skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The key part of this announcement for me is the last sentence, where they announce a deal with Qualcomm for extended security update support.

... in exchange for no longer having to upgrade their drivers. In my opinion they are the winner here, they have much less work than before.

> From an environmental and sustainability perspective, we need to lengthen support periods, but from a commercial perspective, chipset vendors want to sell the next shiny chipset. Getting Treble somewhere towards ACPI/UEFI (you can boot Windows 10 or Linux 5.10 on pretty much any x86_64 system, even if the motherboard maker has abandoned it) as a standard hardware layer is one small step towards that, but there's still a long road ahead I fear.

I agree, though it's hardly as simple.

We've stuck to Gbps ethernet for a decade now so drivers have long been included mainline. But we're progressing on LTE capabitilies at every new SoC, so it requires new drivers. On "PC" (server, desktops), the only thing that evolves that need drivers is the graphic card, so keeping up with the driver is ok.

My understanding is that Google (or rather Android) wants to fix this with Fuchsia: OEMs will provide "user-space"-only drivers and Fuschsia will guarantee ABI compatibility forever. That's really not the way ChromeOS people do things though, who prefer integrating drivers into mainline Linux, and so far ChromeOS people have a much better track record than Android at upgrading. (Though again it's easier on "PC")
Does this help? My understanding is that would give you a reproducible way to get the same vulnerable versions, rather than an artifact with the vulnerable versions
I had C as an introductory language and I didn’t perceive it as very hardcore, because we were doing the most basic things. Key is in my opinion, that you do projects aligned with your current programming skill level.

I have never used C professionally, so I never worked with a large, complex code base. But I think getting the foundational concepts from it as a first language has helped a lot along the way picking up and switching between languages.
Is there any research how much benefit "hyper targeting" actually gives? Not just "it helps" but quantitatively (e.g. more effect than 30 just mildly target adds? Or just more effect than 2?)

In particular, how does it compare to somewhat targeted offline ads like (local shop advertising in local newspaper) or (car stuff advertised in car enthusiast magazine)?

Also, the question is about having a level playing field. If your competition has access to highly effective advertising, you can't afford to not use it as well. So right now you need it.
However, if hyper targeting were forbidden (because the spying and stalking is prohibited by law or because browsers make it infeasible) then you don't need it.
Swashplate engines are essentially the current go-to: they're extremely compact and have many other good properties, but wear out quickly. I believe they are significantly more compact than rotaries (and this), though.
That's exactly what I'm planning to explore as a workaround to remove the blank pages until ABBYY and/or Apple sort this out. :)
The economy will also collapse if climate change keeps going, the oceans are empty, topsoil is gone, aquifers depleted, insect populations decimated...
UK reader here .. sign me up for a Priti Patel mask, STAT!
I don't think people will get more exposed to programming as we go on, currently we are moving away from personal computers to dedicated app machines like smartphones where you don't see files and such.
Mathematics Behind Robotics
I am truly looking forward for CockroachDB to become the next PostgreSQL for planet-spanning database workloads. In our ecosystem we get more and more requests for CRDB integration.

Generally though, I would not say that full compatibility should even be desired. A k/v database simply works differently from a strictly relational database. There are things like shard IDs, avoiding hot spots, deciding on how to paginate data.

Going too much into "PostgreSQL" replacement will eventually hurt CRDB because too much focus will go into making legacy enterprise SQL (along the lines of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25454635) work on this system. It's the forklift approach of moving to the cloud. This becomes clear when skimming through the docs:

- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-choose-db-index-ke...

- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/performance-best-p...

- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/limit-offset.html

- https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v20.2/selection-queries#p...

I think many of the "light SQL" patterns are really great - things like SELECT or WHERE, which e.g. DynamoDB can simply not solve without ElasticSearch. But all in all, I am very excited for CRDB to get more industry acceptance, and I think their cloud offering could also become very interesting - a competitor to Google BigTable / CloudSpanner, AWS DynamoDB or Cloud SQL.
Maybe it's placebo because I know this person is not supposed to exist, but is there something else odd going on there as I get some weird, ominous vibe from viewing those pictures?

I wonder if there side by side pictures with on one side being an ai generated human and on the other picture an actual person, would average person be able to identify which is which and with what accuracy?

It's as if they somehow so closely remind me of someone, but really they are different. As if they are based on some famous person, but they are not them. Most remind me of some actor.

For instance I saw this image and instantly thought of Steve Jobs, but not quite really.
https://ibb.co/y8fpRP2

Another one reminding me of Jeffrey Epstein:
https://ibb.co/B6CQfdn
Headline should read “Court re-affirms you can video record cops despite the fact that cops have been beating/arresting/killing people for doing so even in states where it is explicitly legal for years”.

Which states?

Only 50 states.

It’s good to know that know it is legal in the remaining states too.
Jack Steinberger, Nobel Winner in Physics, Dies at 99
Flanders happened first. It was a fairly long time before it got to Homer, and that was largely after a lot of people grew out of watching the Simpsons.
> But his fundamental thesis that a "Program" should be treated as a mathematical object and proved using rigorous logic is still true

How is that even remotely true? How are you going to formally model a browser, or a word processor, or your mail client, or a 3D game, let alone prove it correct against that specification?

If we actually followed that requirement, computers would be almost useless today, except for a few tiny niches where millions of dollars in development costs for even relatively small programs would be justified. Keep in mind that your development tools would be meager to non-existent as well, since they'd also have to satisfy that overly strict requirement.
> I've got a stacked 64Gb Dell XPS 5550 and an ass end M1 MacBook Air. I'd rather use the Air any day.

I’ve got a 12 core 3.3ghz Xeon Mac Pro w/ 256gb RAM and a max spec 13” M1 MacBook Pro. Like you, I’d rather use the M1 unless the workload really needs the extra CPU cores/memory/Higher end GPU. Single thread, the M1 is faster. Even up to 8 cores, the M1 keeps pace with the much higher TDP CPUs.

Also, re: 64gb being an option on the X5550, it doesn’t surprise me doing a search for the spec sheet for a 15” Dell XPS didn’t include information that there was a X5500 and a higher spec X5550. Why make it easily discoverable for customers like Apple does?
> I have always been Ok with Flash and see no real reason to abandon it

Assuming you're okay Flash being a closed product of Adobe (which was a huge problem for the web), it was also a bountiful garden of security issues, which Adobe didn't do a great job of managing.
I mean yeah, that's the tradeoff you make when you bundle dependencies or request a specific minor version.
last couple of phones lasted 3-4 years. I usually upgrade when they become non-usable.
No, but i will consider Oracle-Linux or Rocky, Debian, and for everything that needs a contract SLES.

Burn me once shame on you, burn me twice shame on me.

Killing a already made promise is just beyond rational.
Read (or listen to) American Kingpin by Nick Bilton. It is a great story.

https://www.audible.com/pd/American-Kingpin-Audiobook/B06Y1R...
Yes, there are many more motivations to donate anonymously than this theory covers:

- religious prescription

- sincere support for a cause (a motivation other than one's own reputation)

- a desire to prove one's morality in one's own eyes

- desire not to embarrass the recipient

- desire to increase the apparent support for the cause generally

There are probably more.
Odds are good that she has a MERV filter... and that it hasn't been changed in years.
Previous editions of the «Virtual Airplane» book (as PDF-file) licensed under "CC-BY-NC-ND", where Polish version is free to download, and you may buy English version to support Witold (+ pay PL-to-EN translators work).

Also "CC-BY-NC-ND" allows You to create commercial airplanes 3D models, but redistribution or modification of book itself is not permitted (at least without Witold's permission).

Few years ago I contacted with Witold via e-mail & asked him for give me permission to translate 1st Edition[0] of this book (which was written for Blender 2.4x) from Polish to Ukrainian under "CC-BY-NC-ND" — as result he provided me a DOC-file (book draft) ;)

JFTR, I'm still a happy user of Blender 2.49b[1,2] ;P

[0] http://airplanes3d.net/wm-009_p.xml

[1] https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1274084993179009024

[2] https://nitter.net/app4soft/status/1280958729127628821
IMO this doesn't effect small business with revenue as much as it hurts their spending of marketing with facebook there are other marketing avenues that can be used by small businesses
Does this work with WSL, WSL2 or both?
Faraday cages are a bit of a myth. Unless the metal sheet is continuous with no gaps, and there are no wires passing through the sheet, they will be ineffective.

It means that all joints must be screwed or soldered, all doors to have tight joints, and low-pass filters fitted to all power leads, comms leads, etc.

And often you need two completely independent layers (connected at only one point) to achieve sufficient attenuation.
It’s really hard to prove as sales channels are messy.

Done right, it’s worth a lot.
Tiananmen Square images that China does not want you to see
Regressing us back to before VCRs entered the market is the entire point.

Jack Valenti went to his grave still believing that the Supreme Court made the wrong decision in the Betamax case. He's not alone, many if not most of the top players in the industry feel that way. A personal story: my girlfriend's parents lived and worked for the MPAA in Washington, D.C. as part of their legal team. Throughout the 80s and 90s, they banned VCRs altogether in the house because in their opinion, despite the Betamax ruling, recording a show was still copyright infringement, and VCRs were illegal piracy devices.

Strictly speaking, they're right: the Betamax decision did not allow all recording of personal copies, nor did it make "time-shifting" fair use. All it said was that in this one specific instance: time-shifting in order to gain access to a program you otherwise would have no access to at all, allowances may be made under the fair-use doctrine and thus the VCR has a non-infringing use and is only mostly an illegal piracy device. Fun fact: this is why the DMCA also requires all VCRs sold in the USA to come with Macrovision.

Another story: Recently, Tom Cruise was recorded berating the crew on the set of Mission: Impossible 6 in a swear-filled rant because he caught two crew members standing closer than social-distancing orders permitted. Cruise was afraid that if word got out that they were lax on social distancing, the government would shut the production down and shut other film productions down, putting cast and crew members out of work and rendering (some of) them unable to feed their families. He displayed startling and commendable (especially given his Scientology training) awareness and empathy for people on the set who weren't millionaire celebrities and might be living paycheck to paycheck as a gaffer, make-up artist, caterer, or something -- even as he shrieked at his own people.

To people in the movie business, piracy is like that. It threatens to shut down the entire industry and put hundreds of thousands of good honest people out of work. There is no greater evil than a movie pirate, who steals food from the mouths of hardworking film crew members and their children, in order to avoid paying the fifteen bucks or whatever it is now to see a movie during its theatrical run, or waiting a bit to pay an even smaller amount to see it on DVD or streaming. Therefore, you can't give a pirate an inch of quarter, lest they consign the entire glorious film industry to the dustbin of history.

This isn't just cigar-chomping studio executives crafting a good lie to lobby to legislators and government officials so they protect their vast fortunes. This is what they actually believe. This is how they actually think.

So to them, Section 1201 is not an awful law. It is part of the great American tradition of protecting the little guy and allowing them to prosper in the land of the free -- and it is absolutely necessary. When weighing the very livelihoods of hardworking film-crew members against the complaints of a few whiny nerds who could otherwise get cushy jobs elsewhere, which would you -- as a lawmaker or judge -- side with?
You’re in a bubble. Most people don’t use Excel, much less write formulas, and they certainly don’t write email filters.
But Oracle are the company we probably trust the least with matters like this.
For me it really helped to copy and paste the commands related to the X server.

For instance I had a small issue with the scale of the applications. In Windows I have 250% (recommended) scaling applied.

```
export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2.5

export GDK_SCALE=$(echo "(${QT_SCALE_FACTOR} + 0.49) / 1" | bc) #Round
```
Multiple critical vulns in Trend Micro IWSVA took 16 months to patch
Yeah, I run my own, but thing is, I don't have a RIGHT to do so, I am just lucky that my ISP most mercifully lets me bounce my outgoing mail through their SMTP server, and they blocked outgoing port 25, so that's the only way for me out.

I have some right to the domain on which I host my mail, but I don't have a right to a fixed static IP, and I don't have a right to be able to make outgoing connections on port 25 (or any port, I guess?), and I also don't have a right to a bouncer, so in practice, I don't have a right to host my own mail, there's no law giving me the right to demand any of those things, it's up to me to be a combination of lucky and wealthy enough to make it happen.
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
I did one better and put Guix 1.0 in production.

It was gone within two weeks of me leaving because no one could understand what the point of it was since you could just use docker.
A fun yet educational song for the kids this Christmas!
Whether you agree or disagree with this lawsuit, the first paragraph is not a promising start:

> The halcyon days of Google’s youth are a distant memory. Over twenty years ago, two college students founded a company that forever changed the way that people search the internet. Since then, Google has expanded its business far beyond search and dropped its famous “don’t be evil” motto.

Larry and Sergey may technically have been "college students" but it's pretty rare to refer to graduate students pursuing PhDs as "college students." This use of language is disrespectful IMHO and a strange way to open a lawsuit. While this isn't exactly false, it is unnecessary.

The same is true of the sentence about the motto. They dropped the motto and moved it to their code of conduct when they became reorganized as Alphabet. They replaced it with "do the right thing." [0] Again a twisted, if mostly true, interpretation.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_be_evil#History
Paraphrasing Umberto Eco, there are two kinds of libraries: one kind are collections of trophies and mementos, but the other kind can be formidable resource in right hands. The latter one is knowledge management tool, and contains also unread books because it is useful to also manage ones future knowledge.

If you want to go the deep end, in 1970s or so Eco wrote guidebook to academic thesis writing that comes with a tutorial how to bootstrap a bibliography and an index card system for your research or other professional purposes, of course most conveniently (though maybe not most cheaply) used with your personal research library that contains whole of your bibliography.

That said, there is also a failure modes of sorts. One that used to be famous was people who collected a respectable looking library (or had someone collect it) but never read or used it themselves, only show off their supposedly good taste in books to visitors. Other, related one, but more in the spirit of plans "I will do all the cool things I wanted ro do when I have time after retirement" involves similar mismanaging ones time and thus spending too much time collecting the library compared to using it.
Virgin Hyperloop Partners with Abu Dhabi’s R&D Council (Middle East AI News)
He was wrong in that personal computers took the world by storm, to the point that almost everyone in modern civilisation carries one in their pocket. He was wrong in thinking that programming was essential to personal computing; it is not.
Hopefully one available by Dec 31, 2021!
I read novels aloud to my children at bed and nap times. This started after reading Alice in Wonderland to my one year old and realizing that a kid who couldn't talk yet obviously didn't care what I was reading. At this point my kids are two and five, and my older son is approaching the point where he'll be able to follow longer books and I'll shift to things he understands, but I've read about 15 novels in their entirety to the kids thus far.
The lower voices harmonise with the highest singer by default, unless you explicitly mute them.
Raspberry Pi Launches Support for Industrial Customers
> Disable Access Control

This was terrible advice back in the 90s and still is. An attacker anywhere on the network can listen to your input devices, insert fake keypresses, view your screen, etc.
Basically a total system compromise.

All without log entries.

The correct way to do this is to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE.

One the client host:

$ xauth -extract - $DISPLAY

Then copy the output.
On the host running the X server:

$ xauth nmerge -

then paste the output copied previously.
Press enter and CTRL-D (EOF).
If you then check the output of "xhost" on the client, it should only say "Access control enabled."
While now the correlation is high, it wasn’t always like that, and probably won’t be always happening in the future.
In the 90s I had a portable TV that picked up cellphone conversations. You could hear one side of the conversation clearly and the other end was very faint.
Being pro-Small Business doesn’t meant you have to be pro-Advertising. Facebook makes a killing taking money from small businesses through advertising, yet it is consistently one of the lowest ROI marketing techniques, not to mention generally creates the worst UX.

Can you build a successful business on advertising? Yes. But I’d argue that you don’t need to. Almost every service I pay for came to me by word of mouth. That takes time and effort to cultivate, but it isn’t affected by a software update. Or me wanting to not share my personal data.
Am I wrong or is the very first sentence of this article factually incorrect?

I understand that Google accepted her resignation in the letter, and did not fire her outright.
True true. I prefer to furniture made from local wood than tropical hardwood but its not always easy to find out if it has been locally sourced.
I would argue that using mass amounts of collective and your personal data to tap into your psychology and encourage more consumption isn’t good per se.

Apple has been around an awfully long time now to assume their end game is to own ad tech...
I trust Google with my data over most governments. Estonia might be an exception.
Ask HN: Why are stories such a big trend?
From Snapchat, to Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp to LinkedIn and now Twitter (fleets).

Not to mention TikTok who took the concept of stories and put it on steroids.

Why is this format such a big trend? Any insight on this?

Edit: Sort-of related to this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25453525
Has anyone noticed how having books in your background on Zoom calls seems to have become a status symbol? I see it all the times recently.
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Make sure to use Firefox browser with the uBlock origin addon on your PC too. Cookie autodelete, Google container, Amazon container are also good addons to use.

Consider a VPN, pihole etc for extra levels of privacy.
I'm running X applications like the Gnome terminal on Windows via VcXsrv, works pretty flawlessly on my 4k Surface Pro by just setting the DISPLAY environment variable and tweaking GDK_DPI_SCALE.
They seem to be going all-in with this campaign, complete with video cuts of reactions of "small business-owners" and whatnot: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/ios-14-apple-privacy-...

This update seems to have touched a nerve for FB, and that to me means it's a good thing. I'm not a fan of Apple's restrictive ecosystem, but things like this that act in favor of user privacy deserve praise.
The closest approach to a first class "FROM scratch" is probably distroless[0].

> and a way to configure it to pull only from a local, private registry.

One can set up an air-gapped environment with access to a private container registry only.

[0] https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless
Some vague numbers from facebook:

> https://twitter.com/DaveStangis/status/1339183289349918721

"cut of 60% per advertising dollar." So between 2 and 3. That is incredibly little for all the surveillance it brings with it. And I don't think fb would understate here.

If "hyper targeting" is that useless, why are even still discussing allowing it?
Advertising and search engines: When it is okay to mix and when it is not
Did they ever even pay out the $125 checks?
Here is PDF report in original:
https://prevasio.com/static/web/viewer.html?file=/static/Red...
Can't you just use the context of the information? like put a technology related Ad right below a post related to technology, granted is not nearly as relevant, I think that's kind of like what Reddit does.
I think it is bad. You just cannot go to your manager and PR and tell them we are using CockroachDB. If you have a manager who would understand this though, then your manager still cannot go to his manager with that name.
We were using the word "protect" though, but "prevent" can also be correct actually as neither have implication that they do it with 100% effectiveness. Helmet protects you or prevents your head from getting damage, but they don't guarantee survival in a high speed crash.
Johnson would work even better, considering his “distinctive” looks.
The Great Covid Class War
Parodied rather brilliantly by Myles na cCopaleen/Flann O'Brien in 1941.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cruiskeen-lawn-november-10th...