skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there is an alternative calendar proposal that makes this a feature and not a bug.

Kind of sad that we, as a planet, haven't managed to adopt a more uniform calendar. Here is my favourite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry454
I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.
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It's not surprising that people are suspected based on their IP address - most of the criminals involved in these kinds of crimes are unlikely to be tech-savvy enough to gain access to someone else's wifi router.

The problem with suspicion is that collateral damage to those who are innocent, but I don't think the answer is to not investigate.
> Go into settings and turn off iCloud for photos

if facebook did that, we'd all be up in arms, and if that was their answer to one's privacy concerns we wouldn't buy it (see tracking opt in).

I get what your saying, but the difference is trust. We trust apple to be private. We don't trust facebook. People are ambivalent to google.

> Apple is doing it to improve its apps for YOU

I mean yeah, you could argue that Facebook are doing the same thing. After all, if engagement decreases, so does advertising revenue. Much as my opinion is unpopular, I doubt facial recognition of photos has much advertising benefit, especially when the social graph is already mapped out for you.

All I'm asking is that we apply the _same_ level of scrutiny of features from apple as we do to facebook. Don't buy the narrative about Apple being friendly, they are a corporation that will deploy the lawyers at any opportunity.
It happened so fast too. I'm in Finland but used to buy from a.de on a regular basis because there was no VAT, shipping was sensible, and often the prices were much better than local markup (which is infamously bad in Finland), especially on stuff like video games.

Sometime in the past few years something changed though. Shipping prices went up. Prices on name brand goods started climbing up too, sometimes higher than I pay locally even. Savings basically disappeared so I stopped bothering 90% of the time.

Then the flood came. IG without the international competition, the knockoff and counterfeit and aliexpress sellers saw an opportunity and absolutely flooded the site. Now you can't find a name brand fucking anything unless you explicitly search for it, and more often than not it's out of stock. It will sell you a million suspiciously cheap knockoffs with obviously fake brand names, often the same knockoff under dozens of different names and prices.

It really is basically just a shit overpriced Wish now, and it is baffling to me that Amazon have seemingly just allowed this to happen.
I'll just chime and and say it'd be a lot feaking easier if hardware engineers provided a register that counts ticks of the 32.768khz clock.

The MM:DD:YY HH:MM:SS 1/256 ticks format is unhelpful and annoying 99.9999% of the time. And is a source of bugs.
Does it work well with high dpi screens now? Last time I tried to use ShareX it didn't handle 150% scaling well. Cursor alignment was a all over the place.
Is this really the same Drew Devault who wrote this unhinged screed? https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/02/Anti-Wayland-horseshit.ht...
I don't have this option. I have to select all EU countries if I want to filter. Helps with my geography knowledge, though.

I wish Ebay had the same interface as https://reverb.com/ , which is nice, but is for music-instruments only and the prices are a bit too high.
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It should be understood that the MPC is actually a Japanese clone of an American invention, the LinnDrum MidiStudio.

Roger Linn kicked off the innovation around the sampling/sequencing revolution - Akai just made it affordable.

Disclaimer: have worked in the digital musical instrument market for decades, including for Yamaha and other (German) major players in this space. This industry is incestuous in many ways - but it follows the 'musicians rule', which is 'its okay to copy each others riffs as long as it improves the groove' ..
> if we are visited by interstellar travelers they are likely to be the absolute dumbest and most dysfunctional possible examples of beings capable of interstellar travel

Otoh, they would be aware about that, and they might have spent some time improving how genes (or what they have) and evolutionary selection works for them, so that, say, their species with time becomes brighter and brighter than what's actually needed. If they wanted to do that.
It's rather sobering that wayland still has substantial issues more than a decade after work on it has started. This leaves me wondering whether aggressively evolving Xorg would have been a better choice. Maybe Xorg security wouldn't have been fixed completely that way. But almost 15 years later it hasn't been fixed at all - wayland hasn't arrived.
It is, however, based on Tesseract which works well on clean or scanned documents, but isn’t very good for text “in the wild” like street signs and not-parallel-to-view images.

The Mac program uses VisionKit which does handle these cases better (not as well as google cloud vision from my outdated experience but way better than tesseract)
This is a cryptic / sarcastic commit message throwing shade at Rockchip because their chip had a hardware bug counting 31 days in November.

Looks like it's caused confusion just 5 years later. Commit messages ideally shouldn't be like this, they're meant to be read by other humans in the future.
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Other than the built-in thread pool task scheduler, how does this differ from Comlink [1]?

1. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
mbasic.faceook.com

It’s basic (like it says on the tin) but it works. I use it to avoid having to install the app, for all of them reasons discussed.
I know auxiliary micros are everywhere these days, but there is very little chance an RTC is implemented this way. RTCs are by design extremely simple, low power CMOS logic since they need to run off of a button cell for a decade. It's just a bunch of counters chained together.
Too little too late. They'll be crying all the way to the bank.
> Apple is doing it to improve its apps for YOU

This seems subjective; other companies could claim the same. E.g.: FB says they're trying to show YOU more relevant ads.

> The data may be in Apples iCloud but is 'private'

This seems more objective to me and a better indicator of actual privacy. Still, we should keep in mind that Apple's goals may change in future and that they might change their approach.
It's worth noting that if they didn't hand over the passwords they're automatically liable for an offence whose punishment is two years in gaol, and all the police need to prove is that it is likely that they did know them. One of the quotes of the article describes the husband getting what is presumably an admin key from work for a Windows laptop -- if the crown wanted to, that alone would be enough to utterly throw him under the bus.

I honestly have an irrational fear of this happening to me. It's a great way for a malicious actor to utterly wreck someone's life. I tunnel all outbound traffic over a supposedly privacy-preserving (or at least non-UK) VPN, but honestly, this is the dystopian stuff of my nightmares. And I don't know why!
The landing page says it supports Windows - does that mean it builds an MSI installer?

If so, how does it handle things like installing Windows services, custom actions etc?
Should it be illegal? Is it illegal to call someone by the wrong name, or age, or race? Should it be?

I don’t think we should be making rudeness illegal.
On the other hand, professors absolutely shouldn’t be able to sue their institution for punishing them for it.
There’s a middle ground
What about local grass fed beef. I'm pretty sure it's the farming methods that are the problem not the animal you eat. I currently have 150kg of beef hanging. It grew up 10 minutes from my house, ate grass,and will feed us for six months.
Still works for me, unless they’ve taken it down in the last couple of hours..:
Seems to be a parody, it's signed "Drew Default".
Nope, it’s “Drew Default”. Since the first paragraph demonstrates a pretty grave misunderstanding of what Wayland actually is I’m going to assume it’s not the developer of the most popular Wayland compositor library.
I guess this is for the hot tub streamers?

I can't even imaging filtering gaming streams based on the host's sexual preferences or skin tone.
What are some general patterns for retreiving the data, client side, for async apis like this?

I.e. client makes a long request in browser, then gets back a response saying the job is logged. The task completes in the background and then what should happen?

I am thinking of JavaScript but more concerned about the patterns.
The option I see says Europe, which would include European countries that are not part of the EU (e.g. UK), so customs clearance would still be needed. It helps, but it's not granular enough for this particular case.
Sorry forgot explanation.

Alphamales tend to create and thrive in such workplace environment, to detriment of everyone else.
You should definitely give pg_auto_failover https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover/ a try. I've written about my experience here: https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover/discussions/61... which hasn't changed since..
I don't know about Facebook but here in Sweden we have several systems where you need to use Google, and of course accept Google's terms in order to do that.
One example is the health care centers and hospitals that uses Google Maps. Another example being the schools that forces the students to use Chromebooks (and apps like GMail, Google Classroom, Google Docs, etc), and Google forms for requesting information about the kids need for after school care.

I do not like that Google get to know when I need to visit the hospital, or collect information about my children's activities in school. But currently we do not have an option.
It occurred to me after posting that there are likely places where healthcare is mostly private companies / practicioners and most would have no enforced accessibility requirements.
In Brazil, everything uses WhatsApp. Doctors, banks, lawyers. It's almost the sole means of communication over there.
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/470418/

Or more precisely, DOS is Protestant and Windows is Anglican, as discussed by Umberto Eco.
I wouldn't recommend using this work to generate knowledge graphs, as it requires a lot of rule based filtering. I suspect it wouldn't be any better than generating from a constituency parse tree. Disclaimer, I implemented this work a while ago and reach my current conclusion, still waiting for the official code to release.
Some RTCs do work with a simple counter like that. This calendar nonsense is basically cargo cult from the early IBM PC days. But hardware engineers rarely talk to software engineers, and these IP blocks were designed decades ago and people don't want to touch them...
>I think the scepticism of facebook is a good thing, however I really wish it would be applied equally to every big company. Especially when they so clearly abuse privacy like Apple and Google.

The difference between Apple and Facebook is that Facebook's entire business model is built on abusing the privacy of it's users.
TIL! Thank you.
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I'm writing it from Fedora Linux which ships Wayland by default and I didn't experience any issues so far. Wayland definitely arrived to my laptop.
I have a lot of disagreements about things said here. For example, I suspect wlroots based compositors are not particularly inefficient, therefore I’m not sure I strongly agree with the ewaste issue. GNOME 3 doesn’t seem particularly lightweight either way; most low end devices would not be running GNOME and KDE to begin with. Also, wlroots is listed alongside GNOME and KDE, but it is a library or framework for Wayland compositors. It’s an ecosystem of compositors. wlroots is basically a logical conclusion of Wayland’s different approach versus X; since the DE/WM is the compositor, it makes sense to make the common display server components into a library, the same way you would hope GNOME and KDE would not reimplement Xorg (though the lower surface area of Wayland and shared components like libinput and libwayland make it more tenable that they do in fact implement their own Wayland compositors largely from scratch.)

> However, Xorg code can be secure! Just look at xscreensaver,

I am rubbed the wrong way by this, because it sounds a lot like “just don’t make mistakes!” — if there’s any way to crash xscreensaver, that is a potential security issue...
It almost makes you wonder if we should have a review system that doesn't include stars at all.
Your proof that the judge had no discretion in the stated case is the fact that they didn't. This seems like a poor argument. Until relatively recently some places have allowed judges to be elected or appointed idiots who weren't even required to have a high school diploma let alone an education in law.
A good first step to remove bad actors - next is to stop commingling inventory.
Ok, interesting to hear

Personally I think I like blind job applications (ie where the name, ethnicity, gender, age etc of the job applicants is held unknown for the interviewers, as long as possible), which it seems to me that you like too
Geez, even the author of this piece is "Founder/CEO of Digital Barriers, which develops advanced surveillance technologies for frontline security and defence agencies as well as commercial organizations in the US, Europe and Asia. The company is at the forefront of AI-based surveillance."
You're missing that apple isn't a monopoly, there's a limit to how much people are willing to pay for an iphone.
I'm guessing that he's now going to claim that the policy change he instituted 5 hours ago that allows him to do this[1] has always been there.

[1] https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/commits/2037126...
You don't buy RTCs. You buy a big SoC with a 5000 page datasheet, of which 3-10 pages are the RTC, and you take what they give you. There is no room for the RTC type/design to be part of the part selection process for a SoC, which is why they can be vaguely crappy and nobody cares or can do anything about it.

Edit: it's a power management IC for a SoC, not the SoC itself, but you often don't get much choice of those either since SoCs tend to be designed to pair with a specific PMIC. Whether the RTC is in the SoC or PMIC (or both) depends on the design.
-$1.2T in Crypto
I thought it was...

Hardware - Immutable without physical destruction

Firmware - Possible, but abnormal, to change (maybe limited times, risky)

Software - Easiest to update, often during normal system lifetime

Wikipedia's definition disagrees though, since it agrees that ROM is firmware (I agree EPROM is firmware since it can be modified with more extreme measures), but I suggest that is less correct than the categorization I outlined as I would like to include FPGAs, etc.
Right, the toolkit is what counts. QT, GTK, and what else? I know there are others, but those are the big two most programs use.
Ok, I had a look, thanks. (Btw I replied to chitowneats sibling comment.)
After having done an initial read on threads.js' docs, I'd say Comlink is missing the entire "observables" functionality. Also, threads.js' API seems less confusing (this is subjective, of course).

Either way, props to OP for the great work!
Agreed. There's a story here, but the linked page contains no information about it. It doesn't even show that they are banned.
You think this is bad? Take a look at the japanese calendar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_era_name

Imagine having to hotpatch a lot of the governments software because there's a new emperor.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430085
> I've never had a fake product

Are you really certain about that? The fakes are so good sometimes I don't notice for a year or two. There are so many ways of faking different products, and the fakers are getting really really really good at making the product seem real.

Have you done a few hours of searching and testing for everything you've bought? This is what it takes, IMO, to feel some level of confidence in an Amazon (US) product being 'real'. The levels of suspicion never really go away either - since I've been duped by probably a dozen products at least, that have turned out to be fake, I'm highly suspicious of any Amazon purchase.

It's been a couple years since I bought anything from there. Too much stress worrying about authenticity to make it worth it.
HAProxy is so well known that it really doesn't need to. I mean, you wouldn't expect Facebook to mention the fact that it's a social network on every one of its blog posts.

And if you don't know of the product, just Google it.
> if there’s any way to crash xscreensaver, that is a potential security issue...

This has happened before: https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354
UK Police are interested in finding non-exculpatory evidence and securing convictions.

Computer forensics usually means software bought from a vendor and operated by a technician sometimes with no deep technical knowledge beyond the tool they use. It probably even works well for the common case, but breaks in cases where something unusual has happened.

UK ISPs mostly use an IP pool – meaning they have to keep records about who was assigned which IP at which time. Some may run carrier-grade NAT. Those records are obviously trusted, but may not necessarily be accurate – and even if they are, human mistakes occur, especially when working with things like IP addresses, dates and timezones.

But if not for following IP addresses, how else do you investigate this sort of thing?

I would argue the fault is in a mentality that suggests presuming guilt based on an IP address, then looking for the confirmatory evidence as an "icing on the cake," and a mentality that the investigation process should be so harrowing that the guilty will always go punished even if there isn’t enough evidence for an attempt at conviction. This is long after several such scandals around the same type of crimes.
QT is the toolkit. This post is about the composer.
I had one! <3 https://fb.com/10203599871583608
We can’t even agree on when to have DST transitions (or not having them at all).
Great news.

Related: Canada declared plastics "toxic" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27240796

Seems like a good week for eco laws in the Americas.
Yeah I've been running Wayland on my desktop since quite a while now. There were minor issues when Fedora made the switch to wayland as default, but since at least a year i haven't had a problem that switching to xorg would fix.
> Sometimes my cellphones randomly have a wildly wrong time -- a misbehaving (or malicious) cell-tower perhaps?

If you experience that often, I would probably disable the setting to automatically set time from the network.

> booting between Windows and Linux screwing up the system timezone setting

That’s easily fixable with one registry change (RealTimeIsUniversal). You can also tell Linux to use the local time, but Linux will be less happy about that than Windows (Linux won’t write to the real-time clock automatically, for example).
Just tried ST4 over the weekend and decided to switch from VSCode. Basically got everything set up exactly the same, but ST4 feels a lot better/faster.
I feel like those places are the exceptions rather than the baseline. Working as a software developer in Europe, I make around 18k Euros after taxes per year.

While I will eventually make a bit more, it would take me 74 years to make a million even if I were to save 75% of my wages, assuming that inflation is of no concern (or that modest investments that match it are in place).

Not everyone is well paid, hence a side hustle and any means of passive income make sense - especially if it scales without issues (such as software, videos, music etc.).
Most homework during K-12 was time wasting busywork I doubt it was much different for anyone else. I think the broader point was that only a child has a grudge match with a child. The penalty for not doing homework is a zero on that portion of the class. Let them hurt their own grade if they insist. The math teacher was a childish incompetent unfit for his position.
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Chip in question is power-management IC, with RTC being just one function of. Others are (programmable) power sequencing and suspend/resume state machine, all accessible via same I2C interface. Here is datasheet:

http://rockchip.fr/RK808%20datasheet%20V1.4.pdf
> Some other potential sources of radiation

And mind the bananas.
The photo gallery shows the boring Wartburg 353 with typical East German "non-design", but East German engineers could also build beautiful cars, at least in the early days:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg_313
How can this person even be trusted ? or what are you implying?
The BS2000 series is fascinating since Fujitsu-Siemens made the transition from S370-compatible hardware over MIPS- (Siemens also produced a series of MIPS-based workstations in the 1990s) and SPARC-based systems (based on Fujitsu SPARC silicon) to x86-64 today, staying binary compatible (using emulation/binary translation) all the way.
I don't know, we've been buying my wife the same make and model for some time. The latest upgrade can talk to my phone, is more powerful and about 25% more efficient. The increased efficiency alone will save us 50% of the capital cost over the period we own it.

I expect its replacement will be either a PHEV or full EV, a huge change.
This is at least somewhat circular logic. The arrival of Wayland is a big contributor to killing people's motivation for further development of X. Had Wayland not arrived, somebody might have well been inclined to solve problems in X instead.

Yes, yes, people who actually worked on X didn't like it already. But the total amount of work of fixing the issues via Wayland is surely larger than the amount of work fixing them via X would have been.

Going with Wayland wasn't a good engineering decision, but it was probably a good social decision.
I hope Drew DeVault appreciates that he has achieved a parody-spawning level of notoriety!
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My strategy is to line all the axis up at the beginning and then I don't touch anything but forward, and back. This works 100% of the time.

Am I playing it wrong?
Either way they should be judged/policed by their actions rather than their intent, because intent is too hard to prove or disprove.
Yes, and the RTC portion is going to be part of a separate always-on power domain and designed to consume single-digit microamps of power (5uA for this one). It's not going to involve a microcontroller.
I'm Hungarian, born in '81, so I grew up around Trabis, Wartburgs, Skodas, Moskvitch, Ladas. My mom's first car was a Trabant. At some point in the 80s we moved to W-Germany for a few years and we took the Trabant, it was not a good look (we were living in Boeblingen, near Stuttgart, location of the Porsche HQ).

The magic of social and geographic mobility and the tech boom: today, 30 years later, I live in Dubai, where anything below V8 is boring, and my wife drives a Porsche, but really we should stop driving ICEs altogether.
> If you know nothing about uranium glass, how are you to know that this won't be another Goiania incident?

The tool they used to detect the radiation was also giving the answer. Look up the dose then get excited.
On might consider disabling the WiFi password entirely so there's plausible deniability if this happens. Pitch it as a public service. Maybe set up a separate router or VLAN and cap the bandwidth.
If you guys could easily start over, would you have still picked Go given the problems you encountered? Or would Java have been a more likely candidate?
It doesn't. It says it is well suited for GoL, but not for slightly different problems.