skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't actual WoL. It was broadcasts. For some reason it woke the Mac up when WoL was switched on. We're taking 2015 or so so I don't have the packet logs anymore but I was able to replicate it by resending them.

So the fault is really the Mac's. It should only accept real well formed WoL packets with its own Mac address.
Still going strong.
i hope Laos doesnt have an institute of virology nearby
In time, in time.
I honestly can't tell if you're just being pedantic or have a point. At the time that a landlord sends the debt to collections, they are no longer expecting to recoup 100%. As a degenerate example, say the renter offers to pay money owed minus one dollar, prior to sending to collections. Any rational landlord will accept this offer - which is settling for less than 100%. So alright yea, a landlord may not settle directly, but sending to collections is conceptually the same thing as settling, inasmuch as it means the debt will be resolved with the landlord receiving less than 100% and the debtor paying less than 100%.
> ...as someone who invented earlier but did not file, you aren't going to be able to get that the patent reassigned to you.

There's an exception: When a second applicant disclosed the invention publicly both prior to the first application and less than one year prior to the second application.

Another note: Prior art needs to be publicly available. So, a first inventor's private notes can't invalidate a second inventor's patent. In the old first-to-invent system, however, the private notes of a first inventor could allow the first inventor to get the patent ahead of a second inventor who filed first.
Last two years have been flawless for me. I purchase about 50-70 times/year from them, and here in Michigan (Ann Arbor) things have gotten better. Lots more same-day delivery, and deliveries have gotten very reliable - I've only had a single delayed delivery (arrived 3 days after it was supposed to) - and Amazon Refunded me for that (and then the package arrived).

I love the free shipping, and I have a pretty large list of stuff on camelcamelcamel that both lets me get a decent price and prevents me from overpaying for anything.

I'm really happy with the selection - but I don't know if I would go to them to purchase anything like a computer, laptop, or camera - mostly household goods, low-end appliances, and that sort of thing. I always go direct to the retailer/manufacturer for anything significant.

So - just an anecdote, but my experience with Amazon has been really good. Also - I love The Expanse, and that was worth $20-$30 of the prime membership right there.

Oh, one sort of Amazon related thing that go worse - we used to have Free delivery from Whole Foods, which I made use of once a month or so - they're adding a $10 fee to that. On the pro side, might mean more delivery slots, but on the con side - that's another $120/year or so.
SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites could be used for GPS navigation – Space
Yeah, didn't even think about chromeOS.

I don't really know how separated the concept of the "application" chrome and the "display server" chromeOS are.

I know chromeOS can run x11 apps, but is that within the chrome runtime or beside it?

EDIT: Seems I need to read up about Freon, which is what chromeOS uses (used?) instead of wayland/x11. So yeah, at least 5.
The triangle, and the “color gamut” of a monitor or color space - come from the projection of the boundary of a 3d color space diagram down to 2 dimensions.

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

What you’re talking about - getting a straight line out of 3 sensors - is because you’re plotting wavelength on the x axis. What Rob is talking about is a 2d plot of a 3d color space, where points are plotted not against wavelength, but where the axes of your space are the 3 primary colors you use to define it. This is where the RGB cube comes from - 3 separate values that range from [0,1].

If you look straight down the diagonal line x=y=z, then you are looking along the “brightness” axis, which sort-of factors it out. What’s left in RGB is a hexagon - the projection of the RGB cube down to 2d along the cube’s diagonal. The hue triangle Rob’s talking about is exactly this same idea - it’s a flattening of the color space into just hue, by removing the “brightness” dimension, and then looking at the boundary of whatever is left. This boundary has different shapes in different color spaces. (And some color spaces like HSB and HSV are defined using this linear transformation, so that one of the 3 axes lies along the RGB diagonal.) A hue triangle appears when you have only 3 specific primaries, so you can’t represent any colors outside the triangle, all colors are strictly linear interpolations of the 3 outermost colors.

In this case, Rob’s right, the left hump has nothing at all to do with the triangle shape.
If you’re experienced enough you could hold a board/advisory role at fractional cost and time? Just a thought to explore..
Great story! Can’t remember if I’ve used it or not because tbh I don’t pay that much attention to POS branding etc, but this is a great success tech story.
There’s a big difference between trust in a process that has so consistently yielded results vs something like faith or political adherence. It’s about the foundations upon which those results lie more so than the belief themselves, and also an amenability to update beliefs. If humanity really gets something wrong about how the natural world operates it will usually be revealed. The trust ergo is largely warranted, even if the human execution of said process is flawed.

The canard that every individual has to maximally recapitulate the entirety of hundreds of years of human discovery is just absurd. Trust exists at all levels of human intellectual discourse.
The art in these is beautiful. I have some printed in my house.
There is no basis for this assertion. Furthermore, your "average urbanite atheist" probably knows more than you think:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/09/28/130191248...
Uh yeah no thanks, I'll just stick with Debian. Served me well 20+ years so far!
The Back End Beginner Series – Create REST API
Yesterday I could only make two posts on HN before HN temporarily banned me with the message "Please slow down. You are posting too fast." This kind of ban is only for a few hours. I don't know if this ban is automatically triggered or mod initiated but believe the trigger for it is when some comments of mine receive high upvotes and downvotes (perhaps "flagging" the comment as "controversial / inflammatory"). And I guess it is part of HN's moderation tactic to ensure quality of content, and while it is annoying sometimes, I don't see any conspiracy in it.

However, like you noticed, I do believe that some of my posts are targeted as part of the online marketing / "reputation management" that happens regularly all over the internet by BigTech. I am vocal about right to privacy, right to repair and need for government regulation of BigTech, and have noticed that if my posts on these subjects specifically mention Google, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon they are often downvoted (I once noticed a post go from 10 upvotes to 10 downvotes, in real-time, and that's when I realised what's happening).

(Anyway, HN doesn't like this kind of discussion as it doesn't add much value due to its speculative nature and it tends to distract us from the main topic.)
When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years
Pretty good visual explanation of the "grill" and its effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otweN9sCSd8
tangential and not against your point, but isn't this proof that relying on applications provided by private companies for politics and public sensitive matters, is the best way to end like this?

especially when the only way to get the app is through a bunch of privately held "stores"
One of the more profound statements I once heard on the problem with modern secular philosophy was this throwaway comment I read online years ago:

"Creationism is true if it will keep my kids off oxycontin."

(I'm guessing the poster was from the rural Midwestern US.)

I'm not saying I agree with that statement, but I can see where they are coming from. I found it to be one of the more profoundly honest and deep statements I've ever encountered.

Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives embedded in the ordinary matrix of threats and opportunities presented by every day life. Religion has done that for thousands of years. Sometimes it does that quite well and sometimes it does it very badly, but at least it tries.

Yes sometimes religion is full of shit, but secular philosophy and ideology is sometimes full of shit as well. One can find examples of both religion and secular philosophy promoting irrational thinking. I think things like antivax and Qanon can be blamed as much on postmodernism as religion, and I don't see any evidence that people who abandon religion automatically become more rational. Many just glom onto other forms of superstition or secular but totally insane ideas.

Go read some academic philosophy. The older stuff is deeply abstract, looking down at the world from orbit and drawing a lot of deep but distant conclusions. The newer stuff is completely impenetrable to someone who has not studied the subject in depth. Very little of it is relevant to someone working a regular job and trying to raise kids.

Speaking of kids... much secular philosophy barely mentions children at all, or seems indifferent to them. The fact that the central generative process of all organic life gets barely a mention in secular philosophy is to me a profound indicator of something very deeply wrong. It's like physics avoiding the subjects of electromagnetism or gravity and trying to make sense of everything else.

The marketplace of ideas is like any other marketplace. If your store does not stock what people need they will shop elsewhere. If you don't like where they are shopping, it's your problem for not producing the right products. The customer is always right.
https://xkcd.com/276/
The Syrian civil war was such a scenario where it was useful as a short-term backup: https://www.croptrust.org/in-the-news/syrian-war-causes-glob...
Tons of meetings are just fine with being 30 minutes. And even if we schedule something longer we should expect to give people time back if we don’t need the whole thing.

Way too many 39 minute things get scheduled for 60. While there logistics issues at physical events with multiple tracks I feel most conference talks should be 30 minutes too.
Those damn conspiracy theorists with their reasonable observations! I mean, it's not like a fire ever started near a forest! /s
In my career, solo programming gigs have generally been much better paid compared to employee jobs, with the right tax planning and living in the right countries.

Even ignoring tax advantages, contractor's daily rates tend to include things I rarely use like sick pay, holidays, missed stock options.
Unless you're working for a FANG where stock options are pretty much guaranteed money, working solo is generally a good deal.

If the value you're bringing to the table is that you live in a cheap country, you'll get paid less (but still a lot compared to your cost of living, most likely)
I think I have experienced this when accidentally placing a MacBook (after a few minutes of heavy CPU usage) in my belly skin, below the belly button. The body of the notebook is a bit hot, while the screen itself is cold (or it feels colder due to the aluminum).
If both parts touch the screen you feel like you are burning, but if you only touch one of te two parts it's ok.
Seriously, I would never have expected that somebody would unironically go on and compare VW with Ferrari.

You literally have no idea what Ferarri is and what they do and where they do it and how they hire their employees. Their cars are almost exclusively hand-made and everybody who works at Ferrari is proud to do so, yes, even the dude mowing the grass - this is not cheap to maintain. There are people there whose skills can't be translated to building electric cars - which are really just oversized RC cars. There are people there who are experts in engines - and those will be laid off. In fact, everybody working on engines at Ferrari would be laid off. And those are a lot of people.

The ICE is something that deserves to go on in something special like a Ferrari. This whole electric cars debacle makes me wish the planet would be blown up by aliens sooner before we all roll around in crappy BMW i3 lookalikes because there's nothing else available and there is no choice albeit industry is polluting several degrees of magnitude more than just ICE cars[1]. And certainly so in the case of a small italian sports cars manufacturer that yields true works of art, poetry on wheels.

By comparison, VW is a tech giant who can afford to mass produce their stuff and will not suffer nor will they have to lay off a significant percentage of their staff.

Video reference [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiw6_JakZFc
It was the first game I played on a PC! The thing was so slow you had to reboot between playing the game and Windows (3.11)

Trains etc moved in jumps, updating every second. Had no idea it wasn't supposed to be like that till we got an upgrade years later

I remember getting it with my dad all excited because we both agreed we needed more than just the demo. It came in one of those massive game boxes from a locally owned shop (I think) called Disks and Discs. Probably one of my earliest memories that haha
When Russia wanted some kind of encryption keys he could not hand over because they dont exist, Telegram was banned in Russia but people found ways to use it anyway. So I dont think Russia has anything to "force" Durov other than via Apple/Google. He doesn't live there or owns anything there and according to past posts of him and there are no Telegram servers there either.
+ The proxy stuff to circumvent Russia's ban is already implemented if they would block the IPs again.

It seems very likely that Apple/Google is actually the problem here. I encourage everyone to download the app from the website or F-Droid not form Google.
My addon question to this, is what alternatives do we have?

What service that gives us 2 day or less shipping. Has significant enough stock that I don't have drive all over town to 10 different stores to get 3 of the same thing. If there was a resource that had these features I would drop Amazon in a second.
A lot of excellent improvements to desktop Linux.

Flatpaks have been awesome, its great seeing the community build on flathub.

Sandboxed and straightforward builds of large packages that may or may not be up to date in debian.

Best way to get packages like Blender or Ardour (I need to package up 1 plugin before I migrate) these days.

Use flatseal to lock things down more or less to your liking.

Pipewire has been a big step up and I look forward to moving to wayland on the rest of my machines with kde 5.24 (vr leasing support).

Great work!
You know what else lower-income people would benefit from? Increased housing supply by banning house renting. You know what lower-income people wouldn’t benefit from? Preserving the status quo solely so that rent-seeking landlords can keep their investments.

It seems like you’re on the side of the upper-class trying to trade the environment to prop up their investments. This is just like BTC scammers trying to trade the environment for their investments.
What exactly about secular humanism has caused this social problem? Do you have some research that indicates that walking away from "parental obligations" is in any way influenced by religious belief?

I could make the equal assertion that religion turns men into sexual abusers of children (reference: the Catholic church). Are you comfortable with that?
Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations too, I'm not sure this is a convincing reductio. It certainly doesn't seem obvious that a rule like this could be consistently applied if, for example, AIs became as capable as humans — or far more so.
This part was interesting to me:

“…Except for early adopters -- such as college students with fast Net connections”

I suppose it used to be the college kids had the fastest internet, in the dorms and such, and were the drivers of innovation. I graduated a state school recently and let me tell you, our dorm internet was garbage. On top of that, it was heavily policed by IT and I don’t think it’d be possible for a student to host a web server or even burn some CD’s from torrents.
The real question there is "would the world go to war with China to protect what is left of Taiwan's freedom?" You only have to look at diplomatic attitudes of the past decades to know that the answer is "of course not".

It would certainly cause massive upheaval if China tightened its grip on Taiwan, diplomatic and economic sanctions, a massive shift in semiconductor production, a change in status for other semiconductor producing countries and a delay in the forward march of computing technology.

But not World War 3.
Makes sense.

I was going to set it up to mess around with until I saw the requirements.
> I know this is just a cutesy slogan

Mostly, yes, but I do think there's a real point here as well.

> how could you possibly know whether a living creature is a finite state machine?

As I understand it, physicists don't really know whether the physical world has a finite number of states, or an infinite number. I think they tend to lean toward finite, though.

Even if it's infinite, I doubt it's of consequence. That is to say, I doubt that sentience depends on the physical possibility of an infinite number of states. (Of course, if it turns out the physical world only has a finite number of states, that demonstrates that sentience is compatible with the finite-states constraint.)

> What would it even mean?

Systems can be modelled as finite state machines. Sentient entities like people are extremely sophisticated systems, but that's just a matter of degree, not of category.

> I know I don't respond identically to identical stimuli presented on different occasions

Right, because you're in a different state. You'll never be in the same state twice. We don't need to resort to non-determinism.
>and buyers of those bonds are affiliated with Russia structures like VTB Capital bank or Russian Government investment fund named “Russian Fund of Direct Investments”.

As far as i know, it's not true(meaning there are no signs/proof of that). It's entirely possible, durov does have connections in russian elite, after all he was the creator of vk.com russian most popular social network. Vk was owned by russian oligarchs most of it's life at least partly. At the end of durov involvement with vk, he had some harsh clashes with oligarchs/regime, but ended up making a deal(and got paid well, even if not as well as he should've been). So he certainly knows how to deal with them, but i seriously doubt he enjoyed it, so he must have been really desperate if he got in bed with them again.

The biggest promise of telegram was that it would become a point of entrance to a decentralized economy based on TON blockchain and it's masternode hosted services. If they succeed to launch and than move telegram itself onto ton masternode hosting, telegram would've become the greatest/freest/(and potentially most secure, if they would implement e2ee key synchronization) messaging service ever

End of TON project, ment an end of telegram's future as a not data harvesting company.
I could see someone tipping people like Foone who publish content primarily as stream of consciousness style Twitter threads.
Let me clarify, I’m not saying that we should never synchronously communicate, but that it is not the sole or primary communication.

My comment was about the tendency to avoid writing over speaking. I think we need lots of writing and some speaking.

Software in particular is easier to “say it in code” than to just talk and talk and talk.

I’d say my preference is write-up, then talk, then follow up with write-up.

My complaint is the constant redirection to only talk and never write up.
> There is no effort we can put in.

Well, that's not quite true. I'm an atheist, and I run a weekly Bible study (which has lately morphed into more of a general theological/philosophical study and discussion group) [1]. Religious traditions are worth studying even if you don't believe in them, if for no other reason, than as a way of better understanding the thought processes of people who do believe in them.

[1] https://www.meetup.com/Bible-Study-for-Skeptics-Agnostics-an...
> human behavior can ultimately be reduced to mathematical equations

Wait what? Source?
It's an interesting history lesson, but the problem with Huawei today is this:

They (and the CCP) will fund 100% of the rollout for a telecom to use their 5G server equipment. For Western mfgs. to compete, either Huawei has to be banned, or equivalent pricing and funding has to be instantly available. Or no sale.

Nortel never had a chance to compete with that.

The US funds Boeing's overseas sales via the Export-Import Bank, but that plan has to be extended to domestic and foreign 5G sales.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export%E2%80%93Import_Bank_of_...
I don't think so; the causation would be in the opposite direction.

A lot of experience typing (code) would tend to make someone more likely to pursue and complete a CS degree.
I don't know, I see a lot of smaller apps that are only deployed as Flatpaks or Snaps or whatever. It doesn't seem to make a difference to them that the audience is small.

(And to be honest, none of this stuff is exciting or new to me. It's just a re-packaging of the technology behind Docker but for desktop apps)

Edit: For LibreOffice it's likely that the project is popular enough that different people all contributed all those packaging options, so I don't think it's like a burden on them or anything. If something stops being maintained they'll just drop it.
Oh good, I was worried that it came from a lab where they were working on changing the RNA of the virus with the exact changes present in COVID-19 as proposed in their grant applications and weren’t wearing masks when working with modified corona viruses.

Glad we can finally rule the lab out.
If the standard is open (so that anyone can read the documentation and write a fully capable parser), it really doesn't matter what the standard is exactly.
The UK court of appeal.
Configuration and add-ons reside in %AppData%, or an orherwise user-writable profile directory. Compromising the executable, which lives under %ProgramFiles%, or an otherwise protected directory, takes administrator rights.

Beyond this plausible inconvenience, however, Mozilla simply doesn't want regular users messing with unapproved add-ons. Just switch Firefox to Developer Edition for that. It's been very stable, in my experience.
I think a lot of people would expect some evidence for your first phrase.
They could have been infected by locals in regions they've been travelling to. Many possibilities. Why do we have to speculate? Let's just wait for more data.

The timeline of HIV pandemic has been established decades after pandemic started. This will take time.

I'd assume that virus originating anywhere in SEA region would be detected in China first. Just like many other viruses originating in America continent would be first detected in USA.
No one is telling you what to do with the money you earn. If you don't like your country's taxation system feel free to immigrate to another.
“Rich Dad Poor Dad” Author: Bitcoin Ban Means China Close to Launching Its Coin
Those people are just vocal.

The rest of us like and appreciate flathub.

Linux audio really really needed a better story and pipewire and flathub have really changed that.

I think musicians will suddenly find they can have a reliable quick setup on most any distribution with just these two changes.
Because it is from his point of view.

It doesn't make the content false just colored by the authors point of view.