skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe the choice of Dual EC DRBG constants are intended to protect against a new cryptanalysis technique known only to the NSA
See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cve-2022-26143/

or: http://archive.today/TX3t7
Although it's a fictional novel, I really like The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
Why did they lie then?
Slack should at least bridge to an open protocol, if not use one outright, so I can use any client I want.

Like they used to.
For me on PulseAudio it consistently switched it as expected, however, it the selected audio profile was quite random.
That is factually incorrect. An ISO9660 is a filesystem on a data CD. An Audio CD is just a stream of bits. That is why you need to rip an audio CD, the CD player needs to transform that stream of bits into blocks of 4096 bytes. It has to remember where the previous block ended and the next block starts. For many years, you had to buy a luxury brand like Plextor to be sure that ripping process would happen without much stuttering and gaps.
Ukraine's small combat drone “The Punisher” destroys Russian supply lines
We can close the door on free speech now that we have the numbers.
I just wish PipeWire didn't have such choppy audio under load, pulseaudio doesn't have the same problem.
And if that's not random enough you should be able to fix it by applying a non-multiplicative function (shifts and booleans for example) to the output values. Feeding one random sequence into a different form of pseudo-random mapping has been shown to be highly effective even when the two functions themselves fail test of randomness.

Edit: This is the concept I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permuted_congruential_generato...
> not that the command returned 0 but that the file it made exists and is the right length

If a command returns 0 when it didn't really do its job. Shouldn't we fix the command instead of the script?
Very well put. History is always used as justification, because then its no longer a proaction, but a reaction - Its victimhood.
Not on Android, no extensions there. Works great with Firefox though.
In a similar situation — I've found the following helpful:

https://staysaasy.com/ (not everything is product related but lots of good insights)

https://twitter.com/shreyas follow him, and I recommend his super-follower subscription (more content for $10/mo)

https://kevinyien.com/blog.html
biolabs != bioweapons and that source does not say they are US owned or operated.
A gas pipeline from Israel could be finished in 2025. Hopefully relations to Russia are normalized by then too.
Does anyone just partner with a recruiter they like and stick with them, rather than try to play the numbers game on an open market?

In the past, as a hiring manager, my best hires by far came from a recruiter that I trusted. His hit rate was amazing. He spent hours interviewing people himself and by the time they came to me for an interview, it was because he already knew they were qualified.

In a world where people jump every few years, hooking up with someone like that seems like it could work out well, if they've built up a decent reputation. Basically like a good contracting company, but for FTE. Instead of multi-stage interviews at 10s of companies (or more), everyone on both sides of the process could save a lot of time and get down to the nitty gritty.

Just spitballing. I am only halfway through my cup of coffee, however. And clearly things like this have been tried, but always on some kind of large scale, which in turn destroys the effectiveness -- because it gets gamed, I'd guess.

But at a much smaller scale, does it work, do people do it?
This is painful to read for failed founders. There is very real survivorship bias applied here. Of course motivation and frugality play a part to success though
And it’s not even expensive, just $800k and they get a headline on Reuters.
Whether someone is transgender or not has nothing to do with whether they decide to physically transition. As well, a person's "actual gender" is the one felt deeply as a part of themselves, not based the sex they were assigned at birth.
Interesting clip with a Russian student in Sweden locked out of her bank account
Why not cater to a specific industry in need of custom operating systems?

The government, natsec, finance and web3 sectors are all flush with cash and in need of good, dedicated, operating systems.

ElementOS could be the OS driving the Web3 industry and the first OS with built in NFT support.

This could be implemented either as a new feature for Elementary proper or as a custom Elementary version.

Early access to Elementary Web3 edition could be distributed via an Opensea NFT auction.
Do you trust your manager? You should just tell him/her that. I don't think I'd worry about layoffs in this market. Big difference between unambitious and lazy/not competent. I'm a PM and devs like you are worth their weight in gold. You could work on the framing a bit. Something like "I'm quite happy with my current scope and responsibilities. I enjoy working to make our current codebase more stable and maintainable and adding scope would either take away from what I enjoy or my family time at home, which isn't worth the tradeoff to me"
Google should have exited russia when it left china.
Survivorship bias should mainly apply to the project, but be separated from the founder.

For startups - I think everyone should intuit and realize that the chances of success are low. A startup's natural state is death - because a founder has to put in excruciating effort to push it alive across market, product, customers, revenue, etc. Death is the default state for ALL of these areas.

This means a founder might not succeed on tries 1,2,3,4,5....10. Mainly because of the combination of multiple factors to get growth AND the founder and founders teams skills. However, if one's outcome IS to exit successfully - it could take years, decade(s) but still possible.. Each founder has to determine if it is worth it.

If one cannot fathom working 60-80 hrs a week for 7 hrs for little to no pay for the possibility of exit - please don't do anything more than start small side projects.
I did the same.

When vaccinations opened up for the elderly, I wrote a script to check open slots and get my grandparents a vaccine appointment.

They patched it up, but similar to the author, I managed to get them one soon after through their website. I’m wondering if we’re even talking about the same website.

Wild days.
A key difference though is that was anonymous (safe) and aggregated (large sample size).

Giving a 1-10 rating directly to your supervisor is a completely different thing and the number is tainted by all sorts of other dynamics.
“This didn’t turn out to be necessary (more appointments opened up pretty soon anyway), but it was fun.”
What a shame Elementary OS is my daily driver. It’s a joy to use.

I hope they can set their differences aside and do what’s best for the community.
Indeed I mixed up CGTN and GlobalTimes.

But, hey, the CGTN post is very easy to find, given the Newsweek article: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=CGTN+russia+Igor+Konashenkov
Truly the least China can do, given the massive financial support they are providing to Putin to facilitate his war effort.
It's been a while since I've interviewed but what can they possibly be asking over 7-8 rounds?

From what I recall, most companies did 3-5 rounds with escalating time commitment from both sides as the rounds progressed. A typical process would be:

* short 15-20 minute phone call with a recruiter to discuss your experience and gauge your interest.

* take home coding test. I consider this step to be a low pass filter to weed out candidates who can't code at all.

* phone interview. This would take about 1 hour with 1-2 engineers on the other end, possibly including the hiring manager. Technical questions would get asked here.

* in person interviews. Usually a full day with the company flying you out to their location. This would be a mix of culture fit, tech questions, meeting the team, etc.

That's four rounds. What would you cover in the other 3-4?
It very much is the responsibility of the NSA, but they mostly fail at their primary job, and conduct illegal activities such as mass surveillance instead.

Another example of a government agency that fails at their job: the FDA. The FDA is supposed to protect consumers from harmful foods and medications, but the fact that you can walk into any store and grab a can of food or bottle of vitamins/supplements contaminated with heavy metals is a huge red flag [0][1][2][3][4][5]. The FDA does 0 product screening whatsoever. If the FDA actually did their job, healthcare revenues would be at an all time low in America. It pays off big time to have a diseased population.

[0] https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/supplements-and-foods-th...

[1] https://www.consumerlab.com/answers/do-zinc-supplements-cont...

[2] https://www.consumerlab.com/news/metals-in-seaweed-snacks/12...

[3] https://www.consumerlab.com/recalls/11882/herbal-supplements...

[4] https://www.consumerlab.com/news/contamination-in-greens-who...

[5] https://www.consumerlab.com/news/caution-with-spirulina-supp...
Apple is a distinct name in that industry. You can call yourself Apple and sell toddler toys without violating any trademark. You can’t call yourself “X in Y city” because it’s not distinct in that industry unless you literally are the only unique one in that city.
With ASLR off, the order and value should be identical between runs on the same malloc implementation, as stochastic allocators are not in common use
Click where to buy tab, then there is a list of distributors. Including ones which sell workstation versions with a configurator and pricing. https://store.avantek.co.uk/ampere-altra-64bit-arm-workstati...
Many of these services use a limited pool of phone numbers that have already been used to register accounts on Twitter, and Twitter won't let you use them for fresh signups.
> arbitrarily

You might not agree with their reasons, but these changes have a lot of costs associated with them (mostly thanks to people who share your views). Calling these reasons "arbitrary" is either ignorant or disrespectful.

> keep your gender politics out of this technical discussion platform

Keep your "gender politics" politics out of this technical discussion platform.
Most excellent first step.

Now please get rid of the 'have you signed in yet?' popup, and you'll be back to being an actual useful resource on the internet.

[edit]: and in the meantime, I'll keep on using nitter.net
When resellers are the only point of contact, the only way to get Apple hardware in a country, it’s just an overall worse user experience for the consumer.
Honestly, ignoring the state actor part of this, even if a bunch of local kids run up and graffiti the outside of a Walmart, I don't think we tend to regard it as a fundamental failure of Walmart's duty to secure their business, or a failure of their architects and security staff to do basic diligence or follow best practices to allow it to happen.

It's just a criminal act, of which Walmart are the victim, and it's the state's job to find and prosecute and deter that kind of thing from happening again.
[dupe] sorry

most discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611859
That's interesting. I thought all of Chernobyl's remaining reactors were shutdown in 2000... why does it matter if it has power or not?
Amazon Flagged to DOJ for Possible Obstruction of Congress
Is it propaganda that China blocks international recognition of Taiwan? That's not the same as troops on the ground but it's a pretty basic rejection of their sovereignty and it shows up all over the place accompanied by threats.
CD Baby's email unsubscribe doesn't work.
I wouldn't mind people forging their passes anyway. They obviously don't want the vaccine and currently it probably would be even a bad idea to take it. The protection wanes off until autumn. You could take a vaccine booster, turbo or afterburner if you want to, but it just isn't a solution really.

We need to hope that the reaction is better than to terrorism. You already hear voices that have problems with not wearing masks anymore. I think a bit of headwind would be good for their development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/heres-whats-in-bidens-execut...

For the most recent example of Mr Biden’s promotional efforts.
I would love to use this if I could transfer from CAD to INR.
https://archive.ph/2SjpK
Really? Where'd you get the numbers for, say, Google? As of 2021, looks like they hire 21,000 engineers, which is almost half your FAANG engineer budget, and while they're big, they're not _that_ big.
More discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611859
A pivot to Asia is what Russia actually needs (and needed, even before the war), Europe is a stagnating continent with a stagnating economy. I venture to say that in the long run this will benefit Russia (if they manage to remain in one piece, that is), because the growth can only come from there, i.e. from Asia.

You're mentioning China/India/Russia like they might be some minions, but taken together they have a population of about 3 billion people (out of ~8 billion the Earth now has) and a giant land surface (thanks to Russia, mostly).

Probably the Western US and Canada will also get dragged into this, economically speaking, for its own benefit.

What was the correct decision for Obama and its foreign policy advisers (they were the first ones to brand the "pivot to Asia" thing) in the early 2010s is also the right decision to take for today's Russia.
> I probably need more coffee this morning!

This is always good policy.
Personal or business it doesn’t matter. If you met your friend for coffee and they told you they are pregnant (for example) would you feel emboldened to post on Twitter congratulations without even asking her if she wants the world to know?

I get that this was 2003 but if anything it would have seemed even more rude before social media made posting about your life online more acceptable.
It wasn't that it was too many words.. it just sounded patronizing. Less words would've avoided that issue.
Yup, and it goes back at least to the Atari 2600, with a 6502-equivalent CPU. For a homebrew game on that, I did the same thing of pointing the stack at the video registers, to get faster throughput with push instructions. The machine has no interrupts so you can always do whatever you want with the stack pointer register.

The 2600's video hardware is actually intentionally designed for such a trick. The register to enable the "missile" objects has its hot bit at bit 1. Why that, why not bit 0 or 7? Because bit 1 is the location of the zero flag in the 6502's flags register. You can enable/disable an object by doing a compare on its coordinate, then push the flags register. No conditionals or branching needed, and you even get a consistent cycle-invariant code path, a useful property on this machine. And there are registers for several such objects adjacent in addressing space, so you can handle them with consecutive push instructions without resetting the stack pointer.

As for inverting the storage to deal with the directionality, that trick was also known on the 2600. Store a sprite bottom-first in memory, so that your indexing counter decrements towards zero rather than incrementing upwards, so you can "branch if zero flag" to know when you're done rather than needing a compare instruction.
I can relate to the document scanning issue. In my case, I digitize all documents I get on paper. For this, I've written this wrapper around scanimage and ocrmypdf: https://github.com/dbrgn/pydigitize

It does the following steps:

1. Scan a document with any scanner that supports SANE (ADF supported), 2. straightening and cleaning of scanned documents, 3. run OCR on PDF so that it becomes searchable, 4. generate PDF/A file for archival, 5. add keywords to the PDF file

I've probably saved many hours with this script, even when taking into account the time it took me to write it.

Tiny projects don't always save time, but they sure are gratifying when they work as intended!
In 1999, my dad bought a surplus PC from an office move. A pentium 166, 24 MB RAM, 15" CRT, and eventually updated to Windows 98. The new CDROM drive broke a few days after, and it took months for the neighbor to get a replacement from whatever flaky family member he got it from. In 1999, a useful PC had to have a CDROM drive, so having it out for months felt like forever. We could have gone to Best Buy or something to get another, but my parents were (and still are) such cheapskates.

The thing stopped booting in 2001, replaced by a 1.2GHz duron with Win 2000.

About 8 years ago, I built a retro PC. I targeted 2000, and got a P3 600, 256 MB RAM, Geforce 2 GTS, 17" CRT, and Win 98. Ball mouse. I turn it on every few months to feel nostalgic. For some reason, I still had the same sound card from that 166 (some Yamaha XG card), so I put it in there, and it sounds so right!
There's nothing quite like an extremely boring all hands where the middle management absolutely fall over themselves to applaud the big cheese, having dryly announced average performance last quarter, in as over the top a manner as they seem to be able to muster.

For those of us less invested in the corporate hierarchy, watching these cult moments slip through is uncomfortable at the best of times.
Is it still going to require to deanonymize yourself with a real cell phone number? As opposed to a virtual phone# like GVoice, Trello, etc?
The full game isn't playable on that page. I believe all three sets of assets (HLDM, Uplink, Hazard Course) are from demos or free products.

Making the full game playable would probably be less OK.
>If you didn't believe your views mattered, you wouldn't bother to post here.

lol wut? Not parent poster, but I post here precisely because I know my views don't matter. This is idle chitchat with people in a similar line of work. There were a few times I've actually had something to say, and you can bet your ass I didn't post it on Hacker News.
In the early days of Elementary OS, I wanted to get involved and help contribute, but even then it was evident that these two were deeply dysfunctional human beings. They generally got along, but they both seemed to think of themselves as the next coming of Steve Jobs. This (and the scary low quality of the source code) put me off of elementaryOS entirely.
The worst part of the new display is that the stand is integrated - you cannot change your mind after you buy it. So if you buy a fancy monitor arm a year after you got your Studio Display with a height-adjustable stand, you'll have to buy a new Studio Display, except this time with a VESA mount.

If you insist on getting a Studio Display, the best option to future-proof your purchase is to get the one with the VESA mount, because at least that way you can have a free choice of stands/arms.
I have the same make. I really like the lower range noise for blocking out stuff. I didn't notice any sort of bluthooth speaker ability. I might have to RTFM. That'd be useful.
Show HN: Axum web framework for Rust – a demo tutorial
> We stopped letting them manufacture anything of strategic military or government significance. We are mostly dependent on them for basic household goods and consumer electronics. Those things could be cut back significantly without destroying our own economy.

That dependence still creates a significant political risk, which the West is in a poorer position to manage.

> Keep in mind that China can't feed itself without the world. That is a much more dangerous dependence.

That would be a serious vulnerability, except the world probably isn't united enough for it to matter. For instance, my understanding is Russia is a major food exporter. Add in a conquered Ukraine and maybe a couple other countries and you might fill that gap.
I feel like these monitors will depreciate in value much faster than their M1 chips. It feels like only yesterday, flat screen TVs were a few thousand dollars. Now, you can get a decent one for a few hundred.
Correct my bad. GDDR6x is still more expensive then GDDR4 you get with Thread ripper.
`Blood Meridian` is a great novel in spite of, not because of his lack of punctuation.

Do you not see the irony in his own use of four commas and a colon while telling us to minimize our punctuation use in this article?

> While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible to preserve my original message without that punctuation mark, that word, that sentence, that paragraph or that section? Remove extra words or commas whenever you can.

Perhaps he merely considered the "Oxford comma" unnecessary!
No? What about using iPhones while they are plugged in? What makes the design not suitable for that? (If the port was on the edge)
I don’t know, didn’t he say that all Americans have been tested for COVID-19 on a national TV advertisement?

I’m absolutely certain that that claim wasn’t fact checked.
A service might be unavailable due to an intentional downtime for maintenance. This is often hidden by various redundancies but certain bottlenecks may remain.
The Advantage of No Funding (2011)
She says that she's concerned that Russia soldiers will take control of the materials in these labs and release it into Ukraine as a false flag, and that the US is working with them to secure these places.

It seems like we're getting into some really weird definitions of weapons if that doesn't count as a "weapon".
Seems strange to change the download default after may be 15 years? I wonder what was behind the thought process.
There is nothing in the video saying the biolabs belong to the US, stop spreading conspiracy misinformation.

Edit: parent changed the text of their post from "US does have biolabs in Ukraine" to "US has an interest in biolabs in Ukraine"
On my droid about 2.5gb of garbage of a software.

And yet it almost works on Google assistant, with hardly any installation.

I too get lost from playlist and search/song wandering, but Apple isn't unique in this regard.
My practical takeaway from these discussions is that for most people, in most situations, any of these modern choices are good enough for purpose - the differences (in whichever direction they lay) come in only when you're pushing the PRNG to its extremes, while operating with a specific set of constraints.
$143.88/year does it for 5 family members on all devices as well.
You're not wrong about early capitalism, but you need to read people after Marx. Try Burnham.

>With ̶c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ elites controlling a countries production, society does not get better with the interests of the majority in mind. It fits ̶c̶a̶p̶i̶t̶a̶l̶s̶ the ruling elite class's interests.

The rule of elite classes is an iron law in history. It long predates the development of banking in renaissance Italy. It will exist in whatever system you naively presuppose to overthrow it.
Everything from 1997-2000 was really just magical

That it was. I worked at a small computer animation studio around that time, and that was when a home built 'cheap' Intel machine with a GeForce cards started to first match and then surpass our high end SGI and Intergraph machines costing 5-10 as much in many workloads.

When I left almost all our animators where using 'home built' computers with Nvidia cards.
I use the Knoll Sapper arms. They are fully articulated and rotatable. You can get them on eBay for not much if you lurk.
Yeah, Apple's stuff is expensive. This is still alarming to someone? If you're looking for inexpensive, you don't go to Apple. That's not what they do, or have ever done.
I'm no etymology professor, but if I had to guess it's related to the phrase tête-à-tête (literally head to head) in French. Kinda makes sense to me that it went from tête-à-tête -> head to head -> face to face -> one on one. Why it's written as "1:1", I haven't the faintest.
Disagree. Last outage was a slow degradation in usability. I appreciate when companies are transparent and upfront.