skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ransomware will often leave computers untouched if they have a Cyrillic keyboard layout, because aggravating authorities in your own country is orders of magnitude more dangerous than aggravating foreign authorities.

Theoretically, the NSO group might feel the same way.
> early microprocessors such as the 6502 and Z-80 didn't use microcode

If you look at a die shot of the 6502, for example, you will see an area that looks confusingly similar to where microcode would be stored. Turns out, this is a PLA, not a microcode store. The best quick intro to microcoding that I have encountered is https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/uprog.html.
You can't really trust HW switches either. Someone who has physical control over the phone for a while can easily short the switch so that it's basically on all the time no matter the position. (they can do it at the same time they'll be installing the SW backdoor)

;)
I know but everything is likely to leak sooner or later.
Great addition!

I didn't know about /shownew before, and seems it's not listed at /lists either, could /lists maybe be updated to contain all the new pages @dang?
You can’t remove the identifying details and talk about the technical challenge and usage in a generic sense? Your system or software is that specific? Can you give a now public example?
> Also, can people really claim with a straight face that running a book through text-to-speech is the same as a real audiobook (that’s often a voice actor, right?)?

TTS is quickly improving. While it's not quite there yet, there are already ways to have any text read with anyones voice.

There also comes a point where even if it isn't perfect, it doesn't matter to the consumer who just wants the book read to them. Meanwhile, the publishers want the revenue from selling both versions of the book.
an automated system level upgrade in the production env, exactaly 10 sections before launch.

load tests usually only happens on staging env, not production, that is the policy.
"Imperialist Communist dictatorships try to destroy the identities of conquered countries and 'foreign' internal regions, including the USSR and China (Tibet, Xinjing). That fails spectacularly - when the USSR collapsed, all the ethnic identities reappeared."

I'm pretty sure this stuff happens in countries that aren't communist nor dictatorships, too. See the treatment of First Nations people in the US and Canada for examples.

That last line doesn't tell us much unless you can compare it to what happens in other countries: I'm guessing that in most places, the outcome is similar. And to be absolutely fair: My grandmother didn't learn Arabic because her mother insisted the children not speak anything but English. They had moved from Syria to the US long ago. Realistically, it was so they did not get treated badly. No wonder her children and grandchildren (me) do not speak Arabic.
If only the HFS and the OS using it would consistently yield the documents I recently used, across all file system dialogues, that alone would be a huge benefit for me.

Apart from that I'd love to see a tag based file system. Would use.
I wonder when will diversity require to also be skill-wise: like it is required to have someone on your team who cannot code at all, just for the sake of bringing "different perspective".
this is reasonably close to what setuptools’
entry_points
does for creating little shell scripts that call a callable inside your installed python packages.
> Devair Ferreira himself survived despite receiving 7 Gy of radiation. He died in 1994 of cirrhosis aggravated by depression and binge drinking.

I'd be binge drinking too if some invisible dust killed my entire family.
I bet this is someone who read about the 'travelling salesman problem' and quantum computers and put 3 and 3 together.
>How does Rust do this? Does it only apply to memory management?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-00-understanding-ownersh...

This link explains it pretty clearly with example code (which is easy enough to understand even if you've never seen rust code before).
> ...it looks like they were very lucky the plane didn’t hit a skydiver after spinning.

I always find it interesting how we underestimate the expanse of 3D space depending on the view: jumpers are exactly between the airplane and camera, which is not surprising since the cameraperson and jumpers came from the direction of the airplane, with the camera going out first.

From another angle (eg satellite view from above or a sideways view), I am sure the distance between jumpers and the plane would be more obvious. Still risky (you wouldn't plan on passing that close), but not as much as it seems.
That's a slippery slope argument, at best. Every single video game is designed to be addictive to some degree, much in the same way that every chef is attempting to create recipes that bring people back into their restaurant.

What you're saying is that there is a line somewhere that, once crossed, becomes reckless or harmful, and that's certainly true in a way. But where is that line, and who decides it? Is it you? Is it the OP? Is it some committee somewhere? The answer is rather simple. It's everyone, individually. The right decision for you is not necessarily the right decision for me, and our life experiences will always differ in significant ways, which means my line is not in the same location as yours.

Ultimately, the OP's mentality asserts that every business on the planet is acting maliciously and exploitatively, simply because they're trying to make money by retaining customers. And hey, I'm willing to admit that might actually be true -- but it's almost certainly not. Intent matters. It always has and always will.
> Someone who has physical control over the phone for a while

So you shouldn't give your phone to anyone you do not trust?

(Also, AFAIK, you can simply reinstall all software yourself.)
"They wouldn't sell it unless they were absolutely sure it wouldn't be used against its own people and they have no problem selling to their arch enemies."

I do not follow that logic.

They do not have to control every instance of their software, to defend against it.
I certainly would not try to hack someone with their own tools. I would just assume they spot it easily and exchange the favour.
git annex gets very close to what he had in mind.
because they kicked the antivaxx / trumpers / death cult psychos off of Reddit.
That post may have been discussing it, but it was not based on the reality. Having multiple clones is just one of the workflows, one Git users also frequently employ. If anything, Mercurial’s branching model has always been richer than that of Git, since even when if didn’t have Git-style branches (bookmarks), it supported named branches and anonymous branches, which already allowed for a wider variety of workflows than Git ever did.
These two comments summarize my experience as a self-taught programmer. Let me explain.

I discovered StackOverflow and conformed to it’s rules, which closely match the first comment.

When I get stuck and my questions receive little or no attention, I start with the assumption that I don’t know enough to ask a good question, or my approach is unconventional.

It’s then that I go to a more discursive community like Reddit. That was, until, COVID made my local Python MeetUp group go onto Discord where I can participate much more often.

Discord is the forum where your research and effort is valued and appreciated, but not absolutely necessary. This seems to match the second comment.

You can’t expect to receive a definite answer, but you can have an extemporaneous discussion and learn more common, orthodox solutions missing from your knowledge and experience.

YMMV
You can do obvious things, like detect when the user put down the device after the ad stats playing.
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> The question is whether anyone is really using this technique.

No. This is not at all the question. A possible privacy breach is a serious issue, regardless of whether there is a working POC. If this data is somehow compromised, a stalker could get your identity just by following you a few minutes on the street.
this is really great!
It’s very popular in Europe. I haven’t seriously used another chat app since 2015.
I was comparing leetcode to sideprojects, not take home assignments. The parent company was also talking about side projects.

Side projects will help you learn useful skills and it is the suggestion of OP that it should be used by more companies in place of leetcode interviews.

Btw, a lot of companies don’t use leetcode for hiring. In my last job hunting season, I would guess than less than 20% of processes used leetcode. Pretty far from “most” companies.
Unity released native Editor for Apple Silicone recently.
> Do you want the stock price to grow or not?

At the cost of privacy and peace of mind? No.
It also left the front page today, but for the first time I can remember a story actually made its way back to the front page after leaving it.

As far as I can see it didn't attract many upvotes in the meantime so I guess flag abuse was detected.
That's a Kadas opening - pretty terrible but I reckon stil a lot more solid than the mighty Bongcloud!
Yes, see here: https://github.com/AmnestyTech/investigations/tree/master/20...
I didn't give it Contacts any permissions. Works fine.
Chrome is the IE of browsers with respect to being the dominant player approaching monopoly status.

Safari is the IE of browsers with respect to being buggy and behind on features with a slower release schedule.

IE was both and more extreme on both issues.
Helium isn't really a cryptocurrency by most definitions: it relies on hardware blessed by a central authority doing the 'mining': there's no way to participate in the consensus of the network without getting the permission of this authority. Secondarily the incentives are pure speculation: miners make money by minting tokens, they do not make any significant amount of money from users of the network (given fees are fixed and the token is pegged to the dollar there is little reason this should change even if demand on the network increases substantially).

Arguably this is a 'crypto incentive model' (as in most crypto purchases are incentivised by speculation, not utility), but it does not bode well for the long term life of the network. If it does manage to stay around it will be because speculators essentially paid for the installation costs with no return, which represents savvy or lucky positioning by those who set it up but no intrinsic value to the 'cryptocurrency' part itself.
It’s not about me personally, I’m just saying you could have been more constructive.

Edit — thanks for taking the time to reframe your point about the spoiler :)
for those not in the know - can you point out some specific parts of the article that are erroneous or misleading ?
I think you mean not far from Oxford.
On the other hand, it's true you didn't really go into detail with your points, e.g. what information didn't it include?
I was infected back in early 2020 (PCR) and still test positive for antibodies. The virus is still out there so it is likely you continue to be exposed (e.g. the hospital, your son, random trip to the grocery store) causing your body to produce more antibodies. Getting the antibody test might be more informative than you think.
Perl has had a similar trick for quite a while:

eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -w -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
if 0; # not running under some shell

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9143726/what-means-not-r...
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An index is typically a mapping of values to database pages. Nothing about that cares whether the data has been compressed or not. It may or may not be compressed, but it is still on the page somewhere.
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> what is the upside of a game console

No bullshit. PC's have compatibility issues, weird hardware edge-cases where you have to debug with multiple drivers to achieve stable performance (I wish I had only one of those per year of gaming...), etc. Quite simply consoles have issues sometimes, but broadly they are just far too small to really be items. Consistency is king when you just want to play videogames.
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> Wish the hardware was better.

Same here, the hardware is really underwhelming.
I implemented LZ77 when I was at university as I was trying to load gifs for an image processing project. I was absolutely blown away by the simplicity and elegance algorithm. Need to have a look at LZ4.
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Ask HN: What to create in-depth scientific blog posts with
I am looking for tooling that can be used to create comprehensive, explanatory blog posts on scientific papers in the field of deep learning. The blog posts themselves should meet the basic requirements of scientific work, so it would be helpful, for example, if citations were supported.

I first thought about Jupyter Notebooks, but I don't think it's suitable for writing longer texts, and it also lacks citation management. Another idea would be Bookdown, but then the result looks more like a book than a blog.
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> Imho once there is a "console" that is basically Steamdeck with builtin Steam store and a powerful GPU... in otherword a fully capable PC with desktop performance + the console user experience (or almost there) there is strictly no reason to buy a Sony/Nintendo console anymore

I'm not sure I understand. What kind of device are you waiting for? The way I see it, a "fully capable PC with desktop performance + the console user experience" already exists, it's called a gaming PC with Steam Big Picture.

> But it doesn't matter anyway, since if Valve can release an actually good "console" experience, with builtin Steam store... Nintendo and Sony have nothing more to offer bar a few exclusives.

If Valve releases a console with an actually good console experience, then great, one more console with good console experience to choose from. So what does it bring to the table that other consoles don't have? Their PC-gaming oriented game catalog full of games that are either also available on consoles or are for some reason unsuitable for the usual couch+controller style? Because if I wanted that, I would've bought a gaming PC with Steam Big Picture, a thing that already exists.
A german Podcast from Historians regarding this incident: https://www.geschichte.fm/archiv/gag318/
But there wasn't an actual verdict, or was there?
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> I talk about something nerby my iphone and then relevant ads appear in the internet browser on the device

How do I stop this?
Is it? In WhatsApp all of your messages are E2EE. In Telegram it’s an option, only works in 1:1, doesn’t support desktop, and uses homegrown encryption.
Nobody seems to have noticed (yet) that this wisdom was in the Bible already... So I'll be the one to point it out:

1. The one walking with the wise will become wise, But the one who has dealings with the stupid will fare badly (Proverbs 13:20).

2. Do not become unevenly yoked (2 Corinthians 6:14).

We do as we see others do, and we feel inclined to buy/travel/achieve as we see others buy/travel/achieve... So it is important to match yourself up with someone who is at least sort-of in the same ballpark (achieving realistic goals) and can be considered "wise" (as in: being able to apply knowledge).
He did many great things, but to be honest I also think of him as an example of how activism can consume people and ruin their lives.
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Yes, but GIF is based on LZW, as the article you linked to says. LZW was derived from LZ78. They both IIRC use a dictionary coding approach with an explicit dictionary that is constructed during processing. Indices into the dictionary are used to encode repetitions.

PNG uses deflate, which is based on a combination of Huffman coding and LZSS, which is derived from LZ77. LZ77 encodes repetitions using back references into a sliding window. To my understanding, LZSS also uses a dictionary based approach, but only for finding such repetitions during encoding.

So this does not answer the question if LZ77 was patented or not.

The Wikipedia article about LZ77 does cite a patent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78#cite_note-3) and somebody in the talk page mentions that there's been a law suite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:LZ77_and_LZ78#Patent_cont...). However, quickly scanning over the patent, it seems to discuss an improved algorithm based on LZ77, perhaps it relates to LZS? (Note: not LZSS from above; this is again is a different algorithm)

The LZS page mentions a law suite sounding similar to the one from the talk page, but contains no direct reference to the patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Sta... It also states that the LZS patent was filed in 1993 and expired in 2007 (due to not paying their fees).
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Apparently it runs just fine a little fiddling. https://github.com/mikigal/ryzen-hackintosh
GrapheneOS has a Sensors permission toggle to allow/disallow an app accessing sensors.
I can, and that’s usually what I do, but there are identifying details about the very specific domain which AWS only has a single product in.

So I can talk about architecting a system, about customer feedback and redesigns, but I can’t talk about work I did that will span another three years.

I think at FAANG it’s usually fine — most people have good enough examples even without their full repertoire. But at mid enterprise or F500 companies I could see this being a bit impactful.
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200Hz really isn't in the ballpark of making this "very hard".
I'm honestly tired of seeing mimesis and mimetic desire associated with Peter Thiel. Why is Thiel even mentioned?... To get twitter tech bro clicks?

Girard was a literary scholar who focused on myths and mimetic desire was just one part of his analysis of mythical or narrative texts. The other large part of his analysis is related to the scapegoat and how it is the "mortar" for building communal and religious social structures. Certainly read some of his essay collections or even one of his longer books. At the very least read a summary online.
I recall that Snapchat explicitly mentioned accelerometer data in their privacy policy - why would you mention it unless you did or have plans to use accelerometer data in the future?

I don't think it would require significant bandwidth; the data is just integers which can be collected, compressed and uploaded asynchronously (as part of another heavy upload such as someone sending a picture). The analysis part could be similar to how Shazam works, but that can be done on the server side so on-device performance isn't a concern.
Stamps, sure, but paintings from certain artists are definitely considered "cool".
i know that feel, bro, i am paranoid as well
Have you told this to the German Army and the French Police?

Because they seem to like it and, based on my experience with the military being able to run it independently is a major consideration for them even for smaller systems.
> 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

> ...

> 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677419

Did you link the same discussion twice on purpose?
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Controlled descent and touch down does not require stall. Not sure where you’re getting that but in my type (sr22), touch down is at speeds considerably above stall speed in landing configuration.

Ref Approach (100% flap) -> 85-90kt

Stall (100% flap) - 59kt

And documented stall speeds are when the wingtips and ailerons start losing effectiveness - the wing still generates plenty of lift.
It uses essentially no battery. IIRC, it uses so little that even when your phone battery runs out and the phone turns off, the accelerometer keeps counting your steps.
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The 8086's microcode has been disassembled (and is mostly documented) by the way [1]

1. https://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled/
> I also think of him as an example of how activism can consume people and ruin their lives

The feds and those in power ruined his life. Our legal system ruined his life. Our society ruined his life.

This line of thinking is like "don't even attempt to change the status quo."
Probably not, just like it isn't ponzi. Bubble and mania are entirely reasonable terms though. Considering how much value comes from utility and how much from speculation and wish to make easy money... Seeing some tokens popping up going up in value and then coming down. While seemingly not providing anything real yet.

Not that there isn't small cases for remittance and illegal things.
There are Android OSes like GrapheneOS with sensors permission so that apps won't have access to them unless you grant them access.
I’m in Australia, so comparatively it’s also not far from Watford.
Could you comment on what about the culture you like, and maybe what you don’t like?
There's a pretty small class of games where that happens in a relevant way. And tbh players and reviewers seem to punish that a lot less than a game that outright crashes.
Most of the aforementioned apps already have autoplaying media and/or keep the camera running in the background (officially for quicker access to it when the user opens the camera view, as it normally takes a second or so to initialize it). Seems like collecting accelerometer data is a drop in the bucket in comparison.
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> If there are people in advanced alien civilizations, they don't travel in spaceships.

I must point out that you start your argument by criticizing an assumption and then you make a big assumption. We don't know what an interstellar spaceship looks like. If we can build one and push it to 0.25c, we can reach the next star in 40 years, acceleration and braking included, and we are relatively fragile and short-lived constructs.

Life support requirements for aliens could be anything, from a forest or an aquarium full of water to a computer running a simulated crew in a simulated environment, blueprints to start rebuilding bodies after they arrive being optional depending on their requirements to interact with the physical world.

We really can't rule anything out, as their motivations, technologies, and requirements are not human.
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