skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen the homeless as people to be pitied and helped. Just weak people, down on their luck. So you help them, right?

I let a homeless man sleep in the hallway of my building. He took a shit in front of my door.

Now if I had seen the homeless as what they actually are, maybe weak, maybe helpless, but still people with agency who can be absolute assholes, that wouldn't have happened.

And I hate that this is overlooked. Maybe if the parents in the article wouldn't have fallen into this trap, their son would still be alive.

The assumption everyone downvoting seems to make is that I don't have compassion or as you do, I see them as "weak", "lazy" or "attention seeking" (notice how you are seeing them as that, not me).

I can have compassion and ask them to do their part. That actually solves the problem.
I don't think there is any big conspiracy there because it is already legal (and always has been) for companies to give surveillance data to the government.

The government can't take it by force without a warrant. But the company is free to give it to them if they ask nicely or otherwise.
Pakistan has activated biometric verification of dollar buyers despite concerns
I have a standing policy in every team I run: if you have to work outside of hours, double the amount of time that you worked and round up to the nearest day. Take that many days off as soon as is practical.

The traditional “flex time” is nothing more than a zero-interest temporal loan, encouraging endless borrowing from the back of Sometime After Never.

I deliberately impose a stiff interest rate on that sort of borrowing within any organization I run, because while I recognize that we do need to field emergencies, we also want to penalize the “every day is an emergency” pattern so prevalent in the industry.
Guys just get tpm disabled w11 image. I even installed it on a 2011 t420 thinkpad with i5 8gb ram and ssd, and works like a charm
Kenya-API
I am trying to document every detail of my country into an API. So far I have covered some sectors with various endpoints. Still much work to be done and I am proud of the decision maybe that information might help somebody someday
NASA Announces Winners of Deep Space Food Challenge
+1, but it takes a good employer to actually adhere to these rules. Enforcement is very lacking.
A side-note: instead of apt-get you can just type apt.
The aforementioned Renault Clio. https://www.parkers.co.uk/renault/clio/hatchback-2019/iconic...
I feel that this used to be a large advantage of using less popular OSes.
I'm Tired of Excel and Spreadsheets
In C# (prior to C# 8.0) without parameter names you would get an ambiguous overload error (and overload resolution is strictly by types, not by names - except for extension-methods). C# 8.0 side-stepped this problem by adding an explicit range operator.

However I feel the best approach is to have first-class language support for parameter-arguments-to-type homomorphisms (e.g. `TArgs<YourMethod> args = new( arg1, arg2, arg3 ); YourMethod( args );`).
> Apple's bread and butter is iOS gaming (where it takes in more game profit than Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and Activision combined) rather than

Any source on this "game profit" metric ? It seems plausible, but I was looking for the details of this calculation/estimation. For example, what percentage of App Store revenue is game related ?

> Windows PC game ports to macOS.

I specifically said AAA games, not Windows PC games.
The key here is that the hiker didn't consider themselves sufficiently lost to require rescue:

> The hiker told authorities he had lost his way around nightfall and “bounced around on to different trails trying to locate the proper trailhead” ... the man reported having “no idea” anyone was out looking for him.

You'd think they would have noticed the text messages or gotten a bit curious after the Nth call from the same unknown number, but if this all happened at night, his phone may have been in silent mode.
Inheritance shouldn't be abused to make-up for the lack of true mixins, though.
Police in Europe is quite different from country to country, between the French, German, Spanish and say Dutch police the difference is huge. But nothing that I'm familiar with comes close to describing the police force that you apparently have as a model for the EU. Even the former SovBloc states, where the police traditionally have more problems than in the Western part of the EU in terms of corruption and having to deal with overt violence are not covered by your description. I've lived on the US border for quite a few years and even the difference between the Canadian police and the US police was night and day.

Would you mind explaining which country in the EU you believe has this model that you describe?
There is no such thing as an open or closed CVE. Conflating "description is public" with "has been patched" would be wrong, but claiming that all existing CVEs ever are "open vulnerabilities" is nonsensical.
> because they don't actually generate heat
Heatpumps still do use electricity(or other power), and all that electricity also ends up as heat. It's why heatpumps have higher CoP than the same system as a refrigeration cycle.

> Thermodynamics would not take kindly to you having a >99.999...% efficient anything

Well the cogen gas powerplants here can produce 50kWh of electricity from burning 100kWh of natural gas. I can use 50kWh of electricity to put 200kWh of heat into my house with a heatpump.

Seems like a good deal to me, and I think carnot would be fine with that.
Wait, this is benchmarking the Firestore emulator. How is that relevant?
They painted themselves into a marketing corner, the article makes the salient point that it's fairly unattractive to sell a new laptop with "Windows 10 21H2". What they should have done is ditch the version numbering altogether.

"Windows is the last version of Windows".
Just one small step left before we're fully under the control of true life thought police. The effects are alrrady obvious and alarming.

We must take dramatic action, even at the cost of convinence and comfort.
I think OP is referring to this when they say OCLP: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
Sunak promises £150M budget boost for Scottish small businesses
It would be interesting to revisit these numbers after including warranty claims.
Toyota is someone that puts big emphasis on that part, so the difference when looking at something like a 3yr ownership might be a lot smaller, if not maybe even in Toyota's favor.

OTOH everybody is in a bit of an uncharted territory with the EVs and SW heavy cars. VW's new Golf has been riddled with SW bugs, and their EV line has not avoided it as well.
But the body panels, interior materials...
And Tesla (Musk) has said they need to improve the build quality and lower warranty claims.

So like I said- would be interesting to revisit these numbers, maybe not now, but in a year...
Dictating what is Indian: backlash over Urdu phrase in fashion advert
Somebody taking bath masses in the middle of a pandemic that killed 605000 people in Brazil while promoting fake treatments among poor and gullible people, "Jesus he knows me" style. And somebody taking pride of chopping down as much Amazon rainforest as possible in the middle of a climatic crisis.

Will be probably universally seen as a criminal in the future, but the damage is done (and Youtube is just 'too little, too late').
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I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable when updating/upgrading then going to a new major MacOS release, which is an absolute disagrace given the fact that Apple can actually test their stuff on every single hardware model it is supposed to run.

And no, my experience on general user behaviour is to expect no backup, but this isn't Auntie Ednas crocheting Facebook group, but Hacker News :)
Types of Popups Every Ecommerce Store Should Have
You clearly have no understanding of how the police work in European countries!
Well I've mostly worked for startups where we had to build the thing :-)

But in Apple's case it was much bigger - lots of projects, people spent years built chips, whole new platforms, new technologies, 2d/3d rendering libraries - FireWire came so close to being still-born that its team was shopping it around 3rd parties trying to get them to drum up internal Apple support
"Exemplary" - it's effectively a very authoritarian one-party state, organized over racial lines, that profits parasitically from their neighbours (refining Indonesian oil, dodging Chinese taxes, etc etc). It works, for sure, which is a sad indictment of humanity in the third millennium, but personally I wouldn't want to follow that "example".
They tend to reach smaller audiences but not that much smaller. It's been only a few months since Alex Berenson got banned from Twitter (for a tweet that contained true statements taken from the US government's own documents, sigh), and his audience on Substack is now closing in on his prior Twitter audience. Given they're different mediums and he would have had some lapsed followers (e.g. who followed him in older times but no longer paid attention), that's not too bad, especially as it's much easier to monetize the new Substack audience.

Other people who got cancelled or pushed out - like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald - now stand to get really very rich indeed off their new audiences. Writing, it turns out, can be profitable. Just not the sort of writing you find in most media outlets. This also applies to Scott Alexander, quoted above, though he wasn't directly cancelled, "just" doxxed by the New York Times.

Does this fuel extremism? Well it certainly fuels distrust of large institutions and mainstream media narratives, although what "mainstream" means is increasingly unclear. Joe Rogan pointed out the other day that given CNN's tiny audience sizes, it's really Rogan that's mainstream and CNN that's the fringe now. Groups like CNN, MSNBC, even the BBC seem increasingly extremist to me. The rationality and moderation you might hope for from older journalistic institutions is now to be found elsewhere, like the places they like to insinuate are full of extremists.
It removes the victim mindset.

My background is a recovering asshole, partially failing, aka the son in the article.
Ask HN: Is it better to use Rust for SDK's core?
We are on the process of creating an SDK for our thin(API) client.

Saw an article by TemproalIO - https://docs.temporal.io/blog/why-rust-powers-core-sdk/ which states the following:

"When it comes to connecting multiple languages to a shared library, the traditional choice is often C, but Rust makes for a safer and more modern alternative. Having language SDKs directly link to the Rust core meets our end-user-ease goal and keeps overhead low. There are other ways we could've tackled the problem (for example by running another process that communicates with the language-specific SDK over some kind of IPC), but those options probably fail our ease-of-use goal. If desirable, we can always run out-of-process later because we use Protobufs to represent data passed between the Core and language-specific SDKs. This technique also reduces the amount of duplicate code we would have to write for each new language. Rust also very easily compiles to WASM, which unlocks some very interesting possibilities..."

If you have already worked on a similar use-case, please share your experience.
Italy does have what they call carabinheri (unsure of spelling?), which is basically a special kind of police that has automatic rifles. They do seem to patrol pretty much like normal police though, so I'm not sure what the distinction is other than the armament
If I am self hosting, what is Kubesail asking $5 per month for?
Getting to know people and their voices does take some time, so cameras can be useful when the team (or some new teammate) is new. I'd like to think we can play it by ear but I feel like teams get into habits and any change is considered odd.

Otherwise Agreed. And, for what it's worth, many of those whiteboard meetings can now also be conducted remotely (I humbly submit our app, ShareTheBoard, as an example solution).
I'm so glad you mentioned this. I thought it was just me!
Show HN: Emotional overtones in synthesized speech (conversational AI)
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Exactly what policing problems!?
Curious! Even with machines on the same premises IDDB has been orders of magnitutes faster for us. In the beginning we were storing carbon copies of mariadb tables and initial load times went down drastically.
Then the remaining 30% should probably just go elsewhere?
Lightsail is basically an EC2 instance packaged with an ipv4 address, storage and bandwidth to compete with low cost VPS providers.

I personally use lightsail for most always on things and then just use ec2 for on demand workloads, because it works out far cheaper (these are just random personal projects so I'm heavily optimising for low cost)

You can't configure the lightsail instances as much as an EC2 instance, but otherwise it's essentially the same product (both operated by AWS).
Because market cap is just the crazy value investors have attributed to the company. It doesn't mean the company is any bigger or smaller.
It feels like showing the wins as well as the losses would result in the public getting a less distorted picture.
My major worry here is how they'll get their hands on enough CM4's. Aren't they like gold-dust at the moment? Lots of similar projects have stalled recently because the supplies just aren't there. Is the KickStart going to finish, we'll all get charged $250 but no product will be able to ship for several months to a year past the expected date?
Unbelievable. Poor guy went to jail! And was raided 2 more times.

I actually want to cry
Context for downvoters: "perfect blue" is the CTF group writing this article, and "a few places" means CTF team rankings in competitions.
They are quite common here.
Do you have a link to these benchmarks ?

Well be very interesting to see given Alder Lake is dumping AVX-512 which was one of their core performance strengths against AMD. Albeit at staggering cost in thermals and power.
Statute of limitations doesn't always start as soon as something happened. Many times, it only starts once it has been discovered or could have reasonably been discovered.
I'd be interested in knowing the details of the error!
Shouldn't Spring and ASP.NET Core be in here too?
"Similar term(s): genotoxicity. Definition: Toxic (damaging) to DNA. Substances that are genotoxic may bind directly to DNA or act indirectly leading to DNA damage by affecting enzymes involved in DNA replication, thereby causing mutations which may or may not lead to cancer or birth defects (inheritable damage)."
>Truly sorry for your loss

If that was the case I don't think you would have written what you did.
We should probably take worldwide action with regard to biometrics and tracking. Face recognition and tracking should be completely outlawed, just like biological weapons.
"...and the Sacklers just walked with no criminal liability."

The fact that they did, has to be amongst the top crimes of the century.

That justice can fail so spectacularly is treason against the citizenry. Not only does it undermine people's belief in rightful justice but it also brings law, order and governance into disrespect.

If you want to sow the seeds of anarchy then this is how to do it.
As all of them are NOT official, official software names should not be used in names of such 'forks' (3rd-party builds) without permission.

Much worse, as you can see there are "Scribus Indesign" and "DarkTable LightRoom" which violates not only Scibus & darktable official names use, but also Adobe InDesign & Adobe Lightroom registered trademarks.

FTR, There are also legal 3rd-party publishers who sells FOSS/FLOSS via Microsoft Store, for example see LibreOffice official partners list.[0]

[0] https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-from-micros...
I absolute agree with you, it's an absolute disgrace and while I am all in on holding Apple, MS or Google responsible for their shit, any law in that regard would most likely only affect the livelihood of your friendly neighborhood OS developer, but not actually Apple & Co.
To quote Monty Python: "you're only making it worse!".

This GR thingy holds for every observation, even those here on Earth, but there the time-delay is small enough that we can ignore it. But if you think of it as the first stretch on a very long gradient all the way out to the stars where that difference becomes more manifest then what these researchers have just done is shown you is to prove that the gradient exists on every level of scale, likely all the way down to the interaction of two atoms in a gravity field, but for now we have it down to a mm or so.

This is a super impressive result and it makes this concept a lot more accessible than the 'Earth time is special' vs 'interstellar distances are in the past'. They're all in the past from the point of an observer, even if that observer is a few mm away from the event.
I wonder if apple will start using their own silicon for their own cloud servers.
'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.'

Even just dignity implies privacy, and not being sold as cattle (selling the app with a userbase definitely qualifies).
It is a strange question. For money you can only do a certain amount of things. And if you ask me, I am not ready for too much. I can work for money but I prefer when money works for me. Placing bets https://rutabet.com/ is one of the passive income source I think about. And I think I am quite capable of that. I only need to learn a bit more.
The commented source code was very interesting to read. Thanks for sharing!

https://github.com/xem/sheet/blob/gh-pages/full-commented.ht...
Well texting would have helped.
So why don't you write up an article and provide some benchmarks? You'll win lots of internet points, at least on Hacker News, as a lot of people seem pretty upset that Apple's new silicon is killing it.
I lost a friend to meth and GHB at the beginning of this year, and although details are different, the trajectory is similar.

He suffered anxiety and was fearful about his life for years. Meth was what gave him fleeting confidence and euphoria, but also what finished that life. He was terrified to live, and he was terrified of death, so he self-medicated to manage, and ultimately that killed him.

As one of the people that cared about him who is left behind, I've struggled for answers, but I don't think there are any.
Isn't the point of a FPGA that you can reconfigure it? It seems like a waste to expend it on another CPU.
and unfortunately cuts the path off when it is too long, as happens far too often for me
NocoDB[1] : is a completely free & open source Airtable alternative - it simply transforms any EXISTING MySQL/Postgres databases into a smart-spreadsheet. It offers webhooks that can invoke any API. Getting started is really simple

docker run -d --name nocodb -p 8080:8080 nocodb/nocodb

[1] : https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb

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ffmpeg to reduce/transcode off air digital TV would be my expected regular use case. If this design can do this faster I and a lot of other people will be delighted.
A language like C++ without a stable ABI makes a terrible OS framework language since you'd have to recompile apps every time the framework classes change.
FYI, there have been tons of submissions about this, but the conversation seems to be here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992594

(Not a mod.)
getting zapped by ~50/100v (depending on what voltage your country uses) through the x rated capacitor, at a very low current. I don't use macbooks, but tried very hard to find a usb charger that actually has a ground prong for the same reason, and they seem to straight up not exist.

It's also weird to me, since they have exposed metal and a transformer winding shorting could lead to passing through line voltage to the usb port/your phone chassis. So how does it count as double insulated?
Yes, misleading bullshit stories get more clicks, but selling misleading things is unethical, even if it does get more sales. You can't blame the public for buying something if they are being mislead about it.
In Geekbench Multi-Core, the 5950X is only 33% faster (at 16.6k) than the M1 Max (which benches around 12.5k). So the difference is actually smaller than in SPEC that Anandtech uses.

For all the dissing of Geekbench, I found it to actually correlate pretty closely with supposedly more elaborate benchmarks like SPEC. (The writing was on the wall for Apple Silicon performance for many years, when the iPhone/iPad Ax CPUs where catching up and surpassing laptop CPUs in Geekbench, but lots of people dismissed it because it was just Geekbench...).

To get some context of the M1 Pro/Max perf, people should take a look at https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks, sort by Multi-Core, and slot the M1 Pro/Max in at around 12500.
I hope that more apps can embed tor in the future to hide client unique identifiers (primarily IP, which is city-level geolocation) from services.

Trusting Apple with your strongly-ID-linked payment cards for iCloud subscriptions to hide your IP from backend services is sort of a contradiction.
Why do they keep the tasks secret? I bet because they know they are important but they also know they are fragile in the sense no one else will care enough to do those things. And worse someone else will say don’t do them because they waste time.
OK, thank you.

However, the downside of publicly reporting vulnerabilities is that everyone has this knowledge and does not need a team of pen testers to find these vuln's, correct?

Is there any public info on linux/macos/win desktop patch rates?

I have personally been screwed by Ubuntu patching. I am not a total idiot and I assume I can't be the only one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28957314

edit: I realize that I have foot in mouth syndrome in this thread, but does anyone have real world patch rates on desktop OSes?

Also, am I way off in the thought that publicly posting CVEs allows less technical adversaries to attack you? I believe in the benefits of OSS, but everything has positives and negatives.

If desktop linux has lower patch rates, as is my experience, then maybe we shouldn't be recommending desktop linux to everyone?

These are honest questions in the hope of learning.