skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved that part of it too. I just always took there to be a cautionary tale about the consequences of that power.
If you're concerned with privacy but still want a phone that mostly works, I recommend installing MicroG [0]. It's an open-source implementation of Google Play Services that gives you support for things like location and push notifications without installing proprietary Google stuff on your device.

The easiest way to install it is their LineageOS build. If one isn't available, NanoDroid [2] provides flashable ZIPs that work with Magisk. If you're not okay with either of those but you can spend a bit of time, you can add it to your own AOSP builds.

If you really really care about security and don't care too much about all the apps in the world working, there's also GrapheneOS for Pixel devices [3]. The cool thing about Pixel devices is that they allow you to add your own verified boot key and re-lock your device with a third-party ROM installed. GrapeheneOS supports this and a variety of other security-focused features like reproducible builds [4].

And final honorable mention goes to RattlesnakeOS [5] which allows you to set up your very own AOSP build system complete with OTAs and ROM signing. It also allows you to add MicroG [6].

[0]: https://microg.org/

[1]: https://lineage.microg.org/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/NanoDroid

[3]: https://grapheneos.org/

[4]: https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds

[5]: https://github.com/dan-v/rattlesnakeos-stack

[6]: https://github.com/RattlesnakeOS/microg
> has it improved?

I discovered it a few days ago and used the latest (1.0.19) version to boot the Linux Mint 20 iso and install it to my laptop without problems. Looks like there's also a "Tested ISO" page[0] on the official site.

[0] https://ventoy.net/en/isolist.html
I’m using a 5GB/month, unlimited calls (EU), unlimited SMS (EU) plan for 8€/month, so 96€/year.

Even buying e.g. a Pixel several years after release at 270€, the phone is definitely the most expensive part.
This guide is great. It's a pity there is no easy to use (maybe GUI) tool for the average user go be able to implement a lot of the things mentioned here. There used to a few scripts around but most seem outdated. I'm thinking along the lines of Harden Tools for Windows. Great open source project for someone.

https://securitywithoutborders.org/tools/hardentools.html
CMDR-DOS: Commodore DOS on FAT32
> As for Brave New World, it's a utopia

Well by that logic Hell is a utopia for demons. I mean yes, all dystopia have someone that enjoys being there, otherwise you would not get a society.
Things You Did Not Know About a Book Title
> It's like being under a spell.

I’ve played two gatcha games in succession and this describes the thing very well. I wasn’t missing a single of play, spend a little money on them, read news and game info everyday. I’m glad I stopped. Some PC games can attract my attention for hours or days on, but they are not a daily burden, and also more satisfying to play.
There's a variable missing from these models which probably wasn't all that relevant until Donald Trump showed up:

How many people are going to lie about or refuse to admit voting for a candidate like Donald Trump?

I would expect this bias to be greater today than in 2016.
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" -Knuth
True, but i just play d it once.
Same applies to C, unless one is using -O0.
"A comprehensive review of studies on parents' work schedules and child development spanning the last three decades shows that parents' work schedules in evenings, nights and weekends, so called "nonstandard work schedules" or "unsociable work hours", may have negative consequences for children. When parents work such hours, children tended to have more behavioral problems, poorer cognitive ability (e.g., language, reading and mathematics), and were more likely to be overweight or obese than children in families where parents mostly worked during the daytime hours and week day. This review based on research in developed countries was conducted by a team of researchers from the US and Australia, led by Jianghong Li, a senior researcher from WZB Berlin Social Science Center. "
Privacy is a national security issue. Actively monitoring citizens, privately and publicly, and smearing the data across the US and the rest of the world is going to prove to be a massive national vulnerability in the long run.
Finally I don't need 20 8GB USB drives for different operating systems anymore. This is awesome!
It assumes using your library is safe, same way you assume Rust std is safe, even though it uses unsafe in the background.

Basically, burden of proof of using unsafe correctly is on the programmer.
Poll: How much do you spend on software monthly?
It has to be pure software. Some examples would include github subscription, hosting services, mobile apps, games, etc. If you are spending for business, please don't count that.
Single digital ocean vm ($5)
Tiny bit (under $20)
Small amount ($50)
Medium amount ($100)
Somewhat higher ($250)
I spend quite ($500)
Research from 1995 [1] indicates that robustness was not a strength of AT&T UNIX.

"The reliability of the basic utilities from GNU and Linux were noticeably better than those of the commercial systems."

[0] ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/technical_papers/fuzz.pdf

[1] ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.pdf
Thanks for the responses! I’m sort of aware of specific products/projects for cross platform desktop app development, and it’s fairly easy to just google and get a lot of the same answers here.

What I’m more looking for are specific resources on how to do it. Like say I choose qt, what then? How do I go from an idea to a cross platform app with a reasonable build pipeline and a clear method for installation?
Im not saying that because of the percentage alone, but because I think the methodology there was suspect. And this was criticized before the election. The lead in the polls was not large, and making it look like a certain thing by treating the states as almost independent results just doesn't make any sense to me.
Also in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/21/cuties-netflix-...

The irony being that the first time director is a black woman.

Threatening the ability to be subtle in art. Not a new thing - see Chris Morris 'Paedogeddon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9frVTgoKSI

Hope folks wake up to the manipulation going on here fairly sharpish.
Yeah well don't hold your breath :(. Ubiquiti has been a cluster fuck for a while now and are busy redoing and downgrading the UI again for like the 3rd or 4th time in the last few years rather then add desperately needed basic features. They've released new gateway devices with their own new distro based around containerization, then not actually put that to work at all. DNS still a joke. Zero story for key&certificate management/let's encrypt/etc.

Maybe Pera will get hit by a bus and things will get turned around but otherwise it's a sad mess and waste of potential.
Didn't they mock AMD in their presentations for "glued together desktop dies" not too long ago?

/me giggles
Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. It sounds like that's what you want.
Just as with its predecessor. Granted, I collected conspiracy theories in high school so DX had nothing novel for me in that regard, but it was still a lot of fun to laugh and nod along.
Headline: America switches to Protoss, rushes Fleet Beacon.
> Of course, that is just raw combat, not other areas of flight where greater human intelligence is of more value.

You don‘t need the AI to replace every plane or pilot, you could have a traditional plane and pilot to do all the human things and an AI or two to protect the human or engage the targets. Mixed AI/human squadrons.
Or the business raises costs to pass it on to consumers. The government in that case raises the floor - not lowers the ceiling. If all companies in an industry have to follow the same laws, they all can pass the costs to consumers.

It would be entirely within the government's regulatory remit to tell Apple (and other companies)

So the government is now going to tell private companies how to design their products? Can you imagine having to have multiple “stores” on a $35 Roku? Should the Samsung smart TV have multiple stores? Nintendo Switch?

When has the government ever passed a law with regards to technology that gave consumers more choice? DMCA? SOPA? All of the great laws regarding net neutrality? The government trying to pass laws to make encryption that they can’t bypass illegal? Rulings against municipal broadband?

But this time the government is capable of regulating tech.
Nothing casual about dropping $300 on a mobile game. You’re kidding yourself.
Just like middle age Portuguese isn't like modern Portuguese, and we also have stuff like Linear B and whatever else exists since there are written documents.
And with the xCloud integration, you won't even need to download the game. You can hit play and be in the game right away.
> You are starting from the premise that google care about australians

I'm absolutely not. Complete misunderstanding of everything I'm saying.

"Hey that guy is about to stab you!" -"fuck you you're a .. aaaaaargh I'm being stabbed!"

> They would destroy australians in a heartbeat for more money. It's not opinion, they've shown that themseleves. That is just a sad fact.

Also 100% irrelevant.

> Now re-read your comment and tell me if there is any good reason anyone should care about what google says

Only if they are right.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. A fact (if indeed it is) said by the stupidest evilest entity, is true even if they said it.

Feynman has a great bit about that. No matter who says it, if it's right it's right, if it's wrong it's wrong.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

But go ahead, be fucked by both google and the gov, if you prefer being doubly fucked.

The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.
>defended movies like Kids against the conservatives

Ahh, that movie that shows that rape is bad and HIV is a real problem?
They often take a bank loan to buy a Mac + iPhone for the whole office, and devs take turns working on it and programming on it. The Apple Account would be for one person ("the company").
I think that's a very interesting question. "Gamer" has always been a bit of a niche tag but with games now becoming more and more mainstream it will be like calling people that watch movies "moviers", which we don't do since we assume most people enjoy a movie every once in a while.
I am a Tensorflow guy. But I'll read the book in Safari O'Reilly library to expand my horizon and support the author.
I think your judgement is clouded by fond memories you acquired in your youth. A child can get utterly fascinated by the most mundane things.

My subjectively positive experience of video games already declined, right around when yours peaked, even though by pretty much any standard, these newer games were better than the ones that came before them.
Have you seen the hours some people put into farmville and farmville-like games?

Overnight play? Checked.

Addicted? Checked.

Sleep deprived? Checked.

Physical pain from holding the phone and looking at a small screen? Checked.

Raging behavior? Mood is definitively effected, especially when the social aspect has a negative turn.
Biodiversity itself seems to nourish the rainforests of the sea
Like something out of If This Goes On—
Idea: run ads telling ios users that buying in-app is much more expensive than buying in the website. Tell users that apple is scamming them with in app purchases. If this becomes vox populi, it will be a pr nightmare for apple.
We would need some kind of consumer's association or foundation to run it in order to protect funders identities.
Decentralised, adj: hard to use
who careeees if we are in agreement
POSIX.1-2017
One of manything that every developers need to read at least once.
Nevermind now that I think about it, this is basically most of ncd:

#! /bin/bash
d=$(find / -name "$1" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
echo Jumping to $d, Control-D to return
cd $d
bash

Actually it is now perfect. If the guess is wrong, you can return and add letters to you search string.
Tim apparently lacks experience with margins on J2ME, Symbian, Brew, Blackberry, Windows CE/Pocket PC.
Is there a retailer that allows a company to label the wholesale vs retail price? Is there a retailer that allows a company to sell a product in their store and tell them that they can get it cheaper somewhere else?

Can a game retailer sell something at GameStop while advertising they can get at a lower price online in GameStop?

Where exactly are these indy developers? The time of most indy developers making it big on mobile left the train a decade ago. They have been drowned out by the makers of Candy Crush and Clash of Clans.

We already saw the race to the bottom after mobile became popular. Do you really think the bottom just wouldn’t get lower?

I remember back in 2008, when the mobile gold rush started and indy developers of popular apps were publishing how much they were making. I was making more working in corporate America writing field service apps for ruggedized Windows CE devices
Rogue planets could outnumber the stars
Aren’t these ideas well known in the field of economy? They also don’t sound too alien for anyone marginally acquainted with psychology (e.g. by means of watching any of Mr. Schwartz’s talks).
What about the computing hardware, electricity, running water, mechanized farming, even antibiotics that prevent childhood deaths? The list is long.
That usually means LED control.

Water cooling itself has nothing to control, but there’s just the pump to be run at full speed at all time, and fans to cool radiators like you normally do with air coolers.
The point of this sort of question is to check that the candidate knows the basics, but also to see if they can take a hint and think.

In software undefined values are a thing and they can cause a lot of grief, so if the candidate's reply includes that a boolean might have an undefined value in some languages (even if they don't know which ones or if it's even the case), and/or that some languages don't have an actual boolean type and/or have rules on how to evaluate something as 'true' and 'false' I would be very satisfied.

No-one can be expected to know all the languages out there but in the context of such a question they should be able to come up with potential pitfalls that should be investigated as the case may be, that's the level of reasoning I would expect.

My personal experience of technical interviews is that saying that I don't know the specifics but off the top of my head I would want to check x, y, and z is usually well received (unless, of course the question is about something I am expected to know the specifics about because of my experience) because that is key to an engineer's job.
I love this idea. What I hate about captchas is not the challenge, but the purpose. However, part of me liked the having to find out what was written on the image. So I would gladly do that on my spare time for a communal project like this.

Besides, as you said, reading the old paper would be enough of a prize in itself.
> the world has so many problems that it's best (for me) to not think that much about them, or be exposed to that much information about them

I think a lot of people feel that way, and it's not an entirely irrational response.

Perhaps the best solution is to choose just one or two problems to worry about and try to help solve. Let other people worry about the others.

The "Think Globally, Acr Locally" mantra suggest it's easier to influence your local community and government, rather than a global, hard to wrap your head around, abstract issue.

Some people may still decide that working on global deforestation is the most important thing to do.
Why do you want automatic paging by bat, if you can just open it in Vim.
Fine idea on paper, but it opens up the doors for all sorts of accounting games. You have to keep in mind that the wealthy will always afford more capable and less ethical lawyers and accountants than the public.
How does that work?

I once asked about how to boot an ISO (in Grub) here: https://superuser.com/questions/154133/grub-boot-from-iso

And one quote from there:

> GRUB can read ISO9660 (”iso”) images. It can for example load the first few sectors and boot it. But most people do not realize is “what then?”. What would the loaded operating system do? It will most likely look for a CDROM, which it won’t find, and fail.
Moving forward with the generics design draft in Go
In my opinion there is a lot to learn. And also a lot of usefull / important stuff. But if I had to decide for just one thing, I would say to stay positive and optimistic no matter what.
That doesn't make sense. If you test 100 sites and 79 come back as PHP you can't just claim that the 21 responses that came back blank somehow is a bigger number than 79.
Do you have any plans around QnA functionalities? Enterprise users send me a lot of emails and it would be great to be able to promote some of the answers from me or my team to a knowledge base. Users could also send new questions from your search bar which would give them previously answered topics as they type the subject
Check out emacs-libvterm. I’ve replaced all terminal emulators with it. All the benefits of an Emacs buffer and no issues with curses or lag.
I know there is a lot of controversy around Palantir but I don't understand what they do. From their site it seems like they're just another data analysis company. What does Palantir do?
Michael Mina is promoting self-administered daily lateral flow [1] paper strip tests while Paul’s startup PreDxion Bio [2] is working on a SPR [3] device which I think is an alternative to Isothermal PCR devices like the Abbott ID.Now and the Canadian exclusive Spartan Cube.

I think Michael Mina’s core contribution is mapping the PCR Cycle Threshold (CT) value to transmissible viral load (CT < 24).

Rapid tests need to be benchmarked against samples with CT values of 24 or less. Paper tests meet this benchmark.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_flow_test

[2] https://www.predxionbio.com/

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_plasmon_resonance
Shouldn't we first capture CO2 right at the source, where it's emitted, as there is a higher concentration? After that sort of low-hanging fruit is taken care of, I can understand further capturing CO2 from the atmosphere at large.
> meaning no data is accessible to third parties--unlike Matrix, which is federated

I acknowledge that this isn't an option for everyone but for the HN crowd, it's fairly easy to run your own homeserver. You just need to install Synapse [0] (which has a convenient Docker image [1]) and give your server a domain name.

If you do this, your metadata will only be accessible to yourself and the homeservers of your contacts (who could share your server or run their own).

Message contents are usually e2e encrypted, so the homeserver you use is irrelevant.

[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/matrixdotorg/synapse/
You think if Hillary went up against Trump, America would choose her 19 times out of 20? I’m not sure that makes the mental calculation any better than 95%.

95% is “Obama vs a dog”. Maybe in another country. Every 20 elections, Obama is bitten by the dog and doesn’t make it.
Why the economic value of a face mask is $56.14
I've been using YUMI[0] for years to create bootable drives with multiple ISOs. A version with UEFI support was recently released.

I should try this one too.

[0]: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/
Teletext Bad Apple
I read "safely call" as "does not require `unsafe {}` to call". Invariants will still need to be manually upheld to ensure the C++ code will work as expected.
The rule was 11.13 of the Apple App Store Review Guidelines:

11.13 Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app, for which Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues, provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app. This applies to both purchased content and subscriptions.

The same-price rule was revoked in 2011 after legal challenges from newspapers & magazines. It was replaced with a rule that doesn't allow linking to any websites within the app.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/06/09/apple-reverses-course-o...

As of 2020, rule 3.1.3(a) also does not allow you to recommend in any public business communications using payment methods other than Apple:

"you agree not to directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods are not designed to discourage use of in-app purchase."

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
> which would presumably to result in a higher-than-normal frequency of allocation/deallocation

Correct. Not only that, it also dramatically shortens the lifetime of many allocated objects, so the GHC garbage collector is designed for super-cheap allocation and to not be impact by large amounts of garbage. The trade-off here is that this means that the default GC doesn't work very well with very large "live sets" (although there's a bunch of tools and workarounds to make it manageable).

For example, my Haskell data processing code averages an allocation rate of ~4 GB/s, despite never going over ~10 MB resident memory or below 98% productivity.
This is clearly not one of the examples saagarjha was thinking of, but an actual example where Rust is not an option is the x32 ABI for x86_64 platforms. This ABI works well with GCC, but LLVM suffers from multiple code generation bugs. As Rust is based on LLVM, Rust for the x32 ABI does not work well either. While it's possible to use a mixture of ABIs, so that you have a mostly-x32 system but with some x64 binaries, this requires a multilib setup with multiple copies of system libraries. A pure x32 system cannot currently have Rust utilities.

(I have some patches to improve things but I have not been able to submit them to LLVM yet, and with those patches I did manage to get a working x32 build of rg on my system. I hope to be able to do so in the future.)
That's awesome! I remember that project, yes :)

BTW, there is a community for people exploring new ways of coding - https://futureofcoding.org. You might want to join it, if not yet.
Step 1: Open https://app.element.io/

Step 2: Create account

Step 3: Enter username, password and email address

Step 4: Click confirmation email

Step 5: Log in

Step 6: Share your username with others

What aspect of this is hard to use?

There's also another pair of decentralized systems you might be familiar with: email and the world-wide web. Do you think these are hard to use?
Sigma seems to get everything right.

They're cameras are a bit niche. That makes sense for a minor player, but I'm not in their niche.

I think if they made one a bit more mainstream, with:

* a native mirrorless mount
* converters to take A-mount, F-Mount, and EF-Mount lenses natively (and perhaps more)

they'd sell like hotcakes, though. Sigma just might do it. Even out of feeling bad for Alpha users left out in the cold by Sony, and be surprised when people buy it.
This efficiency vs. resilience trade off seems to be a general pattern, also for organic systems.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduc...
So you’re saying that businesses don’t make special deals with other large businesses?

I bet you also think that Beyoncé and Taylor Swift get the same record deals as the random up and comer a label found singing at the bar.