skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was so obvious that many of those scenes were censored in the US.

> It steered far clear of sexual tones.

What are the tests or societal norms that censors employ for US releases?

What is censored or changed always seemed pretty arbitrary from my point of view, though I have no knowledge of CCS and don't know what specifically was changed there.

It feels like romantic, sexual, and violent themes are fine in domestic media, but are censored for imports.

As an extreme example take the previous God of War titles with their violence, gore, and literal sex mini-games vs. cartoonish violence and clothing getting censored in imports. Somehow one thing is fine for US publishers, and the other isn't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Real ID act[1] is a national ID in every way but the name.

[1]: https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/real-id-act-text.pdf
>IMHO, this was not the result of how "evil" the German and Japanese regimes were (which seems to me to be a rationalization)

More than ten million killed in war crimes by Japan alone in less than 15 years. These weren’t some secret at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
This is the correct answer. The difference between the messages I leave for myself in my local merges and my actual commits to the dev branch are night and day.
Yeah, I did. You'll have to forgive me for having been loose with the language I used to write a random comment on the internet. I'm sure I could've worded it differently and in a way that made more sense to the specific context.

You'll also have to forgive me for not responding to that specific critique until you came along, I guess. I'd have been happy to reply to that previously if I hadn't been very condescendingly talked down to about the literal definition of the word no and then told that I ran a household like an asshole, etc...
This is rather common knowledge. I don’t really understand your comment. For what am I supposed to thank you? And why later?
I didn't mean to imply that the author couldn't have spent $100K. There are clearly situations where an expensive staging environment would be needed. I was just saying that we've been able to do our staging for a fraction of that price, and had good results.
More likely the only time that people look at the sun is at sunset because it’s so bright. But at midday it’s white.
HAH wow this hit way too hard. I don't have a shred of free time. I should be working on the backlog right now as I post.
Real ID is very worrying and I’m hopeful that it eventually goes away as it keeps getting delayed.
I'll miss browsing street view for fun. I doubt I use it more than six times a year, though.

For actual turn-by-turn navigation, I never used a Google or Apple product. I use an offline iPhone app (Navigon).
As a tangent to your comment, it always good to remember that big geopolitical decisions are never made in a vacuum, so when someone says “country X did Y because of Z” it usually misleading.

Some of the most fascinating reading I’ve done is the Pentagon papers because they go into exquisite detail about all of the thinking that resulted in the US’s involvement in Vietnam. It wasn’t just the Domino Theory, it wasn’t just containment of China, it wasn’t just getting France’s support for NATO, it wasn’t just Truman’s, JFK’s and Johnson’s efforts to look tough on communism.

It was all that plus a dozen other things.
Does that apply to Einstine?
I'm not interested in digging up the information on this because it was over 10 years ago, so take it with a huge grain of salt.

He had this huge presentation about a laser zapping mosquitoes. The patent was fed to a patent troll, the whole board was stacked with his friends, the company produced nothing and was set up to sue anyone who did try and produce anything. 10 years later they still haven't produced more than the one prototype. The 'charitable' donations were literally just tax write offs that paid for his friends salary.

Since then I really don't take him seriously at all. His charities are just a way to reduce his tax bill and look like he cares, while he's just paying his friends to work on projects they find interesting regardless of the chance of success.

In short: hubris, corruption, white collar rico and tax evasion.
My favourite sub-genre here is the historical murder mystery. Here are a few recommendations:

Shardlake series (set in Tudor England). Highly recommended, especially Revelation.

Paul Doherty's works: short and sweet books you can finish in a day or two, and the whodunit plots are quite good too. Especially recommend the Canterbury Tales at Night series, others are Hugh Corbett (set in the reign of Edward I) and Brother Athelstan (reign of Richard II)

And of course the good old faithfuls: Ellis Peters' Cadfael (set during the original Troubles - 12th century England)
Agatha Christie's Death comes as the end (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Comes_as_the_End)

Happy arm chair crime solving!
> In Switzerland, about 30% of the population are foreign born

Not really true, it's around 23% and on about 1,900,000 immigrants, over 85% are Europeans, 300,000 are Italians, 295,000 are Germans and 110,000 are French, which are not really immigrants in the real sense being official languages in Switzerland (Italians were over 450,000 in the 80s, so there are less Italians than before in Switzerland).

On the other side Germans were very few in the 80s and are now the second largest group, due to tax benefits Swiss banks can guarantuee to very rich people (Switzerland is basically a tax heaven, that's the main drive for immigration, they are not really having an "immigration problem" like other countries in Europe are facing).

One popular example of such auto inflicted "immigration" is Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder, who lived in Switzerland for 40 years or Carlo De Benedetti, industrialist and media publisher, who's born Italian but naturalized Swiss citizen .

One other point to consider is that immigration in Switzerland is also due U.N. agencies being there.

The third and last point: Switzerland is surrounded by Alps, immigrant go there using planes, they are not the kind of immigrants that come to Europe on shitty boats in the Mediterranean sea.
This is about local MAC not remote MAC
I love it when something I already enjoy surprises me with something I didn’t even know I was missing. This feels like that. Good work, TryHackMe team.

>We're releasing networks, where you can deploy your own network in TryHackMe rooms and learn new concepts that were previously not possible with a single machine.

>Networks in rooms have a visual network map, which updates as you discover or compromise machines on the network.

Discord server link, expires 24h from now:

https://discord.gg/m9NzFT
Very fancy way of saying “because people only look at it at sunset”.
Right ssn is part of the problem. It’s used as a national I’d despite being terrible for the job. I didn’t wanna make my comment too long, but I have a lot of issues w how SSN is used.
Well, when I quit the place we both worked, the production kernel was 3 years behind and rolling forward at .5 years/year, so that implies 6 years to get current.

The next company I joined is using RHEL's 2.6.32 in production, more than 10 years after its release.
Firefox does indeed have such an option:

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/03/24/firefox-76-gets-optional-h...
I happen to have just started reading the book Made In Japan, and the first chapter's title is War.

It's been a good read so far. I found it quite interesting to hear about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings from the perspective of a young Japanese technician working in the war effort at the time.

A lot of comments in here are throwing around terms like "war crime". I'm not well informed on this subject, but the impression I get from this book at least, wasn't one of anger and accusation of wrongdoing WRT the bombings.

It comes across more as a humble acceptance of defeat, and perhaps a subtle criticism of his own nation's propaganda-washed populous, military-dominated leadership and authority, than anything accusing the Americans of committing war crimes.

He describes the bombings as clearly demonstrating how far behind Japan was technologically. Up until that point he had the impression that Japanese military technology was only slightly behind the Americans, based on reverse engineered equipment recovered from downed planes.

The thing I wonder is if the Americans could have just dropped a single bomb first on a relatively unpopulated area, near enough to a Japanese population center to witness its destructive force, without all the loss of civilian life. They might have surrendered after that. You still have the second bomb if they don't get the message. But I guess there wasn't exactly 100% certainty both bombs would function, and I don't know how long it would take to make another at the time - it's not like we had a huge stockpile of the enriched fissile material laying around.

In any case, so far I'd recommend the book, and I haven't even gotten to the stuff about Sony yet.
Fauci was not appointed by an elected official. His position as head of NIAID is selected by the agency. This position makes him sought by Presidents. He was not put there by Presidents.
Sad to see that the nuts think requiring background checks is now "reducing gun rights". Reasonable limits on rights has always been constitutional. Perhaps you should give that document a read.

I guess fox news is winning that battle.
How come the US -- the biggest economy in the world, and home of the most sophisticated banking sector on the planet -- is still not equipped with such a system? Are banks resisting it and if yes, why would they?
>Really, how useful was a 2g (Edge) iPhone without a wifi connection?

On a webpage without 80mb of javascript, it's quite useful.
We should have a big crash right now because all the stimulus ended, 20 million people don't have jobs and could be kicked out of their apartments and have a shortage of food access. We shouldn't celebrate before we address these larger needs.
Most of the people who will use malicious signals won't set out to actually hurt other people. They'll just use them to make tailgaters' cars brake quickly, or manipulate traffic in some way that benefits them, like the people in the late 80s or early 90s who figured out that putting strobe lights on their car roofs would let them make some city signals turn green for them. There are far, far more people who would be interested in that sort of thing than would be interested in the electronic equivalent of throwing rocks.

It's the unintended consequences that will generally kill people, like causing a multi-car pileup because the tailgater whose car was forced to brake was being tailgated themselves.

There will be very little way to enforce laws against that kind of activity, because there won't really be any forensic evidence at all.

There is no good way to do this. Even assuming a 100% flawless implementation of a "trusted enclave", people will just buy an ECU from a scrapped car, hook it up to a device that simulates the right sensor input to generate certain vehicle-to-vehicle communications, and stick it in the trunk of their actual car.
French , Germans and Italians.

Which, together, still make today 50% of all the "foreigners" living in Switzerland.

They are called immigrants, but are actually people with a grandfather who went there 50-60 years ago who never became a regular citizen.
5G power use per bit is supposedly going to be far lower than 3G/4G.

For shorter ranges because higher frequency.

For average per-bit cost, because more bits/sec in the higher frequency encoding.

But, for IoT there is the burden of turning the RF segment on, finding lock, sending. So, for small 'grams' of message it won't necessarily be as good as the per-bit cost for streaming data or long lived associations. And, shorter ranges: You will be deploying more base stations. Albiet with lower power budget too, but .. Nothing is free.
Maybe the conspiracy theorists have got it backwards: 5G doesn't spread coronavirus; coronavirus spreads 5G.
If you look up "Gun Ownership" on Wikipedia, it claims there are around 850 million guns owned by civilians in the world, around 400 million of those 850 million are in the US.

Whatever your politics are, you can't begin to understand crime and policing in the US until you internalize those numbers.
what else could it do but accept defeat?

The counter argument for that is it took two atomic bombs for Japan to concede. And after the 2nd one it was 3 days before they gave up.

Could a blockade have worked? Maybe. But how long would it have taken? Would we all just sat and watched while hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians starved to death over a few years?
I have an ebike and I get just as much exercise per-minute as I would on a regular bike, Im just going 30mph while riding upright, sometimes with 30lbs of cargo, in instead of languishing at 10-20mph and caring about the direction of the wind
I just cannot understand how you guys accept bad cops, bad healthcare, bad employment rights, bad social mobility, bad education and bad banks, but apparently national id is where you draw the line. Why didn't you draw the line before all this other stuff that is far behind much of Europe?

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can't reply directly to the GDP comment as some cry baby has flagged my post and then a free speech loving mod has shadow-banned me with "you're submitting too fast".

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GDP comparison in $$ terms is a really uninformative comparison. Even between states inside the USA it doesn't work due to different land costs.

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social mobility: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-social-mobility-...

USA: 27th. Like the UK, the place you were supposed to break free from - anyone can make it!
What I learned in high school economics is that printing more money means greater inflation. Why isn’t this a problem? Or rather why aren’t people more scared about it being a problem?
Canadian here. This sounds like Interac eTransfer, which is available to any person sending/receiving money where the endpoints are Canadian banking institutions (all of them, I guess?).

We've had this since 2003.
In my experience with government, 2.5 years easily becomes "4 years at least". Maybe that's what the person meant?
A lot of that is driver code, since so many devices are supported by mainstream. The typical user wont see anywhere near 800k new lines of code running on their systems when upgrading.
I agree that the pandemic was not a "black swan" - there were enough warnings that it's occurrence was more a "when" than an "if" question.

I wonder though if the events in the second half of march could be considered a black swan. Starting from mid-march, we saw first Europe, then a significant part of the world shut down most travel, large parts of its economy and almost all of its public life.

I remember the shift in the overton window to be particularly salient (from my pov in Germany):

Before March 15, the pandemic was one news story among many, even if a particularly worrying one. There were spirited public debates about whether travelers should go through temperature checks at airports and whether or not a city should take the unprecedenced step to chancel one particular trade fair. Some experts were proposing to close schools for a week or two and to conduct soccer games without audience - but those ideas seemed mostly academic and without any hope of becoming real policy.

Fast forward one week later and all trade fairs are canceled, as are any other kind of mass event; schools are closed indefinitely, borders are closed, global air travel comes to a full stop and the discussion of the day is whether or not to expect a nationwide, permanent curfew in the coming days.

The measures were clearly justified, but I have my doubts if anyone could have expected that countries actually pull through with this extreme kind of reaction.
As others have mentioned, Planet Computers "Gemini" is what you're looking for.

Truth be told, its only really usable when running android. BUT:

* its easily rooted (the bootloader is open, and Planet provide a rooted android image)

* with Termux (or a full chroot of your choice), you do get most of the way towards "the linux experience"

Early batches may have been hit or miss. Mine was from the 2nd indiegogo batch, and all I can say is, hardware-wise, its really good.

I've used it HEAVILY over the last couple of years. Dropped it a few times. They keyboard is good. It does have genuine tactile feedback. Given the size limitations, its brilliant.

And yes, I did have more than 1 Psion back in the day (from the calculator-style model, all the way to the famed Psion 5).

And as far as keyboard feel is concerned, on my desktop, I use ergonomic mechanical keyboards (ergodox & atreus62) with various switch types - which means that yes - I am a bit picky when it comes to keyboards.

And I have to say that, given the size limitations, the Gemini keyboard is a marvel. Its genuinely usable. I also have a GPD Pocket. Thats significantly larger, with a chiclet style keyboard.

The Gemini keyboard blows it out of the water.

I have no qualms over opening up termux, and neovim or joe, switching between multiple tabs, buffers and embedded terminals, and banging out some code.

(although I do wish they had used an ortholinear layout for the keyboard, and I wish I could properly remap the layout a la qmk)

As a phone, it has its limitations. But, if you pair it with a smartwatch, many of those limitations can be overcome. Its been my only phone for over a year.

On a final note, nothing beats being able to sit in front of a large screen android-enabled tv, pull out my phone/pda/psion-remake, connect via miracast, and just bang away ....

Its a hoot :)
Here’s how I got mine: got married to Japanese national. Worked and paid taxes for 8 years in a job that wasn’t teaching English. Applied for and paid ¥8000. Waited half a year. Received the OK to pick up my new perm resident card the week before my family packed up to move back to Australia...

Seriously one of the most simultaneously exciting and annoying pieces of mail I’ve ever received.
Lots of apps implement Facebook login in addition to their own login because users ask "How do I log in with Facebook?" and get upset when you tell them they can't.
I think the lockdown is a large reason why it looks like this. There are simply less things to spend money on at home, and all the free time at home means people are looking over their economy. And speculating/investing.
Planet Money covers it pretty well, if you can ignore the fluff: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/886036317

tl;dr: people not buying things = deflation, but giving everyone money = inflation. How this balances out is uncertain.
I give Gates considerable credit for being out in front of this issue for years, and for talking about it now without a heavy dose of "I told you so". I'd likely not be able to resist.

I still strongly resent his company's business practices from the 1980s through the 2000s, and arguably to the present.

And yes, the irony of the world's leading enabler of electronic viruses being a leading authority and defender against biological viruses ... is not lost on me.
I thought (and maybe just my personal conspiracy feeling) that banks lagged on transactions mainly to hold on to the cash longer and get interest. Secondary thought was just poor old technology debt.

Something akin to hearing that payroll at a large company was a batch job dumping a ton of text files to a share or something and the bank slurped them up for direct deposit.
What is baffling is how the delinquency rates for credit cards have plummeted. Sure, it's easy to say in hindsight that people are buckling down, and that the stimulus payments are making it easier for those in the low income demographic to pay down credit card debt, but that can't be the complete picture.

The economy was put on pause, and small businesses are being decimated. If people need financing, the status quo was to use credit card debt to keep people/business afloat as the debt is unsecured.

As the article posits, the situation is quite unique and very counterintuitive...
Nearly all first world countries enjoy instant payments at the point of sale and person to person. It boggles my mind that it has taken this long and a pandemic to even set the gears in motion, all while battling ridiculous levels of cheque and credit card fraud.
At the time I don't think there were any serious discussions about whether the bombs where "necessary". They where a powerful new weapon, and the US was in the middle of a war. Of course they were going to use it, it is unimaginable that thew would decide not to use a powerful weapon which was available to them.
They did "control for socioeconomic status", I assume that means levels of costly self-care were distributed across both political aisles when they were setting up the study.
Do you have any idea how the Soviet replicas were built?
I'm working on a set of basic projects with step by step walkthrough guides for beginners. I expect most people to do this alongside a more traditional course but some people do it first to get a "feel" for coding. It doesn't cover a lot of theory but you get to make a variety of things that show the potential of learning to code (and are hopefully fun).

If you take a look I'd be very interested to hear feedback.

https://codewithrepl.it/python-projects-for-beginners.html (still WIP website and not mobile resposive yet)
The author Ben Carlson is one half of the Animal Spirits podcast. I enjoy and learn a lot from every episode. Highly recommended.

Edit: typo
The fed is absolutely an agency of the us government: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm

>The Federal Reserve System is not "owned" by anyone. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by the Federal Reserve Act to serve as the nation's central bank. The Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., is an agency of the federal government and reports to and is directly accountable to the Congress.
$600/week/person over any reasonable period is hardly enough to trigger serious inflation worries in the short or medium term. Even if you apply that to everyone in the US, you're looking at $180 billion a week, against a GDP of $20.54 trillion.
There are no private space programs, there are private rockets developed using a combination of private funds and fixed cost contracts which means they are cheap. Old space rockets were developed only for gov contracts and they gouged the price as much as possible. SpaceX is efficient with it's rocket development.
Well, are we supposed to not resist this bad thing because there are other, worse things? That seems less than helpful.
This appears to be Linus's rephrasing/summarizing of the commit messages, not actual commit messages anywhere in git history.
Have you blogged about it?
I learned about termination when I had a 10b2 network.
lululemon abc is what most of my male coworkers/friends prefer. Kind of expensive but very comfortable and stylish.
"Shi’s answers were coordinated with public information staffers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, of which WIV is part, and it took her 2 months to prepare them. Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research says he suspects Shi’s answers were “carefully vetted” by the Chinese government."
If you don't want to delete things, I've found using generated passwords for everything (and not using autofill) is a great way to soft-lock yourself out of things. It's kind of like freezing a credit card in a block of ice - you still have access to it, but you have more steps to rethink your actions
The massive MIMO/beamforming for location-pinpointing seems novel to me. Can't really do that with current tech/infra
What Truths Can You Divine from Instagram Paintings?