skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's usually 2 for me; I've always hated the implicit idea of phone calls and text messages being "drop what you're doing and talk to me now!" No, I'll respond when I want. (Unless it's an emergency or a business call during business hours.) This sometimes discourages people from calling or texting, which I am fine with. The ones who do still call or text are generally as asynchronous as me, or at least don't care much, so it works out.

I have also gone days without even noticing that I got a text, but it has never led to much trouble.
At the Fortune 500 company where I contract, Big Sur is finally almost ready to be certified for use.
It's not as much "doesn't exist" but rather "hasn't been turned on". We can speculate/disagree on the future plans of course, but in general the whole process as described in the previous comment is in place. Enabling you to lock down the whole boot process is the goal of SecureBoot. Right now Windows is not preventing you from modifying the startup binaries and system permissions, but they could easily do that. Apple already partially did that with the forced encryption and T2.

These are not "massive changes to the system". Probably still a lot of effort, but closer to "MS now owns the ActualAdmin user who is the owner of system files; you get Administrator who can't touch them".

On Linux you can already prepare system like that fairly easily, with Arch wiki describing most of the steps.
Using confluent platform community (free) gives you a working env with Kafka/Zookeeper/SchemaRegistry/Connect immediately without having to bother with setting up clusters, etc. Beyond that, yes, it's a pain to properly setup and I think most of the time you're looking at managed options unless you want to invest in a SRE team.
Americans Should Know the Story of Abolitionist Cassius Clay
The Unlikely Survival of the 1,081 Year-Old Redwood El Palo Alto
As someone who wants to get into systems programming, this is very inspiring.
For some reason introductory history doesn’t much cover the Visigothic Roman Kingdom, but it’s quite interesting. L. Sprague de Camp set his marvelous Lest Darkness Fall in that time period.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Einstein

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Those would be Pascal Strings (length at the start, then the bytes). Those make for very easy to write code, but they come with a few issues, but in general they are simpler and give better behavior than null-terminated strings. However, as for a bit of a historical bagagge, it seems we got used to null-terminated strings and just went on with them.
This is a typical hacker news comment. Not everyone upgrades their PC every week. I know many people using computers much older than the newest unsupported hardware and they will still be using it after 2025. They just won't be getting security updates I guess.
Yeah, we get it. Years of life invested in following the mumbling press who assured with certainty that overturning just one more insider-source stone would reveal that holy grail, all for naught. The real “collusion” was hoping for transparency and accountability, which was denied by our intel agencies from the get-go. Everything after was merely a tail-chasing exercise.
>>The Espionage Act of 1917 ... almost certainly unconstitutional

Good luck getting the Supreme Court agreeing with that. That greatest disappointment in the entire American Experiment has to be the US Supreme Court.

That was the founders greatest mistake, vesting soo much power in this single branch
Was this a conscious contact? Would be interesting to read about this experience.
Citation needed.

The MS link appears to say that you need UEFI that is Secure Boot capable. That includes most implementations.
Fun fact, all CNC machines sold in the United States with more than 5 axes of travel have to be registered with the ATF and have a permanently attached GPS tracking unit. This is even true if you have zero intention of using your CNC to manufacture anything reminiscent of a firearm or firearm component. This is why it's common to see 4.5 axis CNC machines or a plethora of "upgrades" that grant 5 axis capability post purchase.
Oh no Capitalism, how scary! It has only brought us most every modern convenience including smartphones, this website, the COVID 19 vaccines, etc. Why so much disdain for something that has brought such good to everyday people? I didn’t even mention the number of people it has brought out of poverty across the world.
You can loan out USDT for absurd interest rates.
> Public universities can kick you out for expressing your 1st amendment right based off of whatever bs reason they want to give just to expel you.

Yeah, and a company can fire you for being black if they give a bs excuse for it too. In both of these cases your rights are being violated and you can sue them for that. What's the alternative? I can't conceive of a system where it's impossible for your rights to be violated; giving legal recourse to the victim seems like the best we can do.
Dangerous to the society? Not really. Dangerous to the elites? Certainly yes!
First you need to get a metamask wallet. Then you buy some ETH for the wallet. Finally go to ens.domains and register your name.

It is very friendly with IPFS, which is how I host my blog. So I put the IPNS permalink in my ENS name contract (managed on ens.domains). The .link is there because browsers can't resolve ENS names. Cloudflare runs a system that checks Ethereum for the browser and redirects to the correct IPFS name if you add the .link.

I wrote a post on how to set up a blog like this. It is way simpler to use something like Fleek, though.

edit to add link: https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/ipfsbasics.html
Tunnel vision: How to detect the enemy when they are underground
Honest question- what is Google's exposure here? Both Youtube and Google (Youtube's parent company) are blocked in China; those revenue streams were cut off a long time ago. What does Google have to lose by letting Youtube keep the videos up?

I'm sure the exposure exists; I recognize that Googlers aren't stupid. I honestly am just curious what that risk is. Having lived in Shanghai for 5 years, I don't see China reversing their ban on either company anytime soon, so I'm curious what carrot and/or stick China has left.

So far, the one thing I can think of is their physical office presence in Beijing / Guangzhou / Hong Kong [0]. That risk is non-trivial- China could simply swoop in and arrest employees, either specific individuals or en masse (neither would surprise me). But are there other risks I'm missing?

0. https://about.google/intl/en_us/locations/?region=asia-pacif...
Had a script that managed disk space on windows servers. The config file was xml, and Powershell did not treat the commented child element as nothing, it imported a blank child element in the PSObject.

So when it ran it looked in blank directory (default c:\windows\system32), for blank conditions. Zip filetype matching blank. Delete files over blank age.

These servers were rebuilt over a weekend, and the script was scheduled again, and broke these servers again, requiring another rebuild.

When I came in on Monday, I was told that the script had caused this carnage. I didn't believe them until I read the debug logs in horror.

Luckily the config was specific yo a subset of servers, but they happened to be servers that were responsible for police GPS radios to function.

Suffice to say it now has a lot of defensive programming in it to test the config file and resulting config object before doing anything.
it does already exist, just not on Windows

Android now has remote attestation required to use several banking apps, presumably with games and video coming down the line soon

the lack of the mandatory TPM is the only thing missing that will allow MS to do the same thing to Windows
I'm curious about the hardware it runs on, and didn't immediately find answers on Google. Could you talk about what hardware is on a usual system and what device drivers need to do for screen, serial port, disk drives, etc.? Does the CPU use floating point?

The reason I ask: for the past six months I've been dipping my toes in OS development for x86 with BIOS, SVGA and ATA interfaces: https://github.com/akkartik/mu And I'm way out of my depth. I have this suspicion that x86 might be one of the more difficult environments for device drivers, so I'm curious to hear what other hardware looks like.
TPM 2.0 is required. For DRM I assume.
> None of this information can be removed from Pluton even if an attacker has installed malware or has complete physical possession of the PC.

Uh and how am I supposed to sell my used pc?
High thermal mass is very much desirable in Arizona. Adobe pueblos are used for traditional housing because they remain comfortable throughout summer without air conditioning due to the high thermal mass. A rug and some mild heating is sufficient to keep them tolerable even in extreme winters.
I’ll be your best man
> "How do you reason that people have the (presumably absolute) right to alter than bodies however they please? How do you justify that claim?"

If you couldn't gouge out your right eye and cast it from thee (Matthew 5:29), would you still have freedom of religion?

> "So you cannot say you have the right to self-harm. Now, if you have, say, a defect in your body that is preventing the proper functioning of your body, then we may correct this defect through intervention. This is restorative, that is, it seeks to restore the function due to the body by virtue of how it ought to function. This is the basis of medicine."

What about vaccination and such where the intent is to cause a small amount of harm now, to prevent a problem you don't have - and may have never faced in any future. This is not restoring a defect, it's augmentative and preventative. Do you not have the right to cause that small harm? And yet that's in opposition to your "direct self-harm is even worse morally than harm of others because it is in direct opposition to one's own good". It's in alignment with one's own good. So, for example, are the torn muscle fibres when weight lifting, or the buildup of lactic acid causing muscle burn when running, or working through the night with no sleep in an emergency.

Less seriously, piercings for jewellery are self-harm and for one's greater happiness in appearance. Do people have no right to wear small pointy uncomfortable high-heel shoes? Is that immoral?

> "I think it's pretty obvious that right implies morally acceptability."

I think it's pretty obvious that there isn't a single "moral acceptability" which everyone agrees on. For example some have the right to eat animals and others consider that morally inacceptable. Some US states have different rules on public nudity than others, and some groups of people have different opinions on the morality of it.

> "You can't claim to have a right to something evil"

Not sure I follow this one; you can't really have a right to murder others, but in the sense of self-harm is it really "evil" to hurt yourself? What is evil and also doesn't involve harm to anyone else?

> "For example, do you have the right to lobotomize a perfectly healthy brain?"

One could argue whether a "perfectly healthy" brain would choose to lobotomize itself, but let's say it does - why do you say that's "very problematic"? The main objection I have - assuming the person is considered sane and healthy - is who is going to pay for the care afterwards, i.e. the harm rolls over onto others and is not purely self-harm. If you could sign that away - it's basically a slow and horrible suicide method.
The article also says you’ll die of smoke inhalation long before the floor collapses
Don't even get me started on "long press".
You could try browsing via i.reddit.com, which is an older mobile version, or a third party app with a better UI.
Maybe not, though a Mars colony might not have to run as a totally isolated system. Perhaps solar power could be used to extract oxygen from the rocks or something. It's definitely a tricky nut to crack though and I'm far from confident that it will happen.
There's also https://userinyerface.com/
Actively deciding to stop drinking kind of did this anyways. Friends are great, but they're also a huge time sync. Also, as you get older you realize that most people aren't really your friends like they were in high school or college. I had one person I thought was a "friend" turn on a dime and start spamming me with horrible text messages. This was a person I talked to every day and worked on a few cool side projects with, one day randomly accused me of all this insane political stuff... The whole experience was jolting, pretty sure I'm going to take a break from friends for a while.
You can disable secure boot and add your own keys in the firmware config page. Who knows how long that will last though.
Fascinating. I searched “ATF register 5 axis cnc” and came up dry. Do you have a reference?
Yeah its sad how bad GPU inflation has got :(
I think if you want to make one or two custom gears, you just manually mill them. CNC involves the usual programming tradeoffs -- you spend a ton of time writing and debugging the program, and then you can run the program a million times to make a million parts. For making one part, it's not clear that it's worth the overhead -- just set up your stock on a dividing plate and use a gear cutting tool to cut the teeth. If when you're turning the handwheels the machine makes an unpleasant noise or it feels like you're going to break the tool, stop turning the handwheels and use your brain's built in AI algorithm to develop a new plan ;)
Your ISP sees everything. It might not be able to interpret and filter everything though.

Try traceroute google.com
for example to see (some) of the hops your data packets are going through.
Excellent article. One thing I do want to point out is that it's recently come to light that Apple actually did try to push for Flash Player on the iPhone, and later, on the iPad. It came down to two problems:

1. Surmountable engineering problems. Flash on phones ran like crap... like everything else on early iPhone prototypes. Apple did a shitton of work to get the iPhone to fit on hilariously underpowered hardware, a journey Adobe never really undertook

2. The CEO of Adobe wouldn't take Steve Jobs's calls

Adobe was disinvited from the iPhone party not because it competed with the App Store (they didn't even HAVE an App Store at launch), but because Adobe was (and still is) a company that fundamentally does not understand touch input or mobile devices. Or anything that requires substantial engineering investment. Hell, Flash wasn't even their baby, their competitor Macromedia did most of the work. Even AS3 had to have been in development pre-aquisition (given the stories I heard about them trying to license Java).
LightSeq: A High Performance Library for Sequence Processing and Generation
"I want to note that I feel weird defending Tether and Bitfinex. I don’t particularly like either company, as they’ve done a ton of shady things over the years. I am not vouching for the long term durability of either company."

"So we know that Tether is at least partially backed and has functioning wires in and out of the bank they use, Deltec."

Lol okay, nothing to see here, your money is definitely safe.
Adrian Zenz has not been "throughly discredited" as you say, quite the opposite. The ad hominem attacks from Chinese bots/trolls (apparently he's a Christian fundamentalist/extremist now) are a pretty good sign that he is reporting on exactly what they don't want reported on.

Also please don't link to thegrayzone if you want any further argument to be heard with an open mind. They have a terrible track record of defending authoritarians for political reasons.
Accountability likely peaked with the Church Committee (disclosed MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, etc), some of the results of which are still classified today, almost 50 years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
Want to bet that China has hired Google or their services beyond the ones we’ve been told about previously?
I'm coming from a perspective that the constitution of the united states is nothing but a farce unless you're rich enough to defend your rights in court.

What is the purpose of having "rights" if I have to pay to fight for them? It's not a right then if institutions can trample on them as such.
And just wait until all executables signing becomes mandatory with Microsoft and few selected partners holding all the keys. Window 11 will set the tone, and Windows 12 will kill the indies, we will have to go trough Microsoft, steam, ea, origin of whatever stores will be able to pass the bar.
I understand this is how you feel. However, your reply reeks of not only anger, but of hatred. You haven’t succeeded in identifying biographic or factual characteristics that even merit inspection. Navel gazing.
I got my 4->5 year old some really simple board games. Some worked well ..some are collecting dust. Suggestions: Animal upon animal, my first castle panic, patchwork (able to play at 5), Sorry, Monopoly (with simpler rules), my first catan, and a few others.

For the little one, we just do toys. TV was banned in our house for little kids but we gave up a few months in (had a 1 year+ lockdown with 2 kids).
Similar ideas: https://termsandconditions.game/ ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27191795
Hah it's always fun when some of the complex trade offs of chip manufacturing spills over to the general public.

People always seem perplexed at first when you ask them if they really thought that anyone can place 15,000,000,000 transistors on millions of chips without any errors. Then you ask what they would do with the "broken" chips and suddenly they understand.
Yeah, um... let's be sure to apply that on all sides.

I can't count the number of times I have read, here on HN, that people only choose imperative programming or OOP because they're ignorant or stupid. Because if they actually understood FP then of course they would choose it, so the only reason they don't is because they haven't learned or can't learn.
> it could cause naive users to fear they might get arrested for accidentally doing something illegal!

Oh yes, and I know of a real-life case of this. A friend of mine contacted me about that message when her browser crashed. She made it clear to me she was not on a porn site when it happened. Programmers for so long just didn't think about non-technical users, and lots of them still neglect to consider that was seems obvious to someone steeped in jargon and software conventions is completely meaningless to laypeople.
YouTube doesn't care. If society decided to start hating left-handed people YouTube wouldn't hesitate to remove left-handed content. If rape porn was legal and advertiser-friendly YouTube would put it on the front page. It's a perfect sociopath.
To my knowledge, there's no wash sale rule on gains. Only losses.

One can sell a stock, pay the gains, and buy it back immediately at current market value making the holdings cost basis today's market value.

Why would you do such a thing? Exactly as the GP said, to take advantage of better capital gains rates during a low income year.

Another fun one is deliberately realizing small gains in a kid's UTMA account then paying a modest sum to file taxes for the kid. Only works for a specific amount of gains/income each year so read up first.
Look to cryptome for what it would've looked like if it wasn't an engine for Assange's ego. The people who just wanted to host leaks left more than a decade ago.

The org admitted to pushing it's own political positions. No idea why people defend the thing. All they publish now is the result of Russian hacks.

And he's not a journalist.
That's not true. Machines with enough axes to be used in firearm or aerospace machining are subject to export controls, though.
> I've run into plenty of people online who heard I was from the south and assumed I was some terrible racist

Heh, I’ve got some interesting comments about this before. I was once told by someone that they were surprised I listened to rap because I’m from the south and this wouldn’t like the race of the artists.
Well, I mean I get what you're saying but that's my whole point. Reddit isn't (yet) providing a service worth paying for and I suggest things that I might pay for.

Secondly, there's plenty of free (as in money) things we complain about.
It's hard to say. I don't know the permitting costs in my city, nor the costs for water/sewer hookups either. My house is nice, but nothing special for the area. Assuming a $125/sqft cost, a house like mine would be around $225K plus the lot ($70K) for a total of $295K. The only thing I've seen that might have helped the house appreciation is the completion of an elementary school in our neighborhood.
1.2 and 1.8 V
Do yourself a favor and install a third-party app: Apollo, RIF, Boost, Infinity whatever. A few are available on F-Droid. No ads or other bullshit, web links open in the app, which loads must faster than the website.

As long as Reddit maintain their API and keep it free, I'll keep using Reddit. If they ever drop it, there's not much chance I will.
> I think it's pretty obvious that right implies morally acceptability. You can't claim to have a right to something evil.

I think it's pretty obvious that right does NOT imply moral acceptability, and that you can have a right to something evil. In our societies, we have a great deal of disagreement about what things are morally acceptable/permissible. For a good liberal society, we may allow many things that we think are actually immoral, even evil. You need look no further than, say, the religious arena (including atheists) for such disagreement. People disagree about the moral acceptability of worshiping different gods (or about worshiping any 'gods'), calling someone an asshole, teaching your children one thing or another about sex, about engaging in particular sexual acts, about giving charity (or refraining from giving charity) to certain causes, and so on.

We grant people rights to do certain things (and I'm glad we do), but that does not entail that those things are therefore morally acceptable/permissible. You have a right to do them, but maybe you ought not.
As soon as I read that he discovered the icon rows slid horizontally, I thought in my head "the design should have hinted at this by showing a bit of the next icon in the row", not realizing that's exactly what the iOS screenshot below would show. That was a nice bit of validation! Sometimes you don't need to do a whole lot to make a design more understandable and accessible.
A large CPU with a small GPU would nice, while we're wishing.
ive canceled my youtube premium
Individual content creators through RSS.
This is a good article. Thanks for sharing.
> I have a hunch that a lot of division in the US atleast has some role or interference from Russia/China.

Haha

I have evidences that US interference causes a lot of division inside China. Not a hunch at all. NED, one of the famous 3 letter group.

Then you can imagine, China will do the same to US, eventually... But rest assured, China have not mastered the tactics yet.