skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people think of a lawn as rectangle of grass on a flat surface but most are not. In all but the southern parts of Georgia it's very hilly with most properties flowing down hill to a washout, creek, or pond. There's also a dense tree canopy over most properties older than 20 years which means lots of roots, acorns, pine cones, leaves, and pine needles.

Electric mowers and robots have fragile little blades designed to weight as little as possible because they're running on batteries. They'll be damaged or break entirely if they strike a root or rock.

I had to use a self propelled dual blade mulching power to handle the terrain and so I didn't have to spend an hour or more walking the property gathering all the pine codes and other crap that might stall out a lesser mower.
Now do this without anyone noticing!
It seemed to me that "Docker on Windows" was always unreliable and I got better results just installing ubuntu in a VM.

Seems to me that a value subtracting electron app is not the way to make money just a way to wreck your brand.
50 dollars? Wow. Before Persona 4 Golden came out on Steam, it was a Vita exclusive. I tried to get my hands on a PSTV to play it, and without remembering the exact price, it was hundreds of dollars at the very minimum everywhere.

I ended up playing Persona 4 Vanilla on emulator, then Golden when it came out on Steam.
It's not like you can't use vim ever just because VSCode is your primary editor.
"Do you find your job fulfilling?"

No, but it pays the bills.
Interesting if the artists will suffer psychological damage, as a result of this transformation; me would have gone utterly berzerk upon such a treatment. I very much like the new song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzEY1MfXrQ
I think the court would probably see it as a derivative in this case. If you came up with something without looking at the original code you probably could get away with it. I think the term is 'colorization'. It would probably depend on how the lawyer presented the case. In this case it is basically just a transform of the original thing to do the original thing.

https://chart.copyrightdata.com/Colorization.html
https://www.traverselegal.com/blog/can-derivative-works-be-c...

I think most groups that do this sort of thing understand that. Just depends on the company you are doing it to and how understanding they are of it and how much are they willing to spend to go after it. If you are spending thousands to go after something that may make you 200 bucks off of over the next 20 years you are just spending money on something that is basically worthless to the company. In this case they are probably burning a lot of good will. The mod community for those games is huge and in many ways keep those games interesting for people.
If each item had a unique id. And the stores could indicate unique ids that are stolen. The. Amazon & eBay could monitor and prevent stolen merchandise
> I mean, man I could just eat the red onion without a drop of tear in my eyes. Try doing this in India.

That’s actually to a large degree a soil thing. In US, there are some places where the soil is naturally very low in sulfur, and these places see a lot of onion cultivation, as the resulting produce is much less burning than onion grown elsewhere.
RDP is insanely optimized and there a lot of hard science and math involved in making it work efficiently and effectively for dynamically changing content from steaming media to editing in a terminal and everything in between. However, the technology is constantly updating - if your experience is only with RDP from the days of XP, I can understand your frustration. Also, most third party (non-MSFT) products (servers or clients) don’t implement the full spec and stick to the bare-bones, high-latency, low-throughput v1 protocol which is still RDP thanks to MS dedication to backwards compatibility, and that will absolutely give you a subpar experience as well.
A trillions of years long work week would leave anyone tired!
ASU Research Finds That Humans Can Help Technology Detect Bad Bots
Not if they intend to release remastered versions of their own content, which is likely.
We've learnt from past medical adventures that things in this domain are frequently not as straightforward as many would like them to be, or as they are portrayed to be. The poster child for this for my generation (I'm 57) would be thalidomide, but there are lots of other less catastrophic examples of "proven" medical technology and treatments that turned out to be not quite as safe and side-effect-free as was initially claimed. For some communities too, there are clear cut cases of the medical establishment and/or the state deliberately and knowingly experimenting on people with unstated/hidden agendas.

This makes media handling of some of these claims in comparison to flat-earthers a bit more understandable, whether or not time eventually shows it to be justified or not.
I think CA is an outlier. Super lax enforcement + huge population just puts up big numbers.
Just so we are clear, rolling my own crypto doesnt necessarily involve reinventing SHA256 and AES from scratch.

It just means using these primitives directly rather than farming out and allowing others to select the underlying methods for you.

I use Microsoft's cryptographic implementations, but I don't let them pick the method for me. I don't think this is unreasonable if you have some experience in the space.
Seems like you could use a browser extension that intercepts the same key event to load the editor of your choice?
It’s essential to know the basics of a terminal editor (vim, nano/pico, whatever), but for heavy lifting VSCode has a remote SSH plugin. It’s good enough I often use it for developing on a Linux box from my macOS machine.

There’s also a “code” command that will open a file or directory in VS Code.
Amazon Air Policy Brief (September 2021)
> Is anyone using PTP and its requisite accuracy in production? If so, what's your use-case?

Yes; satellite ground systems, satellite communications, earth observation
Yes, I keep it on my iPad Pro for Kiwix as well. I hardly ever use my phone so I don't usually buy them with enough free memory to hold the 82GB ZIM file.
This has nothing to do with brain power. This was a deliberately backdoored algorithm that any cryptographer familiar with elliptic curve cryptography could've come up with. It wasn't even good or clever, seeing as people saw through it almost immediately. The only thing it had going for it is it was plausibly deniable and that allowed the US government to force people to implement it, since nobody could prove the NSA really had the secret keys.

Stuff like this is, on the contrary, evidence that the NSA can't break modern cryptography. If they could, they wouldn't need to try to push through blatant backdoors like this.

If you want to be safe from the NSA, use well-vetted, simple, auditable cryptography tools. The NSA doesn't break real crypto any more, they just find or make software bugs.

The only "thing the NSA has probably broken" that comes to mind in the modern crypto world is when people realized that you could do a one time mass computation for fixed parameters for n-bit Diffie-Hellman and then use the result to decrypt any communications that that used them, efficiently... which was a bit of a problem when tons of software around the world was using default parameters, often 1024-bit, which is in "the NSA can almost certainly break it" range. I remember when that happened, I went through all my servers and re-generated my own dh parameters for OpenSSL, at 4096 bits. But this wasn't a particularly mind blowing idea, it was more like an "oh shit" moment since everyone knew the NSA had the storage/compute budget to actually carry out this attack. But anyone serious about crypto shouldn't have been using 1024-bit DH anyway; it was just a failure of the ecosystem that nobody had proactively deprecated such small sizes.
Gibson and Stephenson have different styles of writing. The comments throughout this thread are evidence enough. I could see many liking one over the other so I have a hard time taking your recommendation even though I'd like to.
I'm an SRE, so my programs are generally Python scripts < 1K LOC; maybe this isn't scalable, but I write verbose log statements (if it's launched with --verbose, of course). It's not that much effort to change `except OSError as e: log.error(e)` to `except OSError as e: log.error(f"Error accessing {file} - {e}")`

If I know typical causes of errors (forgot to connect to the VPN, etc.), I'll include them in the log message as well as things to check.
There are tests out there measuring the latency of wireless mouse and unless you are buying a dirt cheap one, you are fine. There is no real difference in latency against wired.
How Hauling Buddies Is Solving Transportation Waste
It's the kind of hack that survives a security audit. There is no leaked data or anything, it is just that afterwards the crypto works precisely as the standard intended.
> It's not there, but it's probably too big of a project for one person.

I mean, just take a single subset of functionality like handling multi-touch input. It's probably an hour or two to read through the Pointer Events[1] spec until you get a better idea of why that API was designed the way it was. Now imagine coming up with such a design after at least dozens of hours studying the limitations of prior APIs (but probably more than that). And now, imagine either a) conceiving of and implementing that design (at least dozens of hours, probably way more), or b) cloning that design (still dozens of hours to implement).

Now compare to the minutes it takes to read a tutorial and start using the API in a browser that probably already runs on probably any modern device that has a screen.

That's just one cross-platform API, and probably not in the top ten to implement first.

1: https://w3c.github.io/pointerevents/
Mine was a bit smaller, plugged into a 15 amp circuit. I hated that wimpy thing, but it was all I had.
Yes, if it didn't matter, why would I care that some fonts are crazy expensive.
You don't typically plant St. Augustine that far north, maybe it's just not thriving?
I agree. But I also acknowledge that type of heuristic probably isn't optimal.
They can switch to display the right one when you enter your email address, they already do this. And of course indeed it doesn’t work with methods like sms and emailing codes, both of which are not secure anyway.
Rocket Report 4.14
We use NFS for volume sharing for Docker Desktop on OSX and it's really fast (edit: really fast compared to without it, still not as good as Docker on Linux).

See: https://medium.com/@sean.handley/how-to-set-up-docker-for-ma...
Everything is easy if you assume a panopticon.
All the gas stations near me have been spending all their R&D budget on publishing advertisements. They have loud mini TVs embedded into the pump that you can’t turn off churning out lowest dregs of society crap and ads on full blast while you pump. It’s now a conflict of interest for them to prioritize pump maintenance and upgrades because the faster you finish pumping the less ad money they make.
I don't think you're right. Apple didn't care about CSAM policing, it's just they weren't opposed to it and throwing governments a little bit of what they wanted to make them shut up. They thought this through very thoroughly. I read the whitepapers they put out on it. Clearly this wasn't done overnight by a confederacy of dunces. I think they thought they were picking a middle ground on surveillance and privacy (clearly they weren't as they broke the 4th wall of "this is my damn iphone you're scanning on!") . Anyway, they didn't want to be the police and they aren't going to be doing more to police your device as you are pointing out. They never cared if they caught anyone, just trying to make the US government a bit happier.
Just because I have my responsibilities and you have yours, it doesn't mean we're not on the same side.

I've come to dread cute management phrases like "everyone should pull on the rope". I agree with the sentiment, but software development is not as simple as pulling on a rope. There are lots of moving parts and lots of things to specialize in. And I say this as a generalist dev, not as an ops engineer.

I agree with TFA completely. I was interviewing for a job recently, and one of the questions I would ask when the interviewer signaled it was time for me to ask questions was "how do you handle QA?" On some occasions, this got me weird looks, because "QA" seems to be an antiquated concept.

In a similar vein, my stint at Amazon taught me that one of the questions to ask my interviewers is to tell me about their on-call rotation. Is there any? How often are you on call and for how long? Who gets paged first?

Yeah, we're all on the same side, but there needs to be some structure and order. Otherwise, you end up with something like this:

"Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he's woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it's that he's not alone."

-- from "Good Omens", by Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
> I don’t care even a tiny little bit what everyone else does. I can’t control them nor do I care to try.

This is not a recipe for solid public health policy. Maybe it's fine as an individual life choice, but COVID-19 is a public health condition, not a private one, and requires public health responses, not private ones.
It's probably an old commit
> this is just an Idea They Had well in advance of any technology.

But wouldn't that be against the rules of patenting? I thought you can only patent something that "can be used".

The statue says: "... a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same." 35 U.S. Code § 112

But you can not "use" something that does not work, at least not for the purpose it was intended for. Further if nobody knows how to create a teleportation unit that would work with this described invention then it is not true that "any person skilled in the art" can make it.

Maybe it is true that AMD does not know how to make those teleportation units. But if a person(s) skilled in the art can make them then it doesn't really matter if AMD has them or not. AMD can simply hire such a person or persons to make them.

Of course it is always possible to make a patent-application which has no chance of being granted. But why would a company do such a thing since it then reveals their idea to the competition?

I'm not a lawyer but I think they must have not just some idea, but actually an "implementable" idea.
I‘d simple offer employment if i where in the position to do so. Let them improve the games from within, they surely showed talent and knowledge.
Legal action can have the opposite effect here.
I'm gonna be super impressed if any custom goo outcompetes the incumbent goo with 3+ billion years of wins under its belt.
> I'm always in awe of articles like this one where people describe their workflow with the help of mindmaps, flow charts, class diagrams etc. and where they detail meticilous (self-written) extensions or scripts for categorization, readability etc.

Thanks for your kind words. It took me years to find the almost perfect workflow - at least for me (I still have some ideas how to automate several things even more).

I'm a heavy Emacs user but I thought sharing some diagrams might visualize more the described process. Also for non-techies.
Well I did specifically say the Sonic IP. Maybe things are changing at Sega though. That would be a shame.
> There is no real difference in latency against wired.

I disagree, but that’s not important. What is important is that there’s a huge difference in the standard deviation of latency (i.e. jitter) and that is - to me - unacceptable.
In a Proof of Stake system, money directly, literally translates to power over the network. There is virtually zero risk to mining, and there is zero overhead cost. As such, the centralization of Proof of Stake is inevtiable: coin staked begets coin, which begets more coin.

This is principally no different to Proof of Work in practical terms. More resources gets you more power, and this is inescapable in any structure. More money begets more mining hardware, which begets more coin, which begets more mining hardware.

With PoW there is the element of specialized chipset advantages through R&D. I.e. I will always be disadvantaged because the SHA-256 ASICs available to me will always be subpar to whatever the big players have.

With PoS 1 of my coins carries same vote power as 1 of your coins. You may have the ability to stake more coins, which will reward you more, but our returns (ROI) will always be proportionally equal.
No, it doesn't really say that at all. It says that staff reported to the board that they suspected doctors of diverting pills. In court, prosecutors would have to prove not only that a specific Sackler knew about this, but that they intentionally directed staff to continue supplying opioids to that doctor. The Sackler, in turn, would have an array of defenses, ranging from "I expected staff to stop supplying opioids to that doctor" to "I wasn't involved in that decision but merely present at a meeting where that statistic among many was discussed". The burden in a criminal case is far higher than "preponderance of evidence".
Well, it's a surface so therefore sooner or later it will be plastered with ads and functionality is secondary to eyeballs. So this is more or less by design. Every time you see a surface that does not have advertising on it you have to wonder how long it will remain that way.
There are a ton of local feed and seed stores in at least parts of the southern US (Ala, Tenn) that are thriving.
No, the attackers just re-pinned the backdoor lock cylinder that the NSA put on their "secure" door. That's why nobody noticed. The NSA conveniently left them a door with a backdoor they could hijack in a way that is effectively invisible.

Replacing the whole door would've been like replacing the entire DRBG, which would've much more likely raised alarms.
This happened to my girlfriend's laptop that she uses for school. By the time they released this fix I had already backed up what she needed, wiped the SSD, and installed a clean version of windows 10. After that, we'll both be on windows 10 as long as possible.
I recently switched from KDE to Upstream GNOME because I was tired of long pending bugs(e.g. Dolphin/Baloo going rogue) while new features keep getting added. I was surprised to find how refined GNOME is, everything just works.

I understood that my misconceptions of GNOME was because of how it was integrated in the distros especially inconsistent theming and this letter states why it is so.

I can confidently recommend upstream GNOME confidently to someone migrating from Windows/macOS to Linux for the first time over other DE due this consistency.
The Eclipse Public License is a showstopper for me. :(
> Microsoft doesn't have any competent developers working on the Windows user interfaces

Oh please. Do you really think that MS has nobody with any level of competency on any single team in their entire org? Do you really think that low of others? Could it possibly be that sometimes... things have bugs? Shit breaks in ways you don't expect. Things happen.

Painting an entire group of people you've never met with such a large brush is gross. It's just software and these are just people.
"winning" is subjective, but $10 > $0 is a fact. That's all I'm trying to say here.
The evidence for this happening in economically-meaningful numbers is scarce.

It doesn't take numbers meaningful to California to have a meaningful effect on other states, where housing costs are massively skyrocketing due to an influx of new residents.
I think it's just sad that Apple will now likely be forced to switch to server-side scanning, which they've explained is strictly inferior to their client-side proposal (and which I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28176418). Irrational fears and (some) misinformation (which I won't accude HN of, for the purposes of this discussion, just reddit, Twitter, and the "tech NGOs") will result in worse outcomes for consumers.

This backlash (including these NGOs) also protested the iMessage changes by equating "putting a nudity warning" with "breaking E2E encryption". I'm not a parent yet, but why prevent tech companies from adding this obvious (and desirable to many) feature?

It'll be interesting if they walk back their fears of "non-CSAM hashes being added" when that problem is still present with cloud-scanning. They didn't protest Google, Microsoft, and others using PhotoDNA, which presents identical risks. Will they now still complain about Apple if they propose cloud-scanning? They'd be hypocritical not to, since their current arguments would still apply. But then why haven't they complained when everyone else did it?
Location: Europe (I'm located in Switzerland)

Remote: yes, 100%

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Rust (currently learning)

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGOeH4N4v6MW2iglaDD7g3b-jxx...

Email: dhofstet@gmail.com

Hi, I'm Dan and I'm looking to return to software development after a long break (~10 years), during which I worked as a self-employed investor on the stock market. But in the end, I failed to make it sustainable.

In my previous tech life I did a four year IT apprenticeship (Pascal/Delphi, Java) at an engine research company, worked two years as a software engineer (ASP) at a high-growth web agency, got a B.Eng. in CS (mainly Java), did some freelancing (PHP), was a core-contributor to two open source projects (PHP), and wrote a tech blog.

For my comeback, I have been learning Rust the last few months, hence I'm looking for a job as a Rust developer. I'm also open for opportunities that are unrelated to software development, but where my background could be useful.

Thanks for reading.
No fonts actually include emoji to any significant extent, and definitely not in colour.

Instead, OSes use a font fallback list where other fonts are substituted in for characters that are missing, and each OS provides one font that includes all the emoji as colour bitmaps.
Good! Now expose fully how it works and open it up to bug bounties for people to show how easy it is to insert a backdoor image into the system.
I'm guessing he did, because it does exactly what he's implying it does.
I think you are right that there are good keyboards that would get penalized in this metric. But I'm not sure that it makes sense to try to improve the measurement system -- is is possible that this just isn't a very important measurement.
The 70s 80s and early 90s was the golden age of crime. Short sentences, much more lenient recidivism laws, poor security, a culture that really didn't care that much, no digitsliazation and no tech to easy track stolen goods or id suspects, no smartphones . Multiple types of crimes thrived in that era: bank robbery, drug dealing/distribution, shoplifting, auto theft, and so on. It was pretty bad, even worse than now. The noticeable decline of crime since the 90s according to steven pinker seems to confirm this.