skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is that propaganda? Looks like a honest (and maybe naive) project.
Because it is not German propaganda from a century ago. It is a peace plan from a century ago, that imagined a world in which the Second World War never need have happened.
Motorola also has official bootloader unlocking.
Until the micropackage has a security vulnerability, and the secure version is a breaking change, and the vulnerable version is locked in deep in your dependency tree.
Native Array.isArray was added to IE9 and Chrome 5, meaning totally obsolete node v0.8 supports it. Hard to imagine who really needs the library in 2020.

https://caniuse.com/?search=isArray
That's when I throw my phone in the bin, really.

Everyone acts like we're all subservient slaves but we all have our limits.
What you are pointing out here is fundamentally true and verifiable. I think I find myself, along with many other americans, in a bizarre position where we see comments like this which we know are accurate get barraged by downvotes or whatever system in Internet commentary exists to decrease the visibility of the comment, and I find this troubling. This mostly happens, from what I've seen, if there is any suggestion within the comment that the right is in some way defensible. I think many internet forums have tried to use downvotes as a signal for validity, but so frequently that signal is obviously misapplied, making it almost entirely meaningless. In fact, it is has become a signal for the direction of the political leanings of the majority, rather than anything having to do with the usefulness or appropriateness of any given comment.

This is probably a bad thing.
why not make it into the standard js library without import/require at all
Related Reading: https://hackaday.com/2018/04/23/spoofing-cell-networks-with-...
Cable systems have a design lifespan. This is usually around 25 years.

The cables themselves have a lifespan, but it's far longer than 25 years. Many cable systems have had their lifespan extended beyond 25 years, but is more of a question whether they are economically viable, rather than technically viable.

A lot of cable systems have been retired, purely because they had become obsolete and a new system was more cost effective.

Fiber optics cables themselves are very longlived, if there is no external trauma. There are cables from the 1980s still in use. It's more likely that the amps in a subsea system fail long before the cable. Once the amps start failing, it usually isn't cost effective to keep using the cable system anymore.
Convex and Concave Dispositions
Guix is very nice, but suffers a bit from:

- Having less development effort than Nix involved in packaging; some packages end up broken/out of date as a result

- Its more "pure" packaging ethos (no bundled dependencies, all dependencies must themselves be packages for Guix, etc). I like this in theory but practically it makes packaging some applications (Go/Node ones especially) effectively impossible. Debian seems to have the same issue: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/835599/b4de94c924ae4463/

- The build farm often doesn't have substitutes available for certain packages, which tend to be precisely the ones that take ages to build on older hardware. Cue multi-hour IceCat builds

- There's not much documentation available on packaging beyond the trivial cases. Packaging many applications is pretty simple, but for the ones that aren't it's a bit of a guessing game and trying to read through definitions of other involved packages

All that aside... these are complaints that I have as a dedicated Guix user, and I've thoroughly enjoyed my time using Guix System. It's the first distro I've ever used that I haven't felt has gotten "polluted" after over a year of tinkering with it - I've installed (and uninstalled) multiple DEs, and I know I can trust the package manager to actually remove every single thing that was installed as part of that.

And it's really nice to use a distro whose entire configuration system and package definitions are written in a single language (Guile) - I've written a few simple package definitions myself and I think the fact that it's all written in the same language has made it easier to dive deeper into how the system works after having written a few packages.
We have not only lists, but a lot of references to guides, tools, services. We have discounts, launch list and many more!
RED are penises. They worked closely with the foundry to make a tool(storm) to allow logging, editing and quick grading. It was very popular, apart from the RED users had to pay for it. They pirated it with gay abandon.

the only thing worse than RED are the rabid fanbois that use them.

Anyway, RED saw the software, stole the interface and made a free version.

RED then threatened to take the Foundry to court, after they integrated REDcode into Nuke. They went on about how innovate and clever the format was. Its just a tar with JPEG 2000.
In college we had an I2C to ethernet adapter on our drone testbed that caused all sorts of RF interference for us. We eventually wrapped the whole fuselage in a farraday cage so that the datalink and flight controls wouldn't be overwhelmed. It was responsible for transmitting data at a 1 Hz rate, and we could visualize the interference on a spectrometer over a broad range of Rf at exactly 1 Hz.

Anyway, we totally could have made a transmitter out of that thing.
My mom is at risk. My mom.

She's going to die. Hopefully, peacefully in her sleep. If she gets the covid she'll die in horrible agony, drowning in her own dissolving lungs.

I'm "averse" to that form of death, for my mom, for anyone.
Running anything in VM is always not bare metal. Just run Linux on your hardware. The only use case for WSL is when someone forces Windows on you (like corp IT?) and you don't have a choice.
Before Mac OS X: What Was NeXTSTEP, and Why Did People Love It?
Does the app still exist?
You can also use something that’s built already and extend it. I have used in the past linkchecker, https://github.com/linkchecker/linkchecker to do crawling too. You can get the report and analyze it however you want.
Do you think there will be a way to pay anonymously?
Yes, absolutely! I would talk to people, have my mind wander a bit then have to guess what they just said. 99% of the time I was really good at guessing, but it led to some awkward situations.

In my case, it turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD. In fact, "Do you have trouble focusing on conversations you're having?" is one of the regular screening questions psychologists use for it.

When my therapist first suggested I might have ADHD, I actually didn't believe her. It took a bunch of reading about ADHD to change my mind; in hindsight, my understanding of ADHD—based on popular culture—was pretty far from reality. Doing a bit of research and reading about ADHD from the perspective of people who had it (as opposed to the perspective of, say, teachers dealing with ADHD students) really helped. I found Driven to Distraction[1] a particularly good overview, with a lot of insights and stories that resonated with me 100%.

Since getting diagnosed, things have gotten much better. Just knowing about it was a real relief and let me start building habits to deal with it more effectively. Later on, stimulants and meditation have both helped even more.

[1]: https://smile.amazon.com/Driven-Distraction-Revised-Recogniz...
I am and was a US citizen. All US citizens are full citizens; we don't have second class citizens here.

There is a legitimate way to debate immigration policy. It's the intentional infliction of cruelty and dehumanization that makes this situation irreconcilable, not any desire to change policy.
Thanks! Examples of the kit are on the landing page, and if you don't like the product we can make a refund ;)

Updates are delivered in Notion every week and we send weekly email notifications about updates.
FWIW I highly recommend reading the GTD book. I implemented it regliously for a couple of years and loved it. I don't stick to it as much now, but the principles/framework are still helpful to me.

Identifying which "projects" you have lying around in your to-do list (to-do items that will require more than one atomic task to complete), and the weekly review process were particularly valuable takeaways.
But banks can't remotely lock your front door until you pay up.

If this is okay, then what's to stop the same logic being applied to other communication-assisting devices (e.g. those speaking boards)? Wheelchairs? Prosthetics? Where does it stop? Because believe me, they will keep pushing, if it makes them money; companies with shareholders are legally obliged to.
Can't upvote this enough ...
With this, google is venturing into a dangerous territory ... what of a life threatening emergency occurred while the phone is locked?
Some seriously relevant psychoanalysis of this behavior in this article (also on HN front page) about toxic workplaces: https://articles.tilt365.com/identify-destructive-leadership...
Because even in this case there's usually a court involved.

The owner just doesn't show up on the 4th of the month and change the locks and take away your fridge and microwave...
Apps are alerted on iOS, too. Have been for years.
No, but it’s a very nice tool to have. I work primarily in windows but needed to run some tools in Linux. I just fired up my WSL terminal, ran my commands, and got on with my life.
Because you may need your phone to work or look for jobs that would then enable you to pay off the debt.
Yes. Taking a photo with a separate device is reasonable evidence you're not breaking secure boot et al.

If I understand correctly.
The devil doesn’t need your advocacy. This is designed to help wealth accumulators punish the poor for being too poor.
I've been following Moderna's vaccine from the beginning. It was developed in 25 days from first virus DNA synthesis. https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag... but it's going to take maybe a year to be approved by the FDA. All phase 3 trials are looking good. I personally would take this vaccine right now but the FDA will not allow me to do this.

How is the FDA's reputation going to hold up when they approve all these vaccines a year or more after they were created and cost the lives of millions and trillions of dollars?

The FDA had no pandemic vaccine approval protocol which could have speed up the process. They could have used challenge trials with young healthy people. I can think of a pre approved process for mRNA vaccines where the delivery methods are approved but the only thing that changes is the mRNA payload.

I blame the government healthcare organizations for a lot of the impact from covid-19. First, they were anti-mask during the first major increase in the virus and now they are being overly cautious in approval of vaccines. They are way off on their cost - benefit math.
No, I'd maybe run them once just to check it covers the corner-cases. The code is never going to change, because it's a polyfill for old browsers, and only needed for legacy environments that won't change. So if the tests pass once, they'll pass forever. There is literally no point in adding those tests to my test suite - there is no combination of changes that will ever make this fail if it passes once.
Of course the law isn't ridiculous at face value, it's extending it to corner cases without looking at intent that can be. That's the point, the same thing is true of any law. It's impossible to cover all corner cases, at some point you need intent when you try to take it too far from what it was written to cover.
That's kinda like the plot of Repo Men, only they went for people's cybernetic organ transplants...
Cory Doctorow's books are still not instruction manuals, FAMANG.
TBH the "Windows" way would be to use the Microsoft Store. Chocolatey/scoop is just a Linux way of installing software, ported to Windows. Even conemu is a Linux way of managing terminals; the Windows way would be to use GUI all the way.
I use NixOS unstable on my desktop/work machine, but when I just started using NixOS, I even regularly hopped between the latest stable release and unstable.

Another fun related feature: NixOS really only requires /nix and /boot to boot. So, some of us just nuke everything except /nix, /boot, and /home on boot:

https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings
Reminds me of the saying that millenials are killing the doorbell industry by texting “here”
Those notices also often say "This site uses cookies to make your experience better", so yes, in this sense it's useless. But that's not all the law is doing. Many websites from US simply stopped serving anything for European IP addresses, responding just with error 451, which I always take as a sign that this site wants to sell my data more than they want to show me ads, so I'm glad I didn't accidentally visit it.
We're hip hop sharecroppers

Used to wear flip flops, now rare gear coppers

He's in it for the quiche

You might as well not ask him for no free s___, capiche?

Google tells me it’s “from Italian capisce third person singular present tense of capire ‘understand’”
They already block you from disabling location services if you want to use bluetooth.
Other than an interesting anecdote, this doesn't say much at all. Show us a bug report instead, and more details.

I've been using Linux full-time for 17 years, moved to WSL2, I've not noticed any particular problem. In fact I'm more productive than ever and my beefy machine feels even faster than it ever did on Linux. There are downsides, sure, but nothing to justify any ridiculous slowdown you have experienced.

Unless you think mine is not a significant programmer workload.
Probably violates the contract you had with your bank, meaning it's legally not your phone any more and you lose the money you've paid for it already. (Or something.)
Very cool! Fascinating to read and find soon many commonalities with the author.

* Works in tmux, builds currently playing into status bar

* As an engineer, prefers classical music

Only suggestion, I might try to find a way to make the updates asynchronous, not periodic. If the endpoint were checked in a tight loop, you could trigger the update on change.
Our society is built on Trust. You have to trust your bank to keep your money in your name and allow you to withdraw when you want it. You have to trust that the fire truck will come when you have a fire. You have to trust that your neighbours won’t randomly wake up one day become zombies thirsty for your blood.

Same way you ought to trust, but not blind trust. Trust but verify.

I think the self driving game will be won with someone who as a transparency mindset. Here’s the car. Here’s the software, here’s the guarantee that it hasn’t been modified and here’s the extensive tests that we’ve run on it, verified by 3rd parties vouching for its safety and quality.

Same with any technology company. You win by making solid technology backed with real rigorous testing vouched by trusted 3rd parties and general public.
PSA: make sure your Website has a strict Content Security Policy[1].

1. https://medium.com/hackernoon/im-harvesting-credit-card-numb...
I'm not saying this solves every issue, but the article says:

"With the device locked, users will be able to access very limited functions in their smartphones. These include emergency calls, incoming and select outgoing calls, settings, and backup and restore service."
Question: if there's no website, how TF are you supposed to use Monzo or Revolut from a proper computer? Is there really no way to do something simple like xfer money or view balance without using your phone? If so, why did you even open an account, I'm assuming that since you are on this site you are at least a little bit technically inclined.

Just looked, and apparently Revolut is 1) app only 2) tied to a mobile number. So not only is it annoying to use, but likely also susceptible to sim jacking. Again, why would anyone want to use this; I hate having to deal with wells fargo (they bought a loan I have) but even they seem less crappy. Not trying to hate on OP, I'm just shocked at how crap their service appears to be.
(Note: As coderjames points out this could be dangerous tinkering. There is typically steady-state noise at 125MHz from Ethernet so it's not that we're putting more energy into the spectrum with this, but adding signal in the form of morse code could draw a lot of attention/distraction to pilots and ATC in the area.)

FWIW very brief example of 125MHz tone loss when going to 10MHz demonstrated here when my slow internet gets done uploading:

(Unpleasant sound warning)

https://youtu.be/JmyA5QEtAxA
I like this, something that may save a bunch of people's suggestions without making it more complex is allowing renaming of the axes.

Something I couldn't work out is why one task is highlighted, is that a total score? An option here might be to calculate the Pareto front. Essentially highlighting those which should be picked from (if a task is less urgent and less impactful than another, it's not in the list).
Abstractions over expertise and effort, driven by expectations outside of the practitioner’s control.
Emergency calls are allowed
Array.isArray has been implemented in 1.3.16 of V8 [0] which was used in node 0.1.15! [1] doubt that someone even is using that old node.js this to me looks like 3rd-party packages that were added very long ago and the code was never updated.

- [0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/refs/tags/1.3.16

- [1] https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/blob/v0.1.15/Cha...
Why the Average Customer Lifetime Value is not enough
Is there some other implementation you think would work?
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They absolutely do not, but this is the bullshit they choose to hide behind.
Let alone extreme leftism.
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"people leave managers not companies"

Countless times I've heard or read this somewhere.

Quite untrue with my experiences. Who exactly is the "manager"? the "company"?

In my experience, most of my reports left because of low pay. I as their "manager" agreed that they receive an raise which is justifiable due to their output and our team's growth.

But the "company" is against it. In particular the CFO. Is the CFO the "manager" then?

In any case, a statement like that is almost always misleading.

The article is Ok though. I just wished that statement was not there.
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I would disagree with the idea that it's hard to define what's essential: whatever is essential for the function of a website/app. This means things like session login cookies but not analytics cookies.
Or even without any malicious intent, simply because the functionality provided by the package is under/poorly specified.
This. I was a (barely) mid level web dev when I joined the small backend team with one of the founders where everyone was super senior working on high scale stuff. Pair programming is the only way I could have been successful. I learned so much so fast. The few of us who got that opportunity count ourselves very, very lucky.
The problem was: in the AUR, lots of packages didn't built or launch,

I used Arch for a while before NixOS. Another problem I encountered with the AUR is that, since the AUR is not built as a single consistent system with Arch itself, often packages from AUR would start failing because some library was upgraded in Arch and the newer version was ABI-incompatible with the version that the AUR package was compiled with.
> What does this tell us about the energy efficieny about the whole Javascript ecosystem?

Not to mention the exclusiveness: more than 3 billion people on this planet

- have old computer and phones with limited RAM

- ...and limited storage

- ...and slow CPUs

- have slow Internet access (even in "developed" countries if you are in low-density areas)

- have traffic caps (same)

- sometimes have intermittent Internet access

- have unreliable or expensive electricity

Reminder: this is not an inevitable problem. A lot of Linux distros run just fine on old hardware, and websites without cruft are still usable.
> We've wiped viruses off the face of the planet before

Only recently. Widespread vaccine use is a fairly recent phenomenon.

> Eradicating smallpox has apparently saved 5 million lives a year!

It certainly saved lives but we really don't know how much. Every estimate is off of cherrypicked data.

> But I doubt anyone will be harmed by having too few coronavirus infections, so I'm probably not worried this time.

You just said we fucked up with bacteria and then you brush off viruses.

There was a time when the scientific consensus was to snuff out every small fire to prevent wildfires. Now we realize how horribly naive that was. By preventing small localized fires, we allowed kindle wood to mass which fueled gigantic wildfires. That fires are natural and helps forests clear and rejuvenate itself.

The same thing with parents and kids avoiding food/sickness. It lead to food allergies ( some of which can be deadly ) and poor adult immune system. Now we know a bit of sickness helps strengthen the immune system and introduction to a wide variety of foods helps prevent food allergies.

The history of humanity/science/etc is we were wrong. But as long as we learn and move forward, that's what is important.
It is my understanding that over the years people have developed various software to follow threads and users' comment streams so it is conceivable that some bored zealot took it upon himself to police every single thing you post in real time. Or set up a downvote bot as others suggested. There are some genuine weirdos here.

I haven't been here for a few years (green account again, yay), but at least back then, moderators weren't know for f...ng with anyone like that. Warning, maybe another warning, shadow ban and good bye.

At any rate, posting "@moderators" in the middle of a 4000 comment thread will get you nowhere. There is a contact email at the bottom if you want to ask for investigation.
> I would definitely err on the side of believing it

You've never met one person with integrity?

I mean, I admit, in my experience they're rare. Oh sure, everyone thinks that they have integrity, or at least, gets offended if you suggest they don't.

But I've met a few. I even once met a politician who seemed to me to have integrity.

FWIW, I can't tell if we're ruled by well-meaning incompetents, or competent evil people.
Monzo have a pretty comprehensive API that you can build your own web based interface around if you wish. If you look on github a ton of people have done that, all you need to do is clone the repo, plop in your Monzo api key and the jobs a goodun.
> Note that I did not use "pattern recognition" in a derogatory manner, neither did I say that anything is "just" pattern recognition. I think you may be mistaking my comment for a different opinion that you disagree with.

> [...]

> In any case, before commenting on a complex subject of research with a long history, my recommendation remains to first become well acquainted with the subject and its history. Otherwise, one runs the risk of appearing confused.

Sorry, I did misunderstand what you were saying.

I do find it somewhat baffling how you're talking as if 1980s terminology is today's terminology, or that everyone should just recognize it as the default way of things. As much as you argue I should adopt the subject's history, I'm saying you should adopt its present.

The point you're making would have held fine two decades ago, but as a description of modern ML, it's like calling a sedan a cart. Even if you don't mean it as a criticism (‘just a cart without a horse’), the world has moved on.
Yes and how will Goggle have every hospital, transplant centers number to white list.
The highlighted task is the "most" important task in terms of impact and urgency.
If implemented, hydrogen bomb invented only 25 later would had been dropped just in the center point.