skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really need so many cryptographic keys and won’t trust hardware then you have to build it yourself from commonly available parts and connect it to an offline raspberry pi to take out the automatically generated keys.

An example on hand built entropy generator:
https://github.com/nategri/chernobyl_dice

You can do something like this for I guess 1000 dollars but it won’t be useable for real-time systems.
I don't even think political content is inherently not HN worthy, but the comment section just always devolves into flamewars and "x is bad" vs "y is bad". I would really like to see a filter or harder moderation on the submitters of this type of content.
which party do I vote for if I want to stop US imperialism? which party do I vote for if I want MFA? Its not the Republicans, and its definitely not the Democrats.

Its no conspiracy theory to say the duopoly shuts down a lot of issues from being ever being addressed
I don't know what this is about human nature but it's infuriating.

As someone involved in private aviation and small airports I can't tell you how many times people move in right next to an airport that has been there for decades and then complain, protest, and threaten legal action against those very airports because the planes are too loud.
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Oh, understood now, the question was to Gnome :)
Sounds like we have more than one religion in our modern society with their distinct rituals and incantations.
“Have you ever SEEN google?”
“How do you know He is real?”
The modern atheist. (A joke)
Gnome 2 and GTK 2 have no support for HiDPI.

It is possible to mitigate some of that inconvenience by using a theme where everything is scaled up (and there are tools to generate them), but there will be still GTK 2 software that looks bad.
> Where did you get that idea? No one is forcing a provider to host content they do not wish to host, and my comment made no mention of such a thing.

You previously said:

> a very popular conservative social media platform was kicked off of its hosting providers, etc

The hosting provider kicked off the social media platform. They didn't want to host that platform. Nor should they be forced to host it. What's more, your whole point seems to be that because Donald Trump has been banned from some platforms, that his speech is being suppressed. But those platforms, which are private entities, are choosing not to allow him to post on their platforms. So you seem to be complaining about private entities choosing what and what not to host on their platforms.

And the bigger point, Donald Trump is free to go out into the public square and voice whatever viewpoint he has. Some networks, social media companies, etc. will cover it (in fact, a lot of them will). No one is stopping him from doing this. Just because he can't tweet it doesn't mean his speech is being suppressed.
Deep informal connections between both "sides" might substitute rule of law to some degree.
Understanding Infrastructure-as-Deployed
I had a friend sell me a NIB 3070 this past week for $850. I think he bought it for $750. MSRP of the founders edition (FE) is $500, but MSRP of all add-in board (AIB) partner cards are $600 to $900. Most US retailers are marking up 20+% above MSRP when they do have them in stock then scalpers use bots to pick them up and resell them on amazon and ebay for 2-3x MSRP. Considering I am using my card to mine ethereum (so the card pays for itself) and gaming otherwise, I think I did okay for myself even though I paid well above what would be considered reasonable pricing in a normal year.

Anyway, if you are reading this and want to buy a GPU from a retailer you have to attack on all surfaces. Scalpers likely write their own bots and spend money to have many accounts running at once (to avoid ban limits from IP and account spam detection). The higher that GPUs are valued (due to scarcity and economic value of mining), the more they will spend and the less likely you will ever get a card.

The first thing you need to do is to make accounts on all AIB sites (such as EVGA or Zotac) then enter their queue for GPUs. They sell some of their cards to people on a FIFO basis and the queue is several months long, but this is the most reliable way to get a GPU in the next two years.

The next thing you need to do is to join a few discords and follow a few twitter accounts (such as stockdrops). Keep your bestbuy, newegg, and amazon sign-ins warm on the device you will be monitoring (likely your phone).

The final thing you can do is run your own open source bot. I only know of fairgame [0]. It's limited to amazon (not a great place to look currently) and you can only check one listing every 3-5 seconds to avoid a ban. I made an account to do this and ran it for a few weeks (with no hits in the MSRP ranges). You can check out the cheat sheet (linked in the readme [1]) to see a decent list of card listings.

0. https://github.com/Hari-Nagarajan/fairgame

1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/14kZ0SNC97DFVRStnrdsJ8xbQ...
This is true in my experience as well. I have not seen any discussion of it, but, man, there are a lot of hawks, harriers, and, yes, bald eagles where there used to be very few.
Have they fixed the file chooser yet?

Specifically, I want to be able to click around on directories to choose where to save a file, type the file name, then press enter. This should save the file, not filter the directory listing.

Also, I don’t want it to default to overwriting some file I saved last week.
But who cares if it terrorises? I mean, I care if my tube train seems scarier than last week but I'm irrelevant. If the goal of Islamic terrorists is to have America or Britain change its foreign policy towards Islamic countries, I think that Islamic terrorism has achieved the opposite of that. If the IRA's goal was to change the position of the British government from 'we don't negotiate with terrorists' then the bombs that had a big impact on the financial centre of the UK had the effect of changing that policy. I'm arguing that terrorising normal people only has the effect of turning normal people against your cause, much like the Blitz which was designed to terrorise the population didn't make the British want to surrender to Germany, and when Britain did gain the upper hand, the British public were happy for the British state to visit worse destruction on German cities.
She lied to protect a known pedophile. I have limited myself to facts which have been proven in court. As a UK citizen, I am unable to make any statement which I cannot prove, less I be sued for libel. However I'll point out again that she lived in the house, the child was there for days, and there were photos of Amiee and the ten year old victim found by the police on Amiee's phone. There are plenty more facts available about this case which might cause you to question the decision making process of the CPS.

EDIT: I would link sources but the only sites which have properly covered this story are highly transphobic so I will refrain.
For reference, they moved to: https://patriots.win/

It's been interesting to watch the community actually grow (it was thedonald.win, but there was a difference between moderators - aka the domain owner wanted to make money).
Tbf admin real names seem like quite a reasonable thing to include in such a regex (unless they're so common it's likely to be an accidental collision or publicly known) which is consistent with Reddit's explanation

The allegation is that the name was only mentioned in the body of a linked (paywalled) article though...
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There is no need to have lived through it in order to point out the absurdity of comparing a social media website to the every day reality of life in ones own country. Censorship and self-censorship happened for a reason, because there were real world consequences. You would have to leave the country and leave behind your life and family to get rid of it. What if you get censored on Reddit? You get kicked off Reddit and go about your life, probably overall happier and with more free time for more healthier pursuits.
Not really. I believe that's the future of China. I don't think it'll come any time soon though.
Those negative effects were not necessarily linked. Prop 13 was written by a lobbyist for commercial landlords, and corporations have always benefited the most from it.

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-first-angry-man-lnpy07/

There are other ways to provide relief for rising property taxes. For example, Washington has a property tax deferral program, so seniors don’t have to pay the increased property tax until they or their heirs sell the house; the capital gains that increased the property tax will pay for the deferred property tax.
> Many tech enthusiasts are stuck living in 1999 when the internet was this mythical paradise of unrestricted freedom. The problem is, it's 2021, and the raging dumpster fire of social media platforms has created a world where extremist insanity has become mainstream public discourse. People who believe that reptiles posing as human beings run the earth are have a platform and some sort of earnest following!

Why exactly is this a problem?
>If the Greens, Lib Dems, Reddit, or anyone else involved had chosen not to hire her, she could stir up outrage against them for gender discrimination

We don't even need to hypothesize this specific "if", because that's exactly what she did[0] after being ousted from Green Party due to all the pedophilia-related concerns.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor
>Apple is rumored to be on TSMC 3nm this year

Not sure where that rumour are from. But TSMC 3nm is next year.

If Gelsinger didn't lie, and the original 7nm schedule and spec were unchanged, the 100% increase in EUV usage would actually put it close to if not on par with TSMC 3nm. Although they will still be a year and a half behind TSMC.

And technically 7nm are taping out this year. The only reason why volume product wont come until 2023 is because Intel has a SuperComputer contract to fill with the US DOE.

Both Intel 5nm and TSMC 2nm will transition to GAAFET. But I guess Intel ( Pat ) want us to focus on the strategic changes rather than the detail of future roadmap.
I thought that surely some mention of end user programming would have been warranted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_development
Good Explanations Are Acts of Creativity
An insignificant breaking change is still a breaking change; and over time they build up. This may explain why so many developers have been unhappy with GTK3.
Yeah and quite a large fraction of those should probably never be granted mod powers over even something as insignificant as a subreddit.
You can get most of that with uBlock Origin right now! "Block large media elements" and set the limit ridiculously low. You now have to click to view images. Control this via settings and filter lists.
> I'm not about to get on board with a perspective I have not experienced and do not understand.

That's one of the foundational causes to all the violence and ignorance in the world if we say "get on board" means "can tolerant and respect"
Not clear why that would be the case. I used to dial in to BlueJeans from a landline all the time and it was fine.

Don't have a lot of cell experience though. The one time I did it for an extended period was because my power/Internet had an extended outage. It didn't work well but it was actually better than using an app on my phone; my cell reception absent WiFi assist is pretty bad at home.
The author took way too many words to say message passing between processes is a more grokable form of concurrency than callbacks. Then goes on to say that Node is less grokable than Erlang because concurrency in Node heavily relies upon async/await which is just pretty callbacks. There are some weak analogies to the importance of data structures mixed in to the text which aren't helpful.

I think BOTH models of concurrency have their uses. The only problem I see is not being able to apply the appropriate one at the appropriate time because the language doesn't support it.
The post was removed after a few hours, not immediately. It was also removed because Challenor was referenced at the bottom of the article, not because of anything in the Reddit post itself
A Discovery That Long Eluded Physicists: Superconductivity to the Edge
> Selling weapons to taiwan doesn't contain china. We will send our own guns if a hot war is brewing there.

All of these states need to be strong enough to be a credible deterrent to invasion on their own.

US support is neither speedy nor certain. And a speedy capitulation by Taiwan compromises the US's ability to help even if willing.
Observable Collaboration
Hi adeptima, thank you for your feedback!

I am really happy that you like the writing style.

I will order the book written by Katherine.

Concurrency is a really difficult topic; maybe I will add more content about it later. Real-world use-cases are hard to find also.
You've really just described profiles, Firefox just needs to make them easier to use like Chrome. On Chrome they're easier to find, allow you to configure the profile icon, and give you the option to create a desktop shortcut to the profile. Mobile is probably more tricky.
There is no doubt in my mind that Taiwan is the next target unless another axis of power comes to its aid. It's only a matter of time and the success in HK would have only bolstered CCP's conviction. Because China is hosting the winter Olympics, I don't think they will do anything of this scale before that.
Clearly laws are there in case they need to be enforced. Lot of laws are there "in case". However in this case the community seems okay with it for a couple decades. Clearly these new people come in and think they run the neighborhood but neither the cops nor the city sees the need to enforce "the law" if it's only disruptive to a couple of gentrifiers moving in trying to continue the tradition of white imperialism to subdue local culture.
I had a similar experience searching for "rust hashmap" - expecting to get some links to the standard docs.
"he would have been fired after an examination of the audit trail if he was anyone else but the co-founder/CEO"

That assumes theres an ethical corporate culture which many doubt.
Holy crap. Now I want to be a tourist in your town :)

Er, which town is it?
It takes more than 5 minutes to thoroughly review code but you can learn a lot from only spending 5 minutes.

Ignoring it completely also sends a signal to the candidate. IME this red flag is usually paired with 5 or 6 other red flags.
Think it's Google Fi, the cell phone plan Google offers with Pixel devices, not fiber.
Kind of interesting and surprising that Gnome has gradually moved from a traditional Windows desktop look to a more macOS style with gestures and exposé included.
Yeah I was in KH for many years, when I left I was astonished to find that wifi is not ubiquitous elsewhere, and data plans are 10-20x what I was paying.

I just had a vpn and basic privacy hygiene. The idea that a street noodle cart in rural Kratie has free wifi, but a coffeeshop in central [major western city] doesn't is ridiculous.
There is the ".win" community -

https://patriots.win/

https://communities.win/

Which does have a more classic feel.
Couple this with the pornography subreddits. After pornhhub had issues with user generated content, Reddit needs much stricter regulation.
I didn't say to do nothing, or to just take it.
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Stranger things happened.
Additionally she is autistic.
Stuck in the Suez Canal for 8 Years – The Yellow Fleet
I was under the impression that we were having a discussion in good faith. It appears that this is not the case.

Good day Barry.
Who or what is harmed in this case if not the children?
There are still some good ones around. Brandon Sanderson replied to my question 4 months after his AMA started.
I got lost at this part:

> At another employer, I managed teams of salespeople who generated subscription revenue for the organisation. My role was simple enough when you zoomed out: manage a budget that pays staff and logistics to bring in enough subscription income to cover the budget spent 3-5 times over. We hoped to bring in €3-5 for every €1 we spent. As a fleet of vehicles we used was approaching the end of a lease-hire agreement, we had the option of buying them out for a lump sum worth about 5 month’s worth of lease – let’s say €3k each or, getting a new fleet for another 3-year contract at €600/each per month. As someone whose responsibility it was to own a profit and loss account, I was happy to get maybe four or five years of use from the fleet at a vastly reduced cost as all we would have to do was fuel and maintain them. The accountants, however, were more worried about the abstract and frankly imaginary concept of depreciation that would come from us technically now owning these assets and them losing 10% of their value per year on paper. This theoretical drawback was seen as more important than the real-life cost-effectiveness of being able to win revenue for the organisation with this logistical cost stripped out. Compared with €600 per month, 10% of the value being lost off each car each year would only have amounted to €300 anyway! This means we paid 24x more just to be able to say we didn’t own the vehicles. An academic concept from the accountancy scriptures won the day against real-life cash flow. But accountancy always knows best when it comes to anything to do with money, right?

Depreciation for a car is obviously not imaginary. They have a specific resale value based on how much they've been used and they break down and need maintenance. Whether the old cars were purchased or the new cars were leased the business was presumably going to sell the same amount of product, so the only difference was whether or not the purchase or the lease made the company technically come out ahead... and when the accountants factored in the fact that the cars break down it allegedly wasn't a good deal. What am I missing here?
> The current difference

Just as a point of comparison (not justifying russia or the US), the region of donetsk (and crimea) was supermajority ethnically russian, and by the time the US overthrew the hawaiian kingdom, ethnic hawaiians were a minority within the (mostly imported) population, so in the case of both russia and the US's actions the majority of local populace gained political power in the aftermath of the takeovers:

https://www.hawaiiankingdom.org/info-census1890.shtml

By comparison if you consider HKers ethnically distinct from mainland chinese (on cultural bases), the situation is dramatically different.
Do you want projects that you disagree with deplatformed? That's pretty extremist position to take. Why do you think it is a good idea?
While I don't know anything specific about RedLeaf, I highly doubt that it is completely immune to Spectre. Spectre fundamentally stems from how modern CPUs are designed and the current understanding is that there is no way to fix Spectre. If you're curious, see the paper "Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution" [0]. Even on fully up to date OSs with the latest version of Chrome, Spectre is still exploitable (see [1]).

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178
[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-c...
"To an American's ear, the CCP's use is an Orwellian inversion akin to "Freedom is Slavery"

Frankly speaking the US is not the only country in the world and in this context why would other countries give a f..k about how it sounds to America's ear. They could be backwards in relation to western view on human rights but you can't really tell independent country how they do their things.
Unlike support for something like Proxies (which was recently added), isn't Intl.Collator fairly easily polyfilled?
MMT advocates would oppose quantitative easing. If you buy into their fantasy-land worldview that the government isn't financially constrained, the central bank purchasing government bonds is an asset swap.
Clearly it didn't happen during colonialism. It might be time to realize that the ways of the white men aren't necessarily best for all though. I'd think we should have come full circle on that by now.
The "market" in this case is completely nebulous and demonstrably not zero sum. For example, the appearance of tiktok did not shrink YouTube, FB, reddit or any other big site.
Well people also used to shoot and stuff the bald eagle specifically because it was the national symbol. I believe that's what drove down the population a long time ago.
3090 is largely sold out despite the ludicrous pricetag
> Deep informal connections between both "sides" might substitute rule of law to some degree

It's a poor substitute. To the point that I think single-party rule may be preferable. Informal power sharing arrangements almost deterministically go to shit after a single generation. They also calcify the elites' ranks.
Yes, currently, but I don't think anyone expects this to be their policy in the future.
There are certainly a lot of commentators predicting that some kind of military conflict will happen over Taiwan in the next decade.

If it happens, it'll be the closest we get to World War III, so hopefully cooler heads will prevail.
And when Gtk4 inevitably happens, or the gnome-shell toolkit is changed again, breaking about all the gnome-shell extensions, we'll just call it Gnome X.
It's not a criticism, but a praise. Political stabilitiy is of immense value to everybody. US is doing it correctly as the track record shows. No revolutions while other countries had multiple in the same timespan.

I might sound a bit cynical but I prefer to think about this as non-idealistic. Because reality very rarely seems to align with any sort of idealism for me.
How a SaaS business made $170k in 36 days on AppSumo
Cantarell. Some consider that font a crime against humanity, on the level of MS Comic Sans or Papyrus.

Canonical, could you please make the Ubuntu font really-SIL-free, so that Cantarell can be taken behind the barn and shot? Pretty please?
> Open source good; commercial software bad. Free software good; commercial software bad.

I don't get it, is he being facetious or am I missing the point in some other way? To anyone in tech those are obviously orthogonal concepts. There is commercial FOSS, commercial proprietary software, non-commercial FOSS, non-commercial proprietary software.

And if you think commercial software is the problem, as some communist hard-liners that I've talked to, the only logical conclusion is to do as they did, vehemently oppose FOSS licenses since you're not allowed to restrict commercial use of it.

Of course the F camp emphasise the personal values while the OS camp emphasise the commercial opportunities. But I don't think RMS was trying to "stick it to the man", he was just trying to print some listings. And big businesses like Microsoft have sensibly come to the same conclusion, that sometimes it's nice to have that same freedom.

> The idea of free software, for example, has led to a software economy where you, the user, are no longer the customer, but the product.

I don't see how it has led to that at all. It's just different, not as polished, but if you have the know-how you can fix things. You gain some, you lose some.
Rails should have zero dependencies. Hot take.
The classic these are "terrorists" and those are "freedom fighters" trope in real life.

At least refer to both of them as "riots" or both as "protests."
I'm not going to defend Reddit's corporate culture, but you are making a much more nebulous complaint here than OP did when they stated rather definitively that there was "no audit trail and no governance".
That assumption is not clearly a fact, and likely they did not do so intentionally. Some metadata possibly went to servers hosted in China and there is potential that services Clubhouse built on could be tapped by the PRC to archive the actual audio, but again no proof

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/awareness/2021/02/clubhouse-un...

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubhouse-china