skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with Richard Stallman on this one, even if the machine isn't quite free of binary blob (management engine if applicable, wifi drivers).

How much longer? Will Windows 11 finally choke off the supply of perfectly good, cheap, secondhand Linux capable hardware (by no longer requiring an unlockable bootloader)?
I had a habit of touching the strip of metal above the keys on my old macbook air, since that heats up before the fan becomes audible.

The sensible approach, of course, is to add a load monitor to the menu bar; now with my new m1 macbook, I can simply make the appropriate noises myself, as necessary. This is the UNIX way.
This has already been a thing for Macs as well for many, many years. If you boot into recovery mode, there is a menu option to add a Firmware Password. You cannot access recovery mode or enter the boot selection menu without providing that password, which means a thief cannot reinstall any operating system or boot from a Linux thumb drive.

When you add a Firmware Password to a Mac, you get a long recovery code as a fallback safety in case you lose/forget the password. Apple, if provided with proof of purchase for the serial number being inquired about, can create a bootable USB stick with a certificate generated using public/private key crypto for which Apple holds the private keys.

I suspect much of this newer functionality acts as a replacement for the Firmware Password, giving more options and making it a bit more well-known.
It would be workable to designate these social platforms as public spaces, removing liability for speech entirely off of the proprietors and onto the courts if we also implemented mandatory licensing for use of these networks.

You can’t drive without a license and identification. It’s not dystopian to suggest that, as a society, we’re at a point where we need to insist on public places on the Internet and personal accountability for speech.

We can’t abdicate our responsibility to regulate this space to tech companies and pretend that billions of people interacting is somehow magically beyond the point of governments.
>The lead Telegram dev is a 3x International Math Olympiad gold medalist

The lead dev

* doesn't have ANY qualifications as a cryptographer (he got his position through nothing other than nepotism) and thus

* thought AES-IGE was best practice

* used SHA-1 10 years after SHA256 was published

* didn't understand the importance of DH parameter pinning

* left in a 64-bit pre-computation MITM attack vector

* initially implemented crappy QR-code like fingerprint for secret chats without understanding the need for hex-decimals that could be compared over authenticated channels

* couldn't implement IND-CCA secure protocol

* didn't prevent these FOUR new vulnerabilities

But most importantly:

* doesn't have the know-how on how to implement E2EE for groups

* doesn't have the know-how on how to implement E2EE for 1:1 on Win/Linux desktop clients

* doesn't understand E2EE needs to be enabled by default

They are literally just winging it. Their Russian Pride would take too large a hit from publishing a CVE wrt the most recent issues, thus they downplayed the issues and wiggled out to maintain the prestigious image in front of the cult that is their users.
I’m not disputing what Myanmar did. I’m saying that let’s say Apple didn’t comply:

1. Within minutes, every iPhone is disabled from accessing the state owned cellular systems.

2. Any employees or executives in Myanmar risk arrest and, possibly, torture or death for allowing free speech and disobeying the government.

3. The average Myanmar citizen gets free speech for an hour or so, then gets informed they must buy a new phone, possibly made by a state owned enterprise, that is much more invasive to their privacy.

So what, exactly, did making a stand accomplish? Absolutely nothing, and everyone is worse off.
Even a quantum computer?
My name is also Spencer and have been diagnosed the same . This is a great niche app. Any app I've used for todo lists couldn't get this right so I'm glad to see it. The one feedback is a configurable task max limit. My time is very valuable so I have to limit what todo to the most valuable tasks.
> So those “public” are known vulnerabilities

Yep, and there’s way too many of them. I forgot the most frequently used ones — shell extensions. Every time you embed a shell by calling GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName/ShBrowseForFolder/etc. you’re loading not just shell32.dll but also a bunch of third-party DLLs who adding their custom context menu entries, or rendering preview thumbnails for their file types, or similar. Technically, every such DLL can do whatever it pleases with your process, with both code and data.

> the signed/checksumed dlls where typically vender dlls or our custom dlls that touched business logic and had to be resistant to injection.

That’s better than nothing, but too many ways to workaround, still. I’m afraid the level of security you want is impossible for consumer-targeted software. Only possible sometimes in enterprise environments, where you can use legal/political methods to solve most of these issues: deny end users from being administrators of the computers they’re using, use group policies to restrict which software they may install, use other group policies to configure Windows security to be way more annoying but slightly more secure, stuff like that.
> We are drawn to sensational, scandalous stories for some combination of entertainment and self-righteous outrage/virtue signaling to the others in our tribe.

While I agree, I think there's more to it than that, I think it's more serious than that, and I think the message amplification capabilities afforded to profit-driven (or ideologically driven) bad actors is something we've not really seen before. Certainly not at this scale.

So while it is human nature, that's not to say the outcomes are desirable, nor that the marketplace of ideas concept is consistent with reality. In fact I think it might be the point, much like the perfect economic market, the concept of the well-functioning marketplace of ideas cannot exist, because of the humans that make it up.
> The worst that can happen to me from censorship being imposed is that I will not be allowed to say certain things online or challenge those in power, or possibly that I will be excluded from these social networks entirely because the people in power do not like what I said -- which is certainly bad, but not quite as bad as being dead.

In the censored system, people in power can kill you, censor any talk about it, and no one will ever know.
You need to get the general populace on board. It requires a cultural revolution to culminate in political upheaval, or nothing will stop companies from externalizing costs by buying corrupt politicians.
This is funny. For the last ten years I've used Mac laptops as my primary machine. Of course the fan noise was a great auditory clue to tell me to check out Activity Monitor/top for rogue processes and help me optimize which tasks took too many resources.

I didn't realize how much I relied on that cue until I temporarily switched to a Mac desktop machine during the pandemic when I didn't need to travel. The desktop fans pretty much stay at 1200rpm all the time. I think I've seen them spike once. I'd forgotten how much better desktops can be for some things.

Now I'm looking for a better remote access solution so I can consider sticking with a desktop at home and then maybe just an iPad for travel with good remote access and file sync.
So they steamrolled a bunch of cases, power supplies, and RAM? Kind of ironic.
How in the world does it handle C++? With macros and all that being in C++, surely it's relying on some heuristics? (Which is fine; it's still an improvement. Just wondering if it's really working semantically.)

Also, one nice thing about diff is that it also gives you a patch that will turn the input into the output. Can this do that?
Anecdotally, the M1 feels very performant with 8gb (I have MBP and Mini 8gb variants) compared to my 16gb Intel MBP and my 32gb Hackintosh.

That said - it’s not magic. 30 tabs in Chrome is a lot if you’re not using a tab suspender extension. But one thing I do notice is that when a Rosetta 2 app is running, the entire machine seems to take a hit. I would check the architecture of your apps and see if you have any x86 apps running.
It could be useful if it was modified to become a great merge tool. I've been using kdiff3 as my git mergetool and its always splits my code up at the worst spots because it does not understand python.
Same here, it’s like a freaky experience. I run mostly from the browser but have a couple of things going at the same time. One thing I noticed is the blazing fast typing on the Mac. There is an ever so small lag on windows in perceptible when using it. But, when you type on the Mac you notice it, and the brain just feels good using it. I have no idea if this is a real thing, but it’s similar with scrolling, you touch the track pad and things move. Independent of the load I’m running. Now, that many applications are moving to M1 compatible I’m thinking of replace my windows box with a mini+two external hard drives. I can’t imagine what will happen when they release a new processor. This one does more than enough.
Sea walls might just make floods someone else’s problem, study suggests
It’s really annoying this isn’t software defined for future proofing. As long as your RF hardware is robust onboard, the rest can be done in software.
…and yes I think that challenging one’s suppositions ought to be the first task of any aspiring philosopher. Isn’t that the whole idea?
This is useful! Every so often Docker acts up or a Youtube video hidden in a tab somewhere or some silly mistake opens tons of Postgres connections on my M1. Previously the only cue was hitting the critically low power (10%?) at 6 hours instead of 12. Now there's this app. Thank you!
That may well be a big factor, and that's something that needs to be looked at more closely. Lots of people describe being drawn down the rabbithole by algorithmically driven suggestions which nudge them ever more extreme.
Me too. And this was in 1972.
Looks similar to https://github.com/github/semantic
> 99% of mask usage was wasteful and pointless safety theater, like wearing them outdoors.

False. Wearing masks is a very simple, safe way to reduce spreading your infection to others [1].

Please stop spreading misinformation.

1. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...
I miss playing with D. It looks like you've done a lot of neat stuff recently, but I just don't have a project that I can use it for. I remember being thoroughly impressed with its metaprogramming capabilities in college when I was working on dproto.
jean luc doesn't like the borg.
Yes.

> We are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff

> https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...

Psaki also discussed how they're building blacklists of people so that if you get banned on one platform, you also get banned on all of the other platforms.
That one (like most such tools) doesn't handle C++.
i stick the OS's equivalent of `bell` at the end of long-running scripts :)
Most natural gas space heating involves a blower fan of 500W or more.

We don’t know exactly how much leaks, but the estimates have been growing and most sources cite 2-4%. Given the 80x multiplier on methane as a GHG compared to CO2, that’s potentially a really big problem.

One of the reasons to be aggressive here is that building codes are upstream. You won’t see the impacts on the market (reduced gas consumption, strong demand for induction stoves & electric space heating) until many years after this change, and it’s precisely those shifts in demand we need to drive further advancement in electric stoves and heating to make them even better quickly.
Does it have an option permanently to scramble the video a month after the warranty runs out?
Debian 11.0 “Bullseye” Is Close to Release – Now Under a Full Freeze
I don’t understand why normal community police are armed at all. There’s absolutely no need for it.
> You forgot to read the sentence before that

Oh, yes, I did, sorry! I thought this was found in production code.

I do support them publishing this and like I said: The code is audited to find exactly these kinds of errors, so I am not at all trying to shame them here. Their process worked, they found and fixed the vulnerabilities.

OTOH, not having a proper CSP preventing inline JS, the innerHTML usages and that XSS together does not go too well with the overall extremely positive sound of the headlines. All those three are in the 101 of secure web app development.

Aaand, with the numbers of users they have, tons of them will right click and open in a new tab every hour. Its also easily exploitable: send an image with very small text. However, being in a different tab i am unsure how much info you would be able to steal, but sessions/tokens would be possible I guess.
Were you in the academia, you'd know Telegram should've hired a cryptographer when they started, almost a decade ago. They have never done that, because to them pride is more important than doing things right. You, an academic, spending your Sunday defending some random messaging app company online a, and doing it for free, is almost as stupid as the parent company's decisions to favor grass-roots damage control over secure-by-default design.
That would satisfy Chinese restaurants, though I wonder if other restaurants would also ask for exceptions, if for no other reason because they don't want to put in expensive new equipment. Are there other types of cuisine that strongly benefit from gas?
maybe this reporter at the nyt can talk to the one who doxxed a blogger/journalist ruining his employment
> I guess everyone else's reading-file-line-by-line loops in python are the epitome of creativity

I would certainly hope not, since there is barely any code to write:

for line in my_file: ...

For even more convenience in common cases, there is the fileinput module[1] in the standard library.

I can see how a boilerplate-generating AI could be helpful in a more boilerplate-heavy language like Java, but a better solution is to use a language that better suits your usecase and lets you express it without the boilerplate.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/fileinput.html
On the upside, three states so far have abolished qualified immunity (New Mexico joined the list earlier this year). The first was Colorado in 2020. So there's hope this may spread to other states in the coming years.
> factually incorrect, scientifically illiterate, conspiratorial, harmful crank ideas

There are indeed some factual mistakes floating around, mostly around covid-is-just-a-flu and the-earth-is-flat discussions.

But usually shit hits the fan in social issues of poverty, homelessness, abortion rights and such.

Alas, there's no hard science in most of these issues. There is a bunch of plausible-looking speculations, philosophical theses and general thoughts. Pretty much like 17-th century physics, in 18-th century biology or 19-th century medicine were.

As for the ideas being harmful... What do we do with potentially harmful, yet factually correct statements, and does the same logic apply to beneficial, but factually wrong ones?
Mormonism’s Sci-Fi Swan Song
And that appears to be the first case on US soil where a robot was actually used to kill.
What would have been a better vaccine acquisition strategy? Do you honestly think we could have built a brand new facility to manufacture something like mRNA vaccines, gotten licensing to do so, etc. in time? Because to me it looks like we did a considerably better job than Australia, a better job than New Zealand, France, Japan, etc. We placed bets on multiple vaccines, not just Moderna and Pfizer. We bought doses of the J&J, Astra Zeneca, Novavax, Medicago, GlaxoKlineSmith too.

And Section 6 of the charter says:

"Every citizen of Canada and every person who has the status of a permanent resident of Canada has the right

a) to move to and take up residence in any province; and

b) to pursue the gaining of a livelihood in any province."

Even at the most locked down you could still move to one of the Atlantic provinces if you were taking up residence/starting a job there.

The limitations were IMO reasonable and a big part of the reason the Atlantic provinces did so much better at controlling spread was because they limited travelers.
>>>There's some Mechwarrior 2 talent over there as well.

MW2 had such an outstanding soundtrack...
> with the intention that it's only 1/nth of a deployment, and even then, only deployed for enough time to collect instrumentation

You can't unleak secrets.
Success for self-driving shuttles in Cambridge trial
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Copying someone's comment on WSJ:

"Cooking with nat gas is ~ 3% of gas use which is about 0.001% of US fossil fuel use which is about 0.001% of global fossil fuel emissions. Banning gas cooking is farcical virtue signaling if you truly want to decrease CO2 emissions."
You can access PM on a computer from either a) web UI b) bridge
The issue isn't that woks aren't compatible with induction stoves. I have a flat-bottomed wok that works with induction, but only the bottom heats up. I don't know how you would create an adaptor that would sit on the stove and somehow pull the heat up to the sides of the wok for even cooking.
Is Antarctica a country? The future of the least understood continent
There is a way to circumvent censorship. Read your news using RSS feeds.

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> what does it mean to not “allow” a law?

Voting against any politicians who contribute to its passing, even if they're from your preferred political party.
This, or a tiktok clip of a farting puppy, its hard to tell.
The tax should be simply applied to the carbon content of the fuel.

Use the revenue to subsidize green projects.
I'll never give up gas utilities in my home: cooker, heating system, boiler. These are negligible when it comes to the environment. Maybe go after the actual culprits that cause global warming than wasting time/money/effort on this nonsense.
What's the object-oriented interface? I've only ever used pyplot l.
The beta does, I was under the impression Microsoft was still saying the final release won’t?
I confirm. Embedded nodes each take a few hundreds of megabyte. It looked cool when we had 2 electron apps out there, now with so many of them good by ram.not mentioning apps developed in a few months rather than years, packed with features to become more memory hungry than the OS. MS Team is a particular offender.
How old is your phone? Your computer? Your car? Have you updated them in the last 5 years? Do you play video games? On anything newer than a PS3/Xbox One? Or are you a true environmentalist still gaming on a SNES? Watch films? Ever take a drive to clear your mind? Ever drive somewhere you could have theoretically walked, or taken public transit? Do you buy all your books pre-owned? Ever purchase the "collectors edition" of something with some included trinkets/posters/box set?

Who are you to say that my mild inconveniences are more mild than yours?
My very old rooted huawei maimang 5 somehow manages to even get VoLTE roaming without problems, and it automatically got VoLTE settings on every network I tried.

I still have to see how my new Xiaomi will fare.
A bit of a tangent but I am quite impressed how Apple's marketing campaign was so effective that they've managed to redefine what PC (personal computer) means
How would one detect compromised devices?
Geocaching While Black – I geocache. I'm black. Let's see how they mix
Hmm. I’ve never ran into that myself and I’ve used a lot of swap on my 8gb M1 Air, so you may be running into another issue, but one thing I have noticed is that performance is far better with native Apple apps. I switched to using Slack in the browser and Safari as my main browser and battery life and performance have been amazing.
The people on the right side of history in WWII locked up their own citizens based on their ethnic heritage.
My wife and I used to get prints of all of our photos when we first started dating. Then we switched to digital, a lot of which has been lost on old hard drives. When we got married we had a really hard time finding photos of us as a couple because most had been lost.

Now that we have kids we back up our photos in multiple places, but we also make sure to print out the ones we really like, just in case. The really good ones we print on canvas and hang on the walls.

But it's true, most of records would be lost if there were a global cataclysm that took out all digital records. That being said, I'm pretty sure our mortgage is only digital so at least we would own our house free and clear!
In his world they are - they could reflect on the fact that they do not have Morbus Huntington and the fact that they fail do to so and be happy, that's on them. It's the Just World theory, the secular version of the heresy of Predestination. (The heresy bit, that's actually serious, the poster speaks false dogmata.) Now pass a bucket, I'm going to throw up because of the unctuous self-righteousness.
We need to work on changing the laws so that “they couldn’t care less” is no longer relevant. Internet access is a human right. Housing without internet access should be viewed similarly to housing without electricity or indoor plumbing.
This is an idiosyncratic reading that is at odds with Iain M. Banks' own description of the relation between humans and AI in the Culture:

It is, of course, entirely possible that real AIs will refuse to have anything to do with their human creators (or rather, perhaps, the human creators of their non-human creators), but assuming that they do - and the design of their software may be amenable to optimization in this regard - I would argue that it is quite possible they would agree to help further the aims of their source civilisation (a contention we'll return to shortly). At this point, regardless of whatever alterations humanity might impose on itself through genetic manipulation, humanity would no longer be a one-sentience-type species. The future of our species would affect, be affected by and coexist with the future of the AI life-forms we create.

The Culture reached this phase at around the same time as it began to inhabit space. Its AIs cooperate with the humans of the civilisation; at first the struggle is simply to survive and thrive in space; later - when the technology required to do so has become mundane - the task becomes less physical, more metaphysical, and the aims of civilisation moral rather than material.

Briefly, nothing and nobody in the Culture is exploited. It is essentially an automated civilisation in its manufacturing processes, with human labour restricted to something indistinguishable from play, or a hobby.

No machine is exploited, either; the idea here being that any job can be automated in such a way as to ensure that it can be done by a machine well below the level of potential consciousness; what to us would be a stunningly sophisticated computer running a factory (for example) would be looked on by the Culture's AIs as a glorified calculator, and no more exploited than an insect is exploited when it pollinates a fruit tree a human later eats a fruit from.

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
If you have something that produces ~300 W of heat and you want to keep it from becoming hot, you're going to need either fans or liquid cooling (which also has fans, on the radiator).
And me thinking .NET did it first with Rx.
> in democracies citizens are potential voters, foreigners don't matter

Not long ago, what determined whether you "mattered" or not was your religion and belief. We now replaced it with a state issued piece of paper and convinced ourselves that this is progress.
Can you give me a feeling for wat ethical buyers would be.
I'd assume bug bounties and ZDI and similar. What else?