skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a fun conspiracy theory that the variety of emojis is a subtle plot to increase the barrier to entry against smaller companies. Now they have to invest in a much larger number of graphics to create unique set, which encourages them to use something off-the-shelf and brandless.
This is not a tech security issue. This is a government issue. Having the power of nearly destroying your life for suspecting you of a crime.

Society so caught up in guilty until proven innocent.

Justice wasn't swift either. They disrupted their life and this couple is expected to bear all the costs of the govs wrong action.

It's not about finding ways to keep yourself safe so that the gov can't accuse you of something and destroy you (see swatting), it's about the gov not being able to destroy you with such ease.
For non-Europeans wondering: https://imgur.com/a/H9cU2EZ
That’s a valid concern, but Pakkly has never and never will modify your app. It will be installed exactly as-is, with a proxy launcher to facilitate updates. I’m also working on getting that launcher PGP signed so you can verify it’s from us.
This does not use a full /64.

> If you could scan 1 million IP addresses a second on a /64 (which is absurd)

Not at all, I regularly scan the internet at well over 20Mpps.
A Further Step to Getting GeForce Cards into the Hands of Gamers
For that age, Lego Mindstorm might be best. It's pretty simple and is easy to "code".
I think HN ate the hash, but scroll to line 87.

The other half of the change is retroactively making policy rasengan's recent takeover of a channel, which did not follow the formerly published channel expiration policy.
it is weird to see that this issues isnt being discussed this time around. RightToRepair is critical need of hour from environmental perspective also.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210522115518/https://wccftech....
Ask HN: What do you think of HN’s policy to disallow username change?
Could you give an example what needs those three code paths? I'm just an outside observer. I'll probably switch to Wayland when Xfce will.
"We started by playing fun games at bedtime where he would give me instructions for various things such as how to leave his bedroom and I would follow them literally - resulting in my bashing into walls, falling over etc. He soon got the hang of being accurate with his instructions."

Very nice
My point is that there are plenty of engineers that work with graphics pipelines that don’t actually think about the 3d stuff that much. It’s one of many available avenues of specialization.
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God, I'm sick of that comment. Far too many institutional wrongdoers hide behind "privacy laws".

If the school board knew that it had incriminating information, it could ask the family to waive its privacy rights, and then if that didn't happen, explain that, without violating any law.

The school admits to punishing this kid based primarily on his IP address. We all know this is utterly worthless. The technical details make it even clearer that this is unreliable.

Also, the teachers uniformly spoke of the kid as quiet, respectful, and studious. This should be worth far more than an IP address. It's not, because administrators consider the opinions of their own teachers to have no value.

AND, let me be blunt here!, even if the kid did do it, which I think highly unlikely, this is NOT an excuse to deprive him of an education!

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For whatever reason, many people have this fetish for authority, even when that authority through their own words shows their unreliability.

I also think a lot of people respond positively to stories about cruelty and punishment.
Modern languages start from scratch.

Python 3 will stay in history as a canonical example of what happens when those wishes turn into reality.
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I would second that.
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> incentivize local companies to come up with alternative solutions.

Living in a country where local social networks are more popular with general population than foreign ones (Russia), I'd rather prefer FAANG. "Local companies" may sound good because the word "local" has some nice connotations, like your "local store" or "local coffee shop". But in reality, "local companies" do all the bad stuff that Facebook does, and also go above and beyond to cooperate with the state against the protesters or any political dissidents. And they're also not as good at writing software, so these networks have significantly worse design and a lot more bugs.

There are millions of example where people want to solve a problem, think that they will be able to do it with government regulation, and end up with a situation that is much worse. But even among them, this is a case where it could only make situation worse. And much, much worse.
Precisely! Even if he did it, for which there's no proof and plenty of counter-evidence, he doesn't deserve to not get an education.
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Yeah, it's mostly just aliexpress but with a 100 to 200% price mark-up.
37Mb????
don't confuse opportunities with money and if you feel people should have help to get the opportunity, isn't that what having a government is for?
Gnome3 had a big performance regression for years that was fixed recently.
I'm still not buying it, especially when it comes to non-fiction. Any argument that attempts to define "non-X" as "X" is something I can't swallow.
Libreboot or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Burn all Bridges that lie Behind and Before me
> Aren't ICE cars often more efficient at highway speeds?

No. They're more efficient at constant speeds, because the ICE can only be really optimised for a very narrow RPM band, but that need not necessarily translate into higher speeds.

Just choose a lower gear, and watch your fuel consumption drop significantly below what it would be at higher speed in a higher gear.

The main reason for this is that air resistance, which costs energy (=fuel) to overcome, rises not linearly with rising speed, but in proportion to the square thereof.
> I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data.

I sure hope so. The EXIF data has to be part of the backups, it's important data.
> On one level for some applications you want "every frame is recent" and can tolerate some glitches as trade off for not having perfect frames.

There are protocols to circumvent frame syncing for the rare case it is needed, so it is solved.

And as I already said, it doesn’t offer only RGB arrays as abstraction. Yeah, color management can be made better (there is ongoing work regarding that), but the protocol is extendable so it’s more of a when question, not an if. And it’s not like X solved it.

And about the screenshot: the problem here is that they want to create a good API for that. It should be pipewire-based in the opinion of gnome devs, and wayland based in case of wlroots. The actual problem is more difficult than “dump all the pixels”. And even if no agreement happens, the protocol allows for querying available protocols so a cross-DE screenshot app is entirely possible.
It’s nearly impossible to buy a toaster or a water kettle from a reputable brand on amazon.de. Since I don’t want to burn my home I only buy books at amazon.
Tim Cook's line of argument seemed a bit weird to me. On one hand he's saying that he doesn't know if Apple's customers would be able to distinguish between Apple's good and holy curated store and Epic's filthy shitheap of porn and blackjack, but he's also saying that Apple's customers definitely want Apple's App Store as-is.

>Lawyer says, “if people really value Apple’s curation and Apple’s App Store, even if there are multiple stores, people could still go shop at Apple,” right?

>“It seems like a decision that they shouldn’t have to make,” Cook says.

https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/139579670438178406...

>Will people not be able to distinguish between an official and unofficial store?

>“They’ve never had to do it before. They’ve bought into something that’s an ecosystem that just works.”

>So you don’t know if people can tell the difference?

>“I’m saying I don’t know,” Cook says.

https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/139579711859036569...

>Apple can’t really know that it runs a better app store than anyone else, when it’s never let anyone try, right?

>“It’s an experiment I didn’t want to run,” Cook says. Customers “uniformly” want it to “stay like it is."

https://twitter.com/thedextriarchy/status/139579741076549632...
That post you linked is the one that got heavily criticised by a Bing Maps engineer for being under-engineered[1].

1. https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...
Then it's at least one middleman less.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-pri...
All the ways VCs say “No” without saying “No”
Amazon Canada is turning into a Wish/Aliexpress clone too. If you get commonly branded items like detergent, soap, chips etc, you will be okay. But if you order stuff like weight lifting equipment, bedsheets, socks etc, the product descriptions have lots of false info which you will realize when you receive the item. Bedsheets with Egyptian cotton in description turn out to be 100% polyester, merino wool socks turn out to ordinary wool and so on.
Please keep track of the thread.

Parent post made a claim that this was not an "abuse of power" and I was clarifying how it was indeed an abuse of power.

Apparently the policies are in the process of being redrafted in response to this, so in the future, what Lee did with ##hntop may very well reflect the actual policies of the network.
The interesting point in this that resonated is the elephant in the room that no one is every addressing which is background. For 99% of people FAANG is out of reach... I am talking about globally. In fact that most of the people don't even get the chance to interview there and won't go through gatekeepers is what makes a lot of people go to startups. One of my best professional experiences was randomly joining a company with 0 revenue and going towards series A, opening offices in every continent. Did skills get me there? No... pure luck and wondering around the world searching for better opportunities with no-name school in 3rd world country and random career background where I knew in fact FAANG wouldn't every even spend more than a second on the resume.
There are many countries in Asia that fit the "decent internet" requirement if you are able to put up with the timezone difference: SKorea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia (and I'm sure many more). Quite a few of them are also pretty cheap (SKorea would be on the expensive end of the spectrum)

I've been living in Taiwan for ~5 years now and have 1GB/down 40MB/up internet to my apartment that costs around $40USD/month. Total living expenses for a family of 3 are around $2kUSD a month.
> Yes iconic. It has the iconic sound of a lawnmower.

And the car body was made of paper.
People used to send letters.
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I Am Disappointed That This Isn’t About A Forgotten Dialect Of Polish.

(Seriously, The Rule That Every Word In A Title Has To Be Capitalised Is Silly.)
Same with macOS for that matter. Still, it’s curious that Apple is quite behind other OSes concerning boot time. I almost never restart windows either, but when I need to (usually because waking up is still a hit or miss) it’s super fast.
The Linux/Windows timezone issue can be fixed with a registry setting [1]

If for some reason your time is off (e.g. after 3 failed attempts), it's easily detectable and fixable. Just browse to time.is [2], and your time is off, and set it manually if needed.

Because there's an increased dependency on accurate time, bad network time is now quite a rare occurrence in my experience. I haven't seen it happen in the last 3 years.

Once you point NTP to a trustworthy service (e.g. time.google.com [3] or time.cloudflare.com [4]), you won't have any issues.

The Google time server offers leap smear [5], and the Cloudflare one offers NTS (authenticated NTP).

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_time#UTC_in_Microsof...

2. https://time.is/

3. https://developers.google.com/time

4. https://developers.cloudflare.com/time-services/nts/usage

5. https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Yes, the option only appears when sharing from the Photos app
Mind if I summarise the posting? It will sound unfriendly.

"Those people are claiming that one thing increases. Well, wouldn't it be better to measure another thing? It would! […] So we see that the thing I want to measure shows no change. This proves that those people are wrong and alarmist."

The trick you use is point 15 in Schopenhauer's book about dirty rhetorical tricks.
Not much of an insight perhaps, just an observation. Risks are notoriously hard to quantify.

But where there's an attack surface there is a risk. There's logging and parsing of logs going on here.

Does that translate to practical risk, in the sense that your system will get owned in this way? Personally I wouldn't consider it very likely. A Linux box won't get popped via a plain open openssh but likely not via this python log parser either. It's still not a bet I would take.

There's so much going on in a network stack that I would look for bugs there before the same in pre-auth openssh but one does not know for certain until after the fact.
Yeah, I got some adapters from aliexpress seller that were basically re-passed burned down things with some major components obviously replaced (like the main high voltage capacitor) and everything essential from protection circuitry, to noise filtration stripped down and removed, fuse replaced by a wire, some components literally hanging by a thread (broken off part of PCB replaced just by non-isolated wires hanging in space).

Stuff my nightmares are made of now. Anyway, I always open all power adapters/supplies I buy from there, because my original education is EE, so I never used these. But the idea that some people are using such things is quite scary.

Not to poo poo on aliexpress itself. There are some exceptional quality sellers and products to be found there. You just have to know how to find them.
You can continue to use Facebook with the mobile website…the point of the parent comment was to just not use the app itself.
That is because a lot of people don't realize that we are not all based in the bay area and in fact in majority of the countries you have to scrape for 100 bucks after college with no skills and no name university. I am not being negative here, but its just the fact that privilege (even geographical) makes up for a lot in this case...
If that were me, my next few words back to the diversity officer would probably get me fired depending on how rational the people in charge of my employment were. If they were just as irrational as her, I would definitely be getting the boot though.
Little pet peeve, but one can't upload pics to Github wiki without first dropping it into PR, then copying resulting link.
I don't know about robotics, but there are plenty of coding resources aimed at children.

If you have an iOS device lying around, there's this really amazing app to learn Swift (the programming language used to develop iOS apps called "Swift Playgrounds". The language is really easy to learn, and promotes many programming paradigms.

There are also a couple of websites for little kids, like [Happy Coding](https://happycoding.io/). If your kid is into graphics and stuff like that, Processing or Python (with the turtle library) might be of interest to them.

Lastly, there's also Scratch, which incidentally enough supports controlling robots.
If rss.app decided user input yielded a positive roi, they would not have made
it so hard to give feedback.
How does that work for WhatsApp (a Facebook app now)?
No, that's a misconception. It doesn't refer to French. It's about the language of the Franks.
That’s probably why it is described as a toy.
The lack of server side window decorations has much more severe implications beyond aesthetics. Unresponsive applications can not be closed by clicking the X button. And for the compositor to find out if an application is unresponsive or not literally means solving the halting problem.
Never use 2FA alone. You always need a 3rd factor in case you lose one of the others which is more likely than losing a single password. I don't know why websites don't enforce this.
> Er, no, traditional gas cars fuel economy is optimal in freeway driving, despite the fact that more delivered energy is required than at slower speeds.

Depends on how you define "freeway driving": If you mean constant speed, then yes; if you mean high speed, then no.

> Hybrids and electric cars, which can be closer to peak delivery efficiency over a broader range of speeds, have peak economy at lower speeds.

So do ICE cars. Energy (=fuel) consumption rises with the square of speed, because aerodynamic resistance does. That's just a law of nature, irrespective of engine technology.
The USAF museum in Dayton Ohio has one on display. When I was there in 2003 they had it placed next to some portions of the Berlin Wall. This example is the 601 S "Delux" which got you two-tone paint and a chrome bumper, in addition to the odometer and back-up light that the "S" special edition got you.

https://imgur.com/a/WnKqNKe

https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact...
Why not give customers the choice to run other app stores? Imagine if all the software on your laptop must be downloaded from the windows store..
This is already happening on a massive scale in the music industry. The Prophet synthesiser is one prominent example of that, but there's many more. Same goes for guitars and other instruments where modern versions sometimes lose sound characteristics due to material changes.

The most famous is example is Stradivarius I suppose.
> I think Erlang is an uncommon language in that it seems to be foundationally constructed to build things

I think both Scala and Clojure sit in this camp as well.
I think that's especially silly, since (almost) everyone uses some combination of these two. Particularly in the rest of the Anglosphere each country's norm will have elements of both British and American conventions. Even in the UK and US different publications will have standards specifying the use of one or another spelling for "ise/ize" or "practice/practise" and things like that. It would be weird to mix dialect like "garbage can" and "dustbin" but spelling is absolutely fine (as long as you're consistent with each choice).
I'm with you on never having had a fake (at least, echo your 'sure as I could ever be') - closest was a Marantz microphone that curiously identifies as a Blue Snowball, but I suspect they're probably just both farmed out to the same place and got mixed up or it always says Blue, or they're exactly the same underneath the shell. They're in the same price bracket anyway so not really my loss or any reason to fake that.

What I have found though is that the quality of search results, the experience of using the site, has seriously deteriorated in the last two or three years. It's like AliExpress or eBay now.

I used to read other countries' Amazon users (e.g. .com) complain about this and think what are you talking about it's great, but yeah, now... I still get as good stuff from Amazon because that's what I buy, I just have to wade through a lot of crap to get it.
Even just friggin' allowing JSON and XML extensions would solve 80% of this problem. At my work I frequently have to change the extension to .json.txt to get it to work.
Initial release
1975; 46 years ago
Latest release
11.0 / 2017; 4 years ago

So we’re already up to version 11.0, whilst FB Messenger for example is at 313.0
Thankfully only Chinese companies sell crap right?

Ford Pinto - Ford knew people would die, but sold it anyhow.

General Motor's flawed ignition switch, one of the deadliest auto recalls in history, killed 124 people.
For anybody looking at OpenResty, it’s also worthwhile to a look at Kong, which is the largest openresty-based application and already provides the right abstractions in place for API management: https://github.com/Kong/kong
Not just that, the default logging for almost all server software does not log ports or have second by second accurate timestamps. Often making it only possible to track down someone using a less popular website as the data will be too noisy without information on top websites.
I don't think it works for everyone, but I've read a lot of good from people religiously applying the GTD[0] method. Though it is a very strict method and a lot of people will get discouraged quickly when trying to apply it.

[0] Getting things done - David Allen https://gettingthingsdone.com/
there was a post about a database of an amazon review faking ring being exposed a bit ago
Other news on this has quotes from Tim Cook saying that they'd have to find a way to track purchases on IOS and bill developers so that Apple still gets their cut when using other payment processors.

For me, this is way over the line. If they want to charge developers to be on their store, fine. I don't have a problem with that. And charging for using them as a payment processor makes sense. Charging for using Apple services makes sense.

But charging them simply because they make money while on a device that an end-user owns? No. Apple doesn't own that device any more. They sold it to someone. Apple owns the store, and the infrastructure. If a developer isn't using that infrastructure, they don't owe anything.

I'd be fine with however they want to charge, if there was another way to be on IOS.

I'd be less happy with developers being able to use their own payment processors and be on the app store for free. There's a chilling anti-free-speech type of thing going on there.

But I'm dead set against both of those happening at once, as it currently is.
You made no mistakes in spelling or grammar in writing two short paragraphs and used quite complex vocabulary along with using one idiom and three complex sentence structures. Believe me you would not have any problems.

The author of the article is uninformed or lying. I would guess they just don’t know what they’re talking about but never rule out malice.

https://answers.scottsenglish.com/discussion/209/is-correct-....

> In the TOEIC and TOEFL, the examiners are reading for content, and not specifically spelling mistakes. Your score will be lower if you misspell a word that is written in the question, or if you misspell the same word in different ways. As on the IELTS, your meaning must be clear.

https://www.prepadviser.com/toefl/important-spelling-toefl-v...

> How Important is Spelling in TOEFL?

> The answer to this question is actually really easy – it’s not very important.

> This does not mean that spelling is completely unimportant for TOEFL essays, but it’s only one part, and it is not one of the most important aspects. Most of the time, spelling does not cause any problems. The most important areas to pay attention to are usually others: structure, grammar, vocabulary, details, etc.
I made a Geiger counter with 50 tubes and show here what happens when you put a Uranium-glazed plate on it:

https://youtu.be/Iphv7i3IRRU
Congrats to the people votes, who could avoid a devastating win of Switzerland or France. For centuries the Eurovision song contest became the mirror of bad and boring western european chansons or pop songs, only Sweden could produce snappy pop song's from time to time. But with the inclusion of the Eastern European countries and audiences all got better. Much better. Not much Euro Pudding anymore, but genres like heavy metal, trance, rock and house. Italy won with a simple angry White Stripes rock song, Ukraine surprised with an extreme folk-dance mix, Finland with bombast heavy metal, Belgium with a Daft Punk song.

Italy even survived a devastating Eurovision camera in the finals. People voters apparently knew the proper youtube videos and semifinals appearance and didn't care. Huge blowout in the public voting.