skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My 1990s experience says that a lot of people are casually racist, sometimes viciously so, but, at the same time, they are perfectly willing to engage in mutual commerce and other activites with the outgroup, as long as they gain something from it. If this hypocritical kind of racism dominates, the outgroup has a chance to establish itself through education and trade.

I don't think this is hypocritical; just normal human behavior.

Newcomers are always the "other", and treated as such. Over time, as the "in group" discovers that if the "out group" displays behavior that makes for good customers and employees, and that there are financial benefits (increased sales, being able to hire new staff at a lower rate than otherwise) the "out group" becomes integrated with the "in group".

>The "Kauft nicht bei den Juden" or KKK-like kind of racism that really strives to isolate and possibly exterminate the outgroup even at a financial or practical cost to the dominant group is rarer and if it prevails, it leads to really bad consequences.

Yes, but thankfully such behavior is (very) rare. Anti-Semitism has existed in Europe for centuries but conditions had gradually improved everywhere. When fascism/authoritarianism became a thing in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, most regimes at worst maintained the existing casual anti-Semitism. Hitlerian genocidal anti-Semitism was very much an aberration, not seen in Hungary, pre-Anschluss Austria, Poland, or Italy. Mussolini's Italy had many Jewish supporters and leaders; it reluctantly implemented anti-Jewish racial laws just before the war began, after it became clear that Germany was now the more powerful Axis power.

More to the point, the integration can only occur when the "out group" behaves in ways that the "in group" accepts. In the US and Western Europe such integration happened or is happening with Jews, Italians, Irish, Eastern Europeans, Asians, South non-Muslim Asians, and Latinos. This has not happened with blacks and Muslims.
Semi-autonomous road convoys and electric trucks are technologies that are in development. That may completely alter the calculus of the article and unlock those economies of scale that are missing at the moment.
Sorry, should have said “aren’t JUST to make sure your code works when you write it”

I was specifically responding to the commenter I replied to, who said they didn’t need tests because their code just worked the first time after he wrote it.
Medical/military/etc software is already highly regulated. Consumer grade devices are not. Collapsing bridges or free falling elevators have much different outcomes then a hard drive being wiped. A simple offline backup would save anyone in this instance.
Active moderation is still a thing now, people are just actively employed by the game companies to do that job. The cheating situation in multiplayer FPSs is generally much better now than it was back in the day I was a mod for CS:S servers.
> The “RNC hack” was one guy’s old laptop with a years out of date local outlook db.

You have proof of that? This says otherwise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/obama-russia-election-...

I'm replying for the sake of challenging your statement but I know it's likely not possible to have an honest discussion about it because you appear to be taking a partisan stance. I have no love for either party, and even if I did love the Dems, I'd be more than happy to acknowledge any and all failings of theirs.

Can you say the same thing?
>but if they are holding a large amount of Tether when it goes bust, I wouldnt assume any balances held on Coinbase are necessarily safe.

That's only an issue if they blend USDT and USD balances together, which to my knowledge they don't. If you sold a bunch of your bitcoins for USDT rather than USD (which seems unlikely, seeing that BTC-USD has 28x the volume of BTC-USDT), and USDT goes bankrupt, that's on you.
I recently bought my first Apple TV after dumping our Virgin Media cable box. I still have an ancient 1080p LG smart TV that that the smart features are effectively unusable on. I’ll never buy a smart TV again if I can help it.

I’ve always used my PS4 for streaming services but the bloody thing was so loud. I’ve replaced the PS4 with a PS5 but it doesn’t have the national broadcaster’s crappy app and we wanted to keep access to these channels.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the Apple TV. It surfaces shows across my streaming apps without pushing TV+ in your face. It integrates beautifully with the Apple ecosystem, I can ask Siri on any device to play $show on Disney+ in the living room and it just works.

I’ve heard how bad the old remote was but the new one is really nice. I’ve paired my dualshock 4 controller to it for Apple Arcade and it works great.

The Apple TV is a device that doesn’t get much attention but I think it’s really impressive.
Except it's not enterprise-grade.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/17/22439924/microsoft-teams-...
That’s really a solo person solution. Anyone with a family in the house will need better, and anyone with family elsewhere can’t exactly recommend such a kludge without opening up a ton of support issues.
I think it depends on the task. Some code we write is so simple and only used a few times that you don’t need tests.
Well yeah, but even by that standard, I mean.
Ethics requires reciprocity. These same sites care nothing about being a vector for JS malware.
The new one is great - your complaint is an old one.
I didn't realize nVidia was an ad company. Their business model sure has changed.
Another one of Google’s tenets that have been forgotten is focus on the user. First it meant just focus on the user, then it became well we are focusing on the user when we do deceptive ads because then they get other services for free, then it was completely forgotten.

I think there was a time when Apple was screwing up for a while and just making things shittier with new releases that Android actually was better. That time is now gone.

Edit: the iPhone keyboard really hates swearing though.
If this is the book with "Greenies" in it, i've read that, and it was interesting to read but i don't know that it gave me any better idea of how to build a circuit. I lost all ability to design any circuit when it was explained that transistors work because the places for the charges to go moved, not the charges themselves.

I look at "quantum computer" components and go "what does a grid of wires have to do with 'computing'? And then you realize the big secret - There's regular computers that take the 'output' of the qubits/QC stuff and 'decide' what the results are, since it's all just a blob of probability anyhow...
Revolution by vested interests against other bits of the vested interests is basically the short story of how countries in latin america got independence from spain.
Yeah but like not face-to-face. Using the algorithm, but running on humans. Like the old human computers.
I worked in online advertising and pushed infinite loops that froze browsers to millions of unsuspecting victims.

On another occasion I had a division operation happen on integers instead of floats, and the code was running on some hardware that steered antennas for radios on airplanes. Much time was spent by pilots flying in circles over LA while I gathered data and found the "oops". It was fixed by adding a period to an int literal.

On another occasion my machine learning demo API failed due to heavy load, but only when India's prime minister was looking at it.
I was 18 and had just taken over the website of a car and horse trailer dealership. I typed “;rm -fR ~” into an e-mail form to show my coworkers what would happen. On purpose. I quickly restored it (I was ready for this.) They were pretty amused. We had no concept of “on prod”. “Dev” was my local PC. Damn teenager.
Europe has much more density of people living in the same space. And Asia is even more dense.

In the US there are things that do not make sense because people density is so low there, even in places like New York, most people live in individual homes, spread over a big area.

When I was living in China I saw lost of things made sense that do not make sense in Europe just by the economic of scale of so much people living in such small areas.
I think the point is that people who make 35,000/year are unlikely to have a huge net worth to be able to take advantage of these tax strategies. So, the advice would be to invest as early and often as possible to hopefully be able to take advantage of this strategy later in life... or just be born into intergenerational wealth, where this is going to be most relevant.
Management, product designers, devs, everyone - including the customers whose ads you are seeing. They are all in it together, making money. Union or no union.
Doom on a single PC was fun. But the same game on our network with all those broadcasts running through our net, which hosted a university's PCs. That was bad. And I started it several times until I noticed that "I" was the cause for network slowdown.
https://hard-drive.net/spend-80-snes-classic-can-install-emu...
I don’t understand the logic here. Libraries pay money for the media they lend out so how is it comparable?
Netatwork/spy: Tiny proxy-based impl to mock and spy dependencies in unit tests
A correction - the article says Visio makes almost as much profits on ads and data ($38M) as hardware ($48M). In my view, the surprising thing here is how little money the hardware business makes. TVs are a low-margin product, so the revenues there are certainly higher. Visio sold 7 million TVs last year, and TVs last some years, so I’d estimate they have an install base of tens of millions and are making about $1 per TV per year in ads and data, which is obviously less than a TV costs. My takeaway is that this is a terrible business to be in, given that a leading brand is making so little per TV.
Near miss: my first job I was working on a CRUD app for a huge bank. I was dumb and it was early in the enterprise era of software and I had built my own simple O/R tool based on codegen. Not a terrible tool all things considered and I was pretty pleased with myself.

One night in bed I realized that if someone hit submit on the delete screen without filling in any criteria it would just delete the whole database.

Not a fun drive in.

Yes, we drove in in those days.
So would you say that the best strategy to making North Korea a better place would be to make the lives of North Koreans as miserable as possible, destabilising the country? It might work, but it seems antithetical to the original goal of helping people.
Emails specifically? I'm not sure if that has ever been confirmed, but this is directly from Assange[1]:

>“We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post.

>“I mean, it’s from a point of view of an investigative journalist organization like WikiLeaks, the problem with the Trump campaign is it’s actually hard for us to publish much more controversial material than what comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth every second day," Assange said.

When it comes to leaks about Democrats, everything is worth publishing. When it comes to leaks about Republicans, it needs to "controversial" to be worth publishing.

[1] - https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/2934...
> Any surface where eyes may fall on, will be replaced with an ad.

With AR you don't even need surfaces.
I will jump in and add to this as someone who is in marketing and has worked in an agency.

Marketing work is never ending and very fluid. There is always more you could be doing and you could always be doing something better with more time. It inherently doesn’t work well as spec work. And yet that is how marketing agencies operate.

Agencies are best hired when you do need something very specific done that you don’t have the expertise to do in-house. A video, a new website, a very specific, time-limited marketing campaign.

If the work is continuous, it should be moved in-house ASAP and it is better to wait then pay an agency to do it in the short-term.
You missed the point. The idea of coordinating games between 60 trusted people is ridiculous. Anti-cheat and matchmaking between untrusted players is essential in modern (FPS) gaming.
Disadvantages From Wikipedia:

"Installation during rainy weather: AAC is known to crack after installation, which can be avoided by reducing the strength of the mortar and ensuring the blocks are dry during and after installation.

Brittle nature: they need to be handled more carefully than clay bricks to avoid breakage.

Attachments: the brittle nature of the blocks requires longer, thinner screws when fitting cabinets and wall hangings and wood-suitable drill bits or hammering in. Special, large diameter wall plugs (anchors) are available at a higher cost than common wall plugs.

Insulation requirements in newer building codes of northern European countries would require very thick walls when using AAC alone. Thus many builders choose to use traditional building methods installing an extra layer of insulation around the entire building."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoclaved_aerated_concrete
> I will get shadowbanned for this post.

We don't ban people for criticizing YC or YC startups (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). When we've banned your previous accounts, it has been for obvious abuses as we explained when we've banned you in each case, and then only after warnings that you were certainly aware of, since you responded to them (rather aggressively as I recall). I have no idea what happened at PagerDuty (though the bit about a "higher up at YC" strikes me as unlikely based on everything I've personally observed at YC). Just generally though, if you want your internet story to have credibility, you should probably omit demonstrable falsehoods.
The day old reddit dies is the day I stop using reddit entirely. The desktop version is every bit as awful as the mobile version. For some reason they seem to think that seeing a few more posts or comments on the screen at page load is too much information to process, but taking up 1/4 of my screen with some pictures or videos is a better use of the space. Everything is so obfuscated and difficult to find. I can't stand it.
It's a very difficult problem to solve. Once you sign something, it's by design impossible to repudiate that signature.

That in turn means you need some other way of "revoking" or "repudiating" that signature. In the case of TLS for example, it's a certificate revocation list.

I don't know if there's such a mechanism on Windows Kernel.
> releasing edited bacteria or viruses.

From what I understand it’s hard to order the sequences of DNA or RNA you’d need for this without someone noticing. It’s probably not impossible, but not something anyone is going to bungle into.
This is not healthy. Instead the friends should realise that their introverted friends won't always be in contact but that does not change the relationship.
That's correct. The Chromecast w/ Google TV works with the same USB-C hub I use with my MacBook Pro and Nintendo Switch.
Because it’s not always a 1 to 1 ratio. Especially generically.

An 80% worker with paid benefits doing just 80% productivity provides less productivity value per comp $ to the employer than a 100% worker doing 100% of the work due to the cost of benefits.

So a smart employer realizes that for it to make value sense, an 80% worker with benefits better be providing more than 80% productivity.
That's an early build, maybe Windows 11 RTM will actually always use a TPM (1.2 is advertised as minimally supported though).

As for secure boot, I don't see how that could be anything else than policy (that can have an impact on a security model and so on associated security measures, granted, but not having secure boot should technically not prevent booting / installation unless it is enforced by an explicit artificial limitation). But they could at least remove legacy boot support, in which case it just won't work without UEFI.
>And, naturally, there is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which a one-party state uses 'telescreens to identify people from their expressions and heart rate – written more than half a century before the NSA’s Prism surveillance programme and China using facial recognition software to track its citizens.

I think this is exaggerating what Orwell had predicted. His telescreens weren't automated detectors but simply two way video like Zoom calls. The only time in the book where surveillance by screen is shown is where Winston is doing exercises and the gym leader criticizes him for not trying hard enough, presumably because she could see him.
I hate the idea of ads just like any other person however how else companies profit without it or creating a paid subscription to remove ads for so
much a month/year? As I see it you pay for the product not the service.
On the Apple TV 2021 4K's remote you can disable the touch and just use the buttons, like I have done. Works a treat.
Also, turning off secure boot doesn't change the boot process on Microsoft's side, they have to ask the firmware after booting if it was disabled.

Sorry for replying twice but I'm almost always stuck on noprocrast so I can't usually edit my comments.
We live in such a boring dystopia. Couldn't we at least have the aesthetics of Ghost in the Shell and not of an Apple commercial?
I suppose they don't want to support legacy hardware. If they let it install, people will complain when something breaks.
Nuclear batteries have their place, but consumer products are not it.

First, you can’t switch them off, so they are either always warm or the are trickle-charging another storage system (batteries, capacitors, whatever) within the device.

Second, the radiation. You can do various things to limit the risk, but the LD50 is something like 0.25 watts of absorbed ionising radiation sustained for 18 minutes, so damage to the batteries (malicious or accidental) would have significantly greater harms than, say, asbestos, CFCs, or domestic carbon monoxide sources.

You absolutely do not want a 10 watt lightbulb powered by built-in atomic batteries anywhere it can get messed with, let alone a 2 kW kettle or a 5 kW oven.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
Earthships are not cheap nor any other rammed earth style building. It's cool stuff but definitely not cheap.
The future is uncertain, that is life. But while a company is privacy focussed, reward that behaviour so they (or their new competitors for when they stop supporting privacy it) know people vote with wallets.
I'm confused. I was in a plane that flew upside-down, and it didn't fall down. Am also a pilot.
The most efficient way to build houses is in bulk by building large buildings with condos/apartments, no one seems to want to hear or accept that though.
I think in any scenario I’d rather refurbish half as often or build half the size and use “better” materials.

Same as buying “good” meat at 2x (better cuts, organic, etc) isn’t a costly extravagance if you simply buy half as much by eating less of it each time or having meat less often.

If there is one thing you immediately notice when you visit the US for example is you often see homes that are of quite shoddy quality but might be 2500sq ft or even 3000. I’d trade 500sq ft for a decent countertop alone…
Can it handle multiple devices of the same account?
The whole internet requires that any connection traverses numerous switches and routers. Unless you're pointing a microwave antenna at the destination to deliver your packets, the distinction here is pointless.
What about the rest of the leaks that didn't involve the items you mentioned? What portion of his leaks were related to legitimate classified info? How many times has he recklessly failed to properly redact? How many lives put at risk? How many blown ops?

Why focus on West?
If I know about it, then yes. Like Amazon putting ads on their Kindle lock screens unless you pay an extra $20.

I bought my Shield as a premium device, not expecting the launcher to change substantially - much less to put ads on the screen.
If this were true, people would use miners to heat houses. Everywhere.

It's secured by a mix of things, including expertise, investment and yes, a large energy component. Far from a new thing.
Because of trade restrictions and embargos.
Very first job, as an intern, I was tasked with building a "free text search engine" for the product, using their api. Maybe my first week or so there, I left a script running over lunch. Turns out the internal IP addresses weren't subject to the rate limiting, and my script's queries were growing exponentially (I was sending the response back to the same endpoint which was querying with the response, and giving me back a larger response etc..) Within 20-30 minutes or so every production machine was stuck running one of my queries. And it happened on the day that the engineering team were taking the new intern out for a team lunch...

At the time I was mortified, but in hindsight the fact that I was able to do that in the first place was really the issue, not my script.
I would second that take. "Affordance" is commonly used to mean at least two different things all the time. I think Don Norman himself recommended against using the word at some point.
As someone in marketing. You are right. Many in the field only understand promotion. And that doesn’t make a good marketer. Sometimes it is intentional sliminess, but often it is just a lack of understanding how everything fits together. It is compounded because every client thinks marketing is advertising and advertising is 1:1. It rarely is, but no one wants to hear it. So agencies lie and say it is to get your business, because if they don’t the client will go to the person that tells them biggest lie most convincingly. No one can promise results. It is impossible to say an ad spend of X will lead to sales of Y unless they have already run a similar campaign with your business or product before. Even then it is merely an educated guess.
Is Google anticipating going bankrupt?
Then sell the product with ads and let people decide if they want to buy it with them or get something else.

Don't sell someone hardware that operates seemingly without ads, then foist them on the user after-the-fact.
Has the US tried to extra judicially murder Assange?
Wrong thread. You probably want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27641366.
The moment someone realizes you are using this, you may be seen as someone fake. Never let it happen.
Transportation Safety of Highly Automated Vehicles: From Design to Deployment [pdf]
Long ago this one (close to 2000), but we were hosting some of our clients on machines in our office because it was (a lot) cheaper for our startup to do so. We had 3 rather large (for our company) clients running at the time in the server room in the office. The servers where hooked up to 2nd hand APCs so power failures went unnoticed if they were short. One Friday afternoon, we had some drinks (tgif) and a bunch of us (I was the cto....) were fooling around in one of the rooms throwing tennis balls; I threw one straight into the firealarm. This was just a glass with a button behind it: if you pressed the glass it would trigger for the entire (20 story) building. This cut the power and switched on the emergency lights. There was no fire obviously, but, for bureaucracy rules, the firebrigade had to pull up, inspect the building, we had to sign docs etc and then they switched off the alarm and on the power. Too late for our APCs: everything was down and (like said: long time ago for Linux etc) we had to run fsck and basically spent a large portion of the evening getting it all back. We moved to xs4all co location after that incident...
The original National Academies' report: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26155

re Mars mission. Gotta use faster travel, more shielding, and lava tube bases on Mars to reduce risks. Even then it's not for the faint-hearted.