skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did question it, and I also remember when the police and government were trying to ban masks as they hindered surveillance. Seems like people seemed to forget that. It was a small inconvenience that probably helped things. Now it’s kind of irritating - currently on holiday in Lisboa and the obsessiveness is frustrating.
The devils's in detail. How much is "not that much"? I'll take all the cumulative small probability gains I can get. Cost vs benefit.
Hard drive, and SSD firmwares have had massive issues in the past, including ones causing major filesystem corruption and data loss.

There was even once a bug which, after X hours of SMART recorded usage, would cause the SSD to lockup every hour thereafter:
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/oh18a/attention_c...

SSD firmware issues can be very serious.
Doesn't that mean you can warn of anything, and if it doesn't happen, you can say "See, it didn't happen because I yelled about it on the internet"?
I expect my family and friends to help me out. I don't expect the entire world around me to dance to my tune because of a fear I hold. When I was 10 years old nobody stopped smoking around me in indoor places, so now the same people who smoked all their life and ate themselves obese are afraid of my fresh super healthy fit breath? Sorry, not my problem and I honestly couldn't care less. On my list of priorities that is as far down as it could possibly be. And I don't think I'm selfish, I'm human. Everyone is selfish. It's selfish of those people to demand huge sacrifices on healthy young folks because of their own shortcomings. I'm happy to take a vaccines, which I did 3x against COVID, because it has no impact on my life, if anything it helps me, but I am not going to restrict my freedoms and lock myself at home, stop working, stop seeing family and friends and stop living life because of others.
lol, peak HN. XD
Reverse Engineering the Tesla Firmware Update Process (2020)
Go currently uses a binary search for integer switches (and I believe serial comparisons otherwise). Jump tables are in development and likely to appear around 1.19 or 1.20. As you say, there's a lot of edge cases to consider when figuring out whether a table or comparisons are the better choice.

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/357330/
Maybe with a video digitiser? On the MSX it worked like that.
The EU has a special status for people fleeing Ukraine right now (afaik including permanent residents, not only nationals) They get a temporary, time-limited right to stay (1 year, possibly extended to 3 years) and this includes the right to work and access to social services and healthcare. See https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/migration-and-asy...
> despite the fact there was no lockdown at the time or planned (nor did it happen) in the future

Did you not consider the possibility that the government bowed to pressure, such as the protests, and didn't lockdown?
It's a market place of rationalizations, with the winner being the most feel good.
I also feel it's necessary to help children avoid the consumption trap. But why not start with a low-end embedded system? It would be easier and cheaper to source, program and take home. Plus: blinkenlights.
Looks awesome! I see you came up with a new file-format to store responses; have you see the webbundle spec: https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-wpack-bundle...?
Ask Syrian refugees here in Europe what they actually fled. They fled the bombs dropped by Russia and their Syrian allies. It was Russia and their Syrian allies who were responsible for the majority of civilian casualties and the massive flow of refugees.
Dog Trashes Vet Clinic After Waking Up to Find He’s Been Neutered
> People are accustomed to start work at "8am", and react badly to being told to start work at "7am".

Retail workers and shift workers of all kinds constitute an existence disproof.

"Next week you start at 5:30am, open at 6, finish at noon -- on Tuesday through Thursday, then you come in for 6pm to midnight on Friday. Welcome to Starbucks."
My theory is that there can be only one crisis at a time in this country. Brexit gave way to Covid, and for 18 months or so that was the only story in the news.

But now, there’s a frigging war going on in Europe, so Covid might as well not exist anymore.
> Ps: every single person boarding a plane for non urgent reasons is an idiot. Period.

Why?
I have a pic of me behind my first msx early 80s which looks somewhat like this [0] (and indeed I still hate pictures taken of me). When I showed it to my wife she said something like; ‘should I check your man cave for sawed up body parts?’.

[0] https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KZiOrhlsZfo/XIv4X7WGo-I/AAAAAAADd...
That's a very different proposition. It holds for your initial statement:

> It is non obvious but important to understand that most password managers, such as 1password, Lastpass, and almost everything else, expose all secrets to malware in plain text any time the password database is unlocked

and I agree that this is then true.

However, I would also consider that this is true for everthing, no matter the software you use. If malware gets on your machine, consider anything you can access via your machine compromised. I think this is fairly obvious to people here, and has no bearing in which password manager to use.
Likewise. Personally, since it works well I'm going to leave it as it is.
>They are ‘civilised’ and ‘look like us’

Yes, and? How is giving compliments being racist to anyone?

Is saying 'my girlfriend is smart and beautiful' hurtful to every other women? Is my boss saying 'Brian is smart and hard working' insulting to everyone else?

I wish this cringe wokeness and trying to spin everything into racism would stop.

I expected far more from a prestigious paper like The Guardian, instead of tabloid trash like this, but I guess they had a woke quota to fulfill, otherwise some activists on Twitter would call them racist if they hadn't called Europe racist first.
Part of what draws people to Gemini is not just web minimalism in terms of architecture, but minimalism in terms of culture. The web is no longer the exclusive niche of a technically literate elite, but in terms of the "geeks, MOPS and sociopaths" model of subcultural evolution[0], Gemini is meant to be a space where the MOPS and sociopaths never show up to ruin things.

Once you understand that, it makes sense. It's the tech version of "my own web with blackjack and hookers and no Homers allowed."

Except not with blackjack and hookers, because blackjack would require complexity and interactivity and hookers would mean capitalism and advertising. But definitely no Homers.

[0]https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
Jump Desktop’s Fluid protocol is shockingly good- by far the best remote desktop solution I’ve ever found for macOS.
You could still run the world on those. Software has just become really terrible. The keyboards were much better back then.
>but still, this is racism with extra steps

Yeah but when the Gulf states do that it's ok

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34173139

>fears regarding political stability within their own borders, and into larger questions of civic identity and the notion of what being a citizen of a Gulf state means

If a german or french politician says that they are outcasted as a far right extremist
Right. Tesla service has been good for a lot of people. I’ll take this while the hacker news Luddites try to find some euro car with manual windows they can “own”
IMDB rating of ‘The Kashmir Files’ slashed to 8.3; Fans blame Anti-Hindu agenda
There was an amendment adopted to set the effective date to Nov 2023, it just doesn’t display on Congress’ website (yet).
If they managed to see one post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy then they've probably managed to see the corresponding one.
Or the real one: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/
Not just Linux users. My wife got a Satechi On-the-Go USB-C hub for her MacBook. Satechi sells itself as a premium brand for Mac accessories. However, when the advertised 4k@60Hz support did not work, their support suggested that we update the firmware. They could only provide firmware updater for Windows. Unfortunately, even on Windows the firmware update would not work, spitting out completely uninformative error messages.

In hindsight, I found out that Satechi is now largely reselling cheap Chinese reference designs that can be had from AliExpress from 10-30 Euro/USD, repackaged in different casing [1]. Since they don't actually seem to control the firmware, they are just reshipping half-working Realtek firmware update utilities.

[1] https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.h...
Yeah, but SARS-CoV-2 is spread via aerosols, as are influenza viruses [1].

Not to say it's not a good idea to disinfect your shopping cart handle - and the downturn of the last years in non-covid infectious diseases as part of hygienic measures being made mandatory or at the very least somewhat followed proves that -, but it won't help much against covid.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC3372341/
Why is RDP so much better than VNC?
Preemptive multitasking is overrated. (In particular, it seems to me that graphical applications may behave better when they cooperate. I think that a desktop OS should accommodate both kinds.)
I can’t imagine firmware updates providing tangible performance gains aside from critical issues (which may affect performance). I just don’t think it’s really in the interest of these manufacturers to invest in R&D to improve an already existing and purchased product, as lame as that is.
I lived the same life as described - ran with one product for a decade, from initial thought to acquisition, and was the center of knowledge. I had a different tactic to get out of it - documentation. Not just written, but I made a series of videos to take someone from having never heard about the problem space all the way up to how we solved, why we made our choices, how the current system works, and what our long-term vision is both for features as well as lessons learned.

When we finally did get a new acquisition and a new product leader came in, I was told that those videos made the onboarding to the product so easy. No meetings, no schedules, no weeks of questions... just sit down and watch and they were up to speed enough to engage with the product. I still had detailed knowledge they needed to ask about, but I was not "indispensable".
Access to the beta isn’t for sale, no? If you paid for the final product you’ll get it, but I don’t think anyone is obligated to let you in on a beta.
It was only added to Firefox addons site recently but one could always install it manually for a long time. On Chrome, it has 2000+ users - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/falcon/mmifbbohghe.... It works for me since I only use it to search recent history
It's a particularly bad gamble for El Salvador, since Bukele and/or the government -- the distinction is increasingly unclear -- punted a lot of taxpayer money on Bitcoin.
If spending money on military and "defending" Europe doesn't serve American interests, why not just leave Europe and let us defend ourselves? Your army stays to make sure it protects your interest, not ours.

If you think USA is doing us a favour, just leave Europe, and Middle East, and Africa, and Asia. Just go back to your continent and let us deal with Putin and other challenges best we can. We don't need neither your "protection" nor your "protection fee".

Maybe without US warmongering, we would not need to be afraid of Russia. German technology and Russian resources is something that USA might be scared to death to end its world domination.
The conspiracy theorists always claimed that there is some kind of master plan to enslave the human race by the elite and that masks and whatnot are just the beginning.

How does a minority protest stop the evil masterplan? This makes no sense at all. Either there is a master plan and you have to have 90% of the people on the street opposing this, or there was no master plan from the get go.

The conspiracy theory crumbles under its own weight.
Parent comment didn't mention gulf states once? I'm pretty sure that anyone who is aware of the plight of refugees from Iraq, Syria, Yemen or Afghanistan knows that the Gulf States have blood on their hands from their interventions.
This is stretching it. Try buying kvass in Norway! Eastern Europe is in many ways a different planet. It's gradually changing thanks to Schengen workers, but middle easterners have had a bigger presence for longer - and they're actually better integrated in many ways (since they're not just here temporarily to make money, as many Schengen workers are).

Ironically, the only place I've found Ukrainian kvass is in small supermarkets run by middle easterners.
Drones are the answer. All shapes and sizes. Modern airpower on the cheap.

Let’s not skip the conversation this time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30562602
This is based on the assumption that it all has to do with media exposure.
It’s worthwhile to be explicit there. For example, a person can be a heavy user of Pandas library but rarely use underlying numpy library directly. There could be motivation to contribute to numpy with expectation that Pandas will benefit too.

Based on the article, this user should start learning to use numpy directly, and I can agree with that.
It's also much easier to coordinate activities with others with clocks, especially if those other people live in other time zones. "Meet me at sunrise" is a wide window.
>If Syrian refugees had the media coverage Ukrainian ones do there'd be job boards for them and much more besides

Your confidence in this statement is beyond me. We've been there, Germany 2015, Syria crisis.

There was no lack of media representation of the conflict, the victms, etc. Of course the whole "russia vs the world" thing makes the Ukraine-invasion a different ballgame, but no way in hell would you see job boards for Syrians all across Europe if only the media paid enough attention. The media sold and told the story over and over, to anyone that was willing to listen. People just aren't as open to completely foreign cultures and to Islam as they are to Eastern Europe - and frankly, I can't take a claim that diverges from this very basic groundline too serious. Talk to actual people in Europe and they will confirm what I'm saying here.

Everyone knows someone from Eastern Europe, we know their culture, they are - like the gp said - our neighbours. Syrians are not. I've met wonderful people amongst the syrian refugees, don't get me wrong. But to claim that there is no difference in sympathy whatsoever is simply ignorant to reality, and I think your audience here deserves better than that.
Like "Only Nixon could go to China."
Yes, sometimes helping people learn means letting them make mistakes. Watching someone do something slowly and poorly can test your patience. But they'll be faster and better the next time. Have patience for them to learn, while being available to guide them when needed or when their mistakes would impact the customer.
You are discussing the former satellite states of the USSR and Ukraine as if they didn't have their own right to choose. Ukraine would say it is not a pawn of anyone but is in service to its people and their desire to live free of a brutal overlord whose number one tactic in war is shelling cities (see Chechnya), which overwhelmingly kills civilians. The entire Russian war doctrine is anchored around its artillery.

When more than 180,000 Russian troops massed at Ukraine's border a few weeks ago whose choice was it to invade? Putin made that choice.

Trotting out the much-worn Mearsheimer video (I didn't even need to click the link to know) is of little service as the fault of this invasion is not on NATO. I have already established that in my earlier comments. Mearsheimer has perhaps served as Russia's greatest propagandist to the armchair intelligentsia of those who subscribe to a decidedly red realpolitik.
I thought linux users wanted to be HaX0rs :p
Interesting, I wasn't aware of white2tea, could you share a recommendations for something you've liked from white2tea?
Wow! We're talking about wearing a face mask for a short amount of time in very specific situations here, a tiny inconvenience which has proven benefits for a broad swathe of the population (not just the old). No one's asking you to lock yourself at home and not see friends and family. Wearing a mask on a plane is going to reduce the chances of those more stringent measures being put back on the table.

Also, not everyone is selfish, you're projecting the way you see the world onto other people.
Yeah well, if your job searching is limited to submitting online applications as opposed to going out and interacting with people it makes sense that your opportunities will be limited.

The best paid people I know have those jobs because they chatted up some random person outside a restaurant, at the airport, on the plane or at some event like Serpentine gallery’s “future contemporaries”.

London of all places is full of ludicrously good networking opportunities. Anyone with basic social skills who can create websites can hustle their way into an Annabel’s membership.

The people who actually put in some real effort will land those jobs, often regardless of their actual skills.

I’m an eastern European tech worker from a poor family that deliberately forced my way into situations where I’d be surrounded by the rich and powerful. After a few years most of my friends were such people, after a few more I found myself married to the daughter of a billionaire.

A lot of tech people just don’t understand is that this kind of bullshit is exactly how you win. People working in finance or law mostly seem to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Hopefully you know a Google engineer or have experience starting Twitter mobs.

or you can start a Tell HN thread here and hope it blows up and then someone from Google can look at it.
The Last i486 Online
almost all of them? I think Tesla is the only manufacturer actually cutting off features like this, no? I own a Kia EV and it’s the same old car experience.

Some have announced potential features like paying for remote start, but they’ve all walked it back due to negative feedback afaik
How do you know which ones of those Russians oppose Putin? Just by asking and trusting that they are being honest? Those opposing Putin are a small minority, most of them are supporting the war even those in academia. Check these ratings: https://www.levada.ru/en/ratings/

Also, they are not risking much by being in opposition. That girl who protested couple of days ago during live broadcast on Russian TV got fined $200. They are risking to lose their lifestyle at most. While Ukrainians are risking to lose their lives.
Indeed its hard to generalize across all people. But I doubt many of those you list react favorably to the early times. Either way, they are likely not the ones wishing for permanent DST, because for some of them (like the ones waking up at clock 4:30am) it means they will go to sleep when the sun is still up (at solar 7pm) instead of after sunset.
Indeed, in Latin America we call ourselves "americanos". It's even mentioned in the English language version of Wikipedia for the "American (word)" entry, under "Cultural reception" or something like that. It states "Hispanic Americans" challenge the notion that "American" should be exclusively used for people from the US. It also states the RAE (linguistics body from Spain) also challenges the English language common usage as "abusive" and recommends against adopting this usage in Spanish.

But this is neither here nor there. I didn't intend to lead this in a linguistics direction, but rather towards this notion of Manifest Destiny and exceptionalism, that leads some people (like the ones who replied to me) to believe that rejecting the notion of the US as World Police is somehow the same as being "anti-American".

Since not everyone is from the US, I argue, this idea that we are "all in the same boat" and pushing against US supremacy and above-the-rules'ness is somehow "being anti-American" and "right-wing" is both ridiculous and parochial.
If you read the full quotes from the article, these comments aren't compliments, they are comments to contextualize/justify treatment of other refugees. Literally every quote is saying "Ukranians are x, unlike other refugees who are y". That is clearly racism and not "cringe wokeness".
Add the US to the list of "only one crisis".
I think it's fine for people to have varying philosophical takes on what should be the normative goals of open source software licenses. Obviously the FSF takes a rather maximalist stance. I personally find this aggressive goal and some of the personalities behind it to not match my vibe. And the reality is that more permissive licenses like MIT are becoming more and more popular.

What I've seen some Blender plugins do to get around this is to have an open-source plugin communicate via IPC to a closed source library. It's totally legal. It's a performance and implementation tax that just seems silly to me.
>Try buying kvass in Norway!

The immigrant store 150m from where I am right now stocks several brands of kvass.
12:16 ... Did I just hear this guy tell me with a super-serious face that "In Rochester, Minnesota they have been PRACTICING SAFE HEX SINCE 1978" ???
Bodily harm as a 'response' to some material mischief is never 'legit'.
Ah, that sounds like the level of Linux "support" that I'm used to from major manufacturers.
Its an opinion piece.
> A think tank can be there to manufacture support for an ideological position, but it can also be used to do actual thinking.

The latter kind is of course the origin of the whole concept, but one can't help feeling that the overwhelming majority nowadays is the former.
Fair point! Trying to fix :) In case anyone wants to turn of ad block for the page. we do not run any banner ads on this page or the job board though. so for anyone willing to turn it of, you shouldn't se any wild banner ads.
will you stop buying cars at one point?
Many bipolar people are affected by seasonal changes.
Some are also affected by changes in weather, like a large storm coming through.
I already tried that method a while ago. For some reason fumagician refuses to recognize my 970 Evo Plus.

> No supported SSD detected for Firmware Update

It also doesn't work if you flash the ISO and boot "properly" as Samsung expects you to do.
Blinken Sets a Standard for Lifting Sanctions – Irreversible Russian Withdrawal
why I would want to contribute to a project I don't use

Sometimes I might have an academic or research interest in a field I'm not actually working in or I read about a topic that sounds interesting. Then contributing to a project working with that topic or field might seem like a good way to learn and get more into that topic.
Having backups is sys ops 101, it’s not victim blaming, it’s not Stockholm syndrome, it’s not even anything to do with Google.

Failures happen, disks get corrupted, bugs wipe stuff, cloud providers terminate idle accounts, failures happen everywhere in life.

Back up your stuff and have a plan B.
RDP at least is probably vastly more efficient as it doesn't encode the entire screen as a video every frame. This is what gives it the flexibility to have the remote display resolution and DPI be independent of the local settings, for one. It's actually quite sophisticated, unlike VNC and its ilk, but it isn't optimized for gaming.
No offence, but the bias mentioned by verisimi earlier seems to be quite obvious at this point. I don't think continuing the discussion makes much sense.
Stevey’s Tech Talk E39 – A guided tour of Emacs [video]
Works with github, doesn't work (for no reason that you can understand at first glance) with the company bitbucket server. There's no programmatic or configuration mechanism I can use to fix it - it needs changes on the server which I cannot make. etc etc.