skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet the commoditization of computers he brought forth was a genuine gift to the people that opened a lot of doors for many. He has positively influenced the lives of many.
I find any VPN company that pays influencers to talk about privacy, security and stolen credit cards suspicious from the get go. Especially when they do it on prevalent tech channels. And especially when they talk about the stolen credit cards. Selling people a false sense of security is something I dislike from the get go. They could list the potential uses without having to resort to that.

I know that it’s just my paranoia but I tend to assume any Internet service I don’t have a direct control of is logging things and will give up those logs when asked. (We’ve already seen plenty of that). I’d feel less safe tunneling over some company’s network than not doing it at all.

With that the use case I have for them is very limited. I prefer to route through my home network instead. That being said my ISP is not hostile to its users so I understand people who have one that is.

I mostly just use Pi-Hole to drop bad traffic, Quad9’s filtered endpoint over DNSCrypt and Ubiquiti’s built in threat defense and honeypot and AdGuard on the client side for some basic security and privacy and employ some common sense when browsing the internet.
“I need guns because my grandpa once used his to kill some stray dogs”.

Surely this is a parody example?
Agreed - I don't mind Spring but just blindly copy+pasting a bunch of annotations to make things work doesn't feel good.
Even worse: it is easy to be genuine and wrong. The world is full of people who are genuine and wrong.

The position of magistrate is time-honored and cross-cultural for a reason. It’s not good enough to just make up rules and assume they solve the problem.
I wouldn’t go that far. It is better than the new windows 10 settings for sure but count how many clicks it takes to get to the menu to change the IP of the machine, with non resizable windows, text that is non selectable/copyable, etc. I don’t care for the old battleship-grey look, but lots of the old parts are very clunky.

Including important features that are not accessible in UI. Like all scheduled tasks run as low priority, no UI to change that.
Hang on. You came in with:

> It's usually the opposite sentiment for gun owners- I trust my fellow citizens with arms.

And now:

> Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to each others? Or the barbarism of human history?

Those positions aren't precisely orthogonal, but they certainly have some conflicting sentiment behind them.

As to owning a handgun for private use for:

> Any living threat, which could be a much much larger attacker or mob of attackers.

... from a naive perspective (I've never been in that situation, thankfully) it feels like any advantage I may have, via agility, negotiation, ability to out-run, etc, would be negated if everyone involved had a handgun. Certainly if everyone in that scenario is armed, there's no clear advantage to me to be armed.

(I concur that if the other party(ies) were not armed, and I was, then that's advantageous to me. And if they were armed, and I was not, well that's also very bad for me. But that's not the likely scenario in a heavily gun-equipped scenario.)

Anyway, I'm sure you've gone through all this before, with many people smarter / more informed than me.

Precisely why many Americans are convinced gun ownership is an answer to something, despite all the statistical evidence, I'm just not likely to ever understand. Thank you for your patience with my questions.
Given smartphone is a primary and mostly only computer for most people, I'd say - majority of population.
It is foolish to choose a name that Google prefers to direct people to 143,000 unrelated other pages.
> I got in a painfully stupid argument with a middle-age IT admin “we don’t want to our employees installing apps”

If they think that any domain that ends in .app is for installing apps, their mind is gonna be blown about some of the sites on .net and .org domains...
> Have you ever read about the terrible things people do to each other? Or the barbarism of human history?

Nearly all perpetrated by the armed against the unarmed. The lesson of "might makes right" is to be suspicious of might before it makes right.
How should I make sense of the fact that I saw several Black Americans jogging this week. Are they scofflaws and rebels?
A contest to demonstrate how to link your accounts and content
This entire thread is infested with alt-right crypto-fascist nut jobs. Much like the entire orange site is actually.

Jesus, what a dumpster fire. Nobody sane comes here anymore. It's Slashdot, but for crypto-fascists.
When the biometrics on the client client send the credential for the server for authentication, it's going to be serialized somehow. This is the part I'm worried about. I'm not so worried about someone lifting my print off a wine glass. Somehow a print (or iris or face or whatever) is encoded into bits and bytes. And that's going to be handled by every service I want to authenticate with? I don't trust them. Passwords leak all the time from leaky databases. Why wouldn't my fingerprints? The only difference is... I can't change my prints.
This reminds me of my first year of high school in Australia. I had come from the USA and everyone wanted to hear my war stories about people shooting each other (and for me to say 'Watermelon' over and over). It completely blew my mind how misinformed Aussies (granted we were young) were about life in America. It's a huge country, you gotta keep in mind the news and action movies sensationalize and glorify isolated violent events.
Make sure to turn off the tracking and sending built in to windows if you're concerned.

https://www.wired.com/story/windows-10-privacy-settings/
Imagine feeling like you need to contact the FBI because somebody reported your comment on a social network. This is what happens when fragile millenials who got bullied on XBox Live grow up and start trying to participate in adult conversations online.
A child always turns into the parent they resent =P
There are several under

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ZX81+Manual

But I'd recommend this instead

[2] https://www.timexsinclair.com/product/zx-forth/

for the real retro blast ;-)
I host my own email, and I got nothing but huge amounts of spam from .xyz domains, so I manually increased the SpamAssassin score for just .xyz to +4.0, as KAM was only adding 0.75 for it. It's the only TLD I've had to do that for.

Unfortunately for the people with legitimate uses, for email admins it's just a really easy (and arguably necessary) shortcut to block a ton of spam.
Yeah, whatever happened to VSCO?
> So... either they should release a firehorse binary that can wipe devices, or they should add a small bit of code that can wipe and flash without needing a firehorse binary.

And how should they add code to a ROM of yet bricked devices?

> As I read it, dmitrygr was saying that the ostensible reason you can't do anything is fear of evil maid attacks, but that ostensible reason doesn't explain why there isn't a wipe+access mode. And "the bootloader is corrupt" isn't the reason, because this is about the pre-bootloader code.

Well, ask Google? :-)
Tip of the hat from one C64 childhood user here.

A friend owned a ZX Spectrum while I had the C64, and while I liked the games from my C64 more, the ZX was oddly appealing as well.

Except for the chiclet keyboard! :P
I think Australia is a great example of what happens when guns are given up. You have a government that’s going on witch hunts for covid cases and exerting extreme authoritarian pressure for remarkably low covid rates.

Some would say it’s them testing the limits of their populace. What are they gonna do? Protest? That’s illegal when in lockdown.
I grew up in an area where people have these signs and bumper stickers, and never had a problem socializing. I saw no evidence that people couldn't trust their neighbors or community. I've seen these in rural and urban places as well, and still haven't seen any issue like what you're suggesting. What's the problem supposed to be?
I did this for two years, working as a "forward-deployed engineer," also known as a "BD warfighter" at my company, doing post-sales support.

I consider it time wasted. It made me a worse engineer. I was pressured to set clients up with unfinished bullshit products. I was pressured to set clients up with bullshit they didn't need. I was pressured to build solutions that weren't what the client wanted or needed.

I'm sure there exists a happy ideal version of software consulting that could teach you all kinds of valuable lessons. My experience was very far from that happy ideal.
> I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like.

Do you think having fire drills and extinguishers is "a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia"?

> Where children just go to school without security checks, amok drills and bulletproof safe rooms.

Maybe try to do something against bullying? It might seem a bit harsh but having been on the receiving end of that, it's hard to find empathy for those people that panic once the victims start fighting back.
Not much yet IME they could also strip away HTTPS unless there is HSTS.
According to https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/sales-tax-rate?con..., out of G20 countries, 16 have sales tax rates greater than or equal to 10%. This seems to only counts national sales tax, since it lists 5% for Canada, but about 85% of Canadians live in areas with more than 10% total sales tax.
Billionaire Sacklers’ immunity threatened as DOJ moves to block opioid deal
Yep, that's so crazy and sad:

"Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of gun suicides than men who don’t own handguns, and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t."

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2020/06/handgun-owner...

:-(

Also:

"Sixty percent of deaths from firearms in the U.S. are suicides."

So if somebody dies from a firearm in the US it's more likely to be suicide than other firearm related death.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/what-you-can-do/facts.html
It is one of thousands of comments we've moderated.

Picking two random points to contrast is the extreme of sample bias. You can make anything look like anything that way. As it happens, though, we've moderated that other commenter in exactly the same way as this one.

Could you please stop creating accounts to troll HN with? It's tedious.
>>the legislative branch represent the people and are checked by elections

In order for a "check" to be valid, the "check" has to have full knowledge of the thing they are checking..

Further the "people" are not the check to the Legislature, the Court is. That is how our system it setup

The people was to only be a "check" for their own congressman in the house, and since not even the full house is able to get classified briefing just a select few, and they can not tell anyone about what happens there, it is literally impossible for the "people" to be considered the check in that system

So there is no check in theory or in practice
There is no good solution. You either tolerate the necessary consequences of actually being able to speak freely or you curtail those freedoms in order to avoid the consequences of having them.

Actually, I disagree with the bit where I said there's no good solution. Curtailing free speech is never a good solution as far as I'm concerned. Freedom includes the ability to choose to behave poorly. This is a fundamental consequence of having a free society.
You're the one trying to justify the morality of a chinese hostile invasion of Taiwan when the default stance would be a neutral geopolical analysis.
Interesting - I remember when underscores in numbers was getting added to modern languages around 10 years ago - I had no idea it harked back to Ada.
I also have the issue with the taskbar sometimes not disappearing but I've had the same issue on Windows 10, various Linux DEs and macOS. It must for some reason be a more difficult problem than it would seem.

The biggest issue I have with Windows 11 is that the taskbar can't be moved from the bottom without a registry hack. I find the biggest UI improvement to be in the file manager.

I also find the whole thing to be a little better performing than Windows 10.
Yep. Just buy an anything-shitty Android phone in 7-11 and use that
Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘social harm’ policy
What is a “BLM agent”? How often has gun-toting helped defend you against “Criminals, particularly Black criminals”?
Why blame lobbyists for this?

You can see for yourself what actual Americans think the "most important problem" they're facing is:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1675/Most-Important-Problem.asp...

Global warming and income inequality are so low they barely register in the poll at all. Representatives follow their constituents.
> voting with your feet is an effective deterant to tyranny.

Crazy things are happening in Texas the local government is politicizing federal elections and oppressing minority vote by making voting more difficult in areas where minorities live. I wonder are Texans going to vote with their feet?

I suspect Texas government does not care if democrats vote with their feet and move out of the state, that just means more power to those already in power.

Further what happens in Texas does not stay in Texas it affects vote-counting of federal elections as well. So people moving out of there does not really seem like a viable solution.
> It's naive to think that guns will only ever be used by defenders of freedom.

I think you summed it up pretty well there as to why it is desirable.
Ask HN: Subscription service to hire full stack developers?
Hi HN, I recently saw a Launch HN post for a company named Awesomic (I am now a paying customer :)) which is essentially a subscription based service to hire designers. I was wondering if Y'all know of any similar service to hire full stack developers?
Curious: How do you do “every other row” in a loop if you don’t do modulo?
There was actually a very good 'Rust vs Fortran' subject in the Rust forum [0].

My personnal belief is that Fortran codebases will be replaced as new programmers don't want to learn the language due to its reputation.
At the moment they are rewritten in C++ (fast but so many footguns) and Python (easy but terrible performance): I am betting on Julia replacing Python in the medium term (faster, not harder to learn and designed for this particular use-case).

Rust is hard to learn so I think most scientists will not invest in it but I do hope to be wrong and that it will replace C++ in the HPC world...

[0]: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-vs-fortran/64642
The mails that make it to your spambox are a pithy few compared to the mass of dropped mail. You'd be very unhappy with your spambox if the filters weren't so judgmental.
"I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like."

And I wish you could better grasp just how big and diverse America is. :) There are parts with terrible problems that make for scary headlines, but those parts are not in any way representative of very large swaths of the country. Where I live there is essentially zero violence (of any kind). We don't live with perpetual feelings of danger or paranoia - heck, we often forget to lock our doors at night.
They’ll have to be able to figure out where it will run first. Amazing to me that this is still in question.
I like your writing and presentation style :)
But your premise rests on the trust that criminals won’t obtain guns illegally if more restrictions are created. On mobile, so don’t have the numbers, but I recall a large amount of gun crime is done by illegally obtained firearms.
Oh man.

There used to be a third participant in that flamewar, a brilliant analog IC designer whose hobby was ruining s.e.d by posting off-topic political flames and trolling. His participation ended a few years ago when he apparently died of cancer. I say "apparently" because there was no obituary, no funeral, no mourners. His family won't talk about him. He had been so proud of his granddaughter.

It's unfortunate because there are/were a lot of talented and knowledgable people on s.e.d who could be talking about circuits instead of flinging dung at each other.

Flamewars are an ugly Usenet tradition. Usenet also provides great mitigation tools (killfiles/scorefiles).
Doesn't ReactOS use the libraries from wine?
So you could just run Linux.
Wow this guy is ignorant. Not everyone who is intelligent is a good person. In fact, some people just like to see the world burn. It might only be 0.5% of the population, but I totally get why he's investigated all the time. Selling a kit that allows bacteria to grow where they normally don't just seems like an obviously bad idea to me, even if his science ambitions are good and noble. One can learn a lot about chemistry by synthesizing explosives, but selling a diy detonation kit (even for research and learning) still seems wrong. And the potential to accidentally harm others, for example but getting genetically modified organisms on your skin and then touching stuff seems even higher here.
Obviously, since large companies _have_ lots of employees, either their tests aren't crazy hard, or there are lots of people way smarter than you for whom the same tests are manageable.
How is there asymmetry of information? AFAIK there have been just as many tech advances in police accountability as well, such as the prevalence of body cams, or the ability to see these warrants as they are issued in real time on a police web site, etc. Of course there are other issues at play but I think you may have missed some things that are on the other side, it's very feasible for one person to track many police officers much in the same way that you describe. What would be questionable is if the police were trying to stop the public from doing so.
Right - but how does this generate support for more GOVT regulation ie, Trump and Biden appointees running things vs confidence in companies (like Apple).

My concern, the HN crowd is yelling for more govt regulation, but the average person actually thinks Apple, not the govt, makes reasonable tradeoffs (security, privacy, CASM etc) and might actually trust folks like apple or google MORE than if for example the govt set up an email service.
Perhaps it isn't the purview of an infrastructure company (Facebook in this case) to attempt to manipulate society?
What other side of the table?
Patreon allows people to see your creative work. Do you sell an article via patreon, or do you sell a look at the article = people then buy one of many prints, or are you wanting to create an NFT and patreon gives glimpses and you will sell the NFT as a sole item??
You may be breaking new ground, and Patreon might want to enter those grounds?
Suggest dialog with Patreon (and others) and get a measure of the value of your items as an NFT. Then will the NFT concept have legs?
The new win 10 audio swapping is a horrible abomination. The capstone being the removal of audio settings from the system tray. I feel like I could rant for an hour on the topic. The per app sound controller is good when it works, but frequently likes to jump to other devices with something resembling free will.
In order to have a rational and productive discussion about policy one needs to have some kind of handle on reality, as well as a minimum of truthfulness and respect for the people you’re talking to.

Overstating the incidence of an event by a factor of 20 means you don’t have a handle on reality. Deliberately lying about news events means you’re not truthful. Putting words in people’s mouths and imparting inhumane motivations to them means you lack respect. All of these things happened in just this handful of comments, and, no, I don‘t think I’m missing anything at all.
Look up 'cloud chamber'.
> France is quite heterogenous.

Paris, yes. France, no.

France as a whole is very homogenous.
The most interesting part for me is how they position themselves. They are essentially aiming at the things people hate about their competitors and that their competitor can't easily change.

Ads, design for addiction/engagement, bad abuse prevention.

I think more apps will bubble up to disrupt the big companies that don't adapt to these needs.

Its starting now but I see this happening over the next 10 years.
Was that ever in doubt?
Chinese Woman Surgically Switches Fingerprints To Evade Japanese Immigration Officers

https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2009-12/chinese-wo...

> "Use biometrics. It incentivises people to secure more things, it's resilient to all sorts of risks passwords are not and as an added bonus, it makes your digital life a whole lot easier"

The articles conclusion sums up IT well, people being clever talking about the problems with biometrics are the problem.
Google is actively fighting the spread of disinformation. You can see this clearly in the forced row of COVID PSA links on the YouTube front page that's been up for the last year regardless of whether you have any history viewing such content. There is manual intervention going on to prevent the garbage their normal algorithms will automatically surface. This is the greatest tragedy of the internet in that it allows people with crazy notions to find each other and build echo chambers with the aid of unbiased ML.
> Microsoft needs someone with a vision for Windows at the helm, someone they trust enough to go hands off and let them materialize that vision. Regardless of what that vision is

That sounds a lot like how Windows 8 went.

My personal opinion: they should have frozen the UI at Win7. The kernel improvements since that time are fine. Iterative, under the hood improvements over UI revolution.
I personally don't.

I suspect plenty of folks agree with me.

My point is, the HN outrage at things like tech to solve crimes (because of privacy etc issues) is in many cases not shared more broadly.
Lets get the the internet great place foe knowledge again. I really loved the engine ans tried for different terms and very happy. Goos job
Many years ago when incoming messages used to cost, each delivery report I recieved after sending a message out costed me exactly one incoming message, in India in 2000s. Many phones still offer Request Delivery Reports.
>You're arguing that "Because law is arbitrary, police powers should be restricted."

No. I'm arguing that because laws can be arbitrary, we should err on the side of protecting criminals when difficult decisions around privacy are at play. I don't know why you insist on strawmanning absurd forms of what I am saying.
In most gun owning areas of the country, people have managed to be safe and have friends, so your theory is somewhat lacking.
>It’s kinda odd to contemplate how this space will evolve.

The same way it did on reddit: sock puppets and chat servers outside reddit where the people radicalize themselves further.

The cherry on that shit cake was when /r/againsthatesubs started posting child porn to try and get subs they don't like banned.
The UI did scale, but lots of apps were poorly coded.

> Marlett is a TrueType font that has been used in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95. The operating system uses this font to create user interface icons that are used in the menus and windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlett
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