skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And it's not like you're not being tracked when you stream from a Roku stick / Chromecast.

Believe it or not, there are ways to deliver content to a display that don't involve Roku, Chromecast, or any other instrumented "platform".

From the baseline of a society already saturated with ads, I don't think there's anything unusually evil about giving people the choice to share analytics/see ads in exchange for lower hardware prices. But when that choice is obfuscated or taken away entirely, and it becomes difficult or impossible to buy hardware that doesn't spy on you and/or hijack your attention, I see that as a big problem. It's one more step along the road to a world where consumers simply don't have access to general-purpose computer technology.
Sure, that's what I was getting at with "a pass through the hashing function" though I could have been more specific. Again, I slightly prefer just using a single larger two-part key (or two separate keys) if reasonable, mostly out of a desire to require the minimum necessary cryptographic constructs.

But the point of my question wasn't necessarily to debate those two approaches as much as it was to politely bring up the detail of using independent keys for each cipher. I'm not sure I'd necessarily call it a footgun as much as I would call it proper hygiene.
Nissan to invest $17.6bn over next 5 years to ramp up electric vehicle offering
Recent thread (~300 comments) on open-source firmware for smart TVs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29338658
If the platform made it easier to discover these kind of niches, that would be some real value.
How come? It seems fine to me
An Incan Nobleman Contested Spanish History
Polynesians have long made "tapa" or "kapa" cloth from mulberry bark. It involved a great deal of hammering using a custom stone hammer with a flat face a couple inches wide and maybe 8 inches long, with a grooved surface. I expect the bark was laid over a flattened log.
To add: the Dravidian languages of South India (Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, etc) have no common ancestor with the Indic/Indo-Aryan languages of the North (Hindi, Gujurati, Punjabi, etc) which are part of the Indo-European family. So while they may have some loanwords across them, the grammar and the majority of the vocabulary is totally foreign.
I keep wondering if you can perform psychology experiments on it that would be useful for humans.
My theory is that these cars have multiple drivers.

Driver A is used to vehicles with manual headlights and always turns their lights off when they get out.

Driver B is used to "everything is automatic" and touches nothing when they get in.
There are better ways to win the hearts and minds of the population than authoritarian control of what people see, hear and say. No one likes to be controlled by someone else. Censoring discussion of the issue is only going to make more people assume the election was in fact "fraudulent". Similarly Sam Harris has said in a podcast how laws against Holocaust denial do more to create more Holocaust deniers than they help because they automatically make people assume you have something to hide, even if you don't.

In general, intelligent people feel an intellectual responsibility to question what they are told.
> Also, this ignores the main argument against DNSSEC / DANE:

Incorrect. You can sign your own root zone anytime you like, and we could see alt-roots if the root misbehaves.
> Please, give me the "risk" of having somewhat-fewer millions in the bank. I'll take on all that risk. For free!

Why aren't you founding a company, then? Or a cryptocurrency token, or selling NFTs? Or leveraging up to become a landlord on borrowed money? Or hobnobbing with executive recruiters and VCs while setting yourself up as a thought leader? Or raising capital for a hedge fund? These are all things you can do right now, with potentially (but risky) multi-million-$ payoffs. For many of them you don't even need to quit your day job - your employment contract might say otherwise, but the actual work involved can be done on your downtime without them knowing.

For most people, the real reason they don't do this is because they're uncomfortable with it. They don't want to inhabit a world of secrets, lies, non-aligned interests, and risk, so they take a job that lets them ignore all that and get paid for doing a specific task according to the specifications of their boss.
I feel like this is a little disingenuous.

It is currently most economical to source the hydrogen for the Haber process from natural gas, but there are many alternative ways to produce hydrogen. I wouldn't call that true "dependence".
Right, except now its not just pathological aspects of capitalism causing the problem - its democratized. Now everyone can misinterpret papers in novel an exciting ways that are likely to spread far and wide.
Paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lpor.202100348
3. CT doesn't work if domain owners don't watch it.
Repositioning your review mirror to reflect their headlights directly back into the driver's eyes is not a solution (tested empirically).
The “spatial finder” is a thankfully long dead idea that your file system is a series of places you want to revisit, instead of just another component in whatever task you’re performing. It survives in your desktop and nowhere else, and despite the hushed, reverent tones in which it’s discussed in some circles, would be the first thing any user switched off in their preferences on any modern machine.
Auto high-beams is absolutely allowed in the US and common on new cars. I've had a couple cars with this feature.
Explain to me how guns deaths can be up when guns are difficult to obtain?
Fact: gun deaths are reduced when there are less guns in circulation.

The entire rest of the world outside of the exceptional USA is proof that yes, if there is a political will to reduce the amount of guns in circulation, there are, in fact, less guns in circulation. Your entire argument hinges around the notion that large numbers of illegal guns are inevitable, which is really only true if
1) you live in or next to the worlds largest arms manufacturer and exporter
2)you live in a failed state or war zone in which your nation is the target of arms sales.

Let’s please not say up is down and black is white.
If you definition of "X is for Mars" is so broad as to include "brain-computer interfaces just like on Earth, but done on Mars" then yeah I suppose pretty much everything is done in the service of Mars. For example, Google is working on having the best search engine available to use for search on Mars. Facebook wants to build the best social network, for Mars. Etc.
I don't think this is solvable, or indeed even a problem to be solved. Our definition of "better" probably overlaps quite a bit, but it decidedly does not with many, many people. There are a lot of people who really enjoy "memes and low-effort content".

The reason it takes effort on behalf of the user is because there's no such thing as a perfect read-your-mind content recommendation system that doesn't require any inputs from you, as much as people like to pretend machine learning is magic. Twitter/Reddit et al are a tool for building a content stream that fits you perfectly: their recommendations aren't intended to be blindly and indiscriminately consumed, but to narrow your search space to make the construction of this stream possible in the first place.

This is a simple extension of the trend of broadening distribution we've seen, from having three broadcast channels (all reporting the same news with the same slant and the same blind spots), through cable television, all the way up to today's wide-open, bottom-up distribution system. The root of this type of complaint about social media is that they treat their users with too much respect, trusting them to have the emotional continence and intellectual maturity to build a custom content stream that fits them instead of being told precisely what to believe and what to care about by Walter Cronkite.
Tangental, but does anyone know of a Windows utility for automatically pinning processes?

I like to keep up with several cryptocurrency prices on Coinbase, but the Coinbase Pro pages consume a pretty significant amount of CPU time. I'd love to be able to just shove all of those processes to a single CPU thread to reduce the impact on overall system performance.

I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to write a Python script that does this automatically...scan Window titles to look for "Coinbase Pro", find the owning PID, then call SetAffinity...
If I feel it overwhelms me, I practice self-discipline and stop looking at it for a while.
I did some podcasts using a Blue Yeti and it sounded great as long as the knobs and switches on the mic were properly configured. Afterwards I used Audacity for noise removal, some EQ for things like bass roll-off, and TAP Scaling Limiter for adjusting levels. It was helpful to compare to other podcasts on the same speakers or headphones. Doing the same today I would probably give Ocenaudio a shot, as I like it so far. Good luck.

Edit: Yes, apps that allow you to mark and quickly edit are common.
TV's are such a big business that they overwhelm the rest of the display manufacturing world. That's why 16:10 monitors basically disappeared - 16:9 is 1080p is a TV.

On the other end of the spectrum is professional industry displays which are ahead of consumer facing devices, like are shown at NAB (vs CES) and there you'll find 8k monitors for tens of thousands of dollars.
It may not bring anything to the table for you. I would find it helpful if you phrased your criticisms in a way that didn't deny the possibility that others might find plenty of value.
> I also suspect it won't be necessary to go against free speach to achieve this.

We only need to look at the misinformation from 10 years ago to see how quickly "free speech" comes into play as a counter-argument.

"Obama is a Muslim" and "Obama was born in Kenya" are two pieces of misinformation. Explain what methodologies you'd do to stop these pieces of misinformation from spreading on Facebook, Twitter... or hell... Fox News / traditional media.

Any such restriction you think up with will immediately bring out the free-speech advocates. People want the "freedom" to spread these lies around for political gain.

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Its easier to use 10-year-old conspiracies because they're no longer "hot". I'm sure there are still people who believe in this misinformation today, but they're more riled up about current misinformation rather than past misinformation.
I have seen stories of smart TVs doing active scans for any unsecured wifi network in range, then connecting and phoning home without ever informing the user or showing anything in the menus. Is that a real thing?
Normal. The checks are on background. The account - given you have a second one - will most likely be deactivated in a week or two and you won't be able to unlock it without ID and phone. Accounts with nickname but otherwise real seem to be given a silent pass - but they will use the fact to close your account as soon as they need to kick you fast for whatever reason.
Then what do they mean to you? I think people are just trying to understand. What is "fast" and "efficient" to you? Where do you draw the line?

When it comes to tech in particular, things are pretty much always compared relative to each other, because there's very little other reference points. React is generally deemed as slow relative to Svelte. Rust is more efficient than Python at runtime. These claims mean very little in a vacuum, in fact I'd say that they are almost pointless. You can't base you business decisions on claims that haven't been backed up by data. And if you do, you might regret them later on.
I keep mine disconnected from WiFi, and I connect it to Ethernet maybe once a year just to see if there's a firmware update, then I disconnect it.

I have an Ethernet to WiFi bridge that is already configured on my wireless network, so I don't need to pull an Ethernet cable all the way, and the TV never knows the network passphrase.
> The impact of this pandemic was not limited to 1918–1919. All influenza A pandemics since that time, and indeed almost all cases of influenza A worldwide (excepting human infections from avian viruses such as H5N1 and H7N7), have been caused by descendants of the 1918 virus, including "drifted" H1N1 viruses and reassorted H2N2 and H3N2 viruses. The latter are composed of key genes from the 1918 virus, updated by subsequently incorporated avian influenza genes that code for novel surface proteins, making the 1918 virus indeed the "mother" of all pandemics.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-0979_article
Funnily enough, despite that brand new absolute mess of a website, the ancient original Winamp Forums are still running: http://forums.winamp.com/
> In the mountains of Italy, drivers give a short honk before entering a turn on a serpentine road, which usually can't be seen around.

Swiss busses even have a special horn playing a piece (three tones) of Rossini's, Wilhelm Tell Opera Overture
https://youtu.be/wMWEQdxMhdA
Some more without: mit.edu, harvard.edu, ucla.edu, usc.edu

Some more with: berkeley.edu, stanford.edu, caltech.edu

(Dammit...now I'm curious about what is actually in those records, because the 'host -t ds' output for all of them is 3 apparently decimal numbers, a long hex string, and a short hex strings except for Caltech's, which is missing the final short hex string).
I have a older projector which I bought used some years ago. It was much bigger than expected (you can't tell the size from the image of it..)

https://www.projectorcentral.com/Mitsubishi-UD8350U.htm

Its 6500 lumens DLP and has 2 bulbs. DLP tech is kinda neat (Its literally a chip with flippable mirrors). but modern projectors are usually laser or led based. New ones have gotten brighter for less money too.

I've used it day to day initially and now mainly to project movies. It does draw a lot of power and it does get warm. They're really best at night or in a dark room and with a proper screen. Basically went back to an flat panel tv for TV watching.

I also ended up getting a HDMI/ audio breakout box, because sometimes we used an appleTV or Roku with it and those don't have audio out and my projector lacks it.

The projector central site I found as a decent source of information, you can even enter a model and see how big it will project.
https://www.projectorcentral.com
If your gaming group is full of neo-Nazis, you have way worse problems, though; you could be playing checkers and it would still be a problem. In any case, most board-gamers don't pick a game and find a group, they have a group and pick a game.
This laser requires a second laser to pump it in order for it to work. It's kind of defeating the point of things.
> putsch supporters are a direct threat towards society

What is your feeling towards the summer 2021 rioters? Are they a threat towards society?
Correct: Middle managers almost universally care about NIST recommended algorithms.
Regarding Caddy directive docs, there's examples right at the bottom. What are you missing, exactly? If you could be more specific, we can address it. But as-is, your comment is too vague to be actionable. Feel free to open an issue on https://github.com/caddyserver/website with specific examples you think are missing.

Regarding empty 200 responses, this is because "Caddy worked as configured". A 404 Not Found would be incorrect, because there was no attempt to "find" anything. A 400 would be incorrect, because the request was probably fine. A 500 would also be incorrect, because there was no error. The only option remaining, really, is an empty 200 response. It's the user's responsibility to make sure the configuration handles all possible requests with a handler that does what they want.

Regarding fail-fast on cert issues, the problem was that shutting down often triggers container restarts, causing Caddy to attempt issuance again, usually rapidly hitting rate limits. Caddy v2 no longer has this problem. I really can't imagine any situation where shutting down the server makes sense. Servers are kinda by-design supposed to be stable, and shutting down for any other reason than config/startup issues seems counterproductive. Do you have any specific usecase where it would be useful? You're the first to bring up this point since v2 was released.
Hey Gys thanks, this is definitely a good idea, we'll think about implementing something in this direction in the future
>Whatever happened to the customer is always right?

The full quote is: "In matters of taste, the customer is always right."
Friend from Canada (who cycled from Vilnius to Warsaw) would give short honks to cyclists as some sort of appreciation or something. I thought it’s kinda annoying for cyclists!

Here in NZ will honk (or even call police) if you drive middle of the road - visibility behind corners isn’t great and tourists often confuse where they should drive. Whereas it’s fairly common to drive in the middle in Lithuania - sometimes it has better road surface.
I tend to view design as a signal of legitimacy and competence. Whether it's a website, or a brick and mortar establishment, I will leave if it looks like no attention was given to the way things look.
That's a game-theoretical curiosity rather than an earnest desire to eliminate all of humanity. The point is to make a big show of being willing and able to commit mass murder, while fervently hoping it doesn't actually come to that. MAD is actually a result of people trying to prevent nuclear death - for themselves, at any rate. And I don't think human extinction is an intended outcome even in the very worst case (Dr Strangelove's Doomsday Device being, thankfully, a work of fiction).

But of course you're right - it would be extremely unethical to say the least to actually retaliate in a MAD scenario. This fact is well known and widely discussed.
Now I wonder how this is related...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3784270/Chinese-bil...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-chinese-billionaire-...
Does your phone perform the OCR locally or does it farm it out to a service? There's privacy implications for the latter.
> Basically, when you use a term like "seemingly likely", you do have a number range in mind. Always. Be it 50%-70% or 40%-60%. It's impossible not to.

I don't see how this is supported in the article. And the experiments they discussed -- asking people what probability they assign to certain expressions -- can't possibly support this statement. If you ask people to assign a number to an expression, they'll give you a number, but that doesn't mean they were originally thinking of one, or that the one they come up with is meaningful.

> And it became a problem for CIA agents communicating with each other, because different people have different sense of what numbers fit a given term. It's better to be clear about what you mean by giving explicit numbers. It's understood in this sort of context anyway that your number is not calculated from anything, that it's only the rough middle of a range that sounds right to you.

My experience is with these sorts of number-like estimate things is that I should try to figure out what plain English phrase they are trying to over-specify. I mostly come to this conclusion by talking about current events with people (elections outcomes that they thing are sure things, for example), and comparing the numbers reported (by 538 for example) to odds that they are familiar with (D&D critical hits are a good one, as an event that is rare but memorably encountered). This tends to lower confidence, which indicates to me that people don't really have a feel for these numbers.

I don't really think 70% and 60% are different from an operational point of view anyway. They are both events where we think the outcome has some skew but must plan on seeing the less likely outcome pretty often.
Time and money are fungible resources what costs one costs the other. The 4 steps so described are only as described if one insists both on using a separate device which you happen to already own vs your perfectly capable smartphone and in ignoring possible optimizations. They are also oddly thought out wherein the entire process of shopping for a book to read which may take tens of minutes and involve reading reviews or snippets of a book and which will certainly be completely unusable on your kindle is considered 1 step but so is the act of actuating a single button.

It's also probably wrong to list converting to a kindle compatible format and copying to your kindle as 2 separate operations when one in fact can perform them both by clicking one button or indeed avoid conversion altogether by downloading the appropriate format.

For your consideration.

1. Spend time on your computer/smartphone/in person discovering interesting things to read.

2. Open up your store app/website/device, navigate to the desired book, buy, and download it.

vs

1. Spend time on your computer/smartphone/in person discovering interesting things to read.

2. Open up zlibrary/libgen navigate to the desired book and download it.

vs

1. Spend time on your computer/smartphone/in person discovering interesting things to read.

2. Open up zlibrary/libgen navigate to the desired book and download it.

3. Import into calibre and either automatically convert on import or have it automatically converted when you click send to device

vs

1. Spend time on your computer/smartphone/in person discovering interesting things to read.

2. Open up zlibrary/libgen navigate to the desired book and download it to a folder which is watched by calibre whereupon it will automatically import, convert, and email it to your kindle in the correct format.

This isn't twice as hard and it buys you a copy of your ebook on your computer and device which can be backed up with the rest of your files and which will never stop working because someone else says so. It's also trivial to share with anyone you like just as easily as you can add to your own device. You also get a great search experience on your computer and on your phone if you use calibre companion which incidentally you can use to wirelessly send to your non kindle device.
Exactly, with "language in language out" it can pass as a neurotypical (passing as a neurotypical doesn't mean you get the right answer, it means if you get a wrong answer it is a neurotypical-passing wrong answer.)

Actual "understanding" means mapping language to something such as an action (I tell you to get me the plush bear and you get me the plush bear,) precise computer code, etc.
I'll take two of whatever you're smoking because I want on this ride.
RFC 8439 specifies an interesting method where the Poly1305 key is itself generated using the ChaCha20 block function:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8439#section-2.6
I recently completed a Learn To Rank (with LightGBM) recommendation system at work and I agree. For how powerful the libraries are you would think there would be many more examples. Have you collected or posted your questions anywhere? I hit an error I didn't understand and posted questions on a related LightGBM issue and LightGBM devs responded with enough detail to at least get me unstuck.
javascript was in a very sad state during the time Perl was popular
If I had to guess I’d say it’s just market size. I’d bet there’s a larger market if people who want a large, high definition TV for movies and shows than there is for people who want a high definition monitor.

Most business uses for monitors don’t require high definition, so you’re really looking at specific industries and gaming.
The pi 4 is awesome. I use it as a WireGuard server and a bench computer. I use the zero w as a pihole.
memory is something shared by… one might even say plants. But let us keep to animals: almost anyone, including worms.