skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's still really understating erlang's advantages though. Erlang is a lot easier to write working, custom concurrent and distributed systems in because of the design of its primitives and runtime. Erlang has a bunch of different advantes all related to controlling disparate pieces of software under one roof, so it's not easy to summarize why I love working with it in one comment.

In general, I think blog posts like this do a pretty bad job of explaining it. At some point I'll publish my take and hopefully it'll reach the front page here.
It’s not fast but I’ve found “algebrite” to be a good CAS for JavaScript that I can break out anytime I need dot products.
I don't think govt will keep their java packages updated either.
My understanding is that they became common during the AIDS epidemic, with people selling their life insurance proceeds early in order to get money for their current living expenses. It's a little disturbing, but it makes sense.
I bought an Acer laptop a while ago, then I found out the support they sold me was through a third party that had terrible customer service and they never upgraded the drivers after shipping, which made the laptop useless a couple of years down the line.

I learnt my lesson though, never by from Acer.
Assuming these use 4 pin SOIC chips, a programmer and chip clip will get you started...back it up with flashrom and see if you can just modify the settings there, sometimes you can with open source tools, other times you need leaked AMI etc tools.

Beyond that, you may be able to find a way to remove the restriction and flash with your programmer, or use the bios from their website, but you have to be careful in case machine specific things like serial, etc are overwritten.
> Police officers are given extraordinary powers by society and yet they can act like spoiled brats (or worse).

I'm not sure the phrase "and yet" is precise; it seems like these are cause-and-effect. This is power corrupting, with the corruption approaching absoluteness as the power does.
Americans pay many fees and taxes that go to environmental concerns. They also see the government does not use that revenue to address those environmental concerns, because instead it goes to state and federal pensions. Therefore, the real issue is, what do Americans have to do to get the government to spend the money on the things they say it is supposed to go to? Until the government is willing to change their spending habits, yes, Americans will be unwilling to contribute more to the national credit card with no limit.
I'm going to take the cynical view that the sarcastic view is nearly always right when applied to Amazon.
Hacker News on Northern Ireland is worse than Hacker News on CSS. Which is saying a lot.
I think at least on some level, you might be right that there's a misunderstanding between the individual-level problem description and the system-level problem description.

I think that's quite insightful.
Everyone is thinking about a "shifted" base 10, yes.

But every base starts with 0, there's no such thing as "shifted base" because then you literally can't represent 0.

Also "zero fingers" is still a thing that exists in this shifted base 10. So it remains base 11.

This is like the classic "0-based indexing" vs. "1-based indexing" dilemma. The "first" thing is represented by 1, we think.

But the "first" year of our life, we're zero years old. The "first" hour after midnight is 0 o'clock. Building your "first" million as a business is the period before you have 1 million. And so on.
Not entirely sure what to make of the ordeal. It seems pretty clear that the author has mental issues that go well beyond the shitstorm that the short story caused.

As I understand it her real identity was never actually part of the conversation, so I don't understand what stood in the way of simply getting off twitter and leaving the pseudonym behind.

It's totally reasonable to point out that the flamewar that was started by the story and revolved around the author is awful. But you don't need to own it, and it isn't new. Fiction around contentious cultural issues has always created controversy and trashing, and Twitter is just about the biggest cesspit there is on the internet.

When the article ties the online behaviour to her suicidal thoughts and her being institutionalized and at the end her having abandoned transitioning, it goes too far because it implies that the former is responsible for the latter. It is not. As harsh as it sounds if an artist puts something out there, it might receive feedback in the crudest, dumbest, and harshest form possible. That is just how it is and you have no control over it.
> He explained that all computer vendors do this to one extent to another, such as Apple with iPhones, and refused to provide me any means to unlock it no matter how technical I am.

I bought a Razer Blade 15 two weeks ago during Amazon sales - once arrived I opened it and upgraded the SSD from 256GBytes to 1TBytes without any issue, and it works really good on Arch...

So, Acer, not all computer vendors are doing this shit.
> You make it so that there's no recognized way to change the private key for a username.

Making it impossible to rotate keys doesn't sound like it follows cryptographic best practices, but in any case, there's nothing stopping someone from selling their private key to someone else.

If you just want to avoid squatting/speculating, you could make the user IDs be random unique values but associate them with a non-unique human-readable name.

> If usernames are easy to come by, then so are sockpuppets and one-off spam and troll accounts.

I haven't used BrightID, but I believe it works by having users meet in person and mutually verify each other as being unique humans. It should be impossible for someone to pretend to be two people in the same place at the same time, so that does seem viable.
This is like asking if one would pay more taxes, where it is unclear how the tax will be used to improve common good.

I bet if you ask people if they are willing to pay $1000 dollars (financed as $40/m in 25 months) to secure a spaceship ticket to escape the failing earth climate (assuming the spaceship already exists), many people will happily pay it.
Do you see any difference with the impaired driving analogy? Or with someone spending 40h/week just walking around calling the cops every time they see some dude do something that looks appears illegal to them? If we don't even agree on those it's going to be too much effort to argue...
As in Gettr done?
The government isn't much better at keeping your data safe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
The trouble is of course that communities form organically, and so they frequently need to be policed organically. And I'm not convinced the line between a "mob" and a "grass roots movement" actually exists.

Just for the purposes of illustration: Were the protests in Egypt a decade ago, or in Hong Kong more recently, "mobs"? Why, and who decides?
you just have to try to understand the difference. the friction is zero in a proper repl, unlike breakpointing and evaling.
> After about 1970

Yes, the moon landings were peak-USA. Never mind that we were mired in "world-building" in Southeast Asia as well.
Former CBOE market maker here. You and the person you're responding to both have valid arguments. The problem is you are choosing only to present the ones that make this situation look good, and he's only insinuating the bad ones.

The fact is that this "spread" you speak of is a much more theoretical concept than Matt Levine understands. There is ample liquidity between the bid-ask in 99.9% of markets, and by selling order flow to someone who will internalize it at the worst legal price possible, they are intentionally failing to fill an order at the best possible price.

RobinHood also features various dark patterns that are designed to remove money from the pockets of their users and put it into their own pockets. Off the top of my head, I can list the following:

(a) Very difficult access to bis-ask spread information across multiple options. This keeps users ignorant of the fact that some options may be better priced than others, and gives market makers more opportunity to make more than a fair market spread on the transaction.

(b) Forced close-outs for reasons that no other legitimate brokerages use. Even worse than being ill-infomed about what to trade is to have all of your agency removed. It's situations like these where the gap between a fair market edge and the edge that market makers take becomes offensive.

(c) Disallowing option exercise before expiration. There are many situations where an option owner should exercise his option prior to expiry. Not only does RobinHood keep its users ignorant of this fact, they actually don't even allow their users to do it. In some circumstances, this can give market makers a massive arbitrage opportunity.

While you are right that one thing that makes RH flow more valuable is the smaller average account money size, this is actually far less of an issue than just the average account financial IQ size. Citadel loves trading with pensions just as much as RH users (i.e. similar financial IQ, but far different sizes). It's just that the type of trading that happens with each is a little different.

Add in the aforementioned reasons for keeping them not only ignorant, but handcuffed, then the more market makers will pay RH for access.
Some years ago I had an acer laptop with a discrete video card that would get so hot it would start having graphical errors. I installed bios updates, made sure the intakes weren't blocked, reinstalled drivers, reformatted the machine, etc etc. I spent days and days trying to solve the issue myself.

I sent it into acer (under warranty!) because i couldn't play any games on it for longer than half an hour. They sent it back to me saying they couldn't find anything wrong with it. The laptop would still crash within 30-45 minutes of playing a game.

Whenever people ask me to recommend computers or computer accessories, I never recommend acer. I've never bought another acer product since and I have never been dissatisfied with that decision.
This was so incredibly annoying that I added this uBlock Origin filter:

github.com##div.release > .body > .border-bottom.py-3.color-border-secondary.flex-items-baseline.d-flex

Also, I unstarred pretty much everything.
This is interesting, the law in France would protect the customer anyway - but I wonder why not simply sending it back to Amazon?
Maybe the officer will have a great YC application answer for the time he hacked a system.

Lots of people here upset with the officer’s tactic, but he didn’t interfere with any right to record. If anyone is at fault it is YouTube for preemptively taking down videos containing copyright that fall within the Fair Use Doctrine…of course that is YouTube’s legal right also, they don’t have to host anything.

If it were my video, and if it were actually important to share online for one reason or another, I would look at it like an opportunity to request a limited license from the copyright holder to post the video…then they would have a great YC application also.
He played it in the normal way you play music, where others can hear it. He isn't responsible for the fact that it is being filmed and shown more widely.

That said, he should be fired for reasons that have nothing to do with copyright. It is an obnoxious attempt to avoid accountability.
Rights holders have automated the DMCA take down process on platforms like YouTube.
Is there some kind of centralized review system for police departments in the US? I try to be cognizant of confirmation bias, but the amount of news I read about this particular force makes me think it's particularly bad even among US forces.

As a Canadian the most prominent in my memory is when the Alameda county sheriff's office outright lied about circumstances involving Masai Ujiri (president of the Toronto Raptors) and one of their deputies at the 2019 NBA Final.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masai_Ujiri#2019_NBA_Finals_in...
I am sorry but, except maybe the latest versions of Fedora, you have to disable secure boot to boot on Linux the first time...

I tried with Ubuntu, Pop-OS, Arch, Manjaro...
All except Fedora require to disable Secure Boot.
They were arrested or anything. So I don't see the problem.
I don't think so. You could go buy $1000 worth of gift cards to give to your family on a business credit card versus legitimate business expenses. The receipt shows what you bought, a credit card statement only shows the amount.
I have purchased some ACER laptops for a charity and a customer I support.

I used to consider ACER to be one of the good guys and more open source/Linux friendly.

I will NEVER trust them again!!!!
30 Rock was ahead of the curve on this one!

Some of the episode Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning[1] has the central characters singing an argument to each other to the tune of 'Uptown Girl' by Billy Joel, to stop a reality tv show that's following them from being able to air the footage, due to the copyright burden it would cause on them.

Of course reality is far more tragic.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Righteous_Cowboy_Lig...
A simple way to feel happier, according to the new science of emotion
Opt-out approach - polite way of saying "What we are going to be doing is most likely WILDLY unpopular, so rather than risk our potential pool of sucke-customers, we want are going to assume you want in, unless you explicitly tell us no."
Compact dict which preserves insertion order are now the default implementation of dicts in python 3.7. They gave a talk about it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
So, the ability to boot Linux with Secure Boot is entirely dependent on some third party being willing to sign the bootloader? No thanks
Name one hundred of the men who laid the concrete for the sidewalks of streets near where you are. Bet you can't. Does this matter? Probably not. But those men did the job, got paid and you're still enjoying the result. A lot of those guys likely had more children and had better community links. They will be remembered in many ways. But not by you.

Did they change the world enough for you to notice and know their names? no. Were they mediocre? No.

Family and friends are actually the only relationships that really matter, everything else is a little less. Still important but not as much.
And the alpha_3 for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is GBR.

The Western European Archipelago is a complex place.
He was playing it for himself, and those in his immediate surrounding, and there's almost no chance that's going to be considered some kind of violation.

He's not making a public production or broadcasting either - the person doing the filming is doing that.
What is BD in this context?
how is this not illegal ?
It's a random Amazon customer. This is HN. You and I know that GNU/Linux distros can pass Secure Boot just fine, but someone else may not know, or it may simply be more convenient for them to disable Secure Boot prior to installation.

The Amazon customer was evidently confident enough to flip BIOS settings (or attempt to) but may have not known how to get Secure Boot working properly.
But investors keep their money in honding companies and trusts, sometimes registered in panama. The billions never actually have a physical person as their official owner
Spleeter [1] does a really good job of it. It can separate out the vocals, accompaniment, drums, bass, and piano. It does a really phenomenal job at it, though there can be a bit of reverb in the vocals if there's a lot of reverb in the base. Splitting out individual vocalists is a lot harder, and I haven't found any pre-trained models that manage it. There's a lot of speaker separation [2] models, but they are trained on separate sentences overlapping.

[1] https://github.com/deezer/spleeter/releases
[2] https://paperswithcode.com/task/speaker-separation
> In February 2019, the center-right American Action Forum, estimated that the plan could cost between $51–$93 trillion over the next decade [0]

Take the low estimate of $51 trillion over a decade so $5 trillion per year.

> The top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $34.2 trillion, according to Federal Reserve data last updated Oct. 19, 2020

So if you seize all the wealth of the top 1% you'll pay for ~7 years of something that no one claims will actually solve climate change.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

[1] https://windfalldata.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-be-in-the-top...
Yes, that’s my understanding too. GAMs have structural limitations that harm flexibility and help interpretability.

One benefit of Bayesian models that they work with relatively little data - and generally provide greater uncertainty in those cases. Do you happen to know of some DL frameworks that behave similarly? I’m eager to learn.
> Why do people keep repeating this FUD? Linux plus UEFI Secure Boot works fine as long as you use the signed version of GRUB. It’s not hard.

Very ridiculous. You have to get someone else to sign it for you, don't you?
I'm not defending the actions of Trump voters or trying to paint them as martyrs. This is more a issue with principle and long term precedent. back after 9/11 Republicans were largely in favor of the patriot act because they thought it would only be used against those Muslims they didn't care for. Fifteen years later those same counter terrorism spying laws were used to spy on and undermine the Republican presidential candidate. That's irony. Decades from now when the political winds change again what do you think will happen the next Bernie Sanders type candidates get close to winning elections? Don't be surprised if all the tech companies use AI to throttle any online communication that is supportive and magnify anything negative of the populist candidate.
Before we all grab our pitchforks, maybe we should take a moment and realize that this is a single review on Amazon that's lacking in important details. The headline here reads "Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon", but the review mentions that they're able to get into the BIOS. They're only unable to change the boot order, which is a lot different from "disables BIOS". Furthermore, I don't entirely understand why the reviewer tried to get a refund from Acer when they purchased it from Amazon. I bet there's a non-nefarious explanation for the disabled setting that the reviewer saw. Sadly with a $1,530 cost, I don't expect anyone here to buy the laptop just for research purposes!
Don't conlfate UEFI and Secure Boot.
Is a minimum corporate tax “a wildly unpopular policy decision”? I worked on international inversions in the early 2010s and they fell out of favor pretty quickly but I don’t think it was the end of the world. No one needed to do an inversion in order to keep the business afloat, it was purely a play to pad the bottom line. A nice to have but not a must have.
> Isn't that public performance and doesn't that require the police dept to pay royalties?

Yes, but under current law, states can ignore the royalty requirement with impunity: "[C]opyright owners suffering infringement by state entities cannot seek the remedies provided by the Copyright Act." [0]

Police departments are almost certain to be held to be state entities, I'd think, and therefore immune from individual personal liability for copyright infringement liability.

And the doctrine of "qualified immunity" might shield the police officer from personal liability for infringement as well.

But I haven't looked into this specific issue.

(Usual disclaimer: I'm an IP lawyer but not your lawyer.)

[0] https://www.copyright.gov/policy/state-sovereign-immunity/
Can you link these marketplaces?
Here have an upvote, because that was funny and you're new enough not to know being funny will get you downvotes.
No it's not.

Nobody is going to be charged for playing a song on their phone in public.

That's just not going to happen.
Not to be pedantic, but isn't that true of almost any place if you go back far enough? There's a reason those with 'British' ancestry are called Anglo-Saxons; The Angles (French) and Saxons (Germans) that conquered and occupied the land of the Celts eventually become the de facto inhabitants. Of course the Celts themselves didn't evolve there, but also dominated pre-Celtic peoples.
Those services will not be able to afford the lawsuits. That's the point. New services will be one of two things:

1) Pirate media in open and flagrant violation of the legal requirement to ensure the legality and veracity of all user content. In which case the government will shut it down or admit non-enforcement of the bogus law.

2) Or they are soon-to-be-former media sued into oblivion because someone lied on their service in a manner which the service is liable for. The service either vets the statements or pays the damages.

This is before we consider the implications of a hostile actor using this mechanism to tank businesses. Write bots to spread misinformation, lies and slander. What are you going to do, sue some unknown operator ten thousand miles away? Good luck. The service will pay damages for it and they'll keep paying until they restrict free speech sufficiently.
>You seem to be implying that 45% of the country's voting population who have the free choice to choose whatever political party they want is currently being treated the same as the 12% of the population that is African American (who are not free to choose the color of their skin) during Jim Crow.

So, essentially you're telling people they should stop thinking the way they do and think the way you want them to?

Would you apply this to trans people as well? I'm trying to figure out where your line is. Basically if it's an external physical attribute then discrimination is bad but if it's mental then discrimination is fine and dandy? Does this apply to homosexuality, religion, cultural attitudes etc?
I can understand (in a very vague, general sense) why spare parts might be relatively expensive – it's probably fairly expensive to make, store, and maintain a distribution network for the parts, i.e. the price isn't just for the price of the part, but the entire system (e.g. customer support) to send it to a customer in response to their request. I'm _sure_ there's also an 'original manufacturer' premium too, and maybe that _is_ in fact most of the difference compared to 'unbranded compatible' parts.
Excellent, looking forward to it! Right now I run GrafanaAgent separately which isn't too much headache and it works great feeding grafana cloud (especially paired with the Loki docker log driver).
> You may hate the cops, but do you really think that mobs will be more accountable than the police?

To the currently politically powerful who disproportionately control what is done by government, no.

To people on the other side of that power imbalance? Well, who do you think the mobs are, and why do they use that mechanism instead of the formal political system to attempt to impose accountability?

Obviously, not a desirable durable state of affairs, the desirable condition is to resolve the power imbalance in the formal systems. But if you can't convince those who control those systems that the systems they control will be forcibly rendered irrelevant if the imbalance in them persists, that is unlikely.