skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the U.S. and I still have to click all those super annoying "Accept using a cookie" popups everywhere. So that EU law certainly does affect me a U.S. citizen interacting with U.S. companies.
This de-escalation is benefiting one group of people on the account of another. While both groups having nothing to do with the situation directly, the group that's benefiting is indirectly approving of it by continuing to vote for the same policies.
Github’s help text when opening a new repo irks me. It contains the following:

git branch -m master main

With absolutely no explanation of what they are doing, or why. I can imagine this being confusing to beginners, and it requires mental effort for me to ignore it each time.
> But you handed them in, in person

I have done that exactly once, at a college recruiting event in 2002, and the person who took it and gave me the pre-screen interview never saw me again until after I was hired.

> and had an in person interview

Are you under the impression this has gone away?
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Thanks :) And thank you for the feedback. I'm also on a recent MBP and safari and haven't had that issue. I'll try to reproduce!
Even if the FPGA design were fully public, you won't necessarily find the required fab around the corner, so what's there to gain from the FPGA design? If you're seeking trust, you'd need to establish trust in the whole chain: design, mask production, chip fab, transport... that's a tall order.
Phone manufacturers certainly ought to offer 5+ years of OS updates. Apple does, after all. So I agree with you to that extent.

But if users want third parties volunteers to support devices whose vendors have already dropped support? If there are no volunteers wanting to do the work, the work doesn't get done.

The bad guys here are the phone vendors, not the Termux developers IMHO.
When I was working at a large online travel website a few decades ago, we had a few hundred front-end boxes each with a connection pool set to (I think) around 10 each - so around 2000 connections on the DB backend. We did some profiling and discovered that, under the heaviest load, we never had more than one connection active per web server (and usually 0), so a single shared DB connection would have been just as effective as the pool was.
Pretty sure Ethereum is best positioned for this.
I think it could work and is superior to manual entry. But when I mention it to my local SMB they mostly scoff. Maybe just too small of a sample size.

Thanks for the input though! Encouraging to hear this has worked for others before.
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That's because people want to start videos from the beginning and seek around, not just watch TV.

Every time I see this comment about multicast, I think people are missing the point of the internet.
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For an open source project, yes. There aren't enough people to really work and maintain this thing.

But in general, hell fucking no. 5 years is terribly short sighted. Look at how much e-waste is piling up. We can't really recycle phones. They get shipped to Asian and African countries where people melt down the plastic without adequate ventilation and extract out all the metals they can in OSHA free environments.

We should be designing things to be as useful as possible for as long as possible.
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thats really cool. I'd like to help somehow, being a volunteer if needed.
Being able to find primes faster would make modern public key crypto better I guess, since you could find large keys faster and thus use larger keys.

Unless the theory also leads to faster factorization methods
Businesses have the right to refuse service.
I'm in the UK, I suspect my first electric car (in a couple of years) will be the new Škoda based on the same platform as the ID.3:

https://www.skoda.co.uk/electric-hybrid-cars/enyaq-iv
So called "decentralized", and only one company has a copy?

"Decentralisation" of Git has been a running joke since the beginning.
>Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?

That's not my argument. It would be a good thing if all governments outlawed ICE consumer vehicles. However, headlines like this are portraying Norway as some kind of progressive utopia where everyone just wants to drive EVs.

Obviously you can make people do whatever you want with aggressive enough tax policies. But the goal should be to get EVs to a fair market price point where they truly compete, not reliant on subsidies.
So in the UK you can go to jail for what he did, unlike in the US. The Pentagon Papers ruling gave cover for journalists leaking government secrets. In the UK the official secrets act offers no such protection and is a ticket right to jail.
Thanks for posting these similar demo links. I have a problem with visual programs/libraries that reference no examples: demo or GTFO. I realize that the repo may have been posted here by anyone but it's a good note to reference a demo if one is/can-be-made available.
Are there European laws that prohibit discriminating against people who live in Iran? Or that prohibit discriminating against companies who employ people who live in Iran? If not, the legal basis is that you can do anything you want unless it's prohibited by law, and the action in question isn't prohibited by law.
Why are more than 75,000 US rivers changing color?
When you keep it to 1 cup/day, and do something like not consuming on weekends to lower the tolerance, it actually feels like a drug again. A drug you can be productive on.
I've started drinking this[1] and I really like it. On one hand, it's been kinda expensive because I really like it so I drink it a lot. On the other hand, I'm drinking loads of water and feel great, so I guess in a way it's an investment.

[1] https://liquiddeath.ca/products/sparkling-water
Cases like this are an example of a company trying to cover their ass leads to a customer getting kicked in the ass.

Sanctions, compliance, etc. is a messy ordeal to manage (both technically and operationally), and the ways laws are written with so many intricacies and dependencies doesn't make it easier.

Because only 1 instance of violation could lead to fines equivalent to a person's salary, often the systems are made to be overly sensitive and less investigative to figure out whether a 'hit' is actually a false-positive because that also takes time/money and still carries potential risk.
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Alton Brown suggested adding a tiny pinch of salt to coffee instead of sugar. I like it, it takes the edge off the bitterness without an explicit "salty" flavor.
I guess, a team is much more productive in the early stage. But one can’t ditch co-founders later when 95% of development work is done and the rest 5% are customization for particular customer.
> Seems clear that this is for a thread requiring C connections simultaneously to get its work done.

Exactly. As that document says (my emphasis):

> The prospect of "pool-locking" has been raised with respect to single actors that acquire many connections. This is largely an application-level issue. Yes, increasing the pool size can alleviate lockups in these scenarios, but we would urge you to examine first what can be done at the application level before enlarging the pool.

> Where Tn is the maximum number of threads, and Cm is the maximum number of simultaneous connections held by a single thread.

To be honest, i think applications do this are broken ("largely an application-level issue"), so i'm not sure how important it is.
The problem with measuring inflation is that you can cherry-pick the goods in your basket to paint the picture that you want to see. If I make a basket full of housing, healthcare, college education, and fresh produce, I can show you that inflation is out of control.

If you look at the "price changes" chart, prices for the red line items have gone up 4-6% per year over 20 years. While it's nice that you can buy a 55" flatscreen for the price of a 15" crt from 1998, TVs (and cars, furniture, clothing) are occasional purchases and can be cost-controlled by choosing cheaper options. Unlike healthcare/insurance, where you're stuck with paying for what you can get.
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Wikipedia page has interesting graphics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...

including a nice S-curve:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug-in_electric_vehicles_in_N...
It's highly dependent on both workload and instruction set.

I'm sure it could be automatically optimized in theory, even without the solution being AI complete, but I don't think we have any idea how to do it right now.

No, not unless you're reflashing an FPGA. You'd have better luck sharing subcores for threadlets I think.
>Emergency powers should never be treated as temporary given history.

If this were true, why were the lockdowns in China (an unabashedly authoritarian country) temporary? People in Wuhan are going to nightclubs without masks today.
How does this compare to something like arbitrum which I think is also L2 rollups but could be wrong.
personally waiting for an affordable VW e-bus, bonus points for pop-top.
It's basically the same heavy handed strategy: Go hard!
Working from varied, amazing places is a great idea! My objection is to working specifically from bed. It is poor for a persons health, both physical and mental.
I wish push-to-talk was more common. On linux I've been using this little python script that implements global push-to-talk by (un)muting the microphone in pulseaudio when you push a button. https://gitlab.com/somini/inpulse-to-talk

Time to see if there's something equivalent for mac.
Shows how many fools there are in the UK that anyone takes notice of our useless government. I for one pay not a single second of attention
It does look quite a bit snappier indeed, but as I said in my previous comment as well:

> specs related or not, UI is a major part of the experience

When someone buys a phone (or hell, a computer), they're buying a package of hardware, which dictates available software. Hell, you could make some hypothetical $200 phone with the best hardware on the market, if it doesn't have what some people consider "basic" functionality software side, they won't buy... coming back to the initial point that Linux phones are not ready for prime time.
The standard solution for local online-only fintech services would involve piggybacking off of the existing secure electronic ID i.e. digitally signing the agreements (and the request for credential change) with the electronic signature key on your gov't ID chipcard.

I mean, no matter what you do, you have to have some root of trust / root of identity, and it needs to be backed by (and verified in) the physical world - so you either have to do it yourself or delegate it to someone whom you'd trust a lot (i.e. not a random email provider). If a trustworthy universal government ID is available (which is a problem in some places, like USA) then that is a natural solution to that.

Alternatively, an institution is free to trust people remotely, putting effort into fraud monitoring, and taking on whatever risk their trust and processes enable - e.g. we've had some financial institutions verifying passports over videochat in such cases; I have no strong opinion on how safe or risky that is, but presumably the institution has considered the risks very carefully and found them both acceptable and necessary (in that case, sending a scan/photo/picture of the same document was not allowed, it was specifically about live videochat) - which is the key part of the whole thing, the alignment of incentives and responsibility for that risk.

If the consequences of these security risks fall on the users, then the users have to worry about security while financial institutions just wiggle their ears and blame "identity theft". If the consequences fall on the institutions, then the users can stop worrying about the things they mostly can't influence, and the institutions magically design their processes and workflows carefully so that they actually prevent fraud (since it's their own money at stake) and they're forced to implement decent solutions to any tradeoff between usability and security, since their profits depend on both.
These sorts of PE info dumping tools are only really useful for debugging any code you write that tries to parse and/or write PE files. Most reverse engineering use cases already have purpose made tools created for them and directly interrogating the PE headers isn't typically necessary.

In my experience, messing with PE files is useful in a few areas:

- Compiler Development (PE files tell Windows how to load your code into memory, what resources they need/provide, and how to execute your code, etc)
- Reverse Engineering (Extracting the above info, plus locating executable files in memory and dumping them back to disk if they're e.g. packed)
- Game Cheating/Malware (You can simulate the PE loading process to turn e.g. a DLL into what basically amounts to shellcode, allowing you to skip putting your stuff on disk, to make your payloads harder to locate in memory, and to write custom obfuscation as part of the loading process)

There might be more uses I'm not thinking of, but those are the three I have experience with. It's a handy bit of trivia to know if you like dicking around w/ systems-level stuff in Windows for sure.

Probably doesn't need to be said, but just in case PE is how Windows formats .exe, .dll, .sys, etc executable files.
Can you elaborate on what hoops exactly you have to jump through? (genuinely curious, i wrote noisetorch and always looking to improve it)
Who said anything about loading remote Java code?

And yes you need to install application extensions via the store, so what?
I think the fundamental problem is that academics historically gave away their copyright [1]:

> Traditionally, the author of an article was required to transfer the copyright to the journal publisher. Publishers claimed this was necessary in order to protect author's rights, and to coordinate permissions for reprints or other use. However, many authors, especially those active in the open access movement, found this unsatisfactory, and have used their influence to effect a gradual move towards a license to publish instead.

I'd love to learn more about how this system evolved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_policies_of_academic...
According to this website, there is a discount on the VAT when buying an electric bikes in Norway:

> https://kontohjelp.no/kontering/elsykkel/elsykkel-til-bruk-i...

The official website of the Norwegian tax authority also has some details which mentions scooters (Norwegian: Ståhjuling) as well:

> https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/rettskilder/type/uttalelser/p...
For a read-only load, right? If there were writes and transactions I don’t see how that would work.
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how do you know it's 80%? have you spoken with other local buyers? Maybe the floor is something like 20%?

let's say it is 80, can you imagine a way to get 80% of the supply (stores) onto this platform? Or, could you chart a path to get to x% supply after y weeks?

idea 1: fake it, just list stores and items on a website and find out a way to get users to see it without paying for ads

idea 2: sign stores up one by one, using some interview-derived value proposition, and get your friends to help onboarding new stores, challenge them to sign up x% more stores per week

idea 3: post about it on hn :(
Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
Yes, they speak Danish.
I think my argument is that putting the onus for welfare on employers is clearly counter-intuitive.

I already spent a fair share of my working life in unprotected, low-paying jobs. And they wouldn't have been nearly so bad if I didn't have to worry about things like healthcare or outrageous housing costs.
The article brings back my ZX-Spectrum memories
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That's a good point I forgot to mention. I used to always have double-espresso shots then one day I switched to single-shot and didn't mind at all. The 3-4pm is a better cutoff and used to do that when I worked in an office so I let that slide the 2 hours I save on commuting.
> but how did the author learned to love, and more importantly to "fear" the RH? What's there to fear?

It's made abundantly clear: they learned to love it through the course they were fortunate enough to take as an undergraduate, and they learned to fear it later, as a researcher, when they realised that what there was to fear was wasting their career attacking something that was probably just too big and too hard to be sensible for them to attack.
I've quit caffeine several times on and off, but overall I think that a small amount of caffeine does more for mental acuity than none at all, even considering sleep quality.

But it's really easy to overdo. And really easy to keep ramping up your dose as your body adjusts.

If you just want to _reduce_ your caffeine intake, I found that the easiest way is to pre-mix different ratios of regular and decaf in a container and use that. You can make 50:50 or 25:75 regular:decaf and easily taper off your intake (especially towards the afternoon/evening) while still enjoying a nice cup of coffee :)
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What a load of nonsense, over 10 years in and still no use case. Noone has ever needed a blockchain.
> What are some cool things that are possible? - extract resources I guess. Is this Russian program trust worthy.

Yes, it's guaranteed to have been backdoored by the NSA.
Yes, I can confirm this. Advanced Protection is kind of cool but there are definitely some downsides.
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> So you take caffeine just because you're addicted to it, but see no upside to getting rid of the addiction?

I agree that freedom from addiction is an upside. I would say that goes without saying. But the withdrawal symptoms are truly nasty, for me. And as far as I know, taking this amount of caffeine is not bad for my health, may even be good for my health to a small extent. If there were negative health consequences, like with smoking, then I would certainly quit.
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People who quit or want to quit, what is the main reason? That it gives highs/lows that would be better as a more even alertness? Or is it mostly due to sleeping issues? Or something else?
according to this study [0] artificial sweeteners affect your insulin response and resistance, but some other cursory googling says that this is a contested claim without much study.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7014832
Just because nothing is completely secure doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to make things as secure as possible.
Are you comparing a large car, Subaru Outback, to a small car, Model 3? Model X would be a fairer comparison, where model X is 300k NOK more in base model.
I am enrolled in Advanced Protection with my personal account. It's optional.
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You have a point ( and Mnuchin to his credit ,based on reports, does care about regulatory burden and its impact ). So you are right, one is not like the other. To address your point directly, if OFAC tomorrow added MOHAMMAD JIHAD with no other information ( no DOB, no address, and so on ), you would be surprised how quickly the banks would respond.

Now note that that we are discussing a name, a commmon, but somewhat reliable, if mutable, driver of our identity. Now compare it to IP address and tell me, which one is a better predictor of who you are.

Unless, we are assuming IP is a proxy for location, which is another story.