skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On my MateBook 13 (2020) the Fn and Shift Lock lights are turned on, while the laptop is still powerd on, but not under OS control anymore:
Sleep takes 6 seconds down and 2 seconds up.
Hibernation is 9 seconds down and 20isch seconds up.
Shutdown is 20isch down and Boot is 22isch to desktop (fastboot=off).
I feel very unsafe with my 2018 Honda Accord's driver assist features. I turn them all off (at least the ones I am able to). The worst is that the lane assist feature tries to take every highway exit automatically by following right-side white lines. The steering wheel produces light physical resistance that I have to fight off to keep the car in the lane.
Yes, but this is an issue with Apple products. My old PC with not-so-fast SSD can boot (Linux and Windows) much faster than 16" MacBook Pro.
Boris Johnson asked for ‘emergency’ food deal, says Bolsonaro
The use of “illegal” in this article is highly ambiguous.

I can't read the text and be certain whether it means that transactions in it are prohibited, or that it simply does not have the same status as legal tender, as in currency that companies are required to accept.
This seems to me the same as their old pronouncements. Nothing new as in newsworthy. Maybe they are doing this as a reminder of their older announcements? Sort of like "I told you so!"
To be fair, looking around a bit, you can get

14 GB for 13€ (https://www.handyvertrag.de - it's a brand of Drillish, reseller of the O2/Telefónica/E-Plus network)

40 GB for 19€ (https://bestellung.vitrado.de/offer/index/2b5pv1)
When there are announcements like this, I really love it when they begin with just a few words to orient me on what the project is about.

"Grain, the programming language that combines the latest research innovations with the speed and portability of WebAssembly,is pleased to announce the release of v0.4 - Cereal."
Wireless charging isn't immune to failures either. A recent example of this is Google's Pixel 4 device, introduced in Oct. 2019. Apparently if the phone chassis expands over time, the rear antennas (including wireless charging and NFC) get disconnected and stop working. People experiencing this issue, including myself, are not able to reliably use wireless charging, and using NFC (e.g. for Google Pay) requires us to put pressure on the rear of the phone.

Granted, Apple seems to have much better hardware quality control than most vendors and iPhones might not ever have this issue.
I don't rely on it, but I often notice a ssh connection still working after a night with the computer being suspended.

It requires two things:

- the network does not have a short timeout after which it closes the connection

- no side of the connection is trying to do I/O on this connection while one of the computers is sleeping.
Yeah, I opt out by default.
Examining Btrfs
Banning exchanges and banning use are two different things.
If Americans had any idea how deep the animosity for Americans still is among the British aristocracy they would seriously reconsider the status quo here. There is a deep and hidden history to this topic of which this article only superficially scratches the surface of.
It seems Apple wants that money for itself.

It will take a couple of years to see how much of FB ads (amongst others) have shifted to Apple.
I noticed that it wakes from sleep for windows updates now, which not only is annoying (Bluetooth devices suddenly waking up too), but windows update often requires intense CPU usage as defender does its dirty things, .net re-JITs, etc.
But what do you do when you realize you are neither the target sheep, ehh, customer, of iOS nor Android? But that is just the other side of the coin of what I wrote about the development teams. Sometimes, they just have to accept that diversity is not going to solve all problems.
You mention a 10 year old (!) Lightning connector. How is the charring/arcing on the contact pads?
> Software is like writing. It can’t help but express how the author thinks about their code. These tools try to iron that personality out - and for what reason?

A single-author novel can have personality. A 100-author 30-volume encyclopedia, less so. Whenever I set up a new single-author codebase, I set up as little automatic code formatting as I please. For collaborating with other developers, I will enforce as much as possible as early as possible.
> Although, I wonder what this person means by "better connected". USB-C is good enough for computers; is it not good enough for phones?

USB-C is at least the fifth (might be sixth or more) iteration of device-side USB connector. The concern is this legislation will significantly slow the pace of improvement. If the EU passed this in 1997, would we have a DC barrel jack or a USB-B connector on our phones? Is that an improvement for consumers?
Wow can you imagine if the rest of the internet worked like that?
Do Sailfish phones count as Linux?
psychedelic :0
Not if your API design is so bad that any third party can access them, apparently.

Aside from that, I'm pretty sure they'll also get stored on their servers, if you have not declined all the nagging iCloud sync requests.
It's a surprisingly versatile substance that can also be used to inflate a country's GDP: https://schiffgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/15-08-Bull...
Then native code is frowned upon other than some specific use cases mostly game related, seccomp and LinuxSE are enabled, Project Treble drivers run in userspace with Android IPC, eBPF modules instead of drivers, IPC is now required for file system access outside sandbox,...
What exactly do you mean by “work with the USB-C format?”. USB-C defines the physical connector.

Would a C-to-Lightning cable count? Because those do exist, and are now what you get in the box with newer iPhones.
Gnome Builder 41 – Highlights
It would be silly to assume they don't.
I was just taking you literally (delete the disk and not the data) since this is a common pattern in the financial sector. Dell and HP have an optional and more expensive "keep your disk" policy so that you can have companies like Iron Mountain show up, scan the barcodes on the bad disks and shred them on site. You get a certificate (receipt really) that has the serial numbers of the drives you shredded. I was at a company that had this policy for over 50k servers. Not cheap, but totally worth it when you can assure your customers all data is destroyed regardless of encryption methods.

Another reason I listed this option is a response to debates you will see online about data wiping, reserved blocks, spare blocks, vendor low level formatting tools, vendor encryption tools, etc... Physically destroying the disk answers those concerns and may be a viable option for someone if the data they wish to remove could harm themselves or their business if the data is leaked or otherwise mismanaged. If a drive is let's say $1200, but leaking data could cost you a percentage of $120 billion in stock / market cap, then shredding the disk is simple and obvious choice.
FWIW, the EU proposal says they don't want to regulate wireless because there is still a lot of room for innovation and no established shared good solutions.

I think they're doing the right thing there.
I'm one of the researchers whose had a paper removed. Confusingly, it was the 'accepted manuscript' version, which Elsevier explicitly states you may share [0]. It's very obviously watermarked too, by their own editorial management system. It's very frustrating that you can do everything right by the publisher and still lose like this.

[0] https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing

*Edit: typo
We can only guess that’s the case. Because they have lied throughout the entire pandemic we really don’t know what the effect of it has really had.
This used to be very different one or two decades ago, when Microsoft's backwards compatibility meant you could migrate your existing code to the new thing with minimal changes. This era is where the "legends" come from. Nowadays, it's exactly as you describe, unfortunately.
If you're creative enough, you can always pull out an indicator, even artificial, to show progress. For example GDP increase during a period in absolute values. That doesn't make any sense without considering size/population of Serbia and Croatia and what's that in relative terms. Or the average salary in Serbia and Bulgaria. Yes, they're comparable, but key items are cheaper in Bulgaria, as well as taxes. The average salary in Sofia is also much higher then in Belgrade, and the lowest pension is higher than in Serbia. You get the picture, you can always dig up a metric and declare a glorious victory of our people led by our fearless leader.

Not to mention the government has some genuinely skilled professionals, beside sheer lunatics like Vulin, the minister of interior. By professionals I mean manipulators like the minister of finance. He's a skilled manipulator, even tied to Panama Papers, domestic violence, illegal demolition and a boat load of concealed wealth. If I had the need to produce some good quality smoke and mirrors, he would be the first guy I would call.
Gonna come out and say it: science is broken in many many ways currently, but it won't be unbroken until publishing is 100% freely available, both the authors and the readers.
SciHub is doing it right, and people putting SciHub content on IPFS are doing it Right, because that puts the burden on everyone, not just a handful of individuals.

It should become good taste for universities to pin & seed as much of the global science corpus as possible on distributed systems, and it would also make sense for them since it would allow immediate fast and uncomplicated access to anyone within their networks (vicinity).
China says cryptocurrency transactions are illegal
TBF hibernation has never been entirely reliable under Linux due to hardware vendors being difficult (IIUC). Getting it working for me has typically involved trying to make sense of arcane kernel log messages. I never managed to on my current laptop.
Financial institutions cant deal with it, no exchanges, no ICO's. They shut all the doors a while back. How do you use or own something when all legal avenues are closed unless you just do it illegally which is probably what some are doing.
How the OpenAI Codex JavaScript Sandbox Works
Rethinking Obesity
> not such a good idea

Why not? Would you like it if every brand of electrical appliance came with its own proprietary type of wall plug?
Ask HN: Best tool to send responsive, dynamic analytics emails?
For a SaaS Analytics product it can make sense to send periodic nice-looking emails showing headline summaries and tables. I am surprised at the lack of low-effort solutions for this, but maybe I am not doing the right google search. This world seems to have its own terminology, like transactional/marketing, etc. Hence this Ask HN.

Key requirements:

- look good on mobile (i.e. responsive)

- dynamic content, i.e. templatized, with variables

- need to include tabular data with say 5 rows and 3-4 columns

- look good with nice designs

- Unsubscribe option

- Mostly doable in Python

We are looking at SendGrid, but I am not impressed with how the emails turn out, especially with tabular data. Mailchimp could be an option, but haven't gone down that path.

Thank you.
GitOps Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes with Flux CD and Helm
Gates Earns 10x on BioNTech in Just Two Years: $55m Investment Now over $550m
Do you use a plumbing torch for soldering those 8050 resistors?
Even a total Linux noob like myself (never touched it in my life) that installed his last OS like over a decade ago got Ubuntu on a X1E Gen 2 in around 30 minutes. No issues, Windows stays for the odd things that don't work under Linux (some Steam games, mostly...).
I don't know precisely how secure boot works under fedora, but you can have FDE with swap just fine in Linux. A swap partition can live inside a LVM logical volume.

For secure boot I would guess you could have the EFI partition signed/validated with the TPM.
I hope the rest of world follows. There is nothing more volatile than a decentralised crypto currency. The amount of people making a profit from it is less than 5% and energy consumption is beyond acceptable.
Crypto as a tech to serve something different is totally fine of course.
If you have a good WiFi network at home, that's great when your laptop is at home, but if you carry it outside your home you are at the mercy of whatever infrastructure you find there.

Usually if you need to transfer large amounts of data you can still plug in an Ethernet cable in e.g. an office.
> Lots of people see globalism as a attack...

I agree with you on this point. It's worth noting that they are usually the same people who actually push for globalism, every time they choose "cheaper" over "local".
Qventus (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer
There's a great open source keyboard called ergodox.
It’s the sixth iteration of device-side USB connector in around 25 years. What’s the basis to think this is the last one for a long time when we’ve seen new ones introduced about every five years so far?
Not sure how far fetched an accusation can be in this case.

If the data is accessible in plain text on a device that is clearly linked to an identifiable natural person, which is data that an attacker can easily access, the point of "just this one log file not containing the data" is pretty much mute.

Would be an interesting case.
I have fullname@gmail.com, and I routinely get full.name@gmail.com mail intended for what is obviously two different people. I have no idea what their real email addresses are of course, but I've contacted both of them on Facebook and tried to explain that full.name@gmail.com is my email address, not theirs - neither replied, both continue to use it for tons of sensitive stuff. I don't understand why they haven't noticed the lack of critical, sometimes personal, email. It's bizarre.
I suspect you are absolutely right!
I'm trying to think back to when Dell made a 'good' laptop. Maybe the D630? Lenovo was still better, but what Dell sells now is just terrible.
Sorry.. I meant exactly that 25 seconds to boot up from hibernation is definitely not an issue. Why would it be? I store the laptop hibernated. I need to dehibernate exactly once a day. I work 8 hours a day, meaning less then a promille of my working day is spent waiting for my laptop to dehibernate. It's a non-issue.
deja vu!
Ruin Marble
It's worth noting that drug laws don't necessarily treat substances as being in your possession once they have been consumed, and although they might criminalize the "use" of drugs, that can require proving intent, which is not necessarily possible to establish solely from the presence of the substances (or their metabolites) in the suspect's blood.

The 1993 case State v. Lowe gives a good explanation of the legal reasoning:

"The absence of proof to evince knowledgeable possession is the key. The drug might have been injected involuntarily, or introduced by artifice, into the defendant's system."

https://www.leagle.com/decision/199383586ohioapp3d7491724
It’s being build by passionated programmers who suck at design. Compare it to the web in 1997 and now. The designers and decent UX will come.
Fortunately the impact to us was quite small, but it's definitely left a sour taste in my mouth as far as azure functions go.

The whole story regarding organizing the code, breaking changes between versions, confusing plans, different styles of configuration between that and aspnet web apis, trying to configure individual functions in the same app without affecting others, etc. is not good!
> You've not demonstrated this is actually costing more than a plausible alternative.

Of course I haven’t, how could I? That’s up to the people running the project. My entire point was that this does not seem blown out of proportion to me and should actually be something for San Franciscans to push on. My personal opinion is that this does indeed seem like a vanity project on the outset but without more details, it’s hard to know. I think enough are there to not write it off though.

This comment seems relevant regarding what problem they are actually trying to solve, if there is one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28639600

> One of the drawbacks of living in an oligarchy rather than a democracy

Agreed there.
That's a good comparison. Have you ever cut yourself with a knife, any time in your life? I certainly have. I've also had a £150 AWS charge I had to pay.

In both cases I learnt my lesson. I'm careful not to put my fingers where a knife can cut it, and to not put my bank details where AWS can charge them.
Although the point of being centralised is portrayed as a negative, that is the single largest benefit these platforms provide over forums.

Yes it is easy to make a forum and throw it on some low cost hosting, for a person skilled in IT. However FB, Reddit et al. provide a platform (heh) to any kind of group no matter the size. Nobody wants to create dozens of accounts for their local chess club, their local shop, their local pub and whatever. I can be a member of a anti Phillips screw subreddit, but wouldn’t create a forum for it.

The value of centralised identity is enormous.
Aha so my tests should be gRPC clients/servers. Do we have something like the usual http request mock/interceptor libs?
If you prefer Irssi I would suggest weechat-matrix which I have used with high stability for over a year.

Today I use the F-Droid Element client and Element web client for all my chat needs and they just work for my needs. YMMV.
> that was observed through the eyes of superior individuals who cultivated and developed great concentration and wisdom.

If you believe that said individuals have said authority.
> AOSP by default is effectively more secure than any Linux distro

Sandboxing does not protect you from all the binary blobs, closed source components and all the telemetries and other forms of surveillance built in.

Not to mention all the homecalling done by applications.
The core business product that must share a CPU with a third party and can’t be moved? Is there any real world example of that?
In Australia you have to check-in with a QR code to visit children's playgrounds:

https://www.knox.vic.gov.au/whats-happening/news/playgrounds...
Analyzing China's PIPL and how it compares to the EU's GDPR
I understand the change would be a patch, but that's separate from the question of how you encode and ship it, surely? How are you suggesting a small patch would be shipped?
Yes and no. Speaking of hibernation/standby/wakeup, that just works (TM). Also the chassis is more robust than classical PC laptops - although many manufacturers have catched up. On the other hand the keyboards have mixed quality, CPU/GPU model and choice has been questionable (below average performance). Also other manufacturers don't seem to have problems building "always-on" systems when it comes to tablets or smartphones. Because this is essentially what modern Macbooks are, some weird fusion of a laptop and a standard consumer appliance. (It works like a stereo) So I'd argue Apple has been focussing on the latter and ignored performance/storage requirements which is actually more practical if you really carry the laptop around a lot.
Cambodia’s prime minister is Zoombombing opposition meetings
Windows wakes up the computer all the fucking time, and this is the reason why they don't take responsibility. Frankly it's not just dangerous, as noted in the faq, but very creepy as well: it feels like someone tampered with it, because it's not in the state you left it in. I wish they weren't so successful with all their bullshit.
Small correction: the guy was the PM until 2017. now he's the president (but basically the Big Boss since 2012.)
So they did. Now they burn coal.
Homelessness is incorrectly defined. We need to separate the reasons for it:

1. Financial hardships

2. Mental illness

3. Lifestyle change
https://archive.is/SRr5X
Does this guy have ties to China? Serbia has been developing ties with China for some time. Who would provide the technology for this mass surveillance? Certainly not the Serbian economy.
New Zealand council's Zoom talks go viral as pretend meeting
nay: unless, of course, the force of course is the famous grandparent

2c: Had an XPS15 die the other day, won't buy another. Also sworn off Apple hardware. Using Lenovo laptop. All good.
Using compound sparsification for faster BERT on CPUs with better accuracy
This "meme" is the core of most useless, destroying DE wars in the Linux community. An example of how such a limited case can fuel beliefs of one desktop being "better" than the other, and the latter being something to continuously joke on.

The lack of collaboration between desktops is, in my opinion, at the core of the fragmentation that makes Linux desktops still appear so far from their proprietary counterparts.

This is not to say that either desktop is perfect in vision or implementation, of course, but the "GNOME vs KDE flame wars" are just childish talk. Mature criticism and, especially, collaboration is what both desktops need.
MacBook folks: we’re in 2021. These laptops turn on and off very quickly. Forget about sleep, hibernation etc. Just shut it down.
So you'd rather a system where TPTB get to fudge the books as they see fit, impose taxes via intentional inflation, and keep tabs on your every transaction? Interesting.
What you just described is the biggest damage done by the '99 bombing. I dare to say larger than any material damage. That's the thing that pushed Serbs on the other side of the "west/east dichotomy" and any kind of marketing campaign will hardly paint Western countries as friends or allies. That's valuable ammunition put into hands of local populists. Not that some European leaders mind them ruling Serbia. Would you believe that there is a considerable number of people not willing to get vaccinated by Pfizer or Astra Zeneca Covid vaccines because "those people first bombed us, they're trying to poison us now"?
I've seen issues with Modern Standby on my fleet of Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga L13 and L13 Gen 2. Usually everything is fine, but sometimes they get super hot in standby as well. It's like something is keeping the CPU awake but the rest of the hardware is asleep (including the fans). My older units (ThinkPad Yoga 260, ThinkPad Yoga 370, ThinkPad L380 Yoga, ThinkPad L390 Yoga) never had any problem like this because they don't support Modern Standby.

It's very annoying that MS doesn't allow us any way to disable Modern Standby. OEMs still haven't figured out how to make old school sleep perfectly reliable. Springing a new standby model on them was doomed to be just troublesome.
The immune system does not work that way. When you present an antigen to it, it trains a variety of antibodies to different sites on the antigen, and these antibodies are slightly different for every person.

It's as if instead of taking one antibiotic against a bacterial infection, you took many slightly different ones at the same time, and every treatment of antibiotics differed. Obviously, bacteria are much less likely to develop resistance that way.

Vaccine evasion can happen if the virus mutates so much it's almost unrecognizable (flu) or if the vaccine is too narrowly targeted and it presents not enough sites for the immune system, so a single mutation is enough for immunity.

The former apparently doesn't apply to Covid**, the latter basically never happens - the old dead/weakened methods avoided this by design, while the newer methods learnt to watch out for this and present enough of the virus.

* Mutations kept the spike. There were several mutations that changed it so there's a limited level of evasion from vaccine and natural immunity (Beta, Kappa), but these mutations apparently strongly hurt the ability to spread, so much that these variants seem to decline naturally before reaching epidemic status.
Bingo, like most political problems it boils down to human nature.
China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal