it's also a good reminder of the risks edge-based security policies hold and why some level of additional layers is important even for places that can't manage full BeyondCorp style zero trust. It's too bad even basic stuff like network segmentation isn't as friendly as it could be. Of course actually choosing decent edge devices helps too, Palo Alto has been derided here for years for good reason. Regrettably they seem to be plenty common :\
Which part is confusing? Can you answer this? "Are laws objective?" It seems you think so. But if they aren't, then someone needs to interpret them. This is essentially what lawyers are doing and the judge and jury decides what is right.

> they don't try to appeal to anyone, they just implement it. Is this not how it works in the US?

On paper, yes. In practice, no. Because again, laws aren't objective.

> In the US could a town elect a judge who says they're going to convict everyone who's left-handed?

Let's rephrase it.

> In the US could a town elect a judge who says they're going to convict everyone who's black?

Welcome to Jim Crow era. So the answer is clearly yes. Of course, conviction still relies on the jury and "jury nullification" exists in an effort to put these types of judges in check. This is why you're supposed to be judged by peers. Now there is interpretation of what peers means. Or what community is. Is this your neighbors? Or is this just people that live in the town? Are people in the Brooklyn your peers if you live in Queens? What about if you live in Mountain View? If you do a search you'll quickly find different answers from legal scholars as to what "jury of peers" means. I brought up the first and second amendments because these are frequently debated in the public domain (where judges/legal scholars are debating and we the public can see and listen in).

To me, the idea that laws are objective and not up for interpretation is "bat-shit insane." To do so would require perfect humans writing laws and last time I checked we didn't have any of those.
Why would anyone use safari in the first place?
My only guess is that somebody is sitting on it and trying to sell it for an unreasonably high asking price.
Games are usually written to allocate memory upfront and keep the per-frame allocation cost from affecting performance, by re-using buffers.

So I would expect a well written game to also not be a workload in which you can recognize a poor performing malloc.

Same with media code for similar reasons.
> at the same time regain my sanity from battery life, slowness and absurd support timelines

If the phone had bad battery life or was slow to begin with, don't buy it. If it doesn't and it suddenly appears while you're using it... that's user error.

Support: I'm really not sure what kind of support you're expecting, I assume not "how do I take a screenshot" kind of support. I once returned a phone for warranty but the support delay on that was the time it took me to look up a few website pages if I remember correctly. Is that what you mean? Or maybe it's about how long the warranty process takes: it took almost 2 weeks to repair it for me (from the day of dropping off until the day I could use it again), that is indeed quite long for a fairly essential device, but that seems to be the standard for any laptop or phone (unless you bought a service contract, which I guess one implicitly does with Apple given its pricing).
Drive availability is the real downside of tape. You have to rotate tape libraries to the new media every few generations to avoid getting stuck-- LTO drives can only read the two previous generations of tape.

This is easy enough to do for tape libraries where you have robots to manage everything, but really dampens the effectiveness for personal backups.
In my experience, 99 Designs results in poor quality and ends up being a waste of time. Typically the designers just throw up whatever is quick to get entered. It’s a numbers game.

I recommend searching Dribbble (yes, 3 Bs) for a designer you like and then connect with them there. Some are very expensive but there are young designers there looking to build their own brand. Try it out.
i have a mini-theory in which any group that allocates resources to existential risks will operate at a disadvantage (in the short term) to groups that do not, thus it's likely that anybody who does this will lose to competitors (businesses, countries) that do not.

FOr example, cloud providers who do not plan for meteor-based regional outages (which occur rarely) believe they can home all their data in a single region. This is much cheaper and will allow the provider a better profit margin, and realistically, not a lot of customers care about their data surviving a meteor taking out US-EAST1.
In Northern VA there are whole neighborhoods with huge houses and nice cars. I know a guy who lived there. I asked where all these people worked, thinking Verizon, AOL or similar. He said pretty much all worked for nonprofits. There is great money in non-profit leadership. A lot of hospitals also are non-profit and pay huge salaries to their management.
It's worth exploring ray marching.

I still need to learn more about how Godot is using ray marching, but FWIW there is a lot to learn on ShaderToy and IQ's articles about the basic techniques.

https://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Xds3zN

The Media Molecule team did a pretty amazing job integrating ray marching into a game pipeline and presented it at Siggraph

http://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/AlexEvans_SIGGRA...
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This is excellent, thank you.
I mean, yeah, it's a common thread in the US legal system as well, that property theft/damage doesn't give you the right to commit violent actions.

Even in castle doctrine states, it's only that their unwelcome presence on your property is an implied threat of violence, not that you're legally allowed to commit violence to protect property. That's why booby traps are universally illegal in the US.

So yes, compared to violence and particularly police brutality, it is "just property". Legally.
The telecom tower climbing industry sees some of this. Mountain top sites that need a high clearance 4x4 in summer and a snow cat to access in winter.
Just mentioned this story to my fisherman friend and he said he has dug quite a few ponds and often seen fish magically appear before they stock the pond.
I am not sure they are dead.

I haven't toyed with files in 11 yet but looks like the MediaStore api covers such an use case :

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Med...
Yes, this is the single app that locks me into Apple's platform these days.
The main boon is that a judge can be removed democratically. Obviously there are better ways to do that, like having a recall process or a vote of no confidence, but the USA's states were mostly created during a time when being able to vote judges out of office was politically trendy.

Also, speaking as somebody who recently voted for local judges and prosecutors, I got to choose a prosecutor who won't take police-union money and a judge who thinks they can do better than the possibly-corrupt incumbent. I wouldn't give up this vote just for some imagined peace in the political process.
> it's only so many people can be accommodated in S

This is true but not very important today; as has been clearly demonstrated in many different contexts, that number is a large multiple of the current population.
I think you're confusing "publicizing political bias" with "having political bias." Judges aren't robots. They aren't void of emotion. They are humans. Yes, we all ask that judges do their best to remove their biases. Most do a good job. But as far as I'm aware, they are all still people.

I'm not sure why you would expect judges to be a special class of people that are void of opinions.
Well, the EU tried pretty hard to negotiate a deal, but as you know the negotiations didn't really go anywhere.

The EU cannot force Great Britain to do a deal. That is not feasible.

And it is just absolutely unrealistic to even entertain the possibility that the EU would suddenly roll out the red carpet with fanfares for a nation which so clearly wants to leave the union.

It's the choice of Great Britain to do what they want, but the nation, through its leaders and its voting population have to accept the consequences of their actions. One cannot leave the EU and simultaneously get the benefits of being in the EU. That is not possible.

Consider: if the EU were to hand out the best trade deals and market accesses and free movement and whatnot to every nation wanting to exit the union (for whatever reason), the whole EU would be rendered meaningless and it would collapse. A divided Europe would be a weak one. It would probably end up in a war, most likely not from within, but because of actors using that exact playbook you are referring to.
> But if they aren't, then someone needs to interpret them.

If they're open to too much interpretation... send them back to the legislature to clarify.

> Welcome to Jim Crow era. So the answer is clearly yes.

Well this seems like an indication to me that the system is not great.