skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anti-cheat is the thing that cares about whether windows is running without driver signature enforcement then anti-cheat is the thing that's blocking me.

My own example: I have an xbox 360 dancemat, which is unusable with the official drivers (they map the arrows as axes, so treat left + right as nothing). So I have to use the open-source XBCD, which frankly I'd treat as more reputable and better code quality than most signed drivers. But since no-one's paying the $100+/year to sign it, it's not signed. And while I understand why Microsoft wants someone to have skin in the game before they issue a driver signing certificate, they really need to find a way to ensure that reputable, established open-source driver projects get signed if they want users to accept driver signing; I wouldn't even mind being stuck on an old "certified" version or something.
https://apnews.com/article/why-some-scientists-turn-away-bra...
When Shockley moved west in 1956, Stanford Research Park was already 3 years old. Its defense roots predate even that. Shockley wasn't moving to a technological wasteland.

https://steveblank.com/secret-history/

Ames Research Center dates to 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Research_Center
Yeah, but it's also only counting pedestrian deaths.
> The move is "backed by chemical, oil and other industry groups that bear the costs of implementing the higher standards," the Journal writes.

I'm bothered by this description. The polluters are not paying for their external costs (i.e., the pollution they're putting into the atmosphere). Those costs have serious effects beyond their bottom lines, like 12,000 additional deaths per year.

I think this is a more accurate desciption:

> The move is backed by chemical, oil and other industry groups that are benefiting financially by foisting the costs of their pollution on society.
> incompatible anti-chest software

That explains so much.
I'm surprised this is not catching any traction there. TL;DR: Google ran an experiment where they proxied subset of Chrome traffic without the consent of the user or the publisher. How is that not breaking user's trust?

I wonder how would Google engineers feel if they found out that their Samsung phone was sending subset of their Photos and Gmail data through their servers in Korea without any consent? (To be clear, Samsung does not do this. I'm just providing an analogous example).

Just because users run the Chrome browser does not mean that they give consent to Google to proxy their network traffic. There is a vast difference, and that's why Android and most operating systems require explicit user permission when installing VPNs.
Confusing is indeed the best adjective here; I can't even easily see how many credits I have on my personal account (only for the organisation I manage, I can't find it anywher on my personal account), or how many credits a build costs; I figured it out by triggering a build and reloading the page with the credits. Besides, what's a "credit" anyway? The entire UI and communication is pretty chaotic.

I suppose I need to look for alternatives – although I hate doing these kind of "plumbing" things; I'd rather be working on more useful code.
It does out of the box on a lot of distros, and you absolutely can DIY it to the point where you have a consistent look and feel with even totally custom theming. Check out /r/unixporn for some examples. (Although they often lean towards a very specific aesthetic - bitmap fonts and anime girls are a bit of a meme there)
The Correspondence Monkey is on a strict diet until he types out the complete works of Shakespeare. He's done with Hamlet but is having some problems with Othello.
Travis CI was, to my knowledge, the only CI provider that let you test projects on IBM Power and Z. [1] Are there any alternatives?

[1] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-11-12-multi-cpu-architecture...
This is great news! Congrats to the matrix (and element) and gitter teams!!
I'm very glad to hear that!
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I think it would depend on who you asked for the Inuit. In places where they were both aboriginal and first nations those terms are mostly different articulations of the same thing, with personal preference of the person you are describing ultimately being the right choice.

This is a pretty good article on it through the lens of Australia.

https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/aboriginal-or-indigeno...
8 is not 50% of 12. But we're talking about massive numbers here. If that "100" is 1,000,000 tons of soot, reducing human-produced soot from 12 to 8 is taking 40,000 tons of soot out of the environment. And that's likely not uniformly distributed across the country: you're far more likely to have hot spots of human-produced soot, which adds up to tens of thousands of kids who don't end up getting (or are affected less by) asthma, thousands of adults whose lifespans are materially lengthened, and greatly reduced healthcare costs.
Have you tried saying "shibboleet"?
I am not a greedy man.
I saw the headline and immediately realized I've noticed similar oddness in the Atlanta area recently. Glad to hear I'm not alone. So far I've been blaming it on weirdness from my devices roaming between mesh router nodes, but now I'm going to run the test script overnight and see if anything turns up.
Yeah, but that would be incredibly invasive
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I didn't realize this until 10 years after I started feeling these feelings, but diesel exhaust elicits a strong feeling of nostalgia in me from my travels throughout Europe. I would be occasionally reminded of it in the United States but I never knew what it was until I stood next to an idling 18 wheeler
> Why is climate change a left or right issue?

Because businesses don't want to pay/lose money on climate change action, and the "party of small businesses" endorses this view.

> Why is wearing masks a left or right issue?

Because the virus was seen as a political/messaging problem (rather than a public health issue) by one of the sides, therefore wearing masks was viewed as capitulation.
Mainline Linux support means the device is going to be supported for a very long time. For Android phones you're always relying on the manufacturer - even with the likes of the FairPhone you're still beholden to qualcomm's willingness to provide updates.

You also get the same software running as you do on desktop Linux - just hook up a display and you've got a regular Linux desktop. You can print from the device itself, because of course it can just run CUPS. You can direct audio output from each application (including to the earpiece) because it's just running pulseaudio. Hook up a webcam, a Wii mote, once you have actual control of the hardware the possibilities are endless.
I'm a big fan of the Arc theme.
This submission is basically an advertisement. Not sure I want to see this on HN. A test report mentioning also drawbacks.would be a different story.
It's tough to say, I think profitability would come faster than being a taxi company with an app (disregarding freight and air for now). But I think there is a much wider prospective customer base and recurring revenue licensing the tech stack as a SaaS. And that's not to say they have to give up Uber as a taxi company while they do both. It's a much more reasonable moonshot than the autonomous driving experiment they did that killed someone moving fast and breaking things. I see a lot of value there.
If we want to start getting uppity about who is a Californian native, let's first consider the Muewkma Ohlone people who were decimated and whose lands were stolen by European settlers here in the Bay Area.
Ask HN: What evidence would convince you of intelligent extra-terrestrial life?
So there is a story running around about the ex-head of the Israeli space force saying that aliens exist, but want to keep their existence hidden for now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25337469

I'm personally doubting this story, but the more interesting question is what level of evidence would I personally need to see to believe. With Hollywood SFX, I've already "seen" all sorts of aliens and miraculous occurrences. Combine that with Deep Fakery, and the hurdle gets quite high for evidence needed to accept intelligent alien life, besides just the regular improbability of alien civilizations. What would you need to see or experience to be convinced? A single report in the NY Times (or your favorite mass media outlet or a paper in "Nature")? Multiple weeks/months/years of second hand reporting (e.g. stories in the popular or scientific media) of a "Contact" (the movie) like situation? Second-hand reports from someone you know and trust? Personally touching / witnessing a physical artifact built to alien specifications?
Sorry. Your comments came off as personal attacks on Keith and I mirrored your responses.

I've worked heavily with VCs when I was the first employee at a startup that did well for a few rounds and they worked very hard to help us out. The only difference is that they lived better while helping out because they were already wealthy, but they certainly worked hard for us and for their other investments.

You can be fiscally comfortable and still work hard.

Now I'm not defending how much ownership they take relative to what they put in. Both us and our VCs worked hard. They just took a greater chunk of the equity because of the capital provided.
Who decides if it's the ISP's problem? What if it's "Both"?

About 20 years ago I got escalated to high-tier Comcast support for an issue that turned out to be a little of A, a little of B: Comcast (Might have been @Home, based on the timing) required that your MAC address be whitelisted as part of their onboarding process. Early home routers had a "MAC Address Clone" feature for precisely this reason. At some point, the leased network card got returned to Comcast. Our router continued to work just fine... until about a year later, when the local office put that network card into some other customer's home. We started getting random disconnects in the middle of the day, and it took forever to diagnose, as the other customer was not particularly active with their internet use. Whose fault was it? Ours, for ARP Spoofing? Theirs, for requiring the spoofing?
Except... they do?

"Men are valued only for their labor" is a pretty common intersectional critique of modern culture.
Partly true, except you forget the sad story of companies such as Nokia, or Creative labs, or HTC, or even Motorola, that barely exist if at all, after Apple decimated their business model. Already, the PC laptop market is getting pummeled on both sides by Macs and Chromebooks, this will only accelerate that - no one with full conscience can recommend a PC laptop to a regular user anymore - go with a cheap chromebook or get an air at $1000.

Furthermore, the biggest casualty here is probably going to be Intel: graviton and M1 clearly show ARM is the future, so someone on the PC side is going to step up and create the M1 competition. It's probably not going to be as good but comparable, but it'll go circles around x86 again. This will then accelerate the transformation of more and more software to ARM compatibility and intel will probably play a similar song to Nokia or IBM and play a sad slow tune of death while it's only customers would be lazy monoliths sticking to their old server architectures.
What resolution? I've been very annoyed it's unplayable for me at all but the lowest resolution, despite it being a 2D game and I having 32 gig ram.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told friends and associates he plans to move to Texas
Thinking in analogies is a powerful technique
Isn't that just tuning compared to the race as a loss leader for market share?
I think you’re overestimating both the extent and degree of the executive branch’s power.
motive: a short series of notes from which a larger theme is created. E.g., first four notes of the 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony. To hear how a motive gets turned into a theme, listen to the next ten seconds of the 1st movement of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.

texture: whether the music sounds relatively busy or bare at a given moment, using more granular terms for "busy" and "bare" as you learn more about music

modulation: ever wonder why Whitney Houston sounds more energetic at the last chorus of "I Will Always Love You?" It's because she's singing higher than before. But if she's singing the same melody as in the other choruses slightly higher, how could this possibly sound good? It's because the rest of the band also shifted everything up by the same frequency ratio as she did, at the same moment. When everyone does this together, it's called changing keys, or modulation.

However, "pushing a button" to suddenly pitch everything up on a dime is a relatively recent discovery that has flourished thanks to the ubiquity of cheap and powerful computers. Prior to that, composers used ad hoc methods like transitional themes to prepare the listener for the new key, sometimes going so far as to read the music of peers for new approaches. It was quite an inefficient and unproductive time by comparison to the speed and precision with which we produce music today.

Edit: clarification
Been following mchurch for years now. A few coworkers attended classes of his and a spouse worked with mchurch for a period of time, so he's well known here.

While I agree with a lot of his goals, I very much disagree with his approach. His writing is very acidic and his past behavior is questionable. I also believe in incremental change whereas he seems to want revolutionary change. The problem with revolution is you never really know what you are going to get on the other side. Most revolutions end like Syria, not Tunisia.

So I very much disagree with this approach even though we mostly want the same thing.
Yep, the correct response is comply, document everything, hire a civil lawyer. Cities spend 10s to 100s of millions to settle police lawsuits every year. Might as well get your cut.
Da goyim can’t handle it!
I think Amazon is licensing that tech to all 3rd party sellers now right?
So+different+VPN.+Analyzing+VPN+protocols
I've seen some really great courses offered by MIT and CMU on building database systems (will have to find the exact courses). And a database development course is something I would love to see from OMSCS (from Georgia Tech). Sadly, right now, the only DB course offered is not very rigorous and really targets how to use a database from an application development standpoint (i.e. create DB, tables, SQL queries etc)
Thanks for chiming in! I like gitlab so much I couldn't miss this opportunity to recommend it.

The nice thing about Gitlab is that you can mix on-prem and saas according to your need.

For example I am now running my own gitlab instance at home but I'm thinking of switching to the gitlab.com offering while keeping runners at home. By pairing gitlab with Hashicorp Vault I could keep encrypted stuff in my repo and decrypt them when they are checked out on the (local on-prem) runner.

Super cool, so much flexibility!
If you want the code to flow easy, it's all about putting in the hours and working at the right level of difficultly. Not too hard, so that you're not making any progress, and not too easy such that it's not stimulating your mind. Think of it like hitting the gym, it's just you're building mental muscle (and stamina) instead of physical.

And yes, many problems I solved 3 or more times. If you go to the discussion section, you'll see a number of different popular solutions by users. Try to understand and implement a few of them to get a greater understanding of the problem. Once you feel like you know the problem well, delete all your code, see if you can re-implement it in under 10 minutes, then try again for 5. Keep putting in those reps, you'll get faster.

Think about how fast you can write out a simple for loop. You probably don't even think about it, the code just "flows" out. That's because you've done it hundreds or thousands of times, your subconscious takes over. You can get to that point with more complex things like breadth first search, depth first search, dynamic programming, path finding, etc. you just need to get the reps in. It's a lot of work, but if you put in the time (try for a couple hours a day) you will see the results. And, once you start getting better, leetcode can become addictive like a game, which makes practice much easier.
There is Skrill which offers virtual cards in Europe.

I have not used them, no clue whether they are something to recommend.
I'd be interested to try but I'm told that induction will not work well for what I cook which is mostly chinese food in a wok, unless I have a huge amount of money to drop on an induction stove specially made for woks.
Anyone who doesn’t embed Tor for all communications, is recording your travel history?

First off, this is still simply false.

It may be technically possible that they are in fact reconstructing identifiable location history for individuals.

It’s also possible that they do what they say they are doing, which is to anonymize as early as possible and not use data for this purpose.

They could easily be keeping these logs separate, and disposing of them in a timely fashion, and not attempting to use them to analyze individual’s locations.

You are clearly technically competent enough to know that either scenario is possible (as well as many others).

Therefore you know it is not true to say that Apple is ‘recording you travel history’ in the absence of additional evidence.
Out of curiosity, why do you need a straw when drinking?

Other than milk tea with pearls I can't really think of a drink that requires straws to drink.
There's a variety of medical conditions for which that's the case.
The same here. It is always the 0x08 bit. (p-x, d-l, g-o etc.).
Eh, don't side with cops. They have no legal obligation to do anything. They know this. So they pick their battles where they know they can kill a few people and get away with it. When it comes to actually having a chance at saving lives, they run away and hide, and get rewarded for it.

See the recent-ish school shooting in Florida where the on-duty cop ran away like a baby and let children die. Brian Miller. Still has his job. No one gives a shit.

Cops in the US are cowards who don't deserve to arm with a super soaker.
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Ahh, the land of the free!
It has to be a good 30 years since I saw the first instance of this: an Ethernet bridge that randomly flipped packet payload bits and nicely regenerated a correct CRC on the mangled packet going out. Every few years we come across some variant of the same "evil box" problem.
Similar gravity store: https://aresnorthamerica.com .
Also flywheels, molten salts.
Such an invaluable resource! I spent many hours here while helping develop https://hexiconapp.com/. The axial coordinate system, in particular, makes working with hexagons much simpler.
> professor in the sense "he's good at teaching", but not as in "college/university professor"

"Professor" is often independent of "good at teaching,"
but he seems to be an assistant professor at West Point.
I remember being in Anson, when it was reported a Korean Ferry going to Jeju hit a rock and started taking on water. The captain reported on the radio," everyone stay put." and for the most part they did, even while the captain was escaping the ship. 299 people drowned that day, many of them the local school in Anson. I remember walking past the highschool that very night and seeing the crowd of the bereaved. If more of those people chose to disobey a very strange order on a ship, more would have lived.

It's important to know when a situation has really become an emergency and normal rules like, "listen to the captain even if he doesn't make sense" stop applying. The earlier you are able to recognise that shit has hit the fan and enter emergency rule breaking mode the better.

In everyday life, I definitely notice that people do not take say, fire alarm seriously and act quickly enough. Don't be a deer caught in the spotlight, forge your own path and take these things seriously your life may depend on it (even if its 1% chance that that alarm is a real one).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
Yes, you've hit the bulls eye - Apple's M1 performs so well because both the software + hardware are optimised for each other. And that's the real challenge for AMD / Intel / Qualcomm / Nvidia etc. with their processors. ARM never took off for the desktop because it lacked good software support. Apple has fixed that within its ecosystem.

AMD is rumoured to be building a CPU that has both ARM and x86 cores - hope that is true as that will be truly game changing.
You said sneak’s statement was correct.

Sneak said that they were recording people’s travel history, which is a lie.

You haven’t provided any such proof. All you have done is equate logging ip addresses with recording people’s travel history, which is false.
20 seconds in the video she posted here: https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665

Officer is clearly pointing a firearm upstairs at the family.
I had similar issues for a long time. Dealing with my ISP’s support was really frustrating. Not once did a 2nd or 3rd line technician get in touch with me to acknowledge that they had done any kind of investigation and analysis of the intermittent issues that I kept experiencing. The ISP did send out a guy that replaced the optical transceiver in my end, but to me it just felt like a wild guess and not really something that they did because they had any specific reason to believe that the transceiver was actually faulty. It didn’t help.

I ended up just cancelling the service and signing up for one of their competitors instead.
"Everything Looks Like a NULL"*

No one likes to read sloppily formatted SQL.
Google's API for Quantum Computing
I also wish there wasn't 'sharing', or at least not to the same channel, so that there's one clear way for the 'continue earlier topic' use case.

Having said that, there's also 'reply to thread and also share to channel', making it even worse. I think that one's the closest Slack has to fixing threading's problems though - if you're aware of it being a potential issue, you can at least highlight it.

It'd be good if there were an 'active thread(s)' thing that appeared on the right side or something (at the bottom of what is the the thread panel when one's open, I'm imagining though. Easy to ignore, but when you're checking if there's new messages in your main channel you'd also see if there were new thread activity.
Just as one case example, snack foods have been ubiquitously available worldwide for a long time and there are countries that have somehow managed to retain a relatively healthy lifestyle without resorting to yet more government regulations.

I think banning is a fairly unimaginative legislative knee-jerk response. For example what if we genetically engineered snack foods to be more like pistachios. The amount of effort required to open up a single pistachio often results in the expenditure of an equal number of calories to the actual energy content of the food itself. Thus it acts as a natural net negative caloric food.

Also I'm not sure how much we should be taking from the ancient Greeks considering that pederasty was commonly practiced there.
The company I work for did. I asked to edit the post to add my specific posting and they said it couldn't be done. It'll be there next month though!
In the earlier days, Silicon Valley also had had satellite offices from some of major tech companies on Route 128. It was the minicomputer that upset this state of affairs.
But the chance of getting away with killing a few people becomes non-existent if you actually try to do something sane.