skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too bad, love Garmin’s products, if you ever have to make a detour someplace where the cell service isn’t great you want to have one of their GPS units. I don’t trust any phone apps outside of a major city. But sounds like they have some serious IT issues if hackers can cause this much disruption, you would think there should be some compartmentalization between the personal and professional products, between manufacturing and web presence. You can bet there will be after.
> The best resolution may be through Ads billing, by trying to post an ad and reporting a problem displaying an ad

Something kind of like that worked at the job I a few years ago.

A large provider of free email that also runs an ad network (not Google or Microsoft) once kept flagging my employer's emails as spam. The only emails we sent were receipts to people who had purchased stuff from us, an email with installation and activation instructions to new purchasers, and replies to support tickets.

We'd go through their procedure to report false positives, and anywhere from a few days to a week later our mails would start going through...and then a few weeks later they'd start getting blocked again.

This finally ended permanently when our guy who managed ad spending called up our rep at the email provider, and asked something along the lines of "Could you explain to me why the fuck I'm spending $X thousands dollars a week on ads there to acquire new customers, and then you block us from sending those customers receipt and instructions!?".

The ad rep put him hold for a moment, and then returned with their head of IT conferenced in. The ad rep explained the problem to the IT head. The IT head then conferenced in the leader of the anti-spam team and told him to add our domain to an exception list so that nothing we sent could ever be classified as spam. The anti-spam team guy said it would be done in 10 minutes.

We never had a problem after that.
Also I personally recommend to take a look to this series before diving into his great introductory book about category theory [1]. Seeing the application of the theoretical concepts and deriving the code yourself makes it more approachable for completly begginers from my experience.

1. https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
> The maximum file size Cloudflare's CDN caches is 512MB for Free, Pro, and Business customers and 5GB for Enterprise customers.

What's not stated here, and the OP learned, is that requests for larger files are always passed through directly.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516-U....
> The ideals of the Internet are free exchange of ideas and information, no country-specific walled gardens

> If that were the case, I’d block EU access for any of my domains

These two statements are at odds with each other ...
on the UFO VPN leak:

> “In this server, all the collected information is anonymous and only be used for analyzing the user’s network performance & problems to improve service quality. So far, no information has been leaked.”

I can't see how you can keep enough info to analyse an individual users service, without keeping logs on their access details (source/target IPs). What BS.
Or just update your firmware and then remove the app.

Not just Bose, the Sony WH* series is also guilty of this. Great cans, awful app.
IoT is unlikely to be affected, unless the device goes out of its way to expose its database via upnp
I wish AWS and other clouds would cater to this crowd (which I'm a part of). I just closed my AWS account to remove this exact risk. I love hacking around and playing with the various services—it satisfies my own curiosity and also helps me at work—but it's not worth putting my financial security at risk to keep these accounts open. More than once I've stress-checked my AWS bill in the middle of the night because I was worried there'd be some hidden bill or somebody hacked in and blew up the network traffic or compute or whatever. It's just not worth the loss of peace of mind.

I wonder if a potential solution is to have two billing modes that get hardlocked at signup (or require a key or something to change): one is the standard model with alerts etc. The other is a personal model that kills all of your stuff when you go over some limit. I would feel much safer if the latter were in place.
I Hate Being a _____
> I prefer this over having data stolen.

How do you know it wasn't?
I got some Bose 700 this past week. There is still a button on these to adjust noise cancelation.
The Scottish Spy Who Stole China's Tea Empire (2015)
Goodbye, Washington DC
<whoosh>
In the us the tax rate can change city by city. Even Up code is not enough to know the tax rate. :-/
I wrote a game based on Jos Stam's Fluid Dynamics approach 2 years ago [1]. But without any GPU acceleration.
It was also discussed on Hacker News [2]. There you can also find links of other computer games which uses fluid dynamics.

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/Interplanetary-Postal-Service

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17993933
Their point is that software is written so that it's only barely fast enough on machines much more powerful than a PineBook, which makes it more difficult than necessary to use perfectly functional machines that happen to be slower than average.

The problem is that fast software is harder to write than slow software (there are trivial transforms from fast to slow, but not vice versa). Thus, each generation back you expect your software to run smoothly on, represents more effort (or at least, more care) on the part of the author. We should expect software to be "just fast enough for the average user" essentially by natural law.
This is not about making a game out of education. It is about taking the multi-user, remote / virtual interface and using that infrastructure to support the online delivery of content. If Harvard bought a game company they would have that infrastructure.

It is possible to build it, of course. The problem I see with that method is you risk confusing the goal by focusing on the educational aspect too early on. What a persisting educational enterprise needs is scalability / and sustainability.

Take for instance Call of Duty Mobile, it is fairly easy with a little dedication to achieve LEGENDARY status in the Battle Royale mode each season. Such an effort requires focus, skill and dedication. What if Harvard had a mode beyond Legendary, where you had to train / skill-up in actual real world knowledge? Then as you achieved those rankings, you would get bonus / rewards.

I could envision a Chemistry track that took you through enough basics that you could solve in game problems. The same for Physics, Electronics and of course the easiest since it is already virtual, Computer Science / Programming.

The infrastructure is the hardest part. Adding the educational tracks is easy as it can evolve overtime.
the other way is communism
Noise cancellation sometimes gets better (or worse) after a firmware update.
It typically takes a lot of parental involvement for kids to use screen to learn something or build something rather then watch entertaining videos or play fortnite from the moment they wake up till they go to sleep.
Yeah one thing though with Docker is that in some cases it injects its rules into iptables before the firewall application's.

I was using arno-iptables-firewall and this suffered from that, docker containers would be world accessible. In general I only bind them to localhost anyway, but I figured this out when testing. It doesn't seem to happen with UFW.

But I can imagine some people know how to set up a firewall but then just assume it works and don't check. This is the kind I do feel sorry for, at least they tried to protect it.
Most bluetooth headphones already have a mic ^^.
At least the ones I own and the ones I found after a short Amazon search.
What's an Edison battery? I searched and did not find anything conclusive.
People don't want gasoline or gas. They're dangerous, toxic chemicals. People want these things because of what they get them. They want gasoline and gas because they want to go somewhere or heat a house.
I've got the adapter and an Intel NVMe SSD installed, the eMMC is only being used to boot the system.

It works reasonably well for a device in this price range.
I'd imagine it has something to do with the timeframe that terms describing units of electricity came into common usage.

The U.S. is a signatory of the Metre Convention (1875). All of our customary units are defined as linear conversions of corresponding SI units. The Watt and Joule (also Ohm) were not standardized until 1893. Funnily enough, the international conference where these were officially decided happened in Chicago.
No, they don't always have that control. Maybe in this case they do, maybe they don't. But your typical author is in someone's pay. And they probably don't have the pick of where to publish besides the bulk of the places where you can work and write articles that reach a sizeable audience will have this kind of environment.

Anyway, seeing the same comment over and over again reduces its value. It was a cool observation the first time, boring the second, redundant after that.
One of the all-time great tripping activities, along with Rainbox (http://www.axlrosen.net/rainbox/rainbox-large.html) and Audiosurf
WFOEs indeed exist, but there are many restrictions on the types of business they can conduct, both directly[1] and indirectly because activities require licenses[2] that WFOEs can't get. The grandparent post was wrong in the details, but it's still a different world from the USA or EU.

1. https://www.fdichina.com/blog/china-company-registration/ftz...

2. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/entry-strategy-chinas-on...
Ordinarily when you pay $350 for headphones it is assumed that the vendor has already invested money in doing R&D to make them work properly and isn't planning to do testing on you without telling you or compensating you for it, to enable the functionality you already paid for.

I bought headphones, I did not sign up for a research project.

We went from paying for software to getting it for free in return for our data and now we're apparently giving over our data even for physical devices that we pay top dollar for.
It is quite similar.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm
It's also easy to get bitten by Docker. You can secure your server with iptables/ufw only to discover that docker happily punches through your firewall and you need to filter on the DOCKER-USER chain - and even that was broken: https://unrouted.io/2017/08/15/docker-firewall/ https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/690
The USA more or less fully adopted the metric system in the 90s. All food is labeled in metric units for example. We just never abandoned imperial weights and measures. This leads to some amusing things like large bottles of soda and wine being measured in metric, while cans are measured in ounces. Then again we're not alone. The UK is considered officially metric, but they still pour beer in pints and weigh people in stone.

There are good arguments to be made for everyday use of Fahrenheit over Celsius. The 0-100 range in F cover pretty much all of the temperatures one is likely to experience in the USA. It also has a finer resolution than degrees Celsius in everyday weather temperature ranges.

The SI units are designed for scientific and engineering use and they excel for the purpose they are designed.
There is a significant Indian population in Vancouver - both immigrant and several generations of post-immigration (White Rock, etc.) so if ultimately you must find a caregiver there I wouldn't expect language to prove problematic. Good luck.
My QC35IIs have a button on the side to adjust noise cancelling. No need for an app.
Yes, or they provide an internal subnet only accessible to servers from the same tenant. Usually it's double useful because usually this traffic is not charged.
With current technology, it costs between $30-90 per ton to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

A gallon of gas produces 20 pounds of CO2 (most of the weight is from O2 from the atmosphere).

A ton is 2000 pounds, so 100 gallons of gas produces a ton of CO2.

A $1/gallon (25-33%) carbon recapture tax on gasoline would be enough to make cars carbon negative.

Global warming is a political, not technical, problem.
The description sounds like that person is at fault. They have emails coming in for three months about thousands of dollars in charges and don't read them :(
Do people really use gasoline for heating and AC? I've never seen that. Also can't the rest of those things just use an alternate fuel.
The Privacy Shield framework that was just declared invalid by the EU included a requirement that US companies make themselves available for arbitration of disputes brought by EU data subjects. GDPR by itself doesn't include that concept. But if GDPR is going to be enforceable, the negotiation around a successor to Privacy Shield should probably include it.
Initial migration: LiveJournal was purchased by a Russian company. Users did not believe their data would be safe.
I'm all in for Pinebook Pro, other open-source hardware projects and ARM ecosystem in general (I even run my production application on an ARM server).

But at the same time, we need to be cognizant of the need for software optimisations in ARM running pure Linux operating systems. Much of the complaints levelled against Pinebook can be said for any other similar spec ARM SBC for GUI applications. Some performance tuning could be made at user end such as bloat free Arch ARM, SSD, Btrfs, Zswap etc.[1] but still performance gap with similar spec X86_64 are clearly visible.

I have a Acer Chromebook 11 N7, running fan less intel celeron N3060, 4GB RAM, MIL-STD 810G which retailed for $250 (but Google sent one for free to me)[2]. The performance enhancements Google has made with Chromium/ChromeOS is very visible, with every update it got better, there's no sluggishness unless we go overboard with memory. I think there's a reason Google ditched ARM for Chromebooks in spite of it being favourable to run android apps.

Mozilla & other free software behemoths who build GUI applications should seriously care about ARM ecosystem when we are voting for projects like Pinebook/PinePhone/Librem with our wallet.

[1]https://abishekmuthian.com/getting-smoother-desktop-experien...

[2]https://abishekmuthian.com/reviewing-the-chromebook-google-s...
Thank you! I stand corrected.

It looks like the reason most cited, in hindsight, for Apple removing it was to pave the way for a design without bezels and with more speakers

https://screenrant.com/why-apple-removed-the-headphone/
https://bgr.com/2017/10/06/pixel-2-headphone-jack-iphone-x-d...

Which is, indeed, a very different reason.
Mine don't because they're hard wired into whatever device I use.
Not three days ago there was this article about another company where people were immediately saying with great authority that Google would never do this.
Damn, last week we were wondering where did our data went and why there are so many meow indexes!
We were meowed !!!
Meow why would you say that?
Rather little, and with district heating it's a non-issue. You can make it a "plus house", producing more energy than what it consumes using solar panels.

My point rather was that living in a really old badly insulated house or a place with horrendous building standards is a choice, and that has to cost something and not be what we aim for when alternatives are easily possible and has been for decades.
Maybe this actor A downloaded the data, then deleted the database, preventing others from accessing and selling the same data? Only A can sell this data now?
Ok, even if you are right, they still aren’t concerned with the fiscal impact of the policy.
> dreamwidth is closer to livejournal

I've never been on livejournal, no idea what that looks like. I saw elsewhere in the thread it's a fork from Livejournal's code; it just reminded me of Tumblr.
Here's an interesting article saying that people compare counted covid-19 deaths to projected/estimated flu deaths, and when you do a more apples-to-apples comparison, it looks like covid was killing people (in the US in April) at about 20 times the peak rate of flu in a typical season.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
It has an app?
While some of the formal notions of type theory can seem daunting, I personally have found it extraordinarily useful in being able to understand the different expressiveness of type systems in programming languages. There are languages that clearly implement say, parametric polymorphism well (ML-style languages) and safely compared to far more ad-hoc approaches, such as C++.

At the same time it's very cool to be able to grasp more advanced type systems (e.g. dependent types) that haven't been popularized yet and imagine how they could lead to radically different methods to software engineering.

I like Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages book, it's mathematically rigorous but well motivated and structured for CS-oriented readers. It covers everything from pure lambda calculus to mutable objects, Featherweight Java, and type systems with subtyping.
The gaslighting is so intellectually lazy too.
It's a national shame that it works.
Big BPM Is Coming
We used a product from a company (I'd prefer not to name them) and received an official letter from them that on of our customers had more than 10 million in revenue, which in turn would require us to buy a larger plan from them[0]. They cited the companies (inofficial) RocketReach page as a source and demanded 30k USD (iirc).

They only retracted the thread after we could prove (via Google Cache and archive.org) that the page was very recently modified to show such a big revenue and threatened to report them for fraud.

We probably could've deflected the case since the company was public and therefore its revenue was also public, but, as a very small company, we had neither time nor money to spare for an useless lawsuit. And we assume that this was their bet. We switched to a competitor after this, obviously.

[0] It later actually turned out that this AGB change was after our purchase and not yet affecting us, but we didn't know that at the time.
The cat's out of the bag now!
Unfortunately there is no universal golden rule on what "should" be eaten or not. Especially when you are hungry and there isn't many choices. If you didn't die or get sick, you might choose to continue eating a "weird food" because they taste good, even when you have other choices.

It's bizarre to Americans that _some_ Chinese are eating bats[1] and snakes[2].
It's bizarre to Chinese that _some_ Americans are eating alligators[3][4], bears and frogs.

It is human nature to explore and try new things including animals for food. If one has known better, maybe it's better to educate others what are good/bad food sources, with proofs.

Mutual discrimination based on sensational news and locally-biased "common sense" are not making the world a better place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_soup
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_meat
[4] https://youtu.be/V-mJ0UWfxno?t=266
It has a gravity well, but it is not accurate to call it 'large.' LEO is deeper into a gravity well than the surface of the Moon; it takes less delta-v to get just about anywhere (including Geosync orbit) from the surface of the moon than from an LEO on an inclination given by a launch from Kennedy Space Center.
Stopping and even reversing deforestation is the single most efficient form of CO2 reduction/capture we have available.

Deforestation rivals fossil fossil fuels for greenhouse gas emissions (up to 30% of anthropic emissions) yet it rarely gets talked about. Could it be because there is no money to be made in halting deforestation?

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/deforestation-and-greenhous...
https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo671

On the fossil fuel side what we need is a large scale industrial use of CO2 that is not hopelessly energy inefficient. If such a breakthrough happens we could build gas turbine farms at gas fields and pipe the CO2 to industrial centers. Modern gas turbines are the most efficient form of electricity generation. The emissions consist almost entirely of H2O and CO2, some collateral NO2, and trace amounts of other stuff from combusted impurities.
Some elaboration would help.

First, it's clear that several of these things are OS / software issues. Debian has issues with the screen and wifi, whereas other distros have better wifi handling on the same hardware? That's the OS.

Firefox is slow with Slack? Firefox is slow with Slack on the fastest hardware you can buy, so why state the obvious?

Firefox apparently doesn't have hardware video decoding enabled, which is, again, a software issue.

Disk operations seem sluggish? Why not say whether you're using a cheap eMMC or possibly even an SD card?

Unless you're selling your Pinebook Pro on eBay as-is, you've left out too much information.
People who steal things aren't just "called" thieves. They are thieves. In some cases, they can even get away with not paying for gasoline (or other things), not get caught, never get called a thief, yet they still are, definitionally, thieves.
If you're trying for perfection, then not even remotely, no. The type of data provided by "one million users" will uncover issues that "one hundred users" simply never can.

I believe it was iOS 10 or 11 developer betas that would, on each beta update, run a trial APFS conversion process against the phone's internal filesystem, check the result for consistency, and then discard the replica and report success/failure w/ logs — so that Apple could find the issues that they couldn't find at 'one hundred users' scale.
It is strange untill you actually have to deal with kids long term. Then it starts to make sense.

Also, kids who read a lot tend to be the ones who also do homework. Yet also, today's kids who engage in reading a lot tend to be the ones who have "screen time" policed.

When kids spend too much time reading, parent do treat that as issue too. There just is no peer pressure currently to read, reading is less addictive and people tend to rage less while reading or post reading.
I don't mean to sound harsh, but if you are asking yourself this question you need security auditing ASAP.
The NIH did do some research along these lines. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589201/#!po=1....

That said, most of the debate at this point is motivated reasoning by people who don't want to wear masks. :P
I think you need the app to switch that to noise cancellation level from digital assistant activation.
Is it considered piracy to distribute a free trial?
agreed entirely.

there's no way forward regarding global warming with the current US insitution of leadership, comprised of both major parties. they've got to be removed for the most optimal response to climate change, but doing so will be ghastly.

that's why i've started hunting for CCS solutions/companies to invest in/ways to start a company to leverage CCS for profit. we're going to need a massive mop to clean up the mess the baby boomers are still insisting on making worse.
Doesn't really matter, as long as the credential is exposed, users can be warned. No matter where it came from.
This strikes me as a pretty narrow view of the hacker mindset. Sure, "hype-driven" is not exactly hacker-y, but "reckless," "for fun," and "why not" all sound exactly like hacker attitudes to me. A prime example would be Claude Shannon, who built tons of useless overcomplicated things just for fun in addition to coming up with information theory.
Here is a paper using the Turing mechanism to explain the pattern of 10hz flicker-induced hallucination (which is a fascinating rabbit hole).
https://www.pnas.org/content/104/20/8490/tab-figures-data
Anecdotally, my son got Vívofit jr for his birthday on Thursday, we tried to set it up and couldn’t... the app was reporting server error that day and the next day. The only thing I could think of was that they don’t have any monitoring for their server APIs... but this explains it.