skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two at the moment working on a third. The first one I’ve made around 2k last year the other one is in stealth mode as it depends on a functionally from the third one.

I gotta say it’s pretty hard to work on side projects and have a life if you hold a regular job and family but it’s doable.

My utopia is to build side projects that are fully automated and self sufficient so I don’t need to spend times on things I don’t enjoy like support etc.
There's a huge difference between "exists" and "is now commonly available and made easier to use". The frog-boiling is slow, but an increasingly large number of us are becoming aware of this new rise of corporate authoritarianism, and we know how it will end if we do not fight it as hard as we can.
China has absolutely nothing to worry.
The evidence is overwhelming that complacency is the dominant narrative here.
In an ideal world we would be all using open standards protocols/file formats/etc which would avoid this mess however in reality what ends up happening is a replay of the XKCD comic about standards - every vendor insisting that after embracing an open standard that they have some unique corner case that requires them to diverge from the standard rather than work within the system which starts off as divergence then leads to a completely new standard. The committee process is pretty horrendous as well as demonstrated by how long it took took to standardise HTML5 and the various organisations who were members either throwing around their patents or threatening to block any movement forward.
I’ll take terrible wig work over ‘oh shit, am I about to get a migraine?’ camera work any day. Nevertheless, I think my wife and I quit watching around the beginning of season 3 when it was clear the show had utterly jumped the shark.
> Take a look at the past 3 years of presentations at DARPA ERI

Thanks but I'm good, I'll just take your word for it.

I'm sure Intel can materialize FPGAs when the contract warrants it. It doesn't follow that because military or corporate contracts exist consumers will somehow directly benefit.
We got the Hubble after they made spy satellites about the same size. Maybe there is the equivalent of the JWST looking down at us?
Did you forget the /s? Honestly can't tell...
>to the criticism that was levied against UEFI Secure Boot when it was being debuted

...or the fearmongering from up last year regarding TPM and windows 11. People were going hysterical over the thought that TPM might be used for DRM, not realizing that they're already running hardware that does exactly that (intel SGX, amd PSP).
Maybe editorialized a bit, though I didn't attribute the quote to Fauci particularly because the fib wasn't coming from only him. A lot of people were saying similar things. And the context, of course, is fear of mask shortages for people who needed them most.

But what really gets my goat, much more than that white lie, is when grown adults feign ignorance and pretend they never heard the lie, that the lie was never told. Two years ago isn't that long ago, we all remember it. I think the feigned ignorance is perhaps another white lie motivated by good intentions; maybe some think they can fight covid by defending the reputations of public health officials who were only telling a well intentioned lie in the first place. But despite those good intentions, I think this denial of history is tantamount to gaslighting.
And I believe hospitals are given upwards of $10,000s for each COVID patient they admit, so..
Yeah. In the time it took them to not solve that problem, WhatsApp et al. took over the world of texting from under them.
No they'll probably only backdoor drones to get footage of stuff that interests them (wherever that may be).
While that's true, with regard to some Surface devices, as I understand it, ARM systems have only become more open and interoperable over the past few years; although this holds true a lot more for the server side than desktop side.

The main issue these days is driver support. The PC platform was an anomaly in backwards compatibility, at least historically. I'm not arguing that it's going to be easy for FOSS. It's going to be an uphill battle, regardless of how locked down they are (and I'm just arguing that they won't be that locked down—see the recent M1 Macs for an example; Apple could easily have locked down those systems in exactly the same manner as iOS/iPadOS devices, but chose not to).
As someone who's used MySQL for 17 years and dabbled a little in Mongo is there any reason to try and switch to Postgres?

Obviously I love learning new things, but I've just never felt inclined to try it out, whereas I'm always jumping between other languages and frameworks within them. Not sure why that is.
A quick look at the author's credentials should clear any doubt about the motivations behind this article's intentions --- over the past few years, I have come to the conclusion that anyone who works in the "security" industry is almost certainly working against you and your freedom.
iMessage is a pretty good messaging app, but it is hard not to also think that it’s dominance is partly ensured with Google’s scatterbrained approach / messaging attempts.
All good tips! I never understood why pgbouncer wasn’t just included by default.

Additionally, the linked article about checking for unused indexes is really helpful IMO.

https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/cleaning-up-your-postgres-...
As someone who wrote their own "Quote of the Day" server [1] I will agree that the QOTD protocol (RFC-865/STD-23) is simple, but not quite the "ridiculously easy" as you put it. Let's assume we have something like that. The code for the service itself is pretty simple (listen for a connection to TCP port 17, send a quote, close the connection) so there shouldn't be that many updates for the QOTD program. But can the user add new quotes? If so, how secure it is? Can that be exploited? How often should the quote be changed? Every request? Once a day? Something in between? How is it configured? Do you need to document DNS settings? Are there mitigations to keep a client from swamping the service with requests? [2] Are requests logged (say, to monitor bandwidth usage or to see how popular a service it is)? Where? How long?

Nothing is ever "easy."

[1] qotd.conman.org

[2] Not a problem I've had yet.
We do too in native English, but “factory unlocked” has a more precise meaning, in that it reflects a potential change in the hardware. SIM locks and/or carrier locks refer to this property.

The Android and Google locks are independent of the above types of locks, and are account bound like the above locks, but instead of being linked to your phone service account, they are linked to your Google or Apple accounts. You could have one and not the other, or neither, or both. However, no end user benefits from a carrier or SIM locked phone. Mobile device OS-level blocks are important for security, however, and are under the control of the legitimate user and may be turned off anytime. To disable the SIM or carrier locks, you need the unlock code you originally mentioned.
When I looked into the figures, a large proportion (a majority?) of the "waste" occurred before the consumer even bought the food, so although the statistic is designed to shame people for their "wasteful" behaviour, the problem can't actually be substantially fixed without forcing people to eat lower quality "food" or otherwise reducing the food options available.
All Microsoft need to do to block other operating systems from PCs is change their policy around secure boot. All they need to do to prevent unsigned apps from running is change the default behaviour of Windows. The code exists. It's deployed. It's commonly available.
Determine whether that crop field is firm enough to support a tank driving over it. Or whether a helicopter can land on it without getting stuck. Or whether the crop is dry enough to catch fire. Or is the crop high enough to mask troop movements. And that is just the field. The nearby hedgerows, roads and other infrastructure is a big deal too.
Linux device driver development is a rare skill. You’re fine. Linux isn’t getting anywhere, and device makers are still making devices.

There are talks about moving drivers to Rust, so that’s probably the next thing you’ll have to learn.
If the person does not have the right to audit the model - i.e. determine how and why exactly it flagged them - with consequences wrt government interaction with that purpose, I would argue that it's a violation of due process. If it's impossible to meet that standard with ML in a satisfactory way, then perhaps ML should not be used in those contexts at all?
Your ARM smartphone and/or IOT device don't support UEFI or secureboot, yet they were still locked down and you couldn't flash third party OSes. The problem is locked bootloaders, not UEFI or secureboot. Fearmongering over a largely non-problematic implementation (secureboot explicitly allows you to load your own keys) is exactly OP's point.
I have gotten the short answer and a significantly longer answer from a climatologist. The short answer while wrong still seemed like a reasonable summery and quite understated. I can’t say if the full answer would change my opinion, but it seems unlikely.
One of the big arguments against climate change is the suspicion they "the scientists are lying". You're taking away the credibility of the entire field.
Not a teen by many decaf, I recently got an iPhone, I received a surprising amount of congratulations after my bubble color changed. From a wide range of people.
Curiously this standardized on utf8 already. Was it mainstream by 1997?

I found a web UI here with many databases. But not all databases seem to be selected by default, e.g. one first has to pick the right one to get a result for a Japanese word.

http://dict.org/bin/Dict
Wordlesmith, a tool to find the best Wordle guesses
That's not a meaningful distinction. Julia is a powerful enough language that OffsetArrays don't need to be built in to work perfectly. Good languages don't need everything built in.
Honestly, after using PG for a couple of years it’s more than a little painful to go back.

You don’t realize how limited you are until you really get into all the additional capabilities that PG brings…and then have them unavailable.
Why the Best Idea Doesn't Always Win (2014)
I'll have what he's having.
Can ‘Banana Buffers’ Save California from Wildfires?
Once had a bug that set then re-set a cookie. Worked just fine in a browser. A customer wrote some automation that depended on the bug and ignored the first set-cookie. The bugfix caused some problems.
There's a direct line between the Microsoft/AMD Xbox SoC corporate contract and Pluton in 2022 Ryzen consumer CPUs, as described in the videos linked above. It's not in Intel's interest to make Microsoft-AMD designed Pluton into the exclusive silicon RoT provider for Intel CPUs.

Another candidate for "Open RoT" is Google's OpenTitan, https://opentitan.org.

Open-Source FPGA Foundation: https://osfpga.org/
No one wants to return to presenteeism or exploitation.

Actually it's plain that the author does (at least as far as presenteeism goes), going by the title she chose. She's just being a bit wishy-washy about it.

One company director I know was recently surprised, on trying to schedule a meeting with a junior employee, to be told that it clashed with his yoga session.

Director needs to check company policy as to whether it allows flextime, and if it does (which presumably it does) -- back the fuck off. If the employee has flextime, then they have flextime -- end of discussion.

At the same time, employee needs to be smart and tell his superior it wasn't a yoga session, but a chat with his doctor or something similar.
> No I don't want proprietary internet enabled hardware on my PC monitoring my software

Good news! Pluton is not internet enabled and can't monitor your software.
I also find that people tend to enjoy things more when they aren't forced upon them. For instance, people who can afford to buy and maintain a house enjoy not buying one and living minimally, whereas people who can't afford to buy one wish that they could. Minimalism, ironically, is pursued almost entirely be rich people.
>Look at Intel Boot Guard and all the stuff around that.

what am I looking for? It looks like you couldn't load third party/modified firmware with that enabled? I suppose it's strictly more locked down than being able to flash whatever firmware you want, but was there a sprawling scene of modified firmware around at that time? Or did everybody essentially run the stock firmware?
I created a WhatsApp group chat for my family years ago and there's never been any functional problems. Obviously there's that whole Facebook privacy issue but I don't see my family switching to something like Signal anytime soon.
I’ve pondered this on occasion. In this era of people in their 80s holding many of the major positions in government and business in the US, I wonder whether this was their final attempt to prevent transferring power onto the newer generations. I’m not saying this was a conscious strategy, but it certainly was a very interesting phenomenon especially after listening to Eric Weinstein decry the lack of generational transfer in the US.
I really don’t think that’s true. Tens (hundreds?) of thousands of additional Americans are dead from Covid because they believed easily disprovable lies about the safety and efficacy of vaccines by people who have reputations for lying. Most people believe anyone they consider to be an authority. It’s too exhausting otherwise.
And my kids are public school students in Texas. It’s not that bad here. This is all hysteria, not Covid itself.
For a cheap, specific recommendation: if consumers of an api shouldn't depend on the order of a result set, randomize it.
> Researchers, though, cautioned against drawing direct lines between these spikes and conditions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupted nearly every aspect of U.S. life starting in the middle of last March.

> A heightened appreciation about mental health in 2020 might have prompted parents to get their children mental health treatment, they said.

> “Conversely, by spending more time at home together with young persons, adults might have become more aware of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and thus been more likely to take their children to the ED," according to the report.

Happy to see a correlation != causation disclaimer.
> Conversely, by spending more time at home together with young persons, adults might have become more aware of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, and thus been more likely to take their children to the ED

Is ED the emergency department? Or something else?
I'm not even a parent, but I've been incredibly distressed by this trend. Several of my good friends have had their daughters attempt suicide (luckily, none have succeeded, although 2 extremely close calls). It's been utterly gut-wrenching to watch these talented, kind, ambitious girls spiral into shells of their former selves.

Luckily, all my friends are fellow techies who are upper-middle class, and can afford medication and therapy (and in one case, out-of-state long-term hospitalization.) But even with insurance, they're looking at many thousands of dollars of treatment.

It makes me sick to my stomach to think of all the lower-class parents who are terrified of their kids killing themselves, but can't afford therapy or psychiatry visits, and can't get pro-bono help (apparently the wait lists are several months long in many cities.)

It's past time the West reckons with our mental health crisis. Why is it that we're the wealthiest nations in the world, yet our kids are more stressed and depressed than kids in third-world countries? I think society will only become more and more unstable until we spend time seriously addressing that question and adjust our culture accordingly.
Contrarian viewpoint: Everyone's eventually gonna catch COVID-19 and it can't be stopped.

All the travel restrictions, testing, school closures, quarantines, vaccine mandates, etc. are accomplishing is imposing costs and creating chaos.

People will be hospitalized. People will die. Hospitals will be overwhelmed.

It's unavoidable at this point, but no politician or policy maker has the courage to admit that.

COVID might have been containable with massive travel restrictions, testing, and contact tracing in the first couple months of 2020. Between the testing screwups, the factually challenged political posture adopted by a certain former POTUS in the early days of the pandemic, the WHO's general incompetence, China's questionable actions, the disease's ease of transmission, and the delay in travel restrictions, that scenario is long gone.

We're all going to take our X% roll of the dice against COVID. You can have a better roll if you get vaccinated, but then you have to consider: (1) The Y% chance the vaccine has a side effect that wasn't caught in trials and won't show up for years, and (2) The cost of meekly accepting that the government of a free country has the power to force people to get a medical treatment they don't want by taking away their ability to work or travel if they refuse, and also the privacy implications of allowing airlines and employers to ask for personal medical information, and the establishment of centralized databases for that information to deal with people who fake vaccination cards.

(I personally got vaccinated, but I'm not getting the booster; reason (2) above is a part of that calculus. Another part is that when I got the first vaccine, I justified that decision by reasoning that long-term side effects are unlikely as the MRNA, adjuvants, or other weird leftovers will wash out of the body within months. That justification goes out the window if the vaccine's not a one-and-done and you start accepting boosters.)

It's not a choice between (a) Massively disrupt these kids' lives, or (b) they catch COVID and some of them die. It's a choice between (a') Massively disrupt these kids' lives / educations, and some of them catch COVID and die, or (b') These kids have a reasonable education and some sense of normalcy, even though some of them will catch COVID and die.

It's the truth. Unfortunately, no one who has real authority to set policy is willing to admit it out loud.
The author of that one is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29852950
WhatsApp isn’t as heroic as that: for a long time it was phone-only.
They need to boil the frog slowly enough that most people won't realise until it's too late.
Wow that's might be an record for worst analogy ever. A cult needs a figurehead and leader which is the exact opposite of this technology is trying to accomplish, here a suggestion, don't use the word "believe", it's technology, go read the white paper and the science behind it.
> Wasn't there a line of MS Surface devices where secure boot could not be disabled, and users were stuck with Windows?

All Windows RT devices (32-bit Arm desktop Windows). Not only Secure Boot was locked down there, but apps had to be signed by Microsoft.

64-bit Windows on Arm adopts the security policy of x86_64 Windows, which means that you can turn off Secure Boot on production hardware. (and run your regular apps too)
I wondered why the Rust community seemed so averse to 1.0 releases, but Rust for Rustaceans makes the interesting point that there are a lot of cases in the Rust language where adding new features technically qualifies as a breaking change. There doesn't seem to be a lot of room for the minor version number - everything is either a revision or a major release, and people aren't ready to commit to that level of strictness until they're feature-complete.
This has changed in the last few years: https://ecoamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/nuclear-su...
As Apple is the first company to ever reach a $3 trillion dollar market cap, I’m not sure they find this to be a high priority, as they have the means to both track and remotely disable stolen devices. I believe the first time they deployed this capability en masse was after protests and looting a year or so ago.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/local-authorities-wi...
Just use Whatsapp. That's what my family has done to work around the issues with weird iPhone users.
Yup. Emergency Department.
Honestly I needed to read your phrasing to understand the original phrasing of the law.

Thank you.
Risk Bubbles Are Deflating Everywhere, Some Market Watchers Say
Both are true. Fiscal and monetary stimulus drove financial assets owned mostly by 40+ and retirees to the moon. House prices have become more unaffordable just as millennials (already saddled with college debt) are getting ready to buy their first homes. Inflation has eaten into real wages even with increases.

We also locked up an entire generation of zoomers in a house for two years. I was all for lockdowns in early COVID since we didn't know what we were dealing with, but we kept schools closed for far, far too long.
I have 45% left, but how much of that is useful, healthy time?

I just spent 8 years in jail simply because I was broke. What a waste of some of the best years of my life.
> Some x86 systems weren't completely locked down, but similar systems successfully lock down millions of phones, tablets and console devices.

so shouldn't we be protesting against the systems that are locked down, instead of protesting against largely non-problematic implementations? For instance, with secureboot you can load your own keys, and the TPM isn't some sort of coprocessor that has access to your entire system.

>If Microsoft or Apple decides they don't like you or your app, all they need to do is to revoke your signing certificate, and Defender and Gatekeeper won't let your software run on Windows or macOS.

I'm not sure about gatekeeper, but at least on windows smartscreen can be disabled. I understand how having a gatekeeper sucks, but I also understand the problem of malicious software, which gatekeeping partially mitigates. In the end the fact that you can disable makes it a non-issue for me.
The truth is you can just say "[Internet connected devices] used by [persons] could be spying" and it's true.
For arm: anything that runs Windows on Arm64 uses UEFI + ACPI, making stuff easier on that front.

Linux drivers for Qualcomm SoCs don't have extensive ACPI bindings at this point in time though, making the use of a separate devicetree necessary for full functionality. This will be mostly ironed out with time I suppose.
I use Android and can send texts or make calls using wifi. I also can see if the recipient received my message and if they are replying.
I replied to parent. Democrats now poll around 60% in favor of nuclear energy while Republicans poll at 64% in favor. It changed a lot in a few years.
irrelevant who the legal owning entity is.

The fact is, a pilot did not purchase the plane with his own money, and is working for a giant corporation that can negotiate a contract with another giant corporation.

A farmer, esp. a small scale private farmer, is not in the same position to negotiate a favourable contract as American Airlines would to Boeing.
I wonder if there are some aliens looking at this, and wondering if another advanced civilization has put this together (just like we were wondering with ʻOumuamua). To me James Webb looks definitely like alien technology, if it manages to pass 50 deployment stages, depending on 178 deployment mechanisms... The team working on this did an incredible job! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAvXYW5bmI&t=195s
Here in Haiti, it was between texting 5 messages or call for one minutes (if you have not activated any special plans). So, when WhatsApp came, everyone switched and SMS is now mostly ads from the provider. Most people only do quick calls and would wait when the internet get better to do longer exchanges. Internet infrastructure is still not good.