skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys discussing a complete bs review from a technically uneducated person which was called “lamer” long time ago. “1920x1080, but looks a little pixelated” seriously can’t you just tell for sure what resolution do you have in OS?
Acer does not sign it’s laptop BIOSes and it is trivial to read it and unlock/unhide all possible options with ready to use GUI applications from BIOS vendors. This is what people doing for decades, and for Thinkpads you will need a flash programmer and hex editor.
So even if there is secure boot lock which i highly doubt, because no relevant detail was present in the review, you can solve it (hack the device that never meant for whatever you want it to do) at least three different ways and the easiest one is not bugging official support, but ask on forums like win-raid and get your instructions and ready to use bios in pm in several days if he absolutely can’t set UEFI himself.
I wonder what happen with snowflake when he learn that his Tesla top speed and range also software blocked.
Seattle and Vancouver (and their surrounding areas) both have quadruple threats for natural disasters: earthquakes connected to a subduction zone, live and dormant volcanoes, tsunamis, and wildfires. But apart from those, they are wonderful places.
my inkling is that the more special forms the more difficult it is to repl a language. if everything is an expression not only can you eval parts of it, but that is enough to support quite a bit of extensibility sans macro.
Sure. They lost money. Right. Uh huh. (Checks /wsb)
According to Chairman Xi speech, Taiwan is next target.
Kind of. They look at China and see a new super power emerging rapidly. Attempting to copy what has worked in china ASAP.
Pacemaker (and other medical devices, insulin pumps, neural stimulators, defibrilators) disabling or safe mode via magnet will not go away, even with more bluetooth-enabled devices. First, a magnet is easily available in any EMT's backpack for exactly that reason, and many households might also have one somewhere. Second, bluetooth control apps are extremely device-specific, so you have to find out which device you want to talk to first, then get the ultra-special, secret, expensive app from the manufacturer. Third, you need to pair your bluetooth pacemaker. How do you do that, you ask? You tap thrice with a magnet to get it into pairing mode... (or something, it depends on the device, but almost always you do something with a magnet).

Disabling is just putting the magnet permanently onto the reed contact, and that won't change because every EMT knows to do that. Other control functions are some tap-pattern.
> Angles (French) and Saxons (Germans)

The Angles are not French nor were the Saxons Germans but both were Germanic, specifically Nordic, coming from what is now Denmark.

There were "French" who ruled Britain called the Normans, from Normandy, which was also settled by Scandinavians and mixed with Franks (Germanics) and Gallo-Roman (post-Romans) (explaining why they spoke French.)
Damn it feels good to live in the EU some days!
So this is ironic. I've been meaning to port URLSearchParams to python for ages but been putting it off for about 8 months as I knew it would take several hours of thinking + testing etc.

After reading this blog article. I just now used this AI https://6b.eleuther.ai/ to do it in about an hour. Without hardly trying.
Well at the end of the day, corporations are feeding individual demands to make profits. If individuals demand more sustainable alternatives, I am sure the corporations will pivot.

People refuse to peel garlic themselves, and you see shelves full of pods of garlic, peeled and packed in plastic that ends up in the oceans eventually. If everyone decided tomorrow to just buy whole garlic that doesn't need packaging, corporations will supply you with that.

It's easy to blame corporations, and no doubt with their shady lobbying practices over decades should be accounted for. But individual responsibility also needs to be acknowledged.
it's something.
> 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?

They look the same, so an honest mob could be the same as a grassroots movement. My personal rule is: if you're joining others to harm someone, it's a mob. If you're joining others to risk yourself for a cause, it's a grassroots movement.

Hong Kong protests looked like grassroots movements, lynching someone, physically or virtually, is a mob. The US Capitol attack was a mob.

I have no idea how to classify flash mobs that just dance, though.
I noticed that you all have a similar feature integrating with truework.

How does that work in comparison?
Having been through the Paradise CA Camp Fire evac in 2018, that sucks.

Climate change has to be tackled seriously ASAP. No half measures. End FFs and meat agriculture; do SRM and oceanic bio CCS. The externality costs of not doing are infinite and and also in terms of the planet and billions of lives.
"explicitly attempting to deny you your 1st Amendment right "

I disagree. It's YouTube that is denying your first amendment right. You have the right to record the officer, but you have no right nor control over what the officer can do. There is absolutely no law against playing a taylor swift song, as distasteful as it may be. He's not stopping the person filming.

There is explicit, and there is reality, and this just doesn't rise to the level of a constitutional violation.
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Yeah, also in principle. But the cleanroom approach isn't technically required for humans either -- it became standard because the legal notion of a derived work is very fuzzy and gradually changing, and lawsuits are expensive and chancy, so you want a process that's provably not infringing. "Yeah I learned some general ideas from this code, but I didn't derive any of my code from theirs" seems to be a logical rats-nest. With the explainable-AI approach to this particular problem, the more intelligent the AI, the more this solution is like analyzing brain scans of your engineers. If your engineers could have produced "derived work" without literal copying, why can't the AI?
Sure, you can have grasses build up, but a couple years of grass growth isn't going to lead to crown fires destroying the entire forest. It'll rip along the ground, kill the weak trees, clear the ground, etc.

Grass fires also don't tend to toss much in the way of firebrands - it's direct flame spread along the ground, and that's a lot easier to block/protect a property from than the flying ember variety of ignition sources. I keep a 15-20' bare dirt firebreak around our property because the hill burns every few years. A grass fire isn't going to cross that, even in the wind. If it does, it's in a few spots that are easy to keep up with - it's not a large flame front.

I do keep the discs on the tractor now, though, all summer unless I'm actively using something else. Much as I hate "start, pin the governor wide open, roll" style startups on the tractor, I'll do it if there's a fire and I can go get ahead of the fire line or extinguish chunks of it.

We also keep a pickup around the hill with a couple hundred gallons of water and a fire pump in the back, for similar reasons. Local fire service is good, but it's better to be able to deter and redirect things on your own - and against burning grass, you can easily do that.
In this case the definition of state that applies is "a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory". In other words, any government generally.
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Its great at answering the How-To-Questions in small snippets. But when it comes to the in depth questions, the Why Questions, you still have to return to university-lectures, although those are hosted on the platform.

Education and Instruction still have the vast time difference in dimension.

And its hard to push yourselves through the desert of ignorance to in depth knowledge-which is why online univerty-courses have such a low completion ratio, compared to the traditional "forced to be there"-lectures and tutorials.
I'm shocked that a speed limit of 130km/h would have that much of an impact. I very rarely see cars operating beyond 130, usually only for occasional passing. Normal speed is closer to 110.
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Can a notebook chassis actually dissipate more than 100W without burning your hands?
It's been a while since I looked at the technology, but the basic premise is very simple. The TPM basically keeps around a stack of hashes. The BIOS pushes a hash of the bootloader onto the stack. The bootloader pushes a hash of the kernel onto the stack. Then there's a handful of ring 0 cpu instructions for pushing and popping all but the bottom-most entries of the stack that allow the kernel to do whatever it wants, including pushing hashes of application code, hashes of passwords (as in your example), or opening up a similar ability to push/pop upper levels of the stack to the application.

The only check the TPM does when deciding whether to allow the key in one of its registers to be used is whether the stack is in a particular configuration. The TPM doesn't (and in fact can't) directly require passwords (since it has no direct line of communication to the user). However, the BIOS, bootloader, kernel, etc... can all be configured to mix user-provided information like a password into the hash they push into the TPM.
If as an expression is something I miss almost everywhere. Trenary has always seemed like an afterthought.
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I'd be interested in seeing somebody work the math, but it doesn't seem unreasonable to keep natural gas on standby for the foreseeable future. If it's the sort of thing that has to run 10% of the year on nights of still wind, it's still a 90% reduction in fossil fuel consumption.

That's not zero, but close enough that we'd start looking at the many, many other sources of CO2 and take the focus off of electricity generation.

I am, of course, spitballing that number. I have no idea of it's 10%, or 25%, or 1%. Whatever it is, grid storage will be able to gradually phase out natural gas, without requiring any especially technological or legal breakthroughs.

Save those for the other sources of CO2 -- farm animals, concrete, eternalized CO2 production due to globalized manufacturing, etc.
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Fair rewording, but the point remains. 5Ghz is faster than 2.4Ghz. That a person can't take advantage of it because of their ISP is irrelevant to that statement.

If the statement were, 'hey, if you want faster internet, use 5Ghz', well then it would only sometimes be true and such analogies apply.

I can see where we're getting off track.

Person A) ISPs are telling people use 5Ghz to get faster internet.

Person B) 5Ghz is faster because 2.4Ghz is noisy.

Person C) Well, 5Ghz is faster regardless of noise.

Person D) Not if your internet is slow.

So, seems we're all answering something else. I'm expanding on B alone, and you on A-C, I think.
Even if it is illegal, lots of sellers on Amazon break the law... and since they co-mingle inventory from different sellers, one bad seller trying to pass off returns as new could contaminate every seller's products.
So... is this Grindr for conservatives?
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> I'm assuming a perfect offender here, who is sitting on a throwaway account, on a burner phone, and behind a VPN or three, all via public WiFi spot.

These are very silly assumptions, IMO.

I've seen an enormous number of trolly comments directed at public figures via long-running Facebook accounts under what appear to be real names. My local legislator gets harassed incessantly by a local business owner I've encountered in person.
> Courts would never in a million years call this a copyright violation. If it was, anyone walking down the street playing music would be violating copyright.

Because purpose is an element of Fair Use analysis, and because fair use is an exception to copyright, and because the purpose differs radically between the two cases, there are a whole lot of other assumptions you need to make for this “if...then...” statement to hold.
Thanks! I’m pretty sure I have the same issue!
I'm surprised an ad-network hasn't risen up offering to promote the ads others won't; tobacco, alcohol, drugs, weight loss, pyramid schemes, you name it. Some might be legally unavailable, but I don't see what's stopping a rogue advertising network from engaging in the practice.
Black and Asian are races. Discrimination based on race violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and is illegal.

Muslims are members of a religion. Discrimination based on religion is illegal, same as above.

In 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that the CRA64 also covered sexual orientation and gender identity, making discrimination based on being homosexual and transgender illegal.

"Opinion, political belief, or political affiliation" is not a protected class, so it is legal to discriminate against people for those reasons. And, in my opinion, it is actually GOOD to discriminate against people for those reasons. It is an expression of ones First Amendment Freedom of Association.
And since governments themselves use it to look for tax and benefits fraud, they are unlikely to to do anything about it.
None of this makes much sense to me...

First, I'm just confused why Acer would even do this. At first I thought they'd be charging extra $ to unlock the BIOS or something, but the review doesn't mention any of that. It's just... locked period? Businesses usually only do things they have a financial incentive for, but I'm not seeing what the incentive is here. Does anyone have any idea?

Second, what is the "support number in the pamphlet that came with the computer" that wasn't Acer? Is it normal for computer manufacturers to provide a third-party support service or something?

Third... why even bother trying to return it to Acer? Probably the #1 reason to buy from Amazon is you can return almost everything to Amazon no-questions-asked for a full refund within 30 days.
Well, to rephrase my idea in declarative form, my concern is that by the time that trend becomes apparent, it may be too late to do anything about it. Developers have more leverage now than when they're no longer needed. Of course there isn't any real call to action being made here so maybe it doesnt matter in that sense. And full remote still does not seem to be what most employers are looking for.
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Thank you for replying with citations and data - very cool way to debate!

So I'm surprised at what these sources say, and I think it may come down to tech center / art unit differences. I worked in a very 'high technology' art unit, where first action allowances were unheard of. A SPE would laugh you out of their office if you proposed a first action allowance. I don't think I ever even heard of one in my art unit. So first action allowances just weren't on the table for us in any meaningful way. But, I suppose it's possible that examiners in some other art unit may look at it that way.

I also disagree with the statement about RCE's. Examiners definitely get (or used to get) a count for a first action after an RCE. That first action is a gimme in terms of difficulty, as the examiner already knows the application well and knows the applicant well. In fact, it seems like from the USPTO's website that they're working to incentivize first action allowances over examiners encouraging continuation practice, likely for this very reason:

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/patent-examiner-co...

The other thing I'll say is that all issued patents aren't the same. A patent with very narrow claims is harmless. So just incentivizing issuance isn't necessarily bad. In fact, most people don't realize it's very easy to get a patent issued, as long as your claim is super long and therefore super narrow. We used to call them 'two-handers' as in, it takes both hands to cover it up on a printed page. Encouraging more of those doesn't really harm anybody (except the applicant).
These are a nice idea, but it's still nowhere near what a desktop PC with standard components offers.

A cheap B450 board will last me a decade at least. Start with a 2700x, upgrade all the way to a 12 core or even 16 core Ryzen 9. No thermal issues.

64+ GB of RAM, plenty of room to play with voltages and clocks everywhere, will actually run Linux without ridiculous issues.

Wifi handled by an external router with dual radios and Openwrt. Add a Li-Ion UPS if I'm going to a place with bad power supply.

I swore off desktops for laptops a decade ago but then they turned to locked down shit. No thanks.
The TV of my childhood took so long to warm up, you'd be standing there for at least 5 seconds wondering if it had turned on at all before seeing something. Usually it was the click of a relay and the hum of a capacitor soaking up a field that was the real clue.
Intuit and Equifax is like a duo of truly horrible companies that I'm definitely not surprised to know are working together. It's like Minus and Cortex except neither has big brains and the whole thing is not a funny joke.
Was making a reference to the common (ridiculous) refrain from right wing media that Black Lives Matter protests burned various cities "to the ground". As in, "they burned Portland to the ground!"
Custom macros are very commonly exported by libraries, but it also has nothing to do with homoiconicity, Rust supports a fairly similar procedural macro model as well as a more higher level pattern matching one and isn't homoiconic.

A macro system that manipulates the syntax tree directly has little to do with homoiconicity.

The real advantage is simply that the syntax is very simple and consistent but there is no need for it to be homoiconic to be that.
signing on to this should be a requirement to stay in the EU
Hmm, we had 55mph imposed due to the 70s oil crisis.

Wonder if we'll see an appetite for re-introducing it. I doubt it though. It's not the 70s anymore. Cars are safer and people are less likely to obey such things nowadays. I mean, most people go over 65 on highways.