skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's central bank says all cryptocurrency transactions are illegal
Dells were the only laptops I ever encountered that you could bend. It’s amazing anyone other then starving college kids ever used them.
> But a lot of also comes down as natural resistance of change by sysadmins...

I find this "meh, you're just being stubborn" labeling is a bit dismissive. Especially when a lengthy technical comment about systemd is replied with the tone of "You just used to old ways eh? Time to freshen your knowledge, hehe".

Today's sysadmin dynamics doesn't allow one to stagnate with old knowledge either. Yes it's very useful, but not eternally. Instead it allows you to build knowledge faster.
Not much info but I guess they'll update the article as it's still breaking news.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-24/pboc-says...
Atari ST in daily use since 1985 [video]
Only the privacy changes go way beyond Facebook.
My current bet is they go portless rather than switching to USB C, and that would be the day I move from iPhone. Hopefully these open (and privacy) oriented android/linux phones get mature in the meantime.

Wireless charging is a huge waste of energy and doesn't really go well with the environmental moves Apple has been making (if that was their real motivation).

I do understand the convenience of wireless charging in situations like driving, but like 90%+ of charging is at home during the night where there is no excuse for just plugging it in.
And I want my damn cable for data transfer (but this is just me).
got any links? that sounds like a fascinating story to read!
It's really a special relationship with the Commonwealth A-list, and it's about military collaboration, nuclear technology and intelligence sharing. No other countries are as close to the US and work with them as peers in these areas, by a very large margin.

Britain is the lynchpin but Canada, Australia and New Zealand all contribute valuable strategic assets just by their location, but also bring specialist expertise to the table out of proportion to their population. The scientist in Britain that made arguably the single greatest contribution to the Manhattan project was an Australian.
Electric-Car Shift Drains Fuel Taxes in Some Countries
It would be interesting to know how lows that back inside corruption pass into being, and how does dynamic of citizens allow that to happen.
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XPS should be "developer laptops". They even come with Linux. So I tried two.

Never experienced a more faulty keyboard on a computer in my life. Hanging keys, firmware updates that never really fixed the problem, support forums full of same questions. I'll never buy one again.

Too bad as I wanted to support "big brand w/ Linux preinstalled".
Well - I can't name a US industry that's part of its international dominance that isn't part of it's international dominance.

Would you include Education? I guess that the USA dominates higher education in terms of $$ as well as prestige.
Games that run advertisement don't pay Apple a single cent out of their ad revenues.
When you say over time are we talking next year, decade, century?

I don't really follow Bitcoin and friends, all I know is it uses more electric than some countries
> But on a more technical side, most of those minor projects offer, unlike Android, very little (if any) sandboxing of apps by default, which, alongside the fact that less-known, custom-made apps are quite likely to be vulnerable, the security factor is moved to a lower layer (i.e., requiring very platform-specific exploits) rather than solved.

This seems a reasonable, but broad and unsubstantiated claim.
The entire fucking point in a laptop is to be portable. If you _have_ to shut it down completely before putting it in a bag, it’s not a laptop as any sane person expects it to have that ability.

It’s absolutely astonishing that Dell, Microsoft and friends leave walk over in the laptop industry like this. “Oh we decided users don’t really want to be able to close the lid and go home.” ??????
European Commission proposes a common charger for electronic devices
I will never buy a Dell XPS laptop again. The exterior build quality seems very good, but the internals are such a mess.

I cannot count how many times I have been biking home from work and heard in my headphones "Two devices connected", realizing that my Dell XPS had woken up and would - once again - be red hot when I arrived home and pulled it out of my bag.
Three teenage boys revealed as behind CovidBase AU data tracking website
I've had this happen to me once with an XPS13-9360.

I use Linux on my laptops exclusively, and it was supposed to enter S3 just fine. But after I closed the lid, something went wrong, and instead of suspending it actually started hogging 100% of CPU. I was unaware of it, and put it into my backpack. Shortly after, I had noticed that my back felt unusually warm. When I got it out, it was infuriatingly hot, almost scalding. I kept pressing down the power button until it turned off, and held it in the open air until both it and the inside of my backpack cooled off enough. Thankfully, it was a cold winter evening, so it didn't take very long.

It's been 3 years now, the laptop works to this day nicely, even after suffering a bent edge on the screen assembly after falling down.
Can confirm, this was an issue ten years ago and I can't understand why it still is a problem.

Mind you, I've had it with an older model Macbook as well, wouldn't go to sleep properly when closed / off of power / in a bag.
You could choose a grace period independently. Downside is that you have to keep all currently accepted keys around so there is a limit somewhere on storage costs.
Fedora Linux Earns Recognition from the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a DPG
I am not sure why are you being downvoted. Mass surveillance in Belgrade exist for some years and China helped the government with implementation. Serbia will continue to buy surveillance equipment from China regardless of this law.

Serbia is definitely becoming a Chinese colony. China is placing dirty industries here, effectively cutting transportation costs to the EU and reducing pollution in China. Also, a few years ago there were official government proposals (like this) to bring Chinese police to Serbia.

Unfortunately, the EU absolutely doesn't care about any of this and actively supports the Vucic regime.
Anyone who is concerned about this should already be using full-disk encryption, which means the memory contents are actually better protected during hibernation than in a live state.

This is one thing that usually Linux gets mostly right .. only if the proprietary GPU drivers played along. Meanwhile, Microsoft and Apple certainly could implement this properly but instead decide to release a new half-assed half-hibernation after another.
> It just decided not to shutdown like usual.

This happened once or twice with Windows laptops for me (Lenovo and Asus); but each time the laptop survived. Was yours a fanless model?
After you explicitly granted them permission.
Putting your Laptop in a Back in sleep mode is a normal common usage for a laptop.

Hence I'm pretty sure that at least in Germany voiding warranty because of it is not legal.
Well, that explains: I have a XPS 13 since jan. 2019 and last year I had to replace the battery. It bulged, pushing the keyboard up a bit. Luckily no fire
One of my favourites was the supergoblin bug, which I ran into myself.

To defend the fortress from invading, I had a narrow walkway with spike-filled pits on both sides. The idea was that as the goblins ran over, they would be peppered with arrows, and if they managed to dodge they stood a good chance of falling off in the process. It worked, as far as it went.

The problem was that a very few goblins survived both the fall and the spikes at the bottom, and those goblins became truly nasty.

The thing is, when someone deflects a weapon in that version of DF, they got a small bit of training to their weapon skill, depending on the size and weight of their opponent. Unfortunately, they also got a chance to block the upright spikes at the bottom of my moat. Which were technically "wielded" by the ground itself.

So the few goblins that survived by blocking the upright spike as they fell, instantly became supreme grand masters of their weapon. If they dodged it instead, they likewise became inhumanity good at dodging. The worst was, the moat was constructed so that if they survived, they could run up and try again, and this time they had a very good chance of dodging and blocking, boosting their skill even further.

Thus ended one fort of mine to ninja goblins.
Most people I know are not techincal and think that closing the lapton shuts it down, or something equivalent and I don't think any of them knows anything about Modern Standby.
But I agree title could have been more clear if it included a reference to stand by.
I have no sympathy for researchgate. They syphon papers, they used black patterns early on to mass-send emails to invite people on the platform. And finally, as a researcher, I never found researchgate to be actually useful.
Peter Thiel, scourge of SiliValley–and now it seems the press
The value of fast wakeup is real. But manufacturers and OS vendors need to actually get their act together and implement this, not fake it in a way that passes reviews but is actually damaging to hardware in the real world.
Linux -> Suspend -> S3
You just need ensure that the laptop successfully suspended and it never made a problem with mit ThinkPads.

Like others pointed out, the problem for Dell seems caused by the awkward additional standbys introduced by Microsoft "Modern Standby" and so on. We still miss some similar power target to what phones use. Probably 'systemctl suspend' should mean hard S3 and LID-Close something like phones behavior.
It's one thing to read about the click farms, but nothing can prepare one to actually see the videos of them in action - just visceral. It has an eerie Matrix-like feeling to it.

13 sec video of a Chinese click farm (quite loud):

https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina/status/1072114511212109824

10 sec - thousands of phones (not loud):

https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina/status/1148447866366464000
I think this does the same thing - https://github.com/99designs/aws-vault

At least on MacOS it uses keychain. There are other storage backends for other platforms.
"work in ML can be as dull and unfulfilling as any other domain"

I love this statement.

A while back, when I was trying to figure out what I liked, was good at and should do with my career, I realised that I can't select things based on how much I liked the good parts (because I like so many things) but rather, how annoying I found the dull parts.

It's like, if you find a profession or hobby, where even the annoying and dull parts you can say "meh, it's not great but like I'm not too bothered by this", then you'll probably manage to survive a 20 year tenure with it. Since that's where most people would tap out.

It's easy to like the fun parts. Like when you are coding and everything is working fine. But are you also fine with the nitty gritty of debugging, refactoring and all the in-between bits that round up the profession? I see this in many professionals across the board.

Those who understand the significance of the mundane, the small and boring tasks as a integral component of the wider vision of the profession, develop a special bond with that, that is longer lasting and truer.

Not too much unlike relationships I would say. The good times can be great. But if the small day-to-day stuff is slightly annoying, it starts to get under your skin, and grows over time, like chipping away at a tree trunk, eventually felling the tree. Lasting bonds happen when each person understands and isn't too bothered by the mundane and annoying, human side of their partner.

All this being said, please excuse the philosophy. I'm in Europe, it's 11am, I've had my 3rd coffee and ironically I'm supposed to be refactoring code right now.
I don't see why it wouldn't. It's a USB keyboard. But I use it on Linux, not Darwin.
Seems to be mostly a Dell/Microsoft problem, haven't heard of other vendors removing S3 functionality (yet, anyway).
well most people work for $$ or for promotion so usually bug fixing is less important than landing some new privacy sandbox advertisement things. Also by reviewing code carefully doesn't make you stride the ladder. And if there are bugs they can just tell their manager we fixed this bug etc.And Google organization structure incentivize them. And now google has hegemony on Desktop browser and controls the engine they can get away easily. This is also probably reason why many products are simply killed by google.
I've had three generations of the XPS 13. The first I had had a few issues, but fixable. (Even though I agree, this shouldn't even have occurred) The second one was flawless. The last one was worse than the first and it's my last.

I've set my sights on Lenovo now. X1 Carbon is supposed to be really good for Linux and you can buy it with Ubuntu or no OS installed.
It's there since a few iOS versions ago, but as an opt out. I'm not on 15 yet. From what other people write, I suppose that's changed.
Apple is explicitly asking you for that information when you first activate your device or after updating to new OS.
Not really, this security challenge have been solved long ago, and require a degree of involvement which makes them irrelevant for most people.
I just can't understand how people put up with not being able to control what they primary machines are doing.

For that reason my primary work machine can currently only be Linux. I have Windows, but this one is only for stuff that is incompatible with Linux.

I actually have Linux PC and a separate Linux laptop (Thinkpad T440s).

That laptop runs super cool once I debugged all the sources of power usage. Which is quite easy on Linux but neigh impossible on Windows.
Agree, although I doubt EU actually cares about human rights.
Power, greed, control and money is what drives the modern day globalized economy.
It might be slower than cold boot on machines with 32GB of RAM
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I think I tried everything, from buttons to lid to magic network packets. Once in S3 it's dead Jim, and there's nothing in the BIOS to change that behavior.

The irony is that I have a 4 years old XPS 13 where everything works like a charm, even under Linux. Talk about progress ...
Whatever happened to google's founders, Page and Brin?

Did they make any public comment when google dropped the moniker "Don't be evil"?

Have they spoken publicly in favour or against "surveillance capitalism" or whatever you want to call the business model, as practised by google contemporaneously?
This was supposedly fixed by at least Safari 14.1 (or earlier).
File picker meme
This is why people use Apple laptops. I’d be fine using Linux as my OS. But my employer issues my laptop and chooses the model. If serious non-Apple laptop manufacturers are still making crap like this, how do I know my employer won’t choose hardware as bad as this for their Windows and Linux employees?
And how many have you reported to your local data commissioner?
It was probably the 2017 model, it had a fan. But it was in the tight pouch within the backpack that was supposed to protect laptops from bumps, so it didn't have much room to breath.
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Well liked yes, but it throttles due to overheating, though it will only typically be noticeable on long running tasks. Adding a simple thermal pad so it makes contact with bottom case cover makes a big improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EY7KW-PVy8

This is also the case with the M1 iMac, the lower model only has a single fan and throttles on long running tasks as well.

Apple is constantly having bad designs and failing to take care of customers until they are forced to via lawsuits.
"People are opting out of Facebook’s tracking for a reason: they no longer trust the company with their data after years of evidence they should not."

Alternatively, this is the first time mainstream users are able at all to opt-out. I would strongly suspect users opt-out in any case, for any app, regardless of trust history.
You wouldn't happen to want to sell RubyFlow to someone who will give it the TLC it needs. I find it regularly has low quality articles (https://rubyflow.com/p/ieouvb-job-scheduling-with-resque-in-...) and often downright spam :-(
Yep, plenty of new spam that's passing Gmail's spam filters. I'm seeing variations on a common format:

From: seemingly.real.name@gmail.com
To: several apparently real Gmail addresses
Subject: (no subject)
Blank body apparently, PDF attached which the web and mobile previews indicate is of a pretty young woman, possibly porn (I've not opened any).

Another variation, the same as above with random words as the subject, such as "shallop escape clause unfilled orders crockitude". This is an actual example from my inbox.

Another, same again, but with nonsense in the subject and body, e.g. "48046256 of hlbezmy". Actual example again. I noticed that the preview image of the PDF in this example has a yellow-green tinge, possibly an attempt to disguise flesh-tones?

And so on. And on, and on, and on. It smacks of a very deliberate, industrial scale approach either at training the filters, or at exploiting weak spots that have already been discovered.

As another commenter has pointed out, this spam really does feel like 90s spam all over again. This made me wonder, is it possible that 90s-flavour spam is a result of 90s-flavour filters falling out of favour and being dropped or becoming under-trained? Are we doomed to endless cycles of spam revivals?
According to my understanding of GDPR, the data would need to contain personal information i.e. something that allows you to link it to an identifiable person. Quick search on google gives the following definition of personal data [1]:

"Personal data are any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person."

So if there is no personal data in the logs, it should not be a GDPR breach.

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/
Manual transmission (think Americans call it driving “stick”). You gear down then you can use hand break when you’re slow enough. Actually, I was taught to break by gearing down instead of just applying the breaks. I still went through that intersection though, the lights were red. I had my hazards on and prayed no one ran into me.
So, is this the lack of grandmas working at Apple in software development? This is nothing you can fix by following some diversity ideology. This is a question of respecting different requirements from different user groups. You cannot mirror every user group in the development teams. How do you represent people of old age, with illnesses, or certain disabilities in a development team? How do you represent people living at certain locations in the world in a development team? How do you represent poor people or people of low education? Or how do you represent people which live under oppressive regimes or are the continued victims of criminals?

All these groups have different needs and expectations to the products they buy or lease. And development teams and their business cannot expect to understand that by having a more diverse development team. They have to do better requirements engineering, they have to listen better to their customers and they have to decide and prioritize those needs and expectations. E.g. A/B testing has abysmal consequences for the needs and expectations of minorities.
Not going to lie but Apple have put pretty high standards on what people expect to work with all laptops nowadays, and many OEMs seem unable or unwilling to try to catch up.
UK announces their “National AI Strategy” to be a “global AI superpower”
eNiro has a (not very well documented) P release button

https://www.speakev.com/threads/p-release.139750/
The repository has been renamed.
https://github.com/gmpetrov/ultimate-saas-ts
This is also a very expected move. Apple was cutting down trackable stuff from iOS for a very long time now. Obviously, they going to keep improving on that.
I have a Dell laptop that I thought was hibernated. Closed lid usually sets it to hibernate.

Well that didn't work this one time and the laptop was left on in my backpack...
Well something fried and now my laptop would not recognize the dell charger and tell me to plug it into a genuine Dell charger half the time and would not charge. It was a 2017 model so when this happened last year I bought a Lenovo.
I think there's a possibility it would resemble similar industries like mobile services - you would subscribe to a social media service provider of your choice and you'd use their service which is interoperable with other social media service providers. They could sell different monthly plans with some amount of allowed photo/video uploads, messages, etc. To us it might sound strange now, but it would feel entirely normal to people in a world who never experienced free services powered by spying. Not sure if that would be better or worse than what we have now.
No it's not clickbait.

Weird that you're angrier about a headline than a warranty being voided by putting a laptop in a bag.
Hibernation in Windows hasn't gone anywhere. I have a Dell laptop in front of me and it has hibernate in the start menu as normal.

Problem is that hibernation is slooow so people don't like to use it
Even trusted governments can't guarantee that bad actors cannot access the data captured by the surveillance system.

If a government need total surveillance, it is because the government don't trust its people, which is because the people does not trust the government.

This cannot fix trust issues with surveillance, you must solve this with more/better democracy, not police.
By experience, the social aspect of working in a team and being right and proving it by breaking the rules, is a risky business as it may cause the eternal hate of some peers, who in other aspects are themselves as technically strong as yourself and will stay around forever.

Just don’t forget all mammals before being rational are emotional animals.
I don’t agree with your fake quote and I don’t agree with your description of developers as “independent sellers” when in fact they are not the seller. If you don’t like Apple’s developer agreement, take it up with Judge Rogers who affirmed all but one sentence of it.
"Adobe simply decided they no longer need the runtime, since the browsers have/will soon have all the capabilities that they need, natively."

I think that ignores a very very significant reason for the browsers getting to that point of being able to supplant Flash being that is was terrible and security nightmare and Apple had shifted mindshare against it and shown it wasn't needed in a mainstream platform. It wasn't just Adobe graciously terminating a successful platform that gave them a lot of influence.
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